360: Healing Ourselves-Elders' Meditation: January 20, 2009

"Heal yourself-your physical and spiritual bodies. Regenerate yourself with light, and then help those who have poverty of the soul. Return to the inner spirit, which we have abandoned while looking elsewhere for happiness."

--Willaru Huayta, QUECHUA NATION, PERU

It is difficult to look inside ourselves, especially when we see conflict or confusion. During times of conflict we need to realize that we are talking to ourselves about our thoughts. This conversation is printing in our subconscious and forming our beliefs. During times of conflict we need to ask the spirit to control our self-talk. Only thorough finding that inner place and going there during troubled times will we ever find happiness.

Great Spirit, You are my peace and you dwell within me. Let me look for You within myself.

I'm reading this and what I'm seeing with some of my loved one's is that even thought they are "Friends of Bill W" and they remain sober, there isn't a whole lot of emotional self healing going on. It seems as if the pain of looking within at the scars of childhood & broken relationships and healing is too much, it's crippling.

But I know, it takes courage to heal and that it isn't shameful nor weak to ask for help, rather it takes an extremely strong, intelligent and aware person to ask for help and search for healing. I also know, that a person is not going to heal until the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of changing.