Energy healing uses the chakras and other structured energy systems to effect a positive shift in the physical, emotional, or spiritual health of a client. The chakra system is a map of the development of human consciousness as it proceeds from one stage of growth into the next. Each of the chakras builds on the the stage of consciousness development beneath it, as well as expanding upon the utility of any lower chakra and its functioning. Humans beings are made of multiple energy centers each representing many different consciousness states. In other words, each chakra holds the “wiring” of any particular state of human consciousness… but it needs to be activated before we gain access to it.

If we focus our attention upon the overall evolutionary flow rather than just upon a specific chakra (e.g., Chakra One representing embodiment, Chakra Two carrying the energetic wiring of attachment to others, and so on) we can speculate upon useful ways that human beings can bring an imbalanced life back into balance. And when we do his we can also participate in assisting the client in the evolution of their consciousness.

There are two main systems to balance within the human energy field. The first is the balancing of vital elements within the physical world, and the second is the balancing of our relational energetics between self and others. An example of the balancing of vital elements in the physical world would be the electrical polarities within the nervous system, or the digestion of proteins in the digestive system, or the absorption of minerals and vitamins from a healthy diet. Human health is achieved and maintained by balancing our various physical needs: yin and yang, positive and negative, healthy diet and efficient elimination and so on. Once we correct any such material imbalance in the physical body, health can exist.

As an illustration, here are samples of what we experience at some of these stages:

1. Our journey into consciousness begins in utero, with our unconscious merger with our mother, such that we are unknowingly held within states of fusion with her, and (later) with others.
2. In infancy there is an impulsive desire for contact, and to express an unmet need (such as hunger, or the physical desire for human contact so as to relieve our emotional anxiety. So, we explore reaching out, and taking in, from others.
3. In our early years there is a buffering of contradictory emotional forces within, as our needs and the outer maternal holder’s needs painfully awaken my individuation ( my “I”) via frustration and conflict (“I don’t get what I want when I demand or need it”) or through healthy mirroring (“The maternal holder meets my need – within reason – and yet puts healthy limits on my demands for more.”).
4. Slowly we move from an unconscious identification with the maternal holding (by another), and begin the journey towards inner referencing of the self. We replace our earlier narcissistic demands with a negotiation with the other based on the growing awareness that “I am not the only person with needs (or desires) in the universe”.
5. Over time, my inner-referencing system (through the alternation of gain and loss, pleasure and pain) gains more “wiring” of consciousness, including more intellectual and emotional algorithms of strategies that leading me to function as an independent being: separate, different, but yet still vitally connected to others.
6. As we move into this intermediate stage of human consciousness the “I” now becomes aware of healthy mutuality (i.e. the differences between “I”, “You”, and “We”): in that “I” am separate from you, and you (the other) have your own set of needs that differ from mine. Sometimes we agree, and sometimes with come into conflict, but we can learn to negotiate compromises that bring balance into our relationship.
7. With our evolving human consciousness now aware of self (inner-reference) and of the other (outer-reference) I can now perceive another balance flow that needs my attention: the inner and the outer, my experience and your experience, my human needs and your human needs. The spiraling development of human consciousness development is such that the individuated self learns to balance relational energies. The individuated self can interpret the life experience data it receives from the inner-referenced world (and its feeling experience), and simultaneously sample the life experience data experienced by others: those who are separate from us, and who have developed in ways different to us.

This is by no means an exhaustive list of the relational dynamics involved, but is a starting place to examine the energetics of the inner-referenced self (i.e., our growing awareness of the “I”, or inner self) and knowledge of the functioning of our outer-referenced self (i.e. how we consciously or unconsciously deal with interactions with other people). It follows that if my outer-referenced polarities are out of balance with respect to my inner-referenced experience (e.g., ”I am excessively self-involved, ignoring the state of the world around me”) I will experience life only from a solipsistic standpoint, and where the outer world has to conform with my inner needs, or demands. If my inner-referenced self is out of balance with my outer -referenced self (e.g. “Others are more important than myself”), I will exist by living through – or for – other people. When any polarity is out of balance – physical or relational – it will keep us from being fully healthy. A healthy balance is where both inner-referenced and outer-referenced self-states function well, or are moving towards a state of even higher functioning.

So, how do we achieve optimal balance between the inner-referenced self and the outer-referenced self? We can start by engaging in acts of giving and receiving, by sharing ourselves in ways that either define who we are, or which explore where we are in deficit. Relational energetics – the quality of our relationships with others – needs to both stimulates personal growth as well as sustain that growth into the future. Our bodies need the right balance of nutrition and exercise, just as our relational energy bodies are in need of the correct balance of contact with our inner world, and an exploration and sharing of ourselves with the outer world.

Practical Application, and Energy Healers

This first way of energy balancing (in the physical world) requires a lot of study leading you towards an understanding of those organic elements that you wish to balance in others. So, you know that if you are a physician or medical professional, healing begins when you assist your patient’s body in coming back into balance which results in their return to health, or when you remove any impediment to the natural healing process, such as a tumor or repair of a physical wound. If you are a mental health professional, healing begins as the client works through inner-referenced emotional development issues (such as resolving early trauma from childhood), or learns new skills that help their outer-referenced self interact more efficiently with others.

Energy healers often find themselves adding energy healing balancing energies into one of these two domains (physical healing and emotional/mental healing), in order to enhance or clarify the balance the client is seeking. Our goal as energy healers, though, is not to simply pump pranic energies willy-nilly into the body, and to hope for the best. Rather, we need to actively participate in helping the body achieve a balanced state – both physical body and energy body – so that its natural healing ability is active. We need to know how human physical and emotional/mental systems come into balance, so we can apply the correct support in the right way.

Relational energy healers add an additional level of balancing when they address the second balancing model: the energetic wiring of the outer-referenced self and the inner-referenced self. Relational energetics look for a balance in the oscillation of energies found in our relationships, and seek opportunities to enhance the gains that come out of them (even when an important relationship is lost, or is absent.). Outer-referenced energies flow along the relational chakra cords, while inner-referenced energies are anchored in the chakra self-cords. And so, once the foundations of an energy body are balanced, the next level of work to be done is with the chakra cords and the self-cords, as well exploring the astral (or spirit world) interactions that influences them.

We know we are balanced when our lives are working, our health is good, our relationships are satisfying to us, and we give birth to our inner creativity. In a state of balance, we will always thrive. And, happiness will follow.

Snippets of Conversation

Below are extracts from Dean’s recent Facebook postings on Astral Healing & the Barbara Brennan School of Healing

Dean: “Astral healing is a curious blend of actual astral extraction work, the client facing up to hidden forces at work in their lives, and the evolution of that client towards encompassing (rather than to deny or ignore) spiritual realities. I certainly appreciate the option we can take to “fill” any “void” in the client (this Core Star expansion method is Barbara Brennan’s signature approach to Astral work, one she has demonstrated on numerous occasions at BBSH), but I do not advocate that particular approach in my own work with clients. An Astrally-challenged client is not served by having another person (even a well-intentioned healer) “fill” any space within their auric field that is (perhaps) currently occupied by any lower/middle astral being. That is just replacing a malignant invasion (the Lower Astral) with a benign one (i.e., the energy of the well-intentioned healer). The approach I prefer is to support each client to resource the missing or supplanted energy consciousness for themselves, over time: either through personal transformational practices (prayer, meditation) or a creative act such as art or service work. The Core Star approach of “filling” can be kept in your healers toolbox and used for triage purposes only; when there is no other option on the table for a struggling client.”

Facebook post: “…. oh, yeah. I agree with that. At first I was not in agreement but giving the client the power and the responsibility is a good thing. If the client is not ready to deal with the astral being they’ll just attract another one like it. They have got “forever’ to figure it out so let it be on the client’s schedule.”

Dean: (responding to another comment regarding fears about Astral Healing and demons): “Part of the issue over “demons” is the original Christian intention behind that label. A “demon” from that perspective is an astral being without any understanding of respect towards human life and/or God (whereas the pre-Christian concept was more akin to the Greek concept of daemon (which many of us would classify as being middle astral: ethically-ambivalent & intelligent spirit beings). The label of “demon” was originally designed to frighten away god-fearing Christians from meddling with the Astral, including direct/non-Priest-mediated access to spirit teachers. Additionally, if a spirit being “respects” you (i.e., doesn’t invade your boundaries, lie to you, push a hidden & destructive agenda onto you) he is acting as a daemon (Middle Astral). But if you doesn’t respect you, or the value of human life, he is more appropriately called a demon: a destructive and non-life-respecting spirit being only in it for what he can get out of it. So, you can see I don’t see demons (or daemons) as being “cute” or “critters to be removed”: rather, I treat them with respect when they deserve it, and a firm boundary when they don’t respect others, or give them a wide berth/firm boundary when they push their luck, or get destructive. In short: we must respect the Astral, and get to know their true intent. If they, in turn, respect us, you have a daemon. If the Astral does not respect you (or your client’s autonomy) you have a demon. Who must be “defeated” by peaceful warrior means, rather than ignored or minimized as unimportant.”

Facebook post: ” I‘m curious about your observations of the Core Star / 4th level business..

Firstly, I guess they don’t teach it like that any more- we’re encouraged to bring more and more core-star into all of the dimensions and levels, but not particularly to fill voids. But, we are encouraged to fill the gap left by astral extraction techniques with first blue light (to ‘sterilize’ the area), then pink light/love, to support the healing. The idea being that then the client won’t recreate the invasion or trauma with any luck, and a more positive astral experience or energy will then grow into or form in the space. (This may be because Barbara has taken a back seat on the lecturing/teaching process as of recent years, so it’s been the Deans and Teachers who have done the demos rather than Barbara Brennan)

Secondly, from your wording, it makes it sound like a core expansion fills the astral void with core essence (energy, light, essence, whatever you would call it..!) of the healer. But as I understand it, the aim of a core expansion is to fill the void with the client’s own essence. Was/is it your observation that this doesn’t really happen, and that ‘core essence’ is just high astral? Do you work with a ‘monad’ or core essence equivalent in your healing or teaching practice?

Also, I’m curious about how this all relates to the ‘higher astral mitochondrial healing’ that is on the description for part 2 of your Astral Energetics teleclass..! (maybe it doesn’t, but I’m curious about the possibility).”

Dean: “Awesome questions. Just not sure how to effectively answer all your points here on this Facebook thread! But here are some teasers, to get things started:

1) I really don’t know what BBSH (Barbara Brennan School of Healing) PS teachers are currently teaching their students in regard to the Core Star Expansion skill these days, but rest assured this (Core Expansion) technique was BB’s signature response to a client after doing Astral work in all of her stage demos. My personal observations were that:

a) it’s an impressive healing to watch, when done in a group,

b) but it is impractical to replicate in a one-on-one session, unless you can generate significant high-level energies in your healing room equivalent to any BBSH big class teaching event. As the answer to that is “good luck”, I surmise most BBSH grads go on to adapt the skill, and then to add other stuff in. Like, adding in some devotional energies (calling on your spiritual Guru, for instance) or other ways of tapping into high-frequency resources during The Expansion.

2) Putting a nice energy bandage over an extraction can help a lot but only if the astral wounding is dealt with first. Think leaving the thorn in the wound, bandaging it up, and expecting it to heal. Not going to happen, right? Gotta get that thorn out first, and then clean up.

3) It’s true I mostly consider the Core Star Expansion taught at BBSH to be mostly a showcase skill, rather than a replicable and practical skill for working healers. But that’s my personal opinion. With Barbara Brennan teaching less and less I can only imagine the BBSH/BBSHE teachers are doing their 100% best to provide training that works for their students. But I always stress that Astral work is very, very specialized work, and not every healer (or teacher) has the practical experience or personal interest in Astral work to pull it off in a teaching situation. A teacher such as Patricia White Buffalo can do that, and many of the other ex-PS2 teachers can also do a great job, but if a BBSH teacher has mostly worked with higher-level guides (say, in PS3 & PS4) their version of “healing” the Astral using high frequencies may only work well in a BBSH demo situation but in the real world/healing room … not so much.

Again, I hate to generalize, and we have to take each case on its own merits. The bottom line is: do you get consistent results from using this – or any – skill you have been taught? If you don’t, then why do it? Adapt it until it does work, or go looking to find an alternate method. All methods are always evolving, anyway, including BBSH methods. At least, that is what was happening when I was a BBSH Class Dean between 1992-2003.”

• I am currently preparing for my April 2012 Japanese classes, which will include my Class 2 Astral Energetics material (with translation by Yui Wang). In June I will be teaching the English language-only version of that class. Go to my Japanese-only web site for more details about my Kyoto classes. I am immensely grateful for Yui Wang and all of her organizing efforts, as well as personal support for my teaching efforts to Japanese students.

• In regard to the Astral Energetics teaching material: the recordings of the Class 1 Astral Energetics class from November 2011 are now available for purchase and download.

• My web site development has taken up more time than I expected, this winter, as I completed the transfer over to my new “responsive” WordPress Theme. With the increased use of iPads, iPhones, Androids, and other mobile devices, I do feel the effort has been worth it. It’s cool to have every slideshow on my site touch responsive, which means all you iPad, iPhone, or other mobile device users can now finger-swipe the slideshows in order to see the next photo. Still, even with this new and fun technology I have not forgotten about my neglected email HTML newsletter, and remain ever optimistic about its return to life very soon!

• My sister site, RelationalEnergy.com, has also begun development. This web site will focus on chakra and chakra cord development, and Etheric work. It is for both students and clients of Relational Energy Healing but it should also appeal to other healers and their modalities (such as Barbara Brennan healers).  A third site, AstralEnergetics.net, will follow this one, devoted purely to Astral Energetics. Each new site is projected to have their own Forum, so ideas and comments can be shared amongst interested parties. But please: no holding of your breath, as these are both long-term projects.

• There will be a free audio meditation posted here (via SoundCloud), on the Father Chakra Cords, hopefully in time for Father’s Day 2012. The current free audio meditation is devoted to the Mother Chakra Cord.

• I’ve started to create Tutorial Curriculum outlines for most of my Skype Tutorial clients, and I’m going to start publishing these as options for those healers/student healers looking for personalized training. I was going to wait for the launching of my two sister web sites before doing this, but things are moving fast these days, so why wait?

• I have a lot of intermediate-advanced topics that I often want to post on this site, aimed at those healers and spiritual seekers who have been doing energy and transformation work for a long while. I’m considering a breakout series of pages that refer to these topics. The tentative title is “Energy Healing Advanced Topics“, or something like that, but hopefully more elegant. More about this soon.

I continue to offer private Skype sessions for personal (or professional-level) healing work. The four options from which you can choose are:

• The Intensive – the Six Session Series (my discounted rate): for relational chakra cord and/or astral energetic work
• The Personal – Single Healing Sessions: for trying out a session, or for a boost in the right direction
• The Supportive – one or several sessions to address a specific issue that has appeared in your life
• The Tutorials – in-depth personalized tutorials focused upon your professional training as a healer

Go here for my rates and other info you may need, or send me an email.

As always, thanks for stopping by DeanRamsden.com, and please feel free to post comments on my web site, or send me suggestions.

Take care, and Happy Spring!

- Dean

Everyone is familiar with the idea of spirit beings existing alongside the human realm. We find reference to spirit beings in all main stream religions (“Angels” and “Demons”), in our ancient mythology (“Gods” and “Goddesses”), in the Shamanic teachings on every continent (“Spirit Animal” or “Spirit Allies”) and in use as part of our daily language (our “Guardian Angel”, our “muse”, our personal “spirit guide”). However, the modern era of materialistic thinking denigrates and ignores the existence of any invisible spirits that sharing our world with us. Yet, the Astral Worlds (alternate dimensions of time and space inhabited by spirit beings of various types) are always available to be explored: simply bring an open mind, and be willing to welcome your personal experience rather than blindly accept the opinion of others. This class is about gaining knowledge and experience of these various types of beings, as well as learning how to interact with them so as to enhance our modern-day lives.

Exploring the impact of spirit beings in our lives also can be a catalyst for our own awakening into our true nature: that of multi-dimensional human beings. When we relate to non-physical beings we can be either positively or negatively influenced by them but only according to lessons that we need to learn in order to grow out of our spiritual infancy. This is the crux of the spirit world: the amoral nature of many spirit beings. Unrestricted by the psychological or emotional control mechanisms used humans who wish to dominate other humans, spirit beings instead offer alternate ways to open our heart, and our eye of spirit. They present opportunities for personal and spiritual development that push us beyond the self-imposed limitations of materialism. Spirit beings can help us grow into our full spiritual potential, although it is also true that some can lead us astray, or take us deeper into human suffering.

We will begin our journey towards a practical approach to the Astral Worlds by reviewing how it is that the materialist viewpoint conflicts with the age-old experience of human being and spirit being co-existing together in practical arrangements. Then, we will look at a three-tiered map of spirit beings, one that allows us to work with them, or to avoid any problems with them. We will look at:

• The Middle Astral: the spirit beings that wish to help us, guide us, and challenge us to awaken into our full potential.

• The Lower Astral: the challenging beings of spirit that thrive on human suffering, and who have an agenda to bring chaos or destruction into our lives.

• The Higher Astral: the high-level spiritual leaders of the non-visible worlds, who exist to inspire and support the movement of all sentient life out of primitive consciousness and towards a creative evolution or enlightenment of existence.

Each “level” of these spirit beings brings us opportunities to develop practical tools for our spiritual development.

The Middle Astral beings are the guides (or tricksters) that work with us in the trenches of the physical world.  In this class we will learn how to work effectively with them, in order to get the best possible outcome.

The Lower Astral beings are a vital part of the creative chaos of universal energies, thriving on primal emotional energies. We will look at how we can avoid their destructive influence while working towards a higher purpose.

And Higher Astral beings are the inspiration for all sentient beings: they radiate consciousness that guides us ever closer towards full integration of who we are, as evolving humans.

This class will not only provide a map of the Astral Realms and the beings that live in them, but will offer techniques and exercises through which you can explore contact with these various classes of spirit beings for yourself. Additional topics that will be covered:

• Our options as healer or therapist: removing spirit “invasion” versus psycho-therapeutic process work (that awakens lost or undeveloped consciousness in the client).

• We will examine the Shamanic methods that can energize the hidden aspects of our energy bodies, such as the use of psychotropic drugs, or “plant medicine”.

• Spiritual development leads us towards developing tools to interact with the spirit world that are based on those of the material realm: the creation of a personal boundary, the issues of individuation within our family and social groups, negotiation skills, and awakening ourselves to latent abilities or skills.

• We will explore the importance of developing the Sixth chakra, and how clearing Talu chakra (located in the brain stem) is a valuable asset in our work with Astral influences.

• The Expansion of Astral Light energy healing skill will be taught. By flooding the mitochondria of each cell with high-level astral frequencies we can clear away much lower astral influence, and encourage middle-higher astral contact. We will practice this skill as a guided meditation, and you are invited to then adapt it for application into your own healing work.

Finally, we will look at the implications to us, and to our clients, when they awaken out of lower Astral dominance and move into contact with a spiritually-relational universe. The evolution of ourselves into embodied spirit beings runs counter to come social agendas. We will explore some options that are available to us, as global citizens.

An open mind and a spirit of taking an adventure into inner worlds are all that is required for this class. And, you always have the option to keep your distance from anything taught that may cause you concern, or discomfort.The intention is that you will leave with new transformational tools to try out for yourself, in your own stye. These techniques of personal transformation that can help you craft a successful and creative life for yourself, as well as help you in your work with others.

This material will be presented in Japan (with Japanese translation by Yui Wang) during Dean’s public teleclass on April 21-22, as well as the Graduate class on April 24-26, 2012. Japanese speakers can find more info on my Japanese website, here.

The US/Canada/European version of this class (taught in English only) will be available as a home study class only, commencing Saturday June 16, 2012, and completing on Saturday June 23, 2012 . Students will download the class segments, with Dean presenting both lecture material and practical application guidance. Questions and comments can be submitted by students using email during the week (June 17-22), and answers to these will be included in the final section of the class. The advantages of home study is that you can study the material at your own pace (and at minimal cost, with zero travel time), practice the exercises in the comfort of your home, and still receive feedback to your questions (as long as they are submitted to Dean before June 23, 2012.)

The cost of the US/Canada/European Astral Energetics Class Two home study course is 250 USD.

To book your place now, please email Dean Ramsden. Payment is only by PayPal (or any credit card/bank account approved by PayPal.)

If you missed the Level One Class on Astral Energetics you can still order it right now, and begin your studies in preparaton for this upcoming class. Email Dean for purchasing details via PayPal.

We see this happen every time a personal relationship moves through a change (for example, from intimate friend to acquaintance) or when a realization in our inner world shifts radically (such as when we have a personal insight or evolution about who we are, or who the other person is). Our energy boundaries both define us, and we are responsible for them. When a boundary becomes habitualized, or fixed in a limited range of perceptions, we have a character style. A character style is a limited range of perceptions and options in our personality, one which we become overly identified with, and which may dominate our actions. In the field of energy healing, these character styles are referred to as “character structures”: habitual ways of interacting with others, and with self.

In the Barbara Brennan School of Healing model, these are known as the Schizoid, the Oral, the Psychopath, the Masochist, and the Rigid. This labeling of energetic boundaries and function within Brennan Healing Science is fundamental to they way in which they work, as they respond to each character structure with a specific “healing response”. This is an interaction with the structure that ideally bypasses its limitations of boundary, and activates something deeper: core qualities of the authentic person beneath the character.

More commonly, we refer to the use of masks in human relationships. We see how humans take on habitual masks or ways of being in the world, coming to fiercely identify with their mask, their role, or their position. In this event, the mask or the self-maintained boundary, defines the individual rather than the other way around, where the individual takes responsibility to create the boundary of self. Spiritual traditions utilize boundaries, with idealized spiritual masks. Two common forms of this are the seeker mask (supplicant, or child-like identity), and the authority (teacher, or power position). Arising from our experience moving from child into adult it is natural and easy for us to apply these early relational boundaries to ourselves or to others. We become identified with either the one who seeks/has no authority, or the one who knows/assumes authority. Yet, these are only energetic boundaries, consciousness functions that we, ourselves, assume and program into reality. Change the consciousness within us, and we change the boundary. And the best boundary is often one that is protective yet not overly rigid, responsive and not reactive only to the actions of the outer world, and one which grows and evolves over time.

So, how do we change our boundaries? First, we need to pay attention to our self-imposed limitations of perception, and confront unconscious assumptions about the other, or about the self. We need to become aware of our own masks, and the function they serve to keep us safe, or to get our needs met with others, or to make sense of the world around us. The next step is to open ourselves up to new and (for us) unusual options. To break out of our habits, and move onto new ground. For this to occur the energy system needs access to fresh life force energy, to extra energy. This is because our character structures or masks become used to utilizing our energy system in predicable ways. To break free of our habitual masks we must increase our energy levels, both internally (through self-reflection or meditation) and externally (using a transformational practice, or taking advantage of a life change that may rudely foist change upon us).

We need more energy to move from the habitual self-created boundary and into a new level of our lives, and a new boundary of self. And this is where energy healing work can help us shift from habitual forms of identity (character structure, or masks) and begin to explore new options, new ways of being. Energy healing looks to where you are not taking advantage of freely-available pranic energy, and assists your auric field in processing that prana in new ways. In this way, energy healng is remedial or therapeutic work: it seeks to increase or improve upon the options available to the client. Once those new options come available to us, once the client feels the flow of new pranic energy throughout their system, a change occurs. The client can make a noticeable shift from the old pattern of self, and into a new one. Their problem, their personal challenge, their physical health, all can radically change as they take on a new boundary. The masks we wear – or, more accurately, wear us – restrict or confine our consciousness. Change your mask for freedom, for a new choice, or for a new life for yourself, and you are no longer who you were in the past. Suddenly, you become truly yourself.

Confront your mask, and tolerate the discomfort of letting go of your habituated identity. When you have the courage and personal power to do that, your life will begin ot change. No longer will your mask or false indenty, your self-imposed boundary, no longer will it run your life. You will run your life.

Two words: practice, and results.

When I was studying with my Chinese Qi Gong Healing master in the Eighties he was quite clear on Qi Healer training. First, he told us, you must practice self-cultivation: you do the exercises that are known to open up the energy body. For many of us this included Chinese martial arts, in conjunction with guided practices alongside your teacher. Secondly, you had to be able feel the Qi moving, and learn to guide it using the focused intention of your mind. And thirdly, you had to have your personal “Energy Gates” opened. This last part was the vital factor of initiation, a transmission where the Sifu (Teacher) affirms and activates your potential.

Once this traditional route had been followed, results begin to arrive. My primary energy healer teacher in the US, Rosalyn L. Bruyere, clearly aligns with the Asian method. Although apparently more casual (but not any less dedicated) in her long-term approach to training students, Rev. Bruyere has her students building their personal Qi with physical exercises … and activates their potential over many week-long intensives spent with her.

But why do other Energy Healing teachers stress the spontaneous nature of healing work, and downplay discipline, or doing transformation practices? “Just follow what I do, emulate me, and the healings will happen by themselves”, they say. While it is true that such an approach can sometimes work it rarely guarantees an effective healer. That’s the point: easy-does-it healing gives inconsistent results, and consistent results are required to become a professional healer.

After many trainings and workshops are behind you, as the energy healer, the main factor that will change your work from amateur to profession is practice. Along with on-going study of your craft. The most successful healers that I know are always studying something else, always pushing themselves into new practices to open up their energy body, and are learning new skills to expand on what they already know. They spend their spare time with quality teachers, those who see their value and are willing to mentor them. Afterwards, it’s back to work practicing what you do, working weekly with client after client. One of my teachers was asked how many clients are needed before consistent results can be expected. There was a pragmatic pause, followed by the delivery of an ultimate truth: “About a thousand clients … but it depends on the healer. Maybe more than that.”

A scientist may spend decades in the research laboratory in order to make an important scientific breakthrough. An artist will endure similar time spans in giving birth to an art that is mostly ignored, until they suddenly become recognized and famous. Energy healers have to follow a similar dedication, building their effectiveness upon practice, and study. And after that, to continue to practice some more. This spiritual drive brings the healer to a place where consistent results breed success in the world, and it is this that will draw your clients towards you.

Energy healing should not be chosen as an alternative for religion, or for traditional psychotherapy. Energy healing has but one mandate: to speed up or enhance an individual’s personal growth, and physical healing process. When a healer interacts with the energy field of another person they should be able to do the following:

• Perceive where a client needs support, or energetic repair, that will lead towards a significant shift in their lives;

• Assess the impact of hidden forces acting upon the client’s energy system (such as Astral, or spirit being, influences) and remove them;

• Support an inner shift of consciousness in the client towards personal growth;

• Help the client tap into under-utilized or hidden inner resources at their disposal;

• Actively energize, or clear, the auric system of the client so as to maximize personal growth or healing. (This can be done at a distance, unlike physical healing methods);

• Become a therapeutic ally on the client’s personal journey towards finding happiness, fulfillment, and good health;

• Enhance the natural physical healing process of the client.

Each healer has their own system the ascribe to, and prospective clients should pay attention to the healer’s speciality. This is similar to going to your doctor, in that there are general practitioners and there are specialists. In medical healing we often use the services of several professionals in order to fully heal our physical body, and energy healing can be viewed in a similar, practical fashion. There are all-in-one energy healers, and there are specialists. It will be up to the client to interview their prospective healer, and make sure that what is offered is what is needed.

In a similar fashion to medical healing, we may need to try different practitioners until we find someone that fits with our personality: our style of personal growth. This will be very individual to each client, and is important to take into consideration. Some clients prefer to work with a famous healer or spiritual leader (or guru), assuming this is the best available to them. Others prefer a more personalized approach: one-on-one healing work that efficiently drills down into the issues, and works towards resolving them in such a way that personal growth leads also towards spiritual evolution. The choice is always ours, and the options are many.

Related Post: How Psychic Healing Works

Coming soon: accompanying articles on The Middle Astral and The Higher Astral. 

Dean: “I have an approximate skeleton of work that I follow in the Six Session Series. As we go through the sessions we work on the knowledge that the chakra consciousness centers are inter-related, and that by clearing and tweaking each chakra we create a synergistic effect that enhances personal growth and healing.”

Client: “When I worked with another energy healer his work was completely different to you. He wasn’t working with cords; he was just finding out why the chakra was blocked, including emotionally”.

Dean: “Yes, that is the traditional way that other energy healers work. As an analogy, it is as though a healer sees your chakras as radio transmitters, which they then try to repair or energize.

But if we look at how the chakra system is connected internally (as the building blocks of our inner identity) as well as how the chakras are connected up to people on the outer world (through the medium of chakra cords) the type of healing work we can do shifts considerably. So, to extend my analogy, instead of seeing each chakras as a radio transmitter we also take into account the incoming signals, as well as the outgoing signals to those individuals who are significant in your life. That’s Relational Energy Healing, and this is why chakra cord work is important for system change, and also why Astral clearing has to be included during the work … because we are exploring both the transmission and reception of signals by the chakras, rather than only looking at the functioning of the chakra by itself.”

Client: “I am noticing that I am reacting to people slightly differently than is usual for me. Suddenly I’m getting unexpected offers from people, either to help me out or to accompany me on my hospital visits. It’s … amazing, really.

Dean: “Well, here’s the thing – part of what Relational Energy Healing does is that it works towards increasing options, to opening us up to roads that normally we would not travel down. Again, we are dealing with the transmission and reception of human consciousness, through chakra cord connections. And we know from our previous work together that one of the issues you, personally, are breaking open is how historically you have not accepted support from others, or have not felt support extended towards you. What in these previously sessions we have affectionately characterized as your Scottish stubbornness (which also has many positive qualities!) can lead to insulation or isolation from other people. And during this time of healing and potential change in your life you do need access to all and any support available from others. So, when you tell me, as you just did, that suddenly you are getting offers of support from others, and – even more importantly – you are taking them up on it, that’s a significant change for me as your healer because it shows that your consciousness system is now opening to new possibilities and original forms of other people working with you in this place of change.”

Client: “Yes … I am slowly and increasingly becoming aware of this.”

Dean: “The last thing I do want to say about this is (and this does not apply to everyone) is that often when the chakra system begins to open up to other possibilities there is the initial experience that is new, exciting, and wonderful. But it is possible to max out on, let’s say, too much change. There can be a reaction to the changes that could propel you back to your old habit or ways of being with others. Like a turtle pulling their head back into their shell, some people find themselves retreating from contact that is, historically, different behavior. So, please keep an eye out for any “pullback” that may happen.”

Client: “Yes… and if it happens, I should go against that pull?”

Dean: “My suggestion is not to see any pullback as necessarily a bad thing, but simply to bring your awareness to the point where you are going back to your old habit. And, additionally, personal work can be done by you to keep the new connections you have formed still open. The process, even though you are pulling back, is to still keep the door to others open; it’s part of the integration process.”

Client: “Yes … good…. so, today’s session is the throat chakra?”

Dean: “Yes: this is the Fifth Session of your Six Session Series, and so we will illuminate the functioning of your Throat Chakra, and the cords that flow into and out of it.

The Throat Chakra (Vishuddha) functioning consists not only of speaking but of listening…. and allowing ourselves to be changed by what we hear, or affected/influenced by what we hear. Listening deeply also helps me discern if I am being told the truth – or accurate information – by another person. Of course, sometimes the other is not aware that they are imparting wrong information, but the Throat chakra can still discern the difference.”

Client: “Yes, it’s not a judgement on them …”

Dean: “Right! People may tell us things that they truly do believe are the way things are, and in our best interests, but when this impacts your system you will know something is not right about it. And one of the reasons this is of importance to you now, personally, is that as treatment options are offered to you – both allopathic and alternative treatments – you will need to assess what is being offered to you.

So, the idealized goal of these Six Session Series sessions is to work with your auric energy system, to clear and tune it up, so that you can both perceive what are the best options for you (attentive listening) and communicate with others so they can help you (speaking out). I am not a medical professional and I avidly stay away from diagnosis or any recommendation of medical treatment. Instead, my work is to help your own consciousness system to function optimally, in both the listening and the speaking modalities. This is the arena of the Fifth Chakra.

The last thing to know about this session devoted to the Fifth chakra is related to the higher functioning potential of this center of consciousness.  Specifically: we have to be able to ask the right questions, and then be willing to hear an uncomfortable – or challenging – answer.  So, this applies to your practical situation in regard to your medical treatments; what are the right questions to ask, and can you then take in helpful or vital information in response to your question? The higher function of the fifth chakra is not to abdicate self-responsibility to any outer authority, but to speak up, to be pro-active, to become an active participant in the healing process.

So, what is it that you need to ask your doctor, your surgeon, your alternative healers, and how can you then make sense of all their input? This is the co-creative functioning of the healthy fifth chakra: communication and listening skills that interact successfully with others outside of our experience, so we can make better choices for ourselves, or assist in the exploration of outer (or inner) truth. And while truth may be seen as multiple shades of gray rather than black-and-white, there are some things that are more true than others. The throat chakra, when it is healthy and supported via dialogue and the critical thinking process, leads us through many of life’s challenges. It is not only there to help us speak out; it is also there to help us take in what we need…”

Related Post: Here is an edited transcript of a Skype Tutorial Session for Energy Healers