Michael Jackson the humanitarian is highlighted here by his brother Jermaine on Larry King Live – as I continue to reflect and write about the healing lessons we can learn from Michael Jackson.
What stopped Michael healing rather than narcotizing with pain-killers his tender feelings? Healing feelings is a key to breaking free to be a way-shower for others of how to heal the world. “Physician heal thyself” is an saying that applies here. Sometimes we forget that to become an expert at creating our highest and most humanitarian visions for the world with the Law of Attraction or high intentions – we need to break free.
Break free from unconscious programs propelling us in unhealthy directions
Break free from denial about our own needs in favor of helping others
Break free from hurting ourselves in any way – for the good of others
Break free for the sake of healing our own life – all the better to be a force of good in the world
We highly sensitive “do-gooders” – and I include myself as a recovering co-dependent – need to love and care for ourselves first and then it cannot help but spill over into the world – but in a healthy way.
While I reflect on Michael Jackson’s compassion and love for the world, I can’t help but also ponder on his denial of self-care – why did he not ALSO or FIRSTLY love himself? Or perhaps he did not know the healthy way how to do that. Princess Diana was learning that lesson when she died – she had a heart as big as the world – but she overcame her bulimia and self-destructive tendencies – and was on an ongoing path to self-growth and self-worth.
In my book and work helping people “break free” emotionally, the key is to know that by clearing the tangles inside (childhood traumas and pain) you open up the channel to your Soul or Source and then the flow that comes through really helps you effortlessly attract and create the healthy wholesome life that feels fulfilling for YOU. And surely now – and when we die – we know in our own unique way we made “the world a better place or you and me and the whole human race.”
This haunting Michael Jackson video captures the essence of my take on his “inner child ” fixation. As an emotional-energy healer the concept of healing the “inner child” is key to my work. Damage from parents and toxic “care-takers” or older siblings when we were impressionable youngsters can “run or ruin your life NOW.”
My own journey of healing began in my 30s when I discovered a book by Robin Norwood called “Women who Love Too Much”. I was shocked to realize I was a typical “Adult Child of an Alcoholic” with symptoms including over-controlling, simmering anger, emotional neediness and a desire to mask my pain with addictions like over-eating and over-spending.
Isolating and approval-seeking are two symptoms of “Adult Children” which I had.
I believe Michael Jackson’s unorthodox upbringing with a strict controlling – even abusive father – could go a long way to explain his troubled adult life. Adult children of addicted – or dysfunctional – parents, often grow up stunted emotionally – frozen in a “lost childhood” with the longing of song Jackson is singing.
BEING BEATEN AS A CHILD
Michael Jackson’s father Joe admitted to the BBC in 2003 that he whipped his son as a child.
When you review Michael Jackson’s life you may notice that his early adult years were enchanted with brilliant success, creativity and humanitarism – he gave millions to “heal the world and make it a better place for you and me and the whole human race.”
CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER
But from his 30s onwards, Michael Jackson portrayed bizarre eccentricities including forays into plastic surgery to change his appearance which some call “self-mutilation”, referring to his destructive nose jobs as making him a “nasal cripple.”
PETER PAN
You could say building his Neverland ranch with its zoo and theme park for kids was Michael Jackson’s attempt to re-discover and recover his “lost childhood” like Peter Pan. The dark shadow side of this was the “evil” of child molestation (which tainted him forever despite his acquittal) – and you could say it was downhill as he ended up addicted to pain-killers, thin as a rake (anorexic?) and overwhelmed with legal and financial troubles.
Could Michael Jackson’s demons have been healed?
Yes, I believe so, with the right guidance and of course, willingness by him.
The sobering lesson for each one of us is – heal yourself and your childhood – before you attempt to “heal the world.” There is a saying in the self-help movement: “Everyone is guilty – but no one is to blame.” This means our parents were passing onto us the lessons they grew up with – often toxic and damaging. We have a choice – dig deep and heal the damage in ways I describe in my book “You Can Break-Free Fast.” Or stay “victims” and risk progressive self-destruction and wasting of our “golden years” like Michael Jackson.
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