Today, nearly 1 billion people live with a mental disorder. Acquiring skills to understand the energetic basis for this sort of vulnerability and how to resolve it is an important direction in EP practitioner's education, particularly for those who are working with PTSD.
How is this presentation relevant to the conference objectives?
This learning lab, "From Art of Healing to Artist Reborn," profoundly aligns with the conference title, "The Art & Science of Transformational Change." Using the innovative methods of Energy Restructuring, it aims at igniting the transformational change urgently needed to effectively address the global mental health epidemic.
The presentation is designed around a real-life case study of a complete recovery from C-PTSD. A Hong Kong talented pop star and composer sustained multiple exposure traumas, such as childhood racial and later sexual orientation bullying, traumatic losses of family connections. After his crash 8 years ago during a recording session for his new album, he further endured public humiliation by paparazzi.
In the video below, Pong details a personal account of his healing journey to recovery.
Seven years ago Pong Nan, a talented composer, songwriter and a Hong Kong pop-star crashed from PTSD (life long accumulation of trauma) during an album recording for Universal Music. As a result he became unable to work and sing as well as sleep, eat, or exercise. For the following two years he explored help from top doctors as well as spiritual teachers and healers. At one point under the care of the top Hong Kong psychiatrist, he ended up on 7 medications along with the diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder. This doctor also told Pong that he would never go back to being creative again and that his only choice was to reconcile with this reality and learn to live a mediocre life. In the non medical world, the spiritual teacher he approached for help in healing proposed that all Pong's problems stemmed from his ego and from his passionate striving to be the very best as a performer and an artist. If only Pong stopped being ambitious and dedicated his life contributing to charity instead, the spiritual teacher asserted, all his trauma somehow would be healed. Basically both worlds - medicine and spirituality - were offering as a remedy "an ego death" to this man whose ultimate soul's mission is to inspire the world towards healing and transformation.
Our journey towards recovery began five years ago. I received an email from Pong where he described practically all the symptoms that I list as services on my website in healing people back to wholeness from trauma, anxiety and panic attacks. Ironically, seeing that emails came from a Chinese source, I became alarmed that it was a spam and did not reply, until he called me to ask why I was not responding. It was a truly serendipitous moment since for years before we met I kept having a vision of me working with a singer - I saw him standing on a stage at an outdoor concert performing to a large admiring crowd, as I was coaching him on how to masterfully hold his energy and his fans.
Now Pong is back and with all his traumas healed, his voice, his talents and his presence are more powerful than ever at a tumultuous time in Hong Kong where people are desperate for true inspiration and leadership. This is the second comeback song he wrote, sang and produced this year under his own label. Named "Doctor I Ain’t Sick” , It is a powerful tribute to that very elite psychiatrist, who told him years ago that due to the diagnoses of mental illness, Pong would have to give up on his creative mission. I invite you to celebrate Pong's amazing healing journey by sharing the song and his remarkable story of hope and perseverance.
May everyone be surrounded by love and laughter as we enter the holiday season with approaching 2020, a season full of happy festive voices. However, sometimes the voices that you hear in your head, aren’t always so festive and happy, even when surrounded by friends and loved ones. You may get stuck in a negative self-talk, and some of you may even feel that the voices you’re hearing aren’t yours. You may be surprised to know that the kind of voices you hear, depends on how embodied you are. This is why it’s so important that you’re on this path of self-healing and self-growth, finding wholeness, presence and energy mastery through superior Energy Restructuring tools.
If You Are Hearing Voices - You Are Out
In fact, some people, are so energetically displaced out of their body, that the voices they hear can become really intrusive, and feel foreign.
We might say someone is ‘hearing voices’ if you hear a voice when no-one is present with you, or when those around you can’t hear it. It's common to think that if you hear voices you must have a mental health problem. I have a different perspective...
Instead, in my practice as an intuitive healer and and an Energy Restructuring coach, I explore with clients, energetic/spiritual dimensions to their experiences. In the process, I encourage them to develop their own awareness of those dimensions. Energetic dimensions introduce elements of intuition and creativity, that help one understand, deal with, and resolve, problems around symptoms that one may experience… such as voices.
I came to understand that, a major reason people hear voices, is because part of their energy is displaced out of their body upwards. It literally looks as if there was an antenna extended on top of their head, that tunes into other energies. So, I asked my client, a talented artist, who has to deal with this challenge, to draw for me what this experience looks like to her. She sent me the two pictures above. Along with the pictures she wrote:
"The two pictures I just sent, are about what it looks like when I am getting displaced out of my body, and that is when I hear voices. The first picture is what you explained to me as an Antenna, but this is how I saw it. It is like a tunnel, where when you get displaced out, part of your energy goes out with you."
I responded,
“The way you saw it is exactly right. There is a vortex in that tunnel, and it pulls you out. It is amazing that you saw it so accurately. What is the second picture? I think you are seeing the bottom part of the antenna/vortex?"
She replied back,
“Yes, the second picture is what it looks like when I look up. Also, when it happens, I have severe pain on the top of my head - Iknow there’s connection again to the voices."
Your Intuition is Also A Voice
People have many different experiences of hearing voices. Some people don't mind their voices, or even invite those voices in, as part of their own spiritual experiences. The voice of my own intuition speaks softy in my ears. The major difference is that the voices of intuition don’t come with a vortex pulling you out. The other kind of voices, people find irritating or distracting, even oftentimes intrusive and frightening. In struggling to fight those voices off, they oftentimes end up blocking everything, including the voice of their own intuition.
So, this holiday season, let’s take it upon ourselves to raise our energy intelligence in order to become our fully embodied selves. The more embodied we are, the more we’ll be surrounded by joyful and supportive voices inside and out. An easy first step in this direction, for those who aren’t familiar with it yet, is my free energy bubble mindfulness meditation (https://yuliyabubblemeditation.gr8.com/). It's simple yet profoundly powerful and magical, enabling you to shield yourself from the stresses and challenges of life - allowing you to feel safe and centered, anytime, anywhere.
As interesting side-note, according to a Russian psychiatrist that I follow, eating a low-calorie meatless diet, may result in an undernourished, malfunctioning, brain... she suggests a full calorie, full-ranged diet. Therefore, eat your heart out this holiday season, in a fully embodied way!
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Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Famous Chinese Pop Star, Pong Nan, Opens Up About Mental Illness;
Our Year Long Distant-Healing Relationship Was Kept Secret
Coping with the physical and emotional toll of mental illness has a degree of stigma, but it can be especially challenging for celebrities who are always in the public eye, as we have learned from the recent suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain. Checking into a hospital or a rehab can pretty quickly become a hot topic for headlines. Kate spade was so worried about her brand image that she resisted help. However, in this age of internet technology, a strategy of long-distance healing can emerge as a powerful alternative solution. A celebrity hiding from a public view, or anyone else concerned with shame around acknowledging mental illness, can now receive help and support in the privacy of their home or in a hotel room while traveling. All they need is their computer or a smartphone. Furthermore, I have experienced individuals secretly reaching out to me from within rehab centers and institutions, looking for an alternative treatment, as they come to the realization that the drugs or therapy they're undertaking were not successfully treating them. I’ll never forget one such phone call I received while on vacation - a secret cell phone call ffrom within a mental institution, a young woman desperate for healing sessions as she was refusing her medications that had been giving her terrible side effects. I was so touched and inspired I couldn’t refuse; she was released several weeks later. The healing method that was so effective, is a powerful Energy Restructuring system, that I’ve developed over the course of 30 years, in order to help individuals recover from complex trauma.
Pong Nan, is a Hong Kong Pop Star, a talented singer, musician and a lyricist. It has been just over one year, since we began our Energy Restructuring healing sessions, and from the start it was a relationship shrouded in secrecy. Only a couple of very close family members knew. I was connecting on Skype from Boston with him in Canada, where he had retreated far away from the public eye and paparazzi. He crashed four years ago, and for the three years that followed he tried every possible treatment that was available in Hong Kong, Canada and the US; but to no avail. The failure of the treatments only created additional pain, disappointment, trauma, and a degree of public embarrassment. The first time we talked, he told me right away that this was his last hope. Thankfully his hope was regained. Three months ago, after we healed all the trauma that lead to the crash, including the PTSD caused by unsuccessful treatments, he returned home to Hong Kong to begin rebuilding his career. Now he is a changed man on a mission to be a spokesmen for removing the stigma around mental health in Chinese society, which traditionally tends to repress emotions. So, when the news of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain broke out, he opened up in a powerful blog that went viral in Hong Kong. Below is the translation from from Chinese to English that he provided to me. Our relationship no longer being a secret, I can proudly share with you, the words of Pong Nan, as he reveals himself to the world with honesty and vulnerability. I am so incredibly proud of you dear Pong. You are truly an inspiration to all of us.
Nothing To Be Ashamed Of (Pong Nan's Story)
Over the past week we lost Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, two very successful and talented people. They both ended their own lives. In an article about Kate Spade, a family member shared that she had battled mental illness, but was afraid of damaging her brand’s happy joyful image, preventing her from getting help. And, according to people around Anthony Bourdain, even though he successfully battled his drug addiction in the past, before his passing, he told no one that there was anything wrong with him. They all lamented that only if he would say something, he would get help. It is a pity that this society is still stigmatizing mental illness; still views it is as a very shameful thing. This is something that I have experienced myself, and truly understand.
In 2014 when I was promoting my last album, I was already crashing, and due to exhaustion I got admitted to the hospital, where one of the doctors said, “Pong, don’t tell people something is wrong with you, this will damage your career." In 2016 When I was planning to come up with a new album, one of the top executives at my record label told to my friends and colleagues and coworkers, "Don’t let Pong tell anything about his illness, and about what happened to him. Just say that he needs a rest and talk about it as lightly as you can. And, last year my dad’s working partner gave me this instruction. “Pong, do not talk about your mental illness on social media, that would hurt your Dad’s business.” And, even recently someone from within the music industry told me, "when you come back out to perform, if you talk about your illness, the reporters will be asking you about it continuously, and you will be categorized as someone with a problem. So, for many years I suffered this in silence.” I just want to say the moment when I started my recovery, is the moment when when I started being honest with myself and with other people about having a mental illness. And, for the past half year or so, every time I openly shared my experience on social medial, I felt that it took a weight off my shoulders, and I felt a lot lighter.
Throughout 2015 when I was seeing a psychiatrist, and was sneaking in and out of the back door of his office so that people would not see me, I was completely not accepting the fact that I had mental illness. I thought it was very shameful. I thought I had a character flaw. And now, when I am sharing my recovery process at ease with all of you, it is because I have met several people who have had the same experience, and willingly shared their experiences with me, making me feel that there is nothing to be ashamed of. It made me more willing to deal with it and treat it. So, I’ve been sharing my story on social media in recent days. Yes, it may affect my career, it may effect my reputation, or it may even effect my family members and my co-workers. But, no matter how small my voice is, if can awaken a society that does not like to talk about it, that does not like to know about... if I could influence really desperate people to be able to seek help, or even if I can save any one single life, any impact I may have made to my career or my reputation would be of insignificant consequence compared to this. So, to anyone who is suffering, please remember seeking help is not a sign of weakness, but on the contrary is a sign of strength. And, it is just an illness, not a black mark.
