In Sickness & Health…..The Lifespan of a Healer

Being a healer takes a lot of energy from you, walking the spiritual path, self care, listening, paying attention, learning how to live….or at least it can – but lets get one thing straight right from the beginning: if you are supposed to be doing this work - at this level, touching on higher dimensions and consciousness, then you are more then able to handle this physical end of things.

However, if you find you are not able or up to the work you are born to do….perhaps there are other factors at play here. Of course there are many things, on many levels, taking place in the daily life of a healer, therapist, energy or light worker, and some of them are actually working against us.

For instance, have you ever noticed there is often no rhyme or reason to your work-flow? Some weeks you have nearly ‘enough’ to live on (LOL) while other weeks – no matter what you do or how good you are at it, the phone doesn’t ring and you can sense the energy blocks.

How about having days when you feel great, up and with it, only to come crashing down into a patch of darkness or despair that you picked up somewhere or worse, becoming physically ill in specific situations or around certain people?

And has anyone else experienced profound, debilitating fear when dealing with energy attachments, energy vampires and other cyber bullies? Just where does all of this go and where does it come from in the first place, but most importantly, what effect might it have on us?

Well, each of these things certainly do affect us, can potentially cause harm to our body/mind/spirit and can put us off the mission we are called to do. This is far more then an occupational hazard – in our profession, there is no safety training (come out Tuesday evenings starting 5 November for the first one ever!), there is only follow your heart and hope for the best in most cases. 

But, there is one other issue that I have long felt impacts on us in far deeper ways….yes, there is something worse then ups and downs, aches and pains, uncertainty and fear! What is worse, and fairly constant throughout the healing world, is how we are constantly placed in abject poverty in the name of some higher good. 

Because, this is just not on.

Each of these situations take an enormous toll on our sense of well-being, our physical and emotional health, our attitude, outlook, hopes, wishes and dreams. When a persons spirit is continually bounced off the bottom – it eventually stops re-bounding to it’s natural, and necessary, place. 

And, we end up unwell. Many healers I have known over the years end up with diabetes, arthritis, chronic fatigue, cancer (ask me how I know) and other debilitating conditions as a direct result of the work they do – and the energies we are exposed to. Of course, this shortens our life/work span for us, not to mention interfering with our quality of life. 

I have often thought that if we were to do this work ‘properly’ at the highest level in the current environment – we would last about 2 years before we started to crumble on the inside and then find ourselves unable to continue in this full capacity. 

So what exactly are we up against?

Energy Vampires (shadow realm)

Ill will (in deed and thought)

Interference Energy (often listening to the wrong voice)

Timing & Energy Blocks (if it doesn’t belong, remove it)

Fear (extreme emotional response coming in from the outside)

Unhealthy mind/body/spirit (focus on the body’s health)

Past Life Issues (things we bring in with us, but are not always ours)

Energy Attachments & Drainers (the ‘will nots’ of spirituality, viruses, candida etc.)

This list goes on……each one of these things affect us on an energetic, spiritual, physical and emotional level. Anything that doesn’t belong to us, but is around or attached to us, can and will create an energy block…..and nothing appears to be more stuck then this ‘money, financial, work, mission, purpose’ cycle of modern day healers, which of course leads to more physical ill health…..

Hmmm….Coincidence? 

April

Blossom with pink nose from beet kvass!

10 Ways to Protect Yourself In the Healing Professions

10 Ways to Protect Yourself in the Healing Professions 

Walking the spiritual path can and should be part of life’s purpose for many of us at this time on earth, however, our support system, security and protection have been eroded by neglect, misinformation and energetic interference. If you find yourself feeling drained, tired and worse at the end of your day, there is something you can do about it. 

Safety starts with shoring up our energy fields, taking exquisite care of our bodies and clearing our working and living space. If you are ready to begin the process of improving your level of safety, shoring up your spiritual boundaries and learning how to protect yourself (on every level) until you reach your destination – this is the place to begin. 

A weak energy field means a compromised body – you must take steps in every area of your life to protect yourself both inside and out. 

The following are 10 ways that I have discovered, implemented and adhere to day after day to feel stronger and secure so that I can use my energy to focus on my spiritual path.

1. Don’t share a clinic room with anyone. Seriously. I know that it cost’s money and we probably don’t feel we make enough money to have a place of your own. For the most part this is absolutely correct – however, if you look hard enough and create an opening somewhere, you will find a place of your own. I have successfully worked in the smallest of places, self-contained in my own energy.

Otherwise there is just too much energy flying around and this will compromise the quality of your work space. Your space needs to be your own, with only your energy in there, this is the easiest and safest way to work for everyone.

2. Observe, watch, listen and then act on what you see. As observers in our own lives we can know exactly what is taking place, where and when. Anything taking place outside of you is also happening on the inside, all you have to do is pay attention. If your clients are presenting with drug addictions for example, it is time to seriously look at yourself and what you are drawing to you.

3. Do not under any circumstances eat Night Shades, these fruits are potatoes, tomatoes, aubergine, peppers, chillies and gogi berries. Go out of your way to avoid them, remove them from your home and banish them from your life as these fruits contain neurotoxins that seriously impair your immune system and interfere with internal communication. I refer to them as the anti-christ of the food chain.

4. Dress in natural fibers, cotton, wool, linen and so forth as much as possible especially the clothes that are close to your skin. Your energy field is an extension of your body, this grows and is fluid, natural fibers do not interfere with its’ function the way synthetics will. You will also feel better and your skin will be able to breathe – anything that promotes health of the body enhances the energy field.

5. Change your diet to follow a spiritual path. If you consider yourself to be a spiritual person, and want to move further along on the path, there is a specific diet and lifestyle that must be adhered to. Of course, most of this is just common sense! Remove toxins (sugar, Night Shades, processed foods), drugs (alcohol, caffeine), eat mostly plants, cook your own food and eat simply. Following The Pagan Diet makes it easy for those of us on our journeys’ because there are food days, fast days and feast days – a complete year of eating. Your diet is the single largest component of your protection system.

6. Use specific foods like garlic and herbs often for protection as well as for healing. These foods promote health of the energy field and work in concert with the body’s own intelligence. Ensure that you use natural, organic and wild harvested herbs when ever possible. Garlic in particular strengthens the immune function offering a high level defence system guarding your energy field. Use it raw as often as you can.

7. Water is vital for your energy, cleansing and clearing the body with over 66% contained in body tissues. It is imperative to find a source of clean, non-bottled, untreated well or spring water and to begin using this for all your cooking and drinking. If possible, move to the country choosing a house with well water, rural and country living are far better suited to walking a spiritual path.

8. Keep a television and radio free home – these frequencies are like poison to your energy field. In our frequency affluent world today, nearly every contraption is emitting some form of radio wave, pulse or electromagnetic force. The human energy field is vibration sensitive, these frequencies cause disturbances within the field and interfere with information processing and communication. We are not safe with these in close proximity, personally I do not own a television and do not use or listen to a radio.

9. Work on yourself constantly, know your own issues, patterns and boundaries. This is extremely important because when we are exposed to other people’s energetic patterns and issues, at times it can adhere to our energy field. You will quickly know when this happens if you are well aware of your own ‘stuff’ and how your body’s energy feels. This can then be quickly released and removed. 

10. Reduce time spent on mobile phones, keep them away from your head (use head set or ear phones) to reduce radiation exposure and do not allow them in your bedroom or where you sleep. Our phones are actually kept in another room separate from where the family usually gathers, all the charging takes place there as well. When we are going out together we often decide to not take any phones with us and to enjoy a frequency free afternoon. Mobile phones work on radio and electromagnetic frequencies in the same way as radio and emit radiation into your field. Any form of electromagnetic radiation causes harm and damages the energy field.

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Walking the talk requires time, effort, energy and commitment to not only yourself and your particular mission here, but also time spent considering the impact of your actions for the benefit of the rest of the world. 

Why not make your mark, a ripple in the pond of life - be a rebel, dare to take care!

April

Sea salt - a fantastic healer, cleanser and detox aid

***Excerpt taken from April's list of 25 Ways To Protect Yourself In the Healing Professions. 

Advice to Energy Healers and Therapists...

Many years ago I started out exploring energy healing, hands on healing, energy therapy and all manner of anything to do with the energy field in an effort to understand my energetic self, but also with the hope of making something of it and helping other people. 

Of course being an intuitive and inquisitive by nature, I wanted to explore and figure out exactly what was happening within the energy field of the humans I was seeing as well as myself. In order to do that I needed to be proficient in hands on energy therapies and to know what they were all about.

Over the following few years I took courses in nearly everything - Hands on Healing, Healing Touch, Touch for Health, Kinesiology, became a Reiki Master, massage therapy - you name it, I did it. And for the most part I really enjoyed the work that I did and felt that I was figuring out a lot about energy.

Of course, there were always queries and lingering doubts about some of what was being taught, and whenever I asked certain questions I was put off or pushed out of the inner circles. When I look back now, I know that it was because those teaching and demonstrating these techniques did not know themselves and what was worse was that some did not care.

The questions and lingering doubts that I had then still stand today and most higher level teachers and leaders even now do not want to 'know' more because it puts them in a position of responsibility. One that they are ill prepared to take on or even to know how to address. 

I have listed some of those questions that I was asking then and since have addressed through my own work, life and core beliefs and written about my findings in my books;

• How were the practitioners and participants being protected and by whom or what? 

This question about protection was and is perhaps the most important one that I have had to ask and of course it has never been answered satisfactorily. When we are doing 'energy work' (by this I mean working in someone's energy field) and consuming a poor diet, taking medication, under profound stress, using 'other' drugs such as alcohol, exposure to radiation and any number of other vices - our energy fields can be wide open. That is one issue. 

Connected to this is that no matter how many bubbles of light surround you or how much you meditate or who your guides/angels/spirits are - you are not protected. And what is worse - you are not in a position to protect anyone else. An energy field is only as strong as the practitioners physical, emotional, mental and spiritual body is at that moment in time. 

Each of the 'vices' listed above weaken, damage, break and otherwise wreak havoc with the delicate strands which make up a person's energetic field. This is reality. We have to work at taking exquisite care of ourselves which includes the energy field.

• Why was everyone 'leaking' energy and what to do about it?

As an intuitive I 'see' and perceive the energy field, quite clearly I might add. Of course this situation has become far worse in more recent times however, even back in the late 80's and 90's when I was attending these courses I was seeing that something was amiss in my own energy field and in everyone else's. They were full of holes, rips, tears and in some cases broken off completely. Many people were missing parts of their energy fields at the back, especially near the neck and above the kidneys - both areas where we carry stress. 

These problems with the energy field are caused by anything (from junk food to drugs to chronic stress) that damages the physical body. We cannot separate our physical self from ANY other part of us - we are a functioning unit and that means all of us. Energy fields that are full of breaks, holes and tears, leak energy which leads to dysfunction.

What to do about it? Well, this was the single biggest reason I developed my energy technique of Closing the Energy Leaks but also, any improvements that you make to your diet, health, well-being and lifestyle will begin the process of repairing your energy field.

• Who was showing up when angels, spirits and guides were 'called' in?

I actually remember 'watching' people being encouraged to call in spirits, masters, guides and other entities and then not paying the slightest bit of attention to what was showing up. Mainly because they were not being taught to ask these questions, but also because no one was even thinking that 'anything' might come in through an open door. 

In some of my classes on energy therapy and Medical Intuition I have had participants experiment with this and then check the 'beings' that were showing up. This was an eye opener for everyone involved  leading them to become far more discerning afterwards in their private practices. 

Just because you call in what you believe to be a spiritual being of integrity, this is not always what will arrive and besides, if you are hopped up on sugar, what else would you expect? Like, attracts like in the energy realms.

• What was the story with all the sugar, rubbish and junk food?

This brings me to my last point, I remember attending some of these courses where tables would be piled high with all manner of junk food - everything from chocolate, fizzy drinks, potato crisps, doughnuts, cakes, sugar, sugar, and more sugar. Oh and a little bowl of fruit on the side. When I asked sincerely what was going on with all of this rubbish food, I was informed that sugar improves your psychic and intuitive abilities. Yeah, right.

Anything that does harm to the body, will not improve any function of that body. Sugar is a poison, it is toxic and an anti-nutrient. This means that it costs you energy to digest and assimilate it because it is so depleted of energy. It has absolutely nothing to offer you and using this will lead to many forms of dysfunction. And it will definitely not improve anything especially where your sixth sense is concerned.

As humans we intuitively know that and everyone should know this. So why on earth is this, still to this day, a part of these workshops as if it was the nectar of the gods? Sugar is dangerous stuff (pure white and deadly?) and not to be mixed with energy work of any kind. 

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Why am I writing about this now and spelling this out so clearly for you here - because this is some of what I have learned over these past 20 plus years that I have been in this business and I wish that someone had told me when I started out. It would have saved a lot of frustration, illness, worry, stress and FEAR over the years. 

So, now you know.

April 

Truth is hard to come by....

I have been talking about this for many years and it is reaching epidemic proportions at this point. Each and every week I hear from someone, somewhere how they have been to see a healer, energy worker, therapist, holistic practitioner of some kind and that now they are 'worse'. And not worse in the healing crisis sense of things- but worse for the work that has been done on them.

You cannot do a weekend course in 'energy' therapy of any kind and consider yourself competent. You cannot live your life as a 'healer' and carry on as if this was an ordinary job. You cannot live with one foot in this world and one foot in another. 

At some point you have to make a decision about what you want to be or do with your life and then you have to do it. This is not a job for just anyone- either you are with the programme and you eat, live, walk like a healer or you do not. You are either walking the talk and following the way of the healer or you are not. There are no shortcuts, there is no time off and there are no breaks. 

This is full on, lifelong and hard work. 

To do less than any of these is to short change yourself, the people you work with and what is worse, to create more harm than good. 

Time to make a decision people, walk it or leave it.