Tikkun Olam - The Healing of our World is Finally Happening

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By Crystal Andrus Morissette

What happened last week in the United States of America had to happen. I finally see that, one week later. The fear. The panic. The tears. The cheering. The protests. The split. The division. The contrast.

I ‘see’ that now.

For those that are still caught emotionally in the rumbling, the thing to remind your Self is that fear is not the enemy. It is the part of you and me—and us, humanity—that needs the most understanding. In fact, it is only a lack of understanding that allows fear to exist; once you understand it, you won’t fear it.

Once you learn how to dialogue with fear in a healthy way, it can become your teacher, even your friend. It will show you where you’re wounded, limited, contracted, and needing some healing. It will show you where you fear others, and what you think they can do to you. It will show where you’ve allowed small thinking, constricted communication, and old patterns to keep you stuck. It is also an instinctual reflex we can never avoid.

Fear may present itself as bravado or cowardice, but underneath, it’s ‘energy-sucking’ unless it’s faced and healed.

How do we face it and heal our fear, you may ask?

Together.

We need each other to heal.

It is called Healing the Split.

The bottom line is we cannot expand our lives alone. We can’t heal alone. We cannot become whole alone. We are not meant to be Lone Wolves. We’re ‘pack animals’. We need each other. Up close and personal. We learn everything about ourselves in relationship to one another. We learn to be whole, authentic, and empowered by needing others and by letting ourselves be needed. We all need a tribe. We need each other. We need a ‘mirror’ to reflect us back to ourselves. We even need our ‘so called’ enemies to show us how limited we still are in our communication skills; how much fear still dominates us; where love is still missing.

We heal by letting ourselves be seen. Vulnerable. Fallible. Mortal. Imperfect. Loved and loveable. We face our shame and clean out all the stories that aren’t ours to hold any longer, and we own the ones that are! We give ourselves permission to matter and to know that our needs, dreams, and desires matter! All of ours!

This is also how I believe we will heal the world . . . And I’m not alone . . .

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Love, XOX

Crystal Andrus Morissette, Author and Founder of www.simplywoman.com, The S.W.A.T. Institute, and Crystal Andrus Productions.

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