Also of interest:
1. "Unexpected Blessings"by Nancy Berg, writer and poet
2. "A Therapist's Spiritual Homecoming" by Past Life Regression Therapist, Ann Barham, M.F.T

Spiritual Guides and Psychotherapy

When Dr. Ron Scolastico received his Ph.D. in psychology and human communication from the University of Iowa in 1978, he expected to teach in a university and follow the academic path. Yet, his work took an unusual turn. For over 35 years, he has provided spiritual counseling for people throughout the world by entering a deep state of consciousness to bring forth the wisdom of the Guides.
     The Guides have identified themselves as souls who no longer express in human form, as our souls do, but who have such a deep love for humanity that they attempt to communicate about the magnificence of existence to help people experience life to the fullest. The wisdom of the Guides is spoken through Dr. Scolastico in spiritual readings given for individuals and groups.
Psychotherapy and the Soul
     The teachings of the Guides help people understand themselves in profound ways. Many say that the readings have given them deep insights into their psychological patterns. The Guides can also reveal how past lifetimes and soul choices affect mental, emotional, and physical patterns. These benefits have drawn the attention of psychotherapists from New York to California.
Psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals are discovering that a reading with the Guides can shed new light on their work with their patients.

The late Dr. Wells Goodrich, a noted Psychiatrist in the Washington, D.C. area, and former Professor of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York City, says, "The readings that I have done with the Guides have provided valuable new insights into the psychology of my patients. This wisdom has added new and significant directions to my psychotherapy work."
     In a personal reading devoted to the exploration of client issues, therapists will ask the Guides to discuss the origin of their clients' mental and emotional challenges. Many times they are told about patterns from past lifetimes that are affecting the clients in the present. The Guides suggest ways for the therapists to work with the clients to lead them to a new understanding and healing of the challenges.
     Some therapists send their clients to Dr. Scolastico to have their own personal reading. A tape of the client's reading is then provided to the therapist who uses the knowledge from the Guides in their work with the client. One such therapist is Steve Hasenberg who writes about his perspective below:

"A Therapist's Perspective"
by Steve Hasenberg, MFCC

The teachings of the Guides, through Ron Scolastico, have influenced my work in psychology very profoundly over the last twenty years. Most importantly, I have learned that negative thoughts and feelings are not realities. They represent a swift moving river. This river can be called the "mind stream." The Guides have taught me how to jump in, enjoy the current, do a little swimming, and, avoid drowning.
     Most of us have learned to drown on a daily basis in the intensity of our feelings. Intense feelings and thoughts are the grist for the mill in Western Psychotherapy. Instead of focusing on the content of these strong thoughts and feelings, i.e. the human drama, my clients have learned to view them as packages of energy, welcome them, sit with them for a short time, and then release them.

Once our identification with the negative stories of our lives begins to lift, the central teaching of the Guides begins to dawn. We realize what it means to become a true friend to ourselves, and we remember what the Guides have always said, that we are magnificent eternal beings, temporarily living in human bodies.
     This memory represents the beginning of our journey toward sacredness, toward God and union with our soul. This is the doorway that the Guides have so lovingly helped me through, and it represents the pathway that all of my clients travel.

Steve Hasenberg, MFCC is a psychotherapist who has a private practice in Santa Monica, California. He has worked with the teachings of the Guides for nearly thirty years.

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