Question

[oselle]

Has anyone ever had any kind of "healing" or "energy cleansing" work done, either on yourself, your home, a place you were about to move into, or anything like that?

There's a new reality show on HGTV called Selling New York about NY real estate and a co-worker was telling me about this weekend's episode. It focused on this apartment that in spite of all its advantages simply would not sell. No one could figure out why. Finally the realtor brought in someone to "cleanse" its energy -- and apparently they got an offer on the apartment within three weeks. I looked up the guy who did it and found an article in the Daily News from two years ago. The article said this particular...healer (psychic? shaman?) only works directly with realtors. But it also profiled a woman named Sondra Shaye who owns a healing practice in Brooklyn with the promising name of Archangel Healing Light Center. She does both personal healings and property cleansing.

You can visit her website here: http://www.archangelhealinglightcenter.com/My_Homepage_Files/Page36.html

You can read the Daily News article here:
http://www.nydailynews.com/real_estate/2009/02/06/2009-02-06_the_clearings_space_healers_use_the_spir.html

My first reaction to such things is that these people are modern-day snakeoil salesmen, taking advantage of the desperate. After all, they've got the perfect racket -- offer salvation to people at the end of their ropes, for a tidy fee. Then of course if it doesn't work, it's because the client wasn't "open" enough or some shit.

But I'm heading in this direction because let me tell you -- I've been on a downward spiral for years and don't know how to get out of it. My health, my finances, my family, my general emotional state -- all disastrous. I feel like my apartment is absolutely toxic and like I myself am filled up with garbage. My most recent attempt at improvement was a chiropractor...and yesterday I decided to discontinue seeing him, upon his own advice, because none of it was working. All my other attempts to turn myself around -- traditional medicine, yoga, meditation, diet, physical therapy, religion -- have all failed too. I had joked with the chiropractor when I first saw him that he was my last stop before calling in a shaman. Maybe it's time to call in a shaman. I'm at the point where I don't care what it costs. But I'd love some first-hand experiences, if you've got any, and would also love to know how much it cost you, if you're comfortable with sharing that. Thanks.

Comments

[mangokulfi.livejournal.com]

You know, I sometimes think that all of these different therapies or whatever work because they give people an excuse to get out of the rut they find themselves in.

It's not that I don't believe they can't work but I do think the mind is the most powerful organ in the human body and while I wouldn't want to dismiss some these things as placebos, I do think that sometimes, people just need one thing to kick start them and if there is a sense that it's working, that gives them incentive to change other things that also may not be working.

I think we all fall into patterns and if some of them are unhealthy for us in one way or another, it gets so much harder to overcome the inertia. If a person can find even one thing at first, that gives them pleasure or a sense of well-being, something that they can look forward to or makes them feel like they are accomplishing something, the rest doesn't feel quite so unmanageable.

I've seen the same thing with people who have left jobs they hate or gotten out of or started new relationships. But it could be a new hobby, taking a class in something that has always interested a person or an activity like yoga or exercise. It could be behavioural or psychotherapy or starting to do some volunteer work.

Heck it could even be something as small as drinking more water every day or something harder like quitting smoking. But if a person sees positive results and starts to feel better physically or emotionally, it may not seem so impossible to consider making other more positive life-style changes, again, a little bit at a time.

I think a lot of times, people make the mistake of trying to make a whole bunch of changes at once, but they're just setting themselves up for failure then because that's just hard work and when a person does't see immediate changes after trying so hard, it gets even more discouraging.

Sorry for the pop psychology, and I'm not dismissing various alternative therapies at all. I just suspect that some of them work through the same processes in the brain and a lot of it is about slowly rewiring your brain to get used to different things. Essentially, forming different habits to replace the old, less satisfying ones.

[mangokulfi.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to say that I was just rambling in a general way above, rather than than addressing the specifics of your health situation. If you can find a Reiki Center that come well-recommended and it's affordable, it's certainly worth giving it a shot.

The other thing I've heard about is chelation therapy. I know a couple of medical doctors who seem quite positive about it. Though again, there aren't any double-blind efficacy studies that I know of that endorse it. *shrug*