Energy Balancing + Intuitive Healing

This reminder has come to me many times over the years, and yet it always feels potent and fresh: so much of what we’re waiting for from others we have the power to give to ourselves.

It’s a perfect meditative practice for lazy summer days: simple, versatile, intuitive, and playful. My favorite kind of exercise! Below I share some details about my approach and a few resources to get you inspired.

I learned something unexpected about emotions during the 1998 World Cup that has stuck with me for all these years.

The tender, “sad pleasure” of nostalgia can paint everything rosy as well as dredge up some heavier feelings — remorse, regret, grief, resentment, pain.

When you hear “incoherent energy flow,” what do you picture? Yes, it looks just like that. Instead of a smooth and steady flow in a harmonious pattern, it’s “fritzy,” glitchy. There is a lot of white noise and static. When this sort of “stress” accumulates in the energy field, processing energy becomes effortful and inefficient for the chakras.

While they may look delicate and frail, spring flowers are built to be resilient in tough conditions. And so are people. We can dig deep, summon up our inner strength, and show up for ourselves and others.

Have you ever had a deeply revitalizing experience — a vacation, a massage, a lunch filled with belly laughs — where you leave feeling alive and vibrant and completely restored, and yet before you know it you're back to feeling flat and depleted?

If you’re starting to feel a bit of that itchy, restless, constriction, it may be an indication that some personal growth or expansion is at hand. When nothing quite fits or feels right in your life at the moment, it’s a perfect time to get quiet, go inward, and do some listening.

Do you find the prospect of your own gravestone terrifying, like Ebenezer Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come? Luckily we don’t need to have an actual brush with death to face up to its inevitability. We can choose to engage with some thought-provoking questions at any time.