My DVD is finally completed! The film is making a niche in the market place as an alternative form of emotional healing. Producing this film gave me more knowledge than I ever cared to have about the film industry. Nevertheless, I am deeply grateful for all the extremely talented people that helped me complete the film. It was quite a challenge to produce a film with child actors as personified emotions set within the unconscious mind. To receive the most benefit from the film I suggest seeing it in a group and seeing it more than once. My clients tell me that the film complements their healing.
ALSO
The Universe Speaks, the first book in a trilogy, has also been released. I am in awe to see how this book touches people's lives. Three cheers for Australia! They have weekly discussion groups with my book under the course "Living a New Consciousness." I just learned that a group will be forming in the state of Florida. Group discussions are a very appropriate way to understand the universal information in this book. Stay tuned for updates. More information
I continue to enjoy teaching the way to emotional health to people who chose to live a more empowered life. And each day I am honored to witness the resilience of the human spirit. I am a very lucky person.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder... The Soul's Approach
Our dedicated soldiers from war have brought the condition of PTSD into the public eye. No longer can PTSD be dismissed, and for that humanity is forever grateful. We probably all have some degree of PTSD as a result of incurring everyday emotional traumas both in childhood and in adulthood. I need not mention all of the usual traumas that one person plagues against another which is almost considered normal now. We have become emotionally static, insular just to keep on going. PTSD, however, becomes noticeable the more intense the trauma, past traumas, personal moral code, and individual innate coping skills. PTSD is a key indication that a person is repressing a traumatic emotional event.
I believe that PTSD is caused by any event that separates the emotional body- -which is you, your emotions, your heart, or the place where your emotions live- -from the soul. In PTSD a person becomes disconnected from the life force of their soul. How does the heart separate from the soul?
The emotional disconnect from the soul initially begins in childhood with emotional traumas of abuse and neglect. Each child handles traumas differently because of one's innate structure. One child could be devastated when he falls off his bike the other child empowered to peddle again. The degree of emotional trauma depends on the child and the parent's response.
A childhood trauma will continue to build upon itself and escalate into adulthood like a house of cards when new traumas of the same type are experienced. However, once the initial childhood trauma is identified and healed then the house of cards falls. The emotional trauma that caused PTSD can now be addressed without the overwhelming charge of guilt and rage. Eventually the emotional traumas can be healed and will no longer trigger random negative responses.
The childhood trauma or the repressed trauma, however, must be healed on both the physical and the emotional levels to be completely healed. Emotional traumas are not healed if they are only mentally addressed. A constant conversation about a specific trauma does not heal a trauma. Incessant mind talk of excuses and rationalizations does little to bring the heart back to the soul. The mind does not have the ability to bring back the lost connection of the heart and soul.
Additionally, I believe that PTSD occurs when a person is compelled to complete or witnesses an action that is contrary to their soul or moral code of ethics. For example, if war, killing, abuse and violence are against one's moral code and they are compelled to do it in self defense or in war or witness it then they will have difficulty trying to remove their guilt and rage.
How does trauma disconnect the emotions from the soul? Trauma freezes emotions in a state of fear and shame which separates and locks the emotional body or heart from the soul. It acts as a wedge. Emotions are the link to the soul. If the emotions are frozen in trauma then the person is frozen in trauma. The person cannot tap into the energy of their soul and therefore, the heart of emotions is disconnected from their soul.
The soul can heal PTSD. A person needs to live in their soul with their heart of emotions by first accepting and then healing the negative side of their personality. When a person heals the negative emotions associated with the traumatic events, the traumas are released and healed. The negative aspects of their life that were suppressed created the wedge between their heart and soul. Anger, rage and hatred must be healed not simply managed. A person does not live in their soul when they just talk about love and spirit and soul.
True self love heals. Self love brings back the emotions to the heart or inner self. Emotions of anger, rage and hatred are brought back to the self to be loved. Self love will reestablish the soul connection and help begin the healing of PTSD. Guilt and shame are released. The heart and soul can once again reunite to bring their energy of harmony and health.
Soulspeaks is an approach that teaches a person how to have self love
and thus heal the negative aspects of their emotions and personality.
Great Blessings!
Lois Hollis
Today, as our economy changes, we too as individuals are changing. An underlying sense of hope emerges with our new president amidst the dismal forecasts. All we know for certain are: The future is uncertain. In this time, we must remember that challenge is another word for opportunity.
American historian and activist Bernice Johnson Reagon reminds us “Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” Thus, as the ground under us shifts it bestows upon us the gift of opportunity. We can shirk in the face of the grave warnings, or we can seek to better our lives. Through introspection and release of emotional blocks we can see whether our daily actions in our work and in our relationships actually reflect our values. Our actions and feelings in these times of rebirth speak louder than ever to awaken us to who we have become and what potential we have within us. Now is the time for redirection and purpose!
For decades, I have assisted people with their emotional healing from depression, anxiety, guilt, and fear which are only intensified by disruptive and dysfunctional situations. Time and time again, I am overjoyed how quickly they find the peace, the joy, the fulfillment they covet. I feel that this is an opportune time to once and for all heal the negatives feelings which have blocked your potential. We are being invited to resolve our emotional conflicts.
Today, I challenge you to relish this gift of opportunity and the invitation to resolve emotional conflicts that may hinder your journey. I challenge you to replace the gloom and doom scenarios of today with a thoughtful recognition that you can realign and redesign your life! We have a responsibility to ourselves and our fellow man to shift into living our new consciousness of awareness.
What's Happening?
I'm once more enjoying time on the east coast giving workshops in Richmond and Norfolk. Within these workshops, each person now is asked to explore their unexpressed emotions.
Want to attend or sponsor a workshop near you? You could join me with the short film “Out of Discord into Harmony” and my first book, “The Universe Speaks” to explore and learn a soul’s approach to quickly transform anger into passion, depression into compassion and guilt/shame into empowerment.
I was fortunate to be in Washington DC on inauguration day. Yes, I was one of the small specs on satellite.
I have never been surrounded by so much good will, enthusiasm, kindness, recognition of each other, strength and a willingness to do whatever you are currently doing just a little bit better. People were dancing and singing in the streets and the infamous D.C. circles. A feeling of optimism and renewal permeated everything and everyone! Tears filled me often with gratitude for being alive!
I'll be exhibiting the DVD,"Out of Discord into Harmony", and my latest book, UNIVERSE SPEAKS, at the Women’s Festival - University of California, Santa Barbara on Sunday March 8. The festival is an exciting gathering that empowers women to change their world. This year their theme is ‘Together We Are Bringing All Our Worlds to a Better Future.’ I urge you to attend if possible. You'll find me between 8:00am - 8:30pm in the Corwin Pavilion. Go to www.dedominic.com or www.womensfestivals.org: or phone (805) 556-9967 for further information.
ALSO!
I've been invited to share my work at the American Holistic Nurses Association 29th Conference, “Creating Sacred Space”, June 11-14 . It has been as a registered nurse that I explored holistic healthcare and started on the path to renewal of the whole self. Each year the holistic nursing community comes together at the AHNA conference to share their expertise, experiences and love of holistic healthcare. This year the conference is being held in Madison, Wisconsin at the Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club.
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QUESTION & ANSWER:
Question:
How do I get rid of or silence that critical voice that plagues me during the day when I am working in my job? I try so hard to achieve.
Answer:
The road to emotional empowerment is not to get rid of or silence any personality trait or part. In my work all of your personality traits are honored and respected, especially what are called negative feelings.
Your critic needs not to be silenced; he or she needs to be invited to speak. You can do this by writing to your inside critic. You can ask him or her to tell you their story of ‘who they are.’ Always thank your critic for being there for you. Your critic is here with you for a very important reason set up by you in adolescence.
Since your critic and you live in different time places you need to understand each other not reject each other. An amazing transformation happens when your critic heals to your level of maturity. He or she graduates to become your asset and astute counsel.
THOUGHTS FROM THE UNIVERSE
"Change the future by changing the present.
Change the present by healing the past."
Love, Lois
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"It is the best of times… it is the worst of times."
I believe Charles Dickens' words ring clear for us today. Our every move seems to be a critical move and yet there is serenity within our movement.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way."
Charles Dickens - A TALE OF TWO CITIES - 1859
Today we are gifted with an acceleration of cosmic energies that brings with it wisdom and the seeds of greatness. Many people including myself are unable to stay with situations that are ‘not working.’ It seems that clarity of body and spirit is the goal and all that prohibits movement to that purpose is cast aside. Today is a momentous time! It is a time of unparalleled opportunity. Now we can do what we have not been able to do.
We are now enjoying an inner beauty that seems to awaken us, exciting us to move forward within ourselves. Just as the out of date systems in the world are not working so too are our out of date emotional patterns not working. Light is also gracing us in increasing amounts in every area of our lives. We must now scrutinize what we have heretofore been able to cover up with denial.
Often we do not even know what we have emotionally denied within ourselves. Therefore the universe has and continues to gift us with situations that show us those repressed emotions of the past. Upsetting is the word but it is usually the only way we as humans see what we need to heal.
We are all in it together. We all are changing. We are all seeing ourselves.
And why? In order to evolve we must evolve together. We have witnessed the results of ‘scattered living.’ We are now thinking and living more in community.We are living as if others do matter.
A CALL FOR INDIVIDUAL STORIES
If you are also experiencing these changes, we'd like to hear from you. Write Lois and then look for your story in an upcoming edition of the SOULSPEAKS newsleetter.
The beginnings of the life you deserve - Lois will guide participants to find emotional health and empowerment using the SOULSPEAKS approach to healing so-called negative emotions and changing them into powerful and positive ones.
- One Eleven Art Gallery - 111 Pennsylvania Ave, Norfolk, VA 23508
Introductory - Saturday, June 20 & Saturday, July 11 - 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Expanded - Monday, July 13 - 10 a.m. To 4 p.m.
- To Your Health - 315B First Colonial Rd Virginia Beach, VA 23454
Introductory - Saturday, June 27 & Saturday, July 18 - 10 a.m. To 1 p.m.
An overview and introduction to other realms of living - Lois will guide participants to connect with their higher consciousness.
One Eleven Art Gallery - 111 Pennsylvania Ave, Norfolk, VA 23508
Saturday, July 25 - 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Workshops fill up quickly and space is limited - call Lois right away to reserve your spot
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QUESTION & ANSWER
Remember to send your questions to soulspeaks@hotmail.com
With your permission, Lois will answer in an upcoming newsletter.
QUESTION: I've worked so hard to build my self-esteem and have made a little progress, BUT... I still get pretty down on myself. There's no affirmation I haven't tried and yes, I've done that exercise of standing in front of a mirror and saying "I love you!" to me. That felt profoundly silly. It was more embarrassing than empowering. I think my subconscious just knows better. I love everyone else. Why can't I love myself?
ANSWER: You are experiencing shame from childhood and it's working overtime to prevent you from loving yourself. Shame is released when you love all your emotions – even the ones you were taught were bad. True or healthy self love is a byproduct of emotional health rather than a focus of the mind. Thinking of how to give or tell yourself things to show that you love yourself is ‘artificial’ love of self. When you have emotional health, which is the harmony of all your emotions, you automatically chose decisions that support you rather than weaken you. For example... a person with healthy self love will not accept inappropriate criticisms and judgments.
In good health!
Love, Lois
