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Alain Gélinas

This article is the second of two about released energy, the first having been published in the fall 2009 issue of Nexus. In the first article, we discussed whether energy released during a Healing Touch treatment still exists somewhere in our energy field. We learned that if the blockage is only released on some of the energetic levels, perhaps the pattern of this blockage in the remaining levels can surface later on, as a memory for instance. When congested energy is released, it is possible that the lower frequencies of this blockage are transformed into a higher frequency (i.e. love and light). If the energetic release occurred at the source, the blockage is removed from the entire vibrational matrix and it’s as if it never existed.

Linda McCuaig, a student of Healing Touch, shared some valuable thoughts with me about this first article. “The memory of the burn might remain in (Shelley’s) energy field, but buried under the surface of her consciousness if she felt the need to hold that memory because:

She has a strong past life association with the act of being burned; and/or, When she thinks of the burn, she directs her thoughts more to the (painful) feeling rather than to the wonderful feeling of the healing.

Linda mentions a very important factor that contributes to our ability to completely release a blockage: our thoughts. “Thought is creative, and each moment in our lives we are busy creating our own realities (…) in the present and in our unfolding future, though for many of us this is an unconscious process.” Perhaps if our thoughts are focused strictly on the healings rather than on the related events, our blockages will be removed from our entire vibrational matrix?

Following are the next two questions about released energy:

After a blockage has been released from our energy field, did the experience (that caused the blockage) ever exist? Does the fact that the blockage has been released create change in the past, the present and/or the future?

“It is in you, my mind, that I measure time… As things pass by, they leave an impression on you… It is this impression which I measure. Therefore this itself is time or else I do not measure time at all.” St. Augustine (note 4)

In The Holographic Universe, Michael Talbot presents physicist David Bohm’s assertions about the implicate and the explicate orders. Our everyday, tangible reality is labelled by Bohm as the explicate order. In the explicate order, time is measured by our human brain which has evolved as a temporal tool crucial to our survival.

The underlying, deeper order of existence, “a vast and more primary level of reality that gives birth to all the objects and appearances of our physical world” (note 5) is labelled by Bohm as the implicate order. The intangible, implicate order is atemporal, a state to which none of our ordinary notions of time apply, (note 6) unchanging, and unaffected by time.

Bohm compares the implicate to a river and the explicate to the eddies and whirlpools created by the river. The eddies and whirlpools have their own independent existence, but it’s impossible to determine where they end and begin in the river. The explicate and the implicate are constantly interacting to form new realities (by way of our thoughts, experiences and feelings), and when a reality leaves the temporal explicate, it merely returns to the atemporal implicate (the eddies and whirlpools eventually become part of the river again).

According to Bohm, the implicate represents the basic matter or wholeness of the universe and “every portion of the universe enfolds the whole. (…) in principle the whole past and implications for the whole future are also enfolded in each small region of space and time. Every cell of our body enfolds the entire cosmos.” (note 7)

If Bohm is right, when a blockage in our energy field is released, the blockage and the event that caused it might leave the explicate to return to the implicate, where they will exist in each small region of space and time. All our experiences, thoughts and emotions will always exist everywhere simultaneously in atemporal space.

Like the frames of a movie that can be viewed separately or flowing together to present the illusion of movement, in a holographic universe “it is the viewer’s changing perspective that provides the illusion that (the entire activity) is unfolding in time.” (note 8 )

An example of the illusion of an event unfolding is astrophotography. In tangible reality, a star may have disappeared millions of years ago, but the record of its existence is still carried by light (a higher frequency) across the universe where it was interpreted by a viewer’s changing perspective. The proper time of particles that travel at the speed of light is zero or atemporal.

To summarize, from an atemporal perspective, the blockage released from our field has always existed simultaneously in the present, the past and the future. From a human, temporal perspective, even if the blockage was released throughout our vibrational matrix and doesn’t exist anymore for us, that blockage still existed in our past and influenced our life (consciously or unconsciously) up until the moment of its release. Whether or not we remember it now, the experience has still influenced who we are and was very much a real event at some point in our life.

What do you think? Please send your feedback about this article to Brenda at bpiquette@uniserve.com

One evening, my friend Shelley burnt the top of her finger in some hot oil while frying spring rolls, and suffered great discomfort as a consequence. After a Healing Touch treatment immediately after the incident, the mass of clogged energy just above the tip of her finger had disappeared.

If we consider that every one of our experiences and feelings is recorded in our energy fields, then this incident, including Shelley’s pain and her reaction to it, was recorded somewhere in her field. When the mass of clogged energy around her finger was untangled by the treatment, was the record of that experience released—either partially or completely—from her field? For Shelley, the physical pain and her reaction to it were gone, and so perhaps the imprint of this pain was indeed released from her field.

But if the physical pain and her reaction to it have been released from her field:

Does this experience still exist somewhere?
Did this experience ever exist?
Does this create change in the past, the present and/or the future?

In this article, we will discuss question number one, and in the next issue of Nexus, we will continue the discussion with questions two and three.

If the experience of physical pain and the reaction to it have been released from the energy field, do those experiences still exist somewhere?

Even though the physical pain and the emotional reaction to it have been erased from her field, Shelley still retains a memory of that experience; therefore, it is probable that the energetic signature of that experience still exists… somewhere. Vicki Slater, Certified Healing Touch Practitioner and Instructor who has been studying the physics of healing for 20 years, stated the following about this incident:

…once a field releases information, that information is no longer in that person’s field. We then can fill our space with ourselves and with love. It is like cleaning house; once you have taken the stuff to the dump, you might remember you had it, but it no longer takes up space in your home and you can bring in more Light and Beauty. That suggests that the memory of something is not necessarily carried on tangible energy, but perhaps is a different phenomenon. (note 1)

If the memory of an experience isn’t carried on tangible energy, how does it remain in our energy field? In Chapter 7 of Healing Touch: A Guidebook for Practitioners (2nd Edition), we learn that “Like the genetic code that is inherent in every cell through the RNA and DNA molecules, the imprint of one or more closed, blocked chakras creates a pattern throughout the entire vibrational matrix.” (note 2)

Shelley’s incident might have blocked the flow of energy from one of her chakras, the imprint of which created a pattern throughout her vibrational matrix, on all her levels. If data is released on one or more levels, is it automatically erased from all levels? If that pattern was repeated in her mental field, it might have created an objective memory of the incident in her consciousness. But is this still considered tangible energy?

Based on her years of experience, Catherine Awai, Certified Healing Touch Practitioner and Instructor, informed me that “Sometimes layers are released and then, later on, we get the issue raising its head again in another way or at a different intensity.”(note 3) Perhaps if only some of the layers or the data related to an event are released, the remaining layers or data can resurface later on, such as a memory of the event.

As per both Vicki and Catherine, when something is released, the space that is vacated is filled with love and light. With these higher frequencies, the lower frequencies of fear and pain, for instance, cannot be sustained. Therefore, another possibility is that the lower frequency data released from the field is transformed into a higher frequency. Or perhaps the data transformed into a higher frequency remains within the field. The higher frequencies might explain how something can be released from our tangible field while still remaining in our consciousness.

Catherine reminded me that, occasionally, after data has been released from our field, we have absolutely no memory of that data. Her understanding of memory’s occasional disappearing act is that, in such an instance, the energetic release went back to the very moment the energetic pattern was first created—either in this life or a previous one. Because the release occurred at the source, it’s as if the pattern never existed. In this instance, was the pattern created by the blocked chakras removed from the entire vibrational matrix? Were absolutely all of the lower frequencies associated with the data transformed into higher frequencies?

What do you think? Please send your feedback about this article to Brenda at bpiquette@uniserve.com

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1. E-mail from Vicki Slater, July 31, 2009.
2. Hover-Kramer, Dorothea. Healing Touch: A Guidebook for Practitioners (2nd Edition). Delmar Thomson
Learning. New York: 2002, p. 93.
3. Email from Catherine Awai, August 2, 2009

By Kim Polvi, MLIS, HTCP

I was introduced to Healing Touch by a little gnome named Marsha Read. Some years ago I approached Marsha, who I knew through attending her workshops called “Sounds Wonderful To Me”. I asked her if she would guide me on my journey to becoming a sound healer. Marsha, being Marsha, said “yes”. She told me, however, that I also needed to learn about the human energy system and recommended an upcoming Level 1 Healing Touch class. I loved it and subsequently went on to obtain certification.

I studied sound healing practices as I was studying Healing Touch. I experimented with the Tuning Forks and the Spiral Meditation and called the session a “Tuned Spiral”. I added the sounds of the crystal or Tibetan bowls to the Chakra Connection. I used vocal toning to balance the chakras. As I practised I noticed how quickly the energy shifted when Healing Touch was combined with sound. I realized that sound is the soap that scrubs away our “klingons” – those old habits, patterns and stuff that no longer serve us, yet keep hanging on – and Healing Touch is the rinse cycle. Both sound and Healing Touch have the power to move deeply into our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies. The combination of the two creates a synergistic, resonate frequency which can shift and transform old energies into new.

Marsha and I are now business partners as well as friends. We practice sound healing using Natural Sound. We use natural instruments such as our voice, drums, rattles, tuning forks, or crystal and metal singing bowls to remove blocks and restore harmony and balance to the energy system. Our bodies are natural receptors for sound vibrations because we are 70% water and sound travels five times faster through water than it does through the air. The crystalline structure of our blood and bones bonds with the quartz matrix of the crystal bowls and the vibrations we create through vocal toning settle deeply into the core of our being. When sound is combined with Healing Touch the energies of both are amplified.

When I practice a Chakra Connection I use the crystal bowls to open the session. I play the bowls for 2-3 minutes and then allow them to silence. I do the steps of the Chakra Connection to the hips. I then play the bowls for another 2-3 minutes and allow them to silence. I do the steps of the Chakra Connection to the high heart and then stop to play the bowls again, allowing them to come to silence in between. I play them twice more before closing the session. I’ve learned that each successive round with the bowls takes the client deeper into relaxation and calm.

Silence in sound healing is essential. When we create sound frequencies for healing we want those frequencies to resonate deeply into our cellular structure for it is deep within that change happens. Silence is the key to allowing this change to occur.

When I combine tuning forks with Healing Touch I use the forks as an extension of my fingers and hands. I often work with two forks and follow a Healing Touch sequence. As I work through the sequence I look for any differences in the vibrations between the forks. For example, does one fork hold the vibration longer? Does the energy flow freely between the forks? How do the forks respond on different sides of the body?

When I combine chakra chimes with the Chakra Spread the frequency created by the chimes matches each chakra. The added boost of the sound assists in opening the field and facilitates deeper healing. When I combine vocal toning with Hands Still it can easily shift a stubborn blockage. Adding sound to your Healing Touch practice doesn’t need to be difficult. Vocal toning is a simple technique that costs nothing and can even be done silently. Some people have a Tibetan bowl they aren’t sure how to incorporate into their healing practice. What about that set of maracas you brought back from Mexico last year? Don’t worry, just give it a try. Set your intention and let go of the outcome. Give yourself PERMISSION. TRUST the experience. ALLOW the process to happen.
Sound healing is not music therapy. You don’t have to be a trained musician to use this powerful healing tool. Your voice, because it carries your consciousness, can facilitate your most powerful healing. We’ve given away the power of our voice to professional musicians. We think if we can’t sing on key and perfectly then we won’t sing at all. Well, I say, “POOF to that”! Sing whenever you get the chance and make a joyous noise! But make sure if you are with a client that they have granted you permission.

The Healing Touch sequence teaches us to always talk to our client and ask their permission for touch. This is a good time to talk about adding sound to the healing session to determine if they are open to the experience. Once you have agreement be gentle with your voice or your tools. No one wants an aggressive drum beat bringing them straight up off the table during the session! Remember to allow silence between sounds and listen to what your tools are telling you about the energy.

Welcome to the PTA Club – Permission, Trust, Allow!!