About Stewart’s Spiritual background and the development of the Higher Self Healing Sessions:

When Stewart was very young he had a powerful dream about the suffering of the human race and the deep need for an awakening of consciousness. He yearned, somehow when he grew up, to play a role in helping people to grow spiritually. That desire never left. 

When he was eighteen, Stewart became aware that he had a clairvoyant gift, which grew over the years. He saw symbolic images in people’s energy fields which when interpreted, could help people to heal and to grow spiritually.

When Stewart was twenty one, he had a vision of Paramahansa Yogananda, and was inspired to study his teachings on self realization, and meditation. Meditation became a part of his daily life. When he meditated, he connected with his spiritual guides and allies, who were ascended beings of great love and compassion. Yogananda taught that bringing the conscious will to body parts increases their life force. He also taught about the concept of prana or life force being the foundation of health. This was an early influence on what was to later become the Higher Self Healing Sessions.

The other major inspiration in Stewart’s spiritual life happened during a health crisis. He had his first experience of merging with his Higher Self, in a near death experience. Later, through the intervention of an angelic being that took human form to help him, he had a direct, intimate experience of divine love. (See my story.)

The principles of the sessions develop.

In Stewart’s life, he overcame health problems (acute high blood pressure, kidney problems, degenerative knee disease, and herneated discs) without using drugs or surgery. As he searched for clues as how to heal himself, he brought his awareness deeply within body areas where there was suffering. Within them through his psychic vision, he saw images of suppressed memories too traumatic to cope with at the time they happened. Sometimes they were from past lives. They remained in his energy field because they had never been fully witnessed and integrated.

Because our energy field is the vehicle for life force to move within the body, traumatic memories stored there can have the effect of obstructing it’s flow. This can diminish vitality, particularly in organs and body areas corresponding to the parts of the energy field where the memories are held. Stewart observed that this interaction between subtle memories and the flow of life energy played a major role in both his health problems, and those of others.

Yet, traumatic memories only obstructed the flow of life force when they were suppressed. In other words, the mind could not work with what was hidden from it. Once memories were fully remembered and their emotional impact integrated, the body/mind continuum knew just how to heal them, no matter how painful they might have been. The resulting healing would be effortless and natural.

To access suppressed memories and the unconscious mind, a deep meditative, or trance state was necessary. This was possible through contacting and asking the assistance of the Higher Self, and Spiritual Allies. From this place of inner empowerment, Stewart learned we all have the power to go through a metamorphosis from illness into wellness, and from suffering into compassion and understanding.

Healing himself when the doctors said it was impossible: With the help of these healing principles, he healed from herneated discs and a degenerative knee condition (chondromalasia) even though the doctors said it was impossible without drugs or surgery.* (see the section on Stewart's story) Also from chronic fatigue, acute high blood pressure and other conditions. Though these healing principles were not a panacea, they played a key role in his return to wellness.

Stewart’s healing sessions grew to involve illuminating every part of the energy field with the light of pure awareness- with the divine consciousness within. That presence is within all of us. In the sessions causes of unwellness as well as empowerment were brought to light. But the usefulness of the sessions remained for the most part limited to him alone. In order for people to receive thel benefits of the sessions, they would need access a deep level of consciousness similar to what Stewart experienced when he healed himself. 

Stewart learns to share healing through “trance-mission.”The healing power of the sessions was made available to others when Stewart developed the ability to spontaneously induce trance states for his clients and guide them into a state of heightened spiritual consciousness. From this awareness, the clients were often able to see the same images that Stewart saw in the healing inner journey. People had profound experiences of healing and awakening in which they accessed their Higher Self, and got to play in realms of infinite freedom and joy.

The trance journeys were often life changing. Many of the clients had never experienced anything like these inner states before. Afterwards, most of them were able to return to them on their own, whenever they needed to, weeks or months after the session. Of course, drugs, or mind altering substances were never used.

People had vivid experiences as their Higher Selves gave them access to a universe of infinite possibilities for healing empowerment and play. They accessed more awareness and life force.  They overcame negative memories and patterns, and found tremendous sources of self love and strength within them that they didn’t know they had. And as a result of their inner empowerment, some people healed from disease. People expressed their gratitude. (some of their testimonials are published ere in this website)

Through the process of his own healing, Stewart fulfilled the dream he had when he was very young of helping people to heal awakening consciousness.The purpose of the Higher Self Sessions is for spiritual growth and aligning with the energy of the Higher Self which exists in a very high state of spiritual consciousness. Physical health, if it improves, must be seen as a very welcome by product but not the goal of the session. Some Higher Self Sessions are described in this website. (see session descriptions) Stewart Epstein is fifty two years old and lives on the island of Maui. He is a spiritual healer, and writes about the process of spiritual awakening.

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Footnote: * These diagnoses were made when he was forty. The doctors said he would never dance or walk up a steep incline again. Today at fifty two, he dances barefoot for hours on end and hikes up mountain trails. He is free of pain.