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A Guided Tonglen Meditation by Pema Chödrön
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.
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.
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
My Book, A Business Of Healing, Was Approved As A Healing Touch Resource for Students
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
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
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
Dr. Sheldon Feldman On Reiki And Surgery
In this video, Dr. Sheldon Feldman speaks about his journey of discovering how valuable energy work can be for surgery and cancer patients. When his sister was diagnosed with stage four cancer, he witnessed how vibrant her health was right up to the very end with alternative self-care such as nutrition, meditation, and therapy.
In my vision of a better world (more about my vision in another post), everyone who has surgery will have energy work available, whether from a family member, medical professional, volunteer, or clinic.
After all these years, I am still amazed at how powerful, comforting, and supportive energy work is after surgery and when healing from cancer.
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
The Gift That Keeps On Giving: Healing Touch Level One Class February 10th and 17th, 2024
There is so much energy and support available to every one of us. Support that can restore ease and harmony to our bodies and lives. Hands-on healing can help you live a more balanced and conscious life with less physical pain and stress.
If you are curious about energy work for yourself, would like to support a family member, or even to share professionally, this is the class I would recommend.
Laurie Ratto, HTCP/I, QM, RN, BSN, CCA, will be teaching a Healing Touch Level One beginning class next February and I will be one of her assistants. It is so exciting to watch people tune into their natural healing abilities! In my healing practice, I use the techniques she will be sharing in every session. This class will change your life.
The workshop is on February 10th & 17th, 2024, 8:30 am – 6:00 pm Pacific Time. Location: Hillcrest Congregational Church, 404 Gregory Lane, Pleasant Hill, CA.
I 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 through Friday. 510-601-9632 jerilawson@mac.com
Breathwork: Healing Expectations
Lately, I have been noticing that one of the biggest blocks to healing has been the expectations of how that healing will show up.
This often happens at a client’s second breath session. Sometimes my client wants the same experience as the first breathe. Other times, they are afraid they may have as intense of an experience as they did before.
Thoughts like “Nothing is happening,” “This is not what I expected,” or “This isn’t what happened last time” holds back the possibilities of what is actually arising, releasing, and evolving.
This has been such a good reminder for me in my ‘everyday’ life.
I still get irritated when things don’t happen how I want- including UPS deliveries, internet malfunctions, and listening to the news. Being aware of how my expectations keep me from being present helps me hold it all much more gracefully—my resistance, the present situation, and all possibilities beyond my current state of awareness.
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
Clarity Breathwork: What’s In The Way Is The Way
What’s in the way is the way.
I find myself frequently repeating this statement, especially in Breathwork sessions. Becoming conscious of what is blocking you physically, emotionally, or mentally is how you discover what you need to heal. The resistance contains the healing.
It’s natural to want to avoid pain and unpleasant emotions like shame, grief, and fear. Yet, to breath into whatever is arising – whether that is a pain in your lower back or a complex emotion – is how you come back into balance and peace.
Of course, not all healing requires a deep dive into resistance and a dramatic release. So many incredibly effective breath sessions are basically a gentle relaxation of the nervous system. Some sessions are even a tangible experience of spirit.
As an energetic practitioner, I see this as my job: To hold a safe, grounded space for you to connect and process your greatest fears and emotions, if that comes up to be integrated or released. To hold a space for you to find your own answers.
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