The Consciousness of the Healer

"Help people express whatever their 'thing' is.
Give people the opportunity to [freely express].

Ninety-nine percent of the time, if they can express it,
it resolves itself - if you don't react."

~ Dr. Meji Singh

The consciousness of the healer is everything. We can only take people to the level of understanding we have integrated.

As the healer listens to the metaphors taking place in the moment of the healing relationship/session, the process of the healer seeing through the maze and re-ordering the maze into positive, understandable symbols for the client, symbols of health and well-being, demonstrates to the client the client's own creative protective mechanisms. Disarming the grip of fear that the illusion is real, the client feels the relief of returning to the resilience of Health - the true default program within all of us.

This can be explained verbally, but if the client is not cognitively aware or capable enough of understanding the verbal articulation of issues, no matter, for the work is always done through consciousness.

The degree of potential healing is directly proportional to the degree of clarity and thus presence of the healer.

~ Excerpted from a paper by Dr.Laura Basha, © 1994

Practice Forgetting

As a former therapist and now a professional coach, the model of psychology that I have used since the early 90's is one which recognizes the innate Health of each and every person. One doesn't always see this health in expression, but to assume it is at the core allows for an expansion of healthy expression, one that is elicited from the client.

There is a need to have access to the past, but not a need to re-live it. It is a tremendous contribution to assist another is reviewing the past with a compassionate eye, looking for understanding in both self and other, and through understanding being freed into compassion.

As a healer, see Health in the other so that they can remember It for them self. As we radiate our own own well-being and security, it is contagious and hopeful for another. The natural wisdom in the other will then be released and will reveal the other's own answers and the direction out of the problem will be obvious. This reveals to both healer and other that everything we are looking for is within.

After understanding, let go the past, forget what you know, cultivate stillness and listen.

In its simplicity is its complexity.

Which Future to Live Into ...?

Research on the top 5 regrets at the end of life were being discussed on my favorite morning radio station this past week.

I do not know the validity of the study, however the list provoked some reflection on my part as the items seemed obvious but caused me to look to see how much I was living these longings now, so as not to regret. The list seemed worth sharing ...

Top 5 Regrets at the End of Life

5) Not having chosen happiness more of the time.
(...the stance of choosing happiness, having that awareness at the end of life rather than throughout life.)

4) Not staying in touch with friends.
(Evidently there is an intense rush to locate old friends in the last 3 weeks of life ...).

3) Not having the courage to express one's true feelings.
(People noted in retrospect that there were negative repercussions to holding true feelings inside and not expressing them.)

2) Working too much.
(Enough said ...)

1) Not having the courage to express who one truly is throughout the life.
(The number one regret at the end of life.)

More Maslow on Enlightened Management

“…the higher need satisfaction of belongingness, friendliness and affection, of respect given,

and of possibility of building self-respect …

These higher needs are precisely what enlightened management policy points itself toward.

That is to say, enlightened management policy may be defined as an attempt to

satisfy the higher needs in a work situation, …that is,

to have the work situation give intrinsically higher need satisfaction …”

~ Abraham Maslow, Maslow on Management, 1998, p. 239

Maslow on Enlightened Management

“…any partner would take upon his own shoulders in emergencies any functions of the enterprise if he happened to be the one closest to the emergency. Any one of them, for instance, if he saw a fire breaking out would without taking votes about it or anything of the sort immediately go to put out the fire …

Now the point is this: All the experiments on enlightened management and humanistic supervision can be seen from this point of view, that in a brotherhood situation of this sort. every person is transformed into a partner rather than into an employee. He tends to think like a partner and act like a partner. He tends to take upon his own shoulders all the responsibilities of the whole enterprise. He tends voluntarily and automatically to assume responsibility for any of the various functions of an enterprise which an emergency might call for.

Partnership is the same as synergy, which is the same as recognizing that the interests of the other and one’s own interests merge and pool and unite instead of remaining separate or opposed or mutually exclusive."

~ Abraham Maslow, Maslow on Management, 1998, pp. 86-87

Enlightened Management

"As important as education is, perhaps even more important is the work life of the individual since everybody works.
If the lessons of psychology, of individual psychotherapy, of social psychology, etc., can be applied to man's economic life, then my hope is that this too can be given an enlightened direction, thereby tending to influence in principle all human beings ...

[there is] the hope that the industrial situation may serve as the new laboratory for the study of psychodynamics, of high human development, of ideal ecology for the human being."

~ Abraham Maslow, Maslow on Management, 1998, p. 2

"In 1961, the renowned psychologist Abraham Maslow agreed to publish a group of his unedited journals which resulted in what was then titled, at his insistence, Eupsychian Management. The book quickly went out of print, probably because it presented ideas ahead of their time, but resurfaced in 1998 under the auspices of Warren Bennis, Professor of Business Administration, University of Southern California, entitled Maslow on Management. In this book, Maslow, like several others of his time, pointed tot he human side of enterprise. It has been said that his ideas were more for the 21st century than the 20th. This thinking lays the foundation for [perceptual paradigm shifts] to succeed in the business environment."*


It was while reading the above book by Maslow as part of the research for my dissertation that I truly heard the calling for my work, shifting it from a clinical focus to organizational psychology. The awareness of the possibility of organizations becoming self-actualized communities which could then model and be a catalyst for a self-actualized society resonated with me like a tuning fork. Corporations and organizations are people, coming together, being in relationship, for a common intent. What could be generated for humanity if organizations could, alongside of generating a consistently opulent ROI, awaken to the possibility of being and modelling that which all of us long to experience: belonging, friendship, respect.

* (excerpted from Implications of the Health Realization Paradigm Experienced as Transformational Humor for Individuals and Organizations, Dissertation Manuscript, © 2001, Laura Basha, Ph.D.)

"Fulfilling A New Reality: What Does It Take?"

"Many people have compelling visions for life in a transformed world ...
But what does it take to realize those new realities?"

~ 2011 Conference for Global Transformation



This past weekend, May 20th - 22nd, was the 2011 Conference for Global Transformation, taking place in San Francisco, CA. (wisdomcgt.ning.com). Hundreds of people from around the world traveled to attend, people interested in transforming not the world of physical manifestation so much as re-inventing current global conversations that we take for granted which are creating our current realities. Generating new discourses designed to open up new realities of what is possible for humanity could then emerge in the language of all cultures, all people and all of our worlds.

I spoke at the conference on the topic of how to generate one's self to be self-actualized inside of a powerful context of purposeful living through extraordinary listening. It takes a continual listening to one's own resistance and outworn patterning, as well as the utilization of all the tools one has garnered and integrated along with a continual honing of them, to be an authentic expression for one's self and one's contribution to the world.

We truly are all one in the realm of consciousness. It's not just a "woo-woo" conversation, although that is what the identity would have us belief so that the ego could keep convincing us to make choices from it's perception.

It's all in the listening. Are we listening to the voice of the identity, or to the realm of essence and authenticity? Every breakthrough that is generated and every insight that is revealed through our own internal work, shifts what's available and therefore what's possible in that particular arena of consciousness in humanity. This is the impact of powerful listening.



~ ten thousand blessings to you ~