DEVELOPING AND DEEPENING PERSONAL SPIRITUALITY
  For ourselves and our clients

This 1-day experiential workshop may be taken for a WHEE Level 2b Certificate or may be attended without certification, after clarification with Dr. Benor.

WORKSHOP DETAILS

I. REVIEW OF BASIC SAFETY ISSUES IN THE LIGHT OF SPIRITUAL AWARENESS: IF IT DOESN’T FEEL RIGHT, DON’T DO IT!

A. Grounding and centering  – understanding body, emotions, mind, spirit, including bioenergies, Brain Gym, breathing, imagery.

B. Protection
    1. Safe environment, physical boundaries
    2. Energetic boundaries of safety
    3. Spiritual boundaries of safety
    4. Always for the highest good of all

C. Therapist and client safety: First do no harm
    1. Client’s needs come first
    2. Therapist’s needs are also important
    3. When to intervene or not intervene: examples, brief discussion
    4. The client is in charge, the therapist is a consultant
    5. Therapist meta-decisions: Is this information intended for me or the client?


II. WHOLISTIC HEALING
                     
For a detailed discussions on the interrelationships between body, emotions, mind, relationships and spirit, click here.


II. SPIRIT – detailed explorations

A. WHEE facilitates opening into spiritual awareness in many ways, detailed in the program below.

Learning to focus on the NOW
Releasing negativity that keeps us out of the NOW and blocks openness to personal spiritual awareness
Including spiritual components in releasing affirmations (e.g. God loves and accepts me…)
Connecting with intuitive awarenesses
Using the SUDS (Subjective Unites of Distress Scale) and SUSS (Subjective Unites of Success Scale)
Muscle testing
Identifying and clearing issues from the past that sit in the same inner trash can as current issues we work on – for ourselves and others.
Clearing dream issues and images
Bioenergy awareness
Attending to collective consciousness
Noting messages and lessons that clients (and others in our lives) bring us
Noting synchronicities in our lives
Proxy/ surrogate/ distant healing
Clearing blocks to spiritual development

B. Gnowing
    Imagery exercise of walk in country for levels of intuitive/ spiritual awareness
    Personal intuitive awareness
        Heart chakra
        Feedback and other ways of developing confidence
        Focusing questions
        Living with uncertainty and errors of intuition
    Intuition as collective approximations – diminishing distortions of ‘noise’
    Meditation to deepen intuitive, gnowing awareness
    Place of peace - Exercise
    Darkness and light
        Balance of light - dark; masculine – feminine; good - evil
        Everything is a spiritual experience
        Distractions and other obstructions to spiritual awakening can strengthen spiritual awareness
    Loving acceptance - Exercise

C. Collective consciousness
    People
        Feedback on intuitions, telepathy, synchronicities
        Group focused meditation and consciousness
    Gaia
    Beyond to the Infinite Source

D. Spirit
    Self (capital ‘S’)
    Guides
    Prayer
        Manifestation – being specific
        Thy will be done – trusting higher consciousness
        Spiritual acceptance
        Forgiveness
            Others
            self

E. ONE – encompassing All - beyond human knowing, beyond understanding, beyond words
    Each of us is a little pixel on the screen of the All
        Sensing/ Perceiving the All
        Reflecting the All
        Co-creating the All
    Soul transcends physical lives, carries life lessons
    spirit (little ‘s’) is the energetic whole of a lifetime
        Mediates between consciousness of this life and the All


PRACTICING WHEE AT LEVEL 2a

A.  Journaling self-healing
It is extremely helpful to record the specific words and phrases used in doing WHEE. When successful, these serve as markers or templates for further use. When only partially working or unsuccessful, these enable a tweaking and sharpening of focus so that the WHEE accurately targets the issues.

B.  Records by practitioners of WHEE treatments of clients
Building a database of where WHEE has been successful or not in your practice is helpful to all WHEE practitioners and potential WHEE users.

C.  Reports from those you have taught WHEE
Client reports of WHEE effects, in their own words, supplement and complement practitioner observations.

D.  Records of peer supervision
    Organized on your own
    Monthly telephone seminars with Dr. Benor
This is important for ongoing professional growth. A log of WHEE sessions with brief notes on the contents of discussions serves the same purpose as individual journaling.
  Participation in a peer supervision group on a regular basis is a requirement for taking WHEE Level 2a training.

E.  Contributing to databases of WHEE effects
More organized and professional summaries of WHEE effects help others who are new to WHEE to appreciate its benefits.


Suggested reading for WHEE Level 2b training ( * = highly recommended books)

Aldridge, David. Spirituality, Healing and Medicine: Return to the Silence, Philadelphia/London: Jessica Kingsley 2000. (Outstanding broad discussion about spirituality.)

*Benor, D. J. Healing Research, Volume III – Personal Spirituality: Science, Spirit and the Eternal Soul, Medford, NJ: Wholistic Healing Publications 2006. (Research on NDE, OBE, spirit survival, reincarnation, spiritual awareness.)

*Benor, Daniel J. Reaching Higher and Deeper: Workbook for Healing Research, Volume 3: Personal Spirituality: Medford, NJ: Wholistic Healing Publications 2007  

Benor, Daniel J. (See other books at end of this list).

*Ferrer, Jorge N. Revisioning Transpersonal Theory: A Participatory Vision of Human Spirituality, Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2002. (Erudite discussion of religious, philosophical and transpersonal explorations of spirituality. Lacks discussion of parapsychological dimensions.)

Inglis, B/ West, R. The Unknown Guest: The Mystery of Intuition, London: Coronet 1989. (The inner voice that guides many people.)

Jampolsky, G G. Love is Letting Go of Fear, Celestial Arts.

Jovanovic, Pierre. An Inquiry into the Existence of Guardian Angels: A Journalist’s Investigative Report, New York: M. Evans 1995.

Karagulla, Shafika. Breakthrough to Creativity: Your Higher Self Perception, Santa Monica: DeVorss 1967. (Bridges Holistic approaches with healing and spiritual views.)

Radin, Dean. Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality, New York: Paraview Pocket Books/ Simon & Schuster 2006. (Excellent discussion on the scientific basis for understanding non-local mind)

*Tolle, Eckhart. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, Novato, CA: New World 1999; also available as a talking book. (Very highly recommended for understanding how to BE in the NOW)

Wright, Machaelle Small. Co-Creative Science: A Revolution In Science Providing Real Solutions For Today’s Health & Environment, Warrenton, VA: Perelandra, Ltd 1997. (Creating new realities in your life – the garden as a school for external and internal changes)


Books by Daniel J. Benor, MD
Benor, Daniel J, WHEE Workbook, Medford, NJ: Wholistic Healing Publications, 2006     Available as immediate eBook download or paperback.

Benor, Daniel J, Healing Research: Volume I, Spiritual Healing: Scientific Validation of a Healing Revolution, Southfield, MI: Vision Publications, 2001. (Healers describe their work, research in parapsychology as a context for understanding healing, brief summaries of randomized controlled studies, pilot studies)

Benor, Daniel J, Healing Research: Volume I, Professional Supplement, Southfield, MI: Vision Publications, 2001. (Only the studies -- described in much greater detail, including statistical information)

Benor, D. J. Healing Research, Volume II (Professional edition), Consciousness, Bioenergy and Healing, Medford, NJ: Wholistic Healing Publications, 2004. Self-healing, wholistic complementary/ alternative medicine and integrative care, biological energies, and environmental interactions with bioenergies. (Available in paperback, cd-rom, and ebook versions)

Benor, D. J. Healing Research, Volume II (Popular edition), How Can I Heal What Hurts? Wholistic Healing and Bioenergies, Medford, NJ: Wholistic Healing Publications, 2005. (Self-healing, wholistic complementary/ alternative medicine and integrative care, biological energies, and environmental interactions with bioenergies; a context within which to understand spiritual awareness and healing)

Benor, D. J. Healing Research, Volume III – Personal Spirituality: Science, Spirit and the Eternal Soul, Medford, NJ: Wholistic Healing Publications 2006. (Research on NDE, OBE, spirit survival, reincarnation, personal spiritual awareness)

Benor, Daniel J. Reaching Higher and Deeper: Workbook for Healing Research, Volume 3: Personal Spirituality: Medford, NJ: Wholistic Healing Publications 2007  

There are two separate Level 2 workshops:

Level 2a training explores many ways to use WHEE for:
   Clearing issues from the past that are connected with issues in the present
   Inner Child work
   Meta-issues that block clearing of primary issues
Click here for details of WHEE Level 2a training

Level 2b training (details on this page) introduces many ways to use WHEE for developing and deepening personal spiritual awareness

The order in which you take these is your choice.