Spiritual Counselling

Many people go about their lives trying to find their purpose.  Frustrated, feeling purposeless, feeling restless without their raison d’etre.  But shouldn’t purpose just find you?  In my own experience, I have seen purpose as synonymous with passion and meaning.  But I acknowledge that this is not the experience of everyone.  I have learnt that some people just do not experience a sense of ‘external’ purpose.  And this is perfectly fine, and perhaps the greatest thing of all, as perhaps these people as being guided towards a deeper sense of what purpose is for them.  The world would say though, that they are ’missing something’. 

But why do we seek purpose in the first place anyway?  Why the external purpose?  We seek purpose because we believe that if we have a sense of purpose, we will feel full of life, energised in every moment.  We believe we will awaken every morning with a sense of internal approval and validation.  So this begs the questions can purpose be culitvated?  Perhaps our real purpose is about having an inner purpose to awaken, and awaken to this inner purpose.  Would this perhaps be a common purpose uniting us all?  Seeing purpose as inwardly rather than outwardly driven, we begin to free ourselves from a dependence on the external world.  Through our own awakening - our own inner purpose of self-realisation, the outer purpose proves irrelevant.  For some, their path is one of realisation that outer purpose manifests only from a space within.  Or perhaps more accurately put; with the inner awakening your vacuum becomes filled and you stop trying to fill it outwards in - bliss.

Our lives are directed, either consciously or unconsciously, by our most core beliefs and values.

I am predicting that this is going to be the newest coolest way of living in not to distant future.  In some countries they are already practising this, more of less most of time - mainly because of course they have no choice.  Over here though, in our western world of fads and materialism, we are doing everything we can to not live our present lives out. 

Reality based living is just that.  We live based on what is happening here and now.  Not what is going to happen, what has happened, what might happen, what should or should not be happening.  This means looking at what we have in front of us and accepting it as real, that it is our experience and that is perfect as it is.  Rejecting or resisting our reality is a way of avoiding the present as a gift to our understanding of ourselves and everything around us.  Regrets, guilts and even anger are all ways we resist the present moment.  Thinking it should be or should have been some other way.

A different way to live, which holds far less suffering, is to confront our reality head on, face ourselves and ask what is it that we are refusing to acknowledge.  Once we face this, once we see what we are refusing to accept, our soul moves into alignment with our experience and we can truly become empowered in our experience.  We then see that every living being, every living thing is divine, there to show us our current self, our current reality, if we chose to accept it.  We no longer reject those that point out the truth, but embrace it as bringing us into a harmonious relationship with our souls.  Once we see how darn clever our reality really is, it becomes full of meaning.  Life becomes full of meaning.  We see that the only thing ever in control is our souls, which we can align with or not.  I guess it then comes down to which experience is easier.  Reality avoiding or reality living.  The truth is the truth, whether you like it or not.  Why not then align with your reality and make friends with truth.

Spiritual healing naturally occurs as part of a session.  Healing can be hands on, through words or combined with voice or sound healing. 

When we want our lives to be transformed and feel the nudge to change and to move forward with our lives, it is this very intention which begins to kick start the healing process.  Healing begins with your willingness to experience healing.

Healing occurs all the time.  Through the conversations we have with our friends and co-workers, through the touch on someone’s arm, through just a look or someone’s presence.  Everyone does it, we all do it in different ways, and we all have our own part to play in healing each other.

Healing takes place through releasing blocked energy.  Yawning, sighing, laughing, crying, shouting, screaming, running, tapping, moving, swimming, walking, talking, holding, singing, shaking, slapping and as children often do, stamping - all have a place and are essential to our wellbeing.

So what sets spiritual healing a part from all the other natural means that we release and heal?  With spiritual healing you are letting a higher power give it a go.  You are allowing yourself to trust in something larger than yourself, you are effectively saying, “I don’t have all the answers, so show me what you can do.”  Our abdication of ultimate power and control over our lives is sometimes all what is needed.