In many aspects of my life, I used to feel a lot of anxiety, hesitant to make decisions, and lacked an inner confidence. When faced with day to day decision making, I could only think about all the choices available and become overwhelmed.
The meditation tools I learned quickly became a part of my daily practice. The techniques taught, help me to feel more grounded, centered, protected and calm inside. I am now more able to solve problems in my life easily and look at challenges in a neutral way – not just in an emotional way. I am much less anxious and much more confident.
I was so changed by my experiences with these meditation tools that I wanted to share them with others. I created my own practice and now teach these tools to others in our community. I have witnessed people transform from tight balls of stress to bright, shining, calm individuals. My clients are empowered to employ the coping skills that these meditation techniques provide. They always leave my office feeling better than when they arrived.
I am forever grateful for these meditation tools. I am a better person because of what I learned and am able to apply to my own life.
I spent several years on a variety of medications to manage what was defined as mental illnesses. Even on the medications, my anxiety, obsessive thoughts, and depression persisted so I made the decision to go off of medication when I was 23. I was in such a dark lonely hole, thinking I was insane, and began using alcohol to numb all of those darker feelings.
In 2012, when I was in my 30’s, I attended an Intuitive Mind Community Meditation Event. I felt at home there and was blown away that there were other people just like me. The Intuitive Mind Community saved my life. I just wish that these meditation tools had been available to me when I was younger so that I would not have had to suffer for so many years.
Now, these meditation tools are a big part of my life. I feel alive, hopeful, secure, and normal! Nancy Rebecca and Yvonne Kilcup are so full of love, dedication, passion, with the highest, brightest intentions for each person they meet. They are such generous, selfless people. I have witnessed their commitment to their community for years now and they are, at their core, really good people!
In 2013, when I first found these meditation tools and spiritual techniques to learn to heal myself, I was in a place of profound fear. In fact, I had lived with this level of fear since childhood, coping by just pushing through it, leaving me constantly exhausted. This fear and anxiety kept me locked in place and made it difficult for me to interact with other people and enjoy activities in the world around me. I NEVER felt safe.
I would only drive places by myself if I knew exactly where I was going because in my mind, there was always the potential that something horrible might happen to me. I was a wife and a mother and knew that I had to find some way to cope for myself and my family.
By the end of 2013, meditating and working with the techniques I was able to start seeing the fear and anxiety that I held inside was beginning to release and loosening its tight grip on me. I was so changed in just one year that I made the decision to repeat the entire year of learning so that I could continue to learn, heal and grow.
I learned to integrate the energetic meditation tools into my every day life. When life events happened, as they do, I would view them as these events are teaching me something rather than these events are hurting me. Meditation taught me that what is happening in my life is an inner reflection of what is going on inside of me that may still be unresolved. This perspective allowed me to work with the situation in meditation instead of reacting and feeling locked down by it.
I was able to begin to take responsibility instead of placing blame on others. I know without a doubt that if these meditation tools had not come into my life, I would have continued to walk in the world lost and broken.
Now I am so committed to the value of these tools to assist individuals and communities to move through PTSD, tragedy, and current or historical trauma that I am on the Board of Soul Seeds. Choosing to express my passion by dedicating my life purpose to Souls Seeds vision and mission.
A good part of my life, I suffered with fear, anxiety, and had difficulty with experiences in my past that clouded my current life. I would avoid being around people, felt easily overwhelmed and extremely emotional. In College there were days that I showed up for class and just could not stay in the group, causing me to leave and lose many of my credits.
When I felt overwhelmed, it was easy for me to blame others then I would feel stuck when facing hardships in life. I struggled to recognize when a boundary was crossed and wondered why I often felt off afterward.
I am not new to self-help programs. I even tried counseling, Somatic, and other process type work and did find benefit from those programs. In general, I would say that my experiences with these meditation tools, have been the most healing of all the things I have tried. These meditation tools, effectively put me in the driver's seat and give me expanded choices and coping skills.
Now, recognizing boundaries is clear, and much easier to set with others. I have a greater ability to self-regulate my own behaviors and cope with life’s curve balls. I feel empowered with inner strength, am much more optimistic, experience greater joy, and easily shift my state of mind when I feel emotionally triggered. Rather than blame other people or situations for what I was feeling, I now, understand that my life experiences are here to help me to grow as a person. I can now be in groups of people in a grounded way.
The best part is finding that I laugh a lot more! I feel much more authentically myself and much more accepting of others and their reactions. I no longer feel the need to fix anyone else, and choose to lead by example in my own self-care. I am still growing, healing, shifting and changing with an outlook of choices to who I am becoming.
When I came to a place in my life where I found these meditation techniques, life for me felt stuck and broken. I felt burned out on life and was experiencing constant headaches, stress, anxiety and could cry for days. My work and family relationships were falling apart causing me to isolate and withdraw from life. We all have baggage that we carry with us everywhere we go and I found myself blaming others for the pain that I was in. I do not want to sound as if I am minimizing my pain because there are some real issues from my childhood that could take even someone strong like me down. I had found art, music and dance as a way to help me cope with those past traumas but over time even being creative was no longer working. Those past traumas were rising to the surface faster than I could handle them.
Learning the meditation tools taught here, placed the greatest emphasis on grounding to the center of the earth as a way to release my trauma and calm my body. Once my body was calmed, I could hear my own spirit, my own soul, and my own inner wisdom to guide me through it all. I was able to begin to see life from a place of simply observing my problems without fear, judgement, anger or other negative emotions.
I now experience a deep inner peace, and a strong connection to God and my own soul. I continue to feel that inner calm and centeredness even when I feel there is emotional turmoil. When I rise to blame my childhood and past for my current problems, I am able to see the strengths that I am gaining from my past experiences instead. With these meditation tools I have learned that the uncomfortable events that show up in my life are actually gifts. Life now provides me with opportunities to heal those areas that need healing in order to find great peace and greater purpose.
My name is Johnny Nuchols and I had a spiritual awakening in the summer of 2015. It caused my senses to expand in ways I have never experienced. I was seeing energy around people and objects. I had become so ungrounded, and found it challenging to organize my thoughts. My spiritual awakening shattered beliefs I had and replaced it with concepts that I have never heard of, which have permanently changed the way I look at people and things around me.
The process of my transformation was the most difficult thing I have ever experienced in my life. I was having a difficult time integrating the concepts and information into my daily life. It left me feeling very alone, disconnected, stressed. I even thought of suicide to find peace in my mind. I was full of anxiety that poured into all aspects of my life and I didn’t know what to do. I had developed extreme PTSD from my awakening that made me break down into tears sobbing from the thought of what happened to me. After a couple months I found myself checking into a mental hospital. The help I needed was not at the hospital, but was later found when I met Nancy Rebecca and learned of the grounding and meditation techniques she teaches.
Before my experience of a spiritual awakening, one of the most stressful things I had endured was deploying to Iraq and having our base under mortar attack several times a week, for weeks. When I came back from my deployment I was a little jumpy around loud noises and and no idea how to relieve my stress. I wish I had been taught these techniques before going on my deployment, it would have given me a lot of relief from the stress of being in combat.
I found these techniques so helpful that I reached out to Western State Hospital and shared my experience with them. After hearing my story, I was invited to volunteer and teach mediation to patients on a weekly basis. I found several patients that came to me in private and asked for help with childhood trauma and not being able to let go of things that have happened to them. After they applied the mediation techniques, they would share how much relief they got from issues they had for years.
I am so grateful for these tools and have incorporated them into my daily routine. Since applying these techniques I have found so much more peace and feel more grounded in my life than I ever have.
The meditation tools and techniques that I have learned at Intuitive Mind are relevant every day. I wake up and use them, I use them throughout the day and end my day with them. Sometimes, I even use them to get back to sleep! I like to refer to them as active meditations, as opposed to the more passive, quiet-mind techniques taught in other schools.
In the past, I had difficulty dealing with persistent anxiety and emotions that would be challenging to move past. Now I feel like I have control from the other end of that. I have grounding techniques along with other tools that help me to set my intentions about the day and if something challenging arises, I have awareness of my emotions and it’s fairly simple to diffuse the energy and move through it and have awareness of the lesson or gift of the experience.
We are manifesting our lives and I have useful meditation techniques that allow me to be in charge of my experiences rather than feeling like I’m in a canoe without a paddle. I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to learn what they teach. My day-to-day life is continually better for it.