Be well and eliminate the root cause of emotional and physical pain!

 

I have a vivid memory of being often sick as a child, and therefore I have developed an interest in Holistic Healing from a very early age. There was no need to explain to me how an abstract system such as acupuncture or aromatherapy works. I simply knew intuitively that it works if the mind does not interfere.

The only real way to heal any emotional and physical pain is to eliminate the underlying emotional and energetic causes. In fact, emotional and spiritual health is often a crucial factor in the healing process.

The majority operates from a place of victim consciousness. Not being aware of their true Self they defend the identity they have constructed at all costs. However, we have reached a point in our evolution as a collective where we desperately need to evolve beyond the victim consciousness. To see if you are plugged in into any victim thought forms you have to be first of all brutally honest with yourself.
Those who feel disempowered are usually more susceptible to illness and diseases.

Our bodies are brilliant and miraculous, but the fact is, that we are more than just our physical bodies. We are more than merely the flesh and bones. To be precise, the body is far away from all of who we are. We are even more than our thoughts and emotions.

It is the ego that believes that it is limited to this physical body and is highly vulnerable. The lower self defines, therefore, an illness or a feeling of being unwell as a failure or weakness. In its limited view, it is unable to see the bigger picture and it is only concerned about safety and survival. From the fearful perspective of the ego, it is indeed quite difficult to understand that physical pain or even a life-threatening illness can contain a hidden blessing. 

Sending healing to everyone who would like to receive it! 

It is our higher Self that chooses the illness because the higher Self has a much broader overview of all life events and our Soul’s journey.  An Illness is often a way to get in touch with any hidden unconscious beliefs or unintegrated aspects of self and it will sometimes redirect us into a new direction or a new way of approaching life’s ups and downs. 

This realisation helps us to live from a different place of awareness and not to identify ourselves with the pain or illness. The reason that we feel tension and pain in the first place is because we have bought in into the illusion that we are a body. When we release these thought patterns and stop listening to the excuses of our mind, we will realise that we are infinite bliss and love. From this moment of realisation, true healing can occur on all levels. The pain or discomfort might be still there but the suffering will cease. 

The most important step to balance ourselves implies an understanding of the energy centres, also known as chakras which make up the mind, body, and spirit complex.

Chakra is a Sanskrit word that translates into a turning wheel or disc. These energy centres are connected to main organs, endocrine glands, physiological functions, emotions and spiritual energy and they hold the keys to physical and emotional health. The openness and flow of energy through our chakras determines our state of health and balance.

An unbalanced or blocked chakra can lead to physical, emotional or mental symptoms.
There are seven main energy centres positioned throughout our body, from the base of your spine to the crown of our head. Each chakra has its own vibrational frequency, that is represented through a particular chakra colour.

I have recorded a guided meditation which will help you to balance the seven main energy centres.

Understanding pain and dealing with pain

Pain multiplied by resistance and strong identification is causing more suffering. If we reduce the resistance, we reduce the suffering. Pain multiplied by acceptance equals freedom. In other words, acceptance leads to healing.

We should not forget that pain can also be an excellent teacher.

Every sickness or physical pain reveals aspects to us that we otherwise wouldn’t be aware of. It is a signal that we can use to come into greater alignment with our True Self. As soon as we discover why a particular symptom shows up, our higher Self won’t have the need to communicate to us through physical pain. The more energised, vibrant and empowered we are, the more in alignment we are with our true Self’s fundamental wavelength.

The core frequency of creation is unconditional love, bliss, joy and abundance. In a sense, a sickness or pain indicates that we have created a gap between ourselves and the core frequency of creation.

If the symptoms show up very strongly, it can be extremely challenging to focus on higher vibrations such as love, joy and bliss. What worked for me in the past was to cultivate gratitude and to thank my higher Self for the catalyst and its infinite wisdom and intelligence. I have learned that when the body gets sick, it means it is time to rest. 

An illness or sickness gives us the opportunity to slow down, to retreat, to contemplate, to set our priorities straight and to re-focus. It offers us also the chance to investigate our beliefs or it is forcing us to develop new strengths and resources or reach out for help and support. Our bodies respond to our state of being, attempting to signal to us that we have a deeper need that demands our attention. Some people say that our body is a reflection of our unconscious mind. If we’re willing to pay attention we can recognise our imbalances and make appropriate changes. 

Most of the physical conditions are the result of misaligned thoughts and beliefs (conscious and unconscious) which cause energy blockages. With misaligned, negative thinking, I mean that the way how we see life is out of alignment with our Spirit’s point of view. After a while, this misalignment transfers into the physical body.
When we have constant negative thoughts, and when we use our past traumatic and painful experiences as an excuse to behave in a dysfunctional way or to feel victimised, we are more likely to get sick or feel unwell. 

There are some exceptions for sickness or physical disabilities, and sometimes we choose to experience certain mental or physical conditions because it serves us as a catalyst to move into a direction which is in alignment with our life’s theme and higher purpose. Without this catalyst, we would not have the incentive to move into a particular direction. 

We might even accept to experience various physical limitations or mental health conditions to be of service to others.

There can be spiritual reasons for illnesses and diseases, and they might not be related to negative or destructive thought patterns. In this case, the disease comes as a spiritual challenge which helps to move to the next level of ascension and empowerment. From the spiritual perspective, illness is a step toward wholeness.

It is not unusual that those who embark on the spiritual path or undertake a pilgrimage, for example, become very sick. There are usually higher reasons for this and we are not always privileged to know, why a particular illness shows up. The reasons might be revealed to us a long time after its occurrence. The more we surrender and give up all resistance during this time instead of asking “why”, the less we will suffer. 

“Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed,
princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences
necessary at the moment for our evolution,
and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.”
– Edward Bach

The fastest way to heal is to drop all identifications with the illness and to see it as temporary, transitory experience. This condition might bring many suppressed, unconscious fears to the surface.  Allow those feelings and fears to flow through your vessel and at the same time release old beliefs which you are ready to let go of. Accept that this is an experience your higher Self would like you to have at this moment and from a higher perspective, everything happens for your best interest. Your task is to allow the very best lessons and outcomes to flow through your vessel and be detached from the outcome. 

To heal means to align with your higher Self, your spirit and to reconnect with the energy of love. Holistic Healing or Energy Healing is about remembering who you truly are.

* It is about reconnecting with your Soul, your Higher Self, and Source. 
* It is about letting go of conditioning and giving yourself full permission to be WHO YOU TRULY are, instead of being who you think you should be.
* It is about stepping into your power and finding maximum joy and fulfilment in the here and now. 
* It is about living from a place of truth rather than buying in into the pain and pleasure concept. 
* It is about the recognition of wholeness and perfection in the midst of challenging circumstances.
* It is about changing of a perspective. If you change your perspective you will see that your suffering stems from a misaligned point of view.

People often wonder how all the hardships, health challenges and suffering they have been through are supposed to serve them?

Many have the concept in their mind that things should be comfortable and cosy and those who have material wealth and success are often admired. The common belief is that having a family, a nice car, a house and a career are the highest things to aspire for in life.

Of course, all of those things are beautiful and can be enjoyed and appreciated, but we should not forget that the main reason for being here is to evolve spiritually. Enjoy the beauty of life, yet remain simultaneously aware of your true nature.

I have seen again and again that those who went through tremendous pain, severe suffering and hardships have been the most spiritually evolved, compassionate, loving, humble, generous and mature people.

Something has emerged from within that transcended all the pain. If they would not have had these intense experiences, they might have been stuck in the superficial material world and would have missed the opportunity to discover the divinity within. They have moved from darkness into light! This is something many beings throughout history have been longing for whether they are consciously aware of it or not.

Grace happens in many miraculous ways, and those who are awake are able to see it in situations and events where those who are asleep perceive only injustice and cruelty. 

Physical pain is often an attempt from our body to communicate to us that something is out of balance. If we want to eliminate the pain or discomfort we have to find the cause instead of looking at the symptoms. To determine the root cause it is helpful to become quiet for a moment and to enquire humble. Begin the investigation by asking, “what is it really”?

The following questions could help to discover the root cause:

What secret benefit could this sickness, discomfort or pain have?

What is your soul longing to learn or to experience?

Does the illness help you to set healthy boundaries?

Does the sickness serve as a protection not to be close or intimate with another person so that you can reduce the risk of being hurt?

If you have pain in your shoulders, are you carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders or do you feel that life is a burden?

If you have heart problems or pain around your chest, do you hold grudges or are you “heartbroken” (forgiveness is the major alchemy in healing)?

If you have back pain, do you feel supported in life and do you allow others to support you?

Is the discomfort there when you wake up or when you go to sleep? Or maybe it is only there in certain circumstances, such as when you are around certain individuals or shortly before an important meeting?

When does it go away? Does the phenomenon fade away when you relax into it, or breathe into it? 

Disengaging from the pain and taking on the observer attitude is another interesting form of enquiry. An attitude of curiosity and a sense of wonder will allow you to step outside and look at the occurring phenomenon from a different perspective. This disidentification helps to have a less personal relationship with the discomfort or pain. If you do this you will notice that the discomfort is simply appearing and disappearing. It is a passing, transitory experience. Consciousness is creating this experience in order to learn from it and ultimately to transcend it. And we need duality in order to be able to learn. How would we know how inner peace feels like if we would not have experienced pain and inner turmoil first?

This recognition helps to be more objective, less personally involved and it is more likely that the discomfort will eventually fade away. 

It is important to understand that disengaging from the pain has nothing to do with denial or spacing out. Any arising uncomfortable phenomena are merely appearances within consciousness, expressed through you, but they are not who you truly are. By taking on the observer view it is more likely that you will have a broader and wider perspective, which may reveal the underlying cause of the discomfort. 

Many people are familiar with Louise Hay’s  book, You Can Heal Your Life, which lists physical symptoms and their corresponding emotional dynamics. While I agree that there is often a direct mind-body connection between an illness and the symptom, it is important to bear in mind that there might be also profound spiritual reasons for an illness or a disease. Symptoms and their signals are not always easy to understand and they may vary from individual to individual. A dis-ease or any kind of discomfort usually speaks to us on many different levels at simultaneously.

The cause of an illness can be chemical, mental, emotional, environmental or spiritual.

On a mental level, ongoing negative thought patterns and dysfunctional beliefs would eventually lead to pain or sickness. So any therapy or technique which deals with negative beliefs e.g. cognitive behavioural therapy could bring relief. Some forms of meditation and mindfulness techniques do address the mind, too.

The cause on a spiritual level could be not following our purpose or being while extremely dissatisfying working environment for example. And at the same time being afraid to undertake the necessary changes to make a shift in the right direction.
Without the physical discomfort, we would not have the incentive or courage to make any necessary modifications, reach out for support, or leave a comfort zone behind for example.

Environmental CAUSEs

The problem here is toxicity. The same sort of toxicity that kills fish in rivers, and pollutes the environment contaminates the blood and tissues of the body. Many diseases, such as Diabetes and Cirrhosis of the liver, are caused by long term accumulation of toxins and acid wastes in the body.
A healthy body will naturally detoxify itself by eliminating its self-produced toxic wastes as soon as they are produced.

On a chemical level, the food we eat can be the cause of significant imbalances.

Food sensitivities can cause chronic inflammation in the gut and body.
Toxins can build up in the body and cause pain. Nutrient deficiencies like B Vitamins; Magnesium can affect the nervous system and lead to physical pain.

In his book “Secrets Behind Chronic and Mystery Illness and How to Finally Heal” it, Anthony William points out that heavy metals such as mercury, aluminium, lead, and copper can settle into the brain and other organs, such as liver, and affect their ability to function properly. Potential consequences include anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Another possible result is migraines. The Author also describes in detail how you can free your brain and body of toxins.

He also covers in the book the following illnesses:

— Chronic Fatigue
— Autoimmune Disorders
— Migraines
— PMS & Menopause
— Depression
— ADHD & Autism
— Lyme Disease
— Candida
— Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
— Rheumatoid Arthritis

He describes the true root cause of these conditions – many of which the medical community has not yet discovered.

Personally, I use a high dosage of MSM and Vitamin C to detox my body.
MSM (methyl-sulfonyl-methane), also known as dimethyl sulfone, is a naturally occurring sulphur compound, found in human diets and those of virtually all other vertebrates. In its purified form, it is an odourless, slightly bitter tasting, water soluble, white, crystalline powder containing 34% elemental sulphur.

MSM is important in detoxification because it makes the cell walls more elastic, allowing easier exchange through the cell wall. MSM occurs naturally in the human body as a result of the food we eat.

It is recommended to drink very high amounts of water while consuming Vitamin C and MSN. Some natural sources of Vitamin C are Camu-Camu, Acerola, Barley Grass, Indian gooseberries, also known as Alma.

Please do your own research on this topic and follow your resonance as I am not a medical doctor.

On the emotional level, past trauma, or suppressed emotions and memories can manifest as pain.

No one has taught us how to release emotions. If we experience emotions like anger, hate, sadness, shame or fear, we have the tendency to contract our body. As a result, precious life-force energy (Prana to the Hindu, Qi to the Chinese) can’t flow freely. With time the effects of these blockages will either cause more tension in the body, lead to various physical symptoms or attract unfavourable circumstances, especially if we insist that our anger or resentment is justified and refuse to let it go. If we hold on to the negative emotions we harm ourselves the most. Therefore the wisest thing to do is to release the emotions when they arise. As soon as an unpleasant emotion or feeling arises, give up any resistance, accept it, don’t be afraid to feel it for a short moment. Simply breathe through it instead of labelling the arising emotion as something negative. After experiencing an unpleasant emotion fully, shift your focus to something else. 

The following meditation will help you to manage and understand your emotions.

If you are stuck or are currently struggling with your path we can explore the inner dynamics during one-on-one Skype sessions together and clear the blocks which prevent you from moving forward. After clearing the blocks we can also explore your vision for the future and capture specific goals so that your life can then start to flow in a far more creative and joyful way with new meaning and direction.

 

Hi, I am Erika Brose and I offer a beautiful blend of Holistic Healing, Intuitive Counselling, and Coaching and I help people to cultivate self-love, heal emotional and psychological suffering, develop healthy self-care habits and reach their goals.
The types of issues I work with can vary from clearing emotional pain, clearing creative blocks, integrating conflicting sub-selves, archetype work, breaking unwanted patterns, clearing oversensitivity issues, clearing limiting beliefs, spiritual and emotional healing and most of all helping people find their soul’s purpose and clearing any blocks that prevent them from connecting fully with their soul purpose.

It is my intention to inspire, empower you and help you to find more clarity in life and reconnect with your true self. I help people to become more aware of their gifts and also their beliefs and values they are operating under. As you start to remember who you truly are, you naturally start to re-align with your true self and your life purpose. 

Through the unique combination of Holistic Healing, professional Holistic Counselling skills, and intuitive gifts, I provide compassionate and deeply accepting space to support you on your journey.

Together, we generate insight and transformation. My work is a co-creative, collaborative partnership with you to create the deepest insight, empowerment, clarity, wellbeing, healing and possibility, and enable you to share this with others. 

I have trained in a number of different healing techniques including energy psychology, relationship healing and a diverse array of therapeutic interventions but I don’t follow any particular tradition or concept as I work intuitively from the heart.

What is a spiritual counsellor/holistic healing practitioner? A spiritual counsellor or holistic healing practitioner has trained in a number of healing techniques. Their training has included, counselling, energy psychology, relationship healing, hypnotherapy, spiritual life coaching, soul plan and a diverse array of therapeutic interventions. A spiritual counsellor or holistic healing practitioner has recognised the importance of offering more than energetic healing or conventional counselling. The client also receives unconditional listening, sound advice, new resources, empowering beliefs and options for leading a more fulfilling and real quality life. These integrated sessions address the client on all levels: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Energetic healing creates the space while a practical approach grounds the benefits in the here and now.

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Lucid dreamers have more fun

“The eyes see things more clearly when dreaming, than the imagination when waking.”

– Leonardo DaVinci

Did you know that an average human being spends six years of his/her life dreaming?

Dreams are letters from our subconscious mind. Paying attention to our dreams can be a short cut in getting to know ourselves better and discovering any limiting beliefs or self-sabotaging patterns and even to realize our dreams in our physical reality.

Google co-founder Larry Page, for example, had a vision in a dream before he founded Google. He was then a 22-year-old graduate student at Stanford when he had a dream about structuring the entire web in a new way.

Some well-known people who understood the power of lucid dreaming which is an advanced state of consciousness where you are aware that you are dreaming while you are dreaming are:

1 – James Cameron – The director of Avatar
2 – Nikola Tesla – A genius inventor
3 – Salvador Dali – The famous surrealist painter
4 – The Wachowskis – The creators of The Matrix, Andy and Lana Wachowski, are lucid dreamers. The movie shows that we create a virtual reality world in which we are all mentally enslaved, not recognizing that we are merely “dreaming.” The quintessence is “How do I know that my reality is not an illusion?” This is the key to unlocking a dream and becoming consciously lucid.

In February 2015 I attended a 24-hour sleepover lucid dreaming workshop with Charlie Morley which has opened up a new world for me.

The event took place in a Yoga center in South London. There was a lot of laughter and fun during these 24 hours besides dreaming and learning. We were around 30 participants; some were executives, some were artists or healers.

Charley Morley is known as the youngest and the most authentic practitioner of lucid dreaming teaching in Europe. We spent the daytime learning the techniques and practices of Mindfulness of Dream and Sleep, and we then spent the night putting them into practice.

I am in no way an expert in lucid dreaming, but I had some profound, lucid dreams since then, and this experience has expanded my mind into a higher level of consciousness while I am awake.

I hope that this article will inspire you to dive deeper into this topic because it has so much potential for healing and transformation.
We often hear from Buddhist teachers, that this life is nothing more than a dream. Those who practice lucid dreaming agree with this assessment.

A dream is an answer to a question we haven’t yet learned how to ask.
Fox Mulder

What is lucid dreaming?

It is the art of becoming conscious within your dreams. Once you become conscious within a dream, you can start dancing with your unconscious mind. You become aware that your dream is taking place “within your being” and not somewhere “out there.”

It is also an excellent way to access the deepest depth of your mind consciously. In a lucid dream, you are sound asleep, but a part of the brain is reactivated which allows you to experience the dream state consciously with self-reflective awareness.

Lucid dreaming can completely transform your relationship with sleep. Suddenly, sleep time is not seen as wasted time but can be used for healing, accessing your creative power and spiritual growth.
Imagine that you can conquer your fears, and release emotional and mental blocks while you are sleeping.

Dream-Based Science

You might have heard about the mind and body process known as neuroplasticity. It refers to the brain’s ability to rewire itself in response to stimuli. This process explains why we get better at doing something with constant practice.
As fMRI imagery has revealed, being in a lucid dream state is little different than being fully awake. Thus what the brain ‘sees’ or experiences in a lucid dream can carry over to the waking world as well. The profound difference is however that simple practice of something in your everyday life is nowhere near as effective than training to do something in a lucid dream.

In summary, lucid dreaming can help to create new pathways in the brain because our neurological system doesn’t differentiate between our waking experiences and our lucid dream experiences.

Therefore each time you act from a place of self-empowerment and confidence in your lucid dream, you will also strengthen the neural pathways associated with confidence and self-empowerment in the waking state.

Many athletes use lucid dreaming for attaining new sensory abilities while dreaming. Most of them showed significant improvements in their athletic abilities.

As you see lucid dreaming has extraordinary potential when thoughtfully applied and mastered.

Some other benefits of lucid dreaming are:

Psychological and emotional healing (phobias, trauma, confidence, overcoming anxiety)
Physical healing (Charlie Morley improved his eyesight with the help of lucid dreaming).

  • Getting in touch with spirituality and creativity while you sleep
  • Exploration of the unconscious mind
  • Treatment of PSTD and nightmare integration
  • Increasing and tapping into creativity
  • Access information and solutions that you cannot access in your waking life
  • Access higher states of consciousness or ascend to a state of cosmic consciousness
  • Surprisingly better, blissful, and more restful sleep
  • Dramatically improvement of your memory
  • Lucid living and waking up to your full potential
  • Having fun

Lucid dreaming can also help you to become aware of any limiting beliefs and transform them. Science suggests that PTSD can be directly integrated through lucid dreaming.

A lot of our traumas, and shadow aspects of our psyche that we have unconsciously rejected comes to the surface during the night – causing insomnia. The shadow is a Jungian concept used to describe the parts of the unconscious mind made up of all the undesirable aspects of our psyches that we have rejected or disowned. The shadow is our dark side, comprised of everything within us that we are ashamed of or simply don’t want to face. It is not evil – it is merely the sum of those parts of us that are incompatible with who we think we are.
In a Lucid dream, we have the opportunity to integrate the shadow side and face our deepest fears in a safe environment and heal our mind.

If you would like to work with your dreams and transform some limiting beliefs you could try the following exercise.

1. Write down your dreams and pay attention to any occurring feelings. Did you feel courageous or afraid, frustrated or peaceful, insecure, doubtful or faithful?
2. Be aware that each person or object is pointing to an aspect of yourself. Think about each person or object and notice how they interact with each other? How do they behave? What do they want to express? How do they communicate with each other? Compassionate or aggressive? Lovingly or angry?
3. Now imagine that you are back in the dream and interact with the people in a way which is for the highest good of all concerned. Do something that feels good and makes everyone happy. Plant a seed of a positive change if you didn’t like what you saw in the dream.
4. Do something in your everyday life that reinforces your new way of seeing things and your new beliefs.

Charlie Morley has written two books:
Lucid Dreaming: A Beginner’s Guide To Becoming Conscious In Your Dreams
Dreams of Awakening

The following picture was taken during his second book launch party which took place one week after the workshop.


Freud’s theory led to imagining the mind like an iceberg. The mind has according to Freud two parts: the conscious and the subconscious. The conscious mind is the part that sticks out of the water. The subconscious mind is the part hidden away underneath the surface.

What you experience in this present moment is only the tip of the iceberg. The majority is hidden and invisible and resides below the surface. In the lucid dream, you have the opportunity to experience firsthand the vastness of all that is.

Q&A

WHAT IS LUCID DREAMING LIKE?

Think about Neo in the Matrix and the blue and red pills. Whatever you expect and believe to be real will be real, the pills are an illusion, a projection of your mind. They serve as a mechanism by which one can either remain in the illusory world of the matrix (the blue pill) or exit it to the real world (red pill).
Just as lucidity enables you to awaken in a dream, so can you awaken to the waking dream. This is the nature of awakening.

IS LUCID DREAMING THE SAME AS DREAM CONTROL?

Many people who hear for the first time about lucid dreaming believe that the aim of lucid dreaming is to control the dream but this not the case. In his book Lucid Dreaming: ‘Gateway to the Inner self-lucid dreaming,’ lucid dreaming expert Robert Waggoner wrote the following: ‘No sailor controls the see. Similarly, no lucid dreamer controls the dream’. It is often the inflated ego that beliefs it can control or manipulate the dream.

The more accurate version is that you become one with the dream. It is a co-creative experience which reveals how interconnected everything is. Just as lucidity enables you to awaken in a dream, so can you awaken to the waking dream.

Lucid dreaming could be used to access hidden information; from the deeper part of yourself or the collective unconscious. If you use lucid dreaming for healing purposes, the dream will reveal to you everything that you are ready to heal or transform.

In the beginning stage, it might be exciting to fly around, go through walls or to create adventures but the ultimate goal of lucid dreaming is to dissolve the perception of separation and to experience the ultimate state of oneness, or unity with the whole.

HOW DO I LEARN TO HAVE LUCID DREAMS?

Lucid dreaming is a skill everyone can develop. A few individuals may have an innate talent for achieving lucidity, yet even they can benefit from guidance and practice in making the most of their lucid dreams. Often it requires dedication and commitment to master lucid dreaming.

The first step is to pay attention to your dreams and to write them down. As with everything it is a matter of attention, focus, practice and dedication.

One reason that many people never had a lucid dream is because they simply don’t know or don’t believe that such a thing exist. The majority associates falling asleep with losing awareness but paradoxically lucid dreaming implies regaining awareness while asleep.

I won’t go into any details about the learning techniques because many books have been written about this topic and there is plenty of information online. Besides the books from Charlie Morley which I have listed above, I would also recommend the following book “Lucid Dreaming, Plain, and Simple” by Robert Waggoner.

However, you will probably have the biggest progress and most of all more fun if you attend an interactive workshop or even a retreat with an experienced Lucid Dreaming Teacher. The group energy at the 24 hours sleep over workshop I attended was priceless, and Charley Morley runs lucid dreaming retreats and workshops around the world.

ANOTHER COMMON QUESTION IS HOW LUCID DREAMS ARE RELATED TO OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCES (OBEs)?

In his first book, Robert Waggoner makes clear that lucid dreams and OBEs are not the same experiences, even though they may share similarities (just as a house cat and mountain lion are similar but very different). Some writers (and some lucid dreamers) make no distinction, which then leads to a very confusing situation. Briefly, in a lucid dream, you ‘realize’ within a dream that you are dreaming. But if you begin to hear buzzing and float out of your body as you lay in bed, or when you have a car accident, then you likely have an OBE. Also, often in the OBE state, you find yourself in a replica of the place (your bedroom, or the accident site) — whereas a lucid dream happens in a dream environment, which seems dreamy.

I hope that this article will inspire you to learn more about lucid dreaming. This topic is huge and vast. One of the crucial points to understand is that lucid dreaming can help you to connect with your true SELF and become aware of your limiting beliefs which hold you back. And once you have established this connection, you can turn your focus outwards and be of service to others.

Keep dreaming,

Love, Erika

As a fully qualified Holistic Life Coach, Counsellor, Soul Transformation Therapist, Hypnotherapist & Digital Course and Online Healing Sessions Creator, trained in a wide range of Holistic Healing Modalities, I aim to support, guide and empower all the amazingly gifted women & men who desire to support and empower others.

Besides working on a one-on-one basis, I have also recorded various healing sessions to support you on your journey. 

🌿Energy Center (Chakra) Balancing Meditation
🌿Connect with your inner healer 
🌿Mastering Emotions & Clearing Energy Blocks Meditation
🌿Bring Out Your Inner Confidence
🌿Embrace all Parts of You and Love Yourself Unconditionally

You can purchase all healing sessions and guided meditations together at a reduced rate here: 

 

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You are the source! Manifestation process and the power of intention!

Everything you can imagine is real.
-Pablo Picasso

An intention is a firm statement or a plan that has the quality or state of having a purpose in mind. If we don’t set an intention for our day, or the week, month, year ahead we get easily distracted and become unfocused. We struggle. We lose sight of the bigger picture we have for ourselves and others. We allow ourselves to be pulled in different directions mindlessly. 

If you set your intentions every morning afresh you will have a renewed sense of clarity of purpose throughout the whole day.

Setting clear and single pointed intentions is also crucial step in the manifestations process. 

We co-create with the universe through attention, intention and action. 

The tricky bit, however, is that we usually (despite knowing it better) get too attached to our intentions and start to micro-manage the process. I have seen this over and over again, as soon as we begin to cling, chase, grasp or become obsessed with something, we contract and block the flow. 


The key to this whole manifestation game is to remain playful and to have an open and flexible approach, to purify one’s intentions, and most of all to align them with the highest truth, the will of Source, Divine, God, All there is, The Absolute, Infinity or whatever you might call it. But don’t try too hard or take things too seriously!

This whole life is a game, a big joke! The lighter you become and the closer you get to the creative and playful nature of your Soul the easier it will become to remain detached from the 3D world. 

When you realise the truth this world can become a blissful place but as long as we are caught up in the illusion of Maya the world will often appear as a fearful or cruel place and full of suffering. 

Keep in mind that nothing that is truly yours can be ever taken away from you!

I once heard someone saying that the Book, The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, is the Secret to more karma. I believe there is a lot of truth to it because so many people are chasing things to compensate for lack beliefs and not because this is their true heart’s desire.

Connect with your True SELF first and then everything that is meant for you will come to you step by step anyway. 

Elevate the quality of your life by using your natural talents and your spiritual gifts – Life Purpose Activation

Your task is to create, to express and to balance giving and receiving.

As long as you are attached to finite things and the focus is only on getting and consuming, you will be caught in this illusion of Maya.

On the other hand, your ability to allow and to receive without putting up unnecessary barriers by having expectations that certain conditions need to be met first or that the manifestation has to come in a certain way has a direct impact how fast you will see results. 

If you struggle to discern if your intentions or desires are in alignment with your higher SELF, simply ask to be guided to your next steps and that they may only manifest if they are for the highest good of all.

The next step is to let go completely. The moment you start to force something is the moment of resistance. This is when things start to become messy, and the results will be usually painful or chaotic. If something is really meant for you, it will come to you if you stay calm, relaxed and follow your intuitive guidance. 

Your intuition is your most reliable friend. It doesn’t matter if you label it as “gut feeling” or “psychic insight”.

Your only task is to let go of attachments, fear of discomfort, and worry and to keep your vibration as high as possible and then to take inspired and fearless action as soon as the guidance comes. You do not have to know in advance how things will manifest. 

Your happiness does never depend on getting things or manifesting something. The whole chasing attitude stops as soon as you realize that you are the source. You create with your natural energy through expression. What you express (send out) returns to you. So if you radiate lack most of the time, the same energy returns to you. 

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Matthew 6:33

Your world reflects your fears or your faith!

It is not about the conditions but your state of mind. Your outer world mirrors to you your inner world. In other words: your life is your mind expressed. The outer world is the densest part of yourself.

I have spent time with very wealthy people who were obsessed with money and were lacking any sense of compassion or empathy. Even though they were materially wealthy they lived in a constant fear of losing what they had. For some of them, their biggest fear came true. Our expectations or fears influence the result and living in constant fear is a sign of giving one’s power away.

I have also met individuals who lived a very modest and simple life, but through their attitude of gratitude, inner contentment, openness, and trust they attracted everything they needed at the right time.

  • They gained the consciousness of abundance by diligently cultivating gratitude from a loving heart. 
  • They broke the cycle to focus on what they don’t have, in other words, they transcended the belief in lack and as a result, all of their needs were continuously met, and if something did not show up, they did not make a big fuss about it but simply focused their attention on something else.
  • They were looking for the good in all situations – even at those situations which the conditioned mind would label as negative.
  • They understood that even the challenging times in life where they felt out of control, or experienced distress are crucial for our Soul’s growth and they are often followed by the emergence of new energy and inspiration.

Speeding up the process

As weird as it sounds but one of the most powerful manifestation catalysts is to clean your house and to get rid of clutter. Nothing new can come into your life if you don’t create space for it first. Therefore the trick is to let go first what you no longer need. When you clean your house, you simultaneously clean your mind.I have heard the most incredible manifestation stories from people who cleared old stagnant energy. Be brave and courageous when getting rid of the old stuff and you can always ask your intuition to be shown what to release and what to keep. It’s a very simple but very effective step.

The most powerful way to create your life the way you wish it to be is to know that it has already happened. If you own and embody the vibration of what you wish to manifest, it is yours. However, the majority of people is chasing for things without having the consciousness for it.

You have to be the essence of what you wish to see on the outside. The problem with many goal setting and manifestation techniques is that they create a gap between your current vibration and the desired scenario in the future. But everything is happening in the NOW!

Nothing can appear magically out of the blue before you have the consciousness of it. Thank goodness, this protective mechanism exists otherwise this world would be a total mess.

I had a few coaching sessions with people who attended an event with Tony Robbins and were trying to imitate his success before being ready for it. The results were less than great, to say the least.

Attitude of gratitude

“Wealth, in the first place, does not simply mean a condition in which there is a large amount of matter. To be wealthy means one has a large amount of something with which to do work that would benefit others. That which works to benefit others is love; and when we put love into
practice, it becomes wealth.”
-Dr. Masaharu Taniguchi

Last but not least, once you have aligned all of your intentions with God’s will and released any obsessive attachments, live in a state of joyful gratitude and anticipation and have a loving heart. If love and compassion are missing in your energy field, you will repel the good things. Love is often the missing part in the lat of attraction process. The more you value and love yourself the better reality you will create for yourself. You have to increase your self-love and believe that you are worthy of good things. You main commitment should be to be true to yourself and as a result, what really belongs to you will come. Your presence alone becomes transformative when you love yourself and you will find it much easier to love and accept others.

If you feel truly empowered and love yourself, you will be happy for other people’s success instead of feeling jealousy. The moment you get out of the competitive mind and are genuinely happy (not just pretend as if) for someone’s else success and happiness is the moment when you start to embody the consciousness of abundance and infinite possibilities.

Basics

If you feel any resentment, anger, jealousy or hold grudges go back to square one and do all the inner work first, e.g. forgiveness processes, inner child work, releasing past lovers or people who caused suffering.

This is the reason why the “boring” work (like some people might call it) of acceptance, self-love, self-forgiveness and forgiveness of others, is crucial. It is the foundation for manifestation and reality creation. I observed many times that people were thrown back to square one again and again when they tried to step into a bigger version of themselves if they haven’t released the dense vibrations of the lower emotions first.

Some people who experienced trauma, for example, are often not even aware that they carry many trapped emotions within their system.

Many coaches advertise that the good thing about coaching is that you focus on positive things and what you want to create instead of dealing with the broken, wounded parts like it is the case in therapy or counselling. While there is some truth to it, that you don’t want to spend all your life healing the wounded inner child, you might consider to give it some attention, especially if this is something that keeps you stuck and prevents you from moving forward.
No amount of positive thinking and motivational seminars or books will work if you don’t address the root cause, clear the subconscious blockages, release trapped emotions, and heal and integrate the wounded parts first.

It’s like putting a band-aid on an injury instead of fully treating it.

Healing or forgiveness simply means that any painful or traumatic experiences will no longer control your life.

When you have tried everything, but nothing worked…

What do you do if something does not work out or if something that you desired so greatly does not manifest? It can be a relationship, a beautiful house, or a project which you invested much time and energy in, but suddenly you realize that it won’t bring any success. You might feel initially very disappointed, and it is important not to suppress those feelings. The quickest way to deal with painful emotions is to welcome them in their full range. If we push them away, we only push them down into our subconscious mind. Everything we think and feel is resonating in the ether.

Acceptance of the vibrations enables us to understand them and to transcend them before they manifest in our physical reality.

If we observe any arising unpleasant emotions in a nonjudgmental way, then we will understand that those emotions are arising within our own being and they have nothing to do with other people. We have created them through misaligned thinking, and no one outside of us has caused suffering to us. All emotions that we are experiencing are happening in our own mind, within our own heart. 

By taking responsibility and owning the emotions, we can create space where those emotions or negative beliefs can rise to the surface. Once we become aware of them we can accept and release those limiting beliefs or suppressed emotions and allow healing to take place. Be kind to yourself during this time. We are often very harsh and critical with ourselves if something doesn’t work out. However, this attitude does not eliminate the inner pain.

If you catch yourself being harsh and critical imagine what you would say to your best friend or to your child in such a situation and then say it to yourself.

This could look as follow: “I completely understand that you are disappointed that you didn’t get the promotion. I would be disappointed, too. But I know that you have done your best. And who knows if this is not a blessing in disguise.”

There must be another way…

I observed again and again that many people are expecting things to happen in a certain way. And I have also seen many miracles happening if someone was open to trying out Plan B and C if Plan A didn’t work out. Try to break free from any rigid thinking, even though those alternatives might sound like a compromise initially. They might be only a temporary solution and a stepping stone to something better. You might be surprised in a positive way if you give it a go.

A person of success or wealth consciousness has a highly expanded view and is capable to view a situation from many different angles.

Space clearing to increase the flow of Abundance and Prosperity

THE BEST THING TO DO WHEN SOMETHING DID NOT WORK OUT AS YOU HAVE SHED TO:

Remain Calm and Relaxed.

Be silent… And acknowledge any arising feelings.

Feel them fully…

Take a deep breath in and a deep breath out and then say to yourself.

“There might be another way.”

Now, ask…

“How could this way look like?”

“What could I do instead?”

Here are a few examples of how this could look like in very practical terms:

Let’s assume you desire to be a house owner, but it is not possible to realize this dream at the place where you are currently living.

The alternatives could look as follow:

  • I consider the option to move a bit further out
  • I consider the option to move to another city
  • I consider the option to move to another country
  • I consider the option to move to another continent
  • I consider the option to move temporarily to my parents’ house to save some money
  • I consider the option to move to a friend who owns a huge house and might need some help around the house and will be, therefore, more than happy to offer me one of the rooms which are currently empty anyway.

Do simply some brainstorming, I am sure you will find much more alternatives.

I did this process once during a Intuitive Counselling session, and it turned out that the client’s biggest desire was actually to be free and to travel the world instead of owning a big house and having all the responsibilities to maintain it. 
Well, you never know… 

To get into the swing of infinite possibilities, you might want to read the following abundance prayer on a regular basis (repetition helps to reprogram your subconscious mind and build new neural pathways. I have also recorded a powerful meditation which will help you to align with abundance. 

A few more questions you could ask:

  • What would XY do in this situation?
  • What would my successful friend or a person I admire greatly do?
  • What kind of advice would my best friend give me?
  • What else needs to happen before my desire can materialize?

No matter how impossible the manifestation of a certain dream or reality seems to be, always bear in mind that you might have been saved from a lot of trouble. If you don’t allow your vibration to drop if you don’t see immediate results and turn your focus on something else instead, there are still chances that your wish will come true at a later time. You might have heard the saying: if you don’t need anything, you can have everything. Paradoxically it is often the intensity of our desire that keeps it away. The harder we try the less likely are the chances that we can align with the desired outcome.

Therefore the solution is always to stay calm, to relax, to soften, to let go, to allow and to trust. If you can relax while not having what you want so badly, you are free from the bondage of your mind. It is your mind in the first place that created a sense of lack.

I wish you from the bottom of my heart that you can fulfil your dreams but if for whatever reason this won’t be the case remain open and flexible and know that nothing is missing.

Much Love,

Erika

I am a life-purpose coach and holistic counsellor. It’s not a requirement but people usually come to me in transition. My approach is both practical and mystical/spiritual. My mission is to invite you into higher states of being by cultivating inner awareness, empowerment and love.
I have been unconventionally living life on my own terms while serving the most gorgeous clients all around for around the world for around a decade now. My heart is full and the work I do is highly fulfilling and rewarding.

I can deliberately enter an expanded state of consciousness and have mastered the ability to tap into the SOURCE of LOVE, WISDOM, ABUNDANCE and POWER and I am strongly dedicated to further learning and expansion.

The boldness, determination and courage to walk the path less travelled has opened many doors that exceeded my wildest dreams and I am very grateful for the opportunity to pass this knowledge and experience on and to be of service to the greater WHOLE.

What is stored in our causal auric layer determines our day-to-day experiences. Mindset work might be a great start but is often not enough to change deeply ingrained karmic and ancestral patterns. No matter how motivated and determined we are to shift things. There is more than meets the eye and even more than meets the mind.

My superpower lies in shattering outdated paradigms and tuning in to the unique karmic frequency of my clients to activate their higher calling, including the highest confidence, self-love and empowerment vibration so that they can move forward quickly, uplevel their personal and professional life without unnecessary detours, holding back and feeling stuck. My life is a demonstration of the expression “be in this world but not of it”. I implement spirituality into everyday life in a practical way and help my clients to collapse time so that their life can start to blossom and bloom in a way they might not have imagined.

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In The Simplicity Lies Clarity

Clarity and Simplicity   
“Less is more” – Let this be your new mantra

The way everything in the universe works is incredibly simple.

We have the tendency to complicate our lives immeasurably. The consequence of this complication is that it keeps us stuck. We shoot ourselves in the foot so to speak! Complexity leads to an overwhelmed state of mind, and an overwhelmed mind can’t see things clearly.

If you are one of those who overcomplicates his life, try to go back to basics and see how this will change your life for the better.

In the simplicity, there is this enormous clarity. This principle applies to both businesses and individual lives.

One of the main reasons that we complicate our life is, that it helps us to feel important. It is our ego that likes to complicate and confuse things. Our heart is not interested in creating obstacles! 

The guidance of the heart is always clear!

The mechanism of the heart is a perfect example how the universe works. It is essentially doing two things: It is pushing out, and it is receiving back. The analogy of the universe is the same. What we send out vibrationally (thoughts, feelings, state of being) is what we receive back. In other words: we reap what we sow. 

If the energy can flow freely and we don’t interrupt it with resistance and negative thought patterns, we feel energized, vibrant and full of vitality, and, this will be then reflected in our personal and professional relationships. As a side effect, we will find ourselves very often at the right place at the right time and we will be able to grasp opportunities when they show up because we understand that nothing comes by chance.

Of course, it doesn’t necessarily mean that we won’t experience any challenges or intense growth periods, but those challenges won’t throw us completely out of balance for an extended period, and we will be able to find creative solutions to any arising obstacles. Even when we have moments of doubt and insecurity, we will gather ourselves quickly, and we won’t allow ourselves to be out of alignment for too long. In fact, we can use those times of doubt and insecurity to reach higher levels of awareness, confidence, and clarity if we understand that they show up for a reason.

A very intense time or personal growth or times of failure are the best times to plant seeds of creative solutions and success.

However, if the energy gets blocked for any reason (usually through negative thought patterns or when we allow the external circumstances to dictate how we feel or when we feel powerless), it stagnates and gets “smelly” very quickly like a muddy pond. It won’t take long until the effects of these imbalances/blockages will attract unfavourable circumstances. 

Similarly like a cardiovascular system. If there is a blockage, we risk having a heart attack.  A heart attack is the result of a blocked blood supply to the heart muscle. 

In my work as a  Holistic and Intuitive Counsellor and Life Coach, I explore these inner dynamics, and we also look which energetic blocks are preventing the energy-flow, and we clear these blockages in the sessions.

Elevate the quality of your life by using your natural talents and your spiritual gifts – Life Purpose Activation

Here are just a few things you can expect when you upgrade your frequency and listen to these pre-recorded healing sessions & meditations on a regular basis.

✓Activate your own healing abilities.

✓Clear, strengthen and balance the flow of energy through your chakras and aura to support greater vitality.

✓Clear, strengthen and balance the flow of energy through your chakras and aura to support greater vitality.

✓Transmute the lower denser frequencies from your energy body.

✓Reconnect with your inner GOLD and your inner BLISS.

✓Master consciously where you put your attention to.

✓Let go of automatic responses and triggers.

✓Achieve a state of greater harmony when faced with challenging situations.

✓Reduce stress and drama so that you can settle into a more harmonious, fulfilling and graceful life.

✓Eliminate intense emotional triggers so that you can enjoy healthy, nourishing relationships.

✓Eliminate subconscious lack, limitation, non-deserving, and unworthiness programming that prevent you to receive abundance of love and prosperity.

✓Enhance creativity and resourcefulness.

Looking for solutions in all the wrong places

“Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.” 

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are wired in such a way that we spend 99% of our time trying to fix things in the external world. We change jobs, partners, countries without realizing that we are always taking ourselves with us wherever we go. We attract as a reflection of ourselves those experiences which are part of our vibrational frequency

If we experience one drama after another in our life, for example, we often spend a lot of time trying to fix things on the outside instead of asking a different question:

“How do I create or attract this?”

The moment we find an answer to this question is the moment of inner freedom. 

We are wired to believe we can control and fix circumstances, and no one has taught us that the external conditions are a reflection of our conscious and unconscious beliefs and of what we send out vibrationally. Our personality vibrates at certain frequencies which send out the messages into the universe.
Everything comes back to us in response to the energy generated by vibration of our own thoughts, emotions, and beliefs.

Realizing that we are a physical expression of a nonphysical consciousness will make all the difference.

In short: You are a powerful being! You can create your own frequency through awareness, focus, concentration, and meditation and by prioritizing what truly matters and withdraw your attention from all objects of distraction.

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“Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.”
-Paracelsus

Many ancient philosophies say that man is the microcosm of the Universe. Man the microcosm, the universe is the macrocosm. Some also say that we live in a holographic universe. Each part is contained within the whole, and the characteristics of every single part are reflected in the whole. In other words, each point of existence contains the infinite One.  There is a relation between inner and outer.
For a better understanding, we can use as an example the whole plant and the seed. In the entire plant, we see a Macrocosm, in the seed a Microcosm.

In the West, we pay more attention to the external world. However, many cultures in the East pay more attention to the inside world because the outer world is a reflection of the inner world. We are the filter; we are the projector. We are dreaming our reality into being, just like in a dream at night.

Neuroscience suggests that our brain receives about four billion nerve impulses every second and that we are only consciously aware of about 2,000 bits, or about 0.00005% of all the potential information.
The remaining information is filtered from our conscious awareness by “deleting.” What we erase depends on our beliefs, language, decisions, values, and memories. The resulting internal representations are how we perceive the world (our reality), and this drives our behaviours, often confirming that our perception is ‘correct.’

Observing this microcosm/macrocosm principle will help you tremendously in your day to day life.

The moment you change, your relationships change. Every time, no exception.

The other person or the situation doesn’t necessarily have to change, but the way you interact with them and view the situation will change.

Next time when you feel that somebody or something is the cause of your suffering or frustration, stop for a moment and start paying attention to the root of the cause and examine your lack beliefs carefully.

  • Once you get in touch with the lack belief that is generating the uncomfortable feeling, acknowledge that this is your current belief.
  • Own it completely! (You can not change what you do not own.)
  • Then ask yourself: “What belief would I like to replace this belief with?”
  • Once you decide what your new preferred belief is, accept it.
  • Adopt it, feel it and be it!
  • Trust wholeheartedly that this new view is now active and functioning within your entire system. 

We do create our reality through the energy which we carry inside. We create the things which we like and also the things which we don’t like. The biggest challenge is that we have the tendency to be vibrationally lazy and live our life on autopilot and we don’t pay enough attention to how we feel and thus what kind of vibration we emanate.

Taking responsibility may be initially challenging especially if you are used looking for the cause in the outside, but it is very rewarding and will improve your life quality in the long run.

However, the fact that you know that you create your reality does not mean that you should accept inappropriate behaviour or put up with everything. 
Many of my clients are kind, peaceful, generous healer type souls, but they often lack assertiveness skills or find it difficult to speak up for themselves. They remain in unhealthy relationships or job situations and try to accept the situation instead of making healthy changes. This is not kindness or wisdom but a lack of self-respect and self-love. If your kindness is just a façade and stems from a lack of confidence or the fear of not being loved or not being good enough, then it won’t serve anyone.

In fact, if you try to be kind with an underlying vibration of insecurity or fear of not being loved you will attract circumstances which will only confirm your fears. 

Choose wisely with whom you spend your time with. Unless you are absolutely rooted within yourself, the type of people you interact with will influence your thought patterns and actions. 
Setting healthy boundaries or leaving dysfunctional relationships and situations is often a very wise act.  

If this is relevant to you please read my article about dealing with difficult people as an empath. 

Clear up your vibration, eliminate negative thoughts and embrace all of your emotions with meditation 

Meditation can help you to connect with your inner wisdom and accept whatever arises without resistance and judgment. A calm mind is a powerful mind.

A client once asked me: “How will meditation help me to deal with all my problems?”

My answer was that there would be fewer problems to solve because we create the majority of our problems ourselves through tension, worry, anxiety, insecurity, doubt, guilt, shame and negative mind loops. Our ego is wired to create obstacles so that we can overcome them and buy into a belief that we have accomplished something great! The irony is however that we have created many of our problems ourselves in the first place through negative thinking patterns. Many perceived obstacles will disappear if we relax into our being.

As soon as a negative thought comes up next time try to let it go immediately.  Drop it like a hot coal and focus on something else. Sometimes, the easiest way to understand a complicated situation is to simply let it go. 

And if you are feeling challenged or overwhelmed by your emotions next time keep in mind that you are given an opportunity to heal and embrace something within you. Lean into your vulnerability and allow your emotions to become your teachers and choose gentle self-compassion and acceptance over harsh judgment. We have the tendency to be our harshest critics. 

Embrace the full spectrum of your experience with unconditional love, warmth, and openness. Instead of suppressing unpleasant emotions, simply focus on your breath, be present and learn to relax without running away from the discomfort or pushing the emotions down. Experience them fully and then allow yourself to release all the stories of unworthiness, self-doubt or fear which are attached to these emotions. Treat your experience with the same friendliness and compassion you would treat your best friend or your child and acknowledge that everything you experience helps you to awaken to your true nature. 

You integrate or dissolve emotions by feeling them fully. If you don’t resist what arises, you can shift any lower energy like fear, guilt, shame, resentment, disappointment or apathy into a higher form. 

However, you don’t have to go through it alone. We all experience periods where we can benefit from some external guidance or simply someone who holds space so that healing can take place. Working with a holistic coach or counsellor on a one on one basis can be very powerful and transformational.

If this resonates, please email to erika.inspiration@com to schedule a 20 min Skype call to see how I can assist you. 
Movie recommendation
Inner worlds, outer worlds is an excellent movie which explains very well that we don’t experience the environment itself but rather the projection, created by our thoughts. 
The thoughts and feelings let us then experience our world in a certain way. If we have fear-based thoughts and feelings, for example, we will attract circumstances which will reflect this. 

Inner Worlds was created by Canadian film producer, musician, and meditation teacher Daniel Schmidt. The film could be described as the external reflection of his own adventures in meditation. It also explains how sound vibration works. Those who are familiar with my work know that Soul Plan reading which is an ancient system of life purpose, guidance, and healing is based on the sound vibration of your birth name. 

In case you are new to my work. I am Erika – (Shri Lakshmi – spiritual name – Prosperiy and Bliss).

I am a life-purpose coach and holistic counsellor. It’s not a requirement but people usually come to me in transition. My approach is both practical and mystical/spiritual. My mission is to invite you into higher states of being by cultivating inner awareness, empowerment and love.
I have been unconventionally living life on my own terms while serving the most gorgeous clients all around for around the world for around a decade now. My heart is full and the work I do is highly fulfilling and rewarding.

I can deliberately enter an expanded state of consciousness and have mastered the ability to tap into the SOURCE of LOVE, WISDOM, ABUNDANCE and POWER and I am strongly dedicated to further learning and expansion.

The boldness, determination and courage to walk the path less travelled has opened many doors that exceeded my wildest dreams and I am very grateful for the opportunity to pass this knowledge and experience on and to be of service to the greater WHOLE.

What is stored in our causal auric layer determines our day-to-day experiences. Mindset work might be a great start but is often not enough to change deeply ingrained karmic and ancestral patterns. No matter how motivated and determined we are to shift things. There is more than meets the eye and even more than meets the mind.

My superpower lies in shattering outdated paradigms and tuning in to the unique karmic frequency of my clients to activate their higher calling, including the highest confidence, self-love and empowerment vibration so that they can move forward quickly, uplevel their personal and professional life without unnecessary detours, holding back and feeling stuck. My life is a demonstration of the expression “be in this world but not of it”. I implement spirituality into everyday life in a practical way and help my clients to collapse time so that their life can start to blossom and bloom in a way they might not have imagined.

 

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Emotional Balance through Forgiveness and Selfless Service

I attended Amma’s event in London last week and it was the third time that I have seen her.  Meeting Amma and spending time with her is not an experience one can describe in words. It would be similar to trying to explain how honey tastes like to someone who never tried honey.   

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Amma is the embodiment of pure love. 
 Known affectionately as “Amma” (meaning “Mother”), Mata Amritanandamayi’s entire life has been dedicated to serving others, to alleviate the pain of the poor, and those suffering physically and emotionally.

Throughout her life, Mata Amritanandamayi has embraced and comforted more than 34 million people. Amma inspires, uplifts, and transforms through her embrace, her spiritual wisdom and through her global charities, known as Embracing the World. When asked where she gets the energy to help so many people, she answers: “Where there is true love, anything is effortless.”

While Amma is widely regarded as one of India’s foremost spiritual leaders, Amma says that her religion is love. She has never asked anyone to change their religion but only to contemplate the essential principles of their own faith and to try to live accordingly.
 

I came across selfless service (Seva in Sanskrit) in 2014 when I stayed for five days in a monastic community where Karma Yoga was a crucial part of their daily life.

Getting up at 4:45 am, attending six services a day and performing selfless service outdoors while the temperature was below zero degrees is for sure not everyone’s cup of tea. I caught a cold shortly after arriving there and found it therefore fairly challenging, too.

Nevertheless, it was a life-changing, humbling, heart opening and also otherworldly experience and it is not easy to describe the subtlety and depth of what’s really happened there. The energy of this place was incredibly powerful and this visit had a catalytic effect on my life. It took a few months until I assimilated the whole experience.

It was such an amazing blessing and privilege to have spent a few days there and I understood later that even the challenging parts were part of the perfection.
 
I observed the monks and nuns and also the visitors who stayed temporarily with the community. It was very humbling to observe how they performed their work. Some performed their chores in a very self-sacrificing way while ignoring their personal needs completely. Others were frustrated because they felt physically unwell or were tired and didn’t want to work outdoors in this cold weather, some understood the deeper meaning behind it, and some have been so deeply and joyfully immersed into the tasks they have been given that I could say without a shadow of a doubt that they would not have exchanged these chores for some luxurious holidays in a tropical location where they could lie on the beach all day long.

The joy and satisfaction they experienced stem from a very deep and profound connection to source.
Doing this work helped them to empty themselves out of all negative thought patterns. Their aura was clear and pure, their eyes were shining, their heart was open and full of goodness and purity.
 

They describe Karma Yoga as follow:
 

“Karma Yoga means selfless service, but it goes beyond the common understanding of ‘volunteering’ or charity work’ – for it is performed as a heartfelt offering to the Divine. It is the process of harmonizing our conscience, our desires, our thoughts, our words, and finally our actions in a focused and powerful expression of selfless love.

Karma yoga is an extremely effective way to overcome negative and destructive thinking patterns.
The practice of karma yoga forms the essential basis of a strong, happy and harmonious life.”

There are many different interpretations when it comes to karma. 
 

Karma is often known as the universal law of cause and effect. Karma in itself is simply representative to the idea of balancing energy, self-awareness, and responsibility and it is not something to be afraid of. 
 

It is not a punishment or judgment like various traditions suggest, it is simply an indication which choices you have made or continue to make. And during the process of making choices, you are given a chance to explore the momentum this choice has set into motion and the arising polarities, in other words, it is a law of wholeness or full understanding. If you do something and you understand only partly the effects of a certain behavior or choice, your higher self will create various scenarios which help you to understand an event from all points of view.
 

You can stop the wheel of karma by realizing first of all that you have the choice to stop the momentum.

Yes, it is as simple as that! You can choose every moment to feel free and to make conscious choices. 

Compassion, a complete understanding of the entire scenario and forgiveness of self and forgiveness of others frees you from Karma, which means that you don’t necessarily have to experience physically the other side of the emotional experience to complete the cycle of karma.
The biggest challenge, however, is that the majority of the population is fast asleep and as a result, many people are not consciously aware of the fact that they are setting a certain energy in motion by acting and reacting in a certain way. 

We are powerful creators and co-creators. Each time we make a choice to free ourselves from self-imposed limitations, we set a different energy in motion which will be reflected back to us. 

At the same time, it is helpful to know that the limitations which we experience do help us to balance out our karma more quickly if we recognize the lesson behind it and extract all the learning. This requires an expanded awareness and release of all judgments so that we can see each situation from multiple viewpoints without personal biases. Therefore it is crucial to let go of any resistance and to accept the lessons which present themselves to us because if we don’t do that we will need to repeat the same lessons again and again. As the saying goes, “what you resist, persists”. 
 

Another positive side effect of complete understanding is, that we become less reactive. The more biased and limited our viewpoint is, the more reactive we usually are. The reason for that is that we usually don’t see the whole picture but only a fraction of it which is filtered through limited beliefs and judgments.
 

“To be able to put oneself in another’s position, to be able to see and to feel as another person does, this is the rare gift of an earnest spiritual seeker.”
― Amma
 

It’s easy to be compassionate and understanding when we are surrounded with like minded and supportive people or when we are in a peaceful and harmonious environment. However, we all know situations, when it becomes a bit more challenging to remain kind, loving or discerning, and therefore it is important to be compassionate towards ourselves instead of judging ourselves harshly when we react and overreact.

We all need to digest and assimilate many different vibrations and this can be challenging at times. 
We can digest the vibrations easier when we live in the present moment and recognize divinity in each and every moment instead of worrying about the future or dwelling in the past. When you live in the NOW your mind is relaxed and peaceful and your entire nervous system calms down. Another positive side effect is that your body regenerates and heals much faster. It is only when you are in a good place yourself that you can be truly of service to others.

Our current circumstances are the result of our past and present deeds. In other words, destiny is the result of causes. 
Everything that is happening to us today is caused by our earlier or current actions, thoughts and emotions (both conscious and unconscious), and everything that the future holds will be the result of our current state of being, and the way of acting and thinking. 
We shape our future in the moment, in the eternal NOW. Therefore awareness is a prerequisite for any kind of healing or a better “tomorrow”.
We can access the subconscious programming through Self-Inquiry, Meditation or by working with a spiritually aware Therapist, Counsellor, Mentor or Life Coach. The blind spots of our personality are often covered up with a layer of self-satisfaction and complacency. 
The mind loves to play tricks and that’s why all of us can benefit from “external” guidance! A person with a clear and unbiased perception/vision, e.g spiritual teacher, friend, counsellor or coach will often understand you better than you understand your own self! As a result, you will be able to release any unhelpful behavior patterns and stuck energy with compassion, love, understanding, and forgiveness. 

To support your on this journey I have recorded a beautiful emotional clearing meditation which will help you to clear your energy and to release stuck emotions which drive your day to day behavior.

If you would like to go deeper I have also put together a powerful “Raise Your Frequency & Master Your Energy and Emotions” Bundle which contains 6 different guided meditations, handouts, and an e-book. 

With time we can to learn to remain unattached and minimize those emotional reactions and at the same time not to repress and suppress any arising feelings but to let them flow freely or to sit quietly with them. As a result, any unpleasant vibrations/emotions can be dissolved and let go off.  You process your feelings by feeling them and you can then move forward with greater self-awareness and wisdom. 

One of the most effective ways I have come across so far for releasing any uncomfortable emotions is to offer them to a Higher Power, Higher Self,  God,  Universe, Divine or whatever you might call it. To ask humbly for help, because it’s not always easy to understand from our limited human perspective why things happen as they do. (Please feel free to share other methods which have worked well for you). 
 

I often use the following ancient Hawaiian forgiveness prayer when I work on a one on one basis with clients.  

You can use it as your daily mantra!
Repeat it as you go about your day and observe how it will open your heart over time.

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According to the teachings of Ho’oponopono, you are responsible for everything you experience. Everything that you see, notice, think and feel is your own creation.
 

If we observe any arising unpleasant emotions or thoughts in a nonjudgmental way, we will understand that those emotions or thoughts are arising within our own being.

We have created them through misaligned perception and no one outside of us has caused suffering to us. All emotions that we are experiencing are happening in our own mind, within our own heart
By taking responsibility and owning the emotion we can create a space where those vibrations can reveal themselves for what they really are, and as a result, healing can take place. Our reactions to any occurring events are based on the memory from our past.

Challenging circumstances arise that expose us to our shadow side. 

The shadow concept describes all the undesirable aspects of our psyches that we have unconsciously rejected, disowned, repressed or denied. The shadow is our dark side, comprised of everything within us that we don’t want to face.
 

Ho’oponopono’s mantra infuses light into the darkness. It helps us to release old karmic patterns and frees us from our projections and interpretations and the burden of needing to repeat the same lessons over and over again.
 

Don’t be discouraged by your incapacity to dispel darkness from the world. Light your candle and step forward.
– Amma

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And you are always welcome to reach out to me if you wish to work with me on a one on one basis.

I will create a safe container where you can become vulnerable and be seen and heard for who you truly are. If you trust someone enough that you don’t feel the need to hide and protect, you open up a space for miraculous healing and transformation. I can help you to melt all the protective layers so that your natural radiance and light can shine through. If this is something that resonates please pm me or email me at info@erika-inspiration.com for more details.

Love, Erika ❤️ 
Soul Transformation Therapist, Holistic Life Coach, and Counsellor

My name is Erika Brose

I offer a beautiful blend of Holistic Healing, Intuitive Counselling, and Coaching and I help people to cultivate self-love, heal emotional and psychological suffering, develop healthy self-care habits and reach their goals.
The types of issues I work with can vary from clearing emotional pain, clearing creative blocks, integrating conflicting sub-selves, archetype work, breaking unwanted patterns, clearing oversensitivity issues, clearing limiting beliefs, spiritual and emotional healing and most of all helping people find their soul’s purpose and clearing any blocks that prevent them from connecting fully with their soul purpose.

It is my intention to inspire, empower you and help you to find more clarity in life and reconnect with your true self. I help people to become more aware of their gifts and also their beliefs and values they are operating under. As you start to remember who you truly are, you naturally start to re-align with your true self and your life purpose. Your life can then start to flow in a far more creative and joyful way with new meaning and direction.

Through the unique combination of Holistic Healing, professional Holistic Counselling skills, and intuitive gifts, I provide compassionate and deeply accepting space to support you on your journey.

Together, we generate insight and transformation. My work is a co-creative, collaborative partnership with you to create the deepest insight, empowerment, clarity, wellbeing, healing and possibility, and enable you to share this with others. 

I have trained in a number of different healing techniques including energy psychology, relationship healing and a diverse array of therapeutic interventions but I don’t follow any particular tradition or concept as I work intuitively from the heart.

Healing, Coaching and Counselling over the Internet!

Online Counselling and Coaching via Skype is very effective and powerful.  

All sessions can be conducted from the comfort of your home anywhere in the world. A primary requirement is a quiet place and a headset.  You do not need to travel and therefore Skype sessions help you to save time and offer a level of flexibility. Having a session at home allows you to create a sacred space and to rest and integrate the session directly afterward. 

I have noticed again, and again that Sessions via Skype are as powerful as in-person sessions and can facilitate healing, insight, transformation, and eliminate pain and suffering and offer the opportunity to reflect on all aspects of your life. The counselling, coaching, and healing sessions work on a multitude of different levels and help you to let go of everything that no longer serves you so that you have a renewed sense of purpose in your life.

You can have a video chat, or a voice call, like a phone call! Payment for Skype sessions is in GBP, via PayPal. You don’t need a PayPal account, just a viable credit card, and they make the currency conversions.

I have worked with people from Mexico, USA, UK, Germany, Spain, India, Russia, and Switzerland.  

Please note all times are GMT according to UK schedule.

We will need to work together to discover your timezone and make an appointment that works for both of us. Contact me by email on erika.inspiration@gmail.com so we can figure out a good time to work!

What is a spiritual counsellor/holistic healing practitioner? A spiritual counsellor or holistic healing practitioner has trained in a number of healing techniques. Their training at Holistic Healing College has included, counselling, energy psychology, relationship healing, hypnotherapy, spiritual life coaching, soul plan and a diverse array of therapeutic interventions. A spiritual counsellor or holistic healing practitioner has recognized the importance of offering more than energetic healing or conventional counselling. The client also receives unconditional listening, sound advice, new resources, empowering beliefs and options for leading a more fulfilling and real quality life. These integrated sessions address the client on all levels: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Energetic healing creates the space while a practical approach grounds the benefits in the here and now.

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