The power of forgiveness

A most beautiful account of trauma and forgiveness. When you are a victim of trauma and/or abuse you have a third choice beside fight or flight …
in this video you can also learn about ‘esacpe behaviour’ and the healing power of therapy and mediation … and how healing turns you into a servant of others in pain … a wonderful talk!

PODCAST:What are the programs about?

AUDIO VERSION

The program has two main purpose: one is that you gain deeper awareness of yourself – your thoughts and behavioural patterns that may or may not support you living the life you would wish for yourself; the second aim is that you start discovering YOUR ESSENCE, the CORE of who you are and building on that, you can start looking at what YOUR PASSION, YOUR MISSION, YOUR TRUE VOCATION maybe.

During our meetings, I invite you on a journey of self-discovery. These sessions are not like educational study groups where you can learn about a certain topic. Each participant is allowed and encouraged to gain the amount of insight they are ready to handle at any given moment.

I use coaching, therapeutic and artistic tools. The tasks are playful and therefore they gently show us the pitfalls of our defences and the magnificence of who we are.

Though, your main focus should be on yourself and your progress, it is also a support group. We support ourselves and each other on this journey.

My intention is to provide the appropriate surface for you to be able to engage with each other, to gain valuable information on your uniqueness of self and inner beauty and to obtain positive, uplifting and meaningful feedback.

My greatest wish for you is that you rediscover and take steps towards your dreams using the supportive power of the group.

“A self evident truth is that people who have a clear understanding of themselves enjoy more successful careers and better lives” – Tasha Eurich, organisational psychologist.

 

PODCAST:Exposé

AUDIO VERSION

When I started on the road of self-discovery and self-improvement in the early 1990’s, at first I learnt about the power of the mind. I loved it. I started making observations and analysing all that I learnt about myself. It was an exciting journey full of discoveries but no release.

I am sure you heard the expression: ‘rewriting the story of your life’. When I attended my first personal development seminar with Insight Seminars UK in 1999, I understood what that meant. It has been a long journey of discovering who I am, who I am not, what I want, what I am good at and how I want to live my life.

My life is not perfect still I am grateful because I do what I like and I am good at. I am still re- and re-writing the story of my life because I am still discovering and recovering.

Art became my tool and meditation my saviour. That’s what I offer to my clients.

The Sacred world of MANDALAS

Why create a Mandala?

♦ Because it has the regenerative and curative power to activate the latent powers of the mind. The meditative process helps to focus and open the heart to the healing power of unconditional love.

♦ Because it has a calming and relaxing effect on the mind and body, thus focusing and strengthening the will to heal.

♦ Because it can bring joy as it facilitates the healing of a sense of psychological fragmentation.

♦ Because it can make the invisible visible—expressing paradoxical situations or patterns of ultimate reality that can be expressed in no other way.

♦ Because it can reveal unity between human existence and the structure of the cosmos—opening up a perspective in which things can be understood as a whole.

♦ Because it can give form and expression to an intuitive insight into spiritual truth by releasing the inner light of the soul.

Source: Judith Cornell Mandala Luminous Symbols for healing

With the power of your mind you can work changes in the life in the body as well as in the body itself. . . . Mind [consciousness or soul, including intelligence, will, and feeling] can enable you to do anything you want, but you must experiment first in little things until you fully develop that power. If you don’t constantly work at developing mind power, don’t try suddenly to depend wholly on it. . . . those who are fanatical and refuse medical help when they need it often do great injury to themselves. . . . You must use common sense.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The ultimate aim of these practices is Self-realisation—the recovery of one’s authentic Self, not the ego-personality bound by one’s individual circumstances. This greater Self is an aspect of transcendental Reality. The recovery of this Self, synonymous with enlightenment, is the mystical experiential knowing and remembering in mind, body, and soul that we are one with God.

A mandala, the Sanskrit word for “circle,” is a concrete symbol of its creator’s absorption into a sacred center.

By focusing on it, both mandala artist and meditator can open to the divine energies of deities and to the contents of his or her own spiritual and psychological self. When a practitioner wilfully illuminates and embodies a sacred image from within the psyche while in a meditative state, spiritual transformation, physical healing, and the integration of personality fragments can result.

Source: Judith Cornell Mandala Luminous Symbols for healing

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ENNEAGRAM+ME

I am a practical person. I am not much interested in widening my KNOWLEDGE of anything just the sake of being clever about something. If I cannot use my UNDERSTANDING of a particular subject for my own advancement, becoming WHO I MEANT TO BE, I am not interested in it any longer.

THE SYSTEM OF THE ENNEAGRAM has kept my attention for decades. The reason is that this system provides constant feedback on HOW I AM DOING with my RECOVERY from who I think I am, so I can become WHO I TRULY AM. Unfortunately, the two are not the same.

It is a must that we create LOVING CONNECTION with ourselves by embracing all that we are, both limitations and greatness.

So, my main focus with using THE SYSTEM OF THE ENNEAGRAM is DISCOVERY&RECOVERY. I am interested in GAINING AND USING the KNOWLEDGE of the ENNEGRAM to recover our REAL SELF from under the layers (octaves) of our defences.

It is misleading to assume that your ENNEAGRAM TYPE is who you are. It is actually your limitation, your defence and your fixation. Though it is not a part of us that we should dislike or shun, it is still part that we need to embrace and say goodbye to!

So, my questions are:

How to use my knowledge and understanding of my ENNEAGRAM type to my advantage?

How to recover from my difficult experiences of my past that framed how I think about myself today?

I use the SYSTEM OF THE ENNEAGRAM to detect my FALSE-SELF, find ways to heal and let go of the unreal, and discover WHO I TRULY I AM under the  layers of deceit.

The SYSTEM OF THE ENNEAGRAM is like a play-ground of adventures, discoveries and insights. However, it is up to us to use the KNOWLEDGE that we gain from these experiences to blossom ourselves into our GREATNESS.

In practical terms for example, an ENG6 must recover her/his sense of COURAGE by facing his/her deep seated FEAR of being ALONE and HELPLESS in order to find his/her STRENGTH that is the foundation of his/her PEACEFUL-WARRIOR within.

An ENG5 must move out of his/her ‘head-space’, let go of the constant need to understand the world around her/him and become actively involved in shaping his/her own life. The energy that s/he invests in analysing life must turn into physical activities so the ENG5 can experience his/her VITALITY to make things happen.

An ENG9 must get in touch with his/her sense of frustration and the underlying pain of being the ‘saviour”of the day. S/he needs to stop neglecting his/her true needs and silently projecting his/her unmet expectations onto the world. An ENG9 must learnt to be present and active in the shaping of his/her REALITY.

For an ENG7 to become successful and truly live his/her greatness, s/he must face her fear of pain and the pain of feeling ‘not good enough’, stop the crazy adventures and looking for new discoveries. An ENG7 must find the way to calm down and stay with ONE chosen interest and deepen his/her understanding of it.

 YOU CAN REGISTER FOR THE UPCOMING

‘INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD OF THE ENNEAGRAM’

ONLINE EVENT

ON 27 JUNE 2020 10AM-6PM CET

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Do this FUN TASK @ THIS LINK – TO LEARN ABOUT YOUR TYPE

READ MORE ABOUT THE SYSTEM OF THE ENNEAGRAM @THIS LINK

READ MORE ABOUT THE TRAPS OF THE ENNEAGRAM TYPES @THIS LINK