'Mental and emotional healing', and/or 'spiritual healing', is a very common and popular term in the world of yoga, however, that is nothing to do with the teachings and practice of yoga.
There is neither right nor wrong, neither good nor bad, as all and everyone have the freedom of their own way of thinking, belief/disbelief, values, practice, desire, inspiration (what and where the mind learn something or everything from, that influence and motivate them for practicing and promoting something or everything), and aspiration (being inspired, influenced, and motivated by someone or somewhere to do and achieve and promote something or everything).
If there is the existence of an individual pure and perfect 'spirit/soul/consciousness' that is permanent, independent, unlimited, unconditional, and immortal residing in the impermanent limited conditional mortal body and mind, then that permanent independent unlimited unconditional infinite 'spirit/soul/consciousness' cannot be hurt, or injured, or damaged, or modified, or destroyed, by anything, not to say, there is no such existence existing.
And hence, the idea and practice of 'spiritual healing' is absolutely invalid.
The selfless impermanent limited conditional mortal finite existence and function/modification of the mind (the physical structure and operation of the brains/the central and peripheral nervous system/the cognition/the thinking process or input processing and output response) can be determined, affected, disrupted, hurt, injured, damaged, modified, and destroyed by something of certain internal or external detrimental hurtful impact, activity, condition, and situation, that might or might not be improving or deteriorating, or be treated by certain treatments or action taking.
Such as the development and maintenance of the function or mechanism of the senses and organs of the senses or the organs of perception and the cognition of knowing, recognizing, reasoning, and understanding, the degrees of intelligence or the accuracy, efficiency, and speed of the intellectual reasoning, problem solving, solution finding, and possible outcomes/consequences visualizing, the power of memory to memorize and to recall or remember, or the speed of learning, memorizing, and remembering, and etc, can be determined, affected, modified, conditioned, and influenced directly and indirectly by the limited and conditional availability and conscious choices of food consumption/energy inputs/clean air and oxygen sufficiency/sufficient clean and safe water intake and replenishment/sufficient essential nutrients and minerals intake/physical and mental activities and habits/internal and external detrimental or conducive surrounding environment, condition, and situation for life maintenance and over-all well-being/balance between energy input and output/energy conservation, depletion, and restoration, and etc, under the presence or absence of certain knowledge and understanding and appropriate/immediate action taking.
Meanwhile, the conscious and semi-conscious manifestation of certain feelings/emotions/thoughts/desires/imagination/projection/visualization/manifestation of dreams, or the conscious/semi-conscious state of mind might be determined, affected, influenced, conditioned, or prompted by the mind perception of names and forms of all kinds of experiences under the presence of grasping, upon the mind is functioning under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance, under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness, but the manifestation of certain thoughts, desires, feelings, and emotions arising from the conscious/semi-conscious mind reaction reacting towards something or everything, internally and/or externally, or not, is solely determined by the presence or absence of grasping under the presence or absence of the veil of ignorance.
Under the presence of grasping under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance, there is the idea of 'I', or the ego, or the conscious/semi-conscious self acknowledgement in the mind, that thinks and believes, and that is identifying with and acknowledging that, "I am experiencing something that is disturbing/hurtful/painful mentally and emotionally. This is hurting me mentally and emotionally. I am mentally and emotionally disturbed/damaged/injured/hurt. I need to be healed from mental and emotional disturb/damage/injury/hurt. I am practicing yoga/buddhism hoping that it can relieve/heal/remove my mental and emotional disturb/hurt/damage/injury/pain instantly, gradually, eventually, partially, or completely."
Under the absence of grasping under the absence of the veil of ignorance, there is no idea of 'I', or the ego, or the conscious/semi-conscious self acknowledgement arising in the selfless mind to be associating, attaching, and identifying, not to say, grasping and reacting ignorantly towards all kinds of perceived names and forms/experiences that are pleasant or unpleasant, desirable or undesirable, agreeable or disagreeable, enjoyable or non-enjoyable, and soothing or painful, except to be performing necessary action for life maintenance under conducive supportive environment/condition/situation in accordance to availability, mobility, and possibility, to create conducive supportive beneficial environment/condition/situation for all and everyone ego-lessly, indiscriminately and unconditionally, and to avoid or move away from detrimental harmful environment/condition/situation, if possible.
There is only the selfless impermanent limited and conditional conscious and semi-conscious ego-less mind under the presence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness, being aware of the conscious and semi-conscious perception/cognition/knowing/reasoning/understanding/remembering/recognizing/possible consequences projecting, or the conscious and semi-conscious voluntary activities under conscious effort/freewill/choice and clarity or the non-conscious and autonomous involuntary activities without conscious effort/freewill/choice, upon coming in contact with certain names and forms/experiences/conditions/situations being perceived via the senses and the organs of the senses, upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness in the present moment now, devoid of grasping/association/attachment/identification, knowing that all and everything are all impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, being reflected in the mind manifesting/arising/changing/passing away upon the all pervading timeless selfless universal consciousness that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, that enabling the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty/mind being what it is, as it is, that is either functioning efficiently or inefficiently, that is being aware, or semi-aware, or unaware.
All minds are selfless, regardless of the presence or absence of grasping or the veil of ignorance, functioning ego-lessly or egoistically.
All selfless minds can be functioning or performing action ego-lessly or egoistically.
The selfless and ego-less conscious/semi-conscious perceiver/knower/experiencer/thinker/input receiver and processor/output responder/action performer being what it is, existing and functioning under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness upon the all pervading timeless actionless universal silent witness/consciousness, is being undetermined/unaffected/undisturbed/unhurt by the mind perception/cognition/acknowledgement towards all kinds of selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self names and forms of different qualities/conditions/situations/activities/changes that arising, ceaselessly changing, and passing away at their respective cause and pace, being perceived and reflected in the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self modification of the mind upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness.
Regardless of whether the reflection of the perceived names and forms is being reflected in the mind is as it is (under the absence of the veil of ignorance), or not as it is (under the presence of the veil of ignorance), and regardless of how long the reflection of the perceived names and forms stays or lingers in the mind, or regardless of the presence and absence of grasping, or regardless of the presence or absence of egoistic reaction/judgment/desires or doesn't desire/likes or dislikes/agreements or disagreements/pleasing or displeasing/comforting or hurting/manipulating or non-manipulating/the presence of absence of disturbance manifesting in the mind, towards the reflection of all those perceived names and forms, it doesn't determine/affect/change the names and forms being what they are, as they are.
In the modification of the mind/the thinking process/the thought activities, the selfless egoistic perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty/mind can reacts towards the apples or oranges with different judgments/opinions/reactions/desires or doesn't desire/likes or dislikes/agreements or disagreements/pleasing or displeasing/comforting or hurting/manipulating or non-manipulating towards the reflection of the perceived apples or oranges in the modification of the mind, but all those thinking/reactions in the mind doesn't determine/affect/change the apples or oranges being what they are, as they are.
The apples or oranges (non-sentient selfless living organisms existing, functioning, and changing unconsciously), as well as the selfless non-egoistic minds (sentient selfless living organisms existing, functioning, and changing consciously/semi-consciously/unconsciously) that are free from grasping or the influence of the veil of ignorance, are not being determined, or disturbed, or changed, or offended, or promoted/demoted, or motivated/demotivated, by any kinds of thinking and reaction or expression/behavior towards them coming from the different minds.
It is only when the mind is functioning under the presence of grasping, under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance, that there is the thinking/reaction/manifestation of the illusive/incorrect/false thought/idea/acknowledgement/feeling/emotion of, "I am being disturbed and hurt by all these names and forms/experiences/expressions/behaviors that are bad, wrong, negative, offensive, and hurtful, that are disturbing and hurtful to me physically, mentally, emotionally, or spiritually."
One can be hurt or injured physically by something or some others, including the organ of the brains (the hardware of the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty/mind), regardless of the presence or absence of grasping, but none can be hurt or injured mentally or emotionally under the absence of grasping under the absence of the veil of ignorance, that need to be 'healed' mentally and emotionally, not to say, none can be hurt or injured 'spiritually', that doesn't exist, where 'spiritual damage and spiritual healing' is invalid.
The selfless but egoistic conscious/semi-conscious perceiver/knower/experiencer/thinker/input receiver and processor/output responder/action performer under the presence of grasping under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance, is ignorantly being determined/affected/disturbed or 'hurt' by all THAT that the mind reasons/understands/judges/recognizes as undesirable, unpleasant, dislikable, disagreeable, non-enjoyable, hurtful, or painful to itself.
It is common and natural that, either wittingly and unwittingly as well as directly and indirectly, there are many minds are more or less being determined, disturbed, affected, or hammered by the presence of ceaseless and boundless hurtful and impactful behaviors and activities and their consequences being generated by human beings that are functioning under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance, that give rise to many different unhealthy conditions and situations that are detrimental to the over-all physical and/or mental well-being of all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment, in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.
If the mind really wants to practice and realize yoga, it needs to let go the idea of 'mental and emotional healing', or 'spiritual healing', because the presence of association, attachment, identification, and expectation towards that idea itself is a hindrance towards the realization towards Selflessness and Non-self.
Yoga and buddhism is about the eradication of the veil of ignorance, to attain direct self realization towards the universal truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self in all kinds of names and forms, via quieting the restless egoistic impure thought activities or thinking process, or modification/state of the mind, by turning the outgoing tendency of the mind inward to focus within for self-introspection and self-inquiry or self contemplation to be inquiring and contemplating towards what is going on in the modification of the mind, of what the mind thinks and believes and identifies as 'I' and everything that 'I' come in contact with/experience/learn/know/understand, that 'I' like and don't like, agree and don't agree, desire and don't desire, enjoy and don't enjoy, believe and don't believe, do and don't do, achieve and don't achieve, have and don't have, possess and don't possess, and etc, under the help of certain physical and mental observations and practices.
The genuine yoga and/or buddhism enthusiasts/teachers/practitioners don't need/don't promote/don't empower 'mental and emotional healing', not to say, 'spiritual healing', if the mind has the basic correct understanding towards the essential basic teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism that is based on the universal dhamma/truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self.
The objective of the existence and function of the teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism, is for the selfless egoistic impure restless ignorant suffering mind to attain direct self realization towards the truth of the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self existence and function of itself, that doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself, via non-grasping.
The direct self realization towards the universal truth/dhamma of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self in all kinds of living and non-living names and forms under the presence of non-grasping, will enable the mind to know and understand that there is no existence of a permanent independent individual self existence of 'I', of an infinite immortal individual consciousness/soul/spirit existing, that resides in and belongs to the mortal selfless impermanent limited conditional body and mind, and/or vice versa.
Such mind won't be determined, or disturbed, or manipulated, or intimidated, or bullied, or hurt by anyone or anything, even if the physical body or the physical component of the brains (the hardware of the thinking process/thought activities/inputs processing and output responding) is suffering from certain evitable or inevitable, acute or chronic, and reversible or irreversible illness, or damages, or injuries, or wounds, or pain, or natural process of decaying or aging.
Either there is presence or absence of conscious/semi-conscious thinking process/thought activities/inputs processing and output responding, either under the complete or semi functional/non-corrupted, or malfunction/corrupted, or non-functional/inactivation of the conscious and semi-conscious perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty.
There is nothing soothing or painful/good or bad/positive or negative/enjoyment or suffering, if there is the absence of conscious or semi-conscious awareness upon the state of unconsciousness.
There is nothing, if there is the absence of thinking process/thought activities/modification of the mind, or upon silence, under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness (Samadhi/Nirvana/Nirbhana), and under the absence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness upon the state of unconsciousness, while the mortal body and mind is still existing and functioning selflessly, impermanently, limitedly, conditionally, and non-selfly, not to say, upon the ceased functioning and existence of the mortal body and mind.
If there is the presence of thinking process/thought activities under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness, there can be the presence of absence of the veil of ignorance, or there can be the presence or absence of grasping or non-grasping, or there can be the presence or absence of disturbance/unrest/painful suffering/violence or all kinds of impurities/ideas, as well as the impermanent limited and conditional momentary sense of satisfaction and dissatisfaction, happiness and unhappiness, goodness and badness, righteousness and wrongfulness, positiveness and negativeness, meaningfulness and meaninglessness, or joyfulness and joylessness, or the mind may or may not be resting in unconditional peace, or silence.
All kinds of thinking/thoughts/feelings/emotions/sensations/memories/imaginations/experiences/names and forms/qualities/relationships/conditions/situations/affairs, and all and everything, are all impermanent, limited, and conditional, regardless of pleasant or unpleasant, desirable or undesirable, agreeable or disagreeable, enjoyable or non-enjoyable, soothing or painful, constructive or destructive, beneficial or detrimental, positive or negative, possibility or impossibility, goodness or badness, happiness or unhappiness, and so on.
If the mind knows what is "Being aware of all kinds of names and forms arising, changing, and passing away without grasping," there is no reaction or manifestation of the idea/thought of mental and emotional or psychological 'hurt' or 'injury', even if the physical body or the component of the brains is suffering from certain illness, or injury, or damage, or is undergoing the natural decaying/aging/function declining process.
If there is already the foundation of non-grasping, where the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind is consciously/semi-consciously being aware/conscious of all THAT without grasping, the mind will be undetermined, or undisturbed, or unhurt by all THAT (the reflection of the perceived names and forms being reflected in the mind and/or the names and forms themselves being what they are, as they are, and constantly changing), that are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.
That is freedom, or liberation, or unconditional peace.
This freedom, liberation, or unconditional peace doesn't mean that there is only the manifestation/perception/experience of pleasant, desirable, agreeable, enjoyable, or soothing names and forms, qualities, affairs, activities, relationships, interactions, communications, conditions, situations, or surrounding environment, or there is no manifestation/perception/experience of anything that is unpleasant, undesirable, disagreeable, non-enjoyable, or painful.
It is about the absence of grasping towards all kinds of manifestation/perception/experiences/names and forms/qualities/dualities/conditions/situations/relationships/affairs/interactions/communications/ties and connections, under the presence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness, upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness.
The mind is resting at peace unconditionally, amid all kinds of conscious/semi-conscious/voluntary and unconscious/involuntary/autonomous physical and/or mental activities for life maintenance that are happening ceaselessly throughout the entire physical body, as well as all kinds of impermanent names and forms/activities/changes in the surrounding environment in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, that is full of all kinds of ignorance and consequences of ignorance deriving from the minds of the human beings that are functioning under the presence of grasping under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance.
There is absence of hurtful ideas/thoughts/desires/feelings/emotions in such mind, where the mind naturally and effortlessly doesn't generate any action or reaction that hurt oneself, or others, or the surrounding environment, under any condition or situation, because it understands towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, as well as there is respect/acceptance towards the nature's law of cause and effect.
There is needless of self-control or self-effort to not hurt anyone or anything in the mind that is rendered quiet and clear under the absence of grasping, as self-control or effort to restrain one's behavior/action/reaction, is needed only when there are still the selfless manifestation of some hurtful ideas/desires/thoughts/feelings/emotions arising in the selfless modification of the mind under the presence of grasping, reacting towards certain unpleasant, undesirable, disagreeable, non-enjoyable, or painful experiences/affairs/interactions/relationships/ties and connections/conditions/situations, and hence, the mind is still being determined and disturbed by all THAT.
But more importantly, if the disturbed mind has the basic correct understanding and has the self-control or effort to hinder all those hurtful mental reactions/ideas/desires/thoughts/feelings/emotions from externalizing and turning into physical actions/activities that hurt oneself and others and the surrounding environment.
There is neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong, if the mind is still being determined and disturbed by the mind perception of names and forms under the presence of grasping.
Just by having the basic correct understanding and self-control, and under the presence of certain degrees of non-grasping, is already what the practice of yoga and/or buddhism is about.
There is the presence of kindness, or non-violence, or non-hurtful towards oneself and others and the surrounding environment. None needs to be perfect in order to be kind, to have certain degrees of understanding and self-control of not hurting oneself and others and the surrounding environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.
The selfless timeless attributeless actionless intentionless beginningless and endless universal consciousness that pervades all and everyone and everything under different qualities of names and forms within and without, that gives rise to the conscious/semi-conscious awareness/consciousness to the sentient living organisms upon the states of consciousness and semi-consciousness, cannot be determined, affected, modified, changed, increased, decreased, contaminated, hurt, damaged, or destroyed by anything.
There is no existence of a permanent independent individual self identity of an individual immortal pure 'soul/spirit/consciousness' existing or residing in all kinds of living organisms, not to say, an individual 'soul/spirit/consciousness' that can be hurt or injured by something or anything, that needs to be healed from 'hurt', or 'illness', or 'damage', or 'injury'.
The mind that understands, it doesn't get upset towards anything, or it is not being disturbed by anything, or it doesn't suffer for 'the ignorance and consequences of ignorance in and from anyone'.
"Everyone has the freedom of being what they are, as they are. Your actions/reactions and the outcome of your actions/reactions is your freedom of choice and responsibility. My actions/reactions and the outcome of my actions/reactions is my own freedom of choice and responsibility. None is responsible for the actions/reactions and the outcome of actions/reactions of the others. If I react and feel disturbed and hurt by the actions/reactions and the outcome of actions/reactions of the others, it is my own freedom of choice and responsibility, and if out of my reaction and feeling of being disturbed and hurt by something or someone, I would perform action to hurt myself and others and the surrounding environment, it is my own freedom of choice and responsibility."
"It is because of you and your bad and wrongful and hurtful behavior/action/reaction, that is why I react and feel like this, and that is why I behave and act like this. It is all your fault and responsibility for all my hurtful destructive violent reactions/feelings/behaviors/actions," is incorrect and invalid.
The minds that would generate hurtful destructive violent behaviors/actions hurting oneself and others and the surrounding environment, as well as the minds that react and feel disturbed and hurt mentally and emotionally by the hurtful destructive violent behaviors/actions of the others, and would become hurtful, destructive, and violent like the others, are all functioning under the presence of grasping under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance.
If all minds of the human beings in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything have this absolute knowledge and understanding, or if all minds are mentally and emotionally matured or independent to have clarity of thinking and correct understanding, there is no existence/manifestation of violent destructive hurtful activities/affairs/relationships/interactions/communications/conditions/situations of hurting one another and the surrounding environment.
Inquiry the truth of everything.