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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.
CLICK HERE to find out more about the organization.
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MEMBERSHIP
CLICK HERE to find out how you can become an official
member of Awakenings spiritual community.
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UNIVERSITY DEGREE PROGRAMS
CLICK HERE to learn about earning a doctorate,
masters, or bachelor's degree in a spiritual/holistic subject.
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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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