The Healing Pod

Third Energy Healing Body Work Session

Intention

• Grounding

The debrief of my third energy session was a little more confusing than the first two. Kate said there was a lot of imagery coming through very fast and quickly right away.

In fact, she starts each session with a formal protection prayer and then Reiki. She said that even before she started this and an arrow darted into the room, she reached up and grabbed it. She took this as a signal to put up extra protection for this engagement.

I am playing around with writing this one in the first person and taking 'Kate said' out of it, to see how it flows.

I was in a small dingy traveling across a big body of dark, tumultuous water. The waves were rocking the boat and I tumbled off the left side into the cold sea. Alongside me, in the boat was, a female elder. She was my main guide for this session. She pulled me back into the boat and wrapped me up in a blanket.

I was panicking from the shock of falling into the water and because I could see no land. I didn't know how I would navigate and find my way. Then I realized the elder was navigating and I left it in her hands.

Once I got back in the boat, I was freezing and the elder was concerned about getting me warm. She opened up my chest and looked in. The light there was dimmer and my heart was contracted. She began singing a song and as the words came out of her mouth they spiraled into a thread of words that wrapped themselves around me. The song ignited inside me and gave me the warmth I needed to get me to the island where she was taking me.

When we got to the island, the elder put me in a terrarium that fit around my body. It was filled with lush greenery that now surrounded me and felt like a healing pod. As I lay there, I started to cough and dust came pouring out of my mouth, filling the terrarium. While the dust didn’t clear away, it transmuted into crystal particles that fell down and fed the plants that were healing me. An ecosystem had been created.

The elder was always around me and tending to me. She would go off and come back with roots she pulled out of the ground and put them in a foot soak and a tea. She buried my body in the earth to ground me and she kept me there for a time.

Later, when I had come out of the ground/terrarium my soul star chakra was opening up above me and making a connection to the cosmos. It was clear that I was opening up in this way, yet needed help. A young, scrappy eight-year old version of myself decided to build an antenna to help me. She crafted it out of scrap metal, bit by bit, by scaling up and sticking pieces together with bubble gum. When she got it high enough, she jumped down, brushed her hands off and said, “I did it!”.

At this point, the antenna was working and connecting up to the cosmos. My other guides lovingly looked at the work that my younger self created and valued the purpose it served to connect me. While maintaining its original intention, they refined the material into some kind of alloy and fine-tuned the connection.

The rest of the session is too difficult to put into words.

Notes:

Every time Kate went to my feet, my stomach started gurgling. This gurgling actually happens a lot when I work with her. In a very general way, the nervous system is divided into two main functions: parasympathetic - rest and digest and sympathetic - fight and flight/high arousal and high alert. You actually can’t digest food as well when you are in this alerted state because that nervous system is focused on the sympathetic work. Kate wondered if all the work done to ground me during this session finally gave me the space to rest and digest. grounding i finally get to rest and digest.

I was freezing when she was doing the work this session. Apparently, often when being buried in an energy healing session, you quake and sometimes get cold.

New Practices

Bring the grounding practices into my life. Try to do foot soaks throughout the winter with epsom salts and herbs, and a hot cup of tea.

For people who need grounding, Kate also recommends taking your shoes off and putting them in the dirt. If you can’t do that, get outside and touch shrubs and other growing things. You can even trim branches and bring greenery inside in a vase. Another idea was to tie up eucalyptus sprigs and place them on my shower head to bring their scent in when the shower steams up. Finally, she suggested drinking a lot of herbal tea with herbs with the intention of grounding.

Initial Feelings

• Solid, slow and thoughtful

• A little confused and unsure what this session meant to me

Themes that will continue

• Antennas/tuning in

• Water