ALL TRUE HEALING BEGINS FROM WITHIN
No country, no nation, no community can find healing until the people of that country, nation or community look for healing within themselves. This is the healing process and it begins with awareness with each and every individual.
Self awareness and self healing is what the healing path is all about. It is what life is all about. That awareness must take place on a very deep spiritual level rather than on a superficial or even intellectual level. It must reach into natural intelligence and natural intuition.
When an individual becomes aware, at this level, that our high tech, fast-paced society is out of balance, out of harmony and dysfunctional, in need of healing, that is a starting point for healing. No healing can begin from self-absorption or self-centeredness. Individuals who live this selfish, negative and fearful way neglect their families, their clans and their communities. That is not the traditional way of the Native people. It instead stems from the competitive eurocanadian mind set that places personal gain over the good of the people as a whole.
The negativity that comes from this kind of thinking is a spiritual toxin, and as it continues to spew out on people it is as deadly as any physical toxin. Hate. Jealousy, greed, fear, violence and prejudice lead to war. These spiritual toxins kill more than bodies; they kill the spirit of the people.
When individuals can recognize, acknowledge and accept this reality, the healing path can then start. Individuals will begin the heartfelt journey on the good red road, the one that leads to harmony, balance, love and peace. And just as it was individuals who created the dysfunctional clans, families and communities, it will be individuals who are on the healing path who will bring light, love and peace to all those relationships that are so in need of healing. And it all begins simply by becoming aware; that is the first step.
Awareness means looking within oneself honestly and seeing where all of the disorder, fear, violence, hatred and war come from. What is inside the individual is only a reflection of the society we have created.
Healing takes a lifetime and it begins with the individual. Individuals who are truly on their healing path will bring all their relationships into harmony and balance, and this in turn can bring healing to our communities and to the world around us. It all begins with a look inside one’s own heart.
All My Relations,
Dan Ennis
