I am often asked about past lives.

“Past lives” is a term that usually refers to the concept of reincarnation. Our souls are born and re-born into one body after another. There are theories out there that you must be re-born until you learn a certain number of life-lessons. As the theories go, when you have learned all of your lessons, you are promoted to a higher state of being.

I do feel that there may something to that, but even though I honour the beliefs of all, I don’t strictly adhere to any set of beliefs myself. I think I’ll wait and see what happens when I get there. Not that I am in any hurry to get there. I am enjoying this life too much to be in a rush. There are so many things to do on this earth.

Do I do past life readings?

Yes. I love doing past life readings. Past lives are one of the easiest things for me to pick up on. All I have to do is look at your energy, and look back along your life-path to see where you have been.

In a past life reading, there is often no way to validate the information that I receive. In some cases I may pick up on a past life that coincides with a certain fear that a person has. For example, in one reading I immediately picked up that the man I was sitting with had been hanged in a past life. He told me that he was very afraid of anything being around his neck and that he could not wear tight collars or neck ties. Others may have a fear of fire, and I find in their past life an incident of being burned.

These examples could be a small validation, but those kinds of specific issues are not usually the case. I can sit with a person and come up with scenes from a past life that have no real bearing on this life. Sometimes they have had similar careers to the career they have in this life, but not always.  And, I rarely find anyone who was Cleopatra or Napoleon or  King Henry.

One thing I don’t like about doing a strictly past life reading is that it is difficult to get any confirmation about what I am saying. Normally when I do a reading I am able to describe people or situations in the clients life for them. This helps us both to know that I am truly connecting with them. If I am able to tell you what has happened in this life and what is happening for you now, it helps you to feel more confident that I may see some of the possibilities for your future.

If you are interested in a past life reading I would suggest that you spend part of the reading dealing with issues from this lifetime so that you can be sure that you are tuned into the right person, before delving into the past life issues.

The information you receive from a past life reading may give you some further understanding about yourself and certain likes and dislikes, or fears that you have now, and it is also a fun way to explore different parts of your spirit and learn about your continuing journey.

We are one of the households chosen to participate in a government labour force survey. Every month someone calls the house to ask us questions about our work hours.

I am listed as a holistic wellness practitioner in the survey. It is a title that sort of covers most of the things I do. Usually, the surveyors stick to their script and ask questions about how many hours we have worked and whether we would like to work full time hours if we had the chance etc. (Who wouldn’t?)

This time the surveyor was a more curious sort. He asked what kind of holistic practitioner I was. When I mentioned Reiki he got interested and we had a brief chat about the benefits of alternative therapies like Reiki, energy healing and acupuncture.

This gentleman does surveys for a living and mentioned that in many of the surveys he has conducted, he has found that people say they find complementary healing methods very effective. He also said that the surveyors are sending this info along to our government recommending that alternative health services be supported (and hopefully subsidized) by the government because people find them so useful!

Hurray! Perhaps the government of Canada will start to notice and invest into complementary and preventative care! Although, with the Harper government I don’t expect much.  We definitely need to  change our government to one that is willing to invest in more than temporary construction jobs.

I can always hope!

There is always something new to learn.
I am constantly astounded by the sheer number of different modalities of energy healing out there. Even looking within one specific kind of energy work, like Reiki, there are many different varieties and lineages.
The underlying theme of all of them is that when there are energy blockages, they need to be cleared to help the person to heal. Energetic blockages eventually become physical blockages if they haven’t already. When they become physical blockages they cause illnesses. We want those blockages out of there as soon as possible.
I seem to find that all of these different modalities have something in common. They simply have different methods of identifying the blocks and removing them. So really, all you have to do as a consumer is find a practitioner you are comfortable with, and a healing method that appeals to you and happy trails!

A little thought on the mayhem that surrounds many of us.
Sometimes the mayhem is spirits way of telling us that we are doing something wrong. That we need to alter course.
Logic dictates the same advice, but we often need to look a little deeper to get to the real root of the issues.
If life is spiraling out of control, or if the things that you are trying to accomplish in your life are becoming more and more difficult, sometimes you need to take a step back and ask yourself if what you are trying to accomplish is what is really the best thing for you.
Humans tend to develop tunnel vision.
We keep trudging forward towards elusive goals that appear to get ever further out of reach. We struggle over obstacles. We have been programmed to believe that anything worth having is worth fighting for. The early bird gets the worm. The harder you work the more you will be rewarded, etc.
All that time and energy that is spent pushing forward makes us miss important clues that are calling to us from the sidelines. We miss other opportunities because we just don’t have the time or the breath to look around.
A whole lot of philosophy about attracting abundance, the law of attraction and the illusion of lack could be inserted here as well, but my real point for the day is that often it is the reevaluation of the end goal that needs to happen. We can spend a whole lot of effort getting to an end result that might not be what we thought we wanted in the first place. Stop and listen for just a moment here and there. Try to be a little more present in the here and now, and you may be surprised to find out that you want to change your direction.