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…about past life regression and future life progression…

Regression work involves going back in time to the origin or source of a problem or issue that is operative in your day to day life now. This may be to a previous time within the current life time or to an actual past life. Progression work involves moving ahead along the time line either to a later time in a current life, or to an entirely future life time. Of course, this is a very tricky concept, when you consider that our top physicists are now telling us that they are not at all sure about this past-present-future linear concept of time in the first place. If a person, for example, has a fear or phobia that is currently impeding their ability to live a normal life, it can be very helpful to use hypnosis to help that person re-access information that is stored in memory as to where and why that phobia or fear first came into play.

Often times, traumatic events that take place often bring a form of amnesia with them about these events to protect the person from reliving the experience over and over again. Unfortunately, the effect, such as the fear or phobia will come through with no context to explain why it is there. Often, just recalling the origin is enough to enable the person to rightfully assign the reaction to that place, that time, and those circumstances, which then frees the individual to decide that the reaction is no longer useful in his or her current life and the phobia will generally disappear.
Future life progression can be helpful in understanding how patterns that have been revealed within a person’s soul journey have evolved and will continue to evolve as they play out over time. It is also helpful in showing the individual the possible array of consequences or results that may derive from choices made in current time. Working with the future time line can be a wonderful adjunct to goal manifestation work for example. I am often asked about regression and progression work from those who are skeptical or unsure about what it entails. It is interesting that powerful changes in behavior can occur, even when the belief system in not in line with the idea of reincarnation. Perhaps these powerful effects can be ascribed to DNA memory or metaphoric and/or archetypal patterns that have been playing out in the person’s life, and which can now be changed or healed once they are revealed.

There are many provocative cases which offer ‘proof’ of successive lives and the debate goes on. For me the effect of this work is the most important area of focus. In my own life, it was a spontaneous past-life regression that instantly and permanently released three phobias I had had since early childhood. This experience led me to take training to become a hypnotherapist. This single regression had changed my life in many incredible ways. Since then, many more insights and changes have emerged from continuing work in this realm. I am content to leave the debate about reincarnation to others. If you are interested in exploring this work, I encourage you to find a good hypnotherpaist to work with.

For those who have some experience with trance work, you may be interested in the MP3 downloads available from the United Hypnotherapy store. If you have personal experiences with either regression or progression work that would help others understand the value of these techniques, please add a comment to this post. You may also be interested in checking out available recordings for Past Life Regression and Future Life progression at our store.

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In this third post of the series, I would like to address the WHEN of hypnosis and hypnotherapy. This aspect incorporates two parts. Let’s look at the first part here.

Many times, at the end of our first session, a new client will ask me how often and when they should practice going into the alpha state. This answer will vary from person to person. As you read in Part One of this series, stress chemistry is generated while we are in the beta brain wave state. Since we tend to be in this state 99.999…% of the time we are awake (in our harried and stressed-out western culture), we are carrying a big load of stress chemistry in the system in an on-going way. Sleep does not efficiently clear out this chemistry, so it tends to accrue over time. This is what results in overwhelming stress which can represent in extreme cases as system breakdown in one or more of the dimensions of being. In other words, in the physical body you might have a breakdown in one or more body systems. This can be disorders such as asthma, IBS, high-blood pressure, lupus, or even more extreme conditions like heart attack, cancer, and stroke. In the mental aspect, you might have disorientation and ‘brain fog’ or a total mental breakdown. In the emotional aspect you may experience anxiety or phobias, or a complete nervous collapse.

You begin to see the range of effects of prolonged, unremitting stress upon the being. So the first step in determining when you should access into the alpha state is determining how high your stress load is. Once you have a sense of that, it will guide you in your practice. If you are already experiencing serious repercussions of your stress, then the answer will be ‘as often as you can every single day.’ This means looking for opportunity in your daily schedule and making opportunity. It is not something you do ‘when I have time.’ It becomes a priority. Remember, even short periods spent within the alpha state can have a tremendous benefit. When you learn to access this state quickly through consistent practice, then even a short break will provide a huge benefit. This will need to be practiced consistently throughout the day until the stress load has been brought down to a manageable level.

I personally feel that every one of us will benefit from a longer alpha session before going to sleep every night. The reason is that the stress chemistry interferes with the proper functioning of the organism during sleep, so it will facilitate the benefits of sleep if we ‘clear the decks’ first. For instance, if we are highly stressed and we take that stress to bed with us, it will prevent us from achieving into the deepest stage of sleep, called the delta state, or stage four of sleep. This is where the brain generates the Human Growth Hormone needed for repair and regeneration of the cells. This means that not only will healing take longer, but aging will be accelerated. This is only one small example of how stress can disrupt the work of our sleeping bodies.

Often, my ‘type A’ clients will protest that there is no way they can make this much time in their schedules for alpha practice on a daily basis. My response to this is two-fold. First, there is no way you can afford not to make this time. Secondly, the paradoxical thing is that the more time you make for alpha, the more time you will recoup in beta. This is because the alpha state will clear the mind and restore energy to the body, the net result being more focus, better prioritization, better problem-solving ability, more creative solution finding, and much more energy to implement your ideas and work.

So, to recap the first aspect of when to practice alpha, the idea is to commit to one longer session (twenty to thirty minutes or more) before sleep every day, with as many shorter (ten to twenty minute) segments as you need to bring down your stress load to a manageable range.

The second consideration on the WHEN of hypnosis and hypnotherapy is to look at when you want to consult with a professional to help you learn and utilize the many fabulous tools available for maximizing the internal resources of the subconscious mind for creating change in your life. The answer to this is simple: when ever you are ready to make a change for the better, when you are ready to commit to your success, when you are ready to act in your behalf, when you are ready to let go of being stuck, when you are ready to expand, learn, and grow, then you are ready to pick up the phone and make an appointment. I will leave you with a few words of wisdom on this now:

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.–Rene Descartes

The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems we cannot solve at the same level of thinking at which we created them.–Albert Einstein

Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.–Louie Pasteur

There are two separate aspects of the HOW of hypnosis. One is the how do you get into the hypnotic, or alpha state in the first place, and the other is how you work with it once you get there. Let’s consider the first aspect briefly. There are many ways to get into the alpha state, and probably every hypnotist and every Hypnotherapist will have their own favorite ways of helping or teaching clients to access this state. Fixed-eye inductions are what most people think of when they think of hypnosis. These are the ever popular ‘stare at this spot….’ or ‘look at the spinning disk…’ or ‘follow my hand with your eyes…’ type of induction techniques. This is also what tends to happen in ‘highway hypnosis’ which is why you want to keep your eyes moving when you are driving to stay alert. This type of technique works pretty well for people who are visually-organized. However, not everyone processes information primarily through the visual channel, so there are many other techniques as well. Because the way I work is to teach my clients how to access this state on their own, I prefer to have them close their eyes and do a progressive relaxation, leading into visualization. This technique brings in auditory, visualizing, kinesthetic, and olfactory cueing as well. When I am working directly with a client, I will ‘load’ the sequence with their particular modalities. On CD, I spread it across the board so that the most people will get the most benefit. Let’s move on to talk about the second aspect of the HOW of hypnosis.

When we talk about how to work with hypnosis, we are now into the realm of hypnotherapy. It is one thing to get into the alpha state; it is another to know what to do once you get there. This is where working with a trained Hypnotherapist can make all the difference for a client who desires to make specific changes in targeted areas of his or her life. The client and the Hypnotherapist comprise the WHO of hypnotherapy. Many skills are involved in successful hypnotherapy. For a brief overview article on this, please see http://www.transformfast.com/tools_of_the_hypnotherapist.htm. Here, let me just mention a few of the procedures that may be employed to illustrate the broad range of techniques that are available.

• One of the most basic tools is called a ‘reframe.’ What this means is simply helping the client shift their perspective to see their issue from different points of view. This is more easily achieved in the alpha state than in ordinary awareness because the ego is less dominant. The alpha state provides for an ‘expanded’ awareness that can see more options and possibilities than are normally apparent.

• Sometimes, the Hypnotherapist will work with metaphors or archetypes to help the client understand their situation in the context of a parallel or larger story.

• In other cases, the technique will be working with aspects or parts of self which may be in conflict, by helping the client ‘broker a deal,’ which can provide a context for all the parts to be in alignment.

• Time Line work is another modality for working with patterns and unresolved issues, sometimes by helping the client trace the roots from the past and ‘projecting’ the results into the future to see probable outcomes if change does not occur in the now.

• At times, working in the trance state can be similar to working within a waking dream with the sub-conscious guiding the unfolding of the understanding within the client. In such cases, the role of the Hypnotherapist is to ask skillful open-ended questions which are carefully timed to continue providing opportunity for the unfolding process to expand.

Each client and each issue is unique. No one technique will work across the board. This is why the Hypnotherapist must be able to tailor every session to the person and the circumstances presented. The few techniques briefly outlined here represent a very tiny sampling of the various methods which may come into play within a session.

This is why, when choosing a Hypnotherapist to work with, you want to find someone who continually upgrades their skills. This is not a profession for someone who wants to work in a routine manner. Because hypnotherapy deals primarily with the sub-conscious mind, and the ‘operating system’ of this aspect of the consciousness field is very different from that of the conscious mind, it is truly a dissimilar therapeutic model from standard ‘talk’ therapy with a counselor or psychiatrist.

In my next post, I will discuss the WHEN of hypnosis and hypnotherapy.

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I can generally tell by the way people react when I tell them what I do whether they truly know something about hypnosis or whether they have a lot of misconceptions about it. People who actually know something about hypnosis ask me interested questions and we then have a great conversation. People who are holding a lot of misconceptions tend to get a glazed look, a frozen expression, and start sidling away as fast as they can, as if they have just discovered that I am some kind of evil sorceress! Because there are still so many misconceptions about hypnosis and hypnotherapy out there, I decided to write this series of posts, and hopefully clear up some of this stuff, if not once and for all (wouldn’t that be nice?), at least for you curious readers who have ventured thus far. So, here is WHAT hypnosis is:

• It is the best method for accessing into the alpha state of consciousness. The alpha state is simply an AWAKE, inwardly-focused, deeply relaxed state of awareness. It is one of the normal states of consciousness we all experience, and it is where the true relaxation response is generated. Generally, we tend to pass into and out of this state very quickly in our rushed and busy lives. Hypnosis is one way to access into this state deliberately with the intent of relaxing, harnessing our internal resources, and developing our focus. Since the alpha state is part of our original design blueprint, so to speak, and since it is the organism’s best ally in balancing our stress load, it is curious to me that so many people subvert the wisdom of the design (and the designer?) by deliberately avoiding the alpha state.
  
• Hypnosis is a healing modality that has been recognized by the American Medical Association since 1958. It is an incredibly powerful agent for relieving stress, managing pain, speeding healing and recover from surgery, releasing phobias and anxiety, lifting depression, facilitating healthful sleep, letting go of bad habits and instilling good habits, reducing blood pressure, addressing skin conditions that do not respond to standard therapies, bringing babies into the world in a peaceful and relaxed way, and so much more.
  
• Hypnosis is safe. Those in the alpha state retain control of their minds and only accept suggestions that they wish to accept. Mind control is one of the ‘fears’ many people have about hypnosis. The irony is that a consistent alpha practice will only strengthen your mind and your own control over your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. It also provides insight, understanding, and protection against the insidious forms of ‘mass programming’ that happen to us culturally and societally, through advertising, propaganda, biased news reporting, faulty educational agendas and more. The kind of mind control that some few people mistakenly associate with hypnosis is only achievable through torture and extreme brainwashing techniques.
  
• Besides being the key to unlocking the relaxation response, hypnosis is also the best tool we have for effecting personal growth and achieving what we desire for ourselves in our health, our careers, our relationships, our spiritual development, and in all aspects of our lives.
  
• Among hypnotherapists, the saying goes: ‘ALL hypnosis is self-hypnosis.’ What this means is that you must be a willing subject in order to access into the alpha state. Someone cannot come up to you and put you into a trance unless you are willing at some level to allow that. I personally teach all my clients in their first session to access into this state on their own. This is YOUR birthright. It is YOUR best tool, best ally, and best defense in a stressful and demanding world. When my clients learn to get themselves into this state on their own, successive sessions can be spent doing targeted work on specific issues, and again, I teach my clients to use those tools for themselves as well.
  
• Hypnosis is something virtually anyone can learn. Some people will say “my mind is too strong, I am not a good subject.” This kind of statement reflects a poor understanding of what is going on with hypnosis. Actually, the poorest subjects are those who have mental impairments which make it difficult to understand and follow directions, and those people who are so fearful that they are unwilling to flow with the process. Intelligent people who are able to understand the value of learning this technique have no difficulty in doing so. Remember, it is a normal part of your consciousness range. You flow in and out of it whether you realize it or not. The process of learning self-hypnosis is simply to bring your intent to it and practice sustaining the state long enough to gain the benefits of it.
  

Hypnosis (remember: self-hypnosis) offers a direct path into the sub-conscious mind. When we are outwardly involved with the world around us we are in the beta brain wave state (where we experience the stress response) and in our conscious, analytical minds. When we utilize the pathway of hypnosis, we release the focus on the distractions of the outer world, and we bring our awareness to the inner spaces of our consciousness, into the subconscious field. The subconscious is not only a repository of past memories and programming, it is also a profound internal resource for shaping our present life and our future.

The brain wave state and the area of consciousness comprise the WHERE of the hypnosis issue. The HOW comprises the thousands of tools and techniques that can be utilized within this state to effect change. I will address the HOW, the WHO, and the WHEN of the hypnosis issue in future posts. For now, I just want to clarify some things that hypnosis is NOT:

• It is not woo-woo or voo-doo. (Remember, it is a NORMAL part of the consciousness spectrum built into our basic design, and we flow into and out of this state whether we are aware of it or not.)
  
• It is not NEW AGE. Although the term ‘hypnosis’ was not coined until the late 1890’s, accessing into the alpha state is as old as mankind itself.
  
• It is NOT what you see in stage hypnosis acts. REMEMBER: everyone participating in those stage shows on any level is there for one purpose and one purpose alone– entertainment. We all know that the entertainment value is in the wacko stuff some volunteers will be doing up on the stage. Those who volunteer wish to do such wacko stuff at some level or they would not raise their hands. Once up on the stage, the desire not to be the ‘killjoy,’ ‘party-pooper,’ or ‘wet blanket ‘ will be more than sufficient motivation to elicit the desired behavior whether they are ‘hypnotized’ or not.
  
• It is not ‘weird,’ ‘dangerous,’ ‘out there,’ ‘mind-control,’ for the ‘weak-minded,’ or ‘fake.’
  

Hypnosis is empowering, relaxing, safe, fun, simple, effective, and transformative! It is for people who want to have more control over their own minds, emotions, and behaviors. It is for intelligent and motivated people who want to improve their lives utilizing their own innate resources. It is the best way to access one’s inner wisdom, as well as the creative, imaginal, visionary, and intuitive aspects of consciousness. It is the best way to access into the neutral perspective where you can access multiple points of view so that you can be at CHOICE in your life, rather than at EFFECT. At its most basic, it is the most powerful tool for addressing stress in a normal and healthful way that is available to us. Since stress is the common denominator across every aspect of our lives, hypnosis is a tool that can bring us benefits regardless of what the issues are.

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Considering the principles of hypnotherapy and NLP, as well as the Universal Law of Attraction, it is important from a weight management perspective to watch your focus, not your weight. When we say to ourselves “I must lose this weight,” the subconscious mind picks up on your focus on weight, and helpfully obliges you by bringing you more of what you are focusing on (weight). It (your subconscious) makes no distinction on which way you are focusing on it, it simply perceives that you are very involved with that weight and therefore you must want more of it. Then, it obliges you by adding more pounds.

This is exactly the same principle behind how the Law of Attraction works in a universal sense. In other words, the abundant universe will also line up to give you more of what you are focusing on in just the same way. It will bring you plenty of opportunities to eat more, to eat those things you believe are fattening, to be inactive instead of active and so on. It will also team up with your subconscious mind and really pack those pounds on. (From certain perspectives, your subconscious mind and the abundant universe can be perceived as the being same thing anyway.)

Instead of focusing on your weight, focus on health. Focus on having energy and freedom of movement and flexibility. Focus on wearing some favorite outfit to a special event and feeling and looking fabulous. Focus on the emotions of being happy with yourself and having fun in the world. Step into a positive and healthy, energetic vision of yourself. See out of those happy eyes, hear the vibrant world through your ecstatic ears, feel the feelings of being and having what you truly want.

Put another way, what you are truly wanting is not ‘weight loss.’ What you are truly wanting is to be healthy so you can enjoy life, to be at an appropriate weight which allows you to be happy, energetic, feeling attractive and so forth. Behind all of this is really the ultimate goal everyone has for themselves, which is to be happy. To be in a state of BLISS. This is what we crave at the core of being. So focus on that, and take your mind off the weight.

Does this mean to stop caring about your health and about eating appropriately of healthy food in healthy amounts? And stop caring about moving your body in a healthy way? Of course not. But, what I am saying here is shift the focus on these things. Do these things because you love yourself and your body and wish to make sure that you have all the best things in the best amounts to provide the best care for yourself. Focus on doing these things because they are part of having a healthy happy life which you love. Stop doing them because you think you HAVE TO do them to lose weight.

Oh, what’s that you’re saying? Weight? Did I hear ‘weight’ again? You don’t have enough, you’re still focused on that? Always with you, it’s ‘blah blah weight this, blah blah weight that.’ A thousand times a day, that’s all you think about. Weight, weight, weight, weight, weight. Well, here you go, have some more!

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A woman I was working with lately mentioned that she prays for peace everyday. As she said this, there was anguish in her face. Like many of us, she is deeply concerned about the conflicts and suffering in the world. This ‘praying for peace’ is something many people do on a regular basis. However, one thing that strikes me about this is that by ‘praying for peace’ we may actually be focusing on the lack of peace in the world, and by focusing on that, we can then feel a lack of peace within ourselves. I know that focusing on this certainly creates anxiety and a lack of peace within me.

Perhaps peace is something that we can create in the world by bringing ourselves into a state of peace. The more ‘at peace’ we are, the more we may generate the consciousness of peace around us, and the more peace can be generated on a larger scale. It is difficult to generate world peace when we have so few people on the planet who are ‘at peace’ within themselves in a consistent way. When we say ‘Lord, bring us peace’ or even ‘Let there be peace in the world,’ this is actually a plea to provide that which we do not have, so in this way we are reflectively focusing backward, onto the ‘lack of peace’ which initiated our plea in the first place.

From the perspective of the Spiritual Law of Attraction, which is, simply stated, that you create more of that which you are focused upon, I wonder if it might not be more effective if we were to ‘pray’ from the perspective of gratitude rather than suplication? I wonder if we might not find peace within by giving thanks for our peace? And, I wonder if experiencing peace within might not generate more peace on a larger scale? I know for myself, as I have been repeating this ‘thank you for my peace’ quite often over the course of the last few days, that I do feel more at peace within myself.

I am wondering if anyone else would be interested in just trying this way of ‘praying’ for peace, as a gratitude practice. No matter what is going on in my life, I find that just stopping a moment and saying ‘thank you for my peace,’ I automatically feel better. I believe that it is possible that WE (the big collective WE of the world) will only find peace when we (the you and I individuals of the world) find and know our own inner peace.

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you?” ~William A. Ward

Stress is the common denominator of our lives. We have stress in all dimensions of our experience, whether it is physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual. Developing a consistent alpha-state practice has been the road back to equilibrium across all these dimensions for me. The alpha state is simply an extremely relaxed inwardly-aware, normal state of consciousness such as is attained through self-hypnosis or meditation.

Not only does this state bring you into a place where you can gain a larger perspective about the issues in your life, and where you can see things from many different points of view, it connects you to those internal resources for higher guidance in finding solutions, and resolution. In addition, being in the alpha state itself creates specific neurochemistry designed to neutralize the stress chemistry initiated in the brain from being in a beta state (which is an alert, outwardly-focused state) where we tend to spend all our awake time, little realizing this is what is creating the out-of-balance in the first place.

Stress is fragmenting to the being. True relaxation, and the alpha state foster reconnection and wholeness. In our western culture we have little training in activating the relaxation response and are therefore often floundering under a load of stress that will eventually tear us apart if we don’t learn how to cope with it in a natural and healthy way. Learning these simple techniques has enabled me to transcend asthma, IBS, migraines, extreme allergies, chronic pain, crippling grief, and many other debilitating conditions. It has also opened the door to my dreams, and my higher awareness.

Because our western culture has been ‘trained’ to turn to the medical paradigm for a quick fix in the form of a pill to answer these issues, many people do not know that there is a simple, effective, safe, and natural way to utilize the body’s own innate resources for re-establishing equilibrium and health. Managing stress is also the single most critical element in over-coming any habit or addictive behavior pattern.

Once again, I invite you to share you succinct stories here of how self-hypnosis or alpha-state practice has changed your life. If you are moved to do so, you can send expanded versions of your stories to me at trancelady@sbcglobal.net for inclusion in a published project. I believe that many more people have benefited from this type of practice than we commonly know about. It is time to re-empower everyone in knowing about this invaluable resource for healing.
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In our culture, it is common to discount our dreams. Many people tell me they haven’t remembered a dream in years. Some even assert that they don’t dream at all (which is not true…we all dream). Often, we don’t remember the dreams because we wake up abruptly with an alarm clock. Other times, our conscious mind overrides the dream awareness as we start thinking about our day and all we have to get done.

Whatever the case, our dreams are very important means of communication between our conscious minds and our subconscious or unconscious minds. I believe that dreams are important conduits of guidance from our higher minds. Dreams also come to us in many forms. Night dreams are generally what we think of when we say ‘dreams,’ but daydreams and trance ‘dreams’ can also offer profound insights to us. All forms of dreaming are interwoven into our big life dreams as well. Dreams are also important in healing in all dimensions: body, mind, and spirit.

In many cultures, dreaming is seen to be important not only for the individual who has the dream, but also for the community as a whole. Dreams are actively reported and shared. I am interested in providing a forum for dream sharing. The idea is to share a dream that has had a powerful impact in your life by providing guidance in making a specific choice or decision. The purpose is to rekindle interest and focus on our dreams, which is a way to reconnect with ourselves and our higher guidance in these critical times. If you are interested in helping with this project, please submit your succinct dream stories here on the blog, and as ever, send your longer dream stories to me at trancelady@sbcglobal.net if you are willing to have them included in a collection for publication.

Dreams have been important to some of our greatest thinkers of all time. Many of our advances in knowledge have been the result of dreams. If we can stimulate a renaissance of dreaming, we can positively impact the course of our collective future.

In order to be able to harvest the wisdom of our dreams we must cultivate healthy sleep protocols and manage our stress. Developing a consistent ‘alpha’ trance practice can facilitate this. If you feel challenged in any of these areas, there are resources available to you from our site. In addition to what is already available, my dream journal handbook will soon be available for download, along with the stress handbook. I invite you to open to yourself. All that you need is within you. As each of us finds wholeness within, we bring wholeness to the world around us. It is my dream to be a facilitator of this by helping to empower others to honor their own higher guidance.

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Well, I would like to invite others to share their ‘attraction’ stories. Here is one of mine to kick things off.

After I had first leased my office space eight years ago, I was standing in the bare naked office trying to imagine how I would furnish it. Suddenly, the phone rang in the office next door to mine. The ring, and the ensuing conversation were pretty loud. As my business requires quiet and privacy, I was pretty dismayed. What had I done? I had signed a lease to an office in which I would not have either it seemed.

As I continued to anguish over this, I realized that the sound was coming through the door that connected our two office spaces. It must be a hollow-core door, I thought. It is resonating the sound. It did not seem to be coming through the wall at all. After the person next door finished his conversation, he left his office to go across the hall. He passed by my open door and stepped in to introduce himself. Noticing my concerned look, I explained what was going on. “No problem,” he said. “Just go to the home store and get some sound-proofing board. Get it cut to size and cover the door with it. Then you just need a bookcase to stand in front of it, and you’re all set.” Well, I thought to myself, I can do the sound proofing bit, but it may take a while to find the right size bookcase. However, I set off to the home store, actually finding a truly helpful person there who cut the board for me, including the cut out for the door knob, and I brought the board back to my office and ‘installed’ it over the door. It was not too attractive, being a rough brown textured and thick composition. I envisioned how nice it would be when I found the right bookcase to stand in front of it, a nice wooden one that would fit snugly into the doorway. I measured it and continued to think of exactly the kind of bookcase I wanted there, not having a clue how I would find one that would work in this most particular spot. I just had a feeling about how nice it was going to be, and I was excited about my office space working out after all. After spending a bit more time thinking about my office and how nice it would look when I got everything in place, I went home.

As I opened the door and stepped across the threshold, my husband called out, “I’m going to have to bring the company truck home tomorrow honey. My friend James from work has a bookcase he wants to give you for your new office.” Now, mind you, I had not even told my husband about the sound problem or the need for a bookcase. The next day, he and James brought the bookcase to the office, and, you guessed it, the thing fit like a glove inside the connecting door frame, completely covering the soundproofing board. From that day onward, I never had another problem with the sound from the other office. It was perfect. The thing I love most about this story is the instant nature of it. There was virtually no lag time at all. I visioned it, I was excited about it, and even though I did not know how it would happen, I just knew it would somehow work out.

Over the next few weeks, I was also gifted with four paintings, a clock, another bookcase, a lamp, plants and other assorted decor items for my office. I was trying to find the right kind of recliner to match my vision at a price I could afford, having just put out a lot for other business start up costs. Long story short, once I remembered to ‘let go’ of it (with an insistent reminder from my dear friend Rick, the founder of this website), the ad showed up the next morning. I wound up with a matched pair of beautiful green recliners for $200.00 total and I was all set to receive clients.

Now, let’s hear some of YOUR stories. The Law of Attraction is working all the time. Sometimes we attract what we fear (when we are not in awareness) and other times, we attract what we want or desire like magic. I would like to create a book of such stories because I believe that we are on the brink of a huge consciousness shift, and such a book may help that shift along. Please share you story here on the blog and if you are also willing to share it in a book format, please send it to me at trancelady@sbcglobal.net. If you have multiple stories, please share them with others. The more we can break down the old mindset around this the more we can co-create a wonderful, abundant and liberated life for all of us on this planet. By sharing our stories, we change the collective consciousness field. Remember the story of Roger Banister and the four-minute mile. Once he broke this ‘impossible’ barrier, many athletes were able to push through it. Our beliefs hold us back. Imagine how great a people we CAN be. Let’s be part of this process together.

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First let me clarify something here. I feel a tremendous upwelling of consciousness potential at this juncture of time. The time is right for us to reach that ‘critical mass’ of consciousness which will turn the tide for us individually, for us as a species, and for our planet. It may even be that the ‘consciousness shift’ will have implications even beyond our planet. I don’t know, but I find that my mind is holding an ever growing vision of what is possible. I have seen the power of consciousness at work (and play) in so many ways, and my inkling is that this is just a tiny mote in comparison to what is truly available to us. I have had a dream lately of connecting, linking, of melding and merging at a very high order. It is this ‘collective consciousness’ that I am interested in fostering. When we blow out the ‘boundary conditions’ of our collective mind, we will soar…we truly will be limitless…and this is exactly what is needed at this crucial point on the space-time continuum. If you are still with me here, you may be wondering what all this has to do with Reiki and specifically Reiki stories….

If you have read my other posts you will find a common thread weaving these posts together…I am asking for you, the reader, to share you story. It is in sharing story that we push out the boundaries of our thinking…we become part of the shift…so, here again is another invitiation to share your story….both here on this blog, and in expanded version if you care to submit it to me at trancelady@sbcglobal.net for inclusion in a published collection. Truthfully, I don’t know how any of this is going to happen. I just ‘know’ that it is time for it to happen, and I feel compelled to provide these forums, these invitations to you. Each of you has a unique story, and it may be just the catalyst that will help another person expand…connect…grow…

For myself, I can say that Reiki absolutely changed my life. On my personal healing journey, it provided the catalyst from which all else followed as it placed my foot upon a healing journey I could not even comprehend when I had my first attunements. It was only in looking back over time that I realized it had been that juncture where it all began. I believe that it was that first set of Reiki attunements that opened me to having the spontaneous trance experience that led to my becoming a hypnotherapist. That is often the gift of Reiki…it is profound, yet sometimes so subtle that you can miss its impact until you find the proper filter for framing perspective…

Since then I have continued to study and practice Reiki, both Usui and Karuna. I have experienced many profound things along the way. One of my favorite stories is very simple, and some might say it is not worth reporting. Yet to me, it was very significant.

One of my Reiki students once asked me if Reiki could move bones. She had been exploring into other healing methods as well, and was probably referencing Quantum Touch, which is big on moving bones. Her question recalled to me this incident:

We were once in charge of a tiny baby miniature bunny for the first month of its life. We were ‘bunny-sitting’ as it were. When the bunny arrived (small enough to fit inside one palm) he had something wrong with his right front shoulder. He was hopping in a circle in a very erractic way, and the whites were showing around his eyes, an indication of extreme distress. I picked him up and held him in my hands. I immediately began flowing Reiki to him. He relaxed. I should say he melted in my hands. I could tell his shoulder was dislocated. At a certain point I was guided to gently stroke his shoulder and sure enough the bones loudly and visibly rearranged themselves. The little one’s eyes shut and he had an expression of bliss on his little black face. When I finally put him down on the floor he began to run and hop like crazy, even bounding three feet straight up into the air. From that time, every time I picked him up he would roll over onto his back in my hands and just completely melt into relaxation. We called him Zen-bun. Even after he went to his ‘real’ home he would do that when I saw him. I will never forget this littlest ‘client’ of mine. Just remembering him melting in my hands sends me into a deeply calm and happy state.

Now, it’s your turn. How has learning Reiki or receiving Reiki had a profound impact in your life?

Reiki Healing CDs/MP3s