I Love You But...

I received a message the other day from Lauren Zimmeman; our Honorary Ambassador asking me if I would like to post the following piece on the Humanity Healing blog. I read it and frankly there was no way I was not going to post it! Lauren is a writer of some considerable calibre and we are very blessed here in Humanity Healing to have her to help support, promote and represent the work that we are doing. If you are not familiar with Lauren's work then you might like to listen in to the interview that I conducted with her last year where she talks about her motivation, her writing and her vision of a better world for all. Just click the link here.

I think that you will find the following; illuminating. All human beings feel and express love in one way or another, but how many of us truly understand what love is? How many of us can transcend the conditional parameters that we place on this emotion? Is Love in fact really just an emotion? Or something much more? Something much more omnipresent and critical to the human condition? Lauren's exposition below will, if you have never pondered the nature of Love before, give you a glimpse through the eyes of Truth at what it really means to feel and express Love.

I Love You But….

It's time for the next layer of understanding to be peeled off. For many years the term "unconditional love" has been explored by those here on Earth. The entire concept was leading up to another layer of the illusionary reality of Earth, a layer that needs to come off so that the level of healing that needs to be done can be done.

Here we are…

I love you because you make me laugh, your heart can be felt all the way across the room, you're so filled with love for others, you are my brother in soul, (or) you are my sister in soul, we are one, we are aspects of God and Infinite Soul. I love you because you're you.

I love you enough to love you no matter what you do with your life.

I love you but I wish you wouldn't be so sensitive. I love you but I really wish your hair was blonde. (I like blondes and I shouldn't have to apologize for that.) I love you but you're poor and I don't want to feel as though I need to save you. I love you and I'll be waiting on the other side of whatever drama you're creating right now.

I love you but I wish you would change.

I love you but I wish you weren't creating the reality you're creating with your life right now.

I think I would love you even more if things would change.

It's tantalizing, isn't it? That carrot on the end of the stick. The hint, the implication, the hope, that there is more love behind what we're already giving and receiving and if things were different, we might just be comfortable enough to express that hidden love … that love that is waiting for something .. or someone .. to change.

As a species, humans are exploring what love truly is. Unconditional love is just the beginning. Behind that layer of understanding is a layer of absolute surrender to BEING love, to being the fullest expression of love, God, Soul, that we can be … without reservations, expectations, wishes, and judgments.

Yes, it IS a judgment to want God to change people or things. This is a tough one to explain, and an even tougher one to live. But it is the Truth of who we are, as infinite souls. Why is it so tough to live the Truth of who we are?

Do we, as a society, want to abolish war and crime, abuse and fear, hatred and judgment? Yes. And so what does it mean to love ALL things without judgment and yet still wish for change?

Much, if not all, of the acting out that people on Earth do has a base of need. The need to be heard, to be loved, to be understood, to be allowed to be who we are without judgment. And so the base, the foundation, of all things that do not appear to express love is fear. Need is fear disguised.

If we address fear, we address the lack of love. If we address the lack of love, we begin to understand that it is our inability to BE the full expression of love that we are that is causing the fear … and the fear is causing the acting out of war, hate, abuse, etc.

Let's go back to the question … how do we love those things we wish would change?

What is it exactly that we want to change? If we look closely enough, if we peel off the layers of the out-picturing of devastation that is this entire Earth society, we will find ourselves. Each person is responsible for the out-picturing of life on Earth.

Let's look at a possible scenario. What if every single person decided to BE love and nothing else? What if each person let go of the energy of wishing things were different and began to LIVE the truth within themselves that things CAN be different if we are the foundation of love instead of the foundation of fear?

What we want to change and heal is the fear that drives this human reality. That fear can be changed by being love. Love is who each of us are, in our true forms. It sounds like a dichotomy … because it is. We ourselves create the dichotomy.

Fear is not a state of being that is generated or accepted by our soul. Our soul knows only love and lives within the firm and eternal union of love with infinity and God. Our soul does not wish for things to change. Soul recognized that life on Earth is an effort to create a reality that embraces the lessons of understanding that all things are love, even when they don't look like love at all.

Think about this, if you will, for just a moment. What are we really saying behind our thoughts of non-acceptance?

I love you God … but I wish You would change this.

This is a topic that deserves an entire book .. or volume of books. But this blog serves as a tidbit of thought for those who are ready to explore the next layer of what this reality is all about. By entertaining the thought, we entertain the possibility. By entertaining the possibility, we encourage the truth.

With love and honor to each of you.

Lauren Zimmerman

Thank you once again Lauren for your continued support and efforts on behalf of Humanity Healing.

If you would like to find out more about Lauren's work then you can visit her website by clicking this link.

Many blessings and much metta,

Steve

The Humanity Healing Grid

A little while back we published a piece on this blog called 'The Spirit of Humanity in a Yahoo Group' in which Stefanie Vermillion discussed the work that we do in Humanity Healing in offering support, comfort and healing to those who are facing challenges in their lives. We are utterly committed to this and are constantly trying to improve the methods, the techniques and the forums that we use to reach these people and to extend the hand of friendship, love and compassion to others.

Our Yahoo Group which is our main healing forum, has grown enormously in recent times and continues to draw in not only those in need but more and more willing volunteers who want to make a positive difference to the lives of others. The ways that each of these volunteers help are many. Advice is offered, counseling is given, prayers are said, meditations undertook, distant healing engaged in and personal heart-felt interaction on a one to one basis is indeed common. Providing solace to the lonely, distressed and suffering individuals that come to us is the prime motive force that drives the engine of Humanity Healing.

At the core of all of this activity and tied very closely to the work of the Yahoo Group is the Humanity Healing Grid. Bearing in mind of course that Humanity Healing is very much a standard bearer for an engagement with spiritual activism, it makes sense then that one of the methods that we rely on for the promotion of health, harmony and balance in the lives of those who come to us should be a powerful, proven method of working with spiritual energies.

The Humanity Healing Grid is a tool through which the energetic intentions of our many healers and volunteers are transmuted into a vortex of healing energy that has its origins within the Universal Energy Field from which all life finds its initial expression and to which we will all one day return. The Universal Energy Field is simply a convenient euphemism for what many would call God or All That Is or indeed The Universal Mind. Whatever we want to call it, it is that state of being and non-being beyond duality that we tap into with our healing intentions, bringing them into the here and now for the benefit of those in need.

A Healing Grid is a practical tool that consists of a number of elements set in a predetermined pattern that encourages spiritual energy to vibrate at a very high frequency and then focuses it into a beam that is drawn, through time and space by those for whom the healing/positive/prayer intent is being harnessed. Healing energy is never sent as this implies a control element on the part of the healer or group of healers. The Healing Grid can in some senses be seen as a sort of 'spiritual battery', but often manifests in the form of a 'spiritual battering ram' in its gentle but precision unwinding of an energetic tornado on the state of dis-ease of the suffering individual. The Humanity Healing Grid is so far comprised of two elements: one grid is at my home in the UK in central England and the other is at Liane's home in California in the USA. You can see them in the first two pictures on this post. Both are regularly charged with healing energy, prayers and the powerful intentions of many for the good of those for whom it is directed.

A Healing Grid is something that anyone can construct for themselves. The most commonly used elements within a Healing Grid are gemstones or crystals and mandala's or symbols that have a powerful spiritual significance. Anything however that has a spiritual vibration for the individual constructing the Grid can be used. Pictures of gurus and Avatars, statues of the Buddha, candles and meditation aids can all add to the energy of a Healing Grid. Once set up however, a Healing Grid does need to be regularly recharged. Just like a battery, eventually its energy becomes depleted. It is necessary therefore to plug the Grid back into the mains from time to time to keep it topped up with healing energy. The mains is of course the Universal Energy Field and the plug is the healer, or practitioner of meditation or prayer, that has set the Grid.

The Humanity Healing Grid that I have here in the UK is constructed from a number of specific elements that are used for their spiritual significance and their innate qualities as transmitters or containers for healing energy.

At the base is an image - drawn by me that incorporates, but hidden within it, a powerful, tried and tested healing symbol from the Reiki method. Placed under this is a piece of woven cloth that contains the compassionate blessings of the 14th Dalai Lama. This in itself has an incredible healing effect on all of those that have either held it or been in its presence - surely a testament to the incredible energy of peace, love and compassion that is embodied within the person and the mind of the Dalai Lama.

In constructing the main part of the Healing Grid, I selected 8 clear quartz crystals that I have used many times for healing work and placed these, fully charged with healing energy, in a circle on top of the symbol picture. A central, more powerful crystal was then placed at the heart of this construction. Other crystals were then also added at various points, all radiating towards the centre of the Grid. Crystals are amazing conductors of energy and perfect for this type of metaphysical application, aligned as they are to various spiritual and energetic vibrations from the Universal Energy Field. To add a personal resonance for me, I have included a statue of the Buddha and pictures of the Medicine Buddha and the Buddha of Compassion. The Medicine Buddha is of course very much an embodiment of the universal desire to help in all healing work on all levels of being, whilst the Buddha of Compassion casts beams of compassionate energy across the face of humankind. This too helps very much in the work of healing and in the bringing of the correct motivation to the desire for engaging in healing work. This Grid is kept charged on a regular basis through the application of Reiki and positive intent.

The Grid that I have here in England is based around a simple circular construction but many other designs or layouts are possible. For those that have a particular resonance with or interest in, for instance the Kabbalah; a design based on the Tree of Life might be appropriate. Some have built Grids with a layout that reflects the Star of David, a Pentagram or a Cross. Any symbolic form that has a spiritual focus for the practitioner works well. Mandalas and forms based on sacred geometry are also common. It does not matter what the particular spiritual or religious convictions of the recipients of the healing energy are. Ultimately, all of these symbolic 'gateways' to the Universal Mind lead to the same place and tap into the same reservoir of pure infinite love that is the natural basis of the Universe in which we all live and thus carry the same frequency of energy when used for a specific purpose such as healing.

Liane's Grid in California is buried in the Earth but marked by a circle of stones that help to close the focus of the healing energy. It is a common practice for many Grid builders to place Healing Grids directly in the ground. The theory behind this is that it helps to anchor or 'ground' the energy and imbues it with a particular earth-centred resonance. In Humanity Healing then, we have these two Healing Grids. One buried in the Earth and the other open to the elements. In this way we have incorporated the specific influences of particular frequencies of energy into the overall construction of this Healing Grid.

When I have built Healing Grids in the past it has been my usual practice to place the names of those for whom the healing is intended, written on a piece of paper, under the central crystal. However, in the case of the Humanity Healing Grid, since there is now accumulating a very long list of names, these are placed directly under the base symbol image. It doesn't really matter where this list of names goes, as long as it has a direct link through the mind of the practitioner to the Grid. Simply placing it at the side of the Grid is as good as anywhere else.

So how do you go about building your own Healing Grid?

Instructions for Building a Healing Grid

The instructions that I give here are those that were taught to me a number of years ago by my Reiki Masters. You do not however need to be a Reiki practitioner to use this approach. There are many approaches to Healing Grid construction and this method is very much open to adaptation.

You will need 8 crystals. Quartz points are very good for this type of energy work but it is more important that you find crystals that you personally resonate with and that feel right to you.

You will need to cleanse them. There are many ways of cleansing crystals and here are a few of them:

Sound: A Tibetan singing bowl is good for this but a tuning fork, gong or bell works just as well. The crystal is energetically cleansed by the vibration that is set up by such a pure sound.
Visualisation: Take a deep breathe and blow over the crystal. As you do so, imagine and have the intention that you are clearing away all negativities and purifying the crystal.
Sea Salt: Fill a small container with sea salt and bury the crystals in it for at least 24 hours. You should never use salt water for purifying them as this can damage some of the softer crystals.
Moonlight/Sunlight: Leave the crystals exposed to the energy of the Moon and the Sun for a period of 24 hours.
Reiki: If you practice Reiki, simply holding the crystals in your hands for about 10 minutes, either one at a time or all together is enough. The Reiki energy will not only cleanse but also charge the crystals at the same time.

There are many methods of cleansing crystals and these are just a few that you might like to try.

Once your crystals are cleansed, you need to find a place that is relatively private in which you can set your Grid up and that is easily accessible for you. Constructing the Grid on a tray or a sheet of wood or glass is a good idea as it makes it easy to move it when necessary.

Although not absolutely necessary, you can if you wish incorporate a symbol or a piece of artwork that has an energetic spiritual significance for you. This will form the base of the Grid.

Now select one of the 8 crystals that seems to you to be imbued with the most active or dynamic energy. This will be your Master Crystal. This will be used to keep the Grid fully charged.

Place 6 of the crystals in a circle of about 12" in diameter. If you have chosen points to work with then it would be a good idea to place them with the points to the centre of the circle. You can of course arrange them in whatever way feels right to you, but this is an arrangement that works well in most cases. The last crystal needs to be placed in the centre. I always use a cluster here, but a pyramid or ball or another point works just as well.

Take a photograph of the person to whom you wish to send healing energy and place it either under the whole Grid construction or under the central crystal. If you cannot get a photograph, simply writing their name on a piece of paper is fine. You can place as many people in to the Grid as you wish and add others at a later date as you need to. Once all of the crystals are in place, it is best not to disturb them.

So you have now built your Healing Grid. Feel free to add other elements that will aid your focus too. Pictures of spiritual beings or great teachers are good. Prayer cards, mandalas...anything that will make the place that the Grid is to be located resonate for you as a place for spiritual work.

You now need to charge the Grid. Take the Master Crystal and direct the point towards the centre of the Grid. You are going to now make 'slices' in the air with the Master Crystal, moving out from the centre to one of the outer crystals and then around the edge to the next crystal and then back to the centre. Back out to the crystal that you came from and around the edge to the next crystal. Imagine that you are slicing up a cake into equal portions! As you do this, it is a good idea to repeat a mantra or say a prayer or invoke spiritual energies in some other way that centres you and brings in a deep connection to the healing intention. It is important that you maintain a focus on the healing work for which the Grid is dedicated. You might like to draw healing symbols in the air over the Grid also. Be creative and do what feels right for you. There really are no hard and hast rules for this work.

Periodically - perhaps every two or three days, you should recharge your Grid with the Master Crystal in the same way.

If you find that you are going to be away from home for a period of time, you can keep the Grid charge by taking with you a photograph of it and the Master Crystal and charging that instead. As long as you have a strong connection to the Grid itself, the energy will flow to it.

A Grid such as this can have a number of applications. Place it under your own healing table to enhance the work that you do with individual clients. Put it some where in your meditation space to bring the specific qualities that you desire to your meditation practice. Place photos, affirmations or intentions there to bring about that which is for your higher purpose. Use your imagination and devise methods of your own to use the energetic qualities of such a Grid. Some believe that it is important that the elements of the Grid, once in place should not be moved and so either glue, wire or use some other method to fix them in place. Others pick up the various crystals and other elements and recharge them or talk to them on a regular basis - thus reinforcing positive intention. My personal preference is to keep the crystals and other elements fixed in place and this is the almost universal approach to working with Healing Grids. Ultimately, you must follow your inner guidance on matters such as this as you should in selecting the elements that you will use.

The two Humanity Healing Grids are constantly at work keeping the doorway open for all those that need it to the healing power of the Universal Energy Field. If you feel that you would like to aid in this work then please do so. Build a Grid for yourself and dedicate it to supporting the work of the Humanity Healing Grids. Simply place the words 'Humanity Healing Grid' under your central crystal. In this way we can eventually build a global network of Healing Grids that are all dedicated to this one healing purpose. The more powerful these two Grids become the more that we can do, on an energetic level, in alleviating the suffering of those that come to us for help.

Blessings and much metta,

Steve