written by Juli Somers

I recently returned from a trip to Brazil and the Casa de Dom Ignacio where spiritual healer John of God offers his work. It was my seventh visit to the Casa. Each trip has been a meaningful experience on my spiritual path and always provides me with a next step on my healing journey.

While at the Casa, I had a spiritual surgery. When receiving a surgery like this you sit in a room with many other people. Spirits come in from another dimension and assist those in a physical body with what they want to heal. The first thing I felt during this healing was a spiritual entity enveloping me in love to a degree I have never experienced before. As I became infused with that powerful energy, different body feelings and memories of how alone and unsupported I had felt in my life came into my awareness. I felt this Being transmitting to me just how loved I was. I also had the knowing of how supported I have always been on my journey; that any feelings of not having support had been just an illusion. Yet that picture had affected me much of my life.

I grew up in a family where I felt unsupported. Most memories of childhood were of profound loneliness and a lack of feeling loved. And because of that, a picture was formed within me (thoughts and feelings attached to a mental image) that I didn’t have any support. Throughout much of my life, I would create and encounter scenarios where I experienced feeling unsupported.  Each situation that occurred would confirm my belief.

What we perceive, we receive. I often say that I see life as a great ‘yes’ machine. Whatever vibration or energy I am putting out, I will receive back to me in experience. If my picture of reality is that I am unsupported, life can’t come back to me any other way. That is the lens I am looking through and that is what I will see of life. Just like when you take a picture on your camera. The image that gets captured is the one you focus the camera on. It has nothing to do with reality. As I become more aware of the internal lens I am looking at life through, I give myself a choice to change my perceptions.

When these pictures and unconscious beliefs have been with us a long time, they gather a lot of weight and can feel very familiar. Over the years, I have witnessed myself identifying less with that picture I described and as a result, I am able to feel support in my life. In the work at the Center we call it ‘peeling the onion’. You heal it layer by layer until it is de-energized. When you clear the charge on the picture it no longer controls your reality. It becomes a neutral memory.

I invite you to become aware of a picture you have had since childhood. Probably it will be easy to come up with but if it isn’t, what is a reoccurring thought or theme that causes you unhappiness in your life? It might happen often or just once in a while. Look at the message this affirms about reality. Reflect on all the times that life has seemed to confirm this belief. What if it was actually the picture inside of you that attracted to you those outer circumstances? Because again, the outer image that appears is as a result of what your inner camera focuses on.

Now simply create a picture in your mind of what you want to affirm about your reality; love, support, abundance, etc. When you find yourself drifting back to the old picture, consciously turn the lens in this new direction. Believe it to be true even if it hasn’t shown up in your life yet. The reality is we are blessed beyond measure and have more support and love than we can possibly imagine. Healing comes when you shine a light on these inner pictures that take you away from love. Change the picture and you will change your life.