Making Life a Masterpiece - Rachel Goldsworthy

The only constant in life is change. Most of us have heard that expression in one form or another, and most of us have also noticed that some people enjoy life more than others. As the century turns to a new millenium,  the connection is becoming clearer: the people who are most productive and enjoy life the most are those who learn to accept and adapt to the changes that are such an integral part of our world.

Lekha Shah is such a person.  Her relationships with her grown children get sweeter as the years go by. She has found fulfillment in her work. Friendships are deep and satisfying. She has faced life’s challenges, met them resourcefully, learned from them, and grown. She sparkles with kindness, radiates health and the energy of someone twenty years younger..

During her early life in India, Kenya, and England, Lekha absorbed the holistic, intuitive perspective of her Eastern background and the more rational Western  philosophy. As an adult, she lived and studied in cosmopolitan centres and rural retreats, meeting people from all walks of life with diverse backgrounds and points of view.

"What a life!" Lekha says with wonder. "I wouldn’t change any of it, all the pain, everything."

From her childhood as the daughter of an international banker, to her young adulthood with her own family in London and Jersey, and later on her own in Paris, Hawaii, and Victoria, Lekha has learned to embrace what life can teach her.

"I had done some healing work before I separated from my husband," Lekha says. "The Silva Mind Control method helped me to understand my mind, to give power back to myself.".

Then she moved to Paris and "met all the right people in different healing fields." Studying and then working with Dr. Chuck Spezzano taught her about the hidden dynamics in relationships and in our own minds, and how to use others as mirrors to see ourselves and heal.

"My mind just opened, and once I started it was like I’d been waiting for it all my life," Lekha says. "I started feeling wonderful."

Lekha began to study Body Harmony with Dr. Don McFarland, and learned about healing with energy, raising her sensitivity to enable her to listen to the body’s messages. Memories of unhealed negative experiences responsible for its present condition could now be transformed through listening to the body and using appropriate techniques.

"I found part of me I’d never expressed," she says. "I had an incredible burst of energy."

That energy has never faded and for the past 12 years she has been using it along with her many skills to help people regain their own strengths, heal wounds, and live their dreams.

"It’s such a privilege to work with people this way," Lekha says.

She is a certified hypnotherapist and Neuro-Lingustic Programming practitioner, holds a diploma from the Faculty of Astrological Studies in the UK, is a Trainer of the Psychology of Vision, is a graduate of Anthony Robbins’ Mastery University, and a practitioner of Mind/Body Harmony and Raindrop Therapy. The different fields have given her a balance in how she looks at the world and how she works with people. She finds it both stimulating and challenging and it encourages her to constantly search for better, easier, and more effective ways to help.

"A person needs so many facets in life," she says. "My studies help me create a balance between resourceful states for the mind and emotions, the body, and the spiritual. The universe gives us so many tools to heal."

Lekha knows firsthand, though, that even knowledge and support don’t automatically make healing easy.

"The healing process is part of Life itself," she acknowledges. "But the techniques I use make healing a much quicker process than it used to be."

Indeed, she points out that many of her clients can actually resolve issues or find the root of the problem within the first hour of working with her. Sometimes it happens just that quickly. And often the benefits are obvious right away, too.

“When you start living who you truly are, people start to really respect you. As you heal, your relationship with everything around you changes.”

Lekha knows that in business and in private life, change is inevitable – and often desirable.

"If we’re not continually evolving, it affects everyone around us. It’s like we have to eat every day, drink every day. We always have to learn about ourselves and grow."

Lekha focuses her combination of skills on each person’s unique needs. Some people are ready to work in all areas, she says: spiritual, emotional, physical, psychological. But many need to look at just one or two, and that’s appropriate, too. Lekha recognizes that we are all at different phases in our lives and our healing, and need different things from a counsellor or therapist.

Whether you want to regain your self-confidence, resolve relationship problems, eliminate beliefs that limit your life, or understand the psychological cause of physical ailments, Lekha can help you. She has studied with many different teachers who are leaders in their fields, including Dr. Chuck Spezzano, Dr. Tad James, Dr. Don McFarland, and Anthony Robbins. Having overcome her own insecurities, inhibitions, and acute shyness, having walked across burning coals a number of times as well as put herself through various mind/body challenges, she knows firsthand the power and passion that is generated when mind, body and spirit work together as a team.

"You get a glimpse of the vastness of your true potential. It is my most sacred wish to enable those who work with me to discover this truth for themselves so they can make and live their lives as a masterpiece."

"What a life!" Lekha says with wonder. "I wouldn’t change any of it, all the pain, everything."

"You get a glimpse of the vastness of your true potential. It is my most sacred wish to enable those who work with me to discover this truth for themselves so they can make and live their lives as a masterpiece."