Non-Dualistic Spiritual Counselling
*** UPDATE 30th May 2011: I am currently only seeing clients who are either experiencing a Spiritual Awakening (or wondering if they are) or who have a sincere desire for this. Thank you. ***
To book a Non-Dualistic Spiritual Counselling session, please make payment on the Hire Me page.
In general, clients who come to see me have a foot in one or both of two camps. The first is where one is experiencing emotional pain and the second is where there is a desire for the spiritual.
Whatever the case, the two camps are really not very different, just that the level of awareness varies. Indeed, essentially, we will be working on your level of awareness, as this is key to all that you have been looking for, and it is exactly that which enables emotion to be released. When we no longer dodge ourselves, we will find that the journey is more pleasant when ‘what is’ can be accepted in the moment.
At first it will be a question of becoming aware of awareness itself, since we are usually too much a victim of our own thoughts and analyses to know what we mean by awareness – initially. Many people do not even know what their feelings are – this was my own experience too. As per a common quote, the longest journey you will travel is the 18 inches from your head to your heart.
This is the journey I can help you with. In sessions together, we will learn to see what is there, allow it, and let it go.
My approach is non-dual, or Consciousness-focussed. We are essentially all just One, and there is just Oneness – the Greater Mind, Divine Consciousness, All That is, Source – whatever you wish to call it, even God, is unimportant. As Jiddu Krishnamurti said, the tree itself is not the same at all as the word tree.
We are here to evolve (nope, not to upgrade the car!) and there is most certainly an ever-increasingly Light-filled Divine being in each of us. It just depends to what extent we spend our energy on hiding this, or allowing its revelation in our life directly. I don’t like to use the word Divine ‘spark’ as that implies we are just a fraction Divine. but we are most certainly more than a fraction of God (non-religious God, I may add).
This Divine aspect can become brighter and brighter with choices you make for your own evolution. We are souls having a physical experience for a specific purpose, and I see my role as helping you to uncover what you are here to do in this lifetime, and to release what does not serve in order to see your own gifts and spiritual fulfillment blossom. Sometimes we need to see what we are not, in order to realize what we are. In seeing this at work in our lives we can come to have a ready acceptance for all suffering that arises, however painful it may be, because it is indeed what eventually leads us to choose to no longer create suffering for ourselves and others (or less so at any rate).
“…the spiritual side of your life is so important to the final outcome.” – SaLuSa, 22nd November 2010
In all of this, there is part you have to play as my client. You need to allow yourself to be just as you are. A tall order for sure! Mostly we have learnt how to suppress ourselves, and make ourselves ‘bad.’ But this is a compensation mechanism for a fear that has no basis in reality. It just takes a helping hand sometimes to see this. We are not our feelings and the truth is they always pass. Nothing is static, each moment is alive and new. The awareness of the space between thought and emotion is what ultimately brings peace. Peace cannot be found in the busyness of our emotional life. And being at peace, as per the quote right at the bottom,is a prerequisite to becoming fully conscious.
Empowerment over the emotional hindrances we face is essential to soul evolution. Our pain comes for a reason – to be released, so that we can reveal Truth. My approach is non-religious, as you may know, although I have experience of journeying seriously through two religions, and being born into a third. Religion is not a necessity on the spiritual journey. I guess the only one I have a fondness for is Zen Buddhism, which does not preach dogma.
If you are experiencing an Awakening, and somewhat confused, we will explore what is in the way of the process free-flowing and what it means to finally transcend ego and come into the Real domain.
If you have a desire for Spiritual Awakening, but can’t seem to make it happen, I will work with you to unveil blind spots on the path of your spiritual evolution, in challenging, yet gentle sessions.
Essentially, my aim can be summed up in these words:
“Fear, anger, sufffering, betrayal, privation, and war are completely illusory concepts that have never existed, and never could exist, yet within the illusion they appear intensely real and painful. So you need to awaken and leave these extremely unhappy experiences to dissolve and disintegrate back into the nothingness from which you seem to have constructed them. They are meaningless and useless distractions from your true existence.” John Smallman / Saul
Please read my FAQs for specific questions about my work.
Booking Counselling – In the first instance please contact me by email or phone with to book a session, or if you have any questions, after which payment can be made via the Hire Me page.
Fees are: In-Person: £45 per session, Skype / Telephone £40 per session.
Location: In-person in S E London. I am based in SE26 (women only) and for both women and men at The MindBody Therapy Centre, London, SE23, UK.
One-Off Session: I offer one-off sessions for those that feel they may not want ongoing counselling but want to have a confidential discussion. Book in usual way – see above.
Email Counselling: I offer Monthly Email Support for those who wish to have more regular input by email.
Skype Counselling: Download Skype here. My Skype id si Reena Gagneja. You will need a webcam if your computer doesn’t have one built in. I am on GMT London, UK time.
Skype Counselling with me is suitable for a large number of areas but I do not recommend it for personality disorders, bipolar and other serious disorders as these are better off with face-to-face sessions. All Skype sessions are encrypted to ensure privacy and confidentiality. Please note I prefer Skype counselling to telephone Counselling wherever possible, as telephone counselling is limited in communication potential. Also, it may not be suitable for those with what has been diagnosed as a serious mental illness (or if you are taking medication for such conditions), or for those experiencing suicidal thoughts (it is better to see an expert face-to-face or speak to the Samaritans in the first instance (www.samaritans.org Tel: 08457 90 90 90 if you are in the UK).
“To come Home, you have to open yourselves up once more and accept whatever situation you find yourselves in — because it is a lesson that can lead you through the suffering, out of the illusion, and Home to your Father’s loving embrace. Blocking your feelings in denial, or holding on to them as suffering victims, does not work. You have to accept them as they occur, without judgment, and allow them to flow through you, as they most surely will, so that you experience the space between them, enabling you to realize that you are not those feelings, however intense they may be… Feelings and emotions are similar, they are temporary and they will pass. You are not controlled by them — nothing can control you — but you can react with them and seemingly make them part of you, or you can just observe them and let them pass. When you do the latter their intensity will die away and you will be able to be at peace. Being at peace is a prerequisite to becoming fully conscious.” – John Smallman, 5th Sep 2010
To book a session, please make payment on the Hire Me page.
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