The Energy Healing Blog

From Barely Walking to Starting Her Own Business in 2 Months: Amazing Things DO Happen

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:17:12 GMT

----by Nancy Hausauer

I want to share a success story with you, because I think it's heartening to anyone who's suffering and can't see a way out.

A couple of months ago, a woman came to see me with excruciating pain in her lower back. She'd had it for two years, and she'd done every therapy she or her doctors could think of. Nothing had helped for long, and she was relying on heavy pain medications to make her life barely tolerable. She had quit her job because she couldn't work through the pain. Many days she could barely walk.

In desperation, she went to a psychic, who recommended that she see an energy healer.

So she -- let's call her Pam -- sought me out. I saw her twice, working both on her subtle energy and on the "frozen" energy in her physical body. The first time, she was much improved. The second time, a week later, brought even more improvement. And the third time -- well, she cancelled her third appointment, because she was feeling so much better.

I saw her again recently, when she came in for a "tune-up." She looked like a different woman. Her face, which had been clouded with physical and emotional pain, was full of light. She told me that she had taken no pain medications for two months. She felt great! Her friends were amazed at her transformation, as was she.

Best of all, in just two months, she'd started a whole new life. Her new business was opening the very next day!

In those two short months, she'd even been able to initiate healing in a broken relationship from her past.

Wow! In hind-sight, it's clear that when Pam first came to see me, she was unknowingly poised right on the edge of a transformation. But like many of us, she needed just a little support, a little help, to get the process going.

I'm very grateful to have been invited into her beautiful story of healing.

And I hope that her story will give hope to anyone who's suffering and has given up. There are never any promises that healing will come in the way we want it, but amazing transformations DO happen.

It could be you, or someone you love.

You really could be just a hair's-breadth away from your dearest hope.

Love and light, Nancy

Shifting Consciousness: An Essential Skill for New Energy Workers

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:33:37 GMT

----by Nancy Hausauer

I've been creating a new Beginning Energy Healing class, and it's caused me to think a lot about the skill of shifting consciousness. It's an essential skill for new energy healers. It seems like a tricky thing to do, and in some ways it is. But in another way we do it -- well, not often -- but definitely sometimes. Here's a fairly prosaic example of a consciousness shift that I think everyone has had:

You're sitting in your parked car, with another car parked next to you, just minding your our own business. Suddenly, for a split second, you get a sickening feeling that your car is moving forward, and you don't know what's going on. Then, in a flash, you realize that the car next to you is just backing out. Your consciousness shifts, and you calm back down.

That and other minor shifts of awareness are involuntary. But it can be a lot harder to do intentionally. For example, if you're new to energy healing, it can be a big leap to get from our ordinary view of the world (what I call "consensus reality"), in which

matter is pretty much all there is
the world and everything we see are (mostly) solid
we're separate from everything else
you can't affect anything else unless you're in physical contact with it

to the energy healing view of the world, in which

energy is all there is
the universe consists of waves or vibrations
you're connected to absolutely everything throughout all space and time,
you can impact your own and others' wellness and healing without ever laying a hand on their physical body.

Clipped from: earth360.com (share this clip)

Here's an entertaining and thought-provoking website that helps you practice shifting your consciousness. It'll help you transform your subjective reality from

the pretty much universal but very much mistaken bodily sense that when the sun "sets," it is dropping below the horizon,
to a subjective experience that reflects the reality that the sun is disappearing from view because our planet is rotating away from it.

(I know. It's weird to think that you -- and nearly everyone you know -- is still living a reality that became obsolete in 1543.) There are more fun planetary consciousness shifting exercises on this site as well. Highly recommended. The page is titled "Mass Delusions in Astronomy." You gotta love that! Enjoy. Copyright 2012 Nancy Hausauer

The Energy Healing Lessons of Early Spring

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:51:23 GMT

----by Nancy Hausauer

In my practice, I see many people who have pushed themselves to the point of exhaustion. I try to help them by giving them an hour or so of deep rest, re-setting their nervous system, and hopefully, opening some insight into what's causing them to push themselves so hard in the first place. (The insight into the cause of their self-destructive behavior is the most important part of the healing.)

But they wouldn't be in my office, miserable and seeking help, if they took better care of themselves in the first place.

We can all learn a lot about how to take good care of ourselves --energetically and physically -- from the season of early spring.

The Wisdom of Early Spring

February 2, the ancient Celtic holiday of Imbolc, marks the beginning of early spring. Like all the seasons, there's a lot of wisdom encoded in it.

Imbolc's lesson is patience -- doing things when the time is right, and not before.

The Power of Patience

In earliest spring, the light is increasing, and the earliest bulbs are starting to emerge.

There's hope for the delights of full Spring -- more light, more warmth, new growth. But it's not here yet!

Patience is required. Spring comes on its own timetable, not ours.

For the plants, there's no prize for starting the year's work early. If they break dormancy too soon, their cycle for the whole year will be off.

So they wait till a complex set of cues tells them that it's time to start growing again.

Wait Till the Time Is Right

Our workaholic culture rewards work for work's sake.

So many of us work continuously, slavishly following our schedules whether or they make sense anymore, launching new projects just because we've finished the last.

Taking the plants' lesson of patience to heart -- working and NOT working when the time is right-- can help us maintain our physical and energetic health. This is partly because it builds cycles of rest into our lives.

But it's more than that. When we try to do something before its time, we run into obstacles at every turn. The universe just doesn't seem to cooperate. Our energy is needlessly frittered away.

If we wait till the right time, however, things go easier. Doors open, people are eager to help, happy coincidences abound. Staying in rhythm with the universe, we preserve our own energy. It can remain smooth and flowing, rather than getting jagged and blocked. It is is fueled, rather than depleted.

So watch closely as late winter segues into early spring. Learn to be as patient and wise as the plants. You'll be much healthier and happier for it.

Namaste, Nancy

Affirmations for Health

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:20:48 GMT

Learn how to use affirmations for health to strengthen your immune system, speed healing, and support optimum wellness.

Making Sense of Non-Local Experiences

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:11:50 GMT

----by Nancy Hausauer

A reader -- we'll call her "Susan" -- wrote recently asking about powerful non-local experiences she's had when faraway loved ones died. Even though she was a thousand miles away, she experienced strong physical symptoms such as headaches and near-fainting.

I thought my response to her might be of general interest.

Dear Susan,
I have heard many people talk of experiences either at the death of someone they loved, or shortly after -- far too many too discount. In my own life, I had a profound, life-changing experience with my mother-in-law after she died.
These experiences DON'T make sense when viewed from inside the dominant model of reality, which assumes the absoluteness of time and space -- that we are firmly bound in our current time and fixed in our current space. This dominant model of reality is just that -- a model, like any other. It's not reality itself. It's a human intellectual artifact, a product of a particular culture at a particular time in history.
Experiences like yours just don't fit within that very limited model of reality. But your experience WAS real, and it definitely supports a more expanded, "non-local" model of reality. From within this expanded, less material, more energetic model, it makes sense.
In this reality-view, we're connected to everything. Our consciousness isn't absolutely bound by time or space. We're not just material beings, basically machines, that can be reduced to a catalog of chemical interactions.
In this model, time and space are illusions, tools at best, prisons at worst. You CAN be in contact with loved ones, especially in moments of heightened significance, such as birth and death. You can be in contact with loved ones after death as well, because death is just a change into non-physical form.
I don't pretend to understand it all. I still have many questions, but it does seem very clear to me that consciousness is non-local.
I think that Deepak Chopra does a very good job of explaining non-locality.
I also really like the outlook that Esther Hicks/Abraham has on death. This Youtube video explains it.
I also highly recommend Lynn McTaggert's wonderful book, "The Field."
Nonlocal experiences can be disorienting, because they're so at odds with what our culture has taught us from birth, so it can be good to seek out others who share this reality-view.
You're obviously also energetically sensitive, so I think that it is important that you take good care of yourself. There are many ideas for self-care on my website, and I encourage you to explore them.
Thank you so much for writing and sharing your beautiful journey.
Namaste, Nancy

You can learn more about understanding nonlocal experiences on this page.

The Power of Suggestion: Keep It Positive

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:25:55 GMT

----by Nancy Hausauer

As a healer, the power of suggestion is an important tool you wield whether you are aware of it or not.

Energy work puts people into a state that is not different significantly, if at all, from hypnosis. Our clients go into a deep, hypnosis-like state of relaxation. In this condition, as in hypnosis, they are highly impressionable. What we say to them in this vulnerable position can have a huge impact on their energy, mind, emotions, and physical well-being. We need to make sure that we use our words and thoughts to support, rather than to undermine, their well-being.

Learn more about how to use the power of suggestion for healing on this new page, "The Power of Positive Suggestion."

Taming the Anxiety Monster

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:09:25 GMT

Anxiety is miserable. While those with a full-blown anxiety disorder should seek professional help, there are many energy healing and mind-body healing techniques that can help you feel better.

Here's a new page that offers a wealth of ideas for anxiety treatment.

Happy New Year!

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:26:20 GMT

Happy 2012! I am taking a short break for the holiday, and will return next week.

Wishing you peace, joy, and a beautiful path during the coming year---

Nancy

Bring Calm and Beauty into Your Day: The Sistine Chapel Site

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:54:03 GMT

----by Nancy Hausauer

Here's something to bring a little calm and beauty into your day: just a zoomable photo of the Sistine Chapel and a heavenly a cappella choir. You can zoom in or out, or rotate the image to look at any part of the exquisite walls, ceiling or floor. The day's stress will melt away, I can almost guarantee it. Beautiful music is good for your energy field!

Sistine Chapel and Choir Wishing you a happy, calm, beautiful New Year -- Nancy

Copyright 2011 Nancy Hausauer

Healing My Obnoxious Brother Who I Love

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:04:14 GMT

As a teenager who is 15 years old, I was very unconcerned about the world around me and the mundane tasks that take place ever single day. Also, since

What the Winter Solstice Can Teach Us About Energy Healing

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:12:39 GMT

----by Nancy Hausauer

The Winter Solstice is just around the corner -- to be precise, 5:30 AM Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on December 22, 2011. (Where I live, that will be 9:30 PM PST on December 21.)

For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, the Winter Solstice is the day with the fewest number of daylight hours. It is the official beginning of winter, as well as the longest night of the year. At the same time, it is also marks the return of the light.

Winter, like each of the seasons, offers lessons about living in harmony with our energy:

In winter, nature rests. The nights are long and still, the earth gestates, and many of the plants appear to die. It's part of the natural cycle, necessary for the growth and productivity of spring, summer, and early fall.

Often we forget that rest and stillness are also necessary for us, too. This is true for everyone, but especially so for energy healers and others who are sensitive to subtle energy.

In winter, nature teaches us that we must take time for internal stillness, external rest, and self-gestation. If we haven't taken care of ourselves, we can't take care of others. We don't have enough extra light to direct it toward healing, creating, and other positive purposes. And so we must guard our time for restoration, and inner stillness with the fierceness of a winter storm.

Here are some winter-solstice-inspired ideas for making sure your precious subtle energies stay in balance:

Let go of traditions that don't feed your spirit.
Get out into nature. Get as much natural light as possible.
Turn off the TV and do something creative with friends and loved ones.
If you feel tired, take a nap instead of grabbing a cup of coffee.
Nurture your inner child with extra play-time.
Only accept the social engagements that feel nourishing to you.
Bring beautiful colors and scents into your home and workplace.
Do activities that restore and balance your third chakra.
Take a mini-holiday every day, even if it's just a five-minute jaunt outside for a breath of fresh air.
Get enough sleep.
Schedule regular time for stillness and reflection such as meditation, journal-writing, or contemplative walking.
Light candles or build a bonfire to celebrate the return of the light.

Take good care of your precious self, and have a beautiful, wise winter -- Nancy

Use Aromatherapy to Stay Energetically On Track This Holiday Season

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:05:43 GMT

--by Nancy Hausauer

We're deep into the holiday season now, and it's time to take a break from all the hustle and bustle.

As you may know, I'm a big advocate of using essential oils to clear and raise your energy. Essential oils, like homeopathy, are a form of vibrational medicine. That means that their effect goes beyond the physical realm, into the energetic/vibrational realm.

Most of us can use a little energetic support during this season, so here are some easy and fun ideas that use aromatherapy.

Essential Oils for the Holidays

If you've got essential oils, I encourage you to get them out and have some fun playing with combinations in your diffuser (or in a pan of water kept on very low heat on the stove).

Oils such as lavender, chamomile, geranium, yang yang, sandalwood, cedarwood or patchouli are great for calming and smoothing your energy.
Clary sage, melissa, orange, lemon verbena, and lemongrass are good to lift your spirits.
Cinnamon, clove, ginger, allspice, citrus and evergreen scents help to conjure up the positive energetics of "winter holidays."

Other Aromatherapy Ideas to Scent Your Holidays

But even if you don't have essential oils, there are ways to lift your spirits and your energy with scent. Here are some ideas. I can almost guarantee they'll make you and your family smile.

Bring branches of evergreen trees into the house for decoration. Don't have any in your yard? Wait for a storm and go out collecting.
Mull apple cider with traditional spices: a cinnamon stick, a few buds of clove, a few allspice berries, and a bit of orange zest.
Peel an orange, saving the peel. Eat the orange and take pieces of the peel into the room(s) you wish to scent. Bend the peel, pointing it away from you, so that the oil sprays out into the room.
Bake cookies, which spreads the lovely odor of vanilla throughout the house.
Burn a pure beeswax candle. It exudes a subtle aroma of honey.
Take a walk outdoors in the fresh air, focusing on the scent.

You can learn more about using aromatherapy/essential oils here. I wish you an energetically nurturing and beautifully scented holiday season.

Namaste, Nancy

Working with Cancer Patients from an Eden Energy Medicine Perspective

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:15:34 GMT

----by Nancy Hausauer

In a recent article in Donna Eden's "Energy E-Letter," one of Eden's students, Patricia Butler, writes about using energy medicine to lessen cancer treatment (specifically chemotherapy) side effects. Ms. Butler has introduced Eden Energy Medicine into the Mind-Body Medicine Program of a prominent cancer hospital in Central Florida.

The instructions are very specific, and you'll need Donna Eden's excellent book Energy Medicine to understand some of them, but I highly recommend that you have that book in your library anyway. Here's the link:

Cancer: Using Energy Medicine to Help with Treatment Side Effects

You can read more about Donna Eden's Energy Medicine here.

Thank you, Patricia Butler, for sharing this important work. Namaste, Nancy

Aura Color Meanings

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:46:29 GMT

----by Nancy Hausauer

Perhaps you've learned to see the colors of your aura, or you've had an aura reading done, and are wondering what the meaning of those colors are.

This page about Aura Color Meanings will help you interpret those colors. You can learn conventional interpretations and a very cool exercise for coming up with your own individualized interpretations of the colors.

Clipped from: www.the-energy-healing-site.com (share this clip)

Enjoy!

Namaste, Nancy

Happy Thanksgiving! (The Power of Gratitude)

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:34:55 GMT

----by Nancy Hausauer

Happy Thanksgiving!

Gratitude is one of the most powerful ways to raise your vibration. It can lift, clear and expand your energy, redirect your consciousness, build your light body, and strengthen your connection to the rest of Being.

Ideally, giving thanks is something we should aim to do every day, all year long. Say thanks to the people in your life. Keep a gratitude journal or enumerate the things you're thankful for at night before you fall asleep or first thing in the morning. Give thanks when things are going well, and even more importantly, give thanks when things aren't going well.

The connection between gratitude and well-being is strong. Scientists are beginning to study gratitude, and have found, for example, that people who kept weekly "gratitude journals" exercised more often, reported fewer physical symptoms, generally felt better about their lives, and were more optimistic compared to study participants who kept journals about problematic or neutral life events. In another study, adults with neuromuscular disease who took part in a three-week gratitude exercise reported higher energy, more positive moods, a greater feeling of connection to others, more optimism, and better sleep, compared to a control group. (Information from Dr. Robert Emmons, Emmons Lab, UC Davis http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/Labs/emmons/PWT/index.cfm?Section=4)

It's clear, gratitude is good for you!

So to all of us (whether or not your culture celebrates Thanksgiving), I wish a warm home and enough to eat, health, peace, the love of family and friends -- and the great blessing of a grateful heart.

Namaste, Nancy

Take a Break to Raise Your Energy (and Make You Breathless with Wonder)

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:35:29 GMT

Sometimes I see something I have to share. A friend sent me this link to a bird-flock phenomenon that is just breath-taking.

It'll lift your spirits, it'll raise your calibration, it'll clear your field -- it'll make you glad to be alive. And it's only 2 minutes.

What an amazing, beautiful world we live in.

Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive.

Namaste, Nancy

Taking Care of Yourself: An Essential Part of a Healer's Work

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:57:38 GMT

--by Nancy Hausauer

I'm part of a small group of energy workers who gather regularly to support each other and talk about common issues. (BTW, if you're providing healing for others regularly, I highly recommend having a support group.)

One recurring theme of our discussions is the difficulty but importance of balancing giving with receiving -- both self-care and getting "care and feeding" from others as well.

It is so very common for healers (and not just healers -- but some fields, like healing, seem to really attract "over-givers") to take care of others day in and day out, and rarely get any care for themselves.

I'm as bad as anyone about that. Sure, I've got my reasons, but so does everyone else. A lot of times it takes serious injury or illness to force me into a receiving state.

And that's not good. Not only are we energetically more balanced when our giving and receiving are in a state of equilibrium, but also we do better work. It's no virtue to "give until it hurts"; often, it's just a sign that you've got some internal work to do.

It's a rich, deep vein to mine, this giving and receiving thing, full of potential healing and re-harmonizing for anyone who has trouble keeping them in balance.

Here are some things that I'm going to do in the near future to help bring giving/receiving into better proportion:

Meet with my support group (Tomorrow night - yay!)
See two friends who are great and loving listeners.
Go for a walk -- without my dog. (Love you Buddy, but someone else is going to have to do it today.)
Play with my essential oil collection. I'm especially craving clary sage.
Set up a trade with another healer.
Ask my hubby for a neck-rub.
Plan a winter getaway.
Take a Yoga Nidra class from my friend, Yoga teacher and Chi Nei Tsang practitioner Najeea Leslie.
Go to a beautiful, heart-nourishing gathering in celebration of the cosmic divine feminine principle.

I've been putting some effort into this lately, and it looks like I may be getting the hang of it! But I'm still going to keep working (or should I say playing?) at creatively expanding my list.

How about you--what are you doing to re-fill your well?

Namaste, Nancy

Eleven Deeply Restorative Ways to Celebrate Samhain, Halloween's Sacred Ancestor

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:37:41 GMT

--by Nancy Hausauer

Happy Halloween, or as it is called in the traditional, agriculturally based Celtic calendar, Samhain. The holiday of Samhain marks the end of summer and the start of winter.

Samhain is the beginning of the dark time of the year--the season for rest, reflection, stillness, wisdom, and mystery. Notice how the world of nature withdraws its energy and growth, to rest in quietness in the dwindling light. Nature beckons us to follow suit, to rest, to be still within. Out of the silence, a certain ordering of spirit can begin, leading eventually to healing, restoration, renewal, and new growth. But for now, it's time to allow the fields of your soul to lie fallow.

Samhain is also traditionally a time for divination and for honoring the dead.

Here are some ideas to observe Samhain, tonight or any time during the coming weeks:

Sit down with your journal for a quiet evening. Write extensively about what you don't know.
Pay attention to your intuition. Assume that everything you see and hear has meaning.
Notice the spiders. What wisdom might you learn from them?
Meditate. Focus on the still place between thoughts.
Take the time to really savor an apple or a pomegranate -- traditional fruits of the season.
Make an altar for a loved one who has passed on. Take the time to make it beautiful and satisfying. Meditate on the gifts they gave you and the lessons they taught you.
Turn off the lights and light a single candle. Notice how darkness and light complete each other. Allow yourself to absorb the nourishment of the dark.
Go to bed early, with journal and pen by your bed so that you can record any dreams you have. Spend time the next day allowing the meaning of those dreams to resonate within you.
Turn off your phone, TV, and all the other chattering devices of your life -- just for an evening. Notice what arises in the stillness.
Comb through your calendar, removing all unnecessary appointments and obligations for the coming month.
Allow yourself the adventure (and the luxury) of not figuring everything out (to quote my friend Laura Mill Karlin).

To live sacred lives
requires that we live
on the edge of what
we do not know.
--Anne Hillman

A blessed Samhain to you.

--Nancy

Breath: A Powerful Tool for Energetic and Physical Health

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:53:06 GMT

--by Nancy Hausauer

As you will know if you have read much of my website, I am a strong proponent of using breathing techniques for energetic, physical, and mental wellness. The Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks book, At the Speed of Life: A New Approach to Personal Change Through Body-Centered Therapy, which I liked so much I am now re-reading, makes a stronger case for breathing correctly than even I do.

Here are a selection of quote from the book's chapter on "The Breathing Principle":

If we could do but one thing with people who are in emotional pain, we would most likely focus on breathing.

One of the remarkable properties of conscious breathing is that it often magnifies a feeling, then reduces or eliminates it.

…whatever we resist, persists. This is particularly true in the realm of feelings. Resisting feeling scared won't make the feeling go away. In fact, fear stays until we embrace it. The energy that we use to keep the fear out of our awareness is wasted, and our effort to do so causes a split in us. Going toward the feeling with the breath is a key first step in healing the split.

They cite the following as major benefits of breathwork:

Stress reduction
Treatment of anxiety
Treatment of depression
Control of physical pain
Improvement of physical problems such as heart issues and asthma
Making healthy people feel even better
Transcendental/unity experiences

I would add to that enhancing the immune system and harmonizing the energy field.

You can read more about breathing techniques and exercises:

I'll be writing more about breathwork in later pages and posts. Until then, breathe deep, breathe slow.

Namaste, Nancy

The Healing Power of Presence: Consciousness as the Ultimate Medicine

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:50:45 GMT

It can be good to learn specific techniques for energy healing, but sometimes the simplest things are the most powerful. The healing power of presence may be the most deeply transformative practice you can provide as a healer and a self-healer. The book At the Speed of Life: A New Approach to Personal Change Through Body-Centered Therapy, by Gay Hendricks and Kathlyn Hendricks, promotes "presencing": being deeply, mindfully, non-judgmentally present with yourself or another -- as THE fundamental healing technique. This passage really struck me:

Problems persist to the extent that we fail to be present with them and with the feelings associated with them. When we can simply be with an issue (rather than judging it or trying to change it), the issue has room to transform in the desired direction."

It's easy to get caught up in the specifics of tools and techniques, but just being a witness for a client and her/his process -- being deeply, mindfully, compassionately present -- may be the most powerful thing we can do. Ironically, it can be very difficult, since it requires you to set aside your own ego. Read more about the healing power of presence, including a Self-Healing Presence Meditation.

Namaste, Nancy

As Healers, We Have to Come to Terms with Death

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:00:52 GMT

As healers, we sometimes work with people who are gravely ill or dying. This great honor, responsibility, and opportunity for deep learning requires us to come to terms both with the need for non-attachment to outcome and with death itself.

Here's a link that is very helpful to me in interpreting death in a positive way. It's part of the large body of work of Abraham-Hicks.* In this video, Esther Hicks-Abraham talks about death and grieving, offering a radically different and profoundly comforting way to look at it. I find it very valuable both in my professional and my personal life.

In case you're not familiar with them, Esther and Jerry Hicks have been teaching and writing for over 25 years about how to live our lives in a state of well-being and joy. They often present material on the Law of Attraction, but their teachings go far beyond that. I'm a big fan. Here's a link to their website.

Clipped from: www.abraham-hicks.com (share this clip)

And here's an explanation of Esther Hick's relationship to "Abraham," taken from the written material that accompanies the YouTube video:

"For over 20 years, Esther has translated blocks of thought from "Non-Physical Source Energy" - which she also identifies as her "Inner Being" or "Soul" - and who refer to themselves in the plural as "Abraham" (no relation to the Biblical figure)."

Namaste, Nancy

Learn Energy Healing

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:50:09 GMT

A resource list of schools, workshops, courses and books to help you learn energy healing.

Types of Energy Healing: Polarity Therapy

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:26:09 GMT

Polarity Therapy, developed by Dr. Randolph Stone, DO, DC, ND (1890-1981), is based upon the energetic principles of attraction, repulsion and neutrality. Like many forms of energy healing, Polarity Therapy seeks to find blockages, release energy to normal flow patterns and maintain the energy field in an open, flexible state. PT can involve diet, exercise and self-awareness as well as energy-based bodywork that works with three main currents of energy. Learn more about Polarity Therapy here.

Pranic Healing

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:00:22 GMT

A short description of Pranic Healing.

Releasing Thought Forms, Finding Freedom

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:02:37 GMT

--by Nancy Hausauer

Last week my husband and I went to Mt. Rainier. It was a beautiful day, with few fellow visitors. We usually pick a long hike, but this particular day our time was limited, so we picked a short hike out of Paradise, to Myrtle Falls. The wildflower season is late this year, and so even though it's September, the flowers were amazing: bluish-purple lupine everywhere, dotted with clumps of yellow, pink, white, and lavender. I had only been to Myrtle Falls in the winter, when the snow covered the meadows and made the short hike slippery and difficult. As I walked up the gentle, paved incline to the falls, I marveled at the colorful meadows, and it occurred to me that the reason I've never done this hike in the summer is that I've disdained it because it's easy. The longer, more strenuous hikes that I usually choose are rewarding in their own way, but none were more beautiful than this. Behind that disdain of the easy path was, I realized, a powerful, restrictive, well-entrenched belief, or thought form: "If it's easy, it can't be good." A striking repudiation of that stood right before my eyes. Becoming aware of something is often the first step in healing, and so I will be able to release this limiting thought form, in time, and let more goodness and beauty into my life -- with less fuss and hard work. That could make a huge difference in my life. All of us have thought forms -- thought-energy that has crystallized into beliefs or belief systems. If we're able to keep them fairly fluid, and if we're conscious of them, they do no harm. However, when they crystallize and become fixed, and when we are unaware of them, they nearly always become restrictive and limiting at some point. Thoughts forms can have very powerful effects on us, shaping our lives, our realities, even our bodies and brains. Often, they are the root of problems in a person's physical body or their life. People regularly sacrifice themselves, their happiness, their comfort, their health, and even their lives to their thought forms. I see it all the time in my practice: people suffering terribly, unable to make obvious and badly needed changes in their lives because of thought forms such as: "It's bad to quit. I won't be a quitter." "My family needs me." "It's selfish to take time for myself." "If I let myself relax, something bad will happen." "I am the only one who can do x." "Without my work, I am nothing." And so on. As energy healers, we can often help clients release these limiting thought forms -- and it's one of the best things we can do for them. It's also one of the best things we can do for ourselves. It's literally like freeing ourselves and our clients from prisons of our own making. Wishing you fluidity and freedom, Nancy Copyright 2011 Nancy Hausauer

Listening Deeply to the Body

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 02:17:00 GMT

--by Nancy Hausauer

One of my clients recently brought me a wonderful new phrase -- listening to the body -- that has been oddly absent from my client-talk during sessions. I say oddly, because it's been my experience for many years that the body is often wiser than the conscious mind, and so it's strange that talk of listening to the physical body hasn't played much of a role in my treatment room. Here's what happened. During a session, my client and I were working with a place in her body that had been painful for a long time, and as I located the exact spots with my fingers, she said that it felt like those parts of her body were being listened to for the first time. As we "listened" together, the pain diminished. Now, one of my common techniques for addressing a client's pain -- especially muscle pain -- is to find the place that hurts, feel the disturbance in the tissue (both physically and energetically), and guide my client to bring her/his consciousness to that spot. With our awareness jointly on the place of pain, I then guide my client to release the energy being held there. It's remarkably effective. This process seems related to "listening to the body," because both bring awareness to the areas of pain (which, in itself, usually has a healing effect). But the idea of "listening" to the body seems to brings in another dimension -- more than just removing the pain, it also holds the potential to decode the body's symbolic language -- offering the possibility of healing on a deeper level. I've long believed that body symptoms are often the subconscious speaking something that the conscious mind isn't ready to or cannot acknowledge. Like dreams, they carry messages that can be profound and enlightening, if we take the time to decipher them. Scientist Candace Pert puts it more succinctly: "The body IS the subconscious mind." Or as Lynne McTaggert, in her wonderful work The Field , says, "Consciousness is a global phenomenon that occurs everywhere in our body, and not simply in our brain." The body isn't just a vehicle, a "thing" that carries our spirit around. It has much to tell us, a kind of raw truth that isn't always accessible to the conscious mind. As I often say, "The body doesn't lie." I know that I'm not the first to explore this concept -- it's not even new for me! But I love its poetry, and am eager to unfold the many dimensions of what it could mean. How about you? Do you have experiences of listening deeply to your body that you'd like to share? Namaste, Nancy Copyright 2011 Nancy Hausauer

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The Relaxation Company's "Ocean Waves" CD: Like a Beach Retreat

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:30:17 GMT

--by Nancy Hausauer

I recently added the Relaxation Company's CD "Ocean Waves" to my collection and I love it.

It's an hour of the soothing rhythm of ocean waves, nothing else. Behind it (inaudibly, to me), are embedded alpha brainwave pulses. Alpha waves are the brainwave pattern characteristic of relaxation. The theory is that your own brainwaves entrain to these embedded pulses, allowing you to easily achieve a more relaxed state.

This brainwave-pulse-embedding technology--based on over 25 years of clinical research--definitely works for me, and for my clients as well.

As you may know, I'm a big proponent of using relaxation to help balance and harmonize your energy field.

The Relaxation Company (founded by pioneering sound healer Dr. Jeffrey Thomas) has a wide variety of CDs using this technology. Some are better than others (musically), but its nature-sounds recordings are particularly fine.

"Ocean Waves" is also one of the best "white noise" sources I've ever heard. My practice is in a shared building on a busy city street, and I'm forever searching for recordings that will smooth out, if not actually cancel, the background noise. I've tried dozens if not scores of recordings, and I think this is the most effective yet.

I've also sent my daughter off to college with this CD. She's in a triple dorm room, and I'm hoping it will help her be able to study if her roommates are talking or playing music. I keep wondering if it might be a good tool for teachers, too, to soothe a rowdy classroom. I'd love your feedback on any creative uses of this or any other of the brainwave-pulse-technology recordings.

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Wishing you a relaxed day, Nancy

Announcing The Energy Healing Site's New Site-Search Function

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:25:28 GMT

--by Nancy Hausauer

FINALLY, my website has a site-search function. Look to the top right of the page for the Search box. (It's powered by Google.)

I hope it helps you find the information you're looking for.

Namaste, Nancy

Know When to Seek Conventional Medical Care

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:17:53 GMT

--by Nancy Hausauer

A reader experiencing depression wrote to me recently expressing concern because energy healing was only making her feel worse.

This sent up a HUGE red flag for me. Depression is a serious illness, and anything that's making it worse should be stopped immediately. Equally important, if you're experiencing a serious medical or psychological concern (such as depression), you should be under the care of a medical doctor or mental health professional. That's really clear with something as straightforward as a broken arm, but sometimes I think we take less obvious health problems too lightly. My response to her, slightly edited, follows:

I am sorry that you have not been feeling well.
Because energy healing is making you feel worse, it sounds to me like you should not seek more of it, at least until you are better. But in any case, depression can be a very serious, even life-threatening, illness. Especially since you say it's getting worse, I sincerely hope that you are seeking help from a medical doctor and/or mental health professional. Please do that, immediately if you aren't already. Depression really is serious, and if alternative methods of healing aren't helping, it's imperative for you to see a doctor or mental health professional right away.
In the meantime, while you are receiving treatment from your doctor/therapist, I think it could only be helpful to lift your own energy in gentle, natural ways such as taking walks and other gentle exercise, being out in nature, making sure you get sunshine, and spending time with people you enjoy. (I believe that these are all things that even the medical profession recognizes as being helpful for lifting mild depression.)
After you are thoroughly stabilized, if you want to, you might try energy healing again to see if it is useful to you. But if it makes you feel bad again, then you should probably stick to working with your own energy in some of the ways that I suggest on my site -- esp. the pages about "everyday"healing methods.
I hope you feel better soon.

Sometimes when we're in the middle of an illness, it can be hard to get perspective on it. I believe that those of us in the energy healing world can help each other by encouraging appropriate and sensible use of conventional medical and psychological therapies.

Wishing you all the highest and best good,

Nancy

Please Be Patient - Experiementing With Adsense On the Site

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:08:59 GMT

Dear Readers, I am experimenting with putting Adsense on my site to help pay for the costs of running it. Please be patient as I fine-tune this. Many thanks, Nancy

Crystal Healing

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:38:25 GMT

--by Nancy Hausauer

A reader wrote to me recently to tell me about her form of healing, crystal energy healing. Here's what she had to say [edited slightly for clarity]:

As energy healing facilitators, much like in Reiki or Healing Touch, crystal energy healers transfer or tube universal life force energy through for their clients, with the additional use of crystals to magnify the effect. Crystal energy healers are also intuits, receiving messages about where in the body to go to, and working with their client's belief system, sometimes using the spiritual assistance of Ascended Masters.
It is spiritual work, balancing clients' chakras and working with meridians, as well as treating the mind-body-spirit connection.

I was pleased to hear from her, as I've been wanting to add a page about crystal healing to The Energy Healing Site --but since I don't work with crystals in a professional capacity, I'm a little short on information. Any other crystal healers out there who can send me more info, or point me in the direction of some good resources on crystal healing? Love and light, Nancy

Happy! Happy! Happy!

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:27:16 GMT

--by Nancy Hausauer

I love this quote from Esther Hicks/Abraham:

I'm going to be very, very, very happy, and then do everything I have time to do after that.

So that's my goal for this week. Join me?

Love and light, Nancy

International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:52:22 GMT

--by Nancy Hausauer

My friend, energy healer Marion Hogan, recently introduced me to the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine (IISSSEEM). I'm definitely going to be exploring this organization in greater depth.

You might want to check out their articles -- it looks like there are some interesting resources there. I also noticed that they offer liability insurance for energy healers (under the "Resources" tab). I'm not an affiliate, or endorsing it in any way, but I do encourage energy healers to have professional liability insurance, and I think this would be at least worth checking out if you don't already have it.

Blessings, Nancy

Allowing vs. Trying: A Reader Shares His Experiences with the Power of Letting Go

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:05:54 GMT

--by Nancy Hausauer

A reader recently wrote about his experiences with energy healing, and I thought what he had to say was very beautiful, and wanted to share it. (It is slightly edited for clarity.)

I have studied and used many forms of energy healing but they mostly had some form of my involvement in it and for that reason there were many short falls in the healing process. One day in one of my meditations with my inner guide I was given a gift to heal others with my hands and after using it for a while I noticed that I had no involvement in the healing process and it was done automatically and miraculously. Interestingly, I can transfer this healing power to others in the form of a gift and now I know that it is not only my gift; it is for everybody to be able to learn and use it. I am just a vessel and it is the Divine Energy that heals and not me.

What I especially appreciate about his comments is their lack of ego, and how the healing power that flows through him increased when he let go of trying to control it. So often we feel that trying harder will make things better, but as this reader demonstrates, it's not always true.

Many thanks to all my readers for their comments -- I love to hear from you.

Blessings, Nancy

Supporting Your Second and Third Chakras

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:41:41 GMT

--by Nancy Hausauer

A reader recently wrote asking what to do about a blocked 3rd chakra and an unstable 2nd. I thought my response (slightly edited) might be of interest:

First, know that where you are right now is always the perfect platform for your next evolutionary step. So don't' worry, and don't assume that something is wrong. Instead, trust your own process, take a deep breath, and relax.
In fact, take several deep breaths, because diaphragmatic (belly) breathing is helpful for balancing the third chakra. And relaxation, in general, is very healing. It helps to balance both our physical body and our energy system. Sometimes we try too hard, when what we really need to do is ease up, and ALLOW our body/energy to balance itself.
Walking is an excellent way to relax, with many, many benefits for both the physical body and the energy field, so I would recommend that you take some gentle walks. Specifically for your third chakra, make a point of doing things (in a relaxed way, of course!) that you are good at and enjoy doing. Also, look at the structure in your life. Is there too much -- is your life too rigid? If so, lighten up and allow more flow and spontaneity into your life. On the other hand, if it seems there is too little structure -- for example, if your thoughts, feelings, life or home seem chaotic and disorganized -- add some order and pattern. You'll know you're doing the right thing if it feels good.
Specifically to support your second chakra, try bringing beauty into your life -- notice it, appreciate it, receive it, create it. This doesn't have to be a big production -- you can just notice the trees or the flowers, the scent of roses, the feel of the breeze on your skin. And also, try to bring more flow into your life. Once again, this doesn't have to be an effort. You may just decide, for example, to "go with the flow" a little more, or you might be literal about it and spend a pleasant Saturday afternoon by a river, if there's one near you.
I'm sure you're getting my drift -- that we can restore and support our energetic health and balance by the way we live our lives. What you do day-to-day is ultimately the most important thing for both your energetic and your physical health.
So breathe. Walk. Relax. Do things you enjoy doing. Notice the beauty in your life. Of course, a healer can support you in your process, and sometimes we all need a little extra help, so by all means visit a reputable energy healer if you feel called to do so. But I think you will find that if you do the gentle, everyday things I've recommended, in time your 2nd and 3rd chakras will be more in balance.
Blessings, Nancy

With Alternative OR Conventional Medicine, Be An Informed Consumer

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:31:38 GMT

--by Nancy Hausauer

Here's some food for thought from the November 2010 issue of Discover magazine. Although "evidence-based-medicine" is the gold standard for conventional medical care, experts estimate that "well below half" of the drugs, tests, and surgeries doctors prescribe have been demonstrated to be effective.

So what about the other fifty-plus percent of the drugs, tests, devices, and surgeries that doctors order? Those prescriptions are based on tradition, theories, best guesses -- and drug/medical device company marketing.

Here's one particularly scary passage in the article:

The holes in medical knowledge can have life-threatening implications, according to an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality report published in 2001: More than 770,000 Americans are injured or die each year from drug complications, including unexpected side effects, some of which might have been avoided if somebody had conducted the proper research. Meaningless or inaccurate tests can lead to medical interventions that are unnecessary or harmful. And risky surgical techniques can be performed for years before studies are launched to test whether the surgery is actually effective.

There's a lot in this article to make you a careful consumer when it comes to conventional medicine. Whether you're seeking treatment from an alternative or a conventional practitioner, you should be asking questions and using your own good judgment. You're in charge of your own health, and in the end, it's always YOU who knows what's best for YOU.

As always, wishing you vibrant health --

Nancy

Happy Summer Solstice

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 22:05:43 GMT

--by Nancy Hausauer

I wish you all a happy Summer Solstice on Tuesday.

The Summer Solstice, like all the holidays on the pagan Wheel of the Year, teaches us that every beginning contains its own end, and every end contains a new beginning. This wisdom helps us to maintain a sense of calm and balance about issues both large and small.

When we are able to maintain a sense of balance and equanimity, it is reflected in our energy field. So in a very real way, teachings such as the Wheel of the Year, or the Buddhist precept of non-attachment, or the principle of yin and yang, help us to remain energetically healthy.

Energy healing is more than just doing treatments for yourself and others. Ideally, it's a way of life. Whatever your religion or philosophy or lack thereof, I encourage you to cultivate a sense of perspective that helps you take life's impermanence in stride. This, of course, is a life-long endeavor, but one that is well worth it in terms of energetic health.

New Deepak Chopra Article on Reconciling Conventional and Alternative Medicine

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:26:49 GMT

--by Nancy Hausauer

Deepak Chopra has a great new article, "Medicine's Great Divide -- The View from the Alternative Side," published on the American Medical Association's online journal of ethics, Virtual Mentor.

Predictably, Chopra advocates for "expanded medicine," a medical model that encompasses both conventional and alternative medicine. With current scientific research supporting many of the premises of alternative healing, he sees hope for this.

Pointing to the alternative healing world's emphasis on prevention, holistic approaches and the patient/client's own self-healing powers, plus some of conventional medicine's glaring weaknesses, he makes a strong argument for reconciliation between the two different camps of the healing world.

The mystery of healing remains unsolved. If we combine wisdom and science, tradition and research, mind and body, there is every hope that the mystery will reveal its secrets more and more fully. For example, for the last 30 to 40 years we have documented the effect of stress on cardiovascular disease, but we have only recently begun to look into what the opposite of stress could do for our well-being. The experiences of joy, compassion, and meditative quiescence could be powerful tools to restore homeostasis and strengthen our self-repair mechanisms.

A quick and enjoyable read, definitely worth your time.

Energy Healing -- A Medical or a Spiritual Process?

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:08:26 GMT

Energy work -- is it primarily a medical technique -- just another outcome-oriented therapy -- or is it a spiritual event? This is not an idle question, because it affects your whole approach to a session.

To me, energy healing is clearly spiritual. Yes, energy work can help people heal faster from both emotional and physical illnesses and injuries. It can help reduce pain (or the perception of pain, and that's not a distinction I care about). It can help people recover from trauma, anxiety, and depression. These are valuable attributes of energy healing.

But they're not the main thing. The healing of physical problems is almost a side benefit, in my mind. The real purpose of energy healing is spiritual and evolutionary.

An excellent article in the May/June 2011 Massage and Bodywork magazine, "A Pilgrim in Your Body," (on page 50) addresses this issue beautifully. In this article, author and energy healer Jim Gilkeson asserts that energy healing "invites spiritual process," and "can evoke changes in consciousness that are best understood in the context of the human spiritual journey."

These days, when it seems that more and more fields of healing are adopting the conventional Western medical model -- in my opinion not much different in spirit than that of a car mechanic -- I'm delighted to see someone standing up for a different, more transcendent approach.

Insight, transformation, inspiration, shifts in feeling and beliefs, self-knowledge, resolution, visions, messages, harmony, peace, contentment -- these gifts from the spiritual sphere are all worthy and appropriate goals of energy work. In my observation, a client is almost sure to experience at least one of them from a session.

Curing the physical body can often be a bonus from energy healing. It's often what brings people in to see an energy healer, and it's always astounding when it happens. But I maintain that it's secondary.

It's a different way of looking at the world, a radical shift in focus from the medical model. There's much to ponder in Jim Gilkeson's thoughtful article." Highly recommended.

Are You An Energy Healer? (Most Likely, Yes.)

Mon, 30 May 2011 15:16:35 GMT

--by Nancy Hausauer

A client told me a wonderful story recently, and I want to share it, partly because it's so delightful, and partly because it illustrates how natural energy healing is. It's truly a part of most people's common experience.

My client, Olivia (name changed), as a girl had a bad case of warts on her hands. Deciding she would cure them herself, she went into the bathroom, mixed up a paste consisting of tooth powder and various other smelly ingredients, and smeared them on her warts. Looking into the mirror, she solemnly chanted, "I have the power to cure my warts." She continued this ritual for two weeks, by which time the warts had disappeared.

Encouraged by her success, Olivia turned her budding wart-curing powers on her little brother and sister. With a keen sense of psychology (and humor), she told them that it was a powerful, dangerous process, and that they were probably too little for it. This, predictably, made them ultra-eager to receive her ministrations.

In a couple of weeks, her siblings' warts were also gone. Now with three wart-curings under her belt, Olivia used her home-grown method to get rid of a neighbor boy's warts as well, to the surprise of his doctor-father.

Besides being a cute, Tom-Sawyeresque story, this also illustrates an important point. What Olivia did was energy healing. She cured four people of a stubborn viral infection without using a physical intervention such as surgery or medication (except her bogus, tooth-paste-based ointment, of course, but that was just window-dressing). Spontaneously, naturally, without training or encouragement from anyone, she created her own energy healing technique, harnessing the power of the mind-body connection with excellent results. (One might argue that her success was "just" a placebo effect, but what is that but a scientifically documented example of non-physical, healing?)

Non-physical healing––energy healing––isn't a mysterious, arcane practice. It's natural, commonplace, and universal. Sometimes––as with Olivia––it's even funny.

All of us have an amazing power to heal, both ourselves and others. It's a normal part of being human. It happens on a large scale, all the time. 98% of it (OK, I made that stat up) happens without drugs or surgery or even bandaids.

Through intention and love and witnessing and touch and affirmations and belief and shoulder rubs and scraped-knee-kisses and chicken soup and prayer and cool hands on hot foreheads and weird, made-up potions, we help others activate their own amazing self-healing powers and return to a state of balance. (And yes, band-aids, antibiotics, and surgery are sometimes necessary. But I maintain that most healing happens among families and friends, through elegant, subtle means, before reaching the point of needing rough-hewn physical interventions.)

So are you an energy healer? Almost without a doubt. Humans are healers. It bubbles out of us naturally, if we let it. So let it, and celebrate it!

Do you have any healing stories you'd like to share?

Helping Chronic Pain with Energy Healing

Mon, 23 May 2011 17:41:48 GMT

--by Nancy Hausauer

Can energy healing help people manage chronic pain? Recent research indicates that it can. Time Magazine recently devoted an issue to chronic pain (March 7, 2011). All pain, but especially chronic pain, is still mysterious to both those who suffer from it and those who study it.

One thing that is clear: it's complex. Time, quoting Harvard scientist Dr. David Borsook, asserts

Chronic pain is really a disease of the central nervous system. As such, it is a disease that affects the sensory, emotional, motivational, cognitive and modulatory pathways. And the more we understand in particular the emotional pathways, the more we begin to understand that the traditional way we approach patients in pain may need to be revised.

Science is showing that some alternative therapies are more effective at reducing pain than standard drug treatments.

For example, Time notes the effectiveness of "biofield therapies," or energy healing. Time cites a 2010 study by UCLA and University of California scientists, published in the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, that reviewed 66 studies of the effectiveness of energy healing in relieving pain. They found "strong evidence" that energy healing can reduce pain intensity.

Managing chronic pain is clearly complex. Any significant pain should involve conventional medical treatment. But when standard treatments are ineffective or intolerable, energy healing is a valuable alternative or complementary resource.

Like other treatments, energy healing is not always effective. But I know from my own experience that whether or not it actually reduces physical pain levels, it can usually help someone in chronic pain shift their relationship to the pain. This makes life more tolerable by reducing the sense of suffering, the emotional component of pain that worsens its impact but is separate from the pain itself.

Trusting the Energy Healing Process

Mon, 16 May 2011 18:16:59 GMT

Working with a Client Who Felt Drained After Receiving an Energy Healing

--by Nancy Hausauer

Recently, a new client reported back to me that she had felt tired and drained after her initial session of energy work.

A highly motivated professional, she had intended to go back to the office and get a couple of hours of work in after her session. It had been an inconvenience for her, and she sounded just a little annoyed. (She was new to energy healing, and perhaps she had expected to feel more energetic.)

I reassured her that the feeling of tiredness was probably a balancing. She had been running on adrenaline and anxiety. Highly stressed, her body needed the rest badly, even though her mind didn't want it.

As uncomfortable as it was, the feeling of being "drained," I explained, was most likely a positive thing -- because it was the truth. The stress hormones that her body had been churning out were masking a deep exhaustion. The energy healing allowed her to feel it and begin to do something about it before it took an even greater toll on her health.

She has since arranged her schedule so that she doesn't have to return to work after appointments. Now, sometimes she goes home and rests after a session, and sometimes she feels energized and spends a couple of productive hours working. She is valuing her health more, listening to her body and responding accordingly. She also seems to be able to relax more with each session. I see all of this as part of slow but steady return to health, marked by more balance in her energy, her body and her life.

As this story illustrates, sometimes clients recognize the positive impact of an energy healing, and sometimes they don't, at least initially.

As a healer, I believe that part of my work is to trust the process, "keeping the faith" that healing is taking place, whether or not the client can see it right away.

Of course, it's important for the healer to listen to and value the client's feedback as well as her own judgment. And it's also important for the client to use her own judgment and to speak up about her needs and concerns.

The healing relationship is a delicate dance, requiring listening, discernment, trust, and judgment on both sides. Communication is the key. It's an exchange of energy. Keep it flowing.

Basic Energy Healing Techniques

Mon, 09 May 2011 21:19:49 GMT

Energy healing comes in many forms, as varied as the number of energy healers. You can heal with your hands, your eyes, your voice, your energy field, your full body, or your intention.

Although you will want to study and practice to become proficient, this new page will give you an introduction to some of the most basic hand-based energy healing techniques.

Beltane and the Transformative Power of Physical Joy

Mon, 02 May 2011 16:27:58 GMT

--by Nancy Hausauer

Yesterday was Mayday, also known as Beltane in the Celtic wisdom tradition. Beltane marks the beginning of summer. It's a time to plant, but also a time to celebrate and enjoy the growing warmth, light, greenery, and flowers.

I think of it as the season to celebrate animal happiness. By that, I mean appreciating and taking special care of the animals in our lives, but also appreciating and taking special care of our own physical, animal bodies. I mean seeing the divinity in animals as well as in our own animal bodies.

Our strongly dualistic culture draws a sharp distinction between body and spirit. The body is viewed at best as a "temple for the soul," at worst as a weakness, a necessary evil, something to be controlled and denied and finally, thankfully, discarded for a higher plane of existence.

To my way of seeing, however, our physical bodies are more than the temple of our souls; they are part of our souls, inseparable from our minds, spirits, and subtle energies. Matter is energy, and our physical bodies are indivisible from our energy systems. We should treat them with the same respect and wonder that we treat our energy bodies and our spirits, for in fact they are the same. They, too, are pathways to transformation and the divine.

I invite you to take this season of Beltane -- May 1 through June 20 -- to be especially loving and respectful to your physical body. Be as present in your body as you can be. Take the time to feed it the foods that truly nourish it. Give it the rest it needs. Notice and affirm how amazing it is, how well it works, how beautiful it is. If you catch yourself judging your body harshly, apologize to it.

And take the time to really experience animal joy -- the simple joys of the physical body. Enjoy your senses. Really taste your food. Notice and take pleasure in your breath. Bask in the sun. Stretch like a cat. Luxuriate in the touch of the breeze on your skin. Soak up the energy of all the green that surrounds you. Savor the fragrances of the various flowers as they come into bloom.

By allowing yourself to experience physical happiness, you affirm the sacredness of your body and proclaim your gratitude for the great gift of physical life. You enter into the cosmic dance, and affirming and experiencing your material self as part of the universe's sacred dance of energy is transformative -- to your physical body, to your energy body, and to the universe.

Enjoy.

Image courtesy of TheVisualMD.com

Energy Healer Preparation: Getting Ready to Do an Energy Healing

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:47:15 GMT

--by Nancy Hausauer Whether you're doing it for yourself or for someone else, you should go into an energy healing relaxed, grounded, and in as elevated a state as you can be. You need to

relax, ground and center
raise your vibration
set a healing intention
affirm your non-attachment to outcome.

Learn more about energy healer preparation in this new article. Namaste, Nancy

Energy Healer Basics

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:41:22 GMT

Energy healer basics for new healers. Basic skills and concepts, including preparing for an energy healing session, healer ethics, energy anatomy, and core principles.

Energy Healer Ethics

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:55:35 GMT

Because of the nature of our work and the trust that our clients place in us, we must operate with the highest level of care and integrity. I know many energy healers, and every one of them operates with the highest level of integrity. However, I think that our profession would be helped by having an ethical code. At any rate, I think every individual healer would be well advised to have one. Read a suggested code for energy healer ethics. I welcome your comments and suggestions.

Stillness is Essential for Energy Healers

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:57:01 GMT

--by Nancy Hausauer

I spent the Spring Equinox (March 20) deep in the snowy woods of north-central Washington. Spring Equinox--the solar event that marks the official beginning of spring--is the time when day and night, light and dark, are perfectly balanced. I always imagine a single moment, a still point, when they are poised, motionless, in perfect peace.

Being in the snow-hushed pine forest on the Equinox was a powerful healing experience. I could feel my body absorbing the stillness, drinking it in like a medicine. Life has been too busy lately, and I really needed something as magical as that to bring me back into balance.

Even before I was practicing as an energy healer, I unconsciously used stillness and silence as medicine. During one of the most difficult periods of my life, I started attending Quaker meeting. Unprogrammed Quaker meeting is a whole, beautiful hour of nearly silent worship. On good Sundays, that deep-in-the-snowy-woods feeling of peace would descend on the group. I'm not much of a Christian, but I could feel the Holy Spirit in that profound, intentional, luminous silence. And slowly, Sunday by Sunday, silence by silence, my emotional wounds healed.

For energy healers, stillness is important not just for personal healing, but also as a foundational part of our practices. The cocoon of peace that we create in a healing has profound benefits for our clients. It allows their bodies to rest, their natural self-healing energies to surface, and their intuition to access valuable information. It's also a doorway to our own inspiration and intuition. I find that when I am doing a healing, particularly if I am at a moment where I am unsure what to do next, if I allow myself to pause and sink into a moment of deep, undirected stillness, information for my client or a direction for the healing always arises. Often the results are profound.

It can be hard to find stillness. Even if we can find a quiet, calm place and time, I know from my own experience that it's difficult to stop the persistent internal chatter: what shall we have for dinner, need to call mom and dad, how should I title that article. . . . But we have to do it.

For everyone, taking regular time for stillness is important. For energy healers, it's absolutely critical to make space in your life for a routine of daily meditation, a few moments of bed-time prayer, a walk in the woods, a quiet vacation, or a personal retreat. We give a lot to others, and we have to take time to replenish the well--or the well may run dry.

So--how can you incorporate more stillness in your life? I encourage you to take a few moments to think seriously about this and write down a plan in your journal or planner.

Reclaiming Your Gifts as a Healer

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 21:29:49 GMT

--by Nancy Hausauer

This weekend I talked with a young woman, just 15 years old, who is a natural energy healer. She described how, when she was in elementary school, her classmates would bring her their playground injuries, and how she could take the pain away.

She told how she could feel the difference between the energy of injuries caused by accidents and those caused intentionally by other kids.

I was very moved, especially since her mother was sitting by her side, intently and proudly listening.

I thought of all the people I know, adults often deep into middle age, who were energetically or psychically sensitive as children, but who repressed their gifts because the adults in their lives pressured them to do so, or sometimes just because it frightened them or they felt like freaks.

I was so happy that my young friend had the support from her mother and her peers to use her healing gift, rather than feeling she had to hide it.

I found myself hoping that she is not just an exception, that perhaps her generation will be more open to the unseen world that we are based on, made of, part of. More accepting that we are all so deeply, completely connected that healing one another is possible, as is knowing the future, communicating and healing across distances, and other so-called psychic abilities.

As for my clients and friends and the many others who are just beginning to reclaim their healing and psychic abilities, I wish you courage and community, and the knowledge that is never too late to be who you really are.

Here are a few ideas that may help you begin to reclaim your healing and psychic gifts:

Set a sincere intention to reclaim your gifts as a healer or psychic.
Find community--a teacher, class, or group with whom you can talk freely about your gifts and the impact of having hidden or disavowed them.
Stop overscheduling your life. Make time to meditate, walk, be.
Stop over-stimulating yourself. Cut back on TV, social engagements, commitments, drama-queen friends, caffeine.
Be gentle and kind to yourself. If you're tired, rest. If you're hungry, fix yourself some nourishing food. If you need beauty, get it.
Receive energy healing. Find a healer you trust and have rapport with, and allow your own energy and new growth to be witnessed and supported.
Listen to what arises. Follow your intuition.

Eventually, you may find that you feel called to start performing energy healings on yourself or your animal companions, or to take a class such as Healing Touch or Quantum Touch, or to become Reiki attuned. But take it easy. Let it come at its own pace, and don't be attached to the exact way form of that your process. Healing comes in many forms, and however the outcome looks, it will be just right.

Namaste, Nancy

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