Colleen Deatsman - Inner Power: Six Techniques for Increased Energy & Self-Healing

Colleen Deatsman (Michigan) is a certified alternative healing consultant, Reiki master, shamanic practitioner, hypnotherapist, and Licensed Professional Counselor. She holds a Master's degree in Rehabilitation Counseling and owns a private practice in counseling and alternative healing services.

COLLEEN DEATSMAN

Dedicated To

Paul Bowersox, Word Master and Syntax Wizard

Heartfelt gratitude, love, and appreciation to Paul for your time, energy, resources, expertise, insights, bluntness, constructive criticism, tear-wiping, compassion, smiles, understanding, unconditional acceptance, support, love, and the solitude of the swamp.

This book would not be what it is without you!

Special Thanks To

Pat, my rock of unwavering love and support.

Lauren, my reason for persevering through the pain and searching for wholeness.

My Beloved Family: Pat, Lauren, Laura, Erin, Mandy, Raindrop, Neelie, Mom and Dad Deatsman, Mom Kelley, Greg, Maureen, and Kolleen and their spouses and families for supporting my dreams, endeavors, and travels.

Judy Berning, my dearly loved mentor turned colleague, compadre and spiritual cohort, the wise sage who rocked my world and helped me free myself from the box of conventional thinking and living.

All the Spirit Teachers who empower us to live fully.

The phenomenal advanced class and apprenticeship shamanic students, who have supported the birth of my books and my growth with their love and personal teachings: Jason, Durrette, Carlton, Michael, Fawn, Pat, Ann, Brenda, Jan, Marisa, Terri, Bill, Pat, Karen, Rose, Arlene, John, Peggy, Barb, Rochele, Betsy, Miriam, Jen, Tammy, Steve, Clint, Angie, Kim, Brenda, Tammy, Diana, Amy

and Paula.

The powerful healers and teachers who compassionately gave of themselves to ease my pain, enlighten me and facilitate my healing: Judy, Ellen, Jim, Renee, Alashar Laughing Eagle, Jean, Brian, Heather, David Short, Myron Eshowsky, Tom Cowan, Larry Peters, Sandra Ingerman, Michael Harner, Patrick Jasper Lee, Nan Moss and David Corbin, and fellow shamanic students.

My wild-woman soul sister, Raven, whose crossed-over soul freely and joyfully flies to the aid of others.

C. Leslie Charles, for her open and sincere help above and beyond the call of duty with proposal and publishing tips.

My biking friends who are always asking how the book(s) are coming along, and who miss me when I travel.

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Chapter 1

Chapter 17

Chapter 37

Chapter 61

Chapter 85

Chapter 97

Chapter 117

Chapter 141

Chapter 187

Chapter 229

Chapter 261

Chapter 273

This is the book that will help you make your miracles happen! If you are sick and tired of being sick and tired, this book will change your life. Stress, fatigue, illness, depression, anxiety, and the feeling that you are lost are but a few of a host of maladies that we deal with on a daily basis. All of these are linked to one thing: loss of energy. Energy is the sustenance that feeds your body, mind, emotions, and soul, and is the key to reclaiming and maintaining vibrant health and well-being. Inner Power promises that as you immerse yourself in the exercises presented here, you will reconnect with your personal energy and the life-force energy that will empower you to be healthy, vital, and aware.

Throughout this book I will be referring to healing, self-healing, illness, and ailments in a much broader sense than perhaps you have been familiar with in conventional medicine. I will be referring to them in terms of energy-the essence of life. It is the source that creates a balanced, whole, integrated self of body, mind, emotions, and soul. To be whole and healthy, our energy must be constantly flowing and moving. How to employ energy to your benefit will be explained in detail throughout this book. An ailment or an illness is the physical or emotional manifestation of an imbalance or loss of energy, thus signifying the disintegration of the integrated self. Ailment or illness symptoms can include such things as fatigue, pain, disease, confusion, anxiety, or depression. The process of restoring health, clarity, balance, harmony, and wholeness is the premise of this book. This is referred to as healing and self-healing. With these power tools you will learn how all healing is self-healing and how all self-healing is self-actualization.

The disintegrating self has the innate ability to heal itself when a person's internal balance and harmony are created. The six breakthrough techniques described in this book create this needed balance in various ways. First, the physical act of entering into most of the techniques is one of trance and total body relaxation. For that period of time, and the quiet period afterward, the body and mind are allowed to go into a state of peaceful rest and revitalization. Also, because the nature of these techniques is connecting directly to universal life-force energy, we experience energy vibrations of a higher frequency than our typically human, dense-vibrational rate. Using these integrated power tools, we channel the high-frequency vibrations through our physical body to release blockages, excite, energize, and change body systems at the atomic and molecular levels. The more a person connects with this energy source, the stronger their own energy becomes, until they are fully healthy and vibrating at a higher rate.

Life is stressful and stress burns away our precious life-force energy, causing energy depletion ailments. The daily adversity of living with an energy-loss ailment can have a healthy ending if you actualize your choice to heal and change your life through the dedicated application of the time-tested techniques in this book. I know, because by walking this path, I have experienced (along with many others) phenomenal recovery from illnesses that science tells us have no cure. These experiences illustrate the innate power of the body to heal when the energy of the soul is actualized.

As you embrace your path of healing by reading this book, you will find that the first two chapters explain more about these concepts of energy loss, illness, regaining energy, balance, and health. You will also be given the opportunity to make your commitment to heal yourself and instructed in how to begin your own healing program.

Chapter 3 begins the detailed descriptions of the six breakthrough techniques that will gently lead you toward mind/body/spirit balance and will continue to enhance that balance with regular use. The first technique, visualization, uses the focus of your attention and imagination to create visual images in the mind for your own benefit. Since the mind reacts physiologically to imagined events the same way it does to real events, you can create health by visualizing health, just as you can manifest anything else you desire in this way. To heal from illness, I created a vision of myself entering a peaceful place in nature on a warm sunny day. In a safe and protected area, I would lie down, rest, and ask the healing energy of the sun to penetrate my frozen, sick body. I visualized the energy melting into my center and felt the warm glowing sunshine moving throughout my body-healing, energizing, and nurturing every aching muscle, every stressed cell. By practicing visualization on a regular basis, my body became stronger, less fatigued, and far less painful. I also began to get in touch with the old me, which used to be strong, healthy, and energetic.