Paying it Forward

The past few months I have made a shift from worrying about myself to thinking about how I can help others. Whenever I get nervous about my new healing path, the guidance I get is "think about how you can best use your gifts to help others." And that in doing so, my own needs will be taken care of. The first person to tell me this was a friend and fellow healer, Alison from A.M Healing. About a year go, she pulled an angel card for me with that message.

So I have decided to pay it forward. The way I do this is by blogging, writing, sending distant reiki and giving away angel readings on my Facebook Page. Reiki clears, heals and balances mental and emotional imbalances. Angel Readings can help people make sense of their current situation, making it easier to navigate next steps. They also point out blind spots in our consciousness.

With the exception of my published books, the rest of these are free. I do them for fun, because I enjoy readings and reiki. And really I hope it helps (especially the readings, as I am still a student and essentially, all you lovely folks let me practice on you). Yesterday I was thinking about this and I had a visual of a karmic ripples that pay that love, light and goodwill forward.

I will keep sending free reiki and giving away angel readings. If you feel that these have helped you in anyway, please consider donating a few dollars or pounds to the charity of your choice (or better yet, buy a nutritious snack for a homeless man on the street). Kindness, good deeds and sharing make the world a better place, one person at a time. It also means we benefit and then pass that spark of light or healing onto the next person. Let's pay it forward!

If you feel that my angel readings or reiki shares have helped you, please consider donating to a good cause. No pressure to donate and either way, I wont find out lol. If the giving spirit moves you, these are some of the charities and causes that I admire. 

McMillan Cancer Support (UK) and Community Cancer Centre (West London) : both of these fantastic charities are dedicated to helping patients, families and carers. They offer reliable information and and provide a space for volunteers and survivors to help others through it.

Tufts School of Medicine and CancerResearchUk: both of these facilities do wonderful work in the areas of prevention and treatment. Research is one of the reasons why more and more people are surviving cancer every year. Visit Cancer Research Uk's website for stats on cancer incidence and survival. Survival rates for total cancers are increasing.

One last thing on paying it forward. I have this theory that sharing financially and caring actually brings more mula into our lives. What goes round comes around. Start with a few dollars or pounds and see how it goes. Share with love, gratitude and with the knowledge that no matter how hard you have it, someone else needs it just a little bit more. I would say that fear of lack creates more financial lack and when we overcome that hurdle, abundance will flow.  Just a hunch, lets try it out  :-)

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Shamanic Sound Healing

I had an amazing time today! The Healing Forum organised a sound healing and shamanic journeying session to open heart chakras and channel healing. The evening was run by Patricia White Buffalo of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, an amazing woman. This shamanic thing was new for me so my description might be a bit off. We were supposed to connect with the five elements and with spirit, as the Native American tribes would have done back in the day. By connecting to the earth and feeling spirit in and around us, we bring a taste of heaven to earth. And how do you go about connecting? You dance :-)

We started with the Root Chakra, at the base of the spine. This Chakra is our connection to the earth and the sustenance it can give us. Before humanity went urban and cybernetic, we were a lot more in tune with our Root Chakras and with the Earth. A strong Root Chakra will make it easier for you to enjoy life in high definition because it grounds you in the moment. This was the most fun of all the Chakra dances too. We were in a gallery near Shoreditch in East London, not the most nature based place in London (it is the hipster part of town, cool but not shamanic lol)

We got up to dance on the concrete floor and were led to stomp out feet as if we were dancing around a campfire. It was loads of fun and I imagined myself kicking up a dirt storm around me lol. Then when that was done we moved onto the Sacral Chakra, which had a hoola hoop dance to it. Patricia told us to imagine we were painting the room orange with each swoosh (how does that work, exactly? Imagine a paint brush between your legs haha). The Solar Plexus dance reminded me of the "Lets Twist Again" song - oh and each of these had its own tune too.

Finally we made it to the Heart Chakra. The song played here was a Hawaiian luau. We danced about and visualized Hawaii. All along I kept spotting my grey converse and they threw me off lol, but it was still good fun. When it was time to awaken the Throat Chakra we listened to italian opera and sang along at full volume (though thankfully the song was louder than our voices) and for the life of me, I can't remember what we did for the Brow Chakra. I think I did my own thing and visualized the Tibetan Reiki Symbol in my forehead. The Crown Chakra dance was about letting the light in and it had very little movement. Lots of soaking in. All in all really cool.

By then we had had a really good shake and on came the trance music. Intense but still fun. i haven't listened to trance music since I was in university. Just when I thought I was tired, the music slowed down and we settled into out shamanic journey position. That was pretty amazing too, similar to some of the spirit guide meditations. I had a wolf and a horse as a power animal. It was pretty cool over all, the image that came to mind was the Page of Swords from Doreen Virtue's angel tarot deck, a card that features a young warrior surrounded by her power animals.

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Regina Chouza is an energy healer, angel medium and the author of A Personal Guide to Self-Healing, Cancer & Love and Chakra Healing & Magick. Blogging at Diary of a Psychic Healer, her passion is bringing the qualities of love, joy and empowerment to healing pursuits. Read her books to unlock your intuition. 

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Onwards and Upwards

Yesterday I had an amazing healing experience and today I feel like a new person. As if the planets in my birth chart realigned, erasing lifelong hang-ups and giving me a new trampoline to jump from. Yes! The image that comes to mind is Super Mario Bros and the characters bouncing around from one level to the next. I'm feeling bouncy today haha. 

Last week I tried to give myself a full pardon for anything that I might feel guilty or regretful about. Guilt is a useless emotion. It holds you back and creates pain (punishment) in the body. As a matter of fact, chronic pain is closely linked to feelings of guilt. What matters is that we learn from mistakes, own up to it if we hurt someone and try not to do it again. Holding onto pain benefits no one. I also wanted to clear the energy of fear and doubt from my system. The past week or so Archangel Michael has been around, telling me to let go and move on. Fear, guilt and doubt were holding me back. 

So yesterday I was giving myself Reiki and sensed a  white light around me. It kept telling me that it didn't blame me for anything, all was forgiven and I just had to accept that and move on. It felt like this white light wanted to give me a clean slate. I had the choice of accepting it or not. And it was hard! Lots of little memories ran through my mind and I could feel their imprint in the body. Forgiving yourself and acknowledging your innocence and inner light is tougher than it seems. But I wasn't going to experience this new dimension of life unless I let go, mentally, emotionally and physically.   

I decided to let it slide (woohoo!). Then I started thinking about the qualities that I wanted to bring into my life instead - what would make it easier for me to find my groove? I asked Archangel Michael and that white light to give me a boost in confidence and in my ability to experience and share joy. Especially in relationships and with friends. More outgoing, less fears holding me back (those had already been wiped clean). Then came a surprise: loads of colours and emotions pouring in and out of my Sacral Chakra.  Felt like Rainbow Brite was having a party in my chakras haha - the rainbow went to all seven chakras.  I've been adjusting to it for the past 24 hours. I think this was the culmination of last week's Reiki Healing Crisis.  =) 

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My Reiki Healing Crisis - Ouch!

Last week I had my Reiki Master attunement, the third and final one. They always come with visions and flashes and this one was beautiful. I saw most of my spirit guides, angels and lots of beautiful colours mixing with shadows. The shadow part was a little uncomfortable but it was about learning to love those parts of yourself that you shy away from. It gave me the impression that I'd have to work on integrating parts of myself that I have been ignoring for a while. And it certainly did, though not in a very pleasant way. Now that I'm on the other side I can talk about the sucker punch that followed the Reiki attunement. 

The attunement was last Friday, I had a wonderful couple of days and then BAM! On Tuesday afternoon I started feeling stabbing pains in my lower back. It turned out to be PMS gone haywire and though initially I was pleased not to get any cramps this month, by Wednesday morning I could hardly walk because my back hurt so much.  I turned to my Angel Therapy cards to ask what it was about and three times I got the same message: Be Willing to Forgive. I also remembered Louise Hay's interpretation of pain; how it is linked to guilt and self-punishment. So I thought OK, maybe I need to forgive myself (but for what?). Anyhooo, I live in a third floor walk up with no elevator. The thought of going out was not too appealing, so I had the whole day to think about it. 

I spent most of Wednesday, Thursday and Friday cocooned in my flat, contemplating life. When I went back to the cards, out of boredom, I got one of two answers: The Sun (everything will be alright) and Be Willing to Forgive. So this is what I've been working on all week. Over the past three days I've realised that I tend to be very hard on myself and need to cut myself some slack. Be kinder and gentler with myself and less judgemental. I'm not sure where it comes from, but I think I'm harder on myself than I am on other people. That judgement turns to feelings of guilt, which turns to pain. I also got the sense that my body was mad because I hadn't fully embraced my feminine side (that's what I usually link PMS to in general - rejecting the natural feminine cycle and the strength, power and beauty that you can find in it). 

It was also hard because the week has been absolutely beautiful and I wanted to be outside enjoying the sun. My intuition (or my angels) would respond with "chill out" and "don't rush back into things - you need to take a time out for yourself." And so I have.  The past couple weeks I've also received the intuitive message to cut back on sugar and coffee and when I looked up my PMS symptoms on WebMd - those two came up as the main culprits for horrible back pain and cramps haha. Next time I'll listen when body says ENOUGH! I also pulled an Archangel Michael card that said "You've created this situation, you can heal it" and that was an interesting one to get too. Anyhooo, I am going to see my doctor on Monday, though I feel much better now and think it was a post Reiki Healing Crisis. 

This has been a good week for me overall. I spent a lot of time watching interviews on Youtube. You can learn a lot about people, art and how to follow your own path by listening to what others have done and experienced. Especially in the alternative and creative side which I am exploring now. Sometimes you can also glimpse intuition and soul purpose as the driving force behind someone's success, especially when they talk about going against the current and feeling compelled to do their own thing. That was reassuring. This healing crisis helped me find my bearings professionally and personally. Whenever I asked what was going on I got this feeling of calmness and the message to let go, not rush things and relax  =) 

Reiki hugs, 

Regina

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Please Note: As I have a history of DVT, and many conventional treatments for hormonal imbalances increase the risk of blood clots, my doctors have advised against them. Energy Healing, Reiki and Intuitive Healing are complementary to medical care. Please visit a doctor if you are experiencing symptoms. 

Through the Rabbit Hole!

A couple years ago I wrote a story about a teenager who comes across a hit and run victim, lying in the street. Instinctively, she went down to help her, and discovered she had natural healing abilities. It comes as a shock to the teenager who thinks she breathed the life back into the pedestrian. Then I went on to write the next scene and the point of view shifted; the story was being told by a clairvoyant bystander. 

He saw a different situation, one with angels descending on the scene of the accident, as well as a Native American spirit guide who channeled her energy through the teenager, to the pedestrian. The teenager, like any healer, was merely a channel for the energy. I was surprised when the POV switched (I didn't plan it) but it worked well. And true to life too, there is so much going on behind the scenes. =)

A couple months ago it dawned on me that fiction stories could be a great way to tell people about spirit guides, angels, fairies and intuition. You can work it in slowly and it doesn't feel like such a stretch because its fiction, after all. Makes it easier to suspend your disbelief and to get a glimpse of what might be possible. You could even work in spiritual lessons and questions, with the story illustrating the point.

Anyhooo, movies have been running through my mind all week too -  I keep getting Johnny Depp in Chocolat, Johnny Depp in Alice in Wonderland and Johnny Depp in Pirates. Seriously! On a loop all week, not sure what that's about but I think it has something to do with characters and story telling. I'm also sensing Lewis Carroll which would be pretty amazing, imagine having him as a writing guide LOL =)  

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Flowers, Fairies and Joy

At some point in the future, I am going to take a break from energy healing books to write something fun and light hearted. Loved writing my first book but admittedly, cancer was a difficult subject to begin with - especially when my inner hypochondriac turned up - so I asked my intuition for a lighter, brighter topic to explore next. 

Initially, I thought of writing a fiction book on humanity, seen through the angels' eyes. But it's taken a turn; I want to bring flowers and fairies into the mix. Writing about nature sounds fun! Last week I sat in the park and started jotting down ideas. What came to mind was a flower shop with a human fairy as the owner. 

The flower fairy sends her lovely flowers home with the townspeople, and she begins to realize that the flowers fade too quickly. They are missing something - and that elusive ingredient is joy. Without joy and happiness in their lives, the flowers die. So the fairy closes up her shop and goes in search of joy. My homework for the next few weeks is to find a path that leads to joy so that I can write about it in the tale.  

I thought the story could begin when she returned with a joy guide and the town blossomed again. It's fair to say to say that joyful people benefit from their happiness, the question is how do we find that joy in the first place? So I think I might follow her instead and hope that she finds joy in her journey. Otherwise, the tale might not have a happy ending! Some of the original fairy tales had dark twists, turns, and endings but I hope this one ends well. We'll see as it goes.

Over the next few months, I will write up some of my Flower Fairy character sketches, brainstorms, and scenery. I will also play around with tone of voice and other elements on my fiction blog, called  To Bake a Hummingbird (a tribute to one of my favorite books, and to the cutest cupcake shop in London!) Please click through if you'd like to watch the story unfold. Wish me luck and inspiration LOL =)

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