Angelika: Cherishing Wholeness & Purpose in Life (Part 3 of Rising Through Trauma into Healing)

Lingering at the veil between the earthly and the afterlife, Angelika warmly encourages those struggling with suicidal thoughts, highlighting our purpose for being here and the importance of doing our inner work. She also introduces a deeply effective healing modality called CognoMovement that literally rewires the brain, and presents what happens when we give our inner child spiritual lectures.

Enjoy this animated conversation infused with joyful wisdom for transforming our personal and collective realities, as we learn to cherish every aspect of ourselves and even our difficult experiences.

Angelika Schafer shares from her own experiences how valuable it is to stay in the body, with the challenges and rewards of going through difficult times.

What Near Death Experiences Can Reveal

Some of the people that have had near death experiences experience kind of a "hell realm." There is subconscious guilt-- a subconscious belief of I deserve that, or religious conditioning: that's what's going to happen to all humans because we're all flawed, we're all in sin. These beliefs, especially the subconscious hidden beliefs, are what we experience when we leave here. So it's very important to set it right, now, while we still can. --Angelika

The Importance of Staying

(Angelika): I just want to say something very important to all of our listeners, because in my history and in our family, there was a lot of suicidal ideation.

And my nephew, my sister's son actually did die that way. And so I just wanted to say, no matter how hard your life is, no matter how insurmountable your problems are, just stay. If you just stay, if you're just willing to stay and ask for help, And even if you can't see a pathway, this life, no matter how miserable you are, it is so valuable!

If you stay through it, you will receive the help that you need. I promise. I promise. So do not end this life deliberately. It is an incredible opportunity, especially right now. There are so many souls that want to experience this time, and many are not up for it. And I can understand that this is not for the faint of heart.

It's like we're living in the epic sagas of Lord of the Rings. Star Wars, Star Trek, all of them, all at once . . . all playing out right now. And we're the little hobbits, we're the little Frodo, who has to go up that mountain. But it's so worth it. It's absolutely worth it. It's an opportunity that doesn't just come along! It's unique.

Yes. None of us are here at this time by accident. It is on purpose.

So however it is, reach out for help, but stay, be willing to stay. Just know we're playing out a story. It's going to turn out okay.

(Colleen): And we're not alone. We are so loved.

(Angelika): Yeah. Even when you don't feel it. Yes. That's the tricky part.

Seeing the Invisible Way To Stay

There were many times where I did, I wanted to leave this planet. I really did. I just couldn't see a way out. And that's I think what creates suicidal ideation and action. It's when you don't see a way out. But there is a way; just because you don't see it doesn't mean there isn't any.

So it takes that kind of courage to stay, because leaving is actually not an act of courage. The act of staying through it--that's the courage; that's the courage it takes right now on earth. So please, please take these words to heart and share them with anyone in your life who is troubled and wants to leave.

If you tune in intuitively, you can sense it. Share this podcast with them. Let them listen to these words. And reach out--I'm available to help people. I know I can help people to a degree where they no longer have that idea, because I could in myself.

(Colleen): Yes. And I'll put this at the end of the episode as well, but you can be easily reached at AngelikaHealingMusic. com. Angelika with a K.

(Angelika): Yeah, that's the important part because it's a German spelling. We don't spell with C, we use a K. So it's Angel I K A HealingMusic. com. And there's a contact page. I always get the messages.

And Colleen, one more thing. I really believe that those that I am meant to assist, they will find me, they will come to me. So I never advertise; I don't promote myself. I don't even know how it works--it seems like magic. It's this deep trust that those who are meant to be helped, assisted by me, they will find me--and it's magical. They always do. Yes. And it's a match. I can tell it's a match made in heaven, it's divinely orchestrated.

One of my teachers is cute. He calls it UI, not AI, UI: Universal Intelligence. Yes, that is UI--it arranges all things. It's in us and all around us.

(Colleen): Yes--the I Am that is all that we can think or imagine . . . While you were talking about your life as a child, I was thinking, how difficult it must have been to be in that environment day in and day out, and stay in your body. As you're speaking about the strong temptation that so many people feel to exit their body, you--as a person, as a being, you are actually a walking, talking testimony of what can happen when the circumstances and conditions are unbearable, and yet you stay. The pain that you witnessed around you, that you took in from your family, that you experienced yourself was insurmountable, seeming to be too much. And I have had a share of that as well.

There is that temptation to shut down and to check out. And that is so strong. I remember a moment myself when I felt I was nothing but ashes. There was no life there to even stay in, and yet I stayed. And it was a portal--a doorway that opened into learning in a whole way, learning what healing and wholeness was always there, but just blocked. That's how I connected with the modalities and tools that are in my inner toolbox.

I love the way that you speak what you've spoken with your whole being and your whole life. It's not just something you went to school and learned in your head.

(Angelika): I learned in this tough school of earth.

(Colleen):  Yes. And it's interesting what you said, "We want to leave and that urge is strong."

The "Rental Car" of Spirit

People think it's when we destroy the body, that pain goes away. But it doesn't really, because it's on another level--it's in the spirit, it's in the heart; it's in that part of us that continues. --Angelika

(Angelika): So it's not a solution. The body is just like a rental car. It's an interface. What helps me a lot is to know that the consciousness, the awareness of the all that is just for a little while physically focused right now on earth, is to the exclusion of all these other realities. It's excluding all those.

It's physically focused, but there's a reason we have this forgetfulness of the bigger reality. Because if it didn't feel tough and limited and real here, we wouldn't make this kind of inner transformation and progress that we came here to do.

It's like we chose the challenges of our lives to prove to ourselves how to overcome them. And it's in that journey where the gain is. Yes. Even if it's all made up, it's all projected--but that's where the gain is. That's what we're here for. So since I really know that, I've said fully yes to it.

So destroying the body is just like you're destroying the rental car, but you will continue without the rental car and it's going to be even harder.

(Colleen):  Yeah. You'll be stuck on the side of the road and waiting for a ride.

(Angelika): Yeah, exactly. But what we want to really escape is the pain, the suffering. And for that, yes, the body can express that pain and suffering as physical issues and sickness and pain. But the origin of the pain is in our emotional, psychological, spiritual bodies.

It's in our inner world, and to set right the inner world. So for that, there is always a solution, even if you cannot see it.

Healing Through Cognitive Movement

And I searched for so long, I was very tenacious, andeven the tools that I found, they helped a little bit, TRD, EFT, Havening, just to start to name them all.

They helped a little bit, but nothing was really that tool that I wanted to be able to transform this inner fear and anxiety about life on earth--not feeling safe, feeling separate . . . it's deep in the nervous system, and now I understand. And so Cogno- Movement has helped to integrate those layers enough to where the spiritual being could finally just be and shine and come out.

And so again, it's not about leaving the body. It's about not going around or over or under anything. It's about going right through it, right into it.

So the principle of the way I work with people is to create a safe space, completely nonjudgmental, completely unconditionally loving. Anything is welcome to come up: anger, rage, fear, pain, crying, snotting--the whole thing is welcome!

There's only a few ground rules: you don't get to harm yourself or me or the property around. But anything else goes. So then the nervous system feels safe to actually be honest and explore what is deep down, what we suppress in the name of spiritual teachings--yes, that's the thing.

Spiritual teachings are often a detriment to our inner child and our inner being that is so hurt, and has never been heard or been able to express. Matt Kahn, he has this great saying, "If you give the inner child spiritual lectures, it turns gangster." It does.

And so we create a safe space and then we go into the nervous system. And when someone tells a story--like one person said, if I just had a few million dollars, I would really feel good; all the problems would be over. And so I actually emphasized that with the person, "Yes, you're right . . . If you just had enough money, all your problems would end. Everything would be fine. Life would be perfect" . . . as we move the eyes.

And then what happens is, we're actually allowing the nervous system to explore its deep hidden beliefs. The inner child has these strategies and it knows the answer . . . If I just had this--if I just had the right mommy and daddy and my needs were met, then everything would be fine. And I emphasize it and I help them go into it.

And "when the nervous system hears itself, when it finally comes to light what it actually thinks, they start laughing! I see how it's actually the logic of a little kid; it's funny! But then, that's the healing.

When you finally see what's been stuck in there, you're no longer ruled by it. You see it for what it is. And it literally rewires the brain. It makes new neural pathways. It's absolutely incredible! -- Angelika

Healing Our Lineage with CognoMovement

And that has given me so much joy, especially with my sister, she lives in Germany. She had even more trauma than me. She's three years younger, and we were the only two kids. She had such a struggle and such a hard life. And I always wanted to help her, but I never could. And so we were separated. She put me on a pedestal, I couldn't really reach her. I couldn't help her to feel worthy or anything.

And when I finally got her to do CognoMovement with me on WhatsApp, a little phone, that's all we had, it transformed her life too. And maybe be all the work I've done benefited her, but she never did a spiritual course or a spiritual book or anything--but her nervous system processed it at lightning speed.

I laid the groundwork and it benefited her. And that was my heart's desire. Now I am actually looking up to her! She is accomplishing what I say, I don't know if I'll ever learn that. Being meta with people that abuse her in a store, and just be amused and watch. And I go, Oh, I could never do that--I would just punch back! Or how she is so wise with her grandchild--I am just astounded. And it's been the biggest gift of this life to have this relationship with my sister. I get to know her for the first time and we're working around the world. We're always saying, okay, it's like we're holding hands--world is in between us. You are doing your work over there; I'm doing the work over here, but we're doing it together because you and I have the same ancestry. We have the same ancestral lineage patterns. We are transforming together, and our whole lineage is being healed through that and the generations after us.

So it's this unbelievably fulfilling, deeply sacred work that we're doing. And it is with tears, and it is with laughter, and it is with everything in between. It's just the best; it's the best gift!

Oh, I don't want to move to a perfect planet. I want to be right here where I am with all this suffering and heartache. -- Angelika

(Colleen):  And such joy in the awakening, and such freedom. I was thinking as you were talking about you and your sister joining in that place that transcends times and distances, and healing with your own awakening into what is truly real the trauma in your lineage and every once in a while I receive a glimpse even beyond.

The other day, for some reason something flashed in my heart and mind about those who have been maimed in war--who are missing an arm or a leg, or mentally, they're just totally zombie-ized, by war trauma. And I used my tool in that moment, which was actually the Ho'oponopono. As I was moving with that, or allowing that to move in and through me, it became real clear in an experiential way, that the tip of the root of whatever caused that maiming, that trauma, that wounding . . . in that place of surrender and willingness and love for myself, and as love in a way that my mind will never understand, I can laser beam that to the very root of what caused that trauma and that pain. There's something so potent there that my mind cannot wrap around, but it is so real and so beyond any illusion of separation.

And here we are in these bodies that have to exercise, and have to eat correctly and be mindful of things in the physical. Yet, this is here--in and through these bodies. They're amazing "rental cars" we have--teaching us all the time and speaking to us and opening up a deeper meaning to things that otherwise are just more tidbits of facts and information . . . really just chattering.

(Angelika): It's where everything becomes visible here in the physical. That's what it is , it's manifesting. It's all thoughts becoming crystallized into physical form.

Collective Consciousness and Activism

So what we experience collectively is the collective thought forms of humanity that are creating this experience we are having. -- Angelika

That's why I believe the biggest contribution I can make right now . . . I admire activists, I admire people who fight for the environment and, political arena and for medical freedom and all these things. But I am not working on that level. I'm more working on the level of the transformation of minds and hearts and consciousness.

I believe as we shift into a new level of consciousness, that these outer expressions on earth will automatically transform and change, the systems just reflect the current level of consciousness.

(Colleen): I hope this podcast episode was as meaningful for you as it was for me. In our next segment, Healing From Betrayal by Discovering Our Indweller, we'll relish the beautiful healing power of consciousness in the collective shift happening now.

We invite you to initiate your own conversation with Angelika through SongRise.live or directly through her website at Angelikahealingmusic.com.