A New Phase
09 Aug 2010 Leave a Comment
in General Tags: allergies, asthma, colour therapy, counselling, digestive ailments, holistic, meridian psychotherapy, phobias, psychotherapy, stress
Its been awhile since I posted here, and in that time I have started a new phase in my life. I have spent so many years trying to do what I thought was the right thing, or what I thought would please others that I have never pursued a career of my own. But with a new baby on my hands, a lack of money, and a lack of work I have had to seriously look at my situation. I have done so many things in a work sense but I have nothing on paper to prove any of it.
So, at long last, I sat down with a piece of paper and made a list of all the things I think I’m good at, all the things I am bad at and all the things others think I’m good at. Then I sat for awhile and thought about what I really wanted to do with my life, for me. I didn’t particularly think of jobs, just what would make me happy and fulfilled. The obvious answer that came up was to write, and that is something I will never give up on, but I wanted something that could help me financially which was a little less hit and miss. My friends have always said I am a great listener, and give good advice, or at the least a balanced viewpoint. One thing that makes me happy is to be able to help people. I am also very intuitive and have had a lifetime of learning in a spiritual sense. To cut a long story short what at last came to me was that I should start some sort of therapy training.
While my baby is still so young I can’t go away on courses and so have had to settle for correspondence methods. My aim is to try and get to workshops as and when I can in the future. But for now I have found two courses that interest me, and fit with what I want to do, and are both accredited to governing bodies for holistic therapies. One is Colour therapy and the other, and actually the one that I find most exciting, is Meridian Psychotherapy.
Colour Therapy can be used expansively to cover all areas of life and has many avenues that I can pursue, but crucially it can be added to the Psychotherapy route to enhance my service. Meridian Psychotherapy is an energy therapy working on set points on the meridian, with a serious of taps, whilst focusing in on emotions that are causing a problem. That is a very simplified version, but it called to me for three reasons. Firstly I have knowledge of meridians, energy centres and Chinese medicine through my Qi Gong work. Secondly I have a keen interest in psychotherapy, something that has drawn me for awhile now. Thirdly the range of problems that the therapy is generally (but not exclusively) used for and works well for, are experienced by a great deal of people today and, I believe, stem from our modern culture. Stress, phobias, asthma, digestive problems and allergies are treated successfully and quickly. Often the client can carry on the treatment themselves meaning that treatment is not prolonged and expensive.
There are many other therapies that I would like to add to Meridian psychotherapy, including Cognitive behaviour and Counselling. At last I have found something that excites me, that I feel confident I can do, and that gives me a great sense of purpose and achievement. Of course it all comes back to just following my intuition. As I have found over the last two years, when I do this everything falls into place around me and life becomes easier. Even the money for the courses appeared when I needed it! I wish I had taken heed twenty years ago!
