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Monday, February 23, 2004
Healing is a journey
By Leticia Suarez-Orendainmn
WHAT do Nelson Mandela, Ai-Ai, and Oprah Winfrey have in common?
They were once all wounded based on what Dr. Josef de Ubaldo, DSC, says in his book Wounded No More, A Journey to the World of Woundology and Glorious Conquest in Healing the Mind, Body and Spirit.
“Seven years in the making and 40 years of experience,” he says of the book which was yet to be launched at the time he paid Sun.Star Cebu a visit. He also authored Insight on World Peace through Education and Culture.
Ubaldo, 48, is the seminar director and consultant of the Institute of Woundology and Healing, and the national chancellor of the International Association of Educators for World Peace-Philippines. He chairs the Third Philippine Congress and Exhibition on Natural Health to be held in Manila on March 20-21.
He talked about child culture and woundology.
A new paradigm, “Woundology speaks of the part of the human person where his woundedness is exhibited in every action, thought, word, gesture and decision.
“Woundedness is so deeply embedded that he undergoes immense denial; self-aberration; withdrawal from society, family and friends; even withdrawal from himself.”
“Although the woundedness may not be self-inflicted, the reaction nonetheless is self-regulated.
“In every painful situation, be it the loss of a loved one either by death or physical separation, childhood abuse, sexual assault, and all the minute experiences that render a person helpless and in pain, there is always a choice between moving forward or holding back.
“The healing process cannot begin when the victimized person is still angry, hurting, or when he may have developed indifference, which could actually be worse than getting angry or wanting revenge.
“Woundology here does not only refer to physical wounds of the body but more so the emotional and mental wounds that could have been inflicted even while the person was still in the form of a fetus in his mother’s womb.
“Every painful part of the being, from the minutest discomfort to the biggest, most horrendous, mind-blowing pain, is still part of the woundedness of a person.
“This woundology often leads to lyentology (the pathology of lies), which could explain man’s incessant desire to lie.”
Woundedness traces its roots to “The Fall” which became a generational karma. In a sense, it originates in the wounded inner child. Fortunately it can be addressed.
He knows where he is coming from as he says he was also a wounded child. A typical middle child, his mom told him he was unwanted.
Healing came fully on the day she greeted him three days before his 46th birthday. She praised him for what he had achieved in life.
He says, “Healing is a journey. This book is the result of painful trials and search for the mysterious, healing ways of the Ultimate Power.”
Woundedness has its reason. It can convert “us into happy, functioning and well-meaning people."
Ubaldo introduces the focus on child culture.
There are practical tips for pregnant women like avoiding anxiety, and harmful food and lifestyle.
Meditation and talking to the unborn can boost the child. He says Napoleon Bonaparte’s mother told him while yet unborn that he would be great, but forgot to tell him he would be tall.
He calls it fetal programming. It becomes more crucial when children enter the formative years of one to eight years old. It is the time when children develop their personality and character. Every experience will mold him.
The child can be wounded in many ways like lack of parenting, and deprivation of parental love and care. These are the reasons why such children later display anti-social behavior.
Ubaldo’s dream is to put us an Institute of Woundology and Healing in Quezon city. “There can be no peace without healing. To heal, desire it, will to get healed.”
(February 23, 2004 issue)
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