Certified Inner Bonding® facilitator
Associate Instructor Equine Facilitated Learning
Maybe we are just looking in the wrong place!
Have you ever heard of the story where a lady sees a
man looking on the ground in a frenzy under a lamp post at night. She says,
“What are you looking for? He says, “I am looking for my keys.” She says, “Is
this where you dropped them?” He says, “No, I dropped them over there but it is
too dark over there so I am looking here where there is light.”
Is this what many of us are doing today? We are in a
frenzy, anxious, stressed, confused, and we do not want to look where it is
dark, so we look where we think it is light even though that is not where we
will find what we are looking for. We eat out or binge on food that is not even
healthy, or we obsess with how we look at fitness centres where the buzz of
people and noise makes us think we feel connected, or we spend our time and
money in shopping malls where the constant bright lights and array of
advertising gives us some sense of community and a sense of “feeling good” in
bright new clothes.
How many of us leave the shopping malls still needing
to go back for another fix the next day and the next and the next? When our
relationships fall apart or we are in conflict with people at work we turn
again to our “bright lights” to distract us from feeling our pain or our
emptiness or from going into the dark.
Imagine if there is nothing to fear by going over to
what we think is the dark. That much anxiety, tension and stress is built up
emotion that has not been released from our body when we had our first sense of
a lack of safety or our first sense of a negative emotion. Every time we
suppress or hold on to emotions we accumulate a little more stress, a little
more anxiety. One day the bubble bursts, the pipes begin to leak and we either
fly off the handle in rage or suppress the emotion and become depressed.
In the work that I do I enable people to learn an Inner Bonding® process
developed by Dr Margaret Paul and Dr Erika Chopich.
This process is an extremely powerful practice for life, to become more in flow
with a deeper connection to ourselves and our spiritual path.
The Inner Bonding® process enables us to
transform habitual patterns that may be generating our anxiety and we can learn
how you to create a state of well being without resorting to short term fixes.
A participant in a recent workshop said, "I came
here sad, anxious and angry with my life and my partner and I was ready to walk
away from everything."
By early afternoon on the first day I had found my
emptiness and found how to give myself what I needed to feel loved and
connected to all the beauty around me. I am overflowing with appreciation and
love that is being accessed from within me. I am seeing what there is to
appreciate in the world. I feel enriched and abundant."
In a beautiful
environment connected with nature and horses we learn what it is to be truly
present, mindful and still. We learn what it is to connect and integrate body,
mind and soul and feel a sense of wholeness and our own authenticity.
We have the capacity to create the lives we want is
all it takes is a willingness to learn and to look over and be present to what
we thought was the dark side! Out of the swamps grows beautiful lotus flowers!
Who will you grow into when you allow yourself to be with the darkness, allow
blocked emotions to be released and give yourself the fertilizer that you need?
Check out the next event we have on offer in
Australia.