Your Psychic Space
Trance, Its Indispensable
Rev. Ann Savino
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account on how I was seeing things in my life. In other words, I was
having a hard time pulling myself out of negative ways of thinking before
this retreat.
During the retreat, I had an interesting
experience. After the main class where we had tranced and done much
mental clearing, I experienced fear and depression. I could not get
to sleep as every thought that had haunted me previous to the retreat
showed its ugly face. You're never going to succeed. You're a lousy
mother. I can't keep up with everything I have to do. Economic ruin,
body throwing in the towel, you're wasting your time.
Then after this parade of grotesque thinking
came thoughts from the past of different painful situations. I found
that I had no interest in entertaining these unwelcome visitors. For
every painful thought that came up, I started to think about something
that made me happy. For every situation that seemed hopeless, I saw
it working out great. It was like playing a mental game of Asteroids,
where I was mentally shooting the negative thinking with positive thinking
until the negativity dispelled. I was vaporizing the enemy with the
power of my mind.
The bonus round was after the retreat
when I noticed that I could easily change from one frame of mind to
another. If I experience negativity, it is quite easy to disengage from
this kind of thinking and get back to a state of mind where I am happy.
My imagination is set free from the bonds of heaviness and hopelessness.
I realize that for me, this is how stress takes its toll in my life,
by slowly wearing away my good attitude until I am walking around in
a state of gloom just because I haven't taken the time to dispel those
clouds of negative thinking. The retreats at SRF are an indispensable
tool for me to remain well in mind and body.
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