Spiritual Bypassing

Spiritual bypassing is the use of spiritual beliefs to avoid dealing with painful feelings, unresolved wounds, and developmental needs.  Spiritual ideals of any tradition, can provide easy justification for people to duck uncomfortable feelings in favor of more seemingly enlightened activity.  When split off from fundamental psychological needs, such actions often do much more harm than good.

Spiritual Bypassing involves unresolved or ignored psychological issues often masked as spirituality, including self-judgment, excessive niceness, and emotional dissociation.  In that perpetual state of avoidance and protection we actually end up creating more masks, layers and barriers that get in the way of massive breakthroughs and true deep growth.

“Spiritual Bypassing: A term first coined by author John Welwood. The spiritual bypass is the tendency to jump to spirit prematurely, usually in an effort to avoid various aspects of earthly reality (practical challenges, unresolved emotions and memories). The bypass has many symptoms- the starry-eyed bliss trip, radical detachment from one’s self-identifications, premature forgiveness, ungrounded behaviors, wish-full thinking etc.” ~Jeff Brown

Tips to Avoid Spiritual Bypassing:

1. Spiritual and Self-Developmental information is abstract. Attending seminars, workshops, reading books, going to yoga and meditation classes, etc. are fantastic tools, however, the most important thing you need to ask yourself is if you are taking action and applying what you are learning from these modalities consistently, by integrating it into your life daily. If it remains abstract and is simply intellectualized it really isn’t going to help you to create long lasting and permanent change.
2. Many people believe that something must be terribly, “wrong,” or dysfunctional in their lives to see a Life Coach, Therapist, Counselor or Healer. This is absolutely FALSE. Everyone has personal, “stuff,” to work through. When you see a professional you move into a vulnerable state of expression and opening; something you cannot always do alone or with friends or family members. These professionals are objective and are invested in only seeing you thrive and grow beyond your limitations and boundaries in a safe setting. They can offer you a different perspective as to what is going on inside of you. They will also hold you accountable to be sure that you are doing the work and making progress in between sessions that create a lasting impact on your life.
3. Express and allow your emotions, wounds, traumas and pain to surface healthily and with love. Let go of the fear, judgment and suppressing of emotions. We often turn to things outside of ourselves to cope with our internal pain and suffering. Examples include addictions to food, drink, drugs, shopping, sex, work, focusing on others and diverting attention away from yourself etc.  Make peace with being uncomfortable. If you are numbing yourself inside out this energy lingers and creates a breeding ground for other issues to arise and manifest. Get down to the root of your problems as they will not go away on their own.

If you can love and accept all emotions, all experiences, all pain and pleasure in your life than you are truly creating a unified experience and being an example of what it really means to embark on a path of self and spiritual development.

References:

• http://www.amazon.ca/Spiritual-Bypassing-Spirituality-Disconnects-Matters/dp/1556439059
• http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/01/22/3-powerful-tips-to-avoid-spiritual-bypassing/

Connect through Space and Time

I am just reading a book called, "Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Lives", by Michael Newton.  I recommend this book especially to those who have lost a loved one.

In the book, there is a story about someone who was recounting a previous death experience through a past life regression.  In this particular case, the person under hypnosis recounts how they used their wedding ring to connect with their surviving loved one to reassure them that they will always be there for them in spirit and to comfort them during their grieving process.

The above story made me realize that not only did I lose a heart crystal in the ocean in the Bahamas to connect better with the Dolphins in 2004 (you can read the story here), but in 2005, I received an object from the ocean.  One night, during another live-aboard trip to swim with wild dolphins, we had conch for dinner (the creatures that live in spiral conch shells) and they saved three of the shells.  They placed them in bleach that night and the next day I cleaned one (a lot of work!) to take home.  I realize now that the shell will also help me connect with the ocean and dolphins.

Anything we have on us for a period of time has an imprint of our energy.  It enables our spirit, and the spirit those who have passed, to connect through time and space with that object, and those whose energy field encompasses the object.

It is not necessary to connect through an object, but it does make it easier when part of your energy exists where (and when) you want to go.

Can anyone do Energy Healing?

Everyone has energy healing abilities, can do Energy Healing, and probably has without even knowing it.  Most people have at least instinctively given someone a hug or put their hand on someone’s shoulder to comfort them.  The problem is that you can easily give away your own energy, or take on other people’s "stuff" if you are not careful.

We have an energy duplicate of our body, energy centers called chakras, and an energy field.  If you are not familiar with the chakras or the energy body, and would like to know more, I recommend reading a book or search on-line – I have some information on my blog as well: http://sunyata-eternallight.blogspot.ca/2011/12/chakras.html

There are seven main points to be mindful of during Energy Healing:

1. The first is to ask - Ask permission of the person you will be working on.  If you cannot communicate with them directly, ask their higher self.

2. The second is protection - Before you do anything energetically, it is important to call in your spirit guides (whatever they are – they could be Angels, or spirit animals etc) for protection and to help you.  Once you reach a certain vibrational frequency, you may no longer need them for protection, but you can call them for their help.

3. Third, cleansing - You need to cleanse your energy so you don’t pass your stuff to the other person. Examples:
http://sunyata-eternallight.blogspot.ca/2012/09/healing-breathing-exercise.html
http://sunyata-eternallight.blogspot.ca/2013/01/fire-cleansing-visualization-exercise.html

4. Next, grounding - You need to ground yourself to ensure that you transmute other people’s negativity into the Earth so you don’t take on their stuff.  Grounding also keeps you balanced.  More information: http://sunyata-eternallight.blogspot.ca/2013/04/spiritual-grounding.html

5. The fifth is to remember that you are only a facilitator or a channel of energy – do not give your own energy away.

6. You need to heal from your heart.  When humans think from their heads, anything they manifest or create is created in duality because it is off balance in our energy field.  Meaning, every time someone does something positive, something equally negative also happens.  Similarly, if someone creates something negative, something positive is also created.  To get away from this duality, we need to manifest, create and heal from the heart – which can only be based on peace and love.

First heal your heart:
http://sunyata-eternallight.blogspot.ca/2012/06/our-light-comes-from-heart.html
Then be in your heart:
http://sunyata-eternallight.blogspot.ca/2013/03/manifest-your-hearts-desire-heal-earth.html

7. Finally, an important part of a treatment is the intent – that it be for the person’s highest and best.  The technique (e.g., hand placement) used is less important than the intent behind what you are doing - then follow your intuition!

In the end, I find it is more beneficial to help guide a person on their healing journey with psychic healing messages then to simply heal them physically.  Otherwise, it is like you are treating the symptoms without understanding the cause (which means the symptoms can reoccur).  I choose to combine healing messages and energy healing so people at least have a better understanding of why they are facing the challenges they have.  It can also serve as a warning of energetic issues which can manifest in time if not addressed.

As a final note, I like to compare Energy Healing to the medical profession in that anyone can perform first aid after reading a book, but it is better to take a First Aid Course over a weekend - a Reiki course being an analogy.  However, what you learn in a weekend really cannot compare to the skills of someone who has been training and practicing for years in the medical field - so be wary of people who only have Reiki certificates without years of experience at the very least.

Spiritual Grounding

When working with energy, it is important to ground yourself so you don’t take on the "stuff" of other people; to ensure that you transmute other people’s negativity into the Earth.  Grounding also keeps you balanced (spiritually/physically).

If you are not grounded, you can be forgetful, feel "spaced out", be clumsy, and possibly feel dizzy as examples.  At the same time, please do not assume that if you have these symptoms that there is no other possible cause.  Please talk to your Doctor if you are concerned about your health.

One way to ground during meditation is to visualize roots growing from your feet into the Earth and around a crystal.  Take some time to really see your crystal and your roots surrounding it.  Over time, as it seems appropriate for you, you may see your roots grow to surrounding crystals.  For me, I see my roots connect to crystals around the Earth.

Your roots can also come from your spine or legs.  I usually have roots from my feet to ground myself to the Earth and have roots from my legs into the Earth with the soul purpose of draining negativity into the ground.

Other ways to ground include eating (healthy food), drinking water, walking/being outside, and exercising.  A good practice is to have a glass of water after meditating, giving a psychic reading, or energy healing.

International Space University

I was very fortunate to have had the opportunity to attend the 2006 Space Studies Program (SSP) at the International Space University (ISU) in Strasbourg, France.   It was a nine week program and there were 104 participants representing 27 different countries.

I attended a total of 60 lectures on various topics including: Life Sciences, Policy & Law, Business and Management; Physical Sciences, Satellite Applications; Space & Society, Space Mission Analysis & Design and System Engineering.  In addition to the lectures, there were workshops, panels, theme days, department projects and team projects.

I was part of the Business and Management Department.  Our department assignment was to respond to a request for proposal for a meteorological microsatellite.  Our department trip was to EADS Astrium in Fridrichstafen, Germany.

I attended workshops on Microsatellites, Orbital Mechanics, and International Diplomatic Negotiations to name a few.  One of the workshops was with the head of the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts which was very interesting.

There were weekly panels including panels on the satellite industry, living in space, going to Mars, space tourism and there was an astronaut panel with six astronauts from different countries including the first Chinese Taikonaut.

In the second half of the summer, after the exam, we focused on our team projects.  There were three team projects to choose from.  There was one on micro/nanotechnology, one on artificial environments and I chose the Earth observation team project.  The Earth Observation (EO) team project focused on EO system solutions for small countries and regions.  For each team project, we were required to complete a letter of intent, a draft report, three presentations, a final report and an executive summary.

Attending ISU SSP06 was an unforgettable experience.  I learned about the latest space technologies and applications and I was very impressed by the caliber of people I met from around the world.

http://www.isunet.edu/

Manifest your Hearts Desire, Heal the Earth, and Evolve to your Potential!

In order to manifest your heart's desire, heal the earth, and evolve to your potential, it is important to move your consciousness from your brain to your heart.  To accomplish this, you simply need to think, act, and speak from your heart.  This helps you to connect with the Source Field (universal oneness) and move away from duality.

Drunvalo Melchizedek explains below how heart consciousness (connecting with Source) will move us away from the duality of good and evil:

The same world can be viewed and seen and sensed by going within your heart as it can by going within your mind.

I’ve talked to Gregg Braden and a lot of other people who are involved in manifestation and prayer, about the techniques of prayer, like what Gregg Braden wrote about in The Isaiah Effectabout focusing your attention and your intention and then having to feel it in your mind and your heart, emotionally, and in your body, in order to create a miracle. But, there’s a problem with that. The creating instrument is the mind, which is polarized. What we’re describing, and Gregg is also coming up to the same conclusions with me, that whenever you pray, such as if you pray for world peace along with billions of other people, the problem is that no matter how pure your intention is, you will always create the polarity. So you will create a world that is partly is war and partly in peace. You’ll get both sides the dark and the light. This even works even if you’re a black magician and you’re trying to do something negative. You’re going to get the equal positive side. You always will create it because the instrument itself is polarized.

But, you can go into your heart and create form within the tiny space within your heart and, though the creation process is entirely different, it’s not based on thoughts and logic, but based on dreaming and emotions. This will create what the intention is, but without the dark side.

Light in the heart has an interesting phenomenon. When you look at this world from here, now, light has shadows because light comes from a source. But, the same light inside the heart, which I’ve spent so much time looking at and so have other people, has no shadow because the light appears to come from everywhere. And it does the same thing when you create form there. There’s no polarity so it doesn’t create the opposite of what you’re trying to create.

My teachers are saying that this is one of our greatest lessons that we have to remember if we’re ever going to get out of this problem that we’re in, not only with war, but socially and environmentally and everything that is being destroyed. We need to begin to live and create within our hearts rather than live and create from our minds.

From:
http://www.edgemagazine.net/2003/05/drunvalo/ 

More Information:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ix149wD_IU&feature=youtu.be
http://www.drunvalo.net/upcoming1.php

HEALING - John of God Documentary on Oprah HD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4JDIrSz3SUY#!

http://www.healing-themovie.com
http://www.facebook.com/Healing.themovie

A visualization to help you make decisions

When I need to reassess my situation or make a decision, I find it helpful to visualize my current path and then any other possible path.  Keep an eye out for unexpected paths which may lead to a better place.  You may see one path as a calm, stone pathway along a beach and then another one on a slippery hill that ends in a cliff.  Pay attention to the symbolism around you and it will help you to evaluate your options.

As an example, in a meditation, I tried to visualize my path to help me to decide what direction to take:

My current path was a muddy, swamp land with a lot of roots and obstacles leading up to a dark forest.  However, on my immediate right was a river with a canoe at the shore.  The river lead to a beautiful grass meadow.  On the canoe, I noticed the picture of a tower - like a chess piece.  Only recently did I connect the tower with the Tarot deck, "The Tower" which described my situation exactly.  The main message for me was that there are a lot of changes happening right now and that I need to go with the flow and not resist the changes; that the status quo (my current path) was not good for me.

If you are interested, I have included the link to more information on the Tower card below:
http://www.psychic-revelation.com/reference/q_t/tarot/tarot_cards/tower.html

"Impossible is Nothing"

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing." -- Muhammad Ali

Energy Healing Removes Cancer in 3 Minutes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4uyqaqojU4c#!

Fire Cleansing Visualization Exercise

To clear your energy and release anything that no longer serves you, imagine a swirling vortex of fire (I see it going counter-clockwise looking down) starting at your feet and swirling up through your energy field.

As the fire swirls and rises, hold the intent that it is cleansing your energy and releasing psychic debris, entities, energetic cords, negative beliefs, and even past life karma that no longer serves you.  The fire may change colour or intensity during this process.

Take your time and repeat it if you feel it is necessary.  Note any changes in how you feel.

You can do this every night for yourself before you go to sleep, when you meditate, or when you feel you need assistance clearing yourself emotionally, spiritually (i.e., energy blocks), mentally, or physically.

You can also use this exercise to clear your home, your car, your pets, family, your work space, and the Earth!

All women need to read the following books!

Help save yourself and your loved ones from numerous, horrible symptoms, preterm births, miscarriages, drugs that make you worse, unneeded surgeries, osteoporosis and even cancer!

"What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About: Premenopause: 

Balance Your Hormones and Your Life from Thirty to Fifty"

"What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause: 

The Breakthrough Book on Natural Progesterone"

The books explain how most women in the industrialized world today are estrogen dominant, why (including stress and synthetic estrogen's in our food and environment), the effects, and what to do about it.

What upsets me the most are the drug companies who created synthetic estrogen and progesterone (so they can patent it), for birth control pills and hormone replacement therapy, when there are natural options (bio-identical progesterone) which do not have toxic side effects.