Energy Therapy
And my first time receiving energy therapy and Qigong
My name is Dr Jo Scoble (PhD), former molecular research biologist turned tarot reader, crystal therapist and masseuse. This article is part of the ‘Psychic Sidekick’ Substack publication in which I post articles on the subject of working within the realm of the occult, holistic, and alternative therapies, and being an holistic therapist.
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I went to another Mind Body and Soul event local to me in the midlands and, I have to admit I REALLY enjoyed this one mostly because I managed to piss off a room full of people who all collectively sighed - Don’t get to do that often! More on that below. But in this article I would like to revisit the different energy-based therapies to which I’ve been subjected!
Crystal Energy Therapy
The first type of energy therapy I ever had was crystal energy therapy, and the experience so profound I went back a few more times and then had training off the therapist, which she only gave one course!! [I feel guided when things like this happen to me].
The first experience was more physical than I had ever imagined it would be. To be perfectly frank, I didn’t expect to feel anything at all but no sooner as I lay on the couch and she narrated she placed selenite wands at my head my head started to swim and I felt as though something around me was shifting. My breathing also became a touch laboured at one point but settled down.
There’s a lot to mention about this first experience, most notably the feeling there was another person in the room aside from the practitioner and me. I trusted the practitioner as we were friendly before I even found out she was an energy therapist. I knew she was on her own. The therapy room was above her garage and we would hear if someone had come in. I didn’t feel scared, but then I suddenly felt the presence of my old dog, Rosie, who had only died about a year prior. I felt so overwhelmed with love that tears ran down the sides of my face as I lay there with an enormous grin on my face.
Once the energy therapy was complete I felt physically like I’d been on a long-haul flight and up for hours and weirdly a touch wired and up for the Zoom chat I had planned after. And the best part, when I drove home I felt the presence of my dog with me. Overall, it was like getting a re-boot, a fresh start, like a defragmentation on a computer (showing my age).
I just felt better inside and out!
The second time around I was expecting anything and everything, and the the same practitioner, who is also a medium, said she saw a Victorian couple being very protective of me. I didn’t know who they were, but my late Aunt Cathie came through to me this time. Physically I could detect the same shifting of energy around me but it wasn’t as intense as the first time (around three months before).
Energy therapies and research science. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, just because mainstream science doesn’t often investigate the paranormal and occult phenomenon doesn’t mean to say that it doesn’t exist. Science could and can explain it, but really we must understand that science, in general, tries to explain life, so science has to catch-up to life! Just because there aren’t mainstream papers explaining psychic phenomena doesn’t mean to say experiences aren’t valid.
REIKI
I see a regular holistic massage therapist who performs Reiki on me from time to time and I feel shifts in my physical body like internal gentle pulling, and also she clears and moves energy around my auras too, which I don’t feel so much but more sense in my third eye the spatial awareness of the shifts. I don’t see much difference in the basic principles of Reiki and Crystal Energy therapy, and even those who were on the Crystal therapy course, who already had achieved a reiki certificate, confirmed as much.
When I think about doing energy work (and massage) my hands start to ‘power-up’
If you work or have been trained in energy therapy then you may be familiar with what I’m talking about; Activation of the hand chakras.
When I started energy therapy I didn’t even know about these hand chakra points and felt really bolstered by the knowledge that what I had been experiencing actually had an explanation.
THE FEELING: it’s not quite a warmth, not quite electric, not quite a breeze, it’s a feeling of activity that doesn’t have a sensory equivalent. and then there’s…
THE PULSE: when I’m working over/with a client my body moves to a pulse. I don’t seem to have much control but I know that something it moving through me, something so big I can only just direct it with my body into the client. And this phenomena I’ve only discussed with one other person to whom it also happens… Dimitri
Qigong Energy Healing
I have had bouts of chronic pain and discomfort throughout my life (even the way I phrase this I am very careful not to perpetuate it’s hold on me by ownership). After listening to the Telepathy Tapes episode on energy therapies and Qigong, I thought I may do a search to see if anyone in my area practices it.
As soon as I sat upright on the couch my shoulder/neck started to hurt more than it usually did. I wasn’t scared. With my eyes closed I could hear Dimirti huffing and flapping his arms around me.
It was a lovely meeting with Dimitri who is also a massage therapist and tarot reader! (I’m extremely jealous of his garden set-up, which is a lovely space).
After our introductory chat he showed me a ‘movement’ of how someone can connect with another with a very light touch on the forearm and moving from ‘liquid into gas’; I got to practice the flowing movement of Qigong (this is where we discussed the pulsing I and he experience when doing energy therapy).
Firstly, I was told to sit upright on the couch and Dimitri set to work, and no sooner had he started I suddenly felt my shoulder pain kick-in harder than usual. I was actually fine before the session but it’s a chronic thing so I am always up for trying new things to help any aspect of my wellbeing. I consciously made myself take gentle relaxing breaths and tried my best to surrender to the process.
Secondly, I lay down on my front as Dimitri worked along my spine (my clothes still on) and I could feel tiny vibrations!! It was as though he were using a little machine but it was his finger directing the energy channel, it was so incredible to feel, and when he reached the part of the cervical spine with the restriction it it felt relieving.
End of the session, I felt profoundly calm and grounded, excited and hopeful.
Later that night and the morning after, I did the movement practice and allowed my body to move and it was really freeing and I felt like I was lighter than liquid and had a freedom in my body that I rarely feel, that’s all tied up with living in a body that I don’t often feel comfortable in, so feeling free and connected to my body in this way was extremely profound.
What are we actually DOING with energy?
From my own experience I have broken it down into
shifting energy out
inviting energy in
moving energy directionally
And while this breakdown is extremely basic, it is how I intentionally work with energy. I certainly start with the intention but also who/what I am working with, be it universal energy, or specific Chakra points, or flows of energy around the body from which I see or diagnose with my pendulum.
Back to the Mind Body Soul Event…
It was my forth time at one of these events; they have stalls and various practitioners doing readings for folx and also there is a room with scheduled talks and demonstrations. After paying to get in and chatting to an hypnotherapist I got the program and saw there was a Mediumship demonstration on so I hot footed to the room and when I got there the room was pretty full and I was coming through a door facing the audience. I didn’t hang around and headed straight for an open seat in the centre of the aisle.
The medium was just finishing their reading for someone near the front of the room and I was just getting settled in the space when the medium said, “I’ve got time for one more” and pointed at me and walked over to grab something of mine to hold while he connected to whomever wanted to talk to me. I couldn’t think of anything to give him but eventually decided to undo my watchstrap and hand the watch over.
The medium firstly said I’d been in a job a long time and said my boss was a bit of a hardball. I couldn’t confirm this and explained that I’ve been working for myself for the last 14 months or so. The room sighed. He described a woman who was a little overweight and a bit introvert and who had grey hair when they died. Well, I said, none of the women in my family were like and that I don’t really know anyone like that. “She’s wearing gold chains?” He said. “Yes!, my Auntie Cathie”. I placated and ignored inpatient shuffled and more sighs from within the room.
The medium with a little restored confidence stated, “She tells me you’re not charging deposits.” Again, I felt I couldn’t say that was true because I do, but decided that perhaps they were talking about a new venture I had been planning (but had not bookings for yet) that perhaps I should get deposits for.
The end of the reading and I was buzzing. I really wanted there to be so much more concrete messages and indicators for my very first mediumship reading but alas… perhaps I’m hard to read?
Energy therapy from someone who is gifted from birth.
At this event, I paid £20 for someone who advertised they had a gift from birth with energy healing. No named practice, just energy healing, so I said to myself, why not. In the 15 minute session I felt usual pulls of energy to my right side. I had a vision of a ‘monster’ being pulled from me and shallow breathing and some discomfort that melted away. Afterward I couldn’t shut the fuck up! I felt a bit manic and even though calm a little ungrounded.
Do you work with energy therapies?
I’d love to know if you work with another type of energy therapy that I’ve not mentioned here or have something to share with the community or DM in private.
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