When we laid out the 2011 editorial calendar and identified October’s theme as “Our World,” I hoped that we would be able to have an article that spoke to different healing modalities elsewhere in the world. I had no idea that I would be in a unique position to be the one contributing the information.
As you know, part of our goal in the work we do at CoSozo is to help break down barriers that prevent people from living the lives they desire and deserve. Knowledge is power and we’ve focused our efforts on providing information that can help people make more informed decisions, become aware of the great experts in our midst, and hopefully use the work that we do to feel more empowered and more informed in their lives.
Barriers come in many different forms. Whether a result of our own limited knowledge, belief systems, access to information and resources, or even where we live, by becoming informed and engaged we are literally more empowered to break down whatever barriers stand in the way of our goals.
Sometimes barriers simply present themselves in the form of not being aware of what’s out there, which is part of what calls us to do what we do at CoSozo. Because of the position I was in, in my own personal life when I founded CoSozo, I was all too aware of the limitations that exist for people who desperately need healing just as a result of not having access to all of the available relevant information.
Sometimes those limitations simply result from information existing in a different medical system (such as alternative or allopathic) and sometimes what’s working elsewhere in the world simply isn’t well known in other parts of the globe.
When it became apparent that I may be doing more international travel this year, I went on a mission to identify contacts in those areas for interviews. There is still much for me to learn, and I’ve had to cross many of my own barriers such as language and cultural differences, along the way. In some cases, such as this month’s feature article details, I’m not really even sure how or whether some of these traditional practices work.
What I can say, however, is that the knowledge I’ve gained along this journey has deepened my respect for the level, depth, and extent that people throughout the globe care for one another. At the time I started this journey with CoSozo I felt infuriated and even a little helpless that it seemed it had become more important that individuals declared allegiance with a given health approach than the actual wellness improvement of the people served by those systems.
In truth, I didn’t need to go to foreign lands to re-discover what I’ve known all along... while at times the systems meant to serve us may have limitations, there are no limits to the miracles that can be created by one individual acting in service, with compassion, to another. In both our great country and other great lands across the world, it is an awesome experience to witness how completely and fully people work to improve the lives of each other.
