Connie
03-20-2007, 07:47 AM
I attended a 1-day workshop taught by a nationally known spiritual healer-intuitive last week. I'm still sorting out what happened to me there! Something happened. Something dramatic!
For the first time in my life, I was "seeing things." Or, as he put it in his brochure: "participants will have experiences of intutional understanding and perception." He was changing the energy within/around (?) himself in such a way as to make certain phenomena visible to us.
The first exercise, we were to stare at his face. He was sitting with some rust color blinds behind him. Suddenly, all the color drained from him, the room, the furniture around him, the light changed, my depth perception changed--everything was the same rust color! His face was that color, his hair, his clothes, etc. The word "chameleon" came to my mind. He was blending into his surroundings, just like a chameleon, and disappearing. I must have been hyperventillating with shock, because then he was telling me to breathe. (Small class, there were only 3 of us although he said he is more used to presenting his material to an audience of hundreds.)
The strange demonstrations went on. We were taught to look into a person's face and "see" things about them. Their past, their personalities, even their past lives. He helped us to see something on his face, superimposed like a clear mask, and all 3 of us saw the same thing! I worked with one of the other students and the first thing that came to me was his face, but much fuller. I commented on it, and he said he had just lost a lot of weight!! Two words also popped into my head while we were doing this, which I told him--and both resonated with him. One word was "clown" and he said he's had a lifelong interest in clowns and had in fact written a book on them, and then I saw his face all rugged and darker (more facial hair) and the word came to me: "pirate." He also was very into pirates as a child, and had a few years back in his life had a motorcycle accident where as a result he was forced to wear a black eye patch for some time. I had never met this man before!
None of that was the most dramatic thing, though.
We were also taught an intuitive body scanning technique for energy healing. My classmate was doing this on me and "found" something near my heart. He was working on it, when the teacher stepped in and said he "had to fix it." He added his wattage to whatever was going on. Next thing I knew there was a pain growing in my chest, and I was getting lightheaded. I told them I was getting lightheaded ("very lightheaded" he said--was that comment tantemount to a suggestion??) and that I was going to faint and that I didn't want to faint. Next thing I knew I came to on the floor. I did faint. I had been standing.
Anyway, I was pretty much out of it for the rest of the seminar/workshop, with a stomach ache and a headache. He kept telling me that it was fixed and that I'd feel "awesome" with a better energy flow in my body. He also found something else, a "logjam" in my stomach but when he started to work on me, I started feeling faint again and I stopped him. Now I wish I hadn't stopped him. Apparently, it didn't have the urgency of the other item which he "had to" fix for me.
So...that's a few tidbits from the workshop. But what happened next is the oddest part. I think I had a 2-day long abreaction--a swirl of distress and negative emotions which I worked on with NLP techniques to no avail. I believe it was somehow tied into the "healing" he did on me.
I also want to mention that my husband, who was with me attending that seminar as well as hypnosis and NLP trainings, told me next day that I looked "different." When I tried to pin him down verbally, he had difficulty explaining the difference. He thought the difference was an improvement, however. One of my classmates commented to me next day that I looked "radiant." :)
For the first time in my life, I was "seeing things." Or, as he put it in his brochure: "participants will have experiences of intutional understanding and perception." He was changing the energy within/around (?) himself in such a way as to make certain phenomena visible to us.
The first exercise, we were to stare at his face. He was sitting with some rust color blinds behind him. Suddenly, all the color drained from him, the room, the furniture around him, the light changed, my depth perception changed--everything was the same rust color! His face was that color, his hair, his clothes, etc. The word "chameleon" came to my mind. He was blending into his surroundings, just like a chameleon, and disappearing. I must have been hyperventillating with shock, because then he was telling me to breathe. (Small class, there were only 3 of us although he said he is more used to presenting his material to an audience of hundreds.)
The strange demonstrations went on. We were taught to look into a person's face and "see" things about them. Their past, their personalities, even their past lives. He helped us to see something on his face, superimposed like a clear mask, and all 3 of us saw the same thing! I worked with one of the other students and the first thing that came to me was his face, but much fuller. I commented on it, and he said he had just lost a lot of weight!! Two words also popped into my head while we were doing this, which I told him--and both resonated with him. One word was "clown" and he said he's had a lifelong interest in clowns and had in fact written a book on them, and then I saw his face all rugged and darker (more facial hair) and the word came to me: "pirate." He also was very into pirates as a child, and had a few years back in his life had a motorcycle accident where as a result he was forced to wear a black eye patch for some time. I had never met this man before!
None of that was the most dramatic thing, though.
We were also taught an intuitive body scanning technique for energy healing. My classmate was doing this on me and "found" something near my heart. He was working on it, when the teacher stepped in and said he "had to fix it." He added his wattage to whatever was going on. Next thing I knew there was a pain growing in my chest, and I was getting lightheaded. I told them I was getting lightheaded ("very lightheaded" he said--was that comment tantemount to a suggestion??) and that I was going to faint and that I didn't want to faint. Next thing I knew I came to on the floor. I did faint. I had been standing.
Anyway, I was pretty much out of it for the rest of the seminar/workshop, with a stomach ache and a headache. He kept telling me that it was fixed and that I'd feel "awesome" with a better energy flow in my body. He also found something else, a "logjam" in my stomach but when he started to work on me, I started feeling faint again and I stopped him. Now I wish I hadn't stopped him. Apparently, it didn't have the urgency of the other item which he "had to" fix for me.
So...that's a few tidbits from the workshop. But what happened next is the oddest part. I think I had a 2-day long abreaction--a swirl of distress and negative emotions which I worked on with NLP techniques to no avail. I believe it was somehow tied into the "healing" he did on me.
I also want to mention that my husband, who was with me attending that seminar as well as hypnosis and NLP trainings, told me next day that I looked "different." When I tried to pin him down verbally, he had difficulty explaining the difference. He thought the difference was an improvement, however. One of my classmates commented to me next day that I looked "radiant." :)