Carol's Story
My Story
Massage Therapy was the first tool I used to support to my clients. When I began my practice, I learned that by touching people I would get a sense of who they were. Also, when I listened to them talk, I would notice patterns emerging. I began sharing insights, and my intuition grew. This world didn’t seem real to me—I sensed that it was more like the dream state. I noticed it was simply reflecting back what was put into it like the image in a mirror.
I meditated for years, opening channels of seeing that eventually became a support to my clients. I took a course in Alchemical Hypnotherapy with David Quigley. This was a launching pad to my career as a Hypnotherapist. To my knowledge I was the first to turn Hypnotherapy into a group format. I combined Hypnotherapy and Massage as my awareness level grew, and I was able to become more refined in sharing the insights with my clients.
I developed a way of seeing people’s core issues very quickly and soon didn’t need traditional forms of trance to facilitate desired results. Sitting with people and witnessing the epiphanies they had was inspiring to me. Quickly connecting to the core issue instead of retelling the story over and over.
Before I studied "The Work" with Byron Katie, many people told me our work was very much alike.
This process grew, and my intuition grew; and it became my passion to help people to not leave themselves to the outside world. They would let go of the desperate attempt to fill the empty place inside by controlling the world. Coming home to Self became my most important passion.
I studyed a technique in coming home to the Self through being with the natural movement of breath in the body, called Middendorf Breath Work. A way of shifting from relying on the mind to help us come home to ourselves to quieting the mind by shifting from thinking to sensing. The process of coming home to my Self through sensation and breath has created continued letting go of my false self. In the middle of my training I had been practicing over and over letting go of the insistent workings of the mind in favor of the pure sensation of the natural movement of my breath in my body. One day on the way to class I had a sharp, distinctive moment when this sensation of dissolving, or melting, who I thought I was. I wasn’t anyone. It wasn’t frightening. It was kind of funny. I laughed at the ridiculousness of how seriously I had always taken my thoughts and feelings. My-self? What self? It was all a sham, this conglomeration of old thoughts and wounds and fears and efforts. That was who I was? That is what I thought I was? What a joke. So who I am isn't the story.
The illusions of who I thought I was came faster than ever. I was challenged to let go at every turn, and yet I laugh more. Nothing is that serious or fearful. I reveal and let go, reveal and let go. Sense my Breath and come home to joy over and over again. What else is there to do?
I have since added The Healing Codes, which added an important piece for my clients. They now could take a feeling from a long standing pattern and remove the fight or flight from the story. Releasing the feelings that were thought of as real, now can be seen for the illusion that hides the true self from shining through. I love watching the peace and harmony return as the story melts and the true self emerges.
The Sedona Method has also become another form to use to let go of resistance and realise we are not our feelings. We have feelings.
The Art of Ho'oponopono is also used in every session now to insure deep letting go and profound healing. Go to www.hooponopono.org to learn more about this Ancient Hawaiian method of healing.
My passion for supporting people in a complete way is growing. Knowing the joy of letting go of who we think we are in favor of who we really are.