Clearing out the crap!

I had a thought at 4am this morning when I woke up - its becoming a regular thing waking at that time!  I have been clearing out lots of crap and being quite ruthless about it but as always you have to make a big mess before everything gets clear so for the last 6 weeks the house has been in disorder and to be honest I have felt a bit out of sorts - I feel my head and body have been disordered - i have felt tired and unmotivated and have really had to push myself on to sort out all the crap that has been piled up in the kitchen, bedroom and hallway so yesterday i started putting things into black bags and clearing out and it wasn't until 4am this morning that I realised how good this can be for the head and body and of course soul.  I felt freer in away because there wasn't so much shite lying around me.

I wonder if when we have piles of crap sitting about in our houses, cars, garages etc if that holds onto negative energy or creates some kind of blockage in our heads and bodies and that means we can't deal with all that shite or any other crap that comes into our lives?

I am sure Feng Shui would have some kind of rule about not having crap lying about everywhere so may be we should all start to clear our crap out and see if it helps us get up and get on with things and move on spiritually and mentally.

I am off to fill some more black bags with crap and put them in the skip so will let you know if I continue to feel better and more motivated!

I have also been putting detox patches on my feet to draw some of the toxins out - the patches also have tourmaline in them as I have been feeling recently that even though I am grounding myself a lot it is not working as well as it normally does so the tourmaline on the feet should help!  Anyway the crap that came out of my feet the last two nights is absolutely disgusting - i didn't expect it to be wet and soggy and look like diarrhea!  this shite came from my feet but bizarrely the soles of my feet where the patch was weren't wet but the patch was - how bizarre!

So my body is having a clear out as well as my house so all the channels should be clear soon!!!

suz
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Its a small world....

So day 2 of EFT - I am completely hooked!  or should I say I am unhooked!  We had to bring something that we crave that we wanted to stop or at least crave less so I took a bag of sugar!  I love sugar in my tea and since I drink about 25 cups of tea a day that is a shit load of sugar!  So with our wonderful teacher Roushan she talked me through breaking the chain that bound me to sugar - after taking some sugar from the bag and tasting it I started to have this horrific taste in my mouth - it was actually like I had licked a rat's backside - sorry Mr Ratty! After my session with Roushan I really didn't want to drink my tea which had sugar in it which is so unlike me - I ended up pouring it down the sink and making tea without sugar.  Who would have thought it an addiction that has lasted about 14 to 15 years may well be broken just through 20 minutes of tapping!

I have to say I really have enjoyed learning about EFT, it feels very natural to me to tap which is bizarre as I have never done it before.  I seem to understand exactly what it is meant to do - is it Intuition or is it that I have just been in so many healing/learning situations recently that I am beginning to pick things up quickly?  I don't know but I look forward to helping friends and family with tapping and even though we don't cover working with animals until the 2nd level I will work on my own body on behalf of my animals and report what happens.

So as for the title of this blog.... today in our first break on the EFT course one of the ladies leaned over to me and said what's your name?  and I said Suzanne and she said is it Suzanne Reid, then she asks if i am from Glenrothes?  WTF - how did she know any of that?  We had only introduced ourselves by first names the day before.  She then said to me did I know Donna and she points to her daughter who is on the course with her and I look at Donna and nope I don't know her.  Donna looks over and asks me if I went to Rimbledon Primary School OMG Yes I say so Donna then tells me that we were in P4 and P5 together and then asked me if i moved away - we moved when I was 9 years old so going into P6.

It turns out we also went to the same High School but I still don't remember Donna but she said I still look the same - I am sure that of course that is a huge compliment 34 years later!!

So how fantastic to be on this course with someone so far back in my history in this life!  The Universe works in wonderful ways and I am sure that we have been put back into each others paths for some reason so look forward to finding out what that is!

I will of course keep you posted!

By the way if you are interested in EFT or Bach Flower Remedy courses then go to my wonderful teachers' website www.sulastherapies.co.uk.

suz
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Crystals are a beautiful mystery

For the last few years as my sister has been training in various therapies I was lucky enough that she wanted to practice on me.  She started doing a course in Crystal Therapy and from then on every time she gave me a therapy I would have to pick a crystal out of may be 20 she had.  All small, smooth, shiny and various colours and shapes.  I was to pick a crystal that I was drawn to so having no idea what she meant by 'pick a crystal you are drawn to' I would smile and nod and say 'that one' she would then give me the crystal and read from the Crystal bible what the crystal meant and how it was going to help me - again I would smile and nod and the crystal would be added to the gathering pile from previous sessions.

Now don't get me wrong I always knew that crystals had healing properties and their own vibrations but since I couldn't really feel anything that I could explain and I didn't really understand I dismissed them as something beyond me.  In 2009 in a Crystal shop in Kathmandu this all changed!

I was in Nepal on a 10 day retreat with my sister learning Reiki with 9 other women that we didn't know and one day we were all being taken to a Crystal shop by our Reiki teacher - so off we all trekked into this tiny shop all 11 of us.  I hate being in small spaces like that and since I had really only a passing interest in Crystals I went and found myself a stool to sit on while the other ladies including my sister ooooh'd and aaaaaah'd at big rocks.

Who would have thought that 5 minutes later I could be sucked in and ooohing and aaaahing with the rest of them!

Emma one of the ladies on the trip (and now a very good friend of mine) had the same thoughts on Crystals as me but she was in amongst it all and had been handed a crystal - I think it was Brown Tourmaline - she experienced this incredible sensation while holding the crystal so had seen me sitting off on my own day dreaming and came up and said you have to try this and she drops the Crystal into my hand..... oh my f***ing God or should I say Buddha!  I had pins and needle like sensations shooting up my arm and I could feel this deep throbbing in my hand.  Of course that was the very start of an addiction!  I jumped off the stool and pushed my way through the lovely ladies using my elbows where necessary (sorry ladies!) until I got to the counter where all the Crystals were - I started to hold and feel all the different Crystals and started to feel all these different kinds of sensations - HOW AMAZING!  Who would have thought it.  I then went on to buy a Brown Tourmaline and an Aquamarine that reminded me of my little sister when I held it.

Who knows what opened up for me on that trip that allowed me to suddenly feel and understand what Crystals could do to help me and also how they could help animals (as is always my way of thinking - animals before humans!!) but whatever happened I am so grateful that the Universe opened this portal to me.

I now cannot leave the house unless I am wearing a Crystal in some form - Tigers Eye was my favourite for such a long time but that then changed to Amethyst but this week on Tibetan New Years Day I was drawn to wear my Tibetan Torquise without realising at that time what day it was.

Today I have a quite a selection of Crystals bracelets round my wrists - Black Tourmaline because I feel I need some help with grounding, Tigers Eye as it always seems to give me strength to push through difficult times, Amethyst because I like its connection to my higher self and also my Spirit Guides - I seem to be able to communicate better with my Guides if I have Amethyst closeby and lastly I am wearing 2 Hematite rings to banish negative energy - the last one broke in two on a bad job where I was surrounded by negative energy and idiots!

I still don't know a lot about Crystals as its probably a life time of learning to know which is which and what they all do but I now do know what I am drawn too which is amazing.

So please don't dismiss the amazing world of Crystals even if you don't feel anything or understand them - that will come when the time is right for you.

suz
xxx

Intention....

Its a funny word 'Intention' - I remember my sister kept saying this word when talking to me about Reiki a couple of years ago.  I remember thinking "what does she mean by intention" but it seemed like I was supposed to know so I kept my mouth shut.  It wasn't until I arrived in Nepal and started learning Reiki 1 that I truly began to understand this word.

The dictionary says:

in·ten·tion  (n-tnshn) n. 1. A course of action that one intends to follow. 2. a. An aim that guides action; an objective. b. intentions Purpose with respect to marriage: honorable intentions. 3. Medicine The process by which or the manner in which a wound heals. 4. Archaic Import; meaning. [Middle English entencioun, from Old French intention, from Latin intenti, intentin-, from intentus, intent, from past participle of intendere, to direct attention; see intend.] Synonyms: intention, intent, purpose, goal, end, aim, object, objective

I am not sure that the description helps but the Synonyms get it - intent, purpose, goal, aim, objective - these are all what i would use as an alternative to the healing use of the word intention.  When our 'intention' is to heal then thats our purpose, goal or aim and the universe can apparently recognise this from us.  So if we say to ourselves before a healing session 'my intention is to heal and say the persons name or animals name' then apparently that is what will happen without us having to touch the person or attune in anyway just by saying the word 'intention' and it works.  

Just think about the people who work in our caring professions like doctors and nurses - if their true 'intention' is to heal that that's what will happen - unfortunately in our over worked and under funded NHS this doesn't happen as often as it should.

I use 'intention' a lot - my 'intention' is to stop drinking during the week, my 'intention' is to sort the washing, my 'intention' is to do some dusting, my 'intention' is to do some bill filing etc etc but strangely enough the universe doesn't make any of that happen - how disappointing!!! 

Anyway joking aside it is important to make sure in healing situations your 'intention' is for the higher good of the person or animal or subject you are healing - if you are not focussed on your 'intention' properly then the Universe may misinterpret.

Happy Intentioning!

suz

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Universal Energy Take 2!

So here i am nearly a week after i lost my beautiful big blog on the Universal Energy that surrounds us!  I am not sure I will find the same flow I had but I will give it a good go....!

So my blog all started when one of the fellow producers I was in Berlin with asked me 'so what is this energy thing you work with' and to be fair to her I was asked the same question by the guy who is going to design my logo for Hands On Animal Healing which is the name of my animal healing practice.

So what is this energy....?  I am not sure i still know the whole answer as I am still learning so can only share my experience!

My first experience of feeling the universal energy was an emotional one.  My big sister had told me she was heading off to Nepal to do her Reiki Master and after I had got the map out to look up exactly where Nepal was I had said I might go with her but more to do Yoga and Meditation - I didn't know what this Reiki hokas pokas thing was all about - so my sister arrived at my house to show me!!

My sister would waffle on about 'energy' and 'intention' and other words I had no idea what she was talking about but since she gave a good massage i just smiled and nodded!  So the day she turned up to show me what Reiki was all about i had decided i would of course smile and nod.  She asked me to hold both my hands out palms facing up, which i did.  She then held her hands over mine and started to push her hands down towards mine.  There must have been about 6 inches of nothing between our hands when i started to feel something and as she gently pushed in i could feel my sisters energy pushing against mine - she wasn't touching me and was inches away from my hands but i could clearly feel something.  i started to cry as i had never felt anything like this in my life and feeling this made me excited but also a bit out of control.  As my sister moved her hands up and down i could feel the energy more and more.  My sister then guided me to hold my own hands 6 inches apart from each other - palms facing and to start pushing in and out so that i could feel my own energy - OH MY GOD I CAN FEEL MY OWN ENERGY!  That's what i felt and i quickly became addicted to doing this - i would do it all the time when i would remember i could do it and for the first few seconds i couldn't feel anything but then suddenly like a magnetic field i would make the connection to my own energy.  HOW AMAZING!

It was during my Reiki 1 in Nepal - of course having become addicted to feeling my own energy i went to Nepal so that i could experience more of other peoples energy but also working with the all important 'Universal Energy'.  I really enjoyed working with the energy and helping people - I bonded well with Emma who was doing Reiki 1 with me when I gave her a Reiki session and could feel a strong magnetic force from her knee area - little did i know she felt like i was pulling her knee upwards!  its amazing what we can feel as we are healing and being healed.

So the place to start with energy is to start to feel your own - make energy balls!  my most favourite past time!!  hold your hands 6 inches apart, palms facing each palm, until you start to feel the energy connect between your hands - once you feel this connection move your hands apart so the energy feels weaker then move your hands back together so it feels stronger and move your hands around as if you are passing a ball from one hand to the other - you will feel the energy move from one hand to another - TRULY AMAZING AND SO ADDICTIVE!

I hope all this makes sense and enjoy making your energy balls!

suzxxx

The Universal Energy...

I actually wrote a really long intersting blog on the universal energy And lost it all! How gutting but perhaps it's meant to be!!! I will rewrite tomorrow!! Suzxxx

Take the time to meditate

So after a long long day I had dinner with various Scottish producer but also some financiers and producers from Sweden, Spain, Ireland and Germany but at the end of the evening I was sitting with two Scottish female producers and they started asking me about my animal healing so I talked about this and Reiki and also Green Lady Glen and they seemed very keen that I set-up some kind of retreat for producers to help them to relax - that would be so easy to so so I will add that to my plan of workshops - I think a combination of meditation, grounding and some self healing techniques would go down a storm with film producers so I will put my mind to that when I get back. What was interesting is that one of the producers asked me to feel her head (crown chakra) because it felt warm but interestingly I didn't feel that in her head but the heat from her third eye chakra was quite intense. I explained to her that I thought her intuition was in over drive because she is in a place surrounded by strangers and she is constantly trying to second guess and judge everyone and that she should just relax and this will help what she feels as heat. She also is not very grounded so I gave her some grounding exercises which she has promised to do which is great. This then lead one of the other female producers to ask me to 'read' her chakras - it was interesting because I could tells instantly that she was very grounded and in charge of her own energy, when I told her this she told me that before she came to the dinner she had meditated for 30 minutes. It just shows if you meditate and take some time for yourself you can make such a difference to your own energy and therefore people will read you differently. I will go off and meditate on my workshop for film producers but the key to their survival as film producers(and mine!) I think is to ground and meditate - taking the time for ourselves. Anyway will keep you posted on that workshop as I think it may be of interest to everyone not just neurotic film producers!!! Suzxxx

Left Brain/Right Brain....

So here I am in Berlin being a Film Producer! I arrived today for the Berlin Film festival and having already spent 3 hours having the Belgian Film Tax Shelter scheme being explained to me then was off for a drinks reception At the Uk Film Sales Centre then dinner at a nice Vietnamese restaurant with some other Scottish Producers. Tomorrow and Sunday are brutal with back to back events, meetings, drinks receptions, dinners and parties. How do I do it? Many of my friends and colleagues ask me how I can do all this film stuff and then switch to my animal healing and other spiritual work... It's quite simple - I switch my brain over! The left side of my brain is for all the logistics and work crap and the right side of my brain is where my spiritual soul lives! It has taken me all of this year to get both sides working and switching quickly but I now can do it on demand - proven by the fact I can usually see both parts of an optical illusion just by blinking my eyes. It sounds a bit mad doesn't it! Exercise your own brain - type into Google 'optical illusions' and try the change the direction or the outcome by switching your brain. Enjoy your brain training! Suzxxx

Where to start?!

Ok so I am a Trainee Healer having started my journey just over 2 years ago with a trip to the beautiful country Nepal to learn Reiki One with my big sister Karen, who was doing her Reiki Master.  My experience in Nepal has changed the way I think about life and has set me off on a journey like no other - it has been a huge learning curve and there is more to come!

It took me a year after my trip to Nepal to decide how I wanted to use what i had learnt in Nepal, although I always knew it would be to help animals as well as humans.  So last February I signed up to do a Diploma in Animal Healing with Elizabeth Whiter down in East Sussex - this would mean me committing to 4 x 4 day modules and the final written exam day.  Committing to anything in advance like this is hard for me as I work freelance in Film and TV so when jobs come up I have to do them as earning money unfortunately has to come first.

I did know from the start that no matter what happened work wise I would make all of these dates and would a year later be a qualified professional animal healer and guess what?  Exactly that has happened - here I am fully qualified a year later.  Isn't the Universe amazing how it helps you to make things happen if you really want them and they are right for you.

So now I am continuing my journey and my learning by doing as many courses that I am drawn to as I can - at the moment these are Masters of Mediumship, Colour Therapy, Bach Herbal Remedies, Emotional Freedom Techniques and Tellington Touch and plan on writing about these courses and my spiritual development and continuing journey in this blog so I can share with you the joys and pitfalls of this journey and hopefully help you out with any questions you may have - like - 'where to start?'!

I hope you enjoy what I will be sharing with you, hopefully on a daily basis!

Suzxxx