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Quantum psychology, spiritual experiences, soul work and energy work: the words used on this site, explained the way Valerie explains them.

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  • After-Death Communication

    Contact with a loved one, or someone else, who has died (an ADC). Research estimates that 100 million people in the US…

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  • Bioenergetic

    Referring to the energy systems of living beings such as humans, including electronic, electrical, magnetic and electromagnetic systems and beyond, and the…

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  • Chakras

    The seven energy vortices that share information among your energy bodies. The first three relate to personal development (ego and personality); the…

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  • Energy Psychology

    Tools aimed at shifting the body’s energy system (meridians, acupressure points, chakras) so that the physical can shift as well, drawn from…

  • Energy Work

    A general term Valerie uses for any approach that specifically targets the body’s energy systems to facilitate emotional, mental, physical or spiritual…

  • Entangled

    Describing parts of a system so connected that whatever happens to one simultaneously affects the others in a specific way. Quantum physics…

  • Experiencer Support Group

    A group Valerie facilitates where those who have had a spiritual experience can share as they feel comfortable and receive support and…

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  • Heart-Brain Coherence

    The state in which the heart and the brain are in sync. In Valerie’s words, the heart in coherence with the brain…

  • Holistic Life Coaching

    Coaching that focuses on personal and spiritual growth, helping you move from “normal” toward fulfilling your goals and vast potential. It sees…

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  • Living in a Quantum Reality

    Valerie Varan’s self-help book, Living in a Quantum Reality: Using Quantum Physics and Psychology to Embrace Your Higher Consciousness (Turning Stone Press,…

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  • Mind, Body, Energy and Soul

    The four areas Valerie offers tools in. Mind: constructive thinking habits, mindfulness, ways to focus and quiet the mind. Body: nutrition to…

  • Multidimensional Consciousness

    Consciousness understood as having many interconnected layers, some within spacetime and others beyond it. It is one of the three qualities (with…

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  • Near-Death Experience

    An experience of consciousness during a close brush with death or clinical death (an NDE). In Dr. Pim van Lommel’s studies since…

  • Nonlocal

    Describing effects beyond the limits of space and time: effects that take no time and no space to “travel”, so things can…

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  • Observer Effect

    The finding in quantum physics that consciousness seems to affect the outcome of experiments, so there is no independent observer after all.…

  • Out-of-Body Experience

    An experience of perceiving from outside the physical body (an OBE). It is one of the spiritually transformative experiences Valerie helps people…

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  • Quantum Field of Potentiality

    Valerie’s preferred name for what physics calls the quantum vacuum: the supposedly empty space out of which consciousness seems to create “something…

  • Quantum Psychology

    A perspective within the spectrum of psychology (western, eastern, holistic and quantum) that sees consciousness as quantum: nonlocal, entangled and multidimensional. Valerie…

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  • Shared-Death Experience

    When loved ones and caregivers share in the passing of someone who is dying (an SDE): about a third of the time…

  • Soul Work

    Living your life moved by your soul consciousness: the sphere of consciousness that originates before your birth, serves as the energetic blueprint…

  • Spiritual Emergence

    The growth stage of a spiritual awakening, as distinct from spiritual emergency, its crisis stage. Telling the two apart is part of…

  • Spiritual Experiencer

    Someone who has had a spiritual experience: a near-death, out-of-body, after-death or other spiritually transformative experience. According to research most people have…

  • Spiritual Life Coaching

    Spiritual support and guidance offered within the context of your own beliefs, experiences and worldview: for a nudge you feel from your…

  • Spiritually Transformative Experience

    An experience in consciousness that changes how a person sees life (an STE). STEs may include mystical experiences, near-death and out-of-body experiences,…

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  • Transpersonal

    That which is beyond, but can encompass, the personal sphere of consciousness. Transpersonal experiences commonly include near-death, shared-death, out-of-body and spiritually transformative…

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