As I write this on a late night/early morning I’m regularly checking on both my kids who have been battling the flu for a week.

The other night my daughter was curled up with a blanket on the couch, coughing, with droopy half moon eyes when she suddenly yelled out “I HATE being sick!”

I immediately ran to her side to calm her down. I explained that her body was in a healing process, that it wanted to be well. I told her she needed to focus on doing the things that would help her body do it’s job: get plenty of rest, drink lots of liquids, and most importantly keep her spirits up.

Without missing a beat she turned to me and said, “I AM doing all those things and I’m STILL sick! When am I going to be better?”

She threw me for a loop because I didn’t really know what to say. I managed to get her in better spirits without answering her question but it continued to hang in my thoughts.

The Incongruity of Healing

I kept replaying the situation in my mind, trying to find a good answer when it hit me. The toughest challenge when you’re healing (physically, spiritually, and emotionally) is dealing with the gap between your attention/actions and your current experience.

My daughter was right; she had been doing all the things I told her. She had decided she was done being sick. And yet she still felt bad. And now her enthusiasm and attention were starting to falter.

When your experience is 180 degrees from your intent and actions, it’s easy for your thoughts and spirits to waver. It’s easy to think that your current experience will never end.

And it’s at those times when it’s more important than ever to keep your attention and time on things that create a healing environment for your body, mind, and soul.

A New Mission

There are so many people in pain right now around the world. There is so much healing going on. And when you’re in the middle of the process, the end can feel an eternity away.

We have to remember that healing is a rebuilding, a reorganizing of a broken system. Sometimes it’s a creation of an entirely new system that we never expected or had any knowledge of. And when you’re in the middle of that process it can be very challenging.

We’ve had our own experience with healing over the last few years and managed to come out the other side. That experience has provided us with a new perspective on things. It’s re-energized us and presented us with a new focus. We have new stories to tell and new things to teach.

We’re on a mission to heal the world.

The day after my daughter exploded I took a new approach. I didn’t have an answer as to when she would be better. I had no control over that. What I did have control over was the environment that I helped create for her. I had control over the things I said, the energy I brought to our time together, and the things I chose to do while I was with her.

It’s been a few days and she’s still coughing a sniffling. But we’ve watched a lot of movies, listened to some fun music, played a game or two, and even managed a pretend pirate swordfight with her brother. We’ve created a positive healing environment.

And we intend to do the same with all of you.

There’s a lot more good stuff to come. We’re very excited at the opportunities our new mission will create for us. Please help us heal the world by sharing this with those in your world and lets see what we can create together this year.

Good Luck and Great Adventures.

Rich Dreams