Since my short Xmas update, several things have unfolded.
I’m now certified in Embodied Processing, a style of somatic therapy. I’m also certified as a Trauma-Informed Manifestation Coach, Level 2. This is for helping people remove blocks to fulfilling desires.
Creating the structure for these services will take a bit of time, but I will roll them out in the coming months. I’ll announce it here when they become available.
Also, as predicted, how I’d read the records gelled this year. Now I get to practice that too.
None of these things were expected. In my tech days, if you told me I’d become a spiritual writer, healer, and reader, I’d not have believed it… life in flow is an adventure.
Meanwhile, I’m now healthier than when my medical journey began several years ago.
Davidya
Hi David,
That’s fantastic! Especially the last news…
Very happy for you.
I’ve been considering registering for the “Embodied Processing” ever since you first mentioned it.
How many hours was the course?
Thanks
Hi Scott
It’s a great program. Authentic, spiritually-informed, and surprisingly effective.. CPD rates it at 80 credit hours. There is 9 theory modules, a bunch of demos, and you do practice sessions with fellow students. There’s an active FB community and various monthly support and practice sessions. Lots of support. (It has a level 2 as well)
Congratulations, David. I’m SO glad you are doing this.
We were taught that all you have to do is realize the Self, realize Brahman and everything will automatically be perfect. More than half a century of experience involving by now large numbers of advanced practitioners has demonstrated that is not the case.
In that time we have learned that true, mature awakening requires attention to our emotional, psychological, human parts and not just the mere, passive observation of whatever awakened consciousness may have been emerging. It is necessary to address and metabolize the leftover impressions and tendencies (which for many people will be in the form of stored traumas) if the awakening is to be fully lived and embodied.
I have worked with psychotherapists over several years and found that work to be powerfully productive. In the context of a long established Brahman realization I’ve found psychotherapy can be a profound advanced practice. I expect this will also be true for trauma-informed coaching and the other modalities you are bringing into your work. Again, kudos.
With heartfelt best wishes,
Jerry
Hi Jerry
Agreed. I was surprised to realize I was still carrying unresolved trauma in there. And it had been shadowing the experience and interfering with fuller embodiment. I can recognize it in others now too.
Yes, I’ve found it surprisingly effective. And the study has considerably enhanced my understanding of the human experience.
Thank you.
It’s beneficial for embodiment but I think I was also pushed this way because a big part of rising consciousness in the current time is that it’s pushing trauma to the surface to be resolved. But many don’t have the tools to process it, resulting in acting out in various crazinesses. If we can help people with this, we can support the process.
David wrote: “Agreed. I was surprised to realize I was still carrying unresolved trauma in there.” Exactly. Me too.
This is key and it is something the entire spiritual awakening/meditation/nonduality/etc. culture needs to understand and embrace. Thankfully, it is happening more and more, which is heartening to witness.
Agreed, Jerry.
David and Jerry, as a corollary to your great discussion above, that same misconception – realize the Self and realize Brahman and all will be perfect – is also a huge barrier to at least the initial awakening to Self-Realization/Cosmic Consciousness. For me, that made awakening an unattainable goal. But when the myth of perfection and several other concepts melted away, the letting go simply happened. Although I will confess that there was a momentary thought after the shift: “Is that it? I want my money back!”
John
Yes, requiring perfection or specialness or whatever to get there always puts it in the future.
(laughs) Many people’s first reaction is “why didn’t I get this long ago? It’s so simple!” And so normal. That may feel like a let-down. Here, I didn’t know what it was. Something distinct had happened, but it didn’t meet any concepts I had (and there were many). 2 days later, I woke up in the morning and knew what it was. It felt like a rebirthday. 🙂
Yes, the remembrance!
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That symbol seems especially apt.