March 31, 2026

The Energy You Can't See...But Feel Every Day w/Jessica Howard

The Energy You Can't See...But Feel Every Day w/Jessica Howard

You feel it… stress, burnout, emotional weight—but what if the answer isn’t just physical? This week on ParaTruth: Reborn, we sit down with Jessica Howard, author of Energy Healing for Modern Life, to explore the invisible forces shaping your...

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You feel it… stress, burnout, emotional weight—but what if the answer isn’t just physical?

This week on ParaTruth: Reborn, we sit down with Jessica Howard, author of Energy Healing for Modern Life, to explore the invisible forces shaping your well-being.

👉 What is energy healing really?
👉 Can your body hold onto emotional trauma?
👉 And how do you actually start working with your own energy?

If you’ve ever felt “off” but couldn’t explain why… this episode might change how you see yourself—and your energy—forever.

🎧 Tune in and discover the power you’ve had all along.

Guest Bio: Jessica Howard brings twenty years of witchcraft and energy healing expertise to her work as an author, teacher, and practitioner. A reiki master who has studied numerous healing traditions, she's spoken at conferences, on podcasts, and contributed to a number of spiritual publications. Her approach blends traditional wisdom with modern applications. She is particularly fond of reiki shares, sound baths, creating guided meditations for her YouTube channel, and hiking the trails of her home in the UK.


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Coming up on Paratruth Reborn, we will talk to Jessica

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Howard about her book Energy Healing for Modern Life, Embrace

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your energetic self and find your well being.

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Welcome to Paratruth Truth.

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How's it go on Paratruthers. Welcome to another episode of

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Paratruth Reborn. Jessica Howard, Welcome to Paratruth Reborn.

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Thanks justin. Great to be here.

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So, before we dig into a lot of what's in

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the book, what got you started with Energy Healing?

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We'll be honest, it was almost kind of a I

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suppose an evolution of my spiritual path without wanting to

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sound too cheesy, as opposed to kind of a deliberate decision.

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So I'm sure, like a lot of people listening to

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this podcast, I was kind of one of those children who,

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you know, I could sense energy, I could see spirits

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and sort of things beyond the physical world. And I

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remember being probably about twelve or thirteen and reading one

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of those you know, chashy teenage girl magazines and reading

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an article on witchcraft and it wasn't something I'd heard

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of before, and it just really resonated with me, and

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I was like, oh, great, there's you know, there's kind

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of a term or a path for the sorts of

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things that I'm feeling and that resonate with me. And

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so that kind of began my journey. And very early

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on in that journey, I encountered the chakras. This was

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this was all way before the internet, so kind of

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everything that you had access to was just very much

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kind of books, TV, so you know, you didn't really

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have access to or at least easy access to a

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wealth of things. But then from then it kind of

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it began to build and build and build. And the

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more that I kind of studied and encountered, the more

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I thought that energy healing sounded really interesting and kind

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of a you know, something that I quite I felt

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quite called to. And what I find quite interesting is

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that when I made the conscious decision to start studying

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energy healing, I realized that actually I've been practicing energy

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healing without realizing that what I've been doing was energy

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healing in a sense. And I do imagine that's probably

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true for a lot of people. So yeah, for me,

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it wasn't really a conscious decision to get into energy healing.

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It was more of a I suppose a culmination of

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the path that I was already on. But yeah, I've

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been practicing it, I suppose since I was in my

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early teens, So that's been over twenty years now, and

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during that time, it's been really interesting to kind of

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see how things have developed. Even though twenty years doesn't

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sound like a long amount of time, so much can

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change in twenty years, I've said, when I first started studying,

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no internet, and now you know, we're dealing with AI

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and all other challenges that come with that. And I

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suppose that's where the modern element of the book comes in.

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It's not just about energy healing, but it's how we

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take all of those practices and traditions and can adapt

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them to our very different way of life without losing

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any of their sacredness.

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Yeah, and I mean that's actually why I was really

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interested in this, because you know, the practices that you

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hear about for energy work are practices that have been

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done over a millennia of human history, and so I

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was really really drawn to this book, and same with you.

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You know, I had done massage therapy like almost right

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out of high school. I was around twenty one when

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I started taking classes for it and stuff but although

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you are manipulating the physical in that you are also

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doing energy work at the same time, you just don't

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even realize it. And it's come to, you know, to

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today where I've kind of realized that as well.

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Yeah, and I think for a lot of people, I mean,

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you know, especially when we're thinking about energy healing, you know,

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sound healing is also a really powerful form of energy healing.

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And that could even be as something as simple as

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just having a specific playlist that you listen to when

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you need to be cheered up or when you're feeling

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a bit down or you're feeling a bit interesting active,

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and yeah, even going you know, just cultivating a playlist

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to suit a specific mood that you're in or trying

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to shift your your mood set, that in itself is

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a form of energy healing. And so I think, yeah,

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there's there's a lot of of that that goes on

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that people don't realize that they're doing, which yeah, I

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personally find very interesting. Kind of similar to you know,

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as you said with the massage, and you're you're actually

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engaging with energy healing without realizing it. Like I think

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a lot of people think that energy healing is this

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kind of big, you know, almost kind of unattainable and

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mystical sort of practice, whereas actually it's it's a lot simpler,

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and it's it's probably it's a lot more intuitive than

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we realize. And yeah, that's that's another aspect that I

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find really interesting, which was one of the reasons that

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I decided to to kind of write the book was

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to try and just just help people realize that actually,

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energy healing is really accessible. And again, as I said,

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you're probably doing it without realizing it.

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Right now for someone who's just kind of starting or

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showing interest in this type of stuff. What is energy

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healing at the simplest terms.

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So always a really interesting question because there's no one

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kind of universally agreed definition of what energy is, let

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alone what energy healing is. So I supposed to kind

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of start off with what energy healing is or what

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energy is apologies, So there is a I mean, science

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has proven that everything is made of energy, and this

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energy is constantly emotion, it's constantly interacting with kind of

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each other, and it cannot be created, it cannot be destroyed,

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but it is priced in everything everyone of everything we touch,

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in everything we experience, Now, there is a belief in theosophopy.

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I can never pronounce it correctly, but essentially that there

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is I suppose, different bodies. And this may be something

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that people are familiar with. We quite often talk about

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the physical body and the mental body and the emotional body.

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And the idea is that you know, you have your

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physical self, which is obviously kind of you know, your body,

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what you can see and touch and smell, et cetera.

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And you have your emotional body in this is very

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much kind of yet your emotional self and responses, and

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your mental body, and this is very much kind of

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your your intellect and the way that your brain process

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is information. And these three bodies essentially work together to

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form the self. So essentially, there is a belief throughout

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many different cultures, many different traditions throughout you know, hundreds

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and thousands of years, that there's actually another body, and

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that is your energetic body. And you can kind of

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think about this as your spiritual body. So the idea

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is that our body is made of energy, and we

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have these energetic pathways throughout our body, and as well

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as the energetic pathways, we also have energy centers throughout

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our body. Now, it is worth saying that there are

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many different ways that these different cultures and traditions believe

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that our energetic body is structured. The energetic pathways and

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kind of energetic sectors. War Texts is quite a popular one.

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We see it with the chakras. We see it in

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ancient Chinese medicine where they work with the meridians, again

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very similar to the chakras. But essentially it's there seems

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to be a lot of evidence throughout these different cultures

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and traditions that we all have these energetic pathways running

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through our body and these various energy centers, and these

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various energy centers are often associated with different emotional and

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mental and physical aspects. So, for example, if we look

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at the chakras, so it's generally kind of believed that

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there are seven main chakras throughout the body, and you

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can have one that is associated with our physical selves,

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a stability and security, and then we have one that's

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associated with creativity, another one that's associated with emotions, another

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one that's associated with our confidence and our sense of

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self belief. And essentially, when this energy is running freely

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and it's perfectly balanced within our bodies, then everything works

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great and it's perfect and we're in alignment. But if

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the any point we experience any sort of blockages in

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our energetic pathways, then these can lead to kind of

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unwanted or difficult symptoms. And the reason that I speak

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about the different bodies, the physical, the mental, the emotional,

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and the energetic, is because we can see how an

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imbalance or an issue in one of those bodies can

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also affect the other body. So if, for example, you

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think about what happens when you have a cold. So

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let's say you know you have a common cold, and

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you experience the physical symptoms, so you get the running

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nose and you get the sore throat, but you'll also

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experience mental symptoms such as you know, the brain fog

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and not being able to concentrate. And I know from

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me personally, when I'm feeling quite under the weather, I

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also experience certain emotional responses, especially feeling kind of very overwhelmed,

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very easily, and you know, even the tiniest of inconveniences

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can kind of set me off. So we can see

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there how all of our different bodies are interlinked. And

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it's exactly the same with the energetic body. When we

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experience blockages within our energetic body. They can have physical effects.

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We can feel certain kind of physical I suppose apes, pains, illnesses.

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We can experience mental issues such as problems concentrating, sleeping, etc.

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And it can also affect our emotions. So ensure energy

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healing is just making sure that we are paying attention

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to our energetic body and taking steps to ensure that

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we are keeping that healthy and balanced, and we're focusing

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on removing blockages so that we can ensure that our

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energetic healths is one hundred percent, which in turn will

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affect our physical selves, our mental selves, and our emotional selves.

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So you can kind of think of energy healing as

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just another part of kind of health and well being.

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Okay, now can anybody do this or is it something

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that you should be learning to do before you start

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doing it?

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So anybody can do it. And I am going to

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apologize in advance because this is a subject that I

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can talk for absolute hours on, so I do tend

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to ramble on, so to apologize if some of my

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answers come across a little bit rambly. But absolutely anybody

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can do this. And again going back to what I

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said at the start, you know, there's a lot of

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people who are probably practicing energy healing without even realizing it.

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And the thing is that it is so intuitive, and

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the number of people that I've spoken to who practice

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energy healing or maybe don't even practice energy healing, but

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they are quite sensitive to energies. Especially when you start

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talking about things such as cleansing or energetic protection and

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different ways that you can do these, you will find

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that a lot of people were actually practicing these things

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without being taught them or realizing that, you know, what

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they were doing was actually a chined and tested method

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of doing these things. And even though it is so

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innate within us, I think a lot of us have

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we've kind of just switched it off. And I think

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that that is in part due to the environment that

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we live in. So we live in a very kind

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of science focus world. It's very busy. We tend to

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with logic, and you know, we focus on what our

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physical senses tell us, and that's what we use to

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make all of our decisions, and our intuition is quite

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often forgotten or ignored. And I'm sure we've all had

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those cases where we felt that something is off and

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we just we couldn't explain why we just felt that

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something wasn't quite right. And in those instances, we're often

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told it's all in your head. Just ignore it. Like

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you know, you can see, there's no danger, you can hear,

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there's no danger. Everything's fine. Ignore that little voice and

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just just kind of go for it. But actually, when

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it comes to working with energy and especially energy healing,

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it's that little voice that you want to listen to,

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because it's that voice that listens to those those subtle

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clues in your energy and your body and can let

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you know when issues are arising before they actually manifest

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into physical issues or mental issues or emotional issues. So

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it is something that a lot, I mean, everyone can

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do it, but it is something that can feel difficult

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to reconnect with because we just live in a world

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where rather than listening to our intuition, we need to

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listen to our logic. And yes, we need to just

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take that step back and take that time to just

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stop and breathe and focus on listening to our intuition again.

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surprised at how quickly and easily working with energy and

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energy healing comes to you but absolutely anybody can do it.

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and I feel that it does have correlation. But how

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does energy affect our physical and emotional health?

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to the example of, you know, the various different bodies

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that we have, and again using the example of getting

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a common cold, you can see how even though we

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tend to associate a common cold as being a physical

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ailment in the sense that you know, the sore throat

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and the runny nose, when you think about it, you

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can also see those emotional aspects, the mental aspects such

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as the brainfall or the you know, kind of breaking

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down every little inconvenience. And in the same way, issues

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with your energetic body can have an impact on your physical,

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your mental and emotional self And actually a lot of

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the time, especially if you're not attuned to energy, it's

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going to be those physical symptoms or the mental and

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emotional symptoms that you're going to notice first rather than

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anything in your energetic body. So this can manifest in

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a number of different ways. And I will preface this

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by saying that if you are experiencing any symptoms that

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are physical or mental and they're prolonged or they're causing

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you pain, then absolutely one hundred percent please do kind

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of see a doctor or seek how a medical professional,

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just to be on the safe side. But there are

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many different ways that these can manifest. So for example,

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if we're thinking about the chapras again, personally, I started

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working with the chapras quite early on. It's still a

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framework that I go back to when I'm thinking about

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energy and the body and how that works, and it

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is quite a popular one. But again, going back to

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that notion of there being seven main chakras in the

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body and each of them having different associations, that can

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kind of help narrow it down, especially when you think

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about the physical symptoms. So you know, for example, if

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you've got a sore throat and you know there's no

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real reason for it, so you know, let's say you

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know you have it been in a very smoky environment,

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or you're not suffering from a cold, for example, any

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kind of issues that you might have with your throat

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could represent a blockage in your throat chakra, which could

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internally to issues with communication. Similarly, you can flip that

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around and if you feel like you're struggling to speak

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up footwork or at school, or if you're struggling to

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be honest with yourself or be honest with other people,

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then you could say, oh, okay, I'm clearly having an

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issue with communication, which if my energy centers is associated

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with communication, that's the throat chakra. Therefore I should work

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on my throat chakra. So it's in that everything is

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very interconnected, and you will find that issues in your

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energetic body can manifest themselves in physical ways, just as

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physical issues if they're not kind of dealt with, can

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affect your your energetic field. And saying with kind of

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emotional and mental issues that you your difficulties that you

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may be experiencing.

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Now, is there a way to kind of tell when

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when your body is like out of balance with your energy?

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Is it just like the physical ill once that you're

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talking about, or is there other things that we can

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be looking for.

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this is this is kind of both the blessing and

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the curse of energy healing, is that everybody experiences energy differently,

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and so it's very difficult for me to say, oh, okay, well,

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you will feel X, and you will feel Y, and

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you will feel Z. If you're feeling out of balance

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or when you're working with energy, you should feel a,

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B and C. Because there's so many different ways that

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people experience energy and connect with energy. That Yeah, so

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first off, it's very difficult to say you will definitely

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feel this. You will definitely feel that. Once you start

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to work with energy and really get an understanding as

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to how you personally connect with it and experience that,

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it will feel much easier to be able to understand. Okay,

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you know, I've got an issue here, I've got an

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issue there. I think one of the best things that

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you can do to help you understand where there may

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be imbalances in your energy is just to stop and

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check in with your body. And it's really surprising how

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little that we do this, because I think, especially in

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this modern day and age, kind of we're we're taught that,

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you know, just taking some time out for yourself is

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it's lazy. You know, you were kind of taught that

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just taking an evening to sit down and watch some

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TV is you know, it's lazy. No, you should be

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doing the dishes or you should be doing the washing,

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and you'll even see it with the rise of hustle culture,

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which you know, essentially every hobby has to be monetized. Now,

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you know, it's very difficult to just enjoy something for

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the sake of enjoying something. But all this does is

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just it keeps people so constantly on the go that

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we feel guilty when we take that step back and

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just do nothing. And actually doing nothing is a fantastic

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way to just just stop and reevaluate kind of how

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you're doing. And it is absolutely incredible, how you know.

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And again going back to that, everybody thinks that energy

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healing is this big practice that must be studied for

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years and years before you can actually kind of use

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it or engage with it, whereas it can just be

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as simple as saying, you know what, I'm going to

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sit down for ten minutes and I'm going to turn

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off the TV. I'm just gonna sit here and I'm

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just gonna ask myself, how am I what is going

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on with me? Kind of you know, how am I feeling?

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And that in itself is really really powerful And there

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are other things that you can do if you want

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to get more into the energy healing side of things.

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So you know, we have things such as body scans,

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and a body scan is essentially an exercise where you,

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as it sounds, you scan your energy and you just

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kind of, yeah, connect with it and see if there's

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any places in your energy where there may be blockages

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and things. Or you could use a pendulum, for example,

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a pendulum is a really great tool to help you

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understand where there may be blockages in your body. Essentially,

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you can use a if you're just doing it on yourself,

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then you can use a representation of yourself. This may

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be you know, a person drawn on a piece of paper,

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or it could be a stuffed animal, and you just

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swing the pendulum over the representation and if at any

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point the pendulum starts to swing erratically, then you know

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that there is an energy blockage there. So there are yeah,

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countless ways to kind of check in with your energy

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and just see where the imbalances are. I mean, there's

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also you know, various meditations and things that you can do.

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You could go as far as to visit a healer

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and ask them to kind of, you know, work on

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your energy and give you a bit of an mot

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But honestly, one of the simplest ways, especially if you've

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never practiced energy healing before, is just to take that

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time to just sit down and say, Okay, how am

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I feeling. Is there anywhere in my body that just

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feels a bit a bit heavy, or a bit sluggish

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or a bit achey. Yeah, it's it's And this is

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one of the things I love about energy healing as well.

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It can be so simple and effective that it just

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makes it so easy for people to really engage with well.

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And I'm glad you bring up the pendulum and other

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tools that you can use, because I think it's something

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that you could probably do without the tools, but it's

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always good to have those tools there just to kind

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of reinforce that. And I know there's going to be

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those people on one side or the other, but I feel,

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you know, and I love your opinion on this, you

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should probably start out with tools so you know that

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you are feeling what you're feeling compared to not. Would

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you agree with that definitely?

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Yeah, And I personally still use tools. I really enjoy

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using tools generally. I'm quite a physical person anyway, and

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you know, I do enjoy using crystals and stones and

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incorporating things like tarot into my energy healing practices, and

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I do find that it's it's a just kind of

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a way to almost get like an unbiased second opinion

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and make sure that you're on the right track. But

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it's a really great way to just build your confidence

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as well. And I think that the more you do

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that kind of the lass that you rely on the

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tools and it is it is a really really great step.

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I mean, I have quite a few different tools that

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I use. I've got crystals that have the reiki symbols

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carved into them. I'll quite often use them when I'm

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doing reiki healings. I have various different grids with different

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sacred geometry configurations on them that I'll use in my

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crystal healing. I have, you know, I use the pendulum again,

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I use divination in my energy healing. So one of

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the things that I have is a lithomatsy set that

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is based around the chakras and the elements, and I

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can kind of use that to basically do readings for

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people to get an idea as to where there may

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be energy blockages and you know what needs to be

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done to be able to heal those energy blockages without

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necessarily needing to tap into anyone's energy, and I find

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that that's really really useful. Again, a for beginners who

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may be a bit nervous and maybe aren't sure what

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they're supposed to be feeling and just kind of need

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that that reassurance. But also even for you know, myself

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who's been practicing for a while, there's there's just some

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times where I'm just feeling a bit tired, and you know,

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I just kind of want want something that's not so

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draining on my own energy to be able to perform.

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And also, you know, you know, it's times where you

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are a little bit unsure, perhaps you getting mixed messages

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or you're you're not entirely sure of which direction to

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take the healing, where yeah, tools can be an absolutely

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fantastic guide. You know, we all know the saying that

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you know, it's it's the healer, not the tools. The

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tools don't actually do the healing. It's all about you

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and your intent. But yeah, I personally love using tools

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and things in my practice, and yeah, I definitely encourage

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anybody to give them a go because there's so many

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you can use, and it also just give you a

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chance to be kind of really creative and just just

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find something that resonates with you that, Yeah, it's a

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lot of fun as well to just play around with. Well.

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I think a lot of people say the same thing

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about medium Chip too, like that if you're a true medium,

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you shouldn't need tools. But I honestly feel, yeah, that

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whether you're using tools or not using tools, yes it

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is you. But again, those tools are just kind of

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a reinforcement that it's not your ID that's talking to

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you or you know whatever. They I feel they really

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do help.

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Yeah. Yeah, as I said, I personally really enjoy using

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the and it's it's just again it's quite fun as well.

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Like one of the reasons that I really love energy healing,

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and it's part of that is the community, because there

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is such a nice community around energy healing and people

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that heal, and you know, half of that is just

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kind of getting together with other people and talking about

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the different methods that they use and the different tools

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that they use, and you know, trying out these things

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for yourself and sharing that knowledge and yeah, it just

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it just I think it's really important for progress as well.

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And I know we kind of touched on that whole

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being able to take things and make them more adaptable

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and relevant to the modern world. But you kind of

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see it, and I think Reikie's a fantastic example of this.

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So you know, reiki was discovered in nineteen twenty nine,

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I want to say, but yeah, it's in the ground

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scheme of things. It's one of the more the more

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recent forms of energy healing. But if you just look

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at how it was taught when it was first discovered,

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you know, about one hundred years ago, to how it's

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taught now, and there's been so many additions and different

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ways of practicing it that have kind of ensured that

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it remains relevant. And even just thinking the past kind

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of three years, five years, I'm seeing kind of new

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and innovative ways that people are using reiki. And half

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of that is, like, you know, the different tools that

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they're using. And yeah, it's not only interesting, but I

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feel in a sense it's kind of necessary to keep

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these things relevant and keep people interested and ensure that

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00:29:41.160 --> 00:29:47.400
they're remaining kind of within our consciousness.

466
00:29:48.359 --> 00:29:53.599
Now, I've been practicing meditation for a while, but how

467
00:29:53.599 --> 00:29:59.440
does meditation fit into doing energy work? And on top

468
00:29:59.519 --> 00:30:04.240
of that, in our modern lives, which I feel are

469
00:30:04.319 --> 00:30:06.839
much more busy lives than in the past, maybe not.

470
00:30:08.359 --> 00:30:14.000
How how can you incorporate meditation into your work?

471
00:30:16.200 --> 00:30:20.400
I love meditation, yeah, and meditation is I mean, you

472
00:30:20.400 --> 00:30:22.359
can say it goes hand in hand with a lot

473
00:30:22.400 --> 00:30:27.880
of spiritual pursuits, but especially energy healing. And again, one

474
00:30:27.920 --> 00:30:31.000
of the main reasons is because you know, as we've

475
00:30:31.039 --> 00:30:35.559
already talked about, we tend to switch ourselves off from

476
00:30:35.720 --> 00:30:40.400
our intuition and the kind of ability within ourselves to

477
00:30:40.440 --> 00:30:44.319
be able to connect with and understand energy because we

478
00:30:44.480 --> 00:30:50.799
are constantly so busy, We're constantly you know, bombarded with information,

479
00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:54.599
and we're constantly trying to rely on our logic and

480
00:30:54.640 --> 00:30:59.400
our physical senses to interpret this information. And you know,

481
00:30:59.480 --> 00:31:02.079
we don't all our selves the time to just sit

482
00:31:02.160 --> 00:31:05.839
down and stop and listen. And that's where meditation for

483
00:31:05.920 --> 00:31:12.480
me personally comes in. Meditation is a deliberate kind of

484
00:31:13.119 --> 00:31:16.359
I suppose it's it's a deliberate promise to yourself that

485
00:31:16.440 --> 00:31:20.000
you know, okay, just for five minutes, ten minutes, twenty minutes,

486
00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:22.240
an hour, I'm going to sit here and I'm just

487
00:31:22.359 --> 00:31:25.000
going to focus on myself, and I'm going to listen,

488
00:31:25.039 --> 00:31:30.240
and I'm going to put my needs first. Meditation is

489
00:31:30.319 --> 00:31:33.359
again one of those things that I think people think

490
00:31:33.440 --> 00:31:36.920
is a lot more difficult than it is, or they

491
00:31:37.079 --> 00:31:42.720
assume that it's something that is more difficult than it

492
00:31:42.839 --> 00:31:48.079
needs to be. I personally have always said that just

493
00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:52.200
spending five minutes a day in meditation is much more

494
00:31:52.240 --> 00:31:56.160
benefit beneficial than trying to spend an hour in meditation

495
00:31:56.599 --> 00:31:59.839
once a week, you know, little and often is definitely

496
00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:04.559
the best approach. And when you start to practice things

497
00:32:04.599 --> 00:32:07.480
such as meditation, I mean, there's there's so many benefits

498
00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:11.559
outside of energy healing, just the fact that it grounds

499
00:32:11.599 --> 00:32:16.079
you to the present, It helps you kind of focus,

500
00:32:16.359 --> 00:32:20.519
and you know, especially if you're incorporating breathwork into it,

501
00:32:21.279 --> 00:32:24.759
you know, it can really help improve your general kind

502
00:32:24.839 --> 00:32:28.559
of physical health and well being, as well as kind

503
00:32:28.599 --> 00:32:33.279
of how you deal with stress and difficult situations. But

504
00:32:33.519 --> 00:32:37.960
in terms of the energy healing, meditation is a really

505
00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:43.000
great first step to just help you just stop and

506
00:32:43.240 --> 00:32:48.519
lessen and connect with the energy that you have inside

507
00:32:48.559 --> 00:32:51.599
of you and be present in the moment, because I

508
00:32:51.640 --> 00:32:55.759
think that is again another reason that things such as

509
00:32:55.880 --> 00:33:00.519
energy healing can feel very difficult is because a lot

510
00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:04.960
of us we're constantly thinking about the future, whether that's

511
00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:06.480
you know, what we're going to have for dinner tonight,

512
00:33:06.680 --> 00:33:09.319
or you know, trying to remind ourselves put the washing

513
00:33:09.400 --> 00:33:11.359
on when we get home, or you know, we find

514
00:33:11.359 --> 00:33:13.519
ourselves thinking about the past, like you know that that

515
00:33:13.640 --> 00:33:16.599
really silly thing that we said in a conversation last week,

516
00:33:16.759 --> 00:33:19.799
And it can be very difficult to feel present in

517
00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:23.559
the moment, and especially for energy healing, being present in

518
00:33:23.599 --> 00:33:28.279
the moment is extremely important. So, yeah, meditation is a

519
00:33:28.400 --> 00:33:33.640
great way to just a make sure that you're taking

520
00:33:33.759 --> 00:33:36.960
that break and you're listening to yourself and be ensuring

521
00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:39.680
that you're grounded in the present moment so you have

522
00:33:39.799 --> 00:33:43.880
that awareness of how you're feeling in that present moment.

523
00:33:47.160 --> 00:33:49.960
Now, there's always going to be those skeptics out there,

524
00:33:50.119 --> 00:33:53.200
for those that are going to say, you know, energy

525
00:33:53.240 --> 00:33:56.960
healing isn't real. It's a lot of bubb gusts, Like

526
00:33:57.599 --> 00:33:59.480
how would you respond to something like that?

527
00:34:01.319 --> 00:34:04.039
Honestly, I kind of get it. Like. One of the

528
00:34:04.079 --> 00:34:09.119
reasons that energy healing is known as as an alternative

529
00:34:09.159 --> 00:34:12.800
practice or a non mainstream practice is because there isn't

530
00:34:12.840 --> 00:34:19.199
any hardcore or like you know, definitive scientific study that

531
00:34:19.360 --> 00:34:23.800
says one hundred percent. Yes, reiki works or crystal healing works.

532
00:34:23.960 --> 00:34:26.880
And again, because we live in a society that is

533
00:34:26.960 --> 00:34:32.840
governed by by logic and science, it's you know, we're

534
00:34:32.840 --> 00:34:37.119
taught to just completely disregard anything that doesn't have that

535
00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:42.039
scientific stamp of approval. So, you know, I completely get it,

536
00:34:42.079 --> 00:34:45.199
and I also completely get some people saying, you know,

537
00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:48.760
it's it's probably a placebo effect, or you know, it's

538
00:34:48.800 --> 00:34:51.760
just basic psychology. And you know, if you if you

539
00:34:51.840 --> 00:34:54.320
tell yourself that you're more confident, then you're going to

540
00:34:54.360 --> 00:34:59.920
become more confident. But my argument is if it helps,

541
00:35:00.280 --> 00:35:06.960
then like does it really matter if it works in

542
00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:09.239
a sense, And I'm trying to think about the best

543
00:35:09.280 --> 00:35:14.559
way to kind of explain this, but energy healing is

544
00:35:16.079 --> 00:35:19.039
it is something that we use to improve our health

545
00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:23.000
and well being. We use it to improve our confidence.

546
00:35:23.119 --> 00:35:27.719
We can use it to ensure that we are feeling

547
00:35:27.840 --> 00:35:34.079
grounded and balanced and present and confident. And by working

548
00:35:34.280 --> 00:35:38.960
with energy, it encourages us to also make changes in

549
00:35:39.159 --> 00:35:41.280
other parts of our lives. So you know, let's say,

550
00:35:41.280 --> 00:35:45.320
for example, that you you know you want to improve

551
00:35:45.519 --> 00:35:48.960
your your communication style. You know, perhaps you know that

552
00:35:49.039 --> 00:35:52.800
you really struggle to communicate effectively because you're quite shy

553
00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:55.159
and you're quite timid, and so, you know, the more

554
00:35:55.199 --> 00:35:57.000
that you work with let's say, you know it's a

555
00:35:57.079 --> 00:36:01.159
throape chakra, going back to the chakras, and you know,

556
00:36:01.239 --> 00:36:03.719
you do, you start to feel more confident, and you

557
00:36:03.760 --> 00:36:06.480
start to put yourself out there, and you know, you

558
00:36:06.519 --> 00:36:08.760
start to stand up for yourself, and you start to

559
00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:11.280
be more confident in what it is that you're you're

560
00:36:11.280 --> 00:36:14.519
communicating with people. You know, perhaps that means that you

561
00:36:14.679 --> 00:36:17.159
finally get that promotion at work because you're being a

562
00:36:17.159 --> 00:36:20.880
bit more you know, to the point and forward. And

563
00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:26.199
I personally think that so long as it is something

564
00:36:26.320 --> 00:36:31.159
that is helping you and improving your well being, then

565
00:36:31.320 --> 00:36:36.119
it works. We don't need to talk about the you know,

566
00:36:36.199 --> 00:36:39.840
the scientific breast principles behind it. We don't need to

567
00:36:39.840 --> 00:36:42.880
strap someone to a table and you know for various

568
00:36:42.960 --> 00:36:46.920
wires across them and measure electrical impulses or anything like that.

569
00:36:47.039 --> 00:36:50.639
Like the main purpose of energy healing is to improve

570
00:36:50.719 --> 00:36:53.360
your health and your well being and your your sense

571
00:36:53.400 --> 00:36:58.599
of self. And if practicing energy healing does that, whether

572
00:36:59.079 --> 00:37:04.039
because it's a pacebo effects something psychological or you know,

573
00:37:04.159 --> 00:37:07.639
maybe it is energy, and you know that that is

574
00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:11.360
kind of the diving force there. Then as long as

575
00:37:11.400 --> 00:37:14.039
it's not harming anyone, then just give it a go.

576
00:37:14.199 --> 00:37:19.000
And I genuinely think as well that again going back

577
00:37:19.000 --> 00:37:23.800
to that concept that we very rarely take time for

578
00:37:23.840 --> 00:37:26.719
ourselves because we tend to feel guilty, we tend to

579
00:37:26.719 --> 00:37:33.239
feel lazy. Like energy healing is basically us telling ourselves that, no,

580
00:37:33.360 --> 00:37:37.239
I'm putting myself first. I'm going to take fifteen twenty

581
00:37:37.320 --> 00:37:39.719
minutes an hour out of my time and I'm just

582
00:37:39.760 --> 00:37:41.840
going to focus on my own health and well being,

583
00:37:42.840 --> 00:37:50.599
and that in itself is such a necessary step to yeah,

584
00:37:51.199 --> 00:37:53.599
really kind of managing our own health and well being.

585
00:37:53.639 --> 00:37:55.880
That even if that is all you get out of it,

586
00:37:56.000 --> 00:37:58.679
even if at the end of it you say, actually,

587
00:37:58.920 --> 00:38:01.000
I don't believe in shakra and you know, I don't

588
00:38:01.039 --> 00:38:03.920
believe in reiki, even if at the end of it

589
00:38:04.039 --> 00:38:10.119
you have still gotten into the habit of feeling allowed

590
00:38:10.320 --> 00:38:14.840
to take that time out for yourself, then absolutely, it's

591
00:38:14.920 --> 00:38:17.000
you know, it's it's done his job. Energy healing is

592
00:38:17.039 --> 00:38:20.159
doneished job. So yeah, so appreciate I've probably rambled a

593
00:38:20.159 --> 00:38:24.199
little bit there, but whilst I can understand the skepticism.

594
00:38:24.639 --> 00:38:29.599
I would personally say that there's just so many benefits

595
00:38:29.719 --> 00:38:33.480
to giving it a go that you you can't really lose.

596
00:38:34.360 --> 00:38:38.159
Right well, and you've already mentioned it too, that science

597
00:38:38.199 --> 00:38:41.760
has proven that energy, we are made of energy, that

598
00:38:41.800 --> 00:38:48.559
we have a bioethereal field around us. So if we

599
00:38:48.840 --> 00:38:51.400
have that, or even if you think of it as

600
00:38:51.440 --> 00:38:55.760
bioelectrical field, same difference. If you think of it as that,

601
00:38:56.159 --> 00:39:00.280
then how could you not realize that you have to

602
00:39:00.360 --> 00:39:04.559
heal that field sometimes, just like you have to repair

603
00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:10.519
an electrical outlet or repair your electronics because sometimes they

604
00:39:10.519 --> 00:39:15.400
break down. So I mean, yes, healthy skepticism is good,

605
00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:18.840
but for me just to say it's outright not real

606
00:39:20.519 --> 00:39:25.400
kind of borders on your being cynical more than skeptical.

607
00:39:26.719 --> 00:39:29.039
Definitely, Yeah, And that's why I say just just give

608
00:39:29.079 --> 00:39:31.119
it a go. Like even if you think it's something

609
00:39:31.159 --> 00:39:33.559
that you know you're gonna foo foo the idea of

610
00:39:33.639 --> 00:39:35.679
and you don't believe in it, then yeah, just just

611
00:39:35.719 --> 00:39:39.039
give it a go, because at the end of the day, Yeah,

612
00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:42.599
if if you're still determined not to believe in it,

613
00:39:42.679 --> 00:39:45.519
but you have at least taken some time out to

614
00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:48.599
focus on yourself. Then that's that's probably better than you

615
00:39:48.639 --> 00:39:50.440
were doing before given your attitude.

616
00:39:50.559 --> 00:39:57.360
So, now, have you ever seen any results from doing

617
00:39:57.480 --> 00:40:00.480
this energy work where you're just like, wow, you know

618
00:40:00.679 --> 00:40:04.199
that kind of reinforces why I do what I do.

619
00:40:06.320 --> 00:40:10.480
Yeah, And to be honest, most of those are I've

620
00:40:10.519 --> 00:40:13.320
had this question a few times, and I think people

621
00:40:13.400 --> 00:40:18.400
kind of expect me to give this like big life

622
00:40:18.519 --> 00:40:22.480
changing epiphany sort of moment, you know, the breakthrough sort

623
00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:25.679
of moment, and actually most of the time it's been

624
00:40:26.639 --> 00:40:33.519
a culmination of smaller instances that you kind of have

625
00:40:33.760 --> 00:40:37.559
this awakening isn't the right word, but just this sudden

626
00:40:37.639 --> 00:40:40.559
realization of kind of oh, no, this is right, this

627
00:40:40.639 --> 00:40:45.239
is exactly where where I'm meant to be. I think,

628
00:40:48.400 --> 00:40:53.960
I think one of the most powerful kind of effects

629
00:40:54.039 --> 00:40:58.000
that I felt from it. And it is very interesting

630
00:40:58.039 --> 00:40:59.880
when I kind of think about, you know, because I've

631
00:41:00.199 --> 00:41:02.320
kind of on this path for like over twenty years now,

632
00:41:02.320 --> 00:41:04.559
and it is very very interesting when I look at

633
00:41:04.639 --> 00:41:08.119
kind of certain things that have happened throughout my life

634
00:41:08.199 --> 00:41:11.239
and think, oh, okay, well, you know, if I'd reacted

635
00:41:11.280 --> 00:41:14.480
to that completely differently, because I, you know, had no

636
00:41:14.800 --> 00:41:17.519
concept of energy or anything, then you know, I could

637
00:41:17.559 --> 00:41:21.199
see things taking a very very different path. But for

638
00:41:21.320 --> 00:41:28.400
me personally, it's it's all about those those little changes

639
00:41:28.480 --> 00:41:30.719
that you make. And again, this is this is kind

640
00:41:30.760 --> 00:41:35.440
of where that that idea of it being for modern

641
00:41:35.480 --> 00:41:41.800
life comes into because we we all we all want

642
00:41:41.800 --> 00:41:44.079
to be the best version of ourselves. And you know,

643
00:41:44.159 --> 00:41:46.320
we're I'm sure that we've all been there many many

644
00:41:46.320 --> 00:41:47.840
times where we say, you know, we're going to start

645
00:41:47.840 --> 00:41:49.920
this new diet or we're going to give up this

646
00:41:49.960 --> 00:41:52.119
particular advice, and you know, we're going to do X,

647
00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:54.320
Y and Z, and we we're going to go to

648
00:41:54.360 --> 00:41:56.519
the gym five mornings a week. And you know, we

649
00:41:56.639 --> 00:41:59.119
start and we're full of energy for all of about

650
00:41:59.159 --> 00:42:01.079
two or three days, and then we do it for

651
00:42:01.119 --> 00:42:03.079
like two weeks and we realized that, oh that was

652
00:42:03.119 --> 00:42:05.039
way too much, and we just kind of give up.

653
00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:11.880
So those kind of big gestures very rarely work. And

654
00:42:11.960 --> 00:42:18.199
I've always kind of found that just integrating smaller aspects

655
00:42:18.440 --> 00:42:21.440
kind of yet little and often and then just building

656
00:42:21.480 --> 00:42:25.199
on those has a much more prolonged and powerful effect

657
00:42:25.840 --> 00:42:28.599
than those you know, what we'd assume would be a

658
00:42:29.079 --> 00:42:33.599
big kind of gesture or a big I don't know,

659
00:42:33.679 --> 00:42:37.760
you know, meditating on a mountain top for seven days

660
00:42:37.800 --> 00:42:41.079
and fasting kind of thing. I think for me, one

661
00:42:41.119 --> 00:42:49.119
of the biggest results that I've seen has been more

662
00:42:49.159 --> 00:42:52.840
to do with kind of my own mindset and my

663
00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:59.000
own outlook than anything else. So I think, especially when

664
00:42:59.039 --> 00:43:05.480
you're looking at energy healing, it comes from place or

665
00:43:05.480 --> 00:43:09.039
it kind of helps you cultivate a mindset of gratitude

666
00:43:09.239 --> 00:43:12.719
and compassion, and it sounds like one of those things

667
00:43:12.719 --> 00:43:17.800
that shouldn't be that's uh, that rare, but especially in

668
00:43:17.840 --> 00:43:21.159
this age, and I think you know, a lot of

669
00:43:21.159 --> 00:43:23.280
people have commented on it that you know, we're seeing

670
00:43:23.280 --> 00:43:26.079
a lot of this, especially since COVID, where we seem

671
00:43:26.119 --> 00:43:30.320
to have moved very much from a community vibe to

672
00:43:30.639 --> 00:43:34.920
quite an individualistic vibe. You know, it's very me me

673
00:43:34.920 --> 00:43:40.559
me rather than us US now. And I think for

674
00:43:40.599 --> 00:43:47.800
a lot of people having that that kind of individual me,

675
00:43:47.800 --> 00:43:49.800
me me mindset, if you've got, like you know a

676
00:43:49.840 --> 00:43:52.480
lot of people that have that mindset, then obviously you're

677
00:43:52.719 --> 00:43:58.239
going to have a very siloed and secluded kind of

678
00:43:58.400 --> 00:44:01.880
community or environment around you, and it can be very

679
00:44:01.920 --> 00:44:06.159
easy to respond to that in kind. If everyone's being

680
00:44:06.440 --> 00:44:09.079
a bit kind of rude and a bit kind of standoffish.

681
00:44:09.239 --> 00:44:11.480
Then yeah, it's very easy to think, well, I'm going

682
00:44:11.519 --> 00:44:14.000
to be rude and standoffish as well, and you know

683
00:44:14.119 --> 00:44:17.199
that's that's not great for your mindset. So, you know,

684
00:44:17.440 --> 00:44:21.599
I started kind of deliberately when I was in situations

685
00:44:21.639 --> 00:44:24.480
that were causing me frustration or stress or you know,

686
00:44:24.599 --> 00:44:26.519
especially living in a big city. I live in one

687
00:44:26.559 --> 00:44:28.760
of the big city, the biggest city in the UK,

688
00:44:29.320 --> 00:44:31.079
and even just trying to get from point A to

689
00:44:31.079 --> 00:44:34.199
point B it can be extremely frustrating sometimes. But just

690
00:44:34.280 --> 00:44:37.400
kind of taking a step back and rather than reacting

691
00:44:37.559 --> 00:44:42.360
to those inconveniences with annoyance or anger, just trying and

692
00:44:42.559 --> 00:44:45.039
actually appreciate, you know, kind of taking a step back

693
00:44:45.079 --> 00:44:49.719
and approaching them from a place of compassion and understanding

694
00:44:50.280 --> 00:44:54.119
really did a lot to change my mindset and just

695
00:44:54.199 --> 00:44:59.039
kind of generally make me a lot more grateful and

696
00:44:59.440 --> 00:45:02.239
able to kind of see the positives and things. And

697
00:45:02.280 --> 00:45:05.360
I do think that if a lot of people did

698
00:45:05.440 --> 00:45:08.880
that then we would be in a much better place.

699
00:45:09.119 --> 00:45:12.599
And especially once you've kind of you've shifted your mindset

700
00:45:12.639 --> 00:45:15.639
like that, you start to notice all of those those

701
00:45:15.840 --> 00:45:19.239
tiny instances and it can be something really small, like

702
00:45:19.280 --> 00:45:21.760
you know, the traffic lights turning green as you're you're

703
00:45:21.800 --> 00:45:24.760
about to cross the road and kind of feeling genuine

704
00:45:25.679 --> 00:45:29.960
gratitude for that, like and I think it's it's those

705
00:45:30.760 --> 00:45:35.280
small instances that have made more of a difference than

706
00:45:35.480 --> 00:45:39.840
any kind of one big aha moment during a meditation

707
00:45:40.000 --> 00:45:42.679
session or a rape session, if that makes sense. I

708
00:45:42.679 --> 00:45:45.000
know that was quite the question that you were asking,

709
00:45:46.079 --> 00:45:51.719
but yeah, for me personally, I think that that the

710
00:45:51.880 --> 00:45:56.599
small actions that you can do constantly and build upon

711
00:45:56.719 --> 00:46:01.760
are probably more important, more attainable, and more impactful than

712
00:46:01.920 --> 00:46:06.119
just kind of that that one big moment. Sir.

713
00:46:06.400 --> 00:46:14.360
Yeah, Now, in your opinion, what is the biggest or

714
00:46:14.679 --> 00:46:19.679
a couple of the biggest misconceptions people have about energy work.

715
00:46:23.360 --> 00:46:25.320
It's definitely one that I know we've touched on a

716
00:46:25.360 --> 00:46:27.960
couple of times, which is that, yeah, energy work is

717
00:46:28.000 --> 00:46:37.079
this this big kind of spiritual, difficult to obtain sort

718
00:46:37.159 --> 00:46:40.639
of practice that you know, if you want to become

719
00:46:40.679 --> 00:46:43.840
an energy healing then you have to make a pulgrimage

720
00:46:43.840 --> 00:46:47.559
across a desert and into the mountains and then fast

721
00:46:47.599 --> 00:46:51.119
and meditate for twenty days before you're you're blessed with

722
00:46:51.159 --> 00:46:55.440
the sacred knowledge of energy healing. Yeah, I think that

723
00:46:55.679 --> 00:47:01.880
is It's definitely one of the biggest misconceptions that I hear,

724
00:47:01.960 --> 00:47:05.800
because again, as we said, you know, energy, it's within everyone,

725
00:47:05.880 --> 00:47:08.880
It connects us all. We all have the ability to

726
00:47:10.039 --> 00:47:13.000
connect with this energy and use this energy and heal

727
00:47:13.079 --> 00:47:16.639
this energy. And it is really quite simple as long

728
00:47:16.679 --> 00:47:19.199
as you kind of put the effort into doing it,

729
00:47:19.280 --> 00:47:23.599
and you don't need any fantcy rituals or big ceremonies.

730
00:47:23.639 --> 00:47:26.559
It can just be as simple as you know, taking

731
00:47:26.599 --> 00:47:30.079
five minutes out to meditate and just just focus on

732
00:47:30.119 --> 00:47:33.039
your energy and how you're feeling. So I think for me,

733
00:47:33.639 --> 00:47:37.400
that is definitely the biggest misconception that it's this yeah,

734
00:47:37.519 --> 00:47:44.239
big kind of unattainable or unapproachable practice. I would say.

735
00:47:44.280 --> 00:47:53.360
The other one for me is, oh, again kind of

736
00:47:53.360 --> 00:47:55.880
similar to that that you know, you need to spend

737
00:47:56.079 --> 00:47:59.679
a lot of money to do it, and I know

738
00:47:59.800 --> 00:48:04.320
in reiki we have the concept of lineage, so essentially

739
00:48:04.880 --> 00:48:06.920
it used to be the case and it is still

740
00:48:06.960 --> 00:48:10.000
the case actually in some instances that you need to

741
00:48:10.039 --> 00:48:14.519
be able to trace your lineage back to the founder

742
00:48:14.760 --> 00:48:17.760
of reiki. And you know, if you can't do that,

743
00:48:17.880 --> 00:48:23.360
then essentially you know you're in some circles your looks

744
00:48:23.400 --> 00:48:26.239
down upon if you can't trace your lineage back. And

745
00:48:26.280 --> 00:48:32.519
I think that there is this this misconception that that

746
00:48:32.599 --> 00:48:36.159
stuff matters, because to be honest, that that stuff doesn't

747
00:48:36.280 --> 00:48:41.639
really matter. I mean, there can be a lot of gatekeeping,

748
00:48:41.760 --> 00:48:45.360
and I do understand again thinking about that, you know,

749
00:48:45.559 --> 00:48:50.679
try how do we adapt these sacred techniques into modern

750
00:48:50.760 --> 00:48:53.679
day without losing that sacredness. And you know, obviously there's

751
00:48:53.719 --> 00:48:59.280
been many conversations over the years around appropriation versus appreciation,

752
00:49:00.039 --> 00:49:03.920
and that does absolutely apply in energy healing as well.

753
00:49:04.480 --> 00:49:08.400
But I do find that there is this misconception, and

754
00:49:08.440 --> 00:49:12.119
it's probably one that does grind my gills a little bit,

755
00:49:12.199 --> 00:49:14.920
which is that you know that notion of you you

756
00:49:15.039 --> 00:49:18.079
need to be able to prove your lineage and prove

757
00:49:18.239 --> 00:49:24.400
your training and yeah, proof that you've done things in

758
00:49:24.440 --> 00:49:30.239
a very specific way that may not be compatible or

759
00:49:30.280 --> 00:49:33.519
even that relevant to kind of how things are today.

760
00:49:33.639 --> 00:49:37.519
So I think for me personally, those are my two

761
00:49:38.400 --> 00:49:42.840
biggest bug bears in terms of misconceptions that people have.

762
00:49:42.960 --> 00:49:48.440
And again, I think the other misconception that people tend

763
00:49:48.440 --> 00:49:51.599
to have is that you need to be a kind

764
00:49:51.639 --> 00:49:56.559
of spiritual whacko or whatever to believe in energy healing.

765
00:49:56.599 --> 00:50:00.559
I mean, I know a Christian woman who practices reiki.

766
00:50:00.719 --> 00:50:04.440
She's absolutely fantastic with it, you know, very very kind

767
00:50:04.519 --> 00:50:09.519
of you know, Catholic lady, but still practices reiki. I

768
00:50:09.599 --> 00:50:15.360
know people in you know, the science kind of careers

769
00:50:15.480 --> 00:50:20.199
who practice energy healing, sound healing, crystals, et cetera. So

770
00:50:20.320 --> 00:50:22.960
I think as well that you know, another misconception is

771
00:50:22.960 --> 00:50:27.159
that you need to be the stereotypical hippie to practice

772
00:50:27.320 --> 00:50:30.880
energy healing, because actually, you know, it's so accessible to everyone,

773
00:50:30.960 --> 00:50:34.599
and you really do experience people from all walks of

774
00:50:34.639 --> 00:50:38.159
life that are engaged with and practicing energy healing that

775
00:50:38.320 --> 00:50:41.320
it truly is something again that anybody can do.

776
00:50:44.000 --> 00:50:48.360
All right, now, we are a getting close to the end,

777
00:50:48.400 --> 00:50:50.880
but I wanted to ask you this this last question

778
00:50:51.000 --> 00:50:56.800
before we wrap up. What is your hope that people

779
00:50:56.840 --> 00:51:01.519
get from energy healing from modern life?

780
00:51:01.920 --> 00:51:05.519
Oh that's a really good question. So when I when

781
00:51:05.519 --> 00:51:10.079
I wrote the book, my main I suppose my main

782
00:51:10.119 --> 00:51:11.960
goal around all. The reason that I wrote the book

783
00:51:12.159 --> 00:51:14.719
was because I mean, there's there's loads of books out

784
00:51:14.760 --> 00:51:17.280
there on chakras. There's loads of books out there on

785
00:51:17.360 --> 00:51:21.159
crystal healing, there's loads of books out there on auras,

786
00:51:21.800 --> 00:51:25.599
But for somebody who's just getting into energy healing for

787
00:51:25.639 --> 00:51:29.280
the first time, I personally had never really been able

788
00:51:29.360 --> 00:51:33.159
to find a resource that was kind of like an

789
00:51:33.239 --> 00:51:35.920
overall beginner's guide that kind of said, you know, here,

790
00:51:36.039 --> 00:51:40.000
here are the various different things that you should look into,

791
00:51:40.280 --> 00:51:44.760
and would give a enough information that you could kind

792
00:51:44.760 --> 00:51:47.000
of say, oh, okay, I'm interested in reiki or you know,

793
00:51:47.000 --> 00:51:48.960
I want to learn more about cleansing, and then be

794
00:51:49.000 --> 00:51:52.719
able to go off and you know, research more about

795
00:51:52.760 --> 00:51:55.880
those things. So the idea behind writing the book was

796
00:51:56.000 --> 00:51:58.679
very much to just kind of give a bit of

797
00:51:58.719 --> 00:52:02.639
a one stop shop for beginners coming into energy healing,

798
00:52:02.719 --> 00:52:06.280
to give them a complete overview of energy healing and

799
00:52:06.360 --> 00:52:08.400
what's involved in it, so they could kind of go

800
00:52:08.480 --> 00:52:11.000
off and then you know, choose the things that really

801
00:52:11.039 --> 00:52:14.719
resonated with them and go and do more research. So

802
00:52:14.800 --> 00:52:18.519
I suppose what I'm hoping to achieve with the book

803
00:52:19.000 --> 00:52:22.199
is just giving people who are a little bit interested

804
00:52:22.280 --> 00:52:25.039
a place to start, because I think energy healing is

805
00:52:25.079 --> 00:52:28.480
becoming a bit more popular and a bit more mainstream,

806
00:52:28.800 --> 00:52:31.519
and you know, we're kind of seeing it with you know,

807
00:52:31.599 --> 00:52:34.760
phrases such as, you know, good vibes only, and you know,

808
00:52:34.800 --> 00:52:37.880
you'll see on the front of magazines things like, you know,

809
00:52:38.800 --> 00:52:43.039
headlines around removing toxic people from your life. So I

810
00:52:43.079 --> 00:52:46.639
think it is something that is becoming a bit more mainstream.

811
00:52:46.760 --> 00:52:49.760
But yeah, it can be difficult to know where to start,

812
00:52:50.079 --> 00:52:53.599
especially because it is such a huge subject. So I'm

813
00:52:53.679 --> 00:52:58.719
hoping that it will provide people with a starting point

814
00:52:58.800 --> 00:53:01.480
to just get the the basics that they need to

815
00:53:01.559 --> 00:53:05.280
then be able to pinpoint two or three things that

816
00:53:05.280 --> 00:53:08.880
they're interested in and go on and kind of continue

817
00:53:08.880 --> 00:53:12.320
their journey, but also to kind of show people that, yeah,

818
00:53:12.440 --> 00:53:17.440
energy healing is not this this big, unattainable practice that

819
00:53:17.480 --> 00:53:21.360
you need to spend hours every single day practicing before

820
00:53:21.440 --> 00:53:24.039
you can actually use it. You know, it is something

821
00:53:24.079 --> 00:53:28.000
that can so easily be incorporated into our everyday lives

822
00:53:28.039 --> 00:53:36.119
and the benefits can be so profound that honestly everybody

823
00:53:36.159 --> 00:53:40.039
and anybody can try it should try it. And yeah,

824
00:53:40.119 --> 00:53:43.760
I hope that it just breaks down some of those

825
00:53:43.800 --> 00:53:48.719
misconceptions and yeah, gives gives more people. I suppose that

826
00:53:48.920 --> 00:53:57.039
yet that platform to get involved in it from.

827
00:53:54.480 --> 00:53:56.719
All right, well, thank you so much for being on

828
00:53:56.840 --> 00:54:01.760
Pear Truth Reborn before I as you go, tell everybody

829
00:54:01.760 --> 00:54:03.559
where they can find you and find your work.

830
00:54:04.760 --> 00:54:13.000
Yeah, so the book is available via most big kind

831
00:54:13.000 --> 00:54:17.079
of publishing companies and bookstores. I have to admit I'm

832
00:54:17.199 --> 00:54:20.840
not too familiar with the booksellers out in America, so

833
00:54:21.119 --> 00:54:25.960
I can't recommend any specific ones. But yeah, Otherwise, I

834
00:54:26.000 --> 00:54:29.760
have a couple of websites, so I am actually a

835
00:54:29.800 --> 00:54:34.480
practicing pagan as well as an energy healer. I've had

836
00:54:34.480 --> 00:54:37.199
a couple of books published previously which are more around

837
00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:39.599
subjects to do with paganism. But I do keep my

838
00:54:40.320 --> 00:54:43.440
paganism and my energy healing quite separate because, as I said,

839
00:54:43.480 --> 00:54:46.920
you know, energy healing is so accessible that I don't

840
00:54:46.960 --> 00:54:49.519
want it to kind of be, you know, tied up

841
00:54:49.559 --> 00:54:52.880
with the paganism sort of things. So I have one

842
00:54:52.920 --> 00:54:56.880
website for the pagan side of things, which is www

843
00:54:57.000 --> 00:55:01.760
dot The Cottage Mystic dot tom, and then for the

844
00:55:01.920 --> 00:55:06.639
energy healing I have www dot Modern Energyhealing dot co

845
00:55:06.800 --> 00:55:11.519
dot UK. I'm also quite active on Instagram. It's basically

846
00:55:11.559 --> 00:55:13.960
the only social media that I use, but my handle

847
00:55:14.039 --> 00:55:17.199
there is the Cottage Mystic, which I also have my

848
00:55:17.239 --> 00:55:21.079
own YouTube channel where I release guided meditations, so I

849
00:55:21.159 --> 00:55:25.000
quite often release two guided meditations a month, all for free.

850
00:55:25.119 --> 00:55:28.320
So yet to check out the YouTube channel as well.

851
00:55:29.119 --> 00:55:32.519
But yeah, I'm always As you may have realized from

852
00:55:32.559 --> 00:55:35.559
this interview, I talk a lot and I am more

853
00:55:35.599 --> 00:55:39.360
than happy to answer any questions and spend some time

854
00:55:39.440 --> 00:55:42.400
babbling around energy healing and things. So yeah, if you

855
00:55:42.400 --> 00:55:45.440
do have any questions or anything that you want a

856
00:55:45.440 --> 00:55:47.719
bit more clarity on, then do just contact me via

857
00:55:47.800 --> 00:55:51.719
the websites or via Instagram and I will happily talk

858
00:55:51.840 --> 00:55:54.360
your ear off on all manner of subjects.

859
00:55:55.639 --> 00:56:00.440
Well, thank you for being on all right, folks? Is

860
00:56:00.519 --> 00:56:02.960
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861
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863
00:56:12.880 --> 00:56:16.840
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867
00:56:27.880 --> 00:56:29.559
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868
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869
00:56:36.239 --> 00:56:39.639
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