From Out of Body Experience to Divine Awakening: Allura Halliwell's Journey to Healing

What happens when your consciousness leaves your body and experiences the void of universal oneness? For Allura Halliwell, this spontaneous awakening during a meditation retreat seven years ago sparked a profound journey that led to the creation of The Consciousness Method.

Diving deep into the fundamental question of human existence, Allura and host Natasha Joy Price explore the fascinating disconnect between our divine nature as conscious beings and our limited human experience. Allura articulates how this primary fracture creates three core wounds that afflict all humanity: feeling unloved, unworthy, and unknown. These wounds become the foundation for repetitive patterns as we unconsciously gather evidence to confirm these limiting beliefs about ourselves.

The most revolutionary aspect of Allura's approach is addressing the critical gap between internal healing and external reality creation. Many of us have experienced the frustration of doing significant inner work only to find ourselves attracting the same painful circumstances repeatedly. The Consciousness Method illuminates how our unconscious programming continues to shape our reality despite our healing efforts, and provides practical tools to break these patterns.

Through compelling examples, Allura demonstrates how stretching beyond the confines of our nervous system comfort zone leads to profound transformation. One client transcended a deeply entrenched belief that her relationship with her narcissistic mother could never change, eventually reconciling to the point where they now travel together. Another broke free from attracting emotionally unavailable partners by challenging her nervous system's definition of "safe" relationships.

Whether you're experiencing a spiritual awakening or have been on a healing journey for decades without the breakthrough you seek, this conversation offers fresh insights into consciousness evolution. The Consciousness Method provides a structured approach to reclaiming your energy from wounded patterns and creating a reality aligned with your divine nature.

Ready to transform your relationship with reality? Explore Allura's podcast or website for guided meditations and discover how you might step beyond the limitations of your current perception into a more expansive way of being.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to Alura Hallowell
• 5:50 Spontaneous Awakening Experience
• 10:11 Core Human Wounds and Patterns
• 17:58 Past Life Connections and Healing
• 22:18 Breaking Trauma Cycles and Patterns
• 27:33 The Consciousness Method Mentorship Program
• 32:14 Transformational Stories and Final Thoughts

Transcript

Speaker 1: 2:30

So welcome everybody to another episode of Balm to the Soul, and I'm your host, natasha Joy Price, and I'm a lawyer, I'm an energy therapist, I'm an author and, of course, I'm a podcaster. And today we have a lovely new guest who I'm excited to talk to, and she's called Alura Hallowell. So welcome, alura. Thank you so much for coming on to the podcast.

Speaker 2: 2:55

Thank you for having me, Natasha. I'm really looking forward to this conversation.

Speaker 1: 2:59

Yeah, so am I. So, Allura, you are a spiritual awakening, mentor and creator of the consciousness method. So let's talk about the consciousness method, because this fascinates me. I was looking at your website and all the testimonials. So how did it come about? How did you discover this method of helping people?

Speaker 2: 3:22

Yeah, beautiful question. So I had a very spontaneous and radical awakening, seven years ago now, where I had an out-of-body experience during a meditation retreat, which was not there was no plant medicine or no kind of calling to have that experience, but it just happened to me very naturally and spontaneously and I actually my consciousness moved out of my body and basically like I died, it went into the light and from the light into the void and I had this very incredible sense of really being cut from my past experience of who I was, my programs, my identity, my emotional being. And when I came back into my body I kind of opened my eyes and I was like where am I and what am I doing here? And very few people were able to help me integrate back into being in a body and being as a human, you know, having a human experience and I found it very disorientating.

Speaker 2: 4:26

But at the same time I was like, wow, what does it actually mean to be human? Like what are we actually dealing with? What is, how is reality designed? Why in my body am I feeling so unsettled and unsafe, even if there's not really a threat in front of me? This emotional unsafety, this nervous system unsafety, these thought forms and I was feeling this sense of disconnection from living the true divine life that I could feel when I left my body. I was like, wow, we're all, we're energy, we're consciousness, we're profoundly amazing divine beings. Why do we live in this limitation and separation? And that was the beginning of the of the process to find the consciousness method.

Speaker 1: 5:11

Wow, that sounds amazing, and it's true, though, isn't it? We, as humans, we live in a very confined way, don't we? We live in this reality, we live in this body, and they always talk about when you leave your body. It's so light and you know, and we're living in this really heavy place, and there must be reasons for why we want to experience that. What do we want to learn from that, really?

Speaker 2: 5:39

Yes, and that's something that I really felt very consciously was that when my consciousness split from being connected to everything in the void of all of consciousness and came into a human experience, it was really so I could be in perception of life, because without that, when we're in the all, obviously we don't have enough separation from everything to be here.

Speaker 2: 6:04

So I was like well, how do we reconcile that? Our true nature on a very, very deep, fundamental level is our energy and our consciousness, and it's connected to everything and we have that really deep liberation. How do we actually meet the human demands of living with a nervous system, an emotional system, a memory, the capacity to recall and program things so we perceive reality in a certain way? And part of the consciousness method has been about looking at that interface between our healing and our lived reality. Because when I was trying to reintegrate back to life, I was looking for a lot of healing modalities to try to make me feel better, but I found they were great for healing in a sort of internal level. But one of the parts that I found they kind of missed was that intersection between how your healing translates to you living a different level of experience, and that's where I became very aware of the power of consciousness to bridge that gap between our inner world and the creation of our reality.

Speaker 1: 7:12

So that experience really gave you an overview which has been, yeah, helpful to to evolve the method. So you you help people that come to you to see um programs that are running in them that perhaps they need to release or that are limiting them, or do you call them fracture patterns as well, that was that must be playing over and over again. So it's a way of um breaking those patterns, if you like, or stopping those programs. So is that something that you?

Speaker 2: 7:51

focus on. Yeah well, I really discovered that we have some very core ways of designing reality that are actually default modes of nature. So if you look around in nature, there's repetitive patterns everywhere. Things move in cycles and repetition. And repetition when we're creating something is almost like the default. It's the easy way just to replicate the same thing over and over again.

Speaker 2: 8:16

And I found, as humans, when we split from this source of the all, we experience a form of fracture, because we come from being energy, limitless, divine, eternal, into a limited kind of separate, defined version of ourselves. And that fracture in and of itself is something we have to kind of reconcile. Even if it's unconscious, even if you've never really thought about it, there's a part of us that's aware we're human and divine. From that initial fracture we then have senses that perceive the world around us and we're trying to create a sense of safety that we're safe in the world around us and in this era that we're in predominantly, we're mainly physically safe, unless we've experienced, you know, physical abuse as a child. But we're physically safe, but on an emotional level we're not actually feeling particularly safe and we begin to look outside of ourselves to realize am I really loved? Is there a level of love here that is loving to me? Am I really enough? Am I really worthy of this experience? Am I really known or understood?

Speaker 2: 9:31

And I began to see there's three core wounds that all of humanity has which is feeling unloved, unworthy and unknown. Which is misunderstood or unsafe, or unseen or unheard. And from that part I began to realize all humans are gathering evidence to confirm these beliefs. So we're actually co-creating in the reality where we're repeating the same thoughts, feelings and behaviours that get us the same perception of the same outcome, because it feels very familiar and safe for our nervous system, our mental systems, because we're in repetition. So, understanding that meant that I was like well, how do we unhook the program that keeps us running in repetition, that keeps us cycling through the same loops of looking for the evidence that we're not worthy, loved or known?

Speaker 1: 10:24

And our outer world reflects that, doesn't it? Like you say, we create? Well, yes, we do. Our energy creates situations to affirm that we're unloved, well, unworthy, and we're unknown, doesn't it? Again and again?

Speaker 2: 10:38

absolutely yeah, and that's the default pattern of our sort of human experience, because in some ways we feel like, um, it doesn't feel loving, to split from source, it doesn't feel we don't feel worthy really of having this experience, we don't really feel understood. So there's kind of a flip of returning back to your true nature, which is the source of you, which means you have to break the addiction of continually trying to see your lack, see your separation, see the repetition of the patterns that make you feel that you're not enough or not loved or understood. So orientating yourself into this very expanded sense of love, even beyond self-love, because sometimes self-love can be a little bit distorted, and we can find that we're trying to find self-love because we don't feel like things are loving. And we can find that we're trying to find self-love because we don't feel like things are loving. It's more of a universal source love that we're looking to find and then a deep sense of worthiness that just because we're here is evidence that we're worthy to have this human experience.

Speaker 2: 11:45

Yeah, we're already proving that because we're already existing and our evolutionary path gives us so many options to keep evolving our soul expression, our human expression. In connection and the fact that we can then also realize that we're safe within ourselves, we're knowing ourselves, we're safe within our emotional experience, we're safe with our pain, we're safe with our nervous system, we're safe with understanding that we can challenge our programs, our patterns, our limitations. Then we have this divine knowing that we're destined to be here and we're destined to have this human experience and create a beautiful life for ourselves.

Speaker 1: 12:27

Yeah, and that we can achieve so much more than we think we can achieve Absolutely. So my next question doesn't seem like a question now that we've talked about all that, but I was going to talk to you about you know. So if we've had a trauma when we a child, we will. How that has made us feel will be reflected in relationships going forward. But it's almost like you're talking and then I was going to say you know, can sometimes that be reflected from past life traumas? Because I'm a past life regression therapist. So to me I always see the soul as being across many lifetimes and you know we're repeating that healing. So can it come from past life? And then, talking to you, it's almost like it's the whole soul journey. It's not. It's almost like you don't compartmentalized to this life, past life, it's the whole. It's almost like that's too I don't know what the word is, yeah, limited, yeah it.

Speaker 1: 13:31

It's about connecting that fracture from the whole universe, from the whole, whatever you call that spirit or yeah, source.

Speaker 2: 13:41

I could not agree with you more. And I found through my exploration how interconnected the now is to all space and time. So when I was going through, you know this, this deep awakening after my experience, I did have a lot of multi-dimensional access and I was able to see lots of iterations of me through time and space, and then I began to experiment. I began to experiment what happens when I unhook a pattern or a program that's running through my nervous system, that's causing me to go into survival, which means I'm trying to find a way to be safe because I'm fearing a certain relationship, a certain way of interacting, a certain way of things being in my life. What happens if I shift that?

Speaker 2: 14:28

Now and I had the beautiful insight to see everything is a fractal, like a kaleidoscope. So if you shift one piece in this lifetime, you're shifting all lifetimes through all time and space, because they're all connected. And so then we experience a true liberation because everything is evolving and I find this with the people I work with. You're shifting the kaleidoscope of your journey, but you're also shifting the kaleidoscope of the reality around you. So I'm finding the people that you're interacting with also upgrade and evolve in response to your evolution. Yeah, so it's phenomenal when you tune into the consciousness that connects everything.

Speaker 1: 15:07

Yeah, that's really powerful, and actually I've always thought that if you do past life work, or if you do this, any energy work, you're actually shifting your future existences Absolutely. It's like a ripple, isn't it? So, yeah, all time and space yeah, so incredibly powerful.

Speaker 1: 15:26

I was also going to ask you, you know, if, if we work on a trauma, say from our childhood and we've done a lot of work on that does it sort of leave in your experience a scar almost that still sort of reflects, because sometimes people have worked on that over and over and I'm still experiencing that. Is it like the emotions have gone, but actually there is a sort of an imprint or a residue. I don't know what.

Speaker 2: 15:52

You'd call it a scar there, yeah, so what I find is there's a lot of internal work we do on these trauma experiences. However, the aspect of that trauma still unconsciously imprinting on our reality is another piece of the journey entirely, because I've worked with so many people that have done decades, almost decades of work, like so many modalities, over and over and over again, and they've got to this frustration where it's like I feel like I've healed this. But there's a very important aspect which I think a lot of people miss is that we have an unconscious addiction to repeating the patterns of our trauma because they feel very familiar and known. So there's a very strange space that we have to identify in the consciousness where you're unconsciously repeating the looping of the trauma, even though you feel like it's being healed within you, and a lot of the consciousness work is about illuminating where you are still operating unconscious in that sphere. So say, for example, I'll work with a say, for example, I've worked with a woman who had a lot of childhood trauma with her father and she was working very hard to heal this trauma internally, like physical and emotional abuse, and she kept attracting partners that were projecting the same patterns for her and she was finding herself in the same loops, despite her high level of awareness and her inner work.

Speaker 2: 18:22

So I supported her to stretch her nervous system beyond her known pattern of reality, which meant she went into places where she did not feel comfortable to go, but ultimately were the places where she was moving past the limitations of her pattern. And in her case it meant me actively supporting her to go on a second, third date with a man that was divinely beautiful and caring and emotional, but she didn't feel the attraction to. But the attraction was coming from the place of her unconscious wounding. So I encouraged her to stretch her nervous system and connect with this man in another, on another level. And now they're going ahead and getting married. They're actually, you know, and she's, she's healed that cycle Right.

Speaker 2: 19:10

And she on the third date was like I'm not going back there and I said, no, this is a safe place to go. The illusion is that this is unsafe because you're not familiar with this part of the reality. So we're stretching past the confines of our nervous system, our programming, to create a new version of reality which is different to what we think is safe. Because we create this from our wounds, we go. That's all. That's safe. We can't go beyond that, but we use the unconscious part to go. No, we have to work with reality to get that safety, and I think that's the difference between the inner healing and the outer healing.

Speaker 1: 19:49

Yeah, yes, because the unfamiliar, although safe, doesn't feel good and the familiar, although not good for you, feels good because it's familiar. But actually that's incredibly hard to do without somebody supporting you, isn't it? Because it's you feel like you are putting yourself in an unsafe position. So you, in your mentorship, you are, you work with people, don't you? And you're constantly. They can text you in situations like that and talk to you and say I'm feeling like this.

Speaker 2: 20:23

I have people in family situations, in work situations, in health situations wanting to default back to the program and, because of my capacity to be aware of their consciousness, I'll often say no, we're not going to go there, we're going to.

Speaker 2: 20:41

I'm going to support you and hold you to stretch into this other place and it feels like you're going to die because there's a part of you that's held the pain in your body so tightly and there's so much fear wrapped around that pain to protect that pain in your body, which is a big part of my work creating pain as a portal to ultimate liberation as opposed to supporting the fear around that pain that keeps us in limitation. So I teach people how to use their pain as the purest portal of opening the stored, dense, stagnant energy in their body that's creating these timelines unconsciously. And when you open that energy, you open a level of reality and I find people time and time again going oh my gosh, I can now see, feel, experience things from another level because I'm not fearing the pain that's caught in my body, so I don't have to fear my life in the same way that's hard though, isn't it?

Speaker 1: 21:50

energy healing is not a quick fix, is it? You have really? Got to work hard at it and want to do that oh my, my gosh.

Speaker 2: 22:01

Yes, and this is something I would say. It's even beyond our energy. It's almost our reality, our relationship to our reality, which is kind of all-encompassing. And I work so consciously with people to reclaim their energy from the reality of the patterns and the programs that have stifled their experience. So for me, the work with the energy is about a reclamation from our wounded patterns. So, instead of addictively putting our energy into the same loops, we're bringing our energy back and we're creating internal safety and a deep level of peace and being supported to hold that in your body so you don't, like an addict, feel like you have to go and just complete that addiction by getting that relief.

Speaker 2: 22:48

It's almost like, so say, a person's in a relationship and it's not serving them in the early days and they want to keep messaging and having contact, it's like, and that feels safe because they get the same familiar response of the abandonment right, because they're self-abandoning. So it's about saying, listen, we're gonna hold you in that place where you bring all your energy back and you sink into where is the deep pain below this design and you feel the depth of your own abandonment. You feel when you were abandoned as a child and you go into the depths of that pain, release that pain internally and then you don't have to keep addictively trying to get an external fix because something's shifted within you. And then it's like, wow, I feel liberated, I don't even need to go back there, I can feel and see why that's not healthy for me.

Speaker 2: 23:40

Yeah yeah, so it's very, very powerful it's an amazing interface which I think is really underrated in the healing world in terms of what that space, what the power of that space in between us and our external experience yeah, absolutely so.

Speaker 1: 24:00

Do you work it with in the mentorship program? Do you work with people for a long time? Because I can imagine that this can take let's repeat that a sort of it can be like ongoing until somebody clicks, something clicks and somebody, and they get it yeah, so it's a three-month experience to begin with, which is daily support, so you can message me daily to get that daily reflection and support.

Speaker 2: 24:26

I find most people will do the three months to process their very large traumas and come into a kind of a settled nervous system state and then often people will come for a second three months to do very fine tuning of creation. So it may be that, okay, they've ended their relationship patterns that haven't served them. The next round is really about stretching into the creation of that new reality or they've ended the traumatic job that is like exhausting them and draining them and they feared leaving because it's their survival mode and the next zone is moving into purpose or whatever it is it's like. So, to be honest, it's around a six-month journey for most of the people I work with, but the mentorship itself is 12 weeks and it's unique in that in each week I teach you a process that you can go on to use.

Speaker 2: 25:22

So most of the the beautiful humans I've worked with actually have embodied the consciousness method in themselves. They have a direct relationship to consciousness, because my belief is that I'm not here to hold the keys or be the one that you know gatekeeps this awareness. I want to teach everyone how to use it for themselves, so that you can go on to keep evolving through your lifetime, because we never stop at the evolution. The evolution keeps coming through us. We keep getting challenged. It's how do you meet that challenge? And if you have tools where you're like, oh my gosh, I'm going to go, process that pain, stretch my nervous system, really understand the truth versus illusion in this program, reclaim my energy or, you know, work through the other processes, you're like, oh my gosh, I know what to do here and people liberate themselves ongoing, which is so powerful very powerful and I suspect you have people that come and don't realize that they have deep trauma and that it comes up during the process, because a lot of people aren't conscious of that, are they?

Speaker 1: 26:28

No? But it gives them that space to start seeing it.

Speaker 2: 26:36

And it's so interesting because it's one of those things where people don't realise that you can actually shift and change everything. So you know, I had a woman start with me a couple of months ago and she just first called. She said my mother's a narcissist. I never want anything to do with her. It was just point blank. That's what that is. That will never change.

Speaker 2: 26:57

And I challenged that space and I challenged her and I challenged her relationship with her mother and she went on to really question her mother deeply about her own pain and to begin to understand her mother's pain and to understand her pain.

Speaker 2: 27:12

In reflection of that pain and as she expanded awareness and moved out of a very limited concept of what something was, she's now she's traveling with her mom. Right now actually they they're on a trip together, they've actually like completely reconciled and she's aware of who her mother is, but she has the internal capacity to be connected and safe within herself, that her mother doesn't feel like a threat and she understands her mother on another level. So that's just one example of places where people are like there's no way I could leave my job, there's no way I can save that relationship, there's no way I could look or feel different or have my purpose come through and I'm like everything is malleable, everything in reality we can shift. There's nothing I've met that I can't support people with, and I'm not saying that because it's me. I'm saying that because I don't believe we're here to be victims of reality.

Speaker 1: 28:11

No, we're here to be the conscious creators yeah so everything, not just be in survival mode all the time. Yeah, absolutely, and it's like that method gives people the tools to start to start doing that, just shifting what they need to shift very, very powerful. And you also use meditations as well, don't you within that, and other tools to sort of unhook, as you say, those, those patterns?

Speaker 2: 28:42

yeah, so over the 12 weeks there's 12 processes and there's a short one that goes for 11 minutes and then there's a longer form one, and each of those processes shows you how to work with reality and your energy and your programming and your pain and your fear.

Speaker 2: 28:58

So, within those processes and I often say to people, because some people are like I'm not good at meditating, I'm like don't meditate because it's too much. I don't want you to clear your mind I want you to put on the process and I want you to feel in your body how it activates you, what you think, what you feel. Some people do them walking, some people do them while they're doing the dishes and they're downloading consciousness in that moment. So I'd say they're like processes to access more consciousness, because I think for our minds to sit and just be still and try and clear our mind and focus, it's just not aligning for where we are in our human evolution. So they're very active processes and I find if someone's triggered, they'll go and they'll do that process and then they'll have this awareness coming through and they'll be like, oh my gosh, I don't have to respond automatically, I have this other way to go. Go through this now, yeah, so it's, yeah, it's a great, a great tool to support people.

Speaker 1: 29:55

Yeah yeah, I like that. They can do it. Doing other things, I think that's it's much more. You know the people who have very overactive minds and you know it can be difficult, and your mentorship is directed at anybody presumably. Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 2: 30:14

Anybody at all.

Speaker 1: 30:16

Anybody who?

Speaker 2: 30:16

just Corporate mums and dads yeah.

Speaker 2: 30:20

Yeah, anyone I often find it calls people that have been doing levels of work and feeling like oh, oh, I know so much about myself, why can't I break through? Um, that's kind of the people that I find come. I feel like it's kind of like the last kind of space. But then I also get people that are having an awakening and they're going oh my gosh, I don't know what's going on for me and a lot of new awarenesses are coming through. I don't know what to do with them. So I'm like okay, let's go through this and really work to connect you to yourself and your consciousness so you can use this time in a really powerful way. So it's always just beginning the journey and those that are on it, but it's always someone that's self-reflexive, usually like self-reflective and sensitive sensitive beings that are like this is a hard thing to do to be a human.

Speaker 1: 31:10

I'm like, yeah, it is tough, I get it, let's work on this together.

Speaker 2: 31:14

It's hard.

Speaker 1: 31:14

Yeah, definitely. I think this is the hardest place, apparently. Yeah it's tough, a difficult approach. It sounds amazing and incredibly powerful. So thank you for explaining that, laura.

Speaker 2: 31:31

it's really really interesting to listen to you talk about it yeah, and thank you for your questions and your um, your energy to to understand, because I really appreciate that and I think for a method like this, it's not known, it's not a set, you know, it's not NLP, it's not Reiki, it's not psychology, it's a whole new concept of understanding how reality works and I think, yeah, to have your curiosity really helps me to express that. So, thank you.

Speaker 1: 32:03

Oh no, I find it fascinating. It's energy healing really, isn't it? It's.

Speaker 2: 32:08

It's looking at who we are energetically yes, and how we create those patterns in reality?

Speaker 1: 32:15

yeah, yeah, well, it's been fascinating and I will put all your details up underneath the episode so people can just contact you for, like, a discovery call or they're interested in working with you.

Speaker 2: 32:29

Absolutely a discovery call, or you can have a look at some of my meditations and things available on my website, and also I have a podcast called the Consciousness Method where I talk to people that have done this work and have masterclasses so you can kind of feel in it what's possible, so you can connect so you can kind of feel in it what's possible, so you can connect.

Speaker 1: 32:52

Yes, I listened to um one of your podcasts the other day about relationships, which was it's really, and it's great because it makes you. It makes you look at things in a different way and I think as soon as somebody does that, the healing starts immediately on some level, doesn't it that you are able to shift your you know, perception on things?

Speaker 2: 33:13

Absolutely. It's just an activation and I think it's just pushing into the places where we just think it's a status quo and we're like, oh actually there's something else here.

Speaker 1: 33:22

Yeah, exactly. So just listening to that on your podcast, those episodes can help people in itself, can't?

Speaker 2: 33:31

can't yeah to know that there's more available, and I do have a series of different master classes that are on that podcast, so you can tune in on that as well, for sure fascinating.

Speaker 1: 33:41

Well, thank you, laura. Thank you so much. It's been lovely to meet you over there in Australia.

Speaker 2: 33:48

Yes, thank you so much. It's been an honour to be here and thank you so much for taking the time to interview me.

Speaker 1: 33:54

Absolute pleasure. So if you've enjoyed listening to me and Allura, please like and you can always comment on my Balm to the Soul Facebook page and I'll speak to you all soon.