HEALING SELF AND OTHERS
OCTOBER 2023 BLOG - REFLECTIONS YARO
Dear
reader,
October is
my birthday month and I tend to reflect about my life and the life of our
world. When I lived in Canada, I looked at the yellowing leaves on the maple trees
and felt a nostalgic sense of life ending and that someday new life will emerge
in the new spring leaves. Now, living in Australia, I note the spring flowers
and the purple Jacaranda trees blooming and here they are re-newing again and
life goes on.
As I listened to my mentor Michael Mead where in his podcast,
he refers to today’s false leaders. He said that old leaders like Putin, will
not give up power but instead create wars and destruction. Putin attacked Ukraine
last year and the war goes on without any results only much damage and
destruction and death to the Ukrainian people defending themselves bravely and
will continue do so until they win.
My own reflection is focussed on a sense of deep sorrow that
such terrible destruction is happening with the world looking on and perhaps
afraid of possible nuclear attacks.
Yet there are other countries also involved in a sectarian
war like Armenia in and Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan where over 120,000
people are leaving their homes and seeking shelter food and safety for their
families. Here is a news item, September 2023:
“Since March 26, 2023, the Azerbaijani government has
formalized its blockade of the Republic of Artsakh by seizing strategic ground
around the Lachin corridor both within Artsakh and Armenia, installing a
military outpost that blocks a bypass dirt road that provided relief, blocking
the old section of the Lachin corridor, and installing a checkpoint at the new
section. Azerbaijan has ignored calls from the Russian peacekeepers to observe
the 2020 ceasefire conditions and return to their initial territorial positions
behind the Line of Contact. Azerbaijan has also ignored calls from the
International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, and other
international entities to restore freedom of movement across the Lachin
corridor.”
Mead talks about this senseless leader like Putin who is
unwilling to give up claiming more and more power at the expense of destruction
and death. We are entering again a time of darkness that is not only covering
the specific people running away from war but also the whole world is part of
this darkness that is recalling the days of World War I and World War II. In
some way, we are all participating in the horror of war due to the high-speed
technology and fast changing social and political development. False news is
creating much doubt and confusions.
This month reflections are an attempt to propose a model or
healing the inner and the outer worlds or self and culture because we are all
in this together. This, I hope, will encourage the readers to share ideas and
reflections of healing with those around you and help healing the world. If we
do not participate in this, we deny our being and our soul and the opportunity
of a future generation to live in peace and happiness.
A HEALING
MODEL
The current global multiple crises as symptoms
of our inner disturbance. Politics, terrorism, pandemics, relationships,
religious beliefs, and wars etc. These are some of the sources of anxiety.
Anxiety is ONE of the many symptoms that we
experience by attempting to find solutions to our inner self.
EXERCISE 1: Open-ended problem solving (you may
close your eyes)
1. Select
a problem that involves you and the environment.
2. See
the problem as a metaphor or symbol of your inner disturbance
3. Notice
how you feel in your body. What parts of your body are affected?
4. Check
with your ‘spirit body’ or awareness. Allow energy flow all over your body.
5. Have
your ‘spirit body’ show you how this problem looks/feels like when resolved.
6. How
are you affected by your ‘solution’? Catastrophic or anastrophic expectations.
7. Give
a ritual gift – to yourself and the outside or other.
8.
Let go of expectations for success
EXERCISE 2:
Finding balance.
Most people feel that they are burdened or lack
of one of the following:
1 Money
2 Possessions
3 Health
4 Body
image & attractiveness
5 Relationships
6 Sex
7 Time
Make a list of the above in 3 categories: 1.
Deprivation (too little) 2. Excess (too much).
3. Balance (just right)
The categories you selected as “too much” or
“too little” are the areas of your life where you are lost or are losing power.
In the “too much” list, start the ‘destruction’ ritual. Select what you do not
want and discard it or let it go. Burning a written list of things or relationships that
you no longer want is another way to discard the unwanted.
In the category of “deprivation” use the
‘creation’ ritual. This is a way of learning to receive a gift. When the
‘spirit world’ offers you a gift of special talents, opportunities or good
advice, respect that and do not feel you need to reciprocate. Everything in
life is a GIFT. Receive it with grace and honour it. Light a candle and focus
your energy on its flame. Allow the ‘gift’ to penetrate you and warm you all
over.
Now, you are welcome to listen to the podcast
by Michael Meade –
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