IDENTITY, SUICIDALITY AND SMOKING Crisis An very agitated acquaintance rung me one evening, asking me to urgently call and persuade her friend, whom I shall call Rob, to come to see me immediately instead of driving off the cliff. He had just mentioned such intention to another friend and given her a farewell letter to his mother. I managed to convince Rob to come to see me straight away and worked with him until late. He had experienced a major midlife crisis in the last few years, since he came to live in Australia, while his migrant status was yet to be resolved on the basis of a de-facto relationship, which had just broken up. Energy reading and healing I told Rob that I would sense, read and heal the energy patterns in his body and aura. Those patterns, which I identified as his ex-girlfriend's and her mother's negative projections, have been very suppressive of his own life energy, would have induced his disassociation from his normal self, and thus contributed to his intention to commit suicide. Feeling greatly relieved mentally, emotionally and physically by my independent psychic insight into and validation of his situation and inner state, Rob felt free to tell me about his greatest fear that made him suicidal, which he did not dare mention to anyone else. He believed that he was rapidly becoming insane. It was due to his sensing and intuitively knowing the same as I found out by reading his energy, while his ex-girlfriend and her mother convinced him that it was only due to his paranoia. By believing them more than his own self, he lost all trust in his inherently healthy identity, became hopeless and saw the solution only in ending his own life. Congruent with the saying, ‘truth will set you free,’ the projected energy patterns that have been weighing Rob down dissipated from my reading. He felt again like his normal self, much lighter and brighter, while his fear of insanity vanished for good. It was as though my energy reading unearthed him not only from under the rubble of his broken relationship, but of all his conditioning that made him mistrust his own inner truth. By the end of our first session Rob was ready to start a new chapter in his life. He continued having healing with me until he resolved his migrant status. Smoking Since then we kept in touch socially. Several years later he told me that I have made him stop smoking, without either withdrawal problems or a relapse. I said, “But I did not even know that you have been a smoker!” He told me that he had been smoking since his teenage, and for about five years prior to started healing with me, he had smoked eighty cigarettes a day. After our very first session he never ever felt like smoking, even though he kept socializing with his smoking friends, nor was he ever irritated by anyone's smoking. Healing ripples As in this case, I found out with other patients that the inner ripple effects of the holistic energy reading and healing can spontaneously resolve some major issues without me as a therapist being ever told about them, let alone having worked on healing them specifically. It appears that this natural phenomenon of inner healing ripples is due to the energy inter-connectedness of all aspects of one's Authentic or Pristine Being - mental, emotional, intuitive, physical and spiritual. Since energy reading and healing take place at both conscious and subconscious level, even those aspects or issues that are not being addressed in and of themselves can get healed via the common subconscious energy blueprint. I believe that there is a natural logic between healing Rob's identity and suicidality and him having spontaneously quited smoking. As energy reading enabled him to reclaim his wholesome natural identity, he did not need smoking any more as a major emotionally suppressive way of dealing with stress. Since then he has been committed to pursuing his holistic healing path and moved on to rebuild his life more realistically. Healing process and outcomesIt appears that the psychologically and/or physiologically uncomfortable energy patterns, which correspond to difficult memories or current energy influences, can stay stuck as a pain and discomfort inducing messengers waiting to deliver their message to the patient's consciousness. Once the patient receives or gets he confirmation of the whole message by energy reading, the dysfunctional patterns, which used to block one's wholesome self-awareness, dissipate spontaneously. The mental, emotional and sensory discomfort disappears, and the person gains more complete understanding of and trust in his/her wholesome perception within and without, and becomes more confident and able to resolve any issues. Such healing relief is akin to getting something ‘off one's chest’ by sharing one's difficulty with a sympathetic listener. Afterwards it is possible to perceive one's issues from additional points of view and deal with them more appropriately. The therapeutic energy reading and healing usually has wider and more lasting healing effects though, because it reaches deeper into otherwise inaccessible (suppressed) or mistrusted subconscious energy reality. By validating and/or complementing the patient's conscious experience, such energy reading heals self-doubts by restoring the broken bridges between the conscious and subconscious. The typical outcomes are simultaneous healing shift in patient's mind, emotions and body, which manifest as more realistic outlook, higher self esteem and enhanced ability to deal with life. ConclusionAll smokers that I asked how they felt the very first time when they inhaled the cigarette smoke told me that it did not feel pleasant at all, on the contrary. Yet they became smokers for their own initial psychological reasons, trying to build up a ‘better’ or ‘more acceptable’ self image (which indicates that, like Rob, they doubted their inherent, wholesome identity). Energy reading and healing can help quit smoking by healing effectively any underpinning issues, which are different in each individual case. Knowing the truth is fairly useless. Feeling it is profound. Living it makes all the difference. David Deida, Author and Spiritual Teacher |