Before she found the practice and tools of Access Consciousness, Kristina Aston was conducting her own lifelong search for the one thing that would make her feel at home in the universe. “From childhood, I sought a sense of belonging. After I found the pragmatic tools of this modality, I stopped,” says the Access Consciousness certified facilitator, who teaches classes and offers one-on-one sessions at Be Well Natural Health Clinic, in Naples.

Aston recalls that the relentless search for the next thing or person with the answers about how to live a more fulfilling life had its seeds in her youth. “I always just wanted to go home. When I was little and at home in my bedroom, the thought, ‘I want to go home’ would pop into my head. I’d say to myself, ‘But wait a minute, I am in my home! Where is it I want to go?’ I was convinced that there had been a big mistake, because I was where I didn’t belong,” explains Aston.

For at least 20 years, Aston learned modality after modality. “Each time I thought I found what I was looking for whenever a teacher said, ‘Master this and you can achieve all your goals.’ As a result, I became certified in many different modalities. Initially, I was enthused and excited to learn the new technique. I immersed myself in it and after months or years of the practice, I would realize that I wasn’t getting results. I felt as though there was something wrong with me,” she says.

Aston doesn’t like to name specific modalities that she’s experienced and been certified in, but she does like to joke about them. “I’ve exhausted every different system there is. I played by rules of the reality I was living in, went to school, got good grades, graduated and got a job. None of that ever brought fulfillment. I’ve been organized, aligned, adjusted, activated, reactivated, attuned, reset, rebirthed, regressed, reconnected, toned, downloaded and cleansed,” she quips.

Inspired by the Buddha’s commitment to sit under the Bodhi tree to meditate until he became enlightened, Aston determined that she would commit to giving up her quest. “I stopped going to workshops, quit reading and decided to just be. After one year, a friend recommended that I listen to an online recording of an Access Consciousness facilitator who sounded extraordinarily happy with her life. I listened to it again, which I didn’t generally do. I signed up for her next teleseries, which resulted in me listening to a call with the co-founder, Dane Heer, Ph.D. He spoke in terms of results achieved through tools that worked with a whole living system, as well as the body-mind-spirit connection. His explanations appealed to me in ways that I hadn’t heard before,” advises Aston.

Until Aston put into practice what she learned from Access Consciousness, nothing changed significantly. “I now have the feeling that I have a purpose and I belong here. I’m happy and fulfilled, as well as joyfully teaching others how to use tools that empower them to look at the stories they are trapped in. They use the tools to discover the thoughts, feelings emotions, projections and fantasies about how things are supposed to be, and how to trust that they know they know,” notes Aston.

Access Consciousness’s pragmatic, simple tools allow Aston’s class participants and private clients to change what isn’t working in their life. “Everyone has an issue that they want to change—health, money, career, relationships, weight loss, parenting, etc. Rarely does anyone have life totally managed. Rather, they are trapped in a story and locked into a reality that they keep repeating. I meet them where they are and they empower themselves to create their own reality, based on what they want,” says Aston.

Be Well Natural Health Clinic, 1032 Goodlette Rd., Naples. For more information, call 305-331-7456 or visit KristinaAston.accessconsciousness.com.