My Powerful Healing on a Sacred Site

Heartpower at Sanandaloka | by Alexi Neocleous

From an aesthetic perspective, Sanandaloka is architecturally sublime. It sits high on a peninsula with 320 degree views of the majestic Bay of Islands in New Zealand. But Sanandaloka is more than an architectural marvel. For me, it became a temple. A spiritual powerhouse. A sacred space to honour Divinity. Poetically translated, Sanandaloka means ‘Dimensions of Love and Bliss'. Potent states of love, peace, joy and bliss overcome people, including myself, when they are on the land.

I recently attended a 7-day Heartpower Intensive at Sanandaloka, facilitated by Sandra and Daniel Biskind. At the Intensive, many participants were undergoing a range of states from the traditional enlightenment states of infinite joy and love, to ‘negative' emotional catharsis. The high energy field of Sanandaloka literally forces any emotional repressions to bubble to the surface to be addressed.

For me, I had breakthroughs on a number of emotional fronts, ranging from relationships, attachment to the mind, manifestation, clarity of state, and deepening of peace within. One of the biggest breakthroughs at the Intensive however, related to my finances. To be specific, the responsibility that often accompanies financial abundance. Manifesting abundance has never really been difficult for me. However, holding onto those finances, growing them, and living in a comfortable space with the increased responsibility was a different story. I could never work out why.

I wanted clarity around this abundance issue, and this is where I turned to Sandra. Sandra is blessed with the extraordinary ability to go back into the appropriate past lifetime - to the event - when a decision was made which negatively impacts people in this lifetime. For me, she not only isolated the event, but also the perception I chose during that event, and how it was still playing out in my life right now.

As soon as I heard my story, I knew it was on the money. In addition, I found everyone's story held meaning to everyone else in the room. All the participants could identify the very patterns that were being described for others in their own lives.

After Sandra ‘processed' me, I sat back down, and noticed an intense tingling in the brain. I realised this was exactly what Sandra and Daniel had been describing when they spoke about changes in the brain - my brain was being rewired! And the intensity of the tingling was voracious! It was as if there were dozens and dozens of tiny fingers working the brain over, shifting a neuron here, firing up new impulses there, forming new connections. It was amazing! I started to feel different. I felt the burden of the previous wiring being lifted. I felt as if the blockage that existed previously had all but gone. Within half an hour of observation, I felt radically different about the life situation surrounding abundance.

The combination of my willingness to be past that limitation, combined with the powerful field of Sanandaloka and the revelations from Sandra made the change a possibility. And what is life like now? Life is moving very smoothly now. That point where I would normally sabotage any further progression has come, and gone. That little voice that could pull me back no longer says what it used to say. The words are different. The attachment is far weaker.

This has given me far more freedom in my work and in ALL areas of my life.
In addition to clearing that pattern, another of my intentions for the 7-day program was to deepen my capacity to be the most loving, accepting and understanding partner I can be. In fact, my model of how to be in a relationship is actually Daniel Biskind.

At the Intensive, it really began to click for me - like it never has before - that my role in a relationship is to love and support my partner. And nothing else. I realised at Sanandaloka that seeking another to make me feel good only leads to pain at some point in the future. Joy, peace and love only arises from within. Understanding this means I am now more non-attached, carefree, centred and peaceful. Where I used to speak and act very much from ego, I now observe the compulsion to manipulate my partner, to get something out of her, to rely on her to make ME feel better, is all but gone. I find that whether she agrees with me or not has little bearing on how I feel. Her actions have little impact on my own inner state.

Since working with Sandra and Daniel, I am now able to observe the content of the mind arise when it does, and via the act of observation, witness the thought wither and fall away rather quickly. What is left is authenticity. In so doing, there is a space around my relationship. And I don't turn to my partner to make myself feel sane. I cannot tell you how positively this has affected my participation in relationships, and the man I am today.

From an emotional upheaval perspective, I pretty much cruised through the Intensive. Where others were undergoing some rather serious catharsis, I felt quite peaceful. The biggest discomfort for me, however, came about in the weeks after Sanandaloka, when the body was undergoing a dramatic overheating. It felt as if it had been electrocuted. For weeks afterwards I would lay on my couch sweating profusely (it wasn't hot, and I was not sick). My eyes burned, and the nerves of the body literally fried. I would come home from the office and collapse on the couch. I had no energy. This did not make it easy to manage the affairs of my life.

But I felt great. I was in profound peace and bliss. There was a nothingness behind the discomfort. There was a silence underneath the sizzling. The body wasn't used to being in such a high energy field for seven straight days and it needed time to catch up to the frequency. When the body caught up, and adapted to the higher vibrational frequencies, it ceased to experience discomfort.

Now, the body and mind are both quite grounded. When those around me are emotionally heated about a situation, I find it difficult to feel the same, or even have an opinion that I care about. So, I just sit there with a silly little grin on my face. This sometimes can be construed by those around me as being ‘antisocial', and I can understand that. However, I don't really care, because my inner world is so blissful and serene! No desire the mind can have to ‘fit in' can compare to the peace within. And peace is the one quality that consumes my life more than any other. The mind has lost much of its grip... and as such, I no longer crave for love, gratification or happiness of any sort from some external source.
I've always read in books that joy arises from within. However, it wasn't until the seven days in Sanandaloka that this truth really came to fruition for me. And I can feel it deepening every day - every single day. In one year's time, I know the depth that I feel now will pale in comparison to what I will feel then.