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This past weekend I attended a workshop on energy psychology. I was the only non-therapist in the room. Why was I there? I wanted to learn new tools for myself, and I wanted to write about it for my blog. The brochure I received in the mail looked good, but I didn’t know just how powerful the workshop would actually be. But powerful it was.

By the time it was over, I was feeling bliss and inspiration. This was a weekend about the body and the power of the mind, and how they work together to either keep us anchored in the muck, or propel us on our journey to the infinite. It was a weekend of getting free of the ego, the small self, that keeps us seemingly separated from the Unlimited Self. It was, in short, about the process of awakening to SELF.

The ego is, after all, an affirmation of separateness. But in reality, there is no separateness.  Nineny-nine percent of the pain and fear we experience is self-created and unnecessary, according to Meher Baba, and stems from the ego and its false sense of separateness.

We all have infinite potential, but the ego wants to keep us in whatever identity we are used to. All to often, as was seen in the workshop, we stuff our pain. We put it away neatly. We adapt. But the pain is still there, repressed, dragging us down. Old traumas hold us in place like an anchor holds a ship from moving downstream.

Over and over, the presenter, Dr. Henry Grayson (founder of the Institute for Spirituality, Science & Psychotherapy in New York City) stressed that we are so much more than our ego-selves. He stressed that we are all inter-connected. He talked frequently about the subtle energies that flow in and through our bodies.

Here is an example. Toward the end of the workshop, the presenter, Dr. Henry Grayson,, asked for two volunteers. I stood up as did a woman whom I didn’t know.

I was to be the thinker and the woman was to be the receiver of my thoughts and energy. My job was to think,when prompted, of two things: a time in my life when I was really angry, and a time when I was deeply loving. The woman’s job was to look away from me while Dr. Grayson tested her strength with applied kinesiology as he gave me a signal of one or two fingers. One finger meant that I was to focus on the angry thought. Two fingers meant I was supposed to focus on the positive, loving thought.

He started off giving me a signal of one finger. The woman went weak. Then he gave me another signal of one finger. Again she went weak. Then he gave me the signal of two fingers, and she demonstrated strength. All in all, I was given five different signals, and the woman’s weakness or strength reflected each one correctly.

Then, the woman was told to think of a loving thought and I was told to think of a negative thought. She tested strong and so did I. And why was that? Because the positive energy from the woman subject counteracted my negative energy.

This was all confirmation for what I had read in David Hawkins’ book, Power vs. Force. That one person with loving thought counteracts the negative energy from hundreds, if not thousands of people.  

Another demonstration that I found interesting was when he had a volunteer stand in front of him. “Now watch this,” he said. Dr. Grayson then pretended to unzip the person from head to toe, as if the person was wearing a large zipped gown. Then he did the muscle testing. The person was very weak.

Then Dr. Grayson zipped the person up from toe to head. And then the person was strong.

The subject also went weak and strong without Dr. Grayson doing anything. The audience asked what just happened. Dr. Grayson said he unzipped and zipped the subject mentally, in imagination only.

This was another example that we are all connected by energy. He kept emphasizing that we were not separate, but all interconnected. Even the participants without any background in physics or energy psychology became convinced.

He started off the workshop laying the foundation of how his energy psychology works, of how it is possible. After hearing him talk about energy, physics, wholeness, and the interconnectedness of all life, I started to wonder if he was familiar with David Bohm, the great physicist, most famous for his book, Wholeness and the Implicate Order.

And as soon as I had that thought, he told the audience about how he met David Bohm, and how it changed his life, and how he was transformed almost instantly from an atheist to a spiritual seeker, a seeker who was after wholeness and interconnectedness, and who was passionate about connecting with the source. He said to the audience, “Any moment without joy, hope, peace, and love is a moment lived in the ego realm.”

He told a story about himself, working as a psychologist with an almost impossible suicidal client. In that story, he told of admitting that he didn’t know how to help her. And with that admission, an idea floated into his mind that seemed irrelevant, but he verbalized it to the client: “Who do you love?”

And with that, the patient’s whole energy changed, and she talked at length about her son, and all the reasons she loved him. She became a different woman. Without drugs, her serotonin levels returned to normal. She was on the path to a full recovery.

He told us that then he realized “I am not the therapist. My little ‘I’ does not know the answer.” 

I was hooked. I was being reminded once again that we need to be willing participants with the infinite.

The rest of that night and all day Saturday, we were able to not only learn techniques (EFT, EFTA, TAT) that free us from past trauma, and how to replace the old software in our brains with new software, but we were able to get hands-on experience with the other participants.

It was interesting to witness via the muscle testing performed by Dr. Grayson, that every single participant held one or both of the following statements to be true on a subconscious level: 1. I don’t deserve to be healthy and happy; 2. It’s not safe to be healthy and happy.

Much of the weekend was spent finding out why those self-beliefs were true, and then learning the skills needed to get free of them.

Based on my conversations with the different participants during the breaks, all of them therapists, it seemed that all were eager to try them on their patients. 

As for me, I’m not a therapist. I’m just looking forward to working on myself using these tools. I already feel a great shift in energy. The bliss continues.

You can find out more about the work of Dr. Grayson at his website, henrygrayson.com.