Facilitating Healing

A couple of Sundays ago I spent four hours in a workshop lead by Scott Schwenk with a group of about fifteen people, all of whom came open, willing and ready for a shift. This was the fourth time I’ve worked with this specific breathing technique developed by healer David Elliot, and each time I’ve had incredible openings and revelations. Having been told since I was a child that I need to get a grip on my emotions, the freedom to just cry, cry as much and as hysterically out of control as I needed to, was an incredible blessing and I was able to release long stored emotions both energetically and even physically.

This past workshop in particular was overtly powerful as we asked ourselves personal questions: What lessons am I ready for the universe to be teaching me at this time? and How do I use my emotions to remain stuck in the past? We wrote down the answers as they arouse in our journals. We then discussed and moved through the layers of our existence – physical, emotional, mental and spiritual – facilitating the breathwork to help find additional answers, heal old tramas, and transform our experiences of the present.

Personally, my largest transformation took place during the “emotional” portion of the workshop, which wasn’t surprising since I live and interpret the present completely through my emotions. When we laid down to begin the breathwork I asked one question over and over again: What if I can accept the universes unconditional acceptance of me? For me, unconditional love is the hardest truth to accept. While breathing, with my body vibrating with energy, I began to cry as I realized why it was so hard for me to accept unconditional love – because it’s extremely hard for me to unconditionally love myself. My entire life I have striven for perfection, not believing I deserved love otherwise. As I allowed myself to cry and continued with the breath an incredible cleansing took place, it was almost as though I felt myself become whole again, and realized a few of the hidden reasons why I struggle so much with self love.

I’m not saying I was cured in one four-hour workshop, that I never use self-criticism, or that I have fallen totally, madly in love with myself, but I will. Because I will continue to do the breathwork, I will continue to uncover locked emotions and beliefs, ridding myself of the ones that no longer serve me and cultivating new, healthy positive thought patterns. And I’m sure, like everything else, once I’m able to let go of the need to be perfect, there will be other areas of my life that will need attention, but I’m in no rush. The breath will support me, I have healers I can turn to in times of despair, and since I am willing to feel uncomfortable I will continue to shift and grow.

There will be another four hour workshop with Scott this Sunday, 6/7 from 1 -5 pm, don't miss this amazing opportunity to shift!