Looking back

I think it's pretty fair to say that over this year I have experienced a high-speed spiritual journey. It goes to show that everything that happens to you happens for a certain reason - you won't understand why at that point in time, but generally it is revealed to you later and you turn back and say "wow"!

 My path to being a healer

 In my previous post, I hinted at being interested in health when I was in school, yet chose the legal path. Here's a couple of things that happened in my life that all pointed to me eventually getting to where I am now:

  • In Year 10 at high school, most of us needed to get some work experience that was set up by the school. At that stage, I wanted to be a physiotherapist so that was where I did my work experience. 
  • It was only when I was in Year 11 did I think I'd go and become a lawyer instead? Why? Partly to appease my parents in terms of going for a job that apparently made lots of money, partly because I became enamoured with the TV series JAG, and more so because I wanted to help people and thought the law would be a good way (as I didn't I'd get enough marks to do medicine).
  • Anyway, at the end of the HSC, turns out I didn't get the marks to do medicine but certainly got them to do the law and that set me on the way.
  • Fast forward 5 years and as a graduate, I scored a job with the Australian government that required me to move to the ACT. Not in the law, but definitely on the path of the law in terms of intellectual property, which was something I was interested in.
  • Whilst working for the government, I became active in lunchtime sports. Unfortunately that led to me tearing my ACL and requiring surgery. This experience made me fascinated with the human body again and I seriously considered whether to go back to Uni to study medicine. The decision at that time was to continue with the law - I hadn't given it a go yet, and I was mid way through applying for legal jobs so thought I'd give it a go for 2 years, and if I didn't like it, I'd go back an study.
  • Fast forward 2 years and I'm working as in house counsel for a company. It wasn't that bad - the people were nice, the job was interesting, etc so I continued down that path.
  • After a few more years I found myself working for a law firm and ran into a lady who happened to be particularly intuitive about people and quite spiritual. She was my temporary personal assistant and she made a comment to me one day - that I seemed to have this "aura" of angriness about me. She told me quite bluntly that I had to let go of my past in order to move on (the context here is that I fell in love for the first time and was badly burnt by that relationship... years had past and I was still single and never understood why I couldn't meet anyone). Anyway, she told me to see her chiropractor who practiced kinesiology. I was opened minded and decided to go for it.
  • Meeting the chiropractor was a turning point in my life. I thought kinesiology was amazing and could feel the effects immediately - my friends noticed I had also changed. All of a sudden situations that would make me uncomfortable were perfectly fine and I really came out of my shell. Being a pretty inquisitive person, I was always asking questions of my chiropractor, and she was always very patient in explaining to me how things work.
  • I decided to sign up to this free weekend course of Touch for Health after that. I did it, walked away with a lot of tools and still use some of the tools to this day.
  • Then I reached another milestone in my life - finalising a mortgage for my first ever home. At that point I hadn't realised how stressed I was, and I thought everything was fine until the day of the move. My lower back suddenly seized up, I was in a lot of pain and I could barely bend over and it was difficult for me to walk. I had no idea what was going on - my chiropractor couldn't alleviate the pain, acupuncture didn't work. My boss at the time forced me to see his remedial massage therapist. Within 1 session, the pain had subsided 80%. After the 2nd session, it was gone. My massage therapist at the time explained why and deduced that my financial stress was the exact cause of the pain - now after all the research I understand the base chakra relates essentially to the lower back which is all about material needs (i.e. money) so no wonder lower back seized up!
  • Anyways, my chiropractor moved away so it made it quite difficult for me to see her. My remedial massage therapist suggested I see another chiropractor closer to me. He is my chiropractor to this day and luckily for me, is one of my mentors in going down this path.
  • In the meantime, working somewhere else now, I noticed how stressed out the lawyers were at the firm and was concerned when a lot of them exhibited pain in their shoulder, etc etc. So, I started doing some remedial massage on them during work hours (i.e. just finding knots in their shoulders and releasing them). The results were immediate - the knots released and they were relieved (until work stressed them out again).
  • I'd been going to see my remedial massage therapist on and off during this time. However, each session I'd come away with more knowledge, as he was more than happy to impart his knowledge onto me. When I revealed to him my decision to change and follow a path similar to his, he told me that he could see that I naturally had the ability in me and was happy to be my mentor. 
  • After that, I looked at places to enrol in a massage therapy course but ended up going with the college my remedial massage therapist recommended. And this is where I think if things are meant to be, it'll just work out. I made my decision to change around May this year. Whilst researching courses, the particular college recommended by my massage therapist had a course starting in September, which was perfect as I was going away to Europe for a month and coming back at the end of August! 
Now looking back over my life, it is so clear that the events that happened in my life happened for a particular reason. There are no coincidences right! 

Stay tuned for the next post where I'll take you on my spiritual journey from birth to now.



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