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Self-Acceptance: Sound Healing Tip # 4

By Misa Hopkins · Comments (0)
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

Sound Healing DaisySounds don’t lie. Sounds tell the truth about who we are and what we are feeling in any given moment. That is true whether you are simply talking to a friend or engaging in a sound healing session. If you want to know yourself deeply, listen to what you say and how you say it with great awareness.

The cells of your body respond to you when you first accept yourself as you are, unconditionally. This sounds so easy and can be so challenging to actually do.

We can’t love ourselves in sections and expect to heal. If you are saying to yourself, “I love this part of me and hate this part of me,” you set up a state of confusing energy and nothing happens.

The parts of your body are interconnected and your cells seem to know this. Your emotions are intertwined and your emotional intelligence seems to know this too. So if you hate or are disgusted with any aspect of yourself, you have a block to your healing.

The body, mind and soul want full acceptance and understanding.  Acceptance and understanding do not imply that you would make the same choices again.  This doesn’t mean that you won’t want to make better choices in your future.

What is means is that you have compassion for the choices you have made that have led you to this moment. You understand the thoughts and feelings that have brought you where you are now, and you can hold yourself in loving regard, in the same way that you might be compassionate with a young child that made some interesting choices that led to some serious problems.

The sounds you make every day reflect the degree of compassion you have for yourself. Do you disparage yourself or criticize yourself? Are you harsh with others? Do you find yourself complaining? Do you hear yourself pleading a bit too often, making excuses, or defending yourself?

If this is what you hear in your voice, you probably know you are out of balance and you may not know what to do about it or you may be afraid to take the necessary steps to change your reality.

Consider that you who you truly are is far more than you probably recognize from moment to moment. There is a great beauty and wonder in you that may long to be appreciated.

You are not the sum of your fears. You are a full expression of life, longing to be accepted in your totality.
One way that you can experience the fullness of you is to consciously give sound to what you are experiencing. You might want to give yourself a sound healing experience in self-acceptance.

Create a quiet space in which you will not be disturbed. (I’ve done this in the shower and parked in my car in a secluded spot—whatever it took to create privacy.)

Begin by breathing into your body. Your entire body breathes, including your skin, so you might take some time to breathe with awareness through your nose and through your skin, until your cells are as saturated as possible with the gift of your breath.

In a relaxed and open state, allow yourself to become aware of any place in your body carrying tension or pain. Give sound to the discomfort. Be honest with your sound. Sound what you feel like. By sounding what you feel like you are accepting your current state of being.

Simply notice what happens as you accept what you are experiencing and allow that experience to be acknowledged honestly through sound. At some point the sound will change. In fact, if you are committed and truthful with your sounds, they will very likely change 2-6 times.

Honor what comes to you. There is nothing to judge here. This is about accepting yourself as you are. Notice that there are multiple aspects of you—some painful; some peaceful. Perhaps you will even hear the sounds of the happy and healthy or joyful aspects of you.

Physical and emotional pain are only some of the layers of the full experience of you.  They are often the loudest (in terms of discomfort) because they embody the aspects of you most longing for loving acceptance.

When they are accepted, loved and understood, they begin to dissolve and new expressions of you have an opportunity to emerge.

If in this process, you discover that your feelings seem to need extra attention, you might want to read this article: Sound Your Feelings: http://self-healingsecrets.com/616/sound-healing-tip-1-%E2%80%93-sound-your-feelings/

If you are experiencing a great deal of muscle tension, this could be helpful to you: http://self-healingsecrets.com/957/sound-healing-tip-2-%E2%80%94-releasing-stressed-muscles/

And if you discover that your mind is so busy, it is difficult to focus, you can see if this perspective is helpful to you: http://self-healingsecrets.com/1042/quieting-the-mind-through-sound%E2%80%94sound-healing-tip-3/

I recommend that you listen carefully to how much your body and emotions need at any given time.  Over time, you will probably find that you are able to accept more and more of yourself. Your sound healing sessions will reflect the peace you feel in your self-acceptance and so will your words.

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How Would You Change Your DNA to Change Inherited Conditions?

By Misa Hopkins · Comments (4)
Friday, September 9th, 2011

This question came from one of my readers and having done some work on my own DNA, I’m pleased to share my perspective.

If you believe in karma, then you have probably already considered that inherited conditions can in a large part be karmic conditions. I suggest “in large part” because it may have been one of the reasons you chose the family you were born into or the condition may have simply come with the package.

If you don’t believe in karma, you still get to decide if you want or don’t want to change your inherited condition. If you do, you probably have some deep emotional and energetic work ahead of you.

It can seem as though inherited conditions are permanent, but in my experience that has not necessarily been the case. Consider this scenario. According to my friend and colleague, Valerie Olmstead, NMD, the body doesn’t have a natural and effective way to defend itself from viruses.

As you know, the body’s response is to rest and sleep because that is the best it knows to do. You could surmise that the body’s natural state is limited in regard to viruses. We’ve basically inherited poor defense against them.

Years ago, I recorded two sound healing CDs to address some the specific viruses that were wreaking havoc for so many people. When I asked to receive a more permanent energy healing response to the variety of viruses through my sound healing, I was taken on a journey directly into the DNA.

I watched as the sounds that flowed through me were directing the DNA to respond in a new way so that viruses were addressed the moment they entered the body and escorted out of the body. The sounds are so effective that I haven’t had a flu or cold since I recorded the CD, provided I play it with the onset of early symptoms. (This CD isn’t in my bookstore yet, but if you are curious, you’ll find it at another website: http://www.spirittreasures.com/products.html)

Now, I was in a deep trance-like state, or what some would call a shamanic state. In my experience, this is where the most profound shifts occur. If you are serious about changing your DNA, I suggest you find a healer or learn a healing methodology that helps you access deep cellular transformation.

I highly recommend that you surrender to Divine will, while holding an intention of the health you wish to create. In other words, I haven’t found it to be a good idea to attempt to figure out the specifics of how things should work to attain the health I am seeking. When it comes to energy healing, Divine wisdom does a much better job with the details, addressing gaps in my own knowledge that I don’t even know exist.

Keep in mind that there is a great deal about our potential evolution that is still a mystery to us, but as Stephen Hawking suggests in this article, he believes “humans have entered a new stage of evolution in regard to our DNA:” http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/07/stephen-hawking-the-planet-has-entered-a-new-phase-of-evolution.html

What we can trust is that everything in creation is changing all the time, whether that evolution is slow or fast by our standards. Even DNA is in a process of evolution. If you want your DNA to provide you with better health, in my own experience, clarity of intention can contribute to personal evolution.

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Quieting the Mind Through Sound—Sound Healing Tip #3

By Misa Hopkins · Comments (0)
Friday, April 15th, 2011

It has frequently surprised students when I suggest that sound healing is as much, if not more, about quieting the mind and listening as it is about making sounds. Many of us can make sounds, but we access the sounds that have the ability to heal from the well of our silence.

To intuitively sense what sound your body needs at any given moment, arises from your ability to listen to and sense your body without being distracted by external sounds. The sound emerges freely, when you are not encumbered by predetermined ideas about what you think that sound should be or judgments about the quality of the sound. Sound flows freely from a quiet mind.

Fortunately, if you are curious about sound healing, sound itself can help you focus and quiet your mind. Consider this very simple exercise:

1.    Begin by sighing out loud from high to low. Do this about three times until your body is relaxed.
2.    Sigh out loud again, only this time land on a sound that feels like home and hold it. Make this sound for about one minute, breathing between each sounding.
3.    Sit quietly for one minute and notice what is happening in your body.

Repeat this exercise landing on a new sound that feels comfortable for you to make.  Hold this sound for about one minute and notice for one minute. Do your best to observe without analyzing or attempting to figure anything out.

For example, you might notice that you feel warm all over or in a particular area of your body. You might see light, or feel energized or at peace. Give yourself permission to simply notice without needing to give it any meaning.

Most of us speak within a range of three to four different pitches or sounds.  When we are relaxed, these sounds can be anything from soothing to invigorating. These sounds are easy and fun to make.  And you can immediately feel the effects of what sound healing can do for you.

By giving your mind the job of observing, it has something to do. It is engaged in a focused manner with a single job, which helps to quiet the mind.

To make the exercise more interesting, try extending the amount of time that you sing a single sound. Sing it for two or even three minutes. Then be still and observe quietly for the same amount of time.

It is fairly common to really enjoy the quiet and inner stillness after you have been sounding, so the sounds, in a sense, carry you to inner peace and a desire for inner quiet. Plus you will have just bathed yourself in some of your most favored and healing sounds.

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When Loved Ones Don’t Like Your Approach to Healing

By Misa Hopkins · Comments (5)
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

Have you experienced this? Someone that loves you doesn’t agree with how you want to go about approaching your healing. Or maybe you are on the other side of this experience. Maybe you are the one that is really uncomfortable with your loved one’s choices.

I meet people and hear stories about people on both sides of this significant concern…children that were concerned when one of their parents chose an allopathic approach to cancer that included chemotherapy, spouses that couldn’t believe their partner only wanted to use alternative means for healing, doctors that didn’t approve of their patient’s use of energy healing methods, and individuals that wished they had done more than listen to their doctor’s advice.

This is a very sensitive area for many of us. It is extremely difficult to watch our loved ones make decisions for themselves that we are afraid could cause them to become worse off, and it is equally difficult to be clear about how you want to heal yourself, and hopefully gain the support of your loved ones, especially if you choosing a healing approach that they don’t particularly like.

If you try to argue a case about what approach or methodology is right, you are going to have a difficult time. Data and statistics help us make wise decisions. And so do the heart and intuition. The latter two are less tangible, but equally important. Some healing approaches have proven to be effective, but if your heart and intuition are telling you it’s not right for you, there is a good chance it won’t work for you. I believe the greater question to be asking ourselves, whether we are the one being healed or the one concerned is this: “What is my ethical responsibility.”

I know for some of you, what I’m about to suggest is going to be very difficult to consider, but I’m going to ask you to withhold any judgment and consider this concept with me. To clarify, I am talking about adults of free-will right now. Whether you believe that you were given this body or you chose it, at some level there was an agreement that you are the caretaker of this sacred creation. Therefore, you are the one responsible for the well-being or the release of soul in this body. No one else is responsible for your soul in your body…not your doctor, healer, spouse, children, parents or friends. You are the one that lives in this body, and unless you are unconscious, you are the one responsible for the care of your body.

If you decide to surrender your care for any given amount of time to the expertise of a doctor or into the hands of a healer, for example, that is your prerogative.  The responsibility of care may be released to someone else for a little while, as surgery or energy healing is being done. It is temporarily released, not turned over completely.

This is where we have become confused about healing. We have been operating from a model for hundreds of years that allows us to have the impression that healing is about someone else. In order to heal you find the right person and method and turn yourself over completely. However, as I say in my book, The Root of All Healing, “It is the human spirit that beats the odds and continually redefines the playing field of human existence.” That means that if we really want to heal, we need to be fully involved, and responsible for our own self-healing journeys.

My husband has looked askance at me a few times when I told him I was going to use my Sound Healing to heal something, without going in for tests or seeking any other advice. Just imagine what was going through his mind when I told him that I had a dream explaining that the symptoms I was experiencing were onset symptoms for MS, and then told him I was going to heal with sound.

He was concerned and I’m glad that he cared enough to be concerned.  He questioned me at length about whether or not I should be seeing a doctor or another healer and I’m glad he did, because sometimes I’m too close to my own condition and ultimately do heed his advice by getting help. Then there are other times, as with the onset symptoms of MS, where I heal the condition on my own.

I have chosen to be very clear that I am 100% responsible for my self-healing journey, and I respect in that my husband’s healing journey is his own. He loves me and I love him, but we are both clear that I am the steward of my body and he is the steward of his. (And I can assure you if he wasn’t clear about that, I would be, regardless.)

What we have learned to do is respect each other in a process of exploration. I listen to his concerns and his questions, considering whether or not he is making suggestions that feel right to me. If my intuition speaks strongly that he is bringing a solution to me, I follow his lead. If on the other hand, my intuition tells me I need to move forward by using my own gift, that’s what I do, until I am completely healed or meet someone along the way that my intuition tells me to see for additional assistance.

My husband checks in periodically on my progress from a place of genuine care, as I share with him my discoveries. He is not condescending toward me if I have chosen to heal with my own energy when he would have found a doctor. Nor do I attempt to persuade him to choose a less expensive route when he has decided on a healing approach that will cost us hundreds or thousands of dollars.

When I can see that he needs healing attention, I don’t push or insist he take steps that I think would be good for him. I make suggestions, and the rest is between him and Spirit. Even if I would make different choices, I stand by him in his, because I know how difficult it can be to make choices as conscious caretaker of one’s own body.

In the end, we don’t always get our spouse’s or our loved one’s approval about our choices. The best we can be is true to ourselves and ask for the loving support of those that love us.

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Arteries, the Heart and Self-Healing

By Misa Hopkins · Comments (6)
Friday, March 4th, 2011

Heart and Self-HealingOne of our readers asked about healing in regard to arteries of the hearts, so I took this concern into meditation.  I received a perspective about the spiritual and emotional nature of arteries that I thought many of us might appreciate. It is a little bit different than what Louise Hay so beautifully offers to us, but it is indeed in alignment with her perspective.

What I heard was this: “Arteries are about knowing what matters. When our arteries are healthy we know that every part of us deserves to be acknowledged, nourished and loved. When our arteries are well, we know that we are worthy of love and life.”

It seems to me that this aligns very well with Louise Hay’s definition that “arteries carry the joy of life.” Isn’t it true that we need to know we are worthy of love in order to experience true joy, for isn’t joy an exalted expression of love? In order to get to such a state of blissful love, we may need to discover our worthiness first.

The most difficult aspects to love within ourselves are those bound up in our regrets. We regret what we did not do, or the ways in which we hurt others or ourselves. We might even regret the life we chose to live here on earth. When we are deeply depressed and caught up in shame or despair, we can regret that we exist at all.  We don’t recognize how much we matter, and so we starve ourselves of what we need to enjoy life—to be acknowledged, nourished and loved.

If in our childhoods, we did not feel adequately acknowledged, nourished or loved, we can grow up accepting the notion that we are inadequate. We might even tell ourselves this belief isn’t true, telling ourselves that we are indeed adequate—that our thoughts, feelings and beliefs do matter—but if the wound is deep, a part of us may not believe it. Eventually that belief becomes manifest in our bodies and our daily choices support the underlying belief of inadequacy.

If the belief that you don’t matter is deeply imbedded within your subconscious, you may find that affirmations take a long time to penetrate into your subconscious beliefs. When your arteries are at stake, this energetic process may be too slow for you. In order to address the underlying emotional and spiritual issues, you need to get into the subconscious mind, where change is more profound and the results more immediate.

This is what drew me to sound medicine. Because the healing is not language based, I was able to heal the spiritual and emotional wounds at their core, whether those wounds occurred in this lifetime or previous lives. Many of our deepest wounds are pre-verbal—they began in energy long before they were ever articulated.  If I wanted to support my arteries emotionally and spiritually with sound healing, I would use a CD that I created for the heart and digestive chakras to gently encourage the heart to open to love and begin digesting that love.

Love is not a matter of worthiness, it is a matter of allowing ourselves to experience it and to fully take it into our experience, or digest it and allow it to be fully in us. It is called Deep Peace I and you can find it here at: http://www.spirittreasures.com/Deep%20Peace.html If I wanted to take this further into penetrating love for my whole body and being, I would listen to the complete set. Listening to this sound healing has been described as being sung to by Mother/Father God, so it has a way of acknowledging the divinity within us, while soothing and nurturing at every level.

Because the arteries deliver blood to every part of our bodies, in order for them to function properly and in order for the body to be able to respond to medical or healing treatment, we need to go past any thoughts of worthiness and give ourselves permission to experience what matters—love. Then as our hearts gently open, we give ourselves permission to experience that love throughout our bodies and our lives.

With matters of the heart, tenderness is very important. You can’t rush the heart or make healing happen. That kind of pressure only makes the condition worse. The heart demands honesty with gentleness. Let go of thoughts and comments about how inadequate or bad you are. These beliefs put pressure on your heart, and while it is a strong organism, it requires gentle thoughts and feelings in order to function properly.

Your arteries are much the same. If you want your arteries to carry this love throughout your body, you need to love them and fondly invite them to convey your love and appreciation for you into every part of your body. Invite them to nourish your body because all of you matters—every cell of your body, every lesson you have learned, everything you have chosen to do and the choices you did not make. Every experience of your past matters because you are an expression of the Divine exploring and discovering itself, and discovering how deep love goes.

If God (the Divine, Source, Universe—however you describe that limitless source of love) visited you and said, “You know I think I made a mistake when I created mosquitoes. I just didn’t realize how much damage they could potentially do to humans and animals in spreading disease.” What would you say? Would you say, “You know, you really blew it on that design. How stupid could you be?” Or would you say, “Dear God, being a humble human, made in your image and likeness, that has attempted to create many things in my life, some quite well and others not nearly as well, I understand. “ Would you close down your heart to God thinking he/she was an idiot? Or would your heart open in compassion for a Creator that was exploring what it meant to create?

How often do we chastise and beat ourselves up for our choices, and yet, aren’t we expressions of the Divine exploring what it means to create? Isn’t it appropriate to be as gentle with ourselves as we would be with God, him or herself? If you are healing your arteries, here is your opportunity to know discover what really matters—that you are Divine expression and love for all of you is what you are seeking.

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