∆ Group Healings :: Exhausting Exhaustion ∆

Hello! It’s been an interesting year for Blueprint Wellness. I’ve been grateful to be doing so many sessions with people around the world. Being able to meet new people and have this work continue to be so well-received and appreciated has been lifting me up throughout the intensity of the pandemic and social and political unrest. Sometimes it feels like a form of activism to do this work, because of the positive impact and the way it supports people to keep going.

With that last thought in mind, I’ve started offering group healings to serve more people and make this option for support more accessible. The benefits people are experiencing through the individual and private group healings have been so inspiring, it just makes sense to add more remote options.

For those of you who haven’t tried a session with Blueprint Wellness or are new to remote energy work/healing, you’re probably wondering what this is all about and what the experience is like and how it’s beneficial.

For those of you who have tried individual or group Blueprint Wellness Energy Work sessions, please share your thoughts in the comments below. It’s always helpful for others and myself to hear about your experience!

What is a Blueprint Energy Work Remote Group Healing session?
Simply put: Energy work provides you the time and space to truly have a break from everything. When we get this kind of break, our bodies and minds revert back to neutral, allowing us to be more prepared to begin the creative process of well-being. The goal of this work is for the client to experience an increased sense of well-being as defined or perceived by you. This is an important distinction to be aware of before you book your session (in other words, I am not a psychic or a medium). This modality is very practical, like maintenance for the body, mind and spirit.

Remote sessions for groups are guided over Zoom (audio only), so you can enjoy the experience safely and comfortably from your own space.

Session Prep
∆ Find a comfy space to lie down for the session
∆ Earbuds / headphones are recommended
∆ Eye mask, candles, crystals, etc. (optional)
∆ Notebook & pen to write afterward (optional)

What is the experience like?
The experience is relaxing, you may drift in and out of consciousness, you can even take a nap! Your physical body and your mind may experience relief from the day-to-day ailments and patterns. I will explain what I’m doing throughout the session as reference. However, there is nothing you need to do during this time, there is no right or wrong way to do this work and there is no need to follow along or “believe” in the approach. For remote sessions, I play some music to help hold the space for everyone. (For in-person sessions, I do not play music.)

You get to let go of everything else and be in your own experience without all the stuff and people of life you’re always taking care of. You may become aware of things that help you find peace, integrate, get unstuck or feel reconnected to your creative self.

What are the benefits of energy work?

• Increased sense of well-being

• Feeling like yourself again

• Calm

• Clarity

• Grounded

• Reconnection to creativity

• Reset, renewed, recharged

• Less anxious, less stressed

• Able to move forward

• Rested and/or feeling like the body needs more rest

• In some cases, relief from physical pain/discomfort

• Any and all of the benefits you experience benefit those around you

A few things people shared after a recent group healing session:

“I feel more grounded. I had some beautiful realizations and feel more in tune & aligned with my body & mind.”

“That felt very freeing.”

“That was very relaxing. Much needed. Thank you!”

“My migraine is gone. I had a migraine when we started and it’s completely gone.”

“I feel like myself again.”

Sign-up link: https://blueprintwellness.as.me/grouphealingxx

“Energy work is a practice to come back to when life gets too busy or feels exhausting and you’ve lost your orientation or connection with your sense of joy and creativity.”

3 of #100daychallenge: writer + energy worker

This morning the pain in the left side of my body was so uncomfortable I laid in bed for a long time, rather than forcing myself to get up. My neck, shoulder and hip felt twisted and tight.

As I laid there feeling awful and frustrated, all I could do is surrender and stop wishing it would go away or that I knew how to fix it. As soon as I surrendered, I started doing some energy work without even thinking about it. I laid there gently acknowledging two points my body led me to, one near my left clavicle and one on the inner side of my left hip.  Slowly, I felt some softening and unwinding in my neck, shoulder and hip. It’s almost like a natural process of paring away the pain in thin sheaths.

Every time I get overwhelmed about life, I feel it in my body and it forces me to simply take a break and let myself be. Letting my body do the breathing for me and noticing just how much my body is always doing for me amidst being blasted with messages that it’s not good enough in too many ways. I sensed in this experience that the source of the issues is a pattern of holding in my left shoulder that is pulling everything out of alignment. This is why I am grateful to be an energy work practitioner. It allows me to let myself trust my own experiences and know what I know for the good of myself and others.

I laid there with my eyes closed for awhile and suddenly, I heard my brother-in-law talking to my sister on the phone. He was downstairs in the kitchen, which isn’t even directly below me. The curious thing is that I could feel the vibrations of his voice coming through the wood of my bed frame, through the synthetic feathers of my pillow and I thought about how this sound and vibration was traveling through the entire structure of the house and everything in it. What a down to earth way to experience the connectedness of everything and the impact of one person. The power of sound, frequency and vibration — surely, each its own significant part yet inseparable and seemingly impossible to isolate from one another.

Our bodies are our instrument. We are aware of this to some degree. Mostly, in the way that we are aware that we have the power to tune-in and create a range of sounds, frequencies and vibrations through our intentions and truths. The role of musician takes up most of our attention and it is important. However, it’s also important to remember that we are the instrument. This is an advantage that we don’t always make time for — understanding our own design and mechanisms from the inside out.

Our bodies naturally pick up on and are receptive to the nature of a particular sound, frequency or vibration. Truth. It is complex and subtle, undeniable and we cannot manipulate it in the way we think we can. Someone always knows when the truth is separate from the message being transmitted. That someone is whomever is delivering or receiving the message. The problem we have is that we know things we cannot unknow in our bodies. The mind may be satisfied to fool itself, but the physical and energetic body have awareness of all the truths. This is why we develop energetic blockages. See the gap that is created in the whole if the mind is denying the body in places? It’s not bad. It’s just the truth and part of the maintenance of being human. I am an honest person as much as possible, but least to myself. I deny myself. I don’t believe myself. I don’t listen to myself. I take messages and interpret them in a way that serves my ego desires to adorn myself in ways that keep parts of myself hidden. Or, I ignore the messages and develop anxiety, become sluggish and perpetually dissatisfied with myself and almost everything I encounter.

We spend much time worrying about and carrying energy, sound and vibrations with us — these are the spinning thoughts and emotions in our minds and bodies. There is a distinction that needs to be considered here, because did anyone do something to make you keep spinning those thoughts in your head long after the interaction or the event? It was not the other person and it will be impossible to find real peace and relief until this is acknowledged. Once that is done, we find ourselves at the space where we begin to see that what we must do is learn to work with ourselves to stop choosing self-torture and self-destruction.

This is getting complex, but this is where we have to consider that perhaps we took something away that confirms what we think about ourselves — usually in relation to others and our place in the world, why we feel less than and what makes life difficult for us.

If you want to explore connectedness — sound is an excellent way to learn more. All you need to do is sit quietly and listen to the sounds around you. Notice the frequency and vibration of the sound. Notice how your body feels and responds to sound. Are you able to sense how sound and vibration seep in and create little openings in your body? Does the sound fill you or flow through you? Do you feel separate or a part of the sound?

Sound can connect you with your heart, your sense and the oneness that you embody and are a part of. Where does the sound go when you stop hearing it? In my experience, I sense it is still there and can be picked up again by an instrument or awareness at anytime. Imagine how many different sounds live within your being. Some of them, many of them happy, but for some reason the ones we do not want are the loudest. How do we free ourselves from the ones that torment us?

Meditation and other practices, like exercise and energy work, allow us to shift our focus toward what supports us and allows the other stuff to dissipate or transform because we see that we have choice.

Follow @blueprintwellness.life to see my #writing #alltheloveandnoexcuses #100daychallenge unfold.

Brightly,

Laura

I am a writer + energy worker [without question]

2 of #100daychallenge: Bite by bite. Write!

I meditated with Oprah & Deepak’s 21-day meditation before I started writing today. Sometimes, I listen to the meditation while lying in bed, because I feel too tired to sit. This morning, I sat in my chair at my desk in easy pose and enjoyed the experience. So many thoughts pass through my mind and sometimes I know where they come from within me, but other times thoughts or “visions” will surprise me. Today, I saw the image of an apple and the action of biting into that apple with great excitement and pleasure. It brought in thoughts about Eve and Adam in the Garden of Eden. I never really know what I thought about that story, because I've witnessed too many discussions that resulted in personal and spiritual harm. Today, I let my mind go in that direction.

What can I learn from that story right now, I wondered?

bite into curiosity
I M A G I N E
one bite changed an entire creation
I M A G I N E
one human's impact on an entire collective

I am reminded of why I choose to not share my thoughts in writing beyond a select few most of the time. It can be worrisome to know that I cannot control what others will choose to learn and take with them. My preference is to avoid instigating the creation of negative thoughts and energy in the collective awareness as a result of something I am sharing. When I get quiet, I hear and see the truths about what destruction, excess and support really look like in my thoughts, intentions and choices. This is a form of mindfulness that I have been practicing, because I am aware that I have choice and that my visual, verbal and energetic contributions have impact. Intention matters. My intention is for my choices to align with expression that connects and uplifts.

What I can learn from that story right now is to write with curiosity “bite by bite,” because this allows the practice to become less serious and more interesting. Curiosity is the key that opens the door to imagination. Imagination is the space where so many of us go to get away from the forms and constructs that bind us, so that we may dream, ideate, and create as seriously and/or playfully as we feel. It doesn’t matter if what I’m taking away isn't what the creator intended when I've found clarity and learned more about myself. Learning more about myself is helping me see how I can have a positive impact on creation and the collective. And, now I see, it's my turn to let what is, be.

What are you learning today?

All the love and no excuses,

Laura
@blueprintwellness.life

…NOT YOUR HEALER…

I am not your or anyone else’s “healer.”

It is important to make this distinction at this time when complementary and alternative health care approaches are gaining global interest and acceptance. There are many helpful modalities and practitioners to explore, and what works for one person may not have the same benefit for another. What works for you at one time, may not have the same benefit for you at other times. As words on a page or thoughts in the mind, this seems both logical and reasonable, but in day-to-day life it feels frustrating and disappointing for a person who is not well and in need of relief.

I’m not certain if this is true for everyone, but it seems like a majority of people are of the mindset that healing is a process. From there, healing seems to be somewhat of a broad term to me. It is within the dimensions of the concept or of a specific person, where the complexities of the concept of healing emerge. A person who is terminal may have a healing experience that does not prevent them from dying of disease. A person who is physically injured may have wounds that fully heal, yet they do not feel an improvement in their sense of health and well-being. A sense of healing seems to be needed physically and energetically in order for a person to feel and be well again.

But, what happens next? Matters of health are often costly in terms of time, money, physical, mental, emotional and spiritual demand, so it comes back to individual beliefs and choice. Usually, once a person feels better they go back to their life until their health and wellness is suffering again. Sometimes a person will value their renewed sense of well-being so much that they begin to change their life. Here, I am speaking from my own past experiences as well as a witness to others’. Either way, it is likely we can all see the difference between choosing the mindset to be healed versus "activating the creative process of well-being."

A point that is clearly emerging is that the concept of healing greatly benefits from a shift or expansion of the concept to include this dynamic idea of activating the creative process of well-being. It is my experience in my own life and as a witness for others, that it is absolutely necessary for a person to be an active participant and guide for fueling and improving their sense of healing, health and well-being. The goal of energy work, from the Blueprint Wellness point of view, is for you to experience an increased sense of well-being as defined or perceived by you. This makes sense because people do have different definitions and expectations for their own health and well-being, regardless of whether or not they align with the metrics or definitions of any health institution or authority.

While healing does seem to occur in a more passive state there is always active participation needed in order to open up to that passive state. A person must feel open to the practitioner and give permission to do the work, whether it is a Western, Eastern or other complementary approach. Perhaps the reason this point is arising, is to remind us that we are always in charge and an active participant in matters of our health and well-being.

This is why I do not feel it would be true for me to call myself anyone’s “healer,” and why I am not interested in this kind of relationship with my clients. This is something that feels important to discuss and explain upfront, because it is a potential shift in the mind and belief system involving each of our expectations about the experience and the benefit(s). Allowing or encouraging anyone to imagine that I am healing them or that I have special abilities is a distraction from their process and ability to trust their own experience. 

There is little to no lasting benefit in a linear, one-directional type of relationship or expectations for clients or practitioners. This is currently a primary concern with the approach of Western medicine and subsequently why complementary and alternative health care is on the incline. The important point here, is that there are goals and responsibilities that the practitioner and client ought to discuss about the approach and expectations prior to working together.

What are you noticing about your own beliefs or ideas about healing, health and well-being?

What kind of approach do you imagine for yourself and your practitioner?

What kind of expectations or beliefs limit or support you?

What are you choosing when you are not in crisis?

Would it feel different to take the approach of activating your creative process of well-being rather than focusing on healing?

How would you feel about your current sense or state of well-being? Physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually?

The goal is to tap into curiosity and creativity around the thoughts and actions a person knows they must choose in order to create their own sense of healing, health and well-being. This supports a person to be a creator rather than a receiver of healing, health and well-being. It also shifts the experience away from crisis and into growth and enjoyment.

This all feels clear, true and real for me at this time, but as always, is subject to revision or expansion with new information and experience. The intent of this blog post is to share an internal conversation that feels worthy of sharing with you for feedback or for you to explore on your own.

Please feel free to share your thoughts or questions with the Blueprint Wellness community.

Brightly,
Laura Peppin