Margaret Paul - 6 Steps to Total Self-Healing: The Inner Bonding Process

Margaret Pauls work is absolutely life changing. Margaret has been a leader in the field of transformation for decades and Ive seen from my own personal experience the remarkable power of her Inner Bonding work. Ive used it in my own life, and Ive shared it with many of my clients and students. Inner Bonding is a cutting-edge process for self-love. It gets profound results, and it gets them quickly. Margaret is truly a master, and the Inner Bonding process creates miracles.

Marci Shimoff, #1 NY Times bestselling author, Happy for No Reason and Chicken Soup for the Womans Soul, and creator of Your Year of Miracles

Dr. Margaret Paul and her work is a magnificent combination of tough love, no nonsense, and brilliance, combined with deep sensitivity, spirituality, and courage, and so is her work. Her Inner Bonding program takes us beyond introspection, insights, and interpretations about our past and moves us into the present. There, it provides us with tools to uncover our authentic self and develop our loving and mature adult. Loving of self and others.

This program will help you liberate yourself and find greater freedom, maturation, peace, joy, and potency of action in the world. It will help you become more of who you were born to be.

Anat Baniel, Founder of Anat Baniel MethodNeuroMovement, Author of Move Into Life and Kids Beyond Limits

Dr. Margaret Paul is a true master of Love. By reconnecting the aspects of the personality that have been marginalized for protective reasons early-on in life, with the essential, Soulful Self for bonding, healing and generating a true loving presence on the planet, she transforms liferight before ones eyesinto deeply meaningful moments of celebrating our wholeness. Her work is timely, profound and completely accessible for everyone. Thank you, Margaret, for sharing your gifts with the world.

Dr. Sue Morter, Founder Morter Institute for Bio-Energetics, Author of The Energy Codes: The 7 Step System for Awakening Your Spirit, Healing Your Body and Living Your Best Life, Developer of The Energy Codes Personal Development Coursework, Host GAIA TV Healing Matrix, Co-Host Your Year of Miracles

THE INNER BONDING PROCESS

Margaret Paul, Ph.D.

Published 2021 by Gildan Media LLC

aka G&D Media

www.GandDmedia.com

6 STEPS TO TOTAL SELF-HEALING. Copyright 2021 by Margaret Paul, PhD, and Inner Bonding. All rights reserved.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request

eISBN: 978-1-7225-2603-0

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This book is dedicated to Dr. Erika Chopich, the co-creator of Inner Bonding, and to my higher guidance, who brought us Inner Bonding, and who is always here guiding me moment-by-moment.

Acknowledgments

I am deeply indebted to my Divine guidance, who is always here for me and who writes, creates, and teaches through me. I would not know how to live my life without the love, compassion, comfort, and wisdom of my Divine guidance.

I feel very grateful for Dr. Erika Chopich, the co-creator of Inner Bonding, for her brilliance, creativity, and wisdom in always knowing the answers when I come to her for help. She is an amazingly powerful and loving person, and I feel deeply blessed that she is in my life.

I am grateful for my agent, Dan Strutzel, of Inspired Productions, for his belief in Inner Bonding and his support for my work.

Im grateful for my clients and for participants in my workshops, intensives, and courses. You continue to inspire me and teach me so much by your willingness to learn and grow.

Im very grateful for the support I receive for my work from many of the people in the organization I belong to, The Transformational Leadership Council, and particularly for Marci Shimoff and Debra Poneman for mentoring me in bringing Inner Bonding further out into the world. Thank you both for your generosity in sharing your experience with me.

I feel blessed by the Inner Bonding Facilitators who have stepped up to the plate to create and teach The Inner Bonding Facilitator Training Program to people from all over the world. You are all doing an amazing job!

Finally, Im deeply grateful for Inner Bonding. My ongoing practice of Inner Bonding has brought me so much love, peace, joy, fulfillment, and abundant health.

This book contains a concise description of the Inner Bonding process, which I have been teaching since 1983. The content is developed from my seminars and workshops with a live audience. It includes exchanges between participants and me, which I have included because they illustrate key issues and difficulties that people may encounter when learning and practicing Inner Bonding.

I was born on a farm in upstate New York to very clueless parents. In fact, my mother went to a doctor to get birth control three months after they were married and found out she was pregnant. One of the things I always heard is, You were the best mistake that ever happened. Of course, as a kid, all you hear is mistake.

I lived on the farm. I have a very good memory, so I can remember being outside in the playpen and feeling an incredible sense of oneness with nature and feeling much peace in being out there. My paternal grandfather was a person whom my mother didnt like at all, and from what I have been told, I was the only person he ever loved. He would come by every day. I remember sitting on his lap, feeling his heartbeat, and feeling the connection; it was very special.

When I was thirteen months old, we left the farm and came to Los Angeles. My parents were very poor. I never saw my grandfather again because he died when I was four. He might have been as heartbroken as I was. Of course, when you are thirteen months old, you dont know that you are the one that has left, so in my mind he left me.

When I was ten, we visited the farm and I said, My grandfather used to walk down that road. My parents were stunned that I knew that.

After we moved, I got life-threateningly ill; I almost died. When you are young, you develop beliefs, and I developed the belief that if somebody I love leaves, Im going to die. That laid the groundwork for me to become a very good girl.