Client scared of 11:11 -- advice, please
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 3:31 pm
Hello everyone!
I have a question for board members. Wondered if you all could help with a client of mine (she comes in for weekly psychotherapy).
This client appears to have some psychic abilities, which she's kept quiet most of her life. She and her son (who is 18) both are in touch with their spirit guides, and know their names. They have had occurrences where they were spoken to by celestials, in moments of peril, and warned to get up and get to a hospital, for instance. This client also just had a suicide attempt, and was visited at the bedside by a ghost who provided comfort. He showed her a few scenes from her life and assisted her to gaining insight around the depression that led her to make the suicide attempt. She left the hospital with renewed faith and renewed commitment to life. So his intervention was key to her healing process. She is a very soft person and very kind to others, but due to a rough childhood she often invites abusers into her life.
She mentioned to me that she sees 12:34, 11:11, and other signs, and also that 23 has meaning in her family, with many people being born on the 23rd. She has no knowledge of numerology or of communities such as this one, but on her own she has felt the significance of seeing these numbers, and has a sense that there is something going on, spiritually.
This client has been "saved" and is a Baptist. According to the teachings of her church, she should fear her own abilities, and the signs from the Midwayers, and she is very leery of any contact with celestials, or seeing these numbers. She thinks she must be evil herself, or carry a dark entity around with her, or else how could she invite all this into her life? The Baptist teaching has her feeling that she is inherently bad for having these spiritual experiences.
She told me about all of this, without knowing that I too see numbers, or that I take comfort in them, believing them to come from the light. In a careful and gentle way, I suggested to her that I respect the teachings of her church, and yet I know that this client has not done anything wrong -- these signs and occurrences are coming to her, uninvited, and perhaps she has some helpers, like Guardian Angels, saying hello, offering comfort and peace. (Her church allows a belief in Guardian Angels, and I felt it would be safe to say that.) She liked that, and it gave her some comfort, but she still has a deep belief that psychics are sinners who go to hell, and such signs from the other side must come from the devil. While her abilities are underdeveloped, from her very modest descriptions of events in her life, she is on the level of an Allison DuBois, from the show Medium (who is a real person). She's been this way since she was pre-verbal and now she is in her mid-40s. It's sad to think she believes her gifts are evil. Her son, too, is so gifted spiritually, and he also believes he must be a sinner for being psychic.
I am asking you all if you have any advice, of what I can say to her, that will not insult her Baptist beliefs, but that will provide her with comfort, so she can stop beating herself up for being born so psychic, but can instead take comfort from the help our Midwayer friends have been offering to her, throughout her life, since early childhood.
Any ideas you have, I would appreciate, so very much.
Peace to each of you!
Light
I have a question for board members. Wondered if you all could help with a client of mine (she comes in for weekly psychotherapy).
This client appears to have some psychic abilities, which she's kept quiet most of her life. She and her son (who is 18) both are in touch with their spirit guides, and know their names. They have had occurrences where they were spoken to by celestials, in moments of peril, and warned to get up and get to a hospital, for instance. This client also just had a suicide attempt, and was visited at the bedside by a ghost who provided comfort. He showed her a few scenes from her life and assisted her to gaining insight around the depression that led her to make the suicide attempt. She left the hospital with renewed faith and renewed commitment to life. So his intervention was key to her healing process. She is a very soft person and very kind to others, but due to a rough childhood she often invites abusers into her life.
She mentioned to me that she sees 12:34, 11:11, and other signs, and also that 23 has meaning in her family, with many people being born on the 23rd. She has no knowledge of numerology or of communities such as this one, but on her own she has felt the significance of seeing these numbers, and has a sense that there is something going on, spiritually.
This client has been "saved" and is a Baptist. According to the teachings of her church, she should fear her own abilities, and the signs from the Midwayers, and she is very leery of any contact with celestials, or seeing these numbers. She thinks she must be evil herself, or carry a dark entity around with her, or else how could she invite all this into her life? The Baptist teaching has her feeling that she is inherently bad for having these spiritual experiences.
She told me about all of this, without knowing that I too see numbers, or that I take comfort in them, believing them to come from the light. In a careful and gentle way, I suggested to her that I respect the teachings of her church, and yet I know that this client has not done anything wrong -- these signs and occurrences are coming to her, uninvited, and perhaps she has some helpers, like Guardian Angels, saying hello, offering comfort and peace. (Her church allows a belief in Guardian Angels, and I felt it would be safe to say that.) She liked that, and it gave her some comfort, but she still has a deep belief that psychics are sinners who go to hell, and such signs from the other side must come from the devil. While her abilities are underdeveloped, from her very modest descriptions of events in her life, she is on the level of an Allison DuBois, from the show Medium (who is a real person). She's been this way since she was pre-verbal and now she is in her mid-40s. It's sad to think she believes her gifts are evil. Her son, too, is so gifted spiritually, and he also believes he must be a sinner for being psychic.
I am asking you all if you have any advice, of what I can say to her, that will not insult her Baptist beliefs, but that will provide her with comfort, so she can stop beating herself up for being born so psychic, but can instead take comfort from the help our Midwayer friends have been offering to her, throughout her life, since early childhood.
Any ideas you have, I would appreciate, so very much.
Peace to each of you!
Light
oh George just said, "And none of them were Baptist! 
Anyway, the Bible is filled with people of faith who have amazing God given gifts to help others. Perhaps, if her gifts were put to use helping others she would see their value and worth. After all according to the Bible it seems the devil despises anything of love...and prefers to provide ugliness and upset in the lives of humans... The bottom line... God's Knows how to give good gifts to his children. 
