INNER WORK: being all that you are
and becoming all that you can be.....
Becoming whole is a process - a process of letting go of what messes you up inside and of opening to and accepting what nourishes your soul. Gradually, you become more and more who you really are and always were.
I don't consider myself a shaman, but I find that the shamanic view of the world comes closest to the experience of subtle reality that I have found in my years as a healer, and so the way that I approach inner work has a lot in common with the shamanic view. I don’t use drums or do trancework, but I do work with the spiritual reality in which we all exist.
Once we get through the intellectual complexities, the actual process of healing and becoming whole is surprisingly simple: the complexity lies in the complexity of the mind - in thoughts and ideas and perceptions that are not based in experience.
Don’t let this put you off: all that is really required is a strong committment to personal honesty and a powerful desire to know what is true. To be prepared to experience what is real without letting your mind get in the way.
I act as a facilitator, playing my part in a process in which you are the leading character.
Healing and transformation are entirely possible.
Healing -
Healing is one of the primary forms of energy in the Universe. It transforms disharmony into wholeness, imbalance into equilibrium, pain into peace. It is a quality we may access but not control, invite but not direct. It compassionately gives us all that we truly need, working on inner levels we may not know exist, in ways beyond our comprehension. It is one of the great gifts, as well as one of the great mysteries...
Soul is who we are underneath all the distractions - it's what really matters. It is the soul that gets damaged when things go bad - especially when we're young and still incarnating. It's where we need to work in order to heal the hurt, repair the damage and reclaim our Selves. Working on other levels may help, but won't touch the heart of the situation. Although often buried, this is familiar territory because we're being our own authentic self and working with what is real and experiential. This is why real change can occur through a process that we can call alchemy.
Past lives -
It's remarkable how much our responses to experiences in previous lives carries through into this one. Attitudes and sensitivities, even vulnerabilities, which may have been with us throughout this life, may not have been created during this lifetime. Situations that make us squirm for no apparent reason, subtle flashes of events that we've never knowingly encountered, even repetitive life patterns or physical symptoms with which we were born may be related to past life experiences.
This approach is unique in the integrity that is brought to each session. As much time is given to healing and clearing the effects of your past life experiences as is given to the experiencing of them. We then spend time in the Higher Worlds with your spirit guide, looking at and understanding from a higher perspective the consequences of that life and the consequences that you brought to this one. The results in your present life can be surprising and far-reaching.
Healing trauma -
Trauma is the most avoided, ignored, denied, misunderstood and untreated cause of human suffering. We're talking here about the often debilitating symptoms that many people suffer in the aftermath of perceived life-threatening or overwhelming physical or emotional experiences.
No two people are exactly alike - What proves harmful over the long term to one person may be exhilarating to another. There are many factors involved in the wide response to threat. These responses depend upon one's genetic make-up, an individual's history of trauma, even his or her family dynamics. Perhaps the most important thing is that people, especially children, can be overwhelmed by what we usually think of as common everyday events. Trauma does not have to stem from a major catastrophe. Almost all of us have experienced some form of trauma, either directly or indirectly, in our lives.
Cellular healing -
Unless healed and released, the energies of emotionally powerful events continue to be held within the cells of the body, where they continue to play a part in how we experience ourselves and our lives.
We can become aware of the experience, knowledge and wisdom contained within the consciousness of our bodies by using the Feeling Sense to observe what is brought to the surface of awareness from the deeper parts of our being when we ask in the appropriate way.
As recognitions appear, we naturally experience inner shifts of energy and perspective. Gradually, effortless transformation begins to take place.
Soul retrieval -
When we have a vague sense that part of ourselves is missing, that we are not as complete as we should be, we may have split off or separated part of our consciousness as a way of protecting ourselves during a traumatic experience. Or we may even have given part of ourselves away to, for example, a departing beloved or a place we had to leave against our will.
Following the form of the shamanic tradition, but in a completely modern way, I will take you on a journey into your own inner worlds where that part of you that has been lost will be found and restored to its rightful place. You become whole again and the original situation resolved and healed.
Be all you can be -
Of course, while we are giving our attention to healing and releasing the effects of the past, we also need to focus on the other side of the process, which is about the complementary process of opening into the new... into the fresh possibilities that become available as we release the restrictions of history. Even more than that - we begin to open to the expression of our own spirit.
Bad experiences result in contraction, hardening and limitation - it's natural and inevitable. As healing takes place, there is a softening and an opening. It's not simply that new possibilities unfold, which they do, but You - the Essence, the Being, the Spirit that you are, awakens and expands and has an increasing desire to express itself in it's own individual way - to experience itself through new experience. The deeper you has a desire to know itself - to engage with its environment and to fulfil its potential.
