Mary's Story
Mary came to me with a huge fear inside – “like a black hole in the centre of my chest”. She was unclear what the fear was about but did describe situations with people she cared about where she was behaving irrationally and driving them away. For example: if she rang one of her sons and discovered that he was out, then rang her other son and he was also out, she would assume they were avoiding her because they did not want to see her, did not really love her. She might then accuse them of ‘plotting against her’. She felt that her behaviour was driving away all those she loved.

After spending time discussing the nature of her fear it became clear that it was fear of abandonment. When she went into her Soul Freedom process she uncovered a memory of being 3 years old and lost in a shop. She was terrified that her parents had abandoned her. When looked at from the rational, adult viewpoint this might seem a trivial and commonplace event. However, because her emotions around this event remained unexpressed, they were stored within her body’s cells and had the power to cause her to think and behave in fearful and damaging ways.

As she came out of her process her face was shining! She put her hand against the middle of her chest and said "it's gone, the black hole, it's gone! I can't believe it - I've lived with for so long I thought it would always be there."

Susan’s Story

Susan came with issues around anxiety, confidence and self-esteem. These had been with her all her life but recently had got so bad she just ‘had to do something about it’. She felt unable to move forward in life, was frequently afraid of trying something new and was extremely self-critical.
In her process she went back to when she was about 8 years old, the time when she had been sent to boarding school. Being sent away, without full explanation or reassurance, had made her feel unloved and not important enough in her parents busy lives. At school other girls made fun of her accent and put her down. She began to believe many negative things about herself, especially that she was not as good as others and that it was best not to be noticed too much. For the rest of her life these negative beliefs had been ‘running her life’.

“I feel so peaceful and at ease with myself. In a recent interview I was hardly nervous at all and actually felt they would be lucky to have me! Needless to say, I got the job. My thinking is becoming so positive and life is finally opening up for me. My house is on the market and a great new man has come into my life!”

Robert's Story

Robert came to Veronica suffering with chronic angina. After 3 heart bypasses he still got pains in his chest that were so bad that he was unable to work and had no quality of life. When he came for his Soul Freedom process he had recently been considering not taking his medication and allowing himself to die.

In his process he uncovered a memory from when he was 8 years old. He was playing with some friends and his closest friend let him down, betraying his trust. As is so often the case in Soul Freedom work, although this was an incident that he had remembered well, he had no idea how powerful and traumatic his feelings were – feelings he stored away because he was unable to express them.

When Robert had completed his Freedom process he felt “brand new, clean and shining from the inside” and when he left Veronica he took a brisk walk (something he had been unable to do for several years). He chose not to take his medication yet the pain that started in his chest subsided of its own accord. One month later he rang to say that he had stopped his medication altogether and though he still got slight angina pains he was back playing golf and was returning to work the following week. Three months later he was getting no pain at all and was feeling “wonderful”

And here is one of the many letters received by Veronica:

Dear Veronica

I am writing to update you on how I have been since you took me through the Soul Freedom process.

In the past I had done quite a lot of work on the issues that we addressed on the day. The low self-esteem, lack of confidence and low self-worth were familiar friends and I had thought that my relationship with my late father and its ramifications had been resolved and sort of ‘laid to rest’. So I was surprised at the depth of the process needed around the issues caused by the way my father had been with me.

When I went into source it was so peaceful. I could not feel my body and felt part of everything as if I had blended with the Universe. It was as if I had expanded and had no boundaries any more. I felt at one with a very loving environment and could have stayed there all day!

During the process, I gained enormous emotional insight into my father, both in his childhood and later, as an adult dealing with me as a five year old. Discovering what it was really like for him, as a sensitive man living and working on the very male dominated and macho world of the army, brought the clear realisation that he was actually doing his best and that he knew no other way to be a father, and, because of his own experiences, did not find it easy to express emotions, especially love, outwardly to me. This allowed the letting go of the old hurts, the detaching from what has always been an area of resentment and pain, simple and easy. Towards the end, when our hearts were open like doors, I really felt the exchange of love – it was actually tangible and very moving. I finally knew, on a deep level, that he loved me deeply.

Since the process, a lot of memories of past problems, failures and negative times seem to have been unravelled – they are somehow being ‘corrected’ inside of me. Its weird, as I know we cannot change the past, but I have been seeing these experiences being reversed – where I had got it wrong before, in my mind now the outcome is ‘getting it right’.

Your help during the process and afterwards was wonderful, you were able to clarify so much of the emotions and experiences.

I believe the Freedom process will now enable me to move forward at last. I have felt stronger and much more positive recently. The fear that I have experienced regularly in the past, when I thought of the future or wanted to do something new or had to face a new task, has disappeared.

I am getting more done in a day – procrastination has almost gone.

A thousand thanks for your help, Veronica

Mark Halbert