Tantric Healing Lessons
Tantric Healing - Introduction by Leandra
Tantric Healing
This subject under Tantric Lessons, is about healing negative emotions, negative self-images and past hurts. The suggestions may not always be specifically tantric and more in line with a spiritual path. Some suggestions will be from my psychotherapeutic background and experience. The eastern mystic, Osho, was the first guru to embrace and include experiential psychotherapeutic methods into a spiritual path. The complicated world we live in today, the way we now are in our lives as human beings, makes this kind of work necessary in order to free ourselves of repeating, time and time again, the same kind of emotional response which we learnt in our childhood and revisit many times along the road of growing up, becoming adults and living our adult lives.
My experience of psychotherapy is that it cannot, does not actually heal. What it does is help us understand the origins of our emotional response and in so doing, become more aware of why we react the way we do. This is however, only step one. The next step is to heal the origin of our response. An impossible thing to do as the situation of our childhood cannot be changed. It is what it is, and we have to actually deal with that being a fact of our lives. Or so we think!
Spiritual healing goes much further - it heals the origin of the emotional response. It puts into a true perspective, a higher perspective and teaches us that experiences, all experiences be they good or bad, are only there to teach us. Each experience is a learning curve along our path of individual growth. Therefore the combination of experiential psychotherapeutic methods and a spiritual path is extremely effective. We actually learn to embrace the negative experiences, for it is out of these experiences that we learn the most. I like to always think, the negative experiences are for learning, the positive ones for resting!
My first quote is from Osho. I hope you find it helpful.
Namaste
Leandra (2008)