Does everyone need to be healed?

During my meditations today I was looking at the clouds, and as my smoke rose upward I caught the shape of a cloud that reminded me of my ceremonial pipe.  I focused on the cloud shape and tried to quiet my mind of the misguided and pointless chatter that runs amok in my brain. As I sat there, my mind drifted to a feeling I had earlier in the week for a person I know. I spent many hours with this person in a rather tenuous yet mandatory relationship.

This person recently suffered a great loss, one more of position and esteem than of life and limb. While my initial response was shock, I remember quickly moving into a feeling of joy, which quickly became guilt and sorrow, because in my heart, I really don't wish anyone misfortune or any ill will no matter what the reason.

In my quest to be more understanding, and accepting of others, I chose to try to discover why I was feeling so confused about how I “wanted” to feel. Then it hit me! How did “I” feel about the news? Sure I “wanted” to feel bad for that person; however I could not remove that childishly grinny feeling of “good!" from my heart.

Okay… So now I feel bad. I take another puff, and another, and another, and I watched the smoke rise. I remember thinking I shouldn't feel bad, I shouldn't feel glad, I shouldn't feel sorrow, I shouldn't feel guilty. I should just feel the moment, absorb the news, and pray for that person's intentions whatever they may be.

A book I'm reading talks about everyone as having a luminous energy about them, and how some people become out of balance with their energy, and somehow that balance has to be restored. Some people travel through their entire life with an imbalance in their energy. Likewise, I believe most of my life was spent trying to find balance and stability. I remain hopeful that I will find the grounded nature of my energy first and then grow to find balance and stability with my energy.

 I believe many people don't have or find balance and therefore struggle to find balance by realigning the tangible things of life, such as their life’s goals, ambitions, or relationships, only to find more loss and sorrow. Many people never find an inner peace. And I truly feel that everyone is somehow searching or moving to a true inner peace.

I'm beginning to feel that aligning one's energy in some way helps to propagate an inner feeling of wellness and may in fact actually not only heal one’s spirit, but may actually physically heal as well. With that thought in mind I returned to my friend’s loss and really thought about it.  

Healing. 

Healing. 

Healing. 

I wouldn't know where to begin… I'm still working on myself. 

Healing. 

Healing. 

And then it hit me!

(Just like Jake Elwood was hit by James Brown and the Holy Spirit in the Blues Brother’s!)

Maybe this person really didn't need a healing after all!  

Maybe this person just really needed an old-fashioned country farm dog wormin’!  

Yep! 

That would set ‘em straight! 

Fix their freakin’ energy just right, and give me some peace of mind too.

Wicked Beat out!