VALUES
Xamsud·din Toni Barber
My opinion and understanding is...
What do I do?
I create and offer workspaces for personal growth and development, both individual and group settings. I also provide counseling for users of alternative therapies to help them avoid disappointments.
Who do I work with: The "clients," the individuals
Brave individuals. People who have made the decision to change something in their lives, improve their physical, mental, or emotional well-being.
A free and practical approach
The working context is safe, friendly, supported, and protected, without falling into overly affectionate paternalism or maternalism, or unnecessary positivity. It avoids histrionics, ornaments, or symbolisms to seduce, and is free from all the commercial paraphernalia and trendy posturing.
Avoiding involuntary therapeutic tourism ans "Yes" to the protagonism of individuals
In the market of alternative and non-alternative therapies alike, techniques, methods, remedies, and therapists are often sold as always-good tools or resources that help a lot and for many things, sometimes even miraculous. This is the GREAT FALLACY and the great mistake.
I work with a different paradigm that focuses on individuals, providing them with various tools that they can integrate on their own. I also provide counseling to help them avoid forced therapeutic tourism. The result is that without promising them anything specific, each person finds their own path and achieves results based on where they start from, how they are, their psyche, their body, their limitations, their desires, their commitment to themselves, and their dedication to understanding spiritual truth. That's why I can only work with brave individuals who have made the determination to take a right path.
The significant methodological difference compared to many others
I work with a SYSTEM that has remarkable therapeutic effects, or rather, a SYSTEM OF PERSONAL EVOLUTION, not just a technique or a method. It's a PERSON-CENTERED SYSTEM where the person (the client, the user, the participant...) is the protagonist, with needs to meet and goals to achieve. The focus is not on the method or a specific technique or the facilitator. It is important to understand this. That's why I rely on my own resources to provide training and expertise, as well as from other professionals when needed, and the Sufi spiritual environment for those interested.
The SYSTEM I have designed and tested works because it considers all dimensions of human existence, both scientific and meta-scientific. It avoids making promises and instead supports individuals in taking responsibility for their own path and the results they can achieve, gradually and as far as they want or rather, as far as God wants.
A system to avoid the rebound effect
The SYSTEM I propose acknowledges that some issues may arise during the process, but the key difference is that "the bottles" (the users) are well contextualized and informed beforehand about what they might encounter. Moreover, they are guaranteed to have specially tailored support if such issues arise. Unfortunately, in the therapeutic field, I have encountered many snake charmers offering shows of "energy movements" and seductive ecstatic experiences that often leave unaware users in situations of emotional, vital, and spiritual imbalance with significant consequences or sequelae.
To open the personal Pandora's box, one needs the appropriate context to help to integrate the emergent material.
Personal, evolutionary, and/or transformative process. A program
The PROGRAM starts with general long-term or medium-term objectives, or with the timeframe set by each individual. Secondary objectives or shorter-term goals are also established. All these objectives have a methodological framework and a suitable context that form a path, a method, a guide, a procedure, and a space specifically designed to make personal evolutionary work as effective and efficient as humbly possible.
A multidimensional system from the individual's perspective
The realms of existence I work with and consider are:
- The body and revealing bodywork.
- Psycho-body and understanding the relationship between the psyche and the body.
- Opening and expanding consciousness and spirituality for those sensitive to it.
- Revealing one's psychological character type that unveils real neurotic reasons.
- Working on egoperspective based on Sufi psychology exercises.
- Other methodologies, depending on each case, which can include everything from genealogy and the family and relational systems, to nutrition, and support and advice on personal and professional projects. If applicable, readings, study, and analysis of texts or books necessary to understand oneself and certain phenomena that affect us can be proposed.
A contribution, in contrast to a business
My vision of this work is more spiritual than commercial, and therefore, I work discreetly, in small groups, one-on-one, and with generosity. The priority is not my pocket, but neither the yours; we all need to be aware that it requires efforts, time, money, and energy to be invested.
The treatment of the spiritual dimension
The work proposals are based on the premise that true spirituality is something quite different from what has become popular in recent decades.
I offer some tools and techniques that come from a genuine tradition - the Sufi tradition that I follow - without engaging in exhibitionism, preaching, or proselytism to convert people to Islam or create spiritualized individuals. If someone feels the calling, there is a path; if someone doesn't feel it or feels it through another avenue, there is also a path. In this sense, I want to make it clear that I do not use sacred Sufi technology because that is the responsibility of living saints or masters, authorized sheikhs by the masters, or individuals with permission to do so. I only show the door to those who feel they need to listen and explain what can be found behind it. I rely on the guidance of the living master and saint, Mawlana Sheikh Mehmet, heir of the Golden Chain of Sufi Masters from the Prophet Muhammad, Allah's peace be upon Him ; nothing else.
Medicine is for good
I never recommend to the people I accompany to abandon, avoid, discard, or disregard consultations with the relevant medical professionals when there is a health problem. I also do not recommend abandoning any medication prescribed by a professional. A person may want to investigate further if something doesn't go as expected in the prognosis or to seek appropriate medical advice. Scientific information is a tool that humans have developed God thanks to be useful, and therefore, therapeutic proposals should at least be listened to. Afterwards, one can choose not to follow them under their own responsibility, but I am of the opinion that they should be considered. I am neither anti-doctors nor anti-medicine because it doesn't make sense to be so. Another matter entirely different is the healthcare system or the economic or egotistical interests of individuals involved in health. I am also not anti-alternative medicine. All knowledge - applied in a holistic manner and considering what each person needs - is useful; we just need to understand when, how, why, to what and for whom.
Where do we work?
The Therapeutic Garden L'AIXOPLUC
The working headquarters is located at AIXOPLUC Therapeutic Garden, situated in the municipality of Beneixama (Alcoià-Alt Vinalopó), province of Alicante. It is an emerging garden that is being developed to offer various therapeutic and spiritual actions and activities, as well as educational, training, and social initiatives that promote values and positive actions.
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