Advice for practitioners wanting more from their work

• Why is energy work effective?

• What is possible with energy work?

• What are the limits to energy work?

• Explore beyond your beliefs and conceptions?

• Energy Work and Spiritual paths

Although those who work consistently with energies are aware in no uncertain terms of their effectiveness the scientific and more materialistic members of the public generally explain success in terms of the belief of the recipient. From my own experience the reverse is entirely true. That is the effectiveness of the practitioner by and large relates to how much they have discarded beliefs, conditioning and models that contradict what they do. Put simply, your deep understandings, beliefs, models, philosophies, attitudes, traumas, issues and so on all contribute to creating your existence and hence reinforce themselves. With energy work, you are tapping into these more creative levels that manifest this and other realities. So, although there are defined systems within which you can have training such as Shen, Reiki, Magnified Healing, Tamaki, Vortex Healing to name but a few. If you stick to and accept what you were told in a particular system and accept it as the truth (make it a belief) then this will limit your effectiveness as a healer. To a certain extent when you train with someone, then you are tapping into and accepting on some level the belief systems and approaches held by the trainer. You are joining and following their river of knowledge and understanding, this then will allow you to do things that perhaps contradict your own belief systems and views of reality, this them allows you to accept these new ideas (because you now know that they work) and make them yours.

Well practically anything. As we have already discussed above it depends on the energy worker, their experience, confidence, openness, energy connections and so on. A comprehensive but limited list (as it is from my own experience) of what energy work can deal with can be found at What can different Evolving and Healing Energies deal with?. If you are wanting to expand your healing work then you should be very strongly asking internally for this to happen as well as being open to what is offered to you. Most energy workers have started by training in some system such as Reiki for example. It is very strongly advisable that you take the understandings that were given as part of your training as being what was known by those people at that time. Try and be more discerning about what are belief's and what are someone's own knowings from their own direct experience. Also try and keep in mind that knowings change as your awareness change. So, someone on a spiritual path should be changing their knowings regularly and as such being very cautious about what they know as the truth (as they know it will almost certainly be a different truth tomorrow). Change equals movement and spiritual change means movement into being comfortable with the unknown?

As far as I am aware there aren't any except what you hold yourself to. Those practitioners who perform miracles can do this because on some level they know that miracles are possible and this gives them permission to perform them. This is also why science (and those that operate within a scientific model) cannot get a handle on these areas. As often investigations are done by the most skeptical, then their beliefs, attachments to certain models and ways of thinking and so on will help create a reality that re-enforces what they already hold as true this then almost always ensures dubious and unsupportive results. When scientists can lay aside their models, beliefs and training and be truly open then these areas will be properly substantiated, but not before. Science has made various assumptions about how reality works. It has by and large accepted these presumptions as the truth. These truths are then used to define how they continue exploring reality. Reality then very conveniently (as it always does) presents data to support these assumed truths. You cannot properly explore the make up of any reality by holding to assumptions about what the limits are to that reality. 

Part of my own energy work has been focused on moving all the time beyond limits and boundaries to explore new possibilities. For example, not satisfied with effecting major life situation changes with the energy work I decided to make my manifestation potential totally visible in this reality. I did this by deciding to consciously keep my razor blade sharp.

So, one day I spent a few minutes focusing on this and then about three weeks later, having completely forgotten what I had originally done I suddenly realized that I was still using the same razor. So, from previously lasting (at most) 10 days this one managed to last three months. It is one thing to understand that it is possible and another to do it. JUST DO IT. Although this to me was both an exercise and a game, part of me now fully understands that it can create absolutely anything, and the only thing that may stop me is me.

There are some energy systems that are pertaining to be spiritual paths. Fine, now what is a spiritual path? A Spiritual path is about changing, it is about moving into new possibilities, it is about letting go of beliefs, ideas, understandings and knowings to move into the unknown. At least, that is what a spiritual path is to me? The problem is that many people glibly say spiritual but what is spiritual to one person can be something quite different to another, so for example watching a sunset is for some people very spiritual. The only thing that YOU need to be sure of is WHAT DO YOU WANT? What is it that you want from what you are doing? If you want an energy system or approach to take you somewhere then you have to see if the people who are already using it are achieving this? This is the only criteria? Do they truly represent what they present? Do they live (not just say) what they offer. You should also keep in mind that your current understandings, beliefs, knowings, truths and so on will always be keeping your choices, shall we say constrained. So, always be prepared to LET GO of your current choice when your understandings, truths, knowings and beliefs change. OH! and if they are not changing then this is a sign that what you are doing in not very spiritual. Contrary to popular belief the fact that your best friend may recommend a healer or energy practitioner to train with is no indication of whether what they do is what you want or need? Having 'GOOD' results with one person does not mean that they will with you, or that what they are doing is right for you?

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