Retreat
Emotional Healing

When we practice gratitude for what we do have in our life, it is a high frequency vibration that helps transform and transmute any discordant or destructive energy associated with a painful memory or experience.

It is important to remind ourselves that we cannot change what has happened to us in the past. If we hold on to memories or traumas, we cause ourselves continued suffering. There are experiences that can never be changed, no matter what we do: we cannot go back and prevent them from happening. It is as if an external destructive energy had entered our life when we were innocent, but by keeping it alive in our memory, thoughts, feelings, personal stories and in our physical and mental body, that external energy ends up becoming a self-destructive energy.

So when we can find the healing, teaching, wisdom or gift that any positive or negative experience left us, we can also feel gratitude for it. As one of my elders says: “Thank you for what I could not learn with love in my life and that I had to learn in a difficult or painful way, but that at this moment I understand what it taught me and I am ready to let go of it, transform it and release it.”

If one fails to understand the teaching, wisdom or healing, the simplest prayer would be: “That was so horrible that I will never let it happen to me again.”; and this becomes the wisdom for which we can feel gratitude. Thus, it is understood that gratitude and forgiveness are energies and emotions that help transform and transmute the discordant or destructive memory or trauma.

It is important to be careful: even if someone understands something on an intellectual level, they may still need other forms of therapy or healing - be it somatic, energetic, physical or spiritual...Spiritual bypass is never an option!