Beyond Healing: The Art and Science of Pre-Healing

Holistic Wellness for transcending Healing

What if everything we’ve been taught about healing is, in a profound sense, backwards? What if healing itself is not merely the solution, but a sign that something has already gone wrong? This is the provocative starting point for a concept I call 'Pre-healing'.

Let’s begin with a simple question: What is healing? Conventionally, it's seen as a set of responses to fix a problem. But if you look closer, you realize that these responses themselves can often feel like a new problem. There’s an old saying: “To remove a thorn, use a thorn.” In the same way, healing is essentially a new problem that addresses an underlying problem.

How can we call healing a problem? Because if you observe it honestly, most signals that indicate healing is in progress are signals that frighten us. They scare us, threaten us, and make us deeply uncomfortable.

Take pain. Pain is a call for attention. Your brain gives you coordinates—at the ankle, at the shin, in the shoulder—and alerts you that something needs to be done. But often, it’s not asking for intervention; it’s saying, “Please don’t interfere. Don’t touch that spot, don’t use it, because I’m working on it."

It’s a biological “Work in Progress” sign, telling you to be careful so you don’t disrupt the repair. Do we love pain? The answer is obvious.

Consider the feeling of weakness, bodyache, and discomfort when one is down with fever.

What is a fever? It’s the body’s attempt to raise its internal temperature, to change its inner settings so that a different set of immune responses can activate—responses usually dormant under normal circumstances. Fever exists for a reason.

Yet, all these symptoms—whether fever, pain, or acidity—are perceived by us as threats. So now you see why healing feels like a threat, and why we can resonate with the idea that healing itself is a problem.

This brings us to Pre-healing. The acronym P.R.E. stands for “Providing the Right Environment.” But even without the acronym, look at the word: Pre-healing. It signifies a stage before healing. And if healing is a problem, then pre-healing is the stage before a problem.

A stage before a problem is a realm of multiple possibilities. It contains the possibility that there will be no problem at all, the possibility that there will be a big problem and infinite possibilities between these two extremes. What ultimately happens depends entirely on what we do at that stage.

Therefore, Pre-healing is about consciously residing in that stage of 'Health and Balance' , to ensure that the healing responses are never triggered.

If I don’t want the healing response to activate, I need my body to work perfectly well. This goal is unique- a step above having an excellent robust healing response. It is to have a lifestyle so balanced that there is no need for a healing response. If there are no hidden, covert problems, there will be no overt problem manifesting as a healing crisis.

In essence, Pre-healing is a simple mentality:

“I don’t want problems.”

It’s not about recovering faster or bettter; it’s about averting healing altogether. It’s about avoiding loss of health so that you dont need to recover it back!

But is Pre-healing just about the physical body? Is it merely about herbs, clean water, and proper hygiene? Unfortunately—or rather, fortunately—no. Its appeal is far more holistic.

As humans, we operate through multiple interconnected personalities:

1. The Biological/Physical Personality: Our tangible body and its place in the ecosystem, networking with other beings.

2. The Physiological Personality: The unseen inner environment—the flow of blood, cerebrospinal fluid, and the intricate interactions between cells.

3. The Psychological Personality: The realm of emotions, feelings, likes, and dislikes.

4. The Spiritual Personality: The domain of curiosity, the search for deeper meaning, questioning consciousness, and reaching toward the impossible.

Pre-healing is for all these personalities. Addressing only the physical and physiological is incomplete. I could have the best food and supplements, but if I lack human connection, live in chaos, pollution, or the metaphorical shadow of war, I cannot be whole. Imagine the proverbial goat in a cage with enough grass, but surrounded by hyenas, wolves, and tigers. Even though protected, the goat’s perception of threat prevents happiness. So too with us: if our environment is not conducive, it undermines everything.

If my physical self is perfect but my psychological or spiritual selves are damaged—if I feel disconnected, purposeless, or emotionally turbulent—how can I have a happy, holistic life? True well-being requires that all these levels are addressed. This is what pre-healing is about. It works at multiple levels, for every facet of our being.

This holistic view extends to our network—our society. When I question corruption, perversion, or social injustice, my intent is never to point fingers or blame some one else, be it a leader, a politician, goverment official or anyone else for that matter. The intent and goal is to address our own inner world. Changing someone else’s mind is difficult; changing ourselves is possible. The most powerful way to fix corruption is to refuse to be corrupt. The way to fix perversion is to not be perverted. The way to stop gossip and conflict is to not indulge in them. First, don’t be a part of it. Second, don’t contribute to it.

As we grow individually, as we network with like-minded individuals, and as more people see value in this integrity, the network begins to auto-correct. The best way to heal a sick network is to ensure each node—ourselves—is healthy.

This philosophy even applies to how we view challenges like COVID-19. I don’t blame the virus for the problems it caused. It was simply a virus. The biggest contributor to its impact was likely our own actions and the state of our world. Yet, we blamed the virus. We shifted blame instead of looking inward.

Pre-healing says: Don’t blame a virus, a bacterium, an animal, or nature. The key question is: What can we do? How can we adapt? How can we work on ourselves? When COVID came, our approach was protocol: avoid unnecessary exposure, don’t eat junk food, give the body optimal nutrients and support. By protecting the body and providing raw materials for resilience, we aimed to make healing unnecessary.

Think about it: our bodies host millions of viruses at any moment, and we don’t care. Why did we give COVID so much power? Because we love to shift blame. Pre-healing rejects blame-shifting. It’s not about finding a villain out there; it’s about finding the hero inside. It’s about discovering that internal warrior, that fighter who wants to experience, live, and enjoy life on their own merit. It’s about not waiting for someone else to create a better world or a better emotional state for me, but resonating health from within and investing my energy to make a difference.

The biggest challenge is how we start, as a community, to understand and address all these different possibilities. This is why I write—about corruption, ethics, and the confusion that arises when we think we are separate or elite. The intent is never to vilify a group or religion. The problem is that our networking is failing. For the network to become healthy, each node must auto-correct. As we do, the entire system begins to heal.

In one blog, I explore why your ethics should not depend on someone else’s—why you shouldn’t have “floating ethics” on a foundation that shifts with the crowd. We must be rooted in our own integrity. We must do our best—for the environment, for society, for our physical body, for the cells within us, for the neural circuits we must prune like a garden, and most importantly, for our curiosity and our need to connect with something higher, to find purpose.

That is what Pre-healing is about. It is the conscious, daily practice of creating the right environment—physically, physiologically, psychologically, spiritually, and socially—so that the thorn of disesse healing never has to be pulled out by another thorn. It is the commitment to a life where the problem never arises, and where our energy is spent not on fighting fires, but on building a fireproof existence. It is, ultimately, the art of nurturing the hero within.