This summer has been a wonderful whirlwind, traveling to new places, learning new techniques, teaching many workshops and establishing new relationships.
Life is fantastic and getting better every day!
I left the sunny, warm south at the beginning of July after helping my high school buddy, Pierre (Knute) DesJardins put the finishing touches on The Hill House Bed & Breakfast in Brooksville, Florida. This beautiful circa 1918 home is located an hour west of Orlando and will be the home of my first weekend long Raise The Vibration Workshop, October 16, 17 & 18. The schedule of self-healing exercises can be viewed by clicking here and will include meditation, Qi Gong, Jin Shin Jyutsu, Yoga, Eden Energy Exercises, Mediumship Training and my newest line of study, EFT (Emotional Free Techinque-aka Tapping to change your feelings) which is simply fascinating! This past week’s workshop had over 20 people attending and after getting our energies flowing in the right directions we worked on pain (emotional and physical) and everyone left with remarkable results; less pain, less anxiety and bigger smiles!
On the way north I was able to spend several days in Atlanta with Tami, stopped for a quick visit with the Cindy in High Point (finally got to meet the world famous Hazel Carter, my good friends' Timmy & Danny’s Mama) and then went on to Norfolk. I was supposed to be in Norfolk for just a few days but my hostess with the mostest, Tootsie, had a surprise inspection of her rental units sprung on her and needed me and my tools to get some work done. I happily stayed and pounded, painted and caulked for a couple of weeks taking an afternoon here and there to visit ARE and attend Edgar Cayce Foundation lectures. Each time I visit this Virginia Beach Association I learn new and exciting material; this trip included a lecture on Cayce’s readings of the Egyptian Pyramids, Eden Energy Exercises, meditation classes and so much more. I am truly looking forward to visiting their University in Fair Grove, Missouri in October to study Energy Medicine with C. Norman Shealy, Ph.D!
From Norfolk I headed to Long Island, New York where I made an un-announced visit to Red’s sister’s family on July 19th, the day we celebrate the birth of Fiddlin Red. They were SO surprised to see me! I spent a few hours with them and then had dinner with some great friends who have a home about 5 blocks away (isn't my life fun?). I was very glad I went so far out of my way to see friends and family on Long Island.
I left the Big Apple at 5:00am and a lovely deer said goodbye to me on the side of the highway just across the Throgg’s Neck Bridge (that was a picture I wish I had been able to take- another missed pic is a sign I saw when leaving Brooklyn; "Leaving Brooklyn-Fuggeadaboutit!")
I stopped in Massachusetts for a couple of nights with my sister and her family outside of Boston and played with my 7 year old neice (who christened me the Queen of Believers:) and had a fine time there. Always good to be around family.
Went from Massachusetts to Maine for my yearly visit with my folks and on the way to Bangor I stopped at a spiritualist camp in Etna to volunteer my carpentry services and have been here ever since. It is not only my new summer home (I will be teaching my self-healing practices here July-August 2010) but I will be helping rebuild their cottages, their inn and other common buildings. I am very excited about helping them grow into an affordable destination location for people trying to raise the vibration of the earth by healing themselves and others;).
The added gift I found at Camp Etna is a new life partner. He is the most wonderful man and has added joy, peace and love to my life. Don and I seem to be a perfect fit spiritually, socially, mentally and physically and I look forward to introducing him to all my friends and family as I know you will all love him too.
I did have to tear myself away from my new life in Etna to attend a 9 day retreat at Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York. Being amongst hundreds of “like-minded” people, all talking about methods to heal the earth, was an uplifting experience in and of it self, and learning more about energy psychology and how to move through physical and emotional pain has been life changing (and timely;). Leaving there with a tapping technique to help change disease-causing-emotions in a matter of minutes was a bonus I never expected.
The tapping technique made popular by Gary Craig in the 1970s (check out www.emofree.com or tryitoneverything.com) was introduced to our small group by David Feinstein, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist who was on the board at Johns Hopkins University for three decades and is considered by many to be a pioneer of energy psychology. His and his wife’s (Donna Eden) Exercise DVDs are being used by soldiers on the front lines in Iraq to help them cope with the emotions of being in a war zone. The video found on Gary Craig’s site shows PTSD victims virtually “cured” in a few 20 minute sessions.
The concept is hard to comprehend for many, especially specialists in the field of psychology because the scientific research is minimal, but it is based on the neuro-mechanical human body we live in. To put it simply, our body is an intricate machine run by electrical impulses. The electrical charge of our skin measures, for the most part, between 300,000 and 400,000 ohms, the resistance used to measure electricity. The acupuncture points or hollows have much less resistance measuring between 13,000 and 15,000 ohms (energy can come and go more freely in these areas). When tapping is done on selected acupuncture points while speaking a phrase such as, “fear of heights, anger at ex, worry about child” the subject’s response to said fear, anger, worry can be changed in approximately 20 minutes of work.
We witnessed each person in our class slowly tap away their unhealthy fears, unnecessary angers, and other unhealthy thoughts. These unhealthy thoughts have frequencies and can cause “dis”ease in the human body.
The techniques are being used with great success on issues like ADD, ADHD and all types of physical pain. People are being healed without prescription drugs and the cures stick. Years later subjects are not only still over their original fears and pain but claim to be stronger individuals after realizing they healed themselves. Even depression and bi-polar disorders can be addressed with longer and more frequent sessions.
I am happy to be back here in Maine and will be here at Camp Etna through September 14th. When I leave here I will be heading for my next series of workshops; mostly teaching from Maine to Lily Dale and on to Port Clinton, OH, and Chicago to visit friends, then being a student at another Energy Medicine Symposium with C. Norman Shealy Ph.D. at Holos University. I feel it is important I learn as many different traditions as possible to meld them into my own, fun and untraditional way of teaching others how to heal themselves!
Once I am done studying in Missouri I'll stop for a few days in Atlanta. I may go see the home at the mountain in Georgia one more time-it's being auctioned later this year. I cannot afford, and do not need, 2 houses. Then I will head back to Florida for the winter. Don has a home a couple of hours away from mine (how convenient:) and I look forward to settling into a new, more stable/grounded life filled with love. My sons have both signed leases in St. Petersburg so I will be dividing my time between St. Pete, my home on the Suwannee, my new home in De Leon Springs, the Keys and the B&B in Brooksville where I will be hosting more workshops throughout the following months.
I highly recommend living in an "attitude of gratitude."
It has served me well.
Peace, Love and Blessings to all. Namaste!
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