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Integrating the Healing

5/25/2015

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Integrating your healing session
I received a healing session from my dear friend who taught me this work on Saturday. It was possibly one of the most powerful, strangest, mind-blowing sessions I've had. It was so far out of the box, I couldn't even fully describe it to you. As I find this work often does, it made so many seemingly separate things make sense. A big "aha" that changed my perspective on... well, everything.

When we receive a powerful shift like this, we often want to try to grasp on to it as a way to remember this awakening we've had. It makes sense. We come to heal and understand a bigger part of ourselves we know is there. And when we get that clarity, it's hard to let it go. But when we grasp for it, it loses it's wisdom. It becomes fixed, like a picture of the experience, but it no longer possesses the life the experience had.

If we can veer towards allowing rather than holding, we can integrate the work a bit easier. There is wisdom in the memory of our "aha" softening. It allows us to continue on our journey and receive another! When we're so busy thinking of the one we had, we are no longer open to the ones that are offered to us all the time.

So a few tips for integrating after a healing session:
  • Allow yourself to forget the patterns you've come to let go of. I don't usually recommend recording the session, however if you receive a recording, listen to it once and delete it. Notes can be helpful for a time, as well as the practices/"homework" I give. But be sure to hold them lightly, and allow yourself to stop doing them as you begin to forget about them. They are never meant to be forever (unless expressly stated).
  • Bask in the open, spacious, uplifted feeling that comes from a session. Allow it to just be. Allow yourself to receive it. And remain kind with yourself if it begins to fade. Allowing both the joy and the sorrow is part of our learning experience as humans. There's nothing wrong with you if you feel sad.
  • Believe that the healing happened. For some of us, the healing needed to happen in a time most graceful for us, which means it is a gradual shift. For others, we're so fast we integrate it and already forget how things used to be.
  • Drink water and be in your body. The work done on the energetic body integrates faster with your physical self if you can find time to be in your body. Sometimes that means exercise - even days after your session. Bring your awareness into your body and you'll hear what it needs.  And water... do we have any doubts about the power of water? It just helps move everything.
  • Recognize that you may need to shed another layer when the time is right. We are complex, layered beings who have come to this experience with lifetimes and generations of ancestors behind us. One session can bring a powerful shift and awakening to our being. And often several sessions can help remove the layers we've come in with. The beauty is, the more you do your work, the faster you integrate and the stronger the shifts.
As you know, the work doesn't always happen in a session, either. While that can speed up the process, our "ahas" can come in the most unlikely times and places, especially if we cultivate a sense of openness and curiosity about life.

With love on the adventure,
Jen

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Accessing Life Through the Body

5/18/2015

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I talk a lot about all the ways to bring life and joy into your being, and allowing yourself to feel the energy that's available to us. Meditation, walking on the earth, eating well, healing work... they are all amazing at helping to shift the energy.

But I've found that using your body is a really important element to this. When you're doing the work, there is something about exercise that helps you integrate faster, and feel more joy. There's even the science to back up that you feel happy when you exercise.

We are all spirits that chose to have this human experience. Why? Because it's incredibly unique. Our ability to feel and experience is so much more vivid and dense than when we are in spirit body. But it takes getting used to. Being human can be incredibly painful, and as a healer, I've noticed that we rarely knew what we were getting into when we chose to come here.

Which is why using our bodies becomes that much more important. For most of us, we are learning how to bring together our spirits and our bodies. And usually one gets neglected in the pursuit of the other.

In 2011 I heard the call to do a particular solo meditation retreat for 35 days. I was in a 9' x 9' cabin on the side of the mountain, meditating from morning to night. I was hauling my own water and digging a latrine. It was a unique and powerful, although not easy, experience. While I was there, the space between my cells kept calling to me. But when I would try to look directly at it, or use my mind to figure it out, like a dream it would become out of reach. I've since spent a lot of time and curiosity exploring this space.

This is the space that allows life and joy to come through. You can find Spirit, and the energy beyond here. It's the space that becomes contracted or shut off when we're tense, stressed or afraid. Again, all the practices above are critical to accessing and softening this space. But when we actually move our bodies, we move the energy. We get out of our heads, and into our beings. This is where we experience bliss between the cells.

So as the weather is becoming nicer, see if you can get your heart rate up and endorphins going, to allow yourself this bliss. It's delicious and your right as a spirit-in-a-human-body. Enjoy this body while you have it!
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moving. cocoons. what's next?

5/7/2015

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I moved on Friday.

I'd like to say I was really graceful about it, but while 98% of me recognized the housing miracle that dropped in my lap, the other 2% didn't wanna. It was last minute, and I like a lot of time to mentally prepare for things like this.

Change, no matter if it's exactly what we're asking for or not, often has an underlying discomfort to it. It could just take a second to adjust, but usually it's a process. I'm sensitive, so when I get overwhelmed, I tend to want to hide. It's not a pattern that works so well for me in NYC. But at a certain point, whatever.

I was talking to a friend last night, coming home from my meditation class, about the vague feeling we have right now. Things are ending, and they seem like positive shifts. But where we are going? Not so clear. But the general feeling is one of welcoming the change. She likened it to the liquification process of a caterpillar in the chrysalis. I'm moving through this change slightly more gracefully. Maybe.

So what's next? I'm going to unpack my boxes. I'm going to meditate on my grounding cord. I'm going to take my kid to the dentist. I'm going to put intention into my newly-cleared citrine on the windowsill and tuck them around the house. Basically, I'm going to do the work I know I need to do. Because all the outside stuff comes from getting really clear on the inside stuff.

Juicy.

Yours in the unfolding,
Jen
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    Jen

    While healing is what I am called to do, and LOVE with a passion, most of my time is spent being a mom and human.  Here's where I get messy, and you get a glimpse into my own vulnerabilities as I attempt to find the heart of the warrior. 

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