We're all unnerved by the terrible tragedy of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. In addition to opening our heart chakras with love and compassion, to send healing energy and donations to the site of disaster, I want to offer these wise words from Yoga Dancer, Marya Mann...

"I see in the ghastly news mounting a chance to remember the excellence in everyday goodness too: every shattering experience challenges us to center in our hearts, align in the spine, go with the flow, reach out to help others, sharpen our wits, and learn from water's movement how to swim with changing life. Soothe yourself first, breathe, stand tall, don’t go running door-to-door with your tears; gather yourself and when you can be part of the solution, move with all your mana, forward.

Evolving nature is reaching into each of us to sense and feel the world as it is. With her enormous range of fluidity, nature asks us to love the world, worship the ground we walk on and the air we breathe, and align with the highest good for all. Be superfluid, like the churning black holes where stars emerge and universes come and go in an instant.

The earth is shaking with vibrant and vibrational intensity – even when we don’t feel it, like the stars during daytime, unseen, but everywhere around us, we are being rocked as babies in a cradle, awakened into our most noble and true nature. If we remain centered in our hearts, firm in our radical trust, and superfluid, we can see with the gentle eyes of compassion and work our sturdy, graceful hands for nursing, leading, helping and nourishing. There is a quality of motion that is you and not you, a quantum m’ocean, where we feel the patterns, rhythms and superfluid song – the uni-verse – that connects everything."

As Hippocrates said, "Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease." In a recent discussion with Serge Kahili King, PhD, teacher of the Hawaiian Huna philosophy, he explained how everyone's body can achieve "instant healing" if there is no stress or tension. So that's where healers come in - they teach you to do yoga, meditate or chant, balance your chakras, do Qigong, exercise, breathe deeply, eat healthier food, perhaps take a pill to remove pain so that you can relax and heal. "All power comes from within," as King teaches in the Huna principles and that includes our power to heal. But we are all here on earth to help each other, and "healers" can help others to release the blocks in the flow of their healing energy. So, get that delightful massage, take that inspiring class, but put all your confidence and belief in your own ability to heal because, truly, all healing comes from within.
Namaste! Becca Chopra, author of The Chakra Diaries