Fundamentally it is about the power of your heart to handle the stresses in life, and by doing so, changes your brain chemistry and in turn helps with your immune system, your emotions, and how you cope with stress.

There are biofeedback devices you can buy but I like the simplicity of these exercises. Before I would have thought they were boring and simple and wouldn’t possibly make much of a difference. Now I think differently.

Having cleared out a bulk lot of trapped emotions from my heart wall using the Emotion Code, which had helped me to even feel my heart and want to reside in that space for any length of time, I felt the power of my heart even more.

I like Greg Braden’s description of why the heart is so powerful at healing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8dKcvROnl4

Here’s 3 techniques to use, do this multiple times a day in order to change the neural pathways in your brain from one of being stressful, to one of responding automatically in a calmer state. Preferably use all these techniques together.

Heart Focus

Move your attention away from your mind chatter and what’s going on out there, and shift the focus to your heart.

Heart Breathing

Imagine you are slowly breathing in and out through your heart. Starting to slow your breathing down, counting to 6 in, and 6 out. Now forget the counting and just focus on the air going in and out of your heart. Start to slowly disengage from your stressful thoughts and just notice the breathing through your heart.

Heart Feeling

Intentionally generate sincere positive emotions of care, appreciation, gratitude and love. Make sure you feel it, not just think it. Send this feeling out to yourself and to others. Perhaps family members, or your pets. Make it so I’ts easy to send out, meaning, don’t think of people you struggle to love.

These feelings go up to your amygdala and then affect your frontal brain overriding the negative emotions that cause stress.

The more you do this throughout the day the easier it will get, your brain will respond faster and it will become automatic.

Leave a comment and let me know how you get on.

PRACTICE

It may sound really boring and simple but so many people want to be psychics, they don’t want to do the work to be a working psychic. If it means that you offer free readings to strangers, do it. You have to risk that you will get it wrong. We all have to go through that stage of fearing we can’t do it. But it’s a process and you have to get through this stage. I found practising on other people is way more rewarding as far as trust goes in the long run than just reading for yourself. So step out of your comfort zone and read for others. You don’t have to do readings in person, you can do them on skype, on the internet in email. Play around with what feels right.

TRUST

Easy to say, harder to do. You have to trust what you get. It may seem that nothing comes through for you, but I bet there was. It may have been as quick as a flash. An image, a feeling, just a knowing about that person, a sound, words in your ear. A lot of people want to see only visuals and for it to be clear and easy to understand. But trust the impressions you get. It may be that the person you are reading for doesn’t understand what you are saying, or can’t validate it. Don’t be put off by that. People often remember things after the reading. I have done readings where nothing came through and I realised that the “nothing” was really important to talk about. The message was about “nothing”. Don’t be scared of being wrong. You are learning, by practising and trusting you will start to see how you get your messages. I ask for people’s birthdates as it gives me something to tune into. You may not need that, you could use their name or the sound of their voice.

SPIRIT GUIDES

Don’t get hung up on where your messages come from. Needing to know if it’s your higher self, your spirit guides, if it’s an astral entity you’re connecting with. If you protect yourself before the reading then thing should be OK. If you think that if you ask your spirit guide, then the guide asks the other persons guide, then the guide talks to you, you will get hung up on the process, rather than just tuning into your senses and seeing what you get.

RECEIVE DON’T REACH

Ask for the information to come to you, don’t reach and strain for it. If the person isn’t in front of you that you are reading for, imagine that they are and you are receiving information so easily, you are not having to reach your energy field out to get it. That can feel draining.

BURN OUT

Don’t spend all day everyday being in some kind of spiritual mode. Open up to receive then close yourself down after. You want to stay grounded and in this world when you aren’t doing readings. Don’t do reading after reading, you will burn out if you aren’t having enough down time. Do other things to ground yourself as well in your day. Like walking or sitting outside in nature, or even housework. Get your head out of thinking about spiritual things all day.

MAKE IT UP

If you feel stuck and you’re not getting anything, just make it up. Just let the trying go, and play with it. Your psychic/intuition side is the same part of the brain as your creative side. I’ve never known anyone to be wrong by making it up. It will loosen you up and let the info flow.

CLEAR YOUR ENERGY

Do some kind of daily practice where you clear you own energy field. You may want to try a few things out and see what fits for you. I like to say a prayer before each reading and after that clears my energy. I say a prayer at the end of the day that clears out my day. And periodically I clear my home of astral entities and also sage it. Find what works for you, it may be a visualisation, it might be you like to use crystals. Or it may be that you go and see another healer for an aura cleanse.

PERSONAL GROWTH

Keep learning. Keep reading and doing courses. Learn from your own life. Learn psychology 101. Learn about relationships. Over time you may find your niche. You may notice you just seem to flow with say relationship readings or career readings. Even though you get psychic messages to give to people, often people want to chat as well and it would be helpful if you had some knowledge about “life”. Perhaps you have found a philosophy that works for you, so you can interweave that. I realise clients aren’t coming for advice or counselling but it helps your readings to flow. You are there to offer people messages but you are also a human being as well. People are drawn to you for a reason and it may be that you know something about “life” that they want to hear.

ITS NOT YOUR READING

Be mindful that when a client comes to you they aren’t wanting to hear all about your life, they want to hear about theirs. You can give examples from your life but try to see this as a one sided chat. If you feel you can’t leave yourself out of the picture then you need to find someone to listen to you. You can ask them questions but don’t go fishing for info so that it makes you feel relieved that you have something to fall back on to talk about. You want to do as much of a cold reading as you can. That’s where you don’t know anything about the person.

PATIENCE

It takes time to hone your skills. Rome wasn’t built in a day. So be patient with yourself. The calmer and more focused you are, the clearer your messages will be. So take time in your day to centre yourself in some way. Don’t go rushing into a reading after you’ve been doing something else. I always like to leave fifteen minutes before a reading to sort myself out and breathe and quieten myself. I clear my energy and say my opening prayers. When I was learning I took half an hour before a reading to do this. By doing this you also look professional.

I actually don’t offer these kinds of readings and I asked myself why, because I could do them. I realised that if someone is going to pay me to do a reading, then best they have a healing component to it, like cord cutting or a soul level relationship reading. The information for information sake can be interesting, but often not the thing you remember the most about that relationship.

Knowing this information may confirm to you what you are feeling, but you know this anyway. All too often I feel that person is just hovering above a layer of pain they don’t want to drop into. Usually anger. This would enable them to move on. Wanting to know things at a soul level may feel as if it is comforting and keep the connection for you, but it doesn’t satisfy the personality and emotions, and our human experience and needs.

Here are a few things about relationships at a soul level that might explain what you’re experiencing:

• If you are or have been in a romantic relationship with someone then yes, you have had past lives together.
• You are probably in the same soul group working out your lessons via one another. Soul groups reincarnate together.
• Depending on your lessons, you may very well be together in the next life. This is not something to hang onto, to keep your connection alive for you in this life.
• It may well be that you paid off a karmic debt by being together.
• It also may be that you are soul mates, but that doesn’t mean you are destined to be only with that person.
• You may have past life blocks and restrictions that are impacting your relationship today. These blocks may be pacts, bindings, past life entities attached and more.

So rather than wanting a reading to find out what the connection is you have, you’re better off doing something healing wise in order to clear out the toxic component of your relationship, even if you’re still together. It will free you up to have a better connection, or in the case of an ex, to move on so you don’t feel energetically pulled back into the relationship. While you are pining for an old relationship, there isn’t any room for a new relationship to enter into your life, one that you have emotional room for.

If you’re together and have a great relationship, why not do something *soulful* to express that connection you feel for your partner?

I am firmly of the belief that you should protect yourself. You lock your front door to your house, not wanting random people to walk in off the street. Your energy field is the same.

Saying *No* is a developmental stage for children and if you never learned to say no, or struggle to say no, or your parents never set you any boundaries, then your energy field is often wide open. You are basically saying, all are welcome and come on in.

We are not in control of everything, as much as we would like to think we are, so thinking you don’t need to protect yourself because nothing would hurt you anyway, is spiritually naïve.

There are plenty of places we can visit in a day, the mall, the doctors office, the hospital, anywhere where other people congregate, perhaps even Church, and if your energy is bright then astral entities can hop over to your energy field and settle in.

I’m not talking about demonic stuff but just energy clutter. Energy you don’t need to be hanging onto in your aura.

As I do a lot of psychic and healing work, I have found by asking for protection from my Masters and Teachers to be of a higher vibration than of my Guides.

This is the prayer I say:
“Let the temples of love, light and truth descend, grow and expand, I request my Masters and Teachers, be with me for truth and accuracy to be obtained for the highest good of all, thank you, thank you, thank you.”

When I have finished doing my work I close down and say “This session is ended, please remove everything from my aura that doesn’t belong to me.”

When I feel like it during the day, and at the end of the day I say “Jesus, locate all the astral ties between me and anyone I have interacted with or thought about today. Cut and dissolve all of them now. Then fill everyone, who desires it, with love and light, power and peace.”

I had to go through a stage where I did healing around believing I wasn’t able to protect myself or be protected. Often times if you have been through abuse you don’t believe that either youre worthy of protection, or that it will work for you.

I also prefer saying prayers and asking for protection than visualising white light. I find it works better for me.

What do you use for spiritual protection?

There’s never enough money.

I don’t like to tell people that healing is a process and not an instant miracle because I believe in miracles and have had them happen in my life.

I can only offer suggestions on what has worked for me and for the clients who have chosen to share their experiences with me.

When I started my business I was running it off the smell of an oily rag. I scraped and scrimped and life was pretty hard, not having money to reinvest or take the courses I wanted to take. Working so hard meant I wasn’t able to work on myself as well.

I was obsessive about my business and it working, I didn’t like the alternative. I worked for peanuts as I would rather have lots of little amounts coming in than raising my prices and having to wait and wonder.

So aside from the practicalities of actually working a job, I made little steps along the way to increase my knowledge base and slowly started to work on myself doing healing.

The biggest shift with my financial abundance came the more I put myself out there. Every small step I took, even if it felt big to me, taking a risk with some kind of interaction in my business, or personal life, seemed to amp me up a notch with my income.

I believe in law of attraction but I also believe you have to make an effort yourself, you have to put yourself out there. After all money comes through people and if you have bad people skills, or don’t want to interact with people, how else is the money going to come your way?

You don’t have to be a social butterfly but are you willing to interact with people to achieve the results you desire financially? You have to be offering something in exchange for money. It doesn’t just fall out of the sky. You could win lotto, I have a friend who did, so I never discount that as a path, but it’s not really a realistic goal. I think its empowering to put your dreams into action.

I love what Mark Silver says at Heart of Business. There is giving and receiving, offering and taking. They all reflect some kind of flow. We prefer certain modes over another and often we fall into problems with some of these energies and our interaction with them. For example, I am offering readings on my site, and people are giving me money for that exchange, but I don’t really see myself as giving readings and I don’t see people as taking from me. So if I saw myself as giving readings and people receiving them, I’d feel so much better than me offering readings and people taking them. I like that energy exchange better. Thinking in this way does change how you feel about the inflow and outflow.

Of all the healings I am offering at the moment clearing the heart wall using the emotion code is the best modality I have found for clearing blocks to financial abundance. I felt like it cleared out a wall between me and the world, and opened me up to interacting more naturally with people, not feeling so walled up. The inwards and outwards flow is way better because of it and as money is an energy, it is reflected in that clearing. My income increased dramatically after I cleared the heart wall.

What step do you need to take to allow more money into your life?

The phrase alludes to the readiness and ability of physicians to heal sickness in others while sometimes not being able or willing to heal themselves. This suggests something of ‘the cobbler always wears the worst shoes’, i.e. cobblers are too poor and busy to attend to their own footwear. It also suggests that physicians, while often being able to help the sick, cannot always do so and, when sick themselves, are no better placed than anyone else. http://www.phrases.org.uk

A trip in an ambulance and a visit to the A&E dept has set me off on another avenue of healing. I had a nose bleed that wouldn’t stop and subsequently treated for high blood pressure, with medication. Some would say it’s not surprising living in Quake-ville, but I was told that my condition has been ongoing for some time. Of course I’ve had a lot of stress the past few years, but it’s deeper than that. I am off for a round of tests and specialists.

I felt a bit of a fraud, not being able to heal myself, and said I felt like the cobbler and his children. So just when I got my business to a point where I can relax, this happens.

I loved being tended to by doctors and nurses, after all they know what they’re doing and I am not about to go against what they have advised me. Being a medical phobe I kicked myself for being in such denial, but I was told I had caught it early and my nose bleed was a blessing in disguise.

I wondered how I am being confronted with cholesterol and diabetes checks, when I have a crazy healthy diet. My father and I are on a plant based diet, and I have the occasional meat and chicken. The ED doctor told me that as a species we have moved on beyond being plant based, and that my medication is plant based. Of course everything that came out of his mouth when I was morphined up made a lot of sense. Doctors have a lot of power in our society.

It got me thinking, so I offer all this healing for others, which works well, but do I really really believe I can help myself? I hoped I could when I had bugger all money to my name and wasn’t able to afford to see anyone, but now I’m better off, I can see other practitioners, afterall they can heal my blind spots that I can’t see.

But still, can I heal myself?

So I took to the Body Code by Dr Bradley Nelson and asked if there was an underlying reason for me believing that I wasn’t able to heal myself and cleared that. Then I focused on my blood pressure. I released an inherited trapped emotion that was from my father’s father’s father of helplessness. It wasn’t for a while later that I realised he had died in a house fire. Gee talk about hot blood. Then I cleared out a post hypnotic suggestion that was around Doctors telling me I don’t have the power to heal myself. All those off hand comments that really do affect you.

It’s hard to maintain my beliefs when faced with critical decisions, especially when I’m out of my comfort zone and not around like minded people. I wondered how I could incorporate both worlds, which I will do for a time while clearing out the emotional issues that contribute to my blood pressure.

I will look at other alternatives as well, but perhaps now’s the time to really believe in the healing that I do and put it to the test for myself.

I do believe that empathics brains are wired differently, but in saying that, I don’t feel we are victims, but we can work on the other underlying issues from our lives that have contributed to us *feeling* everything around us.

There are lots of different types of empathy, you can feel other peoples pain, you can sense global issues, you can pick up peoples health issues, or animals pain and more. I certainly had to work on this during the 16 months of earthquakes here in Christchurch, New Zealand.

I don’t think there’s a one fix fits all. And I don’t think its something you can heal in say 6 months time. I think it’s a lifelong quest. It’s a curse and a blessing at the same time.

I made a comment on facebook not so long ago about how certain spiritual protection doesn’t work for me. I have never been able to put white light around me and feel it works for me. I don’t notice any significant changes. I also didn’t feel I knew how to shield myself. I ask for divine protection and just trust it is there in my readings, but I don’t feel that protection in my personal life. It feels very ineffectual.

Then I got to thinking I could use the Emotion Code on what might be underlying not being able to feel this kind of protection. I detected just one trapped emotion that was inherited of self abuse. I cleared that and I instantly felt the need to clear a relationship from my life, one that didn’t make me feel good, and during that process I didn’t feel any of the other persons stuff that often made me plunge into overwhelm so as not to feel *everything*. I felt clear as if I had boundaries that were working for me.

I love that saying *If one of us has to feel bad, it doesn’t have to be me*. Feeling my stuff and others always had me feeling bad. And this was certainly true working on an issue of empathy that was keeping me stuck in an emotional state that kept me in a lowered state of self worth, feeling I wasn’t able to protect myself, but just having to put up with the way things were.

To find out more about the Emotion Code, visit http://www.katestrong.com/#Emotion

Essentially this system is designed to detect and correct underlying imbalances that contribute to issues in the body and energy system. By tapping into the body’s “lie detector” system, the identification of the underlying imbalances is speedy.

One of the leading causes of imbalances in the body is trapped emotions, and the Body Code incorporates this method also.

By tapping into the Subconcious mind we can affect the wellness of the energy field and thus the physical body.

In the Body Code, there are 6 categories of imbalance that can be corrected. These categories are:

• Circuitry – The organs, glands and muscles of our physical body.
• Energetic – Among other things these include trapped emotions.
• Pathogens – Fungal, Bacterial, Viral, mould and parasites.
• Nutritional – Food, herbs and nutrients.
• Structural – The bones, nerves, and connective tissue.
• Toxicity – Heavy metals, free radicals, chemicals and other environmental toxins.

There are also a number of other energetic issues that can be corrected through the Body Code system that may be contributing to a health or emotional issue. Issues like having an allergy to a thought or idea, having to move the past into the past where it belongs and connecting ones spirit to ones body and visa versa and more.

Through the use of muscle testing by proxy, I am able to apply the Body Code. It should be noted that there is no practitioners course yet for the Body Code and I am not a medical doctor. So please consult a medical doctor first.

For more information on sessions please visit http://www.katestrong.com/#Emotion