with Petrea King
Duration 2.53 min
In 1983 Petrea King was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and was not expected to live. Meditation and the integration of past traumatic experiences became paramount in her recovery, much of which was spent in a monastery near Assisi in Italy.
You Will Learn:
- To express your feelings
- To be responsible for our being
- How to understand ourselves
- How to work with your thoughts patterns
- The things in life that create the Pearl in the Oyster
Since her own journey in 1983, Petrea has counseled individually or through residential programs more than 80,000 people living with life-challenging illnesses, grief, loss, trauma and tragedy. Petrea sees crisis as a catalyst for spiritual growth and understanding and as an opportunity for healing and peace.
She is a well-known author, inspirational speaker, counselor and workshop leader. She has practiced many forms of meditation since the age of seventeen and she is also qualified as a naturopath, herbalist, hypnotherapist, yoga and meditation teacher.
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Petrea has received the Advance Australia Award and the Centenary Medal for her contribution to the community. She has been nominated for Australian of the Year in each year since 2004.
Providing services that help people reconnect with their spirit and establish peace in their lives has been Petrea King’s passion since her recovery, there are many events in life that stop us in our tracks and cause us to consider how best to meet the challenge we face: an unexpected diagnosis, an accident, loss or tragedy can be such an impetus.
Sometimes people seek more meaningful ways of managing the challenging circumstances of chronic illness, multiple loss, anxiety, relationship breakdown, depression or the consequences of past abuse.
Some people choose to take time-out to review their life with the intention of deepening their relationship with themselves and living a more satisfying and meaningful life in the future. Petrea leads life-changing programs providing compassionate support as well as practical self-help techniques and strategies that complement and support people’s medical treatment.
Her nationally acclaimed programs enable people to regain a sense of control over their lives and actively participate in their own healing. Most people leave the programs confident in their ability to meet the significant challenges they face in their lives.
The programs are holistic in nature and address all aspects of a mind/body/spirit approach underpinned by the latest research into neuroplasticity, mindfulness, nutrition, consciousness, exercise and more.
The programs provide a practical and proven method of finding and maintaining peace in the midst of our challenges.
Encouraging, empowering and educating people!!
Transcript
You’re not your feelings, you have feelings and it’s your job to become aware of what is this that your feeling or how you are going to get the energy of this feeling moving in a way that won’t wound yourself or anyone else. You are not your body, you have one and it’s your job to nourish it, rest it, exercise it and fluff it up and make it feel good.
You’re not your mind, you have one and it’s your job to quiet it down and keep it in good company. You’re not your feelings, you have feelings, and it’s your job to become aware of what this is that your feeling or how you are going to express this in a way that won’t wound yourself or anyone else. So that from here on in we can anchor our sense of self in our consciousness, in our awareness, in our spirit and from that place take responsibility, which is our ability to respond to the fact that we are enmeshed in the physical.
You see then we are not identifying ourselves as our body, ‘I feel sick’ We are not identifying ourselves as our mind, ‘I am sick’, we are not our feelings. I am consciousness, soul, spirit, life, being, energy and right now I feel this, that’s not who I am.
But if the thought is ‘What if I die of this disease?’ then we’ll find that there are a whole bunch of other thoughts associated with it.
‘What if I suffer?
What if I die?
Who’ll come to the funeral and I wonder what they’ll say?
Who’s going to be wearing my clothes in two years?
That’s what used to go through my mind when I had leukemia and I’d sit and meditate and this little stream would just run through. What if I’m not here for Christmas? Because I was told ‘You won’t make Christmas and there’s nothing you can do about.’
This is where the pearl comes out in the oyster. You know the way they make a pearl is, they wound the oyster and in response the oyster creates the pearl. It’s these things that cut deeply into our own being that cause the greatest anguish, greatest agony, greatest upset, greatest despair. These are the very means why we get to know ourselves so deeply, these become our pearls.
