I recently decided to launch a brand new LGBTQ Spirituality group in my area. I just completed the second of two pilot interest meetings to help launch the group. 

If you are familiar with the population, many of them have stories and histories concerning religious identities. After reading the book, Coming Out Spiritually, I can see and understand how closely related sexuality and spirituality are. These two linked characteristics of life should not be separated. 

I had people interested in the group fill out a basic questionnaire so I could get a summary of their interests and their personal interaction with spirituality - both previous and as they seek. 

The results taught me an insight, honestly. Many of the attendees see spirituality as an inward and outward lifestyle. (Inward: seeking truth, meditation; Outward: community, nature.) This is what caught my attention for my own personal devotion. I did not fill out a questionnaire, but if I did, you wouldnt find anything hinting at an “outward” spirituality on mine.

Though personal and private, spirituality grows us. We each have our own journey, but spirituality encompasses, at least from a greater collective level, both inward and outward experiences. 

@Michael Williams

Have you ever had trouble letting go of a relationship?  

This is one of the things that spiritual counseling can really help with. Here's what this might look like in a Depth Hypnosis session.  

(For client confidentiality, basic identifying details have been changed. )

A young man came to see me because he was having trouble getting over a breakup.  It had been more than three years, but he still thought of his former lover constantly.  

He knew it was over...  Why couldn't he let go?

I suggested that it might be worth looking into whether his partner had given him anything (energetically speaking) that he might still be holding onto.  

He was game to explore this, so with his consent, I guided him into a light hypnotic trance.  I then guided him through a process of scanning his inner landscape to see whether he was carrying anything that the other person had given him.  

It turned out that he was - it took the form of a black fishhook in his heart. 

I guided him through a process of returning the fishhook to his former partner, who was reticent to accept it at first, but did ultimately acquiesce when we appealed to his higher self.

I then guided him through a process of replacing that energy that had belonged to his former partner with his own life energy, which he experienced as a rain of golden light.

This process can be powerful for breaking down the bonds that no longer serve us.  

For those familiar with energy work, this method tends to be more thorough and final than cord cutting, because instead of just severing the energetic connection, it also roots out the intermingling that led to the cords forming in the first place. 

This is one of the tools that we work with in Depth Hypnosis, the healing modality I practice, which was created by Isa Gucciardi, PhD.  

Have you ever had an attachment that no longer served you?  What helped you let go?

Song:  “Sorrow’s Ending” from my album Cascadia

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