November 2, 2009 at 12:19 am (compassion, consciousness, eft, energy healing, energy psychology, healing, inspirational, meridians, personal growth, reiki, tapping)
Tags: emotional disturbance, emotional freedom, Emotional Healing, false beliefs, healing, personal growth, relaxation, tapping
Who’s Making Your Decisions?
Have you ever been amazed at your over-reaction to something an event or someone’s behavior? The emotions experienced may be anger, anxiety, numbness or fear for no apparent reason. What is the process that goes on internally, seemingly unconsciously that causes an inappropriate or over-reaction?
When we have traumas or repetitive negative experiences it is not unusual to get “stuck”. As long as we are “stuck” we will continue to have experiences that push those buttons, we become magnets for pain. The real purpose of this pain is to guide us to healing.
Mike (not his real name) came to see me to work on his difficulty in having a meaningful relationship. Mike was always backing off as soon as a deeper bond began to form. We explored Mike’s childhood for root causes. One experience Mike remembered to be quite painful was with his earliest sweet heart, we’ll call her Suzie. At the age of fifteen Mike was having his first emotional and physically intimate relationship. On a particular date Suzie, in tears confesses that Mike was not her “first”. Mike was devastated. There were a lot of aspects to this, we focused on the sense of betrayal Mike felt and decisions he made at fifteen about life and relationships that were still ruling his life at age fifty. His decisions were that no one could be trusted in a relationship and if he gave his heart he would be deeply wounded. The memory of this teenage experience was still painful when clearly recalled. Using EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) we released the pain and in came compassion, understanding and freedom from a life decision made at an early age.
At the age of five I was molested. I assure you, even at that age or any age for that matter, we are capable of making lifelong decisions. Until I began the process (it is a process) of healing, a five year olds decisions about myself and life where ruling me. What was most interesting to me was, I didn’t remember the event until I was in my mid-thirties. It is rather common for someone not to remember a traumatic experience from an early age until later in life. It is nature’s way of protecting us until we are better able to process such an event. Even without remembering the experience I was still bound and ruled by my five year olds experience and decisions about myself and life. It was evident in my actions and reactions.
So who is running your life and making your decisions? When clients come who have had traumatic experiences at any age and made decisions about life, I often ask if they would consult children to make their decisions for them today?
Shafiya Eve is a Reiki Master/Teacher, Healing Touch and EFT Practitioner with offices in Kilmarnock and Warsaw and also offers Home Visits and EFT By Phone and Distance Healing. You may contact Shafiya at Healing Energetics (804) 580-0702 or visit her website www.reiki-eft.net
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September 21, 2009 at 4:19 am (healing, imagination, meditation)
Tags: emotional freedom, Emotional Healing, false beliefs, imagination, intention, thoughts
Imagine
By Shafiya Eve
Everyone has a great imagination. It is most easily identified by our ability to worry, project negative outcomes about the future and reminiscing about the past. Ever had a conversation in your mind? With every thought you think with images of the past and projections of the future, you’ve been honing and fine tuning your imagination. Now you have the opportunity to turn it into a gift and powerful positive tool. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive, it can achieve” W. Clement Stone
Try this: Using your imagination see yourself at the refrigerator opening the door. On the shelf is a glistening lemon. Reach in and pick up the lemon. Feel its rich texture, the smooth and rough waxy surface, the coolness in your hand. Feel the moisture that begins to collect on it, bring it to your nose and smell it. Now place the lemon on the counter and cut it in half. See the juices squirt out and cut it into quarters. Bring a piece up to your nose and take a good deep smell, now take a big bite. Did your mouth water? Mine did as I was writing this.
What is important to recognize is your imagination profoundly affects your physiology. If you doubt your ability to use your imagination, doubt the doubt. Einstein said “Imagination is more important than knowledge”. When it comes to your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-being this has potent implications. The mind cannot distinguish the difference between an imagined experience and a real one. Your body responds to what you imagine as if it is really happening.
The imagination used with intent is called many things such as guided imagery, visualization, mental rehearsal, fantasy, even meditation. A great example of this is its use by athletes. In the book Sacred Hoops by Phil Jackson, B.J. Armstrong says “I’ll be able to react to it without thinking, because I’ll already have seen it in my mind.”
There are so many ways we can use this innate God-given ability in our personal lives. Recently I was dealing with the prospect of an uncomfortable confrontation with someone on the phone. I used EFT to clear some of my trepidation and then my imagination to see myself comfortable and at peace during the conversation. As it turned out, everything went just fine. Often I work with clients who are experiencing angst about an uncomfortable upcoming event a prime example might be a family gathering with anticipated sibling struggles. We walk through these projected fears, and use the imagination to project a different outcome. The results have been positive and rewarding.
“The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge” Albert Einstein.
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August 11, 2009 at 2:05 pm (clearing, consciousness, eft, energy field, energy healing, energy meridians, energy psychology, healing, health, holistic, meridians, mindfulness, personal growth, practice, spiritual growth, tapping, transformation)
Tags: eft, emotional disturbance, emotional freedom, Emotional Healing, energy, energy meridians, false beliefs, healing, health, inner peace, intention, mental healing, peace, personal growth, physical healing, relaxation, release negativity, stress, tapping, transformation, trauma
What Is Emotional Freedom?
By Shafiya Eve
Are you free or do you carry emotional baggage that prevents your every attempt for inner peace and outer success? Your emotional freedom is at your fingertips and you can tap into it.
Do you ever feel or think that you are not “good enough” or slim enough, smart enough, pretty enough, rich enough, nice enough, patient enough. Are you haunted by previous experiences or events in your life by things you did, others did, you didn’t do, others didn’t do? Are you anxious or stressed. Do you feel blocked from moving forward by some unknown barrier? Is your happiness like a “coming event” when a certain something happens or you’ve accomplished, succeeded, been recognized, THEN you will be happy? What would it be like to be free from these mysterious route responses and self-defeating beliefs?
EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) is an emotional version of acupuncture (without the needles) wherein we stimulate certain meridian points by tapping on them with our fingertips. Since emotional stress can contribute to pain, disease and physical ailments, we often find that EFT provides astonishing physical relief.
First let me explain the nature of some of this emotional baggage which I refer to as energy disruptions. All of our experiences are imprinted in our subconscious. When we have experienced a trauma or repetitive negative input we develop an energy disruption. When a trauma or negative experience occurs it’s like putting a screw driver in the back of the TV and twisting in around the wires and you get a zzzzt (energy disruption) in your energy body.
Here is an example. Many years ago I accepted a job which required air travel across the US. On my first trip out of town I arrived at Richmond International Airport to depart, as soon as I entered the airport I began crying, for no reason. It was one of those sobbing cries, most embarrassing and quite befuddling to me. Once I got on the plane, I was fine and had no further upset through flight changes and my return flight home. Next trip out of Richmond, I enter the airport and the tears began to flow. I was at a loss as to what was going on with me. Life was good. Finally after much soul searching it dawned on me that the last time I saw my brother, a Marine pilot, his was waving goodbye at that very airport before his departure. He died a few months later in a mid-air collision.
There was 20 years between his passing and my airport sobbing experience. Once I realized the connection and worked with my grief issues regarding my brother, those trips out of town no longer were tearful and I experienced greater peace about my brother’s passing.
Another example is with a client who lives out of state and we did EFT phone sessions. I’ll call him Sam. Sam couldn’t understand why his business was not flourishing. He was a veteran marketer and knew he had all the right ingredients for success but everything seemed blocked. As we began our EFT tapping sessions, Sam revealed he had been immensely successful previously but with the turn in the economy had lost everything. It had been a deeply painful and bitter experience for him. In fact it became apparent he was terrified of his success because he might lose it all again. We worked quite a bit tapping on those fears until he could no longer feel that connection. The session was a great success to Sam and he has emailed me many times with gratitude and how well his business is going now.
One of EFT’s primary strengths is its ability to dramatically reduce, or eliminate, the sting of your emotional issues, based on a theory that negative emotions are caused by disturbances in the body’s energy system and that tapping on acupuncture points while focusing on a specific traumatic memory balances the system, thereby neutralizing the negative emotion.
The best thing about EFT is that anyone can do it. There is skill in delivery that an experienced practitioner offers and you can develop that for yourself as well. Visit my website for a free EFT manual.
Heal the past, enjoy the present, and look forward to a happier future.
Shafiya Eve is a Reiki Master Teacher and EFT Practitioner with offices at the Healing Place in Kilmarnock, Warsaw and offers EFT Phone session. To schedule an appointment call Healing Energetics (804) 580-0702 or email: Shafiya@reiki-eft.net, web: www.reiki-eft.net ,blog www.healingeve.wordpress.com. I will be facilitating EFT Classes in the Fall.
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August 6, 2009 at 2:17 pm (aura healing, auras, awakening, chakras, channeling, channeling energy, clearing, compassion, consciousness, divine, energy field, energy healing, energy psychology, healing, health, holistic, inspirational, meditation, mindfulness, mysticism, personal growth, practice, sacred, spirit, spiritual growth, spiritual path, spirituality, transcendental, transformation)
Tags: spiritual, health, personal growth, healing, meditation, spirit, energy meridians, Emotional Healing, physical healing, spiritual healing, inner peace, transformation, relaxation, energy, emotional disturbance, emotional freedom, channel energy, centering, ground, grounding energy, earth connection, stress, intention, love, visualization, radiant heart, heart chakra, imagination, spirituality
Below is a link to a video of a guided Meditation and Visualization for Grounding, Centering and the Radiant Heart. I have found for myself , friends and my clients this to be a most powerful technique that all people can experience regardless of where you are along your path of personal growth and/or spiritual awakening and consciousness.
The Grounding and Centering is an essential technique and tool for all people especially for those on the path of healing. I hope you enjoy!
CLICK HERE >>Centering and the Radiant Heart
Hugs and Peace
Healingeve
Shafiya Eve
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June 11, 2009 at 11:59 pm (home remedies)
Tags: biting flies, bug bites, chamomile, dogs, essential oil, gardening, holistic remedies, home remedies, lavender, mosquitoes, natural remedies, non toxic, oatmeal, peppermint, pets, poison ivy, rash, remedies, repellents, vanilla
Summertime, When the Living Ain’t Easy
Poison Ivy, Biting Flies, Mosquitoes, Bug Bites Oh My!
Flower gardening is salve for my soul so I joyfully agreed to help a friend with her garden. It’s a magical place, one rambling garden area unfolding into another. Each having a personality of its own with graceful natural segues into the next. Upon first sight the amount of overgrowth was daunting. I immediately doubted my ability to accomplish the task then, just as quickly, decided to doubt the doubt. It is very rewarding work. I hate to stop at the end of the day and can hardly wait to get back as the beauty of the garden is unveiled before my eyes.
As I began chopping, pulling and clearing I came across the dreaded shiny three leaf plant, poison ivy. I took every precaution not to come into contact with it, gloves on, using the tools, gathering it up and depositing it in a plastic bag. Two days later there they were, those little red bumps, just where my gloves stopped. I didn’t need to see them; their presence was making themselves known. The unremitting call to scratch was compelling, but if I allowed myself to surrender, there would be most painful consequences. The search for relief began with a passion.
I tried several things, one being Lavendar essential oil and discovered that it is profoundly effective, can be directly applied on the skin for bug bites and all sorts of burns. It only provided temporary relief for the raging itch of the poison ivy rash. Finally, while waiting for a friend, I picked up a small book on natural remedies and there was the solution, oatmeal! It worked beautifully! One treatment and poof, no more itch. Two treatments to be on the safe side.
Here is the recipe. Put a quarter cup oatmeal in a sock, tie in a knot and let the sock soak in a cup of hot water for a couple minutes. Put the sock on the rash (use common sense, don’t burn yourself), it will feel delightful! After a few minutes re-dip in the now warm water and apply it again. Then pour the water in the cup over the rash and air dry. This works miracles, the itching is eliminated and the redness begins to fade. You can also put one cup of oatmeal in a sock, knot it and swish around in the bath for a full body treatment. Let the sock stay with you in the bath tub, squeezing it thoroughly into the bath water and holding it on especially affected areas.
Those pesky painful biting flies, bringing torment to a perfectly beautiful day. Try peppermint essential oil. It is amazing and cooling on the hot days when flies most love to love you and it’s not toxic. There are two ways to apply: use a fine spray mist bottle and mix a quarter teaspoon of the peppermint in a cup of water, shake well and spray liberally. Don’t get it in your eyes! Any place you miss the flies will find. You have to reapply as you perspire it off; or add one or two drops of the peppermint oil in the palm of hand along with each application of hand lotion, rub it all together then apply. Don’t get too carried away, as the peppermint is potent. Always test these sorts of things on a small spot on your body to make sure you don’t have a reaction before going gung ho.
Mosquitoes hate vanilla. I now use a vanilla hand lotion, I smell delicious, but not to mosquitoes. You can also put a half teaspoon vanilla essential oil in a spray bottle with a cup of water and mist yourself. Or a few drops in each application of hand lotion. Any place you miss, the mosquitoes will find. I frequently have a mist spray bottle with both the peppermint and vanilla mixed together, ready for any assault from the insect world day or night. I use the peppermint and vanilla spray on my dog Margo, being careful not to get it in her eyes. She’s grateful, wags and licks.
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May 30, 2009 at 8:56 pm (God, channeling, channeling energy, divine, energy healing, healing, holistic, inspirational, reiki, transformation)
Tags: cancer, centering, channel energy, Dog, energy, ground, grounding energy, healing, health, intention, pets, reiki, Reiki healing, relaxation, spirit, spiritual healing, transformation
The Healing of Margo the Dog
Something was wrong! It was Saturday night, Margo-Rita (Margo), my dog, wouldn’t or couldn’t jump up on the bed. I could hear her stomach growling from across the room, her breathing was heavy and labored. I sat on the floor with her for a bit, deciding to let her be and see how her natural ability to heal would proceed. The next morning she was still suffering great stomach distress and panting heavily. I decided it was time to do a Reiki session.
When doing a Reiki session, one must be a clear channel for the healing energy, without being attached to the outcome; leaving that to God-Divine. Having no agenda of what or how the healing would unfold was a challenge. Margo is not only a companion but a friend. She has taught me so much. Her joy for life, ever smiling, ever present and her unconditional love for everyone has been a shining example. As pet lovers out there know, our creatures are dear family members.
During the Reiki healing session I let go of my desire of outcome for my beloved pet, trusting God’s will be done. After a while Margo heaved a deep sigh. Her body began to relax and then she passed gas repeatedly (ugh-stinky), she was transforming. As I continued the Reiki, her breathing settled down, she gave several deep sighs and fell asleep, just like my clients!
Reiki is genuinely holistic and non-invasive. It promotes balance – in body, mind and spirit and is valuable in boosting the immune system. It is used in many prestigious hospitals in our country in conjunction with traditional therapies like Chemotherapy and Radiation. I recently worked with a client going through Chemo and Radiation with remarkable results. Overwhelming clinical research has proven, Reiki alleviates pain and accelerates healing time. Reiki promotes wellness in people and animals.
Later that day I did one more session on Margo, her breathing completely stabilized, she released more noxious odors and was back to her usual joyful self. “These things ye shall do and more.”
Researching Reiki’s use on animals, I discovered it is used worldwide by animal lovers and is growing rapidly in popularity. So for all the skeptics who think much of the healing and relief people experience is just the power of suggestion, animals may be the greatest proof positive. Just watching Margo lie there with the ability to just be and see the dramatic changes and healing occur was astonishing. Even to me it was an amazing testimonial.
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April 17, 2009 at 12:54 am (God, awakening, clearing, consciousness, eft, energy meridians, energy psychology, healing, holistic, inspirational, mindfulness, personal growth, prayer, self-inquiry, spiritual growth, tapping, transformation)
Tags: channel energy, emotional freedom, Emotional Healing, energy, energy meridians, false beliefs, freedom, pain, poem, poetry, prayer, tapping, transformation
(I wrote this about a year ago and was enjoying reflecting on it and decided to share. Hope you enjoy!)
Recently I became conscious of one of my unconscious rituals that had been going on for several months. Upon waking in the morning, my first awareness was of pain. The next thought was of the cause of the pain and those involved. I would lie in bed, getting furious and by time those hurting feet hit the ground, I was in a quiet rage. Several weeks ago, with coffee in hand, enjoying the morning sunrise, with a bit of the rage still leaking out, I decided I wasn’t going to start my day that way anymore. This poem is what tumbled out in response to that decision.
FREEDOM
Let me out of this prison of self torture
Please stop me from spending all I have, on blaming you and others
Those piercing arrows of pain, I hold tightly
Keeping us both in this prison of torture
There’s not much difference between the jailor and the jailed
In this prison where I hold us both hostage
How can I forgive with this tortured body and mind left behind?
My angst pushes me to the abyss of forgiveness –Freedom
I deserve it
You though are another matter
But I can no longer hold you captive
If I do, there in bondage I remain too
“God help me!”
Casting the gates wide, with trepidation fleeing I release you,
so that I may at last know freedom
A few days after the decision and the poem, I became aware that I now rarely wake up with that pain and certainly not the rage. Very interesting.
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April 7, 2009 at 12:38 pm (God, awakening, channeling, channeling energy, compassion, consciousness, divine, eft, energy healing, energy psychology, healing, healing touch, health, inspirational, mysticism, personal growth, psychic healing, reiki, sacred, spirit, spiritual growth, spirituality, tapping, transformation)
Tags: channel energy, emotional disturbance, emotional freedom, Emotional Healing, energy, false beliefs, healing, health, inner peace, mental healing, miracles, peace, personal growth, physical healing, relaxation, spirit, spiritual, spiritual healing, transformation
My Grandmother was a Healer
Since my grandmother, Sadie Eve, lived in Beaufort, South Carolina and my family lived in Chester, Virginia, I only saw her several times a year on our vacations.
As a child I wanted to help people, to heal people; Sadie always discouraged my interest. She had been a hands-on healer and performed many miraculous healings but eventually chose to give it up. “It is pointless to heal someone’s illness if you do not heal the cause of the illness, because it just comes back in some other form,” she said. This has always weighed heavy in my thoughts and greatly affected me and my calling as a healer and teacher.
The desire to help and the desire to be of service are not always one and the same. One can be ego based, masked by good intentions and the other is selfless. True compassion is allowing someone to be right where they are. From that stance lasting and true healing can occur. For most of us it is a process. The physical body is quite resilient in healing, when brought into a true and positive alignment with the Real Self.
I am often called to intervene on someone’s behalf by a loved one. This can be a struggle. Unless someone is open to healing on a soul level, intervention can be disruptive, with the clashing of egos and wills. True healing is often incomprehensible though our illnesses have the potential to take us to the heights of inner healing.
Early on in my energy practice, I would see people transformed in the presence of the Divine energies. Yet within moments of raising themselves off the healing table life-long patterns often descended back upon them. Yes, they had a moment of respite. But the core issue was still waiting for them, and they immediately put the comfort of their wounded-self back on like a security blanket.
We live in a microwave/pill society. Fix me quick! Take a pill that will make it all go away. The bone may be set and heal, but the internal suffering goes on. Healing is undermined by our insecurities and fears until that internal suffering is clearly and compassionately brought into the Son Light of Spirit.
So, what to do? I am clear that people participate in and awaken into their healing. For most of us, learning to love ourselves is the hardest lesson of all. People often mistake self-love with vanity and self-centeredness. The love I am speaking of is indeed quite the opposite. Where there is self-love there lays the foundation for unconditional love, peace and acceptance for oneself and others and joy! Each healing session I participate in now is about healing at the core and experiencing one’s true Divine nature which is love.
Shafiya Eve is a Reiki Master Teacher and EFT energy-healing practitioner with offices in Kilmarnock, Tappahannock and Warsaw. She can be reached at Healing Energetics (804) 580-0702 or email: Shafiya@reiki-eft.net. also available for EFT phone sessions. Hugs and peace!
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March 16, 2009 at 3:07 pm (awakening, channeling, channeling energy, clearing, compassion, consciousness, divine, energy healing, healing, healing touch, meditation, personal growth, reiki, spiritual growth, spirituality)
Tags: channel energy, cleansing, detox, detoxification, Emotional Healing, energy, false beliefs, healing, health, initiation, meditation, mental healing, personal growth, physical healing, Reiki Attunement, releasing, spirit, spiritual, spiritual healing
After a Reiki Attunement it takes approximately 21 days for the energies to fully integrate in the individual. During this time there is a physical emotional and mental cleansing process that can occur in varying degrees. These “toxins” that no longer are of use may be released along with old thought patterns and emotions.
Even though this releasing is a good thing it can be very confusing and deeply uncomfortable for some. It may seem difficult to but it is helpful to be able to sit with this cleansing process, knowing it will pass, and allowing it to be what it is with a strong dose of compassion for yourself. Being able to witness this process and see what it has been. There are other techniques in my Channeling Energy Part I which help to Center, Ground and Release Negative Energy and Reclaim Your Scattered Self. Go here for a free download of these techniques.
I recommend the drinking of LOTS of pure water, soaking in hot baths (comfortably hot) with salts like epson, sea salt, baking soda to ease and excellerate the detoxing period. Also extremely important is getting Reiki sessions and doing Reiki on one’s self. Other useful healing tools are juicing, plenty of fresh vegetables and fruits to assist the bodies natural healing process and meditation.
You are cleaing the wreckage of the past. This too will pass that you will move into being your true authentic Self.
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March 16, 2009 at 2:19 am (awakening, compassion, consciousness, eft, energy healing, healing, holistic, inspirational, mindfulness, personal growth)
Tags: compassion, emotional freedom, Emotional Healing, healing, inner peace, personal growth, spiritual, spiritual healing
Compassion is allowing someone to be exactly where they are.
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