Tips for the Common Cold

So many of us catch colds when we are overworked, stressed or in need of a break. So as obvious as this may sound, it is important to get some rest and take care of ourselves. That said, I would like to share a convenient tool that I learned at the School of Intuition and Healing in London. I use it when I feel a cold coming on, to try and avoid a full-blown sneeze fest. The theory is that colds enter through the Aura before they reach the physical body, and that when we feel that scratchy throat or start sniffling, it's because the cold has found it's way to the innermost layer, just a few centimeters above our skin. At this point, we may still be able to clear it. 

In my student days, I learned to focus my healing efforts here:  

Work on Your Grounding: The more grounded we are, the more resistant our energy. Turn your attention to the soles of your feet, and intend for your foot chakras to open up and connect you to the earth. We can draw on earth energy for strength and support. More importantly, we can also release all of our excess energy into the ground, so that it no longer weighs on our system. Visualize a shower running through your aura, taking the cold symptoms with it, and the surround yourself with a bubble of light, warmth and healing. Please see below for a Grounding Tutoral by Sue Allen, of the School and Intuition & Healing.  

The Root Chakra. This is the Chakra at the bottom of the spine, between our legs (see here). Not only does the Root Chakra help with grounding, but it also links into the physical Aura layer, where we can find the energetic imprint of our physical imbalances. The idea is to use Reiki or Energy Healing to clear and balance the physical Aura layer through the Root Chakra. 

Personally, I like to place my hands over my lap for as long as it takes, intending for Reiki to flow through my Root Chakra to my whole body. If I have specific symptoms, I cover those as well. If my head hurts or my throat is scratchy, I will keep one hand on my Root Chakra and the other on my Throat or Brow Chakra, though focusing on grounding and the Root Chakra works best for me. The Root Chakra directs healing to the entire physical body which is great if you are feeling worse-for-wear, though ideally, we would make self care a daily habit to keep our energy levels high enough. 

Send Healing to the Immune System, by placing one hand on your chest between your Heart and Throat Chakras. If you think back to Vicks Vapor Rub, this is the spot. It's as easy as a placing one hand a few centimeters under your collar bone when you are out and about. This placement is taught by the School of Intuition and Healing - the healing course is available in the UK and South Africa. 

If you would like to learn more about healing, see here for A Personal Guide to Self-Healing, Cancer and Love. Though this book was designed to help families who are coping with a cancer diagnosis and the stress it entails, the self-healing techniques can be helpful for us all. Energy healing is complementary to medical care; these tools are to be used along with suggestions from your doctor. 

Grounding Tutorial by Sue Allen, of the

School of Intuition and Healing UK 

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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Meditating with Claude Monet, Van Gogh and Degas

One of my favorite meditation tools was inspired by a Disney movie. Like so many kids, I loved Mary Poppins. My favorite was the Spoonful of Sugar sequence, followed by the chalk drawing scene in the park where Dick Van Dyke's character has them jump into a piece of street art. The park comes alive in chalky technicolor. Last week I went to the Met in New York and even if I didn't jump into the paintings, they do come alive if you spend enough time looking at them. It's hard not to imagine the subjects coming out of still life or laughing between takes. 

The meditation tool is just that, choose a photograph, a painting or a tarot card and bring it to life around you. Relax your mind and let your imagination do the rest. So for example, if you're looking at a vase of flowers ask yourself how they smell, what texture does the vase have? Imagine yourself picking it up. Is it heavy? If your memory is great, you can close your eyes. Otherwise keep them open and let the images move in your mind's eye. This is a great way to hone your psychic skills too, whether it's sight, sound, touch or feeling the energy. 

I thought we could try a fun exercise today. Here are pictures of some of my favorite's from the Met. Choose the one your drawn to, and then follow this brief Opening Meditation to activate your Chakras. When that is done, turn your attention to the image and let it come to life around you! Be sure to close down again, when you are done.  

Opening Up Meditation

• Sit down, close your eyes and relax. Take three deep breaths. Visualise tree roots growing out of the bottom of your feet into the ground. Connect with the earth and draw warm nourishing energy into your legs. Let that energy travel up your legs, your abdomen to your Heart Chakra. 

• Take your attention up through the atmosphere to a distant star. The star is going to illuminate our Crown, Brow and Throat Chakras so that we can see and feel the beauty around us. Close your eyes and wait for that beam of light to touch the top of your Head. Let it flow down to your Heart. 

• Place a bubble of protective light around you. Open your eyes. 

Choose a Painting Below ... 

All of these pictures are from the Met, you'll see Monet, Renoir, Degas, Van Gogh and a few others. Choose the ones you are most drawn to, the ones that speak to you naturally. Enjoy yourself, relax your mind and let your imagination and your intuition bring it to life. Be sure disconnect and close down your energy when you are done. You can do this easily by thanking the star for it's light, disconnecting and letting your Chakras switch off one by one. Surround yourself with light and off you go!

     

  

   

And finally my favorite from Monet's garden in Giverny! 

We can also connect to these paintings through music. Here is Don MacLean's Starry Starry Night; feel the energy behind the music. Please share your experiences in the comment box below. Enjoy! 

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Guardian Angel Tarot Cards

The last thing I need is a new deck of cards, but that didn't stop me from walking into Barnes & Noble last week and leaving with a brand new set of Guardian Angel Tarot Cards. They are amazing, I have no regrets! My sister asked if they were different from the others I have. Yes and no, but mostly yes. The deck is based on the standard structure and themes of  tarot, with 21 major arcana cards to illustrate big life changes and four suits of element cards to guide us through the details of everyday life. What I love most about the Guardian Angel Tarot, by Doreen Virtue and Radleigh Valentine, is that the messages and the images are peaceful, angelic, and obvious so that the point is clear. My grandmother would love this deck, when others would might raise eyebrows. They are that gentle. 

I also like the way they've translated the Suits of Pentacles, Wands, Air and Swords into what they represent in our lives: Abundance, Action, Thought and Emotions. All of the cards are illustrated in such a way to make them obvious and less prone to misinterpretation, especially by newbies when it comes to tarot reading. A great example is the very first card in any tarot deck: The Fool. In traditional tarot, the Fool shows a young boy walking off a cliff, his trusty dog following him and alerting him to the potential danger of a big fall. The kid however, is following his passions with so much enthusiasm that he hasn't a care in the world. The card can usually be interpreted to say that a leap of faith is required at the moment, and the dog is the guardian who is there to make sure we don't commit a great folly (so take a leap!). 

In the Guardian Angel tarot, again we have a young boy near a cliff, only he isn't jumping off it. Instead, he lets a butterfly take flight and his guardian angel is right behind him, making sure he is safe and supported. The message is the same though it also reminds us to rely on our angels. It's gorgeous, you'll love it! 

Here is a little reading that I gave myself with the Guardian Angel Tarot: 

• Helper of Abundance: Although I have lots to do, it's important to get organised. Once the planning phase is complete, get to work! This is especially helpful right now as I have tons of ideas and I should prioritize. Traditionally the Knight of Pentacles. 

• Guardian of Thought: I may be called on to be a spokesperson for a cause close to my heart. Finding a mentor will help catapult my plans too. To me, this card is about strategizing and focusing my efforts where they will have the strongest influence. I need to give this some more thought, especially as opportunities arise. 

• Messenger of Action: Something exciting in comes to pass in my career. I'll be excited to learn and grow, even if it also brings nervous energy. This card is often about responding to a request, a suggestion or a new opportunity that presents itself. The messenger cards also tell us that we'll get to cut our teeth on a new endevour, possibly requiring a new but exciting skill set! 

This deck is lovely and I'm still getting to know it right now. I'll be practicing with free mini readings over the next few weeks to familiarize myself with the cards and their messages. 

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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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Energy Healing, Reiki and Chemotherapy

I have been out this week. My cousin was hospitalized with a persistent stomach ache, and we learned soon after that it was early stages of Burkitt's Lymphoma. A condition that is thankfully treatable, but the chemotherapy sessions start at full throttle to keep it in check. The treatment involves 4-6 rounds of chemotherapy, each lasting 21 days and for the most part in-patient care, with welcome breaks at home along the way. 

If there's one thing I have learned, it's that my cousin's "let's get this started" attitude has him one step ahead of the curve. The morning after his diagnosis he was in touch asking for energy healing tools to calm down and focus. Meditation proved to be incredibly effective at calming his nerves and connecting with that well of Inner Peace that we all carry. I'm convinced that starting out with meditation grounded his energy and made dealing with the shock of the diagnosis a little bit easier. 

This week I gave him Energy Healing and Reiki ahead of this second chemo infusion. He has responded well to the healings and with his permission I would like to share them here. The techniques are based on my Energy Healing studies at the School of Intuition and Healing, as well as my Reiki Master training with Michael Kauffman in London. 

My approach to energy healing is always complementary to medical care, not a substitute. 

Energy Healing with Gold Light:

• This was a chair healing the morning he checked into the hospital. It lasted  30 minutes. My idea was to give him a good clearing and healing. In Healing School we were taught to channel only universal energy when someone is being treated for cancer or lymphoma, as opposed to Earth energy. The highest vibrational energy I have been able to work with so far is gold energy, a.k.a. Christ Energy. I put my hands on his shoulders and intended for gold energy to flow through his body into the ground, taking any excess stress, tension or chemo "hangovers" into the ground.

• Next I went to his Crown Chakra and visualised silver light coming down from Heaven and filling his Crown with wisdom, understanding and healing. The intention was for that energy to flow down to his Heart Chakra. From there I went to the Heart Chakra and filled it with gold light, letting it overflow to the rest of his body. This is where I stayed the longest and once all of his cells were filled with gold light, I turned to the Physical Heart and Circulatory System. This is where we healers can help the most. 

• Chemotherapy drugs reach every last cell in the human body, reaching healthy cells as well as abnormal ones. If I'm not mistaken, this is why the side effects can be so strong. I sent gold and silver light into the blood stream through the heart, so that all of the body's cells receive that healing as well as the intended effects of the chemotherapy. 

• My intention at the end was for the healing to last a whole week, especially the gold energy and the infusion of light. As with any healing, I ended the session by grounding and protecting his energy. The healing took place 12 hours before chemo was due to start. He was in good spirits and great shape; that's probably why I included so much in the session. On good days we channel more healing that on bad days. For example, I would never give a full-on energy healing to someone who had a bad cold, etc. 

Pre-Chemo Reiki Booster: 

This session took place later in the evening before his chemo treatment started. Ideally I would have sent healing during, but it didn't start until 2 am. The healing took place at 10 pm and lasted 15 minutes. You will need a Reiki Level II Attunement to try it, replacing the master symbols with CKR. 

• In hospitals there is usually less room to maneuver, so I usually hold the patient's hand and use my intention to draw symbols or send energy where needed. Also, as my healing school teachers told us, don't do anything that looks weird in a hospital setting! Here I was able to stand at the bottom of the bed and send healing through the feet, intending for any stress, tension or chemo "hangover" to flow into the ground through my feet. 
• I then sent Reiki to Heart and Solar Plexus with the Usui Master Symbol.  

• Power Symbol on mechanical port in chest, intending for it to send Reiki to the body with the chemo infusion. If removing nausea is in line with highest good, please clear, heal and direct energy directly towards the lymphoma cells.

• Power Symbol drawn over the body through each of the Chakras, starting at the Crown and moving down a straight line to the Base, before looping back through the Brow, Sacral, Solar Plexus, Throat and Heart. I stopped at the Heart and added the distance symbol, intending for this big power symbol to stay active for 72 hours so that Reiki would keep flowing as he detoxed from the chemotherapy. 

• I went back to apply Distance and Power Symbols at the mechanical port, so that the Reiki filter would stay there for 12 hours. Then back to grounding via feet. 

• End session as you normally would, brushing the aura and grounding.

The feedback from both sessions was great! He felt the energy moving through his body, especially during the first one. He also felt it going to his head. The next day my cousin was thrilled because the headaches he had been experiencing disappeared. I also extended my flight and I'll be here next week. He is back home from the hospital today and we will have a Reiki class (attunement) too. In all of this, the biggest plus has been my cousin's fantastic attitude and the way he's embraced knowing what the "problem" is so that he can focus on getting better. On one of his weekends off, he went for a 7k jog and his doctor also signed off on him signing up for the NY Marathon in November. I'm trying to talk him into blogging about training for the marathon. By now I'm sure you're wondering, he is 29 and very awesome! 

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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Awakening of the Illuminated Heart (ATIH)

A couple weeks ago I attended a lecture at the Kabbalah Centre where the teacher discussed the importance of opening our Hearts (and minds) to the wisdom in others. It's easy to fall into the ego trap of thinking that a particular person has little to teach us, maybe it's someone with a "lower consciousness" (total ego trap) or less prestige, etc. The truth is we can learn things about ourselves and life from everyone and anyone. When we think about that, the Aha! Moments start appearing en masse. 

I usually shy away from certain New Age themes, but last week I went to a heart healing workshop that was wonderful, even if many of the teacher's beliefs about how we humans came to be are diametrically opposed to my own. There were lots of things that made sense and I’d like to cover them all, but the class was too darn long.

Here are the highlights:

• The class is called Taller DESI in Mexico (in the USA, Awakening of the Illuminated Heart by The School of Remembering). It looks at healing the emotional body so we can bring our energy into the present. Out of the mind and to the Heart, where we can listen to our intuition and use the mind's analytical skills to iron out the details. "Follow your Heart but take your brain with you" (Alfred Adler)

• Among other things, we went through a number of meditations that made it very easy for us to connect with Nature, with the Universe and then to center in the Heart, using its energy to create the life we deserve. This co-creation idea resonates with me 100% and I've already written loads on manifesting here, here, here and here. I'll be experimenting with this technique the next few weeks, so stay tuned! To learn the Illuminated Heart's process yourself, sign up for a class or read Drunvalo Melchizedek's' book: Living in the Heart: How to Enter into the Sacred Space within the Heart. 

• The technique involves New Age concepts like the Merkaba, Ascension and other ideas that I was fuzzy on prior to the class. The way I understand it, personal ascension means that we become more zen in our approach to life. You put things in perspective, ground yourself and are less likely to be shaken up by events that might have been stressful before. There's also a global aspect to this, which is when enough of us have become peaceful, collaborative, conscious and proactive, that we're not creating chaos anymore. This resonates as all of my posts leading up to the New Year were on the role we play in achieving peace and prosperity on Earth. It's on all of us, quite literally. 

• This workshop was run by Carlos Cassillas and Paola Marquez, two fantastic teachers who have both been certified by The School of Remembering in Arizona. Thank you both for a wonderful workshop! 

My favorite exercise was one where we connected with our Inner Heart. It's not unlike the GAPP process that I learned at the School of Intuition and Healing. You ground yourself in Mother Nature, connect with the Universe and then centre in the heart. In Healing School, the goal is to draw on healing energies from both sources and channel them to the client, whereas Drunvalo's idea is to connect with both, ground in the heart and stay there. We were supposed to receive an influx of love from the universe, but instead I felt like it wanted to give me power. Creative power, manifesting power, who knows? It made me nervous and I didn't want to receive it. What if I hurt someone? This made me think of a book I read last year: The Essential Dalai Lama. In one of his essays, the Dalai Lama mentions that we block our creative power because we are scared of what we might do. This is why Buddhism encourages compassion and mindfulness; our thoughts have consequences. The idea is to plant a conscious seed so that we generate positive karma in our lives and our communities. There are plenty of similarities between Kabbalah, Positive Karma and this Ascensionist co-creation. Maybe this is where I need to focus my attention. 

If you'd like to learn these techniques for yourself, there are certified teachers all over the world. Find them through the School of Remembering's website, or read Drunvalo's book, Living in the Heart. If you live in Mexico, visit Taller DECI's Facebook Page for available sessions. The theory behind the techniques reads like science fiction, but the techniques themselves have been a blessing. 

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I'm writing for OM TIMES Magazine!

It has been two weeks since my last post and I have plenty of material to make up for it. Funny how things come together sometimes; I've had three big firsts this week! My first and second published magazine articles went live with OM TIMES MAGAZINE the past week or so. One of them even landed on the cover next to the beautifully talented Colette Baron-Reid! See here for 7 Ways to Make Your Guardian Angel's Job Easier. You'll learn how to connect with your Guardian Angel and make full use of his or her angelic powers. 

OM TIMES Magazine also published another article that I would love for you to read, called Self-Healing, Cancer and Forgiveness. Here we look at how the physical body stores emotions, and why it's so important to start with our self-healing journey while we are still healthy. This article picks up where my Self-Healing, Cancer & Love book left off, encouraging us to make healing a part of our daily lives.  

Finally, the last "first" is a Guest Post on TinyBuddha.com, a spiritual blog with "simple wisdom for complex lives". The website is run by a lovely lady named Lori. She's brought together a community of friendly and enthusiastic folks. It's a fantastic place to go if you are looking for inspiration or support. This particular post is on an enjoyable (and patient) approach to weight loss, offering an alternative to the vicious cycle of endless diets. It addresses self-healing, especially when anxiety fuels our cravings. Read it here!

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