The Grace Method
As part of my Diploma of Energy Healing, I am required to have a mentoring session with one of the teachers once a term. I completely forgot about this requirement but was reminded about it last week so I booked one in today.
I had no idea what the mentoring session was going to be like. I wasn't sure if it was going to be one of those mentor-mentee relationships where I would tell my mentor what my ultimate goal is and then we would sit down and flesh out action steps that I had to do to achieve that dream. Boy was I wrong.
The session was essentially one where we were going to look at any of my beliefs that were potentially holding me back. Usually it would be to focus on a belief about moving down the energetic healing path for example, but today the thing at the forefront of my mind was the relationship I have with my parents - rather, the fact that I still felt judged for choosing to stop going to church and in essence not being the "devout Catholic". My mentor explained that she was going to use the Grace Method, which was a way of changing our own perspective of our beliefs and essentially replacing that belief with something that was more aligned to where we wanted to be.
So this method consisted of writing, and then a meditation/visualisation part, and then back to writing. The first writing component essentially was me writing my beliefs about the particular situation - so I had to constantly write "In respect of my parents I believe ....". There were no ways I could short cut this - I basically had to sit down and write every single word and write the belief that popped into my head. It was almost like Harry Potter writing "I must not tell lies" a billion times or something like that! Anyway, I ended up writing 2 A4 pages of beliefs that I had about my parents.
The second component was a meditation/visualisation which my mentor took me through. It comprised of essentially taking each "belief" that was "negative" and really feeling the emotion that it brought up in me - and I mean really bringing it up. When the belief was reiterated I had to pay attention to how my body reacted and what emotions came up. Then I had to sit through that emotion and basically magnify it by a lot - and once those emotions were boiling and bubbling around I had to reiterate to myself that I welcomed the emotion, I accepted the emotion, I embraced the emotion and I was sorry that I had pushed that emotion down. That lasted for quite a long time and in between there were sprays of aura soma and at the end a tibetan bowl.
After that part, I was again asked to pick up my pen and paper and write down the beliefs I had in respect of my parents again. This time I struggled to write more than half a page, and when I looked at it, it was really beautiful, positive and accepting. As I was talking to my mentor about it, she said that THAT was what my higher self thought about the topic.. and you know what? That resonated with me and I knew it was true. I was told earlier this year that when you meditate, the time when you just finish your meditation is a good time to write down whatever comes into your head because your connection to the spiritual realm and your higher self is still strong. I wrote that whilst I was in a completely zoned out mood and truth be told, I was still zoned out when I left the building I had to go and eat some meat (I had a chicken pizza slice not red meat) to just ground me again! The statements that I wrote are now my affirmations so my homework is to read them every day - I don't think that will be a problem.
It just goes to show that there are so many different methods that can help you remove barriers, get rid of past hurt, change your beliefs, etc. Just be open to trying it!
I had no idea what the mentoring session was going to be like. I wasn't sure if it was going to be one of those mentor-mentee relationships where I would tell my mentor what my ultimate goal is and then we would sit down and flesh out action steps that I had to do to achieve that dream. Boy was I wrong.
The session was essentially one where we were going to look at any of my beliefs that were potentially holding me back. Usually it would be to focus on a belief about moving down the energetic healing path for example, but today the thing at the forefront of my mind was the relationship I have with my parents - rather, the fact that I still felt judged for choosing to stop going to church and in essence not being the "devout Catholic". My mentor explained that she was going to use the Grace Method, which was a way of changing our own perspective of our beliefs and essentially replacing that belief with something that was more aligned to where we wanted to be.
So this method consisted of writing, and then a meditation/visualisation part, and then back to writing. The first writing component essentially was me writing my beliefs about the particular situation - so I had to constantly write "In respect of my parents I believe ....". There were no ways I could short cut this - I basically had to sit down and write every single word and write the belief that popped into my head. It was almost like Harry Potter writing "I must not tell lies" a billion times or something like that! Anyway, I ended up writing 2 A4 pages of beliefs that I had about my parents.
The second component was a meditation/visualisation which my mentor took me through. It comprised of essentially taking each "belief" that was "negative" and really feeling the emotion that it brought up in me - and I mean really bringing it up. When the belief was reiterated I had to pay attention to how my body reacted and what emotions came up. Then I had to sit through that emotion and basically magnify it by a lot - and once those emotions were boiling and bubbling around I had to reiterate to myself that I welcomed the emotion, I accepted the emotion, I embraced the emotion and I was sorry that I had pushed that emotion down. That lasted for quite a long time and in between there were sprays of aura soma and at the end a tibetan bowl.
After that part, I was again asked to pick up my pen and paper and write down the beliefs I had in respect of my parents again. This time I struggled to write more than half a page, and when I looked at it, it was really beautiful, positive and accepting. As I was talking to my mentor about it, she said that THAT was what my higher self thought about the topic.. and you know what? That resonated with me and I knew it was true. I was told earlier this year that when you meditate, the time when you just finish your meditation is a good time to write down whatever comes into your head because your connection to the spiritual realm and your higher self is still strong. I wrote that whilst I was in a completely zoned out mood and truth be told, I was still zoned out when I left the building I had to go and eat some meat (I had a chicken pizza slice not red meat) to just ground me again! The statements that I wrote are now my affirmations so my homework is to read them every day - I don't think that will be a problem.
It just goes to show that there are so many different methods that can help you remove barriers, get rid of past hurt, change your beliefs, etc. Just be open to trying it!