The Resolve Tools target the effect of traumatic life events on your heart, soul, spirit, emotional body, chakras- call it what you will, feel it how you will. The four Tools work with various effects but as usual, they are open to your interpretation.  Some may resonate more than others.  Some aspect may resonate more than the entire visualization.  Feel free to adjust, adapt or revise them anyway you wish. This is deliberately not exact science. All of these Tools work to correct the imbalance that can develop between intellectual understanding and emotional understanding.  This is somewhat naturally occurring given that the first phase of our life is emotion-based-  our childhood and youth.  Our ability to reason and truly develop intellectually comes later- not until late teens and young adulthood.  The quest is then to harmoniously integrate all experience into balanced emotional/intellectual understanding. This is often avoided due to trauma in the former and over-glorification of the latter.  And partly, of course, to the previous lack of efficient Tools with which to work.   The Shimmering Portal (Healing) The premise of this Tool is that traumatic life events can cause a wound to your very heart, soul, spirit, emotional body, chakras- again call it what you will.  Grief, sorrow, emotional pain, even melancholy are all symptoms.  There are many ways to treat these symptoms but the effects are temporary at best.  The wound continues to energetically fester, seeping into your daily life, reminding you it's still there.  Waiting to be healed. To heal a wound of this kind, you must consciously and intentionally focus your attention on it.  It's about taking responsibility for your life.  Affirming that you are ready to fully consider the event and glean the wisdom from it.  This Tool empowers you to take such a proactive approach.  You journey through the portal to a crystal cavern where your intent combined with the “magic” of the crystals spark the healing.  Someone is waiting there to assist you.  Sometimes you will know both the wound and the appropriate person to help you heal.  Other times you may wish to allow both to come forward on their own.  The Shimmering Portal is an actual pool of water that forms after the rain on a plateau about half-way up the Cathedral Rock Trail.   The Creek of Attachment An attachment is an emotional bond or tie to something.  For our purposes, the implication is that you have become too emotionally bound or too emotionally tied to something.  Emotionally and energetically obsessed, if you will.  For example, you can be attached to a particular outcome or accomplishment, to a role or function or to the need or desire for something.  It's like swimming upstream which demands tremendous energy just to keep from sinking let alone to move forward.  Meanwhile, other experiences, other facets of your life wait around on the shore with their fingers secretly crossed. This Tool allows you to energetically let go, freeing yourself to get out of the water, catch your breath and look around.   In this visualization, you literally get out of the water  (Sedona's Oak Creek in my version) with your attachment(s) materialized as heavy chunks or blocks stuck to your body.   You command these to let go and then, you let go.     The Ruin of Obsolete Belief Traumatic events of youth are the foundation of our first beliefs.  With greater experience should come the opportunity to revise them. There are two reasons why this doesn't typically happen.  First, because of the emotional trauma, it's easier just to bury these first beliefs.  Secondly, the typical greater experience involves a lot of traditional education with its emphasis on facts, figures and how to think, so it's easier just to form new beliefs.  The latter may be intellectually legitimate but the former prevents you from fully feeling new beliefs.  The work of this Tool is to consciously undo the emotional component of any now obsolete belief so that you can fully embrace the new. This visualization takes place at a Native American ruin typical of those found in Sedona's more remote red rocks.  The ceremony is simple but rich in symbolism.  Symbolism enriched by the power of your creative visualization.   The Altar of Judgment Judgment, according to this Tool, is that inner voice that spontaneously and very inappropriately criticizes others around you or more importantly, some aspect of yourself.  It's usually just a brief remark however hurtful or ignorant.  This inner voice is a vestige of the past.  An energetic postscript.  It may sound like your voice but it's reading from someone else's program.  Someone who had emotional influence over you.  You know such remarks are not true.  Perhaps you've known it all along.  But intellectual understanding is not quite enough especially since the judgment, itself, is not based in the rational.  This Tool acknowledges its inherent emotionality and works to silence it on that level. Again, the setting is Sedona's red rocks. A particular formation that has been sculpted over the centuries by the wind and rain to resemble an altar.  The perfect setting to give over a judgment, to silence that inner voice, once and for all. Email: kim@thesedonatools.com