{"id":274,"date":"2020-06-30T08:22:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T08:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/fish\/2020\/06\/30\/healing-our-nations-soul\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T22:23:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:23:47","slug":"healing-our-nations-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/fish\/2020\/06\/30\/healing-our-nations-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Healing Our Nation's Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"

HEALING OUR NATION’S SOUL<\/h2>\n

\u201cThe wound is the place where the Light enters you.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>Rumi<\/h3>\n

If You’re Hurting, You’re Not Alone<\/h3>\n

As Americans celebrate the Fourth of July and commemorate our nation’s independence, like many of us right now, my heart feels heavy. My soul hurts.<\/p>\n

While navigating through the array of conflicting emotions over the past few weeks, I observed an interesting pattern in many of my conversations.<\/p>\n

Amidst my numerous online meetings with university colleagues, email exchanges with faculty and students, and phone calls with family and friends from across the country, there\u2019s one phrase I kept hearing over and over.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m hurting.\u201d<\/p>\n

When people say \u201cI\u2019m hurting,\u201d it\u2019s the cries over social injustice we hear that drive our despair. It\u2019s the plea for compassion and the desperate appeal to our common humanity that we seek in order to heal our hurt.<\/p>\n

Along with the fireworks and festivities of the Fourth of July, we are collectively and rightfully hurting. Our nation\u2019s soul is wounded. The psyche of the American people is in pain.<\/p>\n

Even as our nation continues healing from the pain of a pandemic, America is now hurting from a chronic wound\u2014the collective anguish and grief from being forced to confront the ugly moral crisis reflected by the national protests for racial equality. While the wound may feel fresh, the suffering is old. The agony is all too familiar.<\/p>\n

As my students in Chapman\u2019s \u201cHappiness\u201d course discover, happiness is more than just an individual pursuit. When the Founders of American democracy penned in the Declaration of Independence the famous phrase \u201clife, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,\u201d they understood that the \u201cpursuit of happiness\u201d spans both the self and society.<\/p>\n

Social justice, human rights, and the general welfare of all people are integral for any society to thrive and prosper. As my colleague, Dean Gail Stearns, writes in her piece<\/a>:\u00a0\u201c\u2026some stress will not go away until we collectively dismantle the unjust structural causes of that stress.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the fundamental right to \u201clife, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness\u201d is only conferred upon a selective segment of society\u2014while at the active and systemic exclusion of others\u2014the result is a divided and wounded nation. The success and longevity of American democracy and the healing of our nation\u2019s soul happens by remembering there is more that unites us, rather than divides us as a people.<\/p>\n

The Need to Be Needed<\/u><\/span><\/h3>\n

In my role as Chapman University\u2019s Director of Contemplative Practices and Well-being, with an academic focus on brain science and behavior, I recognize that how we respond to hurt is a reflection of how our brains have evolved to process pain and stress. Some of us will react to this collective hurt with anger, some with anxiety, some with alarm.<\/p>\n

All these behavioral responses are expected, as they reveal a fundamental truth about how our brains are biologically wired. Recent studies attest how emotional, psychological, and social pain are processed in the shared regions of the brain that regulate physical pain.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s actually a recent revelation affirmed by a powerful discovery about the human brain. Your brain fundamentally evolved as a\u00a0\u201csocial organ\u201d.<\/a>\u00a0We humans intrinsically crave community and connection. We seek a sense acceptance from and attachment to others. Most of all, we all desire the \u201cneed to be needed\u201d.<\/p>\n

As I share in my book\u00a0Science of a Happy Brain<\/span><\/em>: \u201cWhen the lack of feeling a sense of value, belonging, and engagement is unrelenting, it triggers a cycle of despair and hopelessness that has the potential to accelerate the levels of anger, anxiety, and addiction in society.\u201d<\/p>\n

The need to be needed is a fundamental drive that exposes why many feel compelled to be called to action\u2014we simply want to know that our life bears value and our presence in the world matters.<\/p>\n

We all want to be heard and seen. It\u2019s precisely the nourishment our \u201csocial brain\u201d requires\u2014to belong.<\/p>\n

In his piece\u00a0Behind Our Anxiety, the Fear of Being Unneeded<\/a>, His Holiness the Dalai Lama perfectly gets to the heart of the hurt that many are feeling. He teaches, \u201cThis helps explain why pain and indignation are sweeping through prosperous countries. The problem is not a lack of material riches. It is the growing number of people who feel they are no longer useful, no longer needed, no longer one with their societies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whether it\u2019s an individual or a population of society, experiencing any form of marginalization or neglect produces actual stress and trauma in our brain, body, and being.<\/p>\n

The pain we experience from broken bonds (social) is just as real and strong as the pain we feel from a broken bone (physical).\u00a0Simply put\u2014pain is all the same in our brain.<\/p>\n

Letting in the Light<\/u><\/span><\/h3>\n

We know from biology that when a bone breaks and mends, it becomes stronger. While our wounds\u2014whether personal or societal\u2014rightfully cause us pain and hurt, they equally provide an occasion for healing and for making us more resilient.<\/p>\n

As the renowned Sufi poet Rumi relays, the wound itself is what makes it possible for the light to enter into the soul. Healing is a process of returning to a state of wholeness. In fact, the word \u201cheal\u201d is directly related to the word \u201cwhole\u201d.<\/p>\n

As painful and raw this crisis appears, as agonizing and hurtful the wounds feel, something beautiful and wondrous is happening.<\/p>\n

We are witnessing the healing of America\u2019s soul.<\/p>\n

In the eloquent words of the late, great Senator John McCain: \u201cTo be connected to America\u2019s causes\u2014liberty, equal justice, respect for the dignity of all people\u2014brings happiness more sublime than life\u2019s fleeting pleasures. Our identities and sense of worth are not circumscribed but enlarged by serving good causes bigger than ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

We are in a seminal moment in our nation\u2019s history. There exists a precious opportunity to heal our nation\u2019s torn, weary, and battered soul. Honoring America’s philosophical ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness resides in our ability to invest in causes that unite us, not divide us.<\/p>\n

Yes, our nation\u2019s soul is wounded. Yes, we are all hurting. Healing the deep social and racial wounds\u2014not just in America\u2014but in our world occurs once we allow the light of compassion, empathy, and justice to be let in.<\/p>\n

This is how we honor the Fourth of July and uphold the cherished values of American democracy.<\/p>\n

By fully committing ourselves to heal the painful wounds of racism, injustice, hatred, and divisiveness that have plagued America\u2019s soul, we ultimately grow stronger and become more resilient as a nation and people.<\/p>\n

Our wounds begin to heal. Our collective soul becomes whole. We remain the United States of America.<\/p>\n

Stay Safe. Stay Strong. Stay Compassionate. Stay Connected.<\/p>\n

Dr. Jay Kumar
\nDirector of Contemplative Practices & Well-being
\nkumar@chapman.edu<\/p>\n

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