Becoming The True Self. Where Authenticity Begins.

Each day I engage with the healing energies that I work with, I’m amazed by the sheer power these energies have in changing our lives. One of the reasons I feel passionate about my work is the transformation clients undergo as they interact with the energy.

One of the things that makes energy work so incredible is the capacity it has in stirring the deepest parts of us, our unconscious, our soul. By helping us become aware of what we didn’t even know were were holding, and helping us to release it, we can change what we hold unconsciously and change our lives. It can take many sessions when it comes to talking therapy to experience deep insights about the beliefs we are holding about ourselves, and after all, we can only change what we are aware of.

Carl Jung, the famous Swiss psychiatrist, said, “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” What exactly does this mean? It means that within ourselves we are holding ideas and residual energies we are unaware of, and until we realise this, These ideas will continue to shape who we are thus affecting the actions we take.

We often aren’t even aware of that which has been passed to us through upbringing and the experiences we have had in our lives. From these experiences we form beliefs and take actions from these beliefs. It means that until you begin to discover these ideas of who you are being unconsciously, you will continue to encounter the same circumstances you find yourself in, as the actions you take will remain the same.

At a deep level, we also start to realise because we are living from the ideas we have collected from our upbringing and experiences thus far, we are actually living from an idea other people have had of us. Through energy work, we can become aware of these unconscious dynamics and beliefs we are holding, release them, and start to become the person we would like to be. Defining ourselves as someone WE would like to be. Not who we have become through life’s impositions.

When realising the depth of this idea, we can start to question, who are we really? If only a product of the experiences we have had? The false self falls and the true self is born again, through a spiritual awakening.

It can take many months of discussion to even reach the beginning of an unconscious belief, and even then, more work to begin to change it. Through energy work, the process becomes effortless as we are working from a bottom up, rather than top down approach.

When it comes to other therapeutic approaches, the session involves covering what is happening on the surface of the mind before delving into the problem and cause underneath. The work with energy healing is often different, as the opposite happens. Healing energy works on the root cause of the issue first, going straight to the deepest parts of us, the unconscious, beginning to resolve the problems there.

Insight occurs from the changes that have been established from deep within the unconscious part of us, or what could be called the soul part of us. By working on this level, it has a holistic effect on our being. We understand the problem through insight, we release it, and resolution occurs, all during the healing process. This can be often why many find with talking therapy, although insight has been discovered in the mind, nothing below the surface has been released, processed, or realised. From an energy healing perspective, the healing process cannot be separated. Mind. Body and spirit are intimately connected.

This is the beauty of energy work! Through the release of unconscious energies we are holding on the deepest level, we begin to truly become who we would like to be. We deeply start to change and as we shed the layers that no longer serve us, we begin to come closer to a more loving, authentic open-hearted self. That was always there beneath the surface.