Letting Go – Day 27
Letting Go – Day 27
By Jenny Griffin
Letting Go through Crisis: Interview with a healing practitioner
Fiona Mayhill is a Certified Body Talk practitioner and owner of Innerlife Health Services in Victoria, British Columbia. We spent time discussing the role of catharsis/letting go in the process of healing, and the transformative power in going through change consciously. The following are some key excerpts from the interview with Fiona.
JG: Can we start with defining the concept of self?
FM: I believe that our experience of our selves is a collection of concepts, a collection of beliefs, a collection of patterns of energy, ways of being, behaviors; and the experience of I or I-ness, me, self, comes from an entrainment, coherence, a clarification of or a cohesive collection of all these things. It’s cultural, it’s social, it’s genetic, it’s historical, it’s ancestral, it’s continually learning and growing, continually moving, continually changing. There’s no such thing as a static experience of self.
JG: How is it that people get to the point that a breaking down of self happens?
FM: When there’s a lot of stagnation in those concepts, a lot of holding on, a lot of coping, basically, a lot of fear energy being experienced, the concepts of self become static, and as everything in life does change and evolve, in our experience of life, subconsciously we are drawn into life experiences that will help us move through that fear. And sometimes that looks like a massive motor vehicle accident, it sometimes looks like the ending of a relationship, it sometimes looks like a major health crisis, it sometimes looks like a major psychotic break, it can look any number of ways, but it has the same intention, which is to break down the stuckness and the rigidity of that fear energy.
