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By dougl1kj | Blog , Splankna Healing Ministry
You may or may not have heard of Splankna, a Christian healing technique utilized by a few of us counselors at Grace Wellness Center. If you haven’t I would encourage you to check out the website or see if your counselor is one of those trained to use it, as it is a technique that everyone can benefit from.
I heard about Splankna when I first started at GWC and was on-board with wanting to learn about it before I had even learned what it really was. All I needed was to be told that it was a Christian intervention that could deal with trauma. I had come from a job where my focus had been to work with people who had been through significant traumas and while there where many tools that I had learned that could help a person put their lives back together or to find a sense of wholeness if there had been no healthy base to build on, these tools were often lacking the hope that we have as Christians. So as soon as I learned that there was an intervention that could be used to bring that hope into moments of brokenness that I had so long worked with, I jumped at the chance to learn.
My real introduction to Splankna came when I started attending some practice sessions for those who had already been trained, and it was at this point that I learned, Splankna is weird. If you haven’t experienced it there are certain tools used like muscle testing where the person pushed on your arm. Since we also invite God to work where He wants the topics that come up aren’t always the ones that you expect. Knowing that this technique could work with life traumas, I thought I knew what would come up. Only the first bunch of times, the brokenness I remembered experiencing in my own life is not what God had in mind.
Like many counselors I have had my own experiences and need for support that has taught me to want to help others. The most significant of these experiences was the basis for most of my nightmares as a child, and while I had grown into a well-adjusted adult, there was still this memory that I had built a wall around. An area that, if anything brought up thoughts of it, I would feel like I had been kicked in the gut. A trauma, that despite all my efforts, still affected my thoughts and outlook on life. I thought that with Splankna this would clearly be where we went, as being a counselor with all my years of experience and training of course I knew what I needed to deal with. Only it appeared God disagreed. For my initial experiences I kept processing emotions from ages early enough that I didn’t remember what produced them. I could see how these emotional strongholds had affected my life, but still wondered at the efficacy of Splankna since it wasn’t working where I thought best. Also since I couldn’t remember what had caused the emotions I didn’t notice any major shifts through the work.
Then I went to the training. I should explain that the week I went, I actually left helping out with my church’s teen camp that week to attend. A week where I was spending hours a day in worship, praying over other, and participating in the ministry that God was doing. In this mind frame I went to learn about Splakna. At the workshop, you learn to use the skills not only academically but you practice them with your fellow students. God chose this moment to deal with the worst night of my life. Looking back I think that with Splakna I would still have gotten there, but with spending the days proceeding focused on God I was more willing to trust Him to deal with such a significant source of pain. After processing it, I can still remember that night, but there is no longer any emotional weight to it. So despite its weirdness and despite how even knowing how it works I don’t know where any particular session will go, I can say that my own experience has shown me that this is a tool that God can use to bring healing even to broken areas of your life where nothing else has seemed to work.
By Stephen Luther | Blog , Counseling , Splankna Healing Ministry , Wellness
What on earth is “Splankna?” I’m glad you asked. Let me first tell you my experience and then I will let you know how to find out more about it.
After several years of being involved in Christian ministry I found Splankna healing ministry and it changed my life. As a Christian counselor, I worked with many people through Biblical counseling and saw a lot of progress but it was limited. Many people didn’t get well and others got well but never really thrived.
“and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” John 8:32 NASB
If the truth is suppose to set us free, why were so many not being set free? Why was I not being set free? I found out that it is because lies and agreements made during hurtful experiences were still running in my subconscious and the truth could not take root. I also learned spiritual warfare, which was mostly ignored during my Christian upbringing, had much more of an impact than I knew.
When I first began training in Splankna healing ministry I saw my connection with God open up as each barrier was removed. The next thing I noticed was that I began to be more of myself and got back to who God had created me to be. One of those areas was in physical health. Over the past 15 years or so I had developed unhealthy eating and lifestyle habits that lead to me putting on 60 pounds and becoming very unhealthy. This is not who I was, I knew that, but couldn’t get back to the healthy, active and athletic person I use to be. After having Splankna therapy I began to notice I no longer was drawn to my unhealthy habits and that they were no longer connected to the same emotional needs. I began to change my lifestyle and over the next couple years I lost 60 pounds and started running marathons. Now don’t worry, if that isn’t who you are, Splankna won’t make you run marathons! But, it will allow you to be more you, whoever that is. Wouldn’t that be awesome?
Well, not only can you experience that for yourself, you can help other people experience it as well by coming to our upcoming training here in Pittsburgh. Splankna is a mind-body healing ministry that allows you to get directly to the root of persistent problems in your life and heal the brokenness behind those problems. This is done by utilizing the created mechanism behind mind-body healing and utilizing Christian healing ministry, prayer, forgiveness and techniques to address spiritual warfare. It is by far the most effective and powerful tool I have ever used in ministry and counseling.
Splankna training is for Christian counselors, pastors and others wanting to help people. You do not have to be a licensed counselor or ordained minister to take the training and begin helping people heal. Please contact me directly with any questions or to come to the office and see a live demonstration. If interested please email me at sluther@thegracewellnesscenter.com.
By Stephen Luther
Executive Director of Grace Wellness Center
Licensed Professional Counselor, Therapeutic Parent Coach and Splankna Trainer
By Stephen Luther | Blog , Counseling , Splankna Healing Ministry , Walking Wounded , Wellness
We have all had this experience; we know what is wrong, we want to get well, we may even seek help, but nothing works. It’s frustrating and if you’re like a lot of people, you have just accepted that some things won’t change. You’ve accepted something less than the abundant life Christ came to give you. Or maybe you have accepted some watered down version of abundant life and become convinced there is nothing more.
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.” John 10:10 NASB
But if Christ came so that we can have abundant life, it must be possible. I challenge you to start believing that. Or at least to start wanting to believe it. Are you willing to do that? Let’s look deeper into this issue and explore what is going on and why so many of us can’t find freedom.
Most of our issues are deeply rooted and buried in our subconscious. They emerge when they are triggered but then they get submerged until they are “needed” again. These issues are the result of a past wound or maybe many past experiences that hurt you. These experiences come with a lot of negative emotion that get attached to that issue and, unless resolved, weigh it down and keep it buried in your subconscious. You may be aware that it is there, but in your conscious mind you cannot resolve it or deal with all of its impact. Think of something being submerged in the deep end of a pool weighed down by a lot of heavy weights. You may dive down and try to bring it to the surface but the weights become too much and you lose your grip and it sinks to the bottom again. This is what it is like when we try to resolve deeply rooted issues. We try to bring it to the surface and deal with it but we can’t. Each time we try, we begin to lose faith that it can be resolved. It’s hard to believe something can be resolved when all your experiences tell you otherwise. It’s hard to believe you can truly be free and have abundant life. That’s why I challenged you, that if you can’t believe it, you can want to believe it. That’s where it starts. Choose to want to believe you can get well, offer that to God and ask him to fill in the gaps in your faith.
Immediately the boy’s father cried out and said, “I do believe; help my unbelief.” Mark 9:24
Let go back to our analogy for a second. What if you could dive down and one at a time cut the weights off of this thing that is submerged in the deep end of the pool. With each weight that is removed it would begin to rise and eventually be floating on the surface of the water. Could you remove it now? absolutely! So what if we could do that with those deeply rooted issues in our lives? Well, you can. This is exactly what we do in Splankna healing ministry.
At Grace Wellness Center we provide both Splankna treatment and in partnership with the Splankna Institute are now offering level 1 Splankna training to pastors, counselors and anyone else who has a passion for ministry and helping others in the Pittsburgh area. You do not have to be a pastor or professional counselor to use this tool. In my personal counseling practice and ministry, Splankna has become my most valuable tool and I believe once you experience it you will understand why. Training is coming to Pittsburgh in July 2016 so don’t miss out!
Please contact me directly with any questions or to come to the office and see a live demonstration. If interested please email me at sluther@thegracewellnesscenter.com
By Stephen Luther
Executive Director of Grace Wellness Center
Licensed Professional Counselor, Therapeutic Parent Coach and Splankna Trainer
