Coming into a Daily Self-Healing Practice

I want to start by saying a huge thank you to all of you who are part of our Mongata community. Though we have grown exponentially in that past year, Mongata actually was born out of my own personal self-healing journey. It was born as a place for us all to heal in community. One of the great symptoms that our nervous systems are under trauma or have been activated is that we just want to be by ourselves. “I’ll do this alone so I don’t both anyone with “my problems.” There is also a sense of shame at times with the inner voice going “ Don’t tell anybody.” For as many reasons as we have to wing it on our own, the reality is, that we heal in community. Mongata and Mongata Healing Center were born as a safe space for us to heal together and support one another as we take this sacred journey into healing.

In creating Mongata I chose the 4 modalities that helped me immensely in my healing journey. Some of them I had been doing for years such as mindfulness meditation as well as sound therapy. I then embraced Qigong which actually got me walking again and my very swollen knees came back to normal.

In the course of my healing journey I also embraced journaling, Neurolinguistic reprogramming, and then came breathwork. Breathwork was a big changer. Somewhere in my process I realized that yes part of the self-healing came from me using these modalities but what was the very important part of my healing journey was that I showed up daily to do something for my own sake, for my very own well being. This I often refer to when speaking with family and friends as “my daily practice” and when I speak to students and clients as “coming into practice.”

Coming into Practice is the process of rediscovering who we are at a core level. Unearthing this part of us will bring us into a deeper connection with other people.

Practice is the opening of the heart so that you can feel joy and happiness, as well as sadness and sorrow, without shutting down. It is the opening of the mind to have the awareness that includes everything and excludes nothing. It is the recognition that we are all the same.

Practice includes clear observation, acute and active listening, and allowing ourselves to respond to the moment with compassion, as opposed to reacting out of conditioning.

This mindset shift is a commitment to regular and ongoing practice , not a one and done solution. It is a going forward, a change in lifestyle that nurtures mind, body, emotions, and your very spirit, the essence of who you are. It is a practice that will be woven into your daily life that offers the gifts of improved health, enhanced well-being and wellness, and enhanced mind-body function.

The pillars that make up Mongata are ones that I have embraced and studied over decades and that have had immense personal benefit in my own life.

These ancient practices consider the great complexity of the human being and through heartfelt and sincere practice, through embracing the skill of each practice, we will become peaceful, happy, and free from our mind and our pain.It doesn’t matter what has happened to you in the past or where you find yourself in the present, the most important thing is your intention to break self-limiting beliefs and self-paralyzing thoughts and behaviors to find your freedom through Practice.

In order to create this new way of being, we need to begin right here. We need to begin our individual practice, right where we are right now.