Healing Your Self

By Robin McCutcheon

To my dear friends in the Quite Frankly Nation: this essay is a basic theory and fundamental building block of how “healing” works: where it starts and how it operates. 

Humans are both physical and spiritual beings. Healing begins with taking this assumption as true in order to work within the realm of the Universal Source of Love energy.

The “as above, so below” phrase is really an order of operations that tells us how to begin. 

My starting theory is that if we really are ‘created in God’s image,’ then we are, each of us, a part of the God energy, which is the Universal Love energy that surrounds all of us and holds the universe together. This means, theoretically, that the God energy, in the form of Unconditional Love, lives within us in the space between our DNA. We are, literally, made of Love energy.

Healing begins with getting in touch with, and acknowledging, that part of You that is a piece of God. Some people call the part of You, that is a piece of God, a Higher Self. This is your spiritual connection with the God Energy that I call Source. 

You can talk with your Higher Self, and your Higher Self can talk with you. Haven’t you ever had the experience of hearing a quiet, whispering voice suggesting you take some small action, maybe turning right, instead of left, while driving and you find out later that you avoided a major accident? Or, leaving later (or earlier) than normal to go to work, and you avoid some terrible traffic jam? Or, speaking gently with someone you barely know – offering them kindness and loving support – only to find out later they were on the verge of making a tragic choice – but your kindness to them had them make the decision to seek help? 

There are hundreds of examples you can think of when you listened to the whispering advice from your Higher Self, and your path was made smooth as silk, as if by magic, ‘everything worked out perfectly.’

In this endeavor, just as in Being Happy, your intention matters. If your intention is to use the conversations with your Higher Self to manipulate and control people, or to have power over people, this entire escapade will blow up in your face, because the Universal Love energy cannot be used for evil undertakings.The intention of these conversations with your Higher Self must literally be for the best and most appropriate energy for all involved, because the ripple effects will go out and touch everyone. 

Healing occurs when your intentions, thoughts, energy, and actions all go in the same direction. Which means that you need to be in touch with your Higher Self to find out what is the best and most appropriate decisions/choices for you to make, each and every minute. This is not as difficult as it sounds, but it takes practice and persistence. Just start talking with your Higher Self. 

My journey on the path of speaking with my Higher Self began with “Hi, I’m Robin. I need Your help, please.” Since I felt weird speaking with a nameless Being, I decided to name it George. Don’t ask me why, but it felt ‘less weird’ talking to a ‘George’ than beginning a conversation with ‘Hey, Higher Self’. 

Since our Higher Self is with us all the time, I talked with George all the time. When I was making coffee, driving to school or work, in between attending courses at school, before teaching a class…I’m sure that George thought I would never shut up. 

But some interesting things started happening after a little while. The more I asked George’s advice on little things, and following George’s suggestions—the tiny decisions that really made no difference to anyone but me and the kinks in the road over which I had no control—began to ‘work themselves out.’ My path in life started to be smoother. There was less drama and upset in my personal space. I found myself being happy when a lot of people around me were not content.

Keep in mind, in the essay I wrote on the Pursuit of Happiness (https://www.quitefrankly.tv/newsletter-content/2025/the-pursuit-of-happiness ), the whole time I’m talking with George, is also the time when my sole goal is to be happy. Little by little, my intentions, thoughts, energy, and actions were taking me in the direction where everything I thought, said, and did, resulted in me being happy. Moment by moment, I was happier. These moments turned into hours, and then into days, weeks, and months, and finally years.

Of course, no one can be happy “all the time” – but there were longer and longer periods of time where my life was without upset and without conflict. The drama that seemed to be swirling around wasn’t directly attached to me, or my life. I learned how to distinguish between me, myself, being happy, and living without drama, and someone else being unhappy and living in their own turmoil. I learned how to let other people have their drama and leave their baggage for them to carry.

These learning experiences involved a lot of conversations with George. I learned how to listen and be guided by George’s suggestions for healthier living habits. For people who are skeptical, it is the act of listening that is important. Listening requires you to be quiet and peaceful in your thoughts, because your Higher Self will not shout at you; it whispers. I’m not talking about meditating; I’m talking about being at peace with yourself and the world. Essentially, being happy. 

George taught me that small details matter, like eating dinner before 4 p.m. (so that the meal is digested before I go to bed), going to bed before 8 p.m. (to get a good eight hours of sleep), and walking a couple miles per day, or swimming for an hour in the morning to get my physical body moving. During the ‘Covid’ years, I took up crocheting in the evening so I wouldn’t smoke or drink too much. (You really can’t crochet and drink or smoke at the same time, or your project will be junk.)

Listening carefully to George, I learned how to research medicinal and herbal aides that would keep my physical body healthier. I stopped putting my trust in doctors and western medicine and started trusting my own intuition and my connection with George. I will admit that there are instances where western medicine is fabulous at setting the body in the right direction for healing (setting a broken bone, for example). But there are cultures in our world that have had their own medicinal aids for thousands of years, the results of which are just as miraculous in setting your physical body in the right direction for healthy living, if not more, than western medicine. 

After a while, I began to realize that what George was guiding me towards was what was best and most appropriate for me, in all aspects of my life. And that by trusting my Higher Self, I was also trusting Universe, Source, God, to take me in the direction I was supposed to go.

Early on in this process, I began a daily prayer of thanks: thank you for the best and most appropriate energy. And because I was teaching students and needed the exact right words to say during class, my prayer quickly became, also, thank you for the best and most appropriate words.

“So, where in all of this is the healing?” you might ask. Even though your physical body is perfectly capable of healing your physical hurts, if your physical system is compromised, you can still impact your physical system by asking for, and receiving, information from your Higher Self to lead you in the direction of what will aid your physical healing. 

True healing starts at the Source and flows to all of your Parts (both spiritual and physical) – and the fewer kinks in the lines of communication between you and Source, the more direct and immediate is the healing. The ‘kinks’ are all the drama-filled upset that gets in the way between us and Source and occurs when we are unhappy. When you talk with your Higher Self to the point that your thoughts, energy, and actions are taking you in the direction that Universe wants you to go, you are smoothing out the kinks until the line of communication and healing energy between you and Source is immediate and without hindrance. 

Essentially, what you are doing is creating a direct line of communication with the Great Physician, where the Universal Love energy you need for physical healing flows without delay or interruption. This means that true Healing takes place after the Universal energy is flowing from Source to your entire energy system, “as above, so below,” from your spiritual self, down to and including, your physical self. 

Give it a shot; talk with your Higher Self; get in communication with Source. What have you got to lose?

Disclaimer: I am not a licensed medical physician, nor am I a psychiatrist. I’m just a Human with a long life of my own observations and practices that have aided my own life. Use your own discernment in your given life.

Written by Robin S. McCutcheon

Professor of Economics, Lewis College of Business, Marshall University