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I am a HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist working in West London and Berkshire, providing psychological therapies to enhance emotional/psychological well- being.
29/10/2025
Shadow Work — The Sikhi Way
We all carry shadows — the unhealed emotions, fears, and patterns that quietly shape our lives.
Modern psychology calls it shadow work.
In Sikhi, it’s the same inner journey —
but instead of analysing the darkness, we bring it into the light of Naam.
When we sit in Simran, and our attention rests in the sound of Waheguru,
the noise of thoughts begins to fade.
What arises is not suppression — but transformation.
The five thieves — kaam, krodh, lobh, moh, ahankar —
start losing their power.
The mind begins to die into the internal shabad/Naam—
and what remains is light.
“One who dies into the sacred vibration of Naam lives in eternal bliss.”
— Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, Ang 364
This is the true inner battle —
not fought through resistance,
but through surrender to the Divine Presence within.
Through Naam, the Guru fights for us.
This is the real shadow work — the Sikh way.
🌙 Next we’ll go deeper… into Sunn — the stillness beyond mind.
Where even the battle ceases,
and the mind rests in its original peace.
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✨ Save & share this reflection to revisit when you feel the weight of your inner world.
24/10/2025
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21/10/2025
✨ Bandi Chor Divas — Liberation from Within ✨
Today, on Bandi chor Divas, we remember Guru Hargobind Sahib Ji,
who walked free from Gwalior Fort — but refused to leave until 52 princes were freed with him.
This isn’t just a story of the past —
it’s a living reflection of what happens inside of us at any given moment.
Because the greatest prison is not built of walls —
it’s built of the subconscious mind.
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🌿 The Inner Prison
Our mind, too, is trapped —
not in a fortress of stone, but in a fortress of habits, beliefs, fears, and traumas
We are held captive by the Panj Chor —
lust, anger, greed, attachment, and ego —
and by the subconscious patterns they create within us.
We long to live illuminated by divine light and wisdom,
but our conditioning pulls us back into old ways of being.
“Dukh sukh darwāje dūe, tis vich āvai jāe.”
Pain and pleasure are two doors — through them, the mind keeps passing back and forth.
— Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, Ang 1526
This is the real prison —
when the mind moves endlessly between seeking pleasure and experiencing pain,
forgetting the stillness and bliss of its true home.
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🔥 The Real Bandi chor
Guru Hargobind Sahib Ji is called Bandi chor— the Liberator.
And within us, that same Divine Power — Naam — is what frees the mind today.
When we meditate on Naam,
the vibration begins to touch the subconscious layers.
Every repetition of Waheguru loosens another chain —
fear, attachment, ego, old stories.
Through Simran, the Guru doesn’t just open an outer gate —
He opens the inner gates of consciousness.
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🕊 Real Freedom
True freedom isn’t doing whatever the mind wants —
it’s being free from the mind’s compulsions.
When the light of Naam and Aatma shines through,
the Panj Chor lose their power,
and the mind that was once imprisoned
becomes radiant, peaceful, and free.
✨ Bandishor isn’t just history —
it’s a living truth within you.
Every time your mind connects with Waheguru, is in alignment with Naam
you become your own Bandi chor. ✨
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20/10/2025
✨ Reprogramming the Subconscious Mind — the Sikhi Way ✨
We hear so much about “reprogramming the subconscious mind.” because it is now well known that it is the subconscious mind that determines our perceptions, responses, traits, behaviours etc.
From affirmations to hypnosis and visualization — the world offers many ways to rewire our thoughts, beliefs, habits, conditioning.
But what does it mean to transform the subconscious through Sikhi?
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🌿 The Gurmat Lens
Gurbani calls the subconscious conditioning “maal” (spiritual dirt) created by the punj chor within us over many lifetimes.
These impressions cover the light of the Atma.
So reprogramming isn’t about adding new beliefs —
it’s about cleansing the mind so it can reflect divine light again.
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🔥 What Happens During Simran
When we do Naam Simran, the brainwaves slow down —
from busy beta into calm alpha and theta states.
This is the same state we lived in as children —
open, imaginative, deeply receptive —
the very state where the subconscious was formed.
Through Simran, we re-enter that space (‘sunn’)
And it’s infused with the vibration of Naam.
We’re not just reprogramming —
we’re bathing the mind in Naam.
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🌸 From Akhri Naam to Anhad Shabad
As we chant Akhri Naam — the spoken repetition of Waheguru — and listen to the sound of our voice (the ‘dhun’)
the scattered mind begins to unify.
When thought falls silent,
the Anhad Shabad, the unstruck sound, arises within.
This Sehaj Dhun — the inner vibration of Naam —
is what truly transforms the mind.
Here, reprogramming ends and awakening begins.
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💠 To reprogram your subconscious mind and experience true transformation—
you need to surrender it to the Sound of the Divine.
Let Naam do the healing. 💠
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19/10/2025
✨ Healing the Inner Child — the Sikhi Way ✨
I’m often asked whether we can heal or fix our inner child through Sikhi — through Simran.
It can feel confusing — there’s so much information out there about healing from a mainstream psychological perspective, and it’s definitely valuable.
But many of us long to heal by connecting with Sikhi, and we wonder:
“How does it all fit together?”
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🌸 Healing the Inner Child through the Light of the Atma
Your inner child doesn’t need to be fixed —
it needs to be embraced by your own divine light.
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🧠 Psychology meets Gurmat
In modern psychology (like IFS), the inner child is the tender part of us that carries old pain, unmet needs, and emotional wounds.
From a Gurmat (Sikhi) lens, this “inner child” isn’t who we truly are —
it’s the layers of conditioning (Gurbani refers to as mail or dirt) that have gathered around the mind and place a veil between our mind and the light of the Atma, our divine essence.
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🔥 What Gurbani says
Gurbani teaches that our true self (Atma) is pure, radiant, and untouched by trauma — Jot Saroop.
It’s only the mind that forgets, buried under thoughts, habits, beliefs, and emotional scars.
Healing isn’t about fixing the brokenness —
it’s about removing the layers that hide the light.
“Man tu jot saroop hai, apna mool pachhan.”
O mind, you are the embodiment of divine light — recognize your essence.
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🌿 What real healing looks like
When we connect with the Atma — through Naam Simran—
that divine awareness itself becomes the healing force.
The light of the Self naturally soothes the wounded parts, softens the protectors, and restores harmony within.
In this space, the “inner child” is no longer broken —
it becomes embraced by the Divine Parent within.
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🕊 Practice
Every time you bring your attention to Naam, through the Gurmantar, you are letting the divine light touch those forgotten corners of your being.
That is the real inner child work — Naam as therapy.
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🌸 Summary
The mind-child within doesn’t need fixing —
it needs to re-establish the connection to the One who was never hurt.
✨ Sit. And bring your attention to the Gurmantar.
Let your light do the healing. ✨
18/10/2025
Join us for an uplifting evening of
Kirtan , simran
Inspirational English & Punjabi katha
Where we learn the tools to stay in high vibration, in alignment to Naam and to overcome the forces within, the punj chor, the subconscious habits, conditioning that pull us into unawareness, into Maya’s realm.
Dhan dhan Guru Hargobind Sahib ji who embodied this wisdom
08/10/2025
The psychological and spiritual legacy of Guru Tegh Bahadur jis shaheedi
17/07/2025
Sometimes, the most powerful transformations happen in silence, sangat, and Simran.
This heartfelt testimonial was shared anonymously by someone who attended last October’s Simran Camp in Slough — and whose journey will stay with us forever.
🙏 If you’re feeling lost, seeking clarity, or simply want to connect to Naam in a deeper way — this camp could be for you too.
📍Gurdwara Singh Sabha, Sheehy Way Slough, SL2 5SS | 24th-27th July 2025
📩 DM us any questions
17/07/2025
Vaheguru ji ka Khalsa Vaheguru ji ki fateh
This is the updated timetable for next weeks Slough Sikh meditation camp
No you don’t have to attend the whole camp so please feel free to drop in
Children are welcome and in fact encouraged There will be 2-3 specialised children’s sessions each day
Talks in English and Punjabi
Hours of simran - guided to allow the mind to truly immerse in the powerful practice of Naam simran
Stay tuned for some testimonials and footage demonstrating how life changing these camps have been for people in the past
With Gurusahibs Kirpa we look forward to welcoming you and having your sangat
Vaheguru ji ka Khalsa Vaheguru ji ki fateh
10/07/2025
Just taking a break
Book in before / after the dates given above if you would like a session
All the best, Darshan Kaur
30/06/2025
Let’s get our questions answered
20/06/2025
As the mind practices chanting the Gurmantar and listening intently to the sound (dhun) of the Gurmantar, with love, Gurbani tells us that mind enters into a deep state of consciousness, a sleep like state described in Gurbani as ‘Sunn’, the minds True Home. ‘Sunn samadh sache ghar bara’
The mind may enter this state, then leave this state, then re-enter many times during meditation.
Jeevat mare mare phun jeevai aise sun samaye’ (Ang 332, Sggsji)
In this state the mind is learning to detach from the body and learning to enter into the spiritual realm. The seeker experiences a deep feeling of relaxation in this state and feels re-energised on waking.
Through spending more and more time in this state, the mind starts to awaken and is able to start to experience the spiritual realm with its subtle faculties or senses (sookham gyan indareea ). This is where the mind starts to hear the Naam, anhad bani. The sound of Vahegurujis voice ‘tera mukh suhaava jeeo Sehaj dhun bani’
This is where the mind becomes cleansed from lifetime upon lifetime of accumulated ‘dirt’ (thoughts, conditioning, belief system, habits) and we start to experience true transformation in our character, personalities & emotional reactivity.
We experience such a feeling of bliss, wholeness and completeness that our attachment and desire for things in the material realm starts to disssolve ‘Trishna boojai har ke naam.
Sangat ji, let us come together and experience the transformational power of Naam 🧡🙏🏽🧡
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Send a message to Dr Darshan Kaur- Clinical Psychologist:
My name is Darshan Kaur and I am a Clinical Psychologist working in West London and Berkshire. I am trained to work with adults and children with a range of mental health difficulties, and I have been working in the NHS since 2014.
I am a mother of two young children, and I am a Sikh from an Asian Indian Background. This very much informs my work; becoming a mother has made me even more passionate about supporting positive mental health in parents and children, and I feel that my ethnic background gives me special insight into issues around how members of my community may make sense of their mental health difficulties, how others respond to mental health concerns, and the process of seeking help.
My experience
I completed my Doctorate at UCL in 2014, and since this time have been working in the NHS with adults and teenagers with chronic health problems. I worked in the Spinal Injuries Centre, Stoke Mandeville Hospital and in the Diabetes Centre and Chronic pain Service at Buckinghamshire NHS trust.
I have experience in providing psychotherapy to adults and children, and working with couples and families. However the majority of my experience is with adults with mental health difficulties.
My approach
I appreciate that it can be difficult to seek help and talk about personal difficulties, and it is not easy to trust that your therapist will listen without judgment to the difficulties that bring you to therapy. I would describe my approach as friendly, and down-to-earth, and I endeavour to provide a confidential, supportive, non judgmental space for my patients to feel able to explore their feelings fully, and to work together to find a way forward with their difficulties.
Some of the therapies offered include: CBT, Mindfulness, and Acceptance and Commitment therapy. The therapeutic approach I offer is always tailored to the individual's needs.
Areas of work:
I work with the following difficulties (however this list is not exhaustive, and I would encourage you to make contact even if your difficulties don’t seem to fit into the following categories):
Anxiety, depression, self esteem, grief and loss, anger, trauma, phobia, social anxiety, panic attacks
Chronic health problems (chronic pain, Diabetes type 1 and 2)
Support for mums to be and new mums (hypnobirthing, breastfeeding support, post-birth trauma work, post natal depression, parenting work).
The process- what to expect:
It is not uncommon for people to be unsure if psychological therapy is for them. I offer an initial consultation which will give you an insight into the therapy process, and will allow us to have a discussion about how we can work together to move forward with your difficulties.
