I was talking with a client the other day who was having an especially hard time with her verbally abusive and emotionally destructive boss. She expressed how upsetting it was to go to work and be immersed in a toxic workplace for 8 hrs a day. As she spoke I remembered something I learned years also in Hawai’i. What I learned was a quick and easy way to change a negatively charged memory or experience into a pleasant one. I know this is going to sound strange to some of you but try it the next time you are confronted with an angry or irate person.
Here is what you do, as the person is railing at you, imagine them in a clown suit, with a big nose, over-sized feet and see there lips flapping as they rant. Maybe even give them a tail, just make them as funny as you can imagine. What happens as you imagine the person this way is that you can’t help but to smile inwardly and maybe even giggle a bit to yourself. What happens in your brain when you do this is that the memory or experience is stored differently, it moves to an area of your brain that hold pleasant images and memories and is no longer as traumatic as a result.
I did this once after a biting conversation with my mother -in- law that left me in tears. I went back and re-imagined the whole conversation and presto—- the energy and my reaction changed instantaneously—- just like that. I felt better and was able to let it go which was a godsend.
My client used it right away and she just loved the clown she created in her mind’s eye of her abusive boss just Blah, Blah, Blahing at her. She said it really changed her entire experience.
Author: H. Elizabeth Burke MA
H. Elizabeth Burke MA has been a pioneer in somatics and energy healing, past life and trauma resolution for 30 years. She is the creator of Transforming Embodiment a new somatic therapy for healing mind, body and spirit. Elizabeth is also a professional psychic, medical intuitive, teacher and award-winning author. She specializes in somatic integrative therapy, energetic healing, past life healing and integration & trauma resolution. She holds a master's degree from Lesley College in Somatic and Contemplative Counseling. Her book, Memory in Our Bones won awards in 2009 and 2011. Her new book Transforming History ~ Transforming Embodiment Somatic Solutions for Past Life & Cellular Healing: Beyond Epigenetics & Traditional Therapy will be published in late 2016 - early 2017.
Elizabeth survived and thrived after a harrowing 3 year- long kundalini awakening and shamanic initiation that nearly killed her. Touched by spirit in this deep way, changed her forever and left her clairvoyant, clairaudiant and clairsentient as well as being a trance channel.
This extra-ordinary awakening also gave her a direct understanding of the nature of pain and and a deeply personal grasp of how the mind can heal the body.
Elizabeth Burke is adept at unraveling the stories held within the emotional and energy body from the past and present.
She deftly interfaces her counseling abilities with a full range of medical intuitive, channeled insights and psychic skills and has read for 1000's of people from all over the world since 1986.
Since 1988 she has taught holistic professionals and spiritually-awakening woman intuitive and psychic skills, Hawaiian shamanic skills and the practices of Transforming Embodiment.
Elizabeth has studied with Buddhist masters, Taoist priests, and shamans from Hawai'i and has practiced meditation for decades.
She can be reached in person by phone at 415 925-1509 via her websites www.healingorigins.com, www.memoryinourbones.com or at her blog www.transformingembodiment.com
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