Once again six combat veterans with PTSD realize their life has really been a QUEST to re-discover the light within themselves ~ in seven weeks ~ by participating in Healing The Wounded Heart (Band of Brothers) Workshop # 16. Through the power of love and gratitude their hearts are awakened from a long slumber as they realize their military experience, regardless of their individual trauma, has been another important step of service in preparation for the ultimate service from their soaring hearts: Allen L Roland, Ph.D
Soaring hearts
In my role as a volunteer heart centered consultant, advisor and mentor, I have recently assisted in the heart felt inner healing of six more combat veterans with PTSD who found the courage to go within and beneath their pain and anguish and found, in the process, their original innocence, joy and delight as well as a need to be in service from that very same place of love and gratitude ~ and all within seven weeks.
Make
no mistake about it, the keys to the magic kingdom of the soul as well as soul
retrieval is gratefulness ~ and gratefulness
and eventually forgiveness ends with our
self.
Each one of these participants with the assistance of their adjustment
counselor complete a Life chart ~ a chart which clearly shows their whole
life, relationships and war experience as a Quest or journey to where they are
now.
But
the life chart is also an indication of the
path of their heart and how every relationship, regardless
of the pain, perhaps has been a gift in their life quest to reconnect with
their original innocence, love and joy. For most of them, childhood emotional
trauma has caused them to emotionally check out and they live in emotional
darkness ~ reinforced by their military experience ~ a grey
disconnected world of aloneness and fear based ego
consciousness.
This
is why at least 22 veterans a day commit suicide ~ for they are
separated from what is deepest within themselves and there is no choice except
the never ending aloneness and darkness. Many veterans, like myself, are
concerned and many others are taking action ~ see this wonderful example of
that service and 5 MINUTE preview of PROJECT 22 .
After tragedy struck home last
year, two combat-wounded veterans set out to end a little-known
epidemic in America. Their 6,500-mile cross-country mission was to raise awareness of the high rate of suicide amongst Veterans and show their brothers and sisters-at-arms that there is hope for them. During their journey, they interviewed researchers, healthcare providers, and Veterans. Many of those they encountered had either contemplated or attempted suicide and were able to share the life-saving alternative sources of hope that they had found. Asking hard-hitting questions and opening up about their own struggles, and painfully spurred on by recent estimations that 22 veterans are taking their own lives every single day, Daniel and Doc will stop at nothing to reach tomorrow’s twenty-two.
epidemic in America. Their 6,500-mile cross-country mission was to raise awareness of the high rate of suicide amongst Veterans and show their brothers and sisters-at-arms that there is hope for them. During their journey, they interviewed researchers, healthcare providers, and Veterans. Many of those they encountered had either contemplated or attempted suicide and were able to share the life-saving alternative sources of hope that they had found. Asking hard-hitting questions and opening up about their own struggles, and painfully spurred on by recent estimations that 22 veterans are taking their own lives every single day, Daniel and Doc will stop at nothing to reach tomorrow’s twenty-two.
Five
minute video
https://vimeo.com/121737934
After
the life charts have been completed with their adjustment counselor ~ I am
brought in, as a former active duty veteran
as well as a fully vetted volunteer advisor
and heart centered consultant ~ to
help these veterans connect the heart dots
of their life charts.
They then begin to actually see their whole life as an inner QUEST to find their
lost soul as well as see how each love
relationship has played its role in accelerating that quest to not only find
themselves ~ but to also live and speak their inner truth.
From
our very first session, they begin the process of thanking the people who have
been there in their lives and as they do ~ like flowers, their buried or
numbed out hearts begin to open allowing
them to see through different eyes.
They
all have access to these self-healing steps in my updated Kindle Book RADICAL
THERAPY, SURRENDER TO LOVE AND HEAL YOURSELF IN SEVEN SESSIONS (not seven
years). Here is the Kindle link http://www.amazon.com/Radical-Therapy-Surrender-Yourself-Sessions-ebook/dp/B00JGE5VQE
And here's a link to the YouTube sessions of the self-healing process I teach ~ Watch,
in the first 20 minutes, how Marina conquers her deepest fear and demonstrates
that beneath her pain and fear is boundless
joy, See video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r12MoNnwPKg&feature=youtu.be
Think of the ego as a protective cocoon that is eventually
meant to be shed.
The Unified Field can be visualized as a grid of great luminosity joining all
living beings within its energy field of love. The words of Longfellow would
seem appropriate in describing this all-encompassing field or grid: "The thread of all sustaining beauty
that runs through all and doth all unite.
So
after sharing their life charts with the
group, with my assistance, and taking accountability for their life and the
decisions they alone have made to perhaps run
away from love and joy and hide in a cocoon of ego consciousness ~ they are
ready to meet their real coach (the trapped child
within) through a guided visualization.
They then begin the process of listening and
responding to their own inner guidance ~ but by this time they already know that deepest within them is
love, direction and joy.
Here's
a breakdown on where each member of Band of Brothers #16 started and what they eventually
gained from these seven sessions ~ in their own words.
J
~ "I've
been coasting in life and feeling alone and now through gratefulness and this
group I'm beginning to love myself as well as others"
L
~ "I
want to get in touch with my feelings and find my voice and passion and now I
know the way through gratefulness"
ME
~ "I
want to share my inner joy with everyone and now I'm doing it with everyone
"
MG
~ "
I want to reconnect with my inner child, which I've now done in this group and
I'm now beginning to see through different eyes and I want to help people"
RS
~
" I want answers and I found them by opening my heart in this group
through heartfelt gratefulness and seeing through different eyes ~ I am no
longer sabotaging my joy"
Perhaps
now with over 100 graduates of the Band of Brothers HWH program ~ the VA will
realize that the time has come to recognize that a heart centered approach to
Veterans rehabilitation has an important role to play in returning our veterans
to useful, intentioned and fulfilling lives.
Heart centered spiritual consultant and advisor Allen L Roland can be contacted at allen@allenroland.com Allen is also a lecturer and writer who shares a weekly political and social commentary on his web log and website allenroland.com. He is also featured columnist on Veterans Today and guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ~ Rumi
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