The basic philosophy of Ro-Hun is that negative emotional issues and "baggage" ultimately originate through "Faulty Thought" patterns and beliefs about self and others that are stored in the mental energy body.  Examples of faulty thoughts include "I must always be perfect"; "If I love completely, I'll be hurt"; "I'm unworthy of success and abundance"; or "I'm abandoned and I'm all alone."  The negative emotional reactions to these faulty thoughts are stored in the emotional energy body and might take the form of anger, frustration, fear, isolation, etc.  The systematic Ro-Hun processes allow you to release both the negatives thoughts in the mental body and their damaging reactions in the emotional body.  

    As the negative patterns are released from the mental and emotional energy bodies, they are replaced with positive, healthy vibrational patterns.  Your Human Energy Field will then radiate these positive vibrations instead of the previous negative ones.  And, through the Law of Attraction, you will begin to attract new and positive situations, people and opportunities that will allow you to fully express your love, your creativity and your personality.

    The Ro-Hun process addresses not only the issues in each chakra, but also the entire energetic envelope of the Human Energy Field.  Repatterning the Mental and Emotional Bodies to higher states of functioning and harmony ensures that negative influences cannot be impressed downward into the Etheric Body and ultimately manifest in the Physical Body as disease or a set of unhealthy symptoms.  Therefore, Ro-Hun is a very powerful, holistic process which improves one's life on all levels.

    A significant difference between Ro-Hun and the more traditional emotional therapies is that the Ro-Hun therapist receives instruction and training in the development of the ability to sense and work with the chakras and energy fields surrounding the client's body.  Since the vast majority of people cannot visually see energy fields, Ro-Hun therapists included, it is important to be able to sense or feel the energy field boundary layers and energy qualities with the hands.  By scanning the hand through an area near a chakra but within the emotional field (as opposed to the etheric or mental fields), the therapist can detect stagnant or disturbed emotional energy patterns.

    In addition to being sensitive to energy fields, all Ro-Hun therapists are trained in intuitive skills.  Many are able to clairvoyantly see what the client is seeing in their mind, and to empathetically feel what the client is feeling.  This additional source of information about the client's experience can then be used to guide the client to discover new truths about themselves.  Experienced Ro-Hun therapists are both intuitive and sensitive to the client's energy field, and receive a wealth of information from the client which can be used to help guide the healing and release process.

    The Ro-Hun process is described in detail in "Awakening The Healer Within" (ISBN 1-56718-055-8) published by Llewellyn Publications in 2000 and also in "Healing Body, Mind & Spirit" (ISBN 0-7387-0398-2) also published by Llewellyn Publications.  Look for it in your bookstore beginning in November 2003!

Ro-Hun Card Sessions

    The goal of a Ro-Hun Card Session is to locate and release the single most important emotional block that is holding a person back at that time from expressing his or her full potential.  The card sessions are particularly appropriate when dealing with a specific emotional issue (e.g., "Why don't I get along well with my mother?").  

    In a typical Ro-Hun Card Session, which usually lasts about an hour, the client and therapist sit side by side in comfortable chairs or on a sofa.  As in the table sessions described later, it is important that the therapist be within the energy field of the client in order to intuitively receive additional information.  A specially designed set of "Ro-Hun Therapeutic Cards" has been devised for these sessions.  This deck of 177 cards has five "sets" within it: 14 Chakra cards, 18 Self cards, 53 Life cards, 54 Thought cards, and 38 Message cards.

       After each set is shuffled separately, the client draws one card face down from each set and turns it over.  The card selected will be the one intuitively known by the client's subconscious mind that relates to the most important emotional issue which needs addressing at that time. 

    Since each Ro-Hun card session will address only one emotional block, it is necessary to first locate the particular chakra with which that issue is associated.  The Chakra Card does this.  The next card drawn is the Reactive Self Card. The Reactive self is best explained as that aspect of your personality that is created by the emotional block, and is how you see yourself or how others see you. For example, because of a block in a chakra, you might react toward yourself or others in an angry manner, or confused manner; you may have created an Angry Self as a part of your personality because of the block, or a Confused Self, a Frightened Self, an Isolated Self, a Controlling Self, etc. 

    The third card drawn face down by the client is the Life Card. The 53 Life Cards include various professions or family relationships that may pertain to the present life or a past life.  Present Life Cards include Father, Mother, Sibling, Peer, Grandfather, Grandmother, Lover/Friend/Spouse, and the Abuser.  Past Life Cards include occupations such as the Monk, Beggar, Slave, Queen, Judge, Warrior, Priestess, etc.  

    All emotional blocks are caused by our reaction to the acts or ideas of ourselves or others; we then take on a faulty belief about ourselves that is not in our highest interest.  The card drawn from the set of 54 Thought Cards identifies the specific Faulty Thought that has become embedded in the client's mental energy body.   The final challenge of understanding and releasing the Faulty Thought and its emotional block is to learn why the Faulty Thought occurred in the first place.

    After a short induction to place the client in a relaxed state, the client is gently regressed to investigate the previous experience in which they were the Life Card character and took on the Faulty Thought identified in the Thought Card.  The circumstances, people, thoughts, feelings, and actions of that previous experience are relived (usually a past life regression) so that you can understand how that previous experience is still affecting their own life today. 

    You created the block in your energy field, and only you can release it.  By reliving the experience which led to the creation of the block, you can now understand why you created it.  With this new knowledge available to your conscious mind, you can now choose whether or not you want to keep the negative pattern or release it forever.  If you choose to release it, the therapist will guide you through a process which releases the negative pattern forever and replaces it with its opposite, positive, healthy vibrational pattern.

    Following the release of the emotional block, the Ro-Hun Card Session is concluded by gently bringing the client back to full awareness, and asking them to draw a card face down from the 38 Message Cards.  These cards are the "Chinese fortune cookie" of the session -- a positive affirmation that the client can take home. 

    The client is first hypnotherapeutically relaxed into a light or medium altered state similar to meditation.  In this state, the client's conscious mind can be gently moved aside for a while and become an observer (rather than an analyzer) of the table process.  However, the client will be fully aware of everything happening and consciously interacting with the Ro-Hun therapist.  In this state, the therapist can access information from the client's subconscious mind without the personality and ego filters of the conscious mind coming into play.

    Interaction with the client's subconscious mind is necessary for two reasons.  First, the subconscious mind has access to all knowledge and experiences of the soul on the table.  Second, the subconscious mind has no agenda other than to protect the safety and growth of the client.  All experiences are treated as real and true; it is the conscious mind that makes judgments as to the reality or degree of truth that it wants to assign to an event.  

    But once the conscious mind has made this judgment, the subconscious mind accepts that as fundamental truth and incorporates that "truth" into its greater belief systems.  This is why it is so important to bypass the personality and ego agendas of the conscious mind -- we need to get at those faulty beliefs imbedded in the subconscious mind in order to remove them.

    However, interaction with the client's subconscious mind has its challenges, as well as its rewards. While other hypnotherapeutic techniques are mainly mental in their approach to an emotional issue and its resolution, there is a strong energetic and empathetic attunement between the Ro-Hun therapist and his client during each session.  Indeed, the therapist may become so closely attuned to the client that many of the visions seen in the client's mind and feelings felt by the client are also seen and felt by the therapist.  This is due, at least in part, to the development of the intuitive faculties that is integral to the Ro-Hun training.

    The second challenge for the Ro-Hun therapist is that the subconscious mind does not communicate in the words, but with its own symbolic language.  The subconscious mind has access to the totality of all experiences, actions, words and thoughts of that soul.  However, this information is communicated to the client's conscious mind in symbolic form instead of words.  The Ro-Hun therapist is specifically trained to gently and supportively guide the client to their own understanding of each symbol as it comes up from the subconscious  mind.

What To Expect

    To best illustrate what to expect during a Ro-Hun Purification Session, a portion of three separate sessions are described below, with permission of the clients.  These illustrate how the client is gently guided to comprehend the symbolic language of the subconscious mind and to discover his own truths on the Ro-Hun table.  They also illustrate the three reasons that a scenario might be presented and described by the client during a session: to permit emotional release of negative energy associated with a previous experience, to allow experience rescripting so that the negative energetic results of a previous experience can be altered to a positive situation, and to provide inspired guidance and direction to prevent a future action which would negatively affect one's energy bodies.

Case 1: Emotional Release.  Sue (not her real name) came to me with feelings of total frustration in her life.  No matter how hard she tried to be perfect and do things right, it was never enough in her eyes.  She also felt that her husband was continually observing her lack of perfection, and was withdrawing emotionally from her because she was not a perfect wife.

    In the Womb Process during the first Purification Session, I asked Sue (as an unborn child) to telepathically look into the eyes of her mother and describe her mother's thoughts and feelings.  Sue said that her mother was not very loving and did not want any children.  She was willing to go along with the pregnancy only because her husband wanted a child so much.  We then regressed Sue's mother to find out why she did not want children, and discovered that when her mother was 3 years old, she and her two sisters had been abandoned by their mother, and were being raised by another family member.  Sue's mother felt totally rejected and unloved by her mother, and had taken on the Faulty Thought "I am unloved."  That pattern had become ingrained in her energy system, and now that same pattern was also becoming a part of the unborn Sue's energy environment.

    When she telepathically looked into the eyes of her father, Sue initially saw a lot of love and affection for herself as an unborn baby.  But when the baby was born and he saw it was a girl, Sue's father became very angry -- he had wanted a boy very much to carry on the family name.  The act of withdrawing his love from Sue reinforced her Faulty Thought "I am unloved."  During Sue's childhood, the father kept pushing her to be the perfect son he never had.  And when she could not measure up to his standards, he repeatedly drummed into her that she must try harder and be perfect.  By regressing her father to his childhood, Sue learned that he had grown up in the same environment of being continually pushed by his father, who was not only a perfectionist, but was also cold and unloving.  Sue's father had taken on his father's Faulty Thought "I must be perfect to receive love," and he was now energetically passing that same memory on to Sue.

    In this energy environment, both as an unborn child and during childhood, Sue naturally took these faulty thought patterns and belief systems on as her own during her development, and retained them into her adulthood.  During the Womb Process, however, she was guided to understand the difference between her parents' limiting beliefs and her own thoughts.  She was then able to understand and forgive each for contributing to her faulty thoughts now.  And, more importantly, she was able to forgive herself for erroneously taking on the beliefs of others as if they were her own beliefs.  This process of forgiving herself resulted in a significant emotional release in itself.

    Later, when I was systematically scanning Sue's chakra system with my hand, I detected a dense field of energy surrounding her spleen (sacral) chakra and began mixing the energy patterns there.  I asked her to describe what she was feeling or seeing while I was mixing, but she said it felt nice and smooth to her.  She was obviously resisting looking at what caused the energies there, which I felt as a sharp scratchiness in the tips of my fingers.  However, I knew that those energies would not have been presented unless Sue needed to deal with them at that time.  I asked Sue to get in touch with all her feelings of resistance, and to project them out in front of her and give them form as a smaller image of herself, that resistant part of her whole personality.  

    When we worked with and released the Resistant Self part of her personality, she was then able to look more deeply into her subconscious mind and begin to describe the symbols she saw there.  Very quickly, a devil face appeared full of gloom, destruction and very unhappy at being discovered.  As we investigated the feeling of destruction, Sue began to understand that her own self-destructive beliefs and thought patterns had been destroying her self-esteem and denying all hopes of coming to know inner happiness and joy.  As I carefully guided her through this discovery, she began to understand that only she was responsible for buying into the false thoughts from her father ("I never measure up" and "I'm not good enough.") and from her mother ("I'll have a hard life" and "Nothing good will ever come to me.")

    Then I asked Sue to visualize her mother and father (one at a time) standing in front of her as an adult, and declare to them that she understands that their faulty thought patterns have been controlling her life, and that she now intends to take back control of her life from them.  With compassion, Sue was able to forgive and accept each of her parents without condoning what they had done.  Then she informed each that she now knows that only she is responsible for the way she feels, and that they no longer have control over her life and her feelings.  She also released back to each of them all the limiting thoughts and beliefs she had grown up with, recognizing that they were her parents’ thoughts, not her own thoughts.  Sue immediately had a major emotional release, and began crying great tears of joy at having taken control of her life.

    However, when I rescanned the chakra with my hand, I intuitively sensed that a dense "cord" of energy was still leaving her spleen chakra and connecting to her father's solar plexus chakra.  I asked Sue to look down at her chakra with her mind's eye and describe what she saw there. She said it looked like "a rope coming out of her belly".  When I asked her to follow the cord of energy and see where it was going, she saw it going over to her father.  When I asked her which of her father's chakras it was attached to, she responded the solar plexus chakra.  So she understood that there was still an energetic link between herself and her father that needed to be released, and that this link was from his power or control center (Solar Plexus chakra) to her Spleen Chakra, the center of how she felt about herself.  Simply understanding her father's faulty thoughts and declaring that she no longer wanted him to control her was evidently not enough to completely sever this energetic connection.  What we needed was an additional process that would unquestionably communicate to Sue's subconscious mind that the energetic connection had indeed been severed.

    I then asked Sue to again state her intention to the image of her father standing before her that the negative energetic connection between them be dissolved for all time.  I had Sue ask her father for his participation in helping to sever this cord, and he reluctantly agreed.  Then as I guided Sue to take a sharp knife and her father to put his hand on Sue's, I had them both cut the energy cord and it immediately dissipated.  I then had Sue thank her father for his cooperation, and then stand tall and straight in her own energy and affirm that she and only she was now in total control of her life and her feelings.  When I rescanned the chakra, it felt smooth and clear to both of us. Sue had another very positive emotional release.

Case 2: Experience Rescripting.  Jane (not her real name) came to me for Ro-Hun sessions to release many emotional issues that had been plaguing her.  During the initial interview, she said that among the many issues she wanted to address was her relationship with her teenage son; he seemed to do everything possible to annoy, irritate and anger her, with no reason which was obvious to her.

    During the second Purification Session, I was loosening and stirring up the energy patterns in the emotional layer above her Solar Plexus chakra, when Jane "saw" a large, heavy box on her chest and "felt" it pressing down terribly hard and crushing the breath out of her.  From her wincing grimace and labored breath, she was obviously experiencing these feelings in her mind.  However, I recognized that the box was only a symbol representing something else in her subconscious mind.  When I asked her to let the pain go away and to look inside the box, she saw "two round things" there.  I asked her to take the first round thing out and look at in the light so she could see what it really was.  As she did so, she said it was a large wood screw about two inches long, but all of a sudden she felt it buried in her neck and she was bleeding severely.  She also felt the pain in the side of her neck very clearly, so I suggested that the pain would again go away and the bleeding stop for now, but all other details would remain very clear so we could understand them.  She felt that she was dying and was very confused, upset and angry.

    Then I calmed her and asked her to look at the box on her chest again, and take out the second round thing so we could see what it was.  As she brought the round thing out into the light, she said it became a small statue of a horse-drawn chariot.  I then asked her to move her awareness into the chariot, feel herself holding the reins of the chariot, and to look around and tell me what she was seeing.  Immediately, she started describing a chariot race in which she was a man about 22 years old racing with seven other charioteers in an oval open-air amphitheater.  She described in detail the smell of the dust and the sound of the horses’ hooves as they raced around the course.  In her mind, she was experiencing this race first-hand, and to her subconscious mind it did not matter whether it was one of her previous lives in which she incarnated as a man, or whether she connected with a remote event in someone else's life.  For some reason, her subconscious mind had connected with this particular experience from the past and was now replaying it for her.  And she was actually reliving that experience now on the table in the sense that she was able to describe the smells, hear the sounds and see the events as clearly as if she were really there in person.

    As she/he rounded the pylon at one end of the race course, he saw he was swiftly coming up on the chariot of his friend, and he planned to sideswipe his friend, cause him to crash and then he could go on to win the race.  As we examined this, Jane came to understand that his Faulty Thought was "I can control others to get what I want."  But as he rammed his own chariot into that of his friend, his own wheel cracked instead, and he was thrown from his chariot which then fell on top of him, crushing his chest.  The chariot was, of course, the large heavy box which Jane had felt was crushing her chest.  Also, as the chariot fell, a large metal screw was loosened and was rammed into his neck and tore it open.  As he lay dying under his chariot, his last thoughts were, "I'm better than this!  This isn't supposed to be happening!"  I then asked Jane what she would like to do next about this scene, and she immediately said, "I need to change what happened."  So I took her back into the race just before he ran into his friend, and asked her how she would now like to change the events.  She responded, "Don't run into my friend!"  So I then had her watch as they both raced side by side toward the finish line.  However, neither he nor his friend won the race, so sideswiping his friend would have been in vain anyway.

    After the race, I asked the young man and his friend to embrace in friendship as gallant competitors and was intuitively guided to tell them both to go to the local tavern and celebrate with a little ale.  While they were laughing and talking with each other, I was again intuitively guided to ask the young man to look deep into the eyes of his friend, and I asked Jane if she recognized the friend.  On the table, she shouted, "Oh, My God! It's my son!"  The next day, Jane called to say that there had been a remarkable turnaround in the attitude of her son toward her, and that he had actually sat down with her and discussed how he felt about himself with her!  When the negative patterns in her energy field were removed, the way that her energy field interacted with that of her son's had changed significantly!

Case 3: Inspired Guidance.  Whether one believes in past lives or not does not alter the reality presented from the client's subconscious mind. While there may be several different interpretations of what is observed, there is usually one or more underlying universal Truths with a capital "T" that cannot be denied.  Many times these universal truths come through on the Ro-Hun table . One such universal Truth is "Do unto others what you would have them do unto you."  The Golden Rule, the Universal Law of Cause and Effect, the concept of Karma.

    Let me illustrate how this Universal Law works with another example session.  During the third of four Ro-Hun sessions, I was stirring up the energies in the emotional layer of Sally's (again, not her real name) heart chakra, and she began to see a sailboat on a lake.  When we zoomed in to see who was on the sailboat, Sally began to describe two people: one was a small Asian woman whom she knew to be herself, and the other was a hideous, mean and loathsome bald man wearing a blue shirt.

    I asked Sally to describe what each of them was doing, and she said that the ugly, hateful man was tying a rope very securely to the end of the boom to which the sail was attached.  Then he was wrapping the other end of the rope around her body, and she was not strong enough to prevent it.  Then he said, "It will look just like an accident.  The next time the boom swings out, it will choke her and drag her overboard."  He said it with a lot of malice because he hated her and Asians in general.  To him, it would be just like killing a rat.  He thought, "There's too many rats, and they must all be killed."

    The woman was screaming in terror and knew he was completely crazy, but was not strong enough to prevent what she knew was going to happen.  Then all of a sudden, the boom swung out as the wind shifted, and it hit her in the head, mouth and shoulder.  As Sally watched the scene unfold, I suggested that she would feel no pain, and that she could continue to describe what was happening.  Sally said that there was "a lot of red goo" coming out of her throat and shoulder area, and then she was carried out over the water and then slammed back into the side of the boat, breaking her neck.  The Asian woman then died hanging tangled in the rope.

    On the table, Sally was sobbing and visibly upset, and I calmed her quickly with a few positive suggestions.  I then asked Sally to take her awareness back into that Asian woman and describe what was happening as she died.  She described going into a "spiritual place" where everything was light and bright.  When I asked how she felt there, Sally replied that she felt "ecstatic," beyond joy and happiness.  She said, "I feel just great!  The payback went perfectly!"

    Well, that was the last thing that I as a therapist had expected her to say, and I felt we both needed to understand more of what had really happened at the end of that lifetime.  So I guided Sally's awareness back to the Asian woman, had her look into the eyes of the loathsome man, and then follow the energy of that hate in his eyes back, back, back to its source.  Very soon, Sally began to describe a primitive farming community where all the townspeople were gathered around at some sort of meeting.  When we looked closer, Sally described a trial being held out in the open with a Judge pronouncing sentence for all offenses that came before him.  Sally knew that she was that Judge, and saw herself looking out on the accused from a sort of raised dias.

    The next person to come before him was a small Asian woman who had been accused of stealing some sweet potatoes.  With no defense, the woman was found guilty, and the Judge sentenced her to be tied by the hands behind a cart and dragged in the dirt until she died.  Everyone thought that the sentence was unusually harsh, but no one dared oppose the Judge, so the sentence was carried out.  The Judge felt no remorse or compassion, and he did not care that the punishment was out of proportion to the crime.

    When I asked what the connection was between these two lifetimes she had witnessed, Sally replied that in the earlier lifetime she had been the Judge and had unnecessarily caused the death of the Asian woman accused of stealing sweet potatoes.  Therefore, she (the Judge) must also experience a brutal death as an Asian woman to fully understand, on a soul level, both sides of what she had caused as the Judge.  The second lifetime as the Asian woman on the ship was that "payback" experience!

    Also of interest was Sally's great joy at seeing that "the payback went perfectly".  Sally expressed great relief and happiness that the slate was now clear.  I then asked Sally to obtain the meaning of these two lifetimes from her Higher Self, and she replied, "The Law of Cause and Effect is eternal.  Speak from your heart, not your mind!"  After the session was over, Sally admitted that, although the karmic slate was clear with respect to these two specific previous experiences, she had recently been considering taking action against one of her co-workers which, under this broader perspective of the Law of Cause and Effect, probably would have required a future karmic payback.  In this case, Sally had been given a great gift -- a gentle reminder that she should not create a situation that would require a future "payback".  And yet the choice as to what course of action she should take was still left to her, so her own free will had not been restricted.

Summary

    In summary, if you are happy with your life the way it is, do not try Ro-Hun.  Ro-Hun will positively transform the way you think about yourself and about others!  However, Ro-Hun is not for everyone, and you must be willing and prepared to deal with the unpleasant and dark issues of your psyche.  But if you are ready to confront and let go of your fears, phobias, negative thoughts and belief systems, Ro-Hun will transform your life and give you a more positive and confident, yet compassionate and understanding, view of yourself.  This positive "new you" will be projected outward as your newly-repatterned energy field interacts with the energy fields of others, and you will attract positive people, experiences and opportunities to you.

    The Ro-Hun process will probably be emotionally intense for most people.  The great majority of Ro-Hun clients react deeply to the scenes and feelings they bring up, and tissues are always kept at hand.  However, as each issue is worked through, there is such a feeling of release felt by the client that they are always encouraged to continue the process with the next chakra until each is energetically cleaned, balanced and renewed.    

    With the release of your negative energies, you will be free to attract the positive experiences of life, to learn to open your heart and love unconditionally with compassion and understanding for others.  In this process, you will also continue to grow and evolve as you begin to incorporate a much higher perspective of your own reality into your daily activities.  And as you become more aware of what you are as a cosmic, spiritual being, you also become more capable of creating happiness, fulfillment and joy in your life and in the lives of those around you.

    Ro-Hun is an inspired process of personal growth and transformation that was founded by Patricia Hayes in 1983.  Patricia is the co-founder and the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Delphi University in McCaysville, GA, and is also the Director of the Ro-Hun Institute at Delphi.  Formal training in all basic and advanced Ro-Hun processes is conducted regularly at The Ro-Hun Institute at the Baccalaureate, Master's and Doctorate levels.  In addition, formal training in Ro-Hun processes at the Baccalaureate level (Cleanse, Skim, Purification and Shadow Self Series) is conducted periodically at The Graham Institute of Self-Awareness (GISA) in Yorktown, VA.