This is a category that I always urge a high degree of caution for new and inexperienced Healers. I feel that this requires a great level of communication with not only your team but the person’s team that you are working with. As a lot of these problems require a lot of difficult truths and awkward conversations and being able to sit somebody within the truth while still having them feel safe and secure. This is also a category that depending on the situation, I may involve a person’s therapist or psychologist and work with them to ensure the safety of the person that I’m currently working with. Usually these are taught one on one. Having said that on the lighter side of things this is where some autoimmune diseases live, usually on the unintentional self-inflicted side. However, if you remember what we talked about earlier in this chapter about how quickly the body listens to not only the emotional reaction but the words that are spoken and understanding has to be made when somebody has a deep dislike for themselves. If left untreated for some time this can result in the body listening and attacking itself, thinking that it’s doing what they have asked it to do. As for the intentional self-inflicted problems there are things that a Healer can do. Again, it’s about getting behind the problem itself and looking to build up that person with a set of skills or coping mechanisms as an alternative to self-harm. Both of these areas can see a dramatic improvement with solid meditative and mindfulness practices. Mindfulness and meditation don’t necessarily need to go hand in hand, even though most of the time they’re taught together each one can operate independent of the other. However, they shake hands in such a beautiful way it’s quite easy to teach them both at the same time, not only for the extra benefits that the person will receive but in one you’re building the mind space and the other you’re learning how to use it, so they become a natural fit together.