Peace
- What is peace? Peace in the world, peace in the
heart, peace in the mind or peace in the spirit.
There are many types of peace. Many look for it and
few find it. Why? Throughout my life I have met thousands
of people desiring to heal their pain and suffering
and they never realize peace. The single most common
reason they are prevented from realizing relief from
pain and suffering is that most have been conditioned
to hold onto their past dramas, hurt and pain. Our
past is what in many ways prevents us from having
peace. Let me explain.
If
we hold onto our pain, our hurt, or some kind of
abuse, we create fear and insecurity within us. Fear
is a feeling that creates insecurity and a lack of
self-worth. We then have anger, judgment, hatred
and so forth. All these feelings prevent us from
having peace in our life and peace in our heart.
These feelings of fear, anger and judgment carry
over into our daily life, which in turn carries over
into our world. This energy manifests into the rest
of the world and into our spirit world causing unrest
with our spirit. How can we solve this problem?
Look
around us today at the unrest in our neighborhoods,
the lack of peace in our society, and a lack of peace
in other parts of the world. We can change it. We
must be able to first change ourselves. Then we change
our families, our neighborhoods, our cities, our
country and the rest of the world by our example.
How
do we change ourselves, you ask? We change ourselves
recognizing who and what we are all about. To do
that, we must be able to look at our past, the hurt,
the pain, the abuse and a lack of love that we felt
we never received from our family, our love ones.
We must be able to forgive, this does not mean that
through the forgiveness we condone what someone has
done or not done. It is to say that because of who
and what we are, the spirit that lives in these physical
bodies is much more than what appears to be. God
or by whatever name or language used to describe
that energy that created all life. The name is not
important. It is the knowing that something created,
designed, and built this wonderful world, this beautiful
universe we live in. And that all of us came from
that source. We are the children, the offsprings,
of that source. We are truly one another's brothers
and sisters. If you stop and think about it we really
have two sets of parents. We have our biological
parents who came together to create our physical
form, our physical body, and then we have our spiritual
parents that most of us call God, Mohammad, Budda,
the Great White Spirit. Remember there is only one
source that created all of life. That source is the
Mother and Father of our spirit. Think about it?
Many
of us in the world believe in the one we call Jesus
Christ, Buddha, Mohammed, Great White Spirit. There
have been many that have walked among us in body
and spirit who have been great teachers for all us;
these teachers have been with us from time to time
down through life. And they all had one thing in
common. They preach to us and show us the example
of love and forgiveness. Jesus preached to us about
love and when he was hanging on the cross he showed
us the greatest example of love. He did not ask God
his father, our father to bless and love those who
all ready loved him. He asked God to forgive those
who abused him who nailed him to the cross that caused
pain in his physical life. My Friends, can we not
do the same? Can we not ask our creator, our Father
and Spirit, to forgive those who have caused pain
and hurt in our lives, and can we not forgive. After
all does not the same energy the same blood flow
in us. Can we not step down - freed by the act of
forgiveness from our emotional cross? I like to think
that all of us can do that and by doing this we are
able to recognize more of who we really are. It is
the only way we can have peace in our hearts, in
our spirits and in our world. Just think if 25% of
the people around the world or just in this country
were to forgive the hurt and pain and abuse in our
life how much peace that would create? How that would
affect the world peace. Along with that feeling of
peace inside comes a feeling of freedom. If we are
peaceful within our self, the spirit is healed; there
is no judgment nor anger, and no feeling of insecurity.
Remember when you forgive, you are not saying what
they have done was right or what they fail to do
was wrong, What you are saying is that you no longer
going to let that moment in time control you any
more.
If
we could forgive the pain and hurt of yesterday,
just think what a peaceful world this could be. People
are fighting over things that happened years ago.
The Christians are still angry about what happened
to Jesus. Some people are still angry over the second
war and what the Germans did. Or what the Japanese
did. Please don't get me wrong; these things were
harmful acts of violence and persecution. But, if
you can't let go, forgive and be in this moment in
time, you will never have peace in your life or in
the world. And in most cases you will pass that anger,
that judgment, that fear and that feeling of insecurity
onto your children from one generation to the next.
During
my life, I have been shot, stabbed and sexually abused.
I grew up at that time when there was a lot of prejudice
for anyone who looked Japanese. Although I was not,
I’m half Filipino and looked Japanese, I remember
being asked to leave beaches, restaurants and homes
and been told not to come around young ladies that
were very white. Much prejudice at that time much
prejudice still goes on today on all sides. But you
know, I look at the past and say, "so what".
It does not matter and I forgive all those who have
caused pain in my life. It does not do me any good
to hold on to the anger, the judgment the fear or
to allow it to create insecurity or a feeling of
unworthiness within me.
What
a feeling of peace, a feeling of freedom. How many
of you out there have had your God, come and tell
you that you were not worthy of its love or that
you were being judged? You may have had your friends
your loved ones and others tell you that you are
not love, that you are not worthy, but I look at
this way until spirit tells you different. I would
not care too much about your fellow man says because
after all, they're going through the same thing that
you are based upon their conditioning and programming.
Bring peace into your spirit and life through forgiveness
free yourself from the chain's and bondage of the
negative energies that life situations have created
with in you, be free of the anger and the judgment
.Be free of the past, whether it be yesterday’s
or thousand years ago.
Being
a Filipino spiritual healer for the past 30 years
and have traveled around the world and seen much
sickness and pain I have come to one conclusion that
all illnesses are caused by the emotions. I have
seen everything from asthma to aids be healed when
the emotional issues have been addressed and a change
take place within that individual. Illnesses or sickness
whether due to accidents or disease comes into our
bodies as a wake-up call? They are there to get our
attention to make a change in how we look at life
or conduct our life, how we hold on to the past,
or the fear of the future. Free yourself from the
negative energies, such energies, as fear and anger
judgment and in security. Forgive.
How
do you do this -you say? I have been recommending
for many years. Write letters to those people who
have caused pain or lack of love, and lack of understanding
in your life. Be very honest in what you'd like to
say, express all your feelings and emotions, and
before you close the letter, go look in the mirror
see who live this in that beautiful body see if you
can see the spirit, the child of the one who created
all of life, and can not that child forgive, and
go back and write forgiveness in the letter. Then,
burned the letter. And watch how it burns some letters
will burn up right away, some will take two or three
books of matches to get it to burn, That’s
means the attachment is still hanging on. Observe
the feeling of peace and freedom that will come over
you when you are free from those negative energies
of the past.
Peace
is a wonderful thing. Many strive for it, and many
never even know what it is. We all can have it if
we simply forgive the negativity from the pains in
our past. Peace must start from within, and then
it becomes a beacon that shines from the inside out.
It gets brighter and brighter as it touches the world.
But it starts with each one of us. Many are trying
to achieve peace from the outside in. It must start
from within. May you all have peace in your heart.
