HOW's Purpose & Mission
We are a small but growing group of healers who firmly believe that making a positive difference in our world begins with compassion, love and giving of ourselves to help better the lives of others. With this tenet in mind, we have come together to offer information, insight, and sometimes simply a shoulder or a prayer, to any and all who may need it. Included in our group are professionals in a myriad of healing modalities such as herbalism, homeopathy, nutrition, reflexology, color & crystal therapy, aromatherapy and many more.
How can we make a difference?
Every product we promote on this site via links within articles and posts are products we believe in and which earn HealingOurWorld.Net commission dollars. One hundred percent of those proceeds is split between our Weapons of Mass Construction - Smiles For Healing Project and our chosen charities: Child Fund International, Tickets for Charity, amfAR.org and the Elizabeth Taylor HIV/AIDS Foundation. You can read more about each of these very worth organizations HERE. We hope to do our small part in making this world a better place for all of us by giving of ourselves to those of you who have questions, problems or are in need of emotional support, combined with financially supporting very worthwhile causes and initiatives which make such amazing differences in the lives of so many around the world.
We sincerely believe that education, information and compassion are the most powerful tools in the arsenal of anyone who wants to make a positive impact upon the world. We also believe that in order to heal the world, we must first heal ourselves. This is why we strive to bring you information and a community which can help you heal, maintain your health, and adopt a balanced, healthy lifestyle.
Would you like to learn holistic healing and join our effort?
HealingOurWorld.Net, in conjunction with AlternativeHealingAcademy.com, also has a holistic health educational scholarship program for individuals who wish to join the ranks of Holistic Healers and who are interested in joining with us in our humanitarian efforts. To learn more about this program, please click the 'Scholarship Program' tab.
How can you benefit from this site?
We'd like to extend a warm welcome to you and encourage you to ask questions, share your stories and get to know us. There are hundreds of informative articles on many different conditions and ailments as well as on various healing modalities and how they can benefit you. We also have an ever-growing section of herbal, essential oil and natural recipes for health and beauty that you can make at home.
We also regularly feature worthy causes, charities, initiatives and personal stories in order to raise awareness and inspire all of us to get involved and do something - regardless of how large or small that something is - to make a positive difference in our world.
If not you, who?
Each of us has a responsibility to do something to better the lives of our brothers and sisters on this planet. The coolest thing about giving of yourself in service to others is the fact that your actions become a ripple moving throughout our world, joining with the ripples of others and becoming a tide. That tide always returns to bring you the benefit and blessing you so freely gave. As one of the great humanitarians of our time, Michael Jackson, said, "I wanted to change the world, so I got up one morning and looked in the mirror. That one looking back said: "There is not much time left. The earth is wracked with pain. Children are starving. Nations remain divided by mistrust and hatred. Everywhere the air and water have been fouled almost beyond help. Do something!"
So, we ask again, if not you, if not us, then who?
HOW is not officially a part of any of the charities listed - they are simply the causes we have chosen to support. Healing Our World Net, Inc. is a non-profit corporation in good standing - Entity ID number: 2009-000575270.
Wishing you all of life's blessings and healing,
Dee
Charities, Initiatives We Support
Tickets for Charity - Great Seats for Great Causes!
What if you could see the music artists you love, for the same price or better than you’d pay elsewhere, and support the causes you care about for free? Wouldn’t you do that? Wouldn’t a lot of people do that?
This is the question that drives Tickets-for-Charity®, an innovative fundraising platform that offers music fans the opportunity to access great seats for high-demand concerts – at the same price or better than you’ll find elsewhere – while supporting leading charities in the process.
Working directly with artists from The Rolling Stones and James Taylor to Coldplay and John Mayer, Tickets-for-Charity has raised $3 million for leading non-profit organizations and works with over 30 national partner charities, including Feeding America, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation and Natural Resources Defense Council. Tickets on www.ticketsforcharity.com are available at face value, where 100% of the benefit above face goes directly to supporting the charities selected by artists and fans.
Visit www.ticketsforcharity.com to find your great seats to see some of the biggest names in entertainment coming your way this fall – and enjoy the show! You can also follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ticketsforcharity or Twitter: http://twitter.com/tixforcharity
ChildFund International
ChildFund International is inspired and driven by the potential that is inherent in all children; the potential not only to survive but to thrive, to become leaders who bring positive change for those around them.
The heart of ChildFund International remains the one-to-one connection made through child sponsorship. Our work began in 1938 with an effort to build orphanages for the children who had been left without homes or families in the wake of the second Sino-Japanese War.
These orphanages were funded by individuals in America who “sponsored” an orphaned child in China. This approach continues today.
What began as a modest effort to build and operate orphanages, has evolved into a global force working for children encompassing the globe. Our area of excellence and great strength is our deep understanding of children's experiences of deprivation, exclusion and vulnerability, and our dedication to placing those experiences at the center of our policy and practice.
We work in 31 countries, assisting approximately 15.2 million children and their family members, regardless of race, creed or gender. Our distinctive approach focuses on working with children throughout their journey from birth to young adulthood, as well as with families, local organizations and communities globally to create the environments children need to thrive.
Through ChildFund contributions…
You can give a future to a child.
A healthy start means a child can go to school and learn.
Educated children can become leaders in their communities.
You can change an entire community for the better.
Strong leaders help build empowered communities.
Empowered communities promote the development and protection of children.
Help a child today, learn more about Child Fund International!
American Foundation for AIDS Research - amfAR.org
amfAR is one of the world's leading nonprofit organizations dedicated to the support of HIV/AIDS research, HIV prevention, treatment education, and the advocacy of sound AIDS-related public policy. With its freedom and flexibility to respond quickly to emerging opportunities and its determination to invest in cutting-edge science, amfAR plays a unique, catalytic role in accelerating the pace of HIV/AIDS research and achieving real breakthroughs. Funded by voluntary contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations, amfAR has invested nearly $290 million in support of its mission since 1985 and funded grants to more than 2,000 research teams worldwide.
In the course of its 23-year history, amfAR has invested nearly $290 million in its programs, spawning numerous significant advances in HIV prevention, treatment and care. These accomplishments have helped extend, improve, and save the lives of countless people around the world living with HIV/AIDS or vulnerable to HIV infection.
Informed by thorough research and analysis, amfAR is a highly respected advocate of rational and compassionate AIDS-related public policy. The Foundation's PUBLIC POLICY program is currently engaged in efforts to secure necessary increases in funding for HIV/AIDS research, including vaccine and microbicide research; implement a comprehensive national prevention strategy, including repeal of the current ban on federal funding for syringe exchange programs; expand access to care and treatment; and protect the civil rights of all people affected by HIV/AIDS.
Through its EDUCATION AND INFORMATION program, amfAR distributes information on important AIDS-related research, treatment, prevention, and policy issues to a range of audiences and generates awareness of the need for better treatment and prevention methods. The Foundation also helps raise standards of HIV/AIDS care by providing medical education to doctors and health-care workers in the United States and abroad.
Please take a few minutes to learn more about amfAR and how you can help eradicate the tragic HIV/AIDS epidemic.
The Elizabeth Taylor HIV/AIDS Foundation
Throughout her performing career, Elizabeth Taylor has devoted time and effort to numerous philanthropic projects. No stranger herself to life's tribulations, Ms. Taylor has been able to bring special compassion to her work on behalf of others. She has brought to bear her considerable fund-raising abilities on behalf of UNICEF, the Variety Children's Hospitals International, and for the construction of hospitals around the world.
With none of these causes, however, has Ms. Taylor's commitment been as fervent as her determination to ending the HIV epidemic. Her legendary work as a spokesperson and fund-raiser int he struggle against AIDS began in 1984 with her involvement with the very first AIDS fund-raiser to benefit the AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA).
Where AmFAR's primary mission is research, ETHAF's is patient care. ETHAF provides funding to AIDS service organizations worldwide that assist those living with HIV and AIDS. Monies also are used to provide prevention education and for research on treatment to assist in finding a possible cure. ETHAF supports existing organizations and entities that have exhibited integrity in managing their operations along with the knowledge and ability to expediently provide services to their patient or achieve other designated goals.Through Ms. Taylor’s efforts and the contributions ETHAF receives, she is able to provide assistance in treating HIV/AIDS patients and in ultimately assisting in finding the cure for the AIDS virus.
Please take a moment and learn how you can help those living with HIV/AIDS.
HOW is not a part of these organizations - they are simply the charities we have chosen to support. We also financially support our own Weapons of Mass Construction - Smiles For Healing Project. Healing Our World Net, Inc. is a non-profit corporation in good standing - Entity ID number: 2009-000575270
What is the HOW Scholarship Program?
Healers of all modalities share one thing in common - a desire to help by being an integral part of making someone else's life better. We realize that education of all types can be cost-prohibitive and that many of us who truly want to center our lives around healing and helping others are stymied due to the high costs of learning.
With that in mind we created the HOW Scholarship Program in cooperation with AlternativeHealingAcademy.com. We offer 2 scholarships per month with courses in the following modalities available:
* Basic Reflexology Practitioner (Learn more)
* Advanced Reflexology Practitioner (Learn more)
* Basic Aromatherapy Practitioner (Learn more)
* Advanced Aromatherapy Practitioner (Learn more)
* Color & Crystal Therapist (Learn more)
* Color/Crystal Reflexology Practitioner (Learn more)
It sounds terrific, now what's the catch?
The 'catch' is actually very simple. In exchange for teaching you a healing modality that you can use with your family, your friends and even as a livelihood, we ask that you commit to one full year as a part of HealingOurWorld.Net. During that year you will be expected to be an active part of this community as a holistic healer via answering questions, being 'on call' for phone consultations, and making regular posts to the site.
Can you break that down for me? I mean, how much time will this require?
Fair questions - it breaks down like this:
- Being an active part of the community - this means checking in at the site several times a week and answering any questions you can, talking with community members, offering tips, ideas and information which will help our site visitors lead healthier and happier lives.
- On Call for phone consulations - approximately once a month you will be asked to take a 48-hour shift where our number will be forwarded to you for answering any calls we may receive. You'll never be asked to do this more than once a month, but of course you can volunteer!
- Making regular posts to the site - this is pretty simple, really. We want you to share yourself with everyone. Your life, your loves, your ideas, you knowledge. We would like to see each scholarship recipient post on the site at least twice every week.
Our Hopes for the HOW Scholarship Program
When we came up with the HOW Scholarship Program our hopes were two-fold. Firstly that we can help provide training to folks who cannot otherwise afford it, thereby improving their lives and, by virtue of their new skills, the lives of many others. Our second hope is pretty simple. We want to grow this site and the HOW project so that our reach continues to extend further out into our world with more people coming here for help and advice and, in turn, more money going to where it can do the most good - to our chosen charity, ChildFund.org (Child Fund International - formerly Christian Children's Fund).
Are You Ready?
Well, are you? Because we're ready to welcome you into the HOW family. If this program is something you think you'd like to pursue, please fill out the form here. Please be sure to fill it out completely and fully - and tell us about yourself - your hopes and dreams, why you want to become a holistic practitioner and how you want to impact the lives of those in your world. We truly look forward to hearing from you and to working with you to heal our world!
Wishing you all of life's blessings and healing,
Dee
A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were very hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose.
I was parked in front of the mall wiping off my car. I had just come from the car wash and was waiting for my wife to get out of work.
A young man was getting ready to graduate college.
I’ve learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone that can be loved. The rest is up to them.
A blind girl hated herself because she was blind. She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her. She told her boyfriend, ‘If only I could only see the world, I will marry you.’
I can’t imagine watching one of my four children dying. Even worse, I can’t imagine watching them suffer before they passed away. I can’t fathom watching one of my sons or daughters lying in a bed…unable to move…spitting up blood and screaming in pain. I don’t think any parent can . 
My name is Jake Hytken, I am 18 years old, and I have a story to tell. I was born with an undiagnosable form of Muscular Dystrophy and the doctors were in the dark about what to expect.
The Smiles for Healing Project is one of Healing Our World Net’s own initiatives with the simple mission of bringing people of all ages, races, creeds and lifestyles a smile to brighten their day, lift their spirits and promote peace, compassion and kindness in our world.
Bob, 74, is an artist retired from ATT. His book, Star Walker, was dedicated to his youngest son Mark who died in 2004 at 36. Mark had battled schitzophrenia since 19. We began Bob’s move to Fairhope, AL Mother’s Day weekend, 2008 then returned to Atlanta where I lived.
Humanity’s Team is collecting 50,000 signatures to persuade the United Nations to declare a Oneness Day, a day set aside and embraced by individuals, communities and nations for humanity to celebrate, discuss and experience our commonality, while still acknowledging and respecting our beautiful cultural diversities…a day to unite in Oneness for the greater good of the Human Family.
Note: Our Weapons of Mass Construction – Smiles For Healing project could really use donations of small items (branded items are perfectly fine!) suitable for giving away. If you’d like a bit of free promotion, or, if you’d just like to help us spread love, kindness and smiles, 
