I have witnessed many small miracles in my practice over the years.
I am very grateful to have been present during those times. It is a continuing journey and I give a huge amount of credit for my experiences to forces outside of myself; the universe, the creator, the angels, the beautiful healing energy that is called Reiki or whatever you want to call it. I also give a large amount of credit to the clients and students who have used my services.

I consider myself more of a facilitator than a practitioner. My clients do their own healing – I just help them clear their bodies,  minds and spirits so that they can continue to improve their own health. My hope is always that they learn new skills and take away tools to use to help themselves.

I will take my small share of  credit though, because, after all, if I hadn’t taken the training, and ‘put myself out there’, the people couldn’t have found me.
Someone had to be the channel for the energy to flow through. I have been offering energy healing for almost 10 years now and it has been a journey of learning and growing. I started it off as a part-time venture in my living room, attending wellness fairs and volunteering wherever I could to raise awareness of energy healing. It takes an immense amount of time and investment to keep a wellness practice going. I am always investing into my own education and learning new ways to help people. For instance, I am currently investing into learning acupuncture, moxibustion, cupping and laser therapy. I have taken various part-time jobs along the way to find ways to pay my bills while building my practice. I have to continually work on my own healing. I have to keep myself in a clear and grounded state before I can offer my service to anyone else.
But, enough about me!
I cannot voice enough appreciation to those who came before me and helped to bring complementary therapies to the earth. My teachers and mentors, and their teachers and mentors, and the incredible way we have all been guided to work together.
Lastly, I must also acknowledge and appreciate those of you who have used my services and come to lie on my table and experience what I do for yourselves. Some of you had no idea what you were in for, yet you trusted me. I am so honoured when people place their trust in me.
Those of you who have experienced some of those small miracles, also need to be reminded of the hard work you have done. You are the ones who do the real work. Each person who comes for energy healing or acupuncture, or who uses one of my self-study products has a choice of whether or not they wish to fully receive the learning and healing. Sometimes that choice is made by the sub-conscious mind, which decides how much your spirit can handle at any given time. Some of you have decided, even if the choice is made somewhere deep inside of you, to take the bull by the horns, and hang on tight. You’ve allowed yourselves to go into deep healing. You help yourself and therefore you also help all those that are close to you.
I send you thanks for allowing me to be a part of that.

A funny little vision of mine from a couple of years ago finally makes sense.

There is a property between Guelph and Aberfoyle that was once a butcher shop. The place sat abandoned for a few years and a friend of mine was curious about it. We decided to go out there one afternoon and check it out. We walked around to see what we could pick up on the place and I got the feeling that it would be demolished in October and there would be a parking lot out there.

I could not figure out why on earth there would be a parking lot there. It is not near any commercial areas, or anywhere that would need a parking lot. My friend and I kind of dismissed my whole vision of a parking lot because it didn’t make any sense.

Here’s where things start to make sense though.  October came and went and my friend pointed out that the place was still standing. It seems the October that I was seeing was not the coming October (2009) it was October 2010. I drove by the place this week and it has indeed just been demolished.

The really funny part is the parking lot vision. There is a big sign up front saying that this property is the future home of a used car dealership! I laughed all the way home because my vision is coming true. It will sort of be a parking lot. It will be a parking lot full of used cars. I was just a little off on the timing.

I am a little sad though that this lovely piece of land will be paved over for a used car lot.

Discovering that I really like moxibustion – thanks to my friend Mo from acupuncture class for helping me get more comfortable playing with fire!

Moxibustion is the process of burning herbs (usually mugwort) on a needle or near the skin. This is done on a selected acupuncture points to warm the meridian. This is particularly useful for ailments like colds,  flus and achy muscles and it s quite comforting to have the warm moxa stick moving over your body. The skin is not burned in the process, just warmed.

I am still finishing up my case studies, so if you’re in the Guelph area and you’d like to try acupuncture or moxibustion,in get in touch with me soon!

I might be  about to get into trouble with the psychic profession.
To the best of my knowledge, there is no system out there to give ratings to psychics. There are psychics who claim that they are 90% accurate etc. Just FYI they most likely picked that number out for themselves.
Also, FYI, no psychic is 100 % accurate. Even 90 % accurate would be pretty tough. The future is changeable for one thing. People have free will after-all.
I will be completely honest and say that I would guess my own accuracy rate to be about 75 %. Notice I say that I would guess. I can only go on the feedback I get from clients, and I don’t always get feedback from everyone. The only way to truly give yourself a psychic rating would be to get feedback from a large majority of your clients. Many clients come for one reading and you never hear from them again, so you have no way of getting the feedback to create a rating system.
I do try to test myself regularly on everyday events, like who will win a sporting event, or how many clients I will see in a certain week. I make predictions to myself and see how often I am right. I also try to pay attention to my dreams and keep notes on things like this. It keeps me on my toes and helps me to remember what I predicted and then I can go back and check on my success rate.

It struck me this morning that we are usually given exactly what we need in this life to grow. It isn’t always easy to grow and it is often even more difficult to recognize the people and the events that force us into growth as positive influences.

There are many events that are very painful, and I am not trying to say that we should embrace all difficulties and never get pissed off because of the way they make us feel. Some experiences, such as grief, illness and loss just plain old suck, and it’s not like I would wish these experiences on myself or anyone else, just so we can “grow” more quickly or evolve as human beings. I am into the new age stuff, but not that far into it.

I really do like it when things are going along pleasantly and I get to enjoy my life. But when something negative does come up, it helps to face it when you keep in mind that there will be something positive to learn at the end of it all. If you only learn how to avoid that particular situation in the future, at least you have learned something!

How many times in your life have you looked back on something crappy that happened in your past and laughed about it later? I’m sure you’ve all got one of those stories. My favourite story to laugh about involved a 3 day bicycle trip, a hail storm, cheap motels and not being able to find a motel at all. But that is a story for another day.

Getting back to the thing that struck me this morning…..

I was preparing for a Reiki session and a long-standing issue in my life suddenly seemed to become clear for me. I have never felt like I belonged in the family I was born into. They look at me as if I am some kind of freak plunked into their midst. My family are basic down-to-earth farmers and along comes this child who decides to become an energy healer and a psychic. To make matters worse, I have also added acupuncture to the mix. I have a great time sticking needles into people!

(They have however, almost all been supportive enough to offer themselves up as case studies for me. )

My mother is very practical, kind and quiet. My father, on the other hand, is bold, over-bearing and opinionated. We have clashed on many topics over the years. There have been times in my life when I simply avoided my father altogether. When we do spend time together there is an unspoken agreement to steer clear of certain topics. He certainly gives no credit to my profession and is not one of my case study volunteers.

I have often wondered why I was given this man as a father. Of course I love my dad. He’s my dad. He’s the one who picked me up when I fell down and taught me how to ride horses. He’s the one who got me a pony after my club foot surgery so I could get around the farm. Wheelchairs really don’t work very well on farms.

But why does he have to be so damned difficult to get along with? Couldn’t I have had a father that believed in me and encouraged me more?

What I have realized is that our difficulties are exactly what make him the perfect dad for me. His boldness taught me how to have courage. His strong opinions taught me how to stick up for my own. His stubbornness has rubbed off on me and it has taught me to stick with things and not give up. If I hadn’t learned to be stubborn I would have given up on having a healing practice years ago. His tendency to bit a bit on the over-bearing side has taught me how to get a better grip on those same tendencies within myself. (I hope!)

So I suppose I was born into exactly the right family after all.

I am really looking forward to Thanksgiving dinner and I will do my best to embrace the good times and the arguments!

The concept of past lives and reincarnation is not a new age phenomena. Most major religions have some concept of reincarnation. Strangely enough, the concept was removed from the Christian bible somewhere around the 5th century.
One of the funniest and most profound stories of reincarnation I ever heard of came from my son. He was about 3 years old at the time. I hadn’t discussed such things with him because I thought he was too young to grasp the concept.
We were driving somewhere in the car, when out of the blue he said, “Mommy, how come I was big and now I am little?” I didn’t get what he was talking about at first, and asked him to repeat what he had said. He expanded, “I was big and my (older)brother and sister were little, and I was at your house, and then I got little again. I didn’t want to get little again Mommy!” He was a little peeved that he was little again. It seemed like a big inconvenience to him. He went on to say that he wanted to be bigger than his brother and sister like he was before and he was mad that he had to get little again.
I don’t really recall the response I had for him. I was more than a little shocked at his revelations!

I feel like starting this story by imitating Cliff from the old tv show “Cheers”. I am going to quote him and say, “It’s a little known fact…”
Well, perhaps it is a little known fact, or perhaps it is just a little acknowledged fact that when we try to move forward in life, we often trigger crises.
This may not appeal to all, but here is my take on it.
I will use an example. You have been wanting to change your life in a certain way for quite some time. Perhaps you want a change in a relationship, or a change in your job. You want to focus on a creative project or start a new hobby. You may have put it off, or been a little too busy or too scared to make any actual moves to make the change.
The change has been sitting in a pot on the back burner of your stove for quite some time. It has been slowly bubbling away back there, making noises and smells that constantly remind you of it’s presence. Sooner or later you know you can’t put it off any longer, but you still can’t quite seem to find the time or the determination to make it a part of your life.
What you have to remember is that if your new ambition or your new desire is sitting on the back burner of the stove, other pots are sitting on the front burners. If you suddenly decide to pull it up to the front you must make space for it first.
If you haven’t made space on one of the front burners, you are going to spill something and make a mess. If you’re not careful, you might even get burned.
Now, it’s hard to have enough space on your front burners. Your most demanding daily jobs are sitting on those burners. They don’t like being displaced, and sometimes they don’t like to share their space. You might have to put them into smaller pots or something to make room for your new pot of dreams. You might have to invest in a bigger stove!
Now let’s take the analogy to more of a real life scenario.
You want some kind of change. You think about it a lot. You begin to imagine what your life will look like if you make the change. You begin to recreate your life in your mind. You may begin to take some steps towards the change.
If you’re like most people, you have a lot of things on the go. Your reality begins to try and create what you are manifesting in your mind. The change becomes more and more prominent in your reality.
Your subconscious and the energies around you begin to shift and shake, trying to make room for the change. If you have unfinished business floating around in your life, things may suddenly come to a head. This is all part of you manifesting the change in your life. You need to tie up the loose ends, finish old projects (or maybe let them go) in order to create the space in your life for the change.
This can be uncomfortable to deal with. But having some kind of understanding of why it is happening can be helpful.
Once you understand what is happening, you can expand yourself (get a bigger stove) or tie up your loose ends (move a couple of pots off the front burners) and welcome the beginning of your new adventures.