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Never Give Up

By Misa Hopkins · Comments (0)
Thursday, May 30th, 2013

Because I believe in you…

Never Give Up…

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX9FSZJu448

When you are about ready to give up…

remember there is someone that believes in you…

I know that deep within you the Divine is calling you to discover one simple truth—

That you are an expression of the Divine and the Divine is already whole, happy and healthy. When you remember this and in your compassion for yourself you commit to your health and freedom, the Divine within you rises up to inspire your commitment.

Healing is the natural outcome of your commitment and your compassion.

I know because I’ve done it too. And then I created a program to help others…

The Root of All Healing Self-Healing Program

This program was created just for you so that you can end your suffering and enjoy life!

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Tired and Fed Up with Suffering…

By Misa Hopkins · Comments (0)
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013

Sad Teenage Girl

Oh, I remember that feeling! It’s awful, isn’t it?

The other day I was getting ready to do a video for my Root of All Healing Self-Healing Program where I was sharing my earliest memory of that feeling. I had been in pain and discomfort for 10 years and no doctor had been able to diagnose what was wrong. I felt so helpless.

And there I was reliving that feeling for the first time in many years, thinking to myself, “Oh my, I had forgotten what this feels like.” In all candor, it has been a long time since I felt helpless.

When you or a client tell me you are feeling lost and feel your hope slipping, I can assure you my heart opens to you. My heart holds you with every word, tear and frustration. Your pain rekindles a memory of a time when healing felt that difficult to me. I feel compassion, but not the panic or fear that I used to feel personally.

Sure, I still have physical challenges. I just finished going through menopause. I still cut myself occasionally or let my joints get stiff from lack of care. I live in a body. They are built to respond to their environments and they age.

But they are also built to repair and rejuvenate. And every time I compromise my body, I get a chance to put that hard-earned awareness into practice. Gratefully now, I heal without the sense of helplessness.

Why?

Because I have healed so darned many times! I have finally come to understand that calling my body to its full health is part of the journey. It does not mean that anything is wrong with me and it doesn’t mean that the condition I am healing is going to last forever.

Everything changes. Including my body. Healing is consciously helping oneself in experiencing physical and emotional freedom.

Suffering occurs when we are feeling afraid—especially when we are afraid there is nothing that we can do and we will be stuck with the pain and discomfort forever.

I suffered when I felt helpless.

So, how does helplessness go away? My helplessness went away each and every day, and each and every moment that I compassionately honored my feeling of helplessness and then told myself I was going to do whatever it took to heal.

I harnessed the energy that was going into feeling stuck and despondent and used that very same energy to learn how to become a happy person living in a happy body.

I went to retreats, took classes, went to healers, and learned how to use my healing gift in the most effective way possible. I faced the difficult emotions behind my physical pain and learned how to release them. I tended to my healing each and every day in the same way I would care for a new-born baby, a kitten or puppy.

I nurtured myself into a new life—one without suffering, beyond feeling helpless.
You see, I watched my mother and father suffer before they died. They felt frustrated and helpless in the face of cancer. So when it was time for me to face my MS, I decided that even though it too was considered a terminal disease, I was going to heal.

Every day became a dedication to healing, and now each day is a dedication to awakening, including through the messages within my body.

As you now know, I recorded what I have learned during these 30 years in my book and in my self-healing program. Why should anyone have to suffer? I don’t believe anyone should.

But I do know it takes dedication, tremendous love and support to heal. If I could look you in the eyes right now I would tell you how precious you are and how much you deserve to give yourself the happiness and freedom within your body that you want.

And I would tell you I am here. I’m right here beside you, walking every step of the way, if that is what you want. I will meet you in the dream-time, hold you in my meditations, teach you in class, listen to you in counseling, sing to you, sit with you in circle…because when one of us heals ourselves, we heal the whole of humanity.

We end the helplessness and we end the suffering.

The best program I could design to help you heal is here: http://misahopkins.com/root-of-all-healing-self-healing-program/

 

 

 

 

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Self-Healing at SpiritQuest

By Misa Hopkins · Comments (0)
Friday, May 17th, 2013

Self-Healing Inspiration at SpiritQuestby Misa Hopkins

When you no longer perceive that healing is about finding the right cure, you realize you need to create an environment within you in which self-healing can happen.

Once you’ve become acquainted with the concepts of the 7 Self-Healing Steps in my book, The Root of All Healing: 7 Steps to Healing Anything, you might be asking, “How do I make those steps a part of my life?”

As you probably know, it can be challenging to create the inner environment I describe in the book into your day-to-day life. If you are like me, it is easy to fall into the same old habits, and along with those habits, the same beliefs and emotions that contributed to the illness in the first place.

It takes a conscious effort to shift internally. That is one of the reasons I have chosen over the years to participate in retreats and ceremonies. In those spaces it has been much easier to make fundamental shifts that remain a part of me.

Within the collective consciousness of the people that agree to gather, I discovered profound opportunities to gain personal insight into the steps I discussed in my book—question my assumptions, discover the unmet needs within me that still need to be met—and be in a space where I could more easily feel the love for myself and others that met my underlying needs.

In sacred space, I healed the deep wounds and fears I had been carrying that stemmed from sexual abuse. I learned how to lay them to rest, which created an opening in me to feel loved by the Divine—the need beneath all needs.

In that love, I healed and I soared.

How SpiritQuest Can Help Your Self-Healing

People gathering and choosing to live from compassion and caring is powerful healing balm.

This is the reason I’ve been facilitating SpiritQuest for 17 years. I saw how much I opened in healing and awakening through the beautiful Native ceremonies I was privileged to participate in.

So when I was called to hold space for others through ancient ceremonies, my answer was and still is, “Yes!”

As I have shared in other articles and in my book, Nature herself is a powerful healer. Sleeping on or in awareness of Mother Earth for one week is a cure unto herself. Some of my most profound mystical insights have occurred while dreaming in ceremonial space, connected to nature.

This is something our ancestors experienced all the time. And the good news is that these beautiful Native ceremonies can take you into Divine awareness that the ancient peoples—including the medicine people and shaman—understood. You don’t have to be Native to receive the gifts of ceremony and Nature. All that is required is an open heart.

Sometimes we just need to give ourselves a new experience in order to make the internal shifts that allow healing and awakening to happen. One of the fastest ways to give yourself a new experience is to change your environment—put yourself into a brand new situation that promotes growth and awareness.

So, if you are ready for a fundamental shift in your self-healing, I invite you to experience the supportive, loving and life-changing environment for self-awareness and self-healing of SpiritQuest in Nature, hosted by New Dream Foundation.

For those of you that have experienced Native ceremonies from the plains Indians, these woodland and coastal tribal ceremonies are quite different—oriented in the compassionate energy of the Sacred Feminine.

I look forward to meeting you in person and sharing sacred, self-healing space at Quest!

 

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Meeting Your Most Fundamental Self-Healing Needs

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Friday, April 12th, 2013

By Misa Hopkins

This week on Misa Live! Sacred Insights for Getting What You Want in Health and in Life, I talked about the basic needs within us that can cause and aggravate illnesses, if they are not met.

These basic needs include such qualities at being heard, seen and understood; feeling respected, honored, valued and worthy.

If you haven’t heard the broadcast, I go into much greater depth about how unmet needs manifest physically, and the two steps you can take to begin meeting your most profound need right now. You can listen here at: http://misamovies.s3.amazonaws.com/Sacred-Insights-Ep2.mp3

The very premise of my book, The Root of All Healing: 7 Steps to Healing Anything is based on the awareness that such unmet needs, left unmet, become festering emotional wounds that contribute to physical illnesses.

The seven steps in the book are designed to help each of us open up to and recognize these unmet needs, discovering ways to make sure they are met with love.

What many of us do, once we realize these fundamental needs exist, is demand that the world pay attention to us. Because the need feels so pressing when we finally awaken to it, our demands are usually so harsh, we push away the very people that might help us meet our fundamental need. Or we do the opposite, we request so softly that people around us don’t even realize we have a need and are trying to request their help in meeting it.

While we want the need met, there is also a part of us that is scared to death to be that vulnerable. And so we set up an energetic, push-me-pull-you field, where we are demanding what we want or discreetly implying we need something, but unable to actually ask for it and let it in.

I did this for years before I realized that I was actively pushing away the very healing I said I wanted.

My first and most pronounced unmet need was a desire to be heard.  This makes complete sense when you consider that I was sexually abused as a child and certainly, at least for one very profound moment, felt deeply unrecognized and unheard as the abuse was taking place.

What I didn’t realize was that in order to be heard, I needed to learn how to hear myself–quietly and deeply–with great compassion. No one else was going to be able to hear me until I truly heard myself.

That need had a lot less to do with day-to-day interactions than I thought it did. At its core, it came from a deep longing to be felt with compassion, and the person who could best feel me was me! I was the one that had walked in my shoes and it was my own compassion I needed to experience.

Once I could feel and hear the depths of my own heart, almost miraculously, so could others. The symptoms I had been living with for years, while my hormones were completely out of balance, were able to heal. I was able to attract the right doctor, receive the right therapy, and heal both the physical and emotional wounds.

I discovered that listening to others became significantly important. By listening in the way I wanted to be heard, I created a field of energy in which listening was valued. My world began to reflect that value, as people stepped into my life that honored me with their profound and heart-felt listening.

We didn’t always agree, but that wasn’t the point. I knew they heard me with their ears and their hearts, and that provided enough healing that we could agree to lovingly disagree.

In my experience, these fundamental needs must be met. They are not childish wishes. They reflect moments where our primary existence and right to be loved were denied. My surprise discovery was that as an adult they needed to be fulfilled from the inside out.

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The Nature in Healing – Environment for Natural Healing

By Misa Hopkins · Comments (0)
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013

SpiritQuestHave you ever noticed how much better you feel after a walk in the woods or along an ocean beach?

Have you noticed that some or all of your pain seems to slip away as you breathe in fresh air and fall into the restorative rhythms of nature?

Have you ever wondered why you feel better when you have more interaction with Mother Earth?

Believe it or not, there is a physical phenomena occurring as well as the emotional, and spiritual benefits you are experiencing. The phenomena is the result or your circadian rhythms coming into balance.

In Chapter Two of The Root of All Healing: 7 Steps to Healing Anything (in the second step), you will read about some specific symptoms of illness that occur when our circadian rhythms are out of balance. The symptoms (outlined in the book) can be found across a number of diseases and chronic ailments, so consider the implication for you of spending more time in nature.

These rhythms, and your connection to nature, are so fundamental to health that the famous Sioux elder and healer, Black Elk, required someone to put a mattress under a tree and sleep on the Mother Earth for four days before he would do healing work for them.

This relationship with Mother Earth is particularly important if you are sensitive or empathic. Empaths very quickly gain their sense of clarity and equilibrium by spending time in nature. When you are feeling overwhelmed or confused, some of the best medicine you can give yourself is time with Mother Earth.

Each year at SpiritQuest, highly spiritual and empathic people, and individuals in need of healing, come together to spend a week in ceremony, living with Mother Earth rather than on her. The Cherokee call this relationship, “The natural.” In my experience, “the natural” means we experience no emotional or physical turmoil because we are living within the natural order of life.

The natural order of life is filled with respectful co-existence and love, including our relationships with the elements, animals, plants and other humans. When we are struggling, we lose connection with the natural order. No wonder Black Elk required his clients sit and sleep with Mother Earth before giving them healing energy.

At Quest, because we emphasize living with awareness of our Sacred Feminine natures, we discover the healing power of holding our emotions in compassion and holding each other in respect and compassion. For one week, we let go of our compulsions around achievement to discover life giving quality of being present in loving regard for ourselves and all life.

Can you imagine the old patterns, beliefs and wounds from childhood that heal as you live in a community practicing respect and compassion, and living in harmony with the natural order?

If you want experience the power of the natural and holding in your sacred healing journey, join us at SpiritQuest this summer. You deserve to experience true natural healing that will inspire you for a lifetime.

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