What is Intuitive Healing?
Intuitive Healing is a diverse method of intentional and appropriated actions, alternative healing methods and insights to assist in the restorative process of individuals. This is done through the ability of the Intuitive Healer to connect to a Higher Power, God/Goddess/ All that is, Source, or Life force Energy. The Intuitive healer has a vast understanding of how the body’s natural energetic fields work and flow through the system and channels of the individual. Intuitive healing is a method that encompasses and works on the whole of the person on the emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual level.
How does it work? The Intuitive healer uses their gifts, which come in forms such as visual, audial, or deep knowing and feeling, to receive spiritual guidance for the individual they are working with. This gives them the ability to unlock issues within that person's energetic system which are keeping them from living their most aligned, balanced, joyous life. When I ask my guides how to describe intuitive healing, they show me a toothed wheel slowing clicking from one gear to the next. The gears represent places where someone may have blocks, traumas, stuck or stagnant energy, and imbalances. Intuitive healing is a technique that facilitates the wheel becoming smooth again. It provides one with the ability to easily roll through life in optimal health and well being.
During an Intuitive Healing session, the Practitioner and the client are working together to create a shift in the energetic system of the client. This shift moves through the subtle energetic bodies and eventually is felt in the physical. The goal of the Practitioner is to get to the root of what is ailing the client through their spiritual guidance and intuition. Intuition being the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning. With this expanded knowledge, the Practitioner brings awareness to the client so that the client can use the information to work through releasing the energy that is stuck in the body that is causing them dis-ease, stress, pain, anxiety or discomfort. In addition, the Practitioner will provide tools to the client to assist in the releasing and integrating process.
These will differ from person to person but may include:
· Self-care
· Journaling prompts
· Mantras and affirmations
· Dietary changes
· Exercise or yoga
· Sound healing
· Herbal supplements
· Acupuncture for chronic pain
· Rest and meditation
· Increased hydration
· Electronic curfews
· Energy healing services
How many sessions needed will depend completely on the client and their individual situation, goals, and desires. For some one may be enough, for others it could be a process that lasts years. It is hard to go into detail about what a session looks like since like each person, each process is completely unique. But I can say this; Intuitive healing is an effective, efficient, and powerful method that I see becoming increasingly popular amongst those who are searching for self-actualization and liberation from suffering. It is a process that has personally shifted my world for the better. I have personally seen and heard numerous accounts of transformative and life-changing results from work with Intuitive healers. If you have found yourself on this page, reading this article then I would say you are being called to give it a try yourself. Start with one session and see how it goes, what do you have to lose?
More information about each of my Intuitive Healing Sessions, or additional individual services can be found on my website here.
What is Reiki?
I oftentimes get asked, "What is Reiki?".
The word Reiki is made up of two Japanese words, Rei which means “God’s wisdom” and Ki which means “life force energy”. It is a spiritual healing technique which allows for channeled energy to enter a client’s body, ultimately restoring overall well-being and bringing individuals to a higher vibrational state.
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Reiki energy originates in the highest dimension and is the vibration of love, harmony, and healing. Receiving Reiki brings about feelings of calm and ease, and aids in the elimination of all illnesses in the physical, mental, and emotional realms. Reiki can also assist you to balance or clear the chakras, by removing blockages, and allowing for energy flow again.
Reiki is tremendously effective at emotional healing and trauma recovery, and can be used to clear unwanted thought patterns, as well as be sent across time and space to your own past and future, healing the collective consciousness.
Reiki also has the ability to go beyond the surface to find an underlying issue and then reveal it to you in a gentle way, which can help to soothe unresolved or repressed emotions. Depending on a willingness for self-discovery, what comes to the surface will give you another chance for evaluation, and a different choice can be made with fresh eyes and a new perspective.
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I use Reiki on myself every day, and have always considered it as a natural form of antidepressant. I use Reiki with my family and friends, and to raise the vibration of my food and water. I make offerings to plants and animals as I encounter them. I charge up crystals and infuse Reiki into jewelry so that I (or the wearer) is imbued with its vibration, which also enhances the healing properties of the stone. I also use Reiki to raise the vibration in spaces I occupy, as well as in sessions with clients. The possibilities really are endless!
I am attuned to Reiki I, II, Reiki Master, and Reiki Master Teacher. It is through study and ceremony that I was attuned to both the lineages of Usui, and Tibetan Reiki Ryoho; however anyone can be attuned to Reiki. In a personalized training with me as our teacher, you will learn how to send and receive the healing light of Usui Reiki. I work with my guides and clairsentience to build an intentionally based, area of life focus Reiki attunement, specifically for you. Once you have completed the training, you will receive a Reiki attunement.
Being attuned to Reiki will open you up to a higher vibrational state. Regular practice allows you to create a deeper connection to your own inner wisdom, higher self, & your angels and guides. You can also heal yourself and others, anytime you want.
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How Do We Heal?
What does real healing look like? What does it mean to be healed, and how would you describe it in your own words?
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As a healer, life guide, and women’s transformational coach, I’ve been asked on many occasions if there is anything in my childhood that comes up for me, and I can assure you there is. I am always healing – myself, and others – because we’ve all experienced childhood trauma to varying degrees.
To clarify, a child will experience trauma in an environment where they perceive the actions of others as anything less than loving – not what the adult’s intentions are, but how they are received. As we grow into adulthood, we then choose whether or not to reenact and perpetuate this wounding when we are feeling triggered, and that’s where our healing really begins.
Healing happens when you are triggered and you are able to move through the pain, pattern, and the story and you consciously choose to have a different ending.
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Your shadow side never fully disappears – it is something we all need to learn to love and accept about ourselves. However how it affects our choices in life can drastically change. It takes an incredible effort to bring to light what has laid in the shadows all along. Our inner work--our soul work--is what creates our healing.
Over the years, I’ve acquired a deep understanding of myself and my trauma, which changes how I treat myself and others. I am able to consciously respond, rather than reacting due to being triggered.
Do I consider myself healed? In many ways, yes. I’ve released a lot of my own shame, pain, and blame so I can remain free. I have arrived at a place where I don’t feel the need to fight the dark in order to awaken my light.
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I’ve found that healing is living in pursuit of your own dignity. It’s reminding yourself that you are worthy of honor and respect, no matter where you’ve come from or all that you’ve experienced.
When we honor and respect ourselves we teach others how to love, respect and honor us in a way we may never have experienced before. This is the embodiment of self-love and compassion. And like a ripple effect, this now enables us to respect and honor others in a way they’ve never experienced before.
When we are healed, we treat others with dignity. We choose to make eye contact. We become intimate and can invite people in with our questions. We practice right speech, communicating in a loving, compassionate, and authentic way – where the purpose of our communication is about helping ourselves and others suffer less. We have the ability to say to the world through our actions, “I am still worthy of dignity, and so are those around me.”
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In order to heal, we need to respect the tragedy we’ve survived and endured so we are able to honor the hardships and tragedy that someone else has experienced. Real healing allows us to hold not just empathy for others, but also compassion.
Empathy only requires us to understand another person. Compassion literally means “to suffer together”. It allows us to gain emotional awareness around how another person has suffered, increasing our desire to alleviate their misery or distress. We're humans, we're evolving, and it has taken many generations to come to a place where we can be kind and compassionate to each other.
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When we meet someone, we must assume they have just survived their worst, and they will not have anything left for us. We could be confronting someone who is not fully embodied, and who has the conditioned impression of not being worthy of their own dignity. Inevitably they are incapable of showing honor, respect, and dignity to themselves.
If they are aggressive, frustrated, angry, or judgmental with us – it only means that their dignity has been stripped away from them. We are only experiencing the intensity of the adversity they have survived.
Our reactions to them depend upon how skillfully we embody our own dignity, regardless of the circumstances. As the wise Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Every man must decide whether to walk in the light of creative altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgement. Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others.’”
So shall we be reactive or responsive?
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When we are embodying our own dignity, we can lovingly discern when a person is not appropriate or necessary for us to engage with, due to their participation in their own trauma. We are able to prioritize our dignity and neutrality without bringing criticism and judgment into the equation.
Discernment is not judgment. Discernment allows us to protect ourselves and provides an example of a compassionate choice.
Now we are able to internally make the following distinctions:
I am not bringing criticism and judgement into my existence.
I refuse to perpetuate your trauma by not maintaining my dignity.
Your pain will not hurt me and my light will awaken you.
When we choose to react out of ego, we are only mirroring where we feel unseen, invisible and unworthy. In that moment we have no awareness of the pain in others, only our own. Ego is where we hide from any intimacy and the ability of being present, aware and accountable for our lives.
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From my own experience, healing is the ability to be stripped away from our past experiences. It’s our opportunity to say goodbye to any abuse, neglect, or abandonment that we are still feeling from our childhood, or that we’ve inherited through our ancestral history.
Healing is the physical, emotional and spiritual release of holding others accountable for our experiences of the past, so we are able to move forward. It’s forgiving everyone involved, including ourselves. It’s the action of clearing out the density within our fields.
When you are healed you are resilient. You are able to rebound from traumatic incidences. You have the ability to quickly reclaim your dignity. When things happen you say, “this is all happening for me” rather than “this is all happening to me.”
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We are all survivors of trauma and also the restorers of dignity. May we heal the heart of the world together.