Gentle Journey Soul Coaching
Soul Journeys and Past Life Regressions
Gentle Journeys
A New Direction - Part Two
It's hard to believe, but in November I'll be entering year two for Gentle Journeys! Year one was definitely a learning year filled with wonderful opportunities of meeting new people and experiencing new things. Now that I have a little bit under my belt I feel like it's time to focus in on the parts of this endeavor that really thrill me and to move away from the parts that do not.
Within the next three months I hope to revise my web site so that you will not go directly to this blog, but to the blog that exists on my actual web site. It will make for smoother navigation and uniformity of presentation. The web site itself will also undergo some changes, although I am seriously considering keeping the same design and format. I'm addicted to adding bright pictures of nature and I feel like they bring life to the site!
As for content, you may see less in the number of services offered, but more quality in the type of services offered. I have always been passionate about working with women and assisting them in finding their own empowerment, so this will be an area of focus in the up-coming year. Though I certainly believe that soul coaching is effective for men, I find that I am most passionate about the aspects of soul coaching that enhance the quality of life specifically for women.
I will also be putting some effort into a few writing projects during the next year including a collaboration with several soul coaches around the world that will be published and available for purchase in the summer of 2009. A few writing opportunities have arrived for me during the last year and I enjoy them immensely! With that in mind, I intend to concentrate on honing this skill to improve and provide my most quality work for the projects to which I have committed.
Look for some great things coming in the year ahead! Many blessings.
Cheryl
A Personal Past Life - Part Two
As I mentioned, my first past life experience was conducted by a local therapist that was, at that time also working with regression. This took place about eight or nine years ago and at that point in my life I wanted to experiment with past life regression but didn't seek to tie my experience into anything in my present life.
I recognized the person that appeared as my father figure in that past life regression as someone that is in my life now, so I spent some time analyzing the relationship conflicts that we experience now in the light of the conflicts that I felt during that regression. One of the most intense emotions that I experienced during that regression was abandonment and it plays a major role in my present day relationship with the same person, though not in any other area of my life.
That seemed to be the obvious tie, but as time went on I also realized that the other karmic debt that I carry from that life is a continual fluctuation between an intense need to be alone and an intense need to be around people that are accepting of me. I vacillate more than other people that I know! I'm sure that there were other life times where I had this experience, but this particular life time was a good example of how my soul adjusted to my physical circumstances.
Today, I live in a large family, in a small community where I am somewhat of an oddball, but also well liked and mostly accepted. There are times that I need to set aside for alone time and when I respect those needs, the flow of my family life is much more smooth.
I thought that it would be helpful for those of you that have explored past lives or have a curiosity to see how understanding of the experience often happens over a period of time. Be well.
Cheryl
A New Direction
I have blogged extensively this year about my experiences with angels and other spirits. As an inexperienced medium, I've also learned a lot. The first thing that I've learned is that I definitely do not want to be the next Sylvia Browne. With that in mind, I'm announcing that I will no longer give readings. It isn't something that I've charged a fee for, but it is still something that I've done periodically upon request and I have decided not to continue that practice.
I believe fundamentally that we are all here on our own path, for lessons and sometimes just for pure experience and that within that experience we must find our own answers. It's difficult to find those answers sometimes and more often, it is harder to accept the ones that we find. All the same, your pattern of life is unique to you and only YOU can choose your most desired path!
Additionally, I have a firm belief that everyone is in contact with the spirit world and receives their own messages in ways that they are ready to receive them. When I was a child I was taught that other people would tell me what God wanted for my life, and that is a grave, erroneous understanding. YOU know or can discover the messages that you need from Spirit! It is also vitally important that you remember that in this physical world, YOUR understanding, outlook and choices has more import than any message through a medium that you might receive from Spirit.
I have two requests that I'll be finishing, but moving ahead I will be focusing on other areas in this blog and on my web site. Good tidings to all and for those of us in the USA, my well wishes through this most difficult time.
Cheryl
Going to the next level
I love quotes, but unfortunately, rarely can I recall one after I've read it and put it away! I have a little compilation of quotes now on my computer that I keep and search through whenever I'm looking for something schnazzy. In any case, here is one that I found in a magazine yesterday:
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them." Albert Einstein
I've read it over and over because it can be applied to so many things. The first thing that came to mind was the current presidential election in the USA. We're all looking for a new way of thinking from those in government. But it also applies to soul coaching in the sense that soul coaching teaches how to tap into the next level, which perpetuates a different way of thinking.
I'm sure like me, all of you will be able to also apply this to situations in your personal life as well. I'm going to use this quote as my meditation piece for the next few days as it feels like it will open more doors for me. Many blessings to all.
Cheryl
A Personal Past Life
I thought that I'd share some of my own experiences with past life regression. My first introduction was through Sylvia Browne's books that I started to read about twelve years ago. Coming from a firm, fundamental Christian background the idea that I might have lived on this earth before was strictly TABOO! The introduction had to be a slow one for me and something that happened over time.
As my personal spiritual practice grew, I eventually decided to try a past life regression and was thrilled to find out that the therapist that I had seen while going through my divorce also worked with past life regression. Like most people, I wasn't sure why I wanted to do it, and I wasn't sure what I would find. I also wondered if I would find anything. I admit that I was skeptical.
Here's part one:
My first experience was an intense one. It took some time for me to relax, but once I "got" there, I was REALLY there! I saw myself as an older teenage girl of Indian descent. Not American Indian, but perhaps from somewhere in India, though the place of my birth was not to be revealed to me during that regression. I was in a small village and the houses were thatched and located on a cliff near an ocean. I guessed that it was a Norse village based on the clothing that I saw some of the men wearing.
I knew that I had been brought to this village from a far away land when I was very young. The Norse men had plundered the place of my birth and killed it's inhabitants. It was not clear to me why I had not been killed, though I understood that I had been only a baby when it happened and perhaps that was the reason that my captor had taken pity on me. There was a man sitting outside of my hut and I knew him to be the man that had brought me to this village. He was a sailor and was often gone, and what I felt was intense resentment that he so often left me here in the village. The villagers would not talk to me or acknowledge me because I looked different than they did. I was basically an outcast and lived a very lonely existence when he was out to sea.
Just for the record, we had no sexual relationship. It was more one of father and daughter. I wanted to go with him and he refused saying that women did not go to sea. I knew that he worried about my fate if I were to go, but I so hated being left behind that I didn't care. This argument had occurred many times and although he was with me at the hut, I knew he would soon leave and I felt absolute rage toward him.
As my regression progressed, I saw that I remained in the village and became somewhat of a medicine woman. I spent long hours in the woods by the sea and developed a keen sense of the healing properties of plants. I remained a village outcast, but was also respected for my knowledge and the villagers paid for my services. Eventually, my "father" died and I remained in this village my entire life. I died alone. I felt that I hadn't belonged in this village, but there was a sense of acceptance upon my death and I didn't feel lonely.
Part two to follow!
Cheryl
Introduction to Guided Meditation
Has meditation ever seemed too mystical or confusing for you? Have you watched others sit in difficult positions apparently reaching nirvana and feel like you'll never get there? Ever wondered what the point of it is? Now is your chance to strip away all of the mystery and get there yourself! Toss out the words, "I can't meditate" and welcome in your new power!
We'll experience short guided meditations to music, to drumming, meditating on objects and even a personal journey to meet your spirit guides! When you leave this class you'll be armed with the tools to gently move forward into your practice with confidence! To register e mail: Cherylaumberger@comcast.net or call 717-608-7926 (this is not an on line class - cost is $15.00 per person).
A New Goodie
This is MUST for all of you that are so dilligently working on self-awareness! Check out: www.journalsforempowerment.com. I have the first journal and I LOVE it. It's the place that I feel free to draw and to write down all of my weird ideas. Even though I'm absolutely not having any more children (I have four) I can't wait to get the next journal. I'll keep it to gift for my next friend that is embarking on motherhood. These are just delightful!
Cheryl
A Message from the Angels
I have had some concerns about my youngest son, so I decided to have a conversation with the angels. I find it difficult to "read" for myself because I'm always worried that maybe I'll only hear what I want to hear. I suppose it's the same thing with every profession. You know, the shoemaker's children go without shoes, so to speak. In any case, I decided to talk to the angels and I received a message that was pretty clear. In fact, after I received the message I had two friends ask about specific situations and I realized that the message that I received wasn't only for me.
Here was the lesson:
As parents we want our children to live lives that we deem to be healthy, productive, meaningful and full of joy. We do not understand that our definition of those things is not always in line with the purpose for which they have come. What we label "good" or "bad" is not good or bad in the world of spirit. We feel our duties to our children to teach them right from wrong, to provide for them and to give them the encouragement that they need, yet it is hard for us to grasp that they are here with their own agenda.
From a past life perspective, they may have even been here more often than we have and their soul may be at a more graduated state than ours! This is supremely difficult to comprehend and accept.
My personal message from the angels was about honoring myself by fulfilling the duties that I defined for myself, but allowing my son to bloom in any way that he will bloom. I understand that some of his choices may not be what I find to be acceptable choices, but I will need to give him space for that and love him at the deepest level that I can. Probably despite the outward course that his life may take.
I'm still learning the full impact of this lesson, but I thought I'd share it with all of you. Blessings.
Cheryl
Our purpose and our past lives
One of the most common struggles for everyone I know and everyone I meet is to understand what our particular purpose in life is. Mistaking what we do to make money as our life's purpose is something all of us do at some point in our lives. This error in understanding can either create utter devotion to our occupation or complete despair if we loathe what is required of us in order to make money. Even the most wealthy among us must DO something in order to sustain a lifestyle, but the bottom line is that we are more than what we DO.
When we completely comprehend that we have existed as other human beings then our sense of self becomes much larger than the limitations of what we DO in this life time. Our past lives have included times when we have been poor, rich, black, white, male, female and a whole host of other adjectives that would take life times to list! My point is, our purpose in THIS life is the same as our purpose in every past life. It is just to be here.
Sure, our souls have lessons to learn and we've absolutely mapped out a journey, but there is no need to live a life filled with confusion about the purpose of this life. Just being here is enough. Each of us has already achieved greatness because we are a part of all things. All things being magnificent, whole and outstanding! Yup, that's us. Past life, current life, future life......we are enough just the way that we are.
Cheryl
When we completely comprehend that we have existed as other human beings then our sense of self becomes much larger than the limitations of what we DO in this life time. Our past lives have included times when we have been poor, rich, black, white, male, female and a whole host of other adjectives that would take life times to list! My point is, our purpose in THIS life is the same as our purpose in every past life. It is just to be here.
Sure, our souls have lessons to learn and we've absolutely mapped out a journey, but there is no need to live a life filled with confusion about the purpose of this life. Just being here is enough. Each of us has already achieved greatness because we are a part of all things. All things being magnificent, whole and outstanding! Yup, that's us. Past life, current life, future life......we are enough just the way that we are.
Cheryl