Video Review of Session 1: Healing Yourself Is Healing the Planet – Diagnosis, Presence, and Acceptance

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The Interplanetary Healer
We imagined what it would be like to an interplanetary healer, a cosmic physician who came along and found a planet in such disarray, with the beings capable of the most love destroying the environment for all living things through their fighting.

We introduced the idea of Second Order Change, the kind needed to shift what would happen our interplanetary healer could not fail but see that the world was operating far too often from the perspective of the Old Paradigm – creating superficial lives of competition and , conflict. .. He saw mankind being controlled by the machines it had created – originally meant to enhance their lives, the dominance of the digital world was resulting in exactly the opposite – that the old science fiction plot of computers and robots taking over

Healing Is Identity and Balance
We touched on the definition of healing as a clear awareness of/sense of identity and the ability to bring balance. The two together create what is called integrity (look up synonyms). This balance takes place in the context of two forces – not opposites, but a complementary pair of forces that are responsible for and allows us to see, react, and respond to a situation as black or white, to differentiate, to discriminate, and has the energy of the fragmenting. The other is an energy that tends to create wholes, that focuses on sharing, connection, community, functionality, and healthy relationships

The History of Life
In a world of harsh polarities, we saw how the carbon atom brought into being the fundamental notion of “sharing for mutual benefit.” From simple organic (carbon bearing (molecules, it extended itself into the formation of the first living cells, then excessively drew together cells, then organs, then systems to function as a whole under a sensitive and wisely programmed nervous system. This brain was then honed, through the millennia, to enable the organism to act in harmony with the environment. We looked at how this same energy draws individuals together to be in close relationship – in families and in larger elements of community.

The Dark Force
We discussed this primal energy and contrasted it with its evil twin, the energy of fragmentation, separation, conflict, dominance, and violence. This approach to the world became of great importance to life when predatory animals evolved, and it is a way of being that that we humans have inherited as well.

Old and New Paradigm
We talked about the Old Paradigm as the excessive use of a certain kind of reasoning – where excessively analytic, discriminating, prejudiced, often disrespectful, contemptuous or conflictual – that manner of relating that is so common through us between individuals, organizations, in the community, as well as in national and international politics – the bipolar approach.

The New Paradigm introduces a concept that does not exist in the Old Paradigm logic – just as atomic explosions cannot even begin to be accounted for when we examine the world through Newtonian mechanics. It is the idea of there being systems that depend for their operation on wholeness, integrity, sharing, relationship, harmony, acceptance, and Love.  We examined how often the root of our problems comes down to our overuse of this way of looking at things.
Systems, Wholeness, and Self
We explored the notion of systems thinking and wholeness. The commitment to creating balance within, developing inner attunement, is an important preparation distributed leadership

Imagery
We practiced some imagery for attuning to our senses and imagination, and especially meditation for being more present and relaxed. Presence and Acceptance are the first two steps of global healing I discussed in my book.

I have included a video podcast of the event for anyone who missed it and is interested in joining us on April 8, 2010.  Check out the video invite HERE.

NOTES ON THE VIDEO PODCAST
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