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oselleHas 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.
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.
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Date: 2011-02-03 07:34 am (UTC)I think negativity is basically learned and it does affect what occurs in a person's life. When you expect to experience obstacles, you behave in ways that help them turn up, if that makes any sense. Breaking up the pattern is very helpful.
Fear is a great motivator. Many positive changes I've made have come out of a genuine terror of something, like health scares or living in Ohio. I can honestly say that whenever I've sincerely and urgently asked my "insides" for help, I've always received it. Pure, strong fear cuts through all sorts of internal chatter and gets to the core. Something shifts, something turns up and I recognize it as my answer.
Asking is paramount. You do believe happiness is attainable or you wouldn't keep trying to find it. Keep asking and eventually something will ring a bell for you. I love that you've asked your F-list for feedback.
Reiki is a good, positive thing. I studied it some years ago and am at second degree level. It won't cure all your problems but it can add to the general positive vibe you'd like to build on. If you're determined to think of it as woo-woo crazy stuff, though, don't bother. It gives back what you put into it.
Two of my colleagues are practitioners of the Alexander Technique. They swear by it for helping with posture and breathing and spinal health and are both beaming examples of its benefits. It may add to your yoga knowledge in a good way and keep you on track physically. Maybe you can't fully come back from a spinal injury, but the more tools you have the better.
I'm pulling for you. I love reading your thoughts, and seeing them become happier would be just the greatest thing.
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Date: 2011-02-04 12:02 am (UTC)But it's also the other way around. What occurs in a person's life can teach them to be negative. At least, that's what I think happened to me. I didn't start out this way, but all the evidence in my life has taught me that there is little reason to approach anything with a positive outlook.
Fear can be a great motivator but it can also spur you to make bad decisions that seem good at the time, or at least, feel like the only way to go. This also has been part of my history. I've made a lot of fear-based mistakes that seemed very wise when I made them -- it was only in retrospect that I realized I was running away from something without a real plan. Even worse, there were times when I did have a plan, or at least thought I did, and it all fell apart anyway. This repeated history has made me afraid to do ANYTHING to change the status quo because the unknown is always worse than the known and I find it nearly impossible to release the regrets and self-recrimination that follow.
If you can recommend a practitioner of the Alexander Technique I'd be willing to try it. One thing the chiropractor showed me on my x-rays is how fucked up my spine is and there's no way that's good. I feel like if I could at least get that straightened out (literally!) then maybe some other things would start getting easier as well.
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Date: 2011-02-04 04:33 am (UTC)I can totally see why you'd think that way. It's only logical that events shape you. But what I've come to believe is that you always, always, create the events that happen in your life, both bad and good. You create experiences that are in accordance with your beliefs about yourself and the world around you. It's the basic truth that underlies yoga, creative visualization, self-help groups like EST and Landmark, lots of new age books, and on and on. You create what happens to you, and if you know that, it can be of some help.
It's a large subject, and I know your intellect makes you run screaming from new age stuff. All I'm saying, though, is the negative stuff in your life isn't necessarily "proof" that you're doomed to repeat it. It's in your power to make changes.
I'll email you the contact information of my colleague who teaches Alexander. He can give you sessions or put you in touch with someone nearer to where you live or work. Hope it bears good fruit!