mocachapeau
Dagobah Resident
Hi everyone,
I’ve had a couple of interesting experiences recently, thought I’d share them with you and see if anyone had any thoughts on these matters.
I have to start out by saying that the last few months have been difficult for me in terms of the Work. Financial strain has made efforts with my diet rather sporadic but I’m still trying to do what I can. But financial strain has a very nasty effect on my stress level which affects my motivation as well, so I haven’t been doing the breathing. I understand that the breathing is what will help with the stress, but there it is. And to top it off I haven’t been posting much for the same reasons, so you could say that I’m getting a little frustrated and disappointed with myself.
The one thing I have been doing is keeping on with my reading. At the moment I am re-reading the Wave series, more slowly, and I’ve been getting a lot more out of it than I did the first time through. I just finished Book 2 so I have the subjects of spirit release therapy and Reiki on my mind, and I’ve decided that I would like to do both.
I did a little research on the internet for SRT and found this:
“Symptoms of spirit attachment can include:
• An inner voice that constantly criticizes you
• A variety of changing physical maladies with no obvious cause
• Irrational fear, anger, sadness or guilt or
• Suicidal tendencies.”
_http://www.insightsfromwithin.com/spirit-releasement/index.htm
It dawned on me that I have experienced the first item on the list, on and off, as far back as I can remember. It was much more frequent when I was younger but I still hear it now and again. For some reason I have always associated it with being hungry, tired or both.
It’s kind of like hearing a voice through a thick wall. I can’t make out the words but I can easily hear the tone of voice, and that would best be described as criticizing, disparaging and hurtful. I try to shut it out but that’s quite impossible so I have to go to sleep for it to go away. The last time I heard it was some time in the last 6 or 8 months.
I know how it makes me feel when I am aware of it, so I’m wondering whether it is present even when I am NOT aware of it, and if it is still having an effect on me without me knowing it. My guess is that it is, and that could explain a few things. Having been raised in a narcissistic family left me with a low sense of self-worth to begin with. Add “the voice” to the mix and there’s no telling how much of an effect it could be having.
Then there is the Reiki. My first thought was that I would like to have a session for the healing benefits it provides, mainly the mental and psychic. And then I thought it would be interesting to find out anything I could about my energy – what blockages I have, where they manifest on my body – that kind of thing. Also, because I’m learning all sorts of things about our energy, I would like to have some kind of “hands-on” experience with it.
Then I realized that if I were to learn how to DO Reiki, I might be able to help my wife with her health problems. I followed Laura’s advice about reading Dr. Murphree’s Treating and Beating Fibromyalgia, and I got my wife the Essential Therapeutics Jumpstart Pack. It helped her quite a bit, particularly with her migraines, but there are still other things that keep coming up and I would really like to be able to help her. If I were to do this she could receive regular Reiki treatments for free, and I could be getting regular practice.
The thing is, I wondered if it would be best to do the SRT first in order to be “clean”, before getting the first attunement. So I decided to look into both.
The only person I have found in the area that does SRT, so far, is apparently the leading expert in the field of hypnotherapy in the whole country. So he charges 95$ for the initial meeting, and 195$ per session after that. And you have to pay for the first two sessions in advance. I can’t afford that.
But if the name coincidences have any bearing here, well, he and I share the same first name (alternate spelling), and his last name is Knight…but I still can’t afford him.
I got the idea of finding an esoteric bookshop in town, thinking they may have pamphlets or business cards of different types of practitioners – any kind of information that may help me in my search. So on a Saturday afternoon I stepped into a place called The Magical Blend, a place that, inside, looked right out of a Harry Potter film. There were lots of books on magic, potions, herbs, trinkets, even wands – the whole nine yards. The girl I spoke to had never heard of SRT, but that wasn’t too surprising since she said that her area of expertise was some kind of ritual magic. When I described it to her she said that it didn’t sound like a good idea because a) some of our spirit attachments are there to help us and b) one should not look to anger any of them.
Needless to say, I didn’t get any of the information I was hoping for but the trip was not a complete loss. I had had my first experience speaking with ‘New Agers” and got to witness first hand some of the exact things that Laura has described in her books. Although I was quite nervous walking in there, I realized that I was pretty well prepared for the situation in that I could detect baloney without being sucked in by anything. Also, while I was browsing around, I found a nice fat bag of ground goldenseal root to add to my detoxing.
Later that day my wife and I went to visit her sister and her husband. I had never spoken to him about anything “esoteric” before but I recounted the day’s visit to the shop. This let into a discussion about reincarnation, karma and whatnot, and he started talking.
First he tells me how he definitely believes in reincarnation and then starts describing a recurring dream he used to have as a kid. He was walking with his parents in an amusement park by the sea. Looking up he would see that the two people he was with were not at all his present parents, but he knew them as his parents anyway. Everyone was dressed in styles from the 20’s or 30’s, and he could give details like I’ve never heard from a dream before.
Next he tells me about the time he had an outer body experience, floating above his bed looking down at himself. And then it gets weird.
Not two weeks after the outer body experience he said he woke up in bed, completely paralyzed, unable to speak, and a voice was talking to him from right beside the bed. And it wasn’t some detached voice, it was coming from someone right there in the room with him. The voice said, “Don’t be afraid of me. I’m not going to hurt you. I’ve just come to see you. Don’t worry.” What was beside the bed was not the form of a person but just a kind of glowing light. After a minute or two the light faded away and he could move again. He was so unbelievably terrified all through the experience that he let out a blood-curdling scream that brought his wife running from downstairs.
He spoke about it to a colleague at work who seemed to be interested in odd things. He told him it was probably “one of your angels”. But what he said to me was that, being the one who experienced the event, he was quite sure there was nothing angelic about it, and that it was more likely some kind of alien/UFO experience. I had to agree with him.
What a day! Even though I have been somewhat stagnant in what I feel are the most important things I should be doing (diet, breathing), I think because I was still actively “doing” something productive, it led me into one of the most interesting, revealing days I’ve had in a long time. As a result, I have been inspired to get back on the diet (lentils and rice , ultra shake, rice cereal, green tea). I begin my breathing again tomorrow.
I found a Reiki Master in my area via the internet, a member of the Reiki Association. I’ve scheduled a session with him this Friday. I figure I’ll get to meet him, find out what Reiki is like and hopefully this will help me to decide if he’s the right person to be giving me the first attunement.
But I still haven’t found an affordable hypnotherapist.
I’ve had a couple of interesting experiences recently, thought I’d share them with you and see if anyone had any thoughts on these matters.
I have to start out by saying that the last few months have been difficult for me in terms of the Work. Financial strain has made efforts with my diet rather sporadic but I’m still trying to do what I can. But financial strain has a very nasty effect on my stress level which affects my motivation as well, so I haven’t been doing the breathing. I understand that the breathing is what will help with the stress, but there it is. And to top it off I haven’t been posting much for the same reasons, so you could say that I’m getting a little frustrated and disappointed with myself.
The one thing I have been doing is keeping on with my reading. At the moment I am re-reading the Wave series, more slowly, and I’ve been getting a lot more out of it than I did the first time through. I just finished Book 2 so I have the subjects of spirit release therapy and Reiki on my mind, and I’ve decided that I would like to do both.
I did a little research on the internet for SRT and found this:
“Symptoms of spirit attachment can include:
• An inner voice that constantly criticizes you
• A variety of changing physical maladies with no obvious cause
• Irrational fear, anger, sadness or guilt or
• Suicidal tendencies.”
_http://www.insightsfromwithin.com/spirit-releasement/index.htm
It dawned on me that I have experienced the first item on the list, on and off, as far back as I can remember. It was much more frequent when I was younger but I still hear it now and again. For some reason I have always associated it with being hungry, tired or both.
It’s kind of like hearing a voice through a thick wall. I can’t make out the words but I can easily hear the tone of voice, and that would best be described as criticizing, disparaging and hurtful. I try to shut it out but that’s quite impossible so I have to go to sleep for it to go away. The last time I heard it was some time in the last 6 or 8 months.
I know how it makes me feel when I am aware of it, so I’m wondering whether it is present even when I am NOT aware of it, and if it is still having an effect on me without me knowing it. My guess is that it is, and that could explain a few things. Having been raised in a narcissistic family left me with a low sense of self-worth to begin with. Add “the voice” to the mix and there’s no telling how much of an effect it could be having.
Then there is the Reiki. My first thought was that I would like to have a session for the healing benefits it provides, mainly the mental and psychic. And then I thought it would be interesting to find out anything I could about my energy – what blockages I have, where they manifest on my body – that kind of thing. Also, because I’m learning all sorts of things about our energy, I would like to have some kind of “hands-on” experience with it.
Then I realized that if I were to learn how to DO Reiki, I might be able to help my wife with her health problems. I followed Laura’s advice about reading Dr. Murphree’s Treating and Beating Fibromyalgia, and I got my wife the Essential Therapeutics Jumpstart Pack. It helped her quite a bit, particularly with her migraines, but there are still other things that keep coming up and I would really like to be able to help her. If I were to do this she could receive regular Reiki treatments for free, and I could be getting regular practice.
The thing is, I wondered if it would be best to do the SRT first in order to be “clean”, before getting the first attunement. So I decided to look into both.
The only person I have found in the area that does SRT, so far, is apparently the leading expert in the field of hypnotherapy in the whole country. So he charges 95$ for the initial meeting, and 195$ per session after that. And you have to pay for the first two sessions in advance. I can’t afford that.
But if the name coincidences have any bearing here, well, he and I share the same first name (alternate spelling), and his last name is Knight…but I still can’t afford him.
I got the idea of finding an esoteric bookshop in town, thinking they may have pamphlets or business cards of different types of practitioners – any kind of information that may help me in my search. So on a Saturday afternoon I stepped into a place called The Magical Blend, a place that, inside, looked right out of a Harry Potter film. There were lots of books on magic, potions, herbs, trinkets, even wands – the whole nine yards. The girl I spoke to had never heard of SRT, but that wasn’t too surprising since she said that her area of expertise was some kind of ritual magic. When I described it to her she said that it didn’t sound like a good idea because a) some of our spirit attachments are there to help us and b) one should not look to anger any of them.
Needless to say, I didn’t get any of the information I was hoping for but the trip was not a complete loss. I had had my first experience speaking with ‘New Agers” and got to witness first hand some of the exact things that Laura has described in her books. Although I was quite nervous walking in there, I realized that I was pretty well prepared for the situation in that I could detect baloney without being sucked in by anything. Also, while I was browsing around, I found a nice fat bag of ground goldenseal root to add to my detoxing.
Later that day my wife and I went to visit her sister and her husband. I had never spoken to him about anything “esoteric” before but I recounted the day’s visit to the shop. This let into a discussion about reincarnation, karma and whatnot, and he started talking.
First he tells me how he definitely believes in reincarnation and then starts describing a recurring dream he used to have as a kid. He was walking with his parents in an amusement park by the sea. Looking up he would see that the two people he was with were not at all his present parents, but he knew them as his parents anyway. Everyone was dressed in styles from the 20’s or 30’s, and he could give details like I’ve never heard from a dream before.
Next he tells me about the time he had an outer body experience, floating above his bed looking down at himself. And then it gets weird.
Not two weeks after the outer body experience he said he woke up in bed, completely paralyzed, unable to speak, and a voice was talking to him from right beside the bed. And it wasn’t some detached voice, it was coming from someone right there in the room with him. The voice said, “Don’t be afraid of me. I’m not going to hurt you. I’ve just come to see you. Don’t worry.” What was beside the bed was not the form of a person but just a kind of glowing light. After a minute or two the light faded away and he could move again. He was so unbelievably terrified all through the experience that he let out a blood-curdling scream that brought his wife running from downstairs.
He spoke about it to a colleague at work who seemed to be interested in odd things. He told him it was probably “one of your angels”. But what he said to me was that, being the one who experienced the event, he was quite sure there was nothing angelic about it, and that it was more likely some kind of alien/UFO experience. I had to agree with him.
What a day! Even though I have been somewhat stagnant in what I feel are the most important things I should be doing (diet, breathing), I think because I was still actively “doing” something productive, it led me into one of the most interesting, revealing days I’ve had in a long time. As a result, I have been inspired to get back on the diet (lentils and rice , ultra shake, rice cereal, green tea). I begin my breathing again tomorrow.
I found a Reiki Master in my area via the internet, a member of the Reiki Association. I’ve scheduled a session with him this Friday. I figure I’ll get to meet him, find out what Reiki is like and hopefully this will help me to decide if he’s the right person to be giving me the first attunement.
But I still haven’t found an affordable hypnotherapist.