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I am looking, listening and thinking about ways to create study, and question and answer sessions for HEALING. If you are working with the book, audio or PDF - and you are specifically engaged with the exercises and bumping into your stuff - then you have my attention. I want to know where you are getting stuck, I want to know what you are hitting against. Let me know and I will figure out the best way to help you find the answer to your questions. Love, David
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Anonymous Says:
January 24th, 2010 at 7:51 pm
i wanted to reach out and tell you how much i love your new book.. have
been trying to take my time with it and not skip ahead.. working through
the exercises.. i’m sure i’ll read it again and again, learning more each
time. but for now, am just trying to absorb it and open myself to it.. it
can be overwhelming at times, especially when i think about what everyone is walking around with.. but then that same thought, reminds me how
connected we all are..
it’s opened me to areas that i wouldn’t normally see in myself, some
painful, some uplifting.. i struggled a bit with getting clear on
“self-love” versus “ego” - it feels easier to recognize in others, but
tougher to recognize in yourself.. so i’ll keep working on that.. LOVE the
intuition exercises! i have to get to one of you healer workshops.. but
the exercises are helping me understand when it’s good to tune in and when
it’s ok to tune out.;) Exercise 20, the truth meditation, is one of my
favorites too - am starting to do that on a regular basis. the patient
testimonials are really helpful too.
i am up to the cancer section and am nervous to read it.. there’s lots of
cancer in my family history, so i’m apprehensive about reading it. may
just take it slowly..
so, just wanted to thank you - it’s a great book and has brought to light
so many powerful insights.. i’m sure it’ll stay with me for years to come.
german Says:
January 24th, 2010 at 11:34 pm
I am working on the book and I understand why the exercise #1 is so important.
I stopped in exercise #2 for a 3 or 4 days. Feelings of unworthiness, being under-appreciated and being a victim were back.
It was difficult to refrain from continuing to read on (your suggestion not to skip exercise) I was fighting that decision but read the sexual abuse section anyway. Which was an incredible eye opener for me, very clear and direct. More uncomfortable feelings came, but also the hope and the choice to heal. At the bottom of page 142 you caught me, so i went back to exercise #2.
In the next days i just did execcise #1 and listened and read again, and again.It was pag 36 that helped me to move on: “Forgive those who take from or walk over you.They are your biggest teachers.TAKE YOUR POWER BACK FROM THEM AND LOVINGLY SET THEM FREE.Let them go by releasing your NEEDINESS for their love.Love yourself insted!”
As i write it i realise :That it self is a dairy exercise for me…breath,practice and write dawn the names of the ones i i want to releasing my neediness for their love and LOVEMYSELF insted.I compromise myself to do it.
I am on exercise #3, and I want to write it “perfect’ and answer every question “right” so I look for the scene and write about nature and sometimes I get distracted by asking myself, ‘’what does he meant by, do something good with it?”
I recognize that sometimes I play the fool in order to get attention.
I also recognize that healing myself from the sexual, physical and emotional abuse is something that i came to learn in this time nn the earth and probably that energy as you said has been following me for many life times.
I ask my self what would happen if I TRUST the universe completely and constantly?
How can I move forward all the exercises? I start writing about Nature for example, then I stop for whatever reason. Then is a struggle to get back to writing again???? Procrastination it is called?
BodhiQ Says:
January 25th, 2010 at 5:53 pm
It blew my mind as Exercise #1 in HEALING I couldn’t even do. Not even sure I understand it. I mean is it asking me WHAT I love about myself or the WAYS I show love to myself? funny this is I have a challenging time answering both. Just so amazing and so sad too!
David Elliott Says:
January 26th, 2010 at 9:03 am
It’s amazing how many people are getting stuck, frustrated, and irritated with Exercise # 1, and I say “GREAT!” If you are experiencing any difficulty with this opening exercise I am happy. Not at your difficulty, but at the prospects of how deep this exercise and all the exercises can go in helping you heal. I promise if you work diligently with these exercises you will move energy and heal from it. So, keep digging in, it will be the best investment of your life! Love, David
FBW Says:
January 26th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
I love your new book, it is helping me to think about things that are apparently buried deep within. I’m stuck on the first exercise and trying to figure out why it’s so hard to write what I love about myself. I did read on to the next sections and to the intuition chapter, an area that I’m most interested in developing. I have promised myself that I will do all the exercises starting with # 1 before reading more chapters, you are right, it will be the best investment, so I will dig, dig, dig. Thanks David!
Hummingbird Medicine Says:
February 9th, 2010 at 2:09 pm
Hi David. You had asked us about where we are stuck, and perhaps looking for ideas for study, and question and answer sessions. I first want to express how deeply your new book has touched and inspired me. I’ve read an ocean of books on my journey, and have been wondering if perhaps I needed to stop reading so much! I’ve wondered if all the words, methods, modalities, workshops and exercises were actually distractions… from loving and accepting myself, now, from wherever it is that true healing is actually possible. I’ve wondered if this search for healing is keeping me focused on the “search”, and on focusing energies on all that is ‘wrong’ and stuck in my life, in me… and does this ultimately bring me where I would like to be? After all, where awareness goes…. Then I magically came across your new book and something about your beautiful, heartfelt words resonated in and through me, my Being, with such new clarity. I felt newly inspired to make a commitment to do the exercises in your books. So as I meet this new healing journey of new exercises and breath work, I notice this presence of excitement, enthusiasm, renewed hope…and doubt… the familiar ‘here we go again’…”this” will be “it” feeling, that now has lost some innocence.
I wonder how a 30-yr + healing journey, from 17-50, can still leave me wanting to truly heal, and feel contentment within myself, still wanting to find the feeling of Love inside my heart, for myself, and to open my heart and intuitive gifts, to live the life of purpose, compassion, service that I long for? I’m not only asking from a personal perspective, but more ‘universally’ as it seems there are so many still searching for healing, year after year, after year, workshop after workshop, book after book, modality after modality. So much ‘work’, so many workshops, books, meditations, body work, breath work, energy work….and here I am…still searching, stuck… still longing to release and unblock all the places where I feel stuck or blocked in my life….finances, meaningful work, Love, joy, to be resilient, and remember to always make the choice to return to Love, and to help others on this journey - to truly, deeply allow healing to penetrate my scar tissue and let it into all of my vulnerabilities, and into my heart. Can more exercises, and the growing insights and awareness after reflective self-honestly bring this healing, this transformation, in body, mind, spirit, in both inner and outer world?!
I’m early on in the exercises, #5, and perhaps I will write to you again when I can address more areas where I feel stuck as I go through more of the exercises. It would be wonderful and helpful to have study, question and answer sessions. I found exercise 2 to be quite painful, as I had a visual display of the imbalance I’d felt to the core, and then faced some of the most challenging lessons of speaking up, speaking my Truth, saying no, and giving my love and energy to myself. It wasn’t a new realization for me, but it felt ‘harsh’ to see it so concretely, and was quite powerful for me.
I guess at this point my questions are more about healing in general, rather than exercise specific.
1. Many of us have done so much inner work and healing, read books, gone to numerous trainings, healers, energy work, body work… so what’s been missing?!
- Because so many of us have done so much inner work, and we’re still ‘here’ searching, what is different about your exercises that it can bring us the experience of healing, growth, evolution and contentment that those of us reading your book are so deeply longing for? Can ‘exercises’ really facilitate the healing that so many are seeking?
- Why does it feel as though there is still so much to heal, after so much work!? Is there something still outside of our conscious awareness that needs to be noticed? Is it ’simply’ an energetic release or shift that can happen through breath work alone…at cellular level.
- How do we bring an intellectual awareness of something that comes to light through one of these or any exercise, to actual healing, on all levels, and manifest that healing and opening experientially… as personal transformation, evolution, an opening of those previously blocked areas in our beings and lives… into manifesting the joy and contentment, abundance, meaningful work, love, etc? I’ve experienced wonderful and painful insights, and undoubtedly still many awaiting my notice, and yet I haven’t noticed that amazing healings come with intellectual awareness.
Having an “aha” realization hasn’t necessarily resulted in corresponding openings and transformations in my life, so how does healing manifest in our lives through these exercises? And hopefully take me out of this loop of mind!
Is it the combination of the exercises (mind), and breathing (body, Spirit)? Is the breath work grounding the awareness from the exercises, fully into the body, and releasing energetic blockages. Would breath work alone do this?
What is this stuckness that keeps us, me, searching, that keeps us seeking rather than finding, rather than simply healing and expanding into all that we long to be, do, give, share?
Can you address or share where the resistance in the breath work comes from and how best to meet it. I find that the breath work brings me to a profound state of calm, peace, inner stillness, and the beauty and gratitude I feel often brings me to tears.
I also find myself drifting away from the rhythm of the breathing. I sometimes find myself drifting to sleep. I usually don’t feel energized, as I feel so relaxed, and sometimes sleepy. I’m guessing that these are all forms of resistance. What are the best ways to meet this resistance? To simply bring myself back to the breath as I notice I’ve drifted? It would be great to see a video of someone doing this breath work…for a visual on just how deeply into the abdomen we bring the breath.
As a healer, I had to step back and focus all my energies on healing myself. I felt that I needed to focus on my own healing, as for the first time in my life, I was having physical manifestations. I realized everything I thought I knew, I knew not…I was empty, and anything I thought I was, or knew, was gone. I knew only not knowingness! I also began to notice that it was too easy for me to take on other people’s pain. I’m very sensitive and empathic, and began to recognize a certain “ah oh” feeling, when it felt like I’d connected too deeply to someone’s health problem, and then would notice I took it on by the next day. I would find that a helpful study topic… how not to do that!
Thank you. Blessings and gratitude.