So how did I come to this work? In many ways, I’ve been on a spiritual path my whole life. As a child, I was drawn to the magic of nature, spending hours outdoors, delighting in everything I saw and heard around me, listening to the trees, the grass, the sunshine, and everything in between. As an intuitive, predominately clairsentience, I was very aware of the people and situations around me, reading the energy of the situations I found myself in, as much as the people around me, although not always aware that I was doing so, nor that others weren’t. I grew up in a religious household, and believed in the power of prayer to heal myself and those around me. Despite this faith, I was reflective, and my religious upbringing meant that I was always contemplating and questioning my own beliefs to do with God, the universe, reality and life in general. I was curious, and naturally drawn to ancient cultures of all sorts, particularly their myths, legends and religious practices, as I still am today. I couldn’t wait to get out into the big wide world and see it all. As I did, as soon as I was able to; but even then, I was always drawn to the religion, myth and magic of the cultures I found myself in. Even my work life acted as a catalyst for my spiritual evolution in it’s own way. Working as a massage and beauty therapist, I intuitively began to practice my own brand of reiki. Though I was unaware of what it was at the time, I innately learnt (or more precisely, remembered), to influence and send energy to my clients throughout my treatments, practicing on client after client, and seeing (and feeling), the results as well as the difference if I did a treatment of massage alone. Despite this constant searching, for myself and something bigger, though perhaps not always so consciously, it was a slow journey back to the spiritual for me, and, like so many healers/shamans/light workers/white witches/indigos (or any other of the myriad of names we may call ourselves), it came with, or perhaps was propelled forward by, trauma. Some may call it the dark night of the soul, the hero’s journey, or perhaps simply that out of pain so often enlightenment is sought, but either way, my path was far from easy. And after years of struggling with depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts (and some attempts), and addiction of different sorts, to me at least, the only way back to the light was through the spiritual path I found myself on as I began to truly awaken. I sought out healers, and as happens, they found me, crossing my path in sometimes unexpected ways. I became a sponge, devouring wisdom and knowledge from all sorts of sources on all sorts of topics, and all the while, I began to ‘remember’. My intuition heighted more and more, and I received ‘downloads’ from source, or perhaps my own akashic records more and more frequently. From another healer I learnt NLP, kinesiology, ancestral and past life healing, all the while my own wisdom evolving and growing, as I too evolved and grew. And I continued to balance and heal my own energy. My own evolution became my new addiction of sorts, and I couldn’t get enough knowledge. I healed my anxiety, my depression, my suicidal tendencies and my addictions, and still I continued, and continue, to balance and heal all that showed up in my life, and the lives of those around me. As such, Ho’oponopono was a natural next step for me, and I’m not surprised that it crossed my path when and how it did. I continue to evolve in every way possible, continue to be a sponge for new wisdom and knowledge of all sources, learning new modalities to add to my tool belt to balance myself, and those around me. I feel called to do this work, and relish the opportunity to help others in the way that others once helped me.
x Lisa
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