Liberation Square(d): Healing to the Power of One

In Tehrir Square (a.k.a. Liberation Square) and elsewhere in Egypt, men and women stood together for freedom, for the end of an oppressive and brutal regime – a regime which was supported by the United States government. We the people, however, can feel in our bones the protest movement’s intrinsic truth and we want to stand with the Egyptians to support humanity’s attainment of true freedom.

My friend opalescent and I created an event page on fb calling out for global participation in creating healing for the situation in Egypt. Here is the link in case you want to RSVP and get occasional reminders:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=192771134074848

Here is the text of our call to healing:

Every day we will issue a call to join, in whatever way you can, in sending healing, supporting energies to the people of Egypt, and grounding these energies in actions small and large in our everyday lives, right here at home. Holographically changing the matrix. Really, to make a difference.

How?

Imagine a part of your life experience that in some way is resonant with the experience of the Egyptian people.

They have lived within limitation, told how to be, threatened with fear tactics, living under the stress of enforced poverty in a police state. They are throwing off the bondage of forced enslavement to a system that has grown heavy upon their society and touched every life in some way.

To what are you enslaved? Do you feel the hand of oppression from a habit, from a self-limiting belief, from a relationship, from necessity, from the form of social engineering you find yourself in, from the governing system of this land? For this exercise, imagine what you could do to heal this oppression you are feeling... what actions you can take, large or small, in your life, that could shift this energy for you. Just that… own just that. Infuse that shift in your life and allow the thought that, as energy entrains to a similar frequency of energy, your act of personal liberation entrains to support and magnify the efforts of those gathered to shift a stagnant machine of government toward a culture of humanity vibrant, free, and equal.

The effect is holographic, and fractal in nature: a subtle shift in one small thing is reflected in a fundamental shift in greater things. In focusing your intention of liberation and empowerment in some concrete way in your life, in dedicating that movement toward balance and wholeness to the gathering of people in Egypt, you will help tip the scales toward freedom for all.

Examples of ways this healing work might look for you:

-- Turn awareness into action. Meditate on the way injustice or limitation that you experience is of similar energetic nature as the oppression the Egyptians have lived under. Let awareness arise of how you can shift your experience, even to the extent of speaking your truth without fear, or taking to the streets, while holding Egyptians in your heart. Taking physical action has a potent energy of its own, and can shift not only your immediate energy, but the energy of those around you and, in this holographic matrix we inhabit, the energy of those in similar situations elsewhere.

-- Create a ripple effect with your breath. Inhale your pain. With it, inhale all of the pain that is similar to your pain, relating yourself to any who have suffered in a similar way, and feel it unify in your breath and body. In the moment between inhale and exhale, feel the energetic solution to the pain. Exhale the solution, knowing that the energy you drive in the release of breath releases the energy for you and those people who have touched a similar depth of pain. This way, in breathing healing into yourself, releasing patterns of suffering, you heal the world.

-- Change your world, change the whole world. Dedicate changing some part of your reality, your life, your relationship, whatever is going on with you now, to connect with the energy of change and in this way contribute directly. So, if you are concerned about the potential hunger of the Egyptian people, eat healthy food, mindfully, and imagine the Egyptian people receiving the strength and nourishment from your self-care.

There's a story about monks who were meditating in austerity on a mountain in the cold, not eating or drinking anything for an extended period of time. People were meditating in the temple to support them. One person had enjoyed a strawberry, and this thought entered his meditation, and he savored it. When the monks came down from the mountain, one asked with a smile, who thought about the strawberry? Thank you for sharing it!

-- Be a lightning rod. Get a globe, or a map of the world. Put your hands on Egypt on the map and attune to healing energies. Feel yourself as a conduit of universal peace flowing to that area. If you are a Reiki practitioner or work with energy healing, do what you do best, and bring it to the planet in this way.

What’s going on now is all about bringing energy and thought into action, even if it’s a tiny shift in your perspective that you can apply to your life. When you act, you ground energy. By committing it to a greater cause, you ground it deeper, more broadly, and you make a difference. Your simple act of self-care, nourishment, reconciliation, healing, coming to wholeness and personal power with small things and large situations in your own life raises the power of like energy all over the world. This is the nature of energy freely expressed, and it is within each of us to access this, to amplify and direct it toward the integration of peaceful coexistence. Similarly, sometimes there comes a time when the energy work done internally needs to enter the world in a grounded way. Sometimes the healing work we have done within needs to be brought without, into real and grounded action in the world. Sometimes literally taking to the streets is the solution, grounding the energy of transformation.

Spiritual awakening leads to the awareness of "we're all connected". It doesn't take a lot of reasoning or a practiced spirituality to see that we are interconnected; ecology shows it eloquently enough. What happens to one happens to the collective. We are one humanity, and where any are not free, none are truly free.

Take a look around. Now is the time to put our knowing into action. What can you do, today, and tomorrow, and the next day? What insights and techniques for empowerment can you share here with this community? *Also, please spread the word!*