Teresa A. Bahder, MA
Spiritually Oriented Work
She received Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology and holds over
twenty year experience in individual psychotherapy. Her credits include
seven years of teaching psychotherapy to medical students as well as
organizing and conducting the first groups of transpersonal psychology
in Poland. She has done extensive academic study and clinical work in
Jungian approach. During the last ten years she has developed a unique
and original approach and is busy in a full time spiritual guidance and
healing practice. She has given numerous workshops on healing in the US
and in Europe.
Spiritual Counseling
Spiritual counseling is not the practice of medicine, psychology or
psychiatry. In office or by phone it is an educational process of
consisting of counseling, spiritual treatment, prayer and meditation
with the intent to realize the spiritual truth of being. This approach
is based on the understanding that there is an "inner being,"
our true identity, and that we can make conscious contact with it.
Unlike psychological approach, spiritual leads to a state where
emotional defenses are unnecessary. It awakens awareness of our true
identity. It elevates consciousness and this heightened awareness
reveals a deeper sense of harmony and fulfillment. It expresses itself
as healing of body, relationships, and pocketbook.
Money, companionship, health - these are seen as an outflow from the
creative Source within us. We no longer take a passive stance of waiting
for good things to come to us from outside. We know that the true source
of fulfillment is within and by making contact with it we observe as It
unfolds in our experience.
Our inner Self is the true creative principle of life. Fulfillment,
joy and satisfaction lie in making conscious contact with our real I-dentity
(self). Learning to maintain and nurture this contact is the goal of
spiritual work and brings us to the wonder of life.
The Role of Mind
In spiritual counseling the mind is used specifically as an
instrument of truth. We educate our mind to reveal spiritual truth
instead of projecting universal hypnotism. This process involves
recognizing false beliefs and learning to re-interpret our experience in
light of spiritual principles. We release judgments and with a still
mind look on the wonder of reality as It already is.
What we have in our mind becomes outpictured as our experience. When
our mind is filled with spiritual truth, our experience reflects
harmony, health, and abundance. Our experience demonstrates what we
acknowledge, whether consciously or not. By learning to acknowledge
spiritual Reality, we are in tune with the Infinite Wisdom-Intelligence
of being.
Spiritual Guidance
To go just beyond feeling better and to understand the principles
underlying harmonious living, advanced work takes the form of individual
teaching. Its goal is to come into awareness of true identity within and
to shed off the narrow shell of conditioning, superstition and
prejudice.
Our mind is important as an instrument of awareness. When it is
subordinate to the inner needs of our true Self, the mind becomes a
transparency of health, harmony, truth, beauty. When the mind, instead,
is ignorant of truth of being, it becomes a victim of the world as we
accept religious, political or medical limitation which in turn dictate
the pattern of our experience.
By learning how to properly use our mind we are raised up above the
level of personality, beyond conditioning, and attain peace and
fulfillment that come from a life lived in conscious harmony with our
creative Source within
Spiritual Healing
Spiritual healing affords a spiritual way of handling various claims.
The first step toward spiritual healing consists of the patient asking
a spiritual practitioner for help. This is usually done in a brief
contact by letter, phone or fax. This request need not detail the nature
of the discord for which the healing is requested. It is really a
petition to enter practitioner’s consciousness. Practitioner is really
someone who devotes time to remember spiritual truth and to be
established in the consciousness of Truth. He or she has the ability to
see the patient in the light of Truth, as a whole, spiritual Being.
Practitioner’s mind imbued with spiritual awareness temporarily serves
as a law of harmony for the patient.
Requests for spiritual healing can be done as often as the person
feels the need to. The practitioner does spiritual work without actual
physical contact. Spiritual healing is an activity of consciousness and
represents a sacred trust between patient, practitioner and Spirit.
Telephone requests for spiritual help should be limited to less
than one minute and no attempt to explain you "story"
should at that time be made. Unlike for counseling, no bills are sent
for spiritual healing and payment is left to the patient as his/her
expression of gratitude.
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