On December 16, 2023 Denise and I spoke much about the subconscious healing technique with various real life examples from her work; impact of childhood experiences; identifying archetypes, emotional patterning, beliefs, storylines; NLP; change; negativity bias; emotional scale; trauma; “I am” and “I can” statements; therapy; worthiness; the importance of enjoyment in starting a regular, consistent meditation practice; and plenty more
D Miceli Bio
Denise Miceli is an inspiring empathic guide, coach, and mentor in creating space for change and positive growth. She is known for her talent in energy healing, intuitive hot-seat coaching, and teaching new ways of accessing authenticity. Denise feels called to share her strategies and methods of self-awareness through subconscious healing, meditation, breathwork, and body-mind release, for continual self-reflection and growth. Her lifelong love of learning and sharing knowledge in manageable bites allows learning to occur naturally. She holds a supportive container for those ready to heal and allow their soul the freedom to awaken their infinite potential.
After enduring a difficult dark night journey, Denise cleared traumatic memories and emotional patterns that blocked her authentic self using subconscious healing. She has since been inspired to share this excellent healing modality. Denise transformed her health coaching business into Rock Your Blocks intuitive life coaching in 2023 after 25 years of teaching and guiding individuals and groups in improvement, health, and wellness. She holds degrees in Mental Health, Leadership and is a certified MAP Practitioner and health coach.
She now joyfully creates and publishes articles, audio, video, and healing collectives to share, inspire, and engage others in healing, personal growth, spirituality, and creating the life of their dreams. She is a compassionate, empathic soul that has a finely tuned intuitive sense that embodies the work of helping others connect with their soul’s purpose.
On December 11, 2023 Antonia and I dug into: how love is what’s underneath after clearing and healing pain; pain existing where consciousness doesn’t flow; being more creative on how to see beyond pain; noticing how pain changes; is pain real; not believing the story of pain; our relationships to pain; fear, shame, rage, resistance; buying out of identifications; clinging; outdated belief systems falsely posing as love; anger; boundaries; power of presence and attention; using spaciousness of meditation to bridge to higher realities
About
I am Antonia, and I assist people in seeing ancient stories of pain and separation. This pain is where we hold the 3rd dimension in our bodies, but to see it is to dissolve it. I help you dismantle the pain infrastructure through sharing energies of deep seeing as beneath the pain is your connection to your creativity and to our collective. I am here to share the energy of awareness and a vision into yourself and your connection to all. We are not separate; only our pain tells us we are. I invite you to walk with me on an often uncomfortable but magical journey into your next reality. It’s not an easy path because we must see our pain for what it really is. This is the alchemy of awareness. This is the transmutation of pain into love and dark into light. This is the next dimension.
Biography
Antonia’s accelerated transformation started in 2006 when she discovered her capacity to dissolve lifetimes of pain in her own body through a harrowing journey inward. Raising the vibration by inviting a deep seeing of the truth of pain, she now assists clients in enabling their process of dissolution of ancient trauma stories.
Antonia spent the early decades building up knowledge, intellect, data, and credibility. Now she is learning to unlearn. To expand awareness, she disassembles the infrastructure of the mind and surrenders it to the heart. As an integrative therapist, she blends Western modalities of therapeutic relationship with the metaphysical transmutation of the trauma of separation. Antonia helps people see the pain as a signal and opportunity for expansion; to bring awareness to pain and integrate our hidden suffering into the greater whole. She takes people into deeper levels of seeing and knowing through her one-on-one healing sessions, online modules, workshops, and retreats.
Her goal is to assist healers, seekers, and psychonauts get ready for a wave of healing as our collective, ancient traumas surface more rapidly and readily on our path to the next reality. This is her passion. This is her destiny. This is her collective.
By relics I mean the physical anomalies left behind after cremation. Likely among various other places such objects can be found today on the altars and shrines of various Buddhist monasteries and temples as I have seen close up for myself.
I don’t advocate associating these objects with any kind of worship or superstition nor leading to any trace of division amongst beings whatsoever. Could and/or would it be skillful and wise to look deeper than faith strengtheners?
Then after conversing with a few folks about this including a novice monk I’ve decided to release some of these curiosities as questions. While I would gladly accept, I make no claims to the following ideas nor request any recognition:
Could / would it make sense to allow something like a documentary film crew (approved by the monastic community who would also approve of any public release) — or just a sangha member filming (initially) for internal use — to film a prominent monastic cremation along with any anomalous “unexplained” substances in the ashes?
Where there any unusual physical / bodily phenomena or features reported while still alive? (This question would be to investigate any possible precursors to any post cremated (anomalous) relics / substances)
Could / would it make sense to afterwards submit (some of the) unknown substances to a lab for spectrum analysis and DNA testing; perhaps doing so initially without any agenda, just to have the data?
[Later the monastic community could decide what to do or not do with the data. Some possibilities include releasing the raw data — with or without any purposes — to very specialized researchers / projects and even releasing data to the general public.]
Or perhaps provide the data to any interested Ajahns writing about this as a topic on its own, or more likely as minor supports for other written works.
Spectrum analysis and DNA testing like this could also be done with existing relics / substances. It may also be possible to do such testing in various ways like via a lay supporters and maybe even without being required to explain what’s being tested, of course without any deception or falsehoods, in order to minimize biases via the “blind” and/or “double blind” methodology
This is a very niche thing these days with likely little interest, especially within Buddhism. What’s the importance or lack of importance here? What about any challenges, potential issues and benefits?
In this fifteenth installment of the ongoing live series with Wendy Nash inquiring into meditation practice on and off the cushion we explore meditation retreats both from our lived experience and otherwise including formally, informally, attending, teaching, what to look for, what’s important, what happens internally and externally, and how retreats “change” us and the world around us.
Somewhat related talk mentioning retreats:
(Ways to) join these Q & A’s when they happen live:
*There’s naturally an ongoing open call for meditation (related) questions for the (roughly) monthly “Meditation Q & A” either by the various social media means listed; integratingpresence[at]protonmail.com or just showing to type/ask live.*
Background
Regular, current and past visitors to Integrating Presence may recall the monthly series “Ask Us Anything” I did with Denny K Miu from August 2020 until January 2022 — partially including and continuing on with Lydia Grace as co-host for awhile until March 2022.
For a fewmonthsthereafter I did various Insight Timer live events exploring potential new directions and/or a continuation of the Ask Us Anything format while weaving in other related teachings to these events.
Then, after chats with meditation coach Wendy Nash, it became clear to start a new collaboration similar to “Ask Us Anything” simply and clearly called “Meditation Q & A” especially due to the original intent of the Ask Us Anything’s being “discussions about meditation and related topics.”
The December 1, 2023 Insight Timer live event description:
Inspired by a few months of monastery life in the UK, for 15 minutes or so let’s hash out these three qualities — of kindness, confidence and authenticity — pertinent for England and quite a few other walks of life
This is for anyone even remotely serious about Disclosure who’s already somewhat familiar with the governmental and “Truth Movement” or “alt media” approaches and who’s ready to get more expansive and deeper with firsthand otherworldly accounts as well as the resultant higher perspectives, analysis, wisdom and skillsets
Here’s the full HAL Processes to Full Disclosure playlist:
One can receive training to be able to do stuff like this as well as instruction for even more worthwhile work through Randi’s Higher Awareness Lifestyle Academy (HAL):
The HAL Transition Science Courses 1-7
HAL Basic & Advanced Clearing Work
Some immediate visuals from HAL Hidden History Illustrated:
For this fourteenth installment of the ongoing live series with Wendy Nash inquiring into meditation practice on and off the cushion we undertake a special and abbreviated (laden with technical challenges) Thanksgiving edition mostly about appreciation and gratitude
(Ways to) join these Q & A’s when they happen live:
*There’s naturally an ongoing open call for meditation (related) questions for the (roughly) monthly “Meditation Q & A” either by the various social media means listed; integratingpresence[at]protonmail.com or just showing to type/ask live.*
Background
Regular, current and past visitors to Integrating Presence may recall the monthly series “Ask Us Anything” I did with Denny K Miu from August 2020 until January 2022 — partially including and continuing on with Lydia Grace as co-host for awhile until March 2022.
For a fewmonthsthereafter I did various Insight Timer live events exploring potential new directions and/or a continuation of the Ask Us Anything format while weaving in other related teachings to these events.
Then, after chats with meditation coach Wendy Nash, it became clear to start a new collaboration similar to “Ask Us Anything” simply and clearly called “Meditation Q & A” especially due to the original intent of the Ask Us Anything’s being “discussions about meditation and related topics.”
The billing for this November 3, 2023 Insight Timer live event “Rethinking Rejection” in the less than ideal recording environment of the windy English countryside:
Are there any causes and upsides to rejection? What are skillful ways to view, approach, be with, relate to, practice with and respond to rejection? What can rejection teach us? Join this 15 minute or so exploration to learn and even contribute to the wisdom of something we’ve all experienced
On September 11, 2023 I spoke with author, researcher, and therapist Jake Eagle about his background, work and transitions, various research and studies, transcending our everyday reality, brevity of the A.W.E. technique, better connections due to the prosocial emotion of awe, (the lessening of) external validation, the awe of nature, the positive and negative notions and fear and wonder of awe, sensorial awe, perceptual / conceptional awe, interconnected awe, awe’s energized and play-like state that can release tension, how awe works physiologically via cytokines and inflammation reduction, awe spectrums ranging from numb to grandiose, how even though meditation practice provides more benefits the a.w.e. technique is considered a shortcut to transcendence via elevating consciousness by going from safety consciousness through heart consciousness to spacious consciousness, calming the nervous system and changing perspective, perception language, praise and blame, how to do the technique of A.W.E. [Attention, Wait, Exhale / Expand] for one or two breath cycles, long exhale activating the vagus nerve, polyvagal theory, etc.
Background blurb:
In May 2020, at the height of the pandemic, two trial groups embarked on a study through UC Berkeley to test a new method for “micro-dosing mindfulness.” One group was comprised of frontline healthcare workers; the other consisted of patients at a local medical center, as well as any of their friends and family who wished to participate. Almost immediately, both groups reported significant improvement in symptoms of stress, anxiety, depression, and chronic pain—results that bore out over the course of the study and beyond. Jake Eagle, LPC and Michael Amster, MD, knew that they were on to something.
The benefits of mindfulness meditation have been well-documented but are not accessible to everyone. Health care workers during the pandemic, not to mention many busy parents and other professionals, simply can’t find time to sit in silence for 20 minutes a day. For others, intrusive thoughts make meditation painful or even impossible. So Eagle and Amster were ecstatic to have found a clinically proven alternative, which they are introducing to the public now in a new book, The Power of Awe – Overcome Burnout and Anxiety Ease Chronic Pain Find Clarity and Purpose — In Less Than 1 Minute Per Day
A few thoughts after the talk:
Such as in some of the medical profession, science and academia, can/could relentlessly quantifying (and/or feeling obligated and/or trained to scientifically explain) everything wipe out one’s sense of awe?
How much is finding awe in the mundane aspects of life helping us and how much could it be holding us back from higher levels of awe?
JAKE EAGLE, LPCMICHAEL AMSTER, MD
About the Authors:
JAKE EAGLE, LPC, is a psychotherapist, mindfulness instructor, fellow member trainer of the International Association of NeuroLinguistic Programming, and cofounder of Live Conscious. After thirty years in private practice, Jake now works part-time as a meta therapist, working with people who want to go beyond the bounds of traditional therapy. Together, he and his wife, Hannah, lead life-changing small group retreats at awe-inspiring locations around the world.
MICHAEL AMSTER, MD, is a physician and faculty member at the Touro School of Medicine. With twenty years of experience as a pain management specialist, he is currently the founding director of the pain management department at Santa Cruz Community Health. He’s been a student of meditation for over thirty years, as well as a certified yoga teacher and meditation teacher. He splits his time between clinical work, research on awe, teaching mindfulness, and leading awe-inspiring retreats around the world.
The three-step A.W.E. process — short for Attention, Wait, Exhale and Expand—may sound too good to be true, but the results are very real. Bolstered by the success of the initial studies, plans are now underway at UC Davis to look at how A.W.E. can be used as a medical intervention to help COVID-19 long haulers and patients with heart failure. Not bad for a practice that arose from an epiphany while making pancakes! In THE POWER OF AWE, readers will learn:
• Exactly how to enter a state of A.W.E. at home – no trips to the Grand Canyon or virtual reality equipment are required. It’s all about finding inspiration in the everyday.
• The science of A.W.E. on a cellular level—exactly how and why this practice works to reduce inflammation in the body (as measured by levels of the compound interleukin-6), and to optimize the nervous system for a heightened state of consciousness.
• What A.W.E. looks like in practice – through a combination of results from the study, their own lives, and their work with clients, Eagle and Amster show exactly how the A.W.E. method is significantly improving people’s lives, and how readers can reap those benefits for themselves.
On August 21, 2023 Dr. Lynn Carey talked with me about her chiropractic journey, self-healing, chronic stress, passion, following one’s highest purpose, divine guidance, interconnection between wellbeing and wisdom, living in alignment, lack of helpfulness of disease labels, inspiration, journaling, recreating trauma and letting go, exploring interests, shadow work and dark night of the soul, the Sedona Method, bliss, Lynn’s grace state, service to others, Lynn’s book My Journey to Grace, etc.
About Lynn
Dr. Lynn Carey earned a doctorate in chiropractic and a bachelor’s degree in nutrition from Life University. She owned a practice in Wilmington, Delaware, for eighteen years, and has traveled to Brazil and India. Dr. Carey loves empowering others to create their desired life of health, wealth, and perfect self-expression. Today, she stays busy pursuing her entrepreneurial dreams and homeschooling her teenage son.
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