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The Energy Healing Lessons of Early Spring

----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 is 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

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

The Power of Patience

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. They may even die in a late freeze.

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

So many of us work continuously, slavishly following our schedules whether or they make sense for us anymore, launching new projects just because we're done with 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 with us. Our energy is needlessly frittered away.

If we wait till the right time, however, things go so much 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 so much healthier and happier for it.

Namaste, Nancy

Copyright 2012 Nancy Hausauer

Affirmations for Health

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

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Making Sense of Non-Local Experiences

----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.

Copyright 2012 Nancy Hausauer

The Power of Suggestion: Keep It Positive

----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."

Copyright 2012 Nancy Hausauer

Taming the Anxiety Monster

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.

Copyright 2012 Nancy Hausauer

Happy New Year!

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

----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

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

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What the Winter Solstice Can Teach Us About Energy Healing

----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

Copyright 2011 Nancy Hausauer

Use Aromatherapy to Stay Energetically On Track This Holiday Season

--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

1. Oils such as lavender, chamomile, geranium, yang yang, sandalwood, cedarwood or patchouli are great for calming and smoothing your energy.
2. Clary sage, melissa, orange, lemon verbena, and lemongrass are good to lift your spirits.
3. 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

1. 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.
2. Mull apple cider with traditional spices: a cinnamon stick, a few buds of clove, a few allspice berries, and a bit of orange zest.
3. 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.
4. Bake cookies, which spreads the lovely odor of vanilla throughout the house.
5. Burn a pure beeswax candle. It exudes a subtle aroma of honey.
6. 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

Copyright 2011 Nancy Hausauer

Working with Cancer Patients from an Eden Energy Medicine Perspective

----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

Copyright 2011 Nancy Hausauer

Aura Color Meanings

----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.

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Enjoy!

Namaste, Nancy

Copyright 2011 Nancy Hausauer

Happy Thanksgiving! (The Power of Gratitude)

----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 Davishttp://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)

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

--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

Copyright 2011 Nancy Hausauer

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

--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).

A blessed Samhain to you.

--Nancy

Copyright 2011 Nancy Hausauer

Breath: A Powerful Tool for Energetic and Physical Health

--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:

• for relaxation
• for pain control
• for headaches.

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

Namaste, Nancy

Copyright 2011 Nancy Hausauer

The Healing Power of Presence: Consciousness as the Ultimate Medicine

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

Copyright 2011 Nancy Hausauer

As Healers, We Have to Come to Terms with Death

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.

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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

Copyright 2011 Nancy Hausauer

Learn Energy Healing

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

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