SIMPLY AWAKE
HEAL AND AWAKEN YOUR WHOLE BRAIN
with Mentoring by Jon Labman, LPC
Jonathan (Jon) Labman, LPC is a mentor, “a person who gives a younger or less experienced person help and advice over a period of time.” Your healing and awakening as a whole person can only happen when both your left and right brain hemispheres are involved. (Left brain = normal cultural, egoic functioning.) (Right brain=creativity, curiosity, Transcendence, love, peace, freedom, and contentment.)
Many of Jon’s clients come with “traditional” problems like anxiety, depression or relationship problems, but they discover their own innate uniqueness is part of the solution that they’re looking for. While Jon has all the skills to deal with most psychological “diagnoses,” he knows it’s easier to just look at old patterns formed in old environments, to help you to remove obstacles to your goals.
Your whole brain needs to wake up, heal, and get integrated. This is the goal of mentoring. Jon teaches his clients how to deal with being human: challenging negative and untruthful thoughts, using thought purposefully, and tracking the source of emotions. He also works with everyday physical habits that can get in the way (too much coffee, too little sleep, too much doom-scrolling), and teaches clients to look for their own uniqueness.
You already have everything within you that you need to be a whole, awakened person. Psychological healing and spiritual awakening are the same unique path for you, and you can journey as far as you choose.
Create a trajectory tailored to your own unique expression, with the help of Jon’s 26 years’ experience dealing with complex challenges. His compassionate, mindful attention can help you know yourself and function as the one-of-a-kind human being you are.
Jon’s career in the health professions start in 1992 as a Licensed Massage Therapist, training as an Energy Healer, Counseling Psychologist, and Yoga Meditation Teacher. Jon inhabits the crossroads of psychology and spirituality, has been practicing as a professional counselor since 2000, and gained his license in 2010. He calls his work “Mentoring” and it’s what he loves to do.
You’ve worked hard to get here.
You followed the cultural “prescription for happiness.”
You have a beautiful home, a career, a family, and close friends; and now you think ‘so what?’ The script you were given isn’t yours; it belongs to the ‘culture.’
Inside yourself, you know the script hasn’t led you to authenticity or happiness.
Underneath the pleasant surface, you’re not peaceful or happy.
You’re stressed, confused, anxious, and overwhelmed by thoughts and feelings you don’t understand. It’s hard to be here!
Even the ‘escapes’ like phone scrolling and media are now an obvious sales tool and waste of time. You miss meaningful human contact. You don’t feel comfortable in your own body.
Your life has lost its meaning and satisfaction because you don’t understand how YOU work and what your OWN truth is. You have occasional experiences of peace and stability, but don’t know how to live that way.
You can solve these problems with a path of psychological and spiritual healing and integration. As you get your psychological issues “sorted,” you can also express your individuality and find your spiritual path.
Life feels incomplete or just not ‘right.’
Work feels meaningless. Your emotional life is a mess and you’re overly reactive without understanding why. Friendships feel hollow.
You feel incomplete and know there’s more to you than this, but you don’t know how to find it.
You are overwhelmed with conflicting thoughts about the past and the future and recognize that the thoughts themselves may be the problem.
You’re trying to make sense of the present moment with thoughts but you can’t; thought is a separation from your present-moment, sense-orientation to Reality. Thought’s a great servant, but a terrible master.
Your feelings are equally confusing. You don’t know why you feel the way you do, or what to do with all that feeling. Usually you just repress it, until you explode or panic.
You’ve tried to find a solution on your own.
Talking to loved ones is briefly helpful, but you’re afraid to burden them. Plus, they often turn the conversation to their own problems, and offer the same answers you’ve heard before, that don’t work for you.
It’s difficult to cope with your complex life by adding new thought-based strategies to it; thought is an essential obstruction to psychological ease and the spiritual path.
You went to meditation classes, learned mindfulness techniques, and practiced yoga and deep breathing. However, no one has guided you well, so you don’t know how they’re supposed to work together to make life better.
Working by yourself, you weren’t able to find the deep peace that you intuit is at the Core of you.
You want to change.
Continuing to struggle alone is not an option.
Even though nothing has worked so far, you’re not ready to give up.
You’re determined to find a way forward. I can help.
Our work together offers you guidance to finding your own complete solutions, not someone else’s.
It’s possible to learn to cope with problems in healthier ways. You can ‘make friends’ with your emotions and physical sensations, not to mention your thoughts!
A life of deep-seated awareness that includes: contentment, curiosity, creativity, abundance, love, peace, ease, and freedom can be discovered, hiding underneath your thoughts.
It takes a regular time commitment (weekly or twice monthly), financial investment, and courage, but you can live a better life. You can transform into the unique person that you really are instead of following someone else’s road map.
To “put your toe in the water” and get a feel for my work:
- listen to some podcasts at https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3rtymGxmstKLU7RQ1XscVz,
- buy my latest book on Amazon: Being Human and Waking Up it has every major principle I’ve learned and taught in these last 26 years.
I offer one-on-one individual sessions in my office or on Zoom. I am licensed and credentialed as a Licensed Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania, and work with people in my Pennsylvania office as a coach or therapist.
I do coaching and spiritual mentoring for people in other states and internationally. I welcome international clients from their own countries, or who are transplants to the United States.
You can book an initial, paid consultation, with no commitment to continue if you’re not satisfied that we’ll make a good team.
Hi, I’m Jonathan.
For 26 years, I’ve helped people find the answers they’ve been searching for.
Together, we’ll create a step-by-step path to awareness of thoughts, feelings, sensations, the present moment and your spirituality.
You’ll learn how to vet your thoughts for truth and accuracy and identify the subconscious beliefs holding you back. Using mindfulness techniques, you’ll develop the ability to live more presently in the moment where ALL satisfaction is found. And meditation and mindfulness practices can help you find greater self-compassion, acceptance and the deepest core of what you are.
No matter what you’ve experienced in the past, psychological healing, integration, authentic expression, and spiritual awakening are in your future.
Book a one-hour paid introductory session with me now, and let’s take the first step on this healing journey together. People have been referring their family members, friends and colleagues for 26 years. It’s your turn to learn to sing your own song.
Recent Blogposts can be found at jonathanlabman.substack.com in my former Substack Column called “Simply Awake.”
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