Becoming an Energy Healer

The below was written just the other day in response to an inquiry made by someone I am mentoring! She is currently working with learning about energy healing and has begun with Quantum Touch at my recommendation – it’s quick, easy to learn and has immediate results and confirmation potential. She purchased the books and CDs and began working with them.

I have worked with this person already and can attest to her great talent. However, for her on a personal level, doubts are creeping in. She’s working with people who she feels are expecting miraculous results, and when amazing things don’t happen, she fears that she may not be doing a good job – and that they’ll believe this too. She knows she’s running energy, but she’s learning so many different things that she’s finding it hard to focus and she knows that she could be doing better with this.

She asked me to offer any suggestions I might have, and below is my response! After writing it I felt so good I requested her permission to reproduce it here. She said go for it, s’good stuff! And so, I am!

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‘ello! I am going to allow myself to ramble for a moment, here!

Yes, I totally understand – self doubt and then experience that finally proves to you that for sure, this stuff actually works, is a path that just about every healer must travel in some way, at some point. And often times more than once!

My immediate thought is – start simple, and work with one thing at a time. If you work with 10 different techniques all at once you start to lose focus and get spread out. It’s hard to compare, then, and you dont’ know what actually worked and what didn’t. Become super familiar and comfortable with one thing, then pick up another thing and work with that for a while. Then go back to the original thing, refamiliarize yourself with it by working with it again, then use both, then pick up another new thing. Get a stable foundation each step of the way, in other words.

You don’t want to spread the energy you have for moving forward too thin over too many areas or you’ll lose steam before you get the sense of accomplishment, mastery and confirmation you’re looking for.

I totally understand what you’re saying about other’s feelings about you as well. All I can say is that at some point along the way you will come to hold this (‘this’ being just about anything you believe in, but in this case – that you have the ability to give someone an extra dose of life force) as true. Whether they feel it or not doesn’t matter – because it IS happening. You come to know this on a deep, unshakable level, and then it becomes that maybe they just aren’t sensitive enough to feel it, or are closed to it, or who knows what. YOU know that you are running energy and that it IS going somewhere with the intent of love and highest joy behind it.

This kind of confidence comes with time and experience – but I can say that it *does* come. And maybe sooner than you think! For now, if possible, limit your search for confirmation and upliftment to those you know will be open and interested. No need to go before a firing squad of proclaimed doubters and prove yourself to them right off the bat. You’re looking to prove this to yourself, first. That’s what you’re *really* looking for.

Once you know that beyond a shadow of a doubt, you can be who you are. Until you have that, though, be gentle with yourself and know that yes, you *can* fly – but since you don’t believe that in the Real World yourself just yet, it’s best that you begin to flap your wings only among those who believe and know you can, too – or at least are willing to imagine that you can.

Those who actively doubt can’t be reached, anyway – I’ve experienced this myself, from that place of confidence and knowing that something IS happening. These people feel closed and scared, and you can all but feel the energy rolling right off their backs and returning to whence it came. They can’t be reached because they won’t open up or reach out, themselves – they’re too scared and they need their walls for whatever reason. Not our job (or, not mine anyway!!) to knock them out of their comfort zone and force them to have an experience. There are way too many people who are totally open and willing that can use our help.

Just because these people are closed off (and so will NOT experience the energy no matter what you do), doesn’t mean you ‘don’t got it’. It does mean, however, that they can in total honesty look you in the eyes and, from their place of perception, call you a fake and a liar – because, in their world – you are. As far as they are concerned, they are speaking THE truth. What they don’t understand is that it’s only their truth, not everyone’s.

They are wearing the opposite of rose colored glasses, and so part of the experience of perception is totally lost on them. It doesn’t mean it’s not real or true – you have taken off the glasses and so, for you, it is true. You are capable of experiencing something that they are not. This doesn’t make them any less – they’re just not ready for it yet. One day, I’m sure they will be, because I believe that everyone is on the path of opening to more love – and that’s what this is.

Somethin’ to think about!

On that note, there’s something called the Teachable Moment, aka the Reachable Moment, where you’ll notice someone is open who normally isn’t. It’s usually when their pain and fear has grown so acute that their box has become claustrophobic, and so they reach out into the unknown – searching for…something. For what, they usually don’t know – all they know there has to be something else they’re not seeing because what they’re seeing is no longer tolerable, for whatever reason. I was one of these people for 27 years…suffocating inside my own box, afraid and having no idea how to reach beyond it.

The thing of it is – we are born to push beyond our walls…it’s how we grow. But we have to do it from the inside out, otherwise it’s not us doing it, it’s someone making us do it, or some-thing. If it’s something outside of us powering the action, we can’t take credit for it and so we can’t be empowered by it. I believe that empowerment is what this life is about. Self Empowerment. Coming to know our true infinite identity, step by step. So, in other words, the closed person must be reaching for you in order for you to reach them. If you can’t reach them, it actually very likely has nothing to do with you.

And that is one of the most thrilling things about what it is I do as a healer and a teacher – and I have a feeling the same will be true for you. Reaching someone that was previously unreachable, and showing them a world in Full Color Surround Sound! That’s the best!! Doing that, however, is advanced work for someone who has already come to that state of confidence. You gotta get there first yourself, and then you can bring others there to show off the spectacular view. And of course, even while you’re standing there, showing others the amazing view, you have the opportunity to see beyond and realize that there’s someone out there, reaching back to give you a hand up to yet another level.

So begin gently – no need to over-achieve yourself to the point that you lose sight of the view, yourself! Move slowly up to it, inch by inch, allowing people who have seen the view themselves or who at the very least have the capacity to imagine that the view may be there, to support you along the way.

I can see why you may be in a hurry. Your natural talent is huge and in other lifetimes or incarnations you’re likely very used to doing all of this and more – so taking baby steps may be understandably frustrating. But, it’s worth it, because when you take it an inch at a time, and shore up and stabilize yourself with every inch, by the time you get to that incredible view you’re looking for (which right now you have defined as being free of doubt that this is actually working and that energy is actually flowing through you and doing good things), you will be very stable, grounded, and have a strong foundation from which to speak and act.

One last note – the steps never stop. You never actually arrive at THE Incredible View. You just keep moving an inch and shoring up, moving an inch and shoring up, backsliding sometimes and then inching along again perhaps taking an entirely different path this time – a stronger more You and likely more simple path – with the view getting more and more incredible w/every inch.

I have found that it is very important – if not crucial! – that you take a rest every once in a while and look around, take stock of where you are and how far you’ve come and how different the view is. A time in which you really LOOK at the view and appreciate it and yourself for being there. There are arrival points, in other words – goals accomplished and milestones reached. You only arrive at them, however, by taking notice of them. There is, however, no final destination.

There is always another step to take, and always an even more amazing view just another few feet beyond.

So! Be good to yourself, take it slow, give yourself the support you need as you traverse this new terrain by reading books that teach you as well as support your new ways of thinking by actually practicing, and by surrounding yourself by people that believe in you. Oh, and don’t spread your focus out too thin or your energy will disperse before you actually finish taking a step!