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Why Relaxation Is A Meaningful Goal For Energy Healing

--by Nancy Hausauer

Ours is a driven society. We idealize hard work and demonize "laziness." As a culture, we're not big on relaxing.

But relaxation is powerful medicine. It's the state in which our bodies take care of business, including the business of healing. On a physical level, it feels great and allows our bodies' natural self-healing and restoration processes to work like they're supposed to. On an energetic level, being relaxed allows our energy fields to shift more easily to a state of healthy balance and flow. 

Stress

Good stress like this is temporary and manageable.

The bad kind of stress feels overwhelming and/or doesn't let up for days, weeks, months, even years. This ongoing, heavy tension is a contributor to many kinds of illness and disease, not to mention mental suffering. Prolonged stress makes you vulnerable to illness and accelerates aging. Over time the stress response can contribute to high blood pressure, heart disease, ulcers, autoimmune diseases, cancer, anxiety, insomnia and depression.

The Relaxation Response: A Prescription for Health And Wellness

• Slows heart rate
• Normalizes blood pressure
• Slows breathing rate
• Allows oxygen to be used more efficiently
• Decreases adrenal gland production of stress hormones
• Increases production of growth and sex hormones
• Improves immune system health
• Increases blood flow to major muscles
• Reduces muscle tension
• Helps relieve aches and pains
• Helps you handle negative emotions such as anger and frustration
• Promotes energy
• Improves concentration and creativity
• Improves ability to handle problems.

Energy Healing Promotes Relaxation

Sessions in which dramatic insights or shifts happen are exciting and rewarding. But if relaxation is "all" that obviously happens in a session, believe me, you've done good work.

It means you've helped your client's energy field become more fluid, smoother, more harmonious, more flowing. It means you've helped them get into a state where they can heal themselves. And that is ultimately what we are trying to do.

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Chronic Pain Self-Care: New Page On The Energy Healing Site

Chronic pain relief can be elusive to scientists and sufferers alike. I think it's because they're looking for solutions in the wrong place—in the physical body.

Author/teacher Esther Hicks says: "Your body is a pure reflection of the balance of the thoughts that you think."

In my practice, I find this is often true. Take the example of someone with chronic muscle pain from an injury that happened years ago.

In one year, nearly every molecule of that person's body has been replaced by different molecules. In other words, the matter part of his body is not the same matter. So how can the chronic physical pain be residing in the PHYSICAL matter of his body?

It has to be something else that creates and/or holds that discomfort or dysfunction in place. At this point, we can't know for sure exactly what that underlying force is: science can't measure it yet. However, from my experience, I believe that the real source of the suffering is energetic — a disturbance in the energy field held there by thoughts and emotions from that long-ago physical or emotional injury.

So to deal with chronic physical suffering, it may not be enough to work on a physical level (although that can be a necessary part of the puzzle, of course). For lasting resolution, you may also have to take a more holistic approach.

Continue reading here for some ideas that may help provide relief, including

• exploring your life's alignment with your higher self
• using the power of your consciousness (or mindfulness, if you prefer that term)
• working with energy
• and mobilizing the astonishing potential of your breath.

These are all wonderful holistic medicine tools for family health care.

Again, you'll find all this on this page on The Energy Healing Site.

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Reframing Illness As An Opportunity For Greater Wholeness

--by Nancy Hausauer

Physical and mental/emotional symptoms of distress are -- distressing.

Illness, pain, anxiety, depression. When we have them, we want to fix them, fast. We don't normally stop to think about their "value." That's natural, a biological instinct.

But sometimes we're called to take a deeper look.

Maybe it's because we're in a profession that deals with other peoples' symptoms of distress, day in and day out.

Or maybe it's because we ourselves have to deal with a chronic ailment -- our own suffering or that of someone we love.

In any case, sometimes circumstances push us into questioning the deeper WHY of physical/emotional ailments, turning our usual approach on its head and looking for possible usefulness or value in them.

Along that line of thinking, I love this quote by Dr. Martin Rossman, M.D., an expert in mind-body medicine:

...The symptoms of illness often can be seen as signals for attention or ways of making us aware of needs that are not being met. Thus if we learn to pay attention to our body's signals or symptoms in a certain way, we can actually learn something from an illness that helps to bring us back into alignment with our potential for wellness.

For we are always trying to maintain our alignment, balance, and growth in accordance with our purpose in life, whether we are fully conscious of that purpose or not. And there is a way of seeing and relating to symptoms that can actually help us to align the flow of energy in accordance with that purpose -- a way that allows us to see illness as an opportunity. . . [emphasis mine]

--from "Illness As An Opportunity for Healing," Healers on Healing

Viewing illness as opportunity to realign with our purpose in life, our life-path -- that's so much more empowering than the conventional medical model's approach.

Of course, we don't want to court illness or suffering as a source of wisdom, and of course we do want to use what conventional medicine has to offer.

But if life presents us with a potential path back to wholeness and balance -- why on earth not take it? Why would we NOT explore an opportunity to "realign with the flow of energy in accordance with our purpose"?

If you can find Healers on Healing, by the way, it's a great book. (Published by Tarcher/Putnam in 1989. Don't know if it's still in print.)

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Break Out!

Energy healing can help us break out of the too-small energetic containers that most of us confine ourselves in. Then we can bring our unique gifts more completely into the world.

Letting Your Highest Self Bloom: An Equinox Contemplation

--by Nancy Hausauer

March 20 is the Equinox, Spring in the Northern Hemisphere and Fall in the Southern. On the Equinoxes, day and night, light and dark, are equal. They're moments of balance. I like to imagine them as single instants when we're poised, motionless, in absolute peace.

As with each of the great annual solar events, the equinoxes offer us wisdom and an opportunity for healing. In particular, they are celestial reminders to pause in our lives and take time for reflection.

This Vernal Equinox, I offer the following as something to reflect upon.

A Self-Discovery Exercise

1. Get two sheets of paper and a pencil. On one page, list 10 people you admire, heroes living or dead, people famous or familiar. Leave some space under each name.
2. Under each person, List 5 or 6 (or more) traits or qualities that you especially admire or honor about them. Really give your best effort to articulating particular characteristics you admire about them. It's OK if there's repetition; you don't have to list unique traits for each one.
3. When you're done, read through all the traits of all the people. Adjust as needed. Then circle any characteristics that show up more than once on the page.
4. Now take the second piece of paper. Draw a heavy line three inches down from the top. Below this line, list all the characteristics/traits you circled.

   

5. OK, got all that? When you're completely done, in bold letters, write above the heavy line at the top of the page:

   THIS IS WHO I TRULY AM. THIS IS WHAT I CAME HERE TO EMBODY.

   Re-read the traits/characteristics you've listed there. Re-read several times. Let them sink in. This is you.

6. This exercise works because you admire traits in other people that resonate with you. They resonate with you because you already possess those traits. It's like a tuning fork.

7. Remember: This is a portrait of you. Sit with it for a while. Absorb it. Contemplate it. Breathe it in. Accept it.

   It can be hard to believe that you are all that. But it's true. You really are all that.

Happy Equinox! --Nancy

Not A Happy Topic, But Important

--by Nancy Hausauer

As an energy healer, it's likely that you will see people who are suffering from depression. It's one of those difficult, stubborn issues that can sometimes be hard for conventional treatments to address--so some sufferers start looking for alternatives, including energy healing.

While often depression is mild, when it's major it's a serious illness that can have life-threatening consequences. It can affect health in lots of ways, including driving people to attempt suicide. And sadly, suicide is on the rise in the U.S., as reported in this article from the Washington Post.

It's important for anyone who may be in a helping role for people who are depressed to know the hallmarks of depression and the signs that someone may be at risk for suicide.

Here's a link to an NIMH page that summarizes the symptoms of major depression.

Here you'll find signs that signal that someone may be intending suicide.

Beyond knowing these signs and symptoms, if you deal with people who are depressed, you'll need an action plan, including a list of local mental health referrals. Our role as energy healers should be to complement and support the work of trained psychological professionals. Make sure depressed clients are working with appropriate, qualified mental health professionals.

You should also have the (nation-wide) Suicide Hotline number handy. It is: 1-800-273-8255 (You can also call this number for advice on how to proceed.) Here's the website, too: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

Some more resources:

** things NOT to say to people suffering from depression.

** 5 Action Steps For Helping Someone In Emotional Pain

** and a link to a useful PDF that summarizes a lot of this.

I know this isn't a fun topic, but sometimes we energy healers do deal with serious illnesses, and we need to be responsible by being informed, prepared and staying within our scope of practice.

--Nancy

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Why Energy Healing Matters In Today's World

--by Nancy Hausauer

Many healers are empaths. We feel the pain of the world acutely. Even if we want to stay mainly focused on the positive—an excellent goal—the other—the suffering—is often at some level on our mind.

The pain of the world can seem overwhelming, especially since each of us is small, and the hurt is large.

But, as the legendary children's welfare advocate Marion Wright Edelman has said,

"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."

And as energy healers, we are in a place to make many "small daily differences" for the individual people we work with, and for our wider community. We must have faith that these small acts of kindness and humanity will add up over time, especially when combined with the multitude of other people doing small, daily acts that make the world a better place.

Continue reading this new page on The Energy Healing Site.

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How To Boost Your Energy With This Life Hack

--by Nancy Hausauer

Do you ever just put up with stuff that irritates you? Little annoyances that don't quite fully rise to the level of awareness, or seem too small to make it onto your to-do list? Yup. Me too.

They may be little, but they add up. They're like small, slow leaks in a tire. Not emergencies, but eventually that tire is going to get flatter and flatter.

And that's the way these annoyances affect your energy. They create slow, small leaks in your field.

They also impact your third chakra, the seat of your personal power, because they undermine that power. By putting up with things, you're not exercising your sovereignty over your own life--and things that aren't exercised get weak.

So, not addressing annoyances in our lives diminishes our energy in (at least) two ways. But it's so easy, and satisfying, to fix them.

Below is an exercise specifically to do that. Before you start, set an intention to strengthen and support your third chakra and close leaks in your energy field. This will amplify the power of the exercise.

Enough Already! Exercising Power Over Your Life

1. Keep a little journal or your phone handy. For a couple of days, as you go about your normal life, make notes about small things that bother you. The messy drawer, the squeaky hinge, the jagged fingernail, the pile of papers needing to be filed, the commitment you agreed to when you knew you didn't really have time for it.

2. After a couple of days, transfer these notes to a hard-copy list that you can post somewhere in your house. If you're like most people, some of the items on your list will be very easy to deal with, while some will take a bit more planning and effort.

3. Every day, pick something from the list and change it, or at least make concrete progress toward improving the situation. Some days you'll feel up to the larger fixes, some days you'll need to pick smaller ones. (It's OK if some days you give yourself a pass, too, especially if you're already stressed out and exhausted.)

4. When you've taken care of an annoyance, stop to enjoy how it feels not to have that pesky situation in your life. Let yourself bask in the feelings of accomplishment and empowerment.

By the time you've ticked off everything on your list, you'll be in the habit of noticing small annoyances and taking care of them regularly. You'll also be building your power muscles so you'll be better able to address the larger discontents in your life.

On an energetic level, all of this will help your energy field be able to recharge itself and hold that charge. Your third chakra, which thrives on making things happen, will also love it.

Enjoy! -- Nancy

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How to Use House-Cleaning As An Energy Healing Tool

--by Nancy Hausauer

It's getting to be that time of year: Spring Cleaning time. Why is spring cleaning (or any major clearing of your home) energetically important?

As life coach Martha Beck says, "Our living spaces are basically three-dimensional portraits of our inner lives. You can't de-clutter your living space without de-cluttering your inner life and vice versa."

Hmmm. . . Take a walk through your house. What do you see? How does each room feel? When you come home, what's your general feeling? Do you feel peaceful or agitated when you walk through the door? Does spending time at home make you feel energized or lethargic? Clear or foggy? Cheerful or downcast?

You can use the act of spring cleaning intentionally, to help clean up your energy system, open chakras and support energetic balance and flow. A good cleaning and decluttering can really shift your energy.

And the other way around, if you notice an irresistible urge to clean and declutter, it's usually a sign that your internal energy is in the process of shifting.

You don't have to undertake a whole-house-cleaning, if you don't want to. You can shift a lot of energy just by tackling one room or even one cupboard or drawer.

Or if you're really strapped for time, just clear a single surface, such as a table or shelf, and create an altar or other eye-resting, eye-pleasing spot. This could be as simple as a vase of flowers placed with intention on your cleared surface. It'll help bring more coherence, harmony and order both to your home and your personal energy system.

This is a good example of how you can use any intentionally done activity, no matter how mundane, to heal and support your energy. Everything is energy, everything is connected and intention is a powerful force. So happy cleaning!

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How Energy Healing Can Help

Unveil Our True Nature

Our culture teaches us that we are basically nothing more than matter, just glorified machines. This falsehood about our true nature, about the reality of what we are, is deeply wounding and the cause of great suffering. Energy healing can help heal that terrible misperception by giving people a direct experience of their true, non-material nature.