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A Diamond in the Rock

7/24/2020

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     Michelangelo, when asked how he crafts such magnificent works of sculpture, replied, “I see the finished form, and then I simply remove the rock that hides it.”
     Each is a brilliant diamond hidden deep with a rock of our own making. Each possesses a tiny voice calling out for release.  You’ll hear the voice, if you listen carefully, amid the cries of loneliness and despair all about you; in the senseless acts of violence and rage playing out on our street and in our cities.  You’ll hear it, if you listen ever so carefully, in the fear stories each convince themselves are real.  And you’ll hear it, ever so faintly, in the actions of those who seek power and fame through mindless dogma, and acts of intolerance, division, and hatred.  Within the silent majority, the voice is made even more silent from terror, confusion, and the belief that the future before them is dark and hopeless.
     This diamond remains imprisoned as long as we ignore it, distract ourselves from it, pretend it isn’t there, and try to make of it something that it’s not.  The diamond will never be seen by us or others as long as we hide behind false and hollow images of a self we wish we were, pretend we are or convince ourselves we are.  What we show to the world is a lie, a fake story, a shadow of lost dreams, visions, and hope.
     ASAT™ C.O.R.E. Counseling is not about helping others make a lie a truth; it’s not about making the rock more comfortable to carry.  ASAT™ C.O.R.E. Counseling is not about painting it to make it more presentable; it’s not about hanging tiny sparkly baubles, or colored strips of paper, to help the rock become more attractive.  ASAT™ C.O.R.E. Counseling is not about assisting others in the making a bad thing better, or a make-believe story real.  ASAT™ C.O.R.E. is about awakening the truth in us and responding to the tiny, silent voices yearning to be expressed.
     ASAT™ C.O.R.E. counselors, step by step, challenge the rock’s existence, and inch by inch strip away its illusionary substance. Like Michelangelo, we chip away at false beliefs, diminishing attitudes, and week and limiting thinking.  We remove those painful and imprisoned feelings and chisel away those errant choices and decisions.  We sharpen the tools of our sculpting by lifting our desires, honoring and awakening our imagination, and strengthening our weak and faulty expectations.  We elevate our skills in crafting through the daily practice of love, gratitude, hope, discipline, courage, and self-trust.  And, most of all, we dream futures ahead of us and prioritize their awakening. 
     ASAT™ C.O.R.E. counselors are sculptors.  No, we don’t make works of art, we reveal diamonds, and no, we’re not renovators.  We listen for the faint voices yearning to be heard, we search amid the many make-believe stories to find the more real story glistening deep in there, and we chip away, shard by shard, the rock that hides a diamond.  We do this for our clients, and most of all, we do this for ourselves.
     We are sculptors of futures, glorious futures, and artisans of dreams and visions yet to be.


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The Work of the ASAT C.O.R.E. Counselor

7/22/2020

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     The work of the ASAT C.O.R.E. Counselor is not limited to the time spent working with clients, or the time spent taking classes, developing marketing strategies, or anything else for that matter.  Many ASAT counselors do not work with clients directly; they do not have offices, signs in front of the door, or a fancy marketing plan.  Yet, they're ASAT C.O.R.E. Counselors.
     "Counselor" was the title given to you upon completion of a course of study. You've completed the course, you've earned the title.  But the title is just a word; nothing more. "ASAT C.O.R.E. Counselor" doesn't mean anything until you give it meaning and value in yourself.  No, it doesn't mean you're required to be an active participant in a distinct profession, but it does mean you're an individual with a different calling. You were called once to the game of healing, and you are again.  You don't have to get into the game; you are the game.
     You were drawn to this C.O.R.E. perspective, whether you make it a profession or not.  You were brought to this unique calling of healing, whether you answer the call or not.  But beyond the call to become a healer, to enter a profession, you were asked to challenge yourself, to surpass, and to supersede yourself.  Are you?
     It doesn't matter why you answered the call, why you took the class, all that matters is that you were called; not everybody is.  This "answering" in no way makes you special or better than; it just says you're unique, whether your focus is on a particular profession, or on helping others through your day to day interaction with them, or changing the world by your being in it. You're an ASAT C.O.R.E. Counselor because you're a magician, a map-maker, a healer.  And what is the work of a magician?  A magician's work is to love, to dream, to heal, and to work magic.  Are you?
     No, doing the work of an ASAT C.O.R.E. Counselor is not limited to a fifty-minute session, setting appointments, or bantering about words like conscious, own, release, and engage. It's not limited by anything you do or say. It's shown in the workings of your life, it's reflected in your dreams, love, healing of self and others, and in the magic you craft, and in the magic you allow, and it shines in the brightness, or dimness, of what you're allowing your life to become.  You are the healing game you play in, and you are the one who chooses to win or lose at the playing of it.
     You're being called once again, this time by a world desperately in need of love, desperately in need of dreams, desperately in need of healing and desperately in need of magic.  Are you going to answer the call?  Are you going to step up and stand out?  Are you going to get into the game you were once called to play?  Are you?
     No, you're not being asked to work with clients.  No, you're not being asked to save the world; there's nothing from which the world needs saving. You're being asked to love, to heal, to dream new dreams of futures yet to come, and to work a little magic now and again. You're being called to do the work of the ASAT C.O.R.E. counselor, the real work of the ASAT C.O.R.E. counselor. You're being called to counsel yourself: your younger, less developed selves. It's your younger selves, and your dark counselors, who call out to you amidst the frenzy, turmoil, and chaos of the changing times we're in. It's in the callings of their desperate fear that, to you, their lives don't matter. It's in their calls from the quarantine you've forced them in that they seek release and freedom to grow and prosper; it's through their raging shouts, and it's by their destructive frenzy to pull down your iron monuments to past memories and faded glories that they seek to get your attention. And it's in the calls from their isolation that they ask to be discovered.  
     Go within, find them, respond to them, and dream dreams with them, work your healing magic with them, and love them.  ASAT C.O.R.E. Counselors only have one client in life, themselves. Remember, always, "Nothing changes until you do."  Are you?
 
                            Now is the time to see what you're made of.


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    Dr. Martin Hart

    President: American Society of Alternative Therapist (ASAT™)

    Teacher: Architect and principle instructor of ASAT™ C.O.R.E. Counseling

    Author: The C.O.R.E. Principles, The Scented Flowers  of Sinjin-Ka, The Magic of the Scented Flowers, and The Best Meditations on the Planet  (with co-author, Skye Alexander)

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