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How to Use Intuition to Draw in Healing/Coaching Clients

3/10/2022

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It’s not uncommon for healers and coaches to be stumped on how to draw in new clients (when they don’t have a reliable working system already). The more they think about it, the more the answer seems to elude.

But the answers are all there.

We forget this ~ especially if emotional energy such as fear and desperation take hold.

The natural intuitive whispers, the obvious intuitive hits, are overshadowed and it can seem like the answer evades.

But the answers are all there.

Intuition is an amazing tool to use in building a client/sales flow – but only if you access it. Most of us use our limited minds and get stuck in uncertainty.

Intuition can help access information to make the best decision at any point of the client journey from when they first get in touch with your work through to accessing your offers.

Here are 3 intuitive techniques used to aid in drawing in clients to your offers:
  • Technique #1 – Intuiting the best freebie (for my market/tribe and the offer)
  • Technique #2 – Sussing out potential clients and follow ups in my field during a launch
  • Technique #3 – Sensing the neutral point for approaching follow ups

Below outlines briefly how you could use these techniques.

None of these are about manipulating a person to go against their wishes, but instead about finding the best chances for your services/offers to meet those clients who will benefit the most from them.
 
Technique #1 – Intuiting the best freebie (for my market/tribe and the offer)
A freebie (or even low-cost offer) is often used to educate potential clients and build credibility or certainty that you are the person who could help them.

Many brainstorm up a freebie idea or copy their current business mentor’s technique, which may not be the best options for your market/tribe or your offer. There are so many different types, such as: webinars, workshops, challenges, quizzes, checklists, mini-sessions, video series, e-books and more.

Take a moment to imagine from your potential client’s perspective. You might even imagine stepping into them & seeing from their perspective and ask the following questions:
  • What important things do they need to know to have better understanding &/or excitement to purchase your offer?
  • What format would be the best way to prepare them to work with you deeper?

Key: While this is an intuitive technique to help make decisions on your freebie (or even low-cost offer), it is still important to involve your market and followers.

Involving them on the journey of a new freebie will help you tailor it well to their needs as well as allowing you to seed the offer early to improve its chances of interest.
 
Technique #2 – Sussing out potential clients and follow ups in my field during a launch
This technique requires expanding and projecting your awareness out into the field. If you relax and just sense/listen into your current field, you will get a sense of how many potential clients there are for your current offer.

It really is as simple as this.

Key: If your mind is desperate to attain a certain number, it can override your intuitive sensing. It is important to have a focus on the truth, rather than your wants for this technique.

However, if you can sense what the potential number is in your current field, this might give you clues that you need to increase your field to reach a larger desired number.
 
Technique #3 – Sensing the neutral point for approaching follow ups
The neutral point technique requires body-energy sensing. It involves feeling into the difference if you:
  • lean in too far to the potential client (eg too desperate/pushy)
  • lean back away from the potential client (eg too complacent/avoidant) &
  • sit in a neutral point where you meet them equally & with sovereignty.

Taking the time to sense these 3 positions, as you imagine your potential client in front of you (aka – an actual person you could follow up with, not an imaginary figure).

Sense what you might do if you lean in too far into their person space.

Sense what you might do if you lean too far back away from them.

And then in the neutral point, sense what is the best way to approach and connect with them.

There are wonderful insights you can gain from doing this exercise that takes less than a minute, including the best action to take from the neutral position.
 
Other Ways You Can Use Intuition in Business
Other ways I use intuition in my business (from intention through to sales/marketing through to delivery):
  • Clarifying the niche or sub-niche for the offer
  • Deciding price range for offers, services and programs
  • Tuning into the marketing message for landing page and social media posts
  • Determining the next action step to take for a launch
  • Tuning into the best offer for someone in the sales process
  • Sensing the level of interest of someone in the sales process
  • Tuning into clients before the session (key focus that will support them)

This doesn’t include the intuition I use inside my sessions or to create courses & new healing process and modalities.

There are potential clients are out there in your field waiting to work with you and benefit from your offer/s. Even if you think there isn’t.

Intuition is a great way to open you up to the true possibility available to you. 
But only if you use it! 
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If you would love to build your intuition in any of these techniques or refine your strategy to work to your strengths – you can learn them in the SOUL-ALIGNED PATHWAY TO 10K MASTERMIND!

An 8wk container for healers/coaches/intuitives to build & refine a reliable Soul-client flow to your transformational offer!

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Intuitive Decision Making for Health

23/6/2022

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For some, decision making can be difficult at the best of times. For health though, most struggle.

Why is that?


Because, simply, you are attached and invested in the outcome. On top of that, the whole perception of life and death is triggered, especially the egoic need to ‘survive’. Egoic meaning our belief in our own limitedness & limitations.


And for some with serious health issues, the life/death scenario is very much a reality.


Intuition isn’t about seriousness or about getting things right (no matter how much we make it out to be that)… but instead our innate connection to everything and all that is. True intuition allows and restores our innate connection to life and vitality!


I wanted to introduce 3 basic intuitive decision-making techniques – but know that there’s many more techniques. Some require more training to develop the skills, however all connect back to the same aspect within us.


The intuitive aspect, that is.


Before we get into the techniques, here is a key tip to take on board: 
​Remove your emotional investment to the outcome.

Some ways you can do this is:
  • Keep it playful – I know this doesn’t make sense, but that is the whole point of intuition
  • Wait for neutralisation or process through any emotional investment before looking to access your intuition.
 
Logic & Intuition
Another thing I want to mention first is how people seem to fall in either the team #intuition or the team #logic. But why do they have to be separate?

It’s OK to do your research, to find out more information and to go through some trial and error (experimentation).

Blending logic and practicalities with intuitive hits is a powerful way to operate.

Now onto the techniques.
 
Intuitive Technique #1 – What’s Obvious
This technique is about letting the obvious jump out at you. Because we overcomplicate life (a human fallacy), we tend to overlook the obvious. Your intuition is constantly putting what’s obvious in front of you, however, when the monkey mind is active, it’s too subtle & gets overlooked.

Coming back to ‘what’s obvious’ is an easy way to make a quick decision.

Here’s how you might use the technique:
  1. You have the items or a list of items in front of you
  2. Close your eyes, move into your centre & choose that what is true will jump out for you
  3. When ready, open your eyes & allow the item to jump into your focus first
  4. Take action in line with the item that jumped out.

Tips:
  • Only do this once. Do NOT keep testing this over & over again to check if the same item shows up. If you treated your friend like that, they wouldn’t want to hang around you. Intuition is the same
  • If you can only do it once, this means the set up is REALLY important. Take the time to move into your centre, surrender your thoughts/wants/needs and become neutral
  • Allow the possibility that none might jump out. If this happens, you can assume that you choose none of those items
  • Don’t do this if still heavily and emotionally invested in one item over another in the moment.

Suggested playful practice:
  • Choose from 2 or 3 items on the shelf at the supermarket, before you start practicing with something more critical for your health.
 
Intuitive Technique #2 – Asking your heart/gut/body
This technique is about playing 20 questions, but letting your heart or gut or body answer in a form of yes/no/meh. You might hear a literal response or it may come as an energetic feeling, such as upliftment or expansion versus a heaviness or contraction.

This is similar to kinesiology type muscle monitoring, which is a type of biofeedback through the body muscles. However, you are listening/feeling for the response, instead of witnessing the answer.

Here’s how you might use the technique:
  1. You have something you want to ask or want direction about
  2. Form the question in a way that can be answered in a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ (or ‘meh’)
  3. Move into your centre & get into an active listening space – and then ask
  4. Listen to the reply
  5. Keep asking questions until you get clarity (or ideally, YES!)
  6. Take action in line with the direction indicated.

Tips:
  • Listen UNDER the head voice, if your head voice is loud. The answer should be accompanied by a body/energetic response (either upliftment or downward energy, OR expansive/contracted)
  • The responses can show up differently for each person, so playing & experimenting is important. The more you play, the more sensitised you’ll get
  • ‘Meh’ is a neutral answer, which usually means it doesn’t matter either way. It can also indicate a level of disinterest or getting off-track from the true ‘yes’
  • Don’t do this if still heavily and emotionally invested in the answer/outcome.

Suggested playful practice:
  • Find out where you might go on the weekend (or next free time) by asking various yes/no questions, until you get a yes (or YES!), before you start practicing with something more critical for your health.
 
Intuitive Technique #3 – Leave it up to the universe (show me a sign)
This technique can be difficult but is a great confirmation. Difficult because of the surrender required by throwing out the confirmation request and then getting out of the way.

In a set period of time, the confirmation will be shown or not. It’s a beautiful process, in that what we need to be shown will be shown to us. However, can be easily interfered with, if you are unable to fully surrender and let go of it.

Here’s how you might use the technique:
  1. You have something you’re unsure about & are seeking confirmation
  2. Take a moment and move to your centre
  3. Then, request (preferably DEMAND) that the universe show a confirmation within a timeframe (ideally a couple of days to within the week)
  4. When you’ve made a clear demand, let it go & forget about it
  5. When/if a sign arrives (eg confirmation) within the established timeframe, recognise it & acknowledge it
  6. Take action in line with the confirmation (or lack thereof).

Tips:
  • The answer can come via a sign, or the opportunity itself may also land in your lap (if it’s a confirmation)
  • The sign can be anything – something on a shelf, a word spoken on the TV or a number plate you see in the parking lot. It will come with a moment of presence, as if to say – ‘here it is!’.
  • Do not obsessively look for confirmation everywhere. It will confirm when you AREN’T looking for it, which is hard for those who want to stay in control or have the answer immediately. It is NOT a confirmation, if you are looking for signs in everything.
  • This is the best technique to do if emotionally uncertain & confused.

Suggested playful practice:
  • Ask the universe to show you confirmation on a new type of meal to eat during the week. Make sure to clarify what you want confirmation on.
 
Final tips
Here’s some final tips with these techniques & intuition in general:
  • Following through – if you follow through on your intuitive hits, you’re training yourself to be more integrated with your intuition
  • Don’t get into a habit of obsessively checking in & re-checking the answers. Set it up first to be emotionally clear & free of agendas
  • Have techniques to neutralise any emotional charge. It is not enough to suppress the emotion – because otherwise it runs like static under the surface & interferes with clear connection to your intuition.
  • Come from a learning orientation, rather than having to ‘get it right’ orientation

And the best tip of all: HAVE FUN!

I know it doesn’t make sense to have fun if dealing with a serious health choice, however, a light-hearted approach is going to give you better intuitive hits than an emotionally-charged approach.

Likewise, your health and vitality aren’t unleashed by serious, life/death attitudes… but instead, by light-hearted, playful and joyful approaches to life. Your life force is activated by willingness to live – and living as if life is working with you. Not against you.

​So, invest in more playfulness & let intuition hold you towards a life of more vitality & health.
To learn some more aspects of intuitive decision making, especially around the inner/outer authorities of Human Design, you can check out & purchase the recording of the “Decision Making with Certainty” Masterclass here.
​Only $10.


OR

​Unable to know what to do next with your chronic health condition?
Getting a medical intuition reading will help you understand the root cause/s and what actions to do next. Check out more info here.
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Healing Legacy - Stretching to Your Soul Potential

9/6/2022

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Healers focus way too much on process. 

This includes the modality they operate under, the behaviours they believe they should exhibit with others and how they position themselves with their clients. There’s nothing wrong with that at all… except when it becomes the main focus… THE focus.
 
It’s human nature to find safety and certainty in process. “Just tell me/show me THE way!” we say.
 
As much as the health & healing industry doesn’t want to admit, health is an uncertain process. Medical sciences try to reduce that uncertainty with ‘evidence’ but they still can’t explain the outliers and the non-text book cases. The human body & consciousness is a complex marvel. And they all weren’t created equal.
 
When you get stuck in process only, it starts to feel like forcing square blocks into round holes. You don’t stay open to insights and overlook the creative pivots needed when the process isn’t working for the person.
 
Another tricky viewpoint is having a current situation focus only. It can be more grounded, but can also be self-limiting. The problem here is that process can be dictated by clearing the current situation in a reactive way, which doesn’t move you out of the current situation… just feel better in it temporarily. Nothing fundamentally changes, but you often don’t realise it until you’ve invested a whole lot of time & energy into something that will continue to suck more time & energy.
 
An alternative viewpoint is end-result/outcome focus. The area that business coaches LOVE in marketing. The problem is that guaranteeing a client’s health outcome is a slippery, sensitive place to navigate, with possible legal implications. It’s what we want. It’s what the client wants. But it’s not as guaranteed as just following a process. If you focus on outcomes only, your process can potentially have a forcing quality come into it.
 
The best place to navigate is having your process informed by both the end-result focus and your understanding of the current situation. This creates a far more potent alignment and momentum, and with groundedness.
 
Stretching to Your Healing Legacy
What has this got to do with healing legacy then?
 

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A Revolution for Holistic Healing

26/12/2021

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If we were to be honest about the current state of society’s health, we still have a long way to go. What do you think is missing? Maybe you have an idea, maybe you just have a sense that it’s lacking… but can’t determine exactly what that is.

Maybe you don’t think so… but if you’ve lost health & struggled to find it again, you’ll understand what I’m referring to.

I’ll share how I see the current circumstance…

We have a society that neither truly understands or values health. When I refer to health, I mean being in an interactive & beneficial relationship with our mind-body vehicle & all the intricacies that are involved with that.

Health is simple… and yet we are essentially complex and multi-faceted.

Bringing these things together in a genuinely heart felt way --- I don’t think we’re there yet.

We have a predominant and prominent medical system. Its model is towards black & white answers, determining certainty and avoiding death and disability, where it can.

We have holistic healing (I don’t use the terms alternative or complementary medicine, however I do like traditional medicine – but this leaves out more modern applications that have been brought through).

Its model is in (w)holism, and in a way, fundamentally includes health & healing on different levels working with the system to support itself into sustainability again. As well as consciousness expansion and our well-being internally and externally.

​Like 2 sides of a coin, I don’t look at one model needing to compete over the other.

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The Lost Art of Embracing Pain

15/2/2021

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Most initiation rites of the past involved pain.

Or at least the ones that got the most attention and memorialised in our consciousness (partially because we are horrified, but also secretly in awe that people survived these things).

Initiations involving: genital mutilation, cutting & scarring, being hung painfully suspended, death defying stunts, insect stings, being harshly isolated/outcast from family, being whipped and more.

All without anesthesia.

Once upon a time, these initiation rites and the respective pain were accepted in the tribe or community (although many done in secret sacred spaces). It was usually treated as something to be revered and a celebration.

But now, this perspective is getting less & less so. Not that I’m condoning painful and dangerous initiation rites, but it seems like it’s swung the other way.

A juxtaposition type perspective has come instead – a need to avoid pain at all cost. That pain is bad.

And yet, pain has not been avoided in our society at all. Not really.

In Australia, in 2018, 1 in 8 people live with chronic pain, 1 in 8 live with anxiety and 1 in 10 live with depression (or feelings of depression). I’m sure Australia isn’t greatly different from other first world countries in these statistics.
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Can the Medical System & Holistic Health Industry Work Together?

25/1/2021

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What I’ve noticed is this…

There are some hot topics out there, where the opposing parties remain in a stand-off about (also referred to as gridlock).

Vaccinations, climate change, alternative health, for example.

And the topics lead to quite heated debates, sometimes bordering on (or not) being outright rude. What leads some people to get abusive because someone has a differing opinion? That’s another discussion for another time.

The irony of the heated debates, is that both parties are ultimately wanting the same thing, but have a different method/focus/value about it:
  • Vaccinations – life of the child/individual in regard to infectious disease (through receiving vs by avoiding vaccinations)
  • Climate change – want the status quo to remain (environment vs economy & progress)
  • Alternative health – a system/process to improve health and health symptoms (through holistic health vs medical route)
There is no real problem about there being diverse ideas or methods to have the same outcome individually. The problem is the belief that one cannot exist with the other being true.

​Or another way to frame it, to those certain individuals, one must be eradicated for the other to fully exist.
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3 Questions NOT to Ask Your Holistic Health Practitioner

18/1/2021

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​In the ‘first’ world that we live in, where the medical system is usually considered the ‘first’ choice over holistic healing (aka alternative therapy), the medical system structures are often the default communication even in the general public.

Even though some holistic healing modalities pre-existed centuries before the medical system ever did.

With so many holistic healing choices and varying lingo, it’s hard to communicate in a unified manner. So, it’s understandable that using medical terms are easier.

However, if communicating in these terms with your holistic health practitioner, some understandings should be put in place first. This helps manage expectations and prevents miscommunication – especially since those medical terms are not part of the foundations of many holistic healing modalities.

Here are 3 questions NOT to ask your holistic health practitioner and some alternative considerations instead:

1. Can you cure me (of my health condition/disease diagnosis)?

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5 Natural Laws - An Introduction

1/11/2020

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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):

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Fear of Copying & Criticism When Creating Your Healing Style

28/8/2020

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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.

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How 3 Renowned Healing Modalities Came To Be

24/8/2020

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​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.
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Shifting My Sinus Issue With Emotional Release

28/12/2019

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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.

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

9/12/2019

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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.

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Who Does The Healing: The Healer or The Client?

16/8/2019

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

14/7/2019

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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.

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What to do Waiting For That Scary Medical Test Result

12/4/2019

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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:

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Why Am I Still Unwell?

12/3/2019

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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.
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But first… let’s discuss this graph.
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Healing is Just in the Mind, Or is it?

11/2/2019

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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?
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5 Reasons Why Even Healers Need Healers

3/1/2019

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

Everyone’s health is important.
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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.
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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.
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One Counter-Intuitive Strategy for Natural Pain Relief (Physical or Emotional)

29/10/2018

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

And the simple solution?
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Healing From Transient & Systemic Illness

9/9/2018

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

1/8/2018

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

9/6/2018

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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.
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3 Most Important Elements to Healing (Part 3)

7/5/2018

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(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.
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3 Most Important Keys to Healing (Part 2)

2/4/2018

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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
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  • 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.
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3 Most Important Keys to Healing (Part 1)

6/3/2018

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

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