Healing
The Year So Far
06/04/11 20:30
What a year its been, cyclones, floods, an earthquake and tsunami that has touched the whole world, and a nuclear event, all bringing to mind the fragility of life on this planet and awareness of the folly of our notions of being in control of our lives and the events in them.
In the midst of this comes heart warming tales of survivors and connections between human beings faced with events almost beyond imagination. Disasters do that, bring us to recognize whats important in our lives, to turn to the next person and offer help to go on.
I have observed as people have asked “What can we do, how can we help?” There have been many imaginative suggestions for “energetic” help, times of collective focus on areas where the need seems greatest. There has been mention of the Tokyo earthquake in Mikao Usuis’s time when he physically went and gave help.
It doesnt sound like much, but one thing we can all do is take care of ourselves, to do our daily practice, address the fears and concerns for the future of people and the planet within our own selves, to just be here now wherever we are. Where ever we go, thats where we are, thats where we have an effect. Peace, love and healing is held in every moment, in every breath we take.
In the midst of this comes heart warming tales of survivors and connections between human beings faced with events almost beyond imagination. Disasters do that, bring us to recognize whats important in our lives, to turn to the next person and offer help to go on.
I have observed as people have asked “What can we do, how can we help?” There have been many imaginative suggestions for “energetic” help, times of collective focus on areas where the need seems greatest. There has been mention of the Tokyo earthquake in Mikao Usuis’s time when he physically went and gave help.
It doesnt sound like much, but one thing we can all do is take care of ourselves, to do our daily practice, address the fears and concerns for the future of people and the planet within our own selves, to just be here now wherever we are. Where ever we go, thats where we are, thats where we have an effect. Peace, love and healing is held in every moment, in every breath we take.
Mind Changing
08/10/10 11:22
If I believed what you believe, I'd probably be acting exactly the same way you are right now ...Once we realize that it's not a matter of judgment, but a matter of belief, everything changes. ~Seth Godin
Seth was talking marketing, but the idea applies generally.
The flip side is that beliefs are not necessarily rational, some are simply “insane” by any measure we care to use. We are able to believe anything we choose to, and we are encouraged (even coerced) to support certain beliefs when it’s a group or societal belief. The world was once believed to be flat, the sun was believed to revolve around the earth, illness was caused by evil spirits witches and “vapours”.
We draw our beliefs from a wide range of sources, some get discarded with life experience , others are added. One thing we can be sure of is that foundation beliefs, and beliefs that support our personal agendas, are held sacred and are defended even when it literally kills us. Think of habits that we have been unable to drop, each one is attached to a belief system.
A favourite healing quote comes from Rachel Naomi Remen: "Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you --- all of the expectations, all of the beliefs --- and becoming who you are. Not a better you, but a realer you."
Letting go of outdated beliefs about what we think we are is a process. In my experience of the practice called Reiki, the practice brings awareness that creates this possibility. I say possibility because we may cling to our beliefs about who we are out of fear of letting go, fear that we may lose ourselves somehow.
The fear is normal, to be expected. The fear is called change, and the fear of change can be bigger than whatever other fears we might be holding. The curious fact we tend to overlook is that change is inevitable, everything is changing, every moment of our lives.
When we do get to overcoming our fear and letting go, then we suddenly get how simple it all really was, that the healing we needed in our lives was about changing our mind.
Seth was talking marketing, but the idea applies generally.
The flip side is that beliefs are not necessarily rational, some are simply “insane” by any measure we care to use. We are able to believe anything we choose to, and we are encouraged (even coerced) to support certain beliefs when it’s a group or societal belief. The world was once believed to be flat, the sun was believed to revolve around the earth, illness was caused by evil spirits witches and “vapours”.
We draw our beliefs from a wide range of sources, some get discarded with life experience , others are added. One thing we can be sure of is that foundation beliefs, and beliefs that support our personal agendas, are held sacred and are defended even when it literally kills us. Think of habits that we have been unable to drop, each one is attached to a belief system.
A favourite healing quote comes from Rachel Naomi Remen: "Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you --- all of the expectations, all of the beliefs --- and becoming who you are. Not a better you, but a realer you."
Letting go of outdated beliefs about what we think we are is a process. In my experience of the practice called Reiki, the practice brings awareness that creates this possibility. I say possibility because we may cling to our beliefs about who we are out of fear of letting go, fear that we may lose ourselves somehow.
The fear is normal, to be expected. The fear is called change, and the fear of change can be bigger than whatever other fears we might be holding. The curious fact we tend to overlook is that change is inevitable, everything is changing, every moment of our lives.
When we do get to overcoming our fear and letting go, then we suddenly get how simple it all really was, that the healing we needed in our lives was about changing our mind.
More Than the Body
02/10/10 20:53
All healing involves the mind.
The capability of modern medicine to make a physical or chemical intervention in the physical body is nothing short of amazing. Technology is, however, not the whole picture. Good science and good care can work wonders, but we are more than a body.
Before modern interventions were available, and before its methods were so widely successful, the doctor needed to give attention to the question of why this condition is manifesting in the life of this person at this particular time. Attention was also given to the physical and mental environment in which the healing process took place.
The mind related aspects of our being and their role in or healing processes have not gone away. Healing is not something done to us, we are not incidental to the outcome.
The capability of modern medicine to make a physical or chemical intervention in the physical body is nothing short of amazing. Technology is, however, not the whole picture. Good science and good care can work wonders, but we are more than a body.
Before modern interventions were available, and before its methods were so widely successful, the doctor needed to give attention to the question of why this condition is manifesting in the life of this person at this particular time. Attention was also given to the physical and mental environment in which the healing process took place.
The mind related aspects of our being and their role in or healing processes have not gone away. Healing is not something done to us, we are not incidental to the outcome.