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The Soul Dynamic

The Nature of Soul Wounding and the Journey to Healing

by Beverly Marie Bright

It is my personal experience that deep embodiment can develop in each individual in which one has a rich, clear, and authentic experience of what it means to truly be a human being -- in relationship to oneself, to reality, and to other human beings.

My basis for facilitating the healing of others is based on my own continuing psychological healing and spiritual growth, awakening to my natural state of wholeness and health, and my continued personal spiritual quest, which has been the quest of many of the great traditions, that being "What am I or Who am I" and "What will my internal experience be, if I can experience myself beyond ego-based identity, without all the strategies and beliefs of my conditioned personality, without "doing" my present experience predominantly veiled and colored by events of my past.? I have asked myself and I now ask you... What would it be like to experience the present moment as clean, clear of all past moments, and empty of the usual familiar structures and beliefs . . . yet fresh, new, full and rich?

We begin as this pure presence, we leave that state of presence in order to survive in environments where presence was not seen or valued, and we then long in one way or another to return to that condition from which we came. By presence, here, we mean a richness and fullness of experience which is not simply empty space/big mind, but a fullness and richness of in-the-world experience which is simply free of the resistances, controls and stuckness which dominate our soul when identified with our patterns and old reactions.

This pure presence and fullness of this moment is where we came from. It is who we are at our core and it can be returned to through the experiential understanding in our cells of what we are and what we are not.. We need to see and release these specific patterns of belief and reactivity which we now take to be the norm and we need to feel and anchor the spiritual truth of our essential beingness.

A "spiritual" experience, in this view, is not an "elevated" one but an experience that is not controlled or produced by our conditioned personality. These may range from the direct experience of guidance, joy, strength, power, will, value, love, compassion, and others... to the equally valuable experience of awakening to a hidden of obscured truth... i.e. admitting we have been wrong about something to which we have defensively clung to out of desperation or ignorance. In fact, when we succeed in dropping one of these outdated defenses or falsehoods, Truth itself is felt/known directly and births the relaxation of our body and gives rise naturally to a sense of freedom, peace, and spaciousness, which are also actual manifestations of our essential being. The soul then expands and relaxes and is one step closer to returning to it's natural state of purity and ease.

Structuralization of the mind and experience, through childhood and subsequent conditioning, is well known in Western depth psychology. What is less known is the understanding that it is and was pure Being which was and is now at stake when psychological structures overlay our pure experience with the myriad gross self-images, reactions and beliefs.

Taking advantage of the inherent tendency in the soul to return to its original and natural state, personal exploration of our individual structuralizations tends to allow them to relax, fade and often simply disappear in the field of truthfulness we create; enough so that we are able to see beyond and experience an increasingly more true, authentic sense of self.

What I do is to facilitate a completely natural process: the natural movement of the individual soul toward its natural state, where it most wants to go and is where it is in fact compelled to go.

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A Synopsis of the Three Components Needed for

Healing and Transformation

by Beverly Marie Bright

True Transformational Work can only be productively entered into when three key elements are in place -- Safety, Permission, and Invitation.

In addition, a very real sufficiency of Center, Presence, Compassion, Wisdom, and Awareness are fundamentally required to create these elements at depth.

The Safety to feel and know your deep Truth is first, as it is most fundamental... nothing can proceed without it. It must be safe to feel truth. Beverly's heart and deep aware presence have been said to be the most unique and powerful gifts that she offers.

Beverly believes that Safety is created and best expressed by these words... "No Harm, No Shame, No Guilt, No Blame". We do not need to harm, shame, guilt, or blame any part of us (or anyone else for that matter.) What we do need is to be compassionately self responsible and self loving to our pained parts, our shadow.

Shadow can be best understood as the parts of us that act out in our life in less than admirable ways... they are the hidden elements of our psyche that carry great amounts of pain and act out beneath our level of consciousness. We commonly find that when its pain (fear/anger/sadness) is acting out in the world, that it is attacked, shamed, guilt tripped, or blamed. Anything is done to shut it up, or control/repress its behavior - and any uncomfortable truth that the behavior points to. Any of these events individually repeated (though usually in combination) actually become the oppressing catalyst that drives these parts of us underground... into the shadows. We can not heal our pain until we can understand why it hurts ans acts out. To do this, the healing arena must be safe.


Permission is also critical, and in Beverly's view is simply this -- permission to be (for the first time in forever) an honest, open, very real, uncensored expression of truth... whether that truth is pain, sadness, fear, anger, etc. For this reason, Permission is utterly intertwined with Safety, and at its facilitated best, the honest open expression of true feelings (even those based in ideas, misunderstandings, etc) are not only allowed, but welcomed. We WANT to hear their pain and are strong enough in our love to hold the field for their healing.

Invitation comes last because Safety and Permission must be established first. Safety and Permission open the way, gain their (inner shadow, inner child, or sub self parts) attention, and build hope and trust -- and then the Invitation comes, calling their attention to what is most true Now. Calling them forward to this moment... out of their armoured ideas, positions, and agendas... out of their pain/rage/terror/grief and into the wholeness of what they have not known in forever... Love, Freedom,Relief. They are invited to come home... home to the truth of their Being... home to Love.

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Where does Suffering come from and what do we do with it?

by Beverly Marie Bright

It is my belief that most of our current life suffering has its roots in past life issues. And although I do work with past lives directly (as well as shadow and entity intrusion which I will talk about in other writings), our current life issues seem to be a perfect holograph of all our past lives issues put together. I believes that we can trace our deep past life issues directly though the path of our present moment suffering back to our childhood experiences of trauma.

As a young child we have a limited capacity to see life events clearly due to our lack of life experience and our need for love from our parents. To help buffer us against the experiences of pain, sadness, frustration, judgment, fear, loneliness, etc. we are yet not able to understand or integrate, we create certain “trances” to help us deal with this chaos. We create beliefs about life, god, love, and people and subsequent to that strategies designed to keep us safe from the pain.

These strategies always start as a necessary means for survival. Often times the child simply cannot explain to itself what is happening... a life event that makes no sense to it’s young mind so in an attempt to stay sane, it either resists the experience, rejects the experience, or it adapts to it.

Yet what was a survival strategy for an overwhelmed and under skilled child attempting to understand and cope with its pain, often becomes the core symptom structure for the coping adult.

This wounded inner child, this part of our soul, becomes stuck or frozen in a “hell point” where it decides what reality is, how it works, and what it must do to survive. From this point on in its life, whenever any event that remotely looks like or feels like any part of the “original triggering “event has occurred, the strategy that was originally created to survive, unbeknownst to the adult, goes into action.

The adult is hypnotized by the wounded child’s “trance” and reacts automatically so that life is not experienced as it is, but rather as it was in the past. These reactions are somewhat like watching the same old movie playing over and over again when in reality it is not the same old movie. It is a completely new event that is reminding us of the old movie. What goes on inside of us is that the inner child tells itself that “this bad event (the old movie) must not occur again” which results in the activation of the old strategy (withdrawal, anger, depression, etc) and the person living in a self inflicted, disconnected from reality, traumatized state.

Contrary to popular belief, we do not have only “one inner child”... we have “many inner children” ... some do carry the more innocent, sweet childlike qualities that have been suppressed or lost from childhood trauma yet many more carry a dysfunctional expression created from these different “hell points” in the life... all with different perceptions, different world views, and different ways of meeting life and trauma.

It is through these dysfunctional inner child “trances” that we keep creating problems for our life by filtering present moment reality through these outmoded, limited, and distorted lenses.

How then do we best meet and resolve this phenomenon of unconscious, self inflicted, unnecessary, yet very real and debilitating suffering?

As a professional healer and spiritual guide for over 15 years, how I work with each unique being is undoubtedly my greatest gift and expertise. So many things have to be held in perspective and considered.

First, I help find ways to alert you to when this mechanical event is occurring and how to recognize it BEFORE you allow the outdated strategy to kick in. Then I help you refocus your attention to your deeper identity as a Divine Being and from here I show both you as your Divine Self and the inner child that what it decided was true “for all time and all events” is not actually true for this moment.

That realization changes both our view and the inner child’s view of the triggering event. From here we, as the Divine Self that we are, can then hold the field for truth either with soft compassion or a strong direction and hand as the child releases its need to put into action the survival technique. It realizes for itself that the current event is not the “old movie” at all and that a more current response based on the actual event that is happening is best of for all concerned.

I truly beleive that I offer the most effective approach available today for combining both the healing of the wounded child and the achieving of Self Realization.

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HUMAN DESIGN: A Glorious Gift for Healing and Awakening to our True Nature

By Beverly Marie Bright

Greetings Dear Ones!

My name is Beverly Marie Bright. I am a Spiritual Teacher, Heart/Soul Healer, and Advanced Human Design Consultant. For over 16 years I have helped thousands of people worldwide heal their deepest heart-soul wounds, awaken and celebrate their True Nature and Beauty, and live a more deeply fulfilling and love-filled life.

I was asked by Greg Aurand, the creator of this newsletter, to write an article showing my perspective on how my work with the Human Design System supports Awakening to our True Nature.

I agreed and after long reflection, I decided the most accurate reporting I could give you would be to describe my own personal experience and process so it is from here that I write this from as I believe it is the only true authority any of us really have.

I want to start with a bit of history. I bumped into Human Design on Maui in 1994 when I noticed this strange picture of a man with his chakras and channels all colored in.  My body shuttered and everything in me got very quiet… this is how my being tells me something is based in Truth. This mystical looking image of an open man with colored in chakras and connecting channels turned out to be a Human Design Body Graph and in that moment I knew I had to get this Human Design reading done... whatever it was. I knew I was staring at truth in form. In fact, it turned out to be the most profound reading on the secret, and not so secret, inner workings of my being that I had ever had done in my life.

A Human Design chart is created from your birth data and subsequent planetary locations using the I Ching as its philosophy and the Kabbala and Hindu Chakra systems as its basis for revealing your unique “Human Circuit Board”. It reveals a form of your Soul Print… a window into the way all spiritual, emotional, inspirational, mental, personal, and manifestational energy are expressing as your soul...  through, as, and merged with your body form. It shows how your form Awakens in a very personal and unique way.

The accuracy in the details of the reading astounded me. Here a stranger knew and articulated things that I could not even articulate about myself. He knew how the deepest parts of my being operated, where I secretly struggled, and where my truest heart yearnings lived and died.  It is from this place of absolute stunning accuracy that my cells began to relax and release the biggest exhale they had ever made and my heart cried tears of sadness and joy that swept through me for weeks.

The tears felt as if they were washing my soul’s pain away for the years... the lifetimes... I had spent doubting and often hating myself for predispositions that were hardwired into me from birth... for the vulnerabilities I had experienced in my personal life... for the compulsion I had to speak truth, to heal and empower people even when they were not asking me for help, and the list went on and on. The accuracy I felt in these most secret places felt like I was being held by the Divine. It held me in its arms and said you are perfect as you are…you have both gifts and challenges and you were designed to do it this way this lifetime … you are destined to be and to give something very specific to this world and it is here where you will feel your connection to all beings.

I began to realize that all of us are perfect in our gifts and limitation and in the knowing that I had a very specific role to play this lifetime and in playing that role, I served myself and all beings. I realized that all of us have a very specific role to play and that all of us are unique and gifted. All of us... with no exceptions.

So, as self hate, self doubt, and self judgment began to dissolve, love and compassion began to flow out of me and through me in waves, healing all my most shameful places. False beliefs dropped like flies and my gifts, my love, and my beauty felt free to come up without fear. The accuracy about my challenges gave merit to the accuracy of the beauty in me that I had been unsure of and afraid to own, particularly my gifts as a healer and teacher. I felt so much more self love and so much more empowered to give my gifts because I could see that I was here to do exactly what I had thought I was to do but I had lacked the right kind of external support and trust in my own being and self knowing.

The hard wiring or circuit board of chakra energies that flows throughout our “esoteric” body is revealed through your chart as a visual diagram. There is no missing the precision and accuracy of the circuits.  Love and compassion for all beings is felt at such a deep level and it begins to grow  and deepen to where you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that all beings are doing the best they can with what they were conditioned by and how they are hardwired with their predispositions from birth.

The realization began to arise that the way I operated in the world was not a mistake or mutation … nor was anyone else’s. We all were here together with different roles to play out… in service to the expansion of the One Consciousness and in service to each other. No one is better than anyone else or less than anyone else. In truth, we are all needed to be these unique beings in order that we can all fulfill our unique destinies. We are all pieces of a magnificent puzzle that fit together perfectly when we let what is real be real. I had not failed myself or my family nor had I taken a wrong turn and nor had anyone else.  I was not broken nor was anyone else. I simply did not know how to effectively use the form I was given to maximize my soul’s potential.

As time went by, I felt the freedom and the beauty of experiencing the ultimate potential expression of my Personal Soul as True Nature in form, the unchanging truth, the still point at the center of life’s constant change, in its unique, amazing, and exquisite expression as our unique personal form and then I began to see all beings this way, divine unique, perfect expressions of the One Consciousness in human form. I knew we are here as human beings to Awaken as form.

Over the years the realizations have grown and gone deeper into my being. Deep peace, love, compassion, strength, confidence, a sense of oneness with creation and all beings, a sense of belonging to creation and all beings, a sense of fulfillment in giving the world my gifts, a sense of how it all works perfectly, the impetus to surrender and to love “what is”, and a sense of awe for this Mystery that we are all a part of.  In time, all of these states and perspectives have shown themselves as lasting and true realities for me. I have come to know my True Nature as this unique, beautifully imperfect divine expression as form.

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