"We were born with a collective identity that is why we coexist and can connect on many levels."
I meant to share these thoughts for a long time. These thoughts are coming from my fifteen years of journey from a help-seeker to a healer. As a middle child, coming from a middle-class family, surviving in a women-restricted community, and standing up for freedom in a patriarchal country, I learned to value the art of ‘sharing‘ and ‘helping‘. I believe the first thing we human beings learn as a child is sharing, whether it’s our toys, food, space feelings, pains, and needs. Sharing is not just a positive attitude; it’s an authentic sense that we all have since our nativity. A child calls it ‘sharing’ and an adult would call it ‘helping.’ Helping is a human’s authentic nature and the center of human life. It’s impossible to think even of living without any assistance. Here is a demo, just think of your day from the time you get up until the time you sleep. Whatever you did throughout the day falls into two broad categories: a) either you helped someone or, b) you got help from someone. We, adults, believe that life is a circle, what you give, you get back. But do we always have a choice to give what we intend?
Often we try to balance between Natural and Artificial. For instance, think about our morning coffee, comfortable attire, favorite time pass, or sharing feelings, what do we prefer our Natural or Superficial self? I see help as a ‘Natural Conscience’ whereas ignorance is an ‘Artificial Emotion’. When we think about ‘Who we are”, we mostly go through our pure feelings, and natural space and consider our honest actions. Helping and sharing are part of our real self and a living reality, on the other hand, ignorance is a self-created excuse to abuse our social power. The organic cycle of help is based on ‘We’ rather than the superficial cycle of ignorance ‘Us vs. Them.’ We were born with a collective identity which is why we coexist and connect on many levels. However, our unnatural teachings made us believe in our differences and put us on a mask to cover who we are.
Here is my theory of Organic Conscience vs. Modified Emotion: It will shed some light to see a bigger picture of what does help. And why it’s a center of human life? The Healer Circle: Helping—-Healing—-Healers The art of helping heals people and creates healers. As a healer, we listen to people's needs and extend help. Just think about your psychiatrist or counselor, what do they do? They first listen and then help. It is as simple as that. Walls, TVs, cars, phones, and furniture don’t understand our pain and needs, people do. We need more meetings, talking, sharing, and helping each other, it is the organic method of human co-existence. When people remember our presence in their qualitative change, this is the time you will know you are a healer. I believe we all have a healer’s heart, just listen to it!
The Ignorance Circle: Ignorance —-Killings —-killers Ignorance promotes disturbance that leads to killings and killings just create more killers. Ignorance is a systematically modified practice that is inserted in us for the benefit of a few. Ignorance is an unnatural characteristic of humans that is why we tend to hate people who we don’t even know. Ignorance slits our organic conscience and stains our social structure. Shunning the superficial teachings that direct us to override our genuine human experiences to buy manipulated feelings from media might help us to come out of this trap. I witnessed both circles and I believe the circle of helping is still bigger than ignorance. Not because it is an organic practice but because it is part of our moral sense.
Why do happy people help others? I think because they live and believe in the cycle of helping that gives light of hope to many. In other words, their conscience is active. Like others, I was also looking for a purpose in my life, and when I introspected, I found my answer. My purpose of living is to be in the cycle of helping hapless souls to turn them into healers! Last but not least, I believe we need more healers now than ever before. Please help people and real causes, whenever you can. Remember, with your support, the cycle of help can run faster and allow us to solve ‘Our Problems’ collectively. Helping someone with your authentic moral sense is therapy, try it! I assure you will feel better being a part of your help-o-thon!! A mantra for healers:
- Listen to stories that need to be heard, you understand people better when you know their stories
- Find opportunities to help people and good causes, it will heal people and communities
- Make justice your priority, so nobody will ever be afraid of speaking the truth
- Add ‘We’ to your perspective and trash ‘Us vs. them’ – Social issues are not ‘their problems’ it’s ‘our problems’
- Feed your organic conscience that banish our superficial avatar
I will be writing more about my life experiences as a healer in my coming blog. Imroz Shaw, (a healer).
Imroz is a Global Operations Manager, Play for Peace. Most recently, she completed her Masters in International Peace & Security and Human Rights from the United Nations-mandated University for Peace and worked on academic research with the Washington State University extension program in 2015. Imroz is a traveler by heart and fate, her adventures include India, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Pakistan, Cambodia, Nepal, South Korea and USA to work with organizations and schools.
