Mirroring our truths out in all directions

What are we but mirrors...

If it is indeed true what science as well as the quantum gurus of our time have come to recognize and indemnify, then we are indeed mirrors of the reality around us under the assertion of the idea that this is definitely a holographic universe. 

A hologram is a three dimensional projection coming from a specially designed plate with light being sent through it.  The essence of this is that the holographic plate is a mirror of the whole in both directions from the micro to the macro extending out in fractal patterns. This is saying that in every piece of this echo of reality therein contains all aspects of itself.

So how does this fit into our mirror?

Our perception is looking out at this mirror of infinity only to see itself, so then the bigger question is, "How then do we not all see ourselves as this infinite, beautiful, magnificent perfection?"

This calls into the idea that our mirrors we are shining out to reflect back are dirty and blemished by our experiences and thoughts and views on the world.  This causes us to see just that, a world sullied and damaged by our own perceptions.  The clarity of the whole is marred by our picture of it.  Our perception, as the buddha said, is our reality.  So our reality is, in effect, as though we are looking through a shattered splintered mirror of ourselves.  What we are seeing is this vision of who we perceive ourselves to be as we project that system of judgments on someone else, someone outside of ourselves.

So everyone we see and interact with is never seen as they are truly, they are merely seen as we are and judged accordingly. 

We are our worst critic whether we admit it or not.  Take a second to recall your past session of self talk.  Were you encouraging yourself or berating yourself for doing something that made you upset or experience difficulty?  Now think back to the last time you said something positive to yourself, not just pride for an accomplishment, but expressing gratitude for efforts or just a happy sense of well-being about who you are as a person.  Most of us really have to search for such a moment if we can indeed find one at all.

So how do we shine up our mirror so it can show all that there is?

An often difficult first step to this goal lies in cleaning out our inner potty mouths.  We almost have to think of it like washing our mental mouths out with soap.  The negative thought we have form our negative words and this spiral extends outward as it affects each person we interact with and so on and so forth.  These words repeated enough form our actions which is what people base our character and personality on. 

It is not that we are what we have said or done, it is that our actions reflect out to the world our true nature.

So let's clean up those dirty mental mouths...

An easy but arduous task to accomplishing this soaping of our mind is a simple method called noticing.  Noticing involves just that, noticing or focusing on our internal monologue as it is happening by creating a conscious effort to pay attention to it.  Building this awareness of your own mental process will help you to free your thought patterns of the same negative degrading thoughts. 

The trick to making it work and not getting drawn into the thought patterns themselves involves two aspects, intention and detachment. 

For it to be effective one must strive to see it in an objective or detached way, to just see the thoughts as things and nothing more.  The intentional aspect of it comes before, when you decide on how you will do it.  Creating an intention to do it sets your ego mind up to be ready to be observed.  Once you have this intention in place being able to separate yourself from your mental chatter and your tape of thoughts you play over and over again will be just that much easier.

Realize that you are not your thoughts, and that you are not your feelings attached to them.

You are but the observer in this reality, just looking at the moving pictures as they dance by as shadow's in Plato's "Allegory of the Cave."  Step back from the chains in the cave and realize they are but illusions to soil your mirror.

Realize that the mirror points out of the top of the cave, to the stars shining so brilliantly in the sky.

Let's go for a walk now, out of our caves...


Light for your path...


Just be.

http://www.deviantart.com/art/Plato-s-Allegory-of-the-Cave-357719728

by Tara Shaffer

A dark embrace

Acceptance of what is is an embrace of life in all of its richness of color...  

Be those colors shaded to darker hues or lightened to pastels, all of our experiences in life have enriched it to be the colors we perceive.  The issues that arise in our life, be them physical, emotional or spiritual will remain persistent and continue to fester and injure us more and more if we cannot grasp their value and place in our perception.  This blocking we create from the denial of our true selves is so detrimental to our being that it will even create illness and dis-ease. 

What we run from chases us, and what we hide from searches for us...  

When people cannot embrace all aspects of themselves, they become trapped in the event, time frame or mental state which they are trying to avoid.  Its as though our spirit has a bookmark in the timeline novel that is our life and when we refuse to turn the page or read the whole excerpt, it saves our space until we do.  Unfortunately saving your space causes you to become mentally and often physically stuck there as well.  I have seen many people so stuck in a particular event or time period that they miss the beauty and wonder that is right in front of them. 

Now not all of these shadows are self-inflicted, though a fair amount are...  

No child asks to be abused, and no spouse asks to be cheated on or mistreated.  (On the soul level we all choose our experience, but that is for another discussion) People can overcome these setbacks and devastations if they can find their inner courage to completely face the issue or fears and move through them.  This is by no means a one step easy process, it can take years or lifetimes for some of us, but it can be done.  

The first and most imperative rung on this ladder of healing is accepting what is and what has been... 

It is acknowledging where we have come from in order for us to take those steps forward.  It is not letting ourselves become destroyed by what can best be described as our “acomodador,” as Paulo Coelho describes in his book, The Zahir, that will give us the power to move on and grow from the experiences of our lives in a positive way.  In The Zahir, Coelho quotes from a book called Magical Practices in Northern Mexico which describes the concept:

“The acomodador or giving-up point: there is always an event in our lives that is responsible for us failing to progress: a trauma, a particularly bitter defeat, a disappointment in love, even a victory that we did not quite understand, can make cowards of us and prevent us from moving on. As part of the process of increasing his hidden up powers, the shaman must first free himself from that giving-up point and, to do so, he must review his whole life and find out where it occurred.”

Rising up and being with ourselves in our point of accommodating, or point of becoming stuck in our ego into being complacent or stopping to evolve or grow is the best way to let go of that trauma. It is the first leap to overcoming all odds.  This reviewing of ones life is a major aspect of what Jung called, the shadow work.  It is a first step in renewal and rebirth if one is being consumed by their acomodador.

Let us combine our efforts to help embrace our shadows so that we may again become whole.

We will stitch them back to our feet as our hero Peter Pan has done.

Watch Peter chase his shadow down here...

Light for your path...

Embracing the Shadow, Healing the Past

Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them, shadows, projections, our associations. The same way old painters would sit in a tiny dark room and trace the image of what stood outside a tiny window, in the bright sunlight, the camera obscura. Not the exact image, but everything reversed or upside down.                                                                                                                                   ―Chuck Palahniuk

Embracing the Shadow,

Healing the                         Past

          In this Saturday afternoon workshop on June 20^th, led by Rev. Brien

 Egan CHt, CRM, CKRM, you will be a part of a powerful group healing and 

releasing workshop using EFT, hypnotherapy, visualizations, the Sedona 

method, and pranic breathwork.

You will learn to identify the aspects of your shadow self and the fears of your subconscious to embrace and release the held past trauma and stressors of your life keeping you from your full potential. 

         Exploring your shadow self and how to relieve the past by being present 

and aware in the now, you will discover how to affect lasting change in your life 

journey.

Join us June 20^th from 1pm-4pm!

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Can we illumine our shadows?

So what is our shadow self? 

What definition does science give for the natural phenomenon of shadows?

Science tells us that a shadow is created where light is hidden from a space or blocked.  This creates a darker area where it is more difficult to see.  It is perceived as being shaded and less bright.  If an area is completely enveloped in shadow it may be an area of total pitch black darkness.  It will be an area without color or form. 

Light is what gives these objects in the dark their shape and definition.  It illumines those hidden things and gives a meaning and purpose to reality.  As science tells us at the core level, we are all just packets of light quanta reflecting the hologram of the universe back giving consciousness to the matter created in the interconnection of the subatomic realms as space connects with time in all directions at once.  The blocking of the sun from what is being perceived almost makes it disappear in a way.  A shadow will conceal or distort what is truly there.  It will keep what is real masked and in the dark.  And so it is with us...

Carl Jung focused a great deal of his work on revealing and working with one's shadow self.  He was very interested in tearing away at those hidden constructs in our psyche which form negative aspects of the ego self.  The ego being that face which is put on for the public to see and judge with its masks and filters.  These efforts were made to study and know how the subconscious and unconscious mind work were so that he could learn and understand how to free our personality and persona from those negative behaviors and actions which have defined us and caused our reactions to the world. 
His early work with Freud helped him to see how those aspects of ourselves that are imprinted on our subconscious mind at a very early age are able to dictate how we will act and be for our entire lives if attention and work is not done to adjust our behaviors and destinies.  He wanted to help show us how we can free our experience from the difficulties we create for ourselves in our life by becoming more conscious and aware.
His work looked at through the scope of Buddhism or Hindu perspective has us viewing the release of our attachments as a first step to breaking down our ego self to get to the deeper parts of our experience, those parts which are hidden, a.k.a. our shadow selves.  It is those parts which we either can't even see ourselves, or those parts which we desperately try to look away from that form our ego mind and shape the way we interact with and view the world around us. 

Jung recognized, just as the Buddhist, Sufi, Essene and Hindu monks have understood for thousands of years now, that in order to reach those higher states of being and consciousness (some call samadhi, moksha, nirvana, enlightenment, being in the christ-like or buddha state) we must illuminate our shadows in all aspects of the self.  Every great master in history has had to rise above turmoil to achieve their enlightened state.

So how on earth could we possibly do that?

This daunting task which most people shy away from or vehemently fight against will shake a person to the very core of their existence.  That is precisely the process though, to strip away all aspects of the self until we can see what is truly there.  We need to shine a spotlight on every aspect of our selves from the simple flaws we might not see all the way to the deep dark skeletons some keep tucked away from the world.  It is only by examining and revealing all aspects of ourselves that we can work through those difficult shadows. 

The first and most important step though in working through something difficult, as explained by any effective major psychological teaching is to recognize what is there, and owning it.  Embracing our shadows, losing the fears we drown our lives in, will help us to overcome those aspects we can't seem to rise out of.  Admitting and owning ones flaws and struggles us a task for the courageous, for we must have resolve and strength if we are to endure our undoing to be able to give our consciousness the reboot it deserves. Just as Bill W. tells the world with AA, the first step is admitting that there is something to improve.  It is acknowledging that we are imperfect.

Can you see your imperfections?

The hardest part of our journey is recognizing where we are and taking steps to move beyond what we are and what situation we came into on this earthly plane.

Let's work together to rediscover our true selves...

Let's follow Peter Pan's lead as he found his shadow and reattached it to himself, just as he made himself whole again by embracing his shadow, so too can we!

Light for your path...

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About me!

Rev. Brien Egan CHt, CRM, CKRM is a certified hypnotherapist, a reiki master, karuna reiki master, pranic energy worker, EFT practitioner, quantum touch practitioner, sedona method practitioner, chakra cleansing teacher, qi gong teacher, an ordained minister from the Essene New Life Church and has his B.S. in Psychology with a minor in Special Education. 

He has been practicing and teaching spirituality for over 12 years. He has done a lot of work with children, families and individuals. He also designed and ran a kids spirituality summer camp for 7 years which taught children many quantum physics and spiritual concepts, meditation and mindfulness practices.

Individual sessions available for:

Hypnotherapy-

Hypnotherapy sessions are tailored to the needs of the client. They can help with: stress relief, smoking cessation, weight loss, releasing anger, trauma, fear, anxiety, depression, manifesting a better life, past life regression, etc.

Reiki-

Brien’s reiki energy healing sessions are a combination of Usui Reiki and Karuna Reiki energies.

EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique, or Tapping)-

Brien's individual EFT sessions use EFT and a blend with the Sedona method to help move through blocked issues in your life to help you to move through any issues such as weight loss, smoking cessation, anxiety, depression, trauma, ptsd, fears, anger, and past trauma.  It can also help you to manifest things in your life by clearing blocks whether spiritual or emotional so that you can help reach your goals.

Life coaching/counseling- 

A combination of counseling, energy work (reiki and karuna reiki), EFT, Sedona method, hypnotherapy, qi gong, tarot, visualizations and meditations to help with any physical, emotional or spiritual malady affecting your life.

Back bay family moments of peace...

Here are some pictures from our adventure at Back Bay national wildlife refuge in Virginia Beach.  

A family journey there to enjoy some nature on Sunday reflected some solace...