Healing
Liberation
& Cultivation 

There are 3 major elements of
practice, the healing, the
liberation and the cultivation.

They all work together, at
different level and at different
time in the development. If you
focus too much on one element and
forget the others it might back
fire and make the path harder.

Healing works with the past,
liberation works with the
present, and cultivation works
with the future. We heal our
past, liberate from the present
moment, and cultivate for the
future. 

cultivation

Cultivation refer to the
cultivation of energy. These are
practices that raise your level
of energy, from the food you eat,
to the water you drink, to the
exercise you practice. You work
with the energy on many
levels. Food and water, sexual
energy and prana or chi are the
main energy you will deal with. 

You can view the cultivation as a
practice that will bring powers in
the future. We often need to
start with a bit of cultivation
to get our process going. But
soon we realize that we have too
much energy and we don't know
what to do with it. This might
bring anxiety if there is too
much emotions that needs to be
dealt with. It might also
re-enforce addictive behavior. 

Practices associated with
cultivation are pranayama, chi
kung and tai chi, hatha yoga,
sexual cultivation, fasting and
general nutrition. 

liberation

Liberation is the process of
letting go of what binds you. The
addictions, the habits, the core
beliefs, your own physicality,
how you see yourself. It's a
mental process that is helped
through experiential events. It's
a letting go of our own
limitation, created by the
culture we live in, our family,
our own re-enforced experience of
life. Liberation is about what
you are doing now.

Moving into liberation without
healing could lead to dissociation,
and creating a fantasy world that
is used for escapism. It can lead
to overthinking and could waste a
lot of energy by creating new
beliefs or habits. 

Practices associated with
liberation are reflections, dream
yoga, plant medicine like
ayahuasca, out of body
experiences, ritualistic practice
like offerings, devotional
chanting.  

healing

Healing deals with the body, the
mind and the emotions. Resurfacing
the wounds, and dissolving them.

It takes times to observe,
realize, and deal with what has
wounded us in the past. There
are often a physio-psycho-emotional
knots that are created, traumas that
roots themselves in multiple
layers of our being. A mental
affliction, caused by a emotional
trauma, that live in a part of
the body that was wounded during
a powerful event. Uprooting these
knot often takes psychological
work as well as emotional and
physical healing, self reflection
and self care. 

Healing can release energy that
has been blocked for a long
time. Without cultivation these
intense wave could be hard to
manage. Healing will also create
a void in ones' life, and if you
are not familiar with the process
of liberation, you might be
tempted to fill that space with
whatever habits you have.

Practices associated with healing
are psychological support,
reflections, meditation,
massages, work with plant wisdom,
family constellations,
physiotherapy and modern
medicine.  

trifecta

It's important to work on these
all at the same time. A bit of
cultivation to sustain the
process, a bit of healing to
uncover what is wounded, a bit of
liberation to be okay with a
sense of change and void. As a
practitioner it's important to
balance your own process. You
might need to follow a few
different schools, or groups to be
able to balance out what is
needed for your own growth.