Hello, everyone. Welcome to the latest
in the Anatomy of Healing series! This one takes on the underlying
commonality between all modalities—we trust you’ll
find it a thought provoking if not a fantastic remembrance of
what you intrinsically know is true.
When I started out as a massage therapist in the early ‘90s,
my clients began telling me they were seeing certain memories
or that a specific feeling would arise within them just by physical
application of petrissage, cross-fiber friction, etc. on their
muscles. I contacted a friend who told me this was to be expected.
She said that the body is a warehouse of emotions and memories
that begin from conception, and that via my physical manipulation,
the repressed memories become dislodged and brought to awareness
for healing. I think my reaction to this was a somewhat scared,
highly intrigued and also quite dubious, “Yikes!”
Eventually it became clear I needed to learn more modalities,
in that they could perhaps better explain this cellular memory,
be more beneficial for the client and easier on my tired and
aching post-work body. I began classes in Therapeutic Touch,
Touch for Health, and The Yuen Method to name a few. And as
much as they taught the technical aspects which appealed to
my mind, my soul knew there was something much bigger going
on.
Doing massage at a gym tends to fill a therapist with thoughts
of being underpaid, and if thinking about a potential gratuity
would appease that, the occasion neglect of such only aggravated
it. And one day I received a seemingly random yet much needed
insight via Buddhism that was better than any physical gratuity
given or dreamed. They said that the reason I was tired and
sore at the end of the day was because I was thinking about
me!
Huh?
So I took that on, and instead of being concerned about the
amount of the gratuity, if I was doing a good job, whether it
was warm enough, whether they would come back or refer a friend,
whether I could get all their needed areas worked on in the
allotted time, etc., I focused my intention solely on the client.
Ironically enough, my gratuities then increased. And one day,
a chance to prove this theory through experience came about.
I saw five clients in a row, mostly deep-tissue massage, and
somehow had energy to go work out afterward. Just weeks prior,
I would have had to apply ice to my forearms! Could a simple
shift in perspective on the mental level shift so much in my
physical level as well? Was that all that was needed to go from
potential pain and stiffness to having energy to burn?
Years later I worked with an acupuncturist/chiropractor who
told me he could get equally good results by placing the needles
alongside a client as he could by placing the needles into the
meridians on the physical body. I didn’t understand that
then, nor truly believe him, but he said that the needles contained
consciousness. I kind of thought he was loony but for some reason
remembered this conversation vividly. My journey of working
with him and then other DCs and even an MD left me wondering
why ten different practitioners could look at the same set(s)
of symptoms and have ten different diagnoses, ten different
treatment plans, and then ten different prognoses as well. “Surely
there had to be only one ultimate modality,” I thought,
“but which one was it?” I was determined to find
out!
Years later, after transitioning from massage therapy to intuitive
health consultations, I was invited to a healing circle. It
was a bit expensive so I pondered for a bit, and then something
much greater than I gave me the nudge. Once there, the leader
said he was channeling Angelic Healing light, and guided us
in an experience that for most proved quite profound. During
that circle, I got a message, “If he can do this, so can
you.” Um, okay. I meditated on it just to make sure it
wasn’t the ego at work, which likes to make a fool of
me (and you, too—admit it!) and eventually decided to
do one also. I felt I could also be the channel for that healing
frequency.
Did I have doubts? Sure, some, but upon meditations/conversation
with Source, it became clear that all the technicalities I’d
been learning were, though important, not as important as my
intention. Indeed, it became clear that the commonality in most
of the healing practices I’d learned or even experienced
was just that, intention! In fact, many of the modalities actually
blocked the maximum healing potential due to their perceived/taught
limitations. Wow! So imagine if you will any practitioner upping
the ante. Imagine that no matter what you do specifically, you
can have an intrinsic knowing that something way greater than
yourself is guiding the whole thing and that it follows your
intention and that of your client, and that perceptions of time
that it was believed to take were just the distance between
two events that could be reduced dramatically. Can you grasp
the enormity of this scenario?
I sent out a mass email to my list and invited them to my first
healing circle.
The room filled up quickly and I explained what I thought could
happen and/or the benefits they may receive, and then had each
person state their intention. I then played Genesis by Barry
Goldstein. I’d used this CD in one-on-one sessions and
became so relaxed I almost lost awareness of what I was doing,
so this time I circled the room of attendees and let myself
be guided to each person at exactly the right time that they
needed attention. If it was as simple as handing them a tissue
or doing Chakra work, I did as required. And when someone needed
a hug, I was more than happy to oblige as well. When the CD
ended I initiated a go-round, having volunteers share their
experience. Some reported seeing deceased relatives; others
got a download of much-needed energy and information. Some had
pain relief, symptom reduction, and/or a new awareness of what
had been causing their affliction or guidance on a major life
issue.
While I was happy to hear that so many had wonderful experiences,
part of me wondered what really happened. Was I the “Source”
of this? Did my decade-plus of study have any affect on the
situation? Is there a science that can be measured, tested,
and analyzed that would allow others to see what was happening
and encourage them do this too? Yes to some, maybe to others,
and no to still other similar questions, and, ultimately, who
cares?
Intention is paramount to a good healing practice; heck, it’s
paramount to a good anything! If your intention is pure and
coming from a good space, many wonderful things can happen.
When any modality is done with a state of presence, love, belief,
and compassion, isn’t it just obvious that much more healing
can occur than a practice done in a state of fear (our litigious
society has taken its toll on a lot more than is obvious to
the eyes), or when a practitioner feels rushed to see a specific
number of patients in a given time? My grandmother used to swear
by Dr. Klein, who took his time with each patient and listened
more than he spoke. A master of compassion, no matter what you
had or what he did or didn’t do, his patients always felt
better having gone.
Of course there are other factors. A basis of mind-body medicine
teaches us that many aches and pains are the body’s way
of alerting us to something going on in our lives. Whether it’s
a recent emotional wound of grief that has yet to be released
or a many-decades old anger left stagnant in the body from childhood,
there is always, in my experience at least, something we can
learn. Awareness of such and openness to owning it and taking
accountability not only creates more space (potential) for the
healing work to happen quicker, and it’s longer lasting.
When fully owned and released, the healing is often permanent,
and yet because the Universe’s love is unconditional,
those steps aren’t always required. Surrender—to
the all, all that you are, and all that is and ever was—is
even more powerful. Indeed it is our ego that creates misery
within ourselves and wants us to look to others to blame, but
the ego is not our true self. Work on releasing ego’s
grasp and all things wanted become yours to experience.
As an intuitive health consultant, I can channel (receive info
from your body, or Source, or whomever/whatever is required)
and inform you what’s truly going on way beyond the physical
symptoms that are knowable by our five senses alone. Working
with this in a consultation format paves the way for a more
effective session of Source Point Healing and, more importantly,
provides great life lessons on what may be holding you back,
perhaps from optimal health, open-hearted relationships, or
even abundance. And sometimes, an Intuitive Health Consultation
is all that’s required because I’ll give you tips
on what you can do/be to reduce or eliminate the symptoms of
whatever you are dealing with on your own. If I can guide you
in seeing how your prior or even current actions are not conducive
to attaining that which you say you desire, then we’re
truly onto something, that something being your spiritual, mental,
and emotional growth! The weird thing is, though years back
I never would have believed it so, these areas, when nurtured,
create more optimal levels of health and vitality in the physical
body, too.
Who knew?
Dave Markowitz is an author and intuitive, and the founder
of Source Point Healing. As a new
year’s gift to you, Mystic Pop and Dave are offering his
E-Book for free at www.DaveMarkowitz.com/EbookOffer!
Dave’s shared the bill with Deepak Chopra and Gary Null
and has been written about on ABCNews.com. He sees clients individually
and in groups both by phone and in person. See www.DaveMarkowitz.com
