Energy Healing Made Easy

by Abby Wynne

  Breathe and calm and relax your body. If you are having trouble relaxing, you may want to do the grounding exercise.

  When you are ready, set your intention out loud: ‘I take back my energy from (name the situation or person here). I release my need to control the situation or that person. I ask for my energies to come back now, cleansed and healed.’

  Wait, breathe and see how you feel. You might have had a flash in your mind, like a recognition or an answer to a question, or you might not; it doesn’t matter.

  Breathe, ground and come back to centre.

  Do this again the next day, and the day after that, until you feel all your energy has come back completely.

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  How will you know when you’ve come back completely? When you feel more grounded and centred around the situation or person, when news of them doesn’t throw you off balance, when you don’t feel as much emotional upheaval if you think about it.

  What we think about, or worry about subconsciously, we ‘feed’ with our energy. So, when we set our conscious awareness to clear something, it’s wonderful and it works, but then when we bring our focus to something else, our subconscious mind might slip back and reconnect to what we just disconnected from. This is why you have to do this work more than once. This is why you have to keep checking in even if it felt like you were fully disconnected from it.

  Why does this happen? Well, these subconscious connections have probably taken some time to grow, and so it’s not surprising that they may take some time to fade away. Keep going! There is usually work to be done on a deeper level. This is a process. You are learning a new way of using your energy as a resource for positive change and growth.

  One way to help clear out negative thoughts and beliefs is to write them down and work through them. Write out a list of the things you are deeply worried about, and the negative thoughts you have about these situations, yourself, or anything else that is disturbing you. If you can clear them yourself with your energy work, then go for it! But don’t be afraid to ask for help; remember that this work will help you free yourself up to have the happy life you deserve.

  Centring, grounding and expanding as a spiritual practice

  Use the major exercises we have done for centring, grounding and expanding, and turn them into your own spiritual practice. Once you have put the time in, they get easier to do, and you can then do them over a shorter period of time.

  For example, you could take five minutes to centre yourself, then take five minutes to ground yourself, then take another five minutes to expand. You might just want to take 10 minutes to ground, or another day you might prefer to take 15 minutes to expand.

  Always notice how you feel and do only what you feel you need to do that day. Pushing yourself too hard is not healthy and may create a dislike in your subconscious mind of doing any energy work at all. You may also notice that as you are doing healing work, your mind concentrates on the work you are doing and lets go of thoughts that may upset you or worry you. Just that alone may be enough to help you feel more like yourself again.

  This work is mindful. Bring your mind purposefully with you and away from worrying thoughts of the past and the future. Focus on something you are doing now, in the present moment.

  Mindfulness and Energy Healing as a spiritual practice

  Anything you do mindfully can become a spiritual practice. You can wash the dishes and feel better afterwards, if while you’re doing it you stop feeding your energies into anything that worries you. Just bring your focus of awareness into your centre, into your body and experience, and wash the dishes in a mindful way, instead of just doing it on autopilot.

  To do this effectively, your thought process may be like this:

  I run the tap, the water is warm. I get the sponge, I am pouring in the washing-up liquid, I mix the water and washing-up liquid and make bubbles. The bubbles are beautiful, the light touches off of them in a beautiful way. I put the plates and cutlery into the sink. I let them sit there and I look out of the window at the sky. The sun is going down, there are so many colours to see. The sky looks like a painting. I am breathing with the sky. I feel my feet on the ground, I can hear my breath. I bring my awareness back to the dishes and start to wash the first plate.

  Not like this:

  I run the tap, the water is warm. I get the sponge, I am pouring the washing-up liquid. I can see the price tag on the bottle and I remember going to the shop to buy it. My gosh, washing-up liquid is so expensive these days. This one was ridiculously expensive and that person on the till was so rude to me. I’m never going back into that shop again…

  And certainly not like this (!):

  I run the tap, the water is warm. I get the sponge, I am pouring in the washing-up liquid. I wonder how long this will take as I still need to complete that work project. Sigh. It should have been in last week. I really should have worked late last night to finish it, but I was too tired. I know that it will take at least another day or two before I can get it finished. I tried to tell my manager today but she was too busy to talk to me. I’m going to have to talk to her tomorrow about it; I hope they don’t bring this up at my review meeting…

  Do you see what I mean? Staying in the present with what is happening now, in this moment, is a spiritual practice when you bring your full awareness into it. Feeding the present moment instead of what happened in the shop, or what is going on at work, is what fills your soul up. This is you, feeding yourself. This is mindfulness as an Energy Healing practice, giving you more energy for what life brings.

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  Exercise: mindful relaxation

  Take about five minutes to do this exercise.

  Bring yourself into yourself by letting go of thoughts about anything other than what is happening now.

  Breathe and feel your feet on the ground, calm your mind and go into feeling.

  Feel your clothes on your body.

  Notice your hands. What do they look like?

  Turn them over and look at the lines on your hands. Follow them with your eyes.

  Do you feel your brain relaxing?

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  If you had trouble doing this, don’t worry, it’s a practice, and it takes practice!

  Don’t get angry or frustrated. Simply bring your focus and attention back to the present moment and start where you left off. You will be thinking thoughts. This is not about stopping thinking. It’s about paying attention to what you are thinking so that you stay in the present moment. Remember, the more attention you feed to yourself, the less you feed the fears, then you end up with fewer fears and more of you.

  It does get easier over time, so it stands to reason that when you start doing this, you will have more fears than you will once you get better at it. It’s harder work in the beginning but so worthwhile.

  What did you find your mind going back to most of the time? Is it a real fear or something that you are assuming is real? Get clear on it. You may want to write down everything that’s on your mind connected to this fear, so you can get it all out into the open, and not hide from it. Remember, being authentic and true to yourself is part of Energy Healing too. Telling yourself that something is big and scary when it really isn’t, takes you away from yourself and is an energy drain. And yes, talk to someone if you need to, take action if you need to.

  If there is a real issue that is upsetting you, you will have to do something real about it.

  Fire up your daily practice with intention

  By bringing your intention into mindfulness you can really connect to yourself. You can use power statements (affirmations) and clearing statements with mindfulness to create positive changes in your energy field.

  In this next exercise the intention is to call all your energies back into your body. You can change the intention to be whatever you feel you need, such as receiving healing, becoming more relaxed or releasing emotional or physical pain.

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  Exercise: using intention and healing as s
piritual practices

  Take a few minutes to do this exercise. Bring your awareness and attention into the present moment.

  Start by voicing the main intention of the exercise, ‘I call all my energy, from wherever I have invested it, to come back to my body now.’

  Wait and see how you feel. Breathe. If you need to centre yourself, do it. If you need to ground yourself, do it.

  Now move your focus of attention down (or up) your body, speaking (or thinking) your intention to each part of your physical body. For example:

  – ‘I bring my focus of awareness to my head.’

  – ‘I call all energies that are mine that belong in my head to come back now.’

  – ‘I bring my focus of awareness down to my face.’

  – ‘I call all energies from my face that may have left me, to come back now.’

  Work your way through your body, all the time staying in the present moment with your thoughts, all the time repeating the intention, so you might be saying things like ‘I call all my energy that has left my head, to come back to my head,’ and ‘I call all my energy that has left my heart, to come back to my heart.’ It’s a bit like going in deeper and performing the healing on each body part, instead of doing it just for your body as a whole.

  When you’ve finished calling all your energy back, do spend some time drawing down the healing light and making sure the energies that have come back are cleansed and healed; you don’t want them bringing back any emotional debris from wherever they may have come from!

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  You will find that by having a strong intention you automatically feel more contained in your physical body, you feel more centred and more grounded. There is a certainty and a focus when you have an intention, and using intention on a regular basis can increase your self-confidence and sense of self-worth too.

  Other ideas for a mindful Energy Healing practice

  You can bring mindfulness into anything – yoga, football, walking, even cleaning the house. Here are some ideas to start you off:

  Cook a mindful dinner, ‘fill it’ with healing energies and eat it mindfully. Notice how much better it tastes!

  Walk barefoot and feel the sensation of your feet touching the ground, the grass, the sand. Send healing into your feet, and send healing into the ground as you walk.

  Take a hot bath and connect to a healing energy of gratitude, washing every part of your body slowly, mindfully and with the healing energy of gratitude.

  Have a mindful cup of tea with yourself, centre yourself in your heart, connect to the healing light, infuse your tea with healing and as you sip, ask yourself if there is anything you need to know now, anything you are missing in your life. Have a notebook and pen beside you in case you want to write anything down.

  The key is to be completely in the present moment, not to feed your energies into the past or the future. And as I said before, it will get easier, until you find your way of being is like this more of the time.

  Breathing as a spiritual practice

  We have used breathing a lot in this book as a focus of our awareness, as an anchor to the present moment. We can use breathing to create a spiritual practice too. This is what we have done already with the breath:

  Using the breath to draw down the energy of uncon-ditional love, or to draw down the energy of healing.

  Using the breath to open up the flow in the body, to ‘push’ the energy of healing around our body.

  Using the breath to breathe out the lower, heavier vibrations of anxiety, fear, doubt, jealousy, anger, etc.

  Here’s a nice exercise. Use it every day for a week or so to see if it changes anything in your life.

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  Exercise: opening up to beauty

  Sit in a space of love. Bring the focus of your awareness into your body, connect into your centre, and then check that you are grounded.

  Imagine you are connecting the top of your head into a source of beauty. Wait until you feel you’ve connected in and notice how it feels: the texture, the brightness, the strength.

  Breathe in the beauty, and breathe out anything that is not beauty. Remember, the beauty you are breathing in is not you. It is an energetic source of beauty.

  Breathe in beauty, and feel your body opening up to beauty. Do you feel anxious doing this? Breathe out the anxiety. Go as deeply as you feel comfortable doing; each time you try this exercise you can go deeper.

  Breathe in Beauty. Breathe out all that is not beauty. Do this for five to 10 minutes, or longer if you want to.

  Let go of the breath and return to your natural breathing state.

  Ground, centre and close.

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  After doing this exercise with me in a session, one of my clients walked home and a complete stranger ran across the road to tell her that she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen!

  You can replace the energetic source of beauty with happiness, peace, joy, lightness, or gratitude. Choose something that you resonate with, stick with it for a few days and see how you feel.

  Who are you when you are your best, healed self?

  There is always work to be done, even if you feel like you have reached enlightenment. Enlightened people still have to do the mundane day-to-day tasks like cleaning the house and doing the cooking! You will still have difficult days and wonderful days. The difference is you won’t write off a whole day as a bad day if something upsets you, and you won’t feel like a victim any more, needing something or someone to blame. If you need a rest, take a rest. Enlightened people get tired too!

  One of my clients was visibly relieved when I told her that I make mistakes, that I have bad days and that I get upset by things just like she does. It’s not that I see myself as enlightened, but I’ve been using Energy Healing as a daily spiritual practice for many years. I breathe it and live it all day, every day. The first thing I do before anything else is to clear my energies. Even in writing this book, I cleared all the energies in the way of it, so it could be the best book I could write in that moment! My point is this – I still get angry, I still get upset. The difference is, I process it quickly. I let it go, rather than holding on to it for weeks and weeks and turning it into a grudge and never forgiving. I used to be like that – someone would say something nasty to me or behind my back, and I would be upset about it for months. It was like a wound that would never heal. Now it heals very much faster because I choose to focus on healing it, rather than letting it upset me.

  Holding on to emotional pain makes your body sick and that brings with it physical pain. Doing your work, clearing the energies and expanding and healing yourself releases emotional pain, and opens up your body so that it can heal itself at the physical level. Looking after your thoughts prevents you from creating more emotional pain for yourself.

  Become responsible for your energy!

  These techniques are meant for you to use and to use frequently, as often as you need to. They have helped people move away from depression and be empowered. They have helped people feel more secure in their lives and ‘grow out of’ panic attacks and phobias. When you clear away other people’s energies what’s left is your own, and that’s much easier to work with.

  As you probably have figured out at this stage, underneath the moving flowing energies, deep in your subconscious, probably still lie limiting beliefs, fears and emotional pain that may not shift quickly and easily with Energy Healing alone. Do your healing work, and your energies will expand, your vibration will rise. It becomes easier to go deep and excavate the bigger pieces as you heal, so you truly begin to resonate with all the good things you want in your life, and you start to see them coming in as a testimony to the work you are doing.

  Once you’re familiar with the techniques, do make the effort to use them in your daily life. Teach them to your friends, to your family, to your children. Play with them, have fun with them. Imagine a world where everyone is responsible for their own energy. That’s a world I want to live in!<
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  Resources

  In this resource section I cover asking for help, books to read and how I can help you.

  Asking for help

  This section is by no means complete. Throughout the book, I have said ‘Don’t be afraid to ask for help,’ so I wanted to give you some understanding of what type of help there is. In my years of experience as a therapist, I have found that clients feel disempowered at times by therapists. My aim here is to give you information that will empower you to ask good questions before you make a booking, and to know your rights when it comes to therapy, so that you can make the right decision for yourself based on your own good judgement and intuition.

  Many people decide to train in a specific therapy and become a therapist instead of actually going into process as a client. If you do want to become a therapist, you will become a stronger, more authentic therapist if you begin as a client and make a good start on your own work before beginning any training programmes. You will also gain the knowledge of what it is like to be a client, which enhances your personal skills if you decide to become a therapist!

  Choosing a therapy

  There are so many types of therapies to choose from it can be very confusing. I’ve listed and categorized some of the therapies here to make it a bit easier. I have not included all the different types of therapies that exist, just the more common ones. My descriptions are not definitive; they are brief, to give you a taste of what the therapy is about. If something appeals to you, I do urge you to look further into it to help you make up your mind.