If we examine Bette and Karen’s experiences as they progressed through the seven stages of healing, we find two primary ingredients that were keys to the unfold-ment of their process. These two primary ingredients are required on the personal healing journey to get the most benefit from your personal healing process.
The first ingredient is the reframing of the personal healing process into a personal life lesson. Many times, our experience of an illness is colored by our early childhood ideas that being “sick” means there is something “wrong” with us. It is important to distinguish between the old negative ideas of illness with which we were raised and the internal experience through which we live during an illness. There is a great deal to be learned from illness if we look at it primarily as a learning process. Since the experience of being ill challenges us to fall into our old images of the past, it is important to keep reminding ourselves of the new framework out of which we seek to live.
We are “re-membering” ourselves, or bringing back our original connection to the deeper self when we go through the healing process. “Re-membering” is bringing our “members,” or parts of ourselves, back together. It’s much like putting the smaller pieces of the holographic plate back together to get a clearer, sharper image.
When we go through each level of the healing process, we will be tempted to fall back into the “old” way, the old judgments, the old narrow vision. A lot of the work of healing is to keep choosing to walk into the new framework, no matter how loud the old voices within us are yelling danger.
The second of these ingredients is meticulous honesty with yourself with particular regard to personal needs. It is important to admit that you do have needs, to know that it is okay to have them, and to become aware of them. This requires searching for what those real needs are. Many of us are not aware of many of our needs. Finding our needs on all levels and meeting them is essential. It takes patience and self-search to uncover our real needs.
Meeting our needs on each level of our being is very important in the healing process because our unmet needs are connected directly with how we got ill in the first place. Remember in Chapter 1, we spoke of the basic cause of all illness as stemming from forgetting who we truly are and acting according to that forgetting? Not meeting our true needs is a direct outcome of not living according to who we truly are. Part of going through the healing process is to retrace some of our steps to address real needs that were not filled, to acknowledge those needs, no matter how painful that process, and to find a way to fill them now. Wherever and whenever our emerging creative process is stopped, there are unmet needs and pain. Uncovering these inner psychic spaces brings life energy to them. Fulfilling the original positive creative intent that stems from the core of our being is what healing is all about. This dissolves the shroud around the core of our being, and we live in the truth of who we are. Meeting the needs of the moment brings us holographically to the healing of all past unmet needs. It brings us to our basic need—the creative expression of our core.
Let’s look at this process from a very practical working point of view; through the levels of the human energy field and the needs that correspond to each level. As I worked with people, I found that each of a patient’s needs was related to a specific level of the human energy field. As stated in Chapter 2, the human energy field is directly connected to and expresses human physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels of being. Each level of the field is associated with a human level of life experience. (See Figure 8-1 for a summary of the needs on each level.)
Remember, the first level of the field is associated with the functioning of our physical body and physical sensation. Our need on the first level is to enjoy a healthy body and all the wonderful physical sensations that go with it. The second level is associated with our personal emotional relationship to ourselves. Our need on the second level of the field is to love and accept the self as we are. The third level is associated with our mental activity and sense of clarity. Our need on the third is to have a well-functioning, agile mind full of clarity. The fourth is associated with our interpersonal emotional life, our “I-thou” connections. Our need on the fourth level of the field is to love and be loved by others, in many forms of relationships, such as friends, family, colleagues, and lover.
The fourth level, associated with the human heart and loving, is considered to be the bridge between the physical world, expressed in the first three levels of human functioning, and our spiritual world, expressed in the three levels of spiritual functioning.
The fifth level of the field is associated with the power of the word in the creative process. It serves as the template for all form on the physical level. It is the level at which speaking the word leads to creating form in the physical world. If you speak truth, you create truth and clarity in your life. If you do not speak honestly, you create distortion in your life. Thus, our need on the fifth level of the field is to speak and be in our truth.
The sixth level is associated with spiritual feelings, such as the feelings of ecstasy you may have in a religious ceremony, or when you hear inspirational music, or perhaps when you watch a sunset, sit on a mountain, meditate, or look into the eyes of a loved one. Our need on the sixth level is for the spiritual nourishment that brings about spiritual experience.
FIGURE 8-1 YOUR NEEDS ON EACH LEVEL OF THE AURIC FIELD
| First | Simple physical comfort, pleasure, and health. We need to have many wonderful physical sensations. |
| Second | Self-acceptance and self-love. We need to relate to ourselves in a loving positive way. |
| Third | To understand the situation in a clear, linear, rational way. We need rational clarity that functions in harmony with our intuitive mind. |
| Fourth | Loving interaction with friends and family. We need to give and receive love in many types of relationships, with our spouse, family, children, friends, and colleagues. |
| Fifth | To align with the divine will within, to make the commitment to speak and follow the truth. We need our own personal truth. |
| Sixth | Divine love and spiritual ecstasy. We need our own personal experience of spirituality and unconditional love. |
| Seventh | To be connected to divine mind and to understand the greater universal pattern. We need to experience serenity and our perfection within our imperfections. |
The seventh level of the field is associated with divine mind. When you bring your conscious awareness to this level, and it is clear, strong, and healthy, you know the divine perfection in all that there is. You understand all the pieces of the puzzle of your life. You experience serenity.
This is the level that holds your beliefs, some of which are in accord with divine law and others of which are distorted. The negative beliefs you carry are the source of all your problems. From these negative beliefs or “images,” you create dis-ease on whatever level it manifests within your life—physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual.
Our need on the seventh level of the field is to know serenity. Serenity comes from understanding the perfect pattern of life upon the earth. This comes from positive beliefs that are based on the truth.
Using Karen’s process as a framework to guide us, we’ll discover that by filling the two necessary primary ingredients—to go through the process of honestly meeting our needs and maintaining the point of view that this experience is another life lesson or even a life adventure—then our healing experience becomes both a personal transformation process and later a personal transcendental process. The process of transformation is one in which we use introspection to find out how we are functioning unconsciously.
It is sometimes a difficult thing to be meticulously honest with the self. To look at our shortcomings and find what is beneath them, and to choose to change, is just plain hard work. But it has great rewards. When we uncover the negative within ourselves, we also uncover the original positive creative force that was distorted into the negative aspect that we now wish to change. Thus, the transformation process brings us the gift of our original, true, clear, and loving self.
After we have done a certain amount of transformation process, the released original creative energy automatically lifts us into transcendental experience. We can then use both the transformational and the transcendental processes for healing. Not only do we heal our bodies and transform our lives, we transcend into higher personal spiritual experience. When we transcend the mundane, we learn to incorporate higher spiritual values into the practical aspects of our lives. We “spiritualize” matter. We bring our spirit into the physical aspects of life.
Here’s what the healing transformational process looks like in a personal and practical way with respect to your auric field. To heal yourself on the first four levels of your being means to change your daily life in each of these areas. This requires going through a personal transformation process to change how you take care of yourself, first level of your auric field; how you love yourself, second level of your auric field; how you bring clarity to your life situation so that you can understand it better, third level of your auric field; and how you relate to others, fourth level of your auric field.
To heal yourself on the higher three levels requires the personal process of transcendence. You must transcend or reach up, out, or into these higher values and bring them into your life through an act of courage and faith. In both Bette and Karen’s lives, it was the surrender to truth and the decision to live by it that helped them come out of denial. Each let go of the attitude that said, “It must be my way; I will do it by myself.” Each was trying to prevent or avoid a particular life experience that she needed. Each needed to face something within herself that, because of fear, she had been avoiding for a long time. Calling on their higher internal power gave the impetus to let go of trying to personally control the situation and trust in the deeper cycles of life change everyone goes through. As soon as this surrender came, the separation of the self from the greater internal “I am,” which is associated with the source of life itself, ended. And healing began.
As you come to the higher three levels of the auric field, your transformation process automatically moves into a transcendent one. That is, you will deal with levels of your being that relate to your spiritual nature rather than your material nature of everyday living. In the transcendent process you begin to recognize parts of yourself to which you may not have paid much attention before, or that you did not think were very important. You will find a whole new world in these areas of your being. You will find yourself to be much greater than you thought yourself to be. You will begin experiencing the universal hologram. This process is an automatic one and unfolds out of every individual. Each individual’s unfoldment is different. Enjoy yours.
The second road map for the healing process focuses on your process of healing as it relates to each of your needs, which correlate to a specific level of your auric field. As we move through each level of human experience associated with each level of the aura, we will clarify what needs are common for all of us on those levels of our being.
The key element in the transformational process is to set a very clear and firm positive intent. This is the first step in taking responsibility for your self-healing. Clearly align yourself with your goodwill, or the divine will within you, to find and speak your truth and to follow it. Be sure that you give yourself time to be alone and meditate to do this. Do your meditation in a special place, and acknowledge the beginning of change in your life. Meditate to find the divine will within you as it speaks within your own heart. Make your commitment to your healing process. By doing this, you are aligning the lower levels of your field that relate your physical life to the higher spiritual levels of your field so that you will follow the blueprint of your higher power. You activate “as above, so below.” Once you have done this, you can begin work on the lower auric levels.
In finding your needs, it is extremely important to not turn medicine away just because you’re into hands-on healing. Instead, find the best way to use it. Let go of the judging of any particular healing path. Karen and Bette’s experience illustrates the importance of this. Both needed surgery. Your judgments have a strong negative effect in stopping your healing. Carlos Castañeda quotes Don Juan when he said to “choose a path with a heart.” From the examples of both Bette and Karen, it has become clear that the very act of self-judgment removes the heart. All paths can have a heart. You put the heart on the path that you choose, but as soon as you put in the self-judgment about your choice, then you take out the heart. Acknowledging your needs, loving yourself, and meeting all of them takes away the self-judgments and puts the heart in the path. Yes, you are a human being and you have multiple levels of needs. If you fill your needs, you won’t be as likely to let yourself sink into your negative expectations about what an experience (such as meeting your mother-in-law or receiving a particular type of treatment, like having an operation) may be like. Nor will you, with your negative expectations, react in the experience in such a way as to re-create another trauma. So you are really healing your negative image and your negative belief system, which are the cause of the problem in the first place.
Karen made a delightful discovery once she decided to fill her needs:
What I began realizing was that I had needs on every level. And as I decided to go into the operation, it got very clear that I just had to take all of them on. In deciding to act on what I needed, from the physical level on up, my needs got very clear. There were specific things I had to do in order to go into the operation and get the most out of it.
I think that if people knew that they could still get their needs met in going into an operation, they wouldn’t fight it so much. Especially the kind of spiritual people who know about healing. Sometimes the ethos is that, “Too bad, you have to have an operation.” But from my end it doesn’t have to be that. The more people can realize their needs, the more they can get all of them fulfilled.
The needs are so much more creative and varied than I thought. The creativity’s in solving them, but if you believe they can be solved you can have a zillion needs, and it’s fun to solve them. They’re not problematic.
First-level needs are simple physical needs. It is important to regulate your environment and set the appropriate time and place for any activity so that you are constantly reminded of your internal personal transformation process. This places focus on the personal experience of healing as more important than the outer old definitions of sickness.
If you need to go for tests or an interview with a physician, be sure to create the most appropriate way to do this. Present yourself in a way that is aligned with, supports, and maintains your internal life source. Take charge of the situation in a gentle way. If a fast is not required for tests, make sure that you have eaten so that you do not have low blood sugar. Choose your clothes to express who you are. If possible, choose the best time of day for you to go. Ask a friend to come with you for support, if you’re going to hear test results and they are potentially serious. Choose the best health-care professionals, clinics, or laboratories. You have many choices. Make good use of them. It is important.
A prime need on the first level of the auric field is to feel comfortable. Surround yourself with things that will help you see reality from this new holographic viewpoint, even when there are not other people around or when you might forget. If you are in a hospital, bring books you like and that remind you of the greater reality. If you get scared, open one and just read something on fear. Emmanuel’s Book by Pat Rodegast is really good for this. If you like crystals or music tapes, have them at hand so if you forget your reality, you will have something to remind you of who you really are and of what is really happening. It will keep you focused on the deeper point of view. If you know what tapes get you into altered states, play them. You finally have time to lie around and listen. Those tapes can get you to some wonderful places. If the hospital has given you a mind-altering drug such as a tranquilizer or sedative, take advantage of it and have a free ride into deep relaxation.
After Karen’s friends reminded her that she had a choice, she decided that she wanted a private room and she got one. That was very important to her. Karen brought music tapes and crystals to her room. Since she was not on a special medical diet, her husband brought her food. This she loved:
Everybody knows hospital food is really atrocious. I think I would have been really sick if I had eaten it. Ron just kept bringing me food from the health food store or the health food café. I don’t know what I would have done if I’d had to eat hospital food. So that’s just another important physical need that got met because I knew about it and could ask for it.
After you leave the hospital and your treatment is completed, if you are still having healings or are in a therapeutic process, you may relive the more invasive parts of your treatment. This is a good way to clear your field of any leftover garbage from the drugs or the physical trauma. This garbage slows down your healing process. Many people will go through the process of reliving the trauma many years later. Whenever it comes up is fine. What is important is to let it happen when you are ready.
Karen did it right away, and quite unexpectedly:
After I was home from the hospital, I finally ran out of Demerol. I went down to less and less pills till I went off it. I felt terrible the next day. Ron was helping me to breathe, and I went into a kind of primal state in which I relived the operation. As I started breathing and crying, this horrible feeling that I didn’t want to see something came, and then I realized I was reliving the operation. I felt awful physically and awful emotionally. My body was reliving it. It surprised me. That felt important because I started healing a lot faster, which I couldn’t have done if the pain of the operation was still in me, in my cells.
Remember, if this happens to you, it is best to have someone there to support you. It is okay; you will be fine. Just let go and go through it. It will do you a lot of good.
Here are some good questions to ask yourself:
What kind of environment do I need to best suit my healing process?
Is the atmosphere in my bedroom good for me?
Is there plenty of sunlight and plenty of plants?
Is my favorite music playing?
Do I have pictures to remind me of things that I wish to be reminded of?
What other objects would help me remember the positive aspects of my life? (Perhaps certain pieces of jewelry, crystals, or some other favorite objects would help.)
Do I have reminders that will help all of my senses remember who I am?
What can I see and touch?
What odors help me feel better?
What are the things within my diet, that I could taste, that would help me feel pleasure during this time?
The needs on the second level are for self acceptance and self-love. A big problem on this level is disliking the self, self-rejection, and even in a great many cases self-hatred. These are bad habits you will need to confront directly. What are your needs with regard to accepting and loving yourself? Make a list of the ways that you reject yourself during any given day. Begin to eliminate them one by one. Make a conscious effort to replace the self-rejection with a positive feeling. Write some affirmations stating positive feelings to yourself, and practice them several times a day. You can even post them where you can read them, like on your bedpost, refrigerator, or bathroom mirror.
Some good affirmations are:
I love myself.
I love myself in my imperfections.
I am a strong, creative individual with lots of love.
I love my spouse, child, family, animals.
I accept the life I have created for myself and can change the parts of it that I don’t like.
I can continue to love those I strongly disagree with and also not betray myself by forcing myself to agree, or pretending I agree.
I am a beautiful, radiant being of light.
I am full of love.
I remember who I am.
These small reminders of who you are help build a very positive attitude toward the self.
Karen worked to clear her negative attitudes, and it helped her a great deal:
I think the operation helped me to love my body. It forced me to incarnate in ways that I hadn’t and that helped me. I had to love and accept myself in new ways. I had to mean something to myself. I think probably one of the greatest pains people must go through in facing an operation is that they split from their bodies, and then this thing is done to their bodies. They just try to not be there and ignore it and wait for the body to recover, rather than being with it in ways that they can: loving your body, accepting it, talking to it about what is going to happen.
Some good questions to ask yourself are
Which parts of my body do I dislike? Why?
How do I reject these parts?
I hate ______ because it is ________
How do these body parts remind me of my self-rejection?
I hate my ______ because it reminds me of my ________
How do I reject myself?
Your needs on the third level relate to your mind and your need to understand the situation in a clear, linear, rational way. This means getting all the information about whatever disease process is going on in your body and not limiting yourself to one view of it.
The first thing that you need to do to do this is to find out and clear your negative judgments about yourself and your illness. They block your way to finding solutions for your healing.
We have a lot of negative self-judgments. Negative self-judgments are different from self-rejections in that they are mental conclusions based on the negative way we feel about ourselves. Negative judgments perpetuate a negative feedback loop that regenerates more negative feelings to the self, which then prove our negative judgments correct. Many of us do this to ourselves much more than we realize. Listen in sometimes—you will be surprised at the extent of these internal parental voices we carry within. When negative judgments come up, you can choose one of two major ways of dealing with them.
The first is to express them aloud to yourself or to a friend. You will find that what you say inside to yourself is exaggerated both in kind and in time: Whatever the problem, you are worse than anyone else, forever. Such as:
You deserve to be sick because you are a _______.
The reason you are sick is because you always ______.
Now that you are sick, everyone knows that you are a _________.
Every time you try to do something, you mess it up, you idiot.
You will never be a good _______, so just forget it.
I knew you weren’t going to make it. Just give up now and get out of everyone’s way.
You are a pain in the _______ to everyone, so just shut up.
Once you have said these things out loud, especially to a friend, you will see how ridiculous they are. Your friend will also know the truth about you and can help put you straight. It is surprising how silly some of our self-judgments sound, once we say them out loud so that we can hear them.
The second way of dealing with them is to just allow your negative attitudes to be and quickly return to the positive as soon as you can, with no self-judgment. For example, if you say to yourself, “Boy, I’m stupid,” you can just replace it with a positive statement like, “I’m smart,” or “I understand ______.” Maybe you catch yourself saying, “I’m not going to get better.” You can replace it with, “I’m getting better every day” or, “My body is capable of healing itself.”
Choose the method best for you, depending on the situation you are in at the moment your negative self-judgments arise.
Clearing your self-judgments will clear your way to find more ways to treat yourself, because you will be able to ask more questions. Self-judgments keep you from asking questions because you have filled in the answers with wrong information. Once you clear the wrong information, there is room for the right answers. This brings you to the next step—the search for the right modality of treatment.
Find out what different treatment modalities are available from which you can choose. If you can’t get that information yourself, then have someone get it for you. If you are going to have an operation or if you need to go through certain treatments in the healing process, read all about those treatments. Find out what they do and what their side effects are.
Karen found out exactly what would happen with her operation. It was very, very helpful to her:
I knew enough to ask a lot of questions, and my friends also helped me know what to ask. The surgeon was a woman, and she answered all my questions. She told me everything that was going to happen. She talked about being examined, shaved, drugged, and wheeled down the hall. She even told me what it was going to be like, going into and coming out of the anesthesia.
This was very important to me, because I had a lot of bad ideas about hospitals, being treated like a piece of meat, and what might happen to me. I could have very easily gone into my image of being punished because I’d rejected the feminine in me and therefore had to have my uterus taken away. As it was, because I kept meeting every need, I didn’t do that. Rather, the operation was really symbolic—even though I was losing my uterus—of reclaiming that part of myself, of reclaiming my feminine.
Of course, I also did go through a lot of grieving about losing my uterus. But it wasn’t big, it didn’t feel as if it was weighing me down or holding me back.
Some good questions to ask yourself are:
What are my negative ideas of what might happen?
How can I find out what will happen step by step?
What, if anything, can I change about this?
What choices do I have of alternative treatments, if any?
What will I need to let go of and grieve for?
What is the possible deeper meaning in all this?
The fourth-level need is the need for loving interaction with your friends and family. The fourth level of the auric field many times is called the “bridge” between the spiritual and the material worlds. You need support from your friends. Call them. Tell them your needs. Initiate some kind of a support system so that you will be well cared for. Or ask a friend to get together your support system. If you are away from home and can use the phone, make regular phone calls to close friends, or have people call you.
Of course, if you are weakened by your condition, you will want to place boundaries on those calls. You may want to limit the time friends visit. Choose the people who will support your healing process. Do not be afraid to set boundaries. It is essential to say no in the moment to people who do not enhance your healing process.
Your friends and people in your family may be distressed by the situation or may not agree with how you are taking care of it. You must make affirmations that you can love yourself and love your family without betraying yourself. You are not responsible for their upset. You are not responsible for their hurt. Their fear with regard to your situation or your illness is most likely not grounded in reality. Their fears are usually unconscious and are mentioned indirectly between the lines of conversation. Notice how you feel after someone has been to see you or called. If you feel better, keep up the communication. If you feel worse, set up your boundary till a more appropriate time to deal with them. Just say no. (See Chapter 13 for information on dissolving negative contracts with friends.)
Friends can bring things. If you are in a hospital and have difficulty with food, friends can bring you healthy food. They can also bring you those physical things—books, sacred objects, clothing—that you need to remind you of who you are. You need to be touched by friends. Ask for it if they hesitate.
Karen got a lot of help from friends. She says:
I just feel really blessed that everyone I knew who came to visit me is some kind of healer on some level. So they really knew what to give me. Friends would sit and meditate with me the first day. Pam came, and Sheila came and meditated. Ron was always there, on every level. Pam brought me homeopathic stuff. You know, for the rest of the week, everybody who came was really intuitive, and there were no people coming in and looking at me as if I were a person who was in a pitiable condition. Everybody would somehow pick up where I was and enable that moment to become a healing moment, all the way through the week.
Some good questions to ask yourself are:
Whom do I feel comfortable with?
Whom do I want to help me? How?
Whom do I not feel comfortable with?
How can I say no to them?
The primary need on the fifth level is to align with the divine will within you, to make the commitment to speak and follow your truth. The fifth level of the auric field is the template through which all physical form comes. It’s like the negative of a photograph. On this level the power of the word is very strong. The power of the word carries the creative force. The fifth level of the field relates to standing up for what you know. It is a level of will. It means aligning yourself with the divine will within you and following it. The fifth chakra is related to speaking your truth and to giving and receiving. The need here is to speak your truth and live by it. It also relates to sound or using sound to create form.
Karen related her experience of the fifth level:
The truths that I kept speaking before I went into the hospital were all of the needs I had. I began saying them more than I ever have in my life. It forced me to my knees that way.
I’ll tell you the first thing that comes to my mind. I have a feeling that there is a connection between the blockage in my second chakra with the uterus and the ovaries and my voice. Singing is a level of my core expression that is coming out now. It feels like it comes directly from down there [lower pelvis]. I wasn’t able to do that before. I had to go through the whole healing before I was ready to sing.
Start talking, and continue voicing your needs and your truth. This is the time to access the deepest truth within you. It may not at all agree with what the people around you are saying. State your reality in a positive, loving way, and continue to live by it even though relatives or old friends may disagree.
There will be times, especially if you are in a hospital, when there will be no one there but the staff, who may not know anything at all about the kind of reality in which you live. Make use of your reminders that are there to maintain your truth in a very positive way. Do not give space to others to voice their negative opinions about your reality. If they insist, tell them you will hear them later, after you are well, but not now. Do not let them use you to relieve their anxiety or guilt. You are not responsible for their discomfort. This will also help you to not fall into the negative fears that you have with regard to your illness.
When you do fall into fear and doubt, use one of these four ways to deal with it.
All of the above are speaking your truth. If you feel fear, your truth in the moment is that you’re afraid. If you have doubts, that’s the truth of what you feel at that moment. It is as simple as that. The feelings are only feelings. They will pass. By speaking your truth in those moments to the people who are able to relate to it, you fill another need on the fourth level. It is extremely important to express your feelings by speaking to those who can understand. Do not share doubts in an inappropriate situation—that is, with people who believe in the same doubts and have a stake in your maintaining yours. If you do, there is a good chance that those people will increase your doubts by telling you that, in fact, your doubts are true, that their way is better, and that you had better do as they say. Find ears that can hear and eyes that can see, and you will get the support you need.
It is of utmost importance to speak your truth.
Some good questions to ask yourself are:
What is it that I need to say?
What is it that I need to say to close friends who may disagree with me?
What have I kept quiet about for many years?
Why haven’t I expressed what I believe?
The sixth level is the level of divine love or spiritual ecstasy. By speaking the truth of your needs whenever they come up and filling them, you automatically move to the sixth level. The sixth level has to do with feeling more than with understanding. You will simply be in states of ecstasy at times. They come and go. They change daily because you are constantly changing. Music helps you lift to these wonderful states of being. So do pictures of things that remind you of the holiness of life within you. There are no good words to express the experience of spiritual ecstasy. Everyone has his or her own personal description of it, all usually quite far from the experience itself. Words like, “living in the light,” “floating in the arms of the Goddess,” “being with God,” or “being love” have all been used. What are your words for this experience?
It is from the sixth level of our being that we experience unconditional love. Karen shared her deeper feelings of the sixth level:
What it meant for me was going to the deepest access I could find, my divine nature, and letting it lead me through this. I’ve felt a sense of my life task for a long time. It is simply to deeply love and accept and live out of the feminine and align the masculine with it. The masculine had been quite rampant and off balance before.
In the last two weeks we said good-bye to over eighty people that we really love and had to separate from since we’re moving to Colorado. We did it very lovingly. Even with all the reactions of those people, some of which have been very heavy, I’ve been able to keep open-hearted and be right there with it. You know, that feels like the higher feeling level of it.
Some good questions to ask yourself are:
What is the nature of my spiritual needs?
Do I give myself time to allow for my spiritual feelings to surface?
What is the nature of my spiritual feelings?
When and how do I feel unconditional love?
In what areas of my life do I need unconditional love?
How much time am I willing to spend daily allowing for unconditional love to infuse that area of my life in meditation or visualization?
Which music brings me to my spirituality?
The seventh level is the level of the divine mind where you begin to understand the greater universal pattern. The divine mind brings you to the reason for being—the soul’s purpose in life, the great pattern that is unfolding within you and all around you. Within this level there is a deep sense of the soul’s purpose, a reason for being here, a reason for the experience you are having, a feeling of trust. There’s a constant kind of curiosity about what’s going on rather than a dread. When you enter these levels of spiritual awareness, the entire experience is lifted to a higher or transcendent reality. You will know that all is right in God’s world. In serenity there is no blame; all is unfolding in the most appropriate manner, just as it needs to.
We need to know and understand the divine pattern of all things: to see the perfect pattern held in gold light of all that there is, and to know that everything is perfect in its imperfections. It is from this level that we experience serenity.
During the healing process, we can attain access to the seventh layer, and we are set free. Karen explains it this way:
I have a lot available to me internally, even when I forget. I have a deep sense of the meaning of my soul’s purpose and my being here for a reason. Whatever was going on, there was a learning to be had. For me, the essential, bottom-line ingredient is knowing that there’s hope. Hope gives a constant kind of curiosity about what’s going on rather than dread.
Well, now I’m feeling a kind of serenity around all of the dealing with my leaving clients and people. I’m able to remain at a level of seeing it all from a much higher perspective. Like, if I’m working with clients and I’m leaving, I can see that there’s something that we have to do together in the time that we have left. That, no matter what it is, whether it’s clients or anybody, there’s just some terrific symphony being played out. If I just do each step as it’s there, then it will all still be in harmony. I’m not frantic around things that I would have been scared or frantic around in the past.
Some good questions to ask yourself are:
What are the greater patterns threaded through my life?
What is the nature of the deeper hope that leads me?
What is my symphony of life?
Part IV will help you create a very practical healing plan for each of the levels of your field to include all your personal needs.