Learning new things
This week has been a bit of a crazy week in terms of making big decisions and also learning more things. I am constantly challenged every single day to be a better person, and believe you me, some days are a lot harder than others! Today I caught myself creating a stupid assumption that a work mate was pissed off at me because I wasn't easily going to sign a document for him and got someone else in on the deal. Stupid huh but I'm sure you guys have been there and done that.
So what else has happened? More avenues of healing have opened up to me. On Tuesday, I was massaging someone and when I was working on his glutes, I started to feel a circular and pulsing sensation underneath my fingers. Then as I was working on around his scapula area, he commented that he was feeling heat from my hands but the heat wasn't uncomfortable. What did I feel? I didn't feel any heat whatsoever and all I felt was a pulsing sensation - not circular like around the glutes. I was due to have lunch with MM on Thursday, so quickly messaged him to tell him to remind me to talk about this experience and that I'd see him on Thursday.
On Thursday, we caught up and MM confirmed my suspicions around what had happened earlier. I was somehow doing some sort of energetic healing, something like reiki. He said the circular movements I was feeling around the glutes may be that I was tapping into the client's chakra point. He gave an explanation that the "heat" felt by the client could be the release of the fascia around that area or energy. So yea not only can I tap into the cranial wave of a person, but it seems that I've been doing a bit of energetic healing too. That's kind of not surprising given that my crystal healer keeps telling me that I was meant to heal on an energetic level, but I had always thought that I would figure that out by doing an actual course on reiki (i.e. I had to be "attuned" or whatever) but it seems that this tapping in of energy also comes natural to me.
MM then proceeded to tell me the importance of a technique called anchoring - which is what craniosacral therapists use to ensure that they are grounded when tapping into someone elses' energy. It's essentially thinking that there's a rope coming out of the back of your skull and anchoring you into the ground (think of a tent and the strings that hold the tent in place - i.e. the angle formed by the string and peg), and also think that a pole is essentially going through the centre of my body and connecting me directly into the Earth. He said that this allowed me to tap into someone's energy without getting sucked into it - it was always my reference point when I was doing cranial stuff.
I (and I think he too) was a bit worried that I was absorbing other people's energies when I was doing cranio sacral work. Whenever I touched a client, I was always repeating in my head "observe only observe only", and when I started to feel the same sensations as the client, I wasn't sure whether this was normal or not. MM told me that was normal, but I shouldn't try to control things - that's what he meant by absorbing the other person's energy. I.e. once I tapped in, I shouldn't try to dive deeper than what the body was currently working with, or try to control healing to a different area of the body that currently wasn't worked on. So it turns out I had nothing to worry about - I was doing the right thing, I wasn't absorbing the other person's energy, so now I have learnt the anchoring technique.
So MM opened up a lot more about the spiritual side of healing and that saying that it was important that we as practitioners didn't go there unless the client themselves were ready fo it. That makes sense. I was telling him how only in the past few months have I grown so much in the spiritual sense and he looked directly at me and said "I can tell you exactly when that happened". Of course with that comment my inner reaction was "WTF" and I asked him what he meant and he said that when he was working on me a couple of months ago, he worked on my 3rd vertebrae and through cranio sacral therapy, he released a lot of things that were apparently buried in there. It then clicked with me and he confirmed that it was the time when I told him I had made the decision to change my career... and quite frankly, he was right that that was the point when my spiritual learning went up like crazy.
We then got on the topic of my other decision that week and I was saying how I'd love to work with him in the future and he said if I was serious about it, he was open to discussing a partnership in the future which was awesome!!!
Anyway, we also become Facebook friends and he started tagging me in various posts. One of them was about a 2 day course being held in Australia in December which teaches this neuro skeletal technique. In a nutshell it's basically a way to diagnose communication "blockages" between the neural system and the body that governs movement. MM told me he was going to the workshop in Melbourne and at that point I wasn't sure whether I had enough knowledge (i.e. anatomical knowledge) to attend. However, as I was reading a bit more into the course, it turns out some knowledge was good but they were going to teach you everything you needed to know anyway so I started to feel a bit more comfortable about the course. I then watched a video and saw that it was very similar to kinesiology so I went to bed asking God "can you give me a sign to let me know whether I should do this or not?".
Well.. I slept and can't remember a single thing :P But in the back of my mind I was hesitating because I had already booked myself in for various social events for the weekends on which the courses were going to be held around Australia. I was torn between whether I should cancel on the social function or go to this course. After chatting to some friends, and consulting my angel cards (who decided to give me the very clear "YES" card... I mean out of 44 cards in the mermaids deck the "YES" card came up when I asked the question), then I knew that I had to attend this course. So I've registered for the course, booked my plane tickets (thanks frequent flyer points) and my Melbourne Airbnb host has confirmed that I can stay with her. Whooo! It's funny how things turn out when you make the right decision that is consistent with your life path.
Oh and to completely digress, this morning as I was lying in bed I felt my hands pulsating. So I suspected maybe it was the energy stuff again so I thought I'd try reiki and place my hands over (but not touching) the chakra points of my body. The most interesting thing happened when I placed my hands over my third eye chakra. The area became extremely hot, but when I touched my hands to my face, my hands were not hot. Weird huh!
And to top things off, the HR director asked me if I could assist her with the leadership retreat that is happening at the end of November. I said sure but I wasn't sure what she wanted. Turns out she wants me to facilitate meditation sessions for the leadership team so I'm going to conduct a 20 min meditation with the leadership team at the beginning and end of each day of the retreat! That is going to be interesting!
So it looks like there are going to be some interesting things coming up for me over the next couple of months. I can't wait to attend this 2 day course (which is made even better because MM will be there with me too - he was pleased I was going when I told him today) and here's hoping I manage to figure out what the heck I'm doing with this meditation thing!
So what else has happened? More avenues of healing have opened up to me. On Tuesday, I was massaging someone and when I was working on his glutes, I started to feel a circular and pulsing sensation underneath my fingers. Then as I was working on around his scapula area, he commented that he was feeling heat from my hands but the heat wasn't uncomfortable. What did I feel? I didn't feel any heat whatsoever and all I felt was a pulsing sensation - not circular like around the glutes. I was due to have lunch with MM on Thursday, so quickly messaged him to tell him to remind me to talk about this experience and that I'd see him on Thursday.
On Thursday, we caught up and MM confirmed my suspicions around what had happened earlier. I was somehow doing some sort of energetic healing, something like reiki. He said the circular movements I was feeling around the glutes may be that I was tapping into the client's chakra point. He gave an explanation that the "heat" felt by the client could be the release of the fascia around that area or energy. So yea not only can I tap into the cranial wave of a person, but it seems that I've been doing a bit of energetic healing too. That's kind of not surprising given that my crystal healer keeps telling me that I was meant to heal on an energetic level, but I had always thought that I would figure that out by doing an actual course on reiki (i.e. I had to be "attuned" or whatever) but it seems that this tapping in of energy also comes natural to me.
MM then proceeded to tell me the importance of a technique called anchoring - which is what craniosacral therapists use to ensure that they are grounded when tapping into someone elses' energy. It's essentially thinking that there's a rope coming out of the back of your skull and anchoring you into the ground (think of a tent and the strings that hold the tent in place - i.e. the angle formed by the string and peg), and also think that a pole is essentially going through the centre of my body and connecting me directly into the Earth. He said that this allowed me to tap into someone's energy without getting sucked into it - it was always my reference point when I was doing cranial stuff.
I (and I think he too) was a bit worried that I was absorbing other people's energies when I was doing cranio sacral work. Whenever I touched a client, I was always repeating in my head "observe only observe only", and when I started to feel the same sensations as the client, I wasn't sure whether this was normal or not. MM told me that was normal, but I shouldn't try to control things - that's what he meant by absorbing the other person's energy. I.e. once I tapped in, I shouldn't try to dive deeper than what the body was currently working with, or try to control healing to a different area of the body that currently wasn't worked on. So it turns out I had nothing to worry about - I was doing the right thing, I wasn't absorbing the other person's energy, so now I have learnt the anchoring technique.
So MM opened up a lot more about the spiritual side of healing and that saying that it was important that we as practitioners didn't go there unless the client themselves were ready fo it. That makes sense. I was telling him how only in the past few months have I grown so much in the spiritual sense and he looked directly at me and said "I can tell you exactly when that happened". Of course with that comment my inner reaction was "WTF" and I asked him what he meant and he said that when he was working on me a couple of months ago, he worked on my 3rd vertebrae and through cranio sacral therapy, he released a lot of things that were apparently buried in there. It then clicked with me and he confirmed that it was the time when I told him I had made the decision to change my career... and quite frankly, he was right that that was the point when my spiritual learning went up like crazy.
We then got on the topic of my other decision that week and I was saying how I'd love to work with him in the future and he said if I was serious about it, he was open to discussing a partnership in the future which was awesome!!!
Anyway, we also become Facebook friends and he started tagging me in various posts. One of them was about a 2 day course being held in Australia in December which teaches this neuro skeletal technique. In a nutshell it's basically a way to diagnose communication "blockages" between the neural system and the body that governs movement. MM told me he was going to the workshop in Melbourne and at that point I wasn't sure whether I had enough knowledge (i.e. anatomical knowledge) to attend. However, as I was reading a bit more into the course, it turns out some knowledge was good but they were going to teach you everything you needed to know anyway so I started to feel a bit more comfortable about the course. I then watched a video and saw that it was very similar to kinesiology so I went to bed asking God "can you give me a sign to let me know whether I should do this or not?".
Well.. I slept and can't remember a single thing :P But in the back of my mind I was hesitating because I had already booked myself in for various social events for the weekends on which the courses were going to be held around Australia. I was torn between whether I should cancel on the social function or go to this course. After chatting to some friends, and consulting my angel cards (who decided to give me the very clear "YES" card... I mean out of 44 cards in the mermaids deck the "YES" card came up when I asked the question), then I knew that I had to attend this course. So I've registered for the course, booked my plane tickets (thanks frequent flyer points) and my Melbourne Airbnb host has confirmed that I can stay with her. Whooo! It's funny how things turn out when you make the right decision that is consistent with your life path.
Oh and to completely digress, this morning as I was lying in bed I felt my hands pulsating. So I suspected maybe it was the energy stuff again so I thought I'd try reiki and place my hands over (but not touching) the chakra points of my body. The most interesting thing happened when I placed my hands over my third eye chakra. The area became extremely hot, but when I touched my hands to my face, my hands were not hot. Weird huh!
And to top things off, the HR director asked me if I could assist her with the leadership retreat that is happening at the end of November. I said sure but I wasn't sure what she wanted. Turns out she wants me to facilitate meditation sessions for the leadership team so I'm going to conduct a 20 min meditation with the leadership team at the beginning and end of each day of the retreat! That is going to be interesting!
So it looks like there are going to be some interesting things coming up for me over the next couple of months. I can't wait to attend this 2 day course (which is made even better because MM will be there with me too - he was pleased I was going when I told him today) and here's hoping I manage to figure out what the heck I'm doing with this meditation thing!