Join us this week for another deep dive into the realm of Shadow-Work, a gentle yet thorough exploration of the emotional world that ordinarily remains just outside the peripheral of our conscious awareness. This week we offer total acceptance and loving awareness to the inner emotional world and simply observe as emotions return home to their natural, healthy state in the spectrum of human emotion. The 'Healing' we witness here is a result of the frictionless feeling of emotion without resistance, finding peace in acceptance of the raw intensity of this experience, the realization that all emotion can be acknowledged, loved and integrated in this way provides us with the secure inner peace and safety we have been seeking. Under the clear, pure and safe light of consciousness we find that ultimately all emotions are natural, healthy and innocent and a new belief system that integrates and acknowledges this emotional freedom takes shape. With the techniques explained and developed in these sessions, you will still feel emotion but they will no longer cause distress or dysfunction. By dropping the tendency to avoid or resist emotion and instead welcoming, befriending and becoming curious about the experience we find that the energetic charge of the emotion changes totally, effectively neutralising the harm the emotion would ordinarily cause. It is this development of becoming compassionate and loving towards our inner emotional world that we find a powerful healing takes place, finding a way of being that is harmonious, patient and far more conscious than before. This has the effect of giving permission to other emotions that have been hidden for a long time, perhaps buried or repressed for many years, once the attitude of inwardly facing loving-kindness has been developed all emotion will be free to come home and take it's healthy position in your inner emotional world. This session is useful for anyone involved in the awakening or healing process, in particular this will be of benefit to those who are 'stuck' or have hit a plateau. This can also be a powerful complimentary practice that can be performed alongside any professional therapy or counselling you are receiving. Through the practice of compassionate welcoming and total acceptance we will realize the ability each of us has to fully accept and integrate even the emotions that are ordinarily the most distasteful for us and result in internal and external dysfunction. In this session we practice emotional accuracy, emotional distress tolerance and the deep shadow work of inviting repressed emotions out of their hiding place. The discussion that follows the meditation is always one filled with compassion, love and camaraderie as so many people on their own healing journeys share experiences, insights and questions. If you struggle with a particular emotion or are engaged in the process of trying to come into direct contact with shadow material you will find profound relief through this beautifully natural and simple practice, letting go of all control and relieving the usual pressures of trying to figure out 'what to do with' these difficult, unpleasant and uncomfortable emotions Through a neutral and loving acceptance of all emotions we may discover ancient emotions we have long since buried as they feel safe to arise into the space of consciousness. As we develop a new understanding of the way emotion can be experienced we become liberated from the effects of our habitual attempts to constrain, restrict and bind emotions, the freedom from suffering arises here as we deeply realise there was never any need to suppress or avoid any emotion, they are all perfectly fine just as they are. In these sessions we learn techniques and practices to uncover and integrate the deeply repressed emotional material that ordinarily remains hidden from the light of consciousness. Please be aware that this requires a courageous willingness to vividly experience emotion that is ordinarily unpalatable and uncomfortable for us and so I want to give a fair caution ahead of time so you know what to expect. Through guidance, new understandings and practices alongside the compassion and care of the participating group we can safely expose this 'Shadow' material into the light of pure consciousness, this drastically alters the emotional word of the individual as a powerful new sense of emotional safety is developed, the ability to tolerate all emotions and become at peace with them creates an energetic shift in the individual that has remarkably rapid positive transformational effects on emotional wellbeing. The techniques delivered in this session are designed to develop a powerful and permanent resilience to ones own inner emotional world, by doing so we invite and welcome even the most long-buried emotions to the surface and therein discover the source of many of our dysfunctions and dissatisfaction in life. (Important: This is not intended to replace any professional input you are receiving, you must continue to follow the psychiatric and healthcare advice of professionals if you are under such supervision - This is a complimentary practice that can be performed alongside other models of healing and recovery and NOT intended as healthcare or as a replacement of any professional input - This sessions is not designed to diagnose or treat any psychiatric condition.)