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February 4th, 2025 Healing Touch Quarterly Meeting With Speaker Michelle Paulson, Spiritual Medium

Healing Touch of Northern California is an incredible healing community.

This group started many years ago to support students and practitioners of Healing Touch. Yet anyone interested in healing, energy, and intuition is welcome. If this sounds interesting to you, please join us!

We meet four times a year. Our next Healing Touch Quarterly Meeting is on Zoom from 6:30 pm to 8 pm PST. Here is the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82732503140

Our speaker will be Spiritual Medium Michelle Paulson. Michelle defines her gift as the ability to speak and translate soul. She believes she works for Spirit and does her best to take their messages and deliver them to her clients. Michelle believes that spirit arranges how you connect with her and how she can deliver those messages. She is a window into heaven.

Her book Faithful is an excellent read. It is fascinating to learn how other people see, hear, and feel the energy in their intuitive practices.

Michelle will tell us about her journey with energy, her current practice, and her offerings. She will also pick one person at the meeting to give a reading.

Hope to see you there!

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available Monday through Friday for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork. She also does distance healing via Zoom and on the phone.

510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com

 

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Experience Sacred Space

Would you like to experience Sacred Space?

Physically feel a heightened perception of your own inner state and the immediate environment around you?

Discover a sense of calm, stability, and profound stillness?

Feel deeply connected to something larger than yourself, a state of consciousness where you are one with all that is?

Would you like to be truly present in the moment?

This happens over and over in my practice and is one of my favorite things about energetically working with other people. I have learned how to create a space for others to physically and tangibly taste the experience of being truly present.

It is often so subtle, yet it is everything.

If you have already worked with me and are interested, just let me know. We can do it before you get on the table at your next healing.

If you have not worked with me, email or call to book a session.

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available Monday through Friday for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork. 

510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com

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Healing Touch Recertification

Every five years, I have to recertify to continue my practice as a Healing Touch Practitioner. It’s not as labor-intensive as becoming certified, yet it does take some time. Without getting too boring… I had to document 75 hours of continuing education and participation for the last five years. I was required to write a report on my professional and personal development, as well as how I see my healing practice developing. I also had to write about my participation in the healing community.

I was certified in 2001, so this is my fourth recertification.

This is a lot of work, yet I am glad I have to do it. I know anytime I refer a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner to someone, that Practitioner is qualified and engaged in their healing practice. They have to be serious about their healing practice to do all this paperwork. 😉

I also want to remind you that many hospitals have Healing Touch Practitioners available. When you have surgery and procedures in other states, ask if there are any nurses or volunteers that do Healing Touch. This modality is SO HELPFUL after surgery. I just had another client in San Diego get a session post-surgery. It was incredibly helpful in her recovery.

Healing Touch Program Accreditations and Endorsements

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available Monday through Friday for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork. 

510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com

 

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A Letting Go Meditation

I am reading and rereading the book Letting Go: The Pathway Of Surrender by David Hawkins. I highly recommend going to the library or bookstore and reading pages 19 through 25. Seriously, this information can really help you process challenging emotions and gain insights into your health and life. Here is the first paragraph of that section, The Mechanism of Letting Go:

“Letting go involves being aware of a feeling, letting it come up, staying with it, and letting it it run its course without wanting to make it different or do anything about it. It means simply to let the feeling be there and focus on letting out the energy behind it. The first step is to allow yourself to have the feeling without resisting it, venting it, fearing it, condemning it, or moralizing about it. It means to drop judgment and to see that it is just a feeling. The technique is to be with the feeling and surrender all efforts to modify it in any way. Let go of wanting to resist the feeling. It resistance that keeps the feeling going. When you give up the resisting or trying to modify the feeling, it will shift to the next feeling and be accompanied by a lighter session. A feeling that is not resisted will disappear as the energy behind it dissipates.”

Some mornings, this is my entire meditation. If I wake up feeling uneasy or especially stiff, I focus my attention as Dr. Hawkins describes above. I have found this also works incredibly well with physical pain. Often, the sensation will move to another part of my body. Thoughts and memories sometimes surface, but when I focus on what is in my body, I bypass my mind and can easily track the sensation. The more I do it, the more I get out of it.

Energy can be experienced kinesthetically as hot, cold, heavy, or tight (the most common sensation). It can have a color or feel chaotic, carbonated, or spikey. I am usually surprised by what happens. 

I have been doing this with clients for the last several years before we even get to the healing table, and they are blown away. I am blown away; it’s amazing. It is also much easier when you do it with someone holding space. 

Take care, and Happy New Year. 

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available Monday through Friday for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork. 

510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com

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Healing: Relax For Strength And Stamina

Some people may believe that to relax means to surrender, to lower your guard, or to give up. However, the exact opposite is true. Being relaxed actually makes you more resilient, flexible, and creative. When we are at peace, we become more connected to our intuition and higher consciousness.

Calming and resetting your nervous system relieves muscle tension, lowers blood pressure, reduces inflammation, and improves mental function. It definitely lets you sleep better.

What helps you let go, relax, and unwind?

A walk on the beach? Meditating? Netflix and popcorn? Long phone call with a good friend? Maybe a Healing Touch session?

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available Monday through Friday for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork. 

510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com

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Healing and Community

Last Friday and Saturday, I took a workshop given by Awakening Healing Axis. The workshop was called Connect to Your Quantum Reality to Embody High Frequency Healing and Live With Ease & Joy. It was taught by Tim McConville & Franny Harcey. Perry Harcey was also there to record the whole workshop (that was a big job).

From the Awakening Healing Axis Website
From The AHA Website

I walked into the workshop pretty raw after election week, even though I had been meditating and doing extreme self-care for the last several months.

I can’t tell you how much better I feel now after being in a group of energy practitioners for two days. I experienced a profound energy shift in the work we exchanged. Everyone in the class was glowing at the end of the two days. The Awakening Healing Axis protocols are amazing. I am so supported in the healing space. We humans are truly multidimensional beings.

Once again, I realized how important it is for me to come together in community as a solo Energetic Practitioner. Bringing our healing community together creates so much light.

Check out Raising Your Frequency (Basic High Frequency Shift). Learn how to raise your frequency to support transformation in your life. Amplify your energetic journey. It’s free!

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available Monday through Friday for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork. 

510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com

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Healing and Sacred Space

Over the years, many people have asked me how I handle all the trauma, heavy emotions, and ‘negative energy’ clients bring to my Healing and Breathwork sessions.

I do set the intention and focus of the sessions, but it is the sacred space that holds, transforms, balances, and allows my clients to self-heal.

Being in that high state of consciousness with another person is so life-affirming. My clients constantly inspire me. I am so profoundly grateful to be doing this work.

I don’t have any answers to all that is happening now, but I do have the space.

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available Monday through Friday for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork. 

510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com

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Healing Session: A Good Thing To Do Even When You Think Are Too Stressed To Relax

There are times when you are so stressed you don’t feel like you can possibly relax. You think you must wait until the divorce/election/medical procedure is over before you can even think of feeling calm again.


Hypervigilance becomes habitual, and it may feel like it is keeping you from feeling vulnerable. Yet, what it is really doing is blocking your natural flow of life force energy.


By resetting your nervous system with a Reiki or Healing Touch session, you’re not just finding balance. You’re also opening up to new possibilities, ideas, and actions that can be more effective and stabilizing in all areas of your life. The best part is that everyone around you also benefits: the checkout clerk at Walgreens, your coworkers, friends, and especially your family.

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available Monday through Friday for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork. 

510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com

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Healing and Paradigm Shifts

I took this definition from the internet:

“A paradigm shift is a long-lasting change in the way we think about our lives. It’s a shift in our perception of reality, a change in our beliefs and assumptions, and a new way of looking at the world around us.”

The definitive book on Energy Healing: “Hands Of Light” by Barbara Ann Brennan

My clients have had quite a few paradigm shifts in the last few months. I have not written much about this before because expectations of what could happen in a session can block what is actually happens. I feel I should write about it now because it is occurring so often.

One of my ‘gifts’ as an energetic practitioner is the ability to hold space for clients to come into balance and release physical, mental, and emotional pain. Most people initially come to me to address physical issues such as headaches and chronic back pain or to support them as they heal from a cancer diagnosis. Many people come because they want to learn to relax. Most of my clients have never had any kind of energy work or alternative healing modality before.

As my clients receive a series of sessions, they begin to clear blocks that have kept them from recognizing their innate intuitive abilities. They may experience a hand on their shoulder while I am holding their feet or sense the presence of their grandmother, who died ten years earlier. They often report that they felt tangible comfort, healing, and support from a non-physical being.

I find that these experiences happen when they need to happen, and whatever happens or does not happen in a healing session is perfect. That being said, when people who see themselves as rational and reality-based, experience a spirit guide or tangible nonphysical presence, it is, to say the least, a game-changer.

When our paradigm of reality shifts, we open to so many more possibilities.

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available Monday through Friday for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork. 

510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com

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An Image Of Healing

A client sent me this picture from Mexico. She said this is how she felt during her healing sessions.

🙂

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available Monday through Friday for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork. 

510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com