messages from the body, intuitive healing, energy healing, medical intuition

[provisional title:  Messages from the Body(TM) ]

[provisional subtitle:  Solution-Focused Self-Healing]

[provisional subtitle 2: The Meaning of Illness is Now an Open Book]
Here are some possible titles and subtitles to conjure with:

- love yourself healthy

- Loving, Healing, Loving

- My Self in Action

- Subtitle:  you can’t go at Loving directly; you can remove your blocks to Loving ~ Rumi

- Love Yourself Today

- Building Energetic Strength

-         Subtitle:  Become a Keymaker, and escape your own Matrix

-         Subtitle:  We need each other to heal

- On a Highway of Diamonds  [this refers to a Bob Dylan line in A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall:  " a Highway of Diamonds with nobody on it" MSIA and USM is that highway of diamonds, in my mind]

- College of Self-Healing

- Other names?

Coming to Asheville, N. Carolina in [date]

Feeling stuck?

Feeling stuck?

Are you one of the millions of people waking up now, wanting a better way to live than “dog-eat-dog”?  Do you want to give and receive support for your goals, dreams and passions  and to make that central in your life, instead of mindless consuming to fill empty lives?

If so, you’re among friends.  Self-healers are people who actively seek out alternative paths to healthy, positive local community.  They are the Cultural Creatives finding and sharing free and low-cost Tools That Heal anyone can use.

"Hand on my heart" is the simplest form of self-testing. If you can already do this, you don't need muscle testing!

Self-healers at ALL skill levels are among the most progressive activists now saying “yes, yes and yes” to the rise in frequencies occurring on Earth now.  We are not afraid of the evolutionary bloom time we are in the midst of, a bud unfolding into a flower blossom.  Self-healers are people who understand the “game” is to lift and be lifted.

If you would rather “switch than fight” this impulse we think you’re ready for Solution-Focused Self-Healing, claiming your own Healing Toolbox and adding new Tools That Heal to it.

Monkeys on your back? Self-healing works for this!

This is NOT for everyone.  This is for those who like to heal, want to heal, can’t go backwards and can’t stay where they are.  Let’s step forward. Other people “who would rather fight than switch” are free to go their own way.

Like swimming, bicycling or sex, self-healing is so much fun to do, it’s worth doing even poorly or badly!  A happier you, a healthier you goes with this.  Part of Solution-Focused Self-Healing  is finding and connecting with a Buddy Self-healer to continue your growth in sessions between course weekends.

Q:  So what, another class.  What’s the goal, the endgame here?

Where you are likely to live in ten years. Us too.

A:  Not too far down the road, the endgame is intentional communities, collectives of people interested in self-healing and willing to work together days so they can do self-healing in the evenings and on the weekends.  These are communities are coming and you can be involved.

2012 is very likely to have a spirit of new beginnings.  We invite you to join Lin Morel, Bruce Dickson and Linda MacFarlane, in Solution-Focused Self-Healing.

[sign up link to registration]

The three of us are participants in Spiritual Psychology with a combined 90 years of practice and participation in all manner of psychotherapy and healing modalities. We are after “what works” and willing to share what we have learned.

[short TESTIMONIALS for each of us]

[sign up link to registration]

See more about them here:  Lin Morel.com, HealingCoach.org, RelationshipMediations.com

===============[new page]

messages from the body, intuitive healing, energy healing, medical intuition

[provisional title:  Messages from the Body(TM) ]

[provisional subtitle:  Solution-Focused Self-Healing]

[provisional subtitle 2: The Meaning of Illness is Now an Open Book]

Health care starts and ends with SELF-care–always has, always will.

TWO events:

1)  Holistic Consults [Thurs or Fri evening prior to a weekend.  Two consecutive intro nights also possible.  Well also do appts during the day]

2)  _________________ some name Lin will pick or we will pick together, with the assistance of Benefactors in Spirit.

WORKSHOP DATE & TIMES—[ for instance: AUGUST 5-7]

Friday Evening August 5 – 7:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.*

Saturday August 6 – 10:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.*

Sunday August 7 – 10:00 a.m. t0 7:30 p.m.*

*All ending times are approximate

WORKSHOP LOCATION

[a living room is best to start Hol Cons.  If the weekend class is small a living room is best for that too]

2107 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90403

[Title of weekend event] takes much inspiration from our experience as students of USM:

Get unstuck and feel again. Now is teh time for this

“From the vantage point of Spiritual Psychology, we see that we are Souls who have come here in this lifetime to fulfill spiritual curriculum. As spiritual beings, our primary goal is not to change life on this earth. Rather, life on this earth exists the way it does to provide us with experiences through which we can transform ourselves—meaning learning to express the essence of who we are in fuller and deeper ways. And the best description of our inherent nature is that we are, at our core, comprised of the energy we call Loving. So Spiritual Evolution is about becoming more and more aware of our nature as Loving beings.”  —Ronald Hulnick, Ph.D., President, USM

Self-Healing defined for this class

Have an unusual problem? Bring your wellness concerns!

1)  Asking for, and arranging things, to create shifts in your attitudes, emotions, beliefs and unconscious habits and memories–towards wellness & wholeness.   Physical improvements are then inevitable.

2)  The process of testing thru lists of physical conditions and symptoms towards learning more about unknown physical problems.

The process of testing thru list of solutions to learn what specific solutions are beneficial to this person (or body) at this time.  Solutions can be remedies, vitamins, practitioners, modalities, etc.

The greater your ability to self-heal, the less dependent you are on outside healthcare providers—up to a point.  Self-healing is not about isolating yourself from others.  We still need each other to heal.  Minimal catastrophic health insurance is still a good idea.  Life is set up this way.

The goal is increased energetic competency

How do you see yourself in five to ten years?

The ideal outcome of this class is your increased energetic competency.  Energetic competency is your ability to talk about and safely participate, with as many senses as possible, in how energy is moving.  Therefore, feeling safe to open, self-sensitivity, self-trust and explicit permissions are terrific Tools with either yourself or with clients.

In this experiential weekend, you will have the opportunity to:

Ask for the Grace of partnership with the Beloved, on your own terms, not ours,

Connect with your own Divinity in language unique to you.  We’ll show you how! Learn which of TWENTY kinesiology testing-muscle testing-dowsing- inner testing techniques works best as language between your rational mind and your habit body,

The NEW Energy Anatomy is easy to learn and use.

Increase your own Energetic Competency; also, ways to measure Energetic Strength so you can track your growth,

Practice being fully present with yourself while also being fully present with a partner/client.  Practice saying and experiencing, “I love the me in you” with more and more people,

Experience the foundations of Intuition:  Self-sensitivity and self-trust,

Rejuvenate stagnant counseling, coaching and therapy practices; reduce burn-out.

Offer assistance and direction to younger gifted Intuitives and Sensitives

Course outcomes:  At the end of this weekend, students will be able to:

STOP! This is THE hardest way to test!

Practice Energetic Hygiene, understand the value of working with an ecumenical Light and how to talk about this with clients.  Each participants will have opportunity to ask for a blessing on the group,

Exercise and apply your Intuition–thru testing–to more and more everyday situations.  The endgame of K-testing is inner testing.  The endgame of inner testing is expanding your experience of “God is my Partner.”

Show clients and friends the new easier, safer training protocols for learning K-testing,

Q:  Why do you lay so much emphasis on K-testing?

Learning how to make better decisions, one of the beneficial side-effects of testing of any kind.

A:  Have you ever made a poor choice?  Have you ever been wrong?  We all have.  Why?  Our rational mind is our most isolated self.  Our conscious self benefits highly from asking for second opinions from its silent partners above and below it in frequency, the basic self and high self.

K-testing is any communication protocol that works for YOU to communicate upwards or downwards beyond the “box” of the merely rational mind.

The more subjective impressions you check out, verify and validate, the faster you learn what your Inner Healer is capable of!

Testing empowers you to find more of your own answers to life’s questions.

Many  persons born with clairvoyant sensitivities spent their childhoods flooded with impressions on many levels.  Overwhelm.  Testing was a Godsend for us.  We used testing to make sense of our experience.  Thru testing we learned to trust our self-sensitivities more; and over time, to apply them to new areas; eventually, to friends and clients.  Kinesiology testing-muscle testing-dowsing- inner testing, in some form, is how myself and many persons born with clairvoyant sensitivities sorted ourselves out and moved from “chaos” to “compassion.”

If you get stuck give Lin, Bruce or Linda a call.

Each participant in the Messages from the Body playshop I will receive a complimentary copy of [ some book or books]

[title] introduces you how to gain access to your own Inner Healer; and then, over time, to acquire more Tools That Heal and live more from, a sacred place inside you.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^reg page

Registration

NAME

ADDRESS, STREET, CITY, STATE, ZIP

E-MAIL DAY PHONE EVENING PHONE

TUITION AMOUNT* $ DONATION AMOUNT $ TOTAL PAYMENT AMOUNT $

q CASH q CHECK q VISA q MASTERCARD q AMERICAN EXPRESS

CREDIT CARD # EXP. DATE

PRINT NAME AS IT APPEARS ON CREDIT CARD SIGNATURE FOR CREDIT CARD PAYMENT

Please make check payable to the University of Santa Monica and mail with registration coupon to:

University of Santa Monica, 2107 Wilshire Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 90403

*Please note that payment in full is required to reserve your space.

REGISTRATION COUPON

REFUND INFORMATION: A full refund less $100 administrative fee is available for cancellations through 7/22/11. After 7/22/11 the entire tuition is nonrefundable but is transferable (less $100 administrative fee) to another USM workshop or event. Transfer must be made to an event scheduled within one year of the original event. “No Shows” (cancellations that occur without notifying the USM office before the day of the event) are nonrefundable and nontransferable.

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Solution-focused Self-Healing: We Can Do It!

Self-Healing is ‘Doing What Works’

Solution-Focused Self-Healing

 Bruce Dickson, MSS, MA

If a singular passion exists in my life, it is developing new Tools That Heal to uncover and make accessible unresolved sub- and unconscious issues.  This is where most of my own healing has been.  When I began, there were relatively few good tools.  Now there are many.  Because I’ve used these tools for 30 years, I’ve come to understand much more about why people—including me–stay sick and/or stuck; and how, people can heal and change—if they are willing to heal.

So if you wish to become more effective and efficient as a change agent, you are in the right place!

I assume are reading this for one or both of two reasons.  Either to enhance your capacity to self-heal; or, to convey self-healing skills to your clients—or both.  All good.  However, if you also presuppose you have holes and deficiencies in your training and practice of self-healing, I’d like to turn this assumption upside down and on its head right away.

Please recall a time when you were effective in creating a healthy positive change for yourself, for a family member–or even a pet.

It doesn’t have to be an earth-shattering change; it doesn’t have to be a therapeutic change.  It could be as simple as assisting a friend through a loss or helping your child with a conflict at school.

Please replay this helping incident vividly in your mind.  Please stop and do this now.  Focus on what you did and said assist the other to make their change.  Zoom in on the non-verbal aspects of this episode—your look, how you felt, your tone of voice, the way you sat or stood beside the person—as well as any specific words.  Put yourself in the other person’s shoes and reach for how they felt making their change, with you interacting with them.

Recall the “wow!” feeling of success; even and especially if, you exerted very little effort.  Acknowledge yourself for being effective, beneficial, useful and constructive.  Take in appreciation now.  Receive again and again the thanks the other felt towards you.

While the details of your scenario will be unique to you, some elements are likely to be universal.  The odds are good you began your helping by attentively listening to the other person, expressing concern and interest.  This was you as a “powerful listener,” one of the greatest of Tools That Heal.  If you can, recall your own words and your tone of voice.  In your own unique way, you encouraged, making clear all was not hopeless.  More significantly you did something to shift the other’s perspective, providing them with another way to view their situation, perhaps another way to respond to the challenge they were facing.  If this was a friend suffering a loss, you assisted them to shift their perception to see again the good remaining.  If your child was experiencing conflict, perhaps you modeled a new tactic for hearing feelings or getting real needs met.

Regardless of the details, I’ll bet you accomplished three things in your helping:

1) You established a healthy emotional bond;

2) You introduced hope and optimism, a perception the ‘glass is half full’ rather than half empty; in energy healer terms, you started a shift away from a downward spiral and towards an upward spiral; and

3) You imparted and conveyed a new point of view, a novel perception on the circumstance; or even, empowered them with a Tool That Heals from your own Healing Toolbox.

So how was that?  I’m thinking if you can recall and re-savor how it felt to enable healthy positive change in one, two or three instances; then, you already know quite a bit about doing self-healing and imparting this to others.

If you already know how to do it with some degree of confidence, the specific methods, protocols, specific Tools That Heal, and clairvoyant talent are really quite secondary.  If you do more self-healing—you will improve.  If you do more of it, you will learn more Tools for your Healing Toolbox; and some day, you may need a bigger Toolbox.

So if you are coming to self-healing from the angle of behaviorism, cognitive therapy, psychotherapy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Touch for Health, Theta Healing, energy medicine, PTS Masters & doctorate programs—it’s all good!  Anywhere you are now is a good place to start.  The only wrong way to improve as a self-healer is not to do anything at all.

Moreover, if you keep a journal of your session successes, you will uncover even more knowledge you already had about doing short-term self-healing.  Your notes and journal become part of your Healing Toolbox, a template for the kinds of self-healing you do best.

My goal is not to track you into self-healing the way I or anyone else does it.  Rather consider with practice, you expand the effective self-healer you already are when you are at your best.  As they say in solution-based, solution focused brief therapy:  Identify what you are already doing when you are an efficient, effective facilitator of change; then, do those things more consistently and intentionally.

++ [[the next page of the original article can also be reframed for self-healing]]

REFERENCES

Steenbarger, Brett, “Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Doing What Works” in The Art and Science of the Brief Psychotherapies, edited by Mantosh Dewan, Brett Steenbarger, and Roger Greenberg.

Can I trust this stuff?

 How scientific is muscle testing?

 See if this short answer works for you.
When understood correctly, within the domain of a single individual, conventional hard science and K-testing have high agreement.  Both seek results that are consistently replicable when the same phenomena is tested.  Both K-testers and mainstream hard scientists value independent verification and validation of test results.

Q:  Why do you say self-testing is scientific within the domain of only an individual?

A:  Self-testing is about what you know and how you know it.  It’s about what you sense and how you sense it.  Another way to put this is, only you can calibrate how happy you are now.

That is very far away from the surface and into the inner world of the psyche.  18^th, 19th and 20^th century science culminated in objective, repeatable observations of outer sense-world phenomena.

Many aspects of this same “hard science” have proven toxic and deadly to progress in observing inner world phenomena.

What is working to observe, verify and validate objective inner world phenomena is dowsing, muscle and kinesiology testing.  You don’t have to know; you don’t have to be clairvoyant; you only have to ask.

Medical Intuitive Bruce Dickson

Did you find this article useful? Please share it with friends. VERBATIM DUPLICATION ENCOURAGED as long as credit is given to HealingToolbox.org | Bruce Dickson | HealingCoach.org

Author of 12 books/eBooks on self-healing, Bruce has been seeing clients professionally since 2001. His passion is resolving wellness concerns for people who wish to avoid drugs and surgery. He founded Holistic Consults and co-founded the Westside Chamber of Commerce. With masters in both school counseling and Spiritual Science, he follows the follows both the Law of Spiderman and the Law of Gentleness for Healers.

In his own words: With your permission, I can talk directly with your immune system to learn what is oppressing your cells. When your habit body lets go of the negativity, your cells go back to being healthy! The easy way to do this is to work from your own Guidance and not from my mind. All solutions are tested to make sure they work for you.

Appointments by phone, Skype or in person. Classes and scripted curricula you can use with your clients and at your energy school is available 310-280-1176 between 8am and 9pm PST | Skype: SelfHealingCoach | Bruce@HealingToolbox.org

messages from the body, intuitive healing, energy healing, medical intuition

[provisional title:  Messages from the Body(TM) ]

[provisional subtitle:  Solution-Focused Self-Healing]

[provisional subtitle 2: The Meaning of Illness is Now an Open Book]
Here are some possible titles and subtitles to conjure with:

- love yourself healthy

- Loving, Healing, Loving

- My Self in Action

- Subtitle:  you can’t go at Loving directly; you can remove your blocks to Loving ~ Rumi

- Love Yourself Today

- Building Energetic Strength

-         Subtitle:  Become a Keymaker, and escape your own Matrix

-         Subtitle:  We need each other to heal

- On a Highway of Diamonds  [this refers to a Bob Dylan line in A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall:  " a Highway of Diamonds with nobody on it" MSIA and USM is that highway of diamonds, in my mind]

- College of Self-Healing

- Other names?

Coming to Asheville, N. Carolina in [date]

Feeling stuck?

Are you one of the millions of people waking up now, wanting a better way to live than “dog-eat-dog”?  Do you want to give and receive support for your goals, dreams and passions  and to make that central in your life, instead of mindless consuming to fill empty lives?

If so, you’re among friends.  Self-healers are people who actively seek out alternative paths to healthy, positive local community.  They are the Cultural Creatives finding and sharing free and low-cost Tools That Heal anyone can use.

Self-healers at ALL skill levels are among the most progressive activists now saying “yes, yes and yes” to the rise in frequencies occurring on Earth now.  We are not afraid of the evolutionary bloom time we are in the midst of, a bud unfolding into a flower blossom.  Self-healers are people who understand the “game” is to lift and be lifted.

If you would rather “switch than fight” this impulse we think you’re ready for Solution-Focused Self-Healing, claiming your own Healing Toolbox and adding new Tools That Heal to it.

This is NOT for everyone.  This is for those who like to heal, want to heal, can’t go backwards and can’t stay where they are.  Let’s step forward. Other people “who would rather fight than switch” are free to go their own way.

Like swimming, bicycling or sex, self-healing is so much fun to do, it’s worth doing even poorly or badly!  A happier you, a healthier you goes with this.  Part of Solution-Focused Self-Healing  is finding and connecting with a Buddy Self-healer to continue your growth in sessions between course weekends.

Q:  So what, another class.  What’s the goal, the endgame here?

A:  Not too far down the road, the endgame is intentional communities, collectives of people interested in self-healing and willing to work together days so they can do self-healing in the evenings and on the weekends.  These are communities are coming and you can be involved.

2012 is very likely to have a spirit of new beginnings.  We invite you to join Lin Morel, Bruce Dickson and Linda MacFarlane, in Solution-Focused Self-Healing.

[sign up link to registration]

The three of us are participants in Spiritual Psychology with a combined 90 years of practice and participation in all manner of psychotherapy and healing modalities. We are after “what works” and willing to share what we have learned.

[short TESTIMONIALS for each of us]

[sign up link to registration]

See more about them here:  Lin Morel.com, HealingCoach.org, RelationshipMediations.com

===============[new page]

messages from the body, intuitive healing, energy healing, medical intuition

[provisional title:  Messages from the Body(TM) ]

[provisional subtitle:  Solution-Focused Self-Healing]

[provisional subtitle 2: The Meaning of Illness is Now an Open Book]

Health care starts and ends with SELF-care–always has, always will.

TWO events:

1)  Holistic Consults [Thurs or Fri evening prior to a weekend.  Two consecutive intro nights also possible.  Well also do appts during the day]

2)  _________________ some name Lin will pick or we will pick together, with the assistance of Benefactors in Spirit.

WORKSHOP DATE & TIMES—[ for instance: AUGUST 5-7]

Friday Evening August 5 – 7:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.*

Saturday August 6 – 10:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.*

Sunday August 7 – 10:00 a.m. t0 7:30 p.m.*

*All ending times are approximate

WORKSHOP LOCATION

[a living room is best to start Hol Cons.  If the weekend class is small a living room is best for that too]

2107 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90403

[Title of weekend event] takes much inspiration from our experience as students of USM:

Get unstuck and feel again. Now is teh time for this

“From the vantage point of Spiritual Psychology, we see that we are Souls who have come here in this lifetime to fulfill spiritual curriculum. As spiritual beings, our primary goal is not to change life on this earth. Rather, life on this earth exists the way it does to provide us with experiences through which we can transform ourselves—meaning learning to express the essence of who we are in fuller and deeper ways. And the best description of our inherent nature is that we are, at our core, comprised of the energy we call Loving. So Spiritual Evolution is about becoming more and more aware of our nature as Loving beings.”  —Ronald Hulnick, Ph.D., President, USM

Self-Healing defined for this class

Have an unusual problem? Bring your wellness concerns!

1)  Asking for, and arranging things, to create shifts in your attitudes, emotions, beliefs and unconscious habits and memories–towards wellness & wholeness.   Physical improvements are then inevitable.

2)  The process of testing thru lists of physical conditions and symptoms towards learning more about unknown physical problems.

The process of testing thru list of solutions to learn what specific solutions are beneficial to this person (or body) at this time.  Solutions can be remedies, vitamins, practitioners, modalities, etc.

The greater your ability to self-heal, the less dependent you are on outside healthcare providers—up to a point.  Self-healing is not about isolating yourself from others.  We still need each other to heal.  Minimal catastrophic health insurance is still a good idea.  Life is set up this way.

The goal is increased energetic competency

How do you see yourself in five to ten years?

The ideal outcome of this class is your increased energetic competency.  Energetic competency is your ability to talk about and safely participate, with as many senses as possible, in how energy is moving.  Therefore, feeling safe to open, self-sensitivity, self-trust and explicit permissions are terrific Tools with either yourself or with clients.

In this experiential weekend, you will have the opportunity to:

Ask for the Grace of partnership with the Beloved, on your own terms, not ours,

Connect with your own Divinity in language unique to you.  We’ll show you how! Learn which of TWENTY kinesiology testing-muscle testing-dowsing- inner testing techniques works best as language between your rational mind and your habit body,

The NEW Energy Anatomy is easy to learn and use.

Increase your own Energetic Competency; also, ways to measure Energetic Strength so you can track your growth,

Practice being fully present with yourself while also being fully present with a partner/client.  Practice saying and experiencing, “I love the me in you” with more and more people,

Experience the foundations of Intuition:  Self-sensitivity and self-trust,

Rejuvenate stagnant counseling, coaching and therapy practices; reduce burn-out.

Offer assistance and direction to younger gifted Intuitives and Sensitives

Course outcomes:  At the end of this weekend, students will be able to:

STOP! This is THE hardest way to test!

Practice Energetic Hygiene, understand the value of working with an ecumenical Light and how to talk about this with clients.  Each participants will have opportunity to ask for a blessing on the group,

Exercise and apply your Intuition–thru testing–to more and more everyday situations.  The endgame of K-testing is inner testing.  The endgame of inner testing is expanding your experience of “God is my Partner.”

Show clients and friends the new easier, safer training protocols for learning K-testing,

Q:  Why do you lay so much emphasis on K-testing?

Learning how to make better decisions, one of the beneficial side-effects of testing of any kind.

A:  Have you ever made a poor choice?  Have you ever been wrong?  We all have.  Why?  Our rational mind is our most isolated self.  Our conscious self benefits highly from asking for second opinions from its silent partners above and below it in frequency, the basic self and high self.

K-testing is any communication protocol that works for YOU to communicate upwards or downwards beyond the “box” of the merely rational mind.

The more subjective impressions you check out, verify and validate, the faster you learn what your Inner Healer is capable of!

Testing empowers you to find more of your own answers to life's questions.

Many  persons born with clairvoyant sensitivities spent their childhoods flooded with impressions on many levels.  Overwhelm.  Testing was a Godsend for us.  We used testing to make sense of our experience.  Thru testing we learned to trust our self-sensitivities more; and over time, to apply them to new areas; eventually, to friends and clients.  Kinesiology testing-muscle testing-dowsing- inner testing, in some form, is how myself and many persons born with clairvoyant sensitivities sorted ourselves out and moved from “chaos” to “compassion.”

If you get stuck give Lin, Bruce or Linda a call.

Each participant in the Messages from the Body playshop I will receive a complimentary copy of [ some book or books]

[title] introduces you how to gain access to your own Inner Healer; and then, over time, to acquire more Tools That Heal and live more from, a sacred place inside you.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^reg page

Registration

NAME

ADDRESS, STREET, CITY, STATE, ZIP

E-MAIL DAY PHONE EVENING PHONE

TUITION AMOUNT* $ DONATION AMOUNT $ TOTAL PAYMENT AMOUNT $

q CASH q CHECK q VISA q MASTERCARD q AMERICAN EXPRESS

CREDIT CARD # EXP. DATE

PRINT NAME AS IT APPEARS ON CREDIT CARD SIGNATURE FOR CREDIT CARD PAYMENT

Please make check payable to the University of Santa Monica and mail with registration coupon to:

University of Santa Monica, 2107 Wilshire Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 90403

*Please note that payment in full is required to reserve your space.

REGISTRATION COUPON

REFUND INFORMATION: A full refund less $100 administrative fee is available for cancellations through 7/22/11. After 7/22/11 the entire tuition is nonrefundable but is transferable (less $100 administrative fee) to another USM workshop or event. Transfer must be made to an event scheduled within one year of the original event. “No Shows” (cancellations that occur without notifying the USM office before the day of the event) are nonrefundable and nontransferable.

=================new page

 

Solution-focused Self-Healing: We Can Do It!

Self-Healing is ‘Doing What Works’

Solution-Focused Self-Healing

 Bruce Dickson, MSS, MA

If a singular passion exists in my life, it is developing new Tools That Heal to uncover and make accessible unresolved sub- and unconscious issues.  This is where most of my own healing has been.  When I began, there were relatively few good tools.  Now there are many.  Because I’ve used these tools for 30 years, I’ve come to understand much more about why people—including me–stay sick and/or stuck; and how, people can heal and change—if they are willing to heal.

So if you wish to become more effective and efficient as a change agent, you are in the right place!

I assume are reading this for one or both of two reasons.  Either to enhance your capacity to self-heal; or, to convey self-healing skills to your clients—or both.  All good.  However, if you also presuppose you have holes and deficiencies in your training and practice of self-healing, I’d like to turn this assumption upside down and on its head right away.

Please recall a time when you were effective in creating a healthy positive change for yourself, for a family member–or even a pet.

It doesn’t have to be an earth-shattering change; it doesn’t have to be a therapeutic change.  It could be as simple as assisting a friend through a loss or helping your child with a conflict at school.

Please replay this helping incident vividly in your mind.  Please stop and do this now.  Focus on what you did and said assist the other to make their change.  Zoom in on the non-verbal aspects of this episode—your look, how you felt, your tone of voice, the way you sat or stood beside the person—as well as any specific words.  Put yourself in the other person’s shoes and reach for how they felt making their change, with you interacting with them.

Recall the “wow!” feeling of success; even and especially if, you exerted very little effort.  Acknowledge yourself for being effective, beneficial, useful and constructive.  Take in appreciation now.  Receive again and again the thanks the other felt towards you.

While the details of your scenario will be unique to you, some elements are likely to be universal.  The odds are good you began your helping by attentively listening to the other person, expressing concern and interest.  This was you as a “powerful listener,” one of the greatest of Tools That Heal.  If you can, recall your own words and your tone of voice.  In your own unique way, you encouraged, making clear all was not hopeless.  More significantly you did something to shift the other’s perspective, providing them with another way to view their situation, perhaps another way to respond to the challenge they were facing.  If this was a friend suffering a loss, you assisted them to shift their perception to see again the good remaining.  If your child was experiencing conflict, perhaps you modeled a new tactic for hearing feelings or getting real needs met.

Regardless of the details, I’ll bet you accomplished three things in your helping:

1) You established a healthy emotional bond;

2) You introduced hope and optimism, a perception the ‘glass is half full’ rather than half empty; in energy healer terms, you started a shift away from a downward spiral and towards an upward spiral; and

3) You imparted and conveyed a new point of view, a novel perception on the circumstance; or even, empowered them with a Tool That Heals from your own Healing Toolbox.

So how was that?  I’m thinking if you can recall and re-savor how it felt to enable healthy positive change in one, two or three instances; then, you already know quite a bit about doing self-healing and imparting this to others.

If you already know how to do it with some degree of confidence, the specific methods, protocols, specific Tools That Heal, and clairvoyant talent are really quite secondary.  If you do more self-healing—you will improve.  If you do more of it, you will learn more Tools for your Healing Toolbox; and some day, you may need a bigger Toolbox.

So if you are coming to self-healing from the angle of behaviorism, cognitive therapy, psychotherapy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Touch for Health, Theta Healing, energy medicine, PTS Masters & doctorate programs—it’s all good!  Anywhere you are now is a good place to start.  The only wrong way to improve as a self-healer is not to do anything at all.

Moreover, if you keep a journal of your session successes, you will uncover even more knowledge you already had about doing short-term self-healing.  Your notes and journal become part of your Healing Toolbox, a template for the kinds of self-healing you do best.

My goal is not to track you into self-healing the way I or anyone else does it.  Rather consider with practice, you expand the effective self-healer you already are when you are at your best.  As they say in solution-based, solution focused brief therapy:  Identify what you are already doing when you are an efficient, effective facilitator of change; then, do those things more consistently and intentionally.

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REFERENCES

Steenbarger, Brett, “Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Doing What Works” in The Art and Science of the Brief Psychotherapies, edited by Mantosh Dewan, Brett Steenbarger, and Roger Greenberg.

The conscious self is the most isolated of the three selves by design.  The c/s represents the soul here in 3D life.  Our soul, your soul, does indeed stand outside of all conditioned levels and is free of conditioning.  In order for it to KNOW this is true, here in the confusing mish-mash of 3D life, the c/s has to have the possibility of objectivity, being IN but NOT OF the chaos of 3D experience  That’s why the c/s is the most isolated self here.  The value of the isolated c/s is, fewer distractions.  This enables the c/s to do its job better:  making healthy choices.

Differentiating distinctions between the conscious self and basic self was the major blind spot of 20th century psychology–except for Huna–and education–except for Waldorf education.

The conscious self is the

most isolated of the three selves

This helps explain why the three selves has been a cultural blind spot.  The good news is, fewer distracting phenomena enable the c/s to do its job better of making healthy choices. The c/s is out of the loop of the basic and high self (John-Roger); the b/s and h/s are cut from the same cloth; the c/s is cut from different cloth.

List of equivalencies for the basic self

The basic self is functionally equal to all of these:

- inner child,

- our immune system,

- our sub- and unconscious,

- our etheric body,

- the Little Artist of The Artist’s Way,

- our ‘habit body’ (habits and routine behaviors on all levels),

- our reactive self, and

- our ‘memory body.’

Why do we say these are all functionally equal?  Because the c/s communicates with each of these in teh same way, as a loving, patient parent.

Mental age of the three selves

In general, the inner child has the mental age of a young child, three to seven years old.  Therefore it is converged with concrete senses and the physical body.  It is more awake in our feling mind than in our thinking mind.  The young child still gives itself up into Oneness frequently.

In gneeral, the conscious self has the mental age of an adult.  It is clear light-of-day rationality.  It is also our yak-yak monkey mind.  The c/s can use either thinking or feling as its dominant rational strategy.  Feelings are a rational way to evaluate and make decisions. Thinking is second rational way to evaluate and make decisions.

In general the high self has the mental age of an unconditionally loving and accepting grandmother or grandfather, wise with age, already reunited with Spirit.  Healthy elders have expanded and relaxed their psyche.  They embrace an expanded range of their own psyche.  Wise grandpatrents understand all three ages, child, adult and other elders. Healthy elders are no longer slaves to the isolation of left brain sequential logic.

Q:  If everyone has forgiveness in their toolbox, who is it under-used?

A:  People use forgiveness like a one-time affirmation and it does not work that way.  Most people I meet are not getting much of an inner shift with forgiveness because they use it like an affirmation.  Slow-Motion Forgiveness(TM) corrects this, making forgiveness effective for very many unresolved issues people face.

Q:  How does forgiveness work?

A:  To understand forgiveness, we have to step back and look at judgement also.  Learn how judgment works in the inner child and immune system and how to forgive becomes clear.

One job the basic self, the inner child, has is recording and storing unresolved disturbances, until they are accessed, and the life lessons extracted by the soul.  The soul knows all 3D experience is valuable and useful. The basic self records and holds onto all experiences charged with emotion but left unresolved.

Example of how an issue forms

For example, say you have an issue with feeling betrayed; you are super-sensitive to any sense you might be betrayed again.  Do you think this formed from a single incident?  Or do you think this formed from feeling betrayed over and over?  For a bona fide issue to form, requires many instances of feeling a negative emotion.  For faulty beliefs to become conscious here in 3D, requires much “rehearsing” and reinforcing.  The basic self records each of those instances.  Some clairvoyants see these hurts, these judgments, as pins.  Hence the commonly heard phrase “human pin cushion.”

When we have many instances of the same unresolved feeling, the inner child needs a simpler way to keep track of these incidents–it simply numbers them:  the first time I allowed myself to feel betrayed and let down, the second time I allowed myself to feel betrayed and let down, etc.

That’s the bad news:  each incident of feeling betrayed IS recorded.  The good news is, since incidents are recorded by the number―they can simply be forgiven by the number!

Therefore, the process of Slow-motion forgiveness goes like this:

“I forgive myself for allowing myself to feel __________ (i.e. betrayal), the first time, the second time, the third time 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 . . .

Q:  How do I know slow-motion forgiveness™ is working for me?

A:  You are looking for any inner shift of your energy.  Anything.  Count as long as energy continues to shift, move and clear.  There is no ritual here.  If no energy moves, try changing-adjusting the forgiveness target emotion.

Q:  How high do I count?

A:  Keep counting as long as energy moves inside you.  I ask clients in 1:1 sessions to coiunt to 30 or 50.  In the next three days, it can be very healing for clients do it again–as long as energy moves somehow.  I count to 1000 on my own issues.  I often do this walking, one number per step.

Q:  How do I know if I have identified the best target emotion?

A:  If energy moves, it’s a “hit.”  If nothing moves, change something.  Please do make up your own verbal formulas and try them!  You know you have the right word formula if energy moves and clears. Feel free to change the words to “hit the nail more on the head.” This is trial and error, simple scientific method.  NLP puts it this way, “If you don’t get the result you wish, try something else.”  The University of Santa Monica (USM) puts it this way, “Make something up,” (MSU).

Q:  What will I feel?

A:  Often clients cannot feel the energy move. A more intuitive person can tell them what’s occurring.  The typical experience is throwing off a burden you no longer wish to carry.  This feels like throwing off a wet blanket.  Give me a phone call if you get stuck.

Next article:  The nature of human nature:  your three selves

Some of your “tools” are simple home remedies:  what to do for a sunburn, poison ivy, sore feet.

Some of them are interpersonal wisdom:  how to treat a cranky child, how to break bad news to a friend, how to stage a surprise party.

The tools you use for self-healing, are more conceptual, things like curiosity, asking questions, honesty, and integrity.  Awareness, goal setting, intention, choice, and love also come to mind.

It’s no credit to our K-12 schools that we arrive at adulthood with so few tools in our self-healing toolbox that we require professionals to do most of our healthcare.  We can remedy that now.  In the history of the Earth, there have never been so many healers, techniques, modalities for growth and opportunities to learn as there are right now.  These articles introduce you to as many new tools as you wish to assimilate.

Your toolbox is unique because each person is unique.  Each person heals uniquely.  Every practitioner uses tools uniquely with their clients.

Whether you work on clients or only on yourself, you know how to work tools.  The tool itself does relatively little; it’s passive; you are the active party.  The tool waits for you to pick it up.  You pick up the tool because it gives you leverage and access you wouldn’t otherwise have.  You can only acactate a tool by using it and practicing with it.

A story:  I have about 20 dental tools at home because once I had a great success keeping myself out of emergency dental care with a handmade dental tool. Now I have professional dental tools.  However since I don’t know how to use funny shaped surgical knives, they sit in my hardware toolbox rusting away.  A real dentist would be using such tools every day and getting more and more skilled with them because she wishes to solve problems these tools are designed to solve.

What kinds of problems do you wish to solve today?  What kinds of tools will do that work?  Look thru this “toolbox.” This series of articles.  You may find what you need.  If you get stuck, give me a call (310) 287-2813.

If you know of more or better tools, please share them!

If you wish to post your own tools here, contact Bruce.

Next article:  Slow motion forgiveness(TM)

I define self-healing as asking for, and arranging things, to create shifts in your mental, emotional, unconscious & spiritual energies, towards wellness & wholeness.  Physical improvements then become inevitable.

Do this enuf times and you can, over time, tramp your way out of arthritic symptoms, benign brain tumors, teeth and gum problems, low self-esteem and a thousand sub- and unconscious disturbances, like I have in 30 years.

As the price of health care goes up and the supply of general practice physicians goes down–taking care of yourself first is the most practical thing we can do for ourselves.

Healthcare starts and ends with SELF-care–always has, always will.  All healthcare should begin with self-healing, don’t you agree?

In the future, all health care for adults, except emergency care, will begin with self-care, self-healing, kinesiology and energetic practices.  These are the least-cost ways to address problems, corrctions and prevention.  Better self-care is most impactful on chronic and degenerative conditions, the most problematic conditions.

Earlier self-healing was pretty much reswtricted to herbs, massage, and reflexology.  In the 1970s this changed when Applied Kinesiology restricted to chiropractors lead to Touch for Health for nurses and lay persons.  .  The 1970s brougt the sub-culture of dowsing more public exposure.  Many of the energetic modaliteis we have today can be described as teh “children” of Touch for Health, dowsing and NLP.  These three converged in various ways to produce:

Psych-K – belief portion of Touch for Health usefully expanded,

Energy Medicine – the meridian cleairing part of TforH usefully expanded,

EFT – meridian clearing applied to trauma release,

Theta Healing – clearing of beliefs combined with many otehr isnights,

Babinetics – a combination of TCM, muscle testing, and new ideas, leading to,

Peace Theological Seminary Masters & Doctorate programs.

Dowsing and NLP both encouraged individuals to develop custom protocols to address specific issues, problems and situaitons.

Q:  Which modality will work best for me?

A:  Everyone heals uniquely.  The best one for you–is teh one that works and gets you results.  As long as beneficial results keep appearing, keep using it.  When it stops working, have the wit to let it go and move to something else.  Several large books, catalogues for nurses exist, large lists of complementary and energetic healing modaliites at Amazon under “alternative medicine.”

In practice, you’ll find yourself gravitating either more towards modalities exercising Sensory and Thinking percepts, like chiropractic and muscle manipulation; or, towards iNtuitive and Feeling percepts.  Learn more about your own personal preferences in by Googling MBTI +test.  If you get stuck, give me a call.

Next article:  What’s in your self-healing toolbox?

This has to be done right at the start, as soon as a client announces what issue they wish to work on.

What the conscious self wishes to work on is the “target” of the session.

I encourage clients to compose a “shopping list” of issues they wish to clear up.  This is what I do when I have 1:1 sessions with my coach in medical Intuition.  When clients have a shopping list, the conscious self has many “targets.”

How to test?  Simple.  You need permission to muscle test or surrogate test your client.  If this is a phone session, you will be doing surrogate testing.  Don’t know how?  Then you are t the stage of more practice with muscle testing and self-testing.  You might like the book Self-healing 101! Awakening the Inner Healer on this.  It has eight simple exercises to get you into self-testing the EASY way.

If the conscious self has just told you, “I want to quit smoking,” that’s a clear target.  It’s wise to slow down and first test and check how the inner child of the client feels about giving up smoking.  The inner child can count to ten so you can measure its willingness to change the smoking habit on a scale of ten.  I find a willingness to heal in the inner child needs to be 7 or higher for the session to produce results the client feels as “real.”  If the basic self is not aligned with healing or changing the unwanted habit, if the willingness to heal is 6/10 or lower, the session can easily be sabotaged by this lack of alignment on the target, in the client.

Need an example of what it looks like when the conscious self and basic self are out of alignment?  This is where much of the humor of Steven Colbert on the Colbert Report comes from.  On his first show, Colbert is surrounded with large stage props with his name in big letters.  The big letters throw a shadow of his name on the curtain behind him.  His name is on three sides of his desk.  Finally his desk, from above, is in the shape of a letter “C.”  Colbert points to all these and then turns to the audience and says, But this show is not about me–it’s about you.”  This sense of not-matching, of mismatch, is the source of much humor and often used to deflate big egos who are out of touch with themselves, with their basic self.

The degree of change achieved as perceived by clients, appears to have 90% to do with the client’s willingness to heal, not to the skill of the practitioner.  I measure every client’s willingness to heal their issue as a preliminary intake question.

Always make sure the conscious self an basic self are in agreement on the goal the client announces.  The greater a client’s willingness to heal, the easier the healing and the more dramatic results are likely to be.

Next article:  Viewing, Treating or both in Medical Intuition.  For all self-healers & self-testers