July 31st, 2011
What if when we fully felt our feelings they would turn into joy?
Sri Bhagavan of the Oneness University in India teaches any feeling or sensation experienced fully in the present moment will eventually transform into joy. This includes the most challenging situations or intense emotions. This is also the way to overcome fear.
Robert Tennyson Stevens, Conscious Language also says that any emotion fully felt will turn into its strength, grief into joy, fear into confidence, and pain into love.
When we stop resisting pain and surrender, Divine Grace can enter our bodies. Contraction ends and a flow of energy opens, allowing change. I have experienced this on occasion.
To allow this transformation involves a mastery of staying in the center of a feeling. It means neither going out of body nor drowning in the feeling.
We can understand the above experience better by seeing a surfer in the curve of a big wave, perfectly balanced on his board. He neither gets tossed up into the air nor does he get submerged under tons of water.
It is impossible to stop fear or pain in our lives. When, however, we learn to experience our emotions fully, we take charge of them.
When we practice staying present with whatever emotion or pain arises in our bodies and master this, we experience something different, inner stillness. We still have thoughts. Now, however, we accept them without resistance.
Sri Bhagavan calls this experience of inner stillness, bliss, calm, peace. I have felt this peace, for brief minutes, sitting with a group of people going about their activities.
According to Bhagavan with stillness no energy gets lost. Thus, we feel this stillness as calm. We have accepted the reality of our feelings. On the other hand, Bhagavan says when we resist our inner thoughts or feelings this fight uses a lot of energy and we experience pain, suffering, and conflict.
Would you like more joy in your life? Practice this meditation daily or at least when intense feelings come up.
The only way out is through, said the poet Robert Frost. The best way to overcome your fear or any emotion is by:
1. Become aware of them. When we push them away they become stronger.
2. Accept your feelings.
3. Focus on the sensations in your body, however vague.
4. Pick one sensation and stay focused on it.
5. Resist any desire to change what you feel. Allow it to be.
6. Sit and feel the sensations without doing anything to change them.
7. If you start to think about the past or future, come back to feeling the sensations in your body.
8. Stay with the sensation until it transforms on its own without you doing anything. This may take for example, 30 minutes, 3 days, 3 weeks, or 3 months. As you have time keep coming back to the sensation, feeling, or issue until it transforms.
Note: If you have a connection with the Divine you can call Divine Grace or a Divine Being you associate with to assist.
Check out Michael’s softcover book The Secret for Freedom from Drama, Trauma, & Pain http://ow.ly/5dlS9 on Amazon for an owner’s manual describing practical methods to release your physical and emotional chronic pain, suffering, and emotional stress.
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August 29th, 2011
Roy Martina M.D. author of “Emotional Balance” interviews Michael David Lawrience.
Roy – What is Your Approach Michael to Emotional Release?

Emotional Release
Michael –As you know Roy, emotions that we avoid or suppress become trapped in our bodies, at the cellular level of the DNA. These can be from our own painful experiences or a carry-over from our parents DNA. One way to begin releasing these trapped emotions which also have unconscious beliefs, images, and memories attached to them at a cellular level is Energy Healing. Your “Emotional Balance” is a form of Energy Healing.
We may have no idea of the belief or emotion locked into our DNA, however, when we set our intent, surrender to Divine Grace by whatever name we call it, and allow a skilled healer to hold a sacred space for us Divine Energy flows through them to us. Miracles happen.
I have over 35 years’ experience as an Energy Healer using various methods. Since 2005 I have mostly used Bowen Therapy or as it is also called Bowenwork, which consists of light moves over muscles or tendons to stimulate the body’s natural healing ability.
I see Bowen as an energetic bodywork, which given the consciousness of the healer and the readiness of the client can heal issues on the physical, emotional, or spiritual level.
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June 27th, 2011
Today, I’d like to share with you a recent interview I had with Michael when I got to ask him about How Does Sedona, Arizona Assist Emotional and Spiritual Healing? Mark Griffon of Sedona Tours.
Michael – First of all Sedona like Machu Picchu in Peru or the pyramids in Egypt, holds the uniqueness of being one of the sacred power spots upon the planet. That means a higher frequency of electromagnetic energy resonates and affects all who live or travel throughout the Sedona area.
This higher energy accelerates all levels of our being including our emotional and spiritual states. For those of you trained in alternative health, the chakras, acupuncture meridians, and endocrine glands can be affected, among other systems. Whatever physical, emotional, or mental state we are in when we enter Sedona may be amplified. We may be conscious of some of these states and others will be unconscious and may later come to our awareness.
If we enter with a positive emotional and mental state than we may have pleasant, uplifting, expanding experiences, unless some past pain or trauma ready for healing rises to the surface. On the other hand, if we enter depressed, angry, sad, or carrying pain than this may amplify. If we surrender and choose to embrace the pain, staying present with it, than we may experience going through the pain and feeling better on the other side of it.
For those seeking emotional and spiritual healing Sedona can best be enjoyed in two ways: through connection with the land with tour guides or hiking or by receiving sessions from energy healers.
Hiking or arranging for a tour with a specific guide gives one the opportunity to connect with specific energies of Sedona’s earth energy through feeling the connection with the earth, feeling more connected with your group of friends accompanying you, and also possibly feeling a greater connection with higher aspects of your inner self, as well as more grounded and present in your body.
It is good when you hike to sit on the ground for a while to soak in the energies of the land, even take your shoes off and feel the earth with your feet. Breathe. Connect with the beauty. Be as present as possible with all the sounds, smells, and sights around you. This is a meditation in itself.
With a gifted tour guide such as Mark Griffon each person receives an experience tailor-made for the emotional and or spiritual transformations they desire. Mark has mastered knowing exactly what each person needs for their personal growth at that time. See Mark’s site @ planetsedona.blogspot to set up a tour.
While in Sedona be willing to surrender to the moment and go with the flow and allow synchronicity – signs of the outer world reflecting your inner world and what you need next for your personal growth.
The perfect marriage while in Sedona involves a tour on the land and also a session with an energy healer. These two complement each other to give you the maximum transformational benefits. Open your intuition to find the healer most beneficial for what you need at the moment.
Finally breathe deeply, chant, do yoga, meditate, and use sound tools like crystal or Tibetan bowls to both clear and uplift your energies.
Are you ready for Sedona’s assistance in your emotional and spiritual healing?
November 7th, 2010

Conscious Choice
With suffering we recycle in the emotional suffering going over and over the same story. Pain lies below suffering. When we choose to go into the suffering the emotional pain can end, otherwise it remains unending. “Choice implies consciousness – a high degree of consciousness. Without it, you have no choice. Choice begins the moment you disidentify from the mind and its conditioned patterns, the moment you become present…. Nobody chooses dysfunction, conflict, pain. Nobody chooses insanity” – Eckhart Tolle
Do we choose suffering? We tend to avoid pain. Numbness and addictions indicates an avoidance of pain. With suffering we recycle in the suffering going over and over the same story. Pain lies below suffering. When we choose to go into the suffering the pain can end, otherwise it remains unending. When we make the choice for Yes, the Grace can come in.
When we can hold/contain the pain, Grace can come in. Containing requires staying present with the pain or specific emotion, without slipping away and becoming unconscious. When we stop containing the pain, we fall back into our unconscious ‘shadow’ which feeds on pain like a hungry beast. Withdrawal into fear, feeling powerless, victimized, holding onto anger, or feeling not present all indicates we have fallen into our shadow selves – parts of ourselves which we deny.
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November 1st, 2010

Path Least Resistance
As a child growing up in an alcoholic family, I adapted to agony and pain by retreating inward. My wounded inner child felt lost, pushed out, and unheard without a voice.
Today as an adult, I have a tendency to emotionally take on the agony of all the world’s children because of their suffering and deprivation when I feel sad and enraged about their condition.
On an unconscious level I rage at my mother for placing her childhood pain upon me, which she still carries unconsciously. As a good codependent I accepted this pain. I rage at God for allowing children in the world to suffer. All this creates an inner resistance to change and the flow of life which only hurts me.
So I can choose to stay locked into this psychological resistance every time some suffering of the world’s children triggers the same pattern of rage in me or I can choose, when these patterns of feelings emerge, to let go of the rage which grips me and surrender this resistance. Divine Grace can then enter. Then my inner child can reach out his hand to touch this light of Grace and it can enter him and me and begin healing this wound.
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October 8th, 2010

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When we choose to stay present with a painful feeling or sensation in our bodies, this pain represents what is real for us in the moment, i.e., the truth of our reality at that particular time. Rather then being aware and experiencing what occurs inside us, why do we deny, avoid, or numb these inner sensations?
Perhaps it is because in our Western society, we have been conditioned from childhood to ignore or push away any unpleasant feelings or pain. It takes a lot of practice and initially a person who has learned to do this for themselves to teach and assist us.
Before we learn to be successful at The Art of Staying Present our minds will take us off into the past or future or we may even pop out of our bodies, i.e., we disconnect from staying focused in our bodies on a particular sensation.
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September 2nd, 2010
Self-Interview Part 4 with Michael David Lawrience, author of “The Secret for Freedom from Drama, Trauma, and Pain.”
Q:How Do We Heal Our Emotional Pain?
A: In our Western society, we have been brought up to avoid our feelings. Feelings mean pain. I even see women, who tend to be more in touch with their feelings, habitually push them away when they arise.
We feel vulnerable among other humans and think expressing feelings show signs of weakness, particularly for men.
Our society conditions us to believe experiencing and showing feeling to be unsafe. This encourages suppression and repression. Either we have forgotten what we once felt or we have no knowledge of what trauma lurks in our subconscious. All this would be fine if our subconscious had no power over our everyday success. It, however, does.

Unknown to some of us our subconscious beliefs and feelings have more power than our conscious intents. Dr. Bruce Lipton, Biology of Belief, says, “The most powerful processor of information is the subconscious mind that runs 80 – 90% of our lives. I t is like an autopilot in that it can run our day-to-day life without any input from the conscious mind.”
For example, we may want to weigh less, yet we have a belief if we weigh less we will attract more partners and have to be more intimate. We may have some sense that we fear intimacy or maybe we have no sense of this. Either way we will be unable to maintain our desired weight in spite our best intentions and countless weight reduction programs. As a law of the universe, our subconscious always wins for it accepts without reservation literally what we believe and feel on an unconscious level.
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