About Metaphoric Resonance

Discovering your own personal mythology

Metaphoric Resonance is a two-fold process of healing & transformation:

• Your personal metaphors will make sense to you as you see how your mythology directs your life towards a specific point of view. 
• You will become neutral from the negative influence of past experience through the powerful iRelease Process.

Traditional forms of therapy sometime offer an intellectual understanding and a way to look at your life literally, and often from a perspective of pathology. Unfortunately mental activity alone cannot erase the harmful patterns and beliefs deeply embedded in our cellular memories.  When memories become somatized in the body as illness, or embodied in one's life as dysfunction, the healing needs to occur in the deeper realms of consciouness for the energy to be truly transformed. 

To keep up with the refining and evolving of Human Consciousness, new forms of therapy are needed. Toward Wholeness Seminars features such a breakthrough therapy: Metaphoric Resonance.
It is experiential, effective and spiritually-based. 

The Smith's began to experiment with an emotional releasing technique taught to them in the early 90's to help clients heal from the devastating effects memories can have on one's life. They found that instantaneous and observable transformative changes happened with just one simple release statement. Seeing the parallels to a computer's operating system, they began calling their technique iRelease.
 
To better understand Metaphoric Resonance and iRelease, we'll continue the computer metaphor.

If you liken consciousness to the computer hard-drive, then an effective Releasing statement is akin to the delete  button that can immediately erase an old program from your hard-drive, freeing up more energy for a new and improved program. The Smith's also noticed that when a releasing statement had a specific frequency and vibration, imbued with Truth and Love, it would cause a powerful, sympathetic resonance in the client, similar to the effect of a tuning fork. This resonance has profound healing properties: chronic pain both physical and emotional, from which relief seemed impossible, would simply vanish. This phenomenon reflects the overlapping of Metaphoric Resonance with the world of quantum physics.

To elaborate, we'll share a passage from our book, I Release: Create the Life that Makes Your Heart Sing:

"How Could One Simple Releasing Statement Create Such Change?"

While growing up in the Bronx I was often told by my mother, "You're too much!" "Ma, can I have that box? I want to open up a lemonade stand with Ellen Murphy up on Castle Hill Ave." "You're 5 years old and you want to sell lemonade to strangers? You're too much!" "Ma, can I have money to buy some crepe paper? I've just organized all the kids on the block and we're going to put on a show!" "You've done what? You're too much!" "Ma, I'm going to this great concert, I'll be gone for 3 days to a town in upstate New York called Woodstock"... "You're too much!" As I grew, others joined my mother's chorus, reminding me of my "too muchness". The nuns who taught me, boys I dated and well-meaning girlfriends constantly reminded me that I was dangerously close to going outside the lines of what was considered normal and appropriate. It was always said in a way to shame, rather than encourage.

In my thirties I met and fell in love with Hugh. The topic of living together came up in conversation and I said something to him that was somewhere between a gentle hint and getting in his face. He looked me right in the eyes and said "Voge, you're too much!" The words I dread had come out of my beloved's mouth. I was taken aback. Should I defend, back down, explain or walk away? What he said in the next moment took me totally by surprise: "...and, I love your 'too muchness'!" What did he say? I was too much and he loved me for it! I never knew how much I longed to hear those words until he spoke them.

That one simple little statement released a lifetime of shame, freed my soul and made it soar!

That sentence changed my life, as it changed the way I energetically resonated. Since that day I claimed my 'too muchness', and no one has said to me that I was too much in a way that shamed me - or if they did I never noticed because a radical, internal shift of my energy had taken place and I was virtually a new person.

As we all learned in high school physics , we aren't really solid matter, but comprised of energy. This "life energy" (also known as chi or prana) flows through us constantly. But as the years go by and we collect experiences, we tend to re-direct this flow into memory banks where it solidifies into cellular knowledge, i.e.: decisions we've made about the way life is. As we get older each moment of our life experience is filtered through this baggage of acquired knowledge, so instead of responding authentically in the present moment with the full force of our life energy, we react based on past experiences and past decisions we've made about life. In fact, all negative emotions originate in these hidden memory banks - so much so that what you think you're upset about, is rarely what you're truly upset about. It's usually a button that's pressed in the present, activating programming from your past and setting off the old alarms.

The goal is to become neutral i.e.: free of our programming from the past that restricts us from living in our natural state of joyful deservedness. And the more neutral we are about our past, the more we can allow in the blessings that the Universe continuously showers on us in the present.

Therein lies the value and power of the Releasing Process.

It not only brings you an awareness of how you've been organizing yourself based on the past, but it dismantles the rigid cellular knowledge you've held in place, that only torments you by insisting: "You can't have that, these limitations are real, so get used to it!"

Take a moment now and consider the ramifications of this. See how profoundly your life is affected by having your life energy and all the cells of your Being filtered through your past fears, traumas and limiting beliefs. It is this scenario that the Releasing Process addresses so effectively.

iRelease transforms lives through a powerful convergence of memory, emotion, imagination and commitment to your Truth.

I mentioned earlier that our natural state is one of deservedness and joy. One of the hardest things to face is how we deny ourselves this joy and prevent ourselves from having what would make our heart sing.

Although many of us believe we are the creators of our reality, when actually confronted with some of our creations we retreat into blame, victimhood and guilt. This is the reaction of one who is Spiritually immature. Acknowledging our responsibility, coupled with a desire to learn from our mis-creations and change, demonstrates Spiritual maturity.

This indicates another way that one releasing statement can create tremendous change in one's life. iRelease and Metaphoric Resonance are experiential techniques, and as you let go of your old and limiting life metaphors, you clearly see and feel the direct impact they've had on your life. You see the choices you made to create this mess and your responsibility is inescapable. All clients find this empowering and liberating, as new life-affirming metaphors are developed.

There is nothing worse than the helpless feeling of not being able to see the reason or cause for something in your life. When an expert suggests that the root of our problem exists at some causative level we can't see, whether it's the unconscious, subconscious, past lives or the astral plane, it can be frightening and frustrating. We may fear that if it's below our level of awareness, how can we take on the task of bringing it to out awareness? Metaphoric Resonance accesses that source not through analysis or knowledge, but through an awareness of one's metaphors. This work will help you face some of your creations and develop your 'in' - sight so that the things to which you were once blind can now be brought to the light of day to be purified and released.

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