Intuitive Healing Course!

"Charu’s Intuitive Healing course is exactly what humanity needs and is asking for…… pure love in action!" -Jo Pollit

On the 24th and 25th February, I held the first weekend of my new Intuitive Healing Course here in Cheddar, in southwest England. It was a phenomenal experience to see how fast people can transform and what beautiful healing can come through them after just a couple of days! The participants were drawn from all walks of life, with varying degrees of experience in healing. It was a pleasure to watch them bond effortlessly and mature rapidly in their capacity as healers inside the space the course provided.

We began with a meditation and intention-setting that brought us into clarity and focus for what we wanted to achieve. Each activity we did facilitated deeper and deeper shifts. The sharing and Q & A was deeply investigative, thought-provoking and touching. The attunements were very strong, and the paired healing and sensing was deep and profound. It was beautiful to provide the opportunity for the group to delve into some creative artistic expression and to do a beautiful group healing exercise with each person receiving healing in the middle of the circle of budding healers. We had gorgeous, spring-like weather and got to play outside as well, in the sunny garden with a view of Cheddar Gorge! I am so pleased to finally be offering this teaching, after many years of feeling called!

I am off to North America in a month, teaching and offering individual treatments in several locations. I’m making plans for Vancouver Island early/mid April, San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento and L.A.throughout May, and June, and NY early July. I am in the process of solidifying dates and venues. Please email me with any suggestions and/or contacts you might have for my trip.

If you are in the U.S. and would like to do the course or have a treatment, let me know. Where are you located? Would you attend the course if we could provide accommodation? I take all of your feedback into consideration as I plan venues and the routing of the trip. I am still looking for venues along the West Coast and in New York, and would also very much appreciate a place to stay and publicity. If you know people in the States who might be interested in healing, please introduce me to them, forwarding this newsletter on to them. If you love what I do, tell other people about it! Help me help the world, creating Oneness through healing!

"Charu is a unique and powerful healer; her presence is one of compassion and care for everyone she meets. It was a complete privilege to be offered an opportunity to spend time learning and being with this remarkable healer and carer of humanity. I felt so safe, nurtured and nourished over the 2 days, this allowed me to fully open up and embrace my own healing, whilst learning a powerful, pure, natural healing technique. The only thing that made it easier leaving this course and the energy that it created was knowing that I’m going back!!"
-Jo Pollit

Concluding the 40-day Intention Setting Process: Ceremony at Stanton Drew Stone Circle

On Winter Solstice, the 22nd December, I travelled to Stanton Drew stone circle with my partner Nandana to honour and release the intentions we had all been working with together. In my hands, I carried the papers containing all your photos and intentions which have journeyed with me and been held in sacred healing space these past 41 days. Through these papers, I have been offering you healing and prayers throughout our time together, including sending healing every night before bed, when I often fell asleep with your pictures held to my heart. It’s been an extraordinary privilege to work with you all, and I wanted to complete our journey in a symbolic and powerful way.

When we arrived at Stanton Drew, we stood outside the Great Circle and called on all the guides, teachers, and wise ones to be with us. We prayed for each of us to receive the support and guidance that we need. We asked for help and inspiration in our journey of manifestation.

What came through very strongly at the completion of this part of the process was the awareness that the predominant element that holds us back from fulfilling on all of our intentions is our negative beliefs about ourselves, others, and the world we live in. The feeling was that actually, our negative thoughts about the world and others are rooted in our negative beliefs about ourselves and especially in our belief that we are separate. We declared that as we stepped into the circle, each one of us would be set free from these negative beliefs, and especially from the pain of self-negativity.

We entered the great circle, walking slowly inwards, and stopped when we felt the energy of the centre. Lighting incense, we offered it to the earth. Several times we tried to set light to the papers there, but due to the cold wind, we could not get them to catch fire.

After a few minutes we realized that the stones were calling us over to use them as a shield from the wind. We walked towards the North East Circle, a smaller circle almost adjacent to the Great Circle, and stopped beside a large low stone placed between the two circles. As we approached this stone, we were reminded of the purposefulness we had felt at Avebury a couple of months ago and at Stanton Drew the first time we visited; the stones have a divine purpose to support the awakening of humanity. They want to work with us. They have been created and empowered intentionally to serve this purpose, and we perceive that they feel deep loss when they are not used in this way. (This is particularly evident to us at Stonehenge, where due to a protective fence, the stones can no longer interact with humans on a daily basis.)

We crouched together next to the large low stone between the two circles, creating a windbreak. We felt held by the stone’s embrace as we lit the papers; they caught fire immediately! Calmness settled over us as the stone emanated love, stillness and unity. It was like a magnanimous father transmitting acceptance and unconditional love to all his children who are limited by their perception of themselves as imperfect, separate beings. We were briefly carried into a state of Oneness with all of creation.

Working with the stones in this way connected us with the Divine Power that is always waiting to fulfil on our intentions, and bring us Home. This experience was an intimate, sacred interaction; a small opportunity to fulfil on the divine intention of these magnificent stones. We felt their power and generosity transmitted to all of your intentions as they were set free to return to the Light. As winter passes and the light returns, know that your prayers have been heard, your efforts recognised and your hearts seen. You are held in Love.

Blessed Be.

Set yourself free to thrive!

As we enter December, we become profoundly aware of the drawing in of the nights, the approach of the Winter Solstice and the end of the year. All of these signify completion; the ending of one cycle and the beginning of the next. It’s the perfect opportunity to take time to evaluate the year that has gone before in order to set ourselves free to welcome the New Year with a fresh perspective. What steps would we each need to take in order to have closure on 2011, so that we could move joyfully into 2012, with love and clarity?

Getting truly complete requires radical acceptance. It is easy to look back on the past and judge ourselves or another, forgetting that the wisdom that we have now we didn’t have then. Remember, as human beings we always do the best we can in any given situation. It’s the mind that comes in afterwards and condemns or judges. The heart knows acceptance, peace and letting go. The heart has no memory, it is only present, available to the moment. Getting the past complete is an opportunity to open the heart and accept life exactly as it is.

There’s a lot of rhetoric about looking to the future and manifesting our dreams. However the unprocessed past, which we have left unfinished in our hearts and minds, holds us back from really being able to move forward in creating all that we are inspired to create.

For most people, forgiveness is a crucial aspect of completing the past. I have written about forgiveness before, and about how important it is to have the correct attitude of love, compassion and acceptance when invoking the energy of forgiveness. We carry the past with us because we think it tells us important information about the world. We cling to the past in a vain attempt to keep ourselves safe in the future. Forgiveness is simply letting go of the need to hold on to the old perspective. It is the willingness to approach each new situation afresh, trusting our inner wisdom and listening to our hearts.

So what practical steps can we take to get closure on the past so that we can be free to create an inspired life that really speaks to us of the fullness of our hearts? The answer to this question will be different for each person. What I have done in this article is put together a few resources that are designed to support you in this process. Imagine if this Winter Solstice could be THE opportunity for finally declaring the past complete!

If reading this article inspires you to deal with a specific aspect of your life, I invite you to get in touch to book a session either in person or by skype/telephone. One of the things we focus on in individual healing sessions is releasing the past, allowing us to fully engage all our energies in creating lives that really inspire us. You can also work with the resources I have offered you below, including the Garden Meditation which I have recorded to support the release of old contractions and the creation of new intentions. Give yourself the gift of completion this Christmas! There’s no better time to do it, with 2012 just around the corner.

Resources

1) I have recorded a guided meditation to support you with this process, it’s available at Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/charusila The script is also available below, for those who would prefer to read it for themselves.

2) A ‘ritual of release’ is a powerful way to invoke the energy of closure. To do it, it’s best to choose a night when the moon is full or almost full. Gather a few friends, or do it alone if you feel safer. Take a bowl of water in which the moon can be reflected. Create sacred space by chanting Om three times, or whatever other invocation speaks to you. Invite everyone present to take a moment to invoke the energy that they are releasing at this time. One by one, approach the bowl of water and offer everything that you are letting go of into the water. Immerse your fingers in the water and focus on the reflection of the moonlight as you make your offering. You may choose to speak out loud, or you may simply speak in your heart. Do whatever feels natural. When each person has taken their turn, offer prayers of gratitude before picking up the bowl of water and carrying it to the sea/lake/river/pond – whatever body of water you have available to you – even the bath tub would do! Hold the bowl aloft and pour the water carrying all that you are letting go of into the bigger body of water, signifying the Earth’s capacity to receive and transmute it all. Spend a few moments in quiet contemplation.

3) Another way to create closure is to write letters to Spirit about the people/situations that you are incomplete with and burn them, setting the past and the people involved free in the fire. Be sure not to project the emotional energy that gets stirred up on to any of the other people involved. This activity is not about retelling your story, but rather about expressing it completely so that you can see through it and let it go!

Inspiration for Setting Intentions!

I thought some of you might appreciate this as an inspiration for setting your intentions and how to work with it during the 40 days!

Question: I'm in a place where 15 minutes is a big commitment, but I think it is the medicine I need. Can you offer some tips on setting an intention? I am wondering how broad or narrow it should be... For example, do you recommend one focus on healing a specific injury or on loving and respecting the body's needs?

Answer: What a fantastic question! Because it's a 40-day process I tend to encourage people to go with the bigger intentions to leave space for all sorts of insights to come to the surface that otherwise might be hidden.
It sounds like you really want to focus on the body, so perhaps the activity you could commit to would be something physically nurturing - 15 mins of self-massage, a hot bath, a nourishing walk etc. It doesn't have to be the same activity every day, it's the commitment that's important.
Through focusing your energy in a loving way, you get to see what blocks you - old/limiting beliefs, negative emotions about yourself, patterns of avoidance and so on.
Once we have engaged with these old patterns and faced them honestly, it becomes much easier to choose whether they really serve us or not. If not, we can ask for support and divine guidance to let them go and create something nourishing and NEW!

Natural Inherent Wisdom

Have you ever noticed how amazing human beings actually are?  Small children overflow with innocent love and exuberance for life.  However, how many of us continue to express this love and exuberance into adulthood?  These qualities become hidden to varying degrees, but they do continue to exist inside each and every human being. 

There is an astonishing magic to the human race that most of us appear to have forgotten: an innocent, loving, joyful passion for life! It is at the heart of everything we yearn for, every act of creativity, each expression of true love and care.  Yet in our day to day activities, it seems like most of us are caught in a multitude of ways of being that are not in alignment with our natural inherent joy and freedom.

We can all think back to a time in our childhoods when there was no doubt in our hearts that we ourselves, and the world around us, were inherently good and pure and beautiful.  This certainty in our hearts is what I am calling our Natural Inherent Wisdom.  Some say that this wisdom is just the ignorance of childhood and that with time the child’s perspective matures, but I would like to suggest that this recognition of the inherent goodness and purity of life and humanity is the truth.  The rest is just ‘beliefs’ that we made up to deal with painful experiences that we could not process at the time. 

We all have experiences that shake our trust in our Natural Inherent Wisdom about ourselves and the world around us.  You can call these moments of disillusionment, though the term indicates that what was lost was just illusion, which isn’t what I’m saying at all.  In the midst of an experience where the behaviour or words of others clash with our NIW, our child minds create ‘beliefs’, in an attempt to explain what’s happening around us.  We give up our innocent heartfelt knowing of goodness and decide that this new ‘belief’ is necessary to survive.  But it hurts.  Deep down inside, we can never reconcile ourselves to this new ‘belief’ and thus starts the internal battle between knowing ourselves to be ‘one with God’  and believing ourselves to be less than, not good enough, deficient in some way.

So how does this process occur?  The simple fact is that it occurs because in the moment of the experience, whether that be something deeply traumatising or apparently relatively innocuous, our tiny child minds and hearts cannot process the intensity of emotional energy that gets triggered and we have no resources to communicate what we need to the adults around us.  Add to this the fact that the adults around us are also out of touch with their own NIW and it often appears that it’s the adults themselves who trigger these emotions. 

In the absence of a safe and nurturing space in which to release these emotions, and express our confusion, we suppress the emotional energy, and build a wall of ‘belief’ to hold it in.  The strength of these walls is dependent on the intensity of the emotional energy that they protect.  They become cemented, and then central to our experience of life.  As we continue to grow, we look for further evidence to back up our ‘beliefs’, filtering our experiences to see only the parts that validate these ‘belief’ walls.  We are terrified of living without these beliefs, thinking that without them we are vulnerable to shock and confusion.

So how do we release these beliefs so that we can get back in touch with, and live from, our natural inherent wisdom?  I would like to guide you through an exercise that can open up small doorways to intuitively sensing it and trusting it.  Of course, this process is ongoing. I look at it like a glass house where all the windows and doors have been boarded up.  There’s a magnificent light inside the house which no-one can see because of all the boards.  The owner of the house (you) has a sense that there’s something really beautiful inside, but is unable to find out what it is.  Every time you do this exercise, it’s like piercing a hole in one of the boards, or even removing an entire board.  Eventually, though there may be many boards remaining, the light which is inside is so bright, the boards become almost unnoticeable.

You start to see yourself as this natural inherent wisdom rather than as all the beliefs you made up to wall in emotional energy.  Of course, sometimes in this process, there will be powerful emotions that come to the surface and it’s good to be prepared for that to happen.  The more you can trust yourself and open to these emotions, knowing that they are not the truth but the energy that you could not process as a child, the faster the windows of light will appear.

Take yourself to a quiet place where you will not be disturbed for about 15 minutes.  Make sure you have with you a notebook and pen.  You might want to light a candle or do something to mark this as a sacred moment.

1. Choose a belief that you know limits your freedom of expression – for example I chose ‘I’m a fraud’ for the purposes of writing this article.
2. Ask yourself what happened that made you believe this? Immediately a memory comes to mind.  For me, it’s the memory of a substitute teacher telling me, when I was 6 years old, that I was stupid.
3. Invite in the energy of safety and love – this might be a spiritual teacher or guide, your highest self or even just the essence of unconditional love.  Bathe the memory in this energy and allow yourself to feel the emotions it triggers – for me it was shock, fear (there’s something wrong with me), embarrassment (now everyone knows there’s something wrong with me) and shame. 
4. Connect into what your natural inherent wisdom was in that moment.  For me it was carefree, joyfully creative, spontaneous and playful.  I knew I didn’t need anyone else’s approval and that I was whole, complete and perfect just as I was.  Allow yourself to get the impact of this.  For me, it freed up so much energy, I had to go for a walk and then for a run! 
5. Take a moment to recognise all the additional ‘beliefs’ and subjective evidence you had piled on top of this original ‘belief’ wall.  For me, it was astonishing to see how much I had convinced myself of this ‘belief’ and limited myself accordingly.  You may need to take time to tune into your sense of your NIW a few times over the next few days, especially if more emotional energy from later experiences arises to be released.
6. Write a few words that remind you of your sense of your NIW and stick them on your mirror to keep it alive for you.  You may want to share your experience with a close friend or family member.  Speaking about your NIW can help make it more real for you. The more real you can make it for yourself, the better!