We must change as a nation, one heart at a time. We have a major cultural issue in that Americans have isolated themselves, given themselves to striving and attaining wealth and possessions to the detriment and loss of familial ties and friendships. We have sworn off connectedness to independence, isolation, and personal success. This lack of connectedness allows betrayal, hatred, anger, bitterness, and murder plague our society in the form of murders, disease, and premature death.
My husband is from South Africa and one thing that I love about South African culture is that all the neighbors know each other, talk to each other, and support one another in a very personal, communal manner. In our neighborhood, it is no surprise that he knows all of our neighbors and daily converses with the neighbors. South Africa has its own cultural problems such as poverty, violence, gang activity, and murder, but for very different reasons than what we are seeing in America. In my heart, I always think that a marriage between South African culture and American culture would produce a great, thriving culture.
My husband is from South Africa and one thing that I love about South African culture is that all the neighbors know each other, talk to each other, and support one another in a very personal, communal manner. In our neighborhood, it is no surprise that he knows all of our neighbors and daily converses with the neighbors. South Africa has its own cultural problems such as poverty, violence, gang activity, and murder, but for very different reasons than what we are seeing in America. In my heart, I always think that a marriage between South African culture and American culture would produce a great, thriving culture.
The root of murder in any culture is hatred, bitterness, anger, revenge. A person is not born a murderer or destined to murder. However, when a young child displays anger and rage repeatedly without learning how to forgive and release anger, this is dangerous. When a young child does not learn the importance of forgiveness, this child may continue to harbor anger, rage, and bitterness in their heart until they are overtaken and end up killing someone. Also, when a young child is exposed to severe trauma, violence, and abuse in the home, he or she may also display violence if their isn't sufficient therapy and support to address these traumatic roots. Even aggressive displays of spanking can imprint trauma, abuse, and shame on a child that negatively shapes their worldview and they way that they interact with themselves and the world.
Many times, when a person kills, they explain the feeling of being out of body or overtaken by rage. Sometimes, they are even surprised by their violent action and the fact that they murdered. In my mind, the premeditated part of murder is the continual obsession in thoughts and emotions of hatred, anger, and rage which many times is displaced to someone not even connected to the person. However, there are times the murder is connected directly to the person who has hurt, betrayed, and stirred up these past emotions of anger, bitterness, and rage.
For example, cops that murder may not benefit from training; rather, may need to understand the importance of forgiveness and identify who they hate and who they need to forgive. This will make them more sensitive to the need at a particular moment of their service and not so vulnerable to make snap decisions out of anger, fear, or trauma from their past.
People diagnosed with cancer many times need to forgive and release anger and rage from their bodies. Instead of killing someone else, their hatred, rage, bitterness, and anger is killing their own bodies. Many times, people who successfully address the underlying emotions and root traumas to their illness end up healthier emotional, spiritually, and physically after a diagnosis than prior to a diagnosis.
However, many people are still not open and willing to look at the underlying root issues to a cancer diagnosis. The approach is commonly to attack and kill the cancer growing in the body without a full understanding of why is is there in the first place. So far, all of my cancer clients have identified people who they need to forgive and release anger towards. This has made a huge impact on their healing process physically and changed the frequency of energy in their body towards higher vibrations of peace, love, and gratitude.
We would serve our nation, ourselves, and our families well if we ask the questions why and we dedicate ourselves to healing ourselves and those in our immediate circles of influence so that our culture can be healthy and whole again.
