Today was another first in my healing sessions! I was working with a Healee who complained of strong headaches. Wasn't entirely sure what to do with strong headaches and we are often told that the head is a very sensitive area to begin with. I went straight for his feet and grounding and channeled healing energy upwards towards his brow and crown chakra, with the intent to gently clear them.
When that was done I felt moved to work on the solar plexus and the brow chakra, with my hands about 4-5 feet off the body. My dad used to get headaches a lot and it reminds me of him sometimes. I have read up on headaches in my healing books and it will often be tied to the brow chakra's symbolic sight, the client's fearlessness to see their future and their life clearly. The fearlessness can also be affected by the solar plexus, which also happens to be paired with the brow chakra. For this reason I spent a good deal of time working on my client's solar plexus as well as their head. Finally I moved on to the heart-crown pairing for clearing, balancing and healing.
How do I choose what I work on during a session? Sometimes I cover the bases that I am taught in class. Other times I will remember what I read in a book, so in the case of headaches I worked on the crown and brow primarily. When this isn't enough to cover everything, my clairvoyance or clair-sentience will send me a sign. Today I was pretty much done with the healing session, and had moved to ground the client and close him down. I used a huge grounding cord to draw all of the excess energy from his aura and then send it to the ground, and then used my intent to desensitise each of his chakras. I will visualise a flower petal closing down over each chakra, so that it is contained and protected but not shut.
I was almost done closing him down when I felt a pain on my skull, around the back on the right side. It was dull but persistent, and told me that I wasn't done with the healing session. When this happens it is important to acknowledge it and then send it away - otherwise as a healer you might hang on to other people's aches and pains! I asked the pain to tell me what it meant, and a page from Barbara Brennan's Hand's of Light came to my mind. It is from the chapter where she talks about the belief that past life injuries can cause severe aches and pains. This could be the case if someone was killed in a car accident, or in a war and the injury isn't fully released from their etheric template. I got the feeling the headaches were linked to an injury from a past life, and that healing that could help by clearing the memory of the injury.
The healing session went on for an extra 10-15 minutes while I worked on the head injury. I put my hands on his shoulders and asked the injury to show me what had happened and where the pain was located. Then I sat behind his and held my hands on either side of his head, just a few inches off his skull. I visualised the injury, the pain and the memory has a reddish haze around his head and used the healing energy to clear it upwards and away from his head. Whenever we remove something from the energy field, even if it's a bad memory or a trauma, we need to fill that space with gold healing light. I put my hands around his head again, and channeled gold healing energy all over his head, brain, and even the top of his spine. Finally I put my hands on his shoulders one last time and asked for a good dose of gold energy to fill his up and continue healing throughout the week. I don't think I'm quite done, but that will hold over until our next appointment and it will also enable the healing to continue when I am not there.
I didn't mention the past life injury to the client when I was done with the healing session. He did feel the energy during the session, but I don't think it will do him any good to know that he may have had an accident in a past life. He may not believe in past lives to begin with, and having that conversation might cast "doubt" and "skepticism" on the healing. What are your thoughts on this? I can't say that I'm 100% convinced that past lives are real, but believing in them makes it easier for me to make sense of things. Past lives put astrology into context and they also make for very interesting discussions on Memories of the Soul! Clients don't need to know what we "see" during an energy healing session, the energy healing will still work regardless. I also think I have a deep rooted fear of quack-healers who go about scaring people, so I would rather not go there at all.