The word trauma means  “wound.” It is only in the last 115 years or so that “trauma” has been used in the sense of psychic wound.  Psychic wound – a wounding of the soul.  In healing the wounds of our beliefs about our sensitivity, we heal our souls, we heal the soul of the earth. 

What a blessing we have in EFT, and the other Energy Psychology techniques.  In the use of this blessing for ourselves and others, we can touch the space in each of us where we become a blessing, just by being.  No expectations to meet, nothing we have to do to become worthy. 

I believe that each of us is called to the earth, by the earth itself, to offer the blessing of our personal transformation.  I have heard so many people lament that their lives have been wasted, trying in vain to deal with all the pain.  But I truly believe that what is asked of us is our actual healing process.  It is not that we “get healed” and then we go out into the world to “save it” or do “good works.” 

It is our very healing process itself that is the blessing.  All we have to do is intend it. When we live the questions, as the German poet Rilke said, rather than struggle to find answers, we find ourselves living into the answers.  And there, in that flow, lies the healing.   Every one of our moments counts.

Jennifer Anderson, a charter boat dive leader in Maui, describes her magic breathtaking moment in the ocean off  Maui with a wounded giant 15 foot Manta ray ~ which touched her heart forever.  She gave me generous permission to reprint it.  Her story lives in my heart as an example of healing the heart of the world, just by being where you are, being who you are, doing what is given to you to do in the moment.