Just like Ari Koinuma, from Our Best Version, this wasn’t a post I planned to write next.   But my friend Jenny Mannion of Heal Pain Naturally asked me to participate with her group writing project about Heroes of Healing and I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity.  If you’ve been around here very long then you’ve probably heard me talk about my friend and mentor, Ron Wilkins who passed away earlier this year.  I’ve even dedicated this site to him and much of what I write about I learned from Ron.  So it only seems natural for me to write about him for this writing project.

Ron had a  very rough life from the beginning.  His father rejected him the first time he ever saw him at the age of two and he was raised by an alcoholic mother who drank to try to escape her emotional pain.  Ron began drinking at the age of four to also try to escape his emotional pain, attempted suicide at the age of 16, and later spent several years in prison.  It was in prison that he was taught some information that would change his life forever.  Ron saw the potential in this information, internalized and mastered it and used it to remove all the emotional pain that he had been carrying around.  He began teaching it to others even in prison.  Realizing that the attitudes and skills that he learned were what the master teacher Jesus had used and taught, he adapted it Biblically. Once he got out of prison he taught this information publicly for the first time in 1995 to an assembly of over 500 people.  The response was overwhelming.  This marked the beginning of SFT Awareness and the program has only exploded since.  Thousands have been impacted by it.  In fact, SFT Awareness is now in the process of becoming an international program well on its way of impacting millions and even billions of people.


Resources:

For more information about removing emotional pain and/or to purchase a book written by Ron Wilkins visit:  www.removingemotionalpain.com

For more information about the program, SFT Awareness, visit: www.sftawareness.org

And of course you may choose to browse through my archives here and/or subscribe for further learning.

What I, Jennifer Abbott, have learned from Ron Wilkins:

Pages could not hold what I have learned from Ron.

I learned what emotional pain is, how it does what it does very specifically, and how to remove emotional pain.  I learned that you don’t just have to “grin and bear it.”  I learned from Ron how to become aware of pain, how to stop ruminating (the negative thinking cycle),  how and when to process pain and with what attitudes and skills to process the pain with.  I learned that 98% of people are emotional pain carriers.  I learned that in order to treat depression and addictions you have to deal with the root cause of them and not the symptoms.  I learned that there are over 100 addictions that people can choose from and that anger is the number one addiction.  I learned that most people don’t realize they have an addiction.  I learned that children begin carrying emotional pain by the age of four and by the age of eight many have already chosen an escape behavior that leads to an addiction.  I learned what a positive attitude is and how to have one.  I learned from Ron to understand people and why they do what they do.

I could write pages, but that is a start anyway.

I am who I am today because of Ron Wilkins.  To learn from Ron personally and to be at his bedside only a few hours before he died are two of the greatest honors I have ever had.  When I think of the person that I want to become I always think of Ron and the life he lived.  He was the greatest example of Jesus that I have ever known.

Who are your heroes of healing? I would love to hear about those people who have had a huge impact on your life.

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