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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!