Shifting of energies
Tomorrow is the full moon bringing the theme of releasing the old and making way for the new which is the perfect message for this blog post.
Over the weekend, I attended a retreat in Adelaide to learn more about craniosacral therapy. There were 16 of us students there and I didn't really know what to expect. I flew into Adelaide a day earlier and whilst I was having dinner with my friend, we were talking about how much had gone on for each of us in the past few months (more so for him as he experienced his kundalini awakening) and we were really not sure about what the weekend was going to hold for us. What we did know however was that there were going to be big shifts for both of us and boy the weekend really did not disappoint.
Friday started off quite early and having been introduced to the 16 other students and being allocated our rooms for the stay, we pretty much started practising the new techniques on each other. One such technique was unwinding - essentially it's taking a part of the body out of gravity and letting the body do what it needed to in order to release tension or pent up emotions. One of the guys did the unwinding on my arms, and when we finished, I initially felt nothing but quickly was overcome with emotion and the tears started flowing from my eyes and wouldn't stop. Lots of other stuff happened but suffice to say that I had released some really deep down emotional stuff that I didn't know existed. A lot of you would know that I draw cards for myself every day and that when I meditate, I sometimes can see things and so that Friday, a lot of the messages and what I saw made a lot of sense. It's suffice to say that in a past life I was a monk and I believe that what happened to me after that was me releasing all vows that I had made as a monk that had stayed with me throughout all my other lives.
After that big release on Friday I didn't have much of a reaction after the other treatments so I was a bit apprehensive about what the days after the retreat would have in store for me. Well.. on the Monday I would start crying on the train to school for no reason, and whilst I was working on one of the students who had wanted me to release his shoulder, I felt this immense pain in my heart and started crying uncontrollably again. Thankfully one of the other students intuitively removed the emotions I had inadvertently absorbed from the other student so I was back to normal after that. Then on Tuesday again I had a couple of tears (not to mention an episode that made me incredibly frustrated and angry at the world) but I calmed down after that. I have never had that sort of experience before when I have worked on someone.
I spoke to one of the guys from the retreat who told me that the crying was a release of emotions and that it showed that my heart was becoming a lot more open. He also told me that given the big emotional releases we had over the weekend, it would make sense for us to all be experiencing an energetic shift in our bodies.
And boy did I experience that shift today! Today was the first time that I felt so anxious being in a huge crowd of people (i.e. I was just standing in line waiting for my food in a food court) that I started to get heart palpitations and really needed to remove myself from the situation to calm down! That has never happened to me before - not to mention when I was sitting at work my left hand started vibrating like crazy as well...
At this point in time I really don't know what other things will come about or open up as result of the work that was done at the retreat. What I have realised is that obviously everything happens for a reason and that these shifts are important for me to move into being a healer. In addition to that, I gained so many friends from that retreat it's like I found my tribe - I can't tell you how amazing it feels to find people who understand what you are talking about, have experienced similar things to you and don't find it weird when you decide to go up to an animal to try to talk to it or hug a tree (I didn't hug a tree but I really needed to touch a few to ground myself during that time and they gave me some messages too).
My advice would be that you should really try to find a few days where you can escape from your world and just go to a place where you can really focus on yourself. That time is really important. Not only that, embrace the opportunity to shift your energies or in other words, get rid of what no longer serves your purpose so you can make way for what does.
Over the weekend, I attended a retreat in Adelaide to learn more about craniosacral therapy. There were 16 of us students there and I didn't really know what to expect. I flew into Adelaide a day earlier and whilst I was having dinner with my friend, we were talking about how much had gone on for each of us in the past few months (more so for him as he experienced his kundalini awakening) and we were really not sure about what the weekend was going to hold for us. What we did know however was that there were going to be big shifts for both of us and boy the weekend really did not disappoint.
Friday started off quite early and having been introduced to the 16 other students and being allocated our rooms for the stay, we pretty much started practising the new techniques on each other. One such technique was unwinding - essentially it's taking a part of the body out of gravity and letting the body do what it needed to in order to release tension or pent up emotions. One of the guys did the unwinding on my arms, and when we finished, I initially felt nothing but quickly was overcome with emotion and the tears started flowing from my eyes and wouldn't stop. Lots of other stuff happened but suffice to say that I had released some really deep down emotional stuff that I didn't know existed. A lot of you would know that I draw cards for myself every day and that when I meditate, I sometimes can see things and so that Friday, a lot of the messages and what I saw made a lot of sense. It's suffice to say that in a past life I was a monk and I believe that what happened to me after that was me releasing all vows that I had made as a monk that had stayed with me throughout all my other lives.
After that big release on Friday I didn't have much of a reaction after the other treatments so I was a bit apprehensive about what the days after the retreat would have in store for me. Well.. on the Monday I would start crying on the train to school for no reason, and whilst I was working on one of the students who had wanted me to release his shoulder, I felt this immense pain in my heart and started crying uncontrollably again. Thankfully one of the other students intuitively removed the emotions I had inadvertently absorbed from the other student so I was back to normal after that. Then on Tuesday again I had a couple of tears (not to mention an episode that made me incredibly frustrated and angry at the world) but I calmed down after that. I have never had that sort of experience before when I have worked on someone.
I spoke to one of the guys from the retreat who told me that the crying was a release of emotions and that it showed that my heart was becoming a lot more open. He also told me that given the big emotional releases we had over the weekend, it would make sense for us to all be experiencing an energetic shift in our bodies.
And boy did I experience that shift today! Today was the first time that I felt so anxious being in a huge crowd of people (i.e. I was just standing in line waiting for my food in a food court) that I started to get heart palpitations and really needed to remove myself from the situation to calm down! That has never happened to me before - not to mention when I was sitting at work my left hand started vibrating like crazy as well...
At this point in time I really don't know what other things will come about or open up as result of the work that was done at the retreat. What I have realised is that obviously everything happens for a reason and that these shifts are important for me to move into being a healer. In addition to that, I gained so many friends from that retreat it's like I found my tribe - I can't tell you how amazing it feels to find people who understand what you are talking about, have experienced similar things to you and don't find it weird when you decide to go up to an animal to try to talk to it or hug a tree (I didn't hug a tree but I really needed to touch a few to ground myself during that time and they gave me some messages too).
My advice would be that you should really try to find a few days where you can escape from your world and just go to a place where you can really focus on yourself. That time is really important. Not only that, embrace the opportunity to shift your energies or in other words, get rid of what no longer serves your purpose so you can make way for what does.