Life Coach Larry Stephens offering Chicago area life coaching
with both a phychotheraputic and spiritual orientation.
Spiritual Models

I have had a great interest in spirituality for at least the last 30 years. I have meditated, chanted, and steeped myself in the energy of some spiritual greats. The greatest of these masters have been Kwan Yin Buddha and Sai Baba.

I do not proselytize, but I am ready and willing to review your spiritual practice to find ways to make it work better for you.

I know that spiritual practice is one of the most personal and private of human activities and I would approach yours with that kind of respect and dignity. I always start where you are rather than imposing any of my beliefs. Many blessings on whatever way you are approaching the divine in your lives.

Sometimes after meditating, you may have an emotional discharge and do some crying.The crying seems to occur because energies you have immersed yourself in during the meditation will often go to where you have blockages in your system. And the crying is the external evidence that that blockage is being worked on or being cleaned out.
Another way to think of this is this: the old traumatic energy is like an energy knot in your system. And your energy has a hard time flowing through that area freely. But when you meditate, the sacred energies will try to break through that area of energy blockage. The symptoms of that happening may be crying or shaking or strong feelings flooding your system for a short time.

In most instances, people will feel better after this discharge of feeling. A few people may recycle through stuck areas over and over. For those people, I would have to know the individual content of the recycling. And then, I would suggest metaphor work as described above, or EMDR, or I would see what my own visualizations about them would bring up.

This is not to say that meditation will bring up only difficulties. Sometimes, people will have a great sense of peace from meditating or they may get a renewed sense of hope about their lives. The difficulties of one’s life may not change, but one’s confidence about facing those difficulties may really increase.

Larry Stephens, LCSW
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Life Coach Larry Stephens offering Chicago area life coaching
with both a phychotheraputic and spiritual orientation.