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Authors Bio: Eve Wilson is an Ordained Spiritualist
Minister and Certified Healer Practitioner. Director of the internationally
accredited Healer Development Program, Eve has been training Healer
Practitioners as well as maintaining a thriving healing practice
for over fifteen years. She specializes in empowering clients to
experience deep transformational healing and to become the re-creators
of their experience.
Many years ago, my co-author Dr. L, came to me for
healing. She was just beginning her career at that time as a counselor
and had been referred to me for healing of a life-threatening illness.
Thus began an adventure which led both to her healing and her deep
commitment to a holistic approach to counseling and personal wellness.
When we were asked to write an article comparing spiritual healing
and psychotherapy, we were both pleased to have a chance to share
with you what we see as the perfect marriage of these two modalities.
Psychotherapy offers people the benefit of a relationship with a
trusted counselor who provides them with an ongoing relationship
during their personal change or healing process; someone they can
call on if they need to and who can see them as frequently as necessary
to offer emotional and mental support. Sharing feelings through
talking with a counselor is a very healing experience which ideally
leaves the client feeling understood and supported with their challenges.
As a client talks about their problems, they begin to get a perspective
on them and may begin to make constructive changes in their lives.
You might say that traditional counseling teaches a person to articulate
and to mentally comprehend their feelings and so begin to take personal
responsibility for them.
The limiting factor of traditional therapy, however, is that disease
does not take place primarily in the mind and therefore requires
a deeper level of healing than just mental understanding.
In our culture we are trained to believe that we create our experience
primarily by thinking about something and then deciding to do something
about it. We seem to regard our emotions as something that we have
to cope with, but would rather not have most of the time. We are
frequently taught not to trust our own feelings and inclinations
but to do what our authority figures tell us. We are encouraged
to always feel "fine". Strong emotions are considered
appropriate only for escapism entertainment purposes such as sports,
movies, partying, sex etc. I might go so far to say that our society
is a little bit "emotion-phobic"! Very few people have
good tools for using their emotional power in healthy ways.
I read the aura and train others to perceive this energy field which
extends around the human body as far as a person's outstretched
arms can reach. I find it significant that the amount of a person's
energy which makes up what we think of as "mental" is
only about 1/2 inch wide in the aura compared to that aspect which
relates to feeling and the unconscious that composes maybe 2/3 of
the entire energy field. The feeling energies in the aura can, at
times expand far beyond the normal width of the entire aura.
The emotions and the unconscious drives are the power behind your
actions. Most of you will recognize that while you may frequently
intend to make a change in your life or in the way you relate with
others, somehow it is very hard to do. The mental intention is not
enough, you must have the will power to make it happen. However,
the will power exists in the part of you which we would term "
the unconscious" or below the conscious level. Without the
power of the unconscious will, nothing can change. Even the realization
that "I have an emotion which governs a behavior that I want
to change" is usually not enough.
In order for a person to heal completely, the underlying assumptions
about life which are created from early life experiences, heredity,
social programming and past life memories need to be recognized
and the powerful emotions associated with these beliefs and memories
need to be transformed. This transformation occurs through the power
of unconditional love which exists within a person's heart chakra
and which transforms all energy into love. When the heart chakra
is opened in relationship to a life issue, the separation between
our spirit self and the world we live in is bridged and healing
can alchemically take place; the transmutation of disease into unconditional
love occurs.
Most disease begins at the level of feeling, emotion, and power
or will. Where these powerful forces are repressed, ignored or damaged,
the spirit of a person is not able to express through their body
and mind; and it is as though the person dies a little bit, the
desire to live is inhibited and to some extent the spirit is excluded
from the body. To the degree that your spirit is not free within
your body, you will tend toward disease of the body or mind. When
the spirit leaves a body entirely, the body soon dies. My work as
a healer is to help the body, emotions and mind to be a vehicle
which freely expresses the spirit of the person. When this happens
life is a pleasure and health follows easily.
When we combine counseling with spiritual healing, we have an optimal
circumstance for an individual to heal. First of all, the empathy
provided by therapeutic relationship helps a person to get in touch
with their feelings. They may begin to pay attention to how they
feel and learn to honor the wisdom in their feelings.
Feelings are made up of two aspects: emotion, which is a deep, powerful
response to life and life's circumstances; and intuition, which
is the wisdom of the unconscious and the spiritual self expressing
together through an inner knowing and sometimes a body sensation.
As a person pays attention to their intuitive and feeling aspects
they can learn to be true to their own self. This awareness sets
the stage for the transformational healing that may be done with
an intuitive healer, it allows the client and healer to access the
wounded places so they can bring about deep and lasting change on
every level.
Also, as the person goes deeper into their feelings through the
healing it is helpful to have on-going therapy with a counselor
with whom to process their deeper self-awareness, to talk about
their experience and receive help integrating positive changes into
their life.
A person can begin to recognize their true inner desires and passion
for living as the blocks to personal freedom are cleared through
transformational healing. Then that person is finally able to act
on their vision and to begin to re-create their experience of life.
When a person is in their power and living a fulfilling life their
spirit is increasingly able to come fully into their body and the
union of body and spirit creates optimal health.
Our vision, Dr. L and I, is to see healers and therapists of all
kinds working together and sharing their skills on behalf of their
clients. We are developing a training program to teach healing skills
to therapists for use in their own practice. Until then, please
consider that in your own healing, you may be well served to find
a therapist who will work with your healer to optimize your healing
potential and make your journey as easy and complete as it can be. |
