Healing Within, Healing the World: A Philosophy for Healing a Broken World
By Mary
Qualters
Owner
& Director of The
After
years of studying the teachings of A
Course in Miracles, Conversations
with God, Caroline Myss, Eckhart
Tolle, Ernest Holmes, Florence Scovell
Shinn, Louise Hay and many other metaphysical authors and books, I developed a
philosophy to live by; one that appeals to our need to
change the world and to heal humanity in all the broken places. This philosophy asks us to be responsible for
our own healing and the healing of others.
Not in a codependent way of rescuing others from themselves, usurping
their own power to heal, but in a way that acknowledges our unity rather than
our separateness. I AM my sister’s and
my brother’s keeper, for not one of us is separate from the other. We cannot turn our back on the suffering of
humanity because we would then turn our back on ourselves.
One of
our most basic human needs is to help one another.
During the
meditative hours I spent in preparation of my business, The Chakra Garden, I
asked God for the broader perspective of “what in the world am I doing?” What did all this Chakra garden stuff
mean? Day to day I was living in the
microcosm of its creation, getting frequently caught
up in the minutiae. Starting and running
a business can be challenging with many details and pressures that take you
away from its original goal. I needed to
remind myself constantly that I was not alone and that this was a creation of
God along with me as the eager participant.
So I asked my business partner to help me with
the garden’s true purpose and mission.
As always, my partner hit it right on the nose and revealed to me a
broader healing mission to help me deal with the day to day
stress. Healing Within, Healing the World.
There were no other words that needed to be said. I got it.
The message was clear. In its
simplicity, I found my solace and my purpose; a joint decision between me and God.
It has been my experience in life that people love to help one
another. It is a basic human trait
that we pull together during a crisis.
We have seen this during the tragic events of 9/11, Hurricane Katrina,
the Tsunami, and many other disasters.
Even if one cannot help directly through physical service, many people desire
to become part of the healing process and lessen suffering through prayer, sending
an email, or volunteering for local organizations.
It is in
these times that we lose our individuality and meld into the whole - one for
all and all for one. We identify with
human suffering because as all of us, at one time or another in this earthly
reality, have suffered emotional or physical pains of living. With this identification of our own suffering
and the suffering of others, we see that we have a common denominator. As our differences fade, our homogeneity as
human beings with emotions takes the forefront.
Once we feel and sense our unity, we dismiss the chasm we may have felt
between us and join together as one. It is in this joining that we begin to feel
our deepest need to be at one with all.
We recognize our desire to heal ourselves and to heal others in their
darkest times.
Motivation
to reach out and help one another is the foundation for Healing Within, Healing the World.
Many people want to help the world but don’t
know how. We think about the soldiers in
“Healing
Within” means identifying, facing, and healing our own pain and suffering. Becoming willing to do all three and to
embark in the healing process means that everyone and every living thing in the
world begins to heal as well. We do not
heal in a vacuum. Releasing anger,
sadness, and forgiving ourselves or someone else dramatically affects those
around us.
When we
are free of our pain, people can feel it.
Happiness is just as contagious as negative, agitated energy… and as
negative energy can spread like wildfire in our family and
work environment, happiness can do the same. Others begin to communicate and respond from
their own place of light. Everyone
starts feeling better. Our natural light
shines as we move into a higher, more loving vibration where the negativity of
the past and present has no more hold on us.
Others noticing your light will say, “I’ll have what she’s having.” We, having come from the light, gravitate toward
the light. Healing is therefore
remembering ourselves as the light.
“Healing
the World” is remembering that we are all of the same light and that my
remembering facilitates your remembering.
I choose to heal, so you heal.
Could it possibly get any better than that?
Healing Within,
Healing the World
requires that we take responsibility for healing the painful places in our
hearts, minds, and bodies. Our
accumulated pains from life often dramatically express themselves as
depression, anxiety, and illness so that we will stand up and take notice. It is our responsibility to ourselves and to
each other, near and far, to heal our pain, as healing our microcosm heals the
macrocosm. It is our responsibility to
take our issues seriously and free ourselves of negativity.
There is
no victim in Healing Within, Healing the
World philosophy. There is
surrendering to our pain and a moving toward acceptance, remembering our
unifying light, and transforming ourselves into our natural state. There is no perpetrator in Healing Within, Healing the World
philosophy, as all of us are from the light and acting out roles that provide us
valuable lessons about living on the earth plane. Refusing to face and transform our pain keeps
all of us stuck believing in darkness and despair.
When you
embark on your healing journey you invite everyone
else on the cruise. Destination:
Hope, Unity, Joy, Truth, and Peace.
And you thought you couldn’t heal the world?