PREFACE  

I decided to revisit each of my blog posts many years after I originally posted them to update and revise as needed. I’m finding two things, I wish I had an editor and I want to soften the tone of the information I’m sharing. To be honest, the last thing I want to sound is preachy or righteous because I am forever learning the depths of my soul. I think when I first wrote the posts, I was excited to share a practice that worked for me so it may have come across that way. I want to revise a few things so it’s more about sharing my personal experience and what I’ve learned on my journey.

I’m a firm believer in experiencing all aspects of self, even the darkness, and the darkest part of self. I’m learning that experiencing this darkness, which I like to refer to as the ebb in the soul’s current, does take strength and lots of compassion as you care for your soul wounds. The soul healing practices are skills and practices I’ve developed during my journey that helped in navigating through the darkness, and assisted in shifting from ebb to flow with rest and integration in between. 

The practices are psychospiritual in nature, and are a mix of my personal experience and prior professional mental health background (as a licensed clinical social worker). All of my practices involve connecting with the elevated mind and sacred heart through awareness, imagination, visualization, and meditation. These soul healing practices continue to evolve and change just as my soul is growing and expanding.

There is of course no guarantee that the practices will work for you, but if you do try any of the practices, I encourage you to experiment in order to make it your own. Listen to your inner wisdom and change or refine the practice as needed so it completely resonates with your soul. Also, all of my practices need to be at your pace, so again listen to your inner knowing and honor it.

My sacred journey is not less or more significant than anyone else’s, my only motivation for sharing is to inspire self-transformation and to offer support for your unique and sacred journey. Please forgive any editorial mistakes for this is as good as it will get without an editor ;). This is what I’ve learned along the way.

SOUL HEALING PRACTICE BACKGROUND

Through my many years of internal work and as a prior mental health professional, I’ve found the state of our mind directly influences our well-being. More specifically, the type of thoughts, health of the brain, and connection to the sacred heart (divine within) determines the quality of the mind. Perhaps a straightforward statement and correlation, but it truly holds a substantial amount of truth. I like to believe that the soul has a natural current that ebbs and flows and is often directed and influenced by our minds and hearts.

I’ve read numerous spiritual and self-transformational books along my journey, but took a special interest in the book, Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, & Wisdom, by Hanson and Mendius, especially during my time as a licensed clinical social worker. The book helped to validate my personal theory, as well as, to give more insight on the integration of science and the divine when relating to the mind and brain. I will be referencing this book often in this post.  

The mind emits energy (brainwaves) from neurons in the brain that fire and release electrochemical waves or electrical impulses (Hanson & Mendius, 2009, p. 30). The heart, mind, and soul collectively radiate a unique energetic field. This field influences our external reality which then reflects back to us as a continual energetic loop. All organisms exchange energy and matter with their environment in order to live; therefore, “the apparent wall between your body and the world is more like a picket fence” (Hanson & Mendius, 2009, p.27).

We are often unaware of our energetic influence on external outcomes and how our energy affects people, situations, or circumstances. We have way more power than we are willing to give credit or take responsibility. We have the ability to create harmony or suffering by the type of thoughts and the amount of focus we lend to these thoughts. If we focus long enough, we create thought loops with its own energetic power. The energy of thought loops consists of thought patterns with their related feelings and behaviors. As we continue to nurture these thought loops with our attention and focus, we will eventually create a reality in the external that matches the internal thought loop. Basically our external worlds are a reflection of our internal well-being, “In fact, much of what you see ‘out there’ is actually manufactured ‘in here’ by your brain…” (Hanson & Mendius, 2009, p.43).

Various thoughts with their associated feelings such as joy, love, peace, frustration, anger, or sadness resonate or vibrate on different energetic frequencies. Our thought loops attract and resonate with similar frequencies of our external environment and we resonate with other people and circumstances that have similar thought loops and energy. The quality of our energetic thought loops matter in how we perceive both ourselves and our environment. Negative thought loops tend to be generated from fear and lack, rather than from love and abundance. Often we are unaware of the quality of our thought loops, and operate more in a default mode even though we may feel we are out of alignment from our soul’s harmony or current. This default mode can be attributed to the functioning of our primitive brain.

In order to understand the mind, it is helpful to understand the vessel at which the mind is operating, the brain. Although the brain is a highly evolved tool, it is still imprinted with our early ancestral primitive markers. The brain is hard-wired “more for avoiding than for approaching. That’s because it’s the negative experiences, not the positive ones, that have generally had the most impact on survival.” (Hanson & Mendius, 2009, p.40). Our ancestors were constantly in the practice of seeking safety and survival. They focused significantly on negative experiences out of necessity, which strengthened these types of neural pathways over time.

In current times, if we experience negative or traumatic events, then it is likely these dormant primitive imprints become activated, but may overstay its purpose creating chronic suffering. Although, our brains have evolved since our earliest ancestors, we have a tendency with our advanced thinking to ruminate, complicate, and/or compound our internal experiences causing a stagnant ebb experience. For example, in relationships it can take five positive events to overcome the effects of a single negative event (Hanson & Mendius, 2009, p.41). Of course as with our early ancestors, if a real threat to our life or physical well-being exists, then our brain does its brilliant work of seeking safety by activating our sympathetic nervous system of fight, flight, or freeze. It is then up to us, to help the mind and body to recover and heal without getting stuck in chronic suffering by redirecting our focus once the threat has passed and allow ourselves the time to process and integrate the experience. We start by activating the parasympathetic nervous system to bring our internal state to rest and balance. A gorgeous built-in system aiding the natural flow of the soul’s current.

We often get stuck in ebb because it is typically quite challenging to experience as it can be triggered when we feel rejected, disrespected, abandoned, and/or fear generating self-limiting, pessimistic, and distorted thoughts with associated feelings of anxiety, irritability, anger, sorrow, depression, despair, guilt, shame, and so on. The nature of the brain and mind when untamed or disempowered “highlights past losses and failures, it downplays present abilities, and it exaggerates future obstacles” (Hanson & Mendius, 2009, p.42), which are rooted in primitive imprints and human conditioning. The ebb is therefore amplified, working in overdrive, and in a state of perpetual “soul buffering” mode. An untamed mind, consistently defaulting to its primitive functioning, lends to chronic suffering, thus staying in the state of ebb longer than needed and resisting the natural timing for the soul to flow again. Often resistance to flow may be due to the mind and heart being too inhibited (numb) or overly aroused (overwhelmed) (Hanson & Mendius, 2009, p.32).

In my own interior work, I’ve come quite acquainted with my soul’s current and its unique ebb and flow. I’ve learned the ebb is just as vital as the flow in maintaining the soul’s harmony. The time spent in ebb offers an opportunity for soul growth and expansion. I now try to view the fear, pain, dissatisfaction, other negative emotions and thoughts, and unpleasant body sensations as a signal that I’m in ebb, and my soul’s experience needs a little more nurturing and attention. Once the ebb state has been acknowledged and seen with compassion, then the soul can flow again by illuminating the dark corners of the mind and heart that were holding me back. This action of illumination also consists of learning to tame and empower the mind.   

Taming and empowering the mind takes practice and patience. We are trying to strengthen other neural pathways rather than defaulting to primitive or outdated pathways. In my opinion at our state of evolution, we have the tools and ability to heal and harmonize our minds even from residual ancestral trauma. It is a matter of empowering our minds by negotiating negative experiences with objective discernment and compassion, and by prohibiting our brain from defaulting to a negative thought loop or pattern. Although, it takes work, we have the power and ability to interrupt negative thought patterns and to refocus our brain thus transforming and liberating the mind. This will help us to realign with our natural soul’s current and to our sacred heart, inner knowing, and the divine within.

SOUL HEALING PRACTICE 

As mentioned earlier, the ebb is not to be avoided or judged as “bad”, but as a time of soul growth and expansion. Part of our experience in the ebb is to bring the light of awareness to our thinking like turning a light on in a dark attic. Just as you turn the light on in an attic it often lessens the fear of what may be hiding in the darkness. Similar is true to your thoughts. By acknowledging the thoughts that surface no matter how bad or disturbing they may be, once they are seen, it lessens the thought’s power which in turn begins to dispel the power of the thought loop or pattern. Sometimes it is helpful once the thought is identified to speak it out loud to yourself or to someone you trust, and to speak it as a matter of fact without the attachment of too much emotion. This can allow for a little more altitude with your experience and a bit more detachment from the thought so you realize you are not the thought. This illumination or awareness of our thoughts now provides a choice of whether to do the work in restoring the soul’s current and harmony or to turn the light off again. Sometimes, we’re not quite ready for the internal work, but at least now there is a choice rather than succumbing to the brain’s automatic default setting and thought loops/patterns.

I have found in my personal experience that just turning the light on and acknowledging the thoughts creating the thought loop sometimes is enough to lessen its power, but I also created a technique that offers a little extra help in dispelling the old energy. It works for me so hoping it also works for you.

As a reminder, any soul healing practice mentioned in this post or any of my other posts are only suggestions or a guideline and it is most important that you make these practices your own. Feel free to refine or even change the practice so it truly resonates with your soul. I found that as I evolve and change so do the practices.

Before I begin any of the soul healing practices, I like to calm my nervous system and to open my sacred heart by doing a four-count breath technique, where I count to four as I inhale expanding the lower belly (1, 2, 3, 4) and count four backwards as I exhale slowly (4, 3, 2, 1), repeating as needed. I then follow with intentional breathing: as I slowly inhale I say to myself I am and on the exhale I say calm, continuing the practice on the inhale saying I am and on the exhale saying safe, breathing in I am and breathing out empowered, breathing in I am and breathing out love, breathing in I am and breathing out light, and finally breathing in I am and breathing out free. You can end this practice with the following statement or intention: I trust myself, I believe in myself. Remember with this practice to bring the breath down to your lower belly and not just to your chest. The breath not only gives life to the intention, but also helps to anchor it into your soul’s vibration. If you like this technique, I also suggest experimenting with the intentions so it totally resonates with you and gives you a sense of calm, and a feeling of being centered, nurtured, and empowered. Again, these breathing techniques are an effective way to activate the parasympathetic nervous system signaling the mind and body it’s safe to rest and to heal, and to reconnect with the sacred heart and inner knowing.

The soul healing practice involves visualization and intentions. I first neutralize my energy in order to create a neutral internal canvas to begin the work. I start by imagining a dark or denser energy is rising up from below me and a pure, white light or higher vibrational energy is descending down from above me until they meet or collide at my soul’s core or solar plexus (usually the point between your lower rib cage and belly button). When the energy collides it neutralizes and calmly dissipates outward all around me like a ripple in a tranquil pond. Sometimes I visualize the neutralization happens in my heart center, especially if I’m having challenging and difficult feelings. In either location, I take a moment to feel and breathe in the sensation of peace and quiet created by the energy neutralizing. Please do experiment with the imagery and energy so it is sacred to you, but the idea is for the two polarizing or contrasting energies within you to be neutralized since we do consist of both, making us whole. A more detailed version of this practice can be found in the book, The Temples of Light: An Initiatory Journey into the Heart Teachings of the Egyptian Mystery Schools, by Danielle Rama Hoffman.

Once the energy has been neutralized, I say the following intention: I release with ease that which has served its time. I then do a scan of my mind and heart of any ebb thoughts or feelings that are holding me back from flowing. Once identified, I see the thought in my mind’s eye as if it is displayed on my mental movie screen. I visualize the thought is dissolving into golden particles or I see it being washed away from my mental space as I’m being cleansed and purified with golden-white light or crystal clear water. I then do the same for any feelings associated with the thought, but the cleansing and purification happens in my heart center. The visualization helps me to feel an actual sensation of soul relief and of being free of a heavy burden. Again, it’s for you to experiment with any imagery of your choosing. 

As I release the thought and feeling, I turn my face upward and feel a warm, golden light shining upon me like the sun. I imagine the warmth of this light is strengthening and straightening my spine where I feel as though I am growing taller and taller so that I’m way bigger than the burden I just released. I look down and I see the remnants of the thought and feeling at my feet and say the following intention: may you be transmuted and transcended into sacred nutrients and magic, and returned to my soul’s wholeness. I actually reintegrate the energy back into my soul by taking a deep breath in once it has been transmuted and transcended (via dissolving it into golden particles or rinsing it with crystal clear water). Again, for you to explore the imagery that resonates with you. The idea is that these are still aspects that are part of my soul’s current, but they have been cleansed and purified dispelling any old, burdensome energy, making me whole.

Since the main ingredient of this soul healing practice is identifying self-defeating, limiting, or disempowering thoughts, I’ll provide a brief example of how to identify these type of thoughts. Let’s say you do a mental and emotional scan and find feelings of jealousy or envy of someone or circumstance. You may ask yourself certain questions to help the thought surface such as: why do I feel like this, what does it mean to feel like this, what is the pain in my body telling me, what is this jealousy telling me, and so on. This gentle, compassionate questioning and exploring may reveal thoughts such as, I don’t want her to succeed; I’m not as lucky as her; I always have to work hard and she doesn’t; or I never get what I want, and so on. Another technique for uncovering thoughts and feelings related to a stressor is provided in my post, “The Art of Empowering Your Mind” (15 March 2016).

As a brief side note to the example provided, we often don’t realize the actual power of these types of thoughts and their energetic influence upon the other person’s and our own outcome. This influence may place self-doubt and fear in the other person’s mind and emotional body causing delays or even negative outcomes for them. This will affect us because we just indebted ourselves to heal a negative situation we contributed in causing. It may show up in reverse roles where someone is emitting their envy and jealousy onto to us contributing to our self-doubt and fears, all of which are states of ebb and simply need attention for soul growth and expansion.

You can investigate the thoughts from the example above a little further by going deeper. For the thought, I never get what I want, you may ask yourself: what does it mean to not get what I want or what does it say about me to not get what I want…the answers may be, because I don’t matter, I am not worthy, or even something that may sound like your younger self, because I am bad. These type of statements are most likely core beliefs which are the origins to many other self-limiting and disempowering thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. To learn more about identifying core beliefs with associated feelings and body sensations, and a practice for challenging the validity of these thoughts/beliefs and identifying more empowering thoughts, again visit my post, “The Art of Empowering Your Mind” (15 March 2016).

Other soul healing practices that may be helpful in dismantling troublesome thought loops may include inner child or past-self healing, energetic cord cutting, or using other type of visualizations of your choosing. See my posts, “The Woes of Perfection” (15 Aug 2016) for inner child/past-self healing and “Cutting the Cords to Suffering” (19 July 2016) for energetic cord cutting.  

SOUL HEALING PRACTICE CLOSING

I like to close each soul healing practice with another visualization, especially if the practice doesn’t include an energetic shield/boundary. If the practice does include a protective sphere of light, then adjust this closing visualization to complement the practice. The closing visualization may also be a stand alone practice. The intent is to further cleanse any residual blocks or burdens, calm the soul, restore optimal functioning, and realign the soul as above, so below.  

Visualize a disk of purifying, white light that is above you and is large enough to fit both your body and energetic field. The purpose of the disk is to scan your body and energetic field while it simultaneously moves any residual mental, emotional, physical, and energetic blocks or burdens. The energy will be moved out and drained like an energetic faucet as it disappears into the void. The intention of the energy as it disappears is to be transmuted and transcended into the sacred whole which includes your soul’s oneness or harmony. 

As you continue the visualization, imagine the purifying disk of light descending down towards you and begins to scan your upper energetic field and extends outward to capture your entire energetic field as it moves down your body, starting with your head, down your shoulders, down each arm, and out each hand. Visualize any blocks or burdens draining out of your hands (like a faucet). You can imagine the energy as darker energy flowing out. Once you feel it is complete or see the energy begin to trickle stop the flow from your hands. Bring your attention back to your shoulders and continue the scan down your chest, your abdomen to the pelvic area, down each leg, and out each foot. Again visualize any blocks or burdens draining out from your feet, once you feel it is complete or see the energy begin to trickle then stop the flow. Now take a moment to visualize your entire body and energetic field are now cleansed and cleaned.  

Next say to yourself, CALM, and visualize and feel every cell of your body and particle of your energetic field is calming like a pristine, quiet mountain lake with no movement. Just calm and quiet. Take a few deep belly breaths to savor this feeling of calmness. Next, say to yourself, HEAL, followed by optimal health and functioning, and golden light are restored, visualize every cell of your body and particle of your energetic field is now filled with sparkling golden light as you are glowing and vibrating with this golden energy. Visualize the golden energy extends outward to form a sphere of light that now surrounds you. The sphere of light may change colors, any color of your choosing. Again, take a few deep belly breaths to savor this energy of renewal, strength, and empowerment. 

Lastly, visualize a column of golden threads above you descending down through you and exiting out your feet, continuing down into the earth to be deeply anchored into the earth’s core so you feel secured, stable, and grounded (you can add imagery of golden roots or similar extending from your feet to be anchored into the earth’s core). Next see a violet light doing the same, and finally a pure white light doing the same. The intent of the columns are to align you above and below, so you feel both grounded and elevated. You may close the visualization by saying to yourself three intentions, for example I say: I am powerful, I am magical, I am healing, and as I say each intention I visualize myself growing taller, stronger, and feeling more empowered.

As a last note and most likely suggested in the description of the soul healing practice, do experiment with, change, refine the practice as needed so it truly resonates with your soul, becomes your personal practice, and evolves and changes with you. By making the practice your own, you are listening to your inner guidance, are connecting with your sacred divine self, and aligning with your unique wisdom and soul’s vibration.

MY EXPERIENCE WITH THE SOUL HEALING PRACTICE

EXPERIENCE 1

I am releasing an old paradigm that I have to work for an employer, work long hours, and have a substantial income to be considered successful. Ever since I resigned from my previous job to pursue creative endeavors, I’ve been struggling with this old belief. It’s been a constant underlying theme in my energetic field that I should be “working” rather than being home compiling my collection of poems, publishing my poems, writing these blogs, and developing a workshop. All of which is being accomplished on my time rather than an employer’s time.

I thought I released this judgment of myself, but it showed up with a recent conversation with someone. I realized after our conversation that I was still carrying a negative thought loop that my current creative endeavors are not an acceptable form of “success” because I’m not earning a substantial income, as of yet. 

This person made a comment towards another person who he felt didn’t work often and said, “well I go to work all day”. As if the person he was referring to did not work enough. After our conversation, his comments stayed with me into the next day. I began to feel anger towards him for judging someone so harshly who in his perspective is not working enough, so I thought, why is this bothering me when it seemed it wasn’t about me?

After compassionate investigation into my thinking, I realized I was still carrying the belief I should be “working all day” to be considered successful or productive. The conversation and my limiting belief triggered primitive imprints and conditioning that I may not be accepted by this person or by society at large. I also realized that the energy of this thought loop and judgment of myself actually manifested this person and the conversation into my energetic field to reflect it back to me for healing and expansion.  

It was so liberating once I brought the light of awareness to the negative thought loop. This awareness provided a choice to either keep it OR to use a soul healing practice to dismantle the energy of the thought loop so my soul’s current flows again. The negative thought loop was actually hindering my success and keeping me in ebb by anchoring my energy in a sense of lack and self-doubt rather than abundance and empowerment.

I used the energy neutralization and the golden light visualization/meditation as described previously. My mind and heart scans illuminated multiple thoughts and feelings such as, I’m not successful, I am a fool, and I don’t deserve to have my time, with feelings of fear and self-doubt. I addressed each thought and feeling separately using the golden light visualization and released the burden in order to be transmuted and transcended, and then reintegrated into my soul’s current, my sacred whole. 

Upon purifying and dispelling the energy of the thought loop, I felt myself flowing again with more clarity. I remembered the reason I stepped away from my last job. It was to pursue my life purpose of serving others by expressing my authentic and creative self, sharing my life experience, and helping others awaken to their own inner knowing and wisdom, all the while trusting my own needs will be taken care of with prosperity and abundance in every form.

EXPERIENCE 2

I belonged to a neighborhood notification website and there was a message stating someone had seen a black cat in a neighbor’s yard and suggested the owner should come get the cat. After viewing several of the replies, someone suggested if the cat is friendly to pick it up. Well, I have a black cat who I adore and he is an indoor/outdoor cat, so I decided to reply for fear someone would take my cat if the cat they saw was indeed him.

After I replied stating the cat could possibly be mine with other details, I began to worry. I started to worry they would judge me for allowing my cat to go outside. In response to the worry, I began to rehearse in my mind what my reply would be to a potential conflict of others opposing my decision for allowing my cat to go outside with all the risks.

I thought, Wow, I’m generating all of these thoughts assuming conflict would be coming my way. But why? This simple exchange of words was triggering my primitive mind and conditioning of a potential conflict and a possibility of not being accepted by my neighbors. Furthermore, I pondered, why am I trying to create something I don’t desire? I knew if I continued to focus on these thoughts, then I may create the very situation I was worrying about due to the focused energy I was releasing to the external.

So I paused and thought, this is actually a healing and growth opportunity. I was trying to create something in the external to heal something in the internal. I was worrying about a potential stranger’s judgement and perception of me, but obviously there is a part of me that I judged harshly and perceive myself as possibly not a good cat owner for allowing him to go outside. I needed to come to terms and accept my decision for letting him be an indoor/outdoor cat.

After contemplation of why it is the best decision for my cat to continue to go outside even with the risks, I surrendered the decision and expected the best outcome consisting of peace and ease. My mind did try to pull me back into the previous negative thought loop. With compassion for the workings of my mind, I knew it was only trying to protect me by preparing for a potential conflict and a desire to be accepted, but it didn’t realize the situation doesn’t need to be created in the first place.  

I gently redirected my mind along with several deep breaths to my truth and to the peace within. It is about fully accepting myself rather than seeking it from the external, which for me was empowering. I affirmed I do not wish to create what I’m worrying about or what I don’t want. The negative thought loop was interrupted in time to cause no further derailment of my day or to create an unwanted external response. I did receive replies simply thanking me for my response and other neighbors saying they enjoy my cat’s visits.

This time just bringing the light of awareness was enough to lessen the power of the thought loop and to resolve it. I healed my own internal judgment and false perception within myself. From this place of peace, harmony, and renewed empowerment, even if I did receive an opposing reply, then I would be able to respond gracefully rather than react with defensiveness and anger.

However, if the energy of the negative thought loop persisted, then it would be my cue to go deeper and to further clear and heal the energy by doing the soul healing practice presented in this post. I may also include an inner child healing practice. Most likely my residual concern of other’s perception of me and a desire to be accepted is rooted from my childhood/upbringing, and even from my ancestral heritage. Again, I offer an inner child healing visualization in my post, “The Woes of Perfection” (15 Aug 2016). Remember, as simple or even silly as this example may sound, it is these small instances that are connected to deeper internal distress and have the potential to create havoc in our worlds, internally and externally.

POEM   

The following poem is about my journey with a belief in lack, and how this belief can distort perception and disrupt peace and harmony from within. The poem describes the polarity or contrast within my soul that makes me whole, but a needed rebalancing of my internal scales to restore my soul’s harmony.    

WALKING WITH LACK

You have been a companion for so long,
my loyal friend draped in foe robes.
Lack is the name you go by. 
We know each other quite well,
walking together along life’s path many turns of the wheel.

A path negotiating, at times skipping alongside,
the mind’s subjective, reality’s objective landscapes:
battlefields sweating the blood of turbulent emotions,
meadows exhaling the fragrance of sweet love and wild lust,
hot desert land showcasing mirages of mental illusions,
dense forests filled with towering trees of hope and freedom,
harsh concrete plagued with the energy of anxiety and fear,
majestic peaks communing with crisp, clear thought.

All of which varied in proportion, dimension, density,
time after time,
but the attachment to you remained the same.

I’ve come to realize,
you provide a false sense of protection—

Four walls to support a conditioned way of life, a cyclic life,
constantly, desperately seeking to fill the potholes
left by the weathered belief in you,
my friend, my foe, Lack.

Perceptual windows looking upon the society
that values you most.
A society slow to change,
thriving on the fear and sadness you tend to exude
across the collective consciousness,
like a rolling dense fog causing extreme low visibility.

And a glass ceiling to cap any extravagant expansion
or sovereign way of life.

Although, without your knowing,
Expansion and her lover, Freedom, slipped their way in
teaching a different way of relating, of communing.

They visited often, as the door was left unlocked.
Each visit we became stronger, grander,
swelling with potential, a new way of life,
pregnant with clear vision.
Belief in abundance and prosperity as a birthright.
Outgrowing the compression from the walls surrounding us,
the consistent, steady pressure from your relentless hold,
until a breakthrough.

It scared you, it threatened your control.
You tried to reinforce the walls with studs made of fear,
seal the cracks with doubt.

Your efforts although futile were honorable,
desperately trying to stop any change to our normal.
The clarity of your presence, your purpose
has been seen, has been accepted.

Don’t worry about your position or your role,
without you, the fullness of love, expansion, freedom,
would not be known.

My sweet companion, it’s time to loosen your grip,
to allow your opposite to walk side by side. 

Love, draped in fine linens of abundance,
jewels of prosperity,
will no longer navigate in your shadows,
waiting to be seen.

Dear Lack, you don’t have to leave—
you just need to know,
you are not the only one walking this path.

— Stacy L. Pintor ©

Visit my website if you want to learn more about me and to check out my poetry, especially if you liked the poem above which is included in my poetry book, Alchemy of the Soul. You can also hear me read the poem on my YouTube channel (link available on my website):  

 https://www.baresoulworks.com

Thank you for visiting my blog, I truly hope some or all of the soul healing practices do help you along your sacred journey and provide you some relief and ease. And thank you for your support. Stacy 💚 

PLEASE BE ADVISED

The soul healing practices provided in this blog are meant as a tool to aid in healing, for improving mental and emotional health, and for inspiring self-transformation. The practices are not meant to be a form of psychotherapy or social work practice requiring a contractual, professional relationship. If you need consistent therapeutic care and/or crisis intervention due to being at risk of harming yourself or others, then seek professional and/or emergency services immediately.

The purpose of this blog is to share with you how I integrate my personal experience, spiritual growth and expansion, and past professional mental health experience in the form of soul healing practices. By sharing my experience, it is my hope it will provide a practical example of how to interrupt and lessen the cyclical energy of suffering and to elevate your soul.   

These practices work best when you are ready to heal and expand. It is okay if you are not quite ready. Please be gentle and patient with yourself, seek outside help both professionally and personally as needed. You will heal and expand when you are ready. Sending you so much love, warmth, and compassion. Stacy 💚

© Stacy L. Pintor 2016. All Rights Reserved.

Revised and updated in 2025 by Stacy L. Pintor ©.

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Reference:

Hanson, R., & Mendius, R. (2009). Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, & Wisdom. Oakland: New Harbinger Publications, Inc.