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What Does It Mean to Heal?

People often refer to me as a Healer.

I remember the first time someone called me a Healer. I had casually mentioned to a friend that I was starting my Healing Touch practice. She exclaimed, “You’re a Healer?! This is so amazing! You have to talk to my friend here–she has cancer…” and so on.

I was so uncomfortable with this title of Healer. It seemed that my friend thought that I could magically create healing. While I admit that there are times when the effect appears magical (in other words, that significant changes take place), I assure you that I am not the source.

What is a Healer?

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Living Foods: Add Life-Force to Your Diet for Better Health

What is a Living Food? (No, I’m not talking about what you find at the back of the refrigerator!) The simplest definition is that it has a high vibrational quality. If we were able to measure the potential energy (on a subtle level) of a Living Food, it would be full of life-force energy ready to be easily absorbed by the consumer.

Over ten years ago, I was introduced to the concept of Living Books through the work of Charlotte Mason, an early 20th century British educator. Her philosophies completely changed my approach to homeschooling and how I used books. I have discovered many parallels between feeding our minds on Living Books and feeding our bodies with a healthy diet of Living Foods.

Mason defined a Living Book as a “whole” book that feeds the spirit on many levels. Much of classic literature fits this category as well as books of scripture from all traditions. The hallmark of a Living Book is that it can be read again and again and there is always something more to be gained or learned.

Mason termed books that are a waste of time–that do not feed the soul–as “twaddle.” Kind of like a junk-food version of books. Also, few textbooks can pass as Living Books because they are often stripped of their story, leaving just selected points that are recognized as being important.

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Healing Through Self-Awareness

You are probably sitting in a chair as you read this. Do you notice the weight of your body as it presses into the chair? You do now that I mention it, right? But most of the time your brain just conveniently tunes out that sensory input.

The brain has the ability to filter out unnecessary information. And, to some degree, you are able to choose what you are aware of. You can choose to put your attention on the parts of your body that are touching the chair.

You can also choose to disconnect from your physical and emotional states. And that can be an important survival mechanism when experiencing trauma. But to maintain this disconnection over time will cost you.

We all experience traumas of varying degree in life. Often, we are unable to fully process those experiences at the time they occur.

I remember when my (then) one-year-old son had a febrile seizure. I needed to think and act quickly. I put all of my own panic and fear aside and dealt with the situation. When the paramedics were gone and my baby was doing fine again, I broke down and had a good cry, which is exactly what I needed to do! Those emotions needed to be expressed and allowed or they would have stayed in my body waiting to be processed.

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7 Steps to Ensure Success with Your New Year’s Resolutions

Have you made some New Year’s resolutions? Do you get discouraged even thinking about it because it hasn’t worked very well in the past? Read on for suggestions, some that may be new to you, that will get you started on the right foot.

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The Healing Tree: Recommendations for Healthy, Balanced Living

The Healing Tree is my metaphor for a healthy lifestyle. I hope you find something useful here. Remember, though, to make changes in measured steps, one thing at a time, for maximum success. Also, be sure to check with your healthcare providers.

Leaves (mental/emotional/spiritual)

  • Sunshine/Nature/Outdoors
  • Prayer/Silent meditation
  • Abdominal breathing
  • Creative meditation (music, drawing, painting, sewing, writing, woodworking, etc.)
  • Journaling (gratitude, dreamwork, introspective)
  • Sleep enough to feel rested, bed by 10pm if possible, short naps
  • Support network of family/friends
  • Cultivate feelings of love and gratitude
  • Laughter

Trunk (physical)

  • Exercise – ideally 30-40 minutes, 4 days/week
  • Stretching/Moving meditation (yoga, tai chi, qi gong)
  • Body work (massage, chiropractic, Rolfing, reflexology, physical therapy)
  • Energy work (Healing Touch, EFT, reiki, acupuncture, homeopathy, BioSET)
  • Regular medical checkups

Roots (nutrition/diet)

  • Water – pure, filtered to remove chlorine, lead, fluoride, etc.
  • Whole foods and supplements
  • Living foods – raw or fermented for enzymes and probiotics (yogurt, kefir, kombucha, traditional sauerkraut)
  • Organic or pesticide-free
  • Meats – grassfed or wild, according to your metabolic type
  • Plenty of vitamin A and D (eggs, butter, cultured dairy, cod liver oil)
  • Unrefined salt – for mineral content
  • More omega 3 (flax and fish oils) and less omega 6 fatty acids
  • No tobacco, trans fats, processed foods, additives, preservatives
  • Limit caffeine, refined sugar and flour, alcohol

Loving Ourselves: Accepting What Is

Do you deeply and completely love and accept yourself? Most people have a hard time saying yes to this.

They can accept parts of themselves, but other parts they just don’t like or they are ashamed of or they outright reject.

Here’s a short exercise:

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Heart Chakra Awareness: Balancing the Heart and the Head

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched–they must be felt with the heart.” Helen Keller

Why do we have so many metaphors for the heart? We tell each other to “follow your heart” and we talk about people who are “hard-hearted” or someone with a “heart of gold.” We listen with an “open heart” and when someone hurts us we get a “broken heart.” When we get deep into a topic we “get to the heart of the matter.”

I believe that we use so many metaphors about the heart because we inherently know that it is at the core of our being.

Caroline Myss, author of Energy Anatomy, calls the heart the “central powerhouse of the human energy system.” Of the seven major chakras in the chakra system, the heart is literally at the center. It is the bridge between the lower chakras and the upper chakras.

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Energy Work: 7 Reasons to Get a Healing Touch Treatment

As a Healing Touch practitioner I often get asked, “What is energy work recommended for?”

Most people are not familiar with the function and needs of the energy body because we didn’t grow up talking about it like we do about our physical body. If we have a broken bone, we know we need to go to a doctor to get it set so it can heal properly. When we are sick we know we need to rest and eat wholesome foods. If our muscles are weak, we know that regular exercise will strengthen them.

But how do you care for your energy body? Obviously getting energy work done will help, but it’s helpful to know what affects your energy body and also the signals it gives when it’s not healthy.

Here are seven reasons that you may need a Healing Touch treatment:

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