Inner Fire Works: Shiatsu Massage and Energy Healing
Energy Healing Treatments at Inner Fire Works
Past Lives Body consciousness Higher Self and Spirit Guides
Guided Movement Spiritual Counseling My Book
"Energy Healing" means different things to different people. In my opinion, Reiki, Touch for Health, Medical Qi Gong, NLP, Family Constellation Work, Aromatherapy, Homeopathy, etc., could all be considered forms of healing that work on an "energetic level." Certainly, they are all working on some "other level," well beyond what we can see and easily understand. Why do they work? Why do they sometimes not work, or at least seem not to work? And in my case, how do I get images, words, and stories in my head, and why, and why not all the time, and what do they mean exactly? I have a lot more questions than answers.
When I first began receiving "extra information" while giving acupressure treatments, I didn't say anything about it to anyone. I was worried that people would think I was crazy -- or more accurately, I was worried that I was crazy. But after a while my experiences started to feel normal, and I started telling people about them. Now most of my clients specifically want to hear about my "impressions." I tell them, and add my theories, but always emphasize that I am just sharing my experience. They are free to make their own interpretations. Someone can choose to believe or not to believe "that image means I'm on the path to getting cancer" -- but if they choose that interpretation, I also encourage them to choose "I can get off that path." As a healer, I feel it is very important that my experiences and messages empower others, because an empowered person has a stronger inner fire.
Past Lives
Many of my experiences involve images from a client's past life. (Or at least, that is my favorite theory. I tell people that the image could also be a metaphor, or something from the "collective unconscious" of humanity, or maybe something related to someone they love, or maybe nothing at all.) Often, the image involves a person in a stressful or life-threatening situation, which seems to have contributed to an inexplicable fear or pain or pattern of behavior in this lifetime. I find that I can have a conversation with the "past-life" person, ask questions, and act as a "channel" to speak out the answers. (Click here for an illustration.) Body Consciousness
Frequently, I also act as a bridge to a particular part of the client's body, which might need to communicate with me about a physical imbalance or a past trauma. This often seems to be necessary when the client has had an injury or surgery in that part of the body, especially if local or general anesthetic was involved. (Click here for an illustration.) Every now and then, I "hear" a part of someone's body speaking to me before the client tells me that he or she had surgery there! I still feel a little giddy when that happens. If I'm not just "inventing" these stories, where DO they come from and how? Higher Self and Spirit Guides
When I am not relaying messages from past lives or a person's body, I keep my focus on my own Higher Self or my Spirit Guides, and wait for images or words from them, suggesting the next step in my treatment. In this way, I am guided to put my hands on or above certain chakras or other parts of the body. When I do this, I feel unusual sensations in my hands, and I also find that my hands will move "on their own," unless I specifically choose to move them myself. This can be a very useful thing. If I am sitting above someone's head, wondering if I should massage this point or that point or begin with a cranial-sacral hold or work off-body in the person's aura -- I just put out my hands. If I am peaceful and neutral and "connected" with my Higher Self and Guides, then my hands begin, with no effort from me. Guided Movement
When my hands are working "under Guidance," I like to ask questions about what I am doing, and I'll often get words or images for answers. It seems that I am frequently removing "energetic debris" from people's energy fields -- stones, arrows, fallen rubble from earthquakes -- things that killed them in previous lives. Words and thoughts can leave their own debris, and I have other techniques for removing the "people-always-hurt-me" or the "I-have-to-suffer-to-proove-I'm-worthy" statements caught in people's energy fields. These can be as damaging as a whole collection of old arrows and spears! Sometimes I make geometric symbols in the air, in the same manner as Reiki practitioners. Apparently, I am also working with invisible "energy cords" that connect people with their loved ones (and their enemies and others with whom they have scheduled karmic contracts.) I often get the impression that "other people" are present, such as the client's deceased father or a more negative-feeling energy, and I'll also get Guidance on how to work with these. Every session I give is totally unique! Spiritual Counseling
Another aspect of my energy healing work is spiritual counseling. For these sessions, people visit me or call me on the telephone, and we talk. Usually, we begin by connecting to the person's own Higher Self or Spirit Guide, and from there we both ask questions. These can range from questions about the person's primary life lessons in this incarnation, to questions about the origins of a rash and what treatments might help. Often, people will ask the sorts of questions that other people might call "crazy," probably knowing that I am in no position to judge anyone! Do I think that Mary's cat could be an incarnation of her dead aunt, because Mary noticed such and such....? I say, I have no idea, I've never considered such a thing, but let's ask... and then we get a little lesson from the Guides about Soul extensions, and how they often overshadow individual animal incarnations, especially pets and zoo animals.
Through these sessions, I've learned that the "words" people use are not as important as the meanings they give them. For example, Mary and I could both ask her Higher Self, "why does Mary keep falling in love with angry men? Is it her karma?" Her Higher Self could answer, "It depends on who asks and when." If Mary asks with the question, and her meaning behind the question is, "is it my fault? am I bad person who is being punished for something?" then the answer is no. If I ask the question, and my meaning behind the question is, "is this Mary's destiny, something she earned in a past life that can't be erased in a one-hour session?" then the answer is no. But if one of us asks the question, and the meaning behind the question is, "did Mary choose to make a contract about this, so that she might rather easily change the contract right now?" then the answer is yes. Context and intention is everything. During a spiritual counseling session, I work carefully to understand the situation around the questions so that I can channel useful answers. My Book
A few years ago, I gathered a lot of the information I had received from my Higher Self and Guides, and organized it into the form of a book. The book has ten chapters, covering various topics such as love, relationships, channeling, the call of the Soul, and spiritual evolution. I had a lot of fun writing the book, and I got a lot of answers to a lot of my own questions, but I haven't published it yet. But amazingly, after years of procrastination, I did get it in order and mail it to my first potential publisher, last December. They said it didn't fit in their assortment, so now it is time to send it to some more publishers. In the meantime, you can follow this link if you would like to read a selection from the book.