We are here to honor these hard working students who carry the torch of our next generation of healers, counselors and coaches.

These young people heard their heart’s call to step-up to their Higher Calling.

When they walk out that door this evening, they each will have a Masters Diploma in Holistic Healing, Spiritual Psychology, and Life Empowerment Coaching.

For a long time these occupations have not been well honored.  In fact, they have been considered fringe and lacking credibility.

Today, we are here to change that.

Students who put hundreds of hours of their time and thousands of dollars to learn these holistic methods deserve at least as much recognition as conventional counselors and coaches.

Well, actually today these occupations are no longer considered fringe.  The holistic healing, spiritual psychology counseling, and Life Coaching fields are exploding.

Frustrated with western medicine’s invasive methods, and with psychological drug treatments,  now even the mainstream is searching for alternatives as the same old methods: chemo-therapy, radiation, and surgery have been used for over 45 years and the statistics have risen to 1 in 2 people contract cancer and only half of them will survive it.

From a holistic perspective, much physical disease and accidents can be avoided as we change our consciousness. Spiritual Psychology is about healing the mind and emotions.   Our definition of healing is

 “Love applied to the hurt – restoring our Perfection”. 

The word “love” is rarely used in conventional psychology that labels you as your disorder, as an addict, a neurotic, manic depressive, or whatever. From our perspective to label yourself or anyone else as anything negative is spiritual abuse, for it is our self-judgments that keep us in prison.

Like a mother who does not judge her baby for falling down when it is learning too walk, Spiritual psychology says:  “No matter how many mis-takes I may have made: “I am my Innocence.”  

Try saying this after me:   “I am my innocence!”  How does that feel?

Now say: “I am a sinner?”  How does that feel?

“I am discovering my Perfection.”  How does that feel?

“I am my ego”            How does that feel?

“I am a Perfect Spiritual Being transforming my human patterns.” 

The trick is to own our human patterns without identifying them.  We identify with our true divine nature while lovingly embracing our human patterns; and then transformation magically happens.

Spiritual psychology works!  How else would Louise Hay be able to heal herself of cancer and build Hay House, the largest publishing house of self help books in the world.

How else did Deepak Chopra, Eckhart Tolle, Wayne Dyer, and Doreen Virtue become iconic teachers?   They each teach their unique blend of Spiritual Psychology.

And yet Spiritual Psychology is not recognized in our colleges.  It’s not considered credible.  We, at the University of Mount Shasta are here to change that!  If our institutions do not reflect the will of the people, we must speak up!  We must be unstoppable.

If we, the faculty of UMS have done our job, we have rendered our students unstoppable.  The final thing that stops us is our own self judgments.  These students are highly trained in clearing the human mind and emotions, their own and others.

Let’s briefly scan all they did during the last 7 months:

Basic Counseling Skills

1. Grounding Your Presence”  The foundation other skills rest upon.
2. Seeing Perfection   What you see is what you attract.
3. Listening to the Soul   Listening is a simple and precious gift , but who really does it? 
4. Perception Checking Showing you care enough to understand. 
5. Conscious Sharing  How to be honest with your own process. 
6. Asking Powerful Questions  Helping people find their destiny.
7. Facilitating Responsible Choices:  Owning behavior and being “at cause.”
8. Prizing – Celebrating the inner light of victory always present. 
9. Encouraging Feelings– Feeling the feeling is key to healing.
10. Reframing Issues as Blessings – There is a gift in everything that happens. Find it!
11. Ho oponono oponono – Healing our hurt by apologizing for what we might have done.
12. Facilitating Self Forgiveness – Ending the pain with ourselves and others
13. Giving Effective Feedback – for aiding the person’s growth and excellence.
14. Receiving Feedback – Willingness to learn without self judgement
15. Facilitating Responsibility for Reactions – Claiming emotional sovereignty
16. Facilitating Learning Awareness – Shifting from the Goal line to the Soul Line
17. Peaceful Silence – Be like a rock, grounding and holding space for one’s homecoming. 
18. Completing Unfinished Business – Getting free of nagging family memories 
19. Facilitating Commitment to Self – A vital key to happiness and abundance. 

Advanced Healing & Counseling Skills & Strategies

1. Affirmative Prayer Getting God’s support with attracting your desired positive outcome.
2. Conscious Breathing – for raising body and brain pH as well as our vibratory rate. 
3. Visioning Meditation – to receive your highest potential purpose and guidance.
4. Vision Board –to realize the dreams of your heart’s most precious desires. 
5. Heart Mapping – Ordering up your ideal life.
6. Writing a Living Vision – clearing the way to manifesting your most fulfilling life.
7. Chakra Oracle – Clearing out trapped emotions that block a person’s well being and fulfillment.
8. Art of Surrender – Instant Clearing of all blockages.
9. Freedom Method –  Replacing self criticism with the Truth of one’s Perfection. 
10. Healing Negative and Positive Projections – Clearing disempowering perceptions.
11. Conscious Language – Reprogramming our speech and thoughts from reaction to creation.
12. Person Centered Strategy – Empowering clients to solve their own issues. 
13. Gestalt – Learning from our sub-personalities to find resolution and wholeness.  
14. Transforming Anger – From destructive poison to positive personal power
15. Reality Therapy – Loving action to self and others to co-create healthy relationships. 
16. Inner Bonding – Finding wholeness via dialogue between inner child and Loving adult. 
17. Love What Arises – Unraveling physical and emotional tension by sending love to the feeling. 
18. Soul Recovery Coaching – Empowering people free of addiction and depression
19. Intuitive Counseling with the Chakra Oracle  – Receiving Intuitive Support  from higher guidance.
20. Intuitive Counseling with Tarot Cards  – Receiving more Intuitive Support from higher guidance.

Life Empowerment Coaching Skills

1. Fulfillment Coaching  What is happiness for your client?. 
   • Wheel of Life –Assessing Fulfillment in 8 areas. 
   • Future Self Meditation  –to receive your highest potential purpose and guidance.
2. Balance Coaching  – How to know and do your highest purpose and maintain balance. 
3. Enrollment – How to converse with clients who talk themselves into buying what you have.
4. Spiritual Marketing – How to attract and enroll clients naturally. 
5. Discovering Your Nitch – Your favorite way of standing out and be valued as the expert in your field.
6. Planning your 6 figure holistic practitioner business. A plan that is changing the world!

Nurturing Journal  

One of the core issues of our overdriven western society is most of us do not know how to nurture ourselves well.  So this class has students create a their own self designed program of nurturing themselves and others as they have never done before, and recording their progress in a journal.

Relationship Project

This life transforming project involves students transforming their relationship with the most difficult person of their life, usually a family member. When we have no more enemies, we can allow life to move fully FOR US instead of against us.

Healing of Memories Project

This is my favorite course as it was, I feel, to be the greatest gift I ever gave myself in all the things I have done throughout my life.  In this course students rewrite the book of their life from conception to present.  All significant memories are shared, especially pain memories.  One by one, through every stage of life, each memory is transformed from pain to compassion and gratitude. After writing  this beautiful book, the student can truly say “I love my Life!” because he/she has learned to love their past as a gift that has empowered them to be all they are today.

Wow!  You may wonder how we could cover so much in 7 months.  I wonder myself, but I suppose we can because practical learning is just so much fun and rewarding each step of the way.  And, we the faculty and Alumni who choose to come back to assist, get to do it again and again every year!

Now our new alumni are on to become professional in the fields of their choosing, as we coach them with building their practices as professional…

• Conscious Breathing Coaches
• Light Body Yoga Instructors
• Accelerated Healing Practitioners
• Happiness Recovery Coaches
• Intuitive Counselors
• Life Empowerment Coaches

Ladies and Gentlemen, we are on the Threshold of Liberty!,

The darkest negative force that has enslaved humanity for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years has been removed. It is our time, for the meek to inherit the earth. Its like prison bars have been removed, but we may find it hard to believe we can step outside of what are now only imaginary bars.

Spiritual Psychology is now here to free us from our inner prisons.

We often say:  “The issue is how we see the issue.” 

We are on the Threshold of Liberty!

This is the inner work that frees humanity as over 2 million are in prison in the United States, almost one percent of our population!  Our growing prisons are punitive and violent, often treating prisoners like animals. Instead of judging these people for their crimes, spiritual psychology would have them all learning to forgive and love themselves and others again.  The Norwegian prison system is the least punitive and most lenient in the world offering excellent prison facilities with minimum guards, and treating each prisoner with dignity, even murderers.  While over half of released prisoners return to crime in the US, less than 20 percent return to crime in Norway.  The good news at least, is this news is out!

We are on the Threshold of Liberty, and…

Nine percent in the US suffer depression.  These people have not learned how to love themselves, how to let go of their self judgments.  For a while,  they may have bought the lie that pills are the answer to an incurable medical condition. But self help books based in spiritual psychology are here, reminding them their real power is within.  They CAN choose to love themselves in better ways.

We are on the Threshold of Liberty, and…

88,000 die each year from alcohol related causes.  Even with an increase of recovery programs such as AA and with criminalizing alcohol while driving, the number of alcohol related deaths has continued to climb for the past 30 years. Alcohol is just too available and culturally acceptable, and again, punishing people seems to only exasperate the problem. Over 30 percent of college students get drunk on the weekends, setting the stage for drinking their troubles away (alcoholism).  The University of Mount Shasta is now founding Happiness Recovery Friends as a new alternative that does not judge people as hopeless addicts, but as powerful spiritual beings who can make new choices.

We are on the Threshold of Liberty and ….

42 million people smoke cigarrettes. About 16 million have a smoking related illness today, and about half a million die every year.  Since 1965, the number of smokers has steadily declined from 65 percent to 17 percent in 2014 as the desire too be truly healthy and fit has continued to increase. Our Conscious Breathing Coaches help smokers replace their need for the artificial energy smoking provides to experiencing consistent natural energy via becoming better breathers.

We are on the Threshold of Liberty and ….

2/3 Americans are overweight, and 1/3 are obese.  The Average American drinks 57 gallons of soft drinks; high fructose corn syrup is the number one source of calories. Losing weight is so hard to do because most people do not know how to work on the spiritual and emotional levels as well as the physical level.  Spiritual Psychology is here to help people let go of their pain memories and replace unhealthy eating with a better ways of nourishing themselves.

We are on the Threshold of Liberty and ….

75 percent of Americans are workaholics! Workaholics carry the insane belief,  “My value comes from how much I do.”  Ignoring their own needs, they wind up feeling hungry, angry, lonely, and tired.  These are the negative emotions that set the stage for other addictions.  Spiritual Psychology reminds us: “There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way!”

We are on the Threshold of Liberty and

12 million suffer from sex addiction. Sex without love is epidemic. 1/3 American women will be sexually abused in their lifetime.  Spiritual Psychology teaches us how to replace unhealthy cravings based on feeling separate with uniting the male and female within to feel one’s wholeness and ecstasy of union.

We are on the Threshold of Liberty, and…

We seem to be living in an increasingly fragmented society. People in America have fewer close friends nowadays than ever recorded before, down to an average of 2 friends, and the number of people with zero close friends has climbed to 25 % of the population!

Spiritual psychology sees all addiction and unhealthy behaviors are unconscious ways to get the love one does not feel in one’s life.  We help people feel a sense of love and belonging again, while the attempts to get love in unhealthy ways lose their momentum and eventually evaporates all together.

We are on the Threshold of Liberty because Spiritual Psychology is here to stay.

The I AM Teachings, the realization that everyone has within them the divine Love, Power, and Wisdom to overcome any issue and live a truly inspired life is now available to anyone. The University of Mount Shasta’s is committed to being here for the coming decades and centuries, to do our mission of empowering people to overcome their issues, living an inspired life, and doing their higher calling abundantly.

We are on the Threshold of Liberty because a growing number of us are doing the work of facing and transforming our shadow with honesty and compassion.

What we called our ego, that part of us that feels disconnected – cannot be killed. We can even kill our body, and we will still return, finding ourselves with the same old issues. Our ego will always find a strange way to get love if we ignore it or shame it.

As long as we believe our ego must die or we must die, we will be killing our relationships with others.  Killing is not the answer. It only creates another tramatic abandonment experience to heal.

That which we call our ego, our shadow, that part of ourselves that feels disconnected, lonely, isolated, and shamed – It is our wounded inner child that desperately needs our love the most.  Only through LOVE is it healed.

To have our enlightenment and ascension this weakest link in ourselves must be embraced.  We must learn to love the “unlovable” in ourselves, and ONLY then can our life take off.

These students today have learned this work.  It’s not a silver bullet. It’s an ongoing process that will require work for the coming years.  But now you know what to do whenever you feel disconnected or disenchanted with your life.

I tell you today from my experience, the number one golden key to ascension is to love your shadow, your disowned parts.

There is no ascension without mastery.  There is no escaping this human experience until you have learned to love every aspect of your life,  until you know you have mastered it.

When your child within feels truly loved, you will experience the wholeness of your Soul.  Your mind will be illuminated and your Heart will shine like the Sun, giving endless warmth and radiance to everyone along your path.

And I already see this happening with you each.

I love you,

JOA