There is fascinating, impressive research evidence suggesting that a collective consciousness exists. Meta-analyses confirming telepathy, clairsentience, psychokinesis as components of collective consciousness are of such a high confidence levels that the chances that these results are random occurrences range between less than one in a million to one in ten million billion billion. If we accept collective consciousness as a fact of our existence, then each of us is like a brain cell in the mind of the All.
The collective consciousness may then offer us various ways to address and heal the ills of our planet – directly and through shifts in the collective consciousness of humanity and of broader planetary awarenesses.
This article suggests that releases of collective negativity can be markedly enhanced if we set the intention that all our personal releases will simultaneously invite releases of similar negativities from others in the collective consciousness of which we are a part – taking a lesson from Ho'oponopono, which teaches this approach in individual therapy/healing. This type of release can clear our inherited consciousness through our family of origin, as well as the consciousness of our families of choice, community, nation and the globe.
Transcending space and time through the collective consciousness, it is possible to clear our lingering negativities from our own and others' past lives, past relationships, and the past lives of everyone in the collective consciousness through all time. All therapists can help to release major collections of negativity by systematically facilitating with their clients similar releases as individuals, and this is simultaneously an opportunity to release a load of collective consciousness negativity.
Such a concerted focus on clearing collective negativity could help to transform the negativity of humankind, which manifests as a collective post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This is vitally important because humanity carries enormous collective PTSD residues that are expressed as the abused becoming abusers. This is one of the core psychological mechanisms bringing us to the point of the collective suicide of humanity and the genocide of countless other species on this planet through wars, global heating, pollution and wanton ecological mismanagement.
Using Ho’oponopono (a Hawaiian healing method), WHEE (Wholistic Hybrid derived from EMDR and EFT), or any of many other varieties of healing as a platform to heal the collective consciousness, we can release the angers, fears and hurts that lead us collectively to behave in these destructive ways. At the same time, each of us can be using our own individual healings not only to release negativity, but also to build positive, healing energies in ourselves and the collective consciousness, as practiced in WHEE (Wholistic Hybrid derived from EMDR and EFT). Similarly, therapists can help clients to do this type of clearing as they practice self-healing approaches on their own.
The U.S. Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM) of the United States National Institutes of Health held a 1985 conference to evaluate research needs in the field of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Its resulting guidelines have been used in this essay to describe three “culture-based” traditional healing systems and how they have interacted with allopathic biomedicine over the past several decades. After a brief description of Puerto Rican folk healing, it provides a first-hand observation of traditional Balinese shamanism and its encounter with Western psychiatry, the Andean Kallawaya system of healing and its interface with biomedicine, and Mexican-American Curanderismo and its long history of interaction with European medicine and, more recently, biomedicine in the United States. These systems are examples of “ethnomedicine,” a term that refers to the comparative study of medical systems in various cultures, focusing on beliefs and practices concerning sickness and health. It involves the observation and description of hygienic, preventive and healing practices, taking temporal and geographic references into account. From a post-modern perspective, it permits inspection of a “dominant” medical or healing system with those that lack equal power, and the outcomes of a clash between these systems.
This article introduces a transpersonal spiritual framework describing the process of transformation and healing that may be experienced in the aftermath of trauma. The spiritual framework embraces four iterative processes: holding and containing, letting go and expanding, accepting and transforming, and embracing spirituality that may be used to provide guidance when working with individuals who have experienced trauma. A basic assumption underpinning the framework suggests that trauma survivors have within themselves a core essence/spiritual self that enables them to establish a post-trauma identity that eventually re-connects them with the natural flow of life allowing them to live fully. Ultimately, this spiritual framework offers clinicians with a holistic lens for viewing and treating individuals who have experienced trauma in their lives.
Helping Veterans heal from the trauma of war has been a journey into a spiritual place that I might not have been able to reach otherwise. I am filled with gratitude for every soldier who has allowed me to get an insight into his or her world. These are my most amazing mentors who are giving me their loving trust and support to continue this journey.
As a life coach, specializing in Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), I have been blessed and honored to help many Veterans heal from their trauma of war. I have worked with US Marines who, even after 40 years, still can’t find forgiveness for what happened in Vietnam. I have helped Veterans from most recent wars who have relived their nightmares of horror, overwhelm and danger every night.
Ho’oponopono is an ancient Hawaiian method of stress reduction, conflict resolution and energy clearing from people and places. This article refers to the transforming wisdom and its modern psychology and spiritual based applications. Ho’oponopono provides a profound method of healing that promotes the Universal Law of the Interconnection of Life. It is a powerful method that can meet the stressful challenges of our times. At its best it provides practical ways of how we can participate in the transformation of consciousness on both the individual and collective levels.
An Overtangle is a toxic belief system caused by cultural brainwashing that forms a network of negative energy so extensive that it contaminates large organizations and societies for millennia. These toxic belief systems are so evil that they are sometimes described as networks of supernatural entities from the dark, i.e. demonic networks, In fact, Overtangles cause depression and the feeling that “life is hopeless, so give up, don’t bother.” Ultimately, they cause needless human suffering, waste our talent and potential, and dishonor the purpose of our very creation and existence. Although Overtangles can be described in terms of supernatural phenomena, the author has found that they are not specific to any world religion. In describing this phenomenon and its treatment, the author is not promoting any specific religious point of view but merely sharing methods that she has found to be most effective after extensive clinical experimentation and testing.
This paper summarizes the author’s original research on Overtangles, which is the author’s term for these energetic entities in the collective consciousness. The test population was composed of clients who came for mind-body therapy using Healing from the Body Level UpTM (HBLUTM) methodology between 2001 and 2008 (over 500 clients). Clients sought help for a variety of life issues in the areas of relationship, career, performance, and psychological problems such as depression, phobias, trauma, and anxiety. Clients also came for treatment for physical health problems...
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Before we do our personal work with TAT, we make an intention: The healing that is about to happen is on behalf of myself, my ancestors, my whole family, all the parts of myself, my conscious and subconscious mind, all points of view with which I’m associated, all beings involved, and for any being who would like to benefit from this healing. The intent includes the feeling that the healing is offered and not forced on any being.
To use the wonderful power that comes from truly changing our viewpoint and giving ourselves new information, we can do TAT on a whole group of thoughts that we put together in one “pot”. We can begin with a pot of thoughts – like a soup. The great thing about making this kind of soup is that we start out with ingredients we don’t like and end up with our favorite delicious, life-giving soup. We’ll make the intention that this soup will cook eternally, as long as it is of value, and that it will always be ready for people to add their own ingredients (their personal thoughts they’d like to clear). Below are some thoughts in our starter pot – please add your own.
The New Hope Channelers Support Group in Pennsylvania was founded in 1990. Over the years it has evolved and its visionary leaders have expanded the range of programs, changed the Group’s name and relocated the meeting site. The Group is now called The New Hope Metaphysical Society and has its own website.
My story is about how the idea to start a support group for people who channel originated and how it grew into what it has become today. It wasn’t my idea but the concept was channeled to me -- I just followed through on the spiritual guidance.
In 1987 Dr Daniel Benor first convened meetings of like-minded doctors who were interested in complementary therapies, and particular spiritual healing. At that time there were a few doctors working within the National Health Service who were on a quest to discover deeper causes of illness, and to look for less invasive treatments beyond the standard medical prescriptions. They realised there were missing factors about which they had not been trained, either at medical school, or in any post-graduate teaching. They were learning the importance of spiritual factors in their everyday work, which were not being addressed by the more orthodox churches. They were able to discover a few gallant souls who, despite holding down prestigious posts within the NHS, both in hospitals and general practice on occasions used unusual healing gifts consciously or unconsciously, on occasions in the course of their normal daily work.
Three of these early DHN members had employed trained healers into their general practices for many years…
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