"The road to our beautiful future is unfolding before us!"

My Story ~ Mindvalley

I am so grateful for MindValley, Vishen and especially Paul McKenna for this amazing course in Hypnotherapy. 
 Even though I spent most of my adult life in the Spa Industry, I hadn't grasped the value of meditation until one day in early 2022. I had been woken up in the middle of the night with incredible pain in my hands. The pain felt so intense that I thought my bones were crushing, yet my fingers felt paralyzed and cold like chunks of wood. 

After several sleepless nights filled with pain, I began researching my symptoms on Doctor Google and freaked myself out suddenly believing I may have Scleroderma. This was not an unreasonable self-diagnosis since my aunt had been diagnosed with this very disease years before. 

Suddenly I began a downward spiral of feeling lost and in pain with worst case scenarios playing horror movies through my mind. I explained my dire state to a girlfriend over the phone and before I could finish my depressing story, she interrupted me and said, “All I am hearing from you is negative talk about your body…you know it is listening right?”

This made me think for a moment because I am a naturally positive person and I had never heard anyone say I was being negative before. She went on and gave me a very valuable suggestion. “How about you begin telling your body, especially your hands, how much you love them and how grateful you are for everything they do for you. Gratitude is healing sis.”

I took her words and really applied them. That night the pain began like clockwork. I took a deep breath and began an inner mantra about how much I loved my body and my hands and how grateful I felt for them. Within minutes I felt a warmness begin to trace down my arms and into my hands as the pain lessened in those areas. This was incredibly encouraging to me! I started picturing golden light swirling around my fingers full of gratitude and healing energy. Each time I would do this, the pain would lessen. I continued a nightly mantra before bed every night, and eventually the pain didn’t return! 

I was ecstatic to call my girlfriend up and tell her all about it. I was exclaiming how the pain in my hands had completely disappeared! Then she asked me how my back felt, knowing I had a very laborious job. My story changed and I heard myself begin to talk negatively again, and once again she cut me off. “Now apply that gratitude to your back and the rest of your body!”

I began laughing because she was absolutely right. I asked her how she knew I could heal myself with my thoughts. She just simply stated, Meditation.

After we ended our call, I immediately began researching meditation online. I wanted to know anything and everything about it. It was like I had uncovered a secret that I couldn’t wait to master and share with everyone! Well, of course my research on meditation led me to MindValley and a guided meditation by Vishen. I was hooked! I listened to everything that was free from him that I could find! I discovered several other guided meditations I would listen to while at work, on repeat so I could continue my full body healing process throughout the entire day! Finally, I decided I needed to sign up for a course and chose the Silva Method with MindValley. 

This launched another huge change in my life. I also joined the Life Book program and began mapping out my priorities.

Up to that point I felt somewhat successful, with a plan I thought I would follow for my next few years. Then towards then end of the Silva Method course, Vishen mentioned that if we are open, the universe can give us a glimpse of what our true path and potential is. 

I went soo deep into this meditation that I was completely balling by the time he talked me through it. I had seen the vision of where I needed to take my life! It was nothing I had planned or ever imagined.

I ran upstairs and with tears in my eyes, recounted my vision to my husband. After several quiet moments he finally said, “Well, I guess we have a new plan for our future! Let’s open a retreat and be philanthropists!” His support confirmed that we were making huge changes to make this new path a reality!

The next three days I contemplated how I could become an instructor and how I could help others find their own path to happiness. I wanted to share everything I had learned and experienced with anyone who would listen! 

Then a MindValley add popped up on my social media that announced Paul McKenna and his course on becoming a Certified Hypnotherapist. I started researching Paul McKenna and knew he would be an amazing role model for me to help people. I signed up and within the first week of lessons, I could not get enough! I attended all three labs offered through the week nearly every week, just so I could feed my insatiable appetite for learning! Feeling empowered by my confidence in my commitment to learn, I signed up for the Life Coach Course as well as the Unlimited Abundance Course. 

I have begun making a “wish list” of courses I will take next! At some point going through the Hypnotherapy course and excitedly telling my husband what I had learned during the week, he expressed that he would like to take the courses as well, and join me in becoming a Life Coach, Hypnotherapist and Meditation guide! Wow! What a power couple we are becoming! And this revelation completely falls in line with my vision of opening a Mind and Body Healing Retreat!
 The road to our beautiful future is unfolding before us!

Today was our last lab practice in the Hypnotherapy course… I refuse to let myself feel sadden by this. I have already helped soo many people with my new gifts and will continue to advance my knowledge and hope to one day become a MindValley instructor, reaching thousands of people! I hope to show my gratitude to each of my instructors, coaches and assistants by sharing these gifts with friends, family and clients! The world needs more Mindvalley Graduates!

Sincerely and wholeheartedly,
 ~Cheriess Maree Clark