I began as a Counsellor. Wanting to help my clients more deeply I trained in Psychotherapy. Then feeling I needed to be more practical I took on work with entire families in dire distress and dysfunction.

I realised I was in need of more spiritual support so I delved into NLP and studied Reiki Healing to Master Level.

This lead me to address the needs of the most vulnerable and I became a Play Therapist in order to work with children who’d experienced abuse (taking in some Psychodrama, Psychosynthesis and the latest brain science along the way).

I felt I needed to support my clients to look forward rather than back and studied Coaching.

By this point, things had got pretty heavy and I turned my back on most of this and studied business, including becoming a Master Practitioner in an I Ching based system of personality profiling to enable business people and entrepreneurs to discover their flow (known as Wealth Dynamics 8pathstowealth.com).

Things didn’t really get much lighter

I turned around and looked at what I love; in fact I put my feet into a bucket of sand, which lead me to go to the beach and run around.

It was then I realised I am enough.

The light began to flow back into me.

I stopped studying and looked at what I’d achieved and learned and began assembling it all into something. This helped me recognise my own expertise in a field I now realise is pretty unusual.

Play for Adults and using it to reach enlightenment.

 

We can get pretty heavy about enlightenment and it doesn’t really make sense does it?

We get dragged into our modern day, Western perception of asceticism, a monkishness which seems to include large amounts of “working at” our spirituality and “trying harder” to meditate or pray, I’m sure sometimes we even get into mental flagellation (guilt tripping, “I really must meditate more, I am so bad at my spiritual practice!”) I call it “enheavyment”.

And yet, isn’t it the case for most of us, that genuine glimpses of The Light, our fullest connection and experience of it come often by accident? A piercing joy when we look into a baby’s eyes, see a sunset, hear the last chord of some gorgeous piece of music, smell the ocean and know it is near, taste a divine pudding?

They come when we’re not working at it, or even particularly looking for them.

And certainly for me, and many of my clients, they come through my body, in a way that is outside of language and thought.

Examining this for myself, I considered the combination (finally) of what makes me happiest and has been most helpful to most people.

And it has been both wordless and simple. In my practice, it has been the simplest things that have been most effective, similarly when I’ve been the recipient.

Engaging with energy is one of these methods, and when used in combination with play techniques clients come easily and swiftly to peace and transformation.

It’s as though the very simple, pared down play techniques I use with adults create space in the brain for the light to come in.

Clients quickly become absorbed and discover they are feeling a joy that often, till then has come very rarely in their rushed and stressed lives.

Even people who follow regular spiritual practice are finding play to be an efficient and incredibly compassionate way for them to connect with their deeper selves, to allow distress and baggage to simply flow away and be replaced by lightness.

This is joy.

We often put barriers in our way by struggling to “understand”. Here in the West in this time, we have a belief that we are our mind. There are many ways we use to “get out of our head” but they tend to be difficult and our minds’ chatter constantly interrupts us.

The simple play techniques I use bring us out of our head and into our body, we begin to experience “like a child”, without expectation. We lose track of time and come into The Now. The sand and other media quickly absorb us and actually seem to absorb the “thoughting” we might otherwise do and which prevents us from experiencing our connection to All That Is.

I run groups and work with individuals using play and am currently experimenting with doing it over skype for people outside the UK wanting to lighten their life and their load on the kind of regular basis that creates transformations.