By Shafiya Eve
In my early 20’s I was in a violently abusive relationship. Living in a perpetual state of fear with the threat, if I left, my family would be killed, I was beaten, stabbed and on more than one occasion had a gun put to my head and the trigger cocked.
It was a Saturday afternoon in 1976 when a girlfriend called and invited me to a psychic party. I had never been to one and didn’t believe in psychics. My friend pleaded, she had promised this psychic woman a certain number of people would be at this party and someone had no-showed. I went.
When it came my turn, I was flippant and not at all forthcoming. Finally the psychic woman looked at me and said “I see something and I’m not sure whether to share it with you or not”.
I retorted “You may as well tell me because you are never going to see me again”
The woman said “I see you death and it is exceedingly brutal”
A wave of relief washed over, this living hell was going to end. Maintaining my flippant attitude I replied “When your number’s up, your numbers up”.
The psychic gave me a good hard look and said. “No no honey, that’s not the way it works. This is happening to you because you are letting it happen. This guy is playing Gestapo with you and you just have to learn to play Gestapo better.”
It took 24 hours for me to realize that if I did nothing death was imminent as the degree of violence had been accelerating. I finally pulled up my bootstraps and decided, if I was going to die, I was going down fighting!
I secretly recorded conversations of this guy threatening to burn down a building for the insurance. Then waited until this next beating, it didn’t take long. I went to the police, black and blue and pressed charges. I then left town for a week, whereabouts unknown, with a note on the table to my abuser that there was a warrant for his arrest and that the tapes of his conversations existed and were in a safe place. If anything happened to me, the tapes would be delivered to the police. To make a long story short, it has a happy ending.
I have a purpose in sharing this. Recently a client with a progressive neurological illness came to me. He is in an abusive relationship and the illness started just after the relationship began. No matter my approach this client would hear nothing of and rebuffed all attempts that this situation could change. “It’s just the way it is” was his response. He sees no way out, but his body does. As I thought of him during my morning prayers the above memory flashed in. It was a message to me.
Our bodies are the sum total of our beliefs and constantly call for our highest healing and total freedom. Life is never “just the way it is”. It is always the way it is according to our beliefs and our will or lack thereof. There is always a door to freedom if we can just open I minds to it, it will appear.
Shafiya Eve is a Reiki Master, Healing Touch and EFT Practitioner with offices in Kilmarnock and Warsaw and also provides Sessions by Phone nationwide. (804) 580-0702 shafiya@reiki-eft.net, www.reiki-eft.net
