Heal Myself, Heal the World?

I just read the most interesting blog post by Craig Hamilton entitled Moral Obligation to Transform. Essentially the article speaks about each of us viewing world transformation from the point of view that it is our own personal obligation to make changes in the world.

In his piece Craig first summarizes the personal growth journey many of us have followed, seeking results and seeing patterns we'd like to eliminate re-emerge over and over again. He asks the question of what intensity you would put into your spiritual practice if the transformation of the world rested on your shoulders. How would you then approach your spiritual practice?

I've been on that Personal growth journey he speaks of -- for over 30 years. I know just how difficult it is to change some beliefs, especially those that are genetic -- held deep within the body and the subconscious and coming back over and over gain. I've tried affirmations -- thousands and thousands of them. And I got some change, for a while. Till I stopped doing the affirmations. Then whatever belief I was trying to override would poke it's power in my face again and there I'd be going through the same thing all over again. With the theta classes I've seen many of those beliefs stay changed. It's like they've disappeared and were never there. In ThetaHealing class, I learned how to not only change my own beliefs but to change them genetically back through the eons of time and with permission to make those changes in others.

Quantum Physics and Chaos theory show us we are all interconnected, and that a change in one does seem to affect the whole. (I'm being simplistic here, rather than academic, so please excuse the assumptions.) Numerous experiments with cells have shown that cells from the same body communicate over thousands of miles. So too, does DNA -- and not just over distance, but throughout time. Your DNA, your genes are still being affected by your Grandmother, and her mother and father, etc. Some of the further out scientists believe that present, past and future exist simultaneously and changes we make to the present affect all three.

As I've written in other blog posts, I know that when I change my beliefs about my client, and what he/she will do, then my client changes. With Theta I can change the influences of my ancestors, through changing my DNA and genes. In the opening of Vianna's web site, there are different inspirational messages that fade in and out on the masthead. The one that resonates with me is "Expanding love, joy and healing worldwide." The more I heal my own beliefs about the world, about the necessity to suffer, to have it be a long, difficult path to healing, the more I contribute to healing the world.

ThetaHealing teaches us to connect to the Source energy, the engergy of All that is using theta brain waves and to use that energy to make huge and instant changes in ourselves and with their permission in others. I've seen these changes take place before my very eyes, even when some part of me was disbelieving that it would occur. In my clients I've seen pain banished -- there one minute, gone the next. And it wasn't me. It was that Source energy -- whatever name you might want to give it. And, really, any name is all right, just as long as you are connected to that energy.

As I saw it, Craig's point is that if we focus on the greater good of changing the world, then we forget ourselves, and our energy and courage for change increase dramatically. I see it somewhat differently, in that the more I change my beliefs about what can be, and the nature of myself in the world, the more the world changes. Craig is an eloquent and intellectual writer (I encourage you to read his whole piece.), while I see my own writing as approaching things in a much simpler way. So, I see it as what I change, changes everything around me. And every change I effect on myself is a change in this great whole.

I just now remembered another line from Craig's piece -- about each of us being a different eye in that whole. So, when I change the way this eye sees, the whole changes its vision.