A mechanism is provided for achieving autonomic computing self-healing utilizing meta level reflection. In a base level, a monitor detects an error in a production environment. The base level provides a reification message comprising data about the error to a meta level. A reasoning system in the meta level receives the reification message and analyzes the data using knowledge of computational components in the base level. The reasoning system identifies a self-healing action for the error and returns a reversion message comprising a signal to implement the self-healing action. Responsive to receiving the signal, the base level implements the self-healing action.