Carnival of Healing #10: Healing the Person, Place and Planet

Welcome to the Carnival of Healing.

For this carnival, I have chosen the theme of healing the person, place, and planet. This is the idea of powers of ten, expanding healing from the person to the place, and from the place to the planet. Individual healing affects the place and the planet. If you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the ripples go outward in all directions. Healing is much more than just the absence of illness or disease. Healing is one face of the power to love.


For a great example of the Powers of ten, take a look at the Secret Worlds: The Universe Within:

View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.

Healing the Person:

A Buddhist priest in North England posted these thoughts from the Dali Lama recently in his blog “Lotus in the Mud”

"Happiness cannot come from hatred or anger. Nobody can say, "Today I am happy because this morning I was very angry." On the contrary, people feel uneasy and sad and say, "Today I am not happy because I lost my temper this morning." Through kindness, whether at our own level or at the national and international level, through mutual understanding and through mutual respect, we will get peace, we will get happiness, and we will get genuine satisfaction."

Thoughts on the compassionate heart from the blog- Lucid Moment

"Without justifying or condemning ourselves, we do the courageous work of opening to suffering. this can be the pain that comes when we put up barriers or the pain of opening our heart to our own sorrow or that of another being. We learn as much about doing this from our failures as we do from our successes. In cultivating compassion we draw from the wholeness of our experience--our suffering, our empathy, as well as our cruelty and terror. It has to be this way. Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity."
~Pema Chodron, The Places that Scare You

From Donna D’Ingillo, who writes the blog “ Heart of Healing” comes a wonderful article on the practice of a powerful form of spiritual healing entitled: Soul Healing: Journey to the Heart of Healing

Healing the Place:

Most of us have heard about Feng Shui, the Chinese art of placement. Having traveled extensively in Asia I’ve seen many buildings with their Feng Shui adjustments. Feng Shui awakens a clear view of what is needed and what is appropriate to correct and balance disharmony in our environment and in ourselves.

Feng Shui can teach people how to heal themselves and empower them to create their dreams. What we think about we create, and what we surround ourselves with also affects what we create in our lives. If we change our environment using Feng Shui to bring about balance, we can change our lives dramatically.

In the blog “Fast Feng Shui” Stephanie Roberts gives us an insightful article on creating harmony in the heart of our home: Feng Shui for the Heart of Your Home

"The kitchen is sometimes called "the heart of the home," and with good reason; in ancient cultures the hearth was a sacred place representing the life-giving sustenance of Earth's bounty. Feng shui recognizes the kitchen as one of the most important rooms in the house because it is where we connect with the energies that nourish us physically (food), financially (money), and emotionally (family). It reminds us to see the kitchen not just as where we put the groceries away and dish up dinner, but also as a place where we receive blessings and express gratitude for the gifts of life, health, and prosperity..."

Healing the Planet:

In the blog “Moving the Consciousness: Projecting the Mind” the author SpiritWind, writes on many topics concerning healing the planet. Reading his words is like hearing a song you once knew so well. I have chosen one article entitled :Creating sacred space within

"The tree of life is also represented in ones body, and in order to find ones stargate within, the keys to the gate must be unlocked, physically, and spiritually from the chopping of wood and carrying of water through ones life. Simple talk won’t do it, neither will the study of books, as this is completely an experiential journey. One either has done the homework necessary or not. For me, it was a long hard road, one where I probably kicked and screamed a lot going down it (still). The whole body is a memory bank for the experiences it has had in life. One only has to view the scars gained through mishap in ones life to recognize this. However, this does create individual defenses throughout the body that beg to be released for any type of healing or progression to take place. One never learns to walk with a broken leg, without first healing the problem. And so it is with the tree of life that the body represents. There are many paths that teach these things, and am just going a little deeper to give a glimpse of the work involved."

The idea of Planetary Healing brings me to the thought of harmonia. Harmonia is a word used by ancient Greek and Latin writers to describe the interplay of melody, rhythm and harmony--what they called the "music of the spheres”. It is pronounced "har-mo-NEE-ah," which according to scholarly sources is the ancient Greek pronunciation (as opposed to the Latin har-MOH-nia). The ancient Greeks had Apollo as the god of music and medicine. Their traditions believed that music could move streams, tame animals and go to the depths of our souls to heal us.

Pythagoras, a mathematician/philosopher/healer said that certain musical chords and melodies produced certain responses in people, and that the right sequences of sounds would change a person’s energetic patterns and speed up their healing.

Music bypasses the logical mind, and goes directly to the emotional body. Is it any wonder why music is often times heavily controlled or even banned in repressive governments?

A Love Supreme
Sept 23 2005, would have been the 79th birthday of John Coltrane.

His masterwork “A Love Supreme” recorded in 1964 is one of the most profoundly moving and powerful performances ever recorded. It touches us as human beings as all great works of music or art touch us.

This music is Coltrane's expression of spirituality that he found after sinking into the depths of addiction. Coltrane's triumph over heroin and his thanks to God are what informs every note that is played. It is instrumental music that speaks to all people, cultures and spiritual traditions.

John Coltrane and his quartet (McCoy Tyner- Piano, Jimmy Garrison-Bass, and Elvin Jones- Drums), give us a masterpiece of spiritual music, that will speak to us as long as there is healing and love in this world. NPR has produced a wonderful program on this music.

Harmonic Chant:

David Hykes is the founder, with his colleagues of the Harmonic Choir, of Harmonic Chant, a unique and evolutionary fusion of sacred chant with the knowledge of the harmonic series as found through the human voice. The Harmonic Chant is an inspired and original body of musical knowledge and practices which, like Gregorian chant and Tuvan throat-singing, transmits timeless and traditional musical knowledge in timely new ways. It is both contemplative and dynamic.

“Harmonic Chant is a universal music of spiritual resonance based on the omnipresence in all musical sound of the harmonic series, the equivalent in musical sound to the pure color spectrum of light. All instruments and voices of music are composed of the pure sounds of the harmonic series, and it is also the source of melody, harmony and rhythm. In short, it is the DNA of all music”… ~ David Hykes

WNYC’s radio blog has an hour long program on Hykes and Harmonic Chant


Mirrorroom- Reflections off a babbling brook” also has some sound samples and descriptions of harmonic chant.

Wondrous Strange:

The supremely gifted and wildly eccentric pianist Glenn Gould died 20 years ago this October 4. Glenn Gould's ear opening version of the Bach Goldberg Variations, first released in the mid-1950's, brought worldwide attention to both the pianist and the composition. More recordings and performances of Bach followed, in a style so unique as to have all but eclipsed other Bach players of his generation.

Gould famously chose the recording studio over the concert stage early in his career, declaring, 'the concert is dead.' Known for his peculiar work habits (most notably his obsession with temperature in the studios) and a contrarian's approach to music in general (he dismissed many of Beethoven's greatest works while becoming fascinated by Petula Clark) Gould was one of the rare classical musicians to cross over into popular consciousness. But before the world knew about the oddities of his behavior, they knew about his Bach playing.

The blog “The Hive” has an article entitled “Bookends” which explores the inward qualities of both recordings that Glenn Gould made of the J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations.

The Great Work:

“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the historyof the world, man will have discovered fire.” ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Thank you for joining me for this week's Carnival of Healing. Next week the Carnival is returning home to Healing.About.com.

Last week's edition of the Carnival was hosted by : Intuitive Innovations.

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tags: carnival of healing, global healing, healing, healing music

Christopher Stewart

medical intuitive