Dear Members of the Holistic Harmony Network,
May this find you well and happy on all levels of your being.

Here in Athens, Greece we have our registration week in during which about 500 students register for classes of various types seeking greater health and harmony in their lives, work and relationships, as well as spiritual growth. We all work on a volunteer basis and enjoy serving those to whom we can be useful. We are about 80 persons serving in various different ways.

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Perhaps the most overwhelming emotions we might experience at this time are confusion as to why exactly all this is happening and a sense of futility and inability to affect the flow of events. There are however actions and energies which we can put forth which will have an immediate and also a long term effect.

Our first and most immediate power is prayer and positive visualization. These can be done alone or in groups and also with the support of candles, chanting, song or vibrations of any type. Our thoughts, desires and wishes become thought and energy forms which affect our physical world and bring into manifestation that which we project. Our united thought-forms have the ability to affect the flow of events around us.

1. We can speak to others helping them to see what is happening in the light of universal truths with increased understanding, peace and love towards all.

2. We can develop friendships with persons from various religions and nationalities so as to diminish our feelings of separateness and alienation.

3. We can study the differences but even more so the abundant similarities between all religions and peoples so as to experience greater unity with them all.

4. We can work to lessen the differences between economic states of peoples in our area and around the world by helping those in need create a more abundant and equal life.

5. We can help those who are in need with food and shelter here in our own areas and also abroad.

6. We can adopt (or otherwise support) a child in need - here or abroad and bring it up with love and care.

7. We can aid refugees wherever they are in the world aiding them not only materially but also emotionally.

8. We can write letters to newspapers and magazines expressing our beliefs.

9. We can share our thoughts with our friends and relatives with emails and in person.

10. We can inform our political leaders concerning our beliefs and preferred methods of dealing with this situation.

11. We can sponsor or participate in discussion groups hopefully with some persons of other religions and nationalities in order to explore ourselves and experience unity.

12. We can examine the following questions in an attempt to discover how we have contributed until now to what is happening.

These events are not the product of a few crazy terrorists and neither are they the simply the reaction towards a misuse of power by the West. They are a collective manifestation towards which we all contribute through our ignorance, fear, alienation and ego-centered lives. The following questions might help us see how we each of us is, on a small scale, adding to this collective manifestation.

1. Where have you misused power and authority by not being totally just and democratic or by not applying equal rules to all? (Think of children, spouse, siblings, employees etc.)

2. Where have you cultivated negativity towards the powers to be or towards religions, countries or nationalities?

3. Towards which groups of people do you harbor negative perceptions, feelings or feelings of alienation?

4. In which cases have you found it difficult to forgive and love someone for the harm you have felt from them?

5. When have you reacted with aggression or violence (Physically, verbally or mentally) towards someone from whom you have felt injustice?

6. When have you spoken negatively to someone about a third person thus affecting how they feel towards that person?

7. Do you fear anything in this present international situation? And if so, what exactly do you fear?

8. Which are the beliefs that make you fear or experience other negative emotions.

9. What are your possible lessons in relationship to this situation? 10. What positive developments can you see in what is happening?

11. Which truths or beliefs will help you experience this situation more positively?

12. What actions are you willing to take in order to help yourself and others?

Events like these test our faith in basic philosophical and spiritual concepts. It is exactly at these times that we need to increase our faith in such perceptions as the following.

1. We are all immortal divine consciousness which is expressing itself through these temporary bodies. No one dies but simply moves from one level of conscious to another.

2. We are souls in an evolutionary process are creating our reality personally and collectively through our thoughts, choices and actions in the past and present.

3. Every event which occurs in our lives is the natural result of the above mentioned thoughts, choices and actions and is always exactly the stimulus which we need to learn, grow and make our next step in our evolutionary process.

4. Our evolutionary destination is to externally manifest our inner purity, love, wisdom and beauty by developing inner security, faith, self-worth and love without conditions for all beings.

5. Our negative behaviors result from our fear, pain or guilt which the born from our ignorance of our true spiritual nature and the laws of the universe

6. The is no reason to fear or harbor negative feelings towards anyone. All are playing in our lives he roles we have subconsciously contracted them to play in order to facilitate our spiritual process. Let us send light and love to all involved.

7. We are all responsible for what is happening today on the earth. The players are simply manifesting to an extreme the fear, misuse of power, feelings of separateness, religious groupings and violence which exist in all of us.

8. The human soul is beyond religion, nationality, political affiliation or race. It is an expression of divine energy-consciousness and deserves love, respect and equality in all cases.

1. We all need to learn to feel greater unity with all our sister souls regardless of creed, nationality, race or political beliefs .

2. We need to learn to listen when our brothers of any religion or grouping cry out in pain or need because of injustice or other reasons.

3. We need to have the same criteria in dealing with all persons and groups.

4. We need to take responsibility for the reality we are creating individually and collectively and cease depending on others to solve our problem or blame them for them

5. We need to perceive all souls as expressions of one divine consciousness in the process of evolution. Any negative feelings towards anyone simply add to the problem.

6. We can project light and love to all the peoples involved and especially to their leaders so these beings may connect with their higher selves and function for the good of the whole.

At this time, for those of us who cannot offer hands-on help, our greatest and most powerful contribution is prayer and visualization. We are presenting a possible prayer, with the idea, however, that each has his other own way of communicating with the divine.

In this time of confusion and fear,
let us direct our light and love to all involved.

May all souls who are now leaving the earth plane,
accept the guidance of the beings of light,
and continue their evolutionary process,
thus, uniting with the Divine Light.

May the wounded realize and manifest
the all-healing power within them
and totally recover on all levels of their being.

May the loved-ones and all concerned
be able, after the pain subsides,
to perceive behind this chaos,
the hidden ray of wisdom and order.

May the perpetuators
become aware of the truth that we are all one
and may they be healed of their ignorance
and experience unity with and serve the whole.

May our leaders be guided
to choices and actions
which are in alignment
with the greatest good for all.

May we all discover our personal lessons
and reflect on how we have contributed
to create such a reality
and how we can move on
to create a more loving one
with equal love and opportunity for all.

May we all become aware of the Divine within us
and in all who surround us.
May we allow our inner Divine beauty come forth
in forgiveness, faith and love.

May God guide us to truth and love. May our lives become living prayers of love and service to all.

Robert Elias Najemy is the founder and director of the Center for Harmonious Living in Athens, Greece with a membership of 3700 and the author of 19 books published in Greek. Born and raised in American until the age of 12 he has lived 8 years in Lebanon and 26 years in Greece. His web site is www.HolisticHarmony.com