Gulf Oil Spill and Healing

June

This past Spring, we all watched and waited for better news as oil surged into the waters of the Gulf area. It went on week after week. I remembered the pictures of oil-covered coastline, birds and animals from the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska (1989) as the news of the Gulf continued. So much potential damage with no end in sight due to the oil surging from the ground.

I have strong feelings about the oil spill. It was hard to know what to write. I was so upset.

Couldn’t more have been done all along? Couldn’t more be done to contain the oil rather than look good for news crews at every step of the way? Injustice burned and I wanted to be angry. That is not helpful.

According to the laws of the universe (as seen in the book and movie The Secret), what we focus on will yield results or appear (manifest). If I focus on the lack of concern and effort by BP, that is what I will see. If I focus on the destruction of plants, animals, habitats and people’s livelihoods, that is what will occur. If I could imagine healing in the Gulf, that would occur.

In shamanic terms, one must walk away from the past and into the future, which we create daily. According to the movie The Field of Dreams, “build it and they will come….” I personally struggle with only believing that my past is all that I am when it is not true. The snake sheds its skin (its past) regularly as we all can do.

Dr. Masaru Emoto, author of The Hidden Messages of Water, is the Japanese scientist who has studied the effects of emotion on water. He did so analyzing slides of frozen water crystals for many years. Dr. Emoto has proposed that we all send love and intentions of healing to the Gulf. Sending love with bring physical healing to the area.

"I send the energy of love and gratitude to the water and all the living creatures in the Gulf of Mexico and its surroundings. To the whales, dolphins, pelicans, fish, shellfish, planktons, corals, algae and all living creatures..... I am sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you."