A psychic archetype represents a core energy expression that we believe defines our psychological and spiritual journey, in this, past and future lives. Although we practice different forms of life, such as being a soldier or a doctor, we may realize that we are a certain archetype, namely the Warrior or the Healer.
This article explores the psychic archetype of the Healer.
One archetype, many guises
History is full of warrior priests and soldier healers (medics). Teachers can be athletes and athletes can be teachers. We can wear many guises over the course of our lives, but we usually operate from a single psychic archetype.
Sometimes necessity and circumstances can force us into a guise that is far removed from our spiritual purpose, it will seem. If we look closely enough at our actions under any circumstance, we will be able to see the consistent psychic imprint of our representation.
I have a varied work history including construction, website design/management, teaching (college English), and now spiritual consulting. With each iteration of my work opportunities, I repeatedly found myself in the same role… as a spiritual and emotional advisor to those around me.
The healer
I’ve had quite a few experiences with doctors, nurses, nutritionists, spiritual advisors, etc., but only a few were healers. True healers have enormous compassion, extremely high intelligence and intuition, intensity and gentleness. Their ability to understand illness and vulnerability are some of the traits that define their type.
Healers exist outside of the healing profession and can be found in any profession, as can all archetypes. Their ability to manage pain, heal disease and restore health applies to the physical body, emotions and psyche. When we need some form of healing and we cannot reach the state of equilibrium on our own, healers provide the energy, knowledge and action to help us.
Each archetype travels through lifetimes gaining experience within and beyond its ideal representation to enjoy and understand the full range of human experience, while learning lessons related to completing his or her work and/or the fact that he or she is prevented from completing his or her work. Lessons flow both ways, but they don’t have to.
The ideal society (utopian vision)
It is really not difficult to imagine an ideal society in which everyone discovers his or her psychic or spiritual archetype and is given a way to express that archetype through work and interactions with the other archetypes in the world. Creating such a world would require a wholesale and comprehensive acceptance of the balance between science and spirituality, between creativity and necessity, and between compassion and integrity.
Reality is an ebb and flow of balance, imbalance and rebalancing, and that is where all learning for the spiritual soul that inhabits a human or animal body teaches lessons not found in utopian visions or in the spirit realm. We choose to be here, and psychic or spiritual archetypes indicate that we choose to play a role so that we can experience true mastery.
Are you a healer?
Each archetype has definable and distinguishable properties.
Attracted to illness
Illness is an illness or period of illness that affects the body or mind. And a disease is a disorder of the structure or functioning of a human, animal, or plant, especially a disorder that causes specific signs or symptoms or affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury.
Healers ‘move’ to the sick; they are not repelled or afraid of it. They are attracted to these people, animals and environments. Healers seek to heal other people, animals and the land. They are not afraid of death or disease; instead, they respect and honor it, both as a necessity for the life cycle and as energy for their purpose.
Attracted to injuries
Injury is the suffering of physical or emotional harm, either from external causes or from self-harm. The healer moves through the world and “activates” when a wounded person comes near him or her. As a society or community, we want healers to be physically known and placed in locations with good access and centrality so that people in need can find and access them.
Are scholars and intuitives
Healers are both scientists and shamans, which sets them apart from other archetypes who may perform the same practices, but not from the same place of soul and spirit. A surgeon can be a healer or a mechanic, and both can heal an injured or sick person, but for very different energetic reasons.
The best healers have mastered healing knowledge; they study the science of healing, which includes natural and synthetic forms of healing work, tools and techniques. Healers are learned people, who benefit from science as well as trial and error. Sometimes what is known offers a clear solution, as in previous cases. Sometimes it is necessary to experiment, in controlled ways that can contribute to existing scientific knowledge.
The intuitive part of the Healer is the defining quality that sets him or her apart from other archetypes who perform the same tasks. The motivations are different and more unique than the practices for each archetype. All archetypes can learn how to apply a splint to a broken arm or leg or what medications to prescribe and take for certain illnesses, but their motivations will be different.
The healer is motivated to connect with the fear, worry, and anxiety associated with illness and injury, to help alleviate the characteristics of illness and injury, which are as important to the sick or injured person as the actual illness or injury . Healers understand the power of positive thinking as a part of the healing process that can be helped by them emotionally, just as the medicine or actions can do the physical work of healing the body.
Are empathetic
Sympathy is largely used to convey compassion, pity, or feelings of sadness for someone else experiencing adversity. It is this form of energy that all other archetypes emit when performing healing actions to help someone who is sick or injured. Empathy is now most commonly used to refer to the ability or capacity to imagine oneself in another person’s situation, experiencing that person’s emotions, ideas, or opinions (dictionary.com).
The Healer can experience the emotions of the sick or injured person and perform the healing actions. This connection is fundamental to helping the injured or ill person recover more quickly, “take the healing and recovery work to heart” and accept all aspects of the illness and injury lesson.
