Metta Knowledge For Peace, LLC

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MettaKnowledge for Peace supports clients on the journey to rediscovering the keynote of joy that is the fruit of inner peace. I facilitate your personal growth and healing through self-reflection as a means to deepen your connection with this source, however you define it. Building a container of strength and compassion within you through conversation, art, meditation, movement, working with the energies of the body and soul, ritual, and play of many kinds, I support you in a profound transformation of your view of self and others, enabling you to step out of the dominant paradigm of victim-perpetrator and into one of freedom. You will see pain through the eyes of compassion and have the personal power to move through the inevitable challenges of life with grace and ease. Every aspect of life is seen as fuel for the journey: physical and emotional pain, family, work, relationships with our animal companions, and the panoply of experience in the world at large. Inner work with me is rich, creative, and happy!

Personal Growth

Are you looking for a different way to deepen knowledge of yourself and to meet challenges in your life? Do you feel as if life is filled with conflict and pain and little joy? Every minute of every day is ripe with possibility for change and growth. In personal growth work, we are supporting the body, mind, emotions, and spirit to move through change and tension with ease and to find the enduring source of healing within ourselves.

Spiritual Discovery

Are you adrift in your spiritual life? Do you feel a call, but are not sure where to look for an anchor? Have you felt betrayed or dissatisfied by the religious or spiritual beliefs of your family of origin? Do violence and suffering seem to be the only reality around you? Are you experiencing a “dark night of the soul” marked by a yearning to tap into something greater? Such times are ripe for spiritual discovery and a profound healing of body, mind, emotions, and spirit. In spiritual discovery work, I facilitate your journey towards tapping into the sources of inspiration and connection feeding you, however they may appear in your life.

Animal Companions

Many of us live with animal companions—dogs, cats, horses, birds, reptiles of various sorts—or we simply connect strongly with all beings living and breathing in the natural world. Yet despite the number of people who live with pets or have a strong connection to Nature, we often feel as if we must hide the importance of these relationships in our lives. Or when our animals companions are ill or have died, we feel as if we must act as if everything is “OK” even though we are in pain or struggling. Or perhaps we are feeling a great deal of tension and pain in our relationships with our animal companions due to their difficult or unpleasant habits. MettaKnowledge for Peace knows that all relationship is an opportunity to grow and uncover spiritual sustenance. I support you in wonderful and journey of relationship with animals and the natural world.

Professional Mentoring

Would you like to talk to someone confidentially about challenges and issues in your workplace so that you can find balance? Are you struggling with what you really want to do with your life? Do you want to find a way to express your spirituality in your work in ways that are respectful of the diversity in the world around you? I will facilitate your exploration of the meaning of spiritual life and how to integrate it more fully into your life.

Resources

• Healing Work with Animals

  Animals in our world take on many burdens and face many challenges. Like humans, they can experience trauma, abuse, neglect, abandonment, and illness.  However, unlike humans, unless they have been terribly abused, they do not lose a sense of connection with the living source of life that feeds all creation. Nonetheless, their bodies, minds, and energies can become imbalanced. Animals grieve when they have lost a loved one, they feel anxiety when circumstances change, and they struggle against aging and sick bodies, wanting like any of us, to be active and well. More»

• What is Healing?

  What is healing? Healing is the dynamic process of finding our wholeness even in the midst of the inevitable challenges of living in a body. Every spiritual tradition speaks of healing as integral to the path of discovery. Healing sometimes leads to a cure of symptoms of illness, but sometimes not. Healing is about finding greater sources of sustenance beyond the merely physical. Healing is about letting go of what we no longer need and finding joy in all experience. This joy is our birthright.

  However, we sometimes forget what we are borne knowing. Big and small traumas knock us off balance and we feel lost, alone and despairing. Violence and trauma in our families, communities, nations, and the world at large often make peace appear to be a distant and even non-existent dream. Nonetheless, that aching longing for happiness and our knowledge of an ever-present peace never dies, even when things seem most dark and difficult. It may be but a tiny cry, barely heard. But it is always there somewhere—waiting to be nurtured and fed.

• Taking New Clients

  I am now taking new clients interested in spiritual discovery, professional mentoring, or working on personal growth. For more information, email rachel@mettaknolwedge.com or call 434-878-3210.