Abby Wynne - Energy Healing: Unlock Your Potential as a Healer and Bring Healing into Your Everyday Life

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Text Abby Wynne, 2015

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To my family for always being there for me, even if they didnt know exactly where I was.

I hung up the phone. I knew I had done the right thing. That I had stood up for myself. I was gentle and loving, and he had said sorry, but still I felt the hurt in my chest. I felt the pain in my heart, as if Michael had stuck a knife in, deep in, past the bone and right into the core of me. My ears heard the apology, my brain accepted the apology, but my heart, well, my heart hurt. There was no other way around it. And the hurt stayed there, for hours, days and weeks. And when the sharpness of it eventually wore off, I felt hollow inside, like a part of my heart had died, was switched off, or somehow had left me.

We have all had experiences where weve been deeply hurt, and usually we understand why. We think about what happened and try to make sense of it. We may even forgive the person for hurting us, but sometimes we still feel the pain even months after the incident occurred. Its as if we are ready to move on in our minds, but some part of us still holds on to the pain and doesnt want to let it go. The pace of our world makes us put that part of us away so we can move on with our lives. When we do that, we often leave part of ourselves behind, leaving us with emptiness inside. No matter how much we may want to, we cannot think our way out of this type of occurrence.

There is much more to the world than meets the eye. Humans, for example, cant hear dog whistles but we know that dogs can. So logically we understand that sounds exist beyond our hearing range. Similarly, there are colours that our eyes are not able to see, textures so fine we cannot tell them apart and tastes that are way out of range of our taste buds. (Probably just as well!) We understand rationally that our physical body is limited and can only process information within a certain range. Therefore, logically, we can also say there is more information out there than we are able to process. To handle this we label everything, so we can categorize it, and we file it away under known or unknown.

People are also not able to process everything that does fall into our range of perception. Theres a famous psychology experiment in which two teams pass a baseball to each other. One team wears white shirts, the other black. You have to count the number of times the white team passes the ball to each other. As you focus and concentrate on the white team, you dont see that a man in a gorilla suit comes in, runs around the players, waves and then leaves. Because you are so focused on counting passes, your brain doesnt notice the gorilla at all. Focused awareness. What you focus on most of the time is what you are aware of. So we actually miss out on a lot of things that are going on!

We can choose what we want to experience, and we can also fine-tune our concentration to block out what we dont want to experience, just like shutting down that part of us that is in emotional pain. We can block unpleasant feelings or sensations, or the knowingness in ourselves that something is wrong. We learn to ignore things that dont make sense to our brains, like the man inside the gorilla suit, or the pain in our heart that remains months after a break-up.

Sometimes though, we cant ignore these things because they grow too big, too painful. They take over, forcing us to pay them attention. And when we do, thats when the healing begins.

We were house hunting. We saw so many places! Some of them felt great, but there was one in particular, that felt, well, I dont know how to explain it. Like something bad had happened there. Darkness, nastiness, I didnt understand it. I just knew that I couldnt live there, that something must have happened there that was terrible. I could almost taste it.

Have you ever had a feeling that something happened in a place before you got there? That the energy of it lingered on long after the incident? Like being invited to your friends house for dinner, arriving at the door, and even though they greet you with a warm welcome, it feels as if theyve just been fighting, and that you have walked into an argument that was quickly ended? Or someone telling you they are feeling fine when you can sense that something is wrong, and they are not fine? This happens when you use your senses to pick up the information behind the scenes, the information that is only accessible by your intuition. As you allow yourself to experience these occurrences, the more open you become to them and the sharper your intuition will be. As you become more intuitive, you will find yourself reading the information that is all around you, information that cannot be processed by your logical brain.

I was upset to be called in to see my manager. I immediately felt that I had done something wrong, and I became nervous. As it got closer to the time of the meeting, I felt a knot in my stomach, and I began to tremble. I was afraid I was going to get fired. Im usually afraid Im going to get fired Anyway, I went to his office and stood outside the door. I cleared my mind, preparing for whatever I was going to meet. A wave of peace came over me. I suddenly felt that everything was going to be OK. The knot in my stomach loosened. I knocked and entered, and there he was with a big smile on his face, congratulating me for a job well done.