The PeaceWheel Practice
Suzanne Lewis, Visionary & Author:
“Ín a remembering, you saw a way to survive,
And you were filled with joy and delight.”
From Despair to Repair
From Dis-ease to P-eace
From Post Traumatic Stress to Post Trauma Gain
From Surviving to Thriving
Healing instinct injuries through sensory integration
Imagination more important than intelligence, knowing, explaining
Five Archetypesof humanity from Wholeness to Broken to Acquiring Medicine Tools
I was told that I was still in physical form to totally commit to aide in “dismantling the trigger in one’s body-mind” as a result of PTSD, TBI, Anxiety disorders, depression, hypersensitivity. The PeaceWheel is a prototype/tool and accompanying Guidebook is a channeled/downloaded integration of the new medicine tools I’ve gained post traumatic brain injury and my 30 year career as a Wholistic Hands On HEALER and TEACHER. Integrating the Medicine Wheel and the Five Element Theory with Sustainable Communication is my personal field of expertise and a library filled with cross-cultural “Bodymind” wisdom tools.
“My teacher Suzanne Lewis, has created a simple and brilliant ceremonial walk through the four directions of the Wheel to Center. This practice offers us the opportunity to tune into our personal journey, identify broken, harmful patterns and take steps toward reclaiming our authentic nature. I love this Earth based way of reconnecting to the true wisdom, power and beauty of being human!” Lisa
The PeaceWheel is a self-directed practice to dismantle the trauma triggers in our bodymind and restore or upgrade neuro-pathways. This is a sensory integrative health tool that give access to self-discovery of our bodies: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and essential/light and where harm and fragmentation is found. This integrative tool resets, rewires, retimes, remembers ways to participate in life each and every day and night with more ease, safety, balance, breath, and beauty. A practice to discover, to remember, to rewire, to upgrade.
The PeaceWheel Practice is a cross-cultural tool/antidote to assist the individual to the Global Family to enhance the possibilities of more respect, acceptance and greater connectivity with all our relations on the Great Earth. Improving integrity, compassion and respect within one’s self and then reflected energetically out to all others.
The Great Wheel of Life becomes a compass as well as medicine tool to assist us to view the patterns, the archetypes of humanity, one’s authentic blueprint of Earth walk. If harmed, the broken child belief nature results. Stepping the Peace Wheel, connecting through one’s senses; offers the antidotes or the healing salves, as I prefer to call them, which encourages mending and strengthening. This empowerment nurtures an individual back to their authentic self, their personal integrity, their true nature.
“WHOLE PERSON WHOLE PLANET”
The Circle of Stones are found throughout our globe dating back tens of thousands of years while some are being built just today. A deep instinctual pulse/surge forms when one steps into an honored wheel. It is sacred knowledge that as one commits to uphold the integrity of the wheel, we do so for the sake of ALL OUR RELATIONS. It is a very honorable intention.
Instantly upon stepping into the circle which stands for the WHOLE, ONE’S WHOLENESS (physical, mental, emotional and spiritual) THAT PULSE AMPLIFIES. Sacred teaching shares that all other circles, all over the planet and beyond link up, weave together, become a constellation of light centers—micro-macro unification.
Another reflection on the wheel, the circling community, visible and invisible, “We are only as strong as the ‘weakest link’. If ONE goes down, WE all go down.
The Peace Wheel offers an inspired option, a utilitarian tool/antidote for optimistic, sustainable, upgraded character building, personality enhancing, relationship strengthening, vitality boosting, centered on being WHOLE, safe, heard and respected and being enough.
According to the wisdom keeper, we are to be in Good Relations with all the Family of Life, Light and Nature. Everything has the same spark, surge of life; it just so happens that the “rock people” are considered the ancient ones, they’ve been on Earth the longest. If one sacredly, ceremoniously (for all our relations) create a literal stone circle, honoring all the Directions and opens one’s self up to be an instrument to sing, dance, remember and show up.
Vibrationally the rocks are a “WEB” system that amplifies the prayer the attunement to connect with all others on the Good Earth who have also formed a stone circle.
It’s a means for interlinking all the “local” circles into a tremendous weave, circles within circles within circles; and we become ONE. We think, hear, see, and feel unity and wholeness for All the family of life, light and nature.
There is a language beyond human language, an elemental language, one that arises from the land itself. – Linda Hogan, Chickasaw Writer –
“We cannot create a world we can’t imagine and stories are the engines of our imaginations.” – Josh Stearns –
The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
– Jon Kabat-Zinn –
PSYCHO-MYTHO NATURAL SPIRIT STORYTELLING
Watch your thoughts, they become words.
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your habits, they become character
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
There is a relationship between thought and reality. Every thought is alive, and as soon as you think it, a result occurs immediately. However, to make something happen it may take a series of one thousand thoughts before you can actually see it with your eyes. This occurs because the Laws of the Great Spirit act immediately. When you tell a lie, you immediately experience fear. When you tell the truth, you immediately experience freedom. To the Creator, there is no time. For us to experience the meaning of this requires us to act on faith. Faith is belief without
evidence.
“The very center of your heart is where life begins.
It is the most beautiful place on Earth”. Rumi
ESSENTIAL SELF ESSENCE
The Earth in many cultures including the Mayan, is known as the ROSE and all her diverse flowers with their unique fragrance represent the myriad aspects/essences of the Great Mother.
Through one’s sense’s we mend frayed and damaged neuoropathways.
After trauma, the brain has a phenomenal compensation process. Where there is a loss of skill, sense, speaking, touching, hearing, smelling, touching…another will become enhanced.
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The PeaceWheel exercise gives opportunity to discover one’s strongest sense and learn to utilize this enhanced essence as a spiritual gifting. After my traumatic brain injury, my vision was dappled. My gift of hearing became amplified. I became instantly triggered when asked questions. My thinking system was broken.
• Psychic Hearing (Clairaudience)
• Divine Receiving (Channeling/Messaging)
• Psychic Seeing (Clairvoyance)
Healing Touch Clairsensient
Shamanism Spiritual Healer Far back to far out seer
Medicine Wo/man
Shapeshifter, Wisdom Keeper Astral Projection/Remote Viewing
PTSD is a body’s request to make it deeply safe to “fully feel” the most painful experiences of our lives so that we can gain the wisdom, heal the wounds and be present to our ongoing lives, selves and loves.
We are living on a traumatized planet and only by going within to our own lives and bodies can we transform the collective trauma. Get the support you need to heal whatever hurts. It matters. You matter.
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. –Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were filled with Joy.”
“Yesterday I was clever
So I wanted to change the world.
Today I am wise
So I am Changing Myself.” Rumi
“Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.” Pema Chodron
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” Rumi
“When you think everything is someone else’s fault,
You will suffer a lot.
When you realize that everything springs only from yourself,
You will learn with peace and joy.” Dalai Lama
Suzanne Here: Why are we here?
“You think of yourselves as humans
Searching for a spiritual awakening
When in fact you are Spiritual beings
Attempting to cope with a human awakening.
Seeing yourselves from the perspective
Of the spirit within
Will you remember
Why you came here
And what you came here to do.
In the end only three things matter:
How much you loved,
how gently you lived and
how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.” BUDDHA
THE PEACE WHEEL’S 5 POINTED STAR of REMEMBERING
ARCHETYPES (Energy Companions) — BROKEN CHILD NATURES
The Great Wheel of Life becomes a compass as well as medicine tool to assist us to view the patterns, the archetypes of humanity, one’s authentic blueprint of Earth walk. If harmed, the broken child belief nature results. Stepping the Peace Wheel, connecting through one’s senses; offers the antidotes or the healing salves, as I prefer to call them, which encourages mending and strengthening. This empowerment nurtures an individual back to their authentic self, their personal integrity, their true nature.
NORTH – WINTER-SPIRITUAL BODY
Model/Archetype SPIRITUAL WARRIOR, LEADER, HERO/INE, WISDOMKEEPER
“Live the Giveaway”
WHOLESOME TRAITS LEADER, ACTIVIST
Mature Man, Woman
Clairaudience is to the North
POWER–SHOWING UP – Right use of words/actions/stance
3 powers presence, communication, position
A Mystic sees what is hidden, forgotten below the surface and yet impacting the physical world. The hero within is a cosmic traveler. The hero within wears a cloak woven of thoughts, woven of experiences. Looking into the mirror: what do I value most. The connection with the precious seed of wisdom within, let it be. What are the most meaningful relationships in your life? Observe the dance, the pattern and allow that to be. Dhyani
Broken Child Nature—- BULLY—Dominator—Destroyer–The Fight—
God Jr. tyrant—Victim survivor Guardian Self Esteem Father Predator
Seductress wimp coward
VICTIM Survivor – Guardian Self Esteem
Voice – foul mouthed, vindictive
Integrity – centered
EMOTIONS
Empathetically retarded
Soul Loss-Integrity Sadistic Bondage”
“In my defenselessness my innocence rests.”
DREAM INCUBATION
HEALING SALVES – TOOLS
CENTER – The Protector Authenticity
Model/Archetype Essential Authentic Self Safe Self Identity
Hearty Soul- Visceral/felt Personal Authority-Restoration essential self
WHOLESOME TRAITS AUTHENTIC SELF
Authenticity/Integrity/congruity
Our work has been to create a fulcrum with a platform where our
Universal Self can unite with our magical child, one’s authentic nature. Once the reunion occurs we set about sharing that all parts of our inner family, housed in one’s subconscious, with triggers found in the third chakra, ruled by our mental body; are all on the same soul journey and right now we need to work together, co-creatively.
RAINBOW BRIDGE it can refer to the Rainbow Prophecy found in many tribes/cultures predictions. The RAINBOW is a blessing from the Creator. It can represent cross-cultural diversity and respect and beauty, it means generations standing beside one another. , with all of Mother Nature’s family
TREE of LIFE *** RAINBOW BRIDGE—Moral Compass
Eternal is the one whose heart has awakened to love. ~ Hafiz
POWER-Universal Family -Soul Filled – Sacred Grove -weaving
Maturity, becomes a kind of arrival at a sense of ENOUGHNESS
COHERENCE
the bottom line is this, that when we choose to feel feelings that create what we call coherence in our bodies. Coherence is the language, the quality of the language between our heart and our brain. Certain kinds of heart based experiences, such as appreciation, gratitude, forgiveness, care, compassion, those are the ancient understandings that have always been taught in the truest traditions of our past and now our own science is finding those same traditions are documenting this very real effect within our hearts.
Inner work, to practice love, compassion, gratitude and to be consciously aware that when we do fall out of alignment with our true self, we let go gracefully of our ego and fears to find our balance again.
When we can feel those feelings in our bodies, they’re mirrored in the field and everyone benefits from the experience of relatively few. Gregg Braden
Broken Child Nature – lone wolf isolated disconnected, separate
Voice – Singing in the Choir – joy
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
“Be tolerant of those who are lost on their path.
Ignorance, conceit, anger, jealousy and greed
Stem from a lost soul.
Pray that they will find guidance.” Elder Wisdom
“Ring the bell that can still ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.” Leonard Cohen
“We are standing in the vibration of a sacred prophecy”
Flordemayo
Wisdom keeper Angeles Arriene shares this universal prayer:
“Let us take care of the youth, our children
For these have a long way to go
Let us take care of the Elders
For they have come a long way
And let us take care of those in between
For they are doing the work.”
EMOTIONS
INTEGRATING FIVE ELEMENTS AND HEALING MAGICAL CHILD NATURE
Emotions and the organ system
ANGER injures LIVER WIND TENDONS (JOINTS)
COMPULSION/COMPASSION injures SPLEEN (HUMIDITY) MUSCLES
EXCESSIVE SADNESS/JOY injures HEART (HEAT) VESSELS
WORRY/GRIEF injures LUNGS (DAMPNESS) SKIN & HAIR
FEAR/FRIGHT can injure KIDNEYS (COLDNESS) BONES
FIVE ELEMENTS
All healing begins with our WATER kidney bladder hearing
The bladder rules the senses in the head. In a nano second hearing, seeing, touching, smelling, tasting..get triggered, instinctually, psychic intuitive, igniting a feeling or sensation. The next breath, we engage our brain to name that feeling and we call it an emotion. Emotions are stored in the heart. Westerners make mountains out of molehills. Emotions are energy in motion. We are to acknowledge the emotion, then abstain from dwelling on it.
SENSES
How feels –TOUCH
Water, Wood, Fire, Earth and Metal
Observe the body as a garden, reflection outside nature
What’s outside is inside
Helping client discover which is their keenest sense – connected to
Spiritual giftedness
Hearing (water) ears
Seeing (wood) eyes
Touching (earth) mouth (1st orientation to love/nourishment)
Smelling (metal/airl) nose
Taste (fire) tongue
Pensive
LIFE IS A LIVING DREAM
HEALING SALVES – TOOLS
Angie Arriene taught that the greatest harm one can do is fail to bring our gift to the community. Once we recognize our special talents and tools, we are never to go unconscious or to become ungrateful.
In the great circle of life and light, we are all connected. All the while we are only as strong as our weakest link.
Dr. Angeles Arrien wrote that “Human beings are here for two reasons: to learn about and express love and to create… Creativity is about bringing the mystery of the deeper feminine into all aspects of life.” “From a traditional society’s point of view, our gifts and talents come from the mystery and not bringing our gifts and talents into the world is a way of de-sacred-izing the mystery.”
EAST – SPRING-Mental Bod
Model/Arch—VISIONARY
(Way of seeing, intuiting, perception
“Singing for One’s Life”
…”If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you dream it, you can become it.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Einstein
WHOLESOME TRAITS of the VISIONARY, MYSTIC
Clairvoyance to the East
East work is all about truth telling, “Saying what you mean and Doing what you Say.” Every word expressed or thought emits a frequency thusly we are “Singing for Our Lives”.
The aspect of Self that is delighted, magical, playful, curious, creative, imaginative, enthused and loves of good story. Often times the broken magical child whose authentic resiliency has been hi-jacked, will become the CON, the manipulator, the dominatrix, the fabricator to create SELF IMPORTANCE
POWER– Vision-Right Speech
Intuition, insight, vision, perception
Say what you Mean, Do What You say
Congruency
Broken Child Nature– Con, Liar-distorter- fool, clown
Cult leader, distorter, narcissist
Narcissism is characterized by the presence of these personality traits:
Grandiosity.
Fantasies of power, beauty, greed, etc.
Hunger for excess admiration.
Interpersonally exploitative.
Impoverished capacity for empathy.
Envy of others.
Arrogance.
Belief that they are special and that only people of a certain status can understand them.
Entitlement
CHILD Survivor – Innocence Guardian, influences material, responds authority
“To believe in something and not to live it is dishonest.” Ghandi
Voice –
Dishonest, telling false stories, fabricator
Loud angry screaming yelling—cursing belittling
“The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.” Page O’Mara
“Anger, indeed, is one of the emotions we judge most harshly — in others, as well as in ourselves — and yet understanding anger is central to mapping out the landscape of our interior lives, soul-mapping quality of anger. Aristotle, in planting the civilizational seed for practical wisdom, recognized this when he asked not whether anger is “good” or “bad” but how it shall be used: directed at whom, manifested how, for how long and to what end.
EMOTIONS
‘acceptance and approval
soul-psyche sick Voyeurism Fantasizer
Narcissist – Cult leader
Gaslighting-
DREAM GROUNDING SEEDING
HEALING SALVES – TOOLS
SOUTH – SUMMER -PHYSICAL BODY
Model/Archetype – HEALER Service
“Pay attention to that which HEART and MEANING”
WHOLESOME TRAITS of the HEALER, MOTHER, EARTH STEWARD
Clairsentience to the South–HYPER SENSIENT
Family with all of Mother Earth’s Family- Familia companions, elementals
Self Soothing
(Kinesthetic-pain physical, suffering mental)
POWER – LOVE- Right Relationships- Loved and beloved
4 arms love – gratitude, acknowledgement, appreciation, recognition
Broken Child Nature – “Weepy, whiny, something’s always wrong—orphan
Wounded healer – Mother Wound-Mistaken Zygote—Ugly Duckling
Voice – No Voice
EMOTIONS
PROSTITUTE Survivor – Guardian Faith
Indulgence – drama queen
Soul Sick-Heart Breaker-enmeshment-Stepford wives–prostitute
The Body loves to be Well- ILL means I Lack Love
Pain is the messenger requesting attention
Love the unlovable and mending will occur
DANCE/LIVE YOUR DREAM
HEALING SALVES – TOOLS
WEST – FALL-Emotional Body
“Our emotional life maps our incompleteness,”
“Walking the BEAUTY WAY”
WHOLESOME TRAITS of the TEACHER, SPIRITUAL SEER,
MEDICINE BEING, COUNSELOR
Am I ready to face the great gift of today if can?
Is my self worth as strong as my self critic.
Shamanism/Soul Travel is to the West, it is our wiring still intact with eternity.
POWER ANIMAL WITNESS RETRIEVAL
FOUR-leggeds ANIMAL nature West
When Women accept themselves and respect their sisters
When Women see the sacredness in themselves and all beings
When Women live from the heart and act from the belly
When Women understand how they flourish in unity with their sisters
They find the wisdom and magic to nurture, protect and honor all life as precious
Model/Archetype—TEACHER
(Advocates for Children & Green Things)
Another word for creativity is courage. Henri Matisse
POWER – WISDOM-Right Attitude
Remember, reframe, let go and
forgive self, and rejoice
FORGIVENESS is a heartache and difficult to achieve because strangely, it not only refuses to eliminate the original wound, but actually draws us closer to its source. To approach forgiveness is to close in on the nature of the hurt itself, the only remedy being, as we approach its raw center, to reimagine our relation to it.
To forgive is to put oneself in a larger gravitational field of experience than the one that first seemed to hurt us. We reimagine ourselves in the light of our maturity and we reimagine the past in the light of our new identity, we allow ourselves to be gifted by a story larger than the story that first hurt us and left us bereft.
Broken Child Nature – “KNOW IT ALL”-victimizer-reality bender
Soul Fragmented-authenticity Dark Night of the Soul
Soul Stalker-Vampires- Soul Stealers Beggars – street person
Sabotears-Hungry Ghost
Smoky Mirrors
SABOTEAR Survivor – Guardian Choice
Voice- Talks on top, double talker
Broken record – rants
Opinionated and predicts your life
EMOTIONS
Denial – avoidance – only see what want to see
“When you think everything is someone else’s fault,
You will suffer a lot.
When you realize that everything springs only from yourself,
You will learn with peace and joy.” Dalai Lama
False Belief System- Parental Injunction Wounded Child Nature
Parental Injunction
Inner Outer Family work….
sense of personal failure
DREAM REVIEW-OPEN TO UPGRADE and DREAM RELEASE
HEALING SALVES – TOOLS
INNER OUTER FAMILY WORK—Learning what is yours and what is others stuff. that each of us has a complex inner family, like a personality deck of cards, it becomes imperative to recognize which part of us dominates in the various exchanges we call life. Today I ponder myths around the ‘perfect baby, the best child, the mature adult and the wisest elder.’
Witness becoming aware of where you’re being triggered and how your body absorbs it.
“Remember when did I lose my sense of humor? (attachments)
Remember when did I quit dancing?
Remember when did I quit feeling?
Where did one lose their life dream?
When does one lose their courage?
When did we leave the search for the mystery?
