| What
is Source Awareness Healing?
Source Awareness Healing is a unique therapeutic technique that integrates
homeopathy and Self Awareness (based on Advait Vedant and yogic practices).
(ft note: Advait Vedant – non-dualism, the direct experience of indivisible
oneness.)
Through this innovated system, we come to a clearer understanding of the
mind’s fundamental role in causing physical, emotional and mental
unease. We further learn mastery over the mind, which leads to connection
with our original identity: source awareness. Through this process, our
innate wellbeing is uncovered.
Just as light dispels darkness, the light of source awareness, when released
from its entanglement in our internal dialogue, dispels confusion and unease,
and brings light to the subtle levels of witnessing consciousness. Through
Source Awareness guidance and its healing practices, the mind and body’s
energetic channels become clear. This brings about a harmonious integration
of body, mind and spirit, and results in vitality on all these three levels.
*Advait Vedant – non-dualism, the direct experience of indivisible
oneness.
Our
internal dialogue–mind, intellect and ego.
Mind is a wonderfully complex and multi-dimensional instrument, but we
mostly remain entangled in the complex weave of our thoughts. For example,
a thought comes to the mind: I’d like to eat ice cream. The discriminating
faculty, the intellect, spontaneously responds, It is only half an hour
until dinnertime, so I’ll wait. Then the ego, the faculty of self-judgment,
makes comments, such as I’m greedy, I’m weak and I’ll
never gain control over my desires. I feel fat and unattractive, I’m
afraid that my friends don’t like me, I am … The ego’s
erroneous running commentary revolves around our imagined inabilities,
resulting either in self-belittlement or in blaming others.
It is possible to objectively observe the functioning of our internal
dialogue (the thoughts and the internal commentary on the thoughts).The
perspective of Source Awareness works to unlock a witnessing faculty, which
naturally transforms the dis-ease of our internal dialogue into ease at
the level of the witnessing consciousness. Then our internal dialogue can
becomes an effective tool when directed towards acquisition of Self knowledge
and Self fulfillment.
What
is witnessing consciousness?
Witnessing consciousness is the essence of being and basis by which we
come into manifestation. Just as colour needs a canvas on which to appear,
our internal dialogue manifests out of the essential substance, which is
witnessing consciousness.
Through Source Awareness Healing, we develop our ability to cultivate
the mind’s witnessing capacity to gain a healthy perspective on our
internal dialogue, which empowers us so that we are not bound by thoughts
that lead to dis-ease, but rather we gain the ability to cultivate thoughts
which lead to health and life-supporting action. An other words, Source
Awareness Healing facilitates recognition of our fundamental basis – witnessing
consciousness, which is free by nature and supportive of the health and
wellbeing of all.
When consciousness is limited to our internal dialogue, freedom cannot
be known, for thinking only brings about more thinking. Therefore, we need
an integrated perspective in conjunction with Source Awareness Healing
techniques that support the recognition of witnessing consciousness and
enhance natural healing.
Systems based on fundamental truths share fundamental principles, only
the model and its language differ. For example, the father of homeopathy,
Hahnemann used the word Wesen to describe the witnessing consciousness.
Throughout his Organon of Medicine he described Wesen, with words
such as, “essence,” “living entity,” “essential
unchanging esse,” (being) “dynamism,” “self-subsisting
presence,” “all-permeating,” “indivisible living
power,” “living principle.”
Why
do we feel bound?
A human being is not born to be bound. Whether it is freedom from poverty,
disease, hatred, or suffering, we all desire freedom because it is the
nature of our innermost being. I propose that we feel bound, incomplete,
uneasy, stressed and strive to prove and secure an uncertain identity,
because we feel separate from our very own essence or original state of
being.
There is no freedom in being an identified character in our mental script,
and so, restless and uneasy, our inner awareness rebels against the limitations
of the script. Even though no one wants to live a scripted life, we often
feel helpless as to how to rewrite our character that appears to have been
allotted to us.
In a Source Awareness Healing session, I assist you in examining the script
of your internal dialogue and help you reach the objective, to realise
that the problem is not in the circumstances of your story that finds no
relief from the instable ups and downs of our emotions.
“
Stress does not come from an external reality but from the manner
in which we experience it.” Dr. Rajan Sankaran.
How
to recognise our original freedom?
Higher intelligence and purity of being is not taught to us. It is our
original nature. Young children are greatly connected to their purity of
being, with no real sense of freedom or bondage until an identity is formed
through a process of mental and social conditioning. The conditioned identity
serves to help each of us function practically in the world, but it is
not our totality.
Consider the example of the ocean and a wave. Identification with the
wave allows for only a limited understanding of the ocean, whereas awareness
of the essential identity of a wave is awareness of the ocean water as
a whole.
Our original being, like the expansive ocean water, includes the conditioned
identity within itself, because ocean awareness knows that water is not
separate from wave; whereas the individual wave consciousness understands
itself to be separate from other waves and from the expanse of ocean water.
Waves rise and fall, symbolic of the ease and unease of human experience.
The vast ocean, symbolic of the witnessing consciousness, neither rises
nor falls.
How does this example of the ocean and wave consciousness relate to us
personally? When our thinking mind does not include the witnessing consciousness,
we feel separate and incomplete. So we continue, through all kinds of efforts,
to validate our limited identity in a genuine yet mistaken attempt to experience
our original freedom, which is our Source Awareness. Even our greatest
achievements do not bring us to a place of ease; rather, we are left with
the feeling that something is lacking.
Despite having been limited by conditioning, our developed mind has the
innate intelligence to discriminate between our limited identity and the
witnessing consciousness. This mental clarity is our higher intelligence.
It is our original being, the nature of which is freedom and health on
all levels.
An
integrative approach to health on all levels
The subtle level of awareness must be addressed to reach the source of
healing. Medicine focused only on a physical level will serve as a temporary
balance, whereas tuning in to your Source Awareness facilitates your physical
therapy bringing health on all levels.
The incompleteness of our limited identity does not allow our free nature
to realise its fullness. It perpetuates dissatisfaction and disease, not
because our mind or body is sick, but because incompleteness holds within
itself an unfulfilled state.
What is the limited identity? The mind is busy labelling us: I am good
at this and not good at that. I am this type of person – not that
type of person. I succeed sometimes and other times I don’t. I have
this strength and this failing. I am better than this person and less than
that person. Whatever the theme of the struggle may be, the mind’s
nature is to focus on our qualities and then label them good or bad.
By labelling our qualities we are actually addressing the question, Who
am I? in an attempt to connect with our true identity. But when we are
only in relation with our thinking, which bounces back and forth between
good and bad labels, an internal struggle results.
Just as water has different states, such as liquid, ice and vapour we
know and experience ourselves as individuals with a variety of thoughts,
moods and physical sensations. When we are in touch with our true
identity, vitality irrigates the totality of our being..
A transformation of perspective.
Source Awareness Healing is not the practice of affirming our individual
qualities, nor is it simply a practice to counteract negativity with positivity.
It is transformational. It brings about the cure on a deeper level of awareness
enabling us to tune in to the source of our healing power –that which
gives rise to both the positive and negative.
Source Awareness Healing is therapeutic, but it does not attempt to bring
about a solution from our internal dialogue, which is the content of the
mind. Rather, our witnessing consciousness is liberated from our internal
dialogue and guided to transform our perspective by utilizing a formula
that engages both the physical and the subtle levels. You can apply it
in your work, your interactions, and your personal relationships.
The ability to identify our internal dialogue as a limited perspective,
compared to the unlimited witnessing consciousness, is only an initial
step in the process of gaining an integrated perspective. Source Awareness
Healing envelops the human experience. The expansive state of consciousness,
in which we unite with our true being, knows a state of love that is neither
gained nor diminished. It develops intelligence into higher wisdom. And
it unfolds the confidence that allows us to harmoniously engage in the
diversity of life without losing the balance and health of the body and
mind.
Samaadhi – free
flying consciousness.
The Sanskrit word “Samaadhi,” (sam means “even” and
dhi means “intellect”) is described in Patanjali Yog Darshan,
as a state in which the individual I is absorbed in its source. Samaadhi
is not a state in which the mind is controlled or silenced, as is often
interpreted, but rather a state where the identification with the thoughts
is released to recognise its free and limitless nature.
When children play in their imaginative realm they are beyond awareness
of time and space relativity. In this state, they are happily absorbed
in a dimension where their mind is not engaged in an inner commentary or
analysis of themselves in relation to their game – i.e. there is
no conscious identification with the mind. This state is a certain level
of samaadhi that I refer to as the free-flying consciousness.
We may also observe that often times, when a child’s free flying
consciousness is brought into the realm of time and space it is met with
resistance. An example of this resistance is a child who is playing with
their friend, who throws a tantrum when they are called to clean their
room. The transition of their attention from a subtle realm to a physical
realm causes unease in their body, so they throw a tantrum in order to
deal with the energy.
As hormones develop in the adolescent, the natural gravity of our energy
is drawn down in the opposite direction of the free-flying consciousness,
to be experienced more predominantly in the body and time-space mind dimension,
and so the teenager develops their identity in relation to body and image.
Along with hormonal development, social sensibility develops, in which
we are influenced by society’s expectations to be attractive, smart
and successful, bringing a sense of being confined to a moulded identity.
Adolescent development of identity is necessary to develop independence
and responsibility in life, which in health, is an integration of free-flying
consciousness with time-space social expectations. This natural gravitation
of consciousness, due to body-mind development, is often awkward and confusing
for a teenager. But for some souls, this process is extremely awkward,
and so in an attempt to cope with the sensation of body energy, they develop
avoiding mechanisms to block the energy in an attempt to not feel their
body or accept responsibility.
When we are unable to integrate our free-flying consciousness with grounding
mind-body energies in a balanced way, we experience physical unease – sometimes
to the extreme, and doubt ourselves and our ability to cope.
Unable to find balance to integrate subtle and earthly energies within
ourselves, creates an energetic disturbance that can lead to low self-esteem
and complexes such as eating disorders, body-image disorders and borderline
personality disorders, in which we are confused as to our purpose and identity
and feel out of control, emotionally unstable, hopeless, unable to deal
with social expectations and overwhelmed with relative activities.
It is my observation and understanding, from years of research that the
cause of these types of disorders develop – in part – because
of the inability to integrate subtle energy into mind-body more relative,
grounded energy.
These disorders are not limited to be experienced only in teenage years,
the malfunctioning coping mechanisms remain as a mind-set into adult
years, even for a lifetime if left unresolved.
These disorders are not limited to be experienced only in teenage years,
the malfunctioning coping mechanisms remain as a mind-set into adult years,
even for a lifetime if left unresolved.
A selection of my patient’s expressions illustrating their
experience of transcendence as a defence:
• I feel out of my body, I can't get my life together.
• I get spaced-out and I don't want to be around people.
• I need to be more grounded.
• I am relatively un-together I feel scattered, as if I am detached.
• I feel clumsy and awkward in my body. I hate my looks.
• I have a wish to not be on this planet.
• I have an openness for mediation and inner search that is not
appreciated by others.
• I feel an awkward relationship my own body.
• It is a kind of denying of your own body.
• I am overly sensitive to criticism from worldly people that I
am not practical.
• I have always been dreamy and so I am not able to get my stuff
together .
• It’s a detached feeling, at that time I can't concentrate.
• I can’t relate to my image in the mirror.
• I feel like a doll made of cloth, all floppy, people think that
I'm useless.
• I can’t figure out how to use this machine called my body.
• I am dealing with too much energy, it makes me anxious.
• I pick up on all kinds of energy, it freaks me out.
• The world forces you to be practical. They don’t understand me.
It is for them that they want me to change, not for me.
I am not
like them.
• Everyone wants uniformity, to put me into a box, that feels very
uncomfortable.
• Everyone else seems to fit into a rhythm that I can never fit
into.
• It’s a panicked feeling, anxious, as if I’m on skates and
I can’t keep up.
• I’m not connected to the body and it is scary.
• I can’t connect to my belly. I want to feel it here (belly) but
I can’t.
• I can’t express, I’m too shy. My voice is all blocked up
and only a squeak comes out.
• I feel blocked in my body – I can’t express my inner ideas,
its all blocked.
• I can’t deal with stress – I feel there is no ground, I
spin out.
Who
will benefit from Source Awareness Healing?
Although Source Awareness Healing (SAH) is for all, I have found it
particularly beneficial for those who difficulty lies in the follow
areas:
For those whose sensitivity perceives subtle aspects of life: but
whose difficulty lies in feeling easily ungrounded, spaced-out,
scattered and anxious when faced with relative demands. SAH
works in conjunction with yogic techniques to integrate our subtle
energies and feel more balanced and grounded in our lives. (see above ‘Samadhi – free
flying consciousness’)
For those who experience difficulty in self-governance: e.g.
anorexics, bulimics and compulsive eaters. SAH
breaks the starving-binging-purging cycle.
For those who have difficulty identifying with a stable
sense of self: SAH guides us to
identify our subtle sense of self, knowing which, we unfold
self-confidence at a deeper level.
For homeopaths, health care practitioners and caregivers: who
draw on healing energy to support others. SAH
offers clarity to our motives and yogic techniques to balance
the current of
replenishing energy between our needs and the needs of others.
For those who live in the creative realm: but
find difficulty to bring their creative ideas into manifestation.
For spiritual seekers: who find difficulty
integrating the spiritual and the material realms. When transcendence
is used as an
avoidance to feeling it becomes an imbalance – expressed in physical
symptoms, and therefore an obstacle on the spiritual path. Spiritual
seekers may sometimes feel displaced in their body and in the
world, leading to existential anxiety or depression. SAH
works to bring unity in the relationship between you, your body
and your world.
Source
Awareness Healing for homeopaths, health care practitioners
and caregivers.
Source Awareness Healing (SAH) is an integrated system in the sense that
its principles applies both to the client and to the practitioner.
We will better understand the underlying theme of our patient’s
narration (having developed in ourselves a deeper insight into the nature
of mind as a universal human phenomenon rather than a solely personal one)
and thereby better pinpoint the core delusion and the basic polarity causing
their inner disturbance.
We will be better able to listen to our patient without the mixture
of our personal projection, having gained a perspective of our own internal
dialogue.
We can offer integrated treatment –a perspective shift,
healing techniques and the remedy– that recognises and supports the
inherent wisdom of sensitive patients to assist them to tune into their
sensitivity as a power for transformation rather than as a weakness to
feel overwhelmed.
The principles of SAH particularly apply to those types of disorders
that relate to an uncertain or unstable sense of self, such as eating disorders,
body image disorders, job-burn out, borderline personality disorders or
simply an experience of a nonspecific anxiety. “It is a highly unnatural
state in which the person is transported from the world of the sense and
appears to belong more to the spirit world.” (Organon: footnote:
289a)
We will better understand that the sensitive patient’s
cause of frustration is due to their higher awareness of the inherent dissatisfaction
of the senses, and learn how to direct that wisdom to attain deeper satisfaction
and inner connection.
We will experience the healing effect of energy enhancing techniques to offer our patients as an additional remedy.
We will experience the healing effect of energy enhancing techniques so that we may fully engage in the case-receiving process in such a way
that our and our patient’s energy is rejuvenated.
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Awareness Healing; the method and its techniques.
A two pronged approach to healing:
The method: One
of the basic tenants of homeopathy recognizes the innate intelligence
of our defence mechanism’s endeavour to heal
itself by expressing our source disturbance through symptoms at a
surface level. Under the same premise, our innate sense of freedom works
not to
accept the sense of being wrong, bound or incomplete in any way.
SAH is guided process that leads to a complete turnaround in how we approach
our problems. This perspective shift integrates our innate sensitivity
so that it functions harmoniously in our daily life.
SAH method gives rise to a deep awareness and experience of our pure being,
releasing the struggle and tension at its core, integrating vital energy
in the mind and body.
The techniques: To support the awakening of our innate inner awareness,
SAH uses specialized techniques to integrate and thereby balance our subtle
and physical energies, replenishing our vital force.
Meditation: An effortless direct experience of our witnessing consciousness.
Praanayam: Traditional conscious breathing techniques from yogic
science.
Praanic awareness practices:
- Directing conscious awareness as a healing force.
- Integrating pathways between subtle and body energies.
- Learning the Ayurvedic art of realigning the pulse at body’s energy
centres.
- Hands-on healing (in the live workshops).
- Vocal techniques: to open channels of expression and creativity.
- Writing techniques: using free-flight of consciousness techniques.
- Nutritional sense: to learn how to promote
a healthy digestion according to Ayurvedic principles..
A magical point of the session is when our perception is able to
reverse from sickness to health, from uncertainty to wisdom, from
separation to wholeness, from powerlessness to empowerment.
The previous understanding that our inner conflict is a sickness that
needs to be got rid of, control or modified is transformed to realize
that our inner struggle has in fact awoken us to get in touch with
our original
being. Knowing this, natural balance and vitality can be experienced
in all aspects of our lives.
How
I developed Source Awareness Healing.
The ancient art of Self Awareness has been largely bypassed through the
development of our society. Through the method of Self Awareness and yogic
practices, health and equanimity can be attained. I have found that developing
the perspective of the witness has led me to concur with ancient wisdom
and inspired me to develop the method, Source Awareness Healing.
Influenced by Rudolf Steiner’s philosophy of education, I established
a school in 1986 for the children of the participants of a large spiritual
community in India. This has inspired an in-depth research into children
and teenagers growing up in a spiritual community, in order to understand
the developmental hurdles confronting a sensitive and aware child.
Practicing homeopathy in this community has given rise to an understanding
of those who are intelligent and aware, but who have difficulty integrating
their subtle, transcendent awareness with relative demands. Consequently
they use transcendence to avoid relative energy, particularly in relation
to their own body and its health.
Through my own observation, seeing how the homeopath is able to be
a mirror for the client, I have slightly modified the method of a homeopathic
intake in order to not only prescribe a homeopathic remedy, but also to
reflect to the client a remedy enabling the integrated of their higher
awareness with the body.
Treating patients with these particular sensitivities inspired me
a have a new comprehension of auto-immune disorders, eating disorders,
body image disorders, job burn-out, and borderline personality disorders
that relate to an uncertain sense of self-identity.
This research has been my constant inspiration for many years, having
personally suffered under the label anorexia bulimia from the age of fourteen.
I came to India to study Advait philosophy, meditation and yogic practices
when I was twenty-two years old. Initially, my focused was to gain insight
and understanding in order to heal my own eating disorder. Through yogic
practices such as meditation, praanayaam (conscious breathing practice),
and an ongoing development in Source Awareness, I was able to gain a personal
insight into the whole energetic disturbance from which imbalances such
as eating disorders stem.
Now, I no longer identify with the mind-set of an anorexic, and so it
is my genuine passion to want to pass on the techniques that turned my
perspective 180 degrees –from the unrelenting internal dialogue of
an anorexic to the recognition of my Source Awareness – freeing the
witness consciousness from its association to the mind’s grooves
of suffering.
Source Awareness has not only helped me in my homeopathic practice, but
the healing perspective I see my patients, students, relations, friends,
and my situations with the vision of oneness, free from the limits of a
labelled identity. A vision that recognises that the basis of perception
is not limited by the internal dialogue sees a state of perfection in everything,
completely and effortlessly integrating the subtle with the physical.
Therefore, having shared my personal introduction with you, I invite the
genuine healers as well as all those sensitive souls who are suffering
with an inability to integrate their subtle sense of self with their human
experience, to begin the process of Source Awareness Healing.
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