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everything up, and that any relief I had felt was simply coincidence. I especially doubted myself because I also came to discover that I could harness the energy of anger and pain, using it to heal myself. my ability to do a repeat performance was highly erratic. Sometimes I would do my little abracadabra and make the pain vanish immediately—poof! Other times, I would focus and concentrate, then concentrate and focus, only to be left sprawled on my couch like a drunken sailor, belting out an off-key rendition of "I Can't Get No Satisfaction." It was only last year, after I read a As consistently as it happened, I was always startled by the transformation. Once I discovered that dancing, above and beyond all else, could help me heal, I became very curious as to why. Primarily, I wondered if the healing power of dance was the product of vibrations from music. That in turn led me to become very curious about the potential of healing vibrations emanating from everything and everyone—sky, trees, water, people. I started experimenting, seeing the world around me as one big, fat radio, and working to tune my dial into those "stations" with healing frequencies. Essentially, it was a shift in consciousness: I recognized the possibility that something powerful existed beyond the realm of (and yet always had been a regular part of) my daily experience. I invited and made myself receptive to a very particular field of energy. I began walking around like a sponge of sorts—my soul asking (nonverbally) everything and everyone around me if they had some healing power to share, then opening to the energetic vibrations that came my way. Whenever I was able to really tune in—to flowers on the sidewalk, to fish in the ocean, to smiling people walking by, to healing spirits traveling the earth—I felt immediately calmed and soothed. I felt powerful, hopeful. I felt my body healing. Once, when tuning in to the healing vibrations of stars in the sky, I was able to actually see the vibrations, like physical matter I could cut with a knife. I also came to discover that I could harness the energy of anger and pain, using it to heal myself. I would transform the anger or pain energy into healing energy, then send that energy into the pain source. Within minutes or seconds, the pain would melt away, leaving me feeling empowered, elated, and in awe. Experiences like those were so powerful, and so out of the realm of so-called "reality," they often confused and scared me. Sometimes I shut down after experiencing them. Often, I decided that I had just made book by Adam DreamHealer—a distant energy healer and best-selling author of three books on energy healing—that I began to take myself seriously. As a young boy, this energy worker had all kinds of freaky experiences: objects would fly toward him, his bicycle would suddenly flip in the air while he was riding it, lots of weird stuff that nobody initially believed. Meanwhile, for years, his mom had regular and excruciating headaches. She would go into her bedroom, lie down, and scream in agony. Nothing could be done to relieve her pain. One day, when his mom was in the middle of an episode, DreamHealer instinctively went into her room, put his hand on her head, and energetically pulled the pain out. His mother immediately stopped screaming, and, as I understand it, she never had another headache episode again. FORGE THROUGH THE DOUBT My power to tap into universal energy certainly was not as developed as DreamHealer's, but after reading his book, I was able to recognize that I had not made up my abilities. I set off on a mission to find people who could help me understand and consistently access my self-healing powers. connect with your colleagues on massageprofessionals.com 49