Energy Work

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Transpersonal Psychotherapy

I have been a psychotherapist for 40 years and have done energy work for most of that time. Now, as a Holy Fire III Reiki Master, I am letting the Madison community  know that I enjoy combining Reiki healing work with psychotherapy for many of my clients who are open and interested in both.

Usually people are happy to put forth “to my highest good” as their intention in their energy work, and therefore the energy work expands on the psychotherapy they are presently involved in and enhances their growth. Because the source of the information that is made available is beyond what I or my clients consciously are aware of, these sessions can be especially provocative and useful.

I have also been helpful for people have difficulties with illnesses, injuries and ongoing health problems.  I am happy to accept clients who are only looking for energy healing and not interested in taking on a  course of psychotherapy.

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Simple Energy Work Exercise

Practicing Mindfulness keeps your awareness of yourself and your immediate surroundings keen. Meditating on your breath, as Zen practitioners and others do, will increase your ability to focus your mind and your ability to make self awareness a habit.

Using The Observing Ego is a similar function although as you get more skilled, it can go deeper.  You can get adept  at knowing  about what your emotions are at any given time, by learning to read your own body energy.

Both of these functions encourage us to have a part of our awareness be located in the body where emotions reside and can be known: if you feel into a sensation in your body and keep your focus “smack dab” in the center of that sensation you will soon be able to identify what emotion that sensation represents. You can test your conclusion by making a simple statement and feeling what the energy does. For example – perhaps you notice a tightness  in your  throat and a heaviness in your solar plexus ( the area that is located just below your sternum).  You say to yourself or out loud “I’m sad about my job” and if nothing changes in your body energy you try “I’m sad about my dog”. When you say  the right thing, your energy will drop down and that is the affirmation that what you said is true.

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Traditional and Transpersonal Psychotherapy

I often have clients ask me “What is Transpersonal Therapy?” and I respond “It’s therapy that goes beyond the personal level – to the spiritual level.”  This article, written about me and published in Natural Awakenings Magazine, offers a nice explanation about the ways I offer Transpersonal Therapy to enhance traditional talk therapy. A link to the article is here.

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Spirit as Healer

There is a way to bring your your soul, or higher self,  into your  growth progress.  I call this work attunement because it allows  your personal self, ( your every day self) to  attune with your soul’s choices for you. Specifically, your soul guides a meditation process that is your soul’s choice of what you should be working on now – at the moment of the attunement.  Neither you nor I know where we will be lead and what material of yours will be attended to in the attunement.

If you are familiar with meditation you will likely find this process fairly easy to follow inside your self, in your energy field. If you are not at all familiar with meditation I will direct your attention to the places in your body where the work is occurring. Most people readily learn to follow the process and to ” read” their own energy.

Your job is to feel the process as it moves inside you.  My job is to act as a conduit to bring in sufficient universal light (or energy) for the process to occur, and to keep you informed as to what is happening. I occasionally will suggest something for you to say, out loud or silently, that brings your personal self into line with the directives of your soul.

The outcome of the work is  to create more inner ‘space’ in your ‘consciousness’ for new ways of being to emerge. These words may sound foreign to you now,  but once you have had the  experience of the attunement, you will experience, and therefore understand, what the words mean.

Contact me if you are interested and we will set up an hour appointment for your first attunement.