Thankfully, you all probably know how to tap—I hope you are taking care of yourself in these challenging times.
Beyond tapping, I want to share my experience with you. Maybe in reading it, you can find your own way to hold a steady space in your heart that lets these violent winds blow without knocking you over.
The whole world needs for us to stand in our strength and capacity to be a source of blessing right now. You can help.
Last night I went to a joyous holiday program presented by Ars Nova, an a cappella choir singing spiritual celebrations, hymns and carols from across the ages composed by Hildegarde de Bingen up to modern composers. It was wonderful and powerful, and for me it turned into an opportunity to practice a deep subtle activism in an unusual way.
The director took a silent moment at the beginning of the program to honor the events and victims of the Newtown, Connecticut shooting.
In about the third piece, I found myself closing my eyes, and filling with the beautiful music beyond the words. And then I found myself at the scene of the shooting, and the music was creating a holding space of coherency for the shattered souls of the children. This experience lasted for several songs.
I wasn’t doing anything specific, just somehow helping to provide a container for all the allies and angels of those killed to do their infinite, personal, generative work, along with all the beings drawn to help with this tragedy in other ways. This offering of help and healing happened during several pieces, with different energetic vibrations provided by the different pieces.
Then I seemed to fall into a pattern of just being open to each song or hymn or carol, and holding its presence in me. And then I would be directed or guided to the next context that needed this particular holding space. I wasn’t trying to make anything happen, just offering the space to allow an opening, beautiful, healing, reconnecting presence to be available for the particular entity, space or being to draw upon in whatever way it needed to. In each case, in its own way, there was help for the recipient to reconnect with life, land, and soul.
I don’t remember all the recipients of this gift of musical presence, but here are some. There was much help there for the parents of the children killed, and for the siblings. One song went to the grandparents of the children killed, to help them to hold their own adult children so they could begin dealing with this impossible grief.
One hymn went to the churches in the community, and another to the ministers and the priests. The Christ energy filled the area, pouring through Jesus and Mother Mary. Another offered itself to the deva of Newtown, and one came to rest within the Soul of America itself.
One musical presence flowed into the land that the community rests on. Another went into the school building itself. Another came to help to clear and uplift the beings of simple consciousness that anchor emotion into the environment, in this case the particular classroom and other sites in the school building which would have been flooded with terror and anger. There was help in one piece for for the police and emergency workers and detectives, to give them strength to see the unthinkable and to do their terrible, helpful, necessary job.
Two powerful pieces seemed meant for the souls of the shooter and his mother, and all that lies between them, and before them.
There were some pieces near the end of the program that seemed to flow into an exercise that I learned many years ago from RJ Stewart. It helps people to cross over from a violently, confusingly interrupted life into the next realm. Somehow this musical energy field helped these children and adults to find their way. I felt more actively, personally involved in this work, as if I were there as one of many shepherds and guides.
I came home from this experience feeling that my own heart had been helped to find rest in this event as well.
My friend and colleague David Spangler just sent out something sent out by Andy Smallman, the director of Puget Sound Community School, the school three of his children went to.
It ended with this thought:
"I believe that inside of each of us is a beautiful and peaceful place, a loving and caring place. Nurture it first in yourself, then nurture it with those close to you. That is the best response to senseless acts of violence."
What We Can Offer to The Connecticut School Shootings, by Rue Hass
by EFT Practitioners Pool
Dec 16, 2012
Thankfully, you all probably know how to tap—I hope
you are taking care of yourself in these challenging times.
Beyond tapping, I want to share my experience with you.
Maybe in reading it, you can find your own way to hold
a steady space in your heart that lets these violent winds
blow without knocking you over.
The whole world needs for us to stand in our
strength and capacity to be a source of blessing
right now. You can help.
Last night I went to a joyous holiday program
presented by Ars Nova, an a cappella choir
singing spiritual celebrations, hymns and carols
from across the ages composed by Hildegarde de
Bingen up to modern composers. It was wonderful
and powerful, and for me it turned into an
opportunity to practice a deep subtle activism in
an unusual way.
The director took a silent moment at the beginning
of the program to honor the events and victims of
the Newtown, Connecticut shooting.
In about the third piece, I found myself closing
my eyes, and filling with the beautiful music
beyond the words. And then I found myself at the
scene of the shooting, and the music was creating
a holding space of coherency for the shattered
souls of the children. This experience lasted for
several songs.
I wasn’t doing anything specific, just somehow
helping to provide a container for
all the allies and angels of those killed to do
their infinite, personal, generative work, along
with all the beings drawn to help with this
tragedy in other ways. This offering of help and
healing happened during several pieces, with
different energetic vibrations provided by the
different pieces.
Then I seemed to fall into a pattern of just being
open to each song or hymn or carol, and holding
its presence in me. And then I would be directed
or guided to the next context that needed this
particular holding space. I wasn’t trying to make
anything happen, just offering the space to allow
an opening, beautiful, healing, reconnecting
presence to be available for the particular
entity, space or being to draw upon in whatever
way it needed to. In each case, in its own way,
there was help for the recipient to reconnect with
life, land, and soul.
I don’t remember all the recipients of this gift
of musical presence, but here are some. There was
much help there for the parents of the children
killed, and for the siblings. One song went to
the grandparents of the children killed, to help
them to hold their own adult children so they
could begin dealing with this impossible grief.
One hymn went to the churches in the community,
and another to the ministers and the priests. The
Christ energy filled the area, pouring through
Jesus and Mother Mary. Another offered itself to
the deva of Newtown, and one came to rest within
the Soul of America itself.
One musical presence flowed into the land that the
community rests on. Another went into the school
building itself. Another came to help to clear and
uplift the beings of simple consciousness that anchor
emotion into the environment, in this case the particular
classroom and other sites in the school building which
would have been flooded with terror and anger.
There was help in one piece for for the police and
emergency workers and detectives, to give them
strength to see the unthinkable and to do their
terrible, helpful, necessary job.
Two powerful pieces seemed meant for the souls of
the shooter and his mother, and all that lies
between them, and before them.
There were some pieces near the end of the program
that seemed to flow into an exercise that I
learned many years ago from RJ Stewart. It helps
people to cross over from a violently, confusingly
interrupted life into the next realm. Somehow
this musical energy field helped these children
and adults to find their way. I felt more
actively, personally involved in this work, as if
I were there as one of many shepherds and guides.
I came home from this experience feeling that my
own heart had been helped to find rest in this
event as well.
My friend and colleague David Spangler just sent
out something sent out by Andy Smallman, the
director of Puget Sound Community School, the
school three of his children went to.
It ended with this thought:
"I believe that inside of each of us is a
beautiful and peaceful place, a loving and caring
place. Nurture it first in yourself, then nurture
it with those close to you. That is the best
response to senseless acts of violence."
With my love and blessing to you,
Rue
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