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5 Natural Laws - An Introduction

1/11/2020

Nature is beautiful ~ and its laws are self-sustaining & absolute.

Nature is a beautiful undulation of interweaving forces, the kind & the cruel, the graceful & awkward, the scary & adorable. But within all of that, are self-sustaining and self-governing principles held in a self-organising system that has integrity.

Even with all its moving parts and expansive diversity.

So much can be learnt from nature.

In fact, many science theories and concepts that are learnt in schools were brought through just with the observation of nature.

Nature has nothing to prove. It just is.

And through its observation, we can find analogies for our own lives, using these consistent and self-sustaining principles. Everything is available, if your eyes are open enough to see.

5 Natural Laws
The 5 natural laws I focus on are (in no particular order, as they are inter-weaving):

The law of TENSION – tension seeks to resolve.
The law of STRUCTURE (also cause & effect) – structure determines behaviour. Change the structure, change the behaviour.
The law of CYCLE –predictable cycles occur along the same vibration. Cycles aren’t personal, nothing is permanent, there is more than 1 cycle.
The law of GENDER – masculine & feminine principles in unison create. The anima & the animus.
The law of RESONANCE – vibrational entrainment influences.

There are more laws, however these are enough and powerful in themselves when used with the right application.

5 Natural Laws in application
The laws are constantly interweaving within each other, around each other, because nature is a whole system, not just the sum of its parts. All parts contribute, and you can use laws against laws to shift the ecosystem.

We are little pods of ecosystems in a larger whole.

Many of us want to contribute beneficial change to our lives, our community and the world. Is this you as well?

But most of us live subjected to these laws & forces, rather than using them for a beneficial outcome for all. Sometimes everything is working in harmony, so there’s nothing to tweak. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

And then there’s all the other times. When you know that something isn’t right. When events like Covid-19 highlight the holes in the system, in our own daily lives and well-being… what do we do then?

Do we bury ourselves into a hole and hope things pass (they will – law of cycles… nothing is permanent until death, and even then…), or do we realise that we can use these laws in our favour and adapt?

If you are someone who wishes to be a force of beneficial change, for your personal ecosystem or a greater ecosystem, then mastering your responses in relation to these laws are imperative. Whether you are conscious of them or not, they exist and continue to exist.

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Fear of Copying & Criticism When Creating Your Healing Style

28/8/2020

Creating your own healing modality is a bit of a bumpy ride. Exciting yes… also nerve-wracking at times.

When you learn a modality from someone else, you can ask questions to your teacher/mentors and even your colleagues. There could even be a professional association that has your back and a bunch of social media or student practice groups set up that you can join to feel part of the community.

When you create your own modality, you are on your own (that is, unless you are co-creating it with someone). If by yourself, you don’t have an authority to give you guidance.

In fact, you don’t even have someone who could tell you what you’re doing wrong. Because it hasn’t been fully crystallised yet… YOU are the person who works that out.

Everything out. The scope, the limitations, what’s needed to overcome challenges. What is the correct way to use the technique, what is the incorrect way. Who it’s best for.

Everything.

This is why it can be nerve-wracking at times.

But it’s also extremely fulfilling.

If you have that creative streak and perhaps even a little rebellion to step outside the norm, then this journey will satisfy your Soul.

But one worry that could come up for healers who want to create their own style or modality is that there will be a backlash.

Someone will think their style isn’t different enough (aka copying), their teachers won’t like it, or it won’t be as good in comparison to others.

Response About Comparison
Who are we to judge?

It’s like judging a painting or book or baby before it’s even been birthed.

There is beauty in diversity – imagine missing out on a new variation just because we were afraid to be judged or criticised.

Sometimes it takes a few iterations to get a gold nugget.

Gary Craig’s Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) was a simplified version of Thought Field Therapy (TFT) which incorporated muscle testing. A lot of the piecing together had been done by Dr Roger Callahan.

But Gary Craig wanted to make it easier & more available – so he simplified and standardised the process. Who would’ve thought that modality would explode in popularity the way it did? It was so much ‘simpler’ in comparison.

If you create a modality, then it will have its own unique signature and flavour. Just like you & me and all the other people on this earth. We are all different, comparing each of us is just a way to devalue each individual who is actually a walking miracle.

Each modality is the same.

It has its own unique purpose, gift and thread to share in the overall healing landscape.

Response About Teachers/Colleagues Disapproval
Note that Usui Reiki is not the first Reiki ever to be in existence!

Was your teacher’s modality birthed by itself? Or was it formed through an inspiration of one or more healing (or even spiritual) technique from a previous generation?

Each accepted modality has probably come across disapproval from others at some point in its journey.

And so what?

There is beauty in diversity.

And likewise, there is beauty in tradition.

Many of the Japanese branch of Reiki heavily follows Usui’s original Reiki as best as they can. Upholding the tradition is beautiful too – there’s no right or wrong in either staying traditional or branching out into diversity.

The key is to align to your truth and where you work best as a healer.

And to stay as true as you can to the thread or essence that wishes to be formed through you.

Response About Copying
And yes, copying.

Well, you and others know when something is out-right ‘copied’, versus just being inspired by someone else. You’re allowed to be inspired by others. It may have similarities, sure, but it’s not a copy.

The Impressionist art movement was started in France, not by one person, but by 4 young artists who shared a love of their version of art (& wanted to rebel the art restrictions of those times). They met at cafés to discuss and inspire one another. They didn’t ‘copy’ each other’s paintings.

Sure, Monet & Renoir were the most famous (Manet gets a special mention), but it doesn’t mean the other artists who adopted the technique were any less. They all contributed to the movement as a whole.

And yes, there have been some Reiki disputes.

The disputes were not that a new style was developed (although those dedicated to more traditional prefer traditional). The disputes were that it was a direct ‘copy’ or stolen.

The problem isn’t about going diverse… it’s going diverse and CLAIMING that it’s the original. Being truthful from the start and knowing where your style sits in the overall picture cuts through all the BS around ‘copying’.

If you haven’t done your research, of course you’re going to be nervous under the surface.

And others copying you?

Well, once it’s created, it’s created. It’ll be pretty obvious if it’s copied after that.
If in fact, it is a copy, you are welcome to do what you like about that.

BUT know that if you’re the creator, and they poured no creative energy into forming their version, then the likelihood is that they cannot share or teach it with the same understanding.

And my thoughts are, if they can teach or share my creations better than me, then good on them.

But I doubt it.

Extra tips
Some extra tips:

Never ever share your idea until you’ve formed it enough and are ready to release it into the world. Honour the essence of your idea. Choose wisely who you share it with in the early stages if it’s still fragile.
Find ways to solidify it when bringing it into the world, including having witnesses and putting it on paper (including electronic) somehow. Include dates.

Creating your own healing style or modality is no different to creating your own art style/movement.

It’s just created to work ‘through’ people rather than for people to observe.

Follow your creative flow – if the muse is calling you.

Don’t let your fears of the future hold you back.
Take the next step. Everything else will work itself out.

And if you’re a little bit (or a lot) stumped on how to get the creative juices flowing… and bring your healing modality into reality...

My online program Healer Heart Awakening supports you through the process, without having to worry about copying or criticism.

Check out more details here.

How 3 Renowned Healing Modalities Came To Be

24/8/2020

Creating a new healing modality is usually NOT an intentional process.

Like the creative arts, the muse beckons in its own time and method. Or at least that’s what it seems…! (It’s actually not).

I’ve been studying the biographies of a range of different healing modality creators and some common themes emerge. Apart from the overall process of the creation and crystallisation of the modality, there were some commonalities in the spark (or inception) of the idea.

I want to share the ways that 3 renowned healing modality creators first started their journey:

Tom Bowen, creator of Bowen Therapy
Drs Hal & Sidra Stone, creators of Voice Dialogue (originators of Parts Work)
Marian Chace, creator of Dance/Movement Therapy

All beautiful modalities, and each of them created in a different way.

BOWEN THERAPY
Bowen Therapy is a bodywork modality that uses cross-fibre technique to release the fascia (soft connective tissue) of the body. It was created by Tom Bowen, who was a carpenter back in the 1950s.

It can hard to gauge the full story of how he created Bowen Therapy, since biographies differ in detail a bit, but before he became famous for his practice and before the technique was formed, he was associated with a man named Ernie Saunders.

Ernie Saunders had a strong local reputation as a physical manipulator. He was a bodyworker who had travelled the world collecting various bodywork techniques. Ernie & Tom would spend hours talking and in this interaction, Tom began to learn & conceptualise what was to become the Bowen Technique.

This was the start of the journey. And even though the 2 men parted ways not long after this period, Tom continued on with developing this technique.

He valued a little idea/technique that had potential and proceeded to test out that potential.

VOICE DIALOGUE
Voice Dialogue (also known as the Psychology of Selves, Psychology of the Aware Ego) was created by Drs Hal & Sidra Stone in the 1970s.

Voice Dialogue is a practitioner method to talk to the parts of yourself that you’re not usually aware of, but are influencing behaviours that you don’t want in your life.

From what I understand, it was the ORIGINAL parts work which has influenced many other newer modalities that incorporate parts work into their blends. Including the Body Dialogue created by Hal’s daughter, Judith Tamar Stone.

However, at the beginning both Hal and Sidra were separately studying their practices of psychology and psychotherapy. Sidra was advised to meet Hal and she requested a few training session so she could be more effective in facilitating Jungian Psychology.

Over the session, Sidra went into the realm of the creative imagination and it started to become clear between them that this was more a joint exploration (rather than mentor/student).

After a few of those visualisations and dream processes, and with that experiences of initiation in them, they started sharing about how vulnerable and unfamiliar they were feeling in an open conversation.

Hal suddenly suggested that Sidra move over and become the ‘vulnerability’.

Sidra did that and almost immediately became like a very small child. From Hal’s point of view, she appeared to physically behave like a pre-verbal child. From Sidra’s point of view, she experienced perception changes of different sounds and colours.

As she returned back to her original seat, they sat in silence and realised something had happened. They coined it the ‘inner child part’. The first discovery of the Parts (sub-personalities).

The following week, they continued to play. This time with meeting Hal’s Inner Child and from there things started to emerge.

This modality came about through play, just being in the flow of the work.

DANCE/MOVEMENT THERAPY
Dance/Movement Therapy is an experiential form of psychotherapy, created by Marion Chace in the 1940s. It uses movement to help with integration in emotional, physical and social aspects.

Marion Chace was a dance teacher and choreographer, who noticed in her dance classes that many students were more interested in personal dancing than becoming performers. There was a noted improvement in mood and she started to shift her class to meet those needs.

Her reputation started to spread that soon local psychiatrists were sending their patients for classes. And then she was even invited to work at a federal psychiatric hospital.

The story goes from here, as she continue to develop her therapy as she continued to create and tailor to those needs that were presented to her.

In Summary
And to summarise, the 3 common ways that I’ve observed healing modalities become created are:

1 - Through observation in the real world of a need, AND observing something that meets that need
2 - Just playing… being in the flow of your work – and something emerges
3 - A little idea/technique learnt that you know has potential & testing out that potential.

In fact, I’d say that my own form of medical intuition was formed through all 3 of these ways. Likely, all modalities had some of these 3 aspects – it’s just that biographies were recounted to highlight one of the 3.

And, can you tell that there’s something deeper that is common across all 3?

This is actually the driving force that facilitates its creation. And it was most definitely present just before my own form of medical intuition as well as other healing processes I’ve developed.

And that is… creative tension.

Most stories won’t mention this, but I guarantee it was there just before the initiation of new healing modalities, either consciously or unconsciously. It is the creative tension held in consciousness that forms a void for the new idea to drop in.

But that’s a blog for another time.

If you want to create your own healing style/modality, and learn how to use creative tension to bring it through into reality, check out the Healer Heart Awakening online program here.

Shifting My Sinus Issue With Emotional Release

28/12/2019

Without getting to the root cause, you are doing things the long way.

Without getting to the root cause, you’re only compensating.

When you compensate, you create opportunities for defences. And healing is difficult, if not impossible, with defences in place.

The problem is that, with a defence in place, you don’t want to let it go. It’s protecting you, even if it’s hindering you.

Over the Christmas/New Year limbo period, I found myself with a niggling sinus issue. It wasn’t that bad, but it was annoying to have a minor pressure build-up of fluid on the left side and occasional running.

In fact, it was more annoying that that used to be my reality as a child… to the point where both sides were blocked constantly and I had to resort to mouth breathing.

Over the years as a healer and working on my own healing journey, even though I may not have solved all my allergic symptoms, I did manage to overcome my sinus issues. And return my breathing back to diaphragmatic breathing, with persistence and will.

So, to have this little niggling sinus show up that no longer was the norm of my reality, was quite noticeable.

The Difference Between Health & Healing... And Why You Need A Plan for Both

9/12/2019

People get health improvement and healing confused, thinking it’s the same thing, but they really aren’t.

Although they are leading to the same end goal.

I think of health improvement like compounding interest on an investment (for example, wealth creation). And healing like a resolution of debt (acquired directly or indirectly).

Health improvement involves promoting well-being on all levels – physically, mentally, emotionally, energetically and more.

Healing, however, is a process of repair, regeneration and restoration back towards homeostasis. The word itself has a literal meaning – to make whole.

You don’t need to heal in order to be healthy. And you can have all sorts of healthy habits, but this doesn’t determine if you will heal from certain conditions.

But they CAN complement each other.

Like investing in your future & resolving your debts leads to an increase in your overall net worth, working on BOTH improving health habits & proactive healing will increase your overall net health & well-being.

Why A Plan?
“Plan your work & work your plan” ~ Napoleon Hill
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe” ~ Abraham Lincoln

A plan is a set of intended actions for the purpose of achieving an outcome. It can be as simple or complex as you like.

Spontaneity is a good thing, luck is wonderful – but neither can be depended on to undertake real transformations. It can happen, but more often than not, it doesn’t.

Who Does The Healing: The Healer or The Client?

16/8/2019

I have to admit – this has taken 4 months to write.

I’ve had the title for ages, but couldn’t work out the answer. I was so curious what was going to be revealed, but the blog was taking its sweet time.

But it seems, first, I had to process through each viewpoint.

I thought… well, the client does the healing then? The body heals itself, right?

But that didn’t sit quite right. Why would they come for a healing session then? Unless the body or another aspect of the being needed help starting the healing process.

And really, does the body heal… or does it only know to how maintain equilibrium and regenerate (replace)? Is this what healing is about?

I thought… ok, well then, the healer does the healing? I guess they do have techniques and processes that facilitates healing.

But what about spontaneous healing and self-healing? What about those rare clients where you’ve hardly done anything yet and they just start having insights and things happen by themselves. I just sit and witness.

You Don't Need To Be Fully Healed Before You Can Heal Others

14/7/2019

Perhaps this is a dirty little secret in the healing industry. Healers out there – embarrassed that they still have health conditions, and hiding it while they continue to help others.

And what’s the problem with healers having a health condition??

How does having a health condition preclude you from doing healing work that you’re qualified to do? (apart from symptoms being too overbearing to concentrate or hold space for others).

But I get it – and I’ve felt the same. The shame of not having your own stuff sorted and feeling like a hypocrite. There’s a personal value to be the best person and role model you can be.

But being a role model does NOT equal being absolutely perfect.

And that leads me on to some mistaken thought patterns, which holds the shame in place.

MISTAKEN THOUGHT 1 – you believe there’s a thing called perfect health & that you should be that

Well, you might as well aim to be a unicorn.

What to do Waiting For That Scary Medical Test Result

12/4/2019

I think this is a big part of the reason why people don’t go get medical exams or blood tests… they don’t want to hear any bad news.

Until… they get a mysterious symptom that makes the fear of something actually wrong with them MUCH WORSE than getting the test.

This is how we run our lives.

Letting the fear dictate our actions, and not doing anything unless the fear is loud enough.

But, even for those of us who do ensure to keep up our check-ups, waiting for the results can trigger a bit of nervousness from time to time. It’s like a reverse lottery – and you hope you’re not the winner of the bad news or the dreaded ‘positive result – please come into the clinic for discussion’.

I’ve had these types of scenarios in the past, ranging from minor events to majorly concerning events (even if it turns out not to be a concern).

And it was an amazing training opportunity for my intuition. If I can come to a clear conclusion in myself… in the midst of the terror of potentially hearing bad news, then I can do it in almost any circumstance.

So… what do you do?

Here are my general steps, which I’ll explain further below:

Why Am I Still Unwell?

12/3/2019

This is the question you ask yourself, when you’re suffering from long-term unwanted symptoms (pain, rash, fatigue, weight, etc) and yet all the people around you seem OK.

And then, as time passes, the initial hope of healing fades and you realise that it’s not happening for you. That’s when hopelessness wants to set in but the mind wants to work out why.

‘Why am I still sick? Why is this happening to me?’
Or ‘What am I doing wrong?’

Here, I share 5 possible reasons why.

(Of course, these are described generically rather than specifically discussing the root cause/s to your particular situation. If you want to read about what your root cause might be, visit here).

You don’t have to be doing all 5 of these possible reasons, but as you read through – perhaps one might spark some resonance in you, even though you were hoping it was another reason (isn’t that always the way?).

If it hurts to read it… great. If it stirs up emotions that you don’t want to feel, even better.

These responses can usually be a sign of potential change.

Ultimately, it’s change that you want. Right? You want to feel healthy, so you can enjoy life and create the things you want to create in it.

But first… let’s discuss this graph.

Healing is Just in the Mind, Or is it?

11/2/2019

When it comes to healing, most people want a magic trick.

Because natural or energetic style healings, are like magic when they work. Nobody fully knows why, but no one has really given a solid theory on that either (forget research journals, the reductionist model used for scientific hypothesis doesn’t apply well to these styles of healing that focus on holistic and whole of being approaches).

And magic tricks are cool – when our health & well-being aren’t at stake.

Magic is just not knowing or understanding why something worked or happened – the less we can understand, the more magical it seems.

Think about a magic trick or illusionist act.

When it works, you think “Wow!”. When you find out how it works, that’s pretty cool too (especially if it has some finesse to it).

But the next time you see a similar trick, it’s lost its magic – you know how it works now. In fact, if you see it multiple times, it becomes lame. Been there, done that.

It gets categorised as a trick of the mind. An illusion.

And the question is – are health issues, and the healing that occurs just a trick of the mind, as well? An illusion?

5 Reasons Why Even Healers Need Healers

3/1/2019

This is not written for only healers. It’s written for everyone.

Everyone’s health is important.

Healing support is so vital – and in our current health care system, where health is supposedly ‘free’… healing support gets the pre-conceived notion of not being highly valuable.

And in that, I mean – many people don’t want to invest the time, money or energy in finding ongoing healing support.

Why that is could be many factors – such as giving self (& their health) low importance, an ideal of health as something to attain but never maintain, the idea of a miracle cure/fix, and just a general lack of understanding (& in that understanding comes not knowing what to do first).

There is also a stigma that seeing a healer must mean that there must be something really wrong with you. Like the misguided idea that you’d only see a marriage counsellor when your marriage is falling apart. Or you’d only work on your finances when you’re in debt.

And it’s time for us all to move on from an idea that you only see a healer when you’re sick (aka the problem solving approach), to a broader healing journey context to also include health creation when you’ve recovered from what ails you.

One Counter-Intuitive Strategy for Natural Pain Relief (Physical or Emotional)

29/10/2018

Physical or emotional pain – the suffering is the same but in different focus areas. People can empathise, but it really is your own inner experience and no one can be fully there with you in your pain and unbearable discomfort.

That suffering is both real and an illusion.

It’s real in that it hurts. So much so that it can make you take action that seems out of character or propel you to do things you normally wouldn’t, out of desperation.

But the illusion is that it’s not as concrete as it appears.

It can usually be shifted, anywhere, anytime. Suffering is an unnecessary by-product.

And the simple solution?

Healing From Transient & Systemic Illness

9/9/2018

When we look at an illness, we usually look at it functionally – which part of the body or being does it affect.

But there’s another perspective that is rarely mentioned. Maybe because it’s harder to pin-point than an area of the body. Our need to know the answer often trumps the process of figuring things out.

However… there is a real benefit to thinking about illness from this other perspective: transient versus systemic.

Why? Because it helps to manage the expectations. It changes the treatment plan, the duration, the amount of effort required.

Finding out which one you have determines the healing process – is this just a phase in your life, or does this require a change to your whole way of being?

Transient versus Systemic Health Conditions
Transient illness relates to a condition which is passing by, whereas systemic illness is one that is born from the foundations of your body.

Think of transient illness as being in transit in an airport. It can take awhile to get out of transit - but most of the time, there's a way.

5 Mistakes I've Made With My Health (& What I Learnt)

1/8/2018

Health has been my Achille’s heel, challenger and teacher for my whole life… as long as I can remember.

While I haven’t been perfect in other areas of my life… health has been the area I have felt most imperfect in. And have gone to the greatest depth of understanding, possibly because of that.

The beauty is that there are so many more depths to explore. I know that it will be impossible for me to explore it all in this life – but I’m going to sink my teeth on as much deep universal wisdom as I can and share it with the world.

Here are my top 5 mistakes I’ve made with health – which have been pivotal in changing my limited views on health and opened me up to new possibilities. The best way to learn is to learn from mistakes, so hopefully you’ll learn from mine!

What's A Better Health Approach Than Reactive or Proactive?

9/6/2018

There seems to be 2 main schools of behaviour when it comes to health issues. (I’ll explain what this has got to do with The 3 Little Pigs later).

Firstly, there are the reactive types – they're the types that whenever something comes up, they spur into action to try & fix it (aka make it go away).

But ‘reactives’…, are you doing too many random things that are actually counteractive to your health? This type of behaviour can lead to frantic, haphazard actions where motivation fizzles after the problem goes away (until next time).

Then, secondly, there are the proactive types – they're the future-thinking types, anticipating calamity by adopting good health practices.

But ‘proactives’…, what's your true focus? Health? Or avoiding being sick in the future? This type of behaviour can lead to adopting standardised actions that make you feel good but may not actually be doing what’s needed. Shock comes up in the future when things go wrong anyway.

I'd like to propose an even better health focus than reactive or proactive.

An ‘interactive’ approach. Let me explain.

3 Most Important Elements to Healing (Part 3)

7/5/2018

(Visit here if you missed Part 1 or Part 2)

Once you’ve allowed yourself to be willing to heal (part 1) and you’ve determined the root cause and possible avenues for healing (part 2), what next?

This is where the final element to healing comes in – follow through to a state of being healthy.

It all sounds simple and easy in theory, until you start to navigate the journey.

The journey is often filled with uncertainty, trepidation, and feeling generally lost. Sometimes you follow someone’s map (process) and it leads to a dead end. Sometimes you get worse. For the seemingly lucky, you get better.

The healing journey can be uncertain, and not guaranteed.

And the question comes… How do you follow through? How do you know you’re on track and doing what’s needed, when there isn’t even A CLUE for you to feel assured in your heart?

If you want a formula for the ‘seemingly impossible’, go to this older blog – while not about healing, it’s not so different a journey of uncertainty.

Something that is not mentioned in the blog, though, is a thing that many people don’t have when it comes to health. And that is – a true vision. Usually, it’s a false vision based on something they don’t want.

3 Most Important Keys to Healing (Part 2)

2/4/2018

If you missed Part 1 – visit here.

When you’ve moved past the defence of the status quo and open yourself up to be willing to heal ~ then opportunities for transformation begin to be revealed.

This is where it gets important to be discerning!

I hear different schools of thought…

The root cause to all illness is inflammation
The root cause to all illness is in the imbalance of gut health
The root cause to all illness is emotional and belief-driven
Once you find the corresponding thought, then the illness will go away

The real problem with this is not in the suggestion, but the assumption that everyone is exactly the same and every situation is exactly the same. It makes me shake my head.

People, when they move past resisting the willingness to heal, then jump into trying all this & that – every or any possible method. Which means that things could go either way:

Jump in and land exactly where they need to be and get the result desired

OR

Start to burn up time, money and hope – after they don’t see immediate results.

Most people don’t have the stamina or will to keep going failure after failure. It’s harder with health, because there’s often no gauge-line to determine your progress and no clear process that works for everyone. It’s intangible, the process can be invisible. It really does require a leap of faith (and a development of your own intuitive knowing helps a lot!).

So… it’s really important to give yourself the best chances for healing. This doesn’t mean that you will get instant results (beware the myth of the miracle cure… and also the myth of perfect health). It also doesn’t mean that it’ll be easy – steady commitment and refocusing is imperative.

That being said, it also doesn’t have to be hard.

But it does mean that you are no longer wasting your time. There’s nothing worse than that.

3 Most Important Keys to Healing (Part 1)

6/3/2018

People get health and healing confused, thinking it’s the same thing, but they really aren’t.

Health is an end result, healing is a process.

Health is, according to the World Health Organisation (1948), a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. It’s quite an ideal to live up to!!

Healing is a process of repair, regeneration and restoration back towards homeostasis. The word itself has a literal meaning – to make whole.

But you don’t need to heal in order to be healthy.

You can have all sorts of healthy habits, but this doesn’t determine if you will heal.

Someone who considers themselves healthy already and wants to explore more ways of health – doesn’t focus on the need to heal. They may experience healing, but from a different point of view – one of innocence and exploration, rather than survival.

And it’s this survival mechanism that leads people astray.

Desperation, needing to fix, wanting to be free from chains that bind them.
None of these behaviours or attitudes lead to a conducive healing environment.

Presence, willingness, commitment to do what it takes – these are what’s really going to make a difference.

Permission to Read and Heal

2/1/2018

Do you need permission to read someone intuitively or give a healing (for example, healing energy absentia without the other person requesting or being aware)? Your thoughts?

It’s an interesting question and an interesting belief system too.

Likened much to common courtesy and privacy laws in our physical society, this is considered also applicable by many to the psychic and healing arts.

In fact, you will also taste a sense of derision, perhaps judgement – to any of those who might be ‘doing the wrong thing’. You might hear about all the ‘right’ reasons – ethics, boundaries, consent. Like legal jargon.

But how do you know that waiting for permission is the right thing to do, or going ahead with the reading/healing regardless? Truth is that you don’t.

You can only discern the consequences of your actions & act accordingly to the consequences you are willing to accept.

There are always exceptions to the rule. Each individual case is different. What would you do in a comatose case? Wait for them to wake up? Would you consider consent not necessary then?

5 Principles of Health

2/11/2017

Like the doormat wallflower of a wife, who supports in the shadows ~ until one day, you come home and find all traces of her gone. Losing your health can be like that.

Health is the overlooked aspect. Not valued until you've experienced losing it, and greatly pined after when you do.

And if you can be fortunate enough to get her back, it is more than having her return that is the goal. A new relationship ~ a new relating is imperative if you want her to stick around. New respect for one another is needed, perhaps some sacrifices… and a collaborative attitude.

I have summarised 5 principles for health… they are still a work in progress, but in a way, they are complete.

These principles are not a ‘cure all’ or preventative to never experiencing any ill health. They are more a chance to nourish and boost where your health is right now. Develop that new relating, perhaps you could say it’s an experience of 5 different types of love.

It doesn’t matter if you are born with poor constitution, experienced bad luck or had something done to you (i.e. things outside your control), these principles apply to things you have the possibility to influence.

We are more influential to our health, than we could even believe.

Health Ideals vs Potential of Health

2/10/2017

One aspect of the human condition is that we think in ideals. But it simply boils down to an ‘ideal’ being good, and what is not is bad. The human ego wants to separate and differentiate, to bring about meaning into existence. And once we hold these ideals – we, ourselves need to be them, so that we are “good”.

And there are so many things that we want to be ideal. Ideal lifestyle, ideal partner, ideal family, ideal job, ideal car, ideal financial situation… and ideal image and ideal health.

The real question is – who determines these ideals? And once you reach these ideals, what then? Will you be happy, satisfied?

For example, think about our societal ideals of health. We have such an intense focus on disease that makes us believe that health is being disease-free, both from a physical and mental-health perspective.

But, at what point when that disease ‘goes away’ would we then consider ourselves healthy?

Health Transformation (Lessons From Chiron)

15/9/2017

The Greek myths of old have a beautiful symbology for life and the human dynamic. When I was young, I had a favourite book with beautiful pictures and a multitude of stories of Greek myths. At that point in time, I didn’t understand the depths of symbology and wisdom that could be gained.

For example, it was pointed out to me that the myth of Icarus who flew too high to the sun in his escape where the wax of his man-made wings melted causing him to tumble to his death – showing us the folly and downfall of being carried away by the excitement of overachievement. Also, that the tragic relationship between Echo and Narcissus (the muse who lacked any self-opinion with the beautiful self-absorbed human) which highlights the pain of an imbalanced empath/narcissist dynamic. And all the multiple stories of tortures in Tartarus of Hades (the Greek mythology of hell) – highlighting the sufferings possible in the human condition.

It begs the question – are these stories a reflection of a human collective consciousness or are we just living out these age-old myths in our everyday lives? Which came first?

Chiron's Story
A very potent and powerful story is that of Chiron, the wounded healer. Although the term ‘wounded healer’ was coined by Carl Jung, referring to counsellors or psychotherapists who adopt their role due to their own wounding, the story of Chiron (pronounced as ‘Kye-ron’) was a symbolic representation many centuries prior.

Facing Decisions with Death (& the Unknown)

28/7/2017

Death... A sensitive subject.

Death represents many things for us: the unknown, fear and terror, avoidance at all cost, survival instincts. It brings up questions of what’s on the other side, what will happen to me (or loved ones who pass) and what is life ultimately about as a contrast.

Religions are founded on explaining the unknown aspects of death ~ and that structure can govern a believer’s action now. People go to church, temples, mosques and other institutions on a religious basis to guarantee good faith in death. Terrorist suicide bombers give up their lives, and others lives, to ascertain a place in paradise. Jehovah Witness followers suffer door slams and goading to maintain their faith. It’s almost like an investment.

Death as a Personalised Force
In myths and legends throughout the centuries, death has been a personified force.
Death has been presented as young or old, male or female ~ but often the colour theme is black or white. This represents a potent symbology of how clear-cut death is ~ death is the end, whether you’ve completed what you wanted or not.

In all the stories and myths, it is also noticeable that death is extremely grotesque (hags, skeletons, decayed flesh, monsters) or divinely beautiful (angels, winged man/youth). This is definitely seen by the perceiver, not necessarily the experiencer. Death can be beautiful, as it finally gives an ending to a long period of suffering, or ugly, as it gives an unwelcome shock or trauma to the loss of those you love.

The Power to Change Fate

2/7/2017

Do you believe in fate?

As humans, we have an innate ability to create our reality. Whether we do that consciously and with purpose or unconsciously or delusionally – it really doesn’t matter. That ability remains.

People talk of things being meant to be, being guided by fate – but I’d like to counter that type of thinking.

It’s not that I disagree with the idea that there are moments of flow and trajectory, a chain of events leading miraculously or tragically to an end result. However, I do disagree that we have absolutely no input into whether the chain of events proceed as normal (seeming fate) or take a tangent elsewhere.

The main mistake, therefore, is not in the observation of a successive chain of events – but rather in that we are powerless against our experience of the outcome. Cause & effect vs providence. Choice vs fate.

And before we go the other extreme and think that this is about being in control of everything, and that everything that went wrong is just your fault – I’ll just stop it right here. It’s not about this at all.

Holding the Light for Your Inner Child

22/5/2017

According to Jungian theory, archetypes are a universal symbol or character held in the collective unconscious. We know of them- the mother, the king, the magician, the crone, and more. Archetypes are both familiar & mysterious.

Carolyn Myss talks about survival archetypes in her book “Sacred Contracts”. Of all her books that I have struggled to complete, perhaps “Sacred Contracts” is the most I’ve read of any of her books. She discusses 70 archetypes, however focuses on 4 key base archetypes for survival.

These are: the child, the saboteur, the prostitute and the victim.

While I don’t use archetypes the way she intends in her book, I found it incredibly enlightening that these ‘dark’ archetypes of the saboteur, prostitute and victim could be used for growth and self-awareness. She even has a range of different child archetypes.

When I think about survival archetypes, I think about it from the perspective of Patterning.