Rebirth, Re-patterning & Renewal

I witness a significant depth and change when a person has worked through pain and fear to a great enough extent that they can envision a new way of living. He or she senses within themselves new being and describes themselves as being renewed as though a door has opened and they have walked through into a new world. At the essential levels of self is that the energy and force at the base of their being has become energized by their own determination and hope. They can envision and act as though all the fears and sorrows they have experienced can no longer hold them back. They take their first steps like a newborn and go on, step by step, from there.

I can think of two clients who have dared to do this over the last month. The first is a single woman in her forties who was severely abandoned from birth on. She is highly intelligent and capable but has had trouble with attachment and trust based on the manipulation of her mother in particular. She has lived a single life with many friends but few intimate attachments. Her work with Shamanic Healing has enabled her to trust a new friendship and to move away to a new state, far away from her old residence. She ventured along an actual highway with trust and self respect and hope that she, despite her losses from childhood onward, could and would meet the challenges of a new life with new people and a very different atmosphere. She even called it a "1,000 mile birth canal".

This is rebirth. She feels new. She feels joyful. She has courage. She is hopeful. She knows herself and trusts she can manage her life. She actually seems like a different person to others. She is ready to love and be loved and to hope that in trusting a new relationship she will not be abandoned. She is now in a new life and says she can do this because she wants to, has to and is willing to overcome whatever obstacles she must to continue.

The second has been a heroin addict. She is no longer using drugs. She is a young woman in her early thirties who has been abused and abandoned by both parents. Her life, from eleven years on, has been one of increasing addiction. 

Today, after much work and effort, a depth of understanding and courage, she is enrolled in college and is thinking of a career working with animals and/or environmental problems. She is eager and energetic.

She worked with both parents and they have been helpful in her recovery. She sees herself as a different person, both physically and mentally. Her spirit is strong and because of her high intelligence, she has great potential. Although her parental problems are not completely solved, she is able to stand alone without drugs. She takes each one day as a renewed chance to stay strong and free. She is a heroine and a good mother to her own inner child. She uses her source or force or spiritual strength to meditate and to empower her new life. She is reborn a free and very able woman.