Gary Robertson

Working with clients one thing that has become quite clear is that our stories about ourselves and our lives and why we are doing what we do seldom have much basis in a reality that includes our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual selves. We might say that we are depressed when unde eath we are smoldering with anger. But the same depressed look for someone else might actually be despair. Or grief that’s unresolved. Seldom can we even access the elements that create the biggest and baddest problems we experience because they didn’t begin within our recorded memories. Which explains to me why talk therapies aren’t very effective. Ever try and talk a two-year old out of a temper tantrum? Or change a piece of karma that keeps us locked into a difficult relationship or life-long pattern?

What I have developed over decades of exporation of our inner realities is a methodology that will consistently and accurately track origins of the larger patterns that run our lives. And be quickly and painlessly changed within a context that the differences are immediatly verified.

I'm not talking about lightweight things, either. I'm talking about addressing major life patterns like being suicidal, self-sabotage, organ failure, to becoming free of negative exte al influences. The mind cannot heal the mind, but the mind, body, and soul can be healed by accessing the energy that runs the patterns that in turn, create the conditions and crises of our lives.

What has been of great benefit in my training was to learn developmental psychology and how to identify and help correct problems that arise early on in our lives. The particular challenges we all face at different ages have everything to do with determining our limitations and talents throughout our lives. I'd been working with clients for a number of years while simply using these developmental challenges before finally putting them together into a sequential program that I call "Growing Bones."

The benefits that clients derive from reclaiming unfinished business during childhood development include resolution of many of the most common problems we have as adults. The list includes enough (having enough, being enough); resolution of codependency, compulsions and addictions and their related fear and anger; boundary issues by attaining real personal power; and finally, living from identity--who we really are as spiritual beings having a life in human form. When we have all these "bones" we begin living as real grownups, capable of doing what we came to this particular lifetime to accomplish.

Sometimes I like to borrow the sculpter's process wherein a statue's form exists within the stone and the goal is to remove everything that isn't the statue. But the difference is that who a person really is, is who emerges during the Growing Bones process. It is not my vision, but my joy to assist with the client's emergence from who s/he has been to who s/he really is.

Back in the 1970s I trained in Gestalt, Transactional Analysis (TA), Reparenting, Z Therapy and worked in the mental health field until I became clear that for the most part it doesn’t work very well and has some of the worst working conditions anywhere. Like the medical model, mostly therapists have a particular working system and attempt to fit individuals into it. As clients we become a complex of symptoms organized according to a concept that may be productive, but often delivers labels like good and bad emotions, lists of what’s wrong about us, and theoretical constructs like ego, subconscious mind, and inner child. Most diagnoses don’t allow us to be completely cured of anything.

Healing requires the techniques to discover the real source of why we are the way we are instead of who we really want to be. That’s why I established a nonprofit organization, Springs Foundation, in 2000 and have been developing and offer healing programs based in Energy Psychology and Energy Medicine. With them I have tools to cross boundaries imposed by medicine, psychology and theology, disregarding limitations of time and space to discover the core patterns running our lives—and more importantly, to change them quickly, easily, and so completely that clients often cannot recapitulate what happened.

I wrote the book, Genuine Being, Resolving Ego to talk about the Growing Bones model, identify solutions, and included a long chapter filled with examples from case studies of clients who are finishing their processes and finding themselves quite transformed. In a good way. Just like we knew we would be when we were kids and envisioned ourselves becoming great parents, having wonderful lives and doing a career that we could be satisfied with when we got old.

Want to know if you’re all grown up? Take one of the little tests that can be found at: http://genuinebeing.com. Then I think you will want to take a look at the book.

But if you already know you want it, then go directly here: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=3757641 There are a couple of chapters you can preview before you decide to buy.