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A New Presence and Place of Belonging for an Awakening Humanity

 

 

 

 

CLEARING, INTEGRATING, AND ACTIVATING

The following excerpt from the book Getting Thru to Your Soul describes the role healing plays in the evolutionary journey.

By Phillip and Jane Mountrose

As we explore our inner worlds and develop a more unified understanding of ourselves and our souls, we grow personally and spiritually. Gradually we return to a sense of wholeness. There are three basic steps in any healing processes we experience on the journey: clearing, integrating, and activating.

1. Clearing: We start any healing process with the awareness that something is wrong. This may be physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual. The clearing process releases the blockages , preparing us to embrace more light and soul awareness.

2. Integrating: Once clearing has occurred, there is a period of restructuring or integrating. With the clearing, a blockage has been released. Now our energetic makeup shifts to accommodate more spiritual light and conscious awareness. This integration process may take hours, days, weeks, maybe even months, depending on the nature of the blockage. It is largely a process of experiencing the soul in a more expanded way, and allowing the limiting patterns to release.

3. Activating: The last step is activating a greater awareness of oneself. In each of our lives, the soul determines when we are ready to let in more light and to activate a more expanded level of consciousness. As we have seen, there are seven major activations, which are like milestones on the spiritual path. There are also a many minor activations that correspond with each of the individual healing processes we undertake.

Once these three steps are complete, the process begins again, like a spiral. The light from the activation shines on other dark areas and new issues come up to be cleared. Gradually, we notice that life is different; it becomes richer as we spiral upward and integrate more of the soul’s light.

Understanding the healing process helps us to recognize the importance of clearing and integrating. Some individuals on the spiritual path strive to build light without making the effort to detect and clear the energetic blockages that become exposed. This avoidance creates a backup, much like a sewer, which builds over time and prevents the individual from progressing further in the activation process. Like a sewer, people in this situation are difficult to be around because of the build up of negativity. They also tend to spend a lot of their energy on denying the lessons that are before them. Fortunately, with an open mind and the proper tools, this does not need to occur.

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THE IMPORTANCE OF 
INNER HEALING ON THE SPIRITUAL PATH

By Phillip and Jane Mountrose, 
Co-Founders and Senior Ministers of Holistic Healing

Exploring the nature of the spiritual path can be a profoundly rewarding life long journey. Many people agree that the goal is to achieve higher consciousness, inner peace, oneness, and wholeness. We also relate it to having a more joyful, loving, fulfilling life. The question, then, becomes, what is the easiest, fastest, and most effective way to reach these desired states?

We view the spiritual path as a spiral that lifts us gradually upward through a combination of clearing blockages to our wholeness, integrating the changes into our reality, and activating new levels of awareness. It is curious to us that many expect to achieve higher consciousness without placing any emphasis on being more conscious of who they are and why they do the things they do. In our exploration of hypnotherapy, we learned that in many people as little as 5% of their awareness is conscious. This means that they are largely unconscious and the vast majority of the time, they have no idea why they do the things they do.

ACCELERATED SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT  

There are many paths to wholeness and some take much longer than others. Our focus is on accelerated spiritual development and moving fully into embracing the soul’s reason for coming into this life. We have watched many well-intended people pursue spiritual practices over periods of years without clearing the blockages that prevent them from embracing their divinity and realizing their purposes in life. Many have been told and fully expect that seeking higher states of consciousness through regular meditation or other spiritual practices will eventually heal the wounds that hold them in limitation. Meanwhile, the years pass while they wait, still grieving old losses, resenting wrongs done to them ten or twenty years ago, holding wounds from childhood, and on and on.

Visionary philosopher Ken Wilber explains an important distinction between states of consciousness and stages of spiritual development. The two don’t necessarily go in lock step. In Integral Spirituality, he writes:

“Anybody familiar with the monastic traditions, East and West… will recognize those souls who might be quite spiritually advanced in… contemplative illumination and unification… and yet might still have a very conformist and conventional mentality. Although they are very advanced in meditative states training… their available interpretive repertoire is loaded with very… parochial ideas that pass for timeless Buddha-dharma [right living].”

In other words, meditation can help to create a more elevated state, but if you don’t clear your limiting beliefs (like the belief that “homosexuality is a sin”), then you still may have limited conscious awareness of yourself and hold onto blockages that limit your overall spiritual development. So yes, meditation helps a person advance, yet it is not a substitute for deep clearing work. In fact, the two (meditating and healing) complement each other.

TAKING ACTION NOW

So, why wait for that elusive time somewhere out in the future when the blockages to your wholeness will hopefully melt away? We prefer to look at immediate changes over days, weeks, and months to eventual changes over years and decades. We have explored and found highly effective methods that allow people to clear blockages, in many cases with astounding speed and ease. In the process, they learn more about their true identities and reasons for being, and create the potential to move freely forward on the soul’s true path.

Interestingly, we have found that many people are reluctant to explore the unconscious aspects of the self for fear of discovering bad things about themselves. Actually, it is quite the opposite. It is the false, wounded parts of self that live in limitation, feeling badly about themselves. These are parts of us who judge ourselves as being limited, inadequate, undeserving, or flawed. They do this because they lack resources, since they are disconnected our spiritual source, the soul’s truth and wholeness. We simply need to reconnect them. The soul understands our true identity and magnificence. As we clear blockages, the soul’s presence becomes an increasingly powerful force in our lives and we become more conscious of the wonder and magnificence of who we are. In the process, we experience more and more joy, love and genuine freedom. We are more able to simply be in the moment, because we are not being unconsciously pulled away by our wounded parts. We can simply be ourselves, here and now, and connect with the synchronous flow of life. To us, this is the essence of the spiritual journey.

THE ESSENCE OF AWAKENINGS

The essence of Awakenings involves moving fully forward on our paths, helping humanity to rise to a new way of being. We offer our perspective on healing and the nature of the spiritual journey to help those who feel guided to participate in this awakening, on a personal and societal level. The steps each of us makes as we move forward on the journey widens the path, smoothes out the potholes, and lights the way for those who follow.


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THOUGHTS ON  HEALING

A simple way to recognize wholeness is by the presence of love. As we achieve inner healing, we release more of our fears, and embrace more love. In the process, life becomes a wondrous, synchronous, and joy filled journey. 

As Dayana Patterson, a Senior Minister with Awakenings, reminds us:

"You're on this incredible treasure hunt and the prize is you."

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"All healing is essentially the release from fear."

           - A Course in Miracles

"Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are."

            - Unknown Source

"The true value of the human being is determined primarily by how he [or she] has achieved liberation of the self."

              - Albert Einstein

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SUGGESTED HEALING PRACTICES

Awakenings' authors Phillip and Jane Mountrose have written extensively about inner healing and spiritual development. Information about their books Getting Thru to Your Emotions with EFT, Getting Thru to Your Soul and The Heart and Soul of EFT is available on their website at www.gettingthru.org.

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AWAKENINGS' MISSION

Awakenings was created to share a higher experience of reality, reaching beyond limitation to wholeness. It provides an opportunity for likeminded individuals to collectively create a tangible presence for those seeking to rise above fear and limitation to create a world that resonates with the higher energies of joy, love, and peace.

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MEMBERSHIP

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UNIVERSITY DEGREE PROGRAMS

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UPCOMING EVENTS

CLICK HERE to go to gettingthru.org for a complete listing of seminars and courses available with Phillip and Jane Mountrose.

 

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