I have written this workbook for a simple reason. I want others to have access to these wonderful resources so they can do their own inner work and heal their hearts and live life to the fullest.
Many people don’t have access to counselling support due to remote location, costs and painful histories with the ‘helping’ professions. Many also have the capacity to manage their own development and practice, so could use these tools much as I have – to develop their self-awareness, capacity to learn and release painful experiences.
It is also about desiring to work independently and experiencing the sense of achievement in personal growth and emotional healing. Too many of us have lost confidence in our own ‘knowing’ and become dependent on a system based on illness not health. Depending on your own capacity and confidence you may find it beneficial to develop a professional relationship to support your inner work while continuing to use these skills and ideas by yourself.
True healing requires discipline and commitment either way.
These are resources and exercises that support your ongoing self-discovery and self-healing. Ultimately we must heal ourselves from the inside out – others may help and support and guide us but for true healing to occur we must take responsibility for our own emotions, feelings, bodies and minds.
If we do not heal from within any body or emotional improvements will most likely be temporary. Others may give us nutritional supplements or drugs, give us massage or Reiki treatments or help us work through the pain of the past. Only we can discipline and practice a life that is healing and integrated of our mind/body and being. Deep changes happen when we open ourselves and let go – when we decide something in our lives or ways of being is making us sick or unhappy – and release that thing from our living.
We are responsible. We choose or not. It is a journey of healing and growth and self-realisation. No one else can live it for you or tell you how to live it for yourself – there is no owner’s manual for operating this being that you are.
There is no one right way to live and express yourself. We live in a time of human history when there are more choices and options than ever before. Our parents and their parents did not have the choices we have today and have often stayed stuck in predictable patterns of life and can keep growing and changing. We do have those choices when we seek out knowledge and apply it to ourselves and our life choices.
Though it is not always an easy choice it is a very great joy to live fully in each moment as we create ourselves anew.
Welcome to the journey of healing yourself.