A healer’s power stems not from any special ability, but from maintaining the courage and awareness to embody and express the universal healing power that every human being naturally possesses.
— E. Leventhal
At heart, we all have the capacity to heal ourselves and nurture others.
Spirit, energy, thought, intention, skillful practice, and belief are available to all people.
Yet as individual expressions of the life force, we all have different paths, and not all of us feel called to healing practices.
Spiritual Healing and Social Rejection
For those of us that do feel “called” to spiritual healing, we are often met with some kind of resistance, either from our friends, our family members, or our culture. This is because spiritual healing can be frowned upon as a quasi, scientifically-misguided, charlatan practice by a society that is built on the mind and ego. While there are con artists in every practice, the genuinely beneficial aspects of spiritual healing are largely ignored because they can’t be quantified or reasoned with.
Unfortunately, this has led to a large percentage of us (particularly in Westernised societies) losing touch with traditional forms of healing. Very few of us were raised around shamans, medicine men or medicine women who could pass on ancient knowledge and holistic healing practices. Instead, as children we were taken to GPs, physicians and doctors who prescribed us with medications of all kinds. And while these medications were useful and helped to fix certain parts of us, they never aided us in healing our whole organism with its many layers.
Yet despite the way you were raised, you might still feel a strong pull towards spiritual healing, even if it “goes against the grain” of what you were taught.
So are you a spiritual healer? Let’s find out.
30 Signs You’re a Spiritual Healer
If you’re a spiritual healer, you will sense it deep down.
You might feel like an old soul who doesn’t quite belong in this time or place, an empath who feels everything too deeply, or quite simply an outsider or lone wolf who can’t seem to properly integrate into society.
On a personal level, I’ve always known in my blood and bones that I’m a healer. As a child, I was thoughtful, inquisitive, dreamy, and extremely nurturing. I remember caring for the kids at school, caring excessively for my toys, caring for stranded insects that got caught in spider webs, and caring a whole lot about the “bigger picture” in life.
I also remember playing with energy, having precognitive dreams, being hyper-sensitive to the physical and emotional environments around me and somehow always attracting wounded people into my life.
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Spiritual healers come in many shapes and forms. For example, I fulfill my role as a spiritual healer through my writing. Other people fulfill their calling through practicing reiki, kinesiology, yoga, meditation, hypnotherapy, psychotherapy, herbalism, acupuncture, EFT, and a whole range of other practices.
Spiritual healers are shamans in their own right. They are people who allow the energy of Spirit to flow through them in a way that guides, rejuvenates, and empowers others.
The spiritual healer is also a wounded healer. In other words, by healing themselves, they heal others. This is the absolute best kind of education available.
Are you a spiritual healer? Here are 30 signs that I’ve compiled in response to my own experience and those I have mentored (some might surprise you):
- You are highly sensitive to energy.
- You feel other people’s emotions and physical ailments as your own (empath).
- You are intuitive and can read others very easily.
- You are a “big picture” thinker (and don’t concern yourself too much with the details).
- You have gone through bouts of existential depression.
- You have felt like an outcast for most of your life.
- You think differently from others.
- You get overwhelmed in public easily.
- You have struggled with anxiety or panic before.
- You are the natural peacemaker between people.
- You are the confidant that people turn to in times of need.
- You experience digestive issues, lower back pain, or gain weight around the stomach (solar plexus chakra disorders).
- You feel drained after spending too much time around people
- Sensitive beings like animals and children gravitate towards you.
- Other people tend to “dump” their emotional baggage onto you to deal with.
- You think in shades of grey rather than in black and white.
- You are very aware of the interconnectedness of life and deeply respect it.
- You believe in synchronicity more than coincidences.
- You have a history of healers in the family, e.g., nurses, psychologists, massage therapists
- You’ve experienced major trauma in your life, e.g., loss of your family, life-threatening illness, near-death experience, physical/sexual/emotional abuse, war, mental illness.
- You’ve gone through a spiritual awakening.
- You’ve experienced the dark night of the soul.
- You tend to be a right-brain thinker rather than a left-brain thinker.
- You experience chronic pain in your body or an autoimmune disease (energetic blockages).
- You are EMF sensitive (electromagnetic hypersensitivity).
- You tend to attract people who need “fixing” but often get trapped in self-sacrificing roles.
- You’re an excellent and compassionate listener.
- You are naturally drawn towards healing professions that help others experience balance and wholeness.
- You can feel, distinguish between, and alter the energy within and without yourself.
- You have had numerous mystical experiences.
How many signs in this list could you identify with? I’m sure that I’ve missed a few signs of the spiritual healer here. If you think I have, just comment below and make a suggestion!
Spiritual Healer Q&A
Think you might be drawn toward the role of the spiritual healer, but are still unsure? Here are some commonly asked questions that might help you out:
Spiritual healers come in many shapes, forms, and modalities. However, overall, a spiritual healer’s focus is on the non-physical realm: the Soul, Spirit, and energetic layers of a person. Most spiritual healers focus on helping a person reconnect with their Soul by clearing away old energy, identifying inner blockages, and channeling healing energy. They may choose to work with ancestral trauma, past life issues, chakra imbalances, soul loss, or anything that is causing unhappiness and disharmony.
There are many courses out there offered to certify you and sharpen your skills, however, this is not necessary to become a spiritual healer. Spiritual healing is an innate calling that comes from the Soul: it can’t be handed to you on a piece of paper. Many people study intensively by themselves – however, with that being said, formal study can help to hone these innate talents. To become a spiritual healer, focus on what subjects and topics you’re drawn to – that is your path.
Yes and no. Spiritual healing is an inborn gift. If you’re a highly sensitive and naturally compassionate person, chances are you are a born healer. But spiritual healing doesn’t suit everyone – even those with the innate gift. To be a spiritual healer, you need to have done a lot of inner work (working through your own wounds), have a high level of integrity, and be a grounded person. Some people find spiritual healing too overwhelming and intense, so keep that in mind when pursuing this path.
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As a healer, the best possible place you could start is with yourself. As the proverb goes, “Physician, heal thyself!” Starting from within first is the best way to ensure that you have enough energy, passion, and love to give to others. I recommend exploring how to love yourself and inner child work to get started.
How many of the signs in this article could you relate to? I’d love to hear below!
Hi, I’ve always felt very different from the rest of my family, I was the black sheep, I should say that I am still, none of them what to know me. I haven’t had an easy life, was abused as a child and all my Adult life. I have had two near death experiences. Animals always steam to love me always come up to me. I love nature. I feel pain of others, and want to heal them.
I hope to hear from you soon.
Yours sincerely
Caroline
I resonated with all 30. WOW!
I related to 23 and have questions about a few other
I have every sign posted in this article. In fact, everytime I go to my grandpat house I leave totally drained as if my life got sucked from my body. How do you stop this?
Thanks,
Dustin
Calling on Archangel
Michael and your team of light asking them to shield you up with source universal love and to place you in a bubble of protection to keep out all negative energy. You can also envision your protective shield as a mirror. This will send all back instead of attaching to you
Self care. You have to replenish your energy. Learn how to allow the energy to flow through and out. Use the parts in your body that expel energy, like your hands, top of your head and feet. Connect with nature and rest.
I think nearly all of them bar three. I distanced myself from healing due to practising family law. But life has ways of bringing it back into focus. Its now how do I integrate the two? Im a reiki master and witch but the last 12 months I’ve had thoughts of herbal medicine and writing….hmmmm
All but 2
The world has gone astray due to lack of knowledge, the world claims to worship the Almighty but they practice hypocrisy.
Let us return man to their spiritual form. The Almighty is not after the financial offerings but Spiritual offering. May Yah show you the way but don’t make money out of it.
Blessed work, glory to Yah and blessed Mother Earth
I have a lot of these signs..I think my kundalini is awake and I can kind of “control” it with my breathing and some movement I do with a muscle/nerve in the back of my neck. When I breath and “activate” that my body calms and I can feel some kind of goosebumps in the body and energy in the sides of my face and my hair “growing”. All these started to happen after I started to do kriya yoga to detox my body, but the feeling of my “hair growing” started since I was a kid. I think that maybe I can channel this energy and use it somehow to heal myself. Has anybody experienced something like this before? Sorry if I sound like crazy, its 100% true, I thought this could be a good place to speak about this :) please let me know if feel related to this.
Hey there. I identified with almost all of these. I recently had an experience where my spirit kind of “took over” and I started speaking to the spirit of the person I was with. Needless to say I ended up freaking them OUT and they told me that while I may be a healer, its important for me to undergo specific training for my healing abilities. Some kind of healing “initiation”, so as not to cause more harm to the individual. I’ve been trying to forgive myself for causing unintentional harm, and I’m wondering, what does initiation for a healer even looks like. I don’t really want to participate in the capitalistic side of healing ( although i know that there is a need for it and it is valid, it doesn’t really resonate with the kind of training I would want). If anyone has any suggestions for where i might look to find training, or even any articles I could read, I would be very appreciative. Thanks.
I have experience 29 of these signs and I also do have a prompt to save or heal. I usually have heated palms when I am in the midst of impotent and sick people
Do healers make a practice of charging a fee
Hi Blake! Would you mind sharing more into detail about your experience with the spirit of a person that ended up being a harmful event?… I’m learning about my own idk what you call them.. thoughts & feelings. My energy is really strong and idk why:.. I can tell people become defensive when I express to them…. I’ve learned to be quiet unless they ask or I feel they want to dig deeper. Many people only understand surface level perspectives…. if this makes sense! Please share more details!
My name is Stephanie and I believe I am a spiritual healer, I awakened in April 2020. All but 2 out of the 30 I resonate with. I’m just having issues with who to talk to about it so these articles help. Thank you
This was amazing. Great highlights and to the point very easy to understand. I can relate 1000% to all those signs, unfortunately I’ve been going through my journey guided only by my guardian angels and spirits. I don’t know yet where is taking me but for now I landed here as a confirmation of my path ahead. Thank you for sharing … love and light to all!
Hello i have all of them, I am empath and my girlfriend what more interested we are flame souls, on this stage of relationship after one year we try fix our past becouse we have a lot of problems between us after that all (hard past) I have in 100% loss soul and try find healers what can help fix that I just want be happy and have a normal life…
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Just to forgive even if the person does wrong U show love to them that only solution
I relate to all the signs. Very knowledgeable.
I can identify with all of the above traits. WOW
I didn’t count them all, but I’d estimate 25 or so apply to me. I FEEL things. I SEE things. I just KNOW things I have no business knowing. I’m constantly wondering of other people, how can you not see what I see clear as day? How can you not see the connections? And then I’m proven correct, sometimes years and years later. Folks have actually asked me if I’m a “spook”, a “CIA guy”. They say “I thought you were full of ****, but damn, you were right”… 10+ years later.
At first my abilities amazed me, but I was young at the time. Frankly, it was more of a party trick. Watch me bend this key or that spoon with my mind. And I was surprised as anyone when I did. Pick a card, shuffle the deck while I turn away, and I pick the correct card for them. And I did. I affect electrical components without touching them. The list goes on and on. It’s fascinating to me still.
Over the past 40 years I’ve had so many experiences that to deny their validity and accuracy would be the ultimate foolishness. Now I say, ask and you shall receive. It’s so, so true. The key is becoming completely open with no expectations. Learn to sublimate your own ego and amazing things are possible. But I don’t believe just anyone can develop these abilities. I believe only 15% or so, and I agree with the genetic component. My Mom had it, but being Catholic pushed it deep down in her mind.
I’ve come to see spiritually helping people as my “second career”, although I’m apprehensive about the energies I take on. Nevertheless, it’s path I’ve been led to, a gift I’ve been given, and to not use it would be a dis-service to the souls of people who seek help. Who am I to judge or deny them? If I were a mechanic, would I decline to fix your car? I think not.
We draw to us what we need at the time. We truly do create our own reality.
Dear Altheia, thank you for your work I related to all the signs and have a calling for empowering others but am at a road block. I would love to do work around unblocking and opening the heart but don’t really know where to look so if there’s any advice you could give I would greatly appreciate it. Again thank you. Derek ward.
Wow, I have 27 or 28 out of the 30, depending upon whether or not you consider sporadic osteoarthritis a chronic pain or autoimmune condition. I spoke to a man who assists the Pastor at my Church and has a Doctorate in Theology and told him that I feel called because the people who see things and are awake have a responsibility.
Excellent article!! Had me thinking more about my next steps on my healing path. Thank you.
I could relate 29 signs. I know I am a healer for the last year or so. If only I knew how to begin…
I could relate to 16 signs.
I relate to all of them I thank you so much for guiding me my next project will be to heal my inner self and self love I thank you