Category Archives: Mindfulness Meditation

The ‘Magic’

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I’m continually impressed and satisfied (even after over twenty years) with the results that this work creates for people and the one-on-one clients that I see during the week.

That old habit of analysing things and trying to work it out in the head, once that is put to bed, the real healing begins to take place, or as some clients call it, ‘the magic happens’.

And to the intellect this does some like magic, because ‘it’ isn’t doing the work. It feels automatic and so it is labeled  ‘magic’. But as I mentioned to one client this week, we don’t go around every moment of the day thinking that our heart beating is magic. We forget about it, we take it for granted. We forget just how sophisticated our subconscious bodymind is. Then in sessions when we turn it back onto your inner needs and goals, more of that magic kicks in and it seems amazing.

I’m continually excited when I make more breakthroughs in this method, advance the work further (even more so currently with the research and writing of my first book – to be released soon) and especially when I help people that have ‘tried everything’, as I often hear.

There is a very deep reward in this work, a very deep feeling of being and depth to the soul that opens up that is nourished in sessions, that also beautifully, spills over onto myself. This is such a healing and enlivening state, everyone should be feeling this at least once in their day.

It helps to keep you young, free, happier and healthier in mind, body and spirit. Its a sipping (or even better, drinking) of the life force that permeates you all day and everyday.

It speeds up healing and it works wonders for your health!

Subconscious Conflicts – Road Blocks to your Goals

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Do you have trouble achieving your goals?

Achieving goals is a step at a time process. Making decisions in each moment that are aligned with your aims. However the subconscious within you is also trying to get its needs and aims met. Many of them set a long time ago (from childhood).

So often those aims are in conflict with your present day goals and wishes. So you have road blocks within you. Your subconscious often will not allow you to achieve your aims (whether they are career, financial, relationship or health related) unless its  more urgent needs are met.

This work provides the conditions to help you resolve the subconscious needs within you, helping to heal your subconscious body, freeing the way to achieving your deepest goals and wishes.

This cannot be done consciously. It requires involving your body, emotions and spirit at a deeper level. This deeper level is the mindfulness, alpha/theta frequency level of your mind and body. Working at this level allows for the real changes and releases to occur.

This has been my expertise and specialty for the last 21 years. Helping people access areas deep within their subconscious body where the conflict and forgotten, unmet needs reside.

Fighting with this part doesn’t work.
Drugging it is not the answer either.

It is a real unfinished need, deep within you. And it is waiting to be heard, met and healed.

A little about ‘Acceptance’

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I’d like to say a little about ACCEPTANCE that can be very beneficial to remember.

In the mindfulness classes (as well as the private therapy sessions) I often talk about acceptance. Sometimes people think that by accepting their problem, that it means that they will be stuck with the problem forever. That’s how it feels to the intellect. There is a feeling that you have to keep fighting this disease, ailment, pain or negative behaviour pattern, to get rid of it or else it will never go away, or ever heal.

This is not the case.

If you can stop and feel what the problem is and its location in your body, and actually stay with it, accept that it is there and not try to fight it, it then has the space to release properly. But acceptance is the hard part because it means accepting exactly how it feels in your body right now, and that’s not always pleasant to allow. But if you can take the step to let go judgment and just fully allow the problem to be in your body, then amazing things happen.

In classes and personal sessions, you have the opportunity (for an hour or more) to stay with and accept parts of you that you have denied, hated and avoided for a long time. And when this allowing happens, your body then has the freedom to actual heal the issue in ways that your intellect could never fully understand.

What’s one of the Best Books ever Written?

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I often get asked by people and clients what books to read for personal development and healing. What books do I read? I have hundreds in my library from over 30 years of study, research and interest. I list a few on my main website. But if I had to pick just one book that I consider the best and most worthwhile, that’s quite easy for me to do.

That book is Eckhart Tolle’s THE POWER OF NOW.

That book is by my bedside where ever I travel. I highly recommend it above all other books. If I was stuck on a desert island and could take only one book, that would be the book I’d have with me.

The Power of NOW encapsulates beautifully what all the therapy work is about in the end, if you take it all the way. Some people just want to feel less pain, some just want to stop a bad behaviour, some just want some peace of mind, some want to improve a relationship, some want to feel happy or safe again in the world. When you get all these things, and take it further to its conclusion, you get the power of living in the present. For my mind, no one explains it and lives it better than Tolle.

Stillness

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Who we are I believe, correlates more with the state of stillness than it does with our intellectual thinking. Your ability to feel stillness, to just be with yourself, the world, nature, or with others, is a greater indication of your maturity and level of humanity.

Stillness is not reading a book while lying on a beach or watching TV numbed out on the couch. Stillness is being comfortable with silence and doing seemingly nothing in that moment for a period of time. Whether with yourself alone, or with another.

So in Body Psychotherapy and in fact with all the work done in a session with a client, once the initial talking is done and we move to deepening, there is a lot of stillness time. The stillness can be quiet or active, but there are few words if any, it is simply still. The thinking becomes less important and the attention moves to the body and the inner workings of the subconscious.

Stillness breathes in fresh air to a crowded over thinking, over worked mind and gives the body a chance to speak and heal itself in areas that had been locked and pushed away for far too long.

This is why Mediation is a good practice. To meditate you need to accept stillness.

‘BE’ and still get everything done!

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Spending quality time for self centering and whole body contact with yourself is crucial in this day and age. Especially with all the distractions, demands on our time and our highly over worked society. There is so much ‘doing’ that the ‘being’ part of us, our more real nature, is squashed or put on hold with ‘some day I’ll…’ or ‘one day I’ll….’.

It is very important to step off the over worked ‘doing’ cycle and allow yourself to have ‘arrived’ in the present moment, to just ‘be’ again. (Which is what the over doing most times is trying to accomplish, to get you to where you can just ‘be’ again.)

Most people don’t realise that they can just ‘be’ and still get everything done that they need to. Rather than the other way around that we are brought up with (and much less efficient way) in our western culture, ‘I’ll do do do, so then I can ‘get there’ to relax and be myself. You rarely get there in this way.

So if you allocate some regular time to ‘being’ each week, your ‘doing’ becomes much more efficient, creates less drama, is much less erratic, more fulfilling, and you feel more in control of your life. No one else or thing is running you.

How slowly or quickly this happens will depend on how much you are carrying from the past and how easily you can accept, feel, release and let go that past, over time.

Are you a Meditator?: What it says about you…

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The Self Healing Meditation Classes are chugging along nicely at my centre here in Melbourne twice a month. Averaging about 16 people a class.

If you are a person who Meditates, what it says about you is this:
that you know deep down that you are not your thoughts, that you are something greater and deeper than that. That you are a being that thinks, rather than just a thinking robotic machine.

This ‘being’ in you, that resides throughout your entire body holds the key to your fulfillment in life. It is your spirit. The real you. Taking time out to contact this directly is the road to complete freedom. Along that road you will bump up against the road blocks of your past. The blocks you put up to survive but which you then forgot to take down afterwards.

This class gives you the time and space to firstly remember who you truly are, get in contact with the real you again, and then take time to release the old road blocks that are not helping you move forward today.

I look forward to helping you further along your journey.

New Self Healing Meditation Class

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The responses so far to this new class have been very positive. People feelings some real differences and shifts. So much so that I have had to run another class this week to accommodate everyone on the waiting list. And that class is almost full too. So, needless to say, I am very happy with the response so far.

This is a new Healing Meditation type class designed to help you self-heal. It is a combination of all my experience is various therapies and practices over 20+ years. It encompasses your mind, body, emotions and spirit. A holistic approach.

No one can heal you but you. This class provides a space to help you focus silently, deeply, within for an hour at a time. And with some guidance and the group energy, assist yourself to accept and then release deep old habitual blocks that have been holding you back from being more of your real self.

These old holdings are the accumulation of unfinished business that most people have learned to conveniently push aside in order to get on with their lives. Only these issues do not go away, they just fester and build on-top of each other, weighing you down more and more as you live your life.

All anxieties, depression, worry, negativity, reactivity, suffering, most physical problems, even diseases and health, all have an inner component that can be accessed and released and healed. I have seen it many times in my practice over and over, people healing things that have plagued them with no resolution for years.

This is a powerful process to help you get back more of who you truly are, aliven yourself, free yourself and feel lighter freer, happier, healthier and more at peace than ever before.

The class is run at the Elwood Centre for Wellbeing – 1B, 41 Glenhuntly Road, Elwood in Melbourne, Australia.
On the first and third Monday nights of each month. 7.30pm to 9pm+
Each class is limited to 20 people. So booking is essential.