2008
A New
Year of Transformation Through
Metaphoric
Resonance
There is no pain in your life that cannot be relieved, no incident in your life from which you were never meant to heal, no heartache so great you cannot be free of its grip, no lack that cannot be replaced by unlimited abundance and no emptiness so deep that it cannot be filled by Divine Love.
This is our Purpose, this is your purpose, and this is where we meet.
Hugh & Voge Smith - Founders of
Toward Wholeness Seminar
Metaphoric Resonance
In the early 1990’s Voge and Hugh began to develop methods of healing that would resolve the effects of traumatic memories. Listening to clients describe the troubling issues in their lives, they began to notice a common thread running through their stories. In an almost off-hand way the client’s conversations would be peppered with phrases such as: “I feel like my back is up against a wall”, “I feel like an alien in my own family” “I’m juggling too many balls...”, “I feel like I’m always swimming upstream.”
Over many years, these clients, without realizing it, had developed metaphors that characterized their lives. These metaphors took on a life of their own and created a powerful resonance or ripple effect, influencing in a profound way, the quality of their relationships, finances, health, and spiritual experience. In other words, whether we’re aware of it or not, the acting out of our life metaphors, emits a specific frequency to the world around us. That frequency evokes a reaction from like-minded people or energies out in the world. That, in a nutshell is resonance.
Of course the frequencies we emanate have qualities that range from the chaotic, carrying anger, self-pity and disease, to the harmonious with vibrations of love, compassion and deservedness. And like a tuning fork - we elicit a similar response or resonance from those other ‘tuning forks’ out there, vibrating on the same wave length. Obviously, it is in our best interests to develop and refine our frequencies to attract that which serves our Highest Good.
Viewing their life metaphorically, a person sees the arc of their life from a higher and more compassionate perspective. Metaphors also carry a wealth of information in a compact package. Voge and Hugh began to assist their clients to delve more deeply into their life metaphors, inviting them to switch from everyday perception to symbolic sight. During a session or workshop, the client would see how their metaphors corresponded to their life experience. In the light of this new awareness, perceptions of their issues began to change and a true transformation would take place.
As you learn to be more aware of the ways you resonate with the metaphors of your life, and understand their origins, you will free yourself of their grip and begin to heal the wounds associated with those old metaphors.
Voge and Hugh's 20 year partnership is founded on their commitment to expand and refine their own frequencies of love, truth laughter and compassion. This has also been the underlying agenda and Purpose in all the years of leading workshops.
Consequently, when clients spend time with them, they sense an invitation and affirmation to allow their own frequencies to move up from the cruder levels of self-judgement limitation and depression, and resonate in the higher realms of appreciation, trust and expansion.
In addition to offering private sessions and workshops to release the wounds and old metaphoric patterns, Voge and Hugh wrote a book titled: I Release! Create the Life That Makes Your Heart Sing.
This terrific book takes you on a powerful journey from being a seeker to a finder. It guides you through case studies, inspiring anecdotes and experiential techniques which help you in your journey Toward Wholeness.
Toward Wholeness Seminars evolved out of their commitment to this Purpose and brings a rare mix of education, training and experience to support and inspire individuals. Voge and Hugh Smith bring a contagious joy to their workshops and private sessions while combining their separate and unique talents.
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