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ENERGY WORK
Determine the Boundaries Between Your
Professional Role and Personal Beliefs
I've met hundreds of healers who struggle
to differentiate the obligations of their
profession from the doctrine of their
religion. Many of these healers belong
to a faith that compels them to persuade
others to their religious point of view. An
insistent healer can emotionally injure an
unsuspecting client. Ask yourself the hard
questions: Are you really OK working
with people who don't share your spiritual
viewpoint? If you are not, are there legal
issues involved with you advertising to
work with only one type of believer?
These are sticky questions, and responding
ethically to them might involve consulting
a spiritual director or even a legal expert.
Test the Waters
If you sense a strong connection to the
unseen and feel prompted to share a sense
or a message, first ask clients if they are
open to this input. You can use questions
like, "I have an intuitive feeling. Is it OK
if I share it?" Or you can say, "I'm getting
a sense of some sort of unseen presence."
You can then follow the latter question
with further probes, such as, "Do you feel
anything?" Or, "Do you want me to share?"
If you usually intuit inaudible messages
or invisible beings, you might want to
consider saying that in the descriptions of
your work or ask clients up front if they
are interested in these observations.
Support the Client
If clients mention an otherworldly sense
or message, by all means, encourage
them to speak. Let them share as much as
they desire, but hold on to your common
sense. If a client starts diving into toxic
waters, don't follow. For instance, one of
my clients stated that God wanted her to
commit suicide. I got permission from
her to call her mental health therapist and
share this potentially tragic comment.
Go with the Flow
We can't possibly plan for all the situations
that might call attention to the invisible.
I'll give you an example. One morning, my
front door slammed open. I was sleeping at
the end of a hallway, a long way away from
that door. As the cold winter air blew in, I
heard a voice in my head: "Tell her there
are angels." That was at 5:00 a.m. When
I rose at 7:00 a.m., I picked up a message
on my work voice mail. It had been left
at 5:00 a.m. by a client who told me her
mother had just died. I felt confident this
client would be open to hearing about
my invisible morning visitor; after all,
it was most likely her mother. My client
cried and was glad to know that there are,
indeed, angels, and that her mother had
found them—or been found by them.
Who knows what we might be led
to know or share? After all, our own
connection to the unseen might very well set
us up to be, well, someone's earthly angel.
And perhaps that is the most important
point of all to make, which I would like
to do through this quote by Italian writer
Luciano De Crescenzo: "We are each of
us angels with only one wing, and we can
only fly by embracing one another."
Ultimately, as a healer, are you not an
angel in training?
Notes
1. Frank Newport, "More Than 9 in 10 Americans
Continue to Believe in God," Gallup (June 3, 2011),
accessed February 2016, www.gallup.com/
poll/147887/americans-continue-believe-god.aspx.
2. Ibid.
3. Science 2.0, "Majority of Americans Say God
Influences Their Daily Lives," accessed February
2016, www.science20.com/news_articles/majority_
americans_say_god_influences_their_daily_lives.
4. Dan Merica, CNN Belief Blog, "Poll: Quarter of
Americans Say God Influences Sporting Events,"
January 29, 2013, accessed February 2016, http://
religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/29/poll-quarter-of-
americans-say-god-influences-sporting-events/.
5. CBS News, "Poll: Nearly 8 in 10 Americans
Believe in Angels," December 23, 2011, accessed
February 2016, www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-
nearly-8-in-10-americans-believe-in-angels/.
6. Lee Speigel, Huffington Post, Weird News,
"Spooky Number of Americans Believe in
Ghosts," February 8, 2013, accessed February
2016, www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/02/
real-ghosts-americans-poll_n_2049485.html.
7. David Kessler, CNN, from Oprah.com, "Do the Dead
Greet the Dying?" October 19, 2010, accessed February
2016, www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/10/18/o.end.of.life/.
8. Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council, "Guidelines
for Health Care Providers Interacting with American
Indian (Native American; First Nation) Patients and Their
Families," accessed February 2016, www.kyha.com/
docs/PreparednessDocs/cg-native_american.pdf.
Cyndi Dale is an internationally renowned
author, speaker, and intuitive consultant. Her books
include Llewellyn's Complete Book of Chakras
(Llewellyn Publications, 2016), The Subtle Body:
An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy
(Sounds True, 2009), The Complete Book of
Chakra Healing (Llewellyn Publications, 2009),
and Advanced Chakra Healing (Crossing Press,
2005). To learn more about Dale and her products,
services, and classes, visit www.cyndidale.com.
