Overload…healing
(Baonghean.vn) - Healing can be considered a need of an entire generation - when people are too stressed with the unstable reality of life for a long time. But the more we go into the "healing market", the more we see things going astray.
On the internet, wherever you go, you will see… healing. Family troubles, travel for healing. Business failures, meditation for healing. Unsatisfactory studies and work, attending a healing retreat. Even uncontrollable obesity, choosing to join the green food group for self-healing… The keyword “healing” is everywhere, creeping into every issue of life, creating the feeling that a great magic can soothe and resolve all human troubles. But is that really true?
Last week, curious about this healing trend, I boldly joined a private group on Facebook with more than 100,000 members. Waiting a few minutes for the group administrator to approve, after “passing the gate”, I thought I would be introduced to some magical spiritual world to soothe sadness, but no, thousands of statuses in the group were mostly dogmatic life philosophies, empty writings, like:The more you know your own shortcomings, the faster you grow, the more steadfast your self-confidence; You are your own torch; You are always capable of forgiving more than you think; Forgiving others' mistakes is a gift to them…
There are many such phrases, and in the comments there are countless people who claim to be coaches, understand the body - mind - spirit, and provide personal psychological counseling to heal all cases. Curiously, I dug deeper into some of the Coaches who are active in the group, and saw that their ages, genders, and work histories are quite diverse. There are middle-aged coaches, but there are also coaches who are only 20-25 years old, both male and female, and before coming to the healing coaching profession, they were office workers, small traders, freelance writers, online sellers...
It is clear that these coaches are extremely talkative and eloquent, able to livestream for hours talking non-stop about the spiritual world, inner energy, opening the mind... It is known that there are 15-day - 1-month training courses for coaches, after finishing the course, every coach is guaranteed to know the words like "soul seeds" by heart, and the advice they give to everyone is similar.
Going on Facebook, I see that healing has many forms: healing meditation courses, healing retreat classes, healing yoga, writing for healing, eating green for healing, healing travel, listening to healing bells, healing music, healing conversations... Not everyone has the ability to explore, discover and solve problems in their own spiritual world, so most healing courses in any form require an instructor and charge a fee. The amount of money spent hoping to be healed can be only a few hundred thousand dong (buying books, music accounts...), but most of the time it costs several million to several tens of million dong (traveling, shopping for accounts, 1:1 psychological counseling...), so I'm afraid it's already wasted before it's healed!
To be fair, healing can be considered a need of an entire generation - when people are too stressed with the unstable reality of life for a long time. In particular, the healing trend has become popular after the Covid-19 pandemic - a tsunami that has destroyed many things that seemed sustainable. Therefore, the emergence of healing services and products is also inevitable.
Self-healing implies soothing, transforming negative emotions, thoughts, insecurities, and hurt back to a state of calm, peace, compromise, or satisfaction with the present to gain more motivation and self-confidence. Healing, simply understood, is guiding people toward optimism and positivity.
But the more we go into the “healing market”, the more we see things going astray. Where there is supply, there is demand, and the demand is countless and indiscriminate, making healing a formal, commercialized trend. It is not true that just because we say that a healing theory can heal, nor is it true that just by listening to many soothing and empty phrases, our mental health and real-life adversity will improve. I think, to avoid losing money and getting sick, we need to raise our awareness and understanding to distinguish between real and fake, choose what suits our needs and budget, do not let the coaches be the ones who are truly “healed” in the end - when they freely profit from their services.
