Quest for Self represents a synthesis of physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual healing and growth on personal and collective levels.

It brings together psychology, spirituality, philosophy, and alternative medicine into an evolutionary holistic process of transformation that enhances the conditions of our lives and guides us toward our destiny with our divine heritage.

Quest for Self accelerates transcendence of our self-limiting vision and pre-conceived notions of reality. It undermines our resistant self-defeating emotional and behavioral patterns and facilitates spiritual renewal.

Quest for Self leads us toward reunification with our True Self, in a process of learning how to love ourselves through acknowledgment of the truth of our feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. This process involves exposing and understanding:

* the emotional-mental-spiritual meaning of our health problems and our resistance to being healed and to acting in our best health interests.

* that the origins of our negative emotional reactions and health problems reside in our relationship with ourselves.

* our resistance to taking personal responsibility for our emotional problems and our reluctance to let go of old emotional patterns and preconceived notions of reality.

* the origins of our self-hatred and our resistance to loving ourselves and embracing our True Self.

* how and why we identify with a false sense of ourselves.

* the precise ways we co-create disease and our negative emotional experiences on personal and collective levels.

In the Quest-for-Self process we embrace our intention to be healed on the physical level, which includes: (1) recognizing our health problems as a manifestation of a self-negating relationship toward ourselves and an estrangement from one's True Self, (2) embracing behaviors that enhance our physical well-being, such as eating healthy foods and eliminating addictive substances and behaviors, and (3) acknowledging and understanding our resistance to being healed and taking positive action toward our physical well-being.

We embrace our intention to resolve our emotional issues within ourselves, rather then seeking some form of external salvation. This means taking responsibility for our internal feelings and reactions and seeing that our external issues with others and the world are but a reflection of our own inner self-negating conflicts. We are willing to face the truth of our feelings and experience them without judgment or shame, acknowledging our resistance to letting go of old patterns and our attachments to negative feelings and to our identity as victims.

We embrace our intention to perceive the truth of ourselves, others, and reality. We are open to seeing clearly into our preconceived notions, out-dated ideological beliefs, social norms, and gender roles. We learn to trust our own perceptions and intuitive knowing. We think for ourselves, as opposed to depending on outside authorities to make decisions for us and tell us what to think and how to behave. We see clearly into our self-delusions, acknowledging how our adopted beliefs and attitudes have created them.

We embrace our intention to love ourselves, to accept ourselves as we are, to overcome our fears of love and intimacy, and to forgive ourselves for our past misinterpretations of reality. We acknowledge our intention to communicate with our Soul, trusting our Soul's love, guidance, knowledge, support, and power. We align our will, our creative life purpose, with the will of our Soul, owning our resistance and fear of becoming our True Self and embracing non-physical reality as our true home.

We embrace our intention as collective humanity to be healed on all the above levels, recognizing as the source of our problems our collective self-hatred and ignorance of our true selves and divine origins. We embrace our intention to heal our prejudices toward other nations, minorities, and all life forms on earth, seeing our prejudices as a reflection of our own self-hatred. We embrace our intention to recognize the true origin of physical matter as a manifestation of God, composed of conscious light, color, and sound, and to embrace our lives on this physical plane as an opportunity to grow in recognition and remembrance of our divine origin. We acknowledge our intention to heal our collective fears of loss, deprivation, devaluation, victimization, and domination and to take responsibility for our irrational hunger for material acquisitions, self-gratification, self-glorification, violence, and our paranoid need for external protection. We embrace the lessons of compassionate and reverent acceptance of ourselves, others, and all life forms, while contributing our gifts, talents, and love for the mutual benefit of all humanity, asking our Soul for assistance in moving through our resistance, doubts, and fears.

If you resonate with this message, join us on a journey into the beautiful mystery of who you are.

Explore what it means to:

Acquire physical harmony and wholeness.

Heal yourself.

Love yourself.

Know who you are.

Speak the truth of your experience.

Live according to your heart, guided by love and compassion.

Michaelson Psychotherapy
2912 Calle Derecha, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505