"Three things bring healing at Myddfai: water, honey, and work." ancient Welsh triad
The healing arts of the Physicians of Myddfai (MUTH' vay) in North Wales were renowned throughout Britain. This famous family was descended from the alliance between a human man and a faery woman who came out of a lake and taught her healing skills to her children.
The source of illness lies not with physical symptoms but with some spiritual cause and that cause must be treated if healing is to come about. Many things cause illness to constellate: not only physical predispositions such as infection, lowered resistance, bad hygiene, and physical weakness, but also messy relationships, fear, anger, neglect of vocational or emotional needs, and so on. Any good healer knows that these factors must be understood and included within any diagnosis. This means working to establish a basis of trust with the client.
The work of the client is also important. The minimum requirement of the client is that some benefit should come and the minimum obligation is a readiness to make radical change in order to facilitate healing: we may have to leave a situation or relationship or reform beliefs, attitudes, or ways of life before healing can have its effect.
Our society embraces the concept of 'self-healing.' In its truest sense, self-healing is not about taking credit for health. It is about our willingness to change our ability to receive; about taking steps by which healing can happen. Healers know that healing comes with the help of many things: plant, chemicals, human support and attention, and spiritual guidance of allies, as well as the client's predisposition to be healed. The miracle of healing lies in treating the cause of illness not by merely quelling its symptoms.
"Consider a current or past illness. What factors cause the illness to constellate? Which healing agents were helpful? What changes in situation or attitude had to take place before healing could come about?"
[From: The Celtic Spirit by Caitlin Matthews]
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