How to Spot a Healing Scam

          "Good things take time, as they should. We shouldn't expect good things to happen overnight. Actually, getting something easily or too soon can cheapen the outcome."                                                    ~ John Wooden, A Game Plan for Life

     Recently a reader reached out to me asking my opinion on whether a healing organization was legit. Perhaps you would also like to know more about how to spot a healing scam. 

     From my decades of experience working as an energy healing practitioner, and authoring two award-winning energy healing books, I personally would be leery of any organization or individual that...

• ...is organized around the healing abilities of a single person who is elevated to guru level or saint-like status. These can be personality cults promoting an idealized image of a healer.
• ...claims miraculous cures that they alone can provide.
• ...creates exclusivity by requiring one to become a financial donor to qualify for "advanced" membership for access to "elite" healing classes.
• ...has attracted a huge social media following through flashy pictures and trite messages with little substance behind it. 
• ...causes disempowerment by suggesting someone or something outside of yourself holds the power to heal you.
• ...claims their way is the only true path.
• ...sells objects or spells purported to have magical healing powers that require no action on your part. 
• ...incites fear and urgency over what will happen if you don't purchase their product or service.

     If you are suffering, the idea of a passive, miraculous cure can be very appealing. But the promise of miraculous healing is akin to a "get rich quick" scheme. Do people get rich quickly? Yes, if they win the lottery or their product goes viral -  both highly unlikely. Do people experience miracle cures? Yes, but that is also unlikely. Sometimes healing can happen in the form of a quantum jump -- a sudden leap from one state of being to another, with no discernible process in between. But usually a quantum jump occurs within the context of a longer process, similar to the saying, "It was an overnight success ten years in the making!" 

     Here are some basic premises of how healing works:

• Healing is a transformational process, not a destination.
• Healing is the process of shedding the lower self and shifting to your higher self - who you really are.
• Becoming your authentic self can be a lifelong process.
• Healing is governed by natural laws. 
• Healing occurs through consistent action over time.
• Healing unfolds in a safe space facilitated by a trusted guide.
• Healing works best when you are an active participant in the process.
• Healing happens from the inside-out when your natural inner healing forces are activated.
• Healing is a function of raising energetic frequency and enhancing energetic flow, which can require releasing belief patterns and self-concepts that disrupt your energy and lower your frequency. 
• Healing is a process that often includes exploring your shadow. 
• Your healing process is unique to you and may not look like the process of anyone else. 

Popularity Does NOT Equal Legitimacy!

     It is human nature to assume that if your friends and family members trust a certain person, organization or product -- then it must be legit. Peer pressure is real, a fact that scammers count on it.  It can be very challenging to NOT join in what others are flocking to. But what is drawing your friends and family to unscrupulous individuals and organizations can be an appeal to their lower self, or ego. 

     Developing your power of discernment by listening to your intuition is often a trial and error process. We learn from our mistakes. Many times in my life, people have recommended an individual, a program or a product that I didn't get a good feeling about. In each instance, something felt off, but I joined in anyway. Years later -- when these individuals, programs or products were exposed as not being who or what they claimed to be -- my initial intuition was validated. I have found one of the keys to happiness is trusting your gut instincts. Your instincts come through your higher self and help guide you to what is authentic and of a high vibration. 

      Healers are often highly sensitive empaths, and roughly 70% of sensitives are introverts. But even though the majority of healers (and writers) are introverted, they can be overlooked in favor of popular extroverts. Individuals and organizations that are popular don't necessarily offer higher quality, they are simply more successful at getting attention! If something feels off, trust that feeling. 

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Mountain Vortex: Energy Healing Guidance Oracle Cards Wins International Book Award

   “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

    "The answers you seek can be found through illumination and opening the unexpressed parts of yourself. Welcome whatever has been hidden with unconditional love, restoring the flow of energy to every part of your being." ~ Mountain Vortex: Energy Healing Guidance Oracle Cards Guidebook

                                        

      Mountain Vortex: Energy Healing Guidance Oracle Cards has been named Winner in the Health: Alternative Medicine category of the 2021 International Book Awards. Designed, written and published during the 2020 pandemic quarantine, Mountain Vortex is a 54-card oracle deck with guidebook inspired by a series of profound visions while meditating on Grandfather Mountain in Western N.C. This oracle deck was created to assist you in:

• developing your intuition
• actualizing your dreams
• raising your energetic frequencies associated with health and well-being

     The guidebook includes simple instructions on how to interpret the cards and utilize the powerful vortex energy of the Great Smoky Mountains for your own growth and healing. Let the spirit of the mountains assist you with messages that are supportive, wise, loving and empowering! View the trailer below:

     The International Book Awards honors excellence in both independent and mainstream publishing, giving readers confidence that indie titles like Mountain Vortex are comparable to traditionally-published titles from Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Penguin Random House and New World Library, among others. 

     

  Heidi DuPree, RN, ND is an internationally acclaimed author and energy healing entrepreneur. Holding degrees in both nursing and traditional naturopathy, Heidi lifts people around the world out of turmoil and into a higher vibration of peace and harmony through her award-winning books, oracle cards and guided meditations 

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4 Ways to Balance Your Fire Energy

     "...the destructive nature of fire acts as a mechanism of regeneration...melting our hearts to reseed our lives with new life." ~ Awaken Your Greater Health

     Fire energy is the energy of heat and passion. But when your fire energy is out of balance, you can have too much heat, or too little passion. When fire energy is suppressed, it can wreak internal havoc — or flare outward in anger and rage. Those who have been mistreated or abused have a tendency to fire energy imbalances. Suppressing fire energy can also create a deficiency where there is little energy or passion for life. 

     The signs that your fire energy is out of balance include: 

• inflammation
• anxiety
• sleep disturbances
• joylessness. 

     Excess fire can also cause dryness that disrupts:

• joint lubrication
• digestion 
• metabolism 

       Here are four ways to balance your fire energy: 

1. Movement. Any kind of body movement, dance or exercise helps move stagnant or suppressed fire energy — especially vigorous movement that involves shaking of the body, and moving to “fiery” music. A relaxing meditation with deep breathing after physical activity helps reset the system that caused the excess fire. 
2.  Adventure. Any adventurous activity that involves exploring something new and inspiring helps move excess fire energy, or restore deficient fire. 
3.  Creativity. Creative activities use up excess fire energy as fuel. For example, fire energy can be expressed through a piece of art, music or writing. 
4.  Flame. You can work with fire energy imbalances by working with actual fire! I build small fires in a fire-proof container and send my excess fire into it to be transmuted in the flame. I burn slips of paper with affirmations for myself and my loved ones. Alchemy is the process of changing energy from one state to another, and fire is a tool of alchemy. Working with fire initiates the alchemical process. If your fire is deficient, you can intentionally draw the energy of a candle flame into your energy systems as you draw in each breath.

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How to Heal Shame and Work with Your Shadow

     "The problem of secret stories surrounded by shame is that they cut a woman off from her instinctive nature.  ...draw out the secret, for it makes a wound that will not heal until the matter is given words and witness." ~  Clarissa Pinkola Estes, PhD, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

   "The body can encapsulate and isolate the effects of trauma for years, but doing so requires a lot of energy." ~ The Other Medicine That Really Works 

      If you are a highly sensitive person, an empath, and/or a lightworker.... likely you are experiencing ascension symptoms as you upgrade to higher frequency energy. This is happening to all of us who feel called to make the world a better place.  Because these upgrades in your energy systems facilitate and actualize your life purpose.

   As we grow, evolve and ascend, we can become aware of what we have repressed and hidden in the shadow, namely that which causes us to feel shame.

The Energetic Frequency of Shame

   According to the "Scale of Human Consciousness" (page 25 of Awaken Your Greater Health), which was derived from Power Vs Force by David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.,  shame has the lowest vibration of all consciousness states. On a scale of 0 to 1,000, with 200 and above being within the frequency of empowerment, shame vibrates at 20! It is a vibration that is incompatible with health. Some of the sickest clients I have ever worked with vibrated predominantly in shame.

   The feeling of being at such a low frequency is just plain awful.  It makes us feel bad about ourselves and broken. It can make us feel raw, vulnerable, exposed, and angry. It can make us want to crawl in a hole. The feeling of shame is almost unbearable. And we will do just about anything to avoid it.

     To keep from feeling it, we will hide it from our consciousness and encapsulate it in an energy "cyst." But keeping the energy of shame encapsulated is exhausting. And it makes it difficult to heal. Because when it is hidden from our consciousness, it becomes a secret.

    Keeping a secret hidden takes a toll. The energy cyst creates energetic disruption, like a boulder in the middle of a stream disrupts the flow of water. Even if we are unaware of what is in the shadow, we feel the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual symptoms of energetic disruption:

• feeling tired or exhausted
• feeing disconnected and alone
• pain or discomfort
• tension or tightness
• Feeling triggered with negative emotions like anxiety, anger, sadness
• repetitive negative thoughts
• health issues

The Woman with Hair of Gold

      To understand the nature of healing shame, let's take a look at the archetypal story of the The Woman with Hair of Gold, which you can read in Women Who Run With the Wolves. This is a story of a woman with hair like spun gold who lived alone in the woods. When a local brute tried to coerce her into marriage, she appeased him by giving him some of her hair. But when he tried to use the hair as currency in the marketplace, the locals ridiculed him. In a rage, the man killed the woman and buried her body near a river.

     Although no one noticed her passing, her hair continued to grow even after her death. It came up through the ground in beautiful spiraling curls, eventually creating a field of golden reeds. The shepherds cut the reeds, making them into flutes. With the flutes they sang about the woman with the golden hair who was murdered and buried there. And because they sang the truth, her murderer was brought to justice and safety was restored.

   As in all symbolic stories, a well as our nighttime dreams, every aspect of the story represents a part of us:

• The marketplace locals represent the situations that trigger a feeling of shame. 
• The brute is the part of us that feels rage for being shamed.
• The hair represents our spirit, the part that can never die. Even when we have been silenced and our energy disrupted, our spirit remains untouched at our core. 
• The appeasement represents how we barter our life force by giving away our energy to people please. 
• The murder represents how we kill off our vitality when we hide and bury our shame. It also symbolizes the silencing of ourselves and the divine feminine. 
• The absence of inquiry after the woman's disappearance represents our unconsciousness in hiding our secret shame. When we bury our shame, it becomes hidden from our consciousness and we are unaware of its existence. Therefore we do not inquire about it. 
• The lack of inquiry about the woman's disappearance also represents the devaluing of the divine feminine. It symbolizes the diminishment and marginalization of women in a society where they are seen as expendable.  We internalize this by devaluing ourselves. 
• The hair turning into reeds represents our transformation from one state of being to another.
• The reeds becoming flutes represent the part of us that transforms and becomes a vehicle for expression. The reeds becoming flutes are the part of us that has a voice to speak the truth.
• The justice represents the restoration of our balance and harmony when the shameful secret is voiced. 

Shadow Work

     To begin to heal shame, we need to raise our energetic frequency from 20 to 200. On the Scale of Human Consciousness, 200 represents the threshold of empowerment. It is also the frequency of courage. To heal, we need to find the courage to shine a light on the hidden shame and look at it. To heal we need the courage to express what we find in the shadow.  In the shadow is what we have disowned, what we believe is unacceptable...what we have hidden in the darkness. We know it’s there because of the triggers.

     Upon finding courage to look below the surface at what is causing the triggers, we can take ourselves to even higher energetic frequencies by unconditionally loving and accepting ourselves.  On the Scale of Human Consciousness, acceptance has a frequency of 350, and love has a frequency of 500.

    You do NOT have to accept the shame, or the circumstances surrounding the shame. Simply accept YOU. You are not your shame. You are an acceptable person experiencing unacceptable shame. This is a very important distinction. By accepting YOU, even in a state of shame, you raise your energetic frequency from 20 to 350! By loving YOU, even in a state of shame, you raise your energetic frequency from 20 to 500!

Healing Affirmations

     Here are some healing affirmations to say out loud to help you heal shame and what is in your shadow.

     Even though I am experiencing shame, I have the courage to take a deep breathe and voice what I'm ashamed about, even if only to myself.

     Even though I find my shame and the circumstances around the shame unacceptable,  I am always an acceptable person. 

     Even though I am experiencing shame, I send unconditional love to the part of me that is feeling ashamed. 

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Healing Sacred Symbolism: The Meaning of Crow, Snake and Spider

     "When an animal or a symbol of that animal shows up to you in an unusual way or repeatedly, it's most definitely trying to convey a message from the spirit world to you."  ~ Steven D. Farmer, PhD., Animal Spirit Guides

     Several times a week I see a social media post from someone frightened about a dream, vision, or life experience involving an animal -- usually a crow, snake or spider. They are frightened because they think this is a bad omen. And this belief is often affirmed by others in the comments.

     These sacred animal symbols are spiritual signs that raise our energetic frequency and help us awaken to our higher self.  But when we have a fearful response, it has the opposite effect. Fear lowers our energetic frequency and blocks us from receiving the message. Let's take a look at why these symbols known as sacred to the ancients are now so frequently seen as negative.

Disconnected from Ancient Wisdom

    For 2,000 years, humans have lived in a culture of domination. In this abusive culture, our sacred symbols were subverted to inject fear into the population. Because a population in fear is disempowered and easier to control and dominate.  It's not just animal symbols that became negative under the influence of this culture of domination. The ancient divine feminine and divine masculine symbols were also changed to demonic in nature.

    For example, Isis is an ancient Egyptian goddess symbolizing magic, fertility, motherhood, and rebirth. But the name ISIS has now been co-opted by a terrorist group. In another example, the ancients knew Medusa as the goddess of the sacred serpent. But her meaning was changed to a monster who had to be defeated by chopping her head off.

    Manufacturing fear is a form of spiritual abuse that has disconnected us from our lineage of sacred symbols that communicate wisdom through the ages. We need to reconnect to receive the messages that empower us all.

    Let's examine the three most commonly misunderstood sacred animal symbols that may appear in your nighttime dreams, your daytime visions, or in your life.

The Meaning of Crow

     A client once requested a session with me to help her process a terrifying incident with a crow. As she got into her car in a shopping center parking lot, a crow landed on the hood of her car. Because she had a belief that crows are ominous and a "bad" sign, she became frightened. The crow flew alongside the car as she drove away, cawing loudly. He repeatedly attempted to land on her sideview mirror and flapped his wings in front of her windshield. This sent her into a panic. Rather than recognizing that crow was delivering a message, she interpreted it as an attack.

     When crow sensed she was not getting the message, he persisted by following her car. He had an important message to deliver.  And it's clear he took his mission seriously! Unfortunately this amazing experience was misinterpreted and experienced as terrifying. But perhaps that WAS the message. Crow may have been calling attention to her need to move beyond her fear of sacred animal symbolism.

     Crows are one of the most intelligent species on Earth. They are thought to be as intelligent as a 7 year old human child. A crow can recognize faces and communicate information to other crows. They even use twigs as tools!

   Fear of crows may originate in their ability to warn of danger. They will caw loudly to warn animals that a hunter is in the woods. And we may think that crow is warning us of death or danger if he appears in our dreams and visions. But crows are magical! Crow foretells of change and success coming regarding something that you have worked for. Crow caws to remind us to stay awake and aware so we can receive other signs that guide us. And crow signals us to let go of what no longer serves us.

     Shortly after my daughter got married several years ago, I was watching the videotape of the outdoor ceremony when I noticed something unusual. During the exact moments that my husband was walking our daughter down the isle toward her groom, there were three distinct crow caws, with a pause after each one. The rest of the ceremony was silent. When I heard the crow caws in the recording, my eyes filled with tears. Crow had bestowed a blessing on my daughter's wedding day.

   If crow shows up in your life or in your dreams or visions, know that a rebirth may be at hand. And whatever crow may be warning you about is something for your highest good!

The Meaning of Snake

     Another commonly misunderstood animal symbol is snake. Humans have a natural fear of snakes. Likely even looking at the picture below may make you uneasy! We all have this self-protective instinct, because a snake can potentially kill you - if venomous. But many snakes are harmless. And a snake that appears in your dreams or visions is mystical!

     In Native American spirituality, "snake medicine" is very powerful medicine. It is the medicine that comes through initiation. The difficult circumstances of our lives are like snake bites. But through these snake bites we learn to transmute the "poison" of our challenging life circumstances. We learn this through a succession of death and rebirth cycles. In Awaken Your Greater Health I wrote, "In these cycles we let go and let die the aspects of the small self as we outgrow and shed them, just as the snake sheds its skin as it grows. Then we are reborn into greater states of health and well-being."

     The appearance of snake in your life, visions or dreams may indicate you are a person with snake medicine. According to authors Jamie Sams and David Carson in Medicine Cards: The Discovery of Power Through the Ways of Animals, "Snake medicine people are very rare. This is heavy magic, but remember, magic is no more than a change in consciousness."

     Have you experienced a series of difficult and challenging life circumstances? These may have served as your spiritual initiation to higher levels of consciousness. And that higher level of consciousness may be required for you to fulfill your life purpose.

The Meaning of Spider

     Another animal we humans naturally fear are spiders. Like some species of snake, some spiders can indeed kill you. Although most are poisonous, many are no more harmful to a human than an insect bite. When spider appears in your life, dreams, or visions... it is not to scare you, but to deliver a wonderful message!

     Spider symbolizes infinite creativity. Her body looks like a figure eight... the infinity symbol. Through spider we learn that creativity comes through balancing masculine and feminine, the past and the future, and the physical and spiritual. Spider is also associated with language, and the primordial letters and symbols that first formed language. Those who have spider medicine are able to weave magic with the written word.

    The spider web represents the illusion we can become caught in, the illusion of the lower self, also known as the small self, or ego. Once caught in this illusion, it can be difficult to wake up and see your way out. If spider webs appear in your dreams, visions, or in your life, spider may be drawing your attention to how you are entangled in the illusions of the material, physical world, which needs to be balanced with the spiritual world. It may be a signal to awaken your spirit and ascend to a higher level of consciousness.

     For 20 years I practiced energy healing in a basement office. One year the basement spiders seemed out of control. Each morning when I prepared my work space for the day, I'd have to clear away the new spider webs that were spun overnight. Not only were these webs forming inside the basement, but they were forming outside the basement entrance as well, blocking client access with large webs! I finally realized that spider was delivering a message. That message, along with other messages I received led to writing two books and moving my practice online, decisions that represented a quantum leap in how I work with energy.

Healing Sacred Symbolism

     The turmoil you see in the world and in your life are a sign of the great turning.  We live in a time when the tide is beginning to turn from fear to love; from disempowered to empowered. More and more people are awakening to live from their higher self. And reclaiming our sacred symbols is part of this great awakening.

     If an animal crosses your path, or appears in your visions or dreams -- regardless if it is a cute, furry mammal or a scaly, cold-blooded reptile -- investigate the meaning. Get the book Animal Spirit Guides, or Ted Andrews' Animal Speak and look it up. Or meditate on the symbol to find your own meaning.

      Each one of us can play a role in the healing of sacred symbolism. Choose animal symbol meanings that empower you, not fearful meanings that disempower you. And share this information to enlighten those who may be frightened.  Let's spread love, light and empowerment!

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5 Signs You Are Experiencing Clairaudience

     "When you approach intuitive methods with respect, you become open to hearing from your interior channels."   ~ Caroline Myss, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

     My ears have been highly sensitive since I was a child. When classroom noises got too loud, I would shut down -- clasping my hands over my ears and cringing. I can remember my 5th grade teacher, Mrs Fox, asking the children to pipe down because, "You are hurting Heidi's ears!" Children with sensory issues are children with sensory gifts.

     As an adult, I became aware that this sensitivity was an indication that I am clairaudient.  Clairaudience is the ability to hear voices, music or sounds that have no physical source. I now use my gift of intuitive hearing every day in my personal life and professional life.

     Here are 5 categories of signs that YOU are experiencing the gift of clairaudience.

1.  Voices.  Have you ever thought you heard someone call your name? Or thought you heard someone talking, but no one was there? Have you ever heard someone's thoughts in your mind, as if you were reading their mind? These are all clairaudient experiences.

     Clairaudients also tend to talk to themselves, holding both sides of a conversation. But who they are actually having a conversation with is their higher self, or spiritual guidance. Your higher self and spirit are one in the same. Click HERE to learn more about how to distinguish inner voices that are higher self from inner voices that are lower self.

2.  Music. Have you ever heard a song playing in your mind that seemed random -- a song you may not have heard in years? The lyrics to that song may contain the answer to an issue you are currently dealing with. Or have you ever had a question in your mind, and then a song came on the radio with lyrics that answered your question?

     Not only do clairaudients receive messages through music, but they are powerfully moved by music. This is because the frequencies of harmonic music help us access deeper parts of ourselves. Music quiets the logical left brain, which allows the intuitive right brain to become dominant.  The same thing happens when you are asleep. This is why clairaudient musical messages are more likely to come through when you are asleep, or as you are waking up. Clairaudients also tend to be musically-inclined. They can have the ability to play an instrument "by ear," or compose music from what they intuitively hear in their mind.

3.  Insights.  Not only do clairaudients receive insights for themselves through their intuitive hearing, but they intuitively know just the right thing to say to others, when they are in their higher self. A friend or family member may tell you how helpful and crucial your insightful advice was, years after the fact! Yet you may not even remember giving that advice. You may not remember because intuitive insights flow through you, rather than coming from you.

4.  Sensitivities. Clairaudients have sensitive hearing, as I described above. Noises that are loud and have chaotic frequencies disrupt the energy system of clairaudients. These disruptive sounds can leave you feeling overwhelmed, irritated, drained and exhausted. They can also create physical symptoms, like a headache. This sensitivity can increase over time, as clairaudient abilities expand. Sounds that previously weren't bothersome can suddenly become intolerable.

    Individuals with the gift of clairaudience also need lots of "down" time that includes quiet. Auditorily-sensitive persons especially respond to being outside. The energetic frequencies of the sounds of nature (crickets, birds, breezes, flowing water, etc) are harmonizing, centering, grounding and rejuvenating.
 
5.  High-Pitched Squealing Sounds. Have you ever wondered what it means when you hear a high-pitched squealing sound or ringing in your ear? It's a sign that you have clairaudience, and that your gift is opening and expanding. To learn more, read my post: 5 Signs That Hearing High-Pitched Frequencies is Spiritual Awakening. 

    Individuals who experience clairaudience are often empaths. Click HERE to find out if you are an empath. We are ALL intuitive. But empaths often need to develop their intuitive gifts such as clairvoyance, and clairaudience for use in their lightworker life purpose. Click HERE to find out if you are a lightworker. And click HERE to discover more about YOUR life purpose.

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Is Intuitive Counseling Right For You?

       "Each of us, as we journey through life, has the opportunity to find and to give his or her unique gift. Whether this gift is quiet or small in the eyes of the world does not matter at all -- not at all; it is through the finding and giving that we may come to know the joy that lies at the center of both the dark times and the light."  ~ Helen Luke,  The Way of Woman: Awakening the Perennial Feminine  

     Are you feeling confused or stuck in life? Are you a highly sensitive or highly creative person who feels misunderstood and seeks to go beyond a mental understanding of your issues? Are you interested in getting to the root of what troubles you through an intuitive approach? Are you willing to connect with deeper aspects of yourself? If so, you may want to try intuitive counseling.

Intuitive Counseling

     Intuitive counseling is a modality that can be found in a traditional psychotherapy practice, an energy healing practice, a life coaching practice, or any practice in which the practitioner accesses intuitive information for the benefit of the client. But how each individual practitioner connects with their intuitive gifts and conducts a session may vary.

     Some intuitive counselors make an initial connection with the client through some questions and prayers, and then close their eyes for the remainder of the session while they "channel" intuitive information -- with little or no verbal interaction with the client. Channeling is the act of serving as a conduit through which intuitive information flows through for the highest good. Other intuitive counselors use more verbal interaction. But rather than just "talking about" issues, an intuitive counselor tracks and reads the underlying energy patterns, and channels wisdom and practical steps for the individual to work with their issues.

Interactive Energy

     I used intuitive counseling in a very interactive way. This is because it was during the back and forth verbal dialogue I had with clients that I accessed my intuition. When a client answered my questions, I heard an intuitive response to what they were saying (clairaudience), as well as intuitive guidance for follow-up questions. I also felt a response to their answers in my body (clairsentience), and saw words or images (clairvoyance). This intuitive information showed me the nature of the client's energy patterns and the wounds that formed those patterns.

     When I sensed a disruption in their energy flow or a drop in their energetic frequency -- at the moment they spoke about a core limiting belief, I paid close attention to their words and encouraged further exploration in that direction.  I also used energy-based techniques to correct the disruptions in the moment, as well as approaches the client could use on their own after the session.

Staying In Your Body

     I have found that it is a challenge for individuals to stay in their bodies while they are talking. This is a common issue for many Westerners who often function primarily on the mental level. However, this "overly mental" state causes disconnection from the spiritual, emotional and physical. And we need to be connected with all that we are for optimal health and well-being.

     An intuitive counselor can detect when a client is not in their body and guide them back to their natural mental-emotional-physical-spiritual oneness. The intuitive counseling session can become the perfect opportunity to practice staying in the body while speaking. And then the client can integrate the experience of being in their body into their everyday life.

Connecting With Your Gifts

    We all have gifts, and a purpose related to those gifts. And our gifts are closely associated with our wounds. Intuitive counseling can help us work with our wounds, and reveal the connection to our gifts. When we lean into the pain of our wounds, we access our deeper selves, our compassion, and our spirit...all the parts of us that we need to manifest our purpose.

Healing in the Moment

     Healing happens in the present moment, so an intuitive counselor does not need much information about a client before the session. There's generally no need for a pre-session consultation, or to fill out a lengthy "client information" form.

     In my past work as an intuitive counselor, I preferred to avoid forming any preconceived ideas about a client's issues or what would work best for them.  I knew that all the energy and intuitive information required for their healing process at that moment would unfold in the moment.  

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Two Body-Mind-Spirit Books Win International Soul-Bridge Awards

     "The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the one which makes you think."
~ Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

      Awaken Your Greater Health: How Energy Medicine Opens the Way to Healing has been named Winner in the 2017 International Body-Mind-Spirit Soul-Bridge Book Awards of Europe in the Spiritual Healing - Subtle Healing - Energy Healing category.  Published in 2015, Awaken Your Greater Health has won numerous book awards, including a 2015 Nautilus Book Award, a 2016 Readers' Favorite Book Award, and a 2017 Independent Press Award. Discover your true source of power, health and happiness through this road map that guides you out of the turmoil to where greater energies can rule your life!

    The Other Medicine That Really Works: How Energy Medicine Can Help You Heal in Body, Mind and Spirit has been named Award-Winning Finalist in the 2017 International Body-Mind-Spirit Soul-Bridge Book Awards of Europe in the Alternative Healing - Holistic Therapies category. Published in 2013, The Other Medicine That Really Works has won numerous book awards, including a 2016 Readers' Favorite Book Award, and a 2017 John E Weaver Excellent Reads Book Award. This comprehensive guide to a healing way of life will show you the key to radiant health and joy. You will never see medicine or healing the same way again!

     The International Body-Mind-Spirit Soul-Bridge Book Awards of Europe were created to honor and bring focus to books that embody excellence and convey a valuable spiritual message to the world.  Founders Dr. Beatrix Czeizel and Aniko Gresko consider it very important to "form soul bridges all over the world - to bring together great thinkers, spiritual teachers, healers, writers and great artists into a virtual sanctuary to share our knowledge, understanding, and the helping tools which we can all give to our world that is now in desperate need."

    Much gratitude goes to the entire team and jury at the International Body-Mind-Spirit Soul-Bridge Book Awards of Europe for this honor and their well wishes of success!

    Heidi DuPree is an award-winning author, holistic nurse, Certified Traditional Naturopath,  and transformational entrepreneur with a deep appreciation of nature, a passion for knowledge and a mission to challenge how we think of medicine. She is the founder of the DuPree School of Energypathy Healing®, an online school that offers courses to highly sensitive and creative women who wish to master their energy, and programs leading to certification in Energypathy Healing®.

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5 Transformational Benefits of Energy Healing

       "The body is a self-healing organism, so it's really about clearing things out of the way so the body can heal itself."  ~ Barbara Brennan, Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field

     Energy healing is any energy-based modality that has a therapeutic effect on the state of your energy. And the state of your energy determines the state of your health and well-being. Healing energy flows from practitioner to client to clear disruptions, enhance energy flow, and raise energetic frequency in the client's energy systems. This energy flow occurs whether the practitioner has their hands on the client's body, hands off the client's body, or if energy is being sent from a distance. 

     The affix path comes from a Greek word meaning suffering. For example, an empath is an individual who can perceive suffering in others. And Naturopathy is the practice of relieving suffering through natural means. Energypathy Healing® is the use of energy to transform suffering into blessings, abuse into abundance, and betrayal into upgrade. Energypathy Healing® is a unique blend of healing philosophies and principles that draws from many different disciplines. It is a modality that utilizes divine feminine energy and facilitates a transformative process through which "victim" becomes goddess. 

     Energypathy Healing® activates your healing process - but where that process takes you can be unexpected! Healing isn't about eradicating disease and illness symptoms. It's a process that can revolutionize your life!  

     Here are 5 transformational benefits of Energypathy Healing®:

1. Self-Discovery. When we experience the process of healing, sometimes we have dreams of extra, new rooms in our house that they never knew were there. In the dreams we may be very surprised that a house we've lived in for years could have unknown rooms. This dream symbol is a metaphor for discovering parts of ourselves that have actually always been there. We just weren't aware of them until they were revealed in the process of healing. This is the process of awakening. These undiscovered parts often include intuitive gifts such as clairvoyance and clairaudience. 

2. Remembering Your Wholeness.  This process of self discovery helps us live from our true selves - not our conditioning or our wounds. No matter what has happened to us,  our spirit cannot be damaged. We are whole and complete always and forever.  Energy healing helps us live from our inherent wholeness by helping us awaken to the truth of who we are - our spirit, or "higher self." 

3. Becoming a Fully-Conscious Healing Presence. Energypathy Healing® facilitates living from your higher self  -- the part of you that is generous, loving, wise, secure, open-minded and open-hearted. When we live from our higher self, we naturally become a presence of healing in the world regardless of what we do for a living. This is because when we are fully awake, aware and conscious -- our high energetic frequency is beneficial to everyone we are connected to.  The benefit to others is not necessarily what you "do" - it is a state of being. 

4. Connecting With Your Life Purpose. When you discover who you really are -- your higher self --  your unique path and purpose in life is revealed. This happens because Energypathy Healing® clears energetic disruptions and raises energetic frequency. When your energetic frequency is high, anything in your life that was low frequency tends to fall away. This can include relationships, jobs and material possessions. And then the path forward becomes more clear. 

5. Revolutionizing Your Health, Relationships and Career.  The outcome of this transformational, self-discovery process is enhanced health, relationships and career.  When you live your life from your higher self -- everything can change!  

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5 Reasons to Stop People Pleasing

 "Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you." ~ Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love

      If you are a fan of the Sex and the City series, you may remember one of the final episodes when Carrie Bradshaw (played by Sarah Jessica Parker) makes the decision to quit her job as a newspaper columnist and move to Paris with "the Russian."  And then came the questions. Her friends bombarded her with:

       "Where are you going to live?"
        "What are you going to do?"
       "You can't just give up your life!"

     When Carrie grew tired of the questions, she exclaimed, "I can't stay single for you!"  She could just as easily have said "I can't stay small for you!"

Breaking Free of Living Small

     Although our friends and loved ones say they want what's best for us, what they really want is what they think is best for them. They want us to live small so they won't feel so uncomfortable about their own choice to live small.  Or they don't want us to change, because those changes disrupt their status quo. They may ask, "Why can't things stay the same?" Or, "Why can't we go back to the way we were?" And sometimes we do just that, live small to please others - so we won't feel guilty and won't make others feel uncomfortable.  But doing so serves no one.

     In 2015, my daughter made a big decision. She took a leave of absence from her job to hike the Pacific Crest Trail, a 2,600 mile trail through the Western U.S., from the Mexican border to Canada. And then the questions started:

     "You're hiking all that way alone?"
     "Aren't you worried about your safety?"
     "How can you leave your job and just hike for 5 months?"
     "Why are you doing this?"

      I have to admit I had a few questions of my own. I am human, after all!  And it wasn't easy for her to let go of people pleasing to live big-- especially when that choice caused people she cared about to feel distress.

Letting Go of People Pleasing

   Here are 5 reasons to let go of people pleasing.

1. Living small. When we make life choices based on what would please others, we live from a small part of ourselves.
2. Disempowered. When we live a smaller version of ourselves to please others, we give our power away to those we want to please.
3. Compromised health. This disempowered state disrupts energy flow and decreases energetic frequency, which directly impacts our health.
4. Life interrupted. Every person on this planet has a unique life purpose that only they can fulfill. While there is no deadline to your purpose, when you live to please others your movement on your unique life path is interrupted.
5. Inspire others: When we make life choices based on what is in our highest good, we inspire others. In choosing to live big and hike the Pacific Crest Trail despite the the fears of others, my daughter inspired everyone she is connected to, to live big as well. If we all live big, we change the world!

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3 Signs That You Are a Lightworker

  "A lightworker is anyone who devotes their life to being a bright life in the world." 
 ~ Rebecca Campbell, Light is the New Black

     You may have heard the terms HSP (highly sensitive person), empath, and lightworker and wondered what they mean. Although individuals often have these three traits together, they each mean something different. An HSP is usually an introvert, and is highly sensitive to sensory stimuli. An empath, though also sensitive, can be either an introvert or an extrovert, and has the distinction of absorbing the negative emotions of others.

     Lightworkers are often empathic, but not all empaths are lightworkers. The difference is this: An empath is sensitive to the emotions of others, and feel those emotions as if they were their own, while a lightworker is sensitive to energies and feels a calling to heal. Most empaths have a lightworker life purpose that involves healing others, but not all.

     Here are 3 distinct signs common to lightworkers:

1. Loss and upheaval.  Many lightworkers have experienced harsh childhoods, challenging life circumstances and abusive experiences that serve as a catalyst for their own awakening, ascension and healing. This upheaval can involve the loss of a job, loss of a relationship, loss of one's health, or some other life crisis.

2. Sensitive to energies.  Lightworkers often have psychic or intuitive experiences with instances of premonition. These can come in the form of visions (clairvoyance), auditory experiences (clairaudience), gut feelings (clairsentience), or "knowings" (claircognizance). These experiences often include instances of serendipity, synchronicity and "coincidences." Consciously or not, lightworkers can read and sense energy.

3. Affinity for healing. Lightworkers feel a calling to heal, whether that is healing of social or environmental problems, healing of animals, or healing of people. This can take the form of hands on healing, writing, teaching, counseling, creating music or art, or engaging in advocacy. Whether this affinity for healing is through the use of the hands, words,  voice, or the energy imbued in a work of art or a piece of music -- if it is done with the intention of healing for the highest good, it becomes a force for healing. This calling to heal begins with self healing, because in order for a lightworker to help others heal, they must heal themselves first.

     We live in an upside-down world where most people operate from the smallest, most fearful part of themselves, rather than their true source of power, health and happiness - their higher self. Lightworkers are here to heal this imbalance in the world. But when you are completely surrounded by people who value material over spiritual, it's easy to get lost and forget your life mission.  Lightworkers need to come together to support one another.

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