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.

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But energy healing is more than just a way to help heal the physical body. Many humans intuit that they possess a spiritual nature, and not just an everyday ego personality. This may be experienced during times of emotional stress, while moving through an ecstatic experience, or during meditation or prayer. We humans are more than just matter: we are beings of consciousness, of light, and as such unlimited by the restrictions of the physical body.

Energy healers, mystics, and shamans have many different names that describe the functioning and development of the human energy (or light) body, each according to their cultures. The European energy healer, for instance, may be a student of some esoteric or magical system, such as the Hermetic Order of The Golden Dawn, or the Kabbalah. Similarly, an Asian energy healer may practice a style of Qi Gong, based on Chinese energy healing principles. Traditional native peoples on different continents have tribal ritual elders called Shaman, who integrate cultural wisdom with natural curing methods. Modern-day American energy healers may combine emotional/belief system personal process work alongside energy healing. And there are medical professionals – physicians, nurses, research scientists – who seek to enhance their allopathic medical treatments with insights from energy healing. But these multiple approaches to bio-energy healing can be distilled down to one unmistakable conclusion: energy is the foundation of the human experience, rather than the material body.

There is another aspect to the coming into awareness of this, our light body. As we relocate our attention and identity from the egoic and material self, and into the energetic self, we naturally find ourselves questioning many of the assumptions we have made about the world, and about our shared reality. We find ourselves willing to see something radically new. Locked into the “normal” world view – as material bodies with egos, with social or family commitments, following careers and paying taxes – we can live a fairly predictable life. But once our energy body begins to wake up, the experience of “normality” usually changes. And may change fundamentally, to the very core of our understanding of the world. These internal paradigm shifts are always shocking to each human ego: an inner identity which, although accepted as “normal” by society and family, suddenly can seem incredibly limited and false to us.  Our true identity, as taught by many of the worlds wisdom traditions, is that of an energy body, imbuing the physical body with consciousness. Energy healing – when applied at the right time, and by the healer most helpful to you – not only speeds up any physical healing process you may need, but will also energize this, your light body.

If enough people begin to operate more from their authentic energy bodies rather than their egoic (i.e.,physically-based) reality, our species may be able to evolve beyond our often destructive animal roots, and past the challenges of tribalism. The realization of our body of light as our true nature is not just a personal goal; it has the potential to help others. One “en-lightenment” event can inspire another, and then another, like one candle lighting the unlit one next to it, or like a row of dominoes falling in sequence. Every “en-lightened” human (which I’m defining here as those who drop into deeper contact with their light bodies while also remaining fully present in the physical world) helps others awaken. And remaining in ignorance of our true nature – the light body – may no longer an option for our species. The world which we all share is growing small, and more crowded. Global dangers are brewing, and now threatening our survival as a species. We must evolve to a new level of consciousness. We must fully awaken.

It’s very common when healers implement invasive cord removal that, as the client start to change (or shift, or clear their energy system) the originator of the invasive cord attempt to make contact with the client. Prior to invasive cord work the client should be prepared to face their relationship with honesty and courage, as invasive cord work confronts personal issues at a visceral level. As noted in part one of this article, invasive cords symptoms may include some form of energy loss (fatigue, or emotional depression), obsessional thoughts (of the other person, or fears of a life without them), or an actual sensation of pain in the associated chakra.

As we explore the different levels of these invasive cords I want to stress that just because an individual sends out such a cord it does not make them a bad, or evil, person. Invasive cords are a common but often inappropriate use of the relational energy field system. The person sending the cord is attempting to use manipulation or seduction to get what they want: by extending chakra cords rather than entering into a dialogue or a mutual negotiation with another person.

Invasive cords are usually found entering the second chakra (Swadhisthana), the fourth chakra (Anahata), or the Sixth chakra (Agnya). This are the “intake” chakras: their function is to allow deep contact with the outer world, for various levels of intimacy and sharing. However, the very nature of intake chakras leaves them vulnerable for exploitation and “hijacking” efforts by the unconscious motivations – and energy systems – of others.  Invasive cords will also be found in the other chakras, but rather than feeding off our needs and desires these other cords misdirect an authentic perception rather than supporting a recognizable truth. For instance, a third chakra invasive cord may turbo-charge our childhood conditioning that our own needs in a relationship are secondary to the other persons needs. Co-dependent behavior can be enhanced by such a third chakra invasive cord, in effect misappropriating the victim’s life force for themselves.

These distinctions – invasive cord draining of energy in input chakras (chakra 2,4,6) and misappropriation of relational needs in the other chakras (chakra 1,3, 5) helps the Relational Energy healer to orientate the energy work so as to plug any symbolic Achilles heel of the client’s chakra system. After the invasive cord removal the chakra that has been affected can be supported to repair and grow into fullness. These two events – invasive cord removal followed by chakra-specific healing- often lead to rapid change in the clients life. By regaining the life force formally drained from them (or, in many cases, given away freely) clients often experience a surge of personal growth advancing their personal evolution. When you are no longer invaded by the relational cords draining or influencing you, then you can anchor back into your own life. You get your life back. You begin to change.

Part one of this article can be found here: The Invasive Chakra Cord.

]]> http://www.blog.deanramsden.com/invasive-chakra-cords-part-two/feed/ 2 http://www.blog.deanramsden.com/how-psychic-healing-works/ http://www.blog.deanramsden.com/how-psychic-healing-works/#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:25:52 +0000 Dean Ramsden http://www.blog.deanramsden.com/?p=3684 There are two ways to gain life experience – and to process that experience. The first is to gain life experience yourself, to move through life events and necessary stages from the standpoint of primal innocence. It is as if you need a software program for your computer, and you build the code yourself, from scratch. The second way to gain life experience is to benefit from the experience and resources of another person: to learn from someone who has already processed aspects of the human experience and has produced a practical system to deal with life. This is analogous to downloading software to install on your computer. Within minutes you can have a software program (the energetic “wiring” to deal with things in a new way) running on your “hardware” (your auric energy body), and you can do things differently than before. You are now benefiting from another person’s work (the skill and effort they put into creating the program) and you are able to write your novel (Word Processor) or explore the internet (Web Browser).

In other words, psychic energy healing passes on life experience by upgrading your energy body via a direct interaction or your energy consciousness system with another. This teaching process occurs all the time in life. It happens when you are a baby, and your mother unconsciously passes on to you the life experience of being taken care of (mothering), and then teaches you how to take care of yourself (to become a young adult). It happens at school when you are impacted by teachers and school friends, gaining both practical information (language skills, social skills, and so on) as well as vital life skills ( interacting with individuals other than your family, including those that may mock you or attack you for no obvious reason.). The act of living is about gaining both bad experiences and good experiences. In the first, we are learning through trial-and-error: the hard way. In having good experiences we reinforce our ability to individuate (separate our psyches from the mass consciousness of family and society) and come to be able to have a good life – to make money, find companionship and love, express ourselves creatively, to have children of our own, and to grow as a spiritual being.

Psychic healing is the specialized skill or knowledge to be able to affect our consciousness … that which supports good experiences for us, and also which heals bad experiences. There are many relationships that do this: the mother, father, teacher, friend, lover, priest, or guru. Whenever someone helps you to understand your life, or helps you make better decisions for yourself, that individual is acting as a healer for you. They have something (life experience) that you currently do not have. And you do not have to reinvent the wheel, or build any software program of consciousness from scratch. You can learn it from another. Or, you can spend time around someone who knows something you need to understand, and hope that it is transmitted to you.

We learn about life from our parents. From our siblings. From our schooling experiences. From our relationships with others. And we learn from our mistakes. We search for information on how to live when we align with a religious path, or study with a spiritual teacher. We learn about life through falling in love with others, or by the ending of an important relationship. We may learn through reading a book, or listening to an educational lecture, or even through the impact of a psychoactive drug. Human beings are very versatile in gaining life experience from other people, or by joining a group of people such as a spiritual/religious community. Downloading life experience is what human beings do in order to progress themselves.

Psychic healing is a specialized form of this process of personal development. It deals by working directly with the human energy system: the auric field, the chakras, the chakra cords, along with the spirit (or Astral) word. When done correctly it makes the gaining of good life experience and the repair work of dealing with a bad experience (such as emotional wounding or relationship trauma) proceed faster, and with added efficiency. It’s analogous to when you need your car repaired. Yes, you can buy your own tools, and a book on how to repair the brakes on your car. You can learn to do it yourself, slowly, over time. Or, you can choose to take your car to the car mechanic. He may be able to repair your brakes quickly, so you can move on with your life. Psychic healing is the auto repair work of the human energy consciousness system. And it should effect a practical change in you.

Human beings all deal with similar issues: poor health, challenging relationships situations, personal growth concerns, and processing trauma or loss in their lives. The psychic healer’s work is to supplement the help of your physician by working with bio-energy to strengthen your organs. The psychic healer can supplement psychotherapy by opening your eyes to the hidden world of the astral, and helping to effect a necessary change in your inner world. The psychic healer can support your personal growth by helping you access latent abilities, or can help you understand your challenges from a new perspective. And, the psychic healer can assist you in letting go of the past so you can then move on, and create better a better life in the future.

Traditionally the psychic healer is an individual able to enter into the world of spirits, and who has experience in interacting with forces within the psyche that are usually hidden, or sometimes which masquerade as other things. The psychic healer should able to transmit (or direct) bio-energy that can upgrade your auric energy field. He or she may be able to see things in you that others don’t see: your potential. The psychic healer should be able to work with you as both a struggling human being and as an embodied soul. In that dance – between awakening of spirit in the body and sifting through life experience to evolve to our highest potential – we all need support.

We do not need to learn the dance of life alone. Other people can teach us all the steps, can train us how to move and flow. And then we can move on to have a full life, a good life. We can embrace  the life that we were always meant to live. We can be free.

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My own first experience of the psychic world was a classical absent healing. At thirty years old I had received surgery for the removal a cancerous tumor, and was contemplating a prophylactic – and risky – course of radiation therapy. I don’t remember how I found this wonderful English spiritualist medium who worked with her father, a physician. She took my name and information over the telephone, and said her father would “take a look at me” and report back to her on my health.

Her father had died ten years previously.

For my scientific brain at the time this was almost too much to accept; I was not the best candidate for accepting a spiritual medium at face value. Nevertheless, one week later I found myself calling her back for the results of her dead doctor’s visit with me. “My father says you are clear of cancer, and there will be no further problem with it.” Her warm and confident words melted away the icy fingers of fear that had been locked around my heart since my surgery. As a professional healer I never give any medical advice (it is practicing medicine without a license) and yet I still remember the impact of her words. Something shifted inside me, on that cold English evening long ago, when I knew with certainty that I would not die an early death. Faith healing? Not really. I had been touched by spirit.

It would be five more years before I would move from my meditation and martial art practices into the fledgling beginnings of my own spiritual energy work with others. This experience of an absent healing was the first step in my opening to the spirit world. Perhaps, like myself, an absent healing (minus the medical diagnosis and advice!) can move you in the right direction; to open up your mind beyond the rational medical system, and to accept the support of spirit.

Classical absent healing usually costs a minimal amount, enough to compensate the healer for their time. And how much had my first English medium asked, for working with me?

Nothing.

Upper chakra energy work consists of:

1. Guiding the natural energetic flow of prana up the client’s Sushumna nadi (the energetic aspect of the spinal cord) with the intention to widen it, allowing for more bandwidth to become available for Earth Qi to energize the client’s system.

2. The previous clearing work on Talu chakra (during the first two sessions of the Six Session Series) is then taken to the next level by drawing refined prana (i.e., prana now transmuted through the client’s consciousness system from journeying up the chakra system) around, and into, the depolarized and astrally-cleared brainstem.

3. The flow of refined prana is then directed up and towards the back of the head, to nourish Bindu chakra, and access to the Higher Astral.

4. This increasingly highly-energized prana is then directed horizontally through the structures of the energetic brain, inclusive of the pineal and pituitary glands, the amygdala, and related structures.

5. The final destination for this protocol is Agnya chakra: the third eye, and pre-frontal lobe development. The pranic flow terminates here, feeding Agnya chakra with information gleaned from its journey throughout the entire energy body. Agnya chakra can now provide the specific insights needed for further personal growth.

The practical result of all this work is to support or stimulate the client towards increasingly higher levels of consciousness. In effect, it speeds up your personal process. All of us are wired for upper chakra functioning, but most don’t have it activated or integrated into their functioning senses. This work is designed to help you gain access to greater insight, and increased perception.

The final part of any Six Session chakra work is to encourage the Guru chakra to enhance its connections with the lower and more personality-focused (or individuated) chakras. The Guru chakra, located just above the top of the head, contains the distillation and advanced witnessing capability that reduces all life experiences into distilled soul learning. It digests and leaves behind personality-driven memories, and deposits only spiritual awareness and compassion into the higher consciousness of the soul.

This is what we take with us into our next incarnation: distilled life experience, drawn through the Guru chakra. What is not fully processed or completed in our lives may remain lodged in the auric field until such a time as it can be solved in another incarnation. Undigested life lessons are the subject of Past Life healing, and are dealt with separately outside of the Six Session Series format. Past Life healings move towards completing the life lessons of a previous life, thereby freeing up vital reserves of “auric processing power” for our current incarnation.

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1. By clearing blockages or stagnant energy flows from our energy body, including Astral healing work.

2. Reconnecting or repairing the “wiring” of consciousness, so that what needs to work does work: the chakra system, and your chakra cords.

3. Assist the client in resolving inner (personal) developmental issues, relationship issues (adult-adult), and to face the universal/divine meaning of their life challenges.

4. Deepen the client’s personal development by re-initializing their energy system so that they can further evolve, or can move from a place where their lives may have been co-opted by trauma, or not receiving adequate nourishment from life.

The Level One energy healer can help to clear blockages in the energy body using multiple techniques or styles (point #1), but they may be limited in helping in points # 2 – 4. This is where the Level Two energy healer – one who has been trained by a ritual elder – offers clear benefits. In order to succeed in their own training the Level Two healer has had to face their own struggles in healing past wounds, which provides personal growth for them.

Chakra Clearing

But there are also limitations in choosing a Level Two healer, due to the reality that deep personal growth only takes place over time. Any certificate of training will not guarantee the effectiveness of the healer; it will only verify that they have finished their course of study. Because an energy healer is channeling life force (prana) via the vehicle of their own consciousness system, the quality of that prana is always dependent upon the depth of personal growth of that healer. They cannot pass on to you what they have not attained for themselves. When you receive a healing from a newly-minted energy healer graduate it will be noticeably different by that offered by an experienced healer: one who is at Level Three or Level Four.  All maturity needs life experience, and there is no substitute.

The main problem of our modern society (2010) is that the cognitive apprenticeship method – ideal for training energy healers – is so hard to find, partly due to an explosion of simplistic energy healing methods that jockey for prominence in the eyes of the public. Just as digital film making has replaced real movie scenery with computer-generated fantasies, modern energy healing styles attempts to replace the trained healer (Levels Two-Four) with the uninitiated healer (Level One), to pass them off as equal in value.

In the end the touchstone in any professional field is that the work leads to effective and sustainable results. Energy healing is just another form of massage unless it deeply affects the consciousness of the client, and provides a definite change in the feeling body, and in the physical body. A Level One healer can produce such shifts … but they will usually not be sustainable, nor may they lead to deep personal growth. Like a flat battery getting a cable boost from a stronger car battery, the client’s energetic “engine” will start. But such results often fade with time, because the underlying structural problems have not been addressed. Simplistic energy healing work can be palliative, but not curative.

By contrast, experienced and trained energy healers offer long-term strategies to their clients, providing both immediate change and sustainable growth.

If you have already received a Level One healing you may have become disappointed that the results did not sustain over time, or that nothing really changed for you. You may have lost confidence in the field of spiritual or energy healing. I do encourage you to try again, this time by finding an experienced and trained practitioner. Even better, try several different healers and energy healing styles, until you find one that works really well for you. Invest your time and hard-earned money in your personal development; it affects everything of importance in your life.  You will know you have found an effective healer when you start moving in the right direction in your life … and you keep on going. Again, it will take time, but one day you will become a new person, the person you were always meant to become in this lifetime. And you will never look back.

We are energy beings incarnated into a physical body. So the question is: why do it? What is the endgame of such a tremendous endeavor: the pouring of our multiple-frequency spiritual identity into low density matter? After all, higher-dimensional beings such as Angels are reportedly quite happy, as Baroque Angel paintings show. So, what do incarnating humans hope to achieve that can go beyond what the Angelic higher realms already offer?

Perhaps the answer lies in our desire to embrace a spiritual freedom. Freedom to create, freedom to explore, freedom to express all sides of the universal manifest reality. And the freedom to make mistakes. Lots of them. Even though such a freedom will bring with it loss, and release from old ways of being. More than one golden childhood will be lost to us in our lifetime.

Energy Healing can support spiritual freedom when it floods our undeveloped or traumatized systems with fresh and novel energy that leads us into becoming aware of things in a new way. It supports us in being willing to face ourselves – and the world in which we live – through a radically different perspective. Trained Energy Healing is the transfer of prana, and when this life force passes from healer to client it can be with the higher intention to awaken or support personal development in the other. This intention can help the client begin to question the fundamental assumptions of their problem, rather than to settle for an easy answer.

Freedom always questions authority. Freedom must never assume we (or another) have all the answers. Authoritarian control systems, whether internal ones (our critical voice within) or external ones (any political system) want us to take their answers, and their conclusions, at face value. These control systems tell us we are right when we accept their motives, their goals, their agendas. But inner and outer control systems have a vested interest in us remaining asleep, unconscious, repetitiously running on the same hamster wheel of denial. Good for them, but not so good for us.

Which means we have to start learning how to ask the right questions again, just like the inquisitive children we once were. We have to start thinking again, and thinking is hard work. But Energy Healing can direct the energetic consciousness of transformation to flow into those parts of our psyche, our feelings, and our body, that unconsciously resist recognizing meaningful truth. The truth we resist is like helium inflating a balloon; when it flows it enables us to fly.  Only by facing the raw, uncensored truth about our lives can we ever choose to change, and to evolve ourselves. Our inner Baroque Angel may find itself evolving into something even more magnificent: a free human being.

Then we can really fly.

Then, in the midst of an energy healing session, my spirit helper had nudged me and pointed at the chakra cord I was cleaning. “There, you see those thin branches sprouting out of the relational cord going towards her mother? They root back into the chakra, and anchor the experience of “Mother” into her auric system. Try gently pulling them back towards the head of the chakra. See what happens when you do so.”

I had tried to take hold of these newly-discovered branching cords but they were, indeed, tiny and extremely delicate. It took a few more healing sessions before I had learned how to take hold of  each fragile “self-cord” and gently move them into contact with the outer edge of the chakra. Then I watched as, like a magnet attaching to metal, the self-cord automatically attached itself into the chakra, and stayed in place. At least, most of the time. Sometimes they just sprang back to their former position, of hanging out next to their host cord.

But I persisted in learning this new skill, and I’m glad I did. The positive results of self-cord work have been reported back to me from my clients over the past six years.  Self-cord attachment has become a vital part of my healing work: the energetic anchoring of “the experience of the other” into the auric consciousness system. These days – and without dramatic catharsis – many of my clients make slow, steady, but significant shifts in their perception of themselves as individuated beings.

With this particular relational energy healing skill, nice and easy does it. Of course catharsis can be helpful in certain cases of repressed expression, but it is not essential for all stages of our personal growth work. Growing a stable connection to the self is essential to us all, and self-cord work can help that process.

The intention and focusing abilities that the individual Level One healer brings to their healing work improves upon this process: an energy healing with a receptive “client” and intuitive “healer”. Assuming that the healer has a stronger energy field than the client, the other will be energized by this process, as well as gain increased mental clarity and a sense of well-being.

The Level Two energy healer refers to someone who has been trained in useful healing skills, such as Qi Gong, Craniosacral Therapy, or who are a graduate of an in-depth energy healing school. Undergoing a long-term training to be able to practice specific skills increases the strength and frequency width of pranic energies able to flow through the trained healer, and hence into the energy field of their client. The results obtained by Level Two healing skills are then verified through professional experience: in other words, consistent results should be expected from any Level Two healer. For instance, if I have learned a healing skill that energizes the Lower Dantien in my Qi Gong training I can expect my clients to experience a certain effect when I apply that skill, in this case an increased grounding of the client into her physical body. The two hallmarks of the Level Two healer are effectiveness, and having undergone a certified training.

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