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Margaret Yeung from San Jose, CA |
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Understanding the Healing Process
This healing process is similar to the process of cleaning out a festering
wound so that it can heal properly. First you have to go through the painful
process of peeling away the scab and cleaning out the pus. Once the wound is
completely cleaned, new tissue and skin can grow in. Otherwise, the wound will
continue to fester and will always hurt when touched.
Emotional wounds work much the same way if they are not properly healed. Each
time an incident occurs that triggers a strong emotion, it is like someone has
just reopened a festering wound - it hurts! So to protect ourselves, we lash
out in anger at the person who touched our wound.
In reality, we should be thankful to this person for showing us our wound.
Instead of lashing out at the messenger, we should focus on the message – that
we have a festering wound that needs healing. Once we become aware that we have
a festering wound, we need to peel away the scab and clean the wound, so that
it can heal properly. This means that we have to find the source of the
emotional wound, usually a childhood incident, release the trapped emotions,
soothe the suffering inner child, and heal the wound by bringing love and
forgiveness to the incident and the people involved.
Using HHUL for Self-Healing
After becoming familiar with the emotional healing process, I discovered that I
was able to initiate the process during HoChi UL practice. Whenever I felt
strong emotions in me, during my HoChi UL practice, I would set the intention
of getting to the root cause of this emotion. Then during the course of the
practice, the traumatic childhood incident that trapped these emotions would be
revealed to me and healed.
Later, through trial and error, I discovered that I was also able to initiate
the process using Healing Hands of Universal Love(HHUL). So it became very
convenient for me to do emotional healing for myself whenever I feel strong
emotions – fear, anger, frustration, resentment, self-pity, depression, etc.
A How To Guide
The key to the healing process is to identify the emotion that I am feeling.
Through this identification, I am disassociating myself from the emotion and
becoming the witness to the emotional drama that my inner child is enacting.
The witnessing self observes the emotional child without moral judgment or
criticism, but with infinite patience, love, kindness and compassion.
HHUL provides my witnessing self with the strength and loving energy needed to
parent my suffering inner child and to complete the healing. When I begin the
HHUL session, I also begin an internal conversation with my witnessing self.
What is this emotion I am feeling? Where is this emotion coming from? Where
have I encountered a similar feeling before? What was the childhood incident
that engendered this feeling?
As I ask these questions, my hands are moving over my body and it will soon
locate a certain spot on my body where the energy has been trapped. This spot
will feel particularly hot and painful. As I caress this spot, the emotion will
feel stronger (indicating a release) and I may begin to cry. I will also recall
the childhood incident, the root cause of these emotions. As the incident
replays itself in my mind, I send love to my inner child, comforting and
reassuring her.
After the inner child calms down, I then bring my adult understanding and
broader perspective to the incident. I look for the lesson behind the incident,
the good that has come out of it. Once I find the good, the gift behind the
incident, I am able to feel gratitude for the people involved in the incident.
By this time, the heat and discomfort will have dissipated from the original
spot, and I will have transformed the negative feelings and emotions that I
originally had into feelings of forgiveness, gratitude and blessings.
I will repeat the process for a few days just to make sure that the wound is
completely healed. The emotional release gets milder each day, indicating that
healing is taking place.
The final proof that healing is complete is when a similar situation occurs
which previously would have evoked strong emotion reactions from me and now no
longer evokes any emotional reaction.
Self-Discovery and Self-Mastery
Emotional wounds are multi-layered in nature. The first time I work on a wound,
it may reveal an incident that occurred when I was 12. The next time I work on
it, it may reveal an incident that occurred when I was 10. The next time, I was
8. Then 6, then 4, and so on. But these incidents were all related in that they
evoked similar emotions in me. These emotions shaped my behavior and controlled
the course of my life.
Over time, as I worked on healing my emotional wounds, I discovered that I was
unwinding the story of my life. The more I worked on myself, the more bits and
pieces of the story was revealed to me. I began to see how these incidents had
affected my life and contributed to my beliefs and behaviors. It was like a
game of Connect-The-Dots. I began to look forward to each emotional reaction,
because it was an opportunity for me to uncover another dot, to finally
understand the mystery of "me".
When I finally understand how I have created the person that I am from these
past experiences, I am no longer tied to these past experiences and who I have
become. I am finally able to let go of this personality and able to choose a
new direction for myself, to create a new destiny for myself. I am on the road
to becoming my own master.
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