The Wounded Healer Journey. The pain, gifts and learning that comes from the wounded healer archetype.
Exploring the Wounded Healer Journey from the healers perspective. How our own deepest conscious and unconscious wounding, birth’s the gift to help heal others.
Why the healers’ journey is a lifelong path of self-discovery and self-exploration into our own inner world as much as the clients or patients we are called to help.
What is The Wounded Healer?
The Wounded Healer is a term that comes from the view that the healers is born from the light that enters the wound, the compassion that comes from one’s own suffering. In turn wanting us to help others because of that wounding.
The Wounded Healer concept originated from Greek Mythology;
When Chiron the Centurion was deeply wounded by Hercules’s deadly poisoned arrows. And although he could not heal himself, he used his deepest core wounding to help save another.
And in relation to the story of Asclepius the god of medicine, a Greek doctor who began a sanctuary to help heal others because of his own wounds.
The Light and Shadow Traits Of The Wounded Healer
The wounded healer is generally more conscious that their desire to help others heal is because of what they personally suffered from. But the reality is every physician, health or wellbeing practitioner, therapist or healer has core wounding.
Every person has wounds that cause them pain, suffering, triggers some sort of emotional reaction. That is why a healer who believes they are healed, have very little awareness and self-awareness.
No matter how healed you think you are. We are all a work in progress, all healers, all humans are wounded at some level.
We all have both light and shadow traits that show up as archetypal patterns in everyday life. That is why the healers’ journey is a never ending path of self-discovery and healing of our shadow wounds.
We all have shadow traits that need to be healed and as healers we need to be more self aware about any internal wounding’s or projections we may put onto our clients. So as not to cause more harm, as they say “heal thyself”.
My Own Wounds On The Wounded Healer Journey
As a wounded healer myself who began my own journey into becoming a healer over 30 years ago after facing all sorts of mental, emotional, physical and spiritual wounding. Especially wounding around medical harm and injury, and further wounding from a broken medical and healthcare system, ill equipped healers and therapists.
My own wounds led me to down a long path, a very road less travelled path. Where I met and worked with so many wounded healers. Many compassionate and self aware healers but equally many healers who lacked compassion, awareness or even just proper training. Who were actually inflicting further wounding and harm to their clients, patients and students.
From a therapist and healer’s perspective this made me question so much around the healers role and standardisation from an ethical perspective. Do healers today get enough training, go through a long enough and deep enough apprenticeship to prevent them from really harming others.
Every week I see so many over generalisations or comment by healers, therapist s or coaches that comes from deep lack of awareness, insight and experience. Ideologies that on so many levels can be deeply damaging to the psyche of the vulnerable and suffering client, the naive student.
Common Traits Of The Wounded Healer
Light Traits Of The Wounded Healer
Here are some gifts of the wounded healer.
Awareness and Self Awareness:
Wounded healers naturally have good self-awareness and awareness of others.This is what makes them natural healers as they are more aware of others needs, challenges and themself. They tend to know themself at a deeper level so are more aware of their own shadow which is extremely important in any sort of healing work.
Compassion and Empathy:
The wounded healer has great compassion for others, some have great empathy, that is why many empaths are natural healers and strong caregivers and nurturers who have to heal their own wounding around boundaries.
Deep Calling Or Purpose:
A deep sense of purpose, they just know in the heart and soul their calling is to help or help heal others.
Hero Traits:
Wounded healers can also have an element of the hero archetype where through courage, tenacity and determination through their own suffering they inspire, empower and motivate others. That is why the wounded healers journey is part of the hero’s journey.
Intuitive And Insightful:
The wounded healer is a natural healer, deeply intuitive and aware of things at a deeper level, they can sense beyond the surface of what is going on at the individual and collective level. That is why many wounded healers become energy healers and spiritual healers.
Helper Since Childhood:
Wounded healers tend to have always been life’s little helpers, starting from childhood.
Self Growth:
Have the ability to look at all pain, suffering and learning as an opportunity to grow and evolve.
Shadow Traits Of The Wounded Healer
Here are some dark traits that can show up in the unhealed wounded healer
End up suffering mental, emotional, physical and even spiritual burnout. Due to lack of healthy boundaries, psychic protection.
Destroyer Traits:
Destroys or disables others through their own wounding, their own pain, or egoic desires. Causing direct nor indirect pain to others or those they work with.
Co-dependency and Enabling:
When one constantly enables or rescues others. Provides strength, support and rescuing to others preventing the other take self-responsibility or co-dependent relationships. Or where therapists encourage clients to come to them for years or months and the client is not making huge progress.
Gaslighting:
Where one gaslights their clients, patients or students reality. This can come from narcissistic wounding, or even to control over power the client or patient such as from very biased, fixed ideology about what is going on with the client.
God or Saviour Tendencies:
Where the physician or healer projects on to the patient or person that they are the one doing the healing, the one saving them. Implying at some level they are their god or saviour.
Martyr Traits:
Will sacrifice their own wellbeing and life for others, for their work.
Illusion And Manipulation:
One of the strong archetypal traits in many healers is the alchemist and magician. The dark magician will often use illusion or trickery to manipulate, control or seduce the client or patient. For example making implications or promises they cannot guarantee, misrepresent information or knowledge for their own gain or from naivety.
Prostitute Traits:
Where one sells their soul, their spiritual integrity and gifts to the highest bidder for material or financial gain. This has become a big problem in world where spirituality and healing vocations has become inverted, over commercialised, seduced by glammer, populism and even celebrity status. Than what is at the heart of the true healers journey.
The Healers Journey
What I came to realise as a wounded healer on my own healing journey, was that as healers we need to constantly evolve and grow in our own healing, consciousness and awareness. What I believed 30 years ago as a healer is very different on what I believe know.
In a polarised world where we have so many light and shadow aspects to us and the collective. It is important to remind ourself that the healers path is painted with pain, gifts, especially of privilege and honour to the people we get to help and support. Because in that process we heal ourselves through the shadow aspects of another.
About Eileen Burns
Eileen is a highly compassionate and dedicated healer, therapist, soul empowerment coach and mentor. Who is passionate about helping awakened healers and lightworkers step more fully in their life and soul purpose with strength and ease. She provides a wide range of self study courses, meditations, one to one inner child, archetypal and spiritual business support sessions. More about Eileen’s Expertise and Qualifications Click Here.
The Wounded Healer Podcast
Wounded Healer To Hero Podcast is a brand new video podcast with Eileen and healer friends as co-hosts.
And learn how to calm our nervous system and inner child.
Life Can Be Jarring On The Nervous System
The reality of life is that it is always shifting and changing,
but sometimes those shifts and changes are so huge or so unpredictable,
that it can be really almost shocking or jarring on the nervous system.
Conscious Actions To Calm The Nervous System
There are so many tools and techniques to help soothe and calm the nervous system,
some are most suitable than others for certain people.
We have so many acupressure, breathing techniques, soma, meditation and relaxation techniques, quantum mind techniques, healing techniques and so much more.
As well as more tapping technique which I do not always believe they are the most suitable for some with sensory or sensitive issues, for so many reasons.
When there is so many other more gentle and soothing techniques available.
Choosing The Right Approach To Calm The Nervous System
I have personally found as a highly sensitive empath who has suffered sensory processing challenges and neurological complications.
That not all therapeutic approaches being used out there today said to regulate the nervous system.
Were suitable or safe, some were actually contraindicatory, triggering or traumatising to my nervous system.
For a variety of reasons which included brain smudging, motor cortex issues and structural alignment issues.
A lot of people who have sensory processing issues ,are highly sensitive or are neurodivergent can struggle with certain senses or tasks that require certain types of left and right movement or processing.
Some people with structural, spinal or cervical issues struggle with certain breathing techniques.
So it is important to choose a therapist, approach or technique that is most aligned with your specific needs. And has enough experience and training to understand your needs.
Calming The Nervous System With A Holistic Approach
And it is one of the reasons in my Stress Coach Training school that I teach my students a very multi-faceted and holistic approach to helping clients in the most safest and effective ways.
One of the big problems is that many practitioners don’t even understand the basics of anatomy,
the nervous system and the neural system. And even more worrying is there naivety around trauma and the human psyche.
So they sometimes can push certain modalities or approaches on clients where the techniques doesn’t feel most natural or right for that client.
Everyone is different and now more than ever therapist have access to hundreds probably even thousands of different types of tools and techniques to help calm the sympathetic nervous system.
Calming The Inner Child
One of the ways that we can all start supporting our nervous system more consciously and safely, is by doing simple things to soothe our inner child.
Using Self Compassion To Calm The Nervous System And Inner Child
Become more compassionate, kind towards our inner child. That little person inside that struggles with certain triggers and trauma, that didn’t learn how to deal with certain life difficulties in the most healthy and empowered way.
We are all a work in progress, no one has got it perfect,
we all have our own unique and difficult life challenges.
Being hard or unkind to ourselves will just cause further unhealthy responses.
One of the problems at the moment is many people,
are actually constantly questioning their reality and their own truth.
Because of the amount of gaslighting we have all been exposed to from media,
politics, big corporations, world globalisation leaders and even celebrities.
On so many levels it has really traumatised or retraumatised the nervous system,
That is why taking time out from life’s challenges and doing what your heart and soul LOVE’s to do.
Is such a powerful part of healing and reteaching our mind, body and spirit how to be.
The Power Of Animals, Children and Nature To Calm The Nervous System
Spending time in the purity and simplicity of nature, with animals, children or child like activities, can be so nourishing for the heart, soul and nervous system.
Natures Medicine To Soothe And Calm The Nervous System
Also using natural aids to help soothe our nervous system, can make such a big difference in the process of healing.
But so is making a deeper connection with your inner child, meeting the magical essence of the different archetypal traits of your inner child.
Which I know so many people could really benefit from at this moment.
If this is you, and you want to start nurturing and healing your inner child more my
Inner Child Healing Course
is one of my older self study programs that helps you connect, nurture, heal and empower your inner child.
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7 Different Edible Flowers You Can Eat From Home Gardens.
Some of the most beautiful home garden edible flowers you can add to salads, desserts, cakes, teas and even use as natural remedies.
As a child I loved to spend time in nature especially among the flowers and yes actually eat flowers. My siblings would make fun of me as one of the things I used to do was put rose petals on a sandwich or as we say in Scotland on a piece.
In many ways putting flowers on a sandwich was definitely not the most tastiest ways to eat these lovely flowers. But to me there was something deeper at a soul level that was connecting me to the healing properties of nature.
So it’s not surprising I went onto study aromatherapy and essential oils, flower essences and holistic therapies as part of my own healing journey.
I have such a fascination for natures medicine cabinet, which include the view of food being they medicine so when I found out there was so many different edible flowers, I had to start growing some of them in my small garden.
7 Different Beautiful Edible Flowers You Can Eat
Lets explore some of the pretty culinary flowers you can eat and grow in your home garden.
Calendula (Marigolds)
Calendula is not only a gorgeous edible flower but calendula is widely used in herbal and naturopathic medicine. This marigold flower is used in many salves and skincare and used to treat and aid wounds. It is widely known to have anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal and antiseptic properties. Marigolds are used in salads and pickling.
Dhalias
Dhalias are another edible flower that looks spectacular in the garden. You can not only eat the Dhalias flower and petals but you can also eat the Dhalia tuber. In- fact according to Simply Garden com you can eat the whole plant and it tastes like asparagus.
Geraniums Scented
Scented Geraniums are edible, both the leaves and flowers but it is recommended to stick to eat only leaves away from the stem as they can be a little bitter. Geranium flowers can be made into teas, added as a flavouring or decorating for sweets, desserts and salads, as well as used to flavour fish. Rose geraniums have a rose taste, lemon geraniums are more tangy.
Hibiscus
Many Hibiscus flowers are widely used in all sorts of foods such as cordials, jams, relishes, fruit salads, fruit teas, even ice cream. You can eat both the flower and the hibiscus leave in most varieties of Hibiscus. But it is worth checking as there are so many different types of hibiscus. One species of the Hibiscus plant that is widely eaten is Hibiscus sabdariffa.
Nasturtium
Nasturtiums are one of the most quick and easy edible flowers to grow. Both leaves and flowers of Nasturtiums can be added to salads. There are a variety of species of Nasturtium some are annuals and others are perennials. They love the sun.
Roses
Roses are also edible flowers, it is said that the more fragrant roses tend to taste best. Roses are used to flavour drinks, herbal teas, an ingredient of Turkish Delight, used in icing and on icing especially as a crystallised petal. Roses are used in ayurvedic medicine and other forms of natural medicine. Rose oil is also a high vibration essential oil widely used in skincare and used to gently improve mood.
Wild Pansy are edible flowers used as a garnish on cake decorations, they can come in an array of colours blue, orange, yellow, white and purple. Some are also bi or tri-colored. Violas are also added to salads and desserts. Heartease is a Viola Tricolour.
Wild Flowers That Are Edible
Above are just some of the edible flowers you can grown in your garden, there is even more edible flowers available in the wild, especially some of the wild flowers that some may deem as weeds such as borage and dandelion.
Eileen Burns is a healer, therapist and soul empowerment coach for empaths, healers and sensitives. She is passionate about helping lightworkers, empaths and sensitives live a more soul empowered and soul-aligned life. Eileen provides a variety of self-study courses, meditations, training and one to one coaching and healing.
10 Things That Lower A Healers Energy, Frequency And Vibration. The 10 things healers should avoid, eliminate or reduce in your life and work if you want to be a master healer.
A Healers Role
A healers role is a sacred role, a healers energy is something that should never be taken lightly. If you are an energy healer or spiritual healer it is vital that you are taking care of your own body and life force.
A healers energy needs to be honoured and respected so you can truly fulfill your mission in the healthiest ways for your clients.
Although every type of healing channel and modality is different, any therapist or healer who is working in any shape or form with someone else’s mind, emotions or energy field.
Your vibes, your energy field can have the power to influence and manipulate the person’s energy field.
Especially when the client is on some level energetically vulnerable when they come to you for help or support.
Your clients are coming to you because they feel disempowered in one or more area of their life or wellbeing. So the last thing a client or students needs is a healer who has has mucky energy; especially attachments, entities, who is highly toxic.
Healers Attachments
You maybe surprised how many healers carry attachments and don’t know. It is one of the reason I know so many very experienced healers treat other healers who have attachments daily. And why they no longer practice certain types of healing modalities they used to use before.
It is one of the reasons I am very specific about who I get healing from and what types of healing people do on me. Why I no longer get certain types of healing, because the reality is some types of channeling, healing and healers are more open to this problem.
And most healers are not master healers, they are often taught their type of healing modality is a completely pure channel or that their tools will eliminate or clear any negative or low form of energy.
When the reality is most true master healers see daily the evidence of why this is not true.
Healing Without Permission Or Request
My opinions on many healing modalities has changed dramatically over the years. And is one of the reasons why I find it quite invasive when people assume that its okay to send anyone healing without permission or request.
As someone who has studied healing and spirituality for over 30 years, I do think this is bad spiritual practice for so many reasons. It actually goes against lots of natural spiritual laws especially modalities that use certain types of symbols or spiritual beliefs than just sending someone love or positive intention.
This can be an unconscious trait of the wounded healer, who believes they are here to heal everyone or save everyone,
Spiritual Attacks And Healers Energy
Today more than ever healers are spiritually exposed to all sorts of spiritual attacks, psychic attacks, curses and spells. We are living in a time of spiritual war where it is vital for healers to protect their energy, purify and increase their vibration.
10 Things That Can Lower A Healers Energy And Vibration
Alcohol
Alcohol doesn’t just lower your energy, trigger self-destructive patterns and behaviours. But alcohol also makes you more vulnerable to nefarious energetic attachments and entities. It is one of the reasons why those with alcohol addictions and other drug addictions can end up in a very dark place. Can spiral onto a dark path. And it is one of the reasons why all masters healers and spiritual teachers avoid alcohol.
Caffeine
Caffeine blocks the third eye, it is extremely stimulating on the central nervous system, which can keep many people in a low-level fight or flight state. One of the reasons highly sensitive people and highly sensitive empaths should avoid or reduce their caffeine intake. Just be careful of many decaffeinated versions that have been washed in highly toxic substances.
Processed Foods
Sadly so many processed foods are not just slightly processed but more and more are full of manmade substitutes or seriously genetically modified plants or substances. They lack any natural life vital force that we tend to get from fresh organic and natural produce. What is even more disturbing, is completely manmade foods like artificial meat which is made from stem cells and other crazy approaches by people trying to play god.
Sugar and Artificial Sweeteners
Processed sugar is widely recognized by many scientists as cancer-causing, sugar feeds bacteria, mold, and viruses and causes all sorts of inflammatory responses to the immune system, our organs, and energy field.
Sugar is one of the lowest vibrational foods that causes anxiety, depression, diabetes and moodiness.You just need to try out some basic muscle techniques to see how much it weakens our body and the aura. And how it can contribute to brain fog, poor intuition and lower the healers energy and protection.
Electro Magnetic Frequencies
EMFs are widely known to impact our energetic field even though we have seen a dramatic increase in the roll-out of things like 5G in every place imagine and the general increasing in technology we have around us at home and in work. A healers energy should protected from EMF’s as much as possible. There is so many wearable EMF protectors and things you can use on your technology and in your home today.
Energy Practices That Don’t Resonate
One of the things that we need to practice as a healer is good discernment, removing yourself from any energy practices, teachings or energy modalities that don’t feel aligned with your heart and soul is so important.
This can change as we evolve and grow and things change in the collective. So many healers never questions the tools, techniques or form of channeling they are using.
As a healer of 30 years who has worked with hundreds of healers on a personal level as well as professional, I am far more discerning now to what types of healing practices I align with. And who I allow in my energetic field.
As a highly sensitive intuitive and empath I am very aware how spiritually and psychically unaware most healers are to what they are practising and what is in their energy field.Things that can trigger a lot of anxiety, depression, anger, rage, personality changes and so much more.
Heavy Metals
Heavy metals should not be in our bodies, our organs, or brains. “Heavy metals attach to your cells and prevent them from performing their functions, which causes symptoms that could be life threatening without treatment.” Cleveland Clinic.
Heavy metals are in our food, water, cosmetics and in medical procedures such as injections, amalgam fillings and sometimes put in the body for joint and bone repairs. Most people would be surprised at what heavy metal toxicity can do to our energy field.
As energy healers it is important to do what we can to reduce and eliminate heavy metals from our bodies. Such as filtrating the water we drink, avoiding highly toxic medical procedures and treatments when possible.
Synthetic and Toxic Fabrics
Toxic and synthetic fabrics like rayon, polyester, acrylic, or nylon are extremely low vibration. While fabrics like linen, wool, and organic cotton are of high vibration and are great at increasing the light and a healers energy.
As a highly sensitive child I could never tolerate manmade fabrics. I have always been naturally attracted to organic cashmere, organic cotton, linen and wool even silk. But would be energetically repelled by toxic and synthetic fabrics.
Toxic Skincare and Toxic Cosmetics
Avoid cosmetics and skincare products that are made from highly toxic and manmade ingredients. Skincare not made from natural ingredients are not just toxic for the skin but for the body and our mood.
It’s interesting how as a society we can get so focused on the aesthetics of things but have not awareness or interest in how toxic the clothes or cosmetics we are wearing every day have on our body and skin.
Or what they are using as a deodorant and apply to their lymphatic glands. One ingredient that I realised many years ago can seriously lower your energy was isopropyl alcohol which is many cosmetics and nail products. This is a product I was asked to carry to college when I was studying music, it was used to clean some of the recording equipment. Even though I didn’t know at the time it was highly toxic although many times I felt really unwell when I was in the studios.
Unhealthy Boundaries and Lack Of Energy Protection
Lack of boundaries and lack of energy protection opens us up to all sorts of energy, emotions, thoughts, beliefs, attachments. Many of us who are empaths have to really work at setting healthier boundaries with the world around us. And its doing it in a way that is not coming from a fearful space but a healthy space.
A Healers Energy Needs To Be Protected And Honoured
A healers energy has to be honoured and protected on a daily basis. A healers energy needs to be crystal clear.
A lot of healers and lightworkers become like empaths or sensitives, they become more finely tuned to their clients energy and they world around them. Especially spiritual healers and energy healers who work with hundreds or thousands of clients.
When we don’t protect our energy and life force throughout the day, we open the door and allow in lower vibrational energies, toxins and imprints into your field. Or becomes more easily energetically hi-jacked, conditioned or programmed by 3d illusions and deceptions.
Like brushing your teeth, a healer needs to learn how to deep clean their energy field throughout their day. And like a dentist with more microscopic or refined tools. The more you raise your consciousness levels the more finely tuned your awareness becomes and you realise how dirty your energy really is.
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The Hero’s Journey in your life, business, your life and soul purpose.
What is the Hero’s Journey
The hero’s journey is based on the classical archetypal template or storytelling structure where the hero goes on a quest or adventure.
An archetypal pattern in mythology that transcends time and culture, recognised in the collective.
The Hero’s Journey Inner Calling
In the hero’s journey the hero has an inner calling that takes them on a journey, a journey that brings up all sorts of tests, trials, and challenges, all part of the initiation process to test the hero’s motivations, strength of character, and soul power.
The hero has to move through different challenges; fears, distractions, temptations, illusions, and perceived limitations.
Despite the initial calling they actually have no idea of what they are going to experience or face on that path. Or what they are going to experience at the other end of that journey.
It many ways the hero’s journey is a deeply spiritual journey that pushes and expands them in ways they never imagined.
Your Hero’s Journey
No matter where you are in your life right now! Know your soul is seeking something so much deeper and powerful. When you begin exploring and following that inner path, you will start to uncover your own power, your own spiritual strength, courage, and integrity in ways that you never imagined.
Your hero’s journey, your soul’s journey, and your different stages of initiation are unique to you.
When we can get on that deeper spiritual journey, it no longer becomes why me, why this.
Because something more deeper helps you take each step even though you cannot see or don’t yet know the bigger picture. I talk about this more in my latest video link in the bottom of the page.
The heart and soul of a powerful soul-aligned healing, coaching, or therapy business are not your tools, qualifications, or certificates.
It is not following the latest marketing trends or how many Facebook Followers you have. Or how many tick tock or Instagram videos or selfies you can do.
A soul-aligned business is built on your biggest soul strengths. Your backbone, your integrity, your deepest motivations and drives in your spiritual business.
The Hero’s Journey And Soul’s Journey
Now more than ever people want transparency and accountability, they want to invest those who walk the talk, practice what they preach, don’t just talk the talk.
Running a soul-aligned business in many ways is one aspect of your hero’s journey especially if you are a healer, therapist or coach.
As it requires not just an inner calling for your souls desire to experience something deeper. As it involves a journey of personal transformation, of soul searching, and soul expansion.
The true soul-aligned path is built on spiritual trust, strength and courage. It is not for the faint heart
ed or for those just looking to be financially successful. It goes so much deeper and is so much more spiritually fulfilling.
Your Spiritual Business Journey
Your spiritual business journey, your spiritual growth, and spiritual transformation is a very personal journey unique to you. That’s why it is important that you are building your business on your hero’s journey, not someone else’s journey, not someone else’s calling or power.
It is one of the reasons we can struggle when we cannot find a business coach, or marketing strategy that feels right for us.
I know for years I struggled to find a spiritual business coach or spiritual business mentor that I felt aligned with. I invested in so many courses and programs that were supposed to be soul-aligned and spiritually aligned that seemed to lack true depth.
In many ways, they were just the same thing most business coaches and marketers were doing. The only difference was some of the words they used, and the titles they called their programs.
So much of it felt dishonest, very superficial, yukky, misaligned with everything I and business stood for.
Your soul-aligned business, is part of your calling it is an extension of you and an extension of so many other things that you stand for and believe in.
If your business is not fully aligned with your core values and traits, passion, purpose and greatest strengths. You are more likely to suffer from misalignment such as anxiety, lack of confidence and overwhelm or even imposter syndrome.
You Deserve To Be The Hero or Heroine Of Your Business
You deserve to do what you are here to do. You are here at this time on earth, to fully step into your life and soul mission with more power and strength, live the life and purpose your heart and soul desires.Here to besoul aligned and soul empowered. NOT to feel powerless or passionless, you are not here to feel disconnected or misaligned with what you are here to do.
ONE of the biggest things I see in the healing and spiritual sector every single day online. There are so too many practitioners giving their power over to their modalities, their tools, their guides and other people than actually building their own soul connection. They struggle bad with discernment, struggle to be in any way soul-guided, and struggle to feel deep passion and alignment.
The Hero’s Journey Archetype
In the work of Joseph Campbell, he believed there were the 3 main stages to the hero’s journey
3 Main Stages
Departure
Initiation
Return
The Hero’s Journey Steps
Campbell also believed there were 12 main steps though others would argue there were 17 steps to the hero’s journey.
Many have different views on the stages of the hero’s journey but what I believe is more important is for us to recognise how sacred our own life journey is. How rich our spiritual life and our purpose can be when we have the courage to go on our own heroine or hero’s journey.
Common Signs Of Compassion Fatigue And Empathy Burnout
5 Signs Of Compassion Fatigue and Emotional Burn-Out. What does compassion fatigue look like and what can you do to reduce the risk of this type of emotional exhaustion, anxiety and stress with Empath and Stress Management Expert; Eileen Burns.
What is Compassion?
Compassion is an awareness and sensitivity to other people’s suffering. Which invokes concern and sympathy, it involves altruism and a wanting to take action to reduce the person’s pain. Now it is easy to get confused with compassion and empathy. Examples of compassion is offering to help out a friend, neighbour with something they find difficult. Being able to listen to someones recent challenges with patience and care.
What is Empathy?
Empathy is the ability to put yourself in someone’s position and feel what someone else is feeling. Someone who is an empath will often actually feels the pain of others for example the physical, mental, emotional pain of others or the energy of a place. Examples of empathy being able to sense other people’s emotions and feelings, feel or see behind a mask. Absorbing other people’s energies, dramas, excitement.
What is Compassion Fatigue and Empathy Fatigue?
Compassion Fatigue
Compassion Fatigue is a form of burn-out a reduction in compassion and empathy that leads to a variety of symptoms that can make you feel frustrated, exhausted, detached, in a state of apathy.
It is caused by both secondary traumatic stress (common in empathy fatigue) which I talk about below and burnout. Often seen in prolonged long periods of over empathy and caregiving, periods of extreme trauma, stress or chronic stress.
Empathy Fatigue
Empathy fatigue is extremely common in empaths as empathy can be extremely overwhelming and very stimulating on the nervous system. It can involve a lot of over-identification of other people’s pain especially when the empath lacks healthy boundaries.
This happens when one’s own wounds are re-triggered by the pain or challenges of others, but feel unable, too detached or too overwhelmed to give the support.
Empathy Fatigue was coined by Professor Mark Stebnicki who documented the observations of “secondary traumatic stress” in what he classed as “high-touch therapists” for example counsellors, psychotherapists etc who in their work needed to have a strong emotional connection to their patients, therapists. They were presenting the same symptoms of their patients or clients anxiety and stress.
Are You At Risk Of Compassion Fatigue Or Empathy Burnout?
Empaths, healers, therapists, caregivers, coaches and counsellors are at a high-risk of compassion fatigue and empathy fatigue. Especially those that suffer or become distracted by other people’s pain.
5 Common Signs Of Compassion Fatigue and Empathy Fatigue
Below are common signs in empathy fatigue and compassion fatigue where there is an overlap in triggers and causes.
Apathy
Feelings of Apathy is a very common sign of compassion fatigue, feel as if you don’t care about anything anymore. Lack of concern, interest enthusiasm and motivation.
Anger and Irritability
Feeling anxious, angry and irritable are common compassion fatigue symptoms. It comes from being overwhelmed and having less tolerance.
Burnout And Exhaustion
A general feeling of burnout and overwhelming exhaustion that leaves you feeling unable to have the mental, emotional or physical resources to deal with or support someone else who is suffering.
Detached
Feeling very detached from your own emotions and emotions, suffering of others is a common example of compassion fatigue in healthcare and hospitals. This is very common in medical professionals, nurses, doctors, those who deal with traumatic experiences, all sorts of mental, emotional pain and suffering on a daily basis.
Emotional and Traumatic Recollections
Emotional and Traumatic Recollections where the client, patient or situation triggers certain memories associated with another client, patient or their own personal trauma. Especially those that are related to particularly traumatic, demanding or challenging situations.
Healing And Manging Compassion Fatigue and Empathy Fatigue
Healthy Boundaries
Healthy boundaries is so important to reduce both compassion fatigue and empathy fatigue especially in empaths who tend to struggle with boundaries and non-identification. As an unruly empath for most of my life, this has been something I have had to work on deeply.
Many empaths have to deeply understand the importance of boundaries, challenge their belief systems and habits around feeling responsible for other people’s pain and suffering. Unfortunately empaths tend to be more prone to attract those who want to stay in victimhood, narcissistic traits and behaviour patterns.
Healthy Lifestyle
A healthy lifestyle is an important aspects of preventing any sorts of mental, emotional fatigue and burnout. What we eat, what we consume mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually can fuel us, deplete or intoxicate us. That is why it is important to do what you can to consume a high vibrational life.
Sadly many medical professionals are some of the most unhealthiest eaters, have alcohol or other addictions. Suffer insomnia especially understandably those on unhealthy shift patterns. All of these things will lead to depletion and physical burnout which in turn reflects the amount of emotional and mental resources you have to support others.
Good Self Awareness
Good self awareness is key in helping us become aware of our needs, our own triggers, light and shadow traits. Our unconscious habits and beliefs that are keeping us stick. Many in the healing and therapy professionals are wounded healers, choosing careers in these areas because of their own past or present wounding.
This can provide greater compassion for others but can also lead to a variety of challenges if the inner child trauma or inner child wounding is not healed. Especially when there is saviour, healer or rescuer traits which can create all forms of co-dependency issues in the patients and clients.
Self Care and Self Compassion
Self Care and Self Compassion is a vital component to the prevention and reduction of compassion fatigue and empath burnout. This is so important in caregivers and empaths who are naturally altruistic and motivated in life by service to others. And who struggle to identify their own needs, wants often due to a childhood knee deep in supporting, helping, rescuing others. Especially self care that helps us keep an open and expansive heart.
Trauma Support
Support with your own personal trauma is so important, we all carry trauma from our childhood and adulthood that shapes our beliefs, behaviours and reactions on a daily basis. Trauma comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes, it impacts us all in different ways in our life, relationships, health and wellbeing.
As someone who has tried out, studied and practices wide range of therapeutic approaches to help clients with trauma for over 20 years. I would always support a holistic approach, a multi-faceted approach for the best results. I personally use a combination of therapeutic archetypal and inner child coaching, healing and therapy with my own clients.
How To Feed Your Soul, nurture a deeper connection with your heart and soul. Raise your soul’s vibration to experience more spiritual joy and spiritual wealth in your daily life.
The more we nurture and feed our soul on a daily basis, the more we give ourselves spiritual sustenance and spiritual strength. The more mental, physical, emotional and spiritual resources we have to deal with life’s difficulties and challenges.
10 Ways To Feed Your Soul Today
Simple and easy ways to nourish your heart and soul on a daily basis.
Quiet Time To Connect With Your Soul
One of the most important things that we can all do to feed our soul is actually schedule out quiet time throughout our day to be still, to meditate, pray and connect with our soul. It is so important to take the time to be quite enough, still enough to hear our soul,hear god, hear our soul’s wisdom.
Get Soul Aligned
Getting soul-aligned in your life, purpose and business helps feed our soul. Making a conscious decision in our life, work and business to listen to what our soul is guiding is to do than the ego is pushing is to do. Helps to feed our soul with more spiritual strength, courage and discernment.
Singing Is A Great Way To Feed Your Soul
Signing to your favourite song is a great way to nourish and feed your heart and soul. Playing your favourite music and singing to songs that open your heart and soul will raise your vibration and outlook. One of the songs that really feeds my soul is Bliss’s – A Hundred Thousand Angels
Spend Time With Children
Spending time with children is one of the most heart-warming ways to nurture our soul, take us back to our own innocence, purity and magical elements.Young children particularly can help us be fully in the moment, experience more joy by doing what their heart and soul is guiding them too do.
Spend Time In Nature
Spend time in nature in the countryside, near mountains, near water, lakes, rivers, the sea. All so deeply soothing for the soul. Another way to bring nature into your life is filling your office and home with house plants. Use flower essences and essential oils.
Look At Beautiful Art
Visit a local gallery or art exhibition or local craft store, be inspired by creative souls that share their soul-aligned gifts. Support these heart-based artists and creatives who bring uniqueness and joy into people’s lives by sharing their beautiful gifts and dedication.Like my old friend Gail Stirling Robertson who creates some of the most quirky art, prints and other types of commissions.
Eat High Vibrational Food
Eating clean high vibrational food that is organic not genetically modified or contaminated with toxic pesticides will help raise your vibration and feed your soul. Especially food that is still fresh or recently picked as it still contains a certain amount of life force.Make a list of healthy foods you actually love to eat, fresh strawberries, juicy plump tomatoes, a refreshing melon, an apple straight from the tree, herbs from your window sill.
Do Something Your Heart & Soul Loves
Do something every day that feeds your heart and soul, choose something each day that your inner child would love to do.Make a list of all the things that give you joy that raises your vibration, raises your mood that will help feed your soul.
What core wound is sabotaging your success in business, life, and health? Exploring the 4 common core wounds behind so many of the challenges we can have in achieving business, financial, relationship, and health success.
What is a Core Wound?
A core wound is a deep psychological wound that makes a large imprint on our psyche. Core wounds leave very distorted limiting beliefs in our unconscious. Many deep core wounds form before 7 years of age, an important time in a child’s development when we form certain narratives, patterns, and behaviours.
Although core wounds can develop later in life most deeper wounding is formed in these early years. It is often the deeper wounding, the deeper layer of pain behind many unhealthy patterns and traits that sabotage different areas of our lives.
How Core Wounds Begin
Core wounds begin when one moves from a state of authentic freedom and the receiver of unconditional love, into different states of mental, emotional, physical, or even spiritual wounding and pain. That is formed from judgment rejection, and punishment from others when we don’t conform to certain behaviours, and ideologies of those around us.
On a spiritual level, it is when the soul feels disconnected from love in many ways at an unconscious level the soul feels disconnected from god.
Core Wounds And Unconscious Sabotaging Beliefs
Core wounds are interrelated to a variety of unconscious sabotaging beliefs and archetypal traits that keep us stuck in unhealthy self-sabotaging beliefs, patterns, attractions, and manifestations.
4 Core Wounds That May Be Sabotaging Your Success
Guilt Wound
Guilt wounding can keep us small, and keep us stuck in archetypal patterns where we get embroiled in others’ emotional pain and suffering. Become the caregiver, helper, servant, rescuer, hero, and warrior in its shadow form.
The Inner child feels guilty for things they are not responsible for, guilty for the suffering and pain of those around them and in the collective. Struggles to set boundaries and struggles to ask for help or receive it in life. Tend to attract people who will use all sorts of manipulation tactics to get them to feel sorry for them, do things for them, and get their attention.
You see this in a lot of empaths and those brought up in a highly strict religious background where guilt was used to manipulate and control.
Displaced guilt can trigger all sorts of unhealthy patterns and behaviors such as overgiving and under receiving in business. Constantly attract those who don’t want to pay or appreciate your value, such as those stuck in their victim archetype or eternal archetype who don’t want to take self-responsibility for their challenges.
Abandonment Wound
Abandonment wounding can stop us make true genuine deep connections in business with our ideal audience and business connections.The abandoned inner child always feels left out and can unintentionally keep themself on the sidelines by their thoughts and behaviours. They struggle to be alone, left out, or appear different. Tend to create co-dependent relationships and co-dependent issues in situations. Tend to attract partners, friends, and other relationships with those who are emotionally unavailable.
In the spiritual business, this can show up as the business that wants to try and serve everyone and is so focused on not leaving anyone out. So busy trying to cater to anyone or everyone their messaging speaks to no one or very few. That is why they can struggle to make deep connections or make any real impact. Their deep desire to be accepted, and belong can make it difficult for their ideal audience to get to know them at a deeper authentic soul level.
Trust Wound
Trust wounding can create all sorts of chaos in business and success. The problem with this major core wound in business is their lack of trust in themselves which shows up in lack of trust in all areas of their life.
Those with trust wounds are so insecure and so afraid to be hurt, that they can be very suspicious, and look for reasons not to trust others. Some tend to be more loners or attract others who don’t feel safe and are also insecure, so there are a lot of trust issues in these relationships.
In any business, trust in your gifts, skills, expertise, your business, and your offerings is paramount. You also have to trust the people you work with, and the clients you serve if you don’t you will attract all sorts of unhealthy situations that reinforce further lack of trust.
Neglect Wound
Neglecting wounding where someone has very low self-worth often attracts all sorts of challenges that reflect that unworthiness. Such as struggling to attract clients, co-partners, and relationships that don’t value, appreciate, or see them no matter how skilled, gifted, or experienced they are they can feel invisible, feel taken for granted, and be undervalued.
Neglect wounding is a core wound that can show up in a lot of repressed emotions, and a struggle to be vulnerable. Wounding that can cause a lot of empaths to become so focused on others they don’t care for themselves and suffer empathic burnout.
Awakening – What does to awaken mean? What’s the main difference between societal and spiritual awakening?
Awakening
In its simplest form awakening means to wake up from some sort of sleeping state or unconsciousness. It refers to the idea that those who wake up, become more aware and conscious of something they were previously oblivious and unaware of before.
What is Spiritual Awakening?
Spiritual awakening is a word that is referred to a lot in certain teachings of spirituality. But like lots of things in the world we all can have different interpretations of what spirituality truly means.
For most spiritual awakenings refer to a powerful spiritual experience that awakens them up a deeper level of spiritual connectedness to god, divinity, and their spiritual being.
Something that can shift you so deeply at your very core, it helps you make huge spiritual changes and transformations in how you view life, the world, god, and spirituality.
In many ways an open door to something much bigger and magnificent than you ever experienced. Spiritual experiences that help you unlock or tap into something beyond the 3d human experience.Often more access to higher dimensions of love, god, the divine you, the authentic you.
Each Level Of Spiritual Awakening
Each level of Spiritual Awakening helps us grow and evolve in different ways. It can help us see beyond the physical realm, and live our life from a much deeper spiritual perspective.
Even though I have had a variety of what could be regarded as different spiritual awakenings over the 35 years. I think the most profound for me was an experience I had while in an induced coma just over 10 years ago.
This experience shifted my views and something inside on so many levels. Not just my beliefs and my identity on some level. But it pushed me to a new level on my path within my healing and therapy journey that I never imagined I would ever go down.
A quest seeking even more answers than I ever had before. Different experiences made me realise even more at a human level how little we know. And on another level how spiritually connected we are to so many things we could ever imagine.
It is also taught me the more we surrender to miracles, god, and the divine we are even more spiritually guided.
Your Spiritual Awakening
Each level of our awakening is personal to us, it can involve all sorts of bizarre, surprising, and extremely challenging experiences designed to wake us up. All divinely created to help us experience all sorts of life lessons, meet all sorts of people and teachers that are an important part of our journey and mission, to wake us up some more.
These situations in many ways forced me to go inward and develop a deeper spiritual openness that helped detach me from many of the distractions and superficialities that entrap most people today. And to build deeper trust in my own inner guidance, intuition, and synchronicities.
Societal Awakening
Societal awakening is another form of awakening and unveiling where individuals and society as a whole begin to awaken to what has been hidden or unseen.
It also can refer to aspects in our lives of our society we chose to ignore, that are now so obvious we can no longer hide our heads in the sand about. An unveiling that in many ways has all sorts of different mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual impacts at the individual and collective levels.
We just need to look at the massive awakening that the last 4 years have brought to the surface. The domino effect that this event had on so many people lives, for them to begin to question the narratives.
Start to see through the evil, the veil of lies, games, inversion and manipulation of power, gaslighting by political and world agendas. And censorship and control are being hammered down on a whole new level, in desperation by those with too much to hide.
As millions of souls are waking up to the darker new world agendas, this is skyrocketing so many souls to phenomenal levels of spiritual awakening.
The Unconscious Aspect Of Societal Awakening
One of the things that begin with different levels of societal awakening is the human psyche and personal identity is pushed out of its comfort zone.
One example is where at the unconscious level, one starts to recognize and face the archetypal abuse by those whom we trusted in position and power.
In many ways the father and mother archetype neglect, abuse, and gaslighting by those who were there to protect us and guide us.
Spiritually Growing Up
We begin to spiritually grow up as we start to come to terms with the important areas of our life and society where we have abdicated self-responsibility and handed over our power and sovereignty.
For some people, there is an initial fast and almost furious type of societal awakening into reality. For many others, there is a lot of denial, resistance, fear, and trauma. Especially in those already mentally, emotionally, or even physically or spiritually vulnerable.
Spiritual Awakenings Are Not Just Love And Light
Spiritual awakening and societal awakening are not all light and love. They are painful, confusing, messy, and often very lonely as each soul has to go through its dark night of the soul. In many ways, for us all, they are spiritual initiations and opportunities for growth.
Societal unveiling as big as they have been over the last few years, are helping fuel massive spiritual awakenings and spiritual transformation.
Despite the mass amount of censorship and control, people are seeking new media platforms and connections to access deeper and wider truths.
Humanity as a whole is making great leaps in their consciousness awareness in very short periods. Even though there are still many souls deeply unconscious.
Creating which is referred to as the bifurcation and trifurcation, a splitting or more than one splitting of different levels of awakening in society. One of the reasons so many early awakened souls felt so disconnected and alone from their loved ones. Because of the significant difference in resonance.
But the good news is the masses are arising, all at different rates and stages but they are awakening on both a societal and spiritual level. So many are accessing great spiritual power and strength. And are being soul-led towards their life and soul mission with great clarity and power.
Top Tips Through Spiritual Awakening And Societal Awakening
Authenticity:
Authenticity in your awakening has so much power and strength, your vulnerability, your passion, and your motivation to help others from a place of imperfection help others recognise that we are all perfect in our imperfections.
Compassion:
Awakening at all levels takes a lot of love and self-compassion for ourselves and others, which isn’t always easy as many empaths and healers can suffer compassion fatigue.
Especially for those so trapped in their soundings, ignorance, and ego, that have caused you harm or slights. It is important to have enough self-compassion and self-forgiveness for ourselves and to get the support and help we need.
Courage and Strength:
Courage and strength are something we all need a lot of at this time, especially through some of the darkest aspects of societal shifts. The more you work on your spiritual connection the more courage and strength will flow.
The more you can increase your soul power, the more you will easily step into your soul power be who you are here to be, and do what you are here to do.
Patience:
We will all have times during awakening when we need to be more patient and gentle with ourselves and others. I know this isn’t always easy that is why self-compassion and self-love are so important. It is important to remember to not compare yourself to others.
Remember this is a journey, not a race. At some levels of the awakened journey you will be able to make huge jumps in other areas you may need a little more time to adjust and embody. Most of us have been on this spiritual journey for decades.
Love:
Love and self-love are the core foundation of increasing your level of awakening. It requires working with our heart intelligence, healing our heart wounds, and our inner child trauma that is closing us off from being open and generous-hearted.
Conscious heart and soul work is the most powerful way to live and work from that place of love.
What Awakening Requires
Awakening requires a lot of courage, strength, patience, self-love, and self-compassion for ourselves and the souls around us.
It involves the ability to go inwards and develop more discernment by developing your intuition, inner guidance, and spiritual discernment.
The ability to let go of long-held beliefs that are no longer truth or serving or spiritual evolvement. It requires growing up and taking responsibility for the choices we have made in life and what we have attracted in our lives.
While at the same time helping us see the absolute power and beauty of the god spark within us and the potential we have to create a world we once never imagined.
To spiritually awaken involves us letting go and surrendering to the hero’s journey, a journey through different archetypal stages of our life.
Societal Awakening Versus Spiritual Awakening
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Lemon Oil has a fresh and invigorating scent, it is extracted from lemon peel. The essential oil of lemon is said to have a frequency of 91 MHz.
Therapeutic Benefits Of Lemon Oil
Lemon Oil has extensive therapeutic properties for the mind, body, and emotions.
Mental Benefits Of Lemon Essential Oil
One of the things I found fascinating about the essential oil of lemon when I began studying aromatherapy 30 years ago was how Japan would diffuse lemon oil in their factories to boost work performance and productivity.
In one study of Inhalation Of Essential Oils we see how memory in work performance and word recall is improved with the inhalation of lemon oil compared to sandalwood and kusunoki oil.
Lemon essential oil has also been shown in medical studies to improve task performance in those with Alzheimer’s. It is a natural motivator and mood enhancer.
Lemon is a great clarifier that can help keep us focused and aligned with our self and purpose.
Physiological Benefits Of Lemon Oil
Lemon essential oil which is extracted from lemon peel is widely known as anti-bacterial, antiseptic, astringent, and antioxidant. Citrus lemon is used widely in many body care and body washes, as well as in many natural household cleaning products, as well as skincare products and perfumes.
Lemon helps boost and support the immune system and can act as an aid in balancing sugar levels in diabetics.
The essential oil of lemon is also a natural tonic and detoxifier, can help support the lymphatic system, used as an aid to help treat cellulitis.
Lemon oil can help treat warts and verrucas, dab a cotton bud of oil into the center of the wart or verruca (carefully avoiding the rest of the skin).
Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Use Of Lemon Oil
Pharmacological use of citrus lemon has included lemon’s links with being anti-oxidative, antiulcer, antihelmintic, insecticidal, anticancer, cytotoxic, and estrogenic activities.
Skincare And Body Care Products
Lemon and Coriander by NYR Organics
This natural deodorant is made from lemon, lime, grapefruit, coriander, clove, and lavender essential oils.
A gentle and effective natural deodorant spray for underams.
is a refreshing nourishing balm made of Orange, Lemon and Grapefruit Oil blended with avocado, blackcurrant seed, cocoa, and shea butter.
DIY Nail Varnish Remover
Dr Axe offers a simple natural toxic-free nail varnish remover recipe; which is a blend of apple cider vinegar, sweet orange, grapefruit and lemon oil.
Safe And Effective Use Of Lemon Essential Oil
It is important to use all essential oils safely and effectively, if you have any medical challenges always consult a qualified aromatherapist.
LEMON OIL CONTRAINDICATIONS:
Avoid using lemon on infants and babies.
Avoid applying to the skin before sun exposure, or sunbathing.
We become entangled and consumed by the chaos and confusion that is going around us.
Equally, if we hide our heads in the sand and try to convince ourselves everything in the world and even within us is not our problem.
We are in a state of disconnection or disbelief, believing we are powerless.
When the reality is we are all more powerful than we believe we truly are.
Sometimes We May Need
Sometimes we may need some rest, time out, healing, or space.
The mind, body, and emotions can become overwhelmed, and over-tired, and may need time to realign and recharge your batteries.
But you are not powerless.
But we are not powerless, you are not powerless.
We all are stronger than we know, we all have the ability and even resilience to create great change.
Especially when we can tap into our inner power, strength, and connection.
The problem is that connection and inner strength do not come from someone else, or something else.
Connection and strength do not come from having more financial security, a better home, a better job, or even trying to live the perfect life.
It comes from getting so calm, centered, and open-hearted within yourself, that you have the power and connection.
When You Are Soul Connected You Are Naturally Strong
When you are soul-connected it is much easier to build up your soul power.
You know your calling, you know what you can do each day to make that difference.
And you start tapping into and relying on your own inner resources, strength, and wisdom to be guided and led.
Than relying on other people’s fears, conditioning, distortions, and agendas.
7 Steps To Strength And Empowerment
How to stop feeling powerless and weak and start tapping into your inner strength and connection.
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1. Be Present:
Switch off the distractions and learn how to be in the moment.
2. STOP Leaking Energy:
Set healthy boundaries, stop giving away energy, and focus on the wrong things and wrong people ( like the wrong type of clients, those who choose to stay asleep)
Nature’s essences such as Essential Oils and Flower essences can be very helpful for moving and supporting us through anxiety and fears. So is inner child healing and inner child therapy.
5. Take Daily Steps:
Take small conscious daily steps that are empowering, that help us move through our fears.
6. Acknowledge how far you have come:
Acknowledging your daily achievements, your strengths, and the things you have worked through stops you from being a victim to your distorted thoughts, fears and limitations. Look back in situations in your life where you have found deep courage and strength.
7. Find Inspiration and Motivation:
Read, Listen, And Absorb Inspiring Words, Inspiring People, and Inspiring passions to ignite and fan your inner power, strength, and desire to be the change. Nourish your soul, Invest in spiritual or soul empowerment coaching, healing or inner child therapy to heal what is blocking you.
Becoming Your Own Hero And Heroine
These steps can help take your strength and courage to a brand new level. Supporting you stand strong with those around you to be the change, than being in fear and being part of the problem.
If you would like to access more of your inner power, strength, and courage at this time, check out the free recording of my session Awakening Your Hero Within .
Self expression is the action of sharing one’s thoughts, feelings or ideas, through action, voice, the creative arts such as art, dance, music even innovation.
Problems With Authenticity And Self Expression
The problem today with authenticity and self expression. Is that many people today gets confused by narcistic attention seeking behaviour and authentic self expression.
Where the world is expected to bow down to other people’s narcissistic demands, gaslighting or ideology in away that threatens someone’s else’s authentic values and opinions. When in reality true authentic self expression, comes from the confidence of truly understanding and expressing ourself in a deep and objective way without the need or expectation for other people’s approval or recognition.
Another personality trait that can seriously get in the way of being truly authentic in your life and business is neuroticism. Healers, therapists and coaches who procrastinate a lot in their business and who suffer for imposter syndrome can suffer from have a high level of neuroticism.
At their core they often don’t really know, love or trust themself. Suffer from deep rooted fear and wounding.
What Is Narcissism?
Narcissism is a self–centered personality trait where they tend to be obsessive around one’s self at the expense of other people.
Lack Empathy
Lack Introspection
Blame Others For Their Mistakes or Misfortune
Constantly Gaslight their victims
Deny Errors and Mistakes
Highly Impulsive
Anger Easily and Hold Grudges
Enjoy Revelling In Other People’s Pain
What is Neuroticism?
Neuroticism is regarded as a core personality trait that relates to someone’s mental and emotional stability and inability to self-regulate, it is associated with dissatisfaction and distress.
Find It Difficult To Make And Sustain Relationships
In reality those who are neurotic struggle to be truly authentic due to fear what others may think.
Recent Studies Around Authenticity
There is a variety of types of research in relation to authenticity.
According to SPANE assessment, people who are more authentic are far happier and healthier.
” Realness is a core feature of Authenticity” Scienedirect.com demonstrates “realness as the relatively stable tendency to act on the outside the way one feels on the inside, without regard for proximal personal or social consequences.”
So even though we know being authentic is part of integrity in many areas of our life and business, In some causes authenticity can be simply just self serving especially when we do no take into account the consequences of what we share. Though one study suggests people who tend to be more authentic tend to get less angry in situations that are unfair.
Top Tips How To Be More Authentic
Know You Are Enough
The more you know and feel you are enough, the more you understand how important it is to be yourself, the easier it is to be truly you.
Know Yourself Deeply Enough To
Know yourself deeply enough that you can be authentic, being authentic is banned about today by many who don’t know themself at all. Truly being authentic is about letting go of who we think we need, should or have been conditioned to be. And learn to unlock more of who we truly are.
Live Your Life By Your Core Values
The more you know yourself the easier it is to to know and live by your values. In a spiritual business your core values are often your biggest soul client attractor.
Identify Your Shadows And Masks
The digger you deep into truly getting to know yourself, observe yourself the easier it is to see the shadows and the masks we hide behind and get entangled in. Archetype work is a powerful way to identify your most dominant shadow traits and masks.
Learn To Communicate As Honesty As You Can
Honest sincere communication from the heart, is one of the most powerful ways to be authentic in your day to day life.
Get More Creative, Find Different Ways To Express Yourself
Creativity is a healthy way to express yourself, your joy, pain and emotions in a healthy way for all concerned. The Creative arts such as creative writing or creative play, can be a powerful form of self-healing for releasing trauma, healing the inner child and identity issues holding you back from being truly authentic.
Archetypal and Inner Child Work
Archetypal and inner child work hand and hand is a powerful way to help one move into alignment with your true essence. Heal the deepest shadows and masks that are keeping you small, stuck or lost in someone else’s identity or beliefs.
Why Sandalwood Oil is grounding and calming for the nervous system. Used widely for its therapeutic properties in ancient and traditional medicine such as ayurveda and chinese medicine for thousands of years. Why sandalwood is mentioned in ancient scriptures for its spiritual uses and has a high vibrational frequency.
Learn some of the various ways you can use sandalwood essential oil at home for you and your family, your meditation practice, in your business, clinic or spa.
What is Sandalwood Oil?
Sandalwood oil has a woody and grounding scent and is extracted from the heartwood of the Sandalwood Tree. Also known as Genus Santalum which used to grow in southern India, the forests of Karnataka. “Santalum genus belongs to the family of Santalaceae, widespread in India, Australia, Hawaii, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia, and valued as traditional medicine, rituals and modern bioactivities.” Santalum Genus: phytochemical constituents, biological activities and health promoting-effects From the journal Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C
Commercially extracted Indian sandalwood oil can only be extracted when the tree is at least 15 years old though the highest grades are grown up to 80 years before extraction.
History Of Sandalwood Essential Oil
Sandalwood was traded as a rich commodity in the Indian sub continent by 700 BC. From early on it was widely used in Hindu Rituals, weddings and births valued for it’s meditative and grounding fragrance and as an insect repellent. The highest grade of sandalwood oil is Santalum album.
The sandalwood in herbal form has been used for centuries to improve qi in the Lung, Spleen and Stomach. It is regarded as having yang properties
Sandalwood In Traditional Medicine
Sandalwood In TCM ( Traditional Chinese Medicine)- Sandalwood as a herb has been used for centuries to improve qi in the Heart, Stomach, Spleen and Lung. It is regarded as having yang warming properties aid to support those with too much cold in their system.
In Ayurvedic Medicinal system, Sandalwood is regarded as a very sacred herb and oil, which has many uses. Used to help treat Vatta and Pitta constitution imbalances. Sandalwood oil is widely used as as a diuretic, as an aid to treat coughs, cold, skin inflammation, fever remedy and so much more.
Medical and Therapeutic Properties Of Sandalwood Oil
Sandalwood Essential Oil is said to have a frequency of 98 mhz and has shown to have two main molecular components, known as alpha- and beta-santalol. Sandalwood Oil is one of the essential oils in research shown to demonstrate ” Inhibition of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) by essential oils”. Sandalwood oil is widely used to treat urinary infections. In various clinical research and studies it has demonstrated or suggested to be
Anti-aging
Anti-bacterial
Anti-inflammatory
Anti-microbial
Anti-oxidant
Anti-proliferative
Anti-Viral
Skincare Properties Of Sandalwood Oil
Sandalwood essential oil is widely used in the perfumery and skincare industry, sandalwood is widely used not just as an essential oil but also as a balm and incense. Sandalwood oil is widely used to help heal variety of skin conditions, such as eczema, psoriasis, one of the reasons sandalwood soap has been commercially so popular for over 100 years. Sandalwood was widely used in ancient traditions for embalming alongside frankincense and myrrh.
Sandalwood To Soothe The Nervous System
Sandalwood is widely used by aromatherapists and therapists to help calm and soothe nervous system. It can act as a sedative, a relaxant, to help with grounding or to support a trance or meditative state. One of the most effective ways to use sandalwood to calm the nervous system is by adding pure sandalwood essential oil to the bath or by blending a few drops to a massage carrier oil to apply to the body and face.
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4 Ways To Get More Soul Aligned In 2024 to become more strong and spiritually empowered in life and your soul aligned business.
Why being more soul aligned in your life, relationships and business will give you more strength and power in the year ahead to do what you are truly here to do. Some of the most common things that try to disconnect us from our heart and soul.
Why Soul Alignment Is So Important In 2024
When an individual awakens both spiritually and societal, they go through a variety of emotions and different stages.
In many ways like the different stages of grief, there is some stages that are extremely challenging, stages we get stuck and struggle to get past, some stages with the right support and healing we move through with more compassion, strength and wisdom.
If we try to deny any of those stages, suppress our emotional wounding it eventually catches up on us.
Anyone who has been awakened at a societal level of the last few years, know’s how much cognitive dissonance there has been on a massive scale. How wide and deep psychological manipulation, and gas lighting has become. How much of what we see on TV, Media, Radio and Social Media is actually inverted,
Even though a large population of the world are waking up. So many people are stuck in aspects of the trauma response, the fight or flight response.
Anxiety levels and mental health issues have shot up dramatically. Mental health problems are crippling children and the younger generations.
For so longs the human population has become so disconnected from their own power, their own inner navigation system, they are really struggling to discern what is truth, fact and fiction, what is morally right or distorted. Even though many of the illusions are beginning to be unveiled and broken.
Good Soul Alignment Helps Guide Us
Good soul-alignment can help us navigate through this chaos and deception with better spiritual discernment.
Good soul-alignment helps us stay spiritually empowered, not as easily hi-jacked by psychological manipulation.
Great Soul-alignment puts us in the right place at the right time, attracts all sorts of synchronicities.
It helps us trust in the bigger plan, gives us so much more strength and courage to take the road less travelled, the journey our soul is guiding us to take.
So many way showers have led the way for decades, even more through the last decade with such strength, power, love and compassion by following their heart and soul.
By leading by example, by having the courage to stand up at great personal loss for themself.
By also having compassion for those for so many reasons felt they have no choice than to be caught up in this game.
Soul Aligned In Business
The more soul-aligned we can all become in our life and business, the more we can focus on creating solutions, being active participants of the change that is needed in this world today.
The more disconnected we are, the more likely we are to keep going around in circles with our old trauma, conditioning and polarity. Getting more soul-aligned takes patience and time we are all a work in progress.
4 Ways To Get Soul Aligned
Build A Deep Connection With Your Heart and Soul :
Soul aligned in business means getting soul deep. The deeper you can connect with yourself at a heart and soul level, the easier it is to be guided at a soul level. You are also less likely to be energetically hijacked by other things that are mere distractions, illusions or not of the highest light, truth or for the greatest good of all concerned.
I teach a variety of spiritual tools to help my clients and students get more soul-aligned, though a great start is meditation and heart-based prayers. And doing what fills your heart so much love, that you would do it for free every single day, that is what heart and soul-aligned really means.
Identify Your Business’s Top Values:
Getting soul aligned as an entrepreneur involves getting really aligned with your and your brands core values. This is one of the most powerful ways to build a really strong soul connection with your audience and best way to attract our soul clients. Knowing and sharing your brand’s top values with your audience is a powerful way to build deeper connection and trust. More than ever people want to buy from authentic brands, with strong integrity, who can deliver on their implications and promises.
Create Healthier Boundaries
Healthy boundaries from that what is not aligned with your purpose and mission is so important. One of the biggest ways I have started to create more healthier boundaries is only to work with certain clients who have similar core values than myself. And to do things on a daily basis to keep my energy strong and protected enough from other energetic interferences designed to take me off my path. Spend less time on certain social media platforms and spending more time with those who are the foundations of creating the new earth. And also let go of things in my business that is leaking energy or no longer aligned.
Heal Your Biggest Wounding:
Healing your biggest wounds in your life will help you make big shifts in creating a more soul-aligned business. Our wounding and trauma disconnects us from our true spiritual essence and spiritual power. The more we can heal, the more soul-aligned we can become. We are all a work in progress, so no matter if someone has been working on themself 10, 20, 30 years there is always more that we can let go of, more of our soul essence and soul gifts to unlock.
Identifying your inner child wounds and dominant archetypal traits that are sabotaging your life and business is one of the most powerful things you can do. Knowing your biggest sabotaging behaviours and shadow traits, gives you something very specific to focus on the year ahead. One powerful way you can identify some of the shadows in your spiritual business is by identifying your brands most dominant archetype. Take my Spiritual Brand Quiz To Find Out.
Survival Archetypal Traits That STOP Us Getting Soul Aligned
Inner Child Shadows
Both the wounded inner child and orphan child can keep us stuck in childish, immature behaviours that prevent us growing up spiritually, mentally and emotionally. A child that never faces the dark, always hides away or stays fearful of the dark. A child that steps through the dark, accesses their own light, courage and power. For example the shadow orphan child can bring to their business and work, the energy and behaviour of being an outsider. They often come to situations with either a certain aloofness, fear or even judgement, seeking from others what they need to give themself.
The eternal child doesn’t want to take self-responsibility for their action or inaction, their tantrums or stubbornness. Like an impatient child they want the rewards but are not always willing to make the necessary investment, whether that be time, financial, mental, emotional or even physical.
How The Victim and Saboteur Archetype Can Sabotage Your Success
The shadow aspect of the victim archetype likes to keep us small, powerless, dependant on others. In it’s light form the victim archetype helps us become more aware, compassionate and enduring. In its dark aspect it keeps us in fear, stuck in the past or ruminating about the future. It is good at convincing us someone or something is more powerful, stronger, than us. The more soul-aligned we all become, the more we break-free from the shackles of victimhood.
What areas on your life and business are you a victim and what areas of your life and business are you the hero?
The Saboteur Archetype will continue to sabotage your life and success until you face those demons. It shows up as those addictions and unhealthy behaviours, from everything to unhealthy food, to procrastination, poor time management, not showing up, not keeping your commitments or promises. Like the shadow aspects of the victim, the saboteur archetype in its shadow form is scared of its power and where that power will lead.
How The Prostitute Archetype Can Sabotage Your Values
The shadow traits of the prostitute archetype is one of the strongest at sabotaging our values and integrity. Where one literally sells their soul, their ethics and values just to make money, gain a title, get more likes, views or followers. It is what goes behind doors, what you are not 100% truthful about, what you do just to gain what you want in life or business. From copying someone else’s content to being dishonest about your experience or results based on low self-worth and lack of belief in one’s self.
Getting More Soul Aligned In Business And Life is a journey, not a race.
Getting soul-aligned in your business takes time, it takes patience and a lot of grace.
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2 powerful things that I believe lightworkers need to work more on in 2024 to step into their life purpose and soul’s mission with more strength and power. In fact it is something I believe everyone should work on this year.
Soul Connection And Soul Power
The 2 main things lightworkers need to develop in 2024 to fully step in their soul mission is soul connection and soul power.
the easier it is to be a clearer channel for living a more soul-aligned life, for discerning illusion and truth as a lightworker to in turn become more spiritually awakened.
The more you can raise your soul power, you will be spiritually and physically resilient to energetic interferences trying to sabotage with your soul’s path.
The easier it is to be truly authentic in your holistic or spiritual business.
Every single person has their own soul’s contract, life and soul path, we are all more likely to get on and stay on our own path, when we have a strong soul connection and enough spiritual power to do what we are being asked and guided to do.
Examples Of Poor Soul Connection
Poor soul connection is like a very distorted radio channel, you can struggle to get on and hear the right frequency or you maybe listening to the wrong channel. Which will lead to all sorts of self sabotage and even spiritual hi-jacking which is obvious self-destructive especially for lightworkers, spiritual teachers and spiritual thought-leaders.
This spiritual disconnection leads to poor discernment, poor choices and habits, lack of confidence and self-trust, jealousy, resentment and victimhood.
Examples Of Low Soul Power
Low soul power, is like a low battery that is working at a low vibration with very limited capacity, it struggles to sustain itself and is more likely to seek power and energy from the wrong sources.
Such as alcohol, drugs, processed, man made drugs, foods, false guides and false light.
Lightworkers With Good Soul Connection and Soul Power
Good soul connection and soul power starts with being able to achieve deeper stillness and disconnection from our programming and the illusions of the external world so important when you are a lightworker and if you are highly empathic.
And involves being able to connect to divine truth that is why I always ask first and foremost to be guided by only the highest levels of divine truth.
This helps me reign myself back in when my ego takes me off in all sorts of directions and entanglements with my inner child, victim or inner brat lol.
This helps me get really in alignment with my purpose, my life and soul mission. As lightworkers it helps present us with the right support, right people, situations, teachers and teachings that help us evolve in our life and work.
Becoming More Spiritually Resilient
Soul connection work is extremely powerful it makes you far more resilient to the chaos, confusion and other people’s projections. It makes you far more spiritually aware and spiritually discerning.
Like many of you I am taking my own work to a brand new level, I will be focusing on more soul purpose and spiritual coaching and archetypal healing work.
I am being guided to help the way showers, you the awakened lightworkers who are on the front line, helping lead the way to a new world, a new earth.
So watch out for some new amazing offerings in 2024 and check out my latest events and the event I am participating in
Wishing you a powerful 2024!
Why Deepening Your Soul Connection And Soul Alignment In Your Spiritual Business In 2024 Is Important
7 Spiritual Commands To Increase Spiritual Authority, Spiritual Protection And Discernment In Your Life and Work As A Lightworker.
What are spiritual commands and why are they a powerful spiritual tool in our daily life? Understanding the power of spiritual commands to increase personal sovereignty and spiritual sovereignty. Why we all need to command more spiritual authority in every area of our lives, especially in situations we may feel powerless.
What is a Spiritual Command?
Spiritual commands are powerful spiritual affirmations and spiritual statements that help break your free from strongholds interfering with your spiritual path. Such as energetic and spiritual interferences, unhealthy distortions, pain and trauma this is causing any confusion and distortions in your souls connection and own channel. Anything that may create poor spiritual discernment our lack of spiritual strength and courage.
Daily spiritual commands help increase our resilience to negative psychic and spiritual interferences that are designed to self sabotage us by taking us off our spiritual path.
Why We Need More Spiritual Authority In Our Life
One of the biggest challenges we have today is lack of spiritual authority and spiritual discernment in our life and world. We just need to look around at the amount of conditioning and programming created by the 3d world that is based on illusion and feeds our egoic instant gratification.
How addicted and seduced we are in society by money, power, modern technology and artificial intelligence, which has became an increasing problem in the spiritual industry.
The more we want to move into the 5d new earth, the more we need to call in our spiritual authority, increase our spiritual light capacity so we can be the light and hold the light for others.
7 Spiritual Commands For Lightworkers That Increase Spiritual Authority
These spiritual commands will help increase spiritual authority and spiritual protection over our life, health and wellbeing.
By the power of the holy spirit and by his authority I break any curses, hexes, spells or attachments now and forever.
By the power of the god’s love and spiritual guidance I am guided to fulfill my life’s purpose and spiritual mission.
By the power of god’s love and his authority I break and heal all trauma and distortions
Increasing Our Spiritual Authority and Spiritual Power
The more we can increase our spiritual authority, the more we can fulfill our soul’s mission with least resistance. The more spiritual power we have at an individual and collective level the more spiritual light and spiritual strength we bring into our own lives and those around us.
That is why good spiritual authority, good spiritual power and spiritual discernment is vital for any lightworker, spiritual leader, spiritual teacher or healer especially when navigating through a spiritual war, spiritual challenges.
Ylang Ylang Oil To Help Soothe Your Inner Child. Why Ylang Ylang oil is one of the essential oils commonly used to gently soothe, relax, and support your nervous system from inner child trauma when used alongside inner child healing and therapy.
Ylang Ylang Oil (Yi Lan Yi Lan)
Botanical Name:Cananga odorata
Ylang Ylang Oil is extracted from the Ylang Ylang Tree also known as Cananga odorata, a yellow star-shaped flower of tropical descent native to beautiful Asian areas around the Indian Ocean such as the Philippines, India, and Malaysia. The ylang ylang flower only blooms at night, it has a bright floral scent.
Ylang Ylang Oil Benefits
Ylang Ylang Oil has deeply spiritual properties as well as healing and nurturing properties. When used correctly the oil of ylang ylang acts as a soothing balm when consciously working our inner child wounding and trauma. Especially ylang ylang extracted from the yellow flower as it has soothing properties on the nervous system.
In traditional medicine especially ayurvedic and traditional Chinese medicine ylang ylang has been widely used to help treat various ailments such as
Ylang Ylang is also used in beverages, ice cream, and sweets.
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Choosing The Right Grade Of Ylang Ylang Oil
To get the optimum healing properties of any essential oil it is important to choose a high-grade quality essential oil. I have tried many different essential oil brands over the last 30 years NYR Organics Ylang Ylang Oil and Doterra Ylang are my favourites in relation to quality of grade.
NYR Organics tends to be lower priced and are UK’s first certified organic health and beauty brand, I LOVE that NYR is a brand of high integrity, and the safe and effective use of essential oils is clear in their products and marketing.
Doterra don’t seem to be as clear on safety and effectiveness, and all I am going to say I have personally witnessed too many skin burns and other toxicity issues due to incorrect advice and used by some of their ambassadors.
Is a natural anti-depressant, that soothes the inner child wounding.
Can aid sleep, and alleviate nightmares and night traumas.
I have personally found Ylang Ylang extremely soothing and healing during the deepest challenges of my life. It helped me to completely eliminate nightmares while chronically and seriously ill in my early twenties.
It is a soothing balm that supports and uplifts, it is an essential oil I suggest to my clients during inner child therapy. and when working with the magical child. It can also be useful in using with colour therapy and colour healing.
Soothe Your Inner Child With Ylang Ylang Essential Oil
Expert advice from aromatherapist and healer eileen burns
How To Use Ylang Ylang Oil
Aromatherapy Bath is one of the most effective ways to use ylang-ylang oil, next best way to use ylang ylang for your inner child is an aromatherapy massage, a massage that applies a ylang ylang oil blend with a carrier oil to the whole body or parts of the body; for example chest, tummy, back, arms, legs, feet.
The aromatherapist carefully blends a selection of oils with a carrier oil, also known as a massage oil to suit your individual needs. But note blending oils is an art, a
An aromatherapy bath
The best way to add any essential oils to the bath is to add the oils to a base oil that will easily disperse in the bath such as avocado, coconut oil, or olive oil.
Adult Recommendations:
Run bathwater.
Then add 5 ml of your ylang ylang oil or add 5 drops of Pure Essential Oils to bathwater. You can include another essential oil in the 5 drops to be more grounding add 4 drops ylang ylang and 1 drop of Frankincense or Sandalwood. To be more uplifting choose 1 drop of orange or Mandarin, Jasmine, or Rose Essential Oil.
Ylang Ylang blends well with Frankincense, Geranium, Jasmine, Lemon, Mandarin, Rose, Sandalwood, Vetiver.
Then thoroughly disperse in water before entering the bathwater.
Relax in the bath for a minimum of 10-15 minutes to get the full benefit.
Essential Oil Cautions and Contraindications
Most people underestimate the power, properties, and potency of essential oils. Even though essential oils are extracts of nature every essential oil is uniquely made up of different volatile compounds. Each essential oil tends to have a long list of therapeutic properties but some have potentially toxic and harmful properties when not used in the right dilution or not in a safe and effective way.
WARNING:
Use essential oils with care, especially when applying essential oil blends on children, the elderly, those with certain health challenges or medical conditions. Always check with your doctor and a qualified aromatherapist to see if essential oils are suitable for any chronic or rare medical condition.
What is shadow work and why is shadow work such an important part of self healing, raising your vibration and consciousness.
What is Shadow Work?
Shadow work is about healing our shadow traits, our inner wounding, our fears, mental and emotional triggers, unhealthy beliefs, actions and programming. Every single one of us have positive traits and shadow traits, that impact how we show up in our life. The roles we play, even the circumstances we attract in our life.
Shadow work is an important part of raising our vibration and level of consciousness. It requires a certain amount of self-awareness, self-inquiry and self-responsibility and it is an ongoing process.
It is not something you just do over a period of time and all is healed, shadow work is a fundamental part of the spiritual journey.
As they say its’s a journey not a race.
There is all different types of shadow work and in many ways different layers to shadow work.
One common aspect of shadow work is healing the inner child and this is normally done along side other archetypal shadow work. Where one explores the most dominant archetypal patterns that are playing out in their personality and behaviours.
We just need to explore the Wounded Healer a strong archetype in healers, therapists and many medical professionals.
In its highest positive light traits, the wounded healer is able to support someone’s healing process through compassion and healing from their own wounding.
“In 1951, Jung first used the term wounded healer.11 Jung believed that disease of the soul could be the best possible form of training for a healer. In a book published days before his death,12 Jung wrote that only a wounded physician could heal effectively” National Library Of Medicine – The wounded healer
In its shadow traits the ego wants to heal others than working on their own healing. The Shadow traits can show up in all sorts of way in the wounded healer. Especially in healers who wants to fix others than constantly working on their own mental, emotional, physical and spiritual healing. Healing is an ongoing process.
A healers unhealed wounding can also show up in healers who move from training to training, certificate to certificate just for the title or to add something to their business., but don’t apply the tools and techniques to their own life. Or healers and coaches who only look at light work and positive mindset and use all sorts of avoidance techniques to avoid the shadow within and around them.
Healing Our Shadow Traits
Shadow work, healing our shadow traits is an ongoing process, in a 3d world we all carry different wounding that is keeping us stuck.
Anything that triggers a negative emotional reaction is a wounding; a persons words, actions, beliefs.
Any behaviour pattern that is not of the highest vibration is a shadow trait; from the things we do or don’t put in our body and mind, what we do and don’t do in our life.
That is why things like avoidance, procrastination are shadow traits. Even over attachment to materialistic things are shadow traits as it means your ego is running the show and putting more importance to material things than your soul.The need to be right, even certain expectations are shadow traits.
There is also so many different types of shadow selves like the naive shadow, superficial shadow, cowardly shadow, suspicious shadow, controlling shadow…
5 Ways To Heal Our Shadow Traits
5 different types of shadow work that helps heal our negative traits
The Art Of Stillness
The art of being still and being able to be in the moment is a powerful part of healing our shadow wounding as it all starts with self awareness. When we struggle to be still, struggle to stop or meditate, in many ways something else is running the show. Childhood trauma or conditioning can create all sorts of unhealthy beliefs or programming around busyness, or fear of facing the shadow within. That is why deep traditional meditation practices are extremely powerful at increasing self awareness and better soul connection.
Soul Connection
Building a deep heart and soul connection helps us naturally get more connected and guided with our soul’s essence. It helps us loosen our attachment to things outside ourselves that is not of the light our divine truth. Soul work naturally helps expand our vibration and helps heal our wounding and triggers, the biggest cause of unhappiness.
It also helps elevate our consciousness and awareness to such a degree that you are not as easily influenced or programmed by the illusion and deception of the 3rd world.Equally you also become less polarised, that is why so many lightworkers who have good soul connection and good soul power can see through the veil of illusion and chaos and still stay very positive and grounded.They can look at the dark and not be as touched by, while others want to hide, because they are hiding from their own shadow.
Inner Child Healing and Inner Child Therapy
There are so many different types of inner child work that can help us explore and heal hidden and deep seated emotional triggers and unhealthy shadow traits that are keeping is stuck in patterns. Inner child play is good for beginners, it is helps form a more calm and relaxed connection with the inner child. There are a variety of psychological and healing approaches to inner child and shadow work.
I use some psychic approaches because of the amount of energetic and psychic interferences and attachments people are carrying, especially healers. For inner child work, make sure you choose a therapist who has a good understanding of trauma, the psyche and schisms.
Archetypal Therapy and Healing
Archetypes are a powerful way to highlight both positive and shadow traits in every area of our life. Technically inner child work is one aspect of archetypal work, though archetypal work outside just the realm of the inner child but all different archetypal patterns that are playing out.
I have been studying archetypal work for over 25 years and even though there is so many layers to archetypal work I find it extremely powerful to help healers, therapists and coaches and any sort of lightworkers, move through their self-sabotaging shadow traits.
Therapeutic Story Telling
Creative and therapeutic storytelling can be a powerful way to heal inner child trauma and wounding. It can be extremely healing and empowering. One of the most fun, creative and healing sessions I ever run many years ago was a Fairytale Inner Child Writing Course. Healing and changing our story our narrative about how we see ourselves is a powerful way to move out of the sabotaging survival archetypes we take on. That is why therapeutic storytelling can be used alongside other types of shadow work.
How To Receive Support From The Universe. The ability to ask and receive from god and the universe, the ability to trust that support from the universe will come.
Our Deepest Struggles With Receiving From The Universe
Why do so many of us struggle to ask or receive support from the universe?
Why do so many lightworkers give so generously but have such wounds in the ability to receive from others?
Like many lightworkers I spent most of my life struggling to receive. Despite highly investing in my own wellbeing, my own healing, investing in all sorts of training and spiritual work. Way more generous, qualified and experienced than most of my fellow therapists and healer I found it so difficult to charge my worth.
When it came to receiving and asking for what I genuinely deserved in my life I fell very short.
Like so many healers and therapists I would give so much to my clients but so little myself.
I had so much wounding around receiving it showed up in so many areas of my life.
An inability to receive the right sort of support from the universe can have so many layers to it. For me a lot of the unhealthy patterns feeding it, were layered amidst deepest seated strong rescuer, helper and caregiver traits formed from a young age.
Unconscious Programming That Rejects Support From The Universe
Early childhood conditioning and trauma from our surroundings; parents, culture and religion plays a huge part in unconscious programming.
Programming that at a deep level harms and rejects our divine rights to support from the universe.
It is one of the reason why so many highly sensitive empaths lacking healthy boundaries are often the worst receivers.
So energetically skewed up in other people’s emotional needs, desires and energetic attachments there is little room or clarity in their energetic field for the person to truly be open to their own needs and desires.
And a big reason so many therapists and healers today are carrying around all sorts of negative energetic attachments they don’t even realise they have.
Unconscious programming plays a paramount part on most people’s ability to receive.
It also plays a big part in someone’s ability to feel spiritually connected with the universe and god. In many ways it all comes back to trust and worthiness.
When we don’t trust in the universe or ourselves there is massive spiritual disconnection.
It is why I personally believe poor soul power and poor soul connection is one of the biggest causes of so much unhappiness and poor discernment in the world and in the spiritual sector.
Disconnection in god and the universe shows up in a lack of intuition and lack of faith. An ability to be able to truly ask and receive more support from the universe in our daily life.
We just need to look at the last few years to see evidence in the masses of how spiritually disconnected most people are from their own inner guidance and personal sovereignty.
How programmed they are in certain narratives and in media illusion, so easily hijacked because of disconnection.
What Most Spiritual And Law Of Attraction Books Don’t Teach
Despite studying all sorts of spiritual teachings, law of attraction, manifesting and belief work for over 30 years. Like many people I struggled to receive some of the most basic things I deserved to receive in my life.
But I also could see how clearly how so many books out there like The Secret and even the program The Secrets Of The Secret were only scratching the surface and not revealing all.
Leaving out so many important factors and areas that influenced and interfered with peoples abilities to manifest and receive.
Missing out so many basics in relation to soul contracts, ancestral wounding and other psychic and spiritual phenomena that could interfere with one’s ability to receive.
But it wasn’t until 10 years ago after a life threatening experience in an induced coma, did I start to really explore these aspects on a much deeper level.
Why It Took A Near Death Experience To See Things More Clearly
Despite a life time of chronic and rare medical conditions. And more than a few serious medical injuries, so many would say was a life of insane bad luck( that people would joke you need to write a book)
It would take literally a near death experience, a spiritual experience to really wake me up and push me to start looking at my own life and so many other things from a different perspective.
After this life changing experience, nothing would ever be the same. I would experience so many strange, spiritual and psychic experiences that at one point I seriously began to question my reality and everything I ever knew.
But equally the universe started to provide all sorts of people, teaching and insights that I wouldn’t trade for the world. A path of exploration of so many spiritual teachings and in areas of psychic psychology and psychic phenomena that most main spiritual teachers don’t talk about,
Things that that made me realise how much was missing from so much teachings in energy, healing and spirituality that was amiss.
It highlighted even more the bigger problems with fast track training.
The cost of not truly taking the time to find the right teacher, not just the cheapest teacher or quickest certificate
And why the masses so easily gave over their personal sovereignty and autonomy over the last few years.
Knowing We Are More Than Enough
Knowing we are enough and so much more than enough, is a basic fundamental of our ability to receive.
Our ability to access some sense of personal sovereignty is a fundamental aspect of our trust in ourselves and the universe.
A realisation that we are a god spark, a very important part of god’s consciousness is something we need to experience and feel at a soul level not just view from a mental perspective.
It is one of the reasons I am a big fan of teachings that focus on soul work first than just mental and belief work, that can have too much emphasis on the ego and 3d.
Know you are more than enough, knowing you are made in the image of god, you are a gift of god is one of the most basic but powerful knowings we need to integrate and embed into our psyche and as a collective for us to receive the miracles and support from the universe we all need right now.
In our purest essence we are beautiful gifts in the universe, we are more powerful and more deserving than we can imagine.
8 Tips To Receiving Support From The Universe
Connect With Your Spiritual Self;
Like every form of connection, the communication channel has to be clear. One of the things that so many teachings don’t talk about is the importance of building good soul connection. That is why deep soul work, developing a deeper connection with our higher self, god and the universe helps support a clearer channel of receiving.
Practice Daily Meditation;
Daily meditation is an important aspect of building a crystal clear connection with the universe. If you struggle to meditate you haven’t found the right meditation style, meditation teacher or there is something else going on that is creating resistance, stopping you from accessing that deeper stillness.
If you are someone who prefers to always be active; and are more attracted to what is walking or running meditation, inquire what aspect of the self or your reality you maybe trying to walk away or run away from
Ask and Receive;
It is so important that we start asking for support and spiritual guidance in a heart and soul felt way, so many of us forget to ask, our ask from an energetic place of despair, frustration or unworthiness that what we boomerang back is much of the same.
For example I met so many holistic and spiritual business owners who struggle to receive in business, but are actually approaching and treating their business on an energetic perspective like a bargain basement hobby or car boot sale.
The energy from what we ask has to be in energetic alignment with what we want to receive that is why it is important to ask with a grateful and open heart.
Gratitude and An Open Heart:
The ability to be truly grateful for even the smallest things in our life, increases our ability to receive more support from the universe to do even more in life. An open heart helps us gives from a high vibrational energy without ulterior motives. It helps shift us into an energy of there is more than enough for everyone.
Trust In The Universe;
Trust in the universe, trust in god. One of the ways we can reinforce trust in the universe and god is by tapping into and healing our divine inner child, our magical child. The magical inner child in its light form is a pure channel to magic and miracles. The divine child in it’s light form is our purest connection to divinity within ourselves, god and the universe. It helps us co-create with the universe and those we connect with.
Trust In Yourself:
We have to trust in ourselves as much as we trust in the universe and god. We have to learn to cultivate a trust that we can receive and deserve to receive so much more from the word. And to recognise that support from the universe is already happening every single day, the problem is we are often not quiet enough, still enough to notice or listen. Our egoic mind is controlling the show.
Healing Our Inner Child And Archetypal Wounding;
Healing both our inner child wounds and archetypal wounds help us to heal the energetic patterns that are keeping us stuck and in lack of support from the universe. Our main survival shadow archetypes keep us stuck in self sabotaging patterns of disconnection and destruction.
They can also like many of the other shadow archetypal traits keep us plugged into the 3d matrix programming that is very strong at that time. For example in the last few decades the darkest element of the alchemist and magician has been very strong in many areas of the collective.
We just need to look at the amount of illusion in all areas of our lives even the spiritual sector which has become an industry that is increasingly selling a large part of its soul to the highest bidder. Rather than doing what we do always for the purest intention.
Healing your wounding , doing shadow work around unworthiness can help open you to up to receive so much more support from the universe than you ever expected. When we start to heal and allow more light to come in, we open ourselves up to so much more than physical abundance, we access something much more valuable deep spiritual abundance, deep spiritual strength and wisdom.
Become More Mindful Of The Support From The Universe We Receive Daily
It is so important to become mindful of the support, the gifts we receive everyday. God has given us the gift of life, love, joy, the human experience, so many beautiful things and beautiful people around us.
When we become more mindful of what we already have. When look more closely at all the abundance, help and support we get from the universe, from god every single day of our life. We shift perspective and shift our vibration.
You are enough, you are worthy, you are deserving by simply being you.
Make a list today of all the free support from the universe that got you where you are today.
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High Vibration Of Wild Rose For Sensitive Souls, Empaths And Lightworkers
High Vibration of Wild Rose Essential Oil and as a skincare product for sensitive skin. Why wild rose and rose oil is a great essential oil for the highly sensitive person or lightworker. Why rose has been so widely used throughout time spiritually and cosmetically. Learn the main difference between rose, wild rose, and rosehip.
What is Wild Rose?
Wild rose is the most commonly used name for certain species of flowering shrubs known as roses that occur naturally. Wild roses are much stronger, healthier, and more vibrant than hybrids that have been cross-bred. The wild rose is well known for its much deeper and rapid root system that seems to survive extreme erosive environments. Rosehip is the fruit of the rose plant.
Vibration Of Wild Rose and Rose
Rose is stated to have a frequency of approximately 320 MHz, wild rose medicine is known for its uplifting and soothing ethereal vibrations.Rose colour is also known for its deeply healing and heart healing qualities. Frankincense Essential Oil is said to be approx 147 MHZ, Myrrh Essential Oil: 105 MHz.
How To Identify Wild Rose
True wild roses grow without any chemicals or pesticides. According to the Royal Horticultural Society “Wild roses (also known as species roses) mostly have thorny stems, single, often fragrant, early summer flowers, usually in one flush, followed by fruits (‘hips’) if flowers are not deadheaded…”
Roses And Spirituality
Wild Roses in ancient mythology are regarded as a symbol of love and adoration. The sacred use of roses and rose oil has been used by saints and many different religions it is mentioned in Ancient Sanskrit and Chinese scripts and in ancient Greece was said to be associated with Aphrodite. During the Middle Ages roses were used for medicinal purposes.
Muhammad declared the red rose to be “the manifestation of God’s glory” (Schimmel 1975, p. 299)—in particular, the marvelous red rose—as the divine presence that reveals divine beauty. The rose is also known as the flower of Heaven
Therapeutic Benefits Of Wild Rose
Rose Essential Oil has a variety of therapeutic benefits. Wild roses support us mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. The ayurvedic and medicinal use of rose has been documented for thousands of years.
Physical Benefits Of Wild Roses: Rosehips which are from the seeds of roses are high in essential fatty acids, minerals, vitamins, and antioxidants. Rose oil from petals is widely known for being highly anti-inflammatory, and helpful in the regeneration of skin cells that is why both rose and rosehip are widely used in cosmetics and skincare products used to treat and reduce scarring, and stretch marks.
Psychological Benefits Of Wild Rose: The soothing and comforting scents of all rose oil’s are said to help reduce sadness and low mood associated with grief.
Mental Benefits Of Wild Rose Oil: Both the scent of Rose and its wild species are reputed to help one overcome apathy, and help encourage increased motivation.
Emotional Benefits Of Wild Rose Oil: Brings in the energy of love and a gentle form of joy. It is emotionally and spiritually uplifting.
Spiritual Benefits Of Wild Rose Oil: Roses and its oil are widely used in meditation, prayer, and spiritual and religious celebrations. Roses are said to represent god at work. Many people smell the strong scent of roses during both angelic and other spiritual experiences and find it soothes their soul.
This is one of my, my mum’s, and most of my sister’s favourite so it tends to be one of those little extras I put in for birthdays and Christmas. This is not just a beautiful balm to soothe nourished skin but can be used as a cleanser or to add some finishing touches to your lips, eyebrows, or cheeks.
The wild rose balm is made with 99% organic ingredients it includes lots of beautiful natural ingredients which include Rosa canina (Wild Rose) fruit oil, Simmondsia chinensis (Jojoba) seed oil*, Cera alba (Beeswax)*, Butyrospermum parkii (Shea butter)*, Cannabis sativa (Hemp) seed oil*, Borago officinalis (Starflower) seed oil*, Pelargonium graveolens (Geranium) flower oil*, Rosmarinus officinalis (Rosemary) leaf oil*, Boswellia carterii (Frankincense) oil, Cymbopogon martini (Palmarosa) herb oil*, Pogostemon cablin (Patchouli) leaf oil*, Ascorbyl palmitate, Tocopherol, Citral, Citronellol, Farnesol, Geraniol, Limonene, Linalool.*Organic. From essential oils. You can buy this product in the larger version or smaller jars.
This is another amazing rose oil product from NYR Organics, it is a bit lighter and fluid than the balm. It gives a nice nourishing radiance boost that leaves your skin feeling silky smooth. The combination of organic wild rosehip seed oil which is provitamin A-rich and the ultra-moisturising hyaluronic acid and balancing blend of organic geranium and patchouli essential oils, all leave the skin feeling supple with a natural radiant healthy glow.
Ingredients: Aqua (Water), Glycerin, Cetearyl olivate, Palmitoyl tripeptide-5, Rosa canina (Rosehip) fruit oil*, Curcuma longa (Turmeric) root extract, Pelargonium graveolens (Geranium) flower oil*, Boswellia carterii (Frankincense) oil, Rosmarinus officinalis (Rosemary) leaf oil*, Cymbopogon martinii (Palmarosa) herb oil*, Pogostemon cablin (Patchouli) leaf oil*, Sodium hyaluronate, Ascorbyl palmitate, Sorbitan olivate, Levulinic acid, Xanthan gum, Potassium sorbate, Citral, Citronellol, Coumarin, Eugenol, Farnesol, Geraniol, Limonene, Linalool. *Organically produced ingredient; Natural constituent of essential oils listed Made with 82% organic ingredients.
I love this rose glow facial oil as a night time treat for the skin. But since I tend to have slightly dry skin that easily gets dehydrated, I also use this as a base before makeup during the colder months. Ingredients: Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Triheptanoin, Vitis Vinifera – Grape Seed Oil*, Sunflower Seed Oil,* Ethyl Olivate, Shea Butter Ethyl Esters, Rosa Canina Fruit Oil*, Pelargonium Graveolens Flower Oil,* Boswellia Sacra Resin Oil*, Rosemary Leaf Oil*, Cymbopogon Martini Oil*, Pogostemon Cablin Leaf Oil*, Olive Leaf Extract*, Geraniol, Citronellol, Limonene, Linalool, Citral, Farnesol. *ORGANIC. FROM ESSENTIAL OILS. Of total ingredients: 100% natural origin, 30% organic.
This lovely rose soap bar leaves not only your skin more soft and smooth, it is soothing scent is extremely comforting, uplifting whilst relaxing, perfect after a busy, stressful or tiring day. This is another one of NYR Organic products that makes a lovely gift.
*Organic. **Organic Origin. From Essential Oils. Of total: 100% natural origin, 71% organic.
Organic Rosehip Oil
Organic Rosehip Oil nourishes delicate, dry, or sun-damaged skin. Organic Rosehip Oil is rich in essential fatty acids, which encourage the production of the prostaglandins involved in tissue healing and regrowth. EFAs also help to promote cellular development and collagen synthesis, which is important for keeping skin smooth and supple.
This Rosehip oil 50 ml is made from the fruit seeds of the Rose Canina it is 100% organic
Rose Essential Oils
And of course, I have to mention the Rose Absolute Essential Oil and Rose Otto Essential Oil gorgeous rose essential oils you can use to add to your bath, blend as a massage oil, or use to make your own skincare products.
Wild Rose and Rose products are beautiful gifts not just for sensitive and empaths but they are great for healers and therapists who want to wear something light and uplighting that helps them radiate the vibration of compassion in their work without suffering from compassion fatigue.
Healing Benefits Of Rose Oil And Rose Absolute Oil
The Art Of Self-Compassion And Compassion. Why compassion for ourselves and others is so important, especially during this time of awakening and ascension?
How to find self-compassion for ourselves and others without suffering from compassion fatigue?
What Is Compassion?
Compassion is the strong emotional feelings we have in relation to another person’s pain and human suffering, whether that be emotional, mental, physical, or spiritual pain.
What Is Self-Compassion?
Self-compassion is having the same level of compassion and positive regard for ourselves that we have for other people. Some say it is a form of goodwill towards ourselves as it involves helpful thoughts, kindness, and a deep caring for oneself.
Why Is Self-Compassion So Challenging?
But why is self-compassion such a struggle for so many people, especially empaths and those in the caring professions, who show so much compassion for others on a daily basis?
Like everything in life, there are many reasons we can struggle with self-compassion, as much as we can also suffer compassion fatigue.
Common challenges with self-compassion are often linked to an inability to look at our own trauma, our own pain, distorted beliefs, and unhealthy patterns.
This can lead to unhealthy expectations of self and others, which can cause a lot of inner conflict, that leaves us believing that we all need, must, or should be super perfect, superhuman, be there more for others than ourselves.
Which can lead to all sorts of problems such as burn out, illness, resentment and compassion fatigue.
There is a general view that a lack of self-compassion stems from poor self-worth and self-esteem. Though, according to Professor Kristin Neff, 5 Myths Of Self Compassion one of the biggest problems is actually an over-emphasis on self-esteem.
She has a very valid point, in relation to the personal development and coaching industry which often implies self-esteem, as something you achieve through striving, and goal-setting, in relation to building self-confidence.
When one over-identifies with the human self, the egoic self rather than our soul essence and god spark we are more likely to suffer from human burnout and compassion fatigue. Which is so prevalent in the health and caring industry.
Signs Of Compassion Fatigue
Compassion fatigue can show up in all sorts of ways, here are some common symptoms of compassion fatigue
Loosen Our Over Identity With The Human Experience: One of the wisest things we can do is to learn how to loosen our over-identification with the human experience. And nurture a deeper connection with our spiritual self. Every single one of us has human challenges, weaknesses, and vulnerabilities to face. It is easy for us to judge ourselves or others harshly when we over-identify with the human aspect instead of the soul. When we can find the wisdom to view human conditioning from a more spiritual or awakened perspective the easier it is to bring in objectivity and more compassion to ourselves and others
Develop An Open Heart: An open heart moves us out of judgment and self-judgment. It helps us move out of polarity, out of I am right, you are wrong. I am weak your strong or vice versa. It moves out of any competition or needs to be anything or anyone, into the ability to radiate true love including ourselves.
Deepen Your Soul Connection: A good soul connection starts with a good heart connection, it helps us be guided by our soul of what is right for us and what is not.
Identify Your Main Shadow Archetypes: Identifying the main shadow archetypes that are withholding compassion can help reveal a lot about our triggers. For example, if we see the Martyr, Rescuer, Judge, Ruler, Victim, or other archetypes at play, we can see what distorted narratives and patterns need to be balanced. While doing shadow work it is important to do be more self compassionate towards ourselves and others.
Heal Your Inner Child: Healing your inner child trauma with deep self-compassion and spiritual maturity helps us heal unhealthy distortions of how we must, should, or need to be. It also helps us heal certain expectations we put on others. Other than actively getting the right help and support to heal our inner childhood wounding. There are a variety of natural essences and essential oils that can support us Ylang Ylang Oil is a useful essential oil that helps soothe and comfort the inner child.
Become More Present: The more present we can become in our own lives, the more mindful, aware, and present we become to our mental and emotional triggers. The easier it is to start minimizing and eliminating unhealthy reactions and behavioral patterns that keep us in an unhealthy loop.
Practice Patience: Like everything self-compassion and self-love takes time to master. We are all doing the best we can, with the level of consciousness we are at. We all have different types of vulnerabilities and weaknesses, some can be easier than others to work through. It is important to be patient and be…
Be Kind To Yourself: Showing kindness to ourselves is so underrated, in a time when truth is becoming so important it can be easy to forget that there still needs to be a place of kindness, especially self-kindness.
Ready to boost your vibration, increase your energy, raise your levels of consciousness, and manifesting power?
These simple yet powerful ways help boost your vibration and your mood, and help support you mentally, emotionally, and spiritually on your journey of awakening and ascension.
We know the more we can increase our vibration, the easier it is to manifest and attract a different reality in our life and on our planet.
11 Ways To Boost Your Vibration
Be More In The Moment: It is much easier to manage your energy and boost your vibration when you are fully in the present moment. Our stressors and our triggers are more likely to be engaged when we are in our head rather than in a state of being. It is much easier to be in a state of energetic flow in the moment.
Eat Clean High Vibrational Foods: What we eat and drink and even medically put in our body has a huge impact on our physical body, the physical vessel and energetic body that is here to help hold the spiritual vessel. So many foods lower our vibration and interfere with our spiritual channel, especially alcohol, artificial sweeteners, and caffeine which can block the 3rd eye. So eat high-vibe food, especially food that is organic, fresh, and from all the colours of the rainbow.
Get More Soul Connected: The stronger our soul connection is, the easier it is to be a strong channel for love, light, and divine truth. This will help raise your soul power, and boost your vibration and spiritual connection to god, to the divine. So practice deep meditation with your soul, and create time for spiritual prayer to build that richer deeper connection with your heart and soul. Also, it is important to note that affirmations are best done when we are deeply and spiritually connected.
Inner Work: Doing the inner work, the shadow work, soul work, and inner child work helps us heal old trauma, old ancestral, karmic, and energetic patterns in ourselves, our family line, and the collective. That is why I LOVE working with archetypal therapy as archetypes are a powerful and fast way to identify our shadow traits and deep inner child wounding.
Be Authentic: Work on being authentic, being honest with yourself first and foremost and others. It helps free the soul and detach from the deep hold the ego has on the identity we think we need to present to the world. A very natural way to boost your vibration, your soul.
Know You Are Enough: When you know you are enough it is much easier to show up as you, show up in a healthy, confident way. So many lightworkers and spiritual business owners sabotage their success by trying to be something they are not. Trying to be more of something they are never meant to be. You are here to be you, this helps us let go and let god.
Stay On Your Path: Staying in our lane, focusing on our spiritual journey, and our life purpose helps accelerate our vibration tenfold. The more you get distracted by others’ roles, knowledge tools, and techniques than what you are here to do. The more you scatter and lower the energy of your own soul path and soul connection.
Get Grounded:Get grounded as much as possible, we are so used to living in such unnatural environments, we don’t realize how unhealthy and ungrounded we are. So get out in mother nature, and bring more nature to you. Essential oils, house plants, and certain crystals can help support us with grounding. So can energy tools that help protect our energy.
Use Natural Medicine: We are so lucky to be surrounded by nature’s medicine in our gardens and nature, but also today have such easy access to so many forms of natural medicine, and nutritional healing from nature. There are so many things in nature that can help support our wellbeing, for example, I have some fresh mint in my garden that I use as an infusion, and lavender is extremely soothing and healing. Many essential oils can raise our vibration energy, like lemon oil and orange oil are great for boosting our mood, rose is gently uplifting, and great for grief, loneliness, and heartache.
Expand Your Heart: Heart expansion helps us raise our vibration, and increase our capacity for more compassion, love, and generosity of spirit. Our heart intelligence has a higher wisdom, and higher vibration than our egoic mind. That is why it is so important for us to work on expanding our spiritual heart such as in this heart meditation.
I hope you have enjoyed my suggestions, if you would love more help to raise your vibration, and expand your soul power and soul connection check out my free lightworkers library and my Lightworkers portal, packed with a plethora of spiritual tools for Lightworkers. If would love more personal one-to-one support check out my supportive coaching and healing sessions. CLICK HERE
Stepping into your power as a lightworker so you can fulfil your life and soul’s mission with more spiritual strength, courage and wisdom. Top ways to step into your soul power, reclaim the life you are meant to live and do the work you are here to do with more ease.
Stepping Into Your Power And Purpose
The world needs you the lightworkers, the intuitives, the healers, the creatives and the visionaries to step into your power so that together we can create powerful shifts. The more the awakened lightworker steps up in their life, their work with a courageous open heart and lead by example, we organically encourage those around us to do the same.
So what does stepping into your power as a lightworker really mean?
A lightworker is a worker of light, a worker of the light and love of god, it is someone who genuinely wants to make a powerful difference in the world and makes that an integral part of their life. At a soul level, they have a great pull to be of service to humanity at a very deep level, to help raise the vibration of humanity at this time. So they choose certain roles, and jobs to be of service rather than focus on the monetary benefits.
Lightworkers have all sorts of vocations they are not just healers, spiritual teachers, and therapists they are the heart-based lawyers, doctors, caregivers, charity workers, and individuals in all sorts of roles that really take their spiritual path and spiritual growth very seriously.
It is not something that is trendy or something that should be prostituted at the highest bidder, it is a sacred journey that many at this time are called to be part of.
Stepping Into Your Power As A Lightworker Involves…
Doing the deep shadow and soul work, being able to face our biggest fears, the dark nights of the soul so we can embody and hold more love, light, strength and power for humanity at this time.
Being a lightworker comes in all shapes and disguises, it is a very different and unique path for each and every lightworker. It is paved with initiations and what I believe is the ability to move through the hero’s journey.
Top Tips To Stepping Into Your Power As A Lightworker
Deep Stillness:
Be still and know that I am god. The ability to be still, to achieve deep stillness is the space where we hear the voice of god, we recharge and reconnect with our heart and soul.
That is why the ability to meditate deeply is important and powerful for the lightworker role,
The ability to be quiet and still, helps us discern between spiritual guidance and our egoic wants, desires and fears. It dramatically increases our intuition and our psychic senses.
The right meditation techniques and the right meditation approach can make a huge difference, I teach a variety of meditation approaches including quantum strategies that help clients and students achieve deep stillness quickly.
Ask For Daily Guidance:
It is so important for us to ask for guidance be a channel for god’s guidance and your soul’s essence on not just a day-to-day basis but a moment-to-moment basis throughout the day, to keep us on track. Especially when we feel unsure, overwhelmed or confused.
And as someone said to me many years ago don’t be shy about asking for BIG SIGNS, huge signs if need be. Sometimes these signs come in not just signs but in situations that force you away from a situation or into a new direction. At the time it may not feel very comfortable, but later on, you can see the why, the huge gift within the situation.
Patience is everything as a lightworker, Rome wasn’t built in a day and certainly wasn’t taken down in a day.
The lightworker’s role is not a short mission, it is a spiritual journey that is more of a long strong walk than a sprint. Stepping into your power as a lightworker requires a healthy endurance that needs to be paced. We cannot sustain that role from a state of chronic stress, push, push, pushing or fear-based urgency but from a place of grace and in many ways steady pacing.
Just for today, I will … one step at a time, one moment at a time.
Do The Inner Work/ The Shadow Work
Lightwork involves a certain amount of inner work, spiritual initiations and spiritual growth. Sometimes the individual isn’t consciously aware of these initiations or inner shifts in their life or journey. But they are key situations that raise their consciousness enough to pivot that soul to the next level or lesson in their life and soul purpose and mission.
With each event, we have the opportunity to face and work through our inner shadow, our inner demons or fears. More conscious lightworkers actively go looking for the help, support and teachings that will help them move through the shadow work. Because they know how important this deep soul work is at raising our vibration and levels of consciousness as individuals and on the planet.
No matter where we are or have been on our journey we have to do the inner work, the shadow work, heal our inner child wounding, and heal our triggers. It is one of the reasons I am very passionate about archetypal work as it can be a very effective and efficient way to identify our shadow traits and strengths more strongly.
No matter how long we have been doing shadow work and inner child work, 10, 20, 30 years or more, there is always more that we can do to raise our vibration.
Tap Into Your Magical Child:
Tapping into our inner magical child is a powerful way to access more light, love, magic and miracles from the god essence, Children have such purity and such deep connection to the divine light that it can help us take our creativity and transformation to a whole new level.
Magical Child inner child work is extremely powerful at helping us access magical transformations is one of my favourite tools with clients. Healing the inner child and the magical/creative child helps open us up to the purest aspect of the alchemist, the creator, the divine and magical child. It can help us tap into unlimited potential, and break free from outdated structures in the matrix. Become more divine and authentic in our every day life.
Develop Spiritual Discernment
One of the biggest lessons all souls need to cultivate today is more spiritual discernment. Especially in the world today when there is so much inversion through psychological manipulation of social media and television (tell-a-lie-vision). Where humans let other humans sitting in a digital box or device tell them what is fact or truth without any questions or spiritual discernment.
Spiritual discernment is what helps us navigate through a spiritual war with more wisdom and strength. That is why a good spiritual teacher has to have a good level of spiritual discernment, have highly developed intuition. And is not as easily fooled or swayed by the mass psychological manipulation that is there to confuse us.
This is vital for healers and energy workers who need to be able to spiritually discern what they are connecting to. Not just assume they are always connecting to the highest light of divine truth. In a spiritual war, there is a lot of false light, false teachings, false guides that can influence and energetically interfere with the work we do.
Develop A Spiritual Backbone
I believe developing a spiritual backbone is so important if you are serious about being a lightworker. This involves us having first to have the courage to face spiritual truths about ourselves, our own journey, our weaknesses and vulnerabilities, and what we are teaching and have been teaching.
As well as having the spiritual backbone to face the truth, especially those things that are very difficult to swallow. I know despite being extremely empathic and highly sensitive, every day I face my fears and step into my power, the stronger I become, the stronger we all will become.
The lightworker’s journey is not for the faint-hearted, it is not a fad or passing trend. Something you dip your toe into, to see if it feels good. It is an embedded aspect of your soul’s blueprint. It requires a high level of integrity and courage that can be felt so strongly by others that it ignites others to rise up, to do what is right and what is their calling. The more we develop a stronger spiritual backbone, we help others to do the same.
Be Part Of A Family Of Like-Minded Souls
It can be very lonely as a lightworker, especially for certain types of lightworkers who have certain major roles such as the visionaries. Being part of a family of like-minded souls is both strengthening and nurturing. When we work together and support each other we grow together and create much more powerful shifts.
This is one of the main reasons I created my new co-creating new earth sessions, a space where lightworkers can explore ways to move forward together and build stronger relationships with lightworkers on similar missions or with a similar drive. We don’t need to do it all alone, we are family, and here to work together.
Honouring The Lightworkers Role:
I believe it is important to honour the lightworker’s role. Not to view the lightworker’s role as more important than any other role from an egoic perspective. But to have the respect to see how privileged we are to be given such beautiful tasks on our soul’s mission.
Every single one of us has a different soul journey and life challenges that have been very important in shaping who we are and who will be. It is a role that evolves and grows as we spiritually mature and grow in our awakening and awareness.
When we recognise the value of our gifts and skills, we realise they need to be respected, valued and harnessed the right way. Part of that is also respecting other lightworkers’ roles we may not understand or feel aligned with.
I see you, I hear you, I feel the light in you, I honour the light in you.
Spiritual Prayer For Lightworkers, Healers, Therapists, and Spiritual Business Owners who want to receive daily spiritual guidance and strength. A lightworker’s prayer to help you align with your life and soul mission from the highest integrity and love.
Prayer For Lightworkers, Therapists, Healers
Dear God of The Highest Love And Light
Help me see and know the highest dimensions of truth.
Help me feel, experience, and share the highest dimensions of love.
How To Nurture Your Inner Child, Comfort and Soothe Our Inner Child in a deeply healing and supportive way.
What is Your Inner Child?
Your inner child is part of you, part of your psyche that has been present from the time you have been conceived.
Our inner child forms different archetypal traits to adapt and survive our environment and family system.
It is where most of us form healthy and unhealthy archetypal traits, personality traits that shape our beliefs and behavioural patterns in adulthood.
The reason why we all have a wounded inner child that needs healing and healthy parenting.
No matter how healthy, caring, and nurturing our childhood was, we all have inner child wounds, we all have happy, self-sabotaging, and destructive patterns that impact our lives.
Nurturing Your Inner Child
Nurturing your inner child is an important part of helping to comfort, reassure, and soothe your inner child to become a more happy healthy adult.
But like everything in life, there is a healthy way to nurture and approach your inner child and a not-so-healthy way.
It is that fine balance of being able to listen and acknowledge the inner child while equally parenting the inner child in a nurturing way.
Like every child, your inner child can want and crave all sorts of unhealthy patterns in an attempt to self-soothe its trauma, neglect, abuse, and loss.
This is why it is so important to approach healing your inner child and nurturing your inner child in a healthy balanced and informed way.
10 Ways To Nurture Your Inner Child
Connect With Your Inner Child –
You cannot truly and effectively nurture your child within until you can make a healthy and deep soul connection with your inner child. This is a step that shouldn’t be rushed and it requires you to set times in your day, and week where you make that conscious connection.
Many children of certain generations were seen but not heard. And in many ways not seen.
The ability to listen to what our child archetypes and inner child are trying to tell us is of vital importance. If we don’t listen closely enough we can miss very important information, that is why listening to your inner child is so important and one of the most fundamental basics of inner child therapy.
Being Fully Present With Your Inner Child –
The ability to be fully present requires the ability to be still, be quiet, and be fully in the moment is so important. If you struggle to be still, struggle to connect within or to your soul’s essence. You are going to struggle to connect with the heart of your child’s archetypes that need your attention. That is why the right meditation techniques and soul connection skills can be extremely helpful.
Honour Your Inner Child –
it is so important for us all to respect, value, and honour our inner child and all our archetypal traits in a balanced and healthy way. Just like honouring, respecting, and valuing a child we love, we have to honour that child in a way without reinforcing unhealthy child wound patterns.
This is why honouring and valuing the child archetypes within us also involves parenting our inner child to recognise unhealthy stuck patterns. For example, the shadow traits of the eternal child who doesn’t want to grow up and chooses toto avoid growing up and taking self-responsibility. The victim child who chooses to be a victim of their circumstances, who doesn’t value, honour, or respect themself enough to create change.
Soothe Your Inner Child –
Healthy self-soothing is an important aspect of nurturing our inner child, the key is healthy soothing. Unhealthy patterns of self-soothing is eating a full tub of ice cream or any other form of unhealthy comfort eating or relying on drugs or prescription medication to self-soothe.
Instead self soothe using relaxation techniques, havening, a relaxing bath, calming and grounding essential oils anything that will help calm down the nervous system in a healthy balanced way.
Play With Your Inner Child –
As adults we forget to have fun, we forget to make some playtime in our day, in our week, our life. It is so important to have fun, and laughter, and to take time out. The entertainer, jester archetype can help remind us of these qualities.
Get Creative With Your Inner Child –
Creativity can be a powerful therapeutic tool in inner child work, the right type of creativity that feels aligned with your soul can be very soothing and nurturing. Tapping into the artist, creator archetype or creative child archetype or magical child archetype can help inspire that creativity.
Exploring different creative hobbies can be extremely healing and can help reignite more passion and creativity in our lives.
Send A Letter To And From Our Inner Child –
Sending a deeply caring and loving letter to and from our inner child can be extremely healing and cathartic. Sending a letter to your inner child to tell your child that you love and care for them can help open deeper doors to self-healing. Sending a letter from the wounded child to the adult you stating what you really need right now can really help you identify what your wounded child needs and wants at a deeper soul level.
Parent The Inner Child –
Parenting our inner child is a vital part of the healing process, if we cannot parent our inner child we cannot help the child grow up in a healthy and balanced way. A healthy parent helps teach our inner child healthy patterns that help us become healthy happy grown up.
Unhealthy parenting teaches unconsciously unhealthy patterns, self-sabotaging, and destructive patterns in our lives. So part of parenting your inner child is teaching your inner child a new way of being
Healing Our Inner Child –
The right Inner Child Healing can be extremely powerful at helping you make massive shifts in your life, your relationships, your business, and your career.
So it is important to choose the right type of inner child therapist, inner child healer, or inner child work that will best suit your inner child’s needs. Choose an inner child therapist that understands trauma, self-sabotaging patterns, and your most dominant archetypal traits that are running or ruining your life.
I have personally met and worked with so many clients through the years that have felt more damaged or traumatised by therapists or healers that don’t know what they are doing.
Listening to what our inner child needs is crucial. And don’t be shy about asking the therapist about their qualifications, level, and area of expertise in inner child work; years of experience, and how many clients they have worked with. It is important our inner child feels safe and is safe with a therapist, counsellor, coach, or healer.
If you are ready to help soothe, nurture, and heal your inner child into that happy healthy child and adult you deserve and are meant to be check out my new Lightworkers portal, where you can access a variety of inner child meditations, inner child courses, and spiritual self-development tools and techniques and so much more.
Sample some of my Free Inner Child And Archetypal Resources in the Lightworkers Library.
What is Soul Alignment and why is it so important in helping you get into alignment in your life, aligned with your life purpose and soul purpose?
What Is Soul Alignment?
To me, Soul Alignment is being so deeply connected and aligned with who you truly are at a soul level, that you live your life in complete alignment with who you truly are.
You live in alignment with your life and soul purpose, you have a deep intimate connection with what your soul, god, and the universe are guiding you to do.
What Happens When We Are Out Of Alignment?
The problem is when we are out of alignment with our soul, is that misalignment can attract all sorts of other issues and problems that take us even more out of alignment, let me explain it this way.
Recently I have been receiving chiropractor treatment for a very complex list of physical challenges caused by serious misalignment in my caused by medical harm and trauma.
Even though I have invested a LOT of money trying to solve these issues, one of the biggest problems was most therapists were treating the symptoms rather than the core structural causes.
There was so much going on that my body’s new normal from a structural perspective was like the leaning tower. of Pisa. And every time a therapist tried to re-align one area of my body, it was literally like a domino effect of other serious issues.
Like everything in life, if we don’t solve the core issues, and get to the foundational issue that is causing the misalignment in our life, we are trying to fix the symptoms than the problem.
Soul alignment is the same, when we are out of alignment with our soul we end up with all sorts of complex issues in our lives, our health, our purpose, and in our spiritual business.
You attract all sorts of opportunities and synchronicities to help you co-create.
Make most decisions at a heart and soul level, then mind/ego level so more in the flow.
Don’t have an unhealthy over-attachment to the 3d world and material things.
Soul Alignment Method
I have my own soul-aligning process that I teach my clients and students, which at a foundation level starts with building up good soul connection. Without a healthy soul connection, you don’t know what you are energetically and psychically connecting to, you don’t know what or who to listen to.
One of the reasons so many people lack good intuition and even spiritual discernment, we just need to look at how many people were so disconnected from their discernment and intuition over the last few years.
And why do spiritual discernment and intuition dramatically improve when we are more soul-aligned than confused or hijacked by energetic distortions and interferences not from the light or your soul? One of the reasons soul alignment can be very helpful.
Soul Alignment Quotes
“Only when we are in alignment with our soul purpose do we find true joy and inner peace.” ― Anthon St. Maarten
The things that bring you the greatest joy are in alignment with your purpose. ― Jack Canfield
“Your Soul is a perfect fragment of Source. Your purpose lives within the blueprint of your Soul, which, like a sunflower in full bloom, contains many seeds of golden light. Anything purposeful, creative, imaginative, truthful, aligned, and unique you do begins with a spark from your Soul’s own light.” ― Kris Franken
Ready To Build A Deeper Soul Connection Become More Spiritually Aligned with Your Heart and Soul check out the Gold or Quantum level of the Lightworkers Portal to get access to my Soul Connection Course and so much more.
Inspiration Lightworker Quotes and inspirational quotes for healers. Quotes that help and Inspire, Love, Light And Strength for Empaths, Healers, Lightworkers, Healers and Light Warriors on the spiritual path, the journey of awakening and ascension.
22 Inspiring Lightworker Quotes
Inspiring Quotes For Lightworkers, Empaths, Earthseeds and Starseeds
“When we shift our energy from fear to love, we find our way” ― Panache Desai
“In a seemingly dark and troubled world, there are hundreds and thousands of lightworkers, standing strong, refusing to dim their lights. Look for the light workers they are all around you. Follow them back to the light.”― Renae A. Sauter
“Sometimes the universe turns off all the lights so we have no choice but to find our own.” ― Rebecca Campbell
“There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”— Edith Wharton
“Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.”— Sogyal Rinpoche
“A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.”― St. Francis of Assisi
Lightworker Quotes by Ram Dass and Rumi
Famous inspiring quotes by Ram Dass
“The Quieter You Become The More You Can Hear” — Ram Dass
“The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light.”— Ram Dass
“For every sensitive soul, time alone is not a luxury; it is a matter of survival.” ― Sylvia Salow
“Struggles Of An Empath and Lightworker” Empaths and Lightworkers did not arrive on this planet to lead a cheerful carnival parade into a perfect New Earth paradise. There is much work to be done before anyone will ever enter that promised land.” ― Anthon St. Maarten
Light Warrior and Spiritual Warrior Quotes
Quotes that inspire light, spiritual courage, wisdom and peace.
“Spiritual warriors are truth speakers and light keepers, not fearmongers or cheerleaders.”― Anthon St. Maarten
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”― Mahatma Gandhi
Many people think excitement is happiness…. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Understanding The 12 Main Archetypes In Therapy, Healing and Business. What are Archetypes? And what benefits can come from understanding your main archetypal traits in your life, relationships, and work?
Understanding The Main 12 Archetypes IN LIFE AND BUSINESS
Understanding Archetypes is extremely useful in certain types of therapy and healing when approached in the right way. It is a great way to understand certain human behaviors and traits, as well as societal constructs.
I began studying Archetypes over 25 years ago from the psychological and psychotherapy perspective, the spiritual and healing perspective, and then Archetypal Branding and Marketing.
I found archetypal work is an important element of Inner Child Healing and can be extremely helpful in helping us identify more clearly our strengths and our weaknesses.
To understand Archetypes it is helpful to look at the work and views of Swiss Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst Carl Jung. Specifically his Jung Archetypes and the Jungian Concept of the Psyche.
Carl believed that we all have human inclinations and/or traits that we in many ways are born with. What he regarded as heritable psychic structures that play a part in how we experience and show up in life.
When he used the word the Psyche he viewed the Psyche as the all-encompassing aspects of one’s thoughts, emotions, feelings, and behaviour. While many today would describe the psyche as just the mind.
According to Jung, he viewed the psyche as 3 Major Realms
Consciousness – Awareness which he regarded as the ego; the memories, thoughts and emotions you are aware of.
Personal Consciousness – a layer where we hold events that we are not consciously aware of It is where we hold events we have perhaps ignored, denied or discarded.
Collective Consciousness – the realm that holds in many ways a whole collection of Universal Traits; shared attitudes, beliefs, ideas, and wisdom that relate to individuals and large groups of individuals.
Through clinical patient and historical research, Jung discovered that many individuals no matter their culture, society, religious status, or beliefs, held commonly shared unconscious traits. From this understanding and research, the concept of Archetypes was introduced.
The 4 Major Jungian Archetypes
The Anima/Animus,
The Persona,
The Self
The Shadow
This would eventually lead to Jung suggesting there were a variety of different archetypes, which included the Child, Mother, Father, Hero, Trickster, and Wise Old Man…
He explained that different archetypes were not fixed but interchangeable with other archetypes. That is why what is regarded as the 12 Main Archetypes can look very different in certain types of work.
What Are The 12 Main Archetypes?
Today the work of the 12 main Archetypes has evolved from Jung’s Main Archetypes.
For example, Psychometric and Archetype analysis is used to assess certain traits; attitudes, behaviour, strengths, and weaknesses in therapy, healing, job placement, education, branding, and marketing.
The 12 main archetypes help us recognise and understand the most common dominant traits in the collective.
The 12 Main Archetypes
The use of Archetypes has become a bit of a trend. So Jung’s 12 Main Archetypes in many ways have been adapted and modernised to suit modern times but for this blog concerning therapy and healing I have chosen the 12 main archetypes below
The light aspect of the Caregiver, the Nurturer Archetype is an individual whose traits are mainly selfless, their strongest traits in life are empathy, compassion, and giving. They naturally want to nurture and protect those they meet. They are often very strong empaths and lightworkers.
Common shadow traits of the Caregiver is their tendency to protect and give unconditionally without thinking. Victim, Martyrdom, Rescuer Traits. This often leads to over-giving, lack of boundaries, and difficulties saying no. Which can lead to being undervalued, taken advantage of, exhaustion, burnout, frustration, and resentment.
The Creative Archetype’s most positive traits include the natural flair and ability to dream, create, and be original. They have a tremendous gift of imagination, innovation and self-expression
The Artist or Creative Archetype’s shadow traits include perfectionism, strong traits of neuroticism, or a tendency to put creativity over positive solutions. Overthinking and emotional instability can lead to relationship difficulties and introversion.
The light aspects of the Innocent are their optimism, positivity, their ability to see good in everyone, and their desire for everyone to like them. They tend to believe the world is a great place to live. They long for innocence, rebirth, and in many ways salvation.
The shadow aspect of the innocent is their naivety, innocence, and dreamlike view of the world and others means they can lack judgment and discernment. They are one of the easiest archetypes to impress but are fearful of being punished for doing wrong.
The light aspect of the Explorer Archetype is their sense of adventure and freedom-seeking. They enjoy seeking and exploring new places, and new experiences, they have a strong tendency towards personal freedom and space.
The shadow aspects of the Explorer Archetype include the restlessness or disease
that comes with being bored or feeling you are in one place or doing the same thing for too long. Their lack of fear or lack of boundaries for new adventures, and new places can lead to challenges around commitment, focus, persistence, rules, and boundaries. It can also be a major cause of unhealthy forms of escapism like drugs, alcohol, adrenaline junkie.
Hero Archetype is also known as Champion, Defender, Rescuer, Warrior
Positive aspects of the Hero Archetype include the depth of courage, energy, and power they have to achieve something they believe is the honourable thing to do. They are about making the world a better place, defending the rights of others. They can often see the bigger picture concerning governments, organisations and society.
Shadow aspects of the Hero Archetype can be a strong need for power and limelight. Their tremendous level of ambition can get work against them or others. Doing almost anything including stepping over others or sacrificing themself to achieve that goal. Can be viewed negatively as Conspiracy Theorists although they tend to have a wider view than others on what is going on.
The Magician and Alchemist Archetype’s most positive and light traits include the ability to be a catalyst for transformation and growth. They tend to have a much stronger and deeper connection to the universe and unseen than many other archetypes do.
So tend to have strong intuitive and or psychic traits. I tend to attract a lot of Alchemists in my work as many are natural healers, spiritual teachers, and transformational coaches.
The Magician’s shadow traits include being easily seduced by magic, money, and illusion. They don’t always have patience and like the Magician Apprentice want to get the results without always doing the work or practice.
This alongside having very strong opinions can make them sometimes the challenging student. Or cause them to not reach their full potential or fall for their own illusions. They can as quickly destruct or self-destruct as transform and make great change.
The Lover or Romantic Archetype’s main light traits are feminine, love, emotions, passion, sensitivity, devotion, and commitment. This archetype is easily suppressed by strict or rigid parenting.
The Romantic or Lover Archetype’s shadow traits include their deep fear of rejection, their need for someone else, and their need to please. Lack of Self-Love and Self-Care. Can have a strong tendency towards co-dependency issues, over-attachment, and neuroticism. Suppression of the Lover Archetype can lead to all sorts of addictions and promiscuity.
Jester Archetype is also known as the Clown, Fool, Trickster, Party Host,
Jester Archetype’s main positive traits are their strong ability to have fun, and be the life and soul of the party. They have a natural ability to uplift others and get others to join in and engage in activities or communication. Tend to be entertaining and or a natural comedian. Their main motto tends to be you only live once.
Common Jester Archetype shadow traits include not always taking things seriously, because they fear being judged as boring. They often have challenges with being mature, sensible, and taking responsibility. Their darkest shadow elements include deception, lies, and manipulation.
The main reason the Jester is viewed as both positive fun and as the Trickster devious and deceptive is because of their polar opposite tendencies. The Jester can therefore be fooled by their mind, believe anything is possible, and not see their weaknesses or limits within a situation.
Orphan Archetype also known as the Communitarian, Realist, Everyday Girl Or Everyday Man
Realist Archetype’s main positive traits include their strong abilities of equality, they are normally highly sociable, and are particularly relatable to the man on the street. Think of the boy or girl next door.
Realist’s shadow traits include their fear of being the odd person out, excluded, so they can easily themself and their values just to be part of the group, the community.
Rebel Archetype also known as the Outlaw Archetype
Rebel Archetype’s main light traits are their Free Spirit, their ability to expand and break perceived limitations, and their level of independence.
Rebel’s main shadow traits include their fear, frustration with rules and boundaries, thinking of the Rebel without a clue, or Rebel without a cause. In the negative state, they can have a tendency to go against the grain or rules just for the sake of it. This can lead to a lot of self-destructive or self-sabotaging patterns in life, relationships, work, and business.
Ruler Archetype is also known as the Leader, Father, King, Royalty, or Sovereign Archetype
Ruler Archetype’s main positive attributes include their natural ability to be a leader, to lead than to be led as a Benevolent King. They tend to be authoritarian figures, that have courage, strength, and a broad view of a situation.
Shadow traits of the Ruler Archetype include repressed anger, and the need to dominate some sort of control or power over others. And their inability to see what they are suppressing rather than leading or motivating. They struggle to trust others and to delegate. And insatiable thirst for material success or status, difficulty asking for help or admitting when wrong.
Sage Archetype is also known as the Philosopher, Teacher
A Sage’s positive attributes include a strong thirst for deep wisdom, truth, and knowledge. They tend to live a life full of introspection and introversion. They tend to philosophize their life’s journey as a series of lessons and insights.
The sage in some ways is the more mature, knowledgeable, and wiser Magician.
Common Sage shadow traits include they can be the never-ending student, always learning, but never taking any action or using their knowledge for any common good. Often a life that is analyzed than lived. Can struggle to be fully in the moment.
Introduction To The 12 Main Archetypes
Now this is just an introduction to understanding the 12 Main Archetypes. Archetypal healing goes a lot wider and deeper. When applied in the right way it can be a powerful tool in Inner Child Therapy, in Healing, and in certain types of Spiritual Coaching and Mentoring.
The reality is there are so many different recognised archetypes in the collective unconscious. So many that can be used and explored to support us in different ways.
But the most important one for you to explore your strengths and vulnerabilities- is identifying your strongest main archetype. That main archetype that shows up in you in the way you live your life every single day.
Understanding Yourself Through The 12 Main Archetypes
I believe the more we understand our main archetypes, the more we can understand ourselves. It can also be extremely helpful in identifying your strengths and those things you need to work on. I also use Archetypes as a tool to help healers, coaches, and Spiritual Teachers build a business around their strengths rather than their weaknesses. Archetypal Branding to help capture the energy and emotion of their business and them in their marketing.
Understanding Your Business Through The 12 Main Archetypes
Understanding the most dominant archetypal traits of your business can give you a great edge in business and marketing. It can help you understand the energetic traits and values of your business and the soul clients and customers your business is more aligned with.
What Archetypes Can Teach Us About Our Purpose
Taking Back Your Sovereignty
Moving out of the slave into the leader, king, and queen archetype energy.
11 Common Signs Of Inner Child Wounds, Inner Child Wounding that shows up in our everyday life
So What Is Inner Child Wounds?
Well if we look at the Inner Child, the Inner Child is aspects of the human psyche, the unconscious inner child that is within us all. But the inner child within carries both light and shadow aspects. Those light and shadow aspects of the inner child stem from life experiences and life challenges that may have not been healed.
Examples of light aspects include that sense of awe and magic we see in the inner magical child or innocent child and the shadow aspects include the wounded child and also aspects of the eternal child that doesn’t want to take self-responsibility.
Common Causes Of Inner Child Wounds
Common causes of Inner Child Wounding include painful and traumatic experiences, physical, mental, emotional, and sexual abuse as well as neglect. Although deep inner child trauma is usually caused by abuse, neglect, and trauma we all have inner child wounds triggered by normal childhood experiences.
Inner child wounds can be triggered by a deeply embarrassing experience at school, a hurtful moment with a sibling, or a crossword by a parent or caregiver. For those of you who are Empaths or HSP’s, those wounds can be triggered by the painful experiences of those around you. A lot of our everyday anxiety and stress is actually triggered by inner child wounding.
There are many different approaches to healing the Inner Child, some include nurturing and re-parenting the Inner Child, Internal Family System Therapy, Archetypal and Inner Child Healing. Others are about emotional and nervous system regulation.
Accept Your Inner Child Is Wounded:
Well like any form of healing or therapy it is important to recognise your inner child has some wounding. Now as I say that it is important for you to understand at your core, you are not damaged. This sort of view creates so many other problems.
In many ways, it is our unconscious beliefs and patterns, our unconscious stories that keep certain patterns in the psyche that needs to be addressed.
Once you accept that aspects of your inner child needs nurturing, needs support it helps encourage more self-awareness and self-care.
Recognise Your Inner Child Needs To Be Loved And Cared For:
The most important thing a child needs is love, acceptance. We are very good at being loving to other people, but most of us seriously struggle to love ourselves.
When a child feels wounded mentally, emotionally, physically, or even spiritually that child needs love, that child needs acceptance, that child needs care.
Your Inner Child wounds needs that self-love, that self-care, and that self-acceptance it needs the right type of healing, support and inner child nurturing.
Learn To Listen To Your Inner Child:
An emotionally and mentally healthy child needs to be heard, to be understood by those who are caring for that child. Your Inner Child needs to be heard, so many Inner Child wounds begin with not abuse or trauma, but neglect, even misunderstanding. Take the time to listen to what your Inner Child needs and wants, take time to understand your inner child.
One of the easiest ways to start listening to your Inner Child is getting into the habit of daily meditation and journaling. Meditation should always come first as meditation helps us slow down the monkey mind and become more connected to our internal world. This helps you naturally become aware of those distorted and unhealthy thought patterns and behaviours, those triggers. The more you become aware of these thoughts and behaviours you can start journalling them. Art Journaling can be very helpful in-fact deeply therapeutic.
Let Your Inner Child Come Out To Play
Every child needs lots of playtime, creative time, so does your inner child. So make sure you make time for your inner child, we are never too old for some fun, especially things you loved to do in your childhood. Spending time with children especially young children is a great way to nurture your inner child, to help some of those inner child wounds especially those abandoned inner child wounds. Ylang Ylang the inner child oil can support more creative flow whilst soothing the nervous system.
Heal Your Wounded Child
Get the support, the help you need to heal your wounded child, making sure you choose someone who is suitably qualified. Inner Child Therapy and Healing is something that should always be done in a very safe and effective way. And remember it doesn’t matter how experienced a healer or therapist you are. We all need a little help to see those blind spots. I am a healer of 30 years and I still get help from other healers, therapists to support other aspects of my healing and my inner child. If you would like to learn more about my one -to one Inner Child Healing Sessions CLICK HERE
The Benefits Of Inner Child Wound Healing
When You Heal Your Inner Child Wounds You Heal The Adult You
The reality is when we heal our inner child wounds we heal the adult we are today, it helps heal our relationship not just with ourselves, but the world and those around us. Inner Child healing can help increase confidence, increase self-esteem and self-worth, encourage healthier boundaries and more effective communication in relationship. This doesn’t just help our mental and emotional wellbeing but our physical wellbeing.1
Learn How To Develop Your Intuition For Life And Business. Learn why intuition is such an underdeveloped tool that more and more of us should learn how to master. Why it is a natural life skill many of us are not investing enough time to develop and enhance.
What Is Intuition?
Intuition is an inner knowing about something, someone without any analytical information or rational reasoning. Many would regard Intuition as a gut feeling or hunch.
In many ways, it’s an innate trait that we start to disconnect from in childhood due to a variety of distorted patterns and programming, trauma, and disconnect from our soul and higher intelligence.
Some of you maybe like me, naturally intuitive and creative while some of you are more logically minded. And need to learn how to develop your intuition.
No matter how intuitive you are or not, intuition is something that can always be developed even more.
Why Intuition Is A Powerful Tool
Sadly most of us live in a world that is built on illusion and fakery. We just need to look around at social media, news, politics, government, and even medicine. To see how much we are fed a narrative that suits someone’s agenda, someone else’s perceptions not necessarily, truth, fact, or fiction.
Every day media is trying to sell you something, often a product or course that doesn’t do what it implies or claims on the packet.
Every day someone is being prescribed something that does more harm than healing. Every day we are exposed to other people’s truth or perceptions, not necessarily our truth.
When you develop your intuition to a certain level, it is much easier to discern when something is not quite what it appears to be. It can help protect you from danger, and from making big and costly mistakes.
My intuition has saved me from lots of negative situations and one extremely dark and dangerous situation. Your intuition is a powerful tool when you learn to master it.
Intuition And Spiritual Discernment
Strong intuition can help you become more spiritually discerning, something so important in life and any sort of soul-aligned business.
Spiritual Discernment is extremely important if you are a spiritual teacher, healer, or coach. Where clients or students are looking to you for support or guidance.
The more you develop your intuition the easier it is to navigate what is right and wrong for you. I believe in many ways intuition is a direct connection to god, your higher self, or your spiritual helpers e.g. your Guardian Angel.
So the more you cultivate a connection with your inner self, the stronger that connection becomes.
But sadly most people today spend so much time in their heads or on external distractions they have lost their inner connection.
That is why so many people even highly experienced intuitives, healers, coaches, and therapists, give their power away every day to other teachers, especially celebrity Spiritual Teachers or Psychics. Believe and invest in what someone else says without using any Spiritual Discernment.
It is great to explore and learn from other teachers but NEVER give your power away believing they have all the answers. I see so many on the spiritual path idolizing others to a very unhealthy degree. Remember we’re all having a human experience, some yes maybe more awakened, more aware, and have more wisdom in certain areas.
But sometimes they aren’t. Develop your intuition and discernment so you can be more self-responsible and independent.
“I define intuition as the subtle knowing without ever having any idea why you know it,” Sophy Burnham, bestselling author of The Art of Intuition
Learn How To Develop Your Intuition
LOOSEN YOUR DISTRACTIONS
The more you can loosen those distractions, that you use to avoid facing what you are feeling or even seeing.
You will get into a more being state than an avoidance or resistance state. Just starting to recognise those distractions and avoidance tactics is the first thing.
How many times in a day do you spend checking your phone, checking your emails, Facebook, or watching TV, instead of just being?
These are the types of things we all do to keep the mind distracted and busy. We now give so much power to the mind that we neglect our other senses. When you start reducing and loosening those distractions you will find it much easier to develop your intuition and notice those signs and synchronicities.
MEDITATE DAILY
The ability to meditate helps loosen those attachments, those distractions that can stop you from developing your intuition. Meditation helps you access stillness and calm, deeper connection with the self. Meditation naturally helps you have more pauses and presence between your thoughts.
It helps you become more of the observer, the witness to everything within and around you. I believe more traditional forms of meditation are the most powerful way to access this. Now even though I teach traditional and modern forms of meditation and Guided Meditations ( Guided Imagery Meditations) guided in my work as a meditation teacher for over 20 years.
I believe learning how to meditate is a far more effective way to develop your intuition from a clearer mind. Saying that as a healer, Guided Meditations with certain types of healing work can be a powerful way to help unlock those untapped or suppressed gifts. One of the reasons I created this Free Healing Guided Meditation – Awaken Your Soul.
GET GROUNDED AND PROTECTED
Learn To Ground More: The more grounded and protected you become, the more solid, and clearer your intuitive messages will come through.
No matter how highly awake and intuitive you are if you are not fully earthed and grounded. It is very easy to be hijacked by disinformation from negative sources, entities, the ego, your own or others’ trauma, and or distortions. No one is immune.
That is why energy protection tools are so important, especially for empaths, healers, and hsp’s who are more sensitive to energetic shifts, other people’s trauma, and wounding.
OUT OF YOUR HEAD
The more you learn how to get out of the monkey mind you will get out of your own way. The more you will naturally become more attuned to yourself more holistically and spiritually. In the twenty-first century, we have allowed in many ways our minds to be a slave to the system, a slave to the media, a slave to other people’s rules, beliefs, and systems.
The more you can go inside, become more connected to your body, more connected to all your senses, you will naturally develop your intuition and your unique clairvoyant gifts. Those very natural spiritual gifts, gifts that God gave us.
LEARN TO RELAX
The more you can relax, and be calm, the stronger those intuitive nudges and signs will come through. But sadly today most people don’t know how to relax or switch off, as I already mentioned they are too distracted and too busy.
That is why I teach therapists, healers, and coaches to become Relaxation Therapists and Teachers. It is much harder to help empower someone in their life, help them access their inner compass if they are constantly anxious or stressed. For them to be able to discern between their intuition or what is F.E.A.R. False Evidence Appearing Real. So learn how to switch off.
GET CREATIVE
Creativity is the art of channeling, inventing, and creating something new, it requires inspiration that comes from a level of spontaneity that is intuitive. Creativity and Intuition are very right-brain processes, that help expand and nurture each other. “Intuition and creativity are fundamentally, interdependent and interchangeable. They reflect the highest forms of applicable intelligence for any and every ability.” Intuition as the Basis for Creativity, C Woolf
Creativity helps us expand perceived limitations, think and be out of the box, all extremely helpful in being able to sense beyond what we can see, feel and hear on the physical level. And a powerful tool that can help develop your intuition.
IDENTIFY YOUR STRONGEST CLAIR GIFTS
When you can identify your strongest clair gift and start nurturing it, you will often find you will naturally develop other clair gifts, other intuitive gifts. The most common intuitive and Clair Gifts are Clairvoyance, Claircognisance, Clairsentient, Clairaudient, Clairgustance and Clairailence.
Ready To Develop Your Intuition?
In my Develop Your Intuition Course I include a variety of exercises and tools to identify your strongest clair gifts and then how to start developing and expanding those gifts. There are so many ways you can develop those gifts,
If you would love to learn how to Develop Your Intuition, Spiritual And Psychic Gifts, check out the gold or quantum level of the Lightworkers portal.
Essential Flower Essences For Empaths, Sensitives, and Healers. Learn the mental and emotional benefits of flower essences, Bach essences, and other types of essences around today.
What Are Flower Essences?
Flower Essences are part of the Essence Family. You can get all sorts of essences including Plant, Gem & Crystal Essences, Environmental Essences, even Geometrical Essences.
Flower Essences are flower extracts, that are known to be mentally, emotionally, and physically balancing. Flower essences originated in the 1930’s from the work of Dr. Bach, a Medical Doctor, and Homeopath. Dr. Bach was a strong believer that “the key to good health was by emotional harmony”.
Dr. Bach went onto establish the use of 38 different flower essences to support different emotions. Each essence was obtained from either a plant, flower, or tree.
Flower essences are normally extracted through two different processes that Dr. Bach used; The sun method is used for the more delicate flower which involves floating the flower heads in water directly in the sun for approx 3 hours. The boiling the plant method tends to be more for other flowers and woodland plants that tend to blossom in lower sunlight. Both processes extract the vibration of the flowers into the water, which after being filtered is mixed with equal parts of Brandy and then classed as a stock remedy.
Different Types Of Flower Essences Today
Today there are many different types and ranges of Flower Essences and Essences from a variety of things. While studying my Diploma in Flower Essences we explored the
Australian Bush Essences
Bach Flower Essences
Findhorn Flower Essences
Later on I came to explore and use different types of essences
Divine Harmony Essences
Indigo Essences – especially the crystal essences
I have also used personally other essences created or channeled by other therapists, these include Janine Thorpe and Sally Arthurs.
My Experience Using Flower Essences
I was first introduced to Flower Essences in the early ’90s by a retired Dr practising different holistic medicine approaches. At a time in my life where I was young and ill, dealing with the physical, mental and emotional challenges of chronic and rare medical challenges in my early twenties. Conditions and symptoms that mainstream medicine couldn’t treat or offer me any support.
During this period two of my family members were involved in a serious physical assault which was extremely traumatising to them both. The practitioner that I was attending recommended they both take Rock Rose. Rock Rose was useful at helping release the terror and trauma of such an experience. Now only one chose to take the remedy, the other didn’t. The interesting thing I noticed was one sister after this dealt with the trauma more healthily than the other.
Later in my life another therapist prescribed me some Bach Remedies for a very stressful time in my life. It was a situation where I was working for an organisation where I was being put in a very difficult situation. After taking the flower essences I was so surprised how much the essences didn’t just help me feel more resilient but helped me become more self-aware, make me realise why I was struggling so much more.
I then went on to study a Diploma in Flower Essence Healing at college and began to use Flower Essences and other Essences in my work as a healer, coach and Stress Counsellor.
I was amazed at how effective it was for many clients suffering from extreme stress, Post Traumatic Stress, and Depression.
As someone who has always been extremely empathic and sensitive I found the Indigo Essences extremely beneficial at giving me a protective layer. This was particularly helpful for a few years after a Near Death Experience that left me very open spiritually and psychically. So much so that I was feeling others’ emotional and physical symptoms on a very exaggerated level.
Bach Essential Flower Essences For Empaths and Healers
Centaury for the inability to say NO. Centaury is very useful for empaths and healers anyone else who struggle to be assertive, struggle to stand up for themself. The people pleasers, the over givers, those tend to put others first and struggle to say NO. For those with co-dependency traits.
Crab Apple carries the energy of purity, many healers and intuitive’s find it helpful to clean the energy of other people’s trauma or negative energy. Wounded healers and unruly empaths can too easily absorb or take on the trauma or suffering of their clients or those around them.
Oak is for the individual who tends to be very strong, capable, and self-reliant. But tend to work very hard ( classical workaholic) who tend to push their limits, work through challenges without taking time out, breaks, etc
Star Of Bethlehem is a very effective flower essence to help heal old trauma, abuse, loss, and grief. Because Empaths and Healers tend to attract more situations where people are sharing their trauma and suffering. This not only exposes them to other people’s pain and suffering but is more likely to trigger personal wounds, memories not addressed that are still held in the cellular body. So is very supportive during Inner Child Therapy.
Walnut is a powerful essence to support us with any sort of transition in life. But it is also extremely helpful as a protection against outside influences, think about the protective shell around the Walnut. So walnut is extremely helpful for empaths who struggle to create healthy boundaries.
Indigo Essences For Empaths and Healers
The two I found very beneficial were
Bubble from Chrystal Series. This basically helps give you a feeling of an energetic bubble from Environmental Stress. Today so many healers and empaths are spending a lot of time online or around Electromagnetic Frequencies that can be very harsh on our energetic field.
Software from Chrystal Series. This essence is supposed to filter out the heavy energies coming towards your energetic field, Now this was designed for babies but as someone who developed extreme sensitivity, especially severe noise sensitivity that would trigger seizures. I found this very helpful at supporting my nervous system and help me be less affected by other people’s wounding and distortions.
Others Indigo Essences that Empaths, HSP’s and Healers may find beneficial include
Pink 4 from the Pink Essences will help you find a deeper more stronger connection to self. This is particularly important if you are a healer, coach, or therapist who is supporting others.
Pink 5 from the Pink Essences which helps you connect to source energy. Many healers assume that they are always connecting to source energy but as an experienced healer of 30 years I know this is not always the case for even those who
As you can see there are many different types of flower essences and other types of essences available to choose from. Explore the different types of flower essences, I find the indigo essences are the easiest for many people to intuitively choose from.
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Heal Your Magical Child– Your Inner Magician Archetype and Inner Wounded Child. Learn why healing your inner alchemist and magician archetype can help you in your life, work, and spiritual business.
I am very familiar with some of the most beautiful light and disruptive shadow aspects of the magical child. The powerful gifts of the alchemist and magician But equally the common sabotaging patterns when the Alchemist is coming from a state of fear, anxiety, trauma, lack, or rejection.
I see everyday examples of the wounded magical child in so many wounded healers, coaches, intuitive, and spiritual teachers. Like most healers, I have been working on those patterns in my own life for many years.
As a highly empathic sensitive, I see many unruly empaths and healers also very disconnected from their divine and magical child. Embedded in core wounds that are keeping them stuck and afraid of their most beautiful, magical, and powerful gifts. Which they have not yet learned to fully harness.
The reality is when you can tap into and heal not just your inner child but your magical child, you can start to make big shifts. Big shifts in recognizing your power, owning and honouring your gifts, life, and soul purpose that is why shadow work and inner child work are so powerful.
But Inner Child Therapy just like any form of deep soul and trauma work should always be done by someone who has the right skill set. Make sure you choose a therapist or healer who understands and is qualified and experienced to work at a deep soul level and with trauma.
Unfortunately, I have witnessed and been on the other side of Inner Child work by healers who hadn’t a clue what they were doing. Who had no understanding or experience of working with trauma, no understanding of the psychological damage they can do when they don’t approach Inner Child Healing in a safe effective therapeutic way?
Building Connection With Your Magical Child
With any type of Inner Child work, the initial connection with the inner child must be built on trust. Especially in those who have suffered a lot of trauma, building strong inner child connections can take patience and time.
If the healer or therapist rushes the process or doesn’t know what they are doing, this can cause further issues by pushing the inner child into more hiding.
So when trying to heal your Magical Child make sure you understand you are dealing with your inner child’s view of their world, their story.
Make sure you get the right help and support from someone who can help hold your inner child in a safe space.
How To Connect With Your Magical Child
Get Quiet:
You won’t find your inner magical child in busyness or chaos. It is so important to take time to switch off from distractions, relax, and generally be in the moment. Like any child, your inner child can only be heard properly when you take time to be quiet, to be still.
Look For Magic And Miracles:
Young children tend to see the magic and awe in everything around them. Their untainted innocence and sense of wonder help* them see the beauty and magic of life and every living creature. They fully immerse themself in so many things we as adults don’t notice or take for granted. So start noticing the magic, the miracles that are here every single day.
Make Time For Fun And Play:
Too much work doesn’t just make jack a boring boy it makes him an unhealthy and unhappy boy. Make a list of all the fun things you enjoyed as a child and start bringing them into your daily and weekly life. Don’t let any distortive thoughts around age, or what you should and shouldn’t do stop you from having some inner child fun. To stay happy and healthy build a strong connection with your eternal child your playful child. Make time for hobbies, things you enjoy doing even those things you love to do but aren’t very good at, and even those things that get very very messy.
Honour Your Magical Child:
When you honour the innocent and magical aspects of your core, you honour your greatest potential and soul desires. The greatest abuse to the Magical Child, or the Innocent Child is not owning, valuing, or honouring your gifts. Stop being ashamed or fearful of your gift learn how to nurture them and develop them with the right help. Not fully honouring or developing your gifts or mastering your skills can lead to all sorts of problems. Think of the devastation left behind by the impatient sorcerer’s apprentice and you get the ideal. Many wounded magicians end up being more attracted to dark and illusion than light and pureness without even realising it.
Unlock Your Inner Alchemist:
The alchemist and magician’s archetypal traits love to experiment with new ideas, concepts, blends, and remedies. Anything that will support create change and shifts. That is why many magician archetypes become aromatherapists, herbalists, homeopaths, flower essence practitioners. Others become mindset practitioners, hypnotherapists, life coaches, energy, and spiritual healers. Or are attracted to many of these tools in their work, my inner alchemist inspired me to study many of these things.
Develop Discernment and Wisdom:
Part of the Magical Child’s journey is about treading the line between dark and light so they can learn how to transform from the dark. So it is very much about developing discernment and wisdom which too often comes from experience than just insight. The deeply wounded Magician and Alchemist Archetype that has been more abused than empowered is easily seduced by power, financial, or celebrity success at any cost. The healed and wise Master Magician has developed discernment and wisdom. They recognise that all that glitters is not gold and that the greatest most precious gold comes from a pure heart and soul.
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What does following your own truth mean? And why can owning your truth be hard at times especially when you are highly empathic or sensitive.
Living Your Own Truth
Well, to live your truth is about living a life full of authenticity and openness. To me, it is also one that is guided and supported by good spiritual guidance.
But why is not always easy, why do so many of us live most of our lives trying to live up to other people’s expectations or definitions of truth than our own truth?
As a highly sensitive empath I was a big people pleaser who struggled to own my truth. I have spent most of my life enmeshed in other people’s emotions I struggled to know my own. I’ve struggled to own and express my truth because of a distorted perception that owning my truth would hurt someone else.
Following Your Own Truth
For me following your truth has to start by recognising and owning what is true to you, no one else. From infanthood, we are exposed to other people’s beliefs, conditioning, values, and wounding. Other people’s perceptions of life or truth are based on their beliefs, personal experiences, and what feels true for them.
Every single one of us is uniquely different in our own unique soul’s essence and our purpose. That essence is part of a bigger picture, the jigsaw of life. And to do that in the healthiest authentic way we need to be able to follow what is true in our heart.
In many ways, I mean to follow our spiritual truth, not our egoic truth. So it is about getting out of our head, and our fear, and into the heart and soul.
Identifying Your Truth When Your Highly Empathic
We are all exposed to other people’s beliefs and ideologies daily. But at a core level, your soul craves the need to follow your path. Your spirit wants to live a life that is based on your integral values, and your inner compass.
One thing I was taught early on by my father was to trust my intuition. But to be honest, being a bit of an unruly empath my energy can easily be dominated by much stronger personalities or their views.
Like many empaths, I am very easily entangled by the emotional pain and needs of others. So I have to identify, own, and step into my truth, knowing what is my energy and what is not.
Moving Into What Is True For You
Believe me, moving into your truth isn’t easy if you have strong characters or strong views around you. But finding your truth is so important when trying to live a more healthy authentic life. If you don’t it is too easy to be living everyone else’s truth rather than your own.
Why It Is Easy To Lose Your Truth
So many people struggle to know their truth never mind follow their truth. It’s easy to lose yourself, your truth, your voice in relationships, within family dynamics, or at work. In jobs and careers where you have to live by other people’s policies, rules, core ethics, and values it is easy to lose or forget your truth.
Many work environments encourage suppression of truth and core values so much so you barely recognise yourself. Modern society programs us and gaslights us to question our reality and question what is morally right.
This is especially true for those of you who are highly empathic with unhealthy boundaries. But believe me, I know if you don’t get behind your truth, your inner guidance, you lose yourself. It can lead to anxiety, and stress because you have moved out of alignment with yourself.
Of course, on a spiritual level, everyone’s truth is just a story, just a perception. But to maintain a healthy relationship with ourselves and to have direction we need to know ourselves. We need to know what feels right and fits with our values and what doesn’t. Suppressing or denying what feels true for you, can lead to all sorts of internal chaos, confusion even disease. So start owning your truth today.
How To Start Owning What is True To You
When you start to own your truth it can be very freeing, expressing it can bring up very strong fear. Learning how to express that truth clearly and concisely can take time especially if you struggle with assertiveness.
Building more clear and honest communication between you and others can take a lot of courage, self-compassion, and patience.
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Why Every HSP Highly Sensitive Person Should Learn How To Meditate Daily.
Why meditation helps the HSP. Why daily meditation can help the Highly Sensitive Person or even Empath become more mentally and emotionally resilient in their life and business.
Daily Challenges Of The HSP Highly Sensitive Person
I believe everyone should learn how to meditate but if you are an empath or HSP I believe meditation is a must. Why? Because if you are an HSP you are more sensitive to the energy and stress of modern-day living.
The HSP has a highly sensitive sensory system, basically a more finely tuned nervous system than most people. This gives the HSP a lot more awareness and receptivity to the world around them. But this also makes HSP’s less resilient in some ways more easily overstimulated.
Reasons Why The HSP Highly Sensitive People Should Meditate
The highly sensitive person is often more easily wounded. The HSP Empath is often more scattered in their energy. In many ways, they are often not fully in their energetic body. That is why many highly sensitive empaths are often ungrounded and uncentred.
Why so many highly sensitive’s and empaths struggle mentally, physically, and or emotionally in their day-to-day life.
Highly Sensitive Empaths are like energy sponges. So they need to need to learn how to become more centered, grounded, and energetically aware. Meditation naturally helps increase awareness and presence. The right meditation techniques can also help us become more grounded and centered.
Why Every HSP Should Meditate Daily
Daily Meditation is so good for your mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing
Regular meditative practice is known to lower anxiety and stress levels.
It helps you access a deep space of stillness and peace, so meditation often increases clarity and confidence
Meditation allows you to heal mentally, physically, and emotionally.
My Own Meditation Journey As A HSP And Empath
I began meditating over 30 years ago, I tried, tested, and studied various styles and teachings of meditation. As someone with very rare medical challenges that mainstream medicine couldn’t treat, I had to find skills that would make me more physically, mentally, and emotionally resilient.
Oh, how I thank god that I found meditation. This was a skill that helped me become so mentally resilient. Meditation helped me deal with so many tremendous and long-term challenges with strength and peace.
Teaching Meditation
One of my earliest teachings of meditation was to a class of rather troublesome young men. I knew teaching most traditional meditation techniques would be challenging. So I went searching for a style of meditation that might accommodate their particular needs.
I found a Qi Gong technique that I adapted in which became My 5 Minute Meditation. This became the most popular meditation tool I ever taught. Loved by not just teenagers, but stressed-out executives, carers, healers, highly sensitive people, and empaths.
Finding The Right Type Of Meditation To Start With
When you find the right type of meditation tool for you, you will build your meditation practice up much stronger.
If you have a very busy, demanding lifestyle my 5 Minute Meditation is a great starter tool. But I would still encourage you to practice a more traditional style of meditation into your routine. This will help you transcend into living more of your life from a place of meditation.
The problem today is there is a lot of myths and misunderstanding around meditation. Many people give up too quickly on their meditation practice because of a misunderstanding of what meditating actually is.
Beginners Meditation Technique For The Anxious HSP
If you are an HSP who struggles with chronic anxiety and stress I would encourage you to try out a very short style of meditation like my less than 5 Minute Meditation which is great for beginners. This particular technique is really useful for chronic anxiety and even trauma sufferers, so it’s much more gentle than other forms of meditation.
The Right Type Of Meditation Teacher If You Are Highly Sensitive
My advice would be to choose a meditation teacher wisely, find out more about them, years of experience, training, and styles of meditation they teach. If you’re an Empath or HSP you may want to book a one-to-one session with a meditation teacher before attending a class or start with some simple meditation at home.
Also, check-in that the meditation teacher actually teaches you how to meditate they are not just practicing or guiding you through guided meditations more like guided visualisations, this is often something very different.
Anxiety can be a huge problem for HSP’S. Meditation can help us detach from negative thoughts, ruminating and our wounding.When we meditate we connect with the self, an aspect of us that never changes. This helps nurture a healthy anchor, a stronger connection with where magic and stillness transcends everything else.
Can Increase Self-Awareness
Good self-awareness is so important for HSP’s. Highly sensitive people can get so easily overwhelmed by the world and people around them, they can struggle with relationships because of their own shadow traits and inner child wounding. Meditation when applied correctly, can help improve our self-awareness, develop our spiritual maturity and spiritual growth.
Why healing the inner child wounds can empower us and transform us.
Healing the inner child can be a very powerful way to address all sorts of forms of dis-ease, unhealthy beliefs, and conditioning that keeps us small, keeps us in sabotaging life patterns. How we experience and see the world as a child often shapes how we show up as an adult. And this is no different for the highly empathic or sensitive child who can find the modern world a harsh place. Empaths and HSP’s struggle to thrive in life because they have struggled to find healthy ways to survive and create healthy boundaries in their childhood.
No matter how healthy or unhealthy or childhood was we all can benefit from healing the inner child wounds that show up in our adult life. That form of archetypal and personality traits, that specifically keep us stick in the survival archetypal traits.
Healing The Inner Child If Your An Empath Or Highly Sensitive Person
So many HSP’s and empaths struggle because of their level of sensitivity and heightened awareness.
Highly sensitive people are generally more sensitive to their own wounding and surroundings. The highly sensitive empath takes that a bit further and they will sense the energy and emotional pain of others and in places . Some of us also take on the energetic imprints or physical pain of others, when we haven’t learned healthy boundaries and how to harness our spiritual and sensitive gifts.
Many sensitives and empaths are the Spiritual Seers, the Spiritual Forecasters, Psychic, Mediums, Starseeds, Earthseeds and Wayshowers. Which comes with it’s own difficulties and challenges.
Every HSP and Empath is unique but like everyone in life, they will also have their own unique gifts, own unique personal challenges and trauma healing the inner child can help us tap into those spiritual gifts we have shut down, learn how to harness or sensitive gifts in a powerful way.
Inner Child Healing – The Highly Sensitive Child
The highly sensitive child/person has such heightened awareness than those around them that they can see, hear, feel, and interpret things to a greater degree than most people couldn’t imagine. The HSP child will often be viewed as too sensitive, too weak, too childlike, irrational, naive …
These natural gifts and traits often trigger fear and misunderstanding in the parents, siblings, and caregivers around them which is projected onto the child. They are often taught that who they are at a core level is flawed, bad, wrong, not enough. Told to toughen up, be brave, be bold, shut down their emotions, act differently; basically not be their sacred self.
Many highly sensitive children are highly empathic, intuitive and even psychic. This again can trigger tremendous fear in those around them which the child senses. So much so the child will shut down their natural traits, their natural state of being. That is why inner child work is highly recommended for empaths and the highly sensitive person.
Soul Empowerment From Healing The Inner Child
So many highly sensitive people including highly sensitive children often don’t know where they fit in. This can create a great degree of inner conflict especially when we are living in a very noisy, materialistic society. A culture that is often embedded with self-preservation and self-success than any on compassion and deep humanity for others around us.
Inner Child work can be extremely healing for the HSP who struggles to honour themself and their sensitivity. It is spiritually empowering for the empath or HSP who can’t say no and struggles with boundaries. For those who too easily take on other people’s drama or pain.
In my one to one sessions and inner child programs for sensitives and empaths. I address different aspects of the inner child. Working on the wounded child, abandoned child, the eternal child and the more positive aspects of the inner child. It is extremely healing and empowering to address underlying triggers where you felt traumatised, abandoned or disempowered. Those experiences where we have shut down mentally, physically, emotionally, or spiritually.
Unlock Your Gifts From Healing The Inner Child
Clients and therapists experience many benefits and insights from inner child work. Even simply listening to inner child healing guided meditations that have been created by someone qualified to do. Because so many HSP’s haven’t learned to own and harness their sensitive gifts in a positive way. You may not recognise that some of your physical symptoms are just signs your gifts are trying to show up. Or maybe you need to start owning your power, your sovereignty.
Maybe you need to say NO? Stop allowing others to take advantage, control, or impose their beliefs or wants onto you. Maybe you need to put yourself first? So many Empaths and HSP’s are over givers, the wounded healer, victim, martyr, or rescuer.
Essential Oils For Empaths And Highly Sensitive People
The many benefits of essential oils for empaths, highly sensitive people and healers. As a qualified aromatherapist who has used used essential oils for nearly 30 years to support my own physical, mental and emotional well-being. I in many ways take for granted how versatile essential oils are.
But what are some of the best blends and essential oils for empaths and HSP’s?
Essential Oils For Health And Healthy Boundaries
There are so many essential oils for empaths to choose from today, it is important you choose the right essential oil that is therapeutically safe and right for you.
Many people assume all essential oils are completely safe because they are natural but like every herb or essence each has unique properties and effects so it is important to choose essential oils suited to your specific needs.
Some essential oils have analgesic or anti-inflammatory properties, some like peppermint which is used in mainstream medicine can be a digest aid. Some essential oils like tea-tree and thyme have anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties.
But pure essential oils don’t just support us physically, but mentally and emotionally. Essential oils like Clary Sage and Geranium are used to help balance hormonal imbalances in females. Some are safe when you are pregnant some are not, some are unsafe if you suffer from epilepsy, and some essential oils should never be used on children or infants.
Quality Essential Oils For Empaths And Highly Sensitive People
If you are using essential oils therapeutically you also want to choose a high-grade quality pure essential oil especially if your are highly sensitive and/or empathic.
Highly Sensitive People tend to be not just sensitive emotionally and mentally but physically to both allopathic and natural medicine. Empaths often struggle with grounding and often have a much porous energetic field. So it is important if you are an aromatherapist to choose high grade quality essential oils for empaths and highly sensitive people.
Essential Oils For Health And Self-Care
As someone with rare and chronic health challenges for over 30 years, essential oils have been an essential part of my health and self-care. I have found essential oils a great replacement for so many allopathic treatments normally in one’s medicine cabinet.
In fact recently as someone who became completely housebound due to extreme noise, vibration, and light sensitivity which would trigger seizures. I was looking for anything to support me after Neurologists told me nothing could be done and any medication would cause further complications.
But when I started to use a variety of high vibrational essential oils including the product On Guard which I mention below. I couldn’t believe how much physically stronger and more energetically resilient and boundaried I become.
Those of us who are more sensitive and or empathic tend to have a more finely tuned sensory and central nervous system. Which can make us much more vulnerable to a variety of environmental stressors such as EMF Electro Magnetic Frequency, noise, light, other people’s emotions, trauma, and physical pain.
Essentials Oils For Empaths Who Are Hyper Sensitive
As someone who has had rare neurological complications from suspected bacterial and viral complications for approx 30 years. I have used a wide range of high-quality essential oils and blends. One that has been really supporting me energetically and as a support to my immune system has been the On Guard Blend. Which instantly made me feel more energetically stronger and protected.
So What Are The Perfect Essential Oils For Empaths And HSPs?
The Ultimate Grounding Blend– A blend of Spruce, Ho Wood, Frankincense, Blue Tansy, and Blue Chamomile with Fractionated Coconut Oil. Empath and HSP struggle to feel grounded. This can be added directly to the skin or added to a diffuser for cars, homes, and the office. Frankincense is deeply grounding and Spruce was used by the Native Americans for various spiritual and medicinal purposes ( spruce tree regarded as sacred)
is deeply relaxing, calming very popular to assist meditation, and deeply grounding. Also helpful in supporting healthy cellular function and great rejuvenator for the skin. So it is one of the most commonly used nurturing essential oils for empaths and hsp’s.
is an extremely versatile oil for your home first aid kit. It is also an anti-viral, anti-bacterial oil, that supports the immune system. It is also useful for creating stronger boundaries
Can help support your immune system. Can help strengthen and protect your energetic field to create stronger energetic boundaries. and psychic protection especially if you are a healer or some sort of lightworker. So is one of the popular blends with empaths and sensitives. Helpful to protect against environmental threats. Safe for use on countertops, as a non-toxic cleaner, or to purify the air through diffusion
Very powerful for boundaries and can help stop parasitic energy. Can assist with healthy digestion and supports healthy respiratory function. May help support a healthy immune system. Useful as a powerful cleansing and purifying agent.
Provides a grounding, balancing effect on emotions • Promotes a smooth, glowing complexion • Add to your daily moisturizer to help reduce the appearance of blemishes.
is another favourite pure essential oil of mine, deeply grounding, and great for the skin. For those of us who tend to avoid or reject our masculine energy. This can be a great balancer, it can also be useful as a soothing rub on the chest or neck with chest and throat infections.
can be a useful aid for those struggling with anxiety, stress, and overthinking. It also can help you connect more with the self, and connect with your own inner calm. So great aid for those of you who struggle to meditate, be still.
a gorgeous blend of jasmine and ylang-ylang ( I adore ylang ylang) patchouli, vanilla, cinnamon, and cocoa. Useful to support any unresolved issues you may have with your femininity, mother, grandmother, or other close women figure in your life. Useful at helping ease unreleased anger.
one of Doterra’s most popular oils, this has a gorgeous sweet scent. It is uplifting, energising, and stimulating. Helpful when you are feeling flat from others’ negative emotions.
I have always been a huge fan of ylang-ylang which is known by some as the oil of the Inner Child. As a qualified aromatherapist, I would recommend it to clients who suffered from nightmares. I find it helps support you to have a much more soothing sleep often with sweet dreams. It is also a reputed aphrodisiac.
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How Important Is Grounding?
As a Highly Sensitive Empath, a HSP and empath it took me years to realise how out of my body I was. Despite being a healer for 30 years, who practiced all sorts of different healing and grounding techniques. I struggled to be earthed and centred. This made it much harder for me to have healthier energetic boundaries and had a huge impact on my nervous system. Like an electric circuit my nervous system needed to be earthed.
For this reason I began studying and learning more about the metaphysical reasons why so many empaths and sensitives struggled with this issue. Working with many healers and spiritual teachers around the world who were more experts in this area.
What are Grounding And Earthing?
Now, grounding may sound like a lot of new-age hippy nonsense. But the reality is as humans our natural habit is earth, earthing is part of our innate nature. Being grounded is any act or habits that will naturally help you be fully in your body and be energetically plugged into mother earth and nature.
Sadly modern living has played a large part in disconnecting us from our truest nature and its elements. So we are no longer naturally at one with nature.
Helping You Get More Grounded In The Modern World
The truth is we are all ungrounded to some extent when we are surrounded by technology, metal, concrete, toxic, plastic, manmade fabrics over exposed to high amounts of Electro-Magnetic Frequencies. Instead of natural fresh air, bright vitamin boosting sunlight and the grounding energy of mother nature.
For the Highly Sensitive Empath and many healers, this environment can be extremely harsh on their nervous system and energy field.
Empaths Are So Over Stimulated And Uncentred
The highly sensitive person especially those that are empaths are already hypersensitive to the world and energy around them. They get easily overstimulated, one of the reasons why many Empaths and HSP’s suffer from chronic anxiety and stress.
I know as an Empath and Highly Sensitive Person I was very sensitive to all sorts of things from a young age. My heightened awareness of other people’s needs, emotions and trauma made it more difficult for me to be earthed and centred.
I find too much EMF exposure can play havoc with my central nervous system at times. So I unplug throughout the day and switch my wifi off at night. I have a variety of sensory processing issues and find too much noise, stimulation and general busyness can be physically and mentally exhausting.
Why Empaths Needs To Get Grounded To Prevent Burn Out
So many empaths and HSP’s end up burn-out, suffering from CFS, Adrenal Fatigue, Severe M.E. or other chronic health challenges.
Anyone who struggles to be fully in their body and earthed is more likely to suffer from exhaustion. I myself was diagnosed with severe M.E. in my early twenties, left largely housebound and bedbound for about 7 years.
Empaths and HSP’s are so finely tuned to their environment they are high-wired to function at a completely different level as other people.
If sensitives and empaths find it difficult to ground as children they can really struggle to be energetically boundaried and fully in their body most of their lives.
In many ways, their central nervous system is so sensitive it works so much harder. In many ways making them more vulnerable to exhaustion, fatigue, dis-ease especially for the empath with boundary issues.
If you are a bit of an unruly empath who struggles to harness your empathy in a healthy way, you will constantly pick up and even take on the emotional and physical wounding of others.
So How Can A Highly Sensitive Empath Feel More Grounded
Get Outside In Nature
Getting outside more especially in nature, the countryside, forest, park even walking in some grass can help us get naturally grounded.
Get Barefoot
Get barefoot as much as you can, get those shoes, boots even slippers off when you walk around your home and outside if safe to do so.
Become More Body And Energetically Aware
Become more body aware, feel into your physical body, feel into your feet. Relaxation Techniques, Tai chi and Qi Gong exercises and can be a great way to become fully in the body. They also help empaths dispel negative energy they tend to absorb or take on.
Reduce Wifi And EMF Exposure
Reduce time spent online, on your computer, phone. Consider switching off your internet hub when sleeping to reduce EMF exposure. And spend more time on self care and self love. Explore the different emf protection technology you can use on your phone and in your home.
Surround Yourself With Nature And Plants
Bring more plants into your surrounding, your office, your home, your garden, things like cacti and other EMF reducing plants. These are great to sit next to your computer to help reduce EMF exposure.
Use Grounding Aids
Use grounding devices and aids. For many years I used a crystal grounding mat in my bed and grounding crystals under my bed. As well are so many grounding tools and techniques.
Reduce Stimulants
Reduce stimulants such as caffeine, sugar, alcohol, nicotine these play havoc with your central nervous system and impact your ability to feel more balanced and centred.
Grounding Essential Oils
Use grounding essential oils like frankincense, sandalwood, vetivert, doterra has an amazing grounding oil Balance as well as more a protection oil – On Guard ideal for HSP’s. Also explore different types of flower essence that can support you I found the indigo and crystal essences helpful.
Learn To Be In The Moment
Learn to be in the moment, being in the moment encourages you to be more physically in and aware of your physical body. This is so important for people suffering from health challenges or any sort of physical trauma to their body that causes them to struggle to remain centred in their body.
Meditation not only helps us be in the moment, feel calmer, but can help us feel more earthed and centred especially if it is more proper traditional meditation rather than more guided meditations. Zhang Zhuang a Standing Meditation is great tool to help with grounding.
Helping You Feel More Centred In Your Life And Work
Above is just some of the things that can help you feel more centred and earthed. If you would like to learn a variety of helpful grounding strategies that I have learned from many highly experienced top healers and spiritual teachers around the world
Check out my course Grounding Tools for Empaths– a toolkit for empaths and highly sensitive people. Powerful yet simple and easy grounding techniques, essential oils, crystals that will help you feel more grounded and balanced on a daily basis. This course is also included in my Essential Empaths Toolkit.
If you would love more one to one support to feel more energetically and spiritually empowered and grounded, learn how to turn your empathic and sensitive gifts into a super power. Book a free mini taster session with Eileen to explore how we can work together and see if we are a right fit.
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