You need not do a single thing to prepare for this, but if you would like to co-ordinate your activities with it, there are a few things that can help you to participate.

Physical Preparation:

Find a comfy place and position where you do not expect to be disturbed. Wear loose comfy clothing. Be sure you are in a warm place or wear a light blanket or wrap. Remove any excessive jewelry (hematite especially can serve as a bit of a deterrent)

Emotional Preparation:

When we are hurting we can feel there is an awful lot at stake in entering a healing. The more we worry about our illnesses, the more there seems to be at stake emotionally over the outcome. Yet it is often this very worry that blocks the free flow of energy that brings us into balance. So it can really help to find a more neutral emotional space when sitting with this healing. Going into it with a sense of wonder and curiosity and interest can transform the block of worry into the free flow of balance and harmony. If you think you have too much at stake emotionally, it may help to go off somewhere and do something totally different. When I did this for a man in Alaska, he went off to the bingo parlour so that he could keep busy. (And yes, he did notice something taking place even as they were calling the numbers)

Mental Preparation:

Try not to expect any one thing from happening. If you have been experiencing physical discomfort in a certain area, try to direct your attention to other places in your body as well as there. Sometimes a shift needs to happen somewhere else before it can happen in the place of greatest discomfort.

During The Healing

Each person experiences this type of healing in a different way. Let it be all right for your experience to be unique.

If you think your ego might get too involved in the process, try watching your breath whenever you find your mind getting in the way. Just relax and keep bringing your attention back to your breath.

If you find yourself worrying about the outcome, it can help to say to yourself "I wonder what is happening next?" Try saying it with a real sense of adventure, taking notice of the words and how they alter your state of emotion and mind. Then pay attention to sensations in your body as they move through you.

You may or may not have a sense of energy moving inside of you, or heat or coolness. You may notice a change in your foot or even outside your skin or in another unlikely place. You may find yourself moving into a dreamlike meditation, where you ride upon these energies or you may find yourself carried off to distant places in your mind. Thoughts and memories may come up. Notice them, but do not try to hold on to them. As you let them float away you may get further insight by seeing what they change into. You may simply fall asleep.

When The Healing Is Done

You may wish to jot down any sensations, thoughts or ideas that came us during the process while they are still fresh in your memory. Watch over the next days and weeks for inner urges that you might have ignored before the reading. They may direct you to activities that are different than your normal habits like:

• a food that is different or that you haven't had in a while
• a movement that is out of the ordinary (walking if you run or running if you walk - or even spinning for a circle or two or swinging your arms and twisting or other activities you may have done as a kid but "grew out of")
• clothes that contain a different sort of fabric than usual
• colours to wear occasionally or surround yourself with that are not the norm

Follow these urges as you can. The awareness of them is important, because it opens the door for you to be open to insight you may have habitually blocked yourself from in the past. Notice how these urges change. While royal blue may have seemed like a great colour one day, if you are tired of it suddenly, it may be because another colour will be more fitting for the current time. So see which feels the best.

You may feel a little spacey for a bit, but most people feel well focused and bright. You may have tears come to the surface. If you do, let them fall and watch how they change into something else. But most just feel very good.

Healing is not about feeling the same all the time. We are changing fields of energy in a changing environment. Healing is about moving with the changes that naturally occur and keeping ourselves in harmony with those changes as best we can. Even when we feel pain, an awareness of movement and change can allow us to see how the natural state of pain is to change into something else. This healing is designed to help you become aware of the movement that you are. Enjoy it.

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