In the coming weeks I am going to begin to write here about the healing methods I use as a way of making myself write the book on healing that I've been promising to write for so long!
Before I start though, its important to talk about what it means to be a healer. Jonathan Goldman, an expert in music and healing frequencies, is someone whose music I use all the time in healing sessions. He remarks that frequency + intent = healing.
Intent is where the healer comes in. The intent is to heal obviously. But how do you get into that state? The healer is not immune from illness. He or she may have lots of things going on that they are working on in their own selves. Often this understanding adds to the ability to understand what a client might be experiencing. In my view that is fine as it keeps you human and not in danger of stepping into a role where everyone thinks you have all the answers. The important thing is to get out of your own way and not bring your own stuff into the sessions you conduct.
Intent is ultimately about being absolutely clear that anything is possible. The intent is 100% removed from thinking about outcomes, getting stuck in a diagnosis, or underestimating the life path of the client and what they may have chosen to experience and what they have the power to release.
So how do you get yourself to this state of intent?
My personal recipe is first to have a teacher or system that you can refer to that keeps you clear on a personal and heart level. I personally use the techniques of Knowledge as taught by Maharaji and find his teaching keeps me on track and in touch with myself.
Secondly, the healer needs to learn a system that helps to channel the energy not from you but through you. Again I personally trained in the Domancic method, which works well on physical conditions and in a Bioenergy healing method that works deeply on emotional conditions. For people with really stuck thinking I trained in The Work of Byron Katie.
Thirdly, a personal rule must be to separate work from life. The healer is a healer only at work. In life they have their own learning to experience and their own bridges to cross. It is vital to have a work-life separation. Too often the healer draws in "clients" to their personal life and the end result is rarely positive.
Maharaji once told a very good story to illustrate this. He gave the example of someone who comes to you with his finger cut off. He cries, "Look I've cut off my finger!" You help him bandage the finger, you talk about why he cut off his finger, you worry about how he's feeling and you take such care of him until that wound has healed. Then you turn your back and in seconds he's back. "Oh look!", he wails, "I've cut off another finger." You go through the same process again and then when all is well, he's back with yet another finger cut off. The point here, Maharaji says, is how many fingers are you going to stay for? Because the severed fingers will keep on coming. Compassion is staying for the first finger and maybe the second, but when the chopped fingers keep on coming then, if you stay, you are being lenient, not compassionate and leniency is no good for you or for the person chopping off his fingers.
A point comes when you have to walk away. For whatever reason you are not the person the deal with the severed finger syndrome. A 'finger chopper' can only be helped when they admit that the problem is that they can't stop chopping off their fingers.
Is walking away easy? No! Is walking away necessary? Absolutely! Healing is not rescuing or saving or performing some magical act. Rather it is a choice to cooperate with someone who wants to grow in their lives and by taking part and just being present without agendas or ego the healer also learns and grows with every client.
So the lesson of compassion versus leniency is vital in anyone's life, but especially in the life of someone who chooses a healing profession. Once that lesson is learned the intent becomes even more clear and more powerful. It also flows into professional life as clients also benefit. They can be guaranteed a compassionate approach but also a tough line in the sand that will not allow for any lenient acceptance of negative or destructive patterns.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
The Heart of a Child
The children arriving on the planet now (and in the past ten years) I feel are a very special batch that have a huge part to play in our movment towards a new phase in our evolution as spiritual beings. They are coming at a time when life on earth is very disturbed and out of balance.
It is vital to nurture and protect these children. To give them routine, structure and boundaries, while also allowing them to open to the spiritual world and to the power of their own conscious creation. To allow them time in nature, time to reflect, to think, read, paint, draw, create. No TV is the best option, as it is now so polluted with images of debasment and negativity, however nothing is all bad and excellent nature programmes and programmes which enhance learning and growth are good. Active parenting is the key. sharing meals together, conversation, debate, laughter, guidance and clarity.
It's just not on to plonk these kids in front of a TV or video game and expect that all will be well. It won't be. I'll talk about this more in later posts but for now I just want to let a young lady called Tia Nicole speak in the clip posted below:
It is vital to nurture and protect these children. To give them routine, structure and boundaries, while also allowing them to open to the spiritual world and to the power of their own conscious creation. To allow them time in nature, time to reflect, to think, read, paint, draw, create. No TV is the best option, as it is now so polluted with images of debasment and negativity, however nothing is all bad and excellent nature programmes and programmes which enhance learning and growth are good. Active parenting is the key. sharing meals together, conversation, debate, laughter, guidance and clarity.
It's just not on to plonk these kids in front of a TV or video game and expect that all will be well. It won't be. I'll talk about this more in later posts but for now I just want to let a young lady called Tia Nicole speak in the clip posted below:
Monday, March 28, 2011
Inspiring and thrilling read...
Tilly Greenway & the Secrets of the Ancient Keys Book One: Watchers is the first instalment in an epic fantasy saga.
It's a great story and I'm including it here as it is also a Katy Press publication (I didn't write it but I have read it and it's fantastic!) I'll include a few of the you tubes also. The book description below says it all....
Two worlds. One planet. A race to save mankind.
What if magic and myth are true and all that we have been told about the history of the earth is false? What if there is a sinister shadow government creating war and chaos in an attempt to destroy humanity? What if there are cosmic cycles that bring truth and lies face to face for one final showdown?
When all these forces collide, Tilly Greenway and her stepbrother Zack find themselves at the centre of a power struggle that reaches back to the dawn of time. What they do next will decide the fate of humanity forever...
When dreams come true and myths are real, anything can happen…and it certainly does in this tale of magic, mystery and dark intrigue….
What would happen if you blended The X-files with Lord of the Rings, added a pinch of Eragon and a few drops of Harry Potter? Most likely you'd get Watchers!
And, you might be forgiven for thinking that Watchers, the first book in the Tilly Greenway and the Secrets of the Ancient Keys series, is one of those classics that has been around forever and that somehow it's only now you're getting around to reading it. That's the peculiar thing about this book: it just has a sort of presence, like it has always been there, whispering its secrets to you from the dim recesses of your book shelf.
Maybe that's in part due to the nature of the story itself. Like the world we live in, there are many levels to this book and many parallel realities that flicker in and out of existence. Nothing is ever quite as it seems and there are wheels within wheels as the plot reveals its hidden secrets.
The rough story is as follows: The UK is straining under the pressure of the global war against terror. In the cities, school children live in fear of knife attacks and rampant pandemics. When a flood threatens to devastate London, twelve year old Tilly Greenway and her stepbrother Zack are evacuated to a creepy manor house in Wales.
Their lives are turned (even more) upside down when they find out that the world itself is controlled by a sinister organisation called ISIS who are in league with a group of shadowy alien entities. ISIS wants nothing less than to microchip the population with nano-brains that give them complete control over every human being on the planet. And they will stop at nothing to get their way.
Tilly and Zack soon discover that they have a big part to play in thwarting ISIS's plan. They must decipher a series of ancient riddles in order to unlock the secret locations of the mysterious ME Keys, objects of power that were hidden by an Egyptian Princess more than three thousand years ago.
On their journey they come across the Guardians of the Earth, a secret society committed to keeping alive the secrets of long ago. The Guardians help Tilly and Zack to locate the last twelve dragons, who are buried beneath England's hilltops. Then they must find and activate the first ME Key.
But ISIS and the calculating Director of Terror are hot on their heels. With their department of remote-viewers, they track the children's every movement, setting up a nail-biting finale on the peak of Glastonbury Tor…
The great thing about this book is that it has all the pace and intrigue of a Dan Brown thriller, whilst at the same time giving the reader many moments of respite (and humour) in quiet scenes that take the reader into the heart and soul of the countryside.
Magical creatures appear from the mists of time. Sacred sites are brought to life in ways that make them relevant for the modern reader and the real beauty of the world becomes a vital presence in the book, giving the children a deeper understanding of what it is they are fighting for.
Rarely does a book live up to its billing, but Watchers really is the exception to the rule. And the great thing is that the landscape of Tilly Greenway is real. You can visit every location (well, except for the scary ones, maybe)!
If you like epic fantasy, magic and myth, suspense-filled thrillers, or X-Files-type conspiracy stories…this is the book for you!
Buy it here amazon.co.uk
It's a great story and I'm including it here as it is also a Katy Press publication (I didn't write it but I have read it and it's fantastic!) I'll include a few of the you tubes also. The book description below says it all....
Two worlds. One planet. A race to save mankind.
What if magic and myth are true and all that we have been told about the history of the earth is false? What if there is a sinister shadow government creating war and chaos in an attempt to destroy humanity? What if there are cosmic cycles that bring truth and lies face to face for one final showdown?
When all these forces collide, Tilly Greenway and her stepbrother Zack find themselves at the centre of a power struggle that reaches back to the dawn of time. What they do next will decide the fate of humanity forever...
When dreams come true and myths are real, anything can happen…and it certainly does in this tale of magic, mystery and dark intrigue….
What would happen if you blended The X-files with Lord of the Rings, added a pinch of Eragon and a few drops of Harry Potter? Most likely you'd get Watchers!
And, you might be forgiven for thinking that Watchers, the first book in the Tilly Greenway and the Secrets of the Ancient Keys series, is one of those classics that has been around forever and that somehow it's only now you're getting around to reading it. That's the peculiar thing about this book: it just has a sort of presence, like it has always been there, whispering its secrets to you from the dim recesses of your book shelf.
Maybe that's in part due to the nature of the story itself. Like the world we live in, there are many levels to this book and many parallel realities that flicker in and out of existence. Nothing is ever quite as it seems and there are wheels within wheels as the plot reveals its hidden secrets.
The rough story is as follows: The UK is straining under the pressure of the global war against terror. In the cities, school children live in fear of knife attacks and rampant pandemics. When a flood threatens to devastate London, twelve year old Tilly Greenway and her stepbrother Zack are evacuated to a creepy manor house in Wales.
Their lives are turned (even more) upside down when they find out that the world itself is controlled by a sinister organisation called ISIS who are in league with a group of shadowy alien entities. ISIS wants nothing less than to microchip the population with nano-brains that give them complete control over every human being on the planet. And they will stop at nothing to get their way.
Tilly and Zack soon discover that they have a big part to play in thwarting ISIS's plan. They must decipher a series of ancient riddles in order to unlock the secret locations of the mysterious ME Keys, objects of power that were hidden by an Egyptian Princess more than three thousand years ago.
On their journey they come across the Guardians of the Earth, a secret society committed to keeping alive the secrets of long ago. The Guardians help Tilly and Zack to locate the last twelve dragons, who are buried beneath England's hilltops. Then they must find and activate the first ME Key.
But ISIS and the calculating Director of Terror are hot on their heels. With their department of remote-viewers, they track the children's every movement, setting up a nail-biting finale on the peak of Glastonbury Tor…
The great thing about this book is that it has all the pace and intrigue of a Dan Brown thriller, whilst at the same time giving the reader many moments of respite (and humour) in quiet scenes that take the reader into the heart and soul of the countryside.
Magical creatures appear from the mists of time. Sacred sites are brought to life in ways that make them relevant for the modern reader and the real beauty of the world becomes a vital presence in the book, giving the children a deeper understanding of what it is they are fighting for.
Rarely does a book live up to its billing, but Watchers really is the exception to the rule. And the great thing is that the landscape of Tilly Greenway is real. You can visit every location (well, except for the scary ones, maybe)!
If you like epic fantasy, magic and myth, suspense-filled thrillers, or X-Files-type conspiracy stories…this is the book for you!
Buy it here amazon.co.uk
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Dance with Life now available as an ebook
Well, I've been a hopeless blogger but at least in all this time I've managed to learn how to convert Dance with Life into an epub ebook! Many people in the US have wanted Dance with Life and as it's on sale only via amazon.co.uk this added an extra cost that wasn't necessary. So now the book can be purchased from Lulu.com right now and ibooks and more in a few weeks as an ebook.
I'm posting the link in the side panel.
I'm an amateur at epub design so please feel free to let me know if there are any glitches in the epub book. x
I'm posting the link in the side panel.
I'm an amateur at epub design so please feel free to let me know if there are any glitches in the epub book. x
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
It's been a long time!
Gosh it's been such a long time since I posted...
It's been busy here as I've been very absorbed in BioEnergy Healing again and in using sound therapy also. I've just started one day a week also in my local Doctors surgery so that is very positive and a great testament to the very progressive and dedicated approach of this branch of the medical profession.
I've also been working on an online healing course which will guide others to open to their healing potential using a book and mp3s of the guided meditations I use in the healing course. I'm doing this because this healing method is powerful and I can't do it all on my own. The more people out there who can learn to do this, the more the energy can travel. We all have the ability within us and the methods I learned are a very grounded way to open to the universal healing forces without frying your system!
I started another blog called The Noetic Digest (link on left) which is more of a think-piece magazine relating to many of the interesting things going on out in this beautiful planet of ours that we never get to read about in the mainstream media. So if anyone out there has interesting articles to add please send them in.
Now I'm off to listen to a live webstream of Maharaji speaking in Miami this week. Plus Sonia Choquette is starting a great series of webinars called Travelling at the Speed of Love. speedoflovebook.com/
Isn't the internet just great!
It's been busy here as I've been very absorbed in BioEnergy Healing again and in using sound therapy also. I've just started one day a week also in my local Doctors surgery so that is very positive and a great testament to the very progressive and dedicated approach of this branch of the medical profession.
I've also been working on an online healing course which will guide others to open to their healing potential using a book and mp3s of the guided meditations I use in the healing course. I'm doing this because this healing method is powerful and I can't do it all on my own. The more people out there who can learn to do this, the more the energy can travel. We all have the ability within us and the methods I learned are a very grounded way to open to the universal healing forces without frying your system!
I started another blog called The Noetic Digest (link on left) which is more of a think-piece magazine relating to many of the interesting things going on out in this beautiful planet of ours that we never get to read about in the mainstream media. So if anyone out there has interesting articles to add please send them in.
Now I'm off to listen to a live webstream of Maharaji speaking in Miami this week. Plus Sonia Choquette is starting a great series of webinars called Travelling at the Speed of Love. speedoflovebook.com/
Isn't the internet just great!
Thursday, July 16, 2009
The Magic Happens ...
I've just been to a great talk by my teacher Maharaji (Prem Rawat). It was a great few days of learning for me. For one thing the event was announced at very short notice so I had two days to get there or not.
My head kicked in with all the reasons why this was too little time for me to get there. The questions came up - How would I juggle things? Why was the notice period so short?
Then the moaning - It's not fair! This is just too much to expect. I don't like to be rushed And what about the guys pulling this together how will they do it in time.
My head decided that the whole thing was too much for it and settled into a sulky "I'm not going and that's that" stand off.
My heart moved my hands to the computer and reserved a seat just in case my mind changed. Then by chance I spoke to one of the guys organising it and was he concerned? NO! "Ah just let the magic happen and it will all come together", he said.
I thought about that and saw that I was so in my own way. The river was flowing and I was letting my thoughts strand me on the dry rock in the middle safely and miserably out of the flow. I decided to get out of my own way. The flow started. Another telephone call offering all sorts of easy solutions, travel with good friends, accommodation for all of us in another friend's house. We went and had a marvellous time.
As he spoke Maharaji talked about illusion and the tremendous power illusion has to seem so real. How does the illusionist pull off a stunt? With clever distraction. The illusions in life are no different and what stunts are we not noticing? What are we allowing to distract us?
So short notice or perfect timing? I can only love what is and in this case the timing couldn't have been better as it allowed me to shed another set of concepts. What a gift to have been given. I was only saying a few weeks ago that I was finding training for Byron Katie's The Work tough going as I was running out of issues to work on. Boy did I find a few issues when the comfort zone of planning, of thinking I could know for sure what the next week would bring, was removed. I found the illusion that life can be known beyond the moment was shattered and the distraction of diaries, plans and arrangements are just ideas of what might happen but might or might not have any bearing on the reality of what is happening.
It was even fun to see my mind run riot again. That hasn't happened for a long time and thankfully an ego based sulk couldn't hold up against a heart that has been fulfilled, strengthened, expanded and bathed in bliss by the simplicity of Maharaji's teaching time after time after time.
The whole experience reminded me too of something Maharaji said some time ago - the ability to be in touch with the heart is no different to eating. It has to be done every day. You can't eat and then say that's fine, I've eaten now I never have to eat again. No every day the food has to be ingested and every day connection has to be made with the heart. A day skipped is a day spent hungry.
I'm grateful now to have experienced the hunger and the filling in the space of yet another 24 hours on planet Earth.
My head kicked in with all the reasons why this was too little time for me to get there. The questions came up - How would I juggle things? Why was the notice period so short?
Then the moaning - It's not fair! This is just too much to expect. I don't like to be rushed And what about the guys pulling this together how will they do it in time.
My head decided that the whole thing was too much for it and settled into a sulky "I'm not going and that's that" stand off.
My heart moved my hands to the computer and reserved a seat just in case my mind changed. Then by chance I spoke to one of the guys organising it and was he concerned? NO! "Ah just let the magic happen and it will all come together", he said.
I thought about that and saw that I was so in my own way. The river was flowing and I was letting my thoughts strand me on the dry rock in the middle safely and miserably out of the flow. I decided to get out of my own way. The flow started. Another telephone call offering all sorts of easy solutions, travel with good friends, accommodation for all of us in another friend's house. We went and had a marvellous time.
As he spoke Maharaji talked about illusion and the tremendous power illusion has to seem so real. How does the illusionist pull off a stunt? With clever distraction. The illusions in life are no different and what stunts are we not noticing? What are we allowing to distract us?
So short notice or perfect timing? I can only love what is and in this case the timing couldn't have been better as it allowed me to shed another set of concepts. What a gift to have been given. I was only saying a few weeks ago that I was finding training for Byron Katie's The Work tough going as I was running out of issues to work on. Boy did I find a few issues when the comfort zone of planning, of thinking I could know for sure what the next week would bring, was removed. I found the illusion that life can be known beyond the moment was shattered and the distraction of diaries, plans and arrangements are just ideas of what might happen but might or might not have any bearing on the reality of what is happening.
It was even fun to see my mind run riot again. That hasn't happened for a long time and thankfully an ego based sulk couldn't hold up against a heart that has been fulfilled, strengthened, expanded and bathed in bliss by the simplicity of Maharaji's teaching time after time after time.
The whole experience reminded me too of something Maharaji said some time ago - the ability to be in touch with the heart is no different to eating. It has to be done every day. You can't eat and then say that's fine, I've eaten now I never have to eat again. No every day the food has to be ingested and every day connection has to be made with the heart. A day skipped is a day spent hungry.
I'm grateful now to have experienced the hunger and the filling in the space of yet another 24 hours on planet Earth.
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