DNA of the Healer - What Should Set You Apart

Body, Mind and Soul - This is a term we all know and it gets flashed around a lot – has been for sometime in certain circles. The holistic industry uses it quite often, mostly to get across the message that their approach is different.

In fact, it’s so different from conventional medicine that this aspect needs to be pointed out. We are not one-dimensional beings – therefore our health and healing also should follow suit and deal with the whole person.

Once upon a time – this was the only way to treat illness and wellness. Our energy systems, physical symptoms, emotional health as well as social and spiritual relationships – were all taken into account.

But, one thing has troubled me about how this most basic outlook for treatment of the person has gradually been eroded away – and in not a such a large space of time.

These days, you can be treated by an alternative practitioner who doesn’t even look in your eyes, let alone ask how some other aspects of your life are going. And they themselves are anything but healthy (not that this is a strict requirement, however….)

So what has happened? Have we borrowed from the established system in an effort to be more efficient, to simplify our work, are we too busy, distracted in our focus or is there something else taking place here?

Surely this cannot be for the better – alternative forms of healing have always been the norm and are indeed hardly alternative at all (except for some of the weird ones that have cropped up, but we won’t mention them). For centuries (longer?) they have been the backbone of the health of not only living creatures, but in having a synergistic relationship with the planet as well.

This brings us back to body, mind and soul medicine – what has been lost or shifted here is balance – and not in any place you might think. Even though we are being influenced on a daily basis by everything taking place around us and we are not living in a bubble (nor expected to), there are basic precepts to be adhered to.

The health, well-being and holistic attitude must be an all encompassing aspect of the healers’ (practitioners) life. Our focus needs to be on our own spiritual, emotional, physical, energetic (did I leave anything out?) bodies – where we are to be continuously striving for optimum health.

In some circles this would be referred to as having a higher vibrational frequency – an unknown mystical quality that sets those who are walking this path apart from those who are destined for other things.

The DNA of the healer.

And you cannot achieve a higher vibration sitting on the couch, waiting for the phone to ring – this is earned, gained, developed and nurtured through taking exquisite care of your body, mind and soul.

April

What Is Living, Anyway?

If we didn’t have these energy drains – who would we be?

I don’t  know about you but I am fully aware that I should have , and some days do have more energy. On those days when I don’t feel up to my usual self I have often focused on exactly what is going on with my body to get to the bottom of  how my energy is being distributed.

As a Medical Intuitive, I simply want to know exactly where, why and how systems, organs and structures work inside of my body – and also how they respond to inside and outside energy. 

These days there are an awful lot of things geared to drain us. I don’t say this lightly either – we have entire industries set up just to get our attention, keep it and then make you think it was your idea to interact with it in the first place (there’s that overmind at work again).

Don’t think so? How else would you look at television, most radio, video games (or whatever they are called these days) and then there is the food situation. Anyone of these activities are distractions – from, well actually living; because they take our time, energy, attention, focus and ultimately our health.

Yet – what is living anymore anyway? I know many people would look at me, see me cooking for my family (everything from scratch) and shake their heads. Because, well, you can buy that at the shops, perhaps cheaper, more conveniently and it’s quicker.

I had a comment made to me just yesterday – that’s a great lifestyle, but who has time for it? I do. Living as I do is not a waste of my time – it is an investment of my time and energy – into my family’s health, enjoyment and future.

If you don’t have time to take exquisite care of your body now – you will lose energy. In fact, you set yourself up to be an open system with holes in the energy field that actually attract those who will drain you.

But, getting back to our topic here – if I was in complete control of all my energy sources, resources and how it is distributed around my body and life – I think I would be a completely different person.

Because that would mean – power. Enough energy to be the driving force (great word) in my own life, dreams, family, health and whatever else I set my mind to do. 

Some would say I am that already – but how much more can I be? It really is quite something to think about and most certainly a worthwhile goal to have,  especially these days with energy thin on the ground.

I am coming to the conclusion that each and every one of these energy vampires are the main threat to our current health, mental balance, emotional stability and even our very souls. 

They will stop at nothing to achieve their aims – we too must be equally (if not more) vigilant, resourceful, and on our guard to remove them systematically from our body, mind and spirits. 

Think of it this way – why stop where you are, why not decide to be more, far more – or even all you can be? Onwards…..

April

Closing the Energy Leaks 

Stop, Breathe, Listen and Be Part of It All - Intuition

Sometimes I just feel as if I need to come right out and just say it - all of it. Of course, there is one little problem, I am still trying to sort out what ALL of it is LOL. So, I have to settle for coherent sentences for now...

Well, it has been a wild few days - but only in terms of energy shifting around me while I do this cleanse. It has moved and brought up far more this time around then ever before - making me think that I am finally getting to the bottom of the barrel.

It has been quite a trip so far - I am certainly looking forward to continuing to get myself back to 'myself'. One thing that has risen to the surface so to speak is my intuition. It appears to be deepening, changing in some way.

I find this quite interesting because I have long relied on my intuition to 'tell' me things, guide me or to let me know in which direction to go. So, this is as per usual - however, what has shifted is the type and amount of information that is coming up.

The reason I wanted to mention this is perhaps because I have had many occasions over my life time to speak with new mothers, therapists, healers, those walking a spiritual path, sick people and others who are feeling confused about where to go or how to proceed in their lives. 

One of the underlying fundamental missing elements here is their intuition.

Of course, their intuition is 'there' in their bodies - however they are either not listening to it or being told to ignore it, push it down and even in many instances feeling (or being told) that what their body is saying, is wrong.

What is worse is that this precious sixth sense is often scoffed at....

Recently I spoke with a first time new mother, she had serious misgivings about some advice being given to her by a doctor and mentioned to him that her intuition was telling her to take a different approach with her baby.

Once he had completely dismissed her opinion, her intuition and her doubts - she knew she was not being taken seriously as a human being as well as a new mother who knows her baby best. Thankfully she decided to listen to her gut feeling and everyone was well served because of it.

This is only one 'function' of our inner knowing, body's voice or this sense that comes over us when we need to be guided in some way by our bodies. It is an important, vital and useful tool to have, and I have no doubt it has saved not only my life, but countless others.

If you are not listening, not yet paying attention or don't know where to start to find that inner voice - change your diet, start exercising and practice listening to your body. The voice is there - it's just buried under the crowd of toxins, electronic waves and nonsense interference we walk through each day.

Why is this so important? This voice is part of your inner communication systems - this world is toxic, and so mixed up sometimes, however, it still has so much goodness, wonder and great things to offer us. Your intuition is like a doorway into these worlds....

Stop, breathe, listen and be part of it all

April

** Intuition for Business Classes in Leap, West Cork

Geese enjoying the sunshine 

Remove the Body Blocks....and You Will Move Too

This is one area I have a lot of experience in - mostly because I have spent the better part of my life working on energy blocks, resistance, inflammation, deep emotional patterns and what not - all of which are related to some kind of body block.

One of the reasons I wanted to bring this subject up is because I encounter so many people who have one situation, pattern, spiritual matter, health issue or emotional problem to sort out - however they treat it as separate from the rest of their lives and bodies.

If you are working on something (anything) no matter if it's physical, emotional, energetic, spiritual - each area relates back to each other. But what is more important, when there is a block (or issue) in one area, there is equally a corresponding block in these other parts of you.

You (and not one of us here on this planet) do not exist as a separate entity - you are not only connected to the whole (entire Universe or Oneness), but all of this also resides inside of you. When there is a block - this could be a physical problem such as a pain in a muscle but it will also be a region of stagnant energy, spiritual detachment and emotional patterns.

How this manifests in your life is by never getting where you want to be. Always working for someone else and dreaming of doing, being, creating something different for yourself and your family -- however, it just never seems to take root.

Or perhaps it does take root, then it doesn't grow or someone else steps in and takes it over. Does any of this sound familiar? It's like the air plane I wrote about a couple days ago, circling in a holding pattern, but never landing.

If we can't land, we can't go home.

So, what to do about any of this and get your life going forwards again - for me, it all began with changing my diet and lifestyle, but the real change - the deep energy shifts and healing I was seeking in my world - that came about with detoxing.

Don't you think it's time you got your life back? 

April

Barley Cove Beach, West Cork

Don't Give Up Now - This is Your Destiny

There are days and for some of us - weeks, months and years - where nothing seems to be going in the direction we want it to go. But, yet when we look back at different challenging time frames and periods in our lives - we can see change has taken place.

In essence we are getting there. It's just not in the direct route, as quickly as we had hoped and without all of these learning curves...You know, the ones that always end up teaching us something incredibly important - but are so annoying to move through.

I don't know how many times I have said, thought and contemplated throwing in the towel (and everything else that is not nailed down). Or how many times I have just wanted to quit, walk away from it all (or run screaming into the night) and give up on these seemingly impossible dreams.

To be honest I have even had several people say as much to me. Forget about it, you can't do it all, you can't be it all and (my personal fave) you can't do that. Needless to say - not one of them is a part of my life right now - I would rather walk alone then be in the company of someone who doesn't believe in a dream.

However, one thing I have observed in both myself and many others along the way is how we do tend to give up, just before we turn that long awaited corner. A memory I have is of being down with a flu - after a few days of feeling awful, caving in to the antibiotics - only to feel completely better before they even kick in.

Since I gave up that method of medicine and have spent a few years healing naturally - I am well aware of how it (any illness, bug or situation) will often seem much worse - right at it's turning point. Indeed it is always darkest before the dawn.

I don't think it is human nature to give up on anything - healing, dreams, hopes, plans, people - but it has been programmed into us through some negative force determined to keep us where we no longer want to be. 

The only way I can describe it is - it's like a plane circling and being unable to land. We are in the plane, we are the aircraft and when we give up, walk away, or otherwise cut short our learning experience - we remain in that holding pattern. 

Perhaps it is time to see this through to the end - no matter what that might be. Let it all fall apart, allow your body to have a go at healing and in every way keep walking forward. But don't ever, ever give up - this is your destiny.

April

**Intuition for Business Class starts 5 March in West Cork

Patterns of Worry - Superconsciousness and the Overmind

I've been working on this post for a week now and keep coming back to it - leaving it awhile and just trying to dig more deeply into these (my own) patterns when it comes to worry. Of course, I have come up with a few energetic links to it....

Worry for us appears is the ultimate distraction - I have observed myself and many others who can worry a path in the floor. Or, my personal favourite, stand in front of the fire and stare off into space while our minds work away.

It's like digging a hole, isn't it?

And then there are days (weeks of our lives?) where we find ourselves spending time doing absolutely nothing - because we are too busy worrying! Yet, I won't say worrying about nothing - because these are serious issues some of us are tackling. 

There are however, a few questions that it might raise, especially for those of us walking a spiritual path or even just trying to live our lives in a more conscious way. Some of these are around the energy it ties up while we also should be examining what worry does to us physically. 

Another big question here is who would have us worry? I ask this because I have seen this so much in my own life...someone (usually a family member) would ring up, carry on about some crisis or other and then having placed the 'worry' on to me, feel much better.

I then spent the day worrying for this person....

Worry also paralyses the mind (have you noticed this?) -- it actually stops you from doing something, moving forward, thinking clearly and most importantly - from speaking up. That's a big one for me. So many times I could say something and I don't because - well, I wouldn't want to...

What?? I'm not sure. But I do know it has to do with worry, which has to do with fears (of any kind) and then this is connected to what others might think, say or do. There is also a link to the media here - perhaps the biggest one yet.

What does it accomplish? Well, think about it, if we are all going around worried an asteroid is going to fall on our heads, our world is not safe, there are no jobs, the economy is shrinking, there is no money, we are all going to get some flu (that comes around every year and has done for millennia) - we are too busy to pay attention to living our lives.

But, the most important thing to note here - is that all of this worry we are being encouraged to do - this is making us sick. It is causing inflammation in our guts, our cholesterol to go up, our blood pressure to raise, it weakens our immune systems and generally drains us of energy. 

So, what to do about it now. How to overcome this time wasting habit of worry. Perhaps for each of us it will be a process - I know it is for me. The biggest step has been in observing and recognising what is going on in my mind and the fear associated with the worry. 

I have also mentioned on my blogs the 'overmind' - a sort of superconsciousness that has us all glued to the media for the latest updates of really scary up to the minute 'news'. Therein lies the key - break away from these ties that imprison us to this mass misinformation stream and you will open up like a lotus flower.

The change starts right here.

April

Energy Vampires - Self Healing of the Soul

I have been thinking a lot more about Energy Vampires - actually they are quickly stepping down off of their podiums and sort of beginning the age old process of --- dying? Who would have thought, vampires are not really supposed to die...

But, for those of us watching closely - and we are, believe me - it has become quite clear there are those who are leaving their posts and the earth. Hopefully going back to where ever it is they have derived from - the dark creatures that they are!

One of the reasons I wanted to write a few more thoughts down about this important topic is because I have been reading a little bit around what others are saying out there in the energy therapy, healing and vibrational medicine world.

Much of what people are advising others to do is nice and perhaps could be looked at as good advice - if this wasn't such a serious situation. However, the rest of the 'steps to removing an energy vampire' are pure rubbish and isn't remotely related to reality here on the ground.

First of all, if you have an energy vampire around you - you will also have a deep rooted physical inflammation in your body. Secondly, when you have an energy vampire around you, this means you are already leaking energy, losing energy and have a weakened immune system.

Another important point to be made here is that you have also taken on significant amounts of energy from others (this is common, but in no way is it acceptable) which contribute to your weakened state and make you feel even more drained of energy. You will also have a compromised energy field.

Lastly, do not under any circumstances take an amulet from another person. I know that some people mean well - but do you really know what this is? An amulet is a form of a sacred object (all good so far) which can be worn or carried on the person. A lot of us have such objects on our alters or in special places around our homes.

When this sacred piece of stone, wood or jewelry comes from someone else - it contains their energy. It doesn't matter who it is - we are each one of us energetic beings and there isn't anyone on this planet who is pure, above all others and otherwise capable of possessing a frequency so high as to have no issues.

So, when you take on someone's amulet, good luck charm or what not (usually to ward off evil and energy vampires) - you are also taking on their issues. Or carrying a piece of them with you - this is not the thing to have when you are attempting to heal, fix or change your own life and circumstances.

Especially from an energy vampire or any other energy draining situation.

The best way to proceed here, if you feel you would really like to have an amulet or sacred object for protection is to create one yourself. That way there is only your own energy to deal with, it will be just as powerful (you can charge it with energy) and far safer to have around you.

April

Blue Moon Ceremony in August 2012