We
Have Work to Do:
September 11, 2001
by
Chloe Faith Wordsworth
Reprinted from the
November 2001 HR Newsletter
It
is a few days after the September 11th shockwave hit each
one of us. We feel that our life will never be the same again.
Reverberations of this act have vibrated our world. Each one
of us has absorbed the energy of this happening; each of us
is suffering: how do we deal with the pain of the woman who
saved the money for her husband to fly to California to attend
her daughter's wedding, and his plane was the chosen one?
How do we understand the pain of the CEO who happened to take
his small child to day care, and therefore was not in the
World Trade Center at that moment in time, but who lost his
700 employees—one of whom was his own brother?
We have
also experienced how in the face of crisis and tragedy people
rally-heroic acts are done, people give of themselves and
their blood, they gather and give love and share love. As
one man said to his wife, "I just need you to say, 'I
love you.'"
For everyone,
on some level, this shock has been a wake up call. We ask
ourselves, "Who am I? What am I contributing? How can
I help? I could die in the next hour, am I ready? How do I
want to live my life in whatever number of days, months and
years I have left?"
As HR
students and practitioners, many of us are asking, "How
can I use HR to help?" What is the best way we can help?
Who do we want to help? The people who died? The survivors?
The families who lost loved ones? The terrorists? Ourselves?
Whenever
we have a problem there are two things we do. The first is
to turn the mirror so it faces outwards and shows someone
else as being the cause of our problem. The second is to turn
the mirror so it faces inward and shows ourselves as being
the cause of the problem. The cause is not one or the other.
It is both. If you look at a fish from the front of the tank
you see one side of it. If you look at it from the narrow
end of the tank, you see a head or tail and it looks like
a different fish. Yet the fish is one.
We know,
holographically speaking, that we are "one fish."
However it is difficult, if not impossible, for us to see
the terrorists and ourselves as "one fish."
We appear
to be different, yet we are deeply connected and the movement
of one is synchronized with the movement of the other. There
is no separation. Every religious and philosophical teacher
of all times has said in one way or another that if you want
to change the world, you must start with yourself. Yet what
do we do? We try to control what is out there and we still
want to change the world. In spite of all our serving, giving,
educating, building and healing, has our world changed?
… if you
want to change the world, you must start with yourself.
Throughout
the centuries, bands of people have wiped out villages and
towns and murdered untold millions. The pain is the same.
The resonance with incoherence is the same. Only the weapons
used are different-arrows, knives, razors, airplanes. We have
work to do.
What is
our personal responsibility in all this? Let's ask ourselves
this important question: "Energetically, when do I, when
do we, drive our plane into a building and create destruction?"
When we discharge anger, doesn't it create an explosion in
someone's energy field? Doesn't it to some degree destroy
me? Lusseyran, completely blind as a result of a childhood
accident, continued to be able to "see" as a result
of his connection to his own Inner Light. When his Inner Light
disappeared, then he could "see" nothing. In the
following passage, he describes what caused his light to disappear:
...
At every waking hour and even in my dreams, I lived in a stream
of light. There were times when the light faded, almost to
the point of disappearing. It happened every time I was afraid.
If, instead of letting myself be carried along by confidence,
I hesitated, then without exception I hit or wounded myself
... What the loss of my eyes had not accomplished was brought
about by fear. It made me blind.
Anger and impatience had the same effect, throwing everything
into confusion. If I suddenly grew anxious to win, to be the
first at all costs, then all at once I could see nothing …
I could no longer afford to be jealous or unfriendly, because
as soon as I was, a bandage came down over my eyes...But when
I was happy and serene, approached people with confidence
and thought well of them, I was rewarded with light. I always
knew where the road was open and where it was closed. I had
only to look at the bright signal which taught me how to live.
—Jacques
Lusseyran,
And There Was Light
Our contribution
is quite simple-to keep our light bright. If we resonate with
coherence, it will impact others more than a thousand words,
or a thousand sessions on them. It will entrain everyone to
that brightness. Every negative attitude, fantasy, habit,
emotional response or belief lets us know we have work to
do on ourselves, to brighten our light. In this time of apparent
chaos, darkness, death, pain, suffering and grief, we need
to stay connected to our light.
We need
to remember that right in the midst of chaos, the new, more
coherent pattern is present; it is ready to emerge. What work
do I need to do on myself to support the emerging, coherent
pattern? What actions? The challenge is to keep the balance
between outward action and inward action. It isn't one or
the other. The great philosopher Teilhard de Chardin said,
"We are spiritual beings having a human experience."
We need to give attention to our spiritual work because we
are not just a mind and body with a bundle of feeling responses.
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We
are spiritual beings having a
human experience.
—Teilhard
de Chardin
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But
we are also having a human experience. As humans, we are here
to serve each other, to be of help in any way we can, for
those who ask for our help. It isn't just about doing proxy
sessions on the world. It is also about me doing sessions
on myself. Our own coherent work benefits everyone to one
extent or another. If we feel beaten up, overwhelmed and devastated,
we need to identify and transform the pattern that has been
activated, we need to brighten our light again. If our own
light is diminished, how can we help anyone else?
In
sub-atomic physics, physicists know the following principle:
the movement of a butterfly's wing in Japan can create a huge
wind in Texas. Even the smallest action we do, for ourselves
or for others who have asked for our help, has an enormous
impact. We can check to see if we resonate with compassion
for the terrorists or if we resonate with fear, anger, anxiety,
and terror. Do we resonate with trusting our leaders to make
wise decisions? Do we resonate with people throughout the
world using this wake up call to come to a greater awareness
of our world and the suffering of others? Do we resonate with
finding more conscious ways of protecting all life forms and
ourselves?
We
have the tools in Holographic Repatterning to identify and
transform our own negative resonance patterns. If we all did
this work on ourselves, and proxied others who would like
to be part of our session, who knows what is possible. But
we need to be clear that there is no free ride. We must do
our own work and identify and transform all our own negative
resonance patterns that block the full flow of our love.
I
remember once in India seeing two six-year-old boys quarrelling.
Suddenly one of them took off his sandal and began hitting
the other child on the head with it. There were two elderly
Sikh gentlemen who also saw the situation. Immediately they
both ran to the children, one old man to one child, and the
other man to the second child. They knelt down in the road
and both of them spontaneously did the same thing-they took
each child in their arms, hugged, caressed and kissed them
on the cheek. I wanted to cry.
It
would never have crossed my mind to pour out love in that
way. I was also filled with joy and amazement to see such
love in action. Every destructive act holds the possibility
for us to reconnect to love.
And
this is the deep wound that is weeping for healing-to reconnect
to that source of love, to let that stream flow pure and free,
to express it in our eyes and words and smile, to give it
unconditionally to ourselves and anyone else in need every
day for the rest of our lives. If the terrorists are disconnected
from this source, so are we. Remember one thing: The crystal
structure of polluted dam water became as brilliant as a diamond
after it had been prayed over by a monk with the purity of
his spiritual practice behind his prayer. Our nature is love
and we want to be this diamond. Everyone in this world wants
it, including the terrorists. We have some work to do.
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