The Best Gift You Can Give Yourself
January 18th, 2010, by Shelley Riutta
It is day three of the Workshop—I’m looking around and everybody looks so different from when they first arrived. Faces are more relaxed and open—there are more smiles and a sense of lightness and peace. The protectiveness of the Conditioned Self is dropping away and people are getting that wonderful experience of being in their Authentic Self.
What is key here is being in their Authentic Self within a group of people, a place where they can be seen for who they really are. So often in groups people are in their Conditioned Selves using various methods to control how others feel about them—trying to be perfect, saying the right thing, being nice, talking a lot, talking very little etc.
To be in an environment that shows you and supports you to be who you truly are is one of the many gifts of attending a Transformational Workshop. How many places can you go and have an environment that supports you to be incredibly loving with yourself and supports you to open up more fully to the love of your spiritual guidance? I recommend to all of my clients that they do whatever they can to attend a Transformational Workshop. This immersion in the powerful transformational processes in a supportive, loving environment is the best way to get the deepest experience of the gifts this profound healing.
Having the Workshop experience of deep connection with your Inner Self and your Spiritual Guidance for multiple days is something that gets absorbed at a cellular level, which you can carry with you into your life. The experience can serve as a touchstone for you to remember what it feels like to be in your Authentic Self and also as a touchstone for deep support for Loving yourself. After leaving the Workshop, you are much more likely to stop yourself from going into Conditioned patterns that are unloving because you have had a deep experience of being Loving with yourself.
Another one of the gifts of a Transformational Workshop is a deep healing of the Conditioned self. The level of safety and support at the Workshop allows for access to memories that may not surface in your daily healing process. I remember at a Transformational Workshop I attended– I was being held as I was watching the session in the center of the circle. I was feeling deeply relaxed and very safe—in that space I had the most vivid memory of my beloved maternal Grandmother. It was a memory of eating ice cream with her at her favorite ice cream place—I was 5 years old—I was there again feeling the love of my Grandmother, the sounds of the people talking around us, the rich color of the wooden booths, the sweet taste of the chocolate covering the ice cream.
That memory was a gateway into a deep healing around food for me—associating sweets with the love from my Grandmother. There are memories/feelings that often will not surface until the child within feels a deep level of safety and support.
When is a good time to attend a Workshop? Anytime you want to move into a deeper level of loving yourself. Oftentimes people attend when they are stuck in their life in general—or stuck in a specific area— relationships, parenting, work, self-worth, inability to manifest ones dreams, confusion about future direction in life. Sometimes people attend when they are making a big transition in their life. Attending helps to take you to a whole different level in your life.
The energy during intensive is extremely high due to the strong intention and love of the group and also the high energy of the physical location where the Workshops are held. Because of this you will have experiences with your Inner Self and Guidance that will open you up to profound insight and wisdom that can move you to new levels of Joy and freedom in your life.
Another gift is there is always a wonderful divine orchestration that unfolds during intensives. The right people come together to help facilitate each other’s healing in ways that are miraculous. Examples of this are: the person working in the center does a piece of work that mirrors your own issues or the work they do touches off a profound insight or memory for you. Or someone in the group reminds you of someone you need to do some healing work around.
An example for me was in the Workshop I mentioned earlier the woman who was my room-mate looked so much like my maternal Grandmother and had a similar energy! Attending a Transformation Workshop is one of the most profound Loving Actions for yourself and your healing. When you take the step forward to move towards healing—Spirit steps forward too in ways that are unimaginable.
I am doing a 3 day Transformational Workshop on March 11, 12 and 13th in Ocala, Florida. For detail about this event—go here.