by admin on February 1, 2010
We often hear that a fundamental human instinct is to gravitate away from pain and towards pleasure. So, why is it that we so often have circumstances in our lives that are painful or problematic? Including some that have been that way forever?
On the Consciousness Playground teleclass I’m leading tomorrow, I’ll burrow underneath your conscious or ‘surface’ experience of a problem to reveal the deeper level of your awareness which actually derives satisfaction from the problematic experience, contrary to every conscious protest you have that this could be true.
You’ll find the part of you that subconsciously find its more pleasurable to be in a problem than not. With that new awareness, you’ll find yourself in a position to choose differently.
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by admin on January 29, 2010
When I started doing healing and energy work, it seemed straightforward – natural even – to find and release the inner patterns that created fear, suffering, and inner conflict in my own life. Maybe I’m glossing over the early days or being terribly immodest, but it has always seemed fairly easy to get to the root of problems in myself in the same way I do on others.
It has always puzzled me, therefore, to encounter gifted healers and teachers who are extraordinarily insightful and powerful when working with others, but have ongoing problems in relationships, are in emotional pain, or have big egos or money challenges themselves.
A few years ago, for example, I had the benefit of eating dinner with a well-known healer capable of effecting powerful instant transformations. Throughout the afternoon, I marvelled as this man worked his way through a packed room of 200 rapt participants, healing problems left and right. With unbelievable speed he quickly identified people’s core issues and energetically dismantled them from the front of the room. I watched open-mouthed as problems seemed to improve or disappear on the spot. It was one of my first up close experiences with someone so quick, in the flow, insightful and gifted.
Imagine my surprise then to find, over dinner, that this healing phenomenon was guarded, cuttingly-sarcastic and downright cruel to those he had brought with him. I couldn’t reconcile how a person could so clearly see and dismantle emotional patterns in others that he seemed to be in the grip of himself.
While I no doubt still have pockets of deep unconsciousness myself, it occurred to me that perhaps part of the answer is that its just not as easy for some healers to see, own or dismantle their own ’stuff’ as my experience would lead me to assume.
If this is the case, I can’t imagine how unsettling that would be. Its something I’m very interested in understanding better. Partly because, (here’s comes my immodesty again), I believe I could help.
So here’s my question. If you are a gifted healer still deeply struggling in some areas of your life, would you be willing to let me know what that’s like for you? How does it feel to release others from suffering while still experiencing it yourself? And do you have any idea of what or who could change all of that for you?
On the Consciousness Playground teleclass I’m leading tomorrow, I’ll burrow underneath your conscious or ‘surface’ experience of a problem to reveal the deeper level of your awareness which actually derives satisfaction from the problematic experience, contrary to every conscious protest you have that this could be true.