The Self Healing Lineage (SHL) is a unique form of holistic therapy perfected by Dr. Ross Laing throughout more than 30 years of dedicated therapeutic practice. This modality works synergistically on five levels (realms): physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual, and it’s fundamentally built on the premises that healing is a transformative evolutionary process of restoration of ones true self.

“We define Healing as becoming the True Self.

We are already our true selves as a seed is a seed. – Potential
We are here to fully express this in a world with others thereby making potential actual – Manifest.”

The Self Healing Lineage is an integral, holistic practice that incrementally actualizes, unites and harmonizes the realms of our being, ultimately conducing to the complete embodiment of ones Authentic Self.

This modality seamlessly fuses work from various highly respected evolutionary figures, such as: William Glasser’s Reality Therapy, Wilhelm Reich’s Character Analysis, Huxley’s work on Perceptions, Ronnie Lang’s Ethics of Psychology, Wilber’s Integral Theory,  Marion Woodman’s body-soul work and Gurdjieff’s Universal approach to humanistic development.

Fundamentally, the Self Healing is based on 3 beliefs:
– Healing is a process of progression into the embodiment of the True Self
– Healing is in actuality a self motivated  and self directed process
– Healing is a viable, integral and holistic process

Integrating 5 realms of Beingness

A fundamental consideration for this modality is that our bodies, organs and systems are not separate from each other or from our thoughts, emotions, energy fields and our spiritual lives but they are holistically intertwined and together they form the whole person.
This belief leads to an integral practice, which addresses healing in a holistic manner manifesting it concomitantly on six realms of being:

Physical
Mental
Emotional
Social
Spiritual

It’s only by addressing each part of the whole within the whole we can synergistically re-generate ourselves towards a more vital and balanced self.

(DD Breathing, increased awareness of body, posture and environment)

One of the very useful developmental lines in the Self Healing Lineage, is expanding awareness on the Physical Level. This includes the following approached consistently present throughout this practice: conscious breathing, self observing the body and posture, eating consciously, producing endorphins (stroking) to shift the body in pleasure mode, and last but not least, creating a deeper connection with the environment and above all the nature.

(witnessing, increased mindfulness through readings and dialog)

Witnessing and expanding awareness through reading is mentally grounding.  Cognitively understanding of what is occurring helps to get a handle on the experience.  Also verbal expression through talking and writing is a way of giving form to inner experiences.  Speaking the microscopic truth, whether in a journal or with others, helps to integrate the experience.

The utilized procedures for mental healing include mindfulness and attaining higher levels of consciousness through readings and dialog sessions.

(processing or emotional center work, expanding love and compassion)

Feeling connected to other people is emotionally grounding.  In states of
distress establishing contact with others and asking for guidance guide is enormously relieving.  The importance of having someone who serves as ground control and is a soothing, calm presence cannot be overstated.

The Self Healing Modality offers emotional support as well as creatively makes use of arising situations to invoke the ego, desensitize through experiential awareness, and all throughout produce amazing transformations of Beingness over this realm.

(being a presence in Circle, expressing truth in this context, creating and managing relationships)

This form of practice takes place in the social context of a sacred Circle. This is a safe environment, governed by acceptance congruence and empathy in which each individual is encourage to participate by listening deeply, expressing his/her experience and  offer presence to others.

To be in the being of all and to include all in one’s being, to be conscious of the consciousness of all, to be integrated in force with the universal force, to carry all action and experience in oneself and feel it as one’s own action and experience, to feel all selves as one’s own self, to feel all delight of being as one’s own delight of being is a necessary condition of this healing.

(experiencing the amazing alchemy of the soul)

Ultimately, the committed practice of the Self Healing Lineage, moves the person
toward an increasingly spiritual orientation.  From an integral perspective, this can represent a psychic shift in which the evolving soul or psychic center becomes a stronger influence in a person’s life.It is the soul in us, the psychic entity, which, from behind the veil, shapes our life and draws us inexorably toward the inner depths and spiritual ground.  This is a long process, involving many lifetimes according to integral yoga, and sometimes the surface self needs a powerful reminder about what is important.