Steve Robert Gooch's Blog

Metta loving kindness meditation isn’t just about calm or comfort. It’s a powerful emotional training that builds inner strength, clears emotional debris, and helps you reconnect with parts of yourself you’ve shut away. Rooted in ancient Buddhist practice, Metta radiates compassion from the heart outward, transforming how you respond to yourself, others, and the world around you. This is not fluff. It’s fire.

Buddho isn’t about adding more. It’s about returning to what’s already there. Beneath the noise of effort and technique, there’s a quiet current running through the body—subtle, ancient, intelligent. In practice, we don't try to control it. We let it show itself. Through breath, form, and awareness, the deeper pathways open. Not imagined, not forced. Just revealed. And once felt, it changes everything.

Reiki for healing relationships isn’t about dramatic rituals or forcing closure: it’s about energetic clarity, self-awareness, and genuine emotional release. This blog explores how Reiki helps shift the patterns that keep you stuck, rebuilds self-love, and supports you in creating healthier connections. Whether you’re healing after a breakup or working through old dynamics, this is your guide to change that starts from within.

The Reiki attunement is the heart of the Reiki journey, a direct experience that awakens your natural connection to universal energy. This transformative process raises the vibration of your chakras, aligns your energy field, and clarifies your inner channels. Unlike common beliefs, it’s not a technique that can be undone or repeated; once received, it’s with you for life. Discover why attunement is more than a ceremony; it’s a profound reminder of your inherent potential.

Discover how Reiki and chakra healing work together in a grounded, authentic way to support your journey towards inner balance and self-realisation. This blog explores the roots of the chakra system in Hindu and Buddhist traditions, why "blocked chakras" is a modern myth, and how Reiki naturally harmonises energy without force. Learn how to integrate this timeless wisdom into your practice, transforming energy healing into a powerful path of spiritual growth.

Discover how Reiki goes beyond relaxation to support true spiritual awakening. This blog explores the deeper purpose of Reiki as a meditative, transformative path—one that reconnects you with your inner clarity, intuition, and sense of purpose. Perfect for those ready to explore Reiki not just as energy healing, but as a powerful gateway to conscious living and personal evolution.

Feeling ungrounded during a spiritual awakening is more common than you might think. As old patterns rise to the surface and energy shifts, it can feel like life is moving too fast or not making sense. This blog explores the signs of spiritual awakening and offers simple grounding techniques to help you stay centred and balanced. From breathwork to barefoot connection, these practices can bring you back to the present moment, allowing the transformation to land without feeling overwhelming.

Feeling like your life is shifting but nothing outwardly has changed? That unsettling, in-between space can signal a spiritual awakening. It’s a quiet, persistent knowing that the old ways of moving through the world no longer fit. Spiritual awakening symptoms often show up subtly — sudden waves of energy, intense emotions, or feeling disconnected. Dive into what these signs mean, why mindset work alone isn’t enough, and how to navigate the transformative process.

Personal transformation doesn’t end with insight. It deepens when you start living what you already know. This blog explores seven ways to move beyond self-improvement and into spiritual awakening, where change becomes something embodied, not just understood. It’s not about fixing more. It’s about living from the version of you that’s already whole. If you’re ready to stop circling the work and start living it, this is your next step.

Spiritual intelligence is the deeper layer of transformation that begins where mindset work ends. It’s not about fixing or reframing, it’s about returning to the part of you that already knows. Inside The Abundant Self, we guide you beyond thought, into open awareness and the quiet intelligence that aligns you with your core nature. This isn’t about becoming someone new. It’s about coming home to who you’ve always been.