The Business of Healing
If you’ve been with me for any length of time, you know I am not quick to speak, per se…
I don't speak prolifically, but with thoughtfulness and investment of my energy and care.
I write emails to establish connection and to serve, and create content to provide actual value.
And today connection is needed more than ever. Connection within yourself to yourself, and connection between ourselves and each other.
Over the last few months, the changes we’ve experienced on the surface of our society have been rapid and accelerating;
the circumstances of our lives have changed and continue to change, and the pace of that change has seemed ever to quicken.
This can be destabilizing.
If you feel like the sands are shifting too quickly, or too intensely, I understand.
The fact is, integrating the current events of our world right now may not happen quickly.
I witnessed, processed, and assimilated recent reality and its meaning for 32 hours straight between Saturday and Sunday, resting only to sleep for a handful of hours. Doing so allowed me to share the following understanding online on Sunday evening. {Facebook here} {Instagram here}
My belief is we are navigating an issue of human rights: one of true right and wrong.
It is important to recognize that things are not getting worse, they are getting uncovered.
As these issues come fully into awareness, our society’s values are being shown and challenged.
And as they come into your awareness and mine, each of our individual values are being tried.
Separating the form from the essence is going to be important to your health as you make decisions about what everything means that we are observing and experiencing.
In my post I owned what I believe to be a deep re-patterning – a correction of my core belief system – about my role in a peaceful and just world. You can imagine that did not come easily…
For me, this meant that the Neutrality that I have been worshipping for decades is in fact a misinterpretation of our spiritual calling, or a half-picturing. What I mean by this is that the coin whose “heads” is Compassion is the same whose “tails” is Righteous Action and of disallowing harm whenever and however we can. And I was personally missing half of the picture.
I don’t share it to center myself, or to prescribe a way for anyone, but as a tool which might reflect something useful to your own processing.
In closing about this, I want to be explicit in this piece:
Through the process of discerning the delineation of right and wrong for yourself, and of then of making empowered choices for yourself about what action looks like for you in the face of that truth, the result will be an anchoring down so beautifully that you create your own stability amid the shifting sands of our times right now.
If you are feeling discomfort around an idea or situation, use it as a dowsing rod for where you can come into greater alignment and ease. To feel peace amid chaos, to practice out your own values even more fully, and even to know those values more fully may be the fruit of the seeds you sow today.
In my own words online Sunday night,
My friends, we are taught to not have these conversations. Silence is a privilege that some do not have right now. But words are not even nearly enough in the face of injustice. ⠀
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While many will focus attention of criticizing others’ actions, or finding a silver lining, do not focus there. Ask instead the question, “What action am I taking when faced with information that makes me uncomfortable?”Harmony begins by resolving the incongruencies in our own belief systems, and bringing our actions in alignment with our stated or tacit values. This process is never comfortable, but it’s necessary; I am prepared to feel uncomfortable as long as needed. ⠀
Regarding another matter, since Sunday night, I considered the most effective action to take regarding the virtual summit I’ve been speaking of.
I’ve deferred sharing the virtual gathering around Fulfillment for at least one week in order to contemplate the most relevant and valuable delivery of speakers’ wisdom in light of current events (not in spite of them).
In the mean time, I just created a new *accessibly priced* group healing session called More than Meditation™. It’s a standing appointment once a month (3rd Thursday).
Features:
· Virtual format
· Group setting
· Deep-changework with imagery
· 80 mins
No need for attendees to identify themselves to the group, and it’s not geared toward interaction, but rather transmitting the most healing possible in 80 minutes.
Lastly, if you or someone you know would like to get a head start on the foundational tools of the workshop, they can use this link to download the instructions for accessing alpha brain wave state and join this community.
As always, if you want personal support in the mean time, and you’re ready to receive it, book us a Strategy Call through this site so we can meet and define your next step.
Pictured: the author/owner, Mandy Barbee