Healing Possibilities Blog

I will be offering a one-day Refresher Reiki I & II. This refresher course would be valuable to anyone who hasn’t taken or used their Reiki I & II for a while and wants to get back into doing energy work. If you have your Reiki Masters and want to start teaching, this course would also give you some good information to get started. The cost is $200.

Sunday, August 22, 2010 at 9:30 - 5:00

Okotoks AB

tracy@healingpossibilities.com

www.healingpossibilities.com

The body/mind connection is a very interesting concept, although a little bit hard to assimilate all at once. Most people realize how powerful the mind can be. It can give us the strength to get our dream job. If we use it to repeatedly beat ourselves up, we’ll eventually feel inadequate, tired, and depressed… Most people recognize the power of manifestation, the material, mental, and physical benefits of being positive. By contrast, negative thoughts can ruin our day and affect our physical body. In my mind, I kept re-living all the terrible things I did when I was in my teens and early 20’s. When I let go of those thoughts and forgave the people involved including myself, I freed my knees of physical pain. That was the beginning of an amazing transition for me!! What other “stuff” could I let go of, what else would feel good?! Different negative repetitive thought patterns affect different areas of our body. They can cause our migraines, broken bones, stiff necks, allergies, digestive issues, cancer…the list goes on. Sometimes one (forgotten) issue gets lodged in our cells and causes havoc for years to come…until we let it go. The work I do can help release your ‘stuff’…are you ready?

To meditate it is best to find a quite place to sit, either cross-legged on the floor, or on the edge of a chair. If your feet do not touch the floor use a pillow under your feet to anchor you to the floor. It’s very important that your back stays straight in order for the energy to flow.

Next you need to ground yourself. With your eyes closed, visualize a solid metal pole starting mid-back. See it growing down your spine, out your base chakra (located between your anus and genitals), visualize it going through the different levels - your floor, the basement, cement foundation, layers of sand, rock, lava, until it connects to the red core at the center of the earth. Once secure, follow the pole back up through all the layers until you reach mid-back. Now see that metal pole turn into white light and work its way up through the crown chakra (top of your head), out the roof of your home, into infinity. Visually follow the beam of light back into your body. You may feel a pull, allow it to happen until you align up and down. You can work on quieting your mind by listening to music (without words) or counting your breathe, into your belly and chest, 4 in 4 out. Repeating a mantra works well too, “I feel love,” “I’m at peace,” “I give thanks for all I have.” Placing the tip of your tongue behind your teeth and thumb to finger will strengthen the bond. Eventually just sitting in that spot will put you automatically into a meditation and quieting your mind will get easier. Because of this it is important to not your living room sofa or your bed. You don’t want to sit down with company and go into a meditation, neither do you want to meditate all night when you want to sleep.Meditation will become the best part of your day.

If you have anything you would like to ask or any comment you would like posted, I’d love to hear from you.

Some clients come in asking for a past-life regression and others have past-life regressions come up during their treatment session. Whether you believe these past-life experiences are real or not their main purpose is to help us see where we’re stuck in our lives. Looking at what happened in a past-life/lives can give us a great deal of insight on how to heal with our present situation by changing our thoughts or belief systems. Personally, I do believe some regressions are real, but others are just helpful clues. One client saw herself as Snow White (cartoon), taking the apple and eating it. She knew the apple was poisonous so I asked her why she ate it. She told me she ate it so she wouldn’t upset the old lady. It comes back to our human conditioning. That “regression” allowed her to recognize that in this life she really did do a lot of things to make other people happy, things she didn’t want to do. This allowed her to recognize the significant amount of harm she was doing to herself by making those choices. If you feel stuck, a past-life regression might be what you need to shed some light on the situation so you can make necessary changes in your life.

People with migraines resulting from whiplash or head injuries have found significant relief after receiving a CranioSacral treatment. Considerable attention is given to the head, or cranial bones. Occasionally it only takes a slight adjustment to correct the problem. Most often several appointments are necessary to correct and balance all bones involved. In doing so any restrictions that have stopped the cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) from flowing freely around the brain and down the spine are now release. CSF helps remove toxins promptly from your system. The lack of fluid flowing, dehydration, causes headaches. If your headache is a result of dental work or TMJ disorder, CranioSacral works very well in resolving these problems. In addition to working the cranial bones, light tissue work is done in the mouth releasing tension and stress. It is also beneficial for people suffering from sinus problems, Chinook headaches, or have/had a concussion. Occasionally clients have cranial bones stuck since birth, causing a whole array of other issues. This happens when a pregnancy or birth has been especially difficult or forceps have been used. The bones in the head overlap, this issue can also be corrected. Relief can be found at any age, you will be amazed at what can transpire!

Did you know that emotional issues can cause physical pain? It is also referred to as cellular memory. When a traumatic event happens in your life the emotions from that experience gets locked in the cells of your body and causes dis-ease, illness, or a restriction. It may not present itself initially in your body, but over time it will show up. I’ve seen people who have taken on fear and anxiety from their mother while still in the womb, mothers who never released the pain from a miscarriage, and adults that still hold the trauma of physical abuse. How is this possible? Have you ever felt someone else’s pain? Tensed up from the sight of a child falling? Take that to the extreme. The emotions of a traumatic experience stay lodged in the body until we are willing or ready to release them. If you have an illness that just isn’t going away it may be an emotional blockage. My daughter’s molar had been causing her a tremendous amount of pain. I remembered that when she was ten the dentist was to replace the sealants and I was sent out of the room. There was a cavity and they never advised me that they would freeze her and fill the tooth. It was her first filling and traumatizing. That trauma was surfacing now, five years later. I walked her through a few steps to release the emotional pain and there was relief and surprise in her face afterward. If the emotions hadn’t been released she may have eventually endured a root cannel. Healing is powerful.

A healing crisis doesn’t always happen after a treatment, but when it does some people confuse it and think the treatment has made them feel worse. Which is kind of true, but it’s a good thing. The majority of people start holistic healing as a last resort, although this has changed in recent years. Their body may be in a weakened state or they may be ill. Maybe they’re not sick, but something needs to change. Either way their body is working at less then an optimum state and toxins are trapped in their tissue. Circulation increases in the body when tissues and organs are worked on during a session. Because of this, toxins are released and enter the blood stream, then are eliminated by the liver, kidneys, bowel, and skin. What some would call a healing crisis are the physical symptoms of a runny nose, cold, diarrhea, stomach aches, aches and pains, headaches, or fatigue. These symptoms are actually part of your recovery as you enter a more deeply healed state. Please keep in mind that this is actually a good sign and indicates that healing is taking place. Once the toxins have released, the body adjusts and feels much better. When healing takes place your system will begin operating on a higher level of efficiency and you will have less ailments and more energy. Drinking water is the key to helping this process move along more quickly.

Below you will find an article I wrote for our local newspaper. I hope it helps put your healing in perspective.

There is a misconception that CranioSacral is work done only on the skull. Cranio means head, but sacral means tailbone and what guides me in this work is the flow of the cerebral fluid that runs from the tailbone, up the spine into the head where it flushes toxins away from the brain. There’s actually a pulse to the flow of the cerebral fluid and when that pulse is not “normal” because the flow is blocked, that allows me to locate the issue in your body. Let’s say you have a car. Your car gets a dent, no big deal, the car will still run. Now let’s say your car has 20 dents! It might not work so well, the door may not open and close like it use to. The trunk and/or hood may not work like it use to. The dash lights and/or windows might eventually malfunction. Your gas mileage will ultimately be affected. You can see the damage and will probably get repairs done before you start having too much of a problem. It’s much harder to see the damage on our bodies. The damage done from a stubbed toe, a slip and fall, carrying a child on our hip, carrying lumber on our shoulder, the repetitive action of a soccer or hockey player. Little bits of damage are done to our bodies every day, so we don’t see or feel its significance. Then one day when we’re 30+ years old we wonder what’s happened to us!

There are so many different cycles, rhythms and patterns going on in our lives, sometimes. it‘s hard to know where they’re coming from or what is causing our stress, or perhaps you just feeling out of sorts. Of course much of our day-to-day ups and downs come from our eating and sleeping habits, exercise routine, and relationships. For some time it has been my goal to balance out the high peaks and low dips to more of a plateau. I watch my diet, exercise regularly, I love to sleep, so I rest when I can…I watch my numerology chart, which had a bigger impact than I thought, and of course there is the cycle of the moon to pay attention to!! Other things factor in as well, relationships; I have discarded the ones that are of no benefit to me. I have been lucky enough to finally find the perfect work environment. I’ve de-cluttered my house and that has, surprisingly, de-cluttered my brain! I no longer have to make “lists”; my memory has improved greatly…less stress, more brain power! And as a family we have simplified our schedule. The peaks and dips have become more like rolling hills and life is much more manageable. Throw in a couple of teenage daughters and believe it or not life is still manageable. I’m not saying that there isn’t the occasional sharp turn in the road or some other obstacle, but with all the plateau time even the largest of obstacles are easily managed. My life is not boring, it has given me time to “smell the roses.” If you’re working on smoothing out some of your large peaks and deep valleys, please remember that everything takes time, not days, not months…but it’s all possible. Discard what you no longer need and invite in all that’s good!