This first article is an abridged version of a channelled message received in the days before I wrote my book, Things That I Believe In. My guides asked me to make this article freely available. It's about healing in its broadest terms, by self kindness, kindness to others and respect for all life:
HEAL YOURSELF AND HEAL YOUR WORLD!
A Channelled Message
At the beginning of this New Age of Loving and Light many Messengers have been gathering in the subtle realms attempting to help those on the Earth plane. These messengers of goodwill, wisdom, hope and love are here to inject an infusion of love and light into the darkness currently existing on the Earth plane. They are working for you. A shift needs to occur in humanities consciousness to see Earth through to the next stage of progression in her own eternal life.
You may wonder, “Why are others interested in what becomes of Earth? Why are angels, ET’s, spiritual masters and those who have passed on concerned by what happens to our World?” The answer is that everything affects everything else. We are all connected, not just one person to another but to all life, everywhere.
Mankind has become intent on power, personal comfort and survival, detaching themselves from wider truths. They would destroy the planet that hosts them, planting bombs and draining resources. Thankfully, as a counter-balance, there is another aspect of humanity appearing, those with the courage and imagination to defend the Earth, care for the children, the animals and the atmosphere.
The survival of Earth does not only affect this planet and what lives upon it but also the system in which it operates. Earth is small but vital, operating as a training ground for Spirit to experience material life. Also, every planet has a magnetic pull and resonance which keeps it in its place within its wider ‘family’ of planets. Each planet has a role to play in the existence of all others. Therefore, its survival in its present form is of concern to many.
We will explain how simple it is to send love, light and healing to this beautiful planet. Know that you can make a difference. Raise your vibration to one of love by shedding fear and you not only help yourself but also the whole of creation. Walking a path of peace, love and gentleness is the most powerful thing you or anyone can do.
You - not your body but your consciousness - are eternal. We are all spiritual beings. ‘You’ cannot die; the body dies as it is comprised of physical materials that decay, break down, decompose and become part of the Earth but the life force that flows through each cell and animates the body continues to exist as does your consciousness, independent of a physical body.
We incarnate to learn spiritual lessons that can only be experienced in a dense, material world. The body is the vehicle for that existence. We are here to learn how spiritually strong we are. Only by experiencing life in a physical world do we know our capabilities and find our strengths and weaknesses. In Spirit there is no physical body to consider; everything is composed of thought.
Knowing you are eternal also understand that you are much more than your body. You know far more than you may be consciously aware of and are also capable of achieving much more than you may realise. You are an amazing being of incredible possibilities and tremendous power and potential. No matter how ineffectual you feel the truth is that you are amazingly powerful.
You are not your feelings - yet your feelings affect your body and surroundings. The better you feel about yourself, the better equipped you are to help the World. This is a World governed by thought; the more powerful and positive your thoughts are, the more powerful and positive your effect on others will be and subsequently, the more powerful and positive your effect on the World. We cannot change others, we can only change ourselves - but we might influence others in ways that encourage them to make changes.
Many people try to impose their beliefs and values onto others but everyone has a right to develop and adopt their own belief system. No one has the spiritual authority to destroy or control the belief system of another. We should be free to walk our own path whilst not violating other’s rights to walk theirs. Sincerity only exists where we feel totally at ease with what we believe. Did you know that it doesn’t matter what you believe? God loves you anyway - this is all you need to know. Don’t believe in God? That doesn’t matter either…
What is God? Here’s a thought that may help those with no concept of God. Something caused us to be created; that something, that energy, the life force which animates us, causes the Earth to turn, the Sun to rise, the birds to sing and the day to end; that’s God (or Vishnu, Brahman, Allah, The Source, The Force, The One, Deity, Love… whatever). It doesn’t matter what you call it. God doesn’t mind - it’s people who mind! All the pain, angst and torment you go through isn’t about God, it’s about other people; self appointed representatives of God. Those who judge you don’t represent God; just their version of God.
God didn’t create dogma, people did! What the Life Force did create was individual conscience in each of us, an inner guide to help us make choices and know right from wrong. If every person could live by the messages received from their own healthy, intact inner guidance system, everyone could live a happy, fulfilling life.
All through the centuries, people have received revelations from their inner guidance and higher guidance, which have been written down and gradually become enshrined in the consciousness of man as law. Much of what is written describes universal law, but has been misconstrued as law itself. There is a subtle difference; the words are an interpretation, not law itself. Many people do not understand that ‘revelations’ are simply guidance and the sharing of wisdom to be used as each individual sees fit.
God or Spirit did not stop giving messages two thousand years ago - guidance is given constantly to millions of people every day. It is available to you. All the words you read or hear including these are merely food for thought; they may help you understand life in a different way, see things from another perspective. Read them and make up your own mind. We were given a brain and a mind, discernment, will and intelligence. It was given us to use, not to hand over our choices to someone supposedly better equipped than we are. The only person who knows what’s right for you is you. In this New Age, learn to think for yourself. All wisdom is within you, waiting for you to access it. It has always been there.
To be the most useful person for yourself and to everyone and everything else you must first learn to trust yourself. Before you can truly trust yourself you have to learn to like yourself. More than that, you need to feel love for yourself. “Oh, no!” you may say, “Surely that’s not right. How can I love myself? I have to be modest, I must be humble.”
Humility and self-regard are not mutually exclusive; how can anyone gaze at a magnificent sunset and not feel awed and humbled at something so wonderful? Even those with huge self worth feel humble in the presence of greatness. Perhaps they will have a better experience than those with little or no self-regard, who may feel more humiliated than humble in the presence of greatness if they see themselves as lacking in comparison.
People who achieved great things in life may have been humble and modest but yet they knew their worth. Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa and many others could not have achieved what they did without self worth. They were not doormats; rather, they were door-ways, showing people ways to live and what could be achieved - not so others would do as they did or said but so others would manifest their destiny in the way that was right for them. These leaders used their inner guidance to show them the way - their way. Their way may not be your way or my way but they taught that there are many ways.
Every great person is remembered for being different - not for being the same as others or doing what others told them to do. If they had conformed we would never have heard of them. It was not an easy road for them to do what they felt they had to do. They used their intuition, integrity and individuality and took ‘the road less travelled’. Florence Nightingale did not choose nursing to achieve immortality and fame. She did it because she was led to do it; it was her calling.
We all have a calling; for some the call is loud and clear, for others it's a murmur. They may have trouble hearing it. Often, it is clear but is socialised out of us by the expectations of others; perhaps it does not fit into society’s understanding or family wishes, so the artist becomes a doctor, the dressmaker a sales clerk, the sailor becomes a miner and unhappiness and a blocking of inner guidance results. The aspiring singer who became a secretary, perhaps told to shut up and be realistic, may have felt locked in a cage and lost her voice. The artist told his ‘scribbling’ was a waste of time may have swept floors, driven trucks and become embittered.
Those who can’t express the strongest yearnings of their heart become soul-sick, losing the ability to be who they really are. To sing, draw, run or care for others is part of their essential self and needs expression. Little boys ridiculed for showing tenderness repress an important part of their nature; girls restrained from running, jumping and climbing trees lose the joy of their physicality. We need to express both our masculine and feminine energies. We are a duality and both kinds of energy are needed, both in the individual and in the world at large.
Rejoice in your individuality, with your unique mixture of masculine, action traits and feminine, nurturing traits. Appreciate it all. Take note of your body and your feelings. Think of the times you ‘knew’ you should do something but didn’t act on that knowing. What did you feel or sense? Was it a pain in the pit of your stomach, a ‘gut’ feeling? Or more like something whispering in your ear, a persistent inner voice you drowned out because it was ‘silly’? You may have experienced both. Inner guidance comes in many ways. It is often ‘just a feeling’ you can’t put into words. Later, you wish you had trusted your own feelings.
Now is the time to try to flow with those feelings, even if they do not appear to be logical. If, for example, some kind of inner sense tells you to call into the library and it is feasible to do so, just go – follow your feelings. There may be a book you need or someone you need to see. If you get a feeling not to get in the car, don’t dismiss it. If you get an urge to go to your destination via a different route, take notice of that. It may be the difference between getting there in time or in getting there at all.
These are ways of tuning in to your inner guidance and trusting the impressions you receive. The more you act on these intuitions the more you learn to trust and become aware of guidance in your life. God is within you and all around. Your gifts are God given.
Do not despise yourself for what you can or cannot do, be or have, for how you look, the way you talk, the way you move. Remember: You were created by the highest authority. You are life itself. How much of that life force is expressed through you will depend on how much you trust life.
Learn to trust your gifts and your life. Trust that you have a path to walk and start to walk it. Regardless of how you have reached the conclusions by which you live your life, there is no point in saying, “This is how I am, this is how I was born, this is how I have always been and I can’t help it!” The only way to work out and fulfil the blueprint of your life in its most positive manner is to work on your attitudes.
What has this got to do with healing the world? Everything. ‘As above, so below’ - by healing the self, we help to heal everything else. This is not selfish; it is crucial. It is a service to the world to work on the Self. One can become a more effective worker for the light. Every layer shifted is a layer lighter. The lighter one becomes, the more light-filled one becomes and can shine a light for others.
Don’t think, “I’m too old, it’s too late to change.” We are working out our destiny every day of our lives and a change, even on the last day, can reverse much negative thinking. Damage can be repaired. A person may make peace with someone after years of conflict. If there is a requirement in their blueprint to make peace with that person, whether they do so twenty years before they leave the Earth or twenty minutes before may not matter. It is never too late.
The way to walk your path is to so live that you become the clearest, most honest, honourable and sincere you that you can be, living according to your inner convictions. Try your utmost to resist fear of other people’s opinions in your quest to live your truth. Work towards living in integrity and authenticity.
This may not, will not, be easy. In the unexamined life, many people think they do live that way. In the examined life we may see many ways in which we do not fulfil the basic requirements for an authentic life. Noticing this is not cause for sadness but for celebration. Every ‘flaw’ revealed, acknowledged and overcome is another step towards wholeness. Life is meant to be a challenge, but it can be a joyful, interesting and fascinating challenge if you do not get bound up in fear.
Those beginning to walk the conscious pathway after many years of living unconsciously may find it harder to face the challenges involved than those who step on the path earlier. Issues such as what other people think loom larger as they are more ingrained. Most people are part of a family and social group structure where they have conformed to certain patterns for many years. It will not be easy but that was the very pattern created in their blueprint, the tests they were set to overcome. Remember - the harder the test, the greater the victory.
Walking a path one’s partners, children and friends don't wish to explore can be alienating and lonely; it can also be liberating and exciting. We should not force anyone to walk the road we may walk so willingly. Each person comes to the fork in the road in their own time according to their life’s blueprint. It is reasonable to encourage willing people along their own pathway but not to force the reluctant traveller along ours.
Free will and personal responsibility must be respected at all times; that is a spiritual truth. If by example you lead, that is wonderful, but never by force or coercion. That is not the way of the Spiritual Warrior.
As you work on clearing attitudes and blockages, becoming stronger and acting in integrity for your own higher good, behaving in ways that benefit the good of all, you will find yourself changing in subtle ways. You may want to read different books, be more selective in the company you keep, the TV programs you watch. You may love nature more and feel less comfortable in crowds and cities. What you eat and your conversation may change.
You may be less aware of these changes within yourself than others around you. There may be a shift in how people respond to you. Old friendships may fall away while new relationships with different kinds of people develop. Family and friends may criticise you, feeling uncomfortable about your changes, especially as they affect them. This will bring certain dilemmas. Thoughts of loyalty may crop up; you may adjust your standards to conform and ‘fit in’ but you will not feel comfortable. Your loyalty must be to your pathway. You also have a loyalty to certain commitments, most notably to any children you parent.
At the centre of your being, in your solar plexus, is a place that lets you know without equivocation when something is wrong for you. When you can no longer follow a particular career, belong to a particular group or behave in a certain way, that area of your body lets you know. This instinct is like a tracking device, helping you to know when it's time to move on or move out in situations big or small. It’s not always life-changing stuff. Whether it is to get out of a shop or to get out of a job, that inner alarm and/or inner ‘voice’ will help if you are clear enough to recognise whether it is guidance or your ego urging you on.
Life is a great challenge and perfection does not exist in the human form. We come to the Earth plane to attain clarity, not perfection. However, we then get caught up on the great wheel of karma, the system of checks and balances which makes sure that, whether in this life or some other, all deeds whether positive or negative are eventually accounted for.
Understand that this life is not about perfection. It is just part of the journey towards our ultimate attainment, for at the point of perfection we become as one with God. So, relax. All that is required of you is the appropriate loving intention, the intention to walk your path, to live in integrity and to help and not harm anyone or anything wherever possible. The major requirement and the very best tool in your toolbox is happiness.
You may say, “I’ve not got much to be happy about” and that may be true if you are a refugee living in a makeshift tent on the borders of
All attitudinal situations are a choice. What can you find to be happy about? What can you express gratitude for? Once you start to think about it, the list can be endless. For someone who has always dwelt upon what they lack and the things they don’t have, this exercise can be something of a revelation and quite humbling.
Can you imagine having an itch you cannot scratch? Be thankful you can or that you have someone or something to reach the parts you cannot reach. Can you turn on a tap and get fresh, drinkable water? The basic requirement of life reaching you every day at a flick of the wrist – how wonderful is that? It is only in recent history that this has been possible. Do you wake in a warm bed and a safe home? Can you stretch and climb out of bed without pain? Do you have someone who loves you? Do you have your sight, your hearing, your mobility? Do you know where your next meal is coming from?
Your mind is amazing; if you send thanks and blessings for all you have and transmit love, healing and compassion to all else in your universe, you are lightening the planet and lifting your own vibration and that of everyone and everything at the same time. This is very powerful. You can do all this from the comfort of your bed if you so choose; or sitting in your armchair. You can send love, light and healing anywhere, any time; on the train, in the car, in a plane. The only time you can't do this is when you are being negative and destructive.
You matter. As you care for yourself, kindly and with compassion, you will begin to care for others. When you are hard and critical on your self, there is a tendency to either be hard and critical on others or to place them on a pedestal and think you are lacking. This is negative thinking, unnecessary, unwise, unproductive.
Every person is made of the same elements of the earth as every other person. How can anyone be lesser or greater than you if they are comprised of exactly the same elements as you are? The same life force is within you and within them. The air you breathe, they breathe. That which comprises you, flows through you and that you breathe is the same as that of our ancestors and will be the same for our successors. Plato breathed it, Pythagorus comprised it, it flowed through Jesus and the Buddha and it flows through you.
We are, all connected; there is no separation except that created with our minds and by our attitudes. Regardless of external appearance, language, culture, creed, religion, we are all One. Our similarities are far more than our differences. This is another thing we come to Earth to learn; that everyone and everything is of equal importance.
This kind of message is being given by and through many people in many ways. It is the same message but in different words. It is always the same – love your self, love each other. Understand the meaning of the word love; we use it to describe total acceptance of the true self, the divine light within, and the divine light within all others. It exists as compassion for those whose light is shrouded by mist and darkness; understand that light is there even when it cannot be seen.
Part of the pathway of the healers sent at this time is to help clear the mist and darkness from the light of others; to do that well, they must start with the self. Most healers and helpers incarnated at this time have work to do on the self because they are old souls who have great wisdom and compassion but who have been affected by lives of persecution. They are sensitive and have to attain a level of balance that is not easy to achieve.
There is a saying, “many are called but few are chosen”. When in the Spirit world, there is great enthusiasm at the thought of returning to Earth and helping to spread the light. In Spirit, without the physical body and with past life experiences appearing as but a dream, it is easy to let the light of love blind one to the trials of the earth plane. One forgets how difficult it is, once in this dense vibration, to walk ones path.
From the start, sensitive souls have many obstacles to overcome. They are full of love but find rejection. If they see and sense things others do not they find more rejection. They may tap into fear at an early stage as fragments of memory touch their consciousness and this must be cleared before they can be fully effective healers.
Everyone has the capacity to be a healer. We can all heal to a limited degree. A mother kisses a bruise or a bump, a friend places a hand on the shoulder of a grieving person. All of this is healing but like a stream, some have a trickle, others a gushing flow. We can all trickle healing and every trickle is valuable, but by unblocking areas that are dammed up we can send a torrent of healing.
Our healing powers can be unleashed on the world. This will also help the individual who is doing the healing. Dammed energy gets stagnant. Those who do not use their healing powers either in person or by the use of their mind can feel drained and unwell. The energy needs to be utilised, it needs to be sent out.
'It is better to give than to receive'. The more we give out in positive energy, the better and more rewarding our own lives will be. That’s what this world was created for and what man was sent here to discover. We hope he discovers it before it is too late. We want all people to lift their vibration and find true joy in living. If we cannot reach all people, we aim to reach as many as possible. We want you to turn on your heart lights, heal yourself and heal your world.
ãJan Hunneybell 2002