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Science And The False Reality Of Loneliness

In this thought-provoking video, Lisa Miller, Ph. D., discusses the epidemic levels of loneliness in our world today.

She is a clinical psychologist and Professor of Psychology and Education at Columbia University, Teachers College. She is also the Founder of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute, the first Ivy League graduate program in spirituality and psychology.

Professor Miller believes we are all interconnected. She states that by embracing spirituality and practicing it with intention, we can realize we are not alone. She describes in this video her experience in a Lakota healing ceremony and the transformative power of collective spiritual practices.

As a Clarity Breathworker, I have witnessed many people experience that interconnectedness—the tangible, felt sense of oneness—in their sessions. It is profoundly healing: physically, mentally, and emotionally. Breathwork is my personal path and practice of connecting with this state of consciousness. This is why I am so inspired to hold space for others to breathe.

Thank you, Lisa Miller!

Note: As a healing nerd, I was surprised to learn that Alpha frequencies were the same as Schumann’s Resonance.

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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Glimmers For Well Being

“Things You Will Never Know” acrylic on board, 100x80cm by Susan Simonini

I first learned about glimmers through a newsletter from Susan Simonini. She is a Tasmanian painter I follow on Instagram and is having a solo exhibition with Handmark Gallery. The show is titled GLIMMER and soon opens on April 12th, 2024. Susan wrote this about how glimmers inspired her work:

“In psychology, a ‘glimmer’ appears as the opposite of a ‘trigger’; a moment that inspires feelings of joy, peace, and safety, and in turn has a positive impact on mental health. Working in series, I begin each painting with gestural mark-making, from which I visualize shapes materializing. Often these shapes are informed by my environment in rural Tasmania; the angular design of a farm gate, a patchwork of fields, or the curving tractor lines etched into crops.  Embracing these initial glimmers, and following the pathways they present, loose geometric patterns begin to emerge. Each painting informs the next, creating a fluid connection or conversation between them all.”

Glimmers were first acknowleged by Deb Dana. a clinical social worker who studies trauma. Glimmers are those tiny, fleeting moments when you feel a sense of expanded awareness, peace, joy, presence and/or gratitude. In her 2018 book, The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy, Dana writes that glimmers aren’t dramatic, life-changing experiences. She states, “Glimmers are micro-moments of regulation that foster feelings of well-being.”

I love this glimmer thing. I totally see it in Susan Simonini’s paintings and now I am noticing these glimmers more in my own daily life. Thank you Susan.

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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Clarity Breathwork Enables Other Healing Modalities

Are you stuck in your healing process or your life? Does talk therapy suddenly feel unproductive? Have your physical therapy sessions stopped increasing your mobility? Is your neck tight again an hour after you see your chiropractor?

A Clarity Breathwork session may reboot everything.

Even one Breathwork session can release previously inaccessible energy blocks in your body, enabling massage, acupuncture, and physical therapy sessions to become effective again. I often have my clients’ massage therapists and PTs’ come for a Breathe after they see the shift it created for our mutual client.

Clarity Breathwork revitalizes talk therapy sessions. I have witnessed this over and over, and it is so exciting to hear my clients tell me the insights they have gained from their psychotherapists.

Breathwork increases our capacity to heal and transform on all levels of our being.

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork  Monday through Friday.   jerilawson@mac.com 510-601-9632

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Reiki And Healing

There are now many more new and exciting energy modalities, healing techniques, and philosophies available to anyone interested in healing. Many practices promise to access 5th-dimensional energy, quantum frequencies, and paradigm-shifting transformation.

For me, Reiki has been and continues to be the gateway to extraordinary healing states. I have taken many (like, a lot) trainings and workshops, and Reiki still feels like a foundational practice. Reiki has connected me to higher states of healing energy that are frankly mind-blowing.

Self-Reiki also stabilizes my physical body, helps me sleep, and prepares me for deep meditation. It grounds and connects me to new dimensions at the same time. As I continue to train in newer transformational healing practices, Reiki helps me integrate the new material much faster.

My experience with Reiki is that it is a life force energy that is constantly evolving as we evolve, personally and collectively.

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Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork  Monday – Friday.  510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com

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My Book, A Business Of Healing, Was Approved As A Healing Touch Resource for Students

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The Healing Touch Professional Association discussed A Business of Healing this month during the February HTPA Virtual Book Club meeting.
 
This book is now a resource for students who are becoming certified in HealingTouch. 
I never expected anything like this to happen. As I wrote the book, I was actually a little worried the  Healing Touch organization would not like me describing how I let go of my training to learn to trust the energy completely. I was nervous it might even separate me from the organization that gave me the foundation of my healing practice. 
 
I am so honored that the Healing Touch Program endorsed my book. I feel that everyone who is certified in Healing Touch helps bring energy work into our medical culture. It is also an excellent way of creating community, and especially as a solo practitioner, community is a tremendous support. Huge. I can’t imagine doing this alone.
 
Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork  Monday through Friday. 510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com

 

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Clarity Breathwork: Thoughts about Thoughts

Have you heard this statement from a meditation teacher, or read it in a spiritual book?

“You are not your thoughts; you are the observer of your thoughts.” 

—  Amit Ray

A few weeks ago, during a Clarity Breathwork Session, a client had a very tangible experience of being separate from his thoughts. He became aware of that part of him that was observing the thoughts. He was in awe.

Often, during a Breathwork session, the experience of your thoughts as separate from you can arise. It happens quite a bit in my personal breath sessions, and I too, am still in awe every time it happens.

I LOVE Breathwork.

Yet, sometimes when oxygen energizes the brain during a breathe, there are more thoughts than ever! That initially does not seem to be meditative. I suggest to my Breathwork clients before their first breathe not to attempt to stop the thinking. Instead, just observe the thoughts coming and going. It is as if the thoughts were sticks and you are on the bank of a river watching them float by.

While researching quotes for this post, I found this cute video about thoughts. WordPress has assured me this video will go out to  subscribers when I publish it on my blog. Fingers crossed.

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An excellent quote about thoughts from one of my favorite writers, Eckhart Tolle:

“Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.”

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork  Monday through Friday. 510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com

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A Healing For The Crown Chakra: Getting Into Right Relationship With Time

When I post videos like this, it is because they are brilliant. I can’t tell you how beneficial the tuning fork healing was to me when I first found it.
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The 7th Charka at the top of your head has to do with your connection to the divine. When first investigating the energy field with her tuning forks, Eileen discovered that the 7th chakra also has to do with time.

I found this fascinating. Divine Timing is a thing.

Even though God, or Spirit, is outside of time, our experience on Earth has to do with time. The cycle of day and night, the movement of the stars, the rhythm of our breath, and even our heartbeat are in relationship to time.

Feeling pressured by time is detrimental to our health. When we feel squeezed for time, it throws us out of energetic alignment. Time-pressure causes our biofield to shift out of the midline and out of the now. Worrying about time keeps us from being present.

Eileen states: Faith is knowing you have enough time to do what you need to do.

This illuminates so much in my own healing practice – and experience of life.  I go out of my way to not feel time-pressured. That is one reason why I book my sessions so far apart.

I have also found that holding space for my client to ground (especially when I hold the feet at the start of a session) brings the 7th chakra into balance. So interesting.

Eileen Day McKusick is a great visionary, energetic practitioner, and teacher. There is a considerable wealth of information on  YouTube,  books, and her workshops.

Enjoy.

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork  Monday through Friday.  510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com

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Power Of Belief

 

We are now called to create our vision of the future and step into it. The rational mind is lost without love and imagination. Mr. Hopikins explains it beautifully.

The most direct path I know to experience the infinite possibilities of the creative mind personally is Breathwork.

I am so honored to share Clarity Breathwork with others. It is inspiring to witness others letting go of fear and calling in new paradigms of reality, life, and love.

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork  Monday – Friday.    510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com

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A Community Of Light: Healing Touch Of Northern California

Healing Touch of Northern California is at the core of my supportive and inspiring healing community.

We started this group many years ago to support students and practitioners of Healing Touch. Through the years, we expanded our numbers to include all energy workers. If you are interested in healing and want to start or deepen your energy practice, you are warmly welcome to attend our meetings.

We meet four times a year. Click here for the dates of our meetings in 2024. The next Healing Touch Quarterly Meeting is on Zoom from 6:30 pm to 8 pm.

Our speaker will be Tim McConville, HTCP/I, QM.  Tim is certified as a Healing Touch Practitioner, Qualified Mentor, and teaches five levels of the Healing Touch Program. Tim and Franny Harcey are co-creators of Awakening Healing Axis and are bringing forward advanced high-frequency healing protocols.  Check out the free course here.

I am pretty excited about this meeting because the Awakening Healing Axis books have greatly deepened my practice. I highly recommend that you check out their free course. Tim and Franny have just released a third book this month called Revealing Higher Frequencies. I can’t wait to start reading it.

Zoom Link for the meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82732503140

Hope to see you there!

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork  Monday – Friday.    510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com