Appreciate your uniqueness
This week during class, I began to feel a bit "behind" the other guys in my class when they were covering things like trigger point therapy and active, passive and resisted range of motions. During my studies of Cert IV massage at my other college, I never learnt that type of stuff so when I could see the amount of knowledge that my fellow classmates had in that area, a part of me sunk.
However, given the "training" I had been doing through Marisa Peer's course, I realised this habit that I had of comparing myself to others and completely forgetting about the knowledge and skills that I have and that make me unique. For example, no one in my class knows craniosacral therapy, none of them have done myofascial release and none of them can perform the type of energy healing that I can do currently. As soon as I started thinking that way, I remembered a lovely SMS from one of my clients this morning that wished me luck with my interview with an online blog as well as showing appreciation for the skills that I had. One of my classmates told me that on Facebook she had shared my business page and told her friends how much she appreciated the healing that I had performed on her.
What really hit it home today for me about embracing my uniqueness was when I worked on another classmate's ankle today. I had had an inkling the past couple of weeks that there was something I had to do with her, and it seemed like she always had my back. For example, whilst I was doing all this energy work on other classmates, she'd come up and just give my shoulders a good massage. Or when we'd just chat in general about things, she would really maintain eye contact and it seemed like she was talking to another aspect of you. She's an aromatherapist, and when I told her about my interest in looking into essential oils and how I have had difficulty sleeping, she went home, made a blend for encouraging deep sleep and gave it to me today (bless her)! Today I found out that she had been a marathon runner and, amongst her other injuries, she had torn her achilles tendon a few years ago so experienced a lot of discomfort in her ankle. I asked if I could work on her ankle as a thank you for the support she had been giving me and started to do my usual work on it. During the session, the air went considerably cold and I knew that someone from the spirit world was around. I didn't know who it was, but I knew that it wasn't one of mine. It took a while but I realised that it was her mother (as she told me her mother had died around the same time the achilles tendon snapped). When that was confirmed, I felt tears welling up in my eyes (and she did as well) - it was like happy tears from her mother to tell her daughter that she was around and still keeping her company. The feeling was surreal for me, but for my classmate, she said that whilst I was working on her it felt like so much of what she had held in that ankle had been released and once I finished, her ankle felt so much lighter. She also said something that really hit home to me "You have a beautiful gift".
Wow. You know when there are some things that people say that make you stop in your tracks and leave you with a really good feeling in your heart? That statement was one of them. No one has ever said something like that to me and it just proved to me that, whilst I might not have as much knowledge physically about certain things around the body and I might be behind on that stuff (trust me I have the textbook next to me as I type this as I'll be refreshing myself right after I press publish), my specialty lies in the energetic and spiritual dimension, and even though I have a lot more work to do in terms of the "mediumship" side of things, I know that part of what I'm supposed to do is to bring comfort to my clients that their deceased loved ones are OK and send their love.
So for now, that is what makes me unique to others, and I'm going to embrace it! You should embrace your uniqueness too.
However, given the "training" I had been doing through Marisa Peer's course, I realised this habit that I had of comparing myself to others and completely forgetting about the knowledge and skills that I have and that make me unique. For example, no one in my class knows craniosacral therapy, none of them have done myofascial release and none of them can perform the type of energy healing that I can do currently. As soon as I started thinking that way, I remembered a lovely SMS from one of my clients this morning that wished me luck with my interview with an online blog as well as showing appreciation for the skills that I had. One of my classmates told me that on Facebook she had shared my business page and told her friends how much she appreciated the healing that I had performed on her.
What really hit it home today for me about embracing my uniqueness was when I worked on another classmate's ankle today. I had had an inkling the past couple of weeks that there was something I had to do with her, and it seemed like she always had my back. For example, whilst I was doing all this energy work on other classmates, she'd come up and just give my shoulders a good massage. Or when we'd just chat in general about things, she would really maintain eye contact and it seemed like she was talking to another aspect of you. She's an aromatherapist, and when I told her about my interest in looking into essential oils and how I have had difficulty sleeping, she went home, made a blend for encouraging deep sleep and gave it to me today (bless her)! Today I found out that she had been a marathon runner and, amongst her other injuries, she had torn her achilles tendon a few years ago so experienced a lot of discomfort in her ankle. I asked if I could work on her ankle as a thank you for the support she had been giving me and started to do my usual work on it. During the session, the air went considerably cold and I knew that someone from the spirit world was around. I didn't know who it was, but I knew that it wasn't one of mine. It took a while but I realised that it was her mother (as she told me her mother had died around the same time the achilles tendon snapped). When that was confirmed, I felt tears welling up in my eyes (and she did as well) - it was like happy tears from her mother to tell her daughter that she was around and still keeping her company. The feeling was surreal for me, but for my classmate, she said that whilst I was working on her it felt like so much of what she had held in that ankle had been released and once I finished, her ankle felt so much lighter. She also said something that really hit home to me "You have a beautiful gift".
Wow. You know when there are some things that people say that make you stop in your tracks and leave you with a really good feeling in your heart? That statement was one of them. No one has ever said something like that to me and it just proved to me that, whilst I might not have as much knowledge physically about certain things around the body and I might be behind on that stuff (trust me I have the textbook next to me as I type this as I'll be refreshing myself right after I press publish), my specialty lies in the energetic and spiritual dimension, and even though I have a lot more work to do in terms of the "mediumship" side of things, I know that part of what I'm supposed to do is to bring comfort to my clients that their deceased loved ones are OK and send their love.
So for now, that is what makes me unique to others, and I'm going to embrace it! You should embrace your uniqueness too.