Terra Nova - personal & planetary healing

evolving again

I just came back from a two and a half week trip where I didn't work much.  Before I left, my work was beginning to change, but with taking a break, it really had a chance to shift.  So I'm finding that my work has morphed again.

One thing that was happening before I left, was that I was suddenly finding myself feeling more and more drained by the energy healing specifically.  I was guided to move towards toning instead of just using my focus and breath.  I also felt like I wanted to let my mind go more and move into a deeper state of trance, without tracking any information.  I felt less inclined to look for specific information and when I would ask questions, especially the 'what needs to happen for x to occur' type, often I'd get a pure energy shift as the answer, rather than conceptual or intellectual information that I could relate to my client.

I've been letting myself go with this change and the more I do the easier the whole process gets.  The drained feeling has gone and instead I feel mightily calm and whole at the end.  I've been explaining to clients about how I'm working differently and a few have reported results that they thought were awesome, others I haven't heard back from yet - maybe they aren't sure what to expect (I wasn't at first either, but now I know it's working well).  The informational component has been coming back though, which I am glad about.

It seems like my old tools are being retired - like I was trying to lift heavier loads (moving more energy per session) with tools that weren't optimum.  From dial-up to broadband I suppose.  I really have to trust in the 'mindless' these days...it has all the answers!

I did some work on the friend I was staying with one night and it was quite a long session of the new type.  I could feel how  deep in I was and by the end I was in a tremendously altered state, very out of body.  I had the strong realization that the places where I think I am making my life decisions are not where they are being made - it's somewhere completely different.  Now I've had this realization before, but I could see how I'd lost track of that knowledge.  It was very helpful in reminding me to let go of thinking I can control anything from the personality level.

Toning

I took a few workshops in sound healing in 2001 from Simon Heather (he's great) and learned an easy method of using toning to do physical healing.  I guess because physical healing isn't really the thing that interests me, I never used it much after the course was over.  Some of the general principals of sound healing were useful, improving my understanding and my singing, but I didn't integrate any techniques into my intuitive work.   Now it's coming back in a very different way, blending itself seemlessly with the way I have been doing energy healing and getting intuitive information.  It's easily focussed on any issue, which is so interesting to me - I can use the tones to release emotions, beliefs or idea structures, just as I've been doing without it, but the process feels streamlined.  I'm loving it.

Another aspect I'm loving is sometimes getting the sense of a 'song' in someone's energy field.  I start off with plain long tones but sometimes I get guided more towards a definite melodic motif which then causes certain things to release. 

life just keeps teaching me...I'm grateful.

my perception is a loving action

This is a little poem I wrote in response to a session I did today:

'my perception is a loving action'

i see only
inner good
inner beauty
inner value
inner truth
inner light

i draw them forth
with the power of my
sight

i embrace the completeness
of all that is
pulling from it
all i need
and all that
resonates
with my
essence

this is deep peace -
where my perception
is a loving action
springing from
the eternal

where my vision
resonates with who
i truly am
and reassures me
i can trust
in the riches
and the
fertile matrix
of this existence

March and April Special

A few weeks ago during a session, I was directed to link someone to the timeline of their best possible future, which isn't that uncommon.  But then I was directed to link them to their best possible present and boy, was that ever powerful.  I was pretty impressed with where that took the energy and so the next day I asked a friend if I could try that out on her.  She said it felt like someone pushed the reset button - and agreed with me about how much it anchored, cleared and opened up her whole system.  Since then, I've played with it a bit more and I really like it. 

So the March and April 2007 special is $100 for the 'best possible present' treatment - $20 off the usual price of $120 for a one hour session.

Body Wisdom

An important element of creating consciously is learning to feel your body from the inside and becoming sensitive to the messages it's giving you about your thoughts and experiences.  Surprisingly, a lot of people cannot do this because they've needed to block out sensations and emotions in order to survive or cope.  This skill forms the basic foundation of the intuitive work I do;  since we are all receivers and emitters of energy, I literally tune into other people by looking inside my body for the information.

Benefits that come from being able to feel your body and its messages include:

• knowing how you really feel about things
• being able to sense whether a given path is right for you
• understanding people better
• being able to clear emotional blocks
• being present and open to what is happening in the 'now'

Depending on your individual set-up, being more aware of your body sensations could lead to outcomes like:

• feeling freer in your personal expression
• looking better
• improved relationships
• intuitive or artistic development
• healing from illness
• becoming 'plugged-in' to your sense of purpose

A simple and common way of starting out is by scanning your body for tension and letting your attention rest there.  Notice if it changes and how it changes.  You may find the tension originates from another region of your body or you might connect with emotion that comes up.  You may get images or memories;  the tension might just leave.  Just doing this everyday can have profound effects.  By putting your attention on that body part, you are directing energy to it, allowing it to unwind and speak to you.

You are already accessing intuition through your body.  Here is an exercise that can show you this:  try thinking about different people and noticing what your body feels in response to the thought of them.  You are picking up information about their energy system and how your energy system reacts to theirs.  Of course, you are connecting to them through your own filters, (which is fine, since these help orient and protect you in a certain way) but as your filters 'lighten', you become able to receive people (and know them) as they really are.  Once you have cleared enough of your own 'stuff' (ego structures that show up on a body level)  you will find your ability to get 'objective' information improves.  Lightening your filters (which is in essence, living a more spirit-based life) is also a constant and infinite process.

Body awareness can be used to make decisions or choices.  Pretend you have already chosen option A.  How does that feel to your body?  Now pretend you've chosen option B.   What does your body say about that?  Your 'gut reaction' can factor in variables that you cannot keep track of consciously.  The body is in touch with all possible timelines that spin out from the present moment.  Since you are looking for a future that feels good, it works to go with one that makes your body feel good when you think about it - more alive, free, secure or whatever quality you prefer.  If we take this body-listening to a subtler level, focusing in with greater detail on the quality of responses, the body can tell us exactly what doesn’t work about a particular option.  Then we can use this to create or imagine variations until we hit on one that does make the body say 'Aha! That’s the one I want'. 

Try asking your body about every decision you need to make, from 'what should I eat?' to 'should I get into a relationship with this person?'  It doesn't have to be the only information you take into account, but asking the body's opinion will give you a well-rounded perspective.  If you're getting uncomfortable or bad vibes about something, ask your body what it would prefer, what would be better or what needs to happen for it to feel okay.       

Emotions and the body have been undervalued in our society for so long.  This has not only caused certain social imbalances, but also cut us off from an important source of knowledge.  Part of the path of being an integrated and empowered person is learning to value the body's wisdom.

In time, being in touch with one's body extends to naturally include being more in touch with other beings around us - empathy and connectedness become a way of life.  Becoming allies with the ‘body’ of the earth will solve many of the problems we have created on the planet.  Just like our bodies, she’s got a lot to say - she’s just waiting for us to ask.  ;-)

Working with Affirmations

Working with Affirmations

These ideas about working with affirmations are a fusion of all the different resources I've encountered (including books by Louise Hay, Shakti Gawain etc.) plus my own experiential learnings.  The way affirmations are applied in rebirthing has been of particular interest and influence.  (I recommend exploring the ideas of Leonard Orr and Sondra Ray.)

Techniques

This is how I use affirmations myself.  I come up with a desired outcome and put it into a positively structured sentence. 

example:  I am always well-rested.

Then I write out the phrase, noting the thoughts and especially the emotions and bodily reactions that come up in response to it. 

example:
I am always well-rested.  (anxiety, thought: 'but my child gets up every 3 hours!')

Whatever the emotion, I try to go into it or rest in it until it passes or transforms into something else.  In this case, let's say the anxiety just fades away.

Then I write it out again, noting my response - usually it is something different but related or similar to the first.  Maybe same feeling, slightly different thought - I do the same accepting and feeling the emotion until it is gone.  I repeat this process until I see my thoughts becoming more neutral or at least less negative.  If I get stuck, I will create an affirmation that addresses the block directly and then repeat the response/acceptance process again.

example:
My daughter is sleeping in longer and longer chunks.  ('well, her sleep patterns are better than they were;  I do see them improving as she gets older')

I find I usually need to do this affirmation exercise for 3 days in a row before I see evidence of change in my life (ie. things will magically rearrange themselves to make the statement true).  Each time, I try to write out the affirmation until I see my responses getting increasingly positive and believing of the affirmative phrase.  Once I see that happening at the beginning of the exercise (ie the first time I write out the affirmation) I know I have cleared that issue. 

Then I might just post it someplace where I will see it occasionally.

Another way I use affirmations is to write out several affirmations that all generally express the same idea and reinforce each other.  I adjust them as I go along, to fit my mood and goals.  I try to make every phrase a bit different, or a bit more detailed.

example:
I choose to live an abundant life.
I experience abundance in every area.
I am linked to the unlimited abundance of the universe.
I am constantly increasing my conscious awareness of abundance.

When I am in need of general self-encouragement and uplift, I read a 10 page collection of affirmations I like, that I have put together from ones I've created or found.  They cover all different aspects of life and are kind of organized by topic.  I find just running through them when I am having trouble staying optimistic gives me a boost and leaves me thinking, yeah, that is the framework I want to come from.

Affirmations that I find especially helpful include ones that begin:
I am allowing...
I am giving myself permission...
I am choosing...
I am releasing my resistance to...
I am running the energy of...
I am holding the vibration of...

So an example might be 'I am holding the vibration of health.'

You can also modify the affirmation by putting things like 'in a quick and easy manner', 'in the best way possible' or 'in a way that serves the highest good of all concerned' in the phrase somehow.  I don't usually do this, unless it's a more lengthy or detailed outline for manifesting something.

Affirmations Bring Up What Is Holding You Back

Affirmations are useful for making you conscious of what is holding you back so you can change it.  They don't work so well if you just repeat them while ignoring the underlying dynamics of your mind.  Then it's just a paste-over.

I find allowing the feelings to come up and resolve is what can make a shift happen really quickly.  I've had this happen this year around money/success issues - I did the process once, in my head, and I really let myself go into the uncomfortable emotions that came up.  Two days later I started a crazy month of doing more sessions than I could comfortably handle.

Often it's pain standing in the way of us receiving, and we resist feeling it.  Then we don't get to have all the good that's on the other side of it.

I just want to address the issue of the 'negative' emotion coming up and the idea that you need to stay away from negative emotions in order to attract things that are in synch with positive emotions.  The negative emotion (representing conflicting beliefs) shows itself in reaction to the positive phrase - it has always been there effecting your creation of reality.  Emotions are only information about how your beliefs (conscious and unconscious) fit together.  Where there is tension, there is contradiction.

Emotions Are Information

Learning to let your emotions just give you the information without you reacting to them, or acting before all the information is relayed, is an important skill and one you can develop through meditation.  Practices that encourage you to witness your thoughts and emotions, that show you how to just rest within a feeling without resisting it or trying to change it, are huge pieces of any healing journey.   When you have a practice like this, you realize no emotion is never-ending or permanent.

Not clearing those emotions - not letting them express themselves fully - means that you continue to be affected by them, whether you realize it or not.  And they influence the vibration you send out, since emotions are magnetic. 

So I'm not suggesting that you dwell in what comes up, or that you devote a lot of analysis to it - but just feel it and let it go.  If you need a bridging thought to get past immovable thoughts or sub-blocks of emotion, create another positive affirmation.

One last thing I'm going to mention is that you can get around mental and emotional blocks by giving the affirmations to yourelf (or have them given to you) as hypnotic suggestion.  This is another way of getting into a state outside of your normal thought patterns and ego so you don't invoke the resistance of past beliefs or emotions - an in-the-moment awareness similar to some types of meditation. I have used this a few times with friends.  The trick is to pitch the affirmation at just the right level of consciousness, when the person is in just the right state. 

It's An Art

There is an art to working with affirmations - choosing and structuring the statements so they resonate well to where you want to go and are appropriate to use where you are, listening to your body so you know where in the process you are and how close you are to results showing up in your reality.  When it's done well, it's like a key turning smoothly in a lock.  A simple, powerful and effective tool to use whenever you seek to make positive change.

"I now hold loving positive images of myself."

"I choose wholeness and peace."

"I allow the universe to support me in all I do."

Special Offers

I've decided that a fun thing to do would be to have special monthly or bimonthly offers where you'd get $20 off a regular intuitive session if it fits the theme.  It might give people some idea of the different ways you can use this type of healing work.  And it will fun for me to think about what topic I might want to focus on and learn about for a short period of time.  Look for upcoming offers where the theme will be 'intimate relationship issues' or 'dealing with your children' or 'career questions'.  As for now, I'd like to start the new year off with:

                      MONEY CLEARINGS!

Most of us can use some help with clearing the channels to receiving, and there's so much baggage around money specifically.  Money too is energy, although we hold so many unconscious beliefs around it that it often seems beyond our control.  A positive future for the planet rests in each of us learning to trust that we are provided for, so we don't act on distorted convictions that we can only get ahead by exploiting others or the earth.

So if you would like some assistance in clearing the feelings and thoughts that stop you from allowing money to come to you, you'll get $20 off the cost of a one hour session (regularly $120), booked during January and February.  Feel free to do more than one - this offer applies to all sessions specifically having to do with this topic, no matter how many you choose to do.  Some of us have more to clear than others ;).

Wishing you a happy and prosperous 2007...

Name Change!

I guess the first piece of news is that I'm changing my business name! I started with the name 'Signs of Progress' almost 7 years ago.  That name really worked for me, but my daughter's birth two years ago was a life-changing event on so many levels - especially a spiritual and energetic one.  I feel like I'm a different person and my work has evolved and deepened.  (I'm still adjusting!) I've been wanting to change my business name for about a year to reflect this feeling. 

The name 'Terra Nova' has come up synchonistically several times over the past few years.  I feel that it contains both the increased sense of groundedness and rootedness in the 'Mother' that I took on through becoming a mother, and also the quality of progressiveness, possibility, and vitality that I associate with energy reading and healing.

The kicker was when I read this Rob Brezny horoscope that is an absolutely perfect reflection of my life. 

"You are far from the sacred places of your ancestors, Aquarius.  The songs of the land that sustained them, the songs that lived in the marrow of their bones, are unknown to you.  But while this sad truth has in the past limited your ability to feel at home on the planet, from now on it will also work to your benefit;  your freedom from the ancient ways will increasingly enrich your spirit.  Already you are tuning in to the fresh songs of the land that will sustain you for the rest of your days.  You are drawing closer to the sacred places of you descendents.  Welcome to the Terra Nova - the new earth."

If you know me, you know how resonant with my reality that is, in myriad ways. 

What do other people think?

What do other people, who have experienced my work, think about it?  Here's a few reactions:

"Amy's perspective is always from a place of hope.  After every session, I feel like anything is possible - she moves me closer and closer to living on a higher level and all the incredible good that can come to me.

It's one thing to see all the changes in myself, but it's also incredible to see the changes in other people.  In friends of mine I have seen them have a sense of peace and calmness I've never seen before, a new empowerment breaking through.  People grasping what it means to be true to yourself. 

There's a place in me where I now feel my worth and my value, where before I didn't see it.  It doesn't come from any ego place, it comes from the knowledge that I am part of God.  That changes my entire perspective of myself - I now know that the key, in every situation, is going back to Source.  It has completely changed the level and place in which I live. 

I am much more grounded and stable.  For the first time in my life, fear isn't one of my biggest motivators.

I know the difference Amy can make. I know where people I care about are living and I know that they don't have to stay there.  They are facing crisis and struggle and I know it doesn't have to be the struggle they are experiencing.  Because I love them, I want them to know of this way that it could be easier for them - their healing could start.  I just want them to have that.

I was aware of my own emotional process so I could see how much difference it made, the immediacy of it.  Sometimes, just at the beginning of a session, I already felt the change and felt better.  At times of lesser crisis, I felt it unravelling as the days went by.  Sometimes it's a continual shift, other times it's an instant weight lifted off. 

Amy's observation is from that place of purity, just looking at it from that place of pure love and divinity above all the craziness we live with.  Even taking someone into that place with her is healing.

What's interesting is that working on one issue has domino effects to other aspects of your life because things are so much more interelated than we think.  Healing of one actually improves so many areas, that you'd be surprised.  My reactions are so different compared to how they've been my whole life.

With Amy, you can approach a specific issue,  but the changes that can happen are completely whole.  It doesn't just help you through a situation, it changes your life.  Amy can take you to places of whole-being healing.  You feel your perspective moving to a higher place.  There's no block or obstacle you can't work with.  Love, money, job, family - it's limitless because as you're healing parts, in the process you are continually healing the whole."

Shannon, real estate investor

"What you should know about working with Amy….  Your life will change, your world view will change, your eyes will be opened, your heart and soul will be healed, your wounds will diminish…  You will uncover layers of yourself and of those around you that you never thought possible.  I say these things because as I have worked with Amy since the summer of 2005, all of these have occurred for me.  Amy came into my life via a friend who had worked with her, and at a time when I felt like everything was falling apart in my life…  I had sent my husband away for 7 weeks to have some breathing room, I hated my job which I was working at for 14 hours a day, and I just didn’t know which way to turn.  Amy and I started working together, and immediately I noticed changes in how I felt, how I thought, and how I perceived things.  I found a better, higher paying job that was more in tune with my values.  My relationship with my husband has grown and improved as a result of my truly connecting with myself and the parts of me that I had been ignoring.  I am continually evolving and coming closer to manifesting my truer more beautiful self.  I’ve started traveling again, and am working on allowing for the full expression of all of the parts of me that have been suppressed in the past, by society, family, trauma and culture.  Has it all been fun and easy – no, but the quantum leaps have been tremendous.  Do you still have to work or rather allow things to change?  Absolutely… Can you work on yourself more efficiently with insights gained through partnering with Amy?  Absolutely….  I always seem to run out of time in my sessions because of the places we go and the things we work on, which open other vistas to explore….  I cry and emote and heal and laugh and shed and grow and learn and all the while, know that I am being blessed enormously.  Its as though the air is lighter to breathe, and the sun shines more warmly and brightly….  Amy is a Godsend to me and to the world.  Allow her to share her blessings with you…"

Dimitra, accountant

"You are just the best out there.  I just don't see anyone else that offers all the things you do, in combination.  You can give the insight and the spiritual wisdom, you can shift the energy and help people feel immediately better, you can do the deep healing, you can give them concrete tools that can help them right in the moment where they are.  You don't just say 'this is this way because of that, now go change it'.  You actually show how, and do it in a way that is geared to the individual so they can actually hear it and move forward.  You've certainly made a big difference in my life."

Kate, business consultant

"Amy has the rare capacity to see through to the heart of my issues and help me work on the underlying themes behind the challenges that face me.  When I leave a session I always feel an increased sense of hope about life.  The perspective that Amy has been able to offer me through her work is priceless.  My perception of myself and my personal evolution has clarified greatly since I've started working with her.  Her capacity to shift energy and bring healing to situations, other people and myself has been something to behold." 

Marni, freelance writer

"I feel that through working with you I have made progress that it might otherwise have taken me years to accomplish.  I always leave sessions feeling calmer and more sure of myself.  The way that you have validated me at times has been profoundly healing.  I think that the way you can explore the dynamics between two people is incredible and I would recommend you to anyone that truly wants to explore the depths of their being in order to realize more of their potential."

Shelley, counsellor

“A session consists of explaining to Amy what I can about the situation and what about it is difficult.  She is able to clarify what is truly going on, on energetic levels.  Also she directs me to a safe place, to a peaceful place. It's like she brings me to me, if that makes sense.  She brings me to my inner being.  I go away with a long term change, healing and a sense of harmony with the situation.

Amy has a connection with the divine and she uses it to help others become closer to their own connection with the greater force.  She helps guide you to become clear on what it is you want and then how to create it. 

Her work helps you to make decisions from a spiritually divine place and become the best person you can be. I've experienced other types of counselling and healing and this is the most authentic I find.  It's pure, it's non-judgmental and it gets right to the core of what's going on.”

Nafysa, student of naturopathic medicine
   

I work by phone...

How do I do my sessions?  I work almost exclusively by phone nowadays.  I used to see people in person up until I had my daughter - then cleaning up my office and apartment seemed like too much work.  So I started doing sessions by phone and it worked so well that I've never gone back.  My time is better spent, I can focus better and it's made me conceptualize my client base in global terms. 

Sometimes people are surprised that healing and intuitive work can happen over the phone, but now that distance healing is becoming more common with reiki etc., it's not such a new thing.  By going into an altered state to look at the energy that creates our experiences, I tap into the 'holographic' zone where time and space are only expressions/constructions of a deeper reality.  So I can receive information on almost anything, access past and possible timelines and pass on the vibrations of wholeness, connection and love from that realm to anyone.

 

Transformational Life Coaching

Maintain a conscious creation mindset to achieve a goal or navigate a transition

Coaching packages provide you with support and guidance when you are trying to stay in a "conscious creation" state to either achieve a goal or navigate a major life transition.

My work presupposes that, with the universe, we co-create our reality.  By become and staying aware of how we attract and construct the elements of our human experience, we can fulfill our potential for wisdom, joy and abundance.

Staying in the present (and therefore clearing past conditioning and limiting beliefs when they come up) is key to exercising our power to choose new realities for ourselves.  The coaching package is made up of a month of 2 sessions a week.  The first is an hour long session that may include intuitive information, counselling, energy work, specific visioning and manifesting exercises.  For the second session, I tune in midweek to adjust your energy, send healing and receive a set of affirmations specifically geared to where you are at that point.  Then I email these affirmations and any insights that may be pertinent, for you to work with until the next session.  You may also journal and share your progress with me by email - this is another way for you stay connected to your transformational project.

one month package - $900