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Tree of Life Coaching

Practical Secrets of the Kabbalah for Coaches and Hypnosis and NLP Practitioners

By

Shawn Carson

Changing Mind Publishing

New York, New York

Tree of Life Coaching: Practical Kabbalah for Coaches and Hypnosis and NLP Practitioners

2015 Shawn Carson and Changing Mind Publishing

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Photography courtesy of Caroline Bergonzi

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Table of Contents

Illustrations

Lower Triad- 28

Middle Triad- 33

Upper Triad- 37

Foreword

By Mark Simmons

When I met Shawn Carson he was teaching the Meta Pattern and as a "Jungian" and student of Kabbalah I immediately was captivated by the lining up of opposites, the association of the problem in earthly, sensation grounded experience, followed by a solicitation of resource and then, a collapsed integration between the newly anchored resource and the real-life contextual experience. To me this was Jacob's Ladder, The Tree of Life, brought to awareness and joined elegantly, bringing the new and unconscious into the here and now and into matter as is its higher intent. And that tipping point of new reality requires a future pacing of integrated experience in several other earthly contexts in order to induct into a true new reality.

Shawn also taught and utilized the Jigsaw Pattern which reminds me of a checklist of logical levels , contextual possibilities and attributes that determine what's happening now. And in the Jigsaw Pattern I saw the Tree of Life and became hopeful that one day I could use the more complete Tree of Life to work on myself and coach others. I knew the key was to be able to access and utilize the Tree of Life experientially. This is important because I believe that the Tree of Life offers the most complete model for change and transformation in personal, group and world and that this requires a visceral, conscious and active participation in the Tree of Lifes patterns, structure, energy and meaning.

I gave Shawn a book, Tarot and the Tree of Life by Isabel Kliegman, a book on the Minor Arcana of Tarot that uses the Tree of Life as the main system and metaphor to explain the worldly, contextual situation of each card. Within each card lies the Map of the World at play, the thoughts, beliefs, values, energies, rites of passage, personality types, archetypes, identity and life task contained within the card. The cards have movement and symbolic connection to each of the sephirot, their implied purpose and meaning in the cycle of life. Trusting his own experience Shawn noticed how the historic Tree of Life was set up as a Mirror image of himself, how the map of the ten sephirot encompassing four worlds maps the universe as we know it. Adding to many experiences from Hypnosois and NLP Shawn became aware of the personal growth and coaching possibilities within the 22 paths on the Tree. From NLP Shawn recognized that the essence characteristics and positions of the Ten Sephirot were identical with NLP eye accessing positions and body experiences, which he knew and trusted from working on himself and hundreds of clients. Shawn said that he reversed the right and the left of the historical Tree so that the Tree of Life would be in the position of the client. Reflecting a new generation of individuals and practitioners who value their own experience, Shawn saw the need to experience the Tree from within and not from the outside or top down. Most conventional Tree of Life learning is Top-Down. In the dream of Jacob's Ladder the Angels are going up and down the ladder. Today this revelation is still ignored. As the angels go up and down a loop forms and completes the circuit system between heaven and earth. The loop includes the returning light that manifests the new reality and creates every experience, belief and material revelation you know. Shawn knew that change requires experience and participation in the whole loop not just the context point of one problem.

Each of the ten sephirot is an entry point and an essence characteristic, each a field, and earth unto itself. Ten stations on the tree of life, where experience can be changed, attention can be altered, resource can be noticed and personal history can be transformed. As paths are traveled new loops completed, the Tree provides context, pattern and framework for the most transformational work making material changes take place, creating new neuro-pathways and changing history.

Kirchers Tree of Life

Self Coaching Tree of Life

(Your Tree)

Coaching Tree of Life

(Your Clients Tree)

Introduction to the Tree of Life

Mark Simmons turned to me and, out of the blue, told me:

You should study the Tree of Life!

Because I know Mark very well, I'm quite used to his apparent non sequiturs, and Ive learned that they often contain hidden wisdom. I was familiar with the Tree of Life from conversations with many of my NLP students who had also studied Kabbalah, but had never felt drawn to it.

Mark, my impression is that Kabbalah is purposefully complex in order to guard its secrets. I'm not sure I have the time nor the inclination to study it.

Read Tarot and the Tree of Life by Isabel Kliegman. She lays it out in a simple way that even you'll be able to understand! Mark grinned.

Now, the truth of the matter is that most of the books that people tell me to read are really not very interesting to me. But sometimes they are very interesting. So when someone recommends a book to me, Im likely to read it on the chance that it could transform my life. So I followed Marks advice and read something that did transform my life.

Ms. Kliegmans book explains the correspondence between the Tarot and the Tree of Life. It's a relatively short book, just over two hundred pages. The second chapter of the book, at about twenty-five pages, discusses the Tree of Life and the branches of the Tree of Life (which are called Sephirot in Kabbalah, but I will refer to them as branches).

As Ms. Kliegman described each branch, moving down the Tree of Life, I suddenly realized that there is a one-to-one correspondence between the branches of the Tree of Life and the eye-accessing cues of NLP. And I became really excited. Ill explain why in a moment, but before I do, Id better explain NLP eye accessing.

NLP has a theory that as you think about things, or remember things, the movement of your eyesup or down, to the left or to the rightoffers very specific clues about how you are thinking. There's actually a lot of scientific research about eye movement and cognitive processes (which my colleagues and I plan to discuss in a future book, titled Eye Accessing , in our NLP Mastery series). But NLP eye accessing did not arise from the Tree of Life or the Kabbalahit arose from early NLP practitioners observing their clients.

So why did I get so excited by this random association between the Tree of Life and NLP? The reason I got so excited is because when you see that the structure of two apparently unrelated things is the same, you know you have discovered a deeper truth that underlies both of them. Its this truth that this book seeks to explain.