Practitioners of Holistic Healing Modalities and Techniques in Texas


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Holistic healing is a mindful healing approach that focuses on the body, mind, and spirit. No one part is considered more important than the other. Each influence the other. If one aspect of the self-experiences some distress, the other parts may suffer as well.


Holistic healing focuses on the person as a whole, rather than just treating a specific health condition. Holistic providers also aim to prevent health issues from ever developing by covering the health of the body, mind, and spirit.

The philosophy behind this is rooted in balance and equilibrium. Through integrative therapies, holistic practitioners seek to combine traditional treatments with alternative practices to reach healthy overall wellness.


Nowadays, it is more common to hear about natural healthcare approaches, as people search for alternative ways to heal themselves when modern techniques alone don’t work for them. Because of this, holistic healing modalities have become more accepted.

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  • Hypnotherapy

    Everyone is already familiar with hypnosis, although they may not realize it. You pass through altered states of consciousness at least twice a day, as you awaken in the morning and as you fall asleep at night.


    Brain researchers and medical practitioners have divided brainwave activity into these four levels, based on cycles-per-second of activity:


    Beta:    Full consciousness


    Alpha:  Falling asleep at night, awakening in the morning, hypnosis, meditation


    Theta:  Early stages of sleep, deep hypnosis, deep meditation


    Delta:   Full sleep to deepest sleep


    Hypnosis has been used for a long as records have been kept. Modern clinical hypnosis is dated from the late 1700s, and the use of hypnosis has grown by leaps and bounds since 1958.


    Hypnosis is an altered state of awareness, perception or consciousness that is used by a certified/trained hypnotist/hypnotherapist for treating a psychological or physical problem. It is a highly relaxed state.


    Hypnosis is a state of inner absorption, concentration and focused attention. It is like using a magnifying glass to focus the rays of the sun and make them more powerful. Similarly, when our minds are concentrated and focused, we are able to use our minds more powerfully. Because hypnosis allows people to use more of their potential, learning self-hypnosis is the ultimate act of self-control.


    Hypnosis is used for phobias, anxiety, sexual problems, alcoholism, smoking control, speech disorders, weight control, chronic pain, age regression therapy, self-esteem/ego strengthening, memory/concentration improvement and forensic work. In medicine, it uses include anesthesia and surgery, obstetrics/gynecology, control of bleeding, pain control, burn therapy, dermatology and habit control. Dentistry uses it to control fear, dental surgery, saliva control, gagging, bruxism, control of bleeding, tongue biting and general oral hygiene.


    Why does Hypnosis work?


    Prigogine's theory states that complex structures (such as the human brain) require an enormous and consistent flow of energy to maintain their structure. In the brain, that energy is measured as brainwave levels on an EEG machine. The up-and-down pattern of brainwave levels reflects the fluctuation of energy to the brain. The larger the brainwave levels, the larger the fluctuation of energy.


    When you are fully awake (in Beta consciousness), your brainwave levels would show up on an EEG graph as small, rapid, up-and-down lines. There is little fluctuation in the energy.


    When you alter your state of consciousness with hypnosis, meditation, or as it happens naturally when you are crossing over into sleep, your brainwave levels shift to Alpha or Theta in these altered states, and there is a large fluctuation in the level of energy.


    According to Prigogine, large fluctuations of energy can cause the structure to break apart and reorganize itself into an even more complex and higher form. That's why suggestions given to an individual exploring in Alpha or Theta are so effective in creating change. The new suggestions, dropped into the uneven Alpha rhythms like a pebble in a pond, create a ripple effect through the stretched brainwaves, tearing apart old programming and creating new behaviors and viewpoints. This is not possible while you are fully awake in Beta, for the small fluctuations of energy are suppressed by the brain. They are tight and compact and cannot be torn apart easily.


    If you are going to use hypnosis or sleep programming to create positive change in your life, it is not necessary to believe it will work for it to work. If properly programmed in an altered state, your brain, your brain will accept the programming as reality. It may take a few days, weeks or even months, but your subconscious will do everything within its power to match your outer reality with the new inner belief.


    According to Prigogine's theory, there's also an added bonus: each transformation makes the next one likelier! Carried to its logical conclusion, every time you successfully use an altered state of consciousness to solve a problem, program a new ability or achieve insights, you increase your chance of success the next time.


    That's when the miracles begin.


    What are some misconceptions about Hypnosis?


    You will not become unconscious and you will be aware of everything at all times. Your will is not weakened in any way. You are in control and cannot be made to do anything against your will. You will not begin to reveal information you wish to keep secret. Hypnosis is not sleep.


    One common misconsception is that a hypnotized person loses their will and is partially or completely under the command of the hypnotist. Nothing could be further from the truth. This unfortunate belief is reinforced by many stage hypnotists. You are in control of yourself, and cannot be made to do anything that is against your will.


    Hypnosis, particularly the deeper forms, can appear to be like sleep because the person's body is typically very still and quiet. There is usually a great deal of mental activity, and measurements of brain activity during hypnosis show a significant level of neurological activity.



    Begin a new and transformed life with hypnotherapy. Give us a call to schedule a hypnosis session!

  • Shamanic Healing

    Shamanism is the most ancient of human healing and spiritual practices. It is a way of accessing the love, wisdom, compassion, and power of the spirit world in order to receive help for one's self or to serve others.


    One of the central teachings of shamanism is that all of the world is alive and has a spirit, and that we are all connected to each other as a result of this.


    Shamanic principles help me work directly with your mental, emotional and physical body and spirit essence to address the spiritual aspects of an illness. I conduct soul retrieval ceremonies and receive information about the past and future, help the spirits of deceased people to cross over, and perform ceremonies for the community.


    From the shamanic perspective there are three common causes of illness. First, a person may have lost their power, and the shaman journeys to the spirit world to restore the lost power, such as in a power animal retrieval to restore the relationship to a helping animal spirit. Second, a person may lose a part of their soul essence due to extreme fright, grief, abuse, accidents, disaster, surgery or war, and the shaman journeys into the spirit world to track the lost soul piece and return it in a soul retrieval ceremony. Third, a person may take on harmful energies due to power or soul loss, resulting in localized illness or pain and the shaman extracts and removes the harmful energies and restores power to prevent them from returning.


    Shamanic healing has been found to be very beneficial in treating many health issues, including all types of abuse, fatigue, chronic pain or illness, alcohol or drug dependency, and emotional or mental illness.


    Shamanic counseling is used to teach a person to use the shamanic journey for personal problem-solving and for spiritual inspiration. It is also useful to help a person release self-limiting beliefs and assumption.


    Globally, we are now at a critical juncture in the evolution of consciousness and human civilization where we are being asked to respond to the profound imbalances that our "success" as a species has created.  If we do not do so, we will be carried downstream by our ignorance and apathy. It is now a spiritual necessity that we move beyond the sense of separation as individuals, nations, races and religions and see these categorizations as past stages in our human evolution which no longer serve us. It is time to realize the deep truth that we are one with all life and would benefit from communing with each other and all that is through unconditional love and acceptance.


    As a result of this necessity, there is a growing spiritual revolution of consciousness. In every culture we teach in, there seems to be a quickening of collective awakening to the truth that we are not separate from one another, or from any life on this planet. We are deeply interconnected.


    Biologically, we all share the same DNA; we breathe the same air; we depend on the same Mother Earth to provide for us; the same oil fields power our cars and industries and the same sun warm us and gives life to our planet.


    Psychologically, we share the same desires and fears; the same joys and sorrows; and the same need for unconditional love and acceptance; most profoundly, we share the same spiritual essence and source. We need to realize that we are one in body, mind and spirit. Separateness is an illusion.


    When we allow the direct knowledge of our true nature and identity to dawn, we discover that we have the capacity to unconditionally love and accept our selves and each other, to be at peace and live in joy of our being amidst both the blessings and challenges of our lives. True happiness and fulfillment is now recognized as an essential quality of our innermost nature, not something that we need to acquire from the outside. Our ordinary life is then the context in which our realizations can deepen our capacity that allows its expression to mature.


    When we are truly, unconditionally loving and accepting, we experience happiness regardless of what we get or do not get in life and thus the quality of our desiring and wanting is transformed. A shift happens where we recognize that our deepest desire is not merely to fulfill our personal desires, but rather live in unconditional love and acceptance, embody our authentic presence and expression, and offer our gifts to each other and the world.


    Our center is dedicated to supporting this essential and profound shift where at the center of the experience we discover there is an ease of being and an inner expanse of boundless presence that is benevolent and wise. Here you find the capacity to unconditionally love and accept yourself and others so you can better respond to the needs of the whole from your higher self, from the depths of your silent wisdom, as the unique expression of truth that you are. You discover that you can trust the divine presence within you that is your center and source which you can also see in others. We invite people who are searching for a spiritual community, dedicated to their own spiritual awakening, growth and development, and to the peace and well-being of all things on this planet, for all things are living.


    Some may have an existential longing to realize directly who they really are. This may be felt as a desire for unconditional love and acceptance, to experience freedom, grow in your spiritual knowledge or some other

    essential longing. Sometimes this longing is accompanied by a sweet anticipation of its growth, but more often it is accompanied by fear, sorrow, and despair because one feels separate or somehow deficient or

    incomplete and may even doubt if there is a way through their darkness to find their inner light.


    Others we work with are already irrevocably awakened to the timeless truth of who they are. While patterns of suffering may persist in some parts of their life, unconditional love and acceptance, the bliss and peace of their true nature is recognized as the ever present ground of their spiritual path. For them what is often desired is support in their process of deepening and integrating their path. While the dawning of true insight and freedom marks the end of living with the chronic illusion of being alone, it is also the beginning of a process where unconditional love and acceptance blossoms within, where all aspects of our humanness are embraced and transformed in the light of an awakened body, mind and spirit.



  • Shamanic Soul Retrieval

    The shamanic practice known as soul retrieval is perhaps the oldest and most important level of spiritual healing because once the energetic nature of an illness-causing invasion has been addressed, the cause is still unresolved, namely the tears in the fabric of the sufferer's soul cluster and aura that allowed the intrusions to enter in the first place.


    As long as these empty spaces remain unfilled, there is no guarantee that the invaders will not reinvade given an opportunity to do so because those holes are like open invitations. But how does the process of soul retrieval actually work?



    Soul Retrieval Ceremony


    All of us, in every culture everywhere, had ancestors who were hunters if we go back far enough. In doing soul retrieval work, the shamanic practitioner teams up with the spirits who assist them, then they go to work together, tracking the lost soul parts much like hunters.


    And this is where spirit medicine has something important to offer the psychotherapeutic paradigm. Psychologists and psychiatrists know about dissociation, but where do the dissociated parts go? In doing soul retrieval, the shamanic healer and their spiritual assistants locate the lost soul parts in the Lower, Middle, or Upper Worlds of the Spirit World.


    Bringing Back the Soul Parts


    Then with the assistance of their helping spirits, the shamanic practitioner enters into relationship with them, convincing them to return and bringing them back to their original owner. In this process, the person's soul cluster is restored, and their energetic matrix may return to its former undistorted state.


    Interestingly, a soul part that has taken refuge in the Lower Worlds may often be found in the company of an animal spirit who is caring for it. When this soul part is brought back, the animal spirit may return with it, resulting in what is called a power animal retrieval.


    A soul part located in the Middle World of dream may be found in the company of an ancestor, perhaps a revered grandparent who has already crossed over. A soul part in the Upper World may be seeking reconnection with its oversoul, a guardian angel, or even with its "soul family."


    As the soul cluster is restored, the shaman instructs the client in how to take an active role in reintegrating these lost self-aspects, assuring a successful reunion and ensuring that the extracted illness intrusions will not reoccur.


    Healing the Spiritual and Energetic Levels

     

    I discovered by accident that I could intuitively recall lost soul parts during hypnosis and Reiki healing. As a psychotherapist, I am able to combine psychotherapy, with ritual work to prepare the client for the return of the soul so that there is a renewed space of healing for the recovered soul part. I also conduct a diagnosis, discover the identity and nature of the illness and trauma that cause the soul part to leave the body.  But unlike our modern Western practices, shamanic healing can also empower clients dramatically, divine their illnesses' ultimate causes while in an expanded state of awareness, neutralize them at their spiritual and energetic levels, and prevent their reoccurrence by utilizing the assistance of compassionate forces poised to help us just beyond the borders of this physical world we all take so much for granted

  • Integrating Shamanic Methods into Psychotherapy

    Evidence of shamanism dates back to prehistory, perhaps as early as 40,000 years ago, and the practices continue to this day. As a psychologist in private practice in Western society, I have had the opportunity to introduce and integrate shamanic methods with psychotherapy. My guiding principle is to help my clients, and over the course of many years, I have become pragmatic, using many varied methods and approaches. Depression, dream work, resolving therapeutic impasses, physical healing with spiritual and psychological components, empowerment, the removal of curses, soul retrieval, strengthening of the self and the releasing of shame are just some of the situations in which shamanic techniques can be used.


    Shamanism and psychotherapy are a natural fit in industrialized society.


    How and when does a Western therapist decide to use shamanic methods?

    What are the indications and contra-indications for their use?

    How does the psychotherapist introduce and use these techniques?

    How do these methods influence the client and the therapy relationship?


    Shamanic methods uniquely access non-ordinary reality, and draw uponspiritual dimensions for help. Non-ordinary reality (NOR), a shamanic term defined by Harner and anthropologist Ingerman and others, is outside everyday life, and is divided into separate worlds; the Upper World, which helping spirits inhabit and the Lower World where power animals are encountered.The Middle World in this shamanic cosmology is ordinary reality, and is experienced with the five senses.


    A shamanic journey is the method most often used to enter a state of consciousness that allows access to non-ordinary reality. By drumming or rattling, the therapist and client can enter an altered state of consciousness and communicate with spirits in the Upper World or power animals in the Lower World, in addition to working with spirits in the Middle World. Beings encountered in non-ordinary reality are experienced as real.


    I use shamanic journeying with clients in psychotherapy to enter non-ordinary reality. A journey allows the therapist and client to bridge ordinary and non-ordinary reality and Introduction of shamanic methods: Why and When.


    Experiential methods have been part of treatment ever since the beginning of modern psychotherapy when Wilhelm Reich introduced body-based techniques. Along with increased awareness and understanding of trauma in the last 20 years, there has been a flowering of experiential mind-body-energy techniques to treat people who have experienced trauma. Hypnotherapy, eye movement and reprocessing desensitization (EMDR), TAT somatic experiencing, past life regression therapy, and guided imagery are some of the approaches used today within psychotherapeutic contexts.


    I have also journeyed alone to access my helping spirits when I need consultation to help me understand what is going on either in the therapeutic relationship with someone in my practice or in the dynamics of a client.


    Using just the name or names of a person, members of a peer consultation group in which I participate journey to understand a case, with good results. People suffering from depression, a sense of emptiness, or of "not being all there," particularly benefit from shamanic practices. The soul retrieval method brings back lost parts of the soul in ways that no other experiential method can do. Many clients who have a history of sexual, physical or emotional trauma benefit from this technique. It is a way to reinvigorate, re-integrate without re-traumatizing a wounded person.


    Introducing shamanic methods into a psychotherapy treatment is a different process than what occurs in tribal societies or in a freestanding shamanic practice. In indigenous societies, or a freestanding shamanic practice, both client and practitioner share the same worldview, or openness to the same worldview, and there is little need for extensive explanation and education. Within a psychotherapy practice, some clients may be uncomfortable with any alternative to mainstream psychology, and may not be open to a shamanic approach. In addition, they may not want to tap into the spiritual dimension in their therapy. Therapeutic judgment determines when and how much to push the boundaries of a client's comfort level. It goes without saying that a therapist should not force a client to try anything they do not want to do.


    If a client is open to trying a shamanic method, explanation is essential. Using such techniques requires expanding the worldview of the client to include concepts such as soul, energy, non-ordinary reality and journeying into Upper, Lower, and Middle Worlds. I find that most people intuitively and quickly grasp the shamanic worldview, and are interested in getting relief from their suffering. A brief discussion and perhaps some reading is usually a sufficient first step.


    Just as building an alliance with the helping spirits is an important part of shamanic work, building an alliance with your client is crucial in psychotherapy. Unless the use of shamanic methods is well established with a client, as in the case of Ellen, it is contraindicated if there is not a positive therapeutic alliance. In tribal societies, the shaman has a respected position, and any person requesting their services knows them or knows of their reputation, and views them in a positive light. A healing alliance is already established from the outset. When I have had clients see me just for shamanic work, alliance building is still important, and I must connect quickly with them in a caring, confidence-inspiring way. If I cannot do this, shamanic work will be unsuccessful, and should be delayed until a better connection can be forged.


    Typically, I share the imagery from my journey with the client, as they share their experience during the journey with me. I am careful to share the imagery in ways that can be heard by my client. Often the process of sharing brings great healing benefit.


    Shamanism and psychotherapy complement each other. As shamanic techniques access help, wisdom, and guidance from the spiritual dimension of non-ordinary reality, they extend the range and scope of therapeutic interventions available to the healing process. Mainstream psychotherapy, with its focus on the psychological dimensions and rooted in contemporary culture, offers approaches that are valuable on their own, and facilitates the effectiveness of shamanic methods by providing an anchor and context for their use. In addition, therapists who use shamanic practices can increase their impact through follow up within the therapy relationship. Through the application of shamanic practices, therapists act as bridges, dancing between healing approaches, connecting two worlds, the non-ordinary spiritual realms and ordinary reality. Therapists also act as explorers, bringing new methods and insights to the psychotherapy process, further expanding the frontiers of healing.


    *References Cited *

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    Harper, 1991.

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  • Meditation & Stress Relief

    Reiki is an ancient Japanese healing technique for stress reduction and promoting relaxation.


    It is based on the idea that an unseen "life force energy" flows through us and it is what causes us to be alive.


    When our "life force energy” is low, we become vulnerable to sickness and stress, and when it is high, we are capable of reaching a more healthy and fulfilled life.


    Reiki addresses the whole person, including body, emotions and mind and spirit, and creates relaxative feelings of peace and clarity. 



    Reiki is a simple, natural and safe method of spiritual and emotional healing and once learned and can become a great self-help tool.



    Call us for an individual or group session.


    Reiki for Backaches


    In my years as a Reiki practitioner, I had many people come to me with backaches. In this fast paced, stressful life, we never realize when we began to have that first ache in the back, that over the years became a chronic pain that would never go away. And when we finally make our way to the orthopedic, after the usual xrays, and sometimes MRI’s we discover a disc problem, or problem in the lumbar region and before we know it we are scheduling visits to the chiropractor, physical therapist or even surgery. We are taking in prescription after prescription and yet the pain never goes away. It might for a short while and then it comes back. And we are stuck with this forever and make it a part of our existence and try to get on with life, in pain.


    Louise Hay in her book, Heal your Body, which deals with the mental causes of the physical ailments writes that the causes of backache are many and most of them deal with the support of life. People who have always worried about, or are insecure about their finances and feel a lack of love have complained of back problems. The back problems are associated with the root chakra that is located in the base of the spine and is associated with survival issues. When the root chakra is imbalanced it leads to lack, and if we accept Hay’s causes, leads to stress and backache. This in turn will lead to irritation, fatigue and also anger. 


    Reiki helps to heal the mental and emotional causes and in turn the physical. Reiki is a very intelligent, positive, spiritual energy and goes where it is needed most. When people come for a Reiki session the first session allows the person to relax and calm down and that is when healing begins. Reiki energy sent to the root chakra and also on the heart chakra and solar plexus helps the person’s issues with survival, emotional lack and also abundance issues. Overtime the person starts releasing the pent up issues and allows healing to happen. This will have an impact on the backache. Reiki combined with prescriptions or other medical treatments helps even better, as it allows the healing to happen faster. Chronic back problems may need more than one session for the healing, but one never knows.


    This article seeks to inform people how they can understand and identify the cause of their backache. Reiki sessions have healed people with back pain or other aches and pains tremendously as it helps release the emotional blocks and deep set issues that people have carried for a long time. Healing happens.


    Thank you for reading and lookout for the next article on common problems of everyday life.

  • Quit Smoking

    If you’re considering quitting smoking, you may struggle with giving up the habit simply because nicotine has convinced you that you may actually enjoy the act of smoking. You may find comfort and enjoyment in smoking. This is why so many struggle with kicking the habit and want to "quit smoking with hypnosis."


    If you are struggling to quit smoking, hypnosis may be just the treatment you need to quit. If you’ve tried nicotine replacements and other kinds of patches, but are still struggling to quit smoking, perhaps you should try to "quit smoking with hypnosis."


    Hypnotherapy is a mental state, which is induced by a series of instructions from a hypnotherapist. Hypnotherapy is the use of hypnotism for therapeutic purposes, such as quitting smoking, losing weight or anxiety.


    A Variety of Hypnotherapy Treatments Available

    KUADRA Consulting and Counseling Service, LLC, offers an array of hypnotherapies to treat a number of  negative behavior patterns, such as addictions. If you’re seeking ways to quit smoking, your hypnotherapy session will tackle issues such as withdrawal symptoms and how to cope with the urge to smoke. This makes it really easy to quit smoking with hypnosis!


    In the case of quitting smoking, hypnotherapy is extremely beneficial because it allows the therapist to enter your subconscious mind and to confront the habit of smoking, enabling you to quit. The therapist  will be giving you suggestions as to why you may want to stop smoking, such as avoiding cancer or having a heart attack. They may also use positive outcomes such as inspiring you to get fitter and  healthier, to look younger, to sleep better and to have more energy.


    Several studies have shown that hypnotherapy is a great way to stop smoking and to overcome your dependency on nicotine, drugs, alcohol and tobacco products. Hypnosis enables an entry to the root of the problem and the mental addiction to nicotine and other substances, allowing you to overcome it.


    It's Really Quite Easy

    Quitting smoking is not a difficult task. It is simply about confronting the issue of smoking at it’s source—the negative recurrent patterns in your mind. This is why quitting smoking with hypnosis is such a great idea. Using hypnosis to quit smoking can be a life-changing experience for you, should you be open to the idea. You could be a few hypnotherapy sessions away from quitting smoking, and living a free and healthy life without the dependence of tobacco products. Hypnotherapy is growing in popularity, as

    people are discovering it’s benefits in regards to quitting smoking, weight loss and removing dependency on substances, such as nicotine and tobacco products.

  • Lose Weight

    When it comes to weight loss, we've heard it all!  In an attempt to lose weight, we've practiced all sorts of fad diets. Although these diets might have a noticeable affect on the body, once one goes back to eating  regularly the weight lost is regained along with some extra weight. The best chance for success is by  changing one’s lifestyle.


    Research shows that hypnosis and mindfulness-based eating, also known as "mindful eating," are effective tools for long-term weight loss. Hypnotherapy involves entering a state of deeply focused attention and relaxation in which the client is highly motivated to listen to the suggestions of the hypnotherapist and to work on his or her presenting issues.


    Hypnotherapy is also a state of learning. It helps one find and develop his or her inner resources and strengths. Research conducted has emphasized the benefits of hypnotherapy in increasing oxytocin, a  hormone that promotes trust and strengthens social interaction, while decreasing anxiety and fear, and reducing mood swings (Varga et al., 2014).


    Mindful Eating

    Mindful eating involves changing your perception of food and how you treat your body. It’s a new way of behaving and feeling in harmony with one’s natural body state and one’s surrounding environment. Mindful eating enables you to truly listen to your body’s internal signals and to understand the foods your body needs to lead a healthy lifestyle. Studies have shown that mindful eating improves self-esteem and lowers blood pressure and cholesterol (Green Mountain at Fox Run, 2014).


    KUADRA Consulting and Counseling Services uses hypnotherapy used as a tool to reprogram your mind towards ‘mindful eating’ in order to achieve a healthy weight loss. It can help you lose the weight and keep it off for good by:


    Helping you relax.

    Increasing your self worth.

    Increasing your motivation.

    Teaching you mindful eating.

    Helping you deal with your emotions.

    Shrinking your appetite.

  • Sound Healing

    Kuadra uses intentional use of ancient sound and instruments to promote the healing of body, mind and spirit.


    Why the use of Sound?


    Sound is a powerful healing tool because sound is vibrational in nature and we are vibrational beings. Modern science shows us that all life is vibrational in nature. Practically all Cultures around the world use sound to invoke, attune and transform consciousness. Age old mystical beliefs of most cultures, allude to the vibrational nature of Creation. The Hindus have a saying, "Nada Brahma", which means, all is sound, or all of creation is sound. They suggest that the primordial sound of manifest creation is the sound of "Aum", or Om, and that if we were to attune to the creative spirit, we would hear this sound. The Judeo-Christian culture might say, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" (John 1:1) together the nature and power of sound with Creation. Other cultures have stories stating that the Creator had a thought, spoke the word of that thought, and Creation of that thought sprang forth from that word into manifestation. There are numerous theorems stipulating the melodic structures of the universe, from the spin of the planets around the sun, to the sun around the galaxy, to the spin of electrons in our body, and the structure of our DNA. Our modern music is based upon these principals derived from Pythagoras and others.


    Whatever one's beliefs, we all know the power of the spoken word, of music, of chants and sung melodies, can move us into ecstatic states of rapture or deep states of despair. There is an inherent potency to the very nature of the sound itself, and its emotional content, which can be amplified or enhanced by the spoken or sung verse. While so much music in western culture has moved more into the secular arenas of entertainment, music in many cultures has historically held a deeply sacred space in the hearts and minds of their peoples, used as a catalyst to deeper insight, wisdom, transformation, or growth.


    Sound itself has an inherent transformative power. Sound is attuned to the creative matrix of the universe. By coupling sound, or music, with pure intention, to attune to, invoke, or transform one's consciousness, we indeed have stepped into a powerful place.


    Sound Healing is the intentional use of sound to create an environment which becomes a catalyst for healing in the physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual aspects of our being.


    To become "healed," simply means to become "whole."

     

    While intent is not a necessary ingredient to effect change with the use of sound, pure, or clear, intention brings power to every facet of our being. We cannot function without our intention, (you are intending now to read this page.) The more we are able to couple our actions with clear or pure intention, the greater our acts can manifest.


    The intentional use of sound adds power to the conduit, whether it is through the use of an instrument or voice. By surrendering to the highest good, we ourselves become that conduit, or instrument, for peace, for healing, change, or growth.


    By coupling our highest and clearest integrity with our intention, we come into the greatest focus in the use of sound, or any healing modality. While sound can be generated from voice, instruments, recorded sounds or music, or tone generators, the more deeply and clearly we have coupled clear intentions for the highest good of the recipients in generating those sounds, the greater the outcome.


    We can use conscious chanting for invocation or attunement, intuitive or "guided" music to come into deeper awareness, the provocative sounds of crystal "singing" bowls, ancient Tibetan bowls or temple bells, the simple sounds of tuning forks, or formless "toning" (intuitive voicing,) aligning with the highest reaches of the cosmos, and channelling through our voice and body.


    No matter what techniques are used, sound is the current carrying the creative potency of unconditional love and grace from the subtle to physical dense realms. By attuning to and sounding these "sound currents" and coupling them with our own clear potential, and intention, we amplify their force, or voice, opening to and carrying aspects of the sanctity of creation into our being, into our environment, into the Earth, and into the consciousness of others. This assists others to align and move into deeper relationship with that which we each hold as sacred (in whatever form that speaks to us.) By grounding and "anchoring" those energies into our body, our consciousness, and into the Earth, we energize and charge these vehicles of which we are stewards (our bodies, our consciousness, the Earth.)

  • Become a Reiki Channel

    Khadijat Quadri is a Traditional Reiki Master and Independent Teacher of Reiki. She has over 10 years of experience practicing and teaching Reiki. Khadijat had her training under Dr. Lopita Nath who was inturn trained by  Guru Amita Singh from Ranchi, India and Mrs. Elie Changkakoty and Mrs. Reba Nath from Guwahati, India. She has had therapy sessions for people with various needs and has achieved remarkable success in helping people attain physical and mental wellbeing.


    As Hawayo Takata, one of the famous Reiki Grandmasters who introduced Reiki to the west remarked: “Reiki is wisdom and truth”. The word reiki means Universal Life Energy. "Rei" describes the universal, boundless aspect of this energy while "Ki" is the vital life force energy that flows though all living beings. This power acts and lives in all created matter. Reiki helps to channelize this energy towards mind, body and spiritual healing and empowerment. Reiki works on the premise that there needs to be balance and harmony of the energy system for a healthy body and mind. Any imbalance at any point or part of your energy leads to tension and stress; that in turn can cause ailments. Reiki energy, when received or channelized, will help remove those blocks and bring the energy system into harmony and balance and a state of unity with the universe. This leads to healing, both physical and spiritual. During her 13 years of experience, Khadijat has encountered various instances where Reiki has changed people’s lives. Reiki does not require any dogma or belief in a particular faith.There are few restrictions to the practice of Reiki. The Usui system of natural Healing, in which Khadijat is trained is the most simple and effective way of healing and transferring this Universal energy. It is great to receive Reiki Therapy sessions, but it is wonderful to be able to become a channel and transfer Reiki energy. The Reiki I and II certification classes will help you become a channel.


    The Reiki I class is a wonderful experience consisting of lectures, meditation sessions, learning self- healing, and attunement. The Reiki master is the only person who is trained to give attunement, (Please do not be misled by what is available on youtube.com). The attunement process is necessary to open the chakras and direct the flow of energy. The Reiki II class empowers the Reiki I student with symbols that can be used for powerful transfer of energy. The Reiki II class also teaches how to do distant healing and visual manifestation of anything that you want in life.


    You don’t have to believe in Reiki for it to have a deep effect on you!


    You don’t have to believe that fruit is delicious.


    In order to enjoy it, you’ll have to take a bite first!

  • Reiki Meditation

    Reiki meditation is a unique Japanese form of meditation that helps bring peace and healing to the mind (and emotions), body, and soul. Reiki is the Japanese word for “life energy.” This life energy flows through each of us. When it is flowing in abundance, we feel well. But when it’s blocked, we may feel stress and/or sickness.


    The Reiki technique used most in the U.S.dates back to master Reiki instructor Mikao Usui (1865-1926). In 1922, he opened the first Reiki school in Tokyo, Japan, and from him Reiki was brought to the Western world through a Hawaiian born, Japanese-American, Hawayo Takata(1). 


    Meditation & The Mind


    The mind is powerful. It projects our beliefs and perceptions, which makes our lives appear the way they are.


    Our emotions are a product of our thoughts. So, when we have anxiety or depression, it’s because of the thoughts. Meditation, though, is food for the mind. It helps us become self-aware and gives mental clarity about the thoughts causing our emotions.


    Just as a computer needs to be shut down occasionally and rebooted to refresh, we too have to shut down our minds and reboot. That’s what meditation does. It is a reboot for the mind. 


    Rumi (a 13th century mystic poet) said constant thinking causes the mind to decay.Meditation helps to control the mind and is a way of changing from within. That is what you do with Reiki or any kind of meditation, you change yourself from within. 


    Why Do Reiki Meditation?


    Reiki meditation helps to clear old, discordant energies—including the energies we pick up from other people when we resonate with them. Think for a moment when you say to someone, “I feel you” or “I understand what you’re going through.” That is a way we resonate with someone else, and during that time we pick up some of their energy—positive or negative.


    Reiki helps to clear our negative energy, as well as any energy we’ve picked up from others. It also releases energetic attachments to others. It is like giving your aura (the energy within and surrounding you) a cleansing bath.


    What Are Reiki Chakras?


    Reiki works with the body’s chakras. The chakras are the spiritual centers of power within the body. There are seven of them: the root chakra (located at the base of the spine), the sacral (just below the belly button), the solar plex (stomach), heart, throat, third eye (area of the forehead just above the bridge of the nose), and crown (the top part of the head).


    The chakras are related to the physical and emotional spirit of a person. If you’re experiencing some physical symptoms, such as anxiety or depression, then you might have an over- or under-active chakra. So, during a Reiki meditation session, the specialist would work to clear the chakras from the root to the crown, which helps to clear belief systems as well.


    At KUADRA, before a Reiki meditation session and with the client’s permission, the Reiki specialist will do an aura reading using a WinAuraStar imaging machine. The machine is used to identify the chakras that need to be worked on and helped. All a person does is place his or her handon the biosensor plate (a little box with metal dots in the shape of a hand). The machine projects an image of the person’s aura along with a reading from each chakra. That helps the specialist know what areas need clearing. That way during a Reiki meditation session the specialist can tailor the meditation to help the person clear those areas and restore the energy. 


    How Does Someone Become a Reiki Specialist?


    Reiki is the art of energy. And, Reiki specialists attune to the multiple layers of this energy. They are trained to be the receiver and giver of paramatman light, which is said to be the highest light of God or the Universe. To do this, a Reiki specialist needs two specific things.


    First, Reiki meditation specialists must ask themselves where their own energy is resonating. In other words, have they cleared their own negative energy? Since they are the receiver and giver of this special energy force, they must be self-aware and work on themselves to resolve their own personal issues and problems first.


    Second, Reiki specialists must surrender to being radiators of this light. It is a special skill and gift to tune into such sacred energy. They become a doorway through which light is channeled and radiators of this great light energy.


    Because of this, Reiki specialists need to understand who we are as children of source energy or God. This is a huge responsibility, as they are only as energetically powerful as they think they are. Reiki specialists must understand this power. They are co-creators with God and their function is to heal as God heals them. That’s their job in the physical realm. They are working with God, but they are also the same as other earthly humans. In essence, they are shoulder to shoulder with the Universe (or God) and in absolute belief and trust in that which we cannot see and from where all our souls came.


    People looking to become a Reiki meditation specialist train for a long time and work on themselves and their own issues before they become a certified specialist.


    Reiki Services at KUADRA


    KUADRA provides Reiki meditation during counseling sessions. Along with talk therapy, Reiki may help a client with various challenges they face in life, such as addiction, depression, and anxiety. If you would like to have a Reiki meditation session, please let your counselor know at your next session or call the office to make an appointment. 

  • Advanced Integrative Therapy

    Kuadra Counseling has been the only advanced AIT practitioner in San Antonio for the last ten years. 


     First introduced by Asha Clinton PhD, AIT combines trauma treatment, energy psychology, depth psychology, and cognitive therapy into a comprehensive, coherent and elegantly woven system for the healing of mind, body and spirit, in the context of honoring each person’s unique life journey.  AIT is effective in bringing about a holistic, body, mind and spirit healing. Because AIT uses a body-based energetic approach, healing is likely to occur more quickly than traditional approaches. People who experienced treatment using AIT indicate removal of post-traumatic emotion, physical sensation, belief, distorted fantasy and pathological behavior, and reached a fuller state of presence and wholeness.


    Find out more at https://ait.institute/

Call (210) 314-7687 to make an appointment for holistic healing treatments.

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