I was just on the radio with the lovely Leslie Irish Evans of Peeling Mom Off the Ceiling, talking about how to use a simple technique to change your emotional state in as little as five minutes.

Listen in to hear about my background and stay for the demo of Emotional Freedom Technique.

Check it out to hear me talk about energy work, the voices inside our heads, and the one thing we’re always trying to get more of.

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You may even discover a story that was hiding out in your body, or meet a spirit guide while on the table.

This work is done fully clothed and I use little to no physical touch.

My clients always come out of the energy work sessions feeling relaxed, grounded, and more joyful!

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No, that’s not the voice of the toddler in the next apartment. It’s the voice of one of my inner children this morning.

(Yes, I said “one of” and if you want to know more about my theoretical frame of reference, go check out more about Internal Family Systems.)

So what was I doing that was bringing up so much resistence from an inner child?

I was trying to create an elevator pitch for my therapy niche (for those who don’t know marketing speak, read that as “trying to make up a mini-speech to explain exactly what I do and for whom”). Not exactly an emotional task, at least on the surface of things.

So there I am with my peer and collaborator, trying to set this resistence aside so I can brainstorm, but my throat is closing up and I am breathing in measured breaths, trying not to cry from frustration and whatever is under the surface.

What did I do?

First of all, thank god for my collaborator, Dina, because EVERY healer needs a healer, and she’s one of mine. And she held the space for me to check in with that freaked out kid inside of me. When I did, I found out that this little one was scared because I was facing some unexpected change in my business focus. She was scared because in her world, stuck at age six, change means divorce and a big move to another state.

So I took her hand and soothed her, after crying with her, natch. And I asked if she’d like to be updated to the place and time I exist in now. She was all for it, so I visualized all the years since her time period, and man, she loved seeing me in college and beyond, in a time when I finally had some say-so in my life circumstances. She wanted to feel a time where she gets to be in charge of any decisions that involve change. And she’s with me here now.

The setup for this story isn’t an uncommon one. We all encounter some type of inner tension when we confront a change in our life. But boy, this way of working with and healing the resistence is something I wanted to share here. Because what could’ve taken weeks to integrate got resolved in half an hour today.

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It’s nearly impossible to explain what energy work is to someone who has never experienced it. Much like gravity, which must have been hard to explain in the 1600s, body-related energy is something we experience but have little awareness of, or language for.

When I had my first energy work session, I was really skeptical, torn between trying not to laugh and hoping that something would have an effect on the pain I was experiencing. In my experience, it doesn’t “look” like or feel like much of anything is happening. But after that session, I felt good enough to think that it was worth trying again. I saw my energy healer for several months and had some very powerful results, including the release of pain from some early childhood memories.

Even after those experiences, though, when someone tried to tell me that I was an energy healer, I thought, “yeah, right!” I still had difficulty believing in the concept of energy work—I’d accepted that maybe it existed for others and it might’ve helped me, but not that it was so real that I would be a practitioner of it.

Embracing my path toward becoming a healer was not an easy one, but after a year, now I’m the one trying to help others understand what energy healing is. And I sympathize with those who tried to explain it to me.

Energy healing is not something that is done with words or with the mind, so it’s nearly impossible to translate it into words that the mind can comprehend. I can say it’s very metaphorical work, non-linear, and incredibly powerful. My clients can feel pain or heat or chills moving through the parts of their body that I put my hands over.

And I can’t tell you why. I can give you my guesses—that I am connected to Spirit (as we all are, but often forget), that I hold infinite love and compassion in my heart for myself and everyone I work with, that I know that whatever happens is bigger than me and my client.

The best metaphor I can come up with is that I am not the water that is cleansing my client’s energy; I am merely the garden hose.

The idea that we are influenced, hindered, and helped by things we haven’t yet been able to understand is a very ancient one. It’s an idea we’re not always comfortable with in this age of heart transplants, quantum physics, and nanotechnology. But the uncomfortable, ultimately comforting truth remains:

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”