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Should I Move My Hands in A Clockwise or Counterclockwise Direction?

A reader recently asked which way to circle the hands when doing energy healing. An excellent question.

A common technique in energy healing is to repeatedly move the hand in a circular motion above a chakra, meridian, or other area seeming to need attention. This can help to restore balance and flow to the energy at that point.

While there are few hard and fast rules in energy healing, most healers circle their hands clockwise for general purposes, or when working to amplify, support, or build energy in an area where the energy is blocked, depleted, or restricted.

When working to release, reduce, or drain areas where too much energy has built up, counter-clockwise circling is usually employed.

I hope that helps. Remember, though, to follow your own wisdom rather than a formula.

Blessings--Nancy

Copyright 2010 by Nancy Hausauer.

Types of Energy Healing

Learn about various types of energy healing and how they differ, including Reiki, Quantum Touch, Brennan Healing Science, Donna Eden's Energy Medicine, Restorative Touch, and more.

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What If Clearing My Chakras Is Uncomfortable?

A reader has asked about chakra cleansing being uncomfortable.

I'm not a big fan of uncomfortable therapies. Discomfort usually says something is wrong. It's information.

So if chakra clearing isn't feeling good (or at worst, neutral), you need to back off and re-evaluate. (That goes double if someone is doing it for you, rather than you clearing your own chakras.)

There are a number of alternatives you can try:

* Stop and try it another time.

* Give yourself a short break and try it again, doing whatever method you were using more slowly and with less intensity.

* Try a different method.

* Try clearing the chakras on either side of the one that's feeling uncomfortable. For example, if your third is experiencing discomfort, work on clearing the second and fourth. Then, return to the third chakra and gently work with it. If it's still uncomfortable, just let it be for now, continuing to work with the second and fourth.

*Use a very gentle method such as the "everyday" techniques I list on this page of my website: www.the-energy-healing-site.com/chakra-opening. You can hardly go wrong with these.

In general, I think we should be gentle and compassionate with ourselves. Gradual progress is good enough. We don't have to make huge spiritual or energetic leaps all in a day.

Of course, if you are experiencing worrisome symptoms in your physical body, you should have your physician check them out.

Wishing you self-compassion, Nancy

8/12/10

The Healing Power of Breath and Awareness--So Simple And So Effecive

It is amazing to me how powerful simple self-healing tools such as breath and awareness can be.

Frequently in my practice, I will place my fingers or hand on a tight or injured muscle and ask my client to breathe into the muscle and bring their awareness to it. More often than not, without any further manual manipulation, this is enough to bring about a softening/relaxation of the muscle. Often the response is profound, with the muscle literally feeling like it is melting under my fingers. I find that this is especially true if the treatment is within the context of an energy healing.

This happened just today. My client had had a serious injury that cracked his pelvis. As painful as that was, it was the subsequent tightening of his lower back that was causing him the most pain at this time. I could feel the disturbance in his field over the cracked area of his pelvis, and worked a lot there to smooth, balance, and calibrate it, so as to support its healing. I also wanted to help him with the pain in his low back, and felt that hands-on work would be most effective. I placed my hands on his back and asked him to breathe into it and bring his awareness to it. After doing this for a little while, he appeared to go into a deep state of rest.

Afterward he commented on what a deep relaxation this had brought to his lower back. He was very surprised at this, since he has no familiarity with breathwork, yoga, or meditation. "It really felt like I was breathing into it," he said. "I could feel it relax and let go. I can stand up straight now, and it feels even better than it did before the accident!"

It was very rewarding to me to see my client feel so much better. And it always inspires to me to see such illustrations of the power of consciousness and our own amazing abilities for self-healing.

What Does Chakra Clearing Feel Like?

Several people have asked lately what clearing a chakra feels like. That's hard to answer, because there's no one answer. Consensus reality doesn't mold our experience of what clearing a chakra feels like, because there is no consensus reality on the subject. It probably feels different to everyone, and varies even within one person's experience.

So I can only say what it feels like for me, and what others have reported to me.

When I'm receiving energy healing, a chakra clearing is often a physcial feeling, that is, I feel it in my physical body. Often, it's a sense of the muscles relaxing in that area or of being able to breathe easier in that area. Often I feel a sigh of release that brings peace in its wake. Sometimes it's a sense of tension relaxing. Ears popping is another common reaction. Occasionally, I have a powerful sense like suddenly being plugged in or a whoosh of energy. Once, in a really powerful healing, I burst into happy laughter and laughed for 5 minutes!

My husband describes it as feeling like a restriction is released: "Not just opened up, but gone, lie 'oh, that didn't need to be there!'"

But as I said, I think it probably feels different to everyone.

As a healer, (that is, when I'm the one helping someone else heal), sometimes a chakra clearing feels like something bumping my hand (as I hold it over the chakra). Other common feelings are a sense of light coming in to the chakra(usually suddenly, a burst); a sense of "lightening", as in becoming less heavy, less dense; a sense of opening; a quasi-visual sense of fog lifting and more light coming in; sometimes a sense of rightness, a sense of "yes," like something sliding into place. Sometimes people sigh or stir physically, even twitch, with a release of any kind. Sometimes people tell me about different colors that arise in their mind's eye as I work with a particular chakra.

But those are just my experiences. I'd love it if you'd share your experiences of chakra opening with me! (Use the contact form to the left, and let me know if it's OK to publish your comments on my website.)

If you'd like more information about chakra opening, this page talks extensively about that and gives many ideas about how to open the individual chakras..

Love and light, Nancy

7/8/10
Copyright 2010 by Nancy Hausauer. All rights reserved.

Nature as the Ultimate Energy-Healer

Being out in nature is one of my favorite methods for self-energy-healing.  Personally, I think that it's fairly instinctive to seek out nature when we are in need of healing. And my experience is that different places and different eco-systems have different energyies/frequencies and provide different kinds of healing.

I'll take a trip to the ocean (it's about 2 hrs away from me) when I feel the need for a powerful clearing of my fleld.  A hike in the woods is a different feeling. I just can just feel the deep peace of the trees and the whole forest ecosystem modulating my field.  Mt. Rainier is also about 2 hours away from me, and going there always feels like it up-calibrates my energy. I could go on and on.

I'm sure that each of us has his or her favorite places. Even if you live in the city, there are parks that you can go to for a quick dose of nature. Even just focusing on a tree or paying attention to the birds can help to clear and balance your energy field. And keeping plants in your house, or images of nature, or natural objects, can help to bring some of the benefits of the elements into your home.

Whatever your favorite natural place is, I encourage you to go there often, absorbing its beauty and power and allowing it to cleanse and lift your energy. It's natural medicine, and you'll feel calmer and be healthier because of it.

Click here to learn more easy, everyday things that you can do to help keep your energy balanced and flowing smoothly.

Namaste,

Nancy

7/6/10

Copyright 2010 by Nancy Hausauer. All rights reserved.

Give Yourself a Low-Cost Energy-Healing "Staycation"

Whether or not you go on vacation this summer, you still need a break from routine for your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health.

So if you can't take a vacation, create a renewing, energy-healing "staycation." Set aside a week or two where you take time off from your normal activities (work, etc.) and shake up your usual routine. Schedule in a lot of low-cost self-care that will help to clear, balance, and revitalize your energy. (And don't let anyone or anything pre-empt it!)

Here are some ideas to get you started:

• Make time for daily meditation and reflection.
• Get out into nature for a hike or a day at the beach (preferably an uncrowded one).
• Take time to practice some of the self-energy-healing techniques in my website.
• Read that inspirational book you've been meaning to get to.
• Visit an uplifting friend.
• Go stargazing.
• Do yoga.
• Listen for your intuition.
• Find some new recipes and make a point of pampering yourself with delicious and healthy food.
• Plant some vegetables.
• Take on a rewarding home or garden project that will make you feel GREAT when it's accomplished.
• Take a class.
• Write in your journal.
• Schedule some fun and healthy self-care activities such as a massage, facial, new haircut, or (of course!) energy healing.
• Buy yourself small, healthy treats--a new book, fun article of summer clothing, flowers for your house--whatever would please you. (But don't spend a lot of time shopping! That's an energy-drain.)
• Go sight-seeing in your own town or region.
• Create some art--whether or not you're "artistic." Just play!
• If you've got little kids, just follow them around and do what they do. They're great role models!
• Start a dream journal.
• Begin to forgive someone.
• Devote a whole day to loving-kindness--toward yourself. No bad thoughts or words about yourself--only compassion, forgiveness, cherishing toward yourself.
• Breathe!
• Nap!

(And if you'd like more ideas for relaxation, you can go here: www.the-energy-healing-site.com/relaxation-techniques.html .)

Many of these ideas may not seek like energy healing as we normally think of it--as a kind of treatment. But everyday activities can and do have an enormous influence on our energy systems--for better or for worse. Consciously engaging in positive, restorative activities can have a huge impact on your energy field. Fun is good for you!

So make time this summer to take care of yourself. It will help clear and restore your energy field--and you'll be healthier in body, mind, heart, and spirit because of it.

Let me close with a quote that I love:

Now is the season to know
That everything you do
Is sacred.
--Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky

Copyright 2010 by Nancy Hausauer. All rights reserved.

7/2/10

Should You Clear and Balance Your Chakras Every Day? (It All Depends!)

Someone asked recently whether they needed to balance and clear their chakras every day. I would say that depends totally on you, your desires and needs.

I know some people who have a daily routine that includes a chakra clearing/balancing. A daily routine is wonderful, but not all of us have time for that--and that's ok. Clearing and balancing your chakras with any kind of regularity at all--weekly or even monthly--is great for your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health.

But if you're not the type who likes routine, another way to approach the question of how often to clear/balance your chakras is just to regularly check in with yourself and see how you're doing. Our physical bodies and our lives really are very clear indicators of how we're faring energetically. (Indeed, our physical bodies and our lives are part of our energetic system.)

If you're feeling good and life is going smoothly (or at least productively), then you probably aren't in need of a chakra clearing and balancing. But if you're feeling less than vibrantly alive, or your life-path seems strewn with obstacles, then it's time for a chakra-tune-up.

The main thing is to tune into yourself and your body and determine what your personal needs are!

Here's a link to a nice meditation for clearing, balancing, and aligning your chakras: www.The-Energy-Healing-Site.com/chakra-meditation.html

Wishing you a beautiful life-path, Nancy

6/30/10

(c) 2010 Nancy Hausauer

"I Can't Feel Chakras" (Don't Worry About It)

A recent visitor to the site mentioned that they can't feel chakras.

If you're new to energy healing (or actually, at any stage as a healer), don't worry about it if you can't feel the chakras or other energetic structures. (Although you probably are, you're just not letting it through, or you're expecting something else and so you're editing the perceptions out.)

In order to be effective at energy healing, it's not critical to be able to sense energy.

Here are what I think are some of the critical elements of effective energy healing:

1) Hold a clear intention for healing, as purely as you can.

2) Leave your ego out of it. Remember, it's not you who's really doing the healing. You're just helping.

3) Stay non-attached to a particular outcome. In other words, let the energy do its work without trying to control it too much. Hold an intention to support the highest and best good of the person you're working with.

4) Affirm the potential for healing, but be ethical: don't promise results that you may or may not be able to deliver.

The thing is, we all affect each other energetically all the time, without even trying. When we add consciousness and positive intention to that, we can really be very beneficial--whether or not we perceive exactly what it is we are doing.

Still, it can be frustrating when you're working with energy structures and can't yet perceive them. My advice: act "as if" you can. It's a powerful, simple method for opening new channels of perception--or allowing yourself to be aware of perceptions that are already there, but you're censoring out.

Learn more about sensing chakras at www.The-Energy-Healing-Site.com/sensing-chakras.html .

What do you think? You can click on the "Contact Me" button on the Navbar to write me a note. (Let me know if you don't want what you write published.)

Review: Dr. Jeffrey Thompson CD "Meditative Stream"

I recently added the CD "Meditative Stream" to my collection and I like it a lot. It's part of Dr. Jeffrey Thompson's "Brainwave Nature Suite," (The Relaxation Company).

It's very simple--an hour of stream sounds with occasional bird calls. Behind it (inaudibly, to me), are embedded theta brainwave pulses. Theta waves are the brainwave pattern characteristic of meditation and the creative process. The theory is that your own brainwaves entrain to these embedded pulses, allowing you to easily achieve a creative/meditative state.

This brainwave-pulse-embedding technology works for me, whether it's theta (creativity/meditation), alpha (relaxation), or delta (sleep).

Dr. Thompson/The Relaxation Company has a wide variety of CDs using this technology. Some are better than others (musically).

"Meditative Stream" is lovely--refreshing is the word that comes to mind. It's just like sitting stream-side for an hour--a sublimely healing, restful experience.

The River Gives a Lesson on the Nature of Reality

With my black lab Buddy, I took the afternoon off and went to the Carbon River yesterday. It's a glacially fed river, clear and rocky, and I sat watching it flow for a long time. At some point, I glanced at the river bank and marveled as it moved steadily upstream--a trick of the eye, of course, but also an illustration of an important concept.

The upstream movement of the river bank looked absolutely real to me. My brain, becoming used to the downstream movement of the water, interpreted whatever was standing still as moving the opposite way, and presented this to me as hard, cold reality.

Of course, it only takes a split second to debunk this illusion. But it's a cool phenomenon, because it demonstrates so clearly how we create our own reality. If we're not conscious of this, the reality that gets created is based on what our brain expects to see, what it has been conditioned to see.

If we are aware of our own reality- making power and process, we can consciously influence our reality. We can choose what to accept as real, and we can look beyond our narrowly conditioned ideas of what is possible. Our minds are so powerfully creative--who knows what the limits of this principle are.

So the obvious question is: Am I creating the reality my soul needs and desires? Are you?

(c) 2010 Nancy Hausauer. All rights reserved.

Cultivating Your Crown Chakra for Spiritual Growth

Cultivating your Crown chakra can help you feel a sense of peace, harmony, unconditional love, and universal connection. Learn seventh-chakra cultivation and self-care activities that anyone can do.

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Clearing Your Third Eye Chakra, Expanding Your Spiritual Sight

Each of us has the potential for extraordinary powers of intellect, intuition, wisdom, and spiritual insight. Clearing your Third Eye chakra supports these capacities. This page helps you learn how.

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Clearing Your 5th Chakra to Help You Live Your Truth

Would you like to have a rich creative life, to speak and live your truth, to hear and be heard? Clearing your 5th chakra can help you with these sacred intentions. This page will help you learn how.

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Choosing a Healer

How do I go about finding a reputable energy healer? This page give you tips for choosing a healer.

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Clearing Your Heart Chakra, Opening to Love

Would you like more love and a deeper connection to others? Greater emotional fulfillment? To heal from emotional wounds? To grow spiritually? Clearing your heart chakra can help. Learn how.

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Clearing Your Solar Plexus Chakra and Unlocking Your Sacred Power

Would you like more confidence? To stand up for yourself better? To be able to create the life your soul longs for? Then you might want to clear your solar plexus chakra. This page teaches you how.

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Clearing Your Sacral Chakra, Opening to Joy

Does life feel like a grind? Have you lost your ability to feel joy, play, be creative, enjoy your sexuality? You might want to learn some exercises for clearing your sacral chakra. Learn how here.

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Clearing Your Root Chakra to Banish Fear and Anxiety From Your Life

Are you often fearful and anxious? Do you lack a sense of safety and security, a sense that basically, everything will turn out OK? Clearing your root chakra could help. Learn 10 down-to-earth ways.

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Chakra Balancing: Why and How to Balance and Align Your Chakras

Learn why chakra balancing is important, and chakra balancers ranging from the esoteric to the extremely practical.

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