Welcome to a journey into holistic healing with Rhonda D. Kerrison, featured in an insightful interview on MysticMag, where she discusses her unique approach to wellness.
At Aroma Journey, Rhonda leverages the profound connection between scent and emotional balance, crafting personalized aroma blends to aid in healing and personal growth. Beyond aromatic oils, she teaches the art of Vision Shifting—a method to elevate consciousness and enrich perception through our senses, enhancing our interaction with the world.
Rhonda’s multifaceted techniques, including Reiki, Hypnotherapy, and Energy Work, cater to the diverse needs of her clients, aiming to empower them to overcome personal challenges and achieve a harmonious life.
How does Aroma Journey integrate Aromatherapy into its healing practices?
As a shamanist I have been taught that all illness comes from imbalances; mostly from our emotions. There is much evidence that aroma goes directly to our memory and the emotional center of our brain and that each smell has an energetic imprint that can help us change our thinking and support healing. Intuitively I pick the oils that will support my clients’ intentions of what they want help with, they will get a take-home formula when we meet in person, or if we work online I will let them know what ones they can use for support.
Can you describe the process and benefits of “Vision Shifting” as described on your site?
Vision Shifting is directly related to our perceptions of people places and things. In our everyday reality, we perceive with our 5 senses, seeing with our eyes, hearing with our ears, smelling with our nose, touching with our skin, tasting with our tongue this is how we perceive reality through our sensory information. Vision Shifting is tweaking those senses into a higher level of consciousness, a deeper awareness. All of us do this to some greater or lesser degree, in our busy modern world where our attention shifts constantly we have mostly unlearned this ability of deeper awareness. We can learn this by being more quiet in our lives and working with each sense.
One of the ways is to go for a walk in nature and use your intention that you will notice as much as possible with one of your senses, like ‘I am going for this walk today and notice everything with my eyes’ With this practice and with using each sense, over time you will notice and perceive more of your normal everyday life. This gives you a deeper understanding and perceptions to make clearer choices about the people, places, and events happening around you.
What inspired you to combine various modalities like Reiki, Hypnotherapy, and Energy Work into your practices?
Mainly I can say we are all so different and I needed lots of tools and modalities to draw from to give my client the best outcome. My goal as a Spiritual Therapist is to empower clients to move past their pain so they can go forward and create the life they want to live.
How do you tailor your sessions to meet the individual needs of your clients?
First, we have an in-depth conversation about what their needs are, what they have tried in the past, and how they respond when things in their life are out of balance. I then create an aroma blend to support them on the healing journey.
I like to do an energy balance on their Aura body and clear energies that are no longer useful in their lives. During that session I have them start the process of learning what if feels like to be balanced within, so they can create balance in their outside world.
After that, we together will choose what modality or modalities we will work with to power them up to take responsibility for living their unique self.
Can you share an example of how your services have positively impacted the client’s life?
Yes, thank you for that question.
I can give you an example of a woman who came to me because she could not get pregnant, and had tried everything available for years.
We first did some energy work, picked an aroma formula, and decided to do a Soul Retrieval. I then went on a Shamanic Drum Journey, (I don’t use drugs to enter the altered state of awareness, I was trained to use the drum beat) my power animal and I saw her with her Mother when she was young and being abused, she dissociated some of herself; the energy that Mothers were kind and loving. Because this part of her was missing she had unconsciously decided not to ever be a Mother because they were mean and horrible to their children. After that energy part of her was reinstated, she emotionally understood that she had free choice to be a kind and loving Mother, shifting that belief, and therefore became pregnant.
The Soul Retrieval modality is very powerful in bringing a person back to wholeness, when part of your Soul is missing, you do not have all of yourself to make clear choices or take responsibility for your life.
What advice would you give to someone seeking to achieve balance and inner joy through holistic practices?
Through Physics and Science, we now understand that EVERYTHING is an energetic exchange and we are connected to everything through energy. As Westerners, most of us were never taught that Indigenous societies and a lot of Eastern societies grew up with that knowledge.
So some advice to you is to learn how to read your energy, your Aura body. This is done by experiencing your feelings through your heart. Learn what your heart feels like when you feel fantastic, love, sadness, joy, pain, etc. Our emotions arise as a response to how we are thinking and feeling, whatever that may be, this is what our Aura body broadcasts out to the world. And the same energy returns to you! There is a wise saying and it is a Universal Law we all have to live with. “We sow what we reap” So do your best to broadcast the best of yourself out into the world.
We may need different kinds of therapy depending on our problems, if you need a Dr. for an operation to save your life, of course, seek that treatment. Then go to a Holistic therapist to heal the emotion that caused the problem in the first place. Holistic practices almost always involve some energetic shift, that can heal the emotion. I tell my clients there are many different modalities/trails that can get them to the top of the health/mountain, find the one that makes their hearts sing, and give them peace within and without. There you find balance and joy.
Find out more at: www.aromajourney.com.au/
