Chief Joseph: Healing the Past Part 2
Last month we talked about healing the past. If you didn’t see that article, you’ll find it here.
We received some interesting and insightful comments about the article. So this month Chief Joseph and I are responding to those comments.
Following are excerpts from the comments and then our responses.
CommenT
From 30 years of experience in this field and also seeing a few similar comments, I'd have to say the view is rather narrow. The past can only be painful if you view it that way in the present. It is true that the power is in the present, so from a place of power in the present, much healing can be done from any area of our 'past'.
Our response
We agree with this. Except the part about the narrow view. ;)
Comment
. . . why is it that the past must always be filled with pain?
Our response
We did not say, in our first article, “the past must always be filled with pain.” Since that article was about healing, all we were saying was re-living past pain is not an effective path to healing. If you can acknowledge you have experienced pain in your past and then simply intend to be healed, you will be. You do not need to re-live the pain to heal your life. That was our point.
Comment
Why not also look at the positives and creative adventures we have created in that version of the present?
Our response
Again, we do not disagree with this. That is a good thing to do, and we often advise people to do it. However, we again remind the person making the comments the article’s focus was healing, and one of the least effective ways to heal is, in our view, re-living past pain.
One of the most effective ways of healing is to do just what the person making the comments is suggesting -- “look at the positives and creative adventures . . .”
We have often advocated to people, if they want to use “past life therapy,” to simply remember all the good, joyful experiences. If they immerse themselves in that vibration in this present moment, it is far more healing than remembering past pain, thereby rekindling all that negativity.
Comment
We all create our experiences, some joyous and even traumatic, but again from the present. There is a great saying: "The Present is the interpreter of the past and the weaver of the Future", which comes from the Vedas, a body of knowledge that is many thousands of years old.
Our response
We agree, and said nothing contrary to that in our first article.
Comment
So, if someone doesn't truly understand how we create our moments and may feel lost in their own feelings/emotions, its natural that they'd discount the 'past' as irrelevant, while it can actually be a well of rich knowledge.
. . . the reality we create becomes the measure of our creation abilities, physical reality confirms what we create. Thus, how we deal with the so-called past has much more relevance than fearing it and discounting it out of ignorance.
Our response
There are many who fully understand how we create our own realities, but who do not wish to revisit a painful past. To say someone who chooses not to delve into the past, and therefore is fearful and ignorant, is a pretty harsh judgment.
Comment
I mean, we can take the delivery quite literally and go further: stop all history, eliminate all books, all education, all mention, even make it illegal to talk about what happened 10 minutes ago, because its an irrelevant past!
Our response
No one said the past is irrelevant. After all, it’s part of who we are today.
Conclusion
We’ll close with several quotes which we think sum up this discussion rather nicely. The first is another comment on last month’s article. The second is from Seth, as channeled by Jane Roberts. The third is from our last month’s article.
Comment
It seems one opinion can be correct, yet the other is narrow-minded. True open-mindedness is about understanding all. What I can say (and it doesn't matter the years experiences I have, as I may well have hundreds of years, in total) is that what has happened is for learning only. We form our future in the now. If we spend too much time in our past, we often forget the now, which in turn has an effect on our future. There is a place in our present society for past healers but I feel that’s because we easily blame, so past experiences are heavily coated in blame and guilt. When we stop the blame, we stop the guilt. Maybe then we don't need past healers -- just maybe!
Seth
“As I have told you, there is little difference if you believe that your present life is caused by incidents in your early infancy or by past lives over which equally you feel you have no control. Your events, your lives, your experiences, are caused by your present beliefs. (Emphasis added.) Change the beliefs and your life changes.”
Last month’s article
“All your power is in this present moment -- all of it!”
About the Channel
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John Cali Since 1992, John Cali has been communicating with a non-physical entity called Joseph. In one of his many physical lifetimes, this spirit was incarnated as the legendary Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe in what is now the state of Oregon in the northwestern USA. These messages are a blend of information from Joseph, other spirits in the "Joseph group," and John. Joseph and John are available for private readings. Details here: |