The Power of The 50-50 Work: Healing Force Project        

     

       Let me give you an example of the 50/50 Work shaping my life.  Having been born and raised in the northeastern part of Japan, I decided to put myself fully into relief efforts when the earthquake and tsunami occurred there on March 11th, 2011.

 

       Relationship is the very essence of life.  No one is capable of living productively without warmth and love, without sharing and mutual understanding.  It is truly in the scheme of things of the universal creative spirit. -- #166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING

 

       In the wake of that event, it became clear that the content of 50/50 Work© training had to go beyond the classroom to include practical daily encounters, relationships and experiences.  With the seven-year project that followed, which I called the “Healing Force Project,” 50/50 Work© Consciousness Training widened its scope to include exercising and embodying human potential as a healing force in daily life.   It also included meeting the challenge of transforming potential into reality.

 

       For the power of thoughts, feelings, and attitudes is enormous. -- #208 INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE

 

       The consciousness that I brought to this work was, to the greatest extent that I was able, the consciousness that I developed while learning and teaching the 50/50 Work.  Between 2012 and 2018, I made five visits to one of the areas that the tsunami devastated.  I volunteered to help a number of survivors, and in the process I learned about the area and about many people who suffered.  I also visited schools, and met teachers and students who were kind and amazingly strong.  I brought what I had learned from this work back to my training groups, and challenged them to devise ways of putting 50/50 principles into practice by making a difference in their own lives and the lives of those around them.  

 

       There is a great Japanese tradition, the counterpart of what in English we call “paying it forward.”  In Japanese it is called 恩送り、情けは人の為ならず  As my groups rose to the occasion of meeting this challenge, a surge of “paying it forward” energy manifested.

 

       In 2013, I was invited to talk about this project at the University of Virginia.  The talk I gave interpreted the northeast Japan disaster as a lesson in how each of us can improve the world through relationship.  My key points were: 1) embodying Healing Force – that is, realizing such a Force as a Human Potential;  2) developing ways in which to transform “the impossible” into “the possible”;  and 3) impacting the world for the better.

 

       I received tremendous amount of support during this project. One of them is Mr. Uchikoshi in Tono City, Iwate Pref.  He is a dentist who runs his own dental clinic, created a network for victims: Project Next. He provided me with various kinds of support and tools.  They helped me to understand what happened in the area and taught me about the effects of the earthquake and Tsunami.

 

       By my 5th visit in October 2017, 50/50 Consciousness Relief Funds had met its goal of raising $30,000, which is equivalent to 2,800,000 Japanese Yen.  Most of the funds went to one or the other of two sorts of recipients: schools that sustained damage, and children who lost one or both parents and many belongings. 

 

       The central themes for this project were the Guide teachings All is One and Giving and offering is actually one thing. Through the work that we did, these teachings made a difference in northeast Japan.

 

       Every human being contains a built-in mechanism that makes receiving quite impossible when the soul holds in its innate capacity and yearning to give. Since in reality, giving and receiving are one and the same flow, movement, and phenomenon; the one cannot exist without the other. -- #250 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE