Empathic Experience

I know many of you wake in the night around 3 or 4, I do, too.  Most of the time I ask to get information from my guiIdes and angels.  I also sleep with several crystals around me.  One is the very first crystal I ever bought, an Amethyst with Citrine in it.   Over the years I have used it in healing ceremonies.Recently when I woke up in the night, I was thinking of the word "Empath" - those of us who are so sensitive to others and mostly like to stay to ourselves because our intuition picks up the thoughts and energies of everyone around us.    Lately, I have had many clients....mostly around 35 or 40 who are just learning about being an empath and have many questions about it.   The most wonderful thing is that they now know they are "not alone"!!!! 

So, I had the idea to ask my guides something like, "I know I am an empath to others, but how about being an empath to myself.....really getting in tune with my inner abilities,etc".   At the same time, I put my hand on the amethyst crystal.
All of a sudden many memories flashed in my mind's eye of the times I had used this crystal on my son, Bennett, trying to heal him while he was alive.  Once, he was burned by a car radiator exploding on his chest...I can remember driving up to the mountains to find him in his tipi, I put the amethyst on his chest to help calm him down and reduce the pain.
Then, another time he had asked me to cut his hair.  He had dreadlocks and wanted me to cut them off.  You have to keep in mind that he hardly ever asked me to do anything, so I took this chance to send healing to him while I cut his hair and the amethyst crystal was there on the table next to him.
Of course, at the very end while he was dying from the car accident he was in, there in the hospital, I put the same amethyst crystal on his chest to help his spirit leave his body. 
I had forgotten about most of these events, except for the last one, of course.  There they were stored in the crystal and the memories flooded through me - I was astounded at the information, thrilled that my "empathic self" got to witness all those memories.  And it's time to release them, let them go and ask that the amethyst now be cleared to help me with new healing experiences.  I'm sharing this so that all of you dear dear empaths reading this will keep searching, looking and using your power to have the most fabulous life ever!!!!  It is a blessing to be an empath!!!! 

Many blessings, Betsie 

Betsie Poinsett, D.Div., C.Ht.Clinical Hypnotherapistwww.ShamanicHypnosis.comwww.Facebook.com/ShamanicHypnosis

Thoughts on Using Hypnosis in Al-Anon 12 Step Programs

I have the most interesting clients.  Interesting because they are determined to work on the issues that come up.  Issues that are painful to look at and, yet, to release them, they have to be faced.

Lately, I've been seeing a client who is doing the 12 Step Program from Al-Anon*.  She had attended the meetings for over a year, but had never started working on the steps.   She understood that hypnosis gets to the subconscious reason why we are holding on to old patterns.  She knew that it was 88% of our mind power, so in order to have the most success moving through the 12 Steps she wanted me to help her access the subconscious and release all that old baggage.

It has been an interesting process.  She takes each step, works on it for about three weeks, then comes in for a session.  We talk about all the "lessons" or experiences that come up to be flushed out...her reaction to them and how she sees the difference between her old reactions and the new positive ones.  Her comment today was that hypnosis was helping her strengthen her subconscious, have easier access to it, it helps her release her old thought patterns quickly  and not hold on to them.  

In the first session, in hypnosis, we did a ceremony to rescue her inner child.  Many times, that part of us is still stuck back in childhood feeling, abandoned, lost, not heard.  By rescuing that part of us, we then incorporate it into our every day life, thus, eliminating sabotage as we move forward.  We get the inner child to work with us and not against us. 

In the second session, we include the inner child again, but this time we do go to a sacred place where we invited her angels, guides, mentors to come in and introduce themselves.  It is a grand reunion.  I always thank them for coming forward and ask if they have a message.  Many times I have heard them say:  "We have been waiting for this session."    I call this a support team from the other side.  And they are with us always. 

Today was the third session and also the Third Step - Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. Or you can say over to the care of your higher self, spiritual self.  It was a perfect time for my client to turn everything over to these guides as they have the "big picture" of what really needs to be done in her life.  She trusts them and feels a huge weight lifted off her shoulders knowing she doesn't have to do it "alone".  She can depend on her Angelic Support Team. 

It's wonderful to know that a tool like hypnosis can help people release these things permanently because it accesses the subconscious mind.   I call my clients "heroes" because they are brave enough to want to look at these things to improve their lives.   I have helped hundreds of clients over the years, you don't have to be in a 12 Step Program to use hypnosis to improve your life.

* What is Al-Anon  -  Members are all kinds of people from all walks of life: wives, husbands, lovers, sisters, brothers, children and parents of alcoholics. No matter what our relationship has been with a problem drinker, we share a common bond: we feel our lives have been deeply affected by another person's drinking. We meet together to share our experience, strength and hope.

Good Resource:  http://www.addictscience.com/al-anon/