The Whole-Hearted Healing™ Workbook
by Paula Courteau (2013)
Table of Contents
Index
Table of Contents
Foreword 9
Acknowledgments 10
Liability Agreement and Safety Warnings 11
Introduction 13
How to Use this Book 14
Medications and WHH 16
Chapter 1: Whole-Hearted Healing Memory Aids 19
WHH - The Very Very Short Version: 19
WHH: The Steps 19
Special Situations 20
Emptiness or blank feeling 20
Holes 20
'New' physical pain 21
Copies 21
Soul stealing 21
Soul loss 21
Pretend-identities 21
Archetypal images 21
Generational traumas 22
Vortices 22
Past lives 22
Projections 22
Dilemmas 23
Structures in your body 23
Transpersonal experiences and peak states 23
No time to finish 23
Chapter 2: The Prerequisites 25
The Hendricks Loving-Yourself Technique 25
Exercise: Loving yourself 26
Exercise: Loving yourself while you feel good 26
Exercise: Loving yourself when you feel awful 26
Exercise: Coming back to the present: Loving yourself with gratitude 27
Practice loving yourself 27
"But I get all sorts of fear when I try this" 27
The Centre of Awareness: an Experiential Definition of the Self 28
Exercise: Finding your Centre of Awareness 28
Exercise: Moving your Centre of Awareness 28
“But I can't move my CoA at all” 29
The Triune Brain: Redefining the Subconscious 29
Dr. MacLean's three-part model of the human brain 29
Triune brain structure and inner experience 30
Independent self-awareness in each brain 30
Trauma and the triune brain model 31
Body consciousness associations and the Developmental Events Model 31
Additional brain structures 32
An update… 32
Redefining the subconscious 33
Working with the Brains 34
Exercise: Triune Brain Therapy 34
COEX Systems or Trauma stacks: a Shortcut to the Past 35
Exercise: The mote in thy neighbour's eye 37
Exercise: The beam in your own eye 38
Chapter 3: Basic Whole-Hearted Healing 41
The Setting 41
What Will We Do, Exactly? 41
The Steps 43
“But I have a lot of trouble with the written word” 44
“But I just feel blank” 45
“But I don't feel any emotions” 45
“But I really really don't feel any emotions” 45
“But I can't remember anything from long ago” 47
Good News for Those of Us who Live in Small Apartments: Feeling Emotions vs. Expressing Emotions 52
Chapter 4: Special Situations in Healing 55
Working with Prenatal Memories 55
Working with Egg and Sperm Memories 57
Working with Precellular Memories 57
Emptiness or Blank Feeling 57
Holes 58
'New' Physical Pain 60
Copies 60
To check for a copy, do the following: 61
Soul Stealing 62
Soul Loss 65
Pretend-Identities 65
Archetypal Images 66
Generational Traumas 68
Vortices 70
Past Lives 72
Projections 74
Exercise: Healing a projection 75
Dilemmas 77
Structures in your Body 79
Transpersonal Experiences and Peak States 80
No Time to Finish 83
Chapter 5: Increasing your Skill: Common Obstacles and How to Overcome Them 85
Difficulties in Accessing the Trauma 85
Loving yourself 85
Exception: Underlying Happiness 85
Inner Peace 86
Timing 86
Suspending disbelief 86
Prejudice about what the trauma might be 87
Distraction from a bigger trauma 87
Using the problems popping up in your daily life 87
Considering the worst-case scenario 87
Dreams 88
Music 88
Using breath 89
Holding breath 89
Viewing 90
Strategies from Body-Centred therapies 90
Using the Psychological Reversal Step 91
Scanning your body 92
Using Image Streaming to get an image 93
Difficulties in Releasing the Trauma 93
Making sure you are in your body 93
Loving yourself 93
White light 94
Finding the exact wording of the belief 94
Clearing beliefs about inappropriate emotions 94
Including the other person 95
Including the other brains, especially the placenta 95
Reproducing the body posture 95
Relaxing your diaphragm, throat and jaw 95
Overlooked Traumas 96
Negative emotions for a good reason 96
Positive emotions 97
Healing Physical Problems 97
Starting from the emotional pain inside the injury 98
Looking for traumas just before the onset 98
Healing our decision to be sick 99
After care 100
Chapter 6: Integrating Other Techniques 101
TAT, EFT, and Other 'Energy Therapies' 101
Exercise: Healing with a hybrid of EFT and regression 103
Other Regression Techniques 104
Bodywork 104
Exercise: Using WHH with acupressure or reflexology (solo method) 105
And Onwards… 106
Appendix A: Healing Resistance to Using the Loving Yourself Technique 107
Appendix B: Heealing Resistance to Moving your Centre of Awareness 109
Appendix C: EFT in Brief 111
Appendix D: A Field Guide to Special Situations 113
Problems that show up as we approach the issue 114
Problems that show up while in session 115
You perceive something that doesn't fit the profile of a regular trauma 115
The healing stalls 116
Problems that show up at the end of the session 117
Appendix E: Trouble-Shooting Guide 119
About Using the Basic Technique 119
About Presenting Problems 120
About Special Situations in Healing 120
About Learning WHH in the Context of Long-Term Training with our Institute 122
Appendix F: Resources 125
Spiritual Emergencies 125
Books 126
Suicide Prevention 126
Other Power Therapies 126
Bibliography 129
Index
A
abandonment · 34
abuse · 51, 152
acceptance · 15, 37
acne · 114
activism · 140
acupressure · 153
acupuncture · 152
addictions · 22, 43, 95, 150
affirmations · 154
Aldana, Jacquelyn · 36, 126
Amini, Dr. Fari · 45
amniotic fluid · 101
amniotic sac · 77
angels · 46, 87, 94
anger · 73, 80, 136
antidepressants · 21
apex effect · 59
archetypes · 18, 46, 66, 92, 116
At the Speed of Life · 130
attachment · 137, 140
autonomic nervous system · 40
B
base brain · 45, 47
Basic Whole-Hearted Healing Manual, The · 17, 18, 21, 74, 76, 86, 102, 139
Beauty Way · 93, 116
belief · 67, 136
beliefs
(blocking peak states) · 118
benzodiazepines · 22
birth · 77, 106, 118, 125, 128, 143
blankness · 61, 79, 144
body brain · 41, 42, 47, 48, 93, 116, 144, 160
body brain associations · 42
body-centred therapy · 34, 61
bodywork · 65, 138, 152
Bohm, Sheelo · 56
brain biology · 40
brain injury · 69
brain stem · 40
BreathConnection · 152
breathwork · 46, 56, 65, 128, 152
Brennan, Barbara · 34
Buddha brain · 43, 47, 48, 114, 116, 160
C
Callahan, Roger · 59
Centre of Awareness (CoA) · 37, 136, 159
difficulty in moving · 39
moving · 38, 47
chakras · 101
Chandler, Maureen · 99
channelling · 87
chronic pain · 142
clairvoyance · 45
COEX systems · 50, 63, 70
conception · 79, 108
confusion · 99
copies · 71, 84, 137, 149
Craig, Gary · 131, 147
cranio-sacral therapy · 152
Crosby vortex · 99
D
demons · 46, 94
diabetes · 23
dilemmas · 110
disbelief · 123
dissociation · 16, 34, 56, 65, 66, 84
distraction · See 'thoughts and distractions' (during healing)'
dowsing · 41
dreams · 46, 124, 127, 160
dualities · 108, 110
dyslexia · 60
E
egg consciousness · 77, 78
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) · 22, 48, 131, 147, 163
emotions
("inappropriate") · 136
blocked · 63
difficulties in accessing · 61, 123
expressing · 73
positive (with trauma) · 140
emptiness · 79
entities · 87
epigenetics · 97
evil · 80, 82, 93, 94, 136
F
family issues · 105, 108
fatigue · 83
felt sense · 41
fetal consciousness · 76, 83
Fifteen-Minute Miracle, The · 36
Focusing · 41
forgiveness · 140
Fox, Matthew · 22
French, Gerald · 130
G
gateway events · 117
Gendlin, Eugene · 41
generational traumas · 74, 95, 102, 148, 153
genetic damage · 97
Gerbode, Frank · 129
gratitude · 36, 37, 39, 53, 119
Grof, Dr. Stanislav · 18, 50, 57, 103
H
hallucinogens · 46
happiness · 36
hara · 41
Harris, Chrys J. · 130
heart brain · 41, 47, 48, 116
hell · 94
Hendricks Loving-Yourself technique · See Loving-Yourself technique
Hendricks, Gay · 34
Hendricks, Gay and Kathlyn · 61, 130
hole · 80, 95
holes · 119
Hollow state · 116
Holotropic Therapy · See breathwork, See breathwork
hope · 140
hyperventilating · 128
I
Image Streaming · 134
implantation · 117
Inner Peace · 61, 116, 122
inner vision · 68, 134
Institute for Metapsychology · 129
Institute for the Study of Peak States · 16
J
Janov, Dr. Arthur · 18, 42, 44, 142
Jong, Erica · 46
Joy, W. Brugh · 93
L
Laks, Tal · 19, 39, 81, 86, 91, 104, 114, 123
Lannon, Dr. Richard · 45
Levine, Peter · 131
Lewis, Dr. Thomas · 45
liability agreement · 13
light
used in healing · 67, 74
light (used in healing) · 135
limbic system · 40, 41
lithium · 21
Loving-Yourself technique · 34, 38, 53, 65, 66, 119, 122, 135, 157
difficulty using · 37, 69, 71
M
MacLean, Dr. Paul · 40, 43
magnifying · 130
Maslow, Dr. Abraham · 17
massage · 152
medications · 21, 142, 145
meditation · 154
merging · 35, 65, 89, 91, 96, 106
meridian therapies · 147
metaphors in healing · 97, 117, 127
Mied, Ron · 56
mind brain · 41, 47, 48, 59, 93, 116
muscle testing · 41
music · 127
mythology · 91
N
Nath, Nemi · 152
neocortex · 40, 41
no time to finish · 36
no-breath technique · 128
O
out-of-body image · 16, 27, 56, 65, 66, 69, 108
overlooked traumas · 138
P
pain · 83
Papez, James · 40
past life · 101
peak experiences · 17, 21, 115
peak states · 17, 21, 46, 115, 122, 135, 148, 159
Peak States of Consciousness, Volume 1 · 21, 40, 116
Pellicer, Dr. Mary · 141
perineum · 45, 47
phobia · 95
physical injury · 111
physical pain · 83
physical problems · 58, 141
placenta · 44, 72, 77, 110, 126, 143
placental brain · 44, 47, 116, 138
placental death · 77, 106
planetary consciousness · 117
polarities · 113
power · 140
power therapies · 49, 58, 59
present
coming back to · 36, 95, 119
pretend-identities · 91
Primal Scream, The · 18
Project Renaissance · 134
projection · 18, 46, 66, 92, 101, 105, 112, 137
psychiatric illness · 23
Psychological Reversal step · 131, 136, 144, 150
psyclological reversal · 144
R
rebirthing · 128
record keeping · 59, 67, 68, 119
reflexology · 153
reframing · 58
regression
involuntary · 63
reiki · 152
relationships · 78, 91, 105, 108
reptilian brain · 40, 42
resistance · 144
Rolfing · 152
S
safety · 20, 23, 60
safety warnings · 13, 20, 35, 77, 80, 89, 113, 126, 128, 145, 149
Satan · 94
schizophrenia · 87
Scribner, Monti · 33, 46, 138
secondary emotions · 73, 80
selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors · 21
self · 37
self-identities · 91
self-images · 91
self-talk · 87, 127
sexuality · 41, 43, 109, 136
shamanic techniques · 155
shame · 80
shiatsu · 152
shoulder dystocia · 143
Silent Mind Technique · 88
skin boundary · 17, 21
sleepiness · 144
solar plexus brain · 43, 47, 48, 116
Somatic Experiencing · 131
soul loss · 87
soul piece · 94
soul retrieval · 87
soul stealing · 86, 106
sperm consciousness · 77, 78
sperm tail brain · 44, 47
spine brain · 44, 47, 116, 138
spirits · 46, 94
Spiritual Emergency Network · 21
stalking · 105
stalled healing · 66, 95
sub-brains · 43
subconscious · 37, 45, 91
sub-vocalization · 87
SUDS (subjective units of distress) scale · 59
suicide · 20, 125, 149
T
Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT) · 48, 148
third eye · 45, 47
Thought Field Therapy (TFT) · 59
thoughts and distractions (during healing) · 90, 101, 124, 144
time jumping · 113
transpersonal experiences · 21, 46, 115
trauma · 42, 56, 65, 67
causes of · 76
playback of · 42
trauma image · 79, 108, 133
trauma phrase · 136
trauma strings · 49, 63
Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) · 21, 129, 149
tricyclic antidepressants · 21
triune brain therapy · 33, 47
triune brains · 18, 40, 46, 91, 92, 105, 115, 138, 159
U
umbilical cord · 77, 106, 126, 143
Underlying Happiness · 116, 122, 148
V
vernix · 132
vertigo
(dizziness) · 99, 101
(fear of heights) · 111
Viewing · 129
violence · 95
visualisation · 154
voices · 87
vortex · 94, 98
W
Waisel, Dr. Adam · 19, 128
weight loss · 45
Wenger, Dr. Win · 134
wholeness · 44, 116, 127, 136
will · 82, 135
Y
yoga · 155
Z
zygote · 43
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Oct 4. 2017: Added Index to webpage.
Aug 22, 2013: Added this webpage.