About Safe2Heal

Safe2Heal is about healing and growth. What does it mean to heal and what are the practices people report work best? At Safe2Heal we are focused on learning more about lives transformed and dramatically improved well-being! We are researching and publishing information about healing and growth with an eye towards how people solve problems outside the traditional boundaries of modern medicine.

The first research effort “How Healing Happens”, is based on two great sources of detailed validated data about healing; a PhD thesis by Kelly Ann Turner on spontaneous remission of cancer and a report produced by The Bravewell Collaborative about the effectiveness of alternative modalities like meditation and yoga in clinical outpatient care settings. The core findings about the healing process:

  • People adopt new beliefs about themselves and the world they experience.
  • People make changes and practice in new and different ways to embrace the free
    flow of loving energy in their integrated body-mind-spirit system.
  • The conditions under which the disease thrives change until they are free of pain.

Adoption of these new beliefs are what I understand Jon means when he refers to an “orthogonal rotation” in consciousness. From Body (Mind (Spirit)) to Spirit (Mind & Body). There are many names for “spirit”; ground of being, loving presence, all there is, awareness, many more. We understand spirit as a continuous arising that practices like meditation reveal; spirit is an awareness we all share, inside all sentient beings, our true nature. Cultivating that spirit, that free flow of energy changes us (neuroplasticity!) and over time our “center” moves from an isolated body in pain and suffering – to an awareness, a presence from which all experience arises. Turns out our point of view, intention and attention can be more powerful than all the interventions of modern medicine.

Four years ago, after leaving the business world, I embarked on a new round of research by doing these methods myself to make sure to speak from my own experience. Christmas 2018 I made a personal commitment to meditate at least 20 minutes every day and started the Palouse MBSR course outlined in this playbook. I’m still meditating every day, now usually for an hour early morning, with 1500 hours sitting under my belt.

After Palouse I completed an instructor-led online MBSR course with East Coast Mindfulness. Then I discovered Jeffrey Martin and the Finders course about “fundamental well-being”. This is a formal research project with a very structured online course curriculum including a set of sophisticated well-being measures. The commitment for the original Finders course was a minimum of 1 1⁄2 hours a day for 17 weeks! The course featured 25 different modalities, including almost all the practices in MBSR. After completing Finders I also completed the current version of the course 45 Days to Awakening Challenge.

Common themes emerge. Everything changes constantly. We are all more than we think. Literally. These days it’s clear the part of our nervous system responsible for keeping us alive is often freaked out in our modern world. Fight or flight (or freeze) over and over again triggered by subconscious threat processing that has already jumped from the snake before you realize it’s a rope. Science confirms habitual reactive subconscious processing causes our entire mind and body system to degrade and collapse over time. Awareness is here but buried deep.

Safe2Heal researches and publishes information about practices and methods that work to dramatically improve well-being and transform lives. The results people report, and science validates, after completing an MBSR course, are available with a wide range of modalities.

Safe2Heal is a labor of love, to show how we’re all connected to and create the world we live in. In the healing tradition of human beings on earth let us each heal ourselves. Then help heal each other and the world at large. With Love. May the fruits of our practice benefit all beings and the earth in peace.

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