The Healing Power of a Group….
Posted by MichaelApr 7
She felt the anger rising within her as she stood in line at the post office earlier in the day to mail an important package to her granddaughter. The agents were slow and the line seemed to be getting longer as she went back and forth between attempting calming breathing techniques and wanting to scream. Add to that her disappointment over cancelled Easter Plans with her daughter and granddaughter, she decided to join us in the Essence Circle for some help managing the anger.
As I Reflect on the Essence Circle, what’s most present to me is healing power of a group of consciousness seeking people coming together to heal, grow and become more whole. Within this small group, the participant mentioned above saw that her anger and disappointment towards her daughter, her experience at the post office and more were all connected to an unhealed wound from an unmet need of her own from many years ago. What’s more, another mother in the group, who could also identify with the daughter’s perspective, offered an insightful solution that everyone knew was on the mark. Tears were shed and hugs of gratitude and understanding were had. It was an unexpected transformational moment. The same woman who a few minutes earlier shared her anger and disappointment now surrendered to the paradigm shift commenting ” Thank you, this is why I came” to the participant offering the insight.
The topic was “Transforming Anger into Strength and Compassion” We examined how almost all anger experienced in the present is caused by an unhealed past and not about the situation that we think that we’re angry about. What’s more the anger is always about a need of ours not being meet, either now or in the past. Each person who attended got a chance to experience how this is true in their own lives.
The topic of next month’s Essence Circle is: The Transformational Wisdom of the Enneagram. Maybe you’ll join us.
Until we meet again, In Wholeness,
Michael
One comment
Comment by Jackie on April 9, 2009 at 5:37 pm
This was a really good session. I got a lot from the discussion. I used some of it this morning when I had an occasion to get angry. My normal pattern would be to suppress the anger, but I expressed it, clearly without emotional histrionics and felt a lot better. Got what I needed, too.