CONTRIBUTIONS – 10

“What you continue to resist will persist.”

Carl Jung (1875-1961)

I started working with Sat as I was having some difficulty dealing with both personal and business issues. The business had been going for over 10 years but was experiencing a lot of headwinds at the same time as my family were facing some exceptional challenges. In addition to these problems, my wife and I were becoming more active as vegans in the animal rights movement. This had led to a lot of vystopia where we were dealing with all issues through a new perspective, ethical framework and without the use of drink or drugs.

Over a period of 2 years, I was able to rationalise and plan for the winding down of one business and setting up another. It meant a lot of detailed reflection on why the original business had failed and what I should do differently going forward with the new. It was extremely helpful to have Sat as the counterpart to my thoughts. He had been in business at a high level and was able to understand the difficulties I was experiencing. This helped me to arrive at decisions and a way forward that I was happy with and that felt reasonable and rational.

As the original business had been set up with my son, there was a lot of overlap between the business mentoring and the personal issues faced when my son had to leave. Many of the exercises provided by Sat and the Reach “Story of Health” were very useful in clarifying the situation in my own head. I was then able to make decisions having properly considered all the different personal aspects related to my son’s ill health. It was tough and emotional at times, but Sat is a very positive and compassionate guide and really helped to provide a high degree of resolution to my own feelings.

One issue that turned out to be very important during our work was that Sat is vegan. Since going vegan 5 years ago it has become an integral part of my life. It informs all aspects from the activist side campaigning for animal rights, to the ethics involved with the life changing decisions in the last 2 years. It can be hard to live in a non-vegan world, with friends and family who do not understand your radical change of belief. It was therefore a major benefit to be discussing all my issues with someone who shared those beliefs and values.

Sat has helped me get through two of the most difficult years in my life. The holistic approach used by Reach was something which I found very useful. There is a simplicity to the stories and diagrams relating to various different issues which makes it easy to understand, without losing any of the complexity relating to the human psyche. Spending time dealing with my issues with this kind and compassionate man who understands my values and perspectives has been a very healing process.

“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them”.

Rumi (1207 – 1273)

I genuinely don’t know any lonelier place in life than one of being in a place of anxiety and panic. Not anxiety of an everyday occurrence but one of sheer terror when you don’t know if the next moment is going to be your last, one that causes you to shake, scream, hide, run, cry all at the same time. One that overshadows every waking thought, one that runs through your broken sleep to the point where exhaustion upon exhaustion drains your broken body and fills your mind with such sadness, such despair that you lack hope in every area of your life.

The more inward you become, as a result of the terror, the more you analyse every symptom physical and emotional, to the point of withdrawal from those around you. This in turn becomes a way of life. Those that want to help can offer you no way back, how could they, they don’t know how you got there in the first place and neither do you.

What if there was a map, what if someone said to you, ‘I know the place you’re in all too well for I have been there, and something in their tone of voice makes you lift your head and take note, instinctively you recognize something in that someone’s voice that’s unspoken, that is reaching out to you.

So, instinctively you reach out one last time with every last bit of energy you can muster and little by little unconditional love and support ebb and flow in your direction and slowly lead you out of that place of loneliness, fear and exhaustion. This I believe is the essence of Reach, for I have been where you are and I am being gently led down this road out of the darkest place in my life.

If you are in that place I have spoken of, then I say to you, Reach with every last bit of energy you have. Reach because here there lies a map, where you will be taken by the hand and led to a more peaceful place and if you fall, as you may again, you will be gently picked up until you are led out of that place.

With all my heart I say to whoever reads this, I understand in my own way how you feel. Let this be the day you lift up your head, ‘there is a way out of this pain. Just begin to Reach’.

Stuart Morris

At the age of 29 I felt a bit lost in myself, didn’t know who I was or where I belonged. I certainly didn’t believe in myself or have any self-confidence. All I knew was that my past was still very much part of my life and I didn’t have any control over my life or where I was heading.

The day I met with Jo, a counsellor from Reach, was the day my life started to change…..I started to change. She supported me through hard times and helped me see the potential in me. She never judged me and I felt for the first time in my life that I could really be me without the ‘pretence’. I could be happy, sad, annoyed or excited and that was okay. Over the past 18 months I have come a long way. I got through…’I passed’.

The biggest challenges of my life were not to get through college or pass my driving test. It was to believe in me, trust in me and accept who I am, even the warts.

Well Jo, hope you are well, as for myself, I am still going strong, thanks for all your support. I will never forget it.

Best wishes always

Anon

Dear Easton,

Thank you so much for sending the CDs. I’ve been listening to them since I returned from New York on Friday and they are superb. I listened to ‘Beyond Limitations’ 5 this afternoon. I already feel they are making a difference. I really like the relaxing hypnosis effect and the visualisations and steady, unhurried way you speak on each CD. I am going to incorporate them into my daily programme, along with my affirmations, meditations and work on my diet. They will be a valuable part of my therapy. Thank you so much.

Helen

Personal Prayer

I am an expression of the Divine Self. The Divine Mind guides me. I am abundance. I am love, peace and harmony. Knowledge, wisdom and understanding reside with me – they are my teachers. Wisdom instructs me to ‘Know thy Self’.

My mission is to create abundance in human lives – that they may discover their Spirit selves – their power, their awesomeness, their ability to destroy mountains of fear, doubt and despair. I walk through valleys filled with laughter and orchards with exciting dreams. Those who know me are blessed and I, in turn, am blessed by knowing them.

Simon Hewitt