Newsletter Feb 2023 Sparks of Healing
AKA what are you doing with all your time now, Patricia?
The following is a continuation of the not so monthly newsletter I used to send through Mailchimp. It is a summary of what is happening at my business sparksofhealing.ca and other shenanigans I am getting up to.
Newsletter location change…
It has been a hot minute since I communicated to you who were subscribed via Mailchimp. I have decided to move that newsletter over here to Substack mainly because it is a more user-friendly tool for me to use both for the monthly newsletter and the other writing that I wish to publish. Forever Five - Adventures of The Ladybug Hunter is the first book I published on my own, after collaborating with Bonnie Bogner on Hope for Humanity - Love is the Answer... Now what was the Question? and I have lots more stories to tell inside of me. Substack will be the place I choose to share those now.
On Facebook, my writing gets lost in the Algorithm and I have chosen not to put my content there anymore.
I’m a poet and now you know it…
I have written poetry for a long time, some of which I forgot about until recently. While looking for my boys’ time of birth details, I happened upon a three-ring binder filled with angsty poetry from my teens. Anybody want me to embarrass myself and share it? If five people respond to this newsletter with yes, I promise to read it to you here using the podcast feature. Some of it is cringeworthy and some are okay.
Not all poetry rhymes though, as you will see if you read Trauma Train which is the first piece I shared here on My Weird and Wonderful Life stack. If you haven’t seen that yet, you can click the link and read it.
Boundaries…
Last fall, a lot of my time and energy was spent working on boundaries and healing old wounds. The major takeaway that I have from this experience is that the closer the person is to my heart, the harder it is to build and maintain the boundary, as the poem alludes to, there was a lot of soul searching and self-forgiveness involved in creating this one.
When I love someone dearly, I want them to be happy. I want them to have a beautiful life lived with appreciation and gratitude for what they have. If someone close to me is living in the past to the degree where they cannot see the magic of the present in front of them, it hurts my heart on their behalf.
I had to learn and accept that their happiness is not my responsibility. I had to accept that they have the free will to spend their time focused wherever they chose. If their past interferes with my mental wellbeing and ability to enjoy my present, then I have to use my own free will to create personal boundaries. That is what I did.
My heart is at peace with the decisions I made. The walls I have erected are truly necessary for my personal well-being. Thankfully, the modalities I have in my spiritual tool belt work for my own life as well as those of my clients. I literally walked my talk and did the work.
It’s about time…
One of the interesting things about being a Reiki Master to me is that the title does is a little misleading. One would think that calling yourself a master of anything would denote you do it perfectly, that you have mastered it in the past. That is not the case with Reiki, at least not in my opinion.
I have always said that by declaring I am a Reiki Master, I am stating that I am working on self-mastery, using the tools of Reiki to clean and clear my body, mind, and spirit to be a clear channel for Universal Life Force Energy. This is the reason that it took me from 2014 to 2018 to begin teaching others. I needed to fully embody the practice myself and clear away some personal baggage before I could teach Reiki 1st and 2nd Degree.
This year, I am ready to be really out there and promote teaching the Master/Teacher level to others. Now, don’t get me wrong. Any students who wanted the 3rd level from me received it, I just really had not promoted it before now.
Why is that?
Fear, mostly. Not fear of competition or anything that simple, fear of not being sure I knew what being a Reiki Master meant so how could I teach it? I feel surer of myself now, I believe I understand what I am here, what we are all here in fact, to accomplish and therefore, I can teach it to others.
My first Reiki Master/Teacher class is up on the website, ready for registration, scheduled for March 5,
2023. Whether you have been my student, or learned from someone else; if you wish to take the Master/Teacher level with me, I would be happy to have you. If the spirit is willing and the pocket book is a little short, please reach out and I will do my best to accommodate you over time.
Hypnosis offerings and experiences…
Interlife Regression Hypnosis has been the most popular service I offer. I was fortunate enough to be interviewed about it by Lisa Peters on Access TV’s Talk of the Town in January. It continues to be my favourite thing to facilitate; I love to be the tour guide for people into the Interlife, taking them places they need to go to do the work they need to do.
Here are a few of the interesting things clients have experienced:
One lady experienced a rainbow with every colour having a different feeling to it. Unfortunately, she was not booked for the Interlife but a regular hypnosis session, so it was not recorded. The only colour I clearly remember her speaking of was purple which she told me is giggly feeling.
Another client had an unexpected visitor in the Special Place they tour to meet with loved ones who have passed. They were expecting one person, and a completely different person showed up with the most beautiful message. This visitor had been from the “bad side of the family” and popped in to say how proud they and others were of the client of the beautiful, loving person they were and the great work this client was doing breaking free of ancestral wounds.
Others have been greeted by pets who were near and dear to them and many have met their amazing guides and soul families.
I offer these sessions in person, although it is absolutely possible to do any session over Zoom. Personally, I took most of this advanced training during The Great Pause where everything was remotely offered. If this is of interest to you, please don’t let distance stop you.
Speaking of training…
My dear friend, mentor, and creator of the above mentioned Interlife Hypnosis protocol, Jacquie Balogh will be offering her 6-month Utopia protocol program multiple times this year. I am thrilled to be hosting and participating in the training in April which includes a 4-day in person training here in Regina, May 5-8th, 2023.
If you have ever wanted to be certified in hypnosis, I highly recommend Jacquie’s interactive program. You can discover more about it here on Facebook or at her website here.
Out and about…
There are a couple of public events I will be taking part in:
At this expo, I will do my very first public reading of Forever Five as well as talk to people about hypnosis. This will be a very well attended event with over twenty-five vendors. Admission is $5/day with kids under 12 free, proceeds going to The Pack Project Inc. which is a local dog rescue.
On March 6th, from 6:30 - 8pm, I will be speaking to the NAS group (New Age Society), formerly known as Care for the Core, at the Neil Balkwill Civic Arts Centre, 2420 Elphinstone St, Regina, SK about Interlife Regression Hypnosis. The evening will include presentation, Q&A and a group hypnotic meditation to clear the chakras. The cost to attend is $5 payable at the door. Everyone is welcome to attend.
This was a longer newsletter than most and if you made it this far, I thank you! This newsletter will come monthly now, on the first.
Stay well… and thanks for being a part of…
YES!!!