Honor, Enquire, Allow & Love (HEAL): A Daily Practice For Self-Healing

I am sharing a practice I do daily in my own self-healing efforts. It uses HEAL as an acronym to open up the dialogue between our pain and our Hearts. Honor / Enquire / Allow / Love yourself back into alignment when you feel overwhelmed, anxious or about to 'unravel'. It can be used as a longer meditation session or simplified into a short emotional check-in and I hope it gives you a tool that has helped me over the last few years get to know my emotional body.

In gratitude, Sez

Transcript

There are moments you feel truly interwoven into life's tapestry.

And then there are those moments when you feel the fray,

That small thread beneath the surface of you that unravels a little with every pull.

And rather than become the weary tailor endlessly patching up and cutting out pieces of your past,

You can lose the yarn within you altogether.

You do this by allowing the dialogue between your pain and your heart to open,

By letting your emotional body speak to you in a space held in compassion and kindness.

When you feel that unravel within,

When you are caught in overwhelm,

Doubt and fear,

Come into the following practice that uses the acronym HEAL to honor,

Inquire,

Allow,

And love yourself back into alignment.

We are going to invite a difficult situation you are going through right now to sit with us and go through each of the four letters,

Tenderly disentangling ourselves from the deeper emotional hooks within us.

Sit comfortably and settle into yourself now through the breath.

Allow this breath to connect you to your emotional body by asking yourself how you feel right now.

Where is there a thread caught within you?

Where is there a latching and a tightness?

Where is there openness and freedom?

Spend a few moments just breathing into all of these places,

Giving the gift of your presence to each area.

Bring to the surface now what feels to be holding you back,

Pulling you away from ease,

From joy,

From living in lightness.

Which emotion is dominating your life's experience right now?

Is it fear,

Doubt,

Hurt,

Impatience,

Or hopelessness?

It's okay to feel this emotion rise within you.

Invite it in to your heart and to your home.

Let it come out into the light.

Let it be with you.

Let it be felt within you now in all its knots and ties.

We begin the heel practice with the first letter H,

Which stands for honor.

Repeat these words to yourself now.

I honor this emotion within me.

I honor it by not looking away.

I honor it by giving it my attention.

I honor it by holding it lightly within me.

I honor it by locating it within me now.

Place your hand upon the area that you feel this tightness,

This longing,

This grasping within your body.

For many the throat,

Belly,

And chest area is where they feel difficult emotions,

But anywhere you feel your emotions in your body is okay.

Honor how your body speaks to you.

Breathe into your hand now.

Breathe into this emotional pain that simmers restlessly below your palm.

You have honored your pain and we now move onto the second letter,

Which stands for inquire.

Repeat these words to yourself now.

I inquire as to the truth and origin of this emotion,

With a curious mind and an open heart.

Spend a moment digging deeper into the origin of this emotion,

Not the external triggers that caused it,

But the very roots of it within you.

Is this emotion truthful to your situation?

Is it defensive of an insecurity you may feel about yourself?

Does it validate some belief you have towards yourself?

When was the first hook of this emotional pain placed within you?

There is usually a singular deep thorn in you that is felt from a thousand different movements.

Reach that origin and you will remove the very source of your suffering.

Your heart is always there as your elder,

Connecting you to the wisdom of love.

Have courage to be with what feels most uncomfortable.

Take a moment now to dig a little deeper within yourself and locate the origin of this pain.

Breathe now into the often uncomfortable origin of your emotion.

Breathe into the complex feelings of detanglement.

You have now honored and inquired into your pain.

We move on now to the third letter,

Which stands for allow.

Repeat these words to yourself now.

I allow this emotion and its myriad of reasons for being to be with me here now.

I allow it to sit with me.

I allow it to stay for a moment,

To be held in loving hands.

Breathe into the soft allowing nature of your own body,

The natural caring part of you that holds love for all that is unknowing and innocent.

Breathe into your emotion without judgement,

Without the need to control it,

Without the need to change it.

You have now honored,

Inquired and allowed this situation to be here with you.

The final letter represents love,

As do all conclusions of healing.

The heart is our central point of restoration,

The refuge and repairer of all discontent and disconnect.

Repeat these words to yourself now.

I choose to love myself through this,

By offering myself a word of self-kindness.

Take a moment to listen to that quiet voice within you,

The one that is gentle and tender towards your human life,

That speaks to you of your wholeness and your divinity.

Allow that voice to offer you words of encouragement,

Support or simply a warm wrap of silence.

Let it speak to you gently in relation to this difficult situation you feel.

To some it may be a whisper of,

All is as it should be.

To others it may be more like,

I love you,

I am proud of you,

Keep finding your light.

Settle into your breath and heart now and find that soft,

Patient voice within and let it speak to you.

After your heal practice,

Take a moment to really feel the heal,

To settle into the state of threadbare being,

Holding yourself lightly in forgiveness,

In acceptance and in love.

However deep the wound,

However unmet the need,

You can learn to rewrite your body's emotional story.

It takes creating space between what catches you and how you choose to respond to that moment from a place of awareness and connected to a higher state of being.

You can use this heal acronym practice as a meditative reflection to the end of your day or in a moment that begins to unravel you.

You can spend your time going through each step or simply offer yourself a minute to repeat the acronym in a moment of discontent.

I hope this serves you today in some way.

It is in these times that we are all feeling the fray,

But have heart.

These times were not sent to try us,

But to change the way we relate to ourselves and each other.

Honor,

Inquire,

Allow and love is not just a practice for these times,

But one for the steps taken towards true healing and the levels ascended through awakening.

So try and implement them into a daily practice and see what kind of difference it makes to your emotional,

Mental and spiritual well-being.

Thank you for being here today.

I read and respond to all comments and reviews.

So thank you to those who spend a moment here now to share and respond.

Reviews

Affective method for going deep from a new perspective. I am learning to stop judging myself or fighting what I learned in survival mode from youth. This practice showed me a lot and really allowed for compassion as opposed to forcing/digging things out. With inner child work, I’m learning for me that compassion is key. Thank you for this! I will absolutely repeat regularly.

Oh my goodness, what an impact that had on me! Thank you. I have been feeling broken, loss of control, my time is no longer my own and this meditation has brought me back to myself. Everything is as it should be 🩷. And towards the end the sun shone so brighly, warming my face and skin and saying we hear you. Thank you, I needed this more than I'd realised 🌸

A very helpful meditation for me, I will come back to it often. Thank you!

I will be coming back to this one, thank you for sharing. It's a beautiful practice 🙏🏼still trying to figure out what my thorn is for the emotion/ situation that's been coming up. Sending love and light 🤍

Love your meditations. They have helped me so often. Your poetry flows deep through my soul. 🙏😊

Yes! It helped me a lot to be encouraged to look at what happened. I will repeat this to learn to continue.
Thank you for your tender and helpful accompanying. 🙏🫶

Such a beautiful practice. Thank you for sharing. Will certainly return 🙏

I found real insight into one of the emotional areas that I still struggle with, and will continue to use this meditation to lead me to deeper healing. Thank you! 💛

Thank you for sharing this. A wonderful, grounding self inquiry. 💙

Will be listening to this over and over and using this acronym as a daily practice. Thank you

Thank you for a wonderful guided meditation. Very healing.

Today is my birthday and this beautiful practice is my gift 💝 thank you!

It’s interesting to recognize that I accept the charged emotions of others in my life, yet I somehow deny or avoid my own strong emotions.
Thank you for helping me honor and love my shadow side.

Wow so powerful and heart felt. Thank you for sharing this practice. Much love and gratitude.

Thank you Sez! That was a lovely and insightful practice.❤️

Hey Sez, I ran this meditation this morning with our IT group called ‘Our New Home’ - it resonated so well with all of us in its own unique way. Thank you so much for your amazing guided meditations, you are very welcome to drop by our group sometime! 🙏❤️

Thank you. Your poetic way of sharing help my autistic unique wiring to a grounding connection that enables me to grow towards a lightness of being that is healing 🌱

Beautiful insight. This practice guided me to the source of a particular pain I had held onto for many years. I am able to hold it, give it space and by applying HEAL it doesn’t feel as overwhelming. Thank you so much for your teachings. Sending love

Sez, I receive and appreciate your email communications and I enjoy "stumbling" upon the perfect words at the perfect time sounded and brought to my ears and heart by your lovely voice. HEAL is also an acronym used by Dr. Fred Luskin in his book Forgive for Good. Do you know of this? Hope Educate Affirm Commit. It is also the message of Snake Spirit in the Colette Baron-Reid Animal Oracle Cards. My Universal Spirit Within is giggling as all these things present in a days time. 🙏🥰 Message received. I'll be listening until I have internalized the opportunity for new choices! Many thanks and blessings to you for being an audible part of the message and the voice of spirit in my ear! 🖖

I had a breakdown after dissociating from incredible pain for hours. I was ashamed for avoiding myself, hurting, hating my own mind. This helped me to come back to earth and back to a gentle, loving supportive mindset with myself and I'll be using it regularly. Thank u 💖