LIVING ENLIGHTENED LIVES:
REMEMBERING WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW
In today's busy world, people have forgotten their ability to live multidimensional enlightened lives.
Theresa O'Connor helps to change that by facilitating week-long retreats at the Christine Center and elsewhere.
"These
retreat experiences are always unique, and they teach people that
enlightenment is a lot like standing within an infinity symbol and
drawing benefit from the resources on both sides of the symbol. We can
have one foot in one side of the symbol, the material world, and the
other foot in the other loop of the symbol, the non-physical spiritual
world. At any one time, we have the ability to be in either the material
world only, or in both worlds at once, so as to draw on the benefits
and energies available from both areas. Enlightenment, in my
understanding, is being consciously aware that we can learn to benefit
from walking with a foot simultaneously in both worlds, and really doing
it." says O'Connor from her office in Philadelphia.
O'Connor has
spent a career that spans three decades in the fields of trans-personal
and energy psychology, as well as mind-body and vibrational medicine.
When she graduated from Yale University in 1981, physician Bernie Siegel
was breaking new ground in the field of healing. O'Connor was involved
in the initial groups that worked with Siegel and cancer patients using
visualization and drawing techniques. "The work they were doing was
cutting edge 30 years ago," she says. "It's taken all that time to get
it into the mainstream."
O'Connor says as we enter the second
decade of the 21st century, we are being told by experts in many fields
that we are moving from the information age into the age of intuition,
where innate wisdom and higher knowing are ever more needed and
available. Teaching self-aware people to systematically assess,
cultivate, and contribute from their highest inner resources, is what
O’Connor work is all about.
O'Connor facilitates enlightenment
coaching with individuals, groups and organizations and has found
interest within the business world with executives and entrepreneurs who
want to integrate their own intuition, spirituality, and values into
their businesses and decisions.
"Dynamic, determined leaders are
learning holistic ways of decision making, balanced living, and giving
back," she says. "The development of inner intuition and insight, with
an integration of mind, body, and spirit is now sought in conscious
workplaces."
Her retreats on enlightenment began at the
Franciscan Spirituality Center, and the Christine Center in Willard,
Wisconsin, in 2005. They've grown from a "basics" course on
enlightenment to offering more advanced work, as with teleclasses,
individual and group coaching, corporate retreats, and consultations.
"I
expect by the time people complete our work together there will be a
measurable difference in them. We know from research that we can quickly
forget cognitive information. Unless there has been a cellular
experiential and deeper shift ... it isn't transformative, and therefore
isn’t available for integration into all aspects of life. My goal for
all of my offerings as an enlightenment coach is for the experience to
be transformative. I want people to leave remembering and integrating
the brilliance that is in their essence and that, in many ways, perhaps
we've forgotten."
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