Terra Nova Healing Blog

This week I also created a Facebook page for my work.  I’m offering discounts on sessions and packages until the end of February 2010 when you join the page.  A regular $200 session is available for $120 and a package of 4 sessions, regularly $600 is now $400.  I’ll be offering more discounts and free sessions in the future and will be announcing them on the facebook page, so if you’d like to take advantage of that, you can join here:

www.facebook.com/TerraNovaHealing

A friend and I have been recently experimenting with having me do energy-readings on video.   This is the first one we’ve done:

Energy-Reading a Relationship Entanglement

I’ve been studying the Reggio Emilia approach to early learning since last year, after I did an energy-reading to find out about the differences between Waldorf, Montessori and Reggio Emilia.

One important component in the Reggio approach is its “image of the child”; the Reggio educators understand that the unconscious assumptions (both personal & societal) about childhood, about what a child is and is like, inform how people interact with children and define the limits of what it is possible for children to become. The teachers work to change themselves so they can see all children as strong, curious, competent, inventive, full of ideas and as having rights instead of needs. This resource-laden image is what enables the world famous Reggio schools in Italy to recognize, encourage and make visible to others, the creativity and brilliance inside each young child.

I believe that the unconscious assumptions held by professional “helpers” also affect their clients, and that it’s important to think about and deconstruct those assumptions. So influenced by Reggio, I’ve been thinking about my ‘image of the client’, and how it defines my healing work. I would say it includes an image of the client as:

• fundamentally innocent and worthy of love; they are provided for by virtue of being part of the web of life
• having an inner being or essence that is energetically accessible and is always informing and renewing them on multiple levels
• someone who functions within the matrix of their everyday environment and socio-cultural context; their perceptions and beliefs are shaped by this matrix.
• someone who’s struggles are important and mythical pieces of the collective knowledge building process
• someone who is always doing the best that they can, given their history, and all the internal and external structures/conditions they have to deal with
• someone who copes with more than they realize, who has more gifts and resources than they might recognize, and who’s unconscious wisdom is deeper than what’s commonly acknowledged
• a highly intelligent body/mind system that automatically produces the best balance possible, given the resources available (whether this is recognized or not)
• someone with their own unique connection to Source, who can consciously connect to Source by asking to be connected, and who can access that connection through loving dialogue with their body & inner perceptions

(BTW, this is not a complete list, just what’s occurring to me right now!)

I believe that we are creating the reality that we live, and that we can become more aware of where and how these life creation decisions are made. I never feel that a perceived “problem” is something to be ashamed of or something that is anyone’s “fault”. There is deep meaning in every challenging situation and it’s usually connected to collective issues in some way. A lot of the healing I do comes down to helping my clients increase their self-love and self-trust. Often this is done through integrating body/mind splits or reclaiming/restoring a core sense of innocence and innate value…once a certain sense of wholeness is in place, it allows them to bring through themselves the energies (and therefore the relationships, events and objects) they want to experience in life.