Wednesday, August 16, 2006

SKYWALKING from Polarity to Peace

NELSON MANDELA, Nobel Peace prize winner and world symbol of hope and forgiveness in the face of crushing odds, turned 88 years old, July 18, 2006.

Willing to fight, and if necessary die, for democratic freedom for black and white people alike, Mandela later wrote after his release from 27 years of imprisonment: "It was during those long and lonely years that I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed...for both alike are robbed of their humanity."

Nelson Mandela may have been confined by his captors to a tiny cell on Robben Island, off Capetown. But in his mind and heart he was free. And lived to claim his freedom. He became the first President of a free, non-racial South Africa, 1994-8.

ARE YOU TRULY FREE?

Or do you live in the self-imposed prison of your mind and heart? This Blog is offering you some of the most powerful and effective tools I know to help you break free from destructive thoughts, feelings and beliefs.

Negativity tends to create a downward spiral..."the worse you get, the worse life gets."

Positivity magnetises more of itself in a magical way.

But many masters talk about finding the "middle way" often described as unity consciousness, Nivarna, or "enlightenment."

POLARITY TOOL
Leslie Temple-Thurston is a South African-born teacher-healer-author who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Growing up in South Africa during the oppressive days of Apartheid motivated her spiritual quest to heal the extreme polarizations in human consciousness that divide people and drive them to the most inhumane policies and conduct.

Her work releases us from our small Ego to access the LUMINOUS CORE or DIVINE SELF within.
# Step 1. Pick a "bad" or troubling experience. Either recent or way back from childhood.

# Step 2. Write it out - feelings, thoughts, state of mind, like a child spilling out the story to a friend or parent.
Be descriptive and include all you felt about the person/people involved.

# Step 3. Pick out the most charged THEME words and phrases with a coloured marker
or highlighter. For example, words like ANGER, SHOCK, GUILT, HELPLESS,CONFUSED, PAIN, INSENSITIVE JERK

# Step 4. Make a list of THEME WORDS & PHRASES.

# STEP 5. Find the OPPOSITES.

So having listed the Theme words on the left hand side of a page - draw a line.Then list the OPPOSITE of each word on the right hand side of the page.

You are delving into your unconscious and will often get an AHA as the hidden side of the dark/light; good/bad polarity awakens within you.

# STEP 6. GIVE IT UP TO SPIRIT WITH A PRAYER
Ask higher consciousness to take these polarized states of mind, and bring them into balance... so that clarity and a new level of seeing come to you.

NB offer up both Positive and Negative sides of the Polarity.Then GIVE THANKS, knowing all will be well.

# Step 7. WAIT FOR GRACE.
Wait a few minutes. Wash dishes or make a cup of tea. You may feel an inner shift or later have vivid dreams. Next day you may even experience a meaningful insight.

Leslie Temple-Thurston offers other polarity-balancing exercises called TRIANGLES and SQUARES in her book THE MARRIAGE OF SPIRIT .

Collapsing the story the Ego seeks to polarize you with, helps you to detach from extreme points of view. Notice the shifts that occur in your life as a result of the Polarity Work.

Expect to become centred, balanced, relaxed and joyful. Leslie calls it SKYWALKING...
Vist Leslie's site at http://www.corelight.org

BE BRAVE
"There is an old saying that the brave die once,but the coward dies a thousand times."

Friday, August 04, 2006

Freedom Is...Brandon Bays

Ten out of Ten AND HALLELULIA! I want to sing the praises for mind-body self-help author Brandon Bays and her new book Freedom Is... which I have been soaking up today.
In my previous post I went into detail about how the Journey can save/change your life at cellular level. Also on my website www.healingfeelingsinminutes.com you will see a special page with pics of me and Brandon under the section entitled The Journey.

I recently was called on to give a talk on The Journey and we gave away a free copy of Brandon's book at the talk. I had not bought it yet - but Grace guided me to revisit my journey over the past 6 years since I first picked up that blue and gold book called The Journey and read about her incredible story of tapping into FORGIVENESS and a step-by-step process to heal the football size tumour that had grown in her uterus while she was living an exemplary life working for Anthony Robbins.

In praying for guidance as to the emotional-memory associated with the tumour, Brandon accessed a self-help tool that has since changed the lives of thousands world-wide, resulting in "miraculous" healings both physical and mental and emotional... depression, anger, powerlessness... pain, cancer, eczma, all kinds of dis-ease - the Journey truly changes lives at soul or cellular level.

After ten years of travelling, teaching and catapulting the Journey work to thousands worldwide, Brandon describes in Freedom Is... many of the truths I learned from her first-hand as her publicist and business partner launching The Journey and workshops in South Africa. I worked and travelled with her... even lived for six months in her personal meditation room in the UK at her invitation to continue as her PR in London...the work I began for her in SA.

The intent was to accompany her to the USA - but 9-11 changed all that and so all I can say now, looking back is THANK YOU Brandon and her husband and business partner, KEVIN. For your belief in me... for the generosity that outshone anything I had ever known in my life.
For the blessing of grace you transmitted to me during my time with you and The Journey.

I am gob-smacked to realise so much of the teaching is alive and part of how I get to be in such joy in my own life and yes, mostly, I say with all humility, I live the truths she taught me by example... almost every day of my life.

She truly is a great example of someone living in the light of love and grace and I am so grateful for her high standards and uncompromising stance on how things had to be done in the light of NOW and TRUTH.

Above all, I want to say to all of you reading this... always take that first step
a) to pray for guidance no matter how bleak your life looks.
b) to just follow the tiniest steps you are shown even if you feel you are almost going ahead blindly.

Sometimes it is in the darkest moment that you GIVE UP the thoughts and beliefs that are the mainstay of your life - ha ha actually what is keeping you stuck - and in that free falling into even greater darkness the arms of Grace reach out and embrace you... That happened to me. I actually got down on my hands and knees in a chapel and told God to "take me home... to allow me to die - or find something worthwhile to do to make a difference in the world... and save my own life and reason for being on the earth."

You see at the time in October 1999, after a fire had flattened most of my home and taken our beloved border collie Sparky, my heart cracked in two. I was fat, flat broke and finished. My 25-year marriage which had always been a co-dependent struggle of oil-and-water personalities, began to crumble irrevocably and my then-husband and I separated with more relief than angst. But because we parted emotionally and financially bankrupt... I had no choice but to face a bleak future almost 50 and FINISHED.

And then along came Brandon Bays as I picked up her book The Journey in a bookshop...my guiding angels whispered for me to invite her to SA and offer to organise her publicity... and as I took the steps, one at a time, enough light was put ahead of me in the headlights of my inspiration to get it done - only the wings of Grace could have made possible what today is one of the biggest success stories in the mind-body-healing field in my country... and perhaps, in some real way, the growth of healing worldwide. Visit the Journey website at www.thejourney.com

Thursday, August 03, 2006

THE JOURNEY OF HEALING

HEAL YOUR FEELINGS

If you've ever been bullied, mugged, hijacked or experienced even the threat of

violence,then you know the meaning of being "scared stiff."

In my own experience, even being witness to others around you being violated by

harsh treatment - say your siblings or fellow pupils at school - can have a devasting

affect on the nervous system.

TRAUMA OF 9/11

Take the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers, September 11. All of us,around the

world, remember the shock and inner turmoil we felt witnessing on television and

in the media the devastation of the Twin Tower attack.


At the time I was in the UK, working for mind-body-spirit healer Brandon Bays,

pioneer of The Journey healing technique which I apply in my healing practice.


A New Yorker by birth, Brandon was poised to launch her book The Journey, already

a best-seller in the UK, South Africa and Australia...into the USA.... that very

month.

Instead,all publicity plans cancelled, she organised to run a free-of-charge Healing

Day for the people of New York - which we held at the Lighthouse in central NY in

October, a month after the disaster.

I flew from the UK to be with Brandon and her team to assist at that event.

The acrid smell of the disaster, still rife in the area; the heart-wrenching

Wall of Remembrance set up near where the clean-up crews were still working

was something I will remember for the rest of my life.

SEXUAL ABUSE

During the Healing Day Workshop we applied the unique inner-directed process

called The Journey to access and release past trauma, buried in the body's cellular

memory.The painful theme which had been unearthed by the terrorist attack was...

sexual abuse.

For many people there, the shock of 911 had activated long-buried, never spoken about,

violence against their persons during childhood.

When you are in danger the "fight-flight" response takes over in the body to

help you survive. Breathing, alertness,blood pressure, heart rate, go up.

Digestive, productive and immune systems decrease in activity.

BRANDON BAYS

Brandon Bays herself came from a childhood of violence - physical, emotional

and sexual.

In her book THE JOURNEY : A Road Map To The Soul, Brandon describes

how in 1992 she was diagnosed with a football-size uterine tumor, despite leading an

exemplary healthy lifestyle. She was devastated and prayed to be shown a way to

heal it without resorting to drugs or surgery. She believes The Journey came from

that prayer, showing her a way to release the triggering traumas of old emotional

pain from the body cells.She called this unique inner-directed process

THE JOURNEY.

It helps people to experience profound emotional and physical healing at the deepest

level. The soul already knows what needs to be "dealt with, forgiven and let go."

The Journey facilitates a safe place to access and release the Younger You with

buried feelings during a "flight-flight" intense or traumatic time in the past.

Using this same method, thousands of people all over the world have healed many

physical and emotional problems - including anger, grief, depression, chronic illness,

tumours, arthritis, addictions and low self-esteem.

THE BOOK

You might want to read the book yourself - but in the meanwhile, I will

sum up the principles - which I myself have used to completely transform my own

health and wellbeing. Not to mention the lives and happiness of hundreds of others

in workshops and one-to-one sessions.

APPLY THE JOURNEY PRINCIPLES TO HEAL YOUR FEELINGS

The 6 main steps that I take a client through to "clear out" and heal feelings

are as follows, making sure you have a safe, quiet place to process. All feelings

are welcome...sad, mad, glad - and tears signify great releasing!

#1 Choose a Present Day Issue which hooks or upsets you and Pray or Intend

that you are going within on a Journey into your deepest self to access the

root cause - what set you up in your earlier experiences to be running this

present-day disempowering programme?

Think of it as a computer virus that you want to find and delete from your

thinking-feeling programming!

#2 Call in a Mentor or Guide to be at your side throughout the experience.

Close your eyes and feel your feelings - where in the body is each feeling stored?

*Feel each feeling fully - then drop through it to another level beneath or at

the core of it.

*Note where you get the strongest feeling. What painful memory or person is

linked to the feeling?

#3 THE CAMPFIRE. The Mentor sets up a campfire with the Present Day You and the Younger You who was hurting. The scene of the memory or person (above) is played

out on a video screen and then the Other Person/People involved are

invited down to join the group at the Campfire.

#4 DIALOGUE

*Encourage a dialogue between the Younger You and the Hurtful Other in which You

as the Child "empty out" and get to say all the things and express the feelings

which went unsaid at the time.

*The Hurtful Other gets to respond in a back-and-forth dialogue, helping the Child

understand their behaviour was borne of their own pain and THE CHILD IS NOT TO BLAME.

#5 NEW RESOURCES/SCRIPT/MEMORY

The Mentor then gives the Child Inner Resources (in balloon form)

that he/she didn't have at the time. Courage, Wisdom, Strength, Self-Worth,

Self-Protection, the Ability to Speak up and Seek Help; Joy and Play etc.And putting

the old scene up on a video screen,encourages the Child to REPLAY THE SCENE as it might have happened with these empowering resources.

This re-scripting is known in NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) as a "memory-change" and ultimately frees the Child Within to collapse the negative charge or intensity

of the past giving YOU CHOICE in YOUR responses in the present.

#6 FORGIVENESS/LETTING GO

As Scott Peck has said, beware of "cheap forgiveness" - it is only after all of the

above, plus some thorough extra techniques that I use (cutting the ties that bind etc) that both Your Child and Present Day self can review the pain of the past and "forgive" and let go.

Brandon Bays says herself that FORGIVENESS was the key that unlocked the final

healing of her football-size tumour, allowing her body to heal it six-and-a-half weeks. That was 10 years ago!

Read about Brandon Bays and her remarkable story in The Journey and The Journey for Kids or visit her website at www.thejourney.com and consider how inspired YOU COULD BE if you released an old wound or programme from YOUR past which is causing you physical or emotional pain or shut-down.

Until then - remember... your feelings are the GATEWAY TO YOUR SOUL!