c.h.a.n.g.e.

A series on healing is emerging. Here is the first installment.

Each of us is experiencing change at all times. In fact, we are change. Thoughts flow, blood circulates, emotions surge, breath varies in rhythm, relationships wax and wane, life's meaning crystallizes and disappears. We are in process. We are process.

Change for each of us can be either Continuous Hassle Amidst Newly Generated Energy or Continuous Healing Amidst Newly Generated Energy. We are the ones who decide whether it is hassle or healing.

How do we do this? What is the process by which we choose a sickening hassle or an enlivening healing? I am not so interested in why we hassle ourselves as to how we do it and how we can shift to a healing mode. (Less whyning, more howling.)

Mister Buddha said if you have a poisonous arrow stuck in you, you want to get it out, not sit around and talk about the arrow's history, quality of workmanship, why it is stuck in you rather than someone else, and such. You want to get it out.

We either hassle ourselves or open to healing within five realms of being: physical, mental, emotional, interpersonal, spiritual. These realms of course are not independent of each other. The goings-on in one realm will affect all other realms.

For example, you may believe that folk don't know what you are thinking, but your thoughts are continually expressed through your physical posture and expression, the emotional energy you release, the rhythm of your interpersonal dance, and that subtle yet powerful realm we call spirit.

The energies of the five realms move as one. Hassle in one produces hassle in all. Healing in one produces healing in all. You might say it is a CHANGE reaction.

(To be continued)