I was just finishing up a session with an old client yesterday. This client had come to me with various issues:
- his health issues
- his relationship with his deceased father
- Career block
Yesterday we were working on a theme to discover karmic relation with his mother. At the end of the session, after all the integration it was almost three hours and fifty minutes, I was just winding up the session as we usually do. I was asking him if he has any messages for his wife, for himself and at the end I just thought I will include if there’s a message for me. This client in the second session also told me that I looked like someone much older than my age when he opened his eyes and now during this session he had an intense reaction and told me I am floating above and slowly turning in to a mahalakshmi seated on a lotus and he started folding his hands and crying loudly almost like out of joy, he touched my feet multiple times-I am half his age. I felt little embarrassed. I didn’t know what to do.
I just relaxed him and let him emerge within few minutes.
What would you’ all had done in a situation like this, let me know.
After such deep and long sessions, clients generally have very powerful emotional or spiritual experiences.
A few of my clients did perceive me in symbolic ways… such experiences often speak more about what is opening up within the client than about us as therapists.
I feel you handled it very well. Staying calm, not making a big deal and gently helping your client emerge from this experience, which probably exactly what I would have done too.
Your client becoming emotional is very touchy and am sure he must have experienced something very deep and meaningful in that moment and simply expressed it in the best way he knew.
I can imagine you must have felt a little awkward, especially since he’s older than you.
Staying calm, grounded and holding the space with kindness is all that was needed in that moment.
These moments catch us by surprise and I always see them as part of the client’s healing journey.
Thank you for sharing this experience.
It’s one of those situations that stays with us and makes us reflect on the depth of the work we do.
Isn’t that wonderful! May be he got too overwhelmed by the whole experience and couldn’t contain his joy and gratitude. That’s the sign of a successful session age has nothing to do with respect and gratitude, he might be saluting the pure and kind soul you are accept it gracefully! You are gifted
Wow very well handled and I feel such sessions are our actual earnings. Yes I feel the client was so much in pain and the session relieved him completely and he wanted to touch ur feet shows how much gratitude he felt once his baggage was removed. Age is just a number, keep up the great work., All the very best
future to what our blessed Mahalakshmis @kobrakulsh@nidhicl@hc2101@saigeethavish have shared, I think you handled it very well @Charisma_heals
just dont give too much value to these things, but at the same time, let the client see what ever greatness they feel like seeing in us as this has so much of a therapeutic impact.
What a god can be conjured in a stone, why not in a lovely person such as yourself!
For the benefit of our clients we can pretend to be It, but in the heart of heart remain humble.. I hope I’m making sense… Because their perception is reality… and this perception is reality
and do bless all my Amarantians with some abundance @Charisma_heals Mahalakshmi garu
I want all the good things of this world for my children.. they should be jolly.
age has nothing to do with respect and gratitude, he might be saluting the pure and kind soul you are