Compassion in practice. 

The Beauty of Emotional Healing.

This article is about the beauty of working as a Breathwork Practitioner and Emotional Healing. You can be an emotional healer whether you are a husband, wife, friend, mother, father, therapist or conscious humanitarian. Everybody you meet and share with benefits from you being connected to and living from your heart with compassion.

After over 20 years practice, I still love using the power of the breath for emotional healing as not only do our clients experience benefit, but I also enjoy healing and growth.

Benefits of Emotional Healing for others (clients)…

Changes are made quickly and simply

Change happens with ease and grace

Gain practical ways of being kind and gentle with ourselves

Permanent shifts are made at deep levels

Great insights happen as they realize what the real issues are

Feelings of freedom arise as old emotional baggage is released

A sense of empowerment arises as understandings arise as to what has been driving them and what they can do differently

More presence, connection and aliveness abounds

Benefits of Emotional Healing for us (the practitioner)…

We regularly feel loving peace inside

We create trust with others quickly and easily

We are less likely to get stuck and blocked in shame because they are met in the heart

We get to facilitate real effective changes in others by resolving the feelings driving harmful thinking and behavior

We experience deep satisfaction from being part of such profound shifts

We learn to be more kind, gentle and compassionate with ourselves

Our own heart opens through practicing compassion for others

We continue to become more present, connected and alive

We enjoy fulfilling connections with others

We become part of a greater force than ourselves at work

We learn to surrender control and trust life

A sense of being blessed and supported by life grows

We get to experience being the best ‘me’ I can be

What is Emotional Healing?

Through Breathwork, emotional healing uses compassion as an instrument for the resolution of suffering, blockages and empowers people to live rich, full, happy and successful lives

Compassion is to care for suffering, others and our own. To be in a state of a love, even in discomfort. It involves a willingness to be in relationship, which means being connected, fully open, available, welcoming and present. Allowing ourselves to feel all our feelings.

We all know how bad it feels to set a new years resolution only to watch it erode into oblivion as the pressures of life compound.

I’m going to lose 10kg, go to the gym every day, stop procrastinating etc, etc…

This only serves to make us feel bad about ourselves – and can easily become yet another way of beating ourselves up.

My solution to this is to keep it simple and set a certain kind of resolution – one which I call an intention

Setting intentions is a softer and kinder way of relating to ourselves.

Setting intentions is EXTREMELY POWERFUL. When you set an intention deep in your heart you will be amazed at how transformational it can be on your personally (positively and negatively).

Over the years I have developed the habit of setting one intention per year. I choose an aspect of my spiritual development that I would like to work on. Some of them include: Expecting less of myself, being gentler with myself and focusing on excellence. Last year I chose to practice generosity. Sometimes I was more generous than I normally would have been and sometimes I saw myself ‘holding on to the flow’.

Both experiences actually deepened my awareness of generosity. No matter how you go, if you stay conscious of your intention, do your best and watch yourself as you go, you will definitely grow in that area.

Of course you must be gentle with yourself (which could be you intention for 2012). Understand that criticism and punishment serves no good. Punishing ourselves does not make us more open and loving. Punishment and criticism makes us more contracted, fearful and uptight.

Life is a journey of growth, not a destination.

Working on developing a spiritual practice is a great thing for a number of reasons.  One you actually can always do better and so you never really fail. Even when you realise you have not been how you would like to be, you can use the experience to reinforce your determination to be more diligent in the future.

Also, you are going to get plenty of opportunities to practice your intention, some you will rise to meet and some will pass you by.

I personally believe it is the person we become (how open our hearts are) that is the most important aspect of the life we live. Obviously we can not take any of our physical achievements with us when we die, but who we have become along the journey goes on.

You may already know that we are teaching INSPIRED LIVING PROGRAMS this year that focus on opening our hearts, becoming more present, alive and cultivating ‘Heart Qualities’ in our life. (more info. to come on this shortly)

Here are some of the major heart practices you could consider:

Effortless Flow

Savouring the Moment

Acceptance

Compassion

Openness

Kindness, Gentleness (drop punishment)

Mystery – living in the unknown, welcoming the new

Generosity

Tonglen, – Staying open and grateful even when it hurts

Follow your heart

Appreciation

Presence

Integrity

Trust, surrender

Mystery

Courage

Honouring, cherishing

Patience

Playfulness

Devotion

I suggest you take a few moments to be quiet and breathe into your heart – RIGHT NOW – and ask yourself:

“What quality would I like to cultivate this year?”

Just choose the one that is calling to you and plant it like a seed, deep in your heart and watch it grow…

If you would like to spend a fun and exciting day connecting in your heart, putting some powerful energy into making 2012 a great year then…

… Join us on January 21 for our Shine – 2012 by design Day.

As a subscriber to our list you are entitled to attend for just $47 ($100 discount – and you can bring your friends for just $3/person)

Have a sqizz at: http://www.eq.net.au/events/category/shine-days.

May the love, peace and happiness in your heart, flourish in your life,

Let me know how you go…

Hearty Regards

Nicholas

Coming events

January 21 – 2012 by Design… 1 day Heart visioning workshop

http://www.eq.net.au/events/category/shine-days

February 23-26 – Inspired Living (updated Passionately Alive)

February 23-26 – 2012 BREATHWORK TRAINING Cert. III & IV

http://www.eq.net.au/events/category/breathwork-training

It is also the foundational principle that are taught at the Institute of Heart Intelligence.

Enjoy’

You can Download MP3 File of the presentation Here.

Thank you for your registration, you are now enrolled in the 2011 Training.

You are embarking on a wonderful heart opening experience that will transform your life. Now that you have enrolled you can expect your process to begin. Feel free to call us if you need to talk about issues that come up for you.

Times:
Breathwork Practitioner Level: Thursday 7.00pm till Monday 5.00pm
Personal Life Transformational Journey: Thursday 7.00pm till Sunday 5.00pm
Module dates:

1.      July 14 -17 (18)                   Alchemy

2.      August 11 -14 (15)              Growing up/ Blossoming

3.      September 8 -11 (12)         Passionate Men and Women

4.      October 13 -16 (17)             Love, Sex and Money

5.      November 10 – 13 (14)       Radical Breakthroughs

Venue:   Hazeldell. 220 BasinOlinda Rd. The Basin. Victoria.

Check in time at the start of the training on Thursday, is 6.30pm. This will enable us to register you so we will be ready to start at 7.00pm sharp.

TO ENABLE YOU TO PARTICIPATE FULLY IN THE PROGRAM

IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU BRING THE FOLLOWING ITEMS:

* Notebook and pen.

* 2 LARGE couch cushions (Pillows are NOT large enough)

* 1 Low height beach chair (NO BEAN BAGS)

* Alarm clock

* Torch

* Loose comfortable clothing, Plenty of T-shirts.

* Thick socks or slippers and winter woollies.

* Pillow and Sheets

* Blankets, doona or sleeping bag.

* Bath towel & toiletries.

* Drinking Water Bottle

* Hot water bottle (optional)

* Commitment to the pursuit of your Passion!

Tuition Fee:

Please ensure that the payment details are clear before starting the training

Accommodation:
The training is a full residential – ‘live in’ experience.

Food
Is supplied – if you have special requirement make sure that you discuss them with Susan at least 1 week before the training commences.

Venue: ‘Hazeldell’, 220 Basin-Olinda Rd, Sassafras.
(Map enclosed)
Client History Form
Enclosed is a Client History form. All information on the form will be held in strict confidence. It’s purpose is to assist Nicholas in meeting your needs. Please complete the form and post it, so it will arrive in the mail at least one week before the seminar begins.

We are very happy to have you join us in this training. We look forward to sharing a rich and exciting adventure together.

With love and enthusiasm,
Nicholas and Susan de Castella.

DIRECTIONS To get here:
Follow the Eastern Freeway and Eastlink to Boronia Rd

Turn Left onto Boronia Rd.
Follow Boronia Rd which turns into Forest  until it ends at a round about in front of the Basin Post Office (third round about).
On the other side of the round about is The Basin – Olinda Rd.
Drive down along the road till it turns to gravel. Continue along for another  1.5 km.
The Hazeldell driveway is on the right , just after a sharp bend with a wire mesh fence over a small creek.
Look for the raibow colored ‘Hazeldell’ sign and the number 220.