Decisive Moments!

It's been nearly two years since I launched this blog and enrolled in Healing School! We only have one class left this weekend and then we're practically done. What comes next: a few case studies, my last homework assignment, and a demonstration for the board. Eek! I'm so excited! Almost there! 

At the same time, I've also been drifting away from this blog and Facebook.  Not surprising as I have lots to do. Add to that my current day job which I haven't managed to kick, though hopefully that will happen soon. Hoping for a new job or a career change? That is the question ... When I get impatient I tend to pull oracle cards and there are a few messages that I've been getting often:

MAKE A DECISION AND STICK TO IT

BELIEVE IN YOURSELF 

YOU'RE A HEALER

WHAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR WILL HAPPEN VERY SOON

AND IT WILL BE WORTH WAITING FOR

This is what I'm tasked with at the moment: 

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Finding Guidance in the Right Places

One of my guides was a psychologist in a past life. I only found out recently, when I was pondering my future and thinking it would be good to have someone to talk to about my life. Yes I have family and friends but some things are best said to a professional. The challenge with me is that so much of my life is now influenced by my healing, readings and intuition that I'm not sure what I could say to a living psychologist without them throwing me in a straight jacket.

Yesterday for example, I had lunch with a friend and she brought along Doreen Virtue's new Angel Reading tarot cards. I told her about my misgivings with my current job, and this feeling that I want to change directions without knowing where I should go. I know where I want to go, healing and counseling, but should I play it safe for a few more years and stick with a conventional day job?

She pulled three cards for me and we were shocked at how accurate they were:

1. Don't cry over spilled milk, you're not seeing the positive in your current situation.

2. Fears about money and concern over successful self employment.

3. Enjoy the little luxuries in life. Successful self-employment.

Tada!

I was really shocked and pleasantly surprised by the cards. The past few months I've been whining about being stuck in a new job that I didn't really ask for or want. If there is a silver lining I haven't spotted it, but I better look harder. Then the next two cards really answered my question, should I put my energy into finding a day job that I like or should I focus on transitioning to healing, writing and other creative outlets in the future?

I can't imagine going to a non-psychic or spiritual shrink and telling them that this reading is getting me to consider it more seriously. Would they think I was a complete loon? I was thinking about this at the gym yesterday and suddenly I had a thought: my guide was a shrink and he is there to guide me. Ha! And at the same time, I can use his expertise in my healing sessions with clients. Not that I'd advertise myself as a counselor because I'm not, but I have often thought that the basic knowledge would come in handy. Sometimes I'll get very clear insight into a situation and its hard to steer the client in that direction (if its appropriate, a lot of times we are just meant to sit on what we sense during a healing session).

Anyhooo, if there is a qualified shrink out there who is also intuitive, and preferably in London let me know. LOL. I think I'd like to see one myself but more than that I'd like to learn to do what they do. Will have a look online for a few short courses in psychotherapy and counseling. 

In the meantime I will chat with my guide ....

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When Science Meets Spirituality

I have been craving KFC all week and I keep telling myself not to get it. Today I started thinking that maybe I should just go for a bucket of crispy fried chicken, biscuits and mashed potatoes. What is driving this craving you might ask? I really think it's my inner child coming out to play. Last week we had a Soul Retrieval workshop at my healing school and I successfully re-integrated a piece of my 7 year old soul. When I was seven my favourite food in the world were the drumsticks at KFC.  I remember eating something like six pieces on one occasion. Colonel Sanders was one of my favourite people! Him and Ronald McDonalds were the coolest people on the planet. I did always wonder if Sanders had actually fought in a war or if all he did was sell chicken.  

So what is a Soul Retrieval and why did my a fragment of my soul break off? I'm not entirely sure what happened in my case, but I do have a very clear memory of me wanting to be a scientist when I was that age. I thought science, astronomy, the universe, rocks and even dirt were to interesting. Look at all of the plants that grow out of something so basic as dirt. What caused it? How did they survive? And how could we take some of those properties, put them in a beaker and make a cool potion? I don't think I'd heard of Einstein back then, but I was fascinated by cartoons of crazy scientists cooking up chemistry projects. I was also really good at science experiments and math, the nerdy straight A student that I always was. One day someone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I replied enthusiastically that I wanted to be a scientist! How amazing was that? The response took me by surprise:

"Scientists don't make enough money," he replied. "You could be a brilliant scientist and barely make it month to month." 

Ouch.

Not the best answer to give a seven year old! I remember feeling shocked and crushed that my aspiration was not good enough. What kind of jobs would pay off and would I like them? It really sucked. I'm not sure if that was the moment when I lost a little bit of myself, but I think this pressure to do the "right" thing has been with me for a long time. And who is to say what the right thing is anyway. Looking back on it I can also tell you that he was wrong. Scientists can make a lot of money, especially if they also have a good business mind which I happen to have. More than being a scientist I like to understand how things work, and that is true for science but also for energy healing. 

The memory has popped up over and over again the past 20 odd years. It has only now dawned on me that the promise of a high salary doesn't have to be one of the defining factors in my life.  I do like living in nice neighbourhoods, nice house, nice things, etc. But the abundance of the universe can come to us in unexpected ways, and following my bliss from a work point of view is sure to pay off. I think this is particularly relevant for me now that I'm contemplating my next steps with energy healing and writing. Even when I was in grad school I never anticipated staying in the corporate world for more than 10-15 years tops. Eventually I want to start my own business and I am now starting to think that it will be a healing/reading/therapy business. The exact dynamics are not yet clear to me, but I'm headed in that direction. Do energy healers make a good living? They can do. I will find a way to make it work. 

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Signs from Spirit

Yesterday I was getting ready for a meeting and didn't know what to wear. I had my dress picked out but was wondering about the shoes. First thought was black flats, to feel like myself. On a whim I pulled a pair of heels out of the closet and put them on. If someone had been around I would have asked for their advice. No such luck. The past few weeks I've had an image in my mind of me wearing heels and suits or dresses. I usually wear trousers and flats to work. The image kept coming back, and when I looked in the mirror I heard three loud knocks on my window. The wind telling me to go with the heels? 

Call me crazy but I took it as a sign and left with the heels. They were brand new so I wished I'd taken a blister stick with me, still, no harm done. What really surprised me was that I felt more empowered and in charge during the session. I wasn't quite myself, some of the fears and hang ups were gone and I felt myself connecting to my higher self throughout. One of the things Wayne Dyer says in his book Real Magic, is that we're all up for the task if when it comes to opportunities. You just have to believe that you can do it. You have that inner knowing and it will take you places. 

My inner knowing tells me I should prep for the next session and come with a vision and a plan. If I am able to pitch that and tune into the challenges they are looking to solve, I will be able to close the deal. The cool thing about being intuitive is that your Higher Self will tip you off and help you along the way. Maybe it's common sense, maybe it's experience. But I know I'm ready for it, no matter what happens.  A couple weeks ago I wrote a post about the turn my day job had taken and how I wasn't thrilled with it. This new opportunity could be a much better fit for me. I get the feeling that it will give me a chance to spread my wings and fly. Tomorrow I will have a look around town and try to get more in the mood. I am starting to get excited about it already. 

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Home for the Holidays

I am home for the holidays visiting family and friends. Its been wonderful catching up with everyone and one of the nicest surprises was finding out that a couple of my friends are also into healing and other kinds of light working. Some of them have been into self healing for a while and I had no idea because in the year and a half that I've been studying healing, I hadn't mentioned it. Maybe I didn't think they would get it. I am glad to know my assumption was wrong.

The experience reminds me of one of Doreen Virtue's Unicorn cards, the one that talks about how sharing thoughts, feelings and ideas brings us closer to others. If you don't open up and talk about whatever you're going through, you'll never know how others feel or if they empathise. And you would meet people never knowing that they are on the same path. Sharing brings people closer together and it also helps to establish that consciousness of one-ness that my classmates go on and on about. I haven't experienced it fully but I am starting get a glimpse of what it's like. As I am writing this, I am getting a sense of another Unicorn card that tells us to see the Light in everyone around us.  

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Accused of Witchcraft ...

Today I had a flashback to the Salem Witch Trials. And I am not a witch, though my fiction interests are witchy. I would love to write a novel about witches and energy healers. The idea to write a book came about when I enrolled in a creative writing class three years ago. The main character in one of my assignments was a psychic medium, and eventually it evolved into a short story about a witch. Now I see this short story as the first in a series of chapters, but the full novel is still on hold. I am putting all my efforts into graduating from Energy Healing school, writing my Diary of a Psychic Healer book and keeping my day job. Lots of stuff going on! 

So back to real life ... Today I sat down for lunch with a few co-workers. Quite a few of them know about the energy healing classes that I'm taking. They are cool with it. Most of my guinea pigs for class are from work. Hardly any of them know about my psychic readings though, think that would be pushing it too far. 

So one of my colleagues is annoyed with me. He had not said a word to me all week and at lunch, the first thing he blurted out was: 

"How is it going Regina? Are you still into witchcraft?"

WHAAAAAT!?!?! 

I did a huge double take. So did everyone else at the table. 

"I am learning REIKI! It has nothing to do with witchcraft!"

To clarify, I am learning energy healing. I don't think there is a big difference between the two, but most people have heard of Reiki so it's easier not to explain. I went on to describe my kind of energy healing very briefly: clearing chakras, auras, emotions, etc.  Then came the priceless question: 

"But don't you put ROCKS on people?"

I had to laugh at this one, thankfully so did everyone else.  

"NO! I don't put rocks on people!" 

There is another lady at work who has crystal healing done. He mixed us up, but even then, crystal healing is not "putting rocks on people". One of my colleagues stepped in and told him that she had Reiki done once too, and it was very relaxing. Not weird at all. 

"That's witchcraft, it sounds like witchcraft!" he exclaimed. 

To his credit the words seem very direct on paper but they weren't as aggressive in person, and I had to make an effort NOT to laugh. It sounds so absurd! 

I kept pushing back, and he came back with:

"But don't you read tarot?!?" 

"Yes, I do! But so did Carl Jung!" I exclaimed. "The cards have themes that speak to your subconscious. It triggers a response!"

Tarot can work on different levels and one of them definitely is psychological. My Mythic Tarot book says that you should only read for yourself, and that the things that come up will generally hold for about 6 months until your subconscious is in a new place. That being said, there is also a strong intuitive side to tarot. I bought a little spell book as research for my fiction book, and there is a divination spell in there that talks about "guide my hand, and guide my heart" when reading the cards, runes or anything else. I didn't go into details here as I was making the point that I am a healer, and healing is not witchcraft. Not that there's anything wrong with it. I respect it as a spiritual belief system, same goes for any religion. It just so happens that witchcraft has a very negative connotation, probably a result of the power struggles during the times of the Inquisition and the Witch Trials.  

I remember leaving a comment on a pagan blog a few months ago. It was during the Faith Blog contest, the one with all of the hoopla about whether or not pagans should be allowed to compete in faith-based competitions. A couple Christian bloggers started protesting and a huge blogg-o-war broke out. It was interesting to read but I stayed away from posting because a) I don't know enough about pagan religions to have an informed opinion, and b) thanks to my hobbies, the extreme Christians weren't going to listen to me anyway. My only comment was about how little people know about witches nowadays, how much of our intuitive and healing past was driven underground by the Inquisition, and how anything that seems spiritually paranormal is branded as witchcraft. This is particularly true for psychic readings, tarot, healing etc. 

The thing that baffles me about our lunchtime conversation is how he made the jump from healing to witchcraft and missed psychic? To be fair, that isn't something I mention at work. What would be worse, to be mistaken for a witch at work or a psychic? In the first case I would just say it isn't true, in the 2nd case I am not sure what I would say? Either way I sense a short story coming on! My imagination kept going wild after this session and though I intend to keep my thoughts and my mirrors positive at work,  I might write some past-life-persecution into one of my fictional pieces. Funny thing is I'd been thinking about this as a potential plot, and just hadn't gotten around to writing it! So exciting!

2022 Update: I wrote this post ten years ago! Since then, I’ve published a book on intuition, energy healing & crystal magick (See HERE) 😅💙

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