The 7 Healing Powers That Fill Your Life with Health, Vitality and Meaning
- Alan Lowis
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Human beings are born with a miraculous power. The power to heal.
Not just cuts and bruises.
Not just infections or fevers.
But hearts. Minds. Spirits.
Ours—and others'.
Think about it: When we get a cut, we don’t have to consciously fix it. Something deep within us already knows what to do. Blood flows. Cells rush in. Proteins form a patchwork. New skin grows. The body remembers how to become whole again. A quiet miracle.
When something threatens our well-being,
the body responds—clearing, cleansing, restoring balance.
Not by waging war, but by remembering harmony.
Health is not an accident.
It’s a natural rhythm. A return to rightness.
And healing is not just physical.
An anthropologist once said that the first sign of human civilization
wasn’t a tool or a firepit—but a broken femur that had been repaired & healed.
Because healing that injury required something more:
Another person.
Someone who stayed close.
Who carried the wounded. Who performed the operation.
Who cared.
That moment—that bone—was evidence of something extraordinary:
We have the power to heal ourselves and we can help each other heal as well.
And we still can.
Even now.
Because when deeply felt, honored, and cultivated, emotions themselves become medicine.
Gratitude. Love.
Forgiveness
Self-worth.
Willpower.
Joy.
Stillness.
Each one has the power to restore us.
To soothe the mind.
To lift the heart.
To support the healing of the body.
This is the gift.
This is the truth.
You have the power to heal.
Healing Isn’t Just Physical
Have you ever felt like healing was just out of reach?
Like your body was so tired, so hurt, it might never be the same again?
Or like your body could recover… but your spirit still felt weary, unsettled, incomplete?
You’re not alone.
It’s the invisible transformation that begins
when we reconnect with who we truly are.
And that kind of healing doesn’t come from a pill or a procedure.
It begins with emotion. With intention. With a quiet, powerful decision to walk a different path— one of peace, presence, and inner restoration.
And even if only for a moment…we’ve all felt it:
A spark of joy. A rush of gratitude. A sudden stillness, a deep breath. The sense that life—and the body we live in—is a sacred, magical gift.
But we all carry pain too.
To be human is to know hurt—sometimes in the body,
sometimes in the soul.
Pain is inevitable. But suffering… is optional.
And if we learn to look beyond the pain, we can find something else.
Even in the hardest moments, life keeps offering us beauty—if we’re willing to feel it.
This is the deeper miracle of being human:
Not just the ability to feel deeply—but the power to transform what we feel.
To shift sorrow into meaning.
To turn pain into purpose.
To find or create beauty, even in brokenness.
We have the freedom—and the power—to change.
To grow.
To heal.
We can shape a life filled with joy, connection, and meaning—no matter where we’ve been, or what we’ve been through.
Yes, when our bodies are sick or hurting, we thank God for modern medicine.
But we also know: the mind and emotions can heal too.
We’ve all heard of the placebo effect. Belief can actually heal the body.
Yet, there’s another kind of restoration we long for—the kind that touches the spirit as well as the cells.
A healing of the heart.
A return of the soul.
A coming home to ourselves.
Because true healing isn’t just about recovery—
It’s about wholeness.
It’s about growing through what we’ve been through.
Finding our center again.
So we can rise, love fully, and share our gifts with the world.
And science is catching up to what the soul has always known:
When the heart is filled with healing emotion—the body often heals faster too.
How Do We Begin to Heal?
So how do we begin?
Across the world’s greatest healing traditions— spiritual, scientific, cultural, and sacred— we find something remarkable.
There are seven emotional powers that live within every human being.
When we awaken them, they don’t just comfort us.
They heal us—body, mind, and spirit.
These powers soothe the nervous system,
strengthen the immune system,
bring clarity to the mind,
and reconnect us to our hearts, our truth, and our center.
They’re not new ideas.
They’re ancient truths.
And they’re already inside you—
waiting to be remembered.
Waiting to be reawakened.
Waiting to rise.
The 7 Healing Powers: Emotional Energies That Can Transform Your Life
The emotions we feel—when deeply embraced and wisely guided—don’t just shift our mood.
They shift our chemistry, our energy, our decisions, our biology, our health, and our future.
They are not simply fleeting feelings.
They are forces.
They are powers.
They are medicine.
And when we look across ancient wisdom traditions, modern neuroscience, and the stories of people who’ve healed, endured, and grown—we find again and again:
There are seven emotional healing powers that open the door to transformation.
💜 Gratitude
💚 Love
💙 Forgiveness
💛 Self-Worth
❤️ Willpower
💖 Joy
🤍 Stillness
Each one is powerful on its own. Each one is a doorway to the others.
Life is a dance of thoughts, emotions, and actions— each shaping the next in a continuous spiral.
Thoughts shape our feelings.
Feelings shape our thoughts.
And together, they shape our body—which then shapes how we think and feel again.
It’s a never-ending loop.
But here’s the good news.
That loop can work for you.
And it often begins with one powerful emotional force that opens the door to all the others.
Each of these seven powers is a muscle you can grow, a flame you can tend, a path you can walk.
You don’t need to master all of them at once.
You only need to begin with one.
Because when you truly feel even one of them—the others start to awaken.
Gratitude often opens the way.
But so can Love.
Or Forgiveness.
Or Joy.
Or even Stillness.
They’re not a checklist.
They’re a circle.
A rhythm.
A return to wholeness.
And as we return to these powerful emotional states—again and again—we begin to heal.
We begin to change. We begin to grow.
We begin to remember who we are.
💜 1. Gratitude, Grace & More Than Enough
The Heart Opens
Gratitude is the parent of all healing emotions.
It grounds us. It shifts us.
It moves us from fear to light, from “not enough” to “everything I need is here.”
From scarcity… to abundance.
When we focus on what’s already good—
what’s already present, already true—
we become present too.
And in that presence, everything becomes possible.
Gratitude softens the heart.
It quiets the mind.It lifts the body.
It invites joy.
It clears space for love.
It makes forgiveness possible.
It opens the door to healing.
When we are truly grateful, we become full and overflowing.
Wonder returns.
Laughter breaks through the heaviness.
And in that state, the soul begins to mend.
Gratitude is not just a practice.
It’s a portal.
A key that unlocks everything.
💚 2. Love & Connection
The Heart Awakens
Gratitude fills us— and what overflows is love.
Love for self.
Love for others.
Love for life.
Love is the great healer.
It soothes loneliness.
It dissolves pain.
It is the invisible thread that binds us to one another—
and to something greater.
When we feel truly connected, something softens.
We remember we belong.
We remember we matter.
We remember how to love—and how to let ourselves be loved.
Love isn’t a reward.
It’s our natural state when we feel safe, seen, and open.
Sometimes, love follows gratitude.
Other times, it’s where the healing begins.
A single act of love—given or received—can open every other door.
And from the fullness of love, forgiveness often becomes possible.
💙 3. Forgiveness, Mercy & Letting Go
The Past is Released
Sometimes, forgiveness flows from love.
Other times, it's the doorway to love.
To forgive is to be free.
Not because what happened was okay.
But because you deserve peace.
Forgiveness doesn’t mean forgetting.
It doesn’t mean pretending.
It means letting go of the weight you were never meant to carry.
Mercy softens the grip.
It allows us to stop reliving old wounds.
To choose grace over judgment—toward others, and toward ourselves.
The pain we hold onto doesn’t just live in our minds.
It takes root in the body.
Anger, shame, guilt, and resentment
can cause tension, stress, and even physical damage over time.
They weigh us down from the inside out.
But when we forgive, something extraordinary happens:
The body begins to repair.
The mind becomes lighter.
The heart begins to feel safe again.
And often, in that release—we remember our worth.
Sometimes, forgiveness flows from love.
Other times, it’s where the real healing starts.
Because when we let go of what has harmed us, we finally make space for what can heal us.
💛 4. Self-Worth, Deservedness, Wholeness
The Self is Seen
Sometimes, healing begins the moment we forgive—because in forgiving, we remember the truth: We deserve better.
And sometimes, healing begins when we remember that truth first—that we are better.
That we matter.
That we are worthy of love, of peace, of joy.
And from that remembering…we find the strength to forgive.
Whichever comes first, the result is the same:
We begin to release the lie that we are less than or unworthy, and remember the truth that we are enough— always have been and always will be.
You are not a mistake.
You are not too far gone.
You are not broken beyond repair.
You are here for a reason.
And you deserve a life filled with joy, peace, love, and beauty.
When you begin to believe that…
your thoughts shift.
Your energy changes.
Your decisions reflect a new truth.
Your body responds.
A new life begins to take shape—
not because you forced it, but because you finally believed you were worth it.
This knowing becomes your foundation.
And from that foundation…
your strength begins to rise.
❤️ 5. Willpower, Determination & Unstoppability
The Hero Within
There is a force inside you—
older than fear,
stronger than doubt.
It’s your will.
It’s the part of you that refuses to break.
The part that rises, again and again, no matter how many times you’ve fallen.
The part that says:“I may be tired, but I will not stop.”
Willpower is a choice—
a decision you make over and over.
To keep going, to show up, to do the next right thing—
even when you don’t feel ready.
And while determination is the fuel of transformation, discipline is the structure that holds you through the storm.
Training yourself—over and over— to do the hard thing even when your will is tired, discipline prepares you.
It builds readiness.
It hardens your edge.
It gives you the strength to endure what breaks ordinary people—and become something more.
It gives you the power to act when “lesser mortals” would give up.
This is how heroes are made.
Not in the easy moments—but in the ones that test everything.
So when it’s dark, when it’s hard, when weakness whispers, “I can’t,”—
That’s the moment your will, your strength, your core shouts back:
“I must. I can. I will. Watch me.”
💖 6. Joy, Happiness, Ecstasy & Bliss
The Light Returns
Joy is your nature.
It’s your natural emotional state—
who you are beneath the noise, beneath the wounds,
beneath the weight of the world.
You were born from joy.
Formed in light.
And no matter what you’ve been through, that light has never gone out.
It may flicker.
It may get buried.
But it is still there.
Always within—and always ready to shine.
And Joy comes in many flavors:
Delight — the playful lift of the heart.
Happiness — the deep hum of contentment and rightness.
Ecstasy — the flood, the dance, the tears of wonder.
Bliss — the glow of being fully present, fully enough.
Each heals in its own way.
Let it rise.
Let it dance through your chest,
tingle up your spine,
and remind you—
This life is joyful.
This life is good.
And so are you.
🤍 7. Silence & Stillness
The Deep Remembering
Sometimes, you don’t need to feel anything… to feel everything.
Silence—stillness—is the space beneath the emotions.
The calm that holds them all.
The infinite experience of simply being.
At first, it may feel unfamiliar… even uncomfortable.
We’re so used to the noise.
So used to doing, fixing, pushing, performing.
But when we let go—
when we soften into silence—
we find something deeper.
We find ourselves.
We find our source.
We remember that we are not separate.
We are not alone.
We are not just a drop in the ocean.
We are the entire ocean in a drop.
A part of the whole.
Held.
Home.
Stillness is where the soul comes home—
where healing becomes natural,and wholeness becomes inevitable.
In the quiet…you remember you are infinite.
And Where Does This Path Lead?
Growth & Contribution - The Deeper Meaning in Life
Once you begin to heal—
once the seven powers awaken within you—
where does it take you?
It leads to health.
To trust.
To faith.
To stillness.
To presence.
To peace.
Not because everything is perfect—
but because you are whole inside it.
Because you’ve come home to yourself.
Because you’ve remembered the truth you’ve always known:
You are loved.
You are worthy of love.
You are safe, strong, and capable.
You matter deeply.
And once you know this—
once you begin to feel it, to live it—
something awakens in your core.
A quiet fire.
A sacred urgency.
The drive to grow.
The desire to give.
The calling to serve.
You were born to grow.
You were born to give.
And in doing both, you become everything you were meant to be.
Begin the Journey: Explore & Experience Each Power
These seven healing powers are deeply interconnected—
they build upon one another, overlap, and strengthen each other.
Each is a doorway to the others—
and ultimately, to becoming everything you were meant to be.
You can learn to feel them more often.
You can return to them.
You can be guided by them.
And when you do, your life begins to shift—
from sickness to health,
from pain to peace,
from survival to thriving,
from isolation and emptiness
to purpose, connection, and deep meaning.
Below, you’ll find links to tools, articles, stories, songs, and meditations to help you awaken these seven extraordinary powers.
You can be systematic and practice them daily.
Or you can let your heart guide you to whichever you need most today.
Begin where you are.
Let one lead you to the rest.
And let your healing begin.
💜 Gratitude
Open your soul to beauty, blessings, and light.
I Wish You Blessings - A Poem, Song and Article to Bring You All Good Things
Would Have Been Enough - Article, Song, Book to Overflow Your Life With Gratitude
Thank You for the Morning- Article & Song to Bring Gratitude into Your Life
Healing Meditation - Full Body Guided Mediation for Gratitude, Healing & Growth
Thank You Songs - Multiple Thank You Songs to Strengthen Your Feelings of Gratitude
Thank You Song - Soaring Version Thank You Song - Country Version Thank You Song - Metal Battle Hymn
Thank You Song - Pop Hit
Thank You Song - R&B Lounge Version
Thank You Song - Pop Country Duet
Thank You Song - Sweet Female Pop
💚 Love & Connection
Awaken the heart through care, presence, and shared energy.
_______ - Article About The Healing Power of Love
Love Is Everywhere - Multiple Songs to Strengthen Your Feelings of Love Love is Everywhere
Love is Everywhere - Candlelight Version
Love is Everywhere - Flowing Version
Love is Everywhere - Pop/R&B Version
If I Were A Poet - Article & Song About Romantic Love
You’re My Favorite Song - Article and song about Love
Sleep My Love - Article and song about Love
Good Morning My Love - article and song about love
💙 Forgiveness & Mercy
Let go. Find grace. Be free.
Forgiveness - The Key to Freedom - Article & Poem
I’m Sorry, Deeply Sorry - The Apology We All Need to Hear - Article & Song
I’m Sorry - A True Apology From the Heart - Article & Song
Mercy - Article, Poem & Songs
Paradoxical Commandments - A Reflection
💛 Self-Worth, Deservedness & Wholeness
See your strength, worth and power. Remember who you are.
Article on Worth, Deservedness & Wholeness
Desiderata - You Are A Child of The Universe - Article & Poem
Songs That Remind You of Your Worth
Mantras, Incantations & Affirmations
❤️ Willpower, Determination & Unstoppability
Ignite your inner fire. Find Certainty & Strength. Rise again and again. Become Unstoppable.
Unstoppable Article - with Unleash the Hero™ Song & Unleash the Hero™ Book
Unstoppable Song
Unstoppable Anthem
If You Can - Article, poem and song about how to succeed in life
I Am The Captain of My Soul - Article, poem and song about overcoming anything & mastering your life
Do Not Go Gentle - Article and Poem
Rage Against the Dying of the Light Song - Power Anthem
Rage Against the Dying of the Light Song - Power Ballad
Rage Against the Dying of the Light Song - Candlelight Version
Rise up - Poem & Article
Psalm of Life - Article and Poem
Man in The Arena - Article and Video
The Will to Win - Article and Video
💖 Joy, Happiness, Ecstasy & Bliss
Find & feel your joyful self.
The Power of Joy: Creating a life filled with Happiness, Ecstacy and Bliss - Article & Exercises
🤍 Silence & Stillness
Return to Your Self & Your Source
The Transformative Power of Stillness & Silence - Article & Exercises
🩵 Growth & Contribution
Answer your call to greatness, purpose and meaning.
The Ancient Call to Human Excellence - Article & Exercises