I was recently asked a question regarding how to encourage cell renewal for a specific organ. Here is the wonder of energy healing: you don’t have to understand the organ or have a detailed intention in order to heal it energetically.

Some years ago my doctor told me one of my fallopian tubes was collapsed. She understood I was an energy healer and was supportive when I told her I wanted to do some energy work before doing any further tests that might lead to surgery.

We agreed to give me a month and then I would return to her for another examination. I went home and immediately began using my own sounds, light and love to heal the fallopian tube. I worked on it diligently every day.

I knew that it needed my compassion because it was a response to sexual abuse I had experienced as a child. So I loved-it-up with lots of compassion.

One month later, I returned to my doctor so that she could check on my progress. My fallopian tube was completely intact, and we were both pleased that nothing more would be required.

It regenerated itself in the presence of my love, intention and the gentle space of allowance I created within myself so that healing could happen. It knew what it needed to do. The cells know. Sometimes they just need some love and coaxing to do what they need to do.

One of my clients grew a new heart valve the first time she ever used energy medicine. She didn’t know what to expect. Her intention was that her heart would heal and become strong. Her daily visualization for her heart was about seeing a still pool of water. While she was focused on her heart, she never actually visualized her heart doing anything. Her body’s response to the metaphoric visualization and intention was to grow a new valve so that her heart would be well and strong.

You can read the story in detail at my Sound Healing website: Spirit Treasures http://www.spirittreasures.com/

Whatever your natural healing gift, and you do have one, you don’t have to be an expert about any given organ in order to support its healing with energy.  Here is what you need:

1.    Be able to relax and trust enough to ALLOW healing to occur.
2.    Have a clear intention for your desired outcome.
3.    Be in compassion with yourself as much of your day as possible, especially in your healing sessions.
4.    Be diligent. Use your natural energy for healing 1-3 times per day, every day.

If you aren’t sure about what your healing gift might be, let me know. I will be happy to schedule a Healing Reading for you. The first question I ask when meditating on your behalf is to understand your unique healing gift or combination of gifts in such a way that I can explain it (them) to you. http://misahopkins.com/healing-readings-with-misa/

Then I answer three questions you have submitted to me to help you understand the root cause of your condition—whether it is physical, emotional or spiritual—and what you most need to do in order to get healing results.

Keep in mind, as you engage your healing energy that the cells of whatever organ you are working on know what they are supposed to do. Energy healing is an invitation for them to remember.

Right now is the perfect time to consider what works well for you in your healing. As you reflect upon last year, perhaps you will want to take some time to think about what has brought you the greatest healing.

If you do this, I suggest becoming a real observer of your reality. (Something I talk about in greater depth in the first chapter of The Root of All Healing.)

You may have had a lot more going on that contributed to your healing than a medication, herb, homeopathic remedy or treatment, though of course if you discovered an approach that worked for you it is important to take note of that too.  In addition, consider the circumstances you created in your life, your diet, exercise habits, emotional well-being, beliefs, relationships and the time you devoted to your healing as variables that contributed to your healing.

Perhaps you only experienced moments in which you felt well or free from pain, or maybe you healed completely from some condition. Maybe you are still healing a condition, but had a few peak moments when you felt better. You will probably find it helpful to ask yourself some questions in order to discover what (out of everything you were using) may have made the biggest difference for you.

What were you doing? What had you done just before you felt better? Had you been watching funny movies? Perhaps you were engaged in creative activities or service to others. Or perhaps you were allowing yourself longer periods of rest. Maybe you were really committed to a special diet and that’s when you felt your best. You might discover you had let go of an old belief and adopted a new one that seemed to help you make some progress. And maybe, a specific treatment really made the difference for you.

More likely than not, some combination was taking place when you felt your best. As an observer of your reality, recall and record what you were doing. If you don’t remember everything, and perceive that you need to have a better understanding, I recommend you make an observational chart for yourself, which is described in Chapter One of the book.

Many of us are challenged by more than one physical ailment. So if you found some relief and healing from one condition, you might find this reflection helpful in determining how you could approach the next condition you would like to heal.??If you responded really well to herbs in curing one condition, you probably want to discover what herbs will best support you in healing another condition. Maybe your body loves essential oils or reiki or yoga. Maybe you need someone to help you lay out a regular integrated self-cared regimen. Perhaps you have discovered you simply have to have a certain amount of time every day or week devoted to your physical care, without any family- or work-related distractions.

For example, I know I do best when I meditate every morning, preferably for an hour to an hour and a half. Twenty minutes is the absolute minimum, and only rarely. My body loves energy medicine, so that’s what I like to use first, including healing sounds and symbols. From my meditations and personal sound medicine sessions, I usually get intuitive insights about what else I need—changes in diet, herbs to add, or changes I need to make in my beliefs or behaviors. Or I’ll get an insight about a healer I need to visit. On some occasions a healer will come directly to me, offering his or her help. If the help feels right, I accept the offer.

I know that I need to attend to difficult emotions the minute they arise, in order to keep my psyche in a calm and open psychological space for healing to happen. I need a certain amount of routine to maintain a healthy diet, rigorous exercise several days per week, good water and lots of fresh air. I do my best not to rush my life because that pushes me into illness. I don’t chase after a cure. I open the healing space within me and follow what my body and psyche teach me about me.

Your own best, integrated approach to healing will be unique to you. It very likely will include what you personally need to do for each of these aspects: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-being. If you abandon any one of these areas, you have abandoned part of yourself, and at some point the result of that abandonment is likely to show up as illness in your body.

If you are a committed observer of your health, you might want to reflect upon any decisions you made that seemed to set you back in your healing, while you are also looking at what helped your healing progress. Then you are in a position to make some choices for the coming year that can make the biggest difference for you.

This is really on my mind right now because I’m helping a young woman that I sense has a brain aneurysm. She has been having migraine headaches, which are increasing in frequency. She has been to doctors and had multiple tests and they were unable to find the cause.

If you have had a migraine, you know how absolutely incapacitating they can be. As I mention in an earlier article, when I look into the energy body of a person with a migraine I usually see way too much light pouring into the person’s crown chakra. http://self-healingsecrets.com/1234/migraines%E2%80%94energetic-causes-and-and-energy-healing/

This was true with this young woman. I finished meditating with her in preparation for creating her sound medicine CD and found she had too much light flowing through her body and her mind was intensely active. These are not conditions that promote energetic healing from migraines, in my experience, regardless of their source.

I know we live in an age that has come to appreciate the value of “sending light” or “sending healing” (which is usually light-based) to people when they are suffering. For those of us that are healers or compassionate people, it is our greatest desire to see them relieved of their pain. This intention is wonderful.

Yet, if we are not careful, we might actually increase their pain. That’s right. Increase it. I cannot emphasize how important it is to ask the spirit’s permission before sending energy to anyone. They may not need or want the energy at all. And in the case of someone suffering from a migraine, more energy may not be the answer.

In my experience, less energy often helps a migraine sufferer find relief from the pain. So before sending energy, and after you have received permission, I recommend asking for what they need from you. Then give only what they ask for. If you don’t know (can’t sense) what they need, your love for them is plenty. Their own energy bodies will know what to do with your love.

I spent an hour just holding this woman in the darkness and coolness of the primordial womb, so that her mind could quiet down and her energy could slow down—both absolutely necessary for her to be able to receive healing for the aneurysm. Light can speed up the body’s metabolism. At times, that is exactly necessary for healing. At other times it can be exactly what a person does not need.

I’ve used sound and light for over two decades to support people in their healing. During the past 10 years, I have been discovering the incredible healing power of stillness and darkness. The yin nature of ourselves sometimes needs a little help and nurturing, and I am delighted to see the healing responses that can arise from the medicine inherent in this feminine-based energy.

At one point, I guided a woman through a quiet meditation into a dark, still pool of water and within about an hour her migraine subsided. I discovered it worked so well for people that I finally recorded it. For people that run a lot of energy through their crown chakras and have a difficult time quieting down and resting, this meditation has been quite helpful. You can find this CD at my Sound Healing site. It’s the Headache Relief CD: http://www.spirittreasures.com/products.html

If you are curious about how yin energy can be used in healing, I talk about it in greater depth in the article mentioned above.It is equal to light or masculine-based energy in its ability to positively affect healing, when darkness and quiet is required.