A Day to Celebrate
When we read or speak with Aboriginal survivors, we come to understand the depth and breadth of suffering experienced. All suffering is an invitation to heal. How can we contribute to harmony?
I tend not to follow the news because it is not good for me. When I am prompted to watch, I know there is a greater reason for it. (Earlier articles such as The Art of Witnessing explain what happens to our energy and what it is we manifest when we sink into suffering.) There has been an energetic Aboriginal theme for weeks and months now, and so seeing conflict rise again on the eve of Australia Day came as no surprise.
Having worked in equity with Aboriginal leaders and communities throughout the North-West of NSW, and having had countless conversations with Indigenous communities, I have come to recognise that at its basis is trauma. Wherever there are forced territorial changes that uproot and irrevocably change a culture, impact is felt for many generations.
Cook and Queen Victoria are individuals of their times and so believed in the ‘expansion’ process they created and supported. For every action there is a consequence or reaction. The fallout from invasion and the Aboriginal wars continues, and it must, as suffering rises from the land and generations that absorbed the trauma.
Let’s be honest here: dig a little deeper into Australian history and you will find that Terra Nullius was a convenient notion to support invasion, theft and worse. The denial of a peoples as humans, treated less than animals in many ways, hunted down, forced into migration from their homelands into other territories, locked out of lands that supported hunting and gathering for 60,000+, denied their language, communities torn apart, women used as sexual convenience and their children removed to be raised institutionally, suffering poverty, ravaged by disease and pestilence… And no wonder that 236 years later, just five to seven generations, symptoms of suffering are still being processed.
The Aborigines fought hard for their land, their belonging and identity, only to be forced into submission through brutality that continued after being recognised as ‘citizens’ in 1948. There is little difference between the Holocaust Jewish experience and the Aboriginal experience. Continuing denial of Human Rights despite ‘citizenship’ was held firmly in place by the Aboriginal Protection Act of 1869, authorising government regulation (control, segregation, and separation) of their lives. There is little doubt of the significance of the impact on those affected when we review the Bringing Them Home Report of 1997.
“When I first met my mother - when I was 14 - she wasn't what they said she was. They made her sound … so bad. And when I saw her she was so beautiful. Mum said, `My baby's been crying' and she walked into the room and she stood there and … I walked into my mother and we hugged and this hot, hot rush just from the tip of my toes up to my head filled every part of my body - so hot. That was my first feeling of love and it only could come from my mum. … When my mum passed away I went to her funeral, which is stupid because I'm allowed to go see her at her funeral but I couldn't have that when she requested me. They wouldn't let me have her.” Confidential evidence 139, Victoria: removed 1967; witness's mother died two years after their first and only meeting.
When we read or speak with Aboriginal survivors, we come to understand the depth and breadth of suffering experienced. Much like other survivors of trauma, the pain and emotional consequence flows through the generations that follow and is something that must be processed and not something to simply ‘get over’.
I want to be very clear here: Not every Aboriginal person’s lifetime experiences are the same - we each have our own individual Divine life blueprint. Some have lifetimes which focus on leadership, success, security, a resting lifetime, or one focused on community, etc. This article, however, references those who are here for the healing. Statistically, Aboriginal peoples are over-represented in every area of services that support those who suffer trauma.
Epigenetics - Generational Trauma
Epigenetics is the term given to the embedding of trauma indicators in our DNA, continuing the impact of trauma into the following generation.
Read more in How Parents’ Trauma Leaves Biological Traces in Children and remember that while DNA can be impacted by trauma in a lifetime, it can also be impacted by healing.
The degree of the impact trauma has varies according to Divine life plan. For some the gene is recessive, and for others, the feelings of deep injustice, persecution, and betrayal fill their being, drawing continued low vibrational experiences, while others have an awareness of trauma but it plays a much lesser role.
The only way trauma can be resolved is ‘up and out’: we need to feel it, acknowledge it, learn to understand that it is part of the story, find forgiveness, and to release ourselves from its hold. We see all kinds of injustices being brought into the light of day in this time of healing. But how can it truly end when people are still experiencing forms of injustice through discrimination, judgment, and separation?
Remember Who we Are
Like all conflict, we are asked to remember that All are One.
Each are energy - humans, plants, animals, Mother Earth, our Universe within Universes
Energy cannot be separated, nor classified into ‘good’ or ‘bad’.
What we do to the least of us, we do to all.
Healing occurs through love and forgiveness.
Continuing to focus on negatives is to participate in energetic undermining of others and of self.
Healing
I am asked what is the answer to the ‘problem’ - what if the ‘problem’ is us? If we want to make the world a better place, to release conflict and discord, we can energetically contribute with Love. We are solely in charge of what we view and how we talk about it. One thing is certain, continued outrage, hatred, and separation will do nothing to repair injury, to repair ourselves.
Connect
We are not so different. I still remember one of my Aboriginal colleagues who became a friend confide that I was the first ‘white friend’ she had ever had. She was a mature woman, strong and softly spoken - I was dumbfounded.
As individuals we can make a difference to the lives of others and contribute to change. It simply starts with a ‘hello’ and by remembering that the response we receive is a reflection of the other person’s experience and life perspective.
Withdraw Judgment
Refuse to participate in further denigration. We can choose to release ourselves from low vibration experiences with the words we choose, the thoughts we think, and the actions we take.
Compassion
We cannot know the details of another’s life plan. We choose our lifetimes and the roles we play for a vast range of reasons in an effort to create harmony. Whether the role is to bring awareness and opportunity to another or to choose something better for ourselves, the true ‘knowing’ sits in the time between death and life. Witness with love, and step out of further energetic discord.
We Choose
When we remember the power of our focus and how like energy attracts like energy, we understand that life is not ‘happening to us’ but that we are co-creators of our experiences. Reining our Egos in and refusing to participate in egoic drama is a gift that brings harmony, not only to ourselves, but to all.
All in Divine right timing.
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Michelle Cowles
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