Terra Nova - personal & planetary healing

PATHS

In the last few months I've been trying out something called PATHS. It's a way to download tons of (positive) instructions to your subconscious mind in a highly efficient way. They've developed modules to support the achievement of goals that many people have, including better health, relationships, and career or business results. The banner above links you to info on a free module that is available to the public called Project1World. It's designed to create world peace through bringing personal peace to individuals.

I decided to become a PATHS affiliate, partially because I wanted to buy more modules myself at a discount, and also because I think PATHS can be helpful to my clients. I have an array of tools that I pull from to help reinforce or continue the work that we do in session -- EFT, nutritional supplements, manifesting or relaxation exercises, flower essences etc are things that I sometimes suggest, and I feel like PATHS will another one.

I'm going to be writing an article about PATHS, how it can compliment the type of intuitive energy healing that I do and how it compares to things like EFT and affirmations. For now, I'll just give you the link to my PATHS site and you can explore it for yourself:

www.evolutionarypaths.com

The biggest cost for PATHS is the set-up - the monthly subscription is a very worthwhile $35.  Right now they have a big sale on for December where the set-up fee is 10-30% off, depending on what you buy.  If you have any questions or want me to tune to see which modules would be best for you, just email me at terranova.healing at yahoo.ca.

My Classes

And this is the site where I'm going to be hosting my energy-reading classes:

www.courses.terranovahealing.com

New Terra Nova Blog

My new blog is now over at www.blog.terranovahealing.com.  I'm gradually shifting over from here to there....

Free Sound Healing Blog

I've started a new blog called Transformational Toning, where you can download free sound healings I record on different issues and read the commentary that goes along with them. 

New Site for Terra Nova Healing

I've been busy building some new sites lately...the main one is:

www.terranovahealing.com

I've also created some new blogs and have one for for my classes, but I'll put that in another post!

Learning Through Energy-Reading

You can use energy-reading to learn about anything. You can tune in and ask questions to get an understanding of structure, dynamics present, or what elements are combining to get the result you see in material reality.

In order to get new information that isn't a reiteration of what you already know, or a projection of what you think is there, you need to be in a pure receiving mode. A non-trying mode, a mode without straining or expectations of what you will see. From there you are open to revelations.

So how do you get to that receiving mode? By letting go of mental dialogue and the need to do anything. By relaxing and letting your regular mental awareness know that you don't need it right now -- the trying, the reaching out, the grappling with or controlling of outside reality isn't necessary at the moment. You are taking a break from that – it's okay to just 'be'.

There are homework exercises in the Energy-Reading Course that help you get to this receiving place (note: the one-on-one sessions play a big part too). Several of them involve trying to sense your body from the inside which turns on a different channel of awareness than your verbal everyday state. If you keep doing it, eventually you will be able to be aware of feelings and sensations without the interpretation from your everyday mind being there. These exercises are not the only way of course, there are many other types of meditation that can also help you to stop “thinking”.

When I get into this 'non-thinking' state, my body relaxes as if it is asleep. It feels refreshing. I also feel like the top of my head has a bit of an openness or a buzz to it. When I am energy-reading, it feels like the flow of energy in my body goes downwards from the top of my head, down around and out my feet, leading back upwards toward my head. This feels opposite to the flow it takes when I am in my normal awareness - then my attention seems to go upwards and outwards (toward the world) - the spin is in the other direction.

I have tuned into many many things and people over the last 10 years.  Here are a few examples that come to mind that were particularly interesting or educational:

• I once tried to understand what was going on emotionally and internally for George W. Bush (this was several years ago now). I also never watch the news but if anyone brings up political figures in conversations, I just tune in to them while we're talking, so I can have something to say.
• Examined several famous people and their energy around money and wealth
• Reading people's relationships has always been fascinating for me (probably because I have a lot to learn)
• Tuned in to how the world looks and feels from the perspective of a small child; have also tuned in on people who have what we might label severe physical disabilities
• Looked at a number of people who have been diagnosed with ADD/ADHD or autism
• Energy-read people with various illnesses and realized that the energy story behind what's going on can be so unique to the individual despite having a medical label or diagnosis in common with others
• Have done energy-reading in tandem with another reader (kind of 'co-reading'), and being able to access things like details of a past life of mine
• Periodically energy-read my parents, family patterns and relatives I don't know to see ancestral patterns
• Read historical figures and 'what really happened' for my friend Mark, who's into Jewish history
• Love energetically connecting to dolphins (Wow, does that ever feel good!);  have read lots of pets too which is also rather informative
• Have on different occasions energy-read groups of people and collective thought-forms
• I even use it to check how food cooking on the stove or in the oven is doing, without actually getting up to physically look

So you can see how wide the range can be. It's a source of endless and lifelong learning. It's like the internet in your own head.  I've used it to learn about fields of work or study that I personally have no experience of and I have been blown away by the information I can get. 

One thing that makes it totally invaluable is that you can gather knowledge about the inside experience and identity of another being.  So instead of just clinically testing herbs for their properties (the outside journey), you could energetically talk to them to find out their optimum uses (the inner journey). In fact, this is how shamanistic societies gather knowledge about their world. 

This ability is a product of self-knowledge and a realization of the deep relationship between all things. We begin to allow the universality of feelings in the body to lead us beyond the individualistic perceptions of the mind.

This knowledge is always there...available, supporting us and enveloping us in the web of life, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we use it or not. But we are alive because of it, and we come into our Real Selves by feeling how this web holds us. Learning to energy-read can re-educate and re-align a human identity that feels cut off from nature and Source into one that experientially understands itself to be part of a grand collective. You really 'get' how it is that all knowledge is within.

Wanna try?  ;)

Dropping rates for kids' sessions

This is a message I've been getting for a little while now, but got it stronger and clearer this past weekend so...

I'm significantly dropping my rates for sessions focussed on kids (my regular rate right now is $200/hr).  That would include:

• sessions done with parents about their childrens' issues or issues they have with their children
• sessions with pregnant women or couples focussed on their babies, pregnancy or birth
• sessions with teens and people in their early twenties who want to work with me themselves
• sessions with younger kids, at the request of their parents, if the kids want one

The new "kid" rates:

1 hour session:  $80
half hour session:  $50

If you are a young person between 16 and 22, and you cannot afford this rate, and your parents/guardians aren't into this stuff, email me and I may be able to do a free session for you.

qassia

I just joined this thing that looks interesting...you create little snippets of information (called "intel") about things you know about and it creates backlinks to your site.  You also earn credit based on the type and quality of the information you add, and in time that earns revenue from ads on their site.  I was thinking I would try to create some snippets about energy-reading and healing.  Hmmmm...

Parenting From The Heart: Using Intuition and Instinct

This is a piece on 'intuitive parenting' I wrote recently for www.wildparenting.com, a Toronto-based blog dedicated to "inspiring and supporting parents who practice a holistic, community-based, freedom-filled lifestyle with their kids."

Intuitive parenting is a new term, one of many that indicates our desire to relate to our children with more heart. Many of us want to move away from traditional authoritarian models of the past and towards a new parenting paradigm that promotes wholeness for both parent and child. Attachment parenting, natural parenting, and consensual living are a few other new terms that come to mind, along with activities that emphasize the connection between parent and child: extended breastfeeding, baby-wearing, gentle discipline, co-sleeping and elimination communication.

Intuitive parenting can be seen as an expansion and continuation of attachment parenting behaviors that are the focus of the child's early years. Attachment parenting allows you the room to honor your child's feelings and your own, as guides to what needs to happen so your child can be healthy and happy. Intuitive parenting takes that a step further and not only says, "Yes, you are allowed to follow your feelings; they aren't wrong", but says "Yes, please, follow those feelings! Listen to them more than any information you get from outside yourself; they give you invaluable information and show you the way to go!".

As an intuitive, I've had to learn to resolve our society's fraught relationship with emotion. My ability to feel has been clarified, enhanced and extended in such a way that I can use it as a powerful tool to investigate almost any phenomenon. I have gotten in touch with myself at a deep enough level that it has allowed me to feel into the collective consciousness and therefore find out about things 'outside' myself, from the inside.

We all come hardwired to do this, to come into connection with ourselves and then find that we are more connected to others. The journey of being a parent takes us there anyway, but if we intentionally cultivate this process, what a resource we have to make the journey easier and more enjoyable! Learning to 'get' your baby's cues for feeding or using your instincts when practicing elimination communication are both examples of things that require emotional connection and intuition but also improve your connection and ability to be intuitive.

I use my intuition constantly with my daughter, from tuning in about which homeopathic remedy to give her, to getting a sense of what she might need developmentally at each stage of her growth. I tune in on what type of food her body might need or how to approach her with something that needs to happen but she might resist. All caregivers do this sort of thing to some degree but may not be totally conscious of it. Linking this ability to your conscious mind means you can use it more powerfully, more effectively, and more creatively.

For me, listening to my subtle feelings and being true to them is an important part of staying safe, finding optimal ways of completing tasks, and creating a fulfilling life. I want to be able to model that for my daughter. Her strong connection to her own intuition will guide her properly when she's out in the world. It will help her to find the right people to be with and have nourishing bonds with them. It will help her find the activities that are right for her, at the right times, and guide her toward career satisfaction, among other things.

Most of all, using my emotional openness and intuitive listening communicates to her that I really care who she is and what her inner experience is like. This lets her know she is valued and loved.

So how might one go about becoming more of an intuitive parent? Clearing out the places where we haven't let ourselves feel, is key to allowing the subtler hints that we usually associate with intuition. Often we block feeling when we don't think we'll be able to do anything to affect change, or if we think feeling will make us dis-empowered or vulnerable. Sometimes we are afraid of what our feelings will tell us to do. ("If I let myself feel how much I hate my job, I'd have to leave it tomorrow, but I can't because we need the income.")

I've discovered that not only do I feel better when I let my feelings run their course, but then I can see the whole picture, not just the intellectual aspects or “logical” answers. The decisions I come to are often surprising, and not ones I could have anticipated before allowing the emotional process to complete itself. My emotions don't compel me to do anything; I can make decisions from a place of integration between heart and mind.

Once we are in the habit of allowing ourselves to be aware of our feelings in the moment we are feeling them, that's when we are open to ideas that come out of the ether or become able to pick up what's happening with others just by being in their presence. Essentially, we attend to our own internal environment in such a way that we then have room to be truly present with the world and with the people we love.

Here is a list of a few things that can help cultivate intuition:

* Give yourself overt permission to feel and value your emotions and follow your intuition

* Cultivate relationships with others who allow and respect feelings and who use intuition themselves

* Practice just being with your feelings without trying to change them; sit with them until they disperse or change

* Use practices like journaling or art therapy exercises to explore what your feelings are telling you

* Let your children know that feelings are valuable information, even if (or especially if) they are intense

* Show your children that emotions can be expressed in a variety of ways, and that we can consider the impact of their expression on others while still protecting our right to have them

* Ask your “insides” questions about issues concerning yourself and your children

* Use open-ended questions to help determine if your intuitions about your child's inner life are correct; feed back to her what you hear to find out if you've understood

* Take what resonates from expert advice and ignore the rest; use your gut to tell you when and in what context to use what you've found helpful

* Practice using your intuition with small things and graduate to bigger things as your trust level increases

"Wholeness" - Free Toning Download

I wrote last year about how I felt guided to do more toning to shift energy rather than just using breathwork and intention. I can barely believe it's been only a year.  It feels like I've been using toning forever! It's become a major feature of my work, and it's such a flexible and beautiful tool.

I've found that people really like it -- they find it relaxing and it puts them into an altered state, they find it aesthetically pleasing and we've also found that when someone listens back to a recording of their session, the healing intentions are imbedded in the toning in such a way that they continue to get benefit on repeated listenings. People have told me that it's like having another session, and some have listened to recordings of a particular session 10 or 15 times, especially if it's one we do when they are going through an emotional crisis.

My sessions are now usually a blend of intuitive work and toning, with one extreme being an hour of toning and the other being an hour of information but most sessions having some of both.

When I taught the first energy-reading course in the autumn, I found I could tone and shift energy for groups. I used toning to help us get present and connected in a heart-centred way when we did conference calls and group practices. That was fascinating as I discovered I could switch between focussing on the group and focussing on an individual - and the participants, knew when I was doing it! "Oh part of that was for Jane".

I've been experimenting with doing some recorded tonings on specific topics, set with the intention that anyone who listens will receive healing from them (as opposed to my session work that is tailored to an individual at a specific time). This is my first recording and I'm calling it 'Wholeness' because it's focussed on the question "What needs to shift for me to become more whole?" I'm offering it as a free download and welcome feedback.

Right click the link and choose 'save target as' to download it and play it back on your computer (it won't stream). You can burn it to cd or put it on your mp3 player.

Wholeness