Sonya’s Healing Garden Offers Unique Path to Personal Growth: An Introduction to Wei Chi Healing

By Sonya L. Merritt, MS Ed., Certified Wei Chi Healer, & Owner of Sonya’s Healing Garden as printed in the NH Women's

Journal June/July 2006.

We all have one – a public self. The ‘smile’ we put on when we are feeling like doing anything but. Now imagine that the same coping skills which allow us to put on a smile, also keeps us distanced from the ones we love and from ourselves.

When this happens we ‘play’ the character of ourselves, based on what we believe others expect of us.  At times, we are more familiar with, and more comfortable with, the public image of us. And before long we spend most of our time living this outward existence centered on our public self.  Overtime this creates a distance within us, a gap between our public self and our private self. When we experience joy it is in those moments where our two selves, our split lives are actually merged. We feel depressed when they are divided. Our beliefs shape the world that we see and experience each day. They act as filters to help us sort out and make sense of our experiences.

Our minds process billions of pieces of information each day.

We rely on established thought routines to “program’ or to make sense of all that data. It’s as if we are collecting evidence to support our hypothesis or our expectations. Unknowingly, many of our beliefswork to maintain the world where we live separated from our self (public self vs. inner self) since this is the established thought routine.


An easy way to explain it is the new car phenomenon. Have you ever bought a car only then to notice
how many of these cars are out there on the roads already? Now, there wasn’t a run on Honda Odyssey’s when you got yours last week – there were this many already there. You just didn’t notice.Now that you have one, your perspective is rigged to acknowledge the others. Make sense?


Also, many of us are using beliefs that we have unconsciously borrowed from others. Maybe you were
told that you couldn’t sing when you were in elementary school or that only unattractive girls chewed gum or that a father’s worth hinged on their ability to fix anything that breaks around the house - so you pick up these beliefs and store them in the form of expectations unconsciously. These beliefs inform our expectations of our relationships, our view of ourselves, our concepts of success and even happiness.


Whose beliefs are you walking around with?


Since you can’t change what you can’t see, this is where Wei Chi Healing comes in. Wei Chi
(pronounced way chee) Healing is a unique self-discovery process that reveals hidden belief systems that influence your expectations and the way you see the world each day. This insight literally ‘unlocks’ your perspective allowing you to truly see, evaluate and embrace your own beliefs; allowing you to make meaningful lasting changes and to take a step closer to your inner-self.


The system combines the channeling of healing energy, known as reiki, with intuitive, diagnostic,
coaching and counseling skills to create an interactive, client-centered process of healing. Together you identify patterns of behavior and address them at their root cause to unleash new potential into your life.


Wei Chi Healing is a goal centered process which is driven by extensive dialogue and probative
conversations that deepen the clients understanding of themselves, their behavior and the emotions that create them. The majority of clients participate in a treatment series which involves weekly sessions over the course of a month. Sessions are approximately two hours long and are a combination of seated dialogue and proneenergy work. Each session ends with the review of key insights gained, resonant intuitive messages and key images/symbols which are provided in summary question format for the client to review,elaborate and respond to in the next session.


A transformative mix of energy work and counseling, Wei Chi Healing is named for a Tibetan shaman
whose work embodies the concepts of responsibility, participation and gratitude as the key components to successful healing. He defines it as "the process of empowering one to heal themselves."

The insightful objective counsel provided by Wei Chi Healing is particularly useful when navigating anyof life’s changes, conducting personal exploration or coping with physical or emotional distress.Anyone trying for peace of mind can benefit from Wei Chi Healing.


And the journey begins with a single step, a single question - what self limiting beliefs do you have and
how are they affecting your life?

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