Individual transformational holistic healing consultations

"My biggest learning from 30 years of psychotherapy practice, " writes Lisa Raphael, "is how to stay out of it. How NOT to counsel. The more I trust the individual's own path to wholeness, the more effective the work." Compassionate witnessing , (described in The Fourth Eye) is the primary tool.

Ninety-minute sessions take place in a light trance grounded in heightened body awareness. Guidance from the individual's inner wisdom is accessed through facilitated cellular consciousness. Consultations include a free 20 minute introductory interview, immediately prior to a session or before scheduling the first session.    

During a session, the client’s consciousness is brought into the body, and attention focused on the in-body, cellular experience of the breath flow. From there, what wants attention emerges and is amplified through image and metaphor. This can lead the client back to the source, the core “issue in the tissue” - which may be an incident  last week, or a childhood, in-utero, past life or inter-dimensional memory. That memory is then re-scripted to heal the manifested symptom at the deepest level. Results can be dramatic.  

All You Ever Wanted To Know About Healing

Managing a Multi-dimensional Life
 

  For further information you may read the Counselor to Healer article.

Individual Consultations by Appointment
Please use the contact form to request a private consultation, ($150.00 per session) or call Lisa at (808) 346-5293. Thank you for your interest.  Payments are accepted by PayPal below.

All You Ever Wanted To Know About Healing

 By Lisa Raphael

  
It is truly inspiring to witness, through this and similar magazines and expos around the globe, how many diverse and exciting approaches there are to healing. Yet beyond the differences, the specialties, the variety of emphases on physical, emotional spiritual or general healing, there are three basic principles of which both client and practitioner should be aware.

First principle: Nobody heals anybody else. A healer is one who facilitates an individual’s own  self-healing. Primary responsibility is always with the person seeking healing.

Second principle: Healing, like life itself, is an ongoing process. There is no beginning and no end to it, even after death of the physical body.

Third principle: No single approach to a problem or symptom will necessarily resolve all aspects of the perceived discomfort or disease. A method that  alleviates one aspect may not address other dimensions of the imbalance. Even if it is the best approach for the present situation, it may not be the most effective method for future issues.

          It is important not to confuse healing with curing. Two aspirin may cure a headache, but they may do nothing to alleviate the underlying cause of the headache. Healing the headache involves identifying the source of the imbalance, whether it is physical, emotional, or spiritual, or any combination

thereof, and taking action to ameliorate the cause.

          Healing means making whole. Wholeness is a matter of balance.

Everything in nature is in balance until or unless we interfere with it. Unfortunately, today there are so many levels of interference with nature that it can be hard to discern the inherent balance. Likewise, there are so many factors interfering with our own natural way of being that it can be a challenge to get back into harmony with ones true nature.

          Nobody heals anyone else. Especially today, this is the most vital of the three principles. Humans have a tendency, due to our relatively long period of dependence on parents and/or other adults for survival, to worship, follow, imitate and emulate those who help us. Likewise, successful physicians, therapists, psychics, body workers, nutritionists, and  spiritual leaders are easily seduced into feeling that it is their skill, training, intuition and/or guidance that is responsible for their clients’ progress. The problem is that in evolutionary terms, we are no longer in childhood, and are rapidly shifting out of adolescence. The danger of confusing the healing with the healer is evident all around us. Blindly following the representative of a particular set of beliefs is having disastrous results, socially and politically, as well as in the religious and spiritual arena. How many more leaders, gurus or healers need to be exposed before we realize that no one has all the answers for everyone? And that it is unlikely that any particular healer has all the answers for any individual?

          Early in my 30-year career as psychotherapist, I used to think that getting advanced degrees and training was what made me an effective counselor. Then one day, after what I thought was a particularly brilliant piece of work, I asked a client what of all we had done together had made the most difference. “The way you smiled at me when you came out to get me” was her response. What a deep confirmation that it is not what we do but who we are that makes the difference.

          Healing is an ongoing process. Every issue and/or symptom that is cleared makes space for new growth and development. And every phase of development has its own challenges. A single symptom may have many layers of significance, and can only be healed, in the moment, at the level of psycho-spiritual development of the person presenting the problem. One approaches the question “what is the origin of life” differently with a child than with a scientist, religious leader or metaphysician. The right answer for one may not suit the other. Timing is essential. Sometimes not knowing the deepest source of ones discomfort is necessarily protective. A child of the Holocaust, I spent close to thirty years denying that I was a victim of anything or anyone. My ego was too fragile to cope with the memories. After I faced and healed the scars from that victimization, I was able to see beyond the shame and blame, and, through identifying the seeds of the perpetrators in myself, to find empathy with the abusers. Identifying and healing karmic lessons from past lifetimes is a work in progress.   

          No single approach may resolve all aspects of a problem. Body, mind and spirit are intimately interconnected through cellular memory. That means that every emotional issue has a spiritual and physical component, and every physical symptom has emotional and spiritual aspects. It is rare for any one healing specialty to resolve the imbalance in all aspects. The list of different therapists, body workers, allopathic and alternate healers, psychics and spiritual leaders involved in my own ongoing healing would fill volumes.

          The more deeply we heal ourselves, the more deeply we can affect healing in those with whom we have contact. Each of us has a unique role to play in the healing of the planet. We do not each need to become expertly trained in every new approach, but do need to be aware of ancient as well as emerging healing modalities in order to direct our friends and clients to the appropriate resources. The Universe offers many opportunities and methods of healing. Keeping open to these variations and discovering the ones that work for us is everyone’s responsibility.

Managing  A  Multi-dimensional Life
                                       by Lisa Raphael.

          Life can be relatively easy to manage early on. As children, our reality is basically defined by our parents. We believe who they say we are and know what is expected of us. We may not always like how we are perceived, nor necessarily agree with what is expected, but it is a simple, two-dimensional world in which others define our identity and our boundaries. There are “yes” or “no” answers to most issues, everything is black and white, and you either go with the program set out for you or you don’t.

          During adolescence we begin to question and rail against the rules imposed upon us, but we still have very little recourse than to follow the rules or do the opposite. We may be leaders, followers, rebels, instigators, or outcasts, but the frame-work okf the reality in which we live is still two-dimensional. We do not yet have the authority to make our own definitions.

          Complexity and confusion begin in earnest when we are old enough to define who we are for ourselves and to choose the rules by which we live. Even on a material level, this can be challenging. I may be  a blond female 5’2’’ – but how much should I weigh? Every chart, every model, every peer has a different opinion. What should be my “look”? What kind of boys should I date? Should I show how brainy I am or pretend to be stupid to make him look smart? Should I be like my mother, or more like my best friend’s mother or the Mom in my favorite soap opera? Career or family or both? Which career? It goes on and on. Inside ourselves it can be even more confusing. Because we have internalized others’ opinions, as we begin to think for ourselves, it is hard to sort out what is our own idea and what is someone else’s idea in our head. As we  become aware of this, we realize it is no longer a two dimensional world. We not only perceive both sides of a situation, we see many combinations, many shades of gray, many possible ways to handle a specific situation. Not only are there more choices of response to what life presents, we now have the responsibility for CHOOSING much of what life brings us. The internal dialogue gets more and more complex as we juggle responsibilities to and expectations of bosses, spouses, children, friends, neighbors, and the social, religious or political groups with which we identify, and wonder where we are in all this.

          “ I don’t know how I can manage” is a common cry at the height of adulthood. Overwhelmed with the demands of a multi dimensional world, we yearn for someone to make the decisions for us. This is when we are most vulnerable to addictions or seduction by charismatic leaders. Addictions keep us singularly focused on one activity, be it work, drugs, a love affair, or any other all-consuming  compulsion, and bring us back into a two dimensional world. To a workaholic, there is just life at work and life not at work. For a drug addict, there is time under the influence and time not under the influence. For one entranced by a charismatic leader, there is just the world of the followers and the world of the others, as in  “you are either with us or against us.”

           There IS a healthier way to handle the complex choices and responsibilities of multi-dimensional life! Paradoxically, it  involves INCREASING the complexity! Life, Nature, Creation is far from simple, yet there is order within the  complexity, an inherent, an implicit order. Our confusion about choices and responsibilities is not so much a reflection of Nature or Life As Is, but a reflection of the definitions and beliefs about what life is that we acquire in the process of socialization. We create these  definitions in an attempt to simplify things, and wind up in a maze of illusion.

           The way out of this maze of illusion is to let go of what we think we know, our beliefs, out patterns of response , our self-definitions. To approach each moment completely new, unencumbered by the baggage of our internalized rules, definitions and expectations. When we let go of what we think we know, we get in touch with what is. Rather than trying to manage life by controlling it, we “go with the flow”, in sync with the inherent order of things, open to the excitement of an ever changing landscape. Free of illusions, we discover intuition, psychic abilities, creativity. Our sensitivity to the energy that is the stuff of the universe is heightened, and we connect directly with Source Intelligence, with Life Itself. Synchronicities increase, and inner guidance, sometimes through communications from angels and other forms of discarnate life becomes accessible. Our view of life and living expands and changes moment by moment to incorporate a seemingly infinite number of dimensions and view points, (literally, the points of consciousness from which we VIEW things). Yet there is no confusion. Tuned in deeply to Nature, to Source Intelligence, to Inner Knowing, and living totally in the present, life is not a problem to be managed. It is a gift to be cherished and enjoyed.