Mysticism has long carried the arts of presence, resilience, surrender, and expanded consciousness—the original pathways of self-healing—long before modern trauma models began to affirm them. This is not a doctrine or belief, but a contemplative philosophy: a way of seeing that reveals the deeper architecture of human experience. I then ground and update this orientation through extensive training, nervous-system science, and trauma-resolution practice.

Healing is not about fixing but about peeling back the layers around the heart to return to the loving presence, true self, and pure will at its core. What eventually remains is unbreakable. Heart mysticism names a way of knowing born from the inner heart’s faculties, not as belief, but as a lived orientation of presence, compassion, and contact with our direct experience.

In addition to meditation, I also began as an astrologer. But not the modern, compulsive version of astrology. What I practice aligns with its older function: supporting people through evolutionary thresholds, integrating their many-fold complexity, and returning to the center of the wheel of life—the locus of awareness where a life begins to cohere from the inside out. I bring this framework into client work only when it genuinely resonates or helps translate archetypal or unconscious material for deeper self-understanding. Otherwise, and more often, it remains the background lens through which I understand developmental process and the larger evolutionary journey.

Importantly, compulsiveness, future-fixing, dogma, and simplified ideas of self are the antithesis of both healing and mysticism. A true relationship to mysticism is rooted in the unknowing. The past and future imprint on the psyche and through body-heart–mind coherence, compassionate presence, and wisdom, we can unfold into life each present moment with a lightness of being and a heaviness of purpose.

For everything & always,
Susan Reis