Tag: energywork
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Connecting to your core self, from a time before memory
Over the many years that I’ve facilitated inner child work, I’ve found that most people (at least initially) find it very difficult to connect with their younger selves in a positive way. Often they carry guilt, shame, annoyance, indifference, or even animosity towards their various child selves. This frequently stands in contrast with intellectual work…
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Heart Opening and Boundaries
Any time energy centers develop blocks, it’s always for a good reason. The arrangement and flow of the energy body is ideally suited to meet one’s environmental conditions and is adaptive in nature, but sometimes we retain certain patterns of movement even as our conditions change. The energetic blueprint of the body works just like…
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Demystifying Spirit Guides
The term spirit guides can provoke a range of reactions. For some it brings pangs of irritation, sounding like new age psychobabble. Or stirs religious trauma, or challenges the idea of free will. Or it has no real meaning at all, a blank space with nothing to attach to it. For me personally the term…
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Channeling and deep space traveling
It was not easy for me to identify myself, even privately, as a medium or channeler. I love mediums, from minor TV stars like Tyler Henry and the Long Island Medium to those I have seen privately. My great grandmother was a physical medium, and has been a huge influence in my spiritual life even…
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Energetic Connections between Parents and Children
When you’re moving through karmic healing work, or ancestral healing, it’s hard not to find yourself in deep exploration of what the connections might be between you and your parents, you and your children, and all the generations of your family lineage. Why do some people get to have harmonious, secure, and loving relationships with…
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Demystifying Energy Practice
Foundational practices tend to be where we start when learning anything. And yet when we return to them after more experience, we often find they are more complex than they initially seemed.Some of the questions people usually ask when I’m teaching Reiki or leading a group might be “are there different types of energy? Is…
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Energy loops? Another layer of “reexperiencing”
I can’t remember the first place I read the term “energy loops,” but it almost immediately resonated with my experience of a particularly challenging trauma recovery phenomena. You’ll have to excuse the less linear nature of my attempt to describe something so abstract. In the mental health field, we tend to focus on reexperiencing as a…
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Spirits of plants
When I was in art school, I had a substitute teacher for just one class of the semester, and she lectured on plant and animal communication. I should note that this was an art history class and this topic was in no way related to the curriculum. She introduced me to The Secret Life of Plants and…
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The space between (worlds)
There are so many ways that we refer to this place. Liminal spaces, the Void, life between lives, edge dwelling, shadow work, transitions, shedding and transformation, the Bardo… if a “world” is a place with a concrete location, the space between is somehow beyond location. It is everywhere, it is the connective tissues of our…
Inward Vision 