Miracles for All

The intense urge to jump out of my own skin pulsed deep in my veins every waking minute. This pulsating urge kept my body moving as if I was walking over hot coals because being still was too painful. Nausea coursed through my gut and the volcano erupted hundreds of times a day completely unannounced. Food was repulsive. Stillness was unthinkable. About five months into it, I quickly bopped into the library to return an audiobook on chakras that I had checked out in attempt to learn how to manage my suffering. The book subject sparked a conversation about energy with the librarian. She mentioned she practiced energy healing, upon which I immediately asked, “How do I make an appointment?” She hadn’t practiced in a while, but after obvious desperation and insistence on my part, Claudia, the librarian energy healer lady agreed to see me. As I left, she told me, “The baby girl is active and healthy.” Huh? I hadn’t told her the sex of my baby. She must be the real deal, I thought.

I had hyperemesis gravidarum- the constant unrelenting “morning sickness” that lasts all day and night for all nine months of pregnancy. I felt as though I were a prisoner of my own body and desperately was in search of a jail break. My nurse midwife reminded me there was only one way out. That exit was still four whole months away. Claudia would not free me from jail, but she would transform jail into an oasis with her healing touch, spirit guides and pendulum. The proof was in the pudding of an energy practice called Emotion Code. With a swing of the pendulum, she identified several deep trapped emotions stuck in my body. Each and every one hit home and brought me to tears. My body was holding these traumas of which I was not even consciously aware. Age 5: Abandonment. Check. My father had left that year. Age 23: Resentment. Check. I felt that I had married too young. The list went on. Prior to the session, Claudia knew nothing personal about me except the fact that I was suffering major physical discomfort and that I didn’t really believe in this sort of hocus pocus. She said my lack of belief did not matter. Sure enough, my body communicated the trapped emotions to Claudia and she released them. Three hours later, I left her office feeling an exhaustion matching that of running my first half marathon. The battery in my overcharged nervous system had finally recalibrated. I went home and took a long, luxurious nap for the first time in five months. I was back at home inside my body. Still. At peace. Pure magic! She was indeed the real deal and there was something to this hocus pocus.

I have recommended Claudia to all of my friends. Megan saw her after unsuccessfully trying to conceive for over a year, including doing en vitro. Claudia said her subconscious was preventing her from conceiving a second child out of fear that her child would suffer the trauma she had experienced as a second child when her mother abandoned her. Megan saw Claudia for several sessions to do work around this and then Abbra Cadabra! Baby comes!

Five months later, my baby girl was born uncomfortable in her own skin. I could not accept “colic” for an answer. “Colicky” is simply a term signifying the doctors do not know what is wrong. My mother’s intuition knew there had to be a root to the problem. I took my baby to a pediatric cranial sacral therapist. After an hour of gentle spine manipulations and a rebirth simulation to integrate the traumatic birth my daughter had experienced, my baby finally relaxed. She calmed down and noticed the world around her as if for the first time. The discomfort seemed to float away, giving her a sense of peace and presence she hadn’t had up to that point. I will send all the moms with upset babies here, I thought. I was opening up to this energetic wizardry.

So I did. Sarah’s baby wouldn’t sleep for more than twenty minutes at a time. She was losing her mind and both she and her baby desperately needed more restorative rest. Beyond sleep training, which didn’t work, the pediatrician had no advice. Not to fear, I assured Sarah, I have the perfect person for you. Baby Liam learned to sleep longer stretches as he saw Angelica and Sarah started to feel sane again. Sign me up for more woo woo!

Fast forward two years and I find myself in the hands of an intuitive physical therapist, Lynn. I was seeking help with my diastisis recti- stretched abdominal muscles after pregnancy. She did an energetic scan of my body. I thought it was going to be all physical healing, but quickly was reminded that the mind and body are intimately interconnected and thus must be simultaneously healed. While doing the scan, she intuitively knew things about me and my body that no medical doctor would have ever known. She repositioned my bladder and closed my birth canal, which she says is often left open after giving birth and can effect health on all levels. I had my son with me at the appointment who was suffering from reflux and constipation. Lynn placed her hands upon him and told me the energy was all going up in his body and needed to come down. So she worked on him. After experiencing reflux multiple times a day, he went a whole four days without it after her healing touch. Miracle! Once again I shout from the rooftops to all my friends who are suffering to see this miracle worker.

My friend Kristy hears my shout and goes to see her. Kristy was experiencing excruciating lower back pain that made sitting nearly impossible. Her medical doctors had not offered her any solutions and she suffered day in, day out. Lynn internally adjusted Kristy’s organs and spine (mind-blowing, I know!) and she was 100% better after three sessions!

I have at least eight more similar testimonies about other healers and referrals.

Going to a medical doctor is a last resort for my family and me. Thank goodness for medical doctors in cases of emergencies, but their knowledge is limited to the physical world. There is a dimension beyond the physical. We are energy. We are mind, spirit and body and we must holistically approach our health from that perspective. Sometimes energy gets stuck, especially when we experience trauma. And let’s be honest, no one is exempt from that. We seek medical help where often we do not find real healing because medical health workers do not access other dimensions beyond the physical. We do not know there are healers beyond MDs so we tolerate our suffering.

Yes, I have drank the kool-aid. Call me hippy or granola; I embrace it. I devour all the books and knowledge I can collect on this matter. I seek out healers. I have studied holistic nutrition and I occasionally look at more programs to become a bonafied healer myself. But don’t take my word for it. Energy healing has been tested scientifically. Scientist William Bengston conducted one of many studies in energy medicine. He took mice that been injected with terminal cancer whom were only supposed to survive 17 days and trained skeptics in healing touch to heal the mice. Not only did the mice outlive the seventeen days, but they were cured of cancer and could no longer get it even after another cancer cell injection. Bengston and his (no longer skeptical) colleagues repeated this experiment several times on thousands of mice, always yielding the same results. Reiki, another form of energy medicine has proven effective. In one particular study, reiki had a significant effect on increasing high frequency heart rate variability, which is protective for cardiac health. In addition, side effects of the reiki in this study exhibited significant increases in positive emotions and decreases in negative emotions.

I believe my calling is to share my knowledge with the masses and bring people to healers. It is liberating and empowering to know our physical, spiritual and emotional wellness is in our own hands. I have encouraged friends and family to not accept pain in any form, but to seek wellness through knowledge and through the many gifted healers in our communities. My passion is to connect people to the gifts these miracle-workers bring to the world. I plan to start a website and podcast interviewing different types of healers in order to spread the good news further and wider. I would like to create an assessment tool for people to help discover what sort of healing may be beneficial to them. Eventually, I would like to publish a book.

Often we see these healers preaching to the choir. I have become part of that choir. The song we sing however, needs to change. It is attenuated. It needs to be louder and clearer for more to hear. The frequency needs to reach the sick and the poor. I will do my part to sing my solo in a way that inspires. I want to inspire non- complacency and intolerance to suffering. I want to inspire hope and vitality. In order to bring about world peace, we need to start with the peace within each individual. When we can release the pain and trauma in ourselves, we can release the pain and trauma in the world. It is not until we are healthy that we can create healthy change. As Maya Angelou put it, “As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.”

My mother was actually healed of cancer by a famous healer in Italy when I was 18 years old. The trip to the Italian countryside hours from civilization scared me. The healer scared me. It seemed sacrilegious. I didn’t believe. My mother didn’t believe. But out of this same desperation of which I know so well from my pregnancy, she went. When we returned home and she saw her doctor, he did another scan of her Stage 4 cancer and himself declared, “This is a miracle!” Perhaps that was the seed of knowledge first planted in me to not give up on the pursuit of wellness and miracles. We all can have them. There is more than what meets the eye. I dream of bringing these miracles to everyone.