Merlin's Advice

Yesterday I went to channeling class.  I never thought I would take the seat in front of the group and channel a message but I did! Sort of. The energy that came through all evening was Merlinesque and at times a little bit theatrical. As an observer, it felt and looked like play acting. 

We sat in a semi-circle and faced an empty red chair at the front. There was no particular order to speak. At first I thought I wouldn't say anything, then I considered staying in my own chair and saying a few words about magic. 

The first performances (ahem, messages) were fun to watch. More than the words, I was in awe of the energy flair in the room. It was pretty amazing. Then the group became very reluctant to continue, and when it seemed like we were running out of volunteers I began to feel like I had to sit in the chair.

Just sit. See what it felt like. I didn't think anything would happen and I still wasn't planning on channeling any messages. I didn't want to let that moment go by without sitting in the chair. I thought of The Sword in the Stone. And the possibility that none of us knows what we're capable of. I had to find out. 

So I volunteered to go next. When I sat down I said something about wanting to see how it felt like to sit in the chair. I mentioned this feeling, of taking the Sword from the Stone. That none of us knew what we were capable of. It's time to find out. Use your imagination. Just sit here and see what happens. 

Was this channeling? Who knows! 

I just had to try it. My energy felt very childish, in a good way. I had never been so keen to take a seat in front of a group of people and talk (or not talk). So maybe it wasn't me, or maybe it was more of me than I am used to. 

 

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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 since 2010, 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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Going back to my roots ...

So it's official! I am moving back to Mexico. London is lovely but I need to touch base and reconnect with my family and friends. Will I stay forever and ever? Given my track record, probably not. After all, London was my sixth city and fourth country (in three decades of life) so the idea of staying in one place for the rest of my days is highly unlikely. But Mexico it is, for now. 

For once, I am not going to think of the "after Mexico step" either. I have a couple ideas on my radar. Will just let them sit for now. I want to write my second book. That and my personal life are the only things I will focus on now. This is me taking it one step at a time. Feels good not to have a master plan. I also want to give myself time to think about what I really want to do. 

What makes me happy? Like really happy ... 

I had been toying with the idea of starting an MA in Transpersonal Psych to complement my energy healing. Helpful from a counseling and client care perspective, though something fun and creative would make me happy. So I am putting psychology and all of the "should" thinking on the shelf. 

Last week I watched an interview that Oprah gave. She talked about a moment when she asked herself what she would do if she were fearless. In her case, it was starting her own TV network. In mine, it would be writing a fiction book. The idea scares the bejeezus out of me. 

I have loved reading since the age of six or seven. It started with Encyclopedia Brown, a little boy detective. By the time I was 10 or 11, I would fake sick to stay home reading the  Anne of Green Gables series. It took me two days to get through all eight books. I must've read the whole set half a dozen times. It would be pretty awesome to create a fictional world. 

So far, I have taken the plunge with a self-help book on energy healing and cancer. Step two, is turning this blog into a story. A memoir of sorts. That could be a nice bridge between real life and fiction. But for now I will just focus on writing this book and enjoying my last few months in the UK. 

One last thought! When I was starting business school ten years ago, we had to hand in a special assignment: mapping out our career path. Even then, I had planned on staying in the corporate world for 15 years, until I turned forty, and leaving to become a writer. Lol.

I made the jump eight years early :-) 

Why wait? 

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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 since 2010, 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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Integrative Medicine, Skeptics and Angry MDs

Last year I went looking for a scientific explanation of energy healing. On some level, I may doubt myself, but more than anything I wonder how it works. There have been too many times when I clairvoyantly saw something and then had it confirmed by the person I was reading. Enough that I don't chalk it up to coincidence, though I'm not always accurate and I can blame that on my laziness - i.e. not doing a full meditation before doing my practice readings etc.

So I went looking for facts to explain my hobbies and I stumbled upon a group of skeptical and sometimes angry MD's. 

It wasn’t obvious to me from the name, but the forum is dedicated to debunking complementary and alternative therapies. The first post I commented on was about the danger of patients rejecting cancer treatment for natural and alternative therapies, which would be upsetting on so many levels. More on that below. 

I joined the conversation, saying that complementary therapies can help people relax, face their fears and cope with the disease. It is not an either-or case with medical care and energy healing. 

I made the mistake of introducing myself as a Reiki practitioner. I tried to highlight the complementary side, there was a bit of back and forth which led to me being told: 1) No machine or test has ever been able to detect these energies, 2) I had to be delusional or a victim of my mind and "wishing to believe" if I thought I sensed something, 3) I was wasting my time, the client's time, and their money if I was charging them. 4) Some name calling ensued, and these MD's used words that I haven't heard since the third grade. 

That made me wonder: 

• Why were they so angry? They don't talk to their patients like that (I hope), so they must have been taking their frustrations out on me. Many alternative medicine practitioners do recommend experimental, natural or less invasive therapies in lieu of conventional medical care, without having the science to back it up. Having spent years in the healthcare industry (yes it's true! And btw, not all corporate cats are greedy or out to get us), I know a bit about efficacy studies, safety tests and the placebo effect. Proven treatments outperform the placebo; and testing any course of treatment is expensive, complex, and requires monitoring huge groups of people. Alternative therapies are not likely to go through the rigorous testing that doctors look for.  

In my corporate days I also learned that: 

• Just because something is natural, doesn't mean it is safe. If a natural ingredient is strong enough to have an effect, that effect can be positive or negative. Safety tests are expensive and unfortunately, if a natural supplement or treatment is created by a small business, they may not have the funds to carry out safety tests that are statistically significant.

• The same is true for efficacy tests, which tell us if the treatment does what it says. Drugs and treatments are usually tested at various stages of development before they are ever tested on humans (and those stages can involve petri dishes, so not necessarily animals). By the time a treatment is ready for a trial with people, tens of thousands ($) will have been spent. A trial on patients will also be expensive; research objectives have to be refined. 

• A lot of money and brainpower goes into designing these studies; doctors use the data to make decisions on what to include in their treatment plans. Most holistic practitioners won’t have the funds or know-how to create a useful study. This can lead people to make decisions based on what they would like to be true. 

It's totally fine by me if these doctors don't believe in Reiki and scoff at the thought of healing energies. It isn't for everyone, and if you don't want to see it, you won't. But I do think it would be incredibly beneficial for mankind if this massive gap between conventional doctors and Natural/Holistic approaches was bridged. 

If for no other reason than the public asks for it. When people have concerns, fears and desires, those need to be addressed. Otherwise they look for answers elsewhere. Integrative Medicine is something we hear a lot about these days. I like the sound of it. We need to pay more attention to the mental, spiritual and emotional aspects, without diminishing the medical side. 

With regards to Energy Healing and Reiki: there are things we haven't been able to test or understand, and denying their existence until we see it in a lab is a limiting move. Especially when our body is equipped with the means to detect this energy (the Chakras!) 

But that is a whole other story ... 

... My inner skeptic is making an appearance, with a view to see how I can bring energy healing to science. 

Reiki hugs,

Regina

 

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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 since 2010, 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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Associate Remote Viewing and a Big Surprise!

I can't sleep, so I might as well blog. And I have a lot to write about this week! On Monday my Self-Healing, Cancer & Love e-book made Amazon's best sellers in the free Kindle store! It went all the way up to No. 9 and stayed there a whole day. Since then it's hung on in the paid Kindle store. Top 10 for 'cancer' and Top 20 for 'Mental and Emotional Healing'. Yay! Thank goodness for miracles =) 

This week I'm an Amazon Best Seller! (or Best Giveaway-er)! I'm psyched so many people got the book. I hope it gets them to think differently about their lives, with or without cancer.  That's what I'm hoping. 

My other big news .... 

I finally cracked Remote Viewing! If you remember my last post about RV, I was  frustrated and confused with the  process. Couldn't wrap my head around it. Well this week things changed. We were told to come to class with two Yes-No questions. My first question was 'Should I stay in London' as I am tempted to go home (Mexico or US). Where would I be happiest and more on purpose? 

We started by taking a white piece of paper and writing our name, the date, location, time, etc. Then we made a note of our Advanced Visuals (what came to mind before the reading) and how we felt. I was nervous and sleepy. Then the teacher read out the coordinate (the tag used to identify the image we were viewing). I wrote it down and immediate drew a squiggly shape underneath.

That squiggly is what we use to connect to the RV target. The teacher had two items hidden out of sight. Both had the same coordinate tag assigned, but one signaled YES and the other NO.

We then went through a list of questions, nothing to do with our overarching question. We were instructed to put our fingertip on the squiggly and close our eyes. Get a sense of the target:

Is it solid?

Is there liquid/water?

Is it alive?

Is it inanimate? 

What do you hear? 

What do you smell

Any colors?

I got solid (yes), liquid (no), alive (no), inanimate (yes), I heard an Edith Piaf song that I sometimes listen to on my iPod when I am out for a run. Didn't get any colors. And then finally when we were instructed to bring our attention to the centre of the room and "see" an object on an empty table ... 

I saw an Apple.

The teacher came round to look at our answers. I was like, I saw an apple. I have no idea what that means! Well she did! But first, she told me my answer was NO. 

What? Like really leave London? ...

It turns out that the object I remote viewed was a pair of APPLE earphones. The kind you use to listen to MUSIC. And it clearly had no liquid, no pulse, etc. I remote viewed the object that stood for NO. 

How do I feel about this? Not sure. For years I wanted to move to London and when I finally landed a work visa (without a job offer) I couldn't believe my luck. That was in January 2009, right after the stock market crashed and things went haywire. But even so, it only took two months to find a job. And then I stumbled upon this psychic school. And eventually energy healing. It all came together. 

So is that it then? I have some pondering to do. 

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Healing with Music

Listening to music is one of my favourite ways to meditate. Especially instrumental music. All I do is listen and let the music move me, especially if it has ups and downs that help me channel my emotions. 

I recently discovered a wonderful violinist on Youtube: Lindsey Stirling. Here are a few of her pieces. Elements and Crystallize seem to work best for me, though she has dozens online so take your pick!

Here are a few links to her Youtube channel. Enjoy! 

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Books, Miracles and the Final Freebie

Yesterday I experienced a miracle. For the past three months I've ve been trying to get my book featured in a Bookbub mailing list, and it was finally accepted! Woohoo! Third time is definitely the charm =)

Bookbub is a hub for Bargain and Free Kindle books. I signed up a couple weeks ago and asked to be notified when crime thrillers and supernatural fiction were on sale. It makes me feel like a kid in a candy store. 

I recently downloaded a fantasy crime thriller about a detective who catches criminals (I hope, not done with it yet) with the help of spirit guides. I love TV shows about detectives, CSI, etc. This book was pretty much written for me. 

My book on Self-Healing, Cancer and Love will be listed this weekend, on what I expect to be my last giveaway. If you haven't downloaded it yet, this is the time to do it. The e-book will be FREE on Saturday, Sunday & Monday. At which point, I will have exhausted the very last of my Kindle Freebie Days.

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• Amazon USA 

• Amazon UK. 

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