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The purpose of life is to dissolve the many obstructions which keep us from experiencing the present moment so that we can live from a heartfelt space of love.
To live the freedom that we are and be able to perceive one’s unique inner imperative, it is essential to dissolve two key impediments: the need for approval and the need for security. All emotional issues revolve around these two main themes and keep us trapped in the illusion that we are separate. They are the cause of the constant circling of the mind between desire and resistance. The good news is, it is not impossible to dislodge them.
What keeps these feelings of neediness in place, are the onion skin like layers of emotionally charged memories, which build up layer upon layer in the energy body. They cause us to unconsciously attract more of the same experiences we have resisted, which in turn, prove our illusory beliefs true and reinforce further resistance. Fortunately there are powerful antidotes today which can help us remove the charge of these energy blocks and come home to the present moment.
On this page, simple tools are explored which can help you live your manifest destiny; to help you develop radical acceptance of what is and to discover your own source of wisdom and the skilful means to fly free. See below for information on Reiki, a way to quiet the mind and raise life force energy, Non – dual Awareness a form of presence free of suffering, and both Emotional Freedom Techniques and Ho’oponopono
The Good News
There is now a simple tool which codifies a lot of the energy clearing work, which helps us become more present. In addition to Reiki, the field of energy psychology has been fine tuned in the last fifteen years by the discoveries of Roger Callahan (Thought Field Therapy or TFT) and some of his students.
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Emotional Freedom Techniques
Gary Craig is probably the best known of Callahan’s student’s, for his simplification of TFT, in what is now called Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), a light tapping method used on key acupressure points which only take minutes for real results. It also doesn’t require the long drawn out use of muscle testing (kinesiology) to find the recalcitrant blocks.
The results are simply astounding in EFT’s ability to quickly relieve both intense physical and emotional pain in minutes. The mind blowing revelation to someone like me who has done similar work but with the mind set: no pain, no gain, is that the results of this painless treatment are permanent. Long lasting traumas such as P.T.S.D (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) sometimes can be dealt with in a matter of a few hours, and simpler disturbances in minutes.
Because most methods which use acupressure points to help integrate old energy blocks with lasting results often required pressing points to the point of pain, it is nothing short of miraculous that today we have the capability to help people release both physical and emotional pain almost instantly.
Because many other sites address the different ways you can use EFT for a variety of different purposes such as dealing with stress, fatigue, anxiety, trauma, fear, grief ,anger and even physical aches and pains. I have included the links of what I consider to be some of the more mature practitioners at the bottom of this page.
The purpose of this page however is to explore the way EFT can be used for further spiritual growth or awareness. By clicking at the top, you can access the latest theme and run down using EFT to help you clear what are often key ways that we identify with the root cause of all of our suffering – the ego. My intention is to offer different tapping recipes which support greater awareness.
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Energy Psychology
While working on my Ph.D in Psychology back in the eighties, as a part of my training, I did an apprenticeship in what would now be called Energy Psychology. One of my professors, Dr. Ed Maupin, who had studied personally with Ida Rolf and with several other teachers of the new forms of “psychological” bodywork then being offered at Esalen and who in turn set up his own Institute For Psycho – Structural Balancing back in the eighties.
This is where I studied several forms of deep tissue bodywork including the Gates Method which uses special acupressure points for emotional clearing, Chua Ka another form of deep massage to the bone which the Mongolian warriors used to remove fear from their bodies after battle, as well as Willhelm Reich’s work and some of the offshoots created by his students. I also studied Body Electronics, another form of point holding.
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Energy Work: Reiki
During this time I also encountered Reiki, the simple hands on method for calming the mind and conveying universal life force energy which can be learned in a couple days. The results from this effortless method are simply astounding on both a psychological and physical level . As a result, at one point for seven years, I dedicated my life to travelling and teaching Reiki around the world.
To me, I can say with real conviction twenty five years later, that Reiki is still one of the easiest and quickest methods for raising the life force energy and quieting the mind, which is absolutely necessary in our day and age of never ending cacophony…most of it coming from the frequencies we cannot even hear, through our cell phones, computers and microwave ovens.
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Non – Dual Awareness
The quiet calm Reiki produces, helped me recognize in 1992, the radiating silence of the sublime Sat Guru, Sri H.W.L Poonjaji, after coming in contact with him on my travels in India. Because of him, and of his legacy from his own guru Sri Ramana Maharshi, I gained a greater awareness of the vasanas and samskaras (Sanskrit) , the conditioned patterns buried in the subconscious mind, which keep us in a robotic, ego-automatic state, and alienate us from a state of non – dual awareness, in tune with all that is.
Non-dual Awareness is what we experience when we no longer perceive from a subject – object perspective. We begin to feel that we are not inside a body, our body is inside of us, as are all of the things we seem to experience on “the outside”. As we drop our identification with the ego, the main subject, we cease to objectify everything and we begin to perceive what many scriptures in different traditions call “oneness”. More precise is the term “non-duality”, because it explicitly leaves out the possibility of “twoness”.
Through the practice of Vichar, a form of direct self – inquiry that is a part of Jnana Yoga (the Yoga Of Knowledge), one can discover a way to let go of what you think you know, in order to cut through identification with this ego – automatic mind to something more vast, the spaciousness of beingness itself
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Vichar And Advaita Vedanta
Vichar has its roots in Advaita Vedanta (non – dual awareness), which is experienced when identification with ego is seen through. Ego, which is an imaginary conglomeration of thoughts of who we think we are, lives in fear of its own annihalation in the light of this seeing into the vastness of our own being.
Through Vichar and with the daily presence of “Papaji” in Satsang over a several year period , I experienced a quiet inner revolution, a “quickening” which revealed the true source of contentment. Through this time with Papaji, I learned that there is nothing “to do”, only to remain present with the vasanas and samskaras as they arise.
Because it is scientifically proven today that we are controlled by our subconscious mind 90% of the time, it stands to reason that staying present is not an easy task. Or better stated, being present is easy, remembering to do so is not. This is because we are identified with our thoughts most of the time, which are only memories from the past being constantly regurgitated in our thoughts and speech.
To some this may sound rather esoteric, but I am a practical person, and because of my background in psychology, I have known for some time, that “talk” therapy never solves the deep rooted discontent we all suffer from as human beings, as a result of being cut off from our own true nature. Once again, this is due to the fact that we are identified with “dead” memory and programming 90% of the time and are not really present with ourselves or with our life.
Talk therapy can only re-arrange our conditioned patterns in a more comfortable manner. It cannot deal with the real issue of our angst: a dualistic mind caught between the language of subject and object; a mind which automatically projects everything outward and then forgets that what it perceives on the “outside” actually came from within in the first place. It thus can never experience a state of oneness or more correctly , non – dual awareness of what is.
Because the mind objectifies everything, we can never be happy or content for very long. Something always feels missing. This something is not something outside that we are lacking, it is a real presence within ourselves and is the root cause of our intense longing for what we think is something else, as long as we fail to notice it. It is what has inspired all of the various spiritual practices in the ancient traditions of the past: the need to find a way to be present with what is and enjoy the simple pleasure of the moment.
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Ho’oponopono
Everything Is A Manifestation Of Your Own Mind
Most of us can recognize that we must take responsibility for our own life if we wish to see beneficial changes in our lives. What is more difficult to conceive, is that we are also responsible for those we come in contact with.
All of the people we have attracted who have harmed us or even who were good to us, are our own projection. This includes the politicians, the economic situation, the drug company scams that we recognize, nuclear proliferation, all of it. When it comes to unpleasant experiences, we automatically want to transfer the responsibility somewhere else. Our habit to blame others is so strong; to put the onus on everything "out there", this is a difficult one to fully integrate. Our identification with our ego is so steadfast and the automatic subject/object relationship it creates with the world so habituated, it defies our ability to experience our true nature, which is beyond all of our mental movies.
Through trial and error, the Hawaiian Kahunas realized that you could not just reason problems away. The intellect could take things only so far. They could see that the intellect is a manager, in effect it compartmentalizes thoughts and emotion. The Hawaiians developed Ho'oponopono, (which means to “make right”), a practice of tuning in with their own true nature, the unconditioned awareness beyond the ego - automatic mind, to neutralize or purify the energy charges left by these memories. They realized that you cannot purify a person, place, or thing. You have to release the emotional charge you yourself hold, in regard to that person place or thing. In effect, you have to neutralize the energy you associate with a particular memory, if you want to stop attracting the same circumstance contained in that memory.
The bottom line is, you don't have to take apart or analyze every problem that comes your way. You don't even have to understand it. You simply need to notice that something feels problematic. This can manifest as a mental, emotional or physical disturbance. Your job is only to feel it without resistance, which is not an easy task; to accept your responsibility for its existence and to accept it with love.
While maintaining a stance of non-resistance, you can fervently clear the slate by saying "I love you. I'm heartily sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you”. It is important to understand, that you are not apologizing to a particular person place or thing. You are addressing whatever number of causal factors may have contributed to the present circumstance in which you are a participant, which are all a product of your own mind. In effect, by taking responsibility, you are saying, "The buck stops here." You effectively release the energy charge and help dis-create the karma.
It is important to remember that you are offering love to all that is within your own experience, to that which is everything and everywhere, which heals all things including yourself. Sometimes saying, "Thank you. I am sorry", instead of "I love you. I am sorry", helps direct your heartfelt remorse in a way that you more easily recognize that you are expressing gratitude for the karma which is now completing by playing itself out in the circumstances of your life.
It helps if you also approach your work with EFT with the same attitude of responsibility. You will find that you will take your power back and a new sense of self confidence will arise as more and more, you make strides in your life and you find shifts in the people around you as well. In Hawaii, Dr. Hew Len, a psychologist in charge of an entire ward for the criminally insane, used Ho’oponopono to help heal an entire ward of patients it was said would never leave the insane asylum. It took four years of persistent work, but he succeeded. If each one of us does our part, together we can heal this crazy world and bring peace and balance back to our precious planet.
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