Being The Hero Of Your Own Journey – Soul Empowerment
The most empowering thing we can do in our lifetime is become the hero of our own life.
The more empowered we become in a more soul aligned way, the more we lead by example.
Being The Hero Of Your Own Life
We know its not what happens to us that defines us but how we overcome or face these challenges.
In the hero’s journey the hero goes through a spiritual journey.
Different initiations and life lessons, some we keep repeating until we learn and grow from them.
We all have an opportunity to experience and face these initiations, these lessons;
these gifts show up in our life up everyday, everyday we get to choose the next path.
Too many times it is easy to choose the the easier path,
instead of the courageous one;
the road less travelled that leads us to greater spiritual strength and so many riches.
Leading By Example By Being The Hero
Humanity right now is facing these initiations, these lessons on a hugely massive scale.
But the problem is most of humanity is struggling to be the hero of their own life and lead by example.
They are so confused, distracted and overwhelmed, they cannot see what is the right path or the truth.
That is why its so important for us all to detach from the chaos, the distractions and propaganda, designed to mislead and confuse us.
And do what we can to be quiet and still; connect with our own inner guidance, our own inner compass to access deeper truth.
The Hero Of Our Own Soul
We all have an inner navigation system that can give us truth and strength when learn how to full develop and use it. God has given us so many inner gifts, the gift of spiritual discernment and intuition.
The main problem is we invest so much time and energy in things that are not that important. We are so easily distracted, seduced or hi-jacked by instant gratification or self-soothing. That most people’s discernment is very corroded. Their intuition is something that is extremely undeveloped and not always accurate.
That is why in November I have decided to do a deep dive into getting more Soul Connected and Soul Empowered through meditation and different energetic and spiritual practices.
In my program Unlock Your Soul Power- 4 Steps To Soul Empowerment
starts Saturday 2nd Nov 9.30 am GMT and runs for 4 weeks.
I will be teaching a few powerful strategies from some of the great spiritual teachers and spiritual healers I have studied with to help you achieve deeper stillness, increased soul alignment and greater soul power.
Limited paces available so booking is on a first come first serve basis. So if you are curious or would like to learn more check out the link below
Why there is no one uniquely like you in this planet of 8.2 billion of people. And why it is so important you be YOU!
I remember as a young child been very stuck by something I heard as a child in relation to sharing your gifts.
That god gave us gifts and it was so important we share those gifts.
It really struck a spark inside me and the phrase don’t hide your gifts under a bushel.
From very young I was fascinated by people’s gifts and purpose.
It was always something that lit me up.
Seeing There Is No One Like You
In my late teens to adulthood I would help my friends explore their gifts and strengths.
Help them see their gifts in ways they didn’t always see those gifts.
And one thing I noticed then that still has not changed. Is how many people still cannot see their greatest gifts into their later years even those that have done a lot of work on themself.
I think there is a variety of reasons for this.
Sometimes we can struggle to see the wood from the trees. We are often so close and in many ways disconnected from ourself we cannot see things through a clear enough lens.
You Are Uniquely You
Also I have found a lot of personal development work in this area too much in your head and not enough in the heart and soul.
For example I remember about 10 years ago taking part in a soul purpose and life purpose course with a spiritual and personal development teacher who was hired by companies like Disney etc
His approach was so outdated so on the surface, that if I totally did what he implied I should be doing for my purpose. I would have been very unhappy and definitely not aligned with my soul.
There is absolutely no one like YOU.
No one with the same life experiences, no one with the same innate gifts, traits and even super power strengths like you.
Your not your tools, your titles, your job, your roles, your so much more and so YOU! With all your quirky habits and traits.
As one of 9 I look around at how different we all are.
How different we see the world and see situations that we have all experienced together.
We see the world through our own lens of experience as well as our strengths and vulnerabilities.
What Your Shadow Traits Can Say About You!
One of the problems is that many types of self development and even spiritual work don’t always help point the student to their innate gifts or soul essence.
They focus on such a surface level approach to purpose, that it can lead people towards more of their egoic and shadow wanting.
Than truly what the soul needs and wants, and is here to do.
Most really miss the gifts and power within what is sometimes seen as our shadow traits.
Because sometimes when we look more closely at a persons shadow aspect in relation to their sacred archetypes we actually see a much bigger picture of someone’s gifts, life and soul’s lessons.
That is what we will be exploring more deeply in – Your Soul Keys To Power & Purpose.
An exciting and empowering, soul deep journey, into your unique secret keys to your power, purpose and passions.
5 weeks of deep soul connection, creativity and expansion with your soul essence,
to help you build up greater spiritual power, strength and purpose at this time.
5 weeks of group coaching, support and healing,
using a combination of spiritual and archetypal approaches.
So you can see there is no one like you.
Includes a Bonus of 2 x 1-2-1 Sessions.
Special Beta Offer valid Aug 2024 £333 ( £555 )
Want to learn more see below
Want to book a chat to see if this program is right for you, book a non-obligation chat with Eileen.
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.
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. Be You.
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, be our own hero.
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. Be fully you 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)
3. Listen to your inner voice:
Deeply connect with your heart and soul, and take your meditation and spiritual practice to a much deeper level. Get more soul deep.
4. Face your fears head-on:
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 .
Empowerment Quotes to help inspire, empower, and motivate you to live a more soul-aligned life and purpose. Inspirational thoughts and ideas for an empowered life.
Empowerment Quotes For Life
Empowering quotes for life
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” — E.E. Cummings
“Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you’re worth the trip.” — Glenn Beck
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” — Aristotle
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”– Buddha
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Empowerment Quotes For Life Purpose And Soul Purpose
Empowering quotes to help you align with your life purpose and soul purpose.
“If you look to others for fulfilment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you.” – Lao Tzu
“True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” – Helen Keller
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
Empowering Quotes For Business and Work
Empowerment Quotes for work and business.
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis
“There is nothing impossible to they who will try.”— Alexander the Great
“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” — Malcolm S. Forbes
The gig economy is empowerment. This new business paradigm empowers individuals to better shape their own destiny and leverage their existing assets to their benefit. John McAfee
“In a truly free society, individuals are granted responsibility for themselves. Freedom necessitates that we learn how to provide for ourselves, contributing value in whatever form, to generate personal income. We then decide how we wish to spend or save earned income; freedom is the reward for fulfilling personal responsibilities.” ― Candace Owens
