Guided by the concept of synergy, this groundbreaking collection explores alternatives in the areas of counseling, education, and community health and development. Synergy refers to the process of two or more things coming together to create a new, greater, and often-unexpected whole. When synergy exists, formerly scarce resources can expand and become renewable and accessible to all. Drawing upon the diverse cultural experiences of Aboriginal groups in North America and around the world, these compelling narratives provide practical insights into the emergence of synergy and obstacles to its existence. Synergy, Healing and Empowerment offers invaluable guidance in the pursuit of a just and equitable society.

Guided by the concept of synergy, this groundbreaking collection explores alternatives in the areas of counseling, education, and community health and development. Synergy refers to the process of two or more things coming together to create a new, greater, and often-unexpected whole. When synergy exists, formerly scarce resources can expand and become renewable and accessible to all. Drawing upon the diverse cultural experiences of Aboriginal groups in North America and around the world, these compelling narratives provide practical insights into the emergence of synergy and obstacles to its existence. Synergy, Healing and Empowerment offers invaluable guidance in the pursuit of a just and equitable society.

This adaptable book offers diverse applications of the empowerment model to the promotion of mental health and the prevention of mental illness. Topics span the developmental trends of empowerment as an individual achievement, a community experience, and a professional aim in relation to social intervention strategies and tactics.

Connecting modern psychology to its Indigenous roots to enhance the healing process and psychology itself • Shares the healing wisdom of Indigenous people the author has worked with, including the Ju/’hoansi of the Kalahari Desert, the Fijians of the South Pacific, Sicangu Lakota people, and Cree and Anishnabe First Nations people • Explains how Indigenous perspectives can help create a more effective model of best practices in psychology • Explores the vital role of spirituality in the practice of psychology and the shift of emphasis that occurs when one understands that all beings are interconnected Wherever the first inhabitants of the world gathered together, they engaged in the human concerns of community building, interpersonal relations, and spiritual understanding. As such these earliest people became our “first psychologists.” Their wisdom lives on through the teachings of contemporary Indigenous elders and healers, offering unique insights and practices to help us revision the self-limiting approaches of modern psychology and enhance the processes of healing and social justice. Reconnecting psychology to its ancient roots, Richard Katz, Ph.D., sensitively shares the healing wisdom of Indigenous peoples he has worked with, including the Ju/’hoansi of the Kalahari Desert, Fijians native to the Fiji Islands, Lakota people of the Rosebud Reservation, and Cree and Anishnabe First Nations people from Saskatchewan. Through stories about the profoundly spiritual ceremonies and everyday practices he engaged in, he seeks to fulfill the responsibility he was given: build a foundation of reciprocity so Indigenous teachings can create a path toward healing psychology. Also drawing on his experience as a Harvard-trained psychologist, the author reveals how modern psychological approaches focus too heavily on labels and categories and fail to recognize the benefits of enhanced states of consciousness. Exploring the vital role of spirituality in the practice of psychology, Katz explains how the Indigenous approach offers a way to understand challenges and opportunities, from inside lived truths, and treat mental illness at its source. Acknowledging the diversity of Indigenous approaches, he shows how Indigenous perspectives can help create a more effective model of best practices in psychology as well as guide us to a more holistic existence where we can once again assume full responsibility in the creation of our lives.

Soul Heart Mind Merge offers a path for the healing of our hearts so that we may awaken and become enlightened in a harmonious relationship with the soul, heart and mind. Their inherent synergy can lead the way with guidance and innate knowingness to live Heaven on Earth as sovereign, Divine Self-Masters. The blueprint for it is within. There is a luminous piece of absolute brilliance within each of us, known as the everlasting Soul. It contains pure love, innate knowingness and wisdom with a healing consciousness. We are this Soul, this powerful part of Creator God (by whatever name). With the Soul Heart Mind Merge, we receive our intended gifts and live powerfully. Guidance by inner wisdom bathed in unconditional love and the manifestation of abundance, health, joy and peace are miraculous gifts from the Soul. It is about the conscious life of the Soul, empowered by Love in the form of Divine Light. One heart at a time, we can heal ourselves to heal our world. Blessings be. All things are possible.

A practical, step-by-step program for healing the four lower chakras—the empowerment chakras—using EFT/tapping. Noted empowerment coach Margaret Lynch Raniere introduces the hidden power of the four lower “empowerment” chakras—root, sacral, solar plexus, heart—and the groundbreaking healing techniques she created to heal them using Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), also known as “tapping.” These four chakras are the source of the exact rising empowerment energy you need to feel, speak, and act with confidence, courage, and deeply felt belief in yourself and your value. However, these are the chakras that get blocked with long-buried fears and pain that create self-doubt, procrastination, playing small, and years of trying to prove you’re good enough. Healing these lower chakras will help you reclaim your inner power so you can stop proving and start being your most powerful, passionate, and authentic self.

Jen Ward, LMT, is a Reiki Master. She is an intuitive, a gifted healer and an innovator of healing practices. She is at the leading edge of energy work; providing a loving segue for her techniques to clients, enabling them to cross the bridge of self-discovery with her. Her passion is to empower the individual in their own healing journey so that they can remain in their center every step of the way. Jen is considered a Sangoma, which is a traditional African Shaman who channels their ancestors emoting sounds and vocalizations in their ceremonies. An interesting prerequisite to being a Sangoma is to have survived being at the brink of death; which she fulfilled when in April 2008 she came back to society on the brink of starvation as a result of traumatic involuntary imprisonment. She returned to the world of humanity, a devout soul inspired to serve. Her special abilities have also allowed her to innovate a revolutionary technique for finding lost pets by performing emotional release on the animal. Using this method, she has successfully reunited many lost pets with their owners. Jen currently works as a long-distance emotional release facilitator, public speaker and consultant to high end clientele including celebrities, high end professionals and professional athletes. She also generously shares techniques and daily tapping exercises on social media that are geared to empowering the individual to discover their innate talents and gifts. Enlightenment Unveiled is a compilation of case studies from Jen Ward's private sessions where she uncovered core issues from the client's past life memories that are causing disturbances in their present life. The information revealed in the sessions was used to create incredible shifts in the individual's present life using a series of modalities including the popular technique of tapping. The specific taps that were used to drastically shift the client into empowerment are given in this book. Enlightenment Unveiled affords the opportunity for the reader to experience similar dramatic changes that personal sessions with Jen Ward would avail. These changes happen within themselves, all their relationships and with the word at large.

Soul Heart Mind Merge offers a path for the healing of our hearts so that we may awaken and become enlightened in a harmonious relationship with the soul, heart and mind. Their inherent synergy can lead the way with guidance and innate knowingness to live Heaven on Earth as sovereign, Divine Self-Masters. The blueprint for it is within. There is a luminous piece of absolute brilliance within each of us, known as the everlasting Soul. It contains pure love, innate knowingness and wisdom with a healing consciousness. We are this Soul, this powerful part of Creator God (by whatever name). With the Soul Heart Mind Merge, we receive our intended gifts and live powerfully. Guidance by inner wisdom bathed in unconditional love and the manifestation of abundance, health, joy and peace are miraculous gifts from the Soul. It is about the conscious life of the Soul, empowered by Love in the form of Divine Light. One heart at a time, we can heal ourselves to heal our world. Blessings be. All things are possible.

You will love this fresh approach to understanding your soul's gifts through connecting to your natural spiritual abilities. Tapping into the conscious awareness of your spiritual power and the individual energy that governs your life, you have the opportunity to identify and realize your full potential. The gift of aromatherapy is the ability to draw on the essential oils of life to reinforce the process of emotional release and spiritual enlightenment. Your method might be religion, western medicine, psychology, Traditional Chinese Medicine, alternative approaches, or energy healing. The life force energy of the essential oils provides a powerful means for carrying smell to the emotional brain and frequency to the energy healing centers of the body, creating a synergy with all healing modalities, such that the result is optimized with far reaching results. Essential oils facilitate the journey toward heightened intuition by opening the channels to the unconscious mind and bringing about conscious awareness-activating your intuition helps you to feel better about yourself. Once you have correlated your emotions with energy center imbalances, the essential oil frequencies transmute negative energy while opening opportunities for harmony and balance. Part 1 of this book deepens your knowledge of the power of aromatherapy, details how to tune into your soul consciousness, and provides answers to balancing your chakras with essential oils. Part 2 provides a series of techniques using inhalation and topical application of essential oils for supporting spiritual and emotional empowerment.