Health and healing share the same root. The words, from Old English hælan, describes how make whole or 'heal' the core aspects of being human: physical, mental, emotional, social, spiritual, and sexual. While health describe the state of these areas, healing refers to the actual process of improving them.

Some time around the time of the witch hunts, however, we lost this connection. Witches (from witt — the aware) were persecuted, their knowledge was cast as dangerous or superstitious, and healing was reduced to something mystical and emotional. Holistic approaches were pushed to the margins.

Our connection with ourselves, and thus our autonomy, was systematically dismantled. An unaware population was far easier to control. Over time, we forgot our body's ability to heal and started seeking doctrine from doctors rather than health through healing. This disconnection was part of a broader effort to claim authority over the human experience, along with the enclosure of common land and the replacement of spiritual connection with organised religion.

The notion that our body heals itself was suppressed and ridiculed. Healing was narrowed down to energy work and processing old emotions. While emotional support has value, its deeper effects remain limited without clearing the toxins, stored adrenaline, viral waste, and heavy metals that irritate our nerve signals. Without that support, our mind cannot fully settle, no matter the inner work.

When these burdens remain, the nervous system stays irritated and the body remains in a constant low-grade state of inflammation and stress. Clarity, calm and emotional stability stay out of reach even with the 'right' effort. Witches understood this connection. That's why their knowledge was targeted.

As time passed, we forgot the role of this load settling into our tissues and nervous system. That those tight shoulders, digestive trouble, brain fog, restlessness, or lingering sense that something is off, aren't merely emotional issues — but the body’s unfinished work held in our tissues.

Health is the result where healing is the process

The body starts to repair itself when we begin to remove this physical load. Symptoms that has lasted for years starts to ease, the nervous system calms and emotional work becomes effective because the body's no longer fighting itself in the process. Science is only now confirming what died with those witches.

Keeping their knowledge alive would have greatly disrupted the creation of a medical system that profits from managing symptoms rather than resolving root causes. A patient cured is a customer lost.

Healing is not complicated. More often than not, the cause of illness is a sluggish, overburdened liver and the irritation that follows. The difficult part is overcoming the conditioning we've inherited: to look anywhere except the body for answers, to override signals, push through symptoms, and trust external authorities more than our direct experience. Releasing the belief that the body is mysterious and complex rather than recognising how simple things actually are.

We start healing when we stop outsourcing our wellbeing and start listening to what our body actually communicates. Healing is not about adopting some new belief or identity, but simply removing the generations of physical and emotional accumulation that created our problems in the first place.

Read more about the liver and how to clean it here.