Arriving home at midnight after driving in a blinding snowstorm from Denver, I snuggled up to my heated furnace but I was spent and couldn’t muster the energy to stoke his fire and reconnect.
My alarm woke me up five hours later from a dead sleep. It was time for some spiritual awakening and I was ready for it.
Just before I left for Denver, I had a bomb dropped on me that left me second guessing humanity and friendship. I know you want the juicy details but I guess you have learned that I’m not into adding fuel to negative energy.
I drove up to Aspen in the dark, barely awake and began my paradigm shift of consciousness with Stefan, the trained psychologist of whom I had met online through social media and had already done a one on one session with by phone.
Stefan’s retreat was well thought out. The schedule entailed meeting in the mornings to connect with our inner-selves through meditation, yoga and group work, from there we had a one on one session with him and then regrouped later in the afternoon to discuss our personal challenges and learn tools to help us work through them.
My one on one session began in the gondola and continued as we skied and rode together down Spar Gulch, stopping to the sides at times to sit and talk on a deeper level. Stefan radiated an inner peace that made me feel safe as he led me to bringing forth raw emotions. When these emotions were revealed he quickly got to the core by asking me what my beliefs were and what the actual truths were, giving me tools and statements to help me reach a peaceful place with them. After our session, I went off for a hike and processed all that I had learned.
I told Stefan before we met that I already felt very spiritually connected and I secretly questioned what it was that he would be bringing into my life to help me reach a higher ground.
Rather than bore you by going overboard with my analysis of this retreat I am going to get to the core of what Stefan gave me that has made me reach an elevated consciousness and a place of peace regardless of the fact that certain aspects of my life seem to be falling apart.
What I learned was that although we are all spiritually connected, there are certain tools we can use to help us stay within our higher selves more consistently and it begins with nurturing ourselves where we speak from a place of love from our higher self to our lower self to bring inner peace, for we all know that unless we are peaceful within, we are not balanced.
As I move about life now, I am able to process the bad energy that has been hovering around me, threatening to do me harm and bring me down, and I know that no matter whether people misjudge me or do their best to work against my hard earned efforts to become successful and no matter how much Wade and I are struggling to hold on financially and no matter how much I am able to give of myself to other’s needs and/or suffering and no matter how much I wish I could give more of myself to the one’s I love, the truth is that I am here for myself, fully and peacefully and I am more than grateful to Stefan for teaching me how to get there and stay there.
Thank you Stefan!
Friends at Peace after a session
I love your site. We share the same WordPress theme- so it’s cool to see how you use it. I send you love, courage and humor in your quest for peace. It is inspiring to read how tenaciously you are working on it…or not working…but surrendering to it. Be well. Love, Suzi
Suzi Banks Baum´s last [type] ..F is for sublime poetry by the esteemed and Fantastic Cynthia Zarin
Sounds fantastic! I am so glad you got to do that…you deserve it!
MMF
meagan frank´s last [type] ..Love at First Kiss…
I had a pogo stick when young. Never thought about spiritual healing
while bounding up and down. Maybe he has something !