by Ξένια Αηδονοπούλου | Sep 18, 2018 | Alternative Therapies
The Wait…
16th of August 2018… I am at the Athens airport for my plane trip outwards to visit my teacher Petrene in the US… I haven’t been to the airport in quite some time, let alone for the promising, exciting and amazing trip I know this is going to be… Even though I am in weekly contact with her on the phone, it has been 4 years since I last went and 18 years since the first time I went in 1999…
The Departure…
At the airport, everything seems exciting… All is bright and shiny, clean and luxurious… It is 5am in the morning and it feels like the world is opening up to a brand new day… I cannot contain my joy…
The Arrival…
I am finally with Petrene… It is amazing… I have 20 hours of therapy in front of me in which to heal and clear all the things standing in my way… I have 11 days of joy and happiness to look forward to, being with the most amazing person on earth… Of course there are moments when there are tears and there is pain, of course there are difficult things to look at, face, talk about and clear… But nothing is too difficult… and everything looked at is cleared and healed. Can you imagine the relief?
The Stay…
While there, all is shiny, bright, clean, full of color… The air is full of oxygen, we are living in an area that used to be woods, and these woods, even though “tame” now, are still everywhere around us… Squirrels run up and down and amongst the full, tall trees, birds chirp and if you are lucky you will see a deer, racoon or skunk! On another level, the supermarkets are full of whatever your heart may desire, the clothes are bright and cheap and Petrene’s house is bursting at the seams with color, sparkle and beauty… Indeed, Petrene herself is the brightest and kindest spark there ever was…
I am welcomed into all of this… I see grandchildren full of joy, a house full of rescued dogs and cats, horses that have been saved from a life of misery and who now graze happily, being looked after lovingly, and I meet people who go our of their way to be kind and loving towards me… I even learn to fly!!!
Everything is totally and utterly amazing…
The Return…
My return to Athens… 28th of August 2018… First a bus trip and then a taxi ride back to home… Every 2nd or 3rd shopfront is closed and boarded up. Not because it is summer holidays but because they have become bankrupt… Meaningless and grubby looking graffiti everywhere… dirt and grime… sadness, desolation and concrete… very few trees… no colour anywhere… only the dirty gray of the concrete and of pollution, of Athens… Those “bazaar” stores that have opened up all over the place selling second hand and stock clothes for next to nothing – stores which I have shopped in and found amazing and really useful bargains – now seem so so so so sad and tired… The people in Athens are still away… Usually i love this time in Athens and would still love it under different circumstances but right now it just feels really desolate, depressed and poor… Really really, above all else, neglected and poor… How sad!!!
We are all in This Together…
And who is it who is seeing and feeling all of this? Me!!! Me who always tries, and manages more often than not, to see the glass half full vs half empty… Me who always tries and insists on seeing the positive side of all the difficulties we have been facing for so many years here in Greece…
I am sure you can relate to this in one way or another… Many of you are coming back from holidays of your own, though many of you, like me for the last couple of years, haven’t been on holiday at all… Perhaps it has nothing to do with holidays or economic crisis, perhaps it is the way you are feeling anyway… This and the following applies to all things and any form of depression… When we are living in it, we get used to it and we just get on with things, because that is what we have to do to survive… We get on with it and we make the best of it… It doesn’t perhaps seem quite so bad… but this contrast… this stark stark contrast… It is almost unbearable. So unbearable in fact that I promptly, upon my return, was taken ill for a week…
The Solution…
So what is there to do about all of this? I say, that healing is now more important than ever…
We need to strengthen and fortify ourselves so that we are able to get through this time… and not just to get through it, but perhaps to have some hope of bringing change… The current crisis won’t be like it is forever and if we hold our breath and close ourselves off waiting for it to pass, then we shall perhaps be gone, metaphorically speaking, by the time it is over… For sure we will have delayed the positive change needed from happening… We will certainly have a lot of work to do then and we will certainly be making harder work of an already hard situation…
This healing is the reason that i went to visit Petrene… I haven’t been on summer holidays for 2 years in a row so that I would be able to go… I also got help from my parents. Our whole family has done work and they understand and have seen how important and lifesaving the work with Petrene is… First for each of us individually and then for everyone that we love, including you, my clients…
I went to Petrene so that I can be better at my work, better at my life, better at my relationships… I went because I recognised my need and I went so that I can have more; so that I can have more to give… That is how healing works… First we heal ourselves and then we can heal others… You cannot give something to others that you do not first have yourself! The degree to which you are healed determines the degree to which you can heal others!
You may be feeling quite balanced… Perhaps you have also already done some work with me or even with Petrene and you are finding yourself in a good place… Perhaps you are feeling as good as you ever have been! All of that is wonderful! Even so… There is always greater balance and healing to be found… You can always be doing and feeling better! I was doing great and better than ever before I went but I am feeling and being even greater now… A few refresher sessions and some further work on yourself can mean the difference between “terrible” and “ok” or “ok” and “truly great” for you…
Healing…
I offer amazing, one-of-a-kind healing sessions to help you be the best self that you can be. The unique form of Rebirthing I offer is completed in only 3 sessions, clearing all negative and built up emotions and I am the only person in Europe who is offering it. Counseling and “Clearing, Healing and Balancing” sessions that you can do with me are also unlike any others of their kind. We are not working with theories or ideas but rather with your specific individual needs; and because I have been there and really healed mine I can truly help you heal yours…
There are also many healing sessions that you can do with Petrene over the phone, right here in Athens, from my office, with me translating for you… A Psychic Reading can give you any answers you need and answer your most burning questions… Questions about yourself, your life, your health, career, relationships, children, loved ones… A Regression ( without hypnosis ) will help you to finally heal and put the past behind you… and in doing so, will heal your present and your future…
If you would like or need to go to Petrene’s for an “intensive” as I just did but need a translator, you can also do that, I am happy to accompany you… This is a serious investment in your health and future and if you are interested, please get in touch so we can discuss the possibilities and costs. Without a doubt this would be a completely unique experience and the trip of a lifetime…
Sessions with Petrene and certainly an “intensive” with her, can usually only be done after you have moved on and completed some basic healing with me first…
“The Essence of Self-Healing”!
Most affordable of all and a great place to start, at the same time as anything else you are doing, you can spend a few minutes every day or every second day focussing on positive thoughts and doing some self-healing… “The Essence of Self-Healing: How to bring Health and Happiness into your Life” is the best place to find simple and fast self-healing exercises that really work and that really do what they say they will do… These exercises really make a real, measurable and positive difference… They are exercises that everyone can easily do and do and life is always better when they are part of our daily routine…
In closing…
So… If you are feeling in dire straits… There is help… If you are doing “so-so”, or even “ok”… Even if you are doing great! If you would like a lift, a helping hand, some support… To clear, to heal, to remove blocks to your happiness… I am here… I am here and we are here, and we can help… More than ever, better than ever and ready to go…
Healing means being complete, whole, well, happy, with nothing in your way and stopping you from going forward… You can have all of this and more! Life is good, YOUR life is supposed to be good! 2018 is going to be the best autumn and winter ever… Won’t you join us in choosing a positive, healthy, happy and healed life even if all around you appears to not be ideal? Don’t delay, today really is the first day in the next part of your life. You truly are a free and powerful being; let me help you connect with that!
by Ξένια Αηδονοπούλου | Oct 12, 2016 | Alternative Therapies, Spirituality
First, what depression ISN’T…
- Depression is not a sign that you are problematic or crazy. Quite the opposite. It means that you are sensitive, probably more sensitive than the norm and that for this reason you are more intensely affected by whichever circumstances and events are around you and also those that have been around you in our life up till now… Sensitive people are ahead of their time and are the ones to bring change, first to themselves, then to their environment and humanity. They feel problems ( and as long as they don’t stay stuck, find their solutions…. ) before others do…
- Depression is not a weakness or punishment and it does not mean that you are a bad person or have done something wrong. It simply means that you need to learn and put into practise new and better for you things and bring new, more positive perspectives…
- Depression is not forever. It is a phase that many many people go through at some point in their lives and the faster you deal with it, the faster it will pass. The help and support of an expert, especially someone who has been through depression but has truly come out the other end, can be the best possible thing at this time.
- Depression does not have an age limit. Someone can be depressed at 20, someone else at 40 ( the well known “mid life crisis” ), someone else at 70 and so on… This is another good reason not to compare yourself to others!
- Depression is not the same for everyone. We are all different and despite the fact that there will always be some commonalities, the symptoms and emotions of each person, as their lives, are unique… It is recommended that whichever therapy you choose at this time be one-to-one and with an experienced therapist that is able to see beyond stereotypes… Now is definitely the time – it is a necessity and not a luxury when you are depressed – to give yourself the whole hearted care and attention that you need!
- Depression cannot be healed with medication. Of course there is no medication or substance that can heal the worries, issues, existential and philosophical dilemmas, traumas and wounds that we as people all have. Medication can be there as a support if needed and sometimes can be necessary, perhaps fewer times than you may think though. Medication ideally is only taken temporarily while at the same time doing the necessary work with yourself.
- Depression is not all or nothing, nor black or white, there are all the shades of gray in between… We may all have some relative degree of depression at times… If you pay attention to and notice the small signs and you know how ( something which of course is difficult to know unless you have already been through it! ) you can avoid the deeper forms of depression. If you have not avoided them however and you find yourself already there, know that for sure it is not too late and that you can get out of it, it will just take a little more time than it would for a lighter form.
- Lastly, depression is not “all in your mind” and you can’t “just get over it”! To heal depression, really, ideally, forever and with the best possible results, you need to deal with it where it exists, which is on all levels: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. In other words, you need to deal with it holistically! Here at “Yes! We Are Stars!” we can help you do exactly that: we can and do bring healing on all these levels!
So what IS depression?
- Depression, if you do the work required of you, can mean the start of a new, better than ever life! It can be the very thing needed so that you can learn and remember who you are, what you want, what you don’t want, what you need, what you don’t need and for you to start to make the changes needed based on these things. It can even lead you to the meaning of life, leading you to a bigger, more expanded and creative, truly joyful and happy life!
- Depression can be the landmark of maturity in a person. If you divide your life into “before” and “after” and if you get the help and healing you need, the “after” will always be clearly and extremely better and all the richer for all that you learnt to get there…
- Depression is a phase that you get to because you blame, judge, reject and do not love yourself. To get over or through depression you actually need to learn how to love yourself from the beginning again and be the best friend, parent, lover and teacher to yourself that you can be! It is time to learn how!
- Depression is always about a lack of expression and inner flow. Depression means that you are “overwhelmed”, “full up”, “up to here”, that you are saturated and full of old emotions, anger, sadness, pain, fear, as well as thoughts and things that you have an immediate need to express, let go of and clear and heal within yourself. When you are full up of old things there is no room for anything new!
- Depression is a sign from yourself to yourself that it is time to learn, recognise, understand, accept, change and heal some important things in yourself and in your life.
- As said, depression is something that “hits” the most creative, sensitive, artistic, open and pioneering people! So you are in good company! Which is not to say of course that being these things means that you must be or have to be depressed or keep company with depression! You can and must, to be happy, be all of these things without depression and you can naturally do that with joy and with ease once you know how.
- Depression can be accompanied by feelings of fear, panic, pain, sadness, indifference, anger, numbness, boredom and by behaviors such as substance abuse – drugs, alcohol, food – or even self abuse. Naturally, problems are created in relationships, at work, with sexuality and much more…
- Depression is tailor made for you… It is something that you have gotten yourself into and therefore something you yourself can and have to get out of… In depression, as with everything else, you never have any more to deal with than you are able to. If you don’t know or cannot see or feel this and if you feel you can’t do this alone then you simply need to reach out for help.
- Depression can be just the thing you need to set your priorities in order and to clear out anything that you no longer need on all levels. Depression is a great clearer of all that is old or useless, giving you the opportunity, within this new simplicity and this new space, to understand and love yourself more and to open up towards ever deepening love and life and ever deepening real happiness…
How I can help you…
Having been through as long and deep depression as any and having been living since then the ever most creative and alive period of my life, the healing solutions I offer are those that helped me to heal and are here to help you heal too. I don’t work based off of theories or ideas and within limiting boundaries ( whether “alternative” or not ) but rather with practical and functional healing techniques which truly offer freedom and which truly do work!
Counseling
The Counseling sessions I offer can be an absolutely invaluable tool in your healing process. They provide real insight, support, awareness, breakthroughs and needed information while remaining completely reality based and down to earth. Because in order to fly you first need to be able to walk!
Clearing, Healing and Balancing
Clearing, Healing and Balancing sessions align your body with your spirit, mind and emotions and clear out physical as well as mental and emotional blockages. They open, clear and heal your major energy centers or chakras and align the creative and practical aspects of yourself. Everything in your life will fall into a better, more harmonious place.
Rebirthing
The amazing and unique Rebirthing or Connected Breathing sessions which I offer are completed in only 3 sessions. Others are offering Rebirthing using an old outdated technique which requires at least 10 sessions and often a lot more. This means that I can save you time, money and pain… In my experience, this older technique also does not actually get anyone to where they need to be – even after all those and many more sessions…
You can, simply and powerfully clear depression and any and all built up and pent up emotions. You can get under your issues and get them out so that you don’t suffer from them anymore. It is a profoundly life altering and relieving experience. Anyone who has tried will know, that no matter how much you talk about and understand your emotions, it is not enough to clear them.
The sessions themselves are based on simple deep breathing, are one-to-one, not traumatic in any way and are easy to do and for anyone to follow. You can read more about amazing Rebirthing with me here.
Finally…
Have you decided to live a more creative, relaxed, positive, uplifted, joyful, happy, flowing, confident and easy life? Are you ready to say goodbye to depression and hello to your new more positive life now?
Get in contact and we can start!
♥
Xenia Aidonopoulou
by Petrene Soames | Jan 1, 2010 | Alternative Therapies, Spirituality
My thoughts on moving on, the difference between the new teachers and the old teachers, what it means to take real steps and what’s new… By my amazing teacher, Petrene Soames, 2010.
The healing methods, therapies and techniques which I developed and which we could say come under the umbrella of “Self Healing and Awareness” are totally unique and complete.
Of course the whole subject we are talking about is both incredibly simple and also incredibly complex, but this is what a master does, he or she takes it all and finds simple ways to make the complex understandable and work for everyone.
Of course we should look at the older healing systems and religion in general, be it Buddhism, Christian Orthodoxy or Christianity of any other kind, Hinduism etc… We need to look at different belief systems and ways to open ourselves, different ways to heal our past and our wounds, because these different ways remind us of and reconnect us with the amazing being that we truly already are. Everything has something in it. But beware of anything that tells you that you must study for many many years or that you should follow a strict regime, anything that tells you to beware of “evil” or “bad” things, anything that makes you feel that the world is a scary, unsafe place or that you are bad because anything that tells you these kinds of things is totally missing the point.
Also be aware that any system that tells you to forgive others because that makes you a good person yet doesn’t help you build your awareness of what you are actually dealing with, or any system that doesn’t work with you until you can truly see the perfection in how you were supposedly wronged and that actually there is nothing to forgive, is also missing the point.
Old masters, old saints and old deities have brought us to this point in time, they can give us clues to go forward but they cannot take us forward for they already took a lifetime or more to get to where they got and they have already taken us there anyway. The new masters are the ones who will help us to find the amazing in who and what we already are, for we are already all of everything that came before us and all that is to come after us and we need to realize and celebrate the uniqueness of ourselves. Anything less than this may seem and feel at times to be helpful, even life changing and all consuming, but in reality it is missing the point…
As far as spiritual experiences are concerned, I don’t think there is an ultimate experience or a highest level or even a lowest level or a best state of being. There are so many different experiences and levels and realities and ways to experience life, reality and the beyond. We give names to these places and points in time and space and many so called teachers urge us to keep striving to reach them but they make it seem like it is only after much time or much work or sacrifice that can we hope to achieve these experiences or this enlightenment. Yet these are simply old ways of thinking! None of this means that this is so, rather there are many different ways of doing things and in this time, each and every one of us is quite capable of experiencing all of this and more much more…
