Physician Heal Thyself

Look at this!  It's really happening!  I have been visualizing this piece of my property dripping with birds and wind chimes, bronze sculptures, and crunchy pathways, hanging vines and Elementals for AGES!  Apparently, I'm ready to receive because my neighbor built the trellis shown here as support for the native Mustang grape vine last week and Earth Man is helping him install it.  I got so happy about this that a couple of days ago, in the blistering hot, I swung a pick axe (something I haven't been physically able to do well for years) ALLLL day leveling a spot for the patio bricks upon which the trellis will rest and under which I will happily sit, espeically in the morning with coffee.  I now have a  perfect spot for Mom's wind chime, the pink one with the hummingbird clackers and a tenor voice. 

 

So much good is happening now.  I have made a transition and I  know it.  I feel happy most days.  Wait.  Did I just say that?  YES!  I did.  Wow.  I can remember the day a few years ago (maybe ten) when  I sat on a cement sidewalk with a woman I know saying that happiness had eluded me most of my life.  And it has.  I had no idea how to be and stay in joy, how to lighten up, though many, many, many well-intended individuals have advised me to do so.  They just didn't know how to help me do it.

I don't take credit for the emotional sense of well being I am now experiencing more often than not (the credit goes to the Highest Understanding), but I do take credit for the willingness and the steadfast perseverance I've held to do the "work" of individuation and the courage I've had (that has been granted me) to walk the dark mystery of personal spiritual growth, turning time and time again away from the problem (my mind) toward the solution, which is Spirit.

Two years ago this month, I came under the care of San Antonio DO, Donna Becker (http://www.antiagingsa.com).  I was a mess.  I am eternally grateful for her wisdom and careful attention to my needs.  I highly recommend her.  She adjusted my hormone levels with bio-identical hormones and encouraged me to continue my journey toward healing, telling me that it was indeed possible, and pointing me to the book From Fatigued to Fantastic.

I followed her instructions and those of the book, receiving an actual TMJ dysfunction remedy by San Antonio orthodontist Dr. Risto Hurme, (www.tmjsanantonio.com), letting my body rest, receiving Healing Touch and Rolfing, and finally in March of '11 giving up sugar (almost succeeded in giving up caffeine, but not quite yet).

Also, I've just returned, for example, from a retreat in the Georgia woods where I studied Healing Touch (HT) Level Four, received the gifts of eight consecutive sessions of HT with other students, walked the Labyrinth (twice), walked the woods, and listened deeply to the river and to myself.  I was moved, literally, into a new vibrational level.  My poem on the "what i write page" of this site was written there.  I have written several since. 

This weekend, I studied again, this time a version of cranio sacral therapy as a compliment to my HT practice and learning.  Again, I met powerful, authentic women and experienced a Great Movement within me.  More later.  Today, I received a long distance session from the therapist who taught the class, and together, we identified a somatic trauma pattern that I've long held and that I've known (sensed) was present but couldn't budge without help.  I sensed its movement within me today and felt it shift.  YES!  YES! YES!  Positively orgasmic these holistic ways of being present to the Self so that the self can heal.

Further, I've seen a practitioner within the last month who gave me an Electrodermal Screening and identified possibile patterns/blockages for me/with me for which I've been receiving herbal and homeopathic remedies for about 18 days.  And, since I found www.tomkenyon.com (reknowned sound healer), I've been doing a specific meditation his guides recommend for receiving Light Source Energy Medicine.  At any rate, I am feeling positive, clear, focused, motivated, energetic, and grounded.  Good.  Plus, my physical stamina becomes stronger by the day as I've added vigorous exercise into my days (and for about six years prior to 2011, any physical exertion at all created a serious back lash in my body that felt like the flu). 

I'm simply amazed and full of gratitude.

So, your guess is as good as mine as to the actual fulcrum for my present state of expanded awareness, but I'll take it! Yessiree, I'll take it!

 

 

Offering

I am offering an hour long Healing Touch Session (not massage) at my new San Antonio space for a suggested donation of $25 to the first ninety-three clients who schedule an appointment with me.  I will be receiving four clients per day at 9 and 10:30 AM and 12:30 and 2PM (except for occasions when my schedule may vary) and I will be working from the West Ave. space every other Tuesday and Friday (Tuesday one week and Friday the next except when my schedule varies). 

I am delighted to be sharing space with Carol Masters, RN, LMT, Reiki Practitioner!  The space is comfortable, generous and somewhat centrally located in the Commons West professional office building.  Here is a Google Maps link to the location:  11230 West Ave. #2207, SAT 78213 . 

 

During the first session (unless I have seen you before), I will do a fifteen minute intake interview to determine your healing goals and get a brief health history and you will receive a forty-five minute hands-on session on the table that includes time for feedback at the end of the session.  In subsequent sessions (yes, you can book more than one and in fact I encourage it because the power of subtle energy work is cumulative), the update is much shorter, allowing more time for hands-on interventions. 

Healing Touch interventions address the client's health holistically from a mental, physical, emotional, and psychological level.  Interventions are done with the client fully clothed and resting comfortably on a massage table with meditative music and dim lighting.  I may also use therapeutic grade essential oils as part of your session.  My hands will either rest lightly on or slightly off the body as we work together.  Most clients feel deeply relaxed and centered durng and after a session, and may experience sensations of warmth, cold, tingling, movement, vibrations, etc.  Most achieve a deep state of relaxation and often sleep.  Reasons to seek Healing Touch are myriad, but Healing Touch is especially effective for helping manage pain, realeasing emotional/psychological blocks, decreasing the need for medical/pharmaceutical interventions or increasing the effectiveness of those treatments.  Research shows that surgical patients recover more quickly and need less medication for pain.  Generalize fatigue and stiffness can also be eliminated and or improved with Healing Touch. And when a person cannot receive massage, Healing Touch is an excellent alternative.  For more information about the Healing Touch Program specifically, click www.healingtouchprogram.com. To view a YouTube introduction to Healing Touch, click here.

 

If you have never received energy work before, I encourage you to give this a try.  You can't beat the cost and you will be doing me a favor!  I need to document one hundred sessions of Healing Touch in order to complete the HT certification process.  I can work with five clients long distance (by telephone) or on animals as well.  Please email (dellisphelps@gmailcom), comment on this post, or call me (830-515-9204) to book your appointment and suggest this powerful opportunity to a friend.

 

 

Gifts of Mutual Tending

I shared the first freshly harvested, sea-salted cucumber (not pictured here b/c it's gone already!) with my Earth Man (new name for Mr. Friendly because it fits better and because he didn't like the sarcastic inuendo and I don't blame him) last night at dusk.  It tasted sweet, more like a melon, not bitter at all, yum!  It was an especially significant communion (I ate from one end and he from the other) because the veggie garden is a project we created together on a section of our homestead acre that we've previously  argued violently over how to cultivate. This year, for the first time since we moved here in 1982, we worked TOGETHER to till the soil, remove the limestones, buy the plants, dig, weed, water and nurture our crop.  We grieved together when the deer got into the gate and pulled every freshly planted specimen up by the roots and gasped in horror at the black frost-bite on the tomatoes and peppers the weekend before Easter.  When Earth Man comes home from his work in the world, he cannnot wait to strip bare-chested, dawn camo shorts and flip-flops and flee to the garden.  But most importantly, neither can I wait to be there with him, whereas in the very recent past, television, email, and phone calls kept us living together but not sharing intimate time or space. 

 

What if this outward and visible sign is indicative of an inward and spiritual grace?  What if the winter of our thirty year marriage is over.  Can it be that we are finally rooted, committed and willing to be careful with our own tender souls? Can it be that our tears have fed our soil, that the weeds will no longer thrive but instead that we will bloom and harvest the gifts of our mutual tending.

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Go to the mountain inside and breathe...

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Like the mighty cypress, may you be rooted in core earth energy and fed by the Great Flowing River today.

Blessing

May the wide blue sky bloom wispy white cloudlings all over you today!