World Healing Day is a global human happening held in hundreds of cities in over 65 nations, the last Saturday of April each year, at 10 am local time worldwide.
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Organizers state that World Healing Day came as an answer to a question. The Global Consciousness Project, which was born from a research project at Princeton University on human consciousness. The GCP found that when the mass of humanity was focused on, what often were horrific events, the death of Princess Diana, the events of September 11, 2001, that their computers worldwide were physically effected by this focus of human consciousness. Human consciousness physically effected the world in measurable ways.
The founders of World Healing Day created this event in answer to this question, what if human consciousness were focused en masse for a 24 hour period, not on fear and desperation, but on an intention for personal and global healing?
Events are held worldwide, and are free and open to the public and events have taken many forms.
Individuals can find local existing events or they can organize their own.
The only rules organizers have are that the events are open to everyone,
and that they have a calm healing intention and aspect.
World Healing Day events can include, but are not limited to:
World Yoga Day
World Prayer Day
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day
World Reiki Day
World Healing Prayer Day
World Healing Meditation Day
World Native Aboriginal Sacred Dance Day
World Sufi Dance Day
World Art Day
World Music Healing Day
Organizers emphasize that all events are ecumenical in nature and non-exclusive. For example, World Prayer Day events may be held by anyone or any group of any religion or spiritual tradition, but the events are not allowed to exclude anyone, and must be open to everyone, and welcoming to everyone of any tradition or faith. World Healing Day organizers hold that this is because this is what is required of humanity to progress on an increasingly crowded planet - tolerance - and mutual respect.
The template for World Healing Day events grew from the example of World Tai Chi & Qigong Day events which had been held for over a decade worldwide. WTCQD's events had been officially proclaimed by governors, senates, mayors, legislatures in most US States and in several countries.
The concept of a 24 hour wrapping of the world in a healing wave of intention was represented by WTCQD's official motto "One World ... One Breath," which then became the official motto of World Healing Day as well.
In the beginning, World Tai Chi & Qigong Day was simply "World Tai Chi Day," but Tai Chi is so closely related to Qigong (chee kung) that Dr. Roger Jahnke, a founding member of the National Qigong Association, and then other Qigong groups worldwide requested that World Tai Chi Day become World Tai Chi & Qigong Day. The expansion of this event to World Healing Day evolved from that to include more aspects of World Healing Day events on an official basis.
Over the years of WTCQD's growth, other mind-body modalities and spiritual tradition groups who had taken part in WTCQD events unofficially in many places were invited to be included as full partners in this global wave of goodwill that organizers work to surround the planet with each year. A larger family of mind-body and spiritual based events comprising hundreds of individual and groups of events became part of a global family of World Healing Day events. The individual days are still celebrated each on their own, with their own individual celebration titles of World Yoga Day, World Prayer Day, World Tai Chi & Qigong Day, etc., but occurring simultaneously at 10 am on the last Saturday of April each year. The last Saturday of April, which is now also known as World Healing Day.