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Healing a tornado funnel cloud: do you think it made a difference?

One thing about thinking of yourself as a healer and being aware of your profound ability to make a difference in every moment is that interesting healing situations crop up everywhere! 

Yesterday we drove home in a torrential downpour from touring the town's brand new high school.  Right away, on the south edge of town, we noticed a long, thin, dark funnel cloud pulling out of the clouds ahead of us and running mostly parallel to the ground, with the wispy end angling downward slightly.  We watched it in fascination as we drove right under it.  By the time we reached the library, the town's tornado siren was wailing.

I grew up in the midwest and remember my parents alertly monitoring such potential twisters.  Most of the time, they never came near us.  But in the 8-10 mins of our trip from the high school, the end had significantly widened and was now pointing down maybe 30 degrees off of vertical.  Eek!  Would it get bigger?  Would it reach for the earth?  We debated, watched, checked weather.com for news, and marveled that a long funnel cloud like that could hold its shape so steadily for so long.

Then, I realized the clouds were actually slowly drifting towards us.  Well, this was fascinating and educational and all, but what a pain if it touched down in town and messed up property!

"Do you think Reconnective Healing would do anything for it?" I asked my son, who is also a Reconnective Healing practitioner.  

"I don't know," was his excellent answer. 

"Well, if Reconnective Healing brings out the highest potential for all in a situation, then whatever the outcome, it will be best," I said and started healing work aimed at the clouds.  

Within a minute the funnel had broken in half.  Within four minutes it was gone.  The sirens stopped.  We looked at each other.

Coincidence?  "Re-coincidence"?  What do you think?

I find it delightfully amusing that we will never know if the healing was what ended the funnel.  And does it really matter? 

Either way, a tornado did not rip through our town today, and I hope you had a pleasant afternoon as well.

Polishing silver with Reconnective Healing

Story from my client newsletter, July 2008:

Yesterday, I wanted to wear my silver star necklace and earrings that I hadn’t worn in 10 years.  They were totally tarnished black, so I got out the silver polish.  I don’t have the super-quick dip-it kind, so I daubed on the regular creamy blue polish and added elbow grease.  I barely made a dent after a several minutes!  The black came off the edges of the stars, but barely budged from the middles.  Of course, I wanted to be hurrying and leaving the house early at the moment.  I added elbow grease. 

I’ve been playing recently with Reconnective Healing –- trying it out on my plants, in my yard, on the kids' mosquito bites.  Remember that once you have been Reconnected, or even have had a Reconnective Healing session, you too have these frequencies available to you all the time.  

Well, polishing was getting boring fast so I decided to play.  For fun I started doing Reconnective Healing while I worked.  I expected nothing of course -- they didn't cover working on jewelery in class.

But my mouth dropped open when immediately I saw the black start to fade before my eyes!  I kid you not.  I couldn't believe it.  I stopped for a few seconds, stopped the Healing, and then polished the regular way again, just using force.  Like before, I could see slight changes only after several passes of the cloth.

So after another minute of that, I shifted into Reconnective Healing again. Immediately, I could see a slight change with each pass of the cloth. Wow. Shocked and confused, but still in a hurry, I used the Reconnective Healing to finish fast.

OK.  What was going on?  Does Reconnective Healing really polish silver?  Does it change the inanimate silver molecules?  Does it allow the necklace to move closer to its full potential?  Does it allow order to be created from disorder and decay on its surface?  I have no clue!  But ponder this:  Reconnective frequencies connect living beings like you to your Full Potential, and to your life's purpose, or why you're here. They make it easier for you to do what you came here to do, and you can heal, even instantly, if that's getting in your way.

Yesterday morning my destination was church, to talk about meditation and talk to the kids about how most adults wish they were more childlike, even as we ask them to act more grown up.  The earring polishing was delaying me, so finishing that faster would move me along my spiritual path.  How the frequencies worked to actually untarnish the silver, I am not sure.  Perhaps tarnished silver is just another of those illusions that The Reconnection helps you to see though in very real and immediate ways.  ;)

I do love how my life has become a delightful adventure since my Reconnection!  How about yours?

Expectations can blind you to healing

It can be limiting to enter a healing situation, as the practitioner or the seeker of healing, with specific expectations.  We all naturally do this, but it's a very logical (left-brained) way to approach healing, which is distinctly a non-logical (right-brained) phenomenon. 

In other words, healing does not compute.  For instance, it is holographic and holistic:  it does not work on one level -- you experience healing benefits throughout your being and life.  Having expectations about your session limits your thinking, blinds you to seeing and appreciating healing in unexpected venues. 

Eric Pearl, founder of The Reconnection, suggests coming to your healing session in a state of expectancy rather than with specific expectations or demands.  This wisdom is not limited to healing.  It also applies to our spiritual journey and practices  (a major side effect of which is... well... healing).

I came across a lovely description of this issue over Thanksgiving while rereading The Wisdom of the Enneagram by Don Riso and Russ Hudson, Bantam, 1999, page 347.  Another point they make is that we often think of healing as "fixing" things that are wrong, another concept that doesn't apply to wholism, spirituality or healing.  Please enjoy their insights:

"A major obstacle to regular practice is the expectation that we will attain a specific result.  Ironically, this obstacle is a problem especially if we have made significant breakthroughs with our practice.  The personality seizes on breakthroughs and wants to re-create them on demand.  But this is not possible because breakthroughs occur only when we are completely open to the present moment, while anticipating a certain payoff distracts us from such experiences.  In this moment, a new gift or insight is available -- although more likely not the one that was available last week.  Furthermore, the personality may use our breakthroughs as justifications to stop practicing, saying, "Great!  You've had a breakthrough!  Now you're 'fixed' and you don't need to do this any more."

P.S.  Funny story:  I just opened a Dove chocolate as I saved this, and the saying on the inner wrapper is: "Set your goals high but not your expectations."  :)

How I came to have my personal Reconnection

When I turned 40 in October of 2006, I would get a rather buzzy feeling thinking about the year ahead of me.  Just 93 days later I was Reconnected (on February 1 & 3, 2007), and my life has been quickly transforming ever since.

I met Ronette because she was my cousin's healer's friend in Sedona's friend in LA (of course).  She had moved to Madison a year and a half earlier.  Everyone said we should get together, so we finally did.  She was wonderful.  On her way out of my house one cold January afternoon, she threw over her shoulder, “Oh, I forgot to tell you I also do this thing called The Reconnection.”  

Out of my mouth immediately popped, “I'd like to do that, it sounds great.”  

A moment later when my brain caught up with my mouth, I asked what precisely a Reconnection was. The answer didn't stick, but we scheduled anyway.  Logically, I don’t know why I did.  I was fond of understanding (and picking apart) other healing methods before rushing to have them done.

So I had no idea what The Reconnection was at the time of my appointment, which was probably good, since I would have been a snob about it.  (Yes, I had quite the healer's ego at the time, but that is another story...)  I was shocked by the price tag, but wrote the check and lay down on the massage therapy table anyway.

After she told me to close my eyes, I had dropped into a meditative state within seconds.  I rarely sat still to meditate and had a very hard time focusing back then, but I knew that buzzy meditative state I could eventually get into with a lot of effort, where I just don't want to move.   

On my way home from my first appointment, I was unreasonably ecstatic about whatever had just happened.  In the car just a block from her house, I asked the Universe aloud how I could get more of this kind of energy into my life.  (Yes, it's "frequencies", not energy...)  In my mind's eye, I saw a picture of my hands curving around an invisible ball, palms facing each other at about noon and 6:00.  My practitioner had loaned me Eric Pearl’s book to read before my second session; I about fell off my chair when I got to the part where he describes an energy exercise exactly like that.

After my second Reconnection appointment, I was flying, felt like my feet weren’t touching the ground.  A week later, I read the book again, and it became the first and only chapter book I'd read more than once -- cover to cover no less, also highly unusual.  By night I scoured the internet for Eric Pearl interviews and listened to them multiple times, too.  

It took about a month for me to finally notice that I generally felt better, slept better, didn’t need as much sleep, and could eat chocolate like I was 20 again.  (That was quite fun for a while!)  By the end of March I had signed up for the Reconnective Healing I/II class, and had to wait an excruciatingly long three months for it.

But that was only the beginning of my transformation...   

A recoincidental healing session

A story from my client newsletter, November 2007:

For three days, I've been feeling under the weather, and struggling with some big "letting go" and future planning issues.  Doing Reconnective Healing on myself was just not flowing for whatever reason.  I had too many fears, I think.  Then my right lower jaw swelled up overnight and was very tender this morning, the last straw.  

So this morning I told the Universe that I accepted that I should have and would please like a Reconnective Healing session from someone else, so I could lie down and relax and stop stressing.  I had no idea who I was going to call or how I was going to arrange that, so I avoided doing so, for a while.  

Meanwhile, on the other side of town early this morning... a friend (who just took Reconnective Healing Level I/II) was thinking about the healing session she had scheduled for this morning with her acupuncturist a long time ago.  And while she was thinking about canceling and calling me to get a full RH session instead (but fighting doing that) the acupuncturist called and canceled the appointment!  So my friend, a Reconnective Healing Practitioner, calls me about getting a session within minutes of my deciding that I wanted a session. 

Do you want to trade, I asked?

This is how easy and harmonious life has become after my Reconnection.  It seems to work like this: when something will genuinely help you along your path, it comes along, often uncannily easily!

So we traded early this afternoon.  The swelling in my jaw, which had continued to swell slightly all morning, was down very noticeably by the end of the session, and is about 75% gone now (a few hours later).  Other issues I've been struggling with for three days are suddenly becoming clearer, too.  I love this!

I hope you are having fun with cool "recoincidences" in your Reconnected life too!!

You have what you need when you need it

A friend and I traded a Reconnective Healing session after she took the level I/II class.  We had briefly discussed that a session is exactly 30 minutes, and I said sometimes my hands will drop by themselves and when I look over at the clock it's been exactly a half hour! 

But my friend, doing her first actual full session, was feeling a bit uncertain.  When 30 minutes rolled around, she saw that I was still in register and could still feel the frequencies moving around.  She wasn't sure how to proceed, wondering to herself, "Should I stop now?"

That very second, from the next room, my 4-year-old yelled at her sister:  "STOP!"

So cool. 

New job / change in plans recoincidence

So last year I coined the word “recoincidence” with my Reconnection clients to refer to a Reconnection-related coincidence.  These are the things that happen that make life SUPER easy:  the answer that presents itself right after asking that “impossible” question in exasperation, running into someone you wanted to see, money arriving in the mail the moment you run out, driving the “wrong” way when it turns out traffic ahead was being rerouted that way anyway, etc.  Recoincidences also seem to make it easier for you to stop messing with life's details and fulfill your purpose.

So here’s one from last July.  At that time, we'd had a regular daytime babysitter for our younger two kids for over a year.  But we decided that when the older one went to Kindergarten that fall, the youngest would go to a great daycare and we wouldn't need the babysitter any more.  Feeling guilty and cringing a bit, I told our babysitter what we were thinking of, hoping to land the news softly. 

“Oh,” she said brightly, “When is she going to start?  I’ve been offered a full-time position at my part-time job starting September 2.”  Yes, you guessed it, that was the exact first day of day care. 

Recoincidence means win-win, all around.  Thank you Universe, I love it!!!

Watch what you wish for

I said to friends: yes I could meet at 9 am next Thursday, but I have a 10 am so we'll have to keep it short.  After I sent the email, I looked longingly at my calendar thinking how nice it would be to have another half hour for the 9 o'clock meeting.  Oh well.

A couple minutes later, my 10 am called, apologizing and asking to push back to noon.  OKAY, SURE!

Recoincidence, with an almost immediate turnaround.  I've learned that it's a hint that I will gain something very supportive to my path from the 9am call...  I look forward to it!

Everyday recoincidences

Life after The Reconnection is definitely different, though in a gentle, subtle way.  It's easier.  One of the features is a skyrocketing number of coincidences.  I've coined the term "recoincidence" with my clients.  Things like one client reporting making so many driving errors one day, getting in wrong lanes and making a wrong turn that she joked with her companion that the car really wanted to drive down this other street.  Then they got a little further ahead and, you guessed it, the road was blocked off and rerouted down guess which street.

I had a magical trip to Target one day in March 2008 after I almost didn't stop because I didn't have the time.  First I took what I thought was a wrong turn but turned out to be the road I wanted anyway.  Then I went down a row in the parking lot I don't usually go down, and a car pulled out leaving me a space right by the door.  I walked in and the cart collector pushed a cart at me so I didn't even break stride to get a cart.  I found all I wanted immediately, in stock and on top, even going down an aisle "erroneously" and remembering an item there that we really needed.  When I went to check out a new lane opened just for me, and as I reached to pick up my bags someone asked if they could have my cart, and I walked straight out.  What a wonderful, crazy string of recoincidences!

These could be "random", but when you get 3, 5, 12 of these in a day, consistently, you know something's changed in your life.  Yes, coincidences increase with energy work, too, but after 8 years of lots of kinds of energy healing I've NEVER heard of or experienced these levels of coincidence. 

Recoincidence, that is.