The term Walkabout comes to us from the indigenous peoples of Australia. A rite of passage where adolescents go on a solitary journey of survival and exploration into the wilds, for up to six months. Though deeply rooted in cultural tradition and thus connecting one with their greater community and ancestors it is also, by definition, a profoundly personal and unique experience for each individual.
Most ancient cultures, at their tribal roots, have some similar form of passage though it may be lost in the mists of time for their modern day descendants.
Yet, ultimately, every life is a unique and personal Walkabout. From a defined beginning to a physical end we are all on our own individual journey that is at once shared with humanity yet no less singular for the individual.
Like the exploration of and survival in the wilderness we are all wending our way through the worlds around us; the outside world of "reality" and the inside worlds that exist at the conscious and subconscious levels. In that journey reside all the struggles and pleasures existance can throw our way.
Open to our everyday senses are the concrete realities upon which our workaday world functions and our conscious responses to that world. Yet, behind it all are the cloudy parts of our greater mind which underpin what we believe and thus how we think, feel and respond to our outer world; strangely within us yet without. The subconscious weighs upon everything we do and think. It can give us our Heavens and our Hells. It is like the unseen elements in the Walkabout.
Hypnotherapy provides us with a thin passageway to communicate with the inner side of ourselves. A means to explore and alter beliefs and perspectives which make our peronal Walkabouts more difficult to tread. A means of gaining insight and challenging long held beliefs and perspectives.
We, all of us, are on our own individual Walkabout and it is no less important than either the greatest or least of us.
