I have been taking Energy healing courses for 5 years now and last month I took level 1 and 2 of the Reconnection with Eric Pearl. Some odd things have been going on ever since and I'm wondering if anyone might give me some insight as to whats going on.
The course was great for content even though Eric Pearl was a bit cheeky with his approach to his students. I had the Reconnection session done with one of his Teacher's assistants who explained after the final treatment that his temperment was due to his over caring that his work be passed on properally.
I personally thought he was lacking compassion which is more of a trait of a healer. In any case I'm wondering if this opinion of mine might been causing some of problems.
I have been doing healing touch work with my children for years. They are such great little patients because their belief that the energy work I do can fix their ailments is so concrete that healings are instantaneous.
The Divine energy works well when the patients intention is working with its flow.
After my first reconnection treatment I got into my car and my left blinker went wonky. Every time I needed to turn left it would go on hyper speed blinking. When I got home my dogs left eye was all pussy with an infection. I thought I'd try some of the reconnection energies that I'd been learning so I gave the dog a little treatment. Her eye was great the next day but mine was red, weeping and infected. I got out the polysporin eye drops and managed to get rid of it after a couple of days. Once it healed my car blinker went back to left blinking normally.
A week or so later one of my daughters over worked her legs doing track and 2 intensive ballet classes in one day. I told her to lie down and did some more of this reconnective work and her registers (body signals that something is happening) were incredible. After a half hour of treatment she got up and all the pain was gone. Before she was limping and complaining every 2 seconds that she was hurting. She got up and could walk with no limp and was thankful that I had been able to help her feel better.
I went to bed and woke up the next day with sore legs! Fortunately they eased up by the end of the day.
A few weeks later my son came down with this sinus cold. He sounded like this barking seal that went on non stop all day. I plunked him into the bath before bed time. Steamed him up with warm water. Got his PJ's on and did some reconnective work on him. He fell asleep while I was doing it. The next day he woke up with the cough gone and barely a drip of the nose left. I on the other hand have now come down with a whopper of a sinus cold.
Now I realise that I'm obviously taking on the healings. I understand that this is not necessary and am stating this intention when I start these healings. Erik Pearl stated this used to happen to him when he first started this work and realised down the line that it was some internal need for validation that the healings were really happening. He said it was not necessary to do this and to state that intention when doing the work.
Well this is obviously not working for me so I'm wondering why? Is it possibly because I had a negative opinion of how he taught the class and therefore sub-consiously have dis-credited his work and I'm trying to prove that it is valid by taking on the ailments?
I have been doing healing touch for years and this has never happened to me until I took this recent course.
Any suggestions?
xo Froggie

Well, Froggie, ( I hope you're still communicating with me after I jumped down your throat over something you didn't say last year) I would say your problem is stemming from an opinoin. When your trying to be very spiritual(like you are) spirit calls you on opinions. You thought this guy wasn't compassionate enough. That's just the way he is and how he deals with things. You have to accept him as he is. It's like when you think that woman over there shouldn't eat that ice ceam or she'll gain weight and all of a sudden your gainiing weight. It's life telling you to let other's be (themselves). You were doing pretty well until you developed this opinion. Sometimes people get a negative opinion of me when I make dark humor jokes. I joke about the worst situations. If I didn't I'd be crying in my soup. I make light of it and that's my way of dealing. I often have a problem with depression. He may seem flip when he says the intention is enough, but it's enough for him. It let's him be detached. Sometimes you can be too compassionate.

Hi Froggie,

This is an intriguing question you have posed. I think that your own theory is a good one.

Last weekend someone asked me my opinion on whether or not Sai Baba has an ego. Ha! Like I would know. But, I told her that I think he exhibits one by having such an interest in others having spiritual growth and self-realization. I know that this is a linear, human perception of things and that in fact I don't know anything about Sai Baba's ego.

The thing is that I felt guilty about having made that judgment. Later that evening while driving home from the grocery store I was smoking a cigarette when the thought of the Sai Baba question popped into my mind. At that exact moment I dropped the lit cigarette in my lap and when I tried to grab it I knocked it to the floor. Fortunately, there was no one behine me and I was able to pull into the next drive and find the lit cigarette before it did any damage. The next thought was "thank you" to the powers that be for not having an accident or burning up my clothes, car seat, or carpeting. And then the following thought was about whether or not Sai Baba was teaching me a lesson about questioning him or doubting him, or if out of guilt about the whole matter I was punishing myself. Oh gosh, this spiritual stuff is not fun at times.

So, Froggie, could it be that you are now punishing yourself for your thoughts about Eric Pearl not having the level of compassion you thought he should have? If that is a possiblility in your mind, then asking forgiveness might clear up the problem.

I think that we must also remember that we are not the one who is actually doing the healing. It is only an energy from the Higher Source that does its work through us. If the person we are attempting to give help to is not healed it is not because we didn't do our part. Either that person does not have enough faith in the healing or they may have some karmic reason for the pain or the illness that we are not supposed to interfere with.

Maybe just asking the Higher Source to help you forgive yourself for your thought about Dr. Pearl and putting up some protective energy so that you feel you are not able to take on any of the negative energy will help?

There were just some thoughts I had on this subject.

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There is no hold on our energy if our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.

Hi Froggie,

It may be possible that Erik Pearl is correct and it is hard to admit because of his demeaner.

I do believe so.

In energy healing work, something called faith on this planet is very important. It is not really faith at all, as it is understood. It is a pure surrender to move within the Spirit, which is ultimately good.

The Tendai Buddhists say, Do nothing and every thing is done.

I just ran into the same situation with someone I love who is very ill overseas. I became sick myself, inside of worry and not knowing and lack of faith. It all is practice and mastership, and it is nothing to worry about.

Give without an idea of a desired outcome.

These are unspoken languages that we are re-membering. And the real purpose I believe is not to be able to heal others. It is to fully remember who we are, and pass the word.
Love!

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Hi Redsummer Rose,
Thank you for your thoughts on this. You response seems to be a theme with me lately which is telling me that I need to be less judgemental of others ways. I actually thought I had worked on this but the Universe lets me know I'm not quite there yet in the strangest ways.
I really feel the content of what he was teaching was great. The fact that he wasn't warm or fuzzy about it I guess is my own hang up. Years ago I would have been just plain terrified of this guy. Mainly because I would have melted in embarrassment if he had somehow signaled me out as being one of the "stupid" ones in the crowd.
I know what he is teaching is valid because I've had it taught to me by those that suited my need for compassion. I'm not quite sure what all this means today but It gives me food for thought.
xo Froggie

Hi Dreamer,
Gosh, you think you dotted your I's and crossed your T's and then you realise you didn't realise something after all. I never thought that I might be punishing myself for thinking badly of the teacher. That is quite plausible for me to do unconsciously.
Keeping on top of this subconscious negative stuff can be tricky sometimes. I think that I need to be less concerned about how other people behave and less frustrated when they don't behave how I expect them too. Expectations always get me in to trouble.
Thanks for the insight.
xo Froggie

This is very insightful. Be less attached to the outcome! Being that these were my children and beloved dog I can see how I might of wanted a certain result. That was definately part of his lesson and I can see that I may have been too attached which obviously attached me to their problems.
Thanks Electra.
xo Froggie

Having worked as a healer for years I would say no one told you about shielding and you took on the ailments of those whose energies you were setting up the energy to heal. Thats not a healthy way to do things but no one told you what to do to avoid that. This arrogant teacher should have told you about that happening. Any decent teacher of healing teaches the student that almost first thing. Set up barriers so that the energy being healed cannot go say above the wrist and then wash the hands immediately after doing the healing. Shield you and the one being healed before you start working with the subtle body energy and wash hands and cleanse the aura afterward and you won't have this happen again. God/Goddess doesn't play games like that with peoples illnesses just because they voice an opinion. So shield as a matter of course before you start your work and cleanse your hands and aura both before and afterwards and you won't have this happen anymore. I have more to say so I am amending this post. I don't care how famous this guy is when he takes your money he has entered into a professional contract with you and there is no room for rudeness or arrogance. Plus I strongly disagree that what happened to you was you being punished for your thoughts or needing validation. No healer should work un shielded.

Th'goddess~!

Goddess,

That was good. I don't know if it was punishment for thoughts, but rather just clarity on how thoughts are things and manifest something else.

It is good to move inside of Spirit and release an idea of ourselves and what we are doing...hey, it may not be the total answer, but I do believe it is a part of the healing journey.

I guess this thread is actually a lot deeper than what it appears on first sight. The Native Americans have taught me we should learn to relingquish to a force which resides under all things, which has been shown to me as a river.

I used to believe in healing I was doing battle with negative entities and knocking out darkness. Now, my healing is more kind of inside a will that is not my own. Like I have found out I don't really know anything at all, and it may not be my call to say what should happen. But that is just where I am at RIGHT NOW. That does not mean that is where this journey will stay.

In an experience I had, I saw there is an eternal struggle between polarities on this planet. And participating in the push and pull of yin and yang, is just remaining inside the illusion of polarity.

This is a really deep thread...I mean, what IS this thing we call healing anyway? In my own path, it has been about the unfoldment of enlightenment and not so much about "being a healer". But that is just me.

I know other people who are warriors of the light and believe we should be fighting a kind of light war.

I am totally open to your (or anyone else in this thread) thoughts on this. Now I am in "wonder land".

Thanks Froggie for your open and honest questions. It has caused deep thoughts.

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Reiki is a pretty gentle and loving healing and won't allow itself to be used for anything bad so when I speak of healing I am speaking of a loving process not one of doing battle. And we don't heal we just set up the energy around the body so it can heal its self. And I still don't think she was being given any message other than that she needed to shield. When that man accepted her money for the class he owed her his courstesy and kindness and to teach her all that she needed to know which he clearly didn't since no where does she mention that he taught about shielding. It is neither wise nor healthy to take on a clients ailment when healing.



th'goddess~!