Baggage fees charged by the airlines have created much controversy lately. Nobody wants to pay an extra fee for their baggage to go with them on their flight. However, there is a kind of baggage that we pay a toll for every day. Did you ever think about the toll you pay continually for the emotional baggage that you carry around?

Emotional baggage consists of unresolved issues or psychological pain that we carry in our subconscious which directly influences our conscious mind. It has a negative impact on many areas of your life. Emotional baggage is also what triggers you to immediately overreact with uncontrolled emotions or with pain in the physical body. It is what festers in various locations in the body which can lead to disease.

Your suppressed emotions are the major cause of stress that is often manifest as an upset stomach, headache or tightness in the shoulders, but these are not the only locations where you may have stored your emotional baggage. You may have chosen to store the emotions in your back, feet, hips, shoulders, organs, etc. Emotional baggage is at the core of pain and disease. While doing my energy healing work on thousands of clients, I have yet to find a place in the body where the emotional baggage has not been stored.

Where would you be without your emotional baggage? Are you ready for life with less or even without emotional baggage? They may sound like silly questions, but many do not understand how much their baggage is taking a toll on their life and health and thus do nothing to eliminate it. Have you ever taken a look at the reoccurring dramas and patterns in your life?

Often relationships are affected by your emotional baggage. Perhaps your baggage makes you cling to an unsuitable relationship, thus denying yourself the opportunity for a better and greater relationship. Perhaps your baggage makes you feel incomplete or lacking in some way, and thus you look to others to fulfill your needs. Maybe your baggage makes you less understanding of others and blocks you from forming a closer connection. Or then again you may have emotional outbursts which turning others away from you.

In your career or business your emotional baggage may sabotage your success. You may have stifled talents, passions, exceptional gifts and valuable character traits that were ridiculed by others in the past that could open many doors for you. Perhaps your baggage makes you fearful of taking risks.

You are paying a toll for your emotional baggage every day. Much of your frustration and stress is stored in your body and needs to be unpacked. What are you carrying around that is holding you back? Your baggage has an effect on what you want to manifest and create in your life. When you travel with a minimum of baggage you save yourself a bundle of unhappiness, and ill health. It is in your best interest to stop paying the toll for your emotional baggage.

Contact Sherry at Healing Gateway now for assistance in lightening your load of emotional baggage to open yourself to more joy, success, and greater health in your life.

Recently I came across the Japanese phrase:  Wabi Sabi.  I was intrigued to find that it was used to refer not only to art, but also to a way of being in the world.

In Japan the phrase Wabi Sabi is said to have originally been used to describe the ancient tea ceremony with its ritual that helps you connect to the simple and the tranquil.  There was beauty to be found in the modest and humble surroundings of the ceremony, and in the simple, but not flashy, implements used.

Later, artists began to use Wabi Sabi to refer to imperfections found in hand-made or natural items that remind us that nothing is perfect, nothing lasts, and nothing is finished.

More recently, Wabi Sabi is said to be an approach to life that incorporates the artist’s view of objects and applies it to the recognition and appreciation that there is beauty in imperfection. All things change and the cycle of life includes growth, decay, and death. Based on my readings about Wabi Sabi, I will share with you my views of what a Wabi Sabi approach to life would look like.

Wabi Sabi reminds us that there is beauty in the imperfection in the circumstances in your life and the imperfection in yourself and those around you.  In the Wabi Sabi way of life, you are not bothered by imperfections.  You accept what is, even if you think it is a flaw.  The friend who is always late is no less of a friend, so you can accept the tardiness as a predictable behavior.

Part of what makes others interesting is their imperfections.  If we were all the same, life would be boring with semi-robots running around.  You can look at others more objectively without judging what makes them different from yourself.  You recognize that everyone and everything serves a purpose and is therefore perfect in its own way.

With Wabi Sabi you are content with your life and don’t live in a perpetual state of dissatisfaction.  You find balance and contentment with where you are.  You can make do with what you have, so you live modestly, satisfied with life as it is in the present moment.

You recognize the impermanence of all situations, people and things.  You know that all pain or sorrow will pass.  You do not bemoan the experience but look for the lesson that it presents. You know that life is full of change, and that the only meaning things have in your life is what you have placed on them.

You have a greater appreciation of moments of joy for they too are fleeting.  Staying in the moment helps you to fully revel in these times.

You appreciate the beauty found in all that is old or aging as reminders of the natural cycle of growth, decay and death.  With this knowledge in mind, you take time to show appreciation and gratitude to all you meet.

So in my Wabi Sabi life, I say thank you for being a part of my personal work in progress and for allowing me to be a part of your journey.  You are beautiful!

Oh My Aching Back!

We often hear friends and family members moaning about various body aches and pain. Some are the result of using muscles that have not been used in a long time, or the pain is sending you a message that something may be wrong at the mentally, emotionally or spiritual level. Sometimes the pain in your aching back can also be a message that the body is out of alignment structurally.

Many of us are normally rather sedentary with long commutes, TV viewing time, and hours spent hunched over our computers. When the weather is nice we suddenly become more active and partake in activities where we end up overdoing it with work in the garden, exercise or sports activities. Did you know that anytime you lift a weight or place other demands on an off-center, misaligned body, you risk causing serious damage?

It was amazing to me when I begin to study the body to find out that there is a connection between misalignments in the spine and problems with the organs and glands in the body. Even more fascinating is the variety of emotional issues that are stored away in the spine, joints or elsewhere in the body.

A body that is in proper alignment has greater range of motion, flexibility, and is healthier with improved self-healing abilities. The flow of energy in the body is directly affected by your alignment. Did you know that it is even possible to be out of alignment whether or not you have back or joint pain? Most MRI scans show something out of alignment in nearly every body.

Energy Alignment uses energy to move muscles that help maintain the proper placement of the bones in the body. It helps put the body back into musculoskeletal realignment and also helps release emotional issues. Energy Alignment helps relieve and/or prevent pain, muscle stress and chronic back and joint issues. Regular Energy Alignment sessions have a cumulative effect, and over time you just keep feeling better and better.

Since the Energy Alignment is done hands-free, you don’t need an in-office session and can achieve the same results with a distance healing session. That means that you do not necessarily need to leave your home to experience relief.

When I had severe back pain, I immediately contacted Sherry for a distance healing. I could feel my vertebrae shifting as she worked on me. Within half an hour my discomfort was gone. Distance healing and Energy Alignment really works! – C. Montana

If you have always been curious about Energy Healing then scheduling an Energy Alignment is a good way to experience the benefits. Since structural alignment is related to how energy flows, aligning your spine will bring your whole body into balance and greater health.

Remember, too, that your pets can be out of alignment, and they are unable to tell you of their pains. By scheduling regular Energy Alignment sessions for yourself and your pet and you find that you both have greater range of motion and better health as you age.

The happiest people are those who find cause to stay upbeat.  If you haven’t been taught “happiness skills,” then now is a good time to teach yourself.  The happiness you seek is all a state of mind.

Research has shown that 90% of the thoughts you have today are the same thoughts that you had yesterday. That does not mean, however, that you can’t have a greater percentage of positive thoughts. It is possible to rewire your brain for happiness.

Being happy is sought after in all cultures and has even generated college courses in “Positive Psychology.”  These “happiness” psychologists believe you can be happier if you live in the present moment, have gratitude for all the positives in your life and are able to recognize the beauty of nature.

Staying in the present moment involves refusing to believe every thought you have.  Many of your thoughts may be based on the past or false expectations appearing real (also known as FEAR).  Do not allow these types of thoughts to inhibit the present moment.  Choose how you react from your heart.

Staying present also involves focusing on who you are in terms of your character strengths, goals, and what gives meaning to your life. Know who you are.  Define yourself by making a list of your character strengths, perhaps with assistance from your closest friends, and what you believe your values to be.   Are you kind, fair, supportive, loyal?

Give yourself credit for living up to those character traits.  Negative judgments are conditioning from parents, family, friends and culture. Place your attention on the good in you and be happy with who you are.  Love yourself so that you do not lose your boundaries or become codependent .

Choose how you will view setbacks and tragedies and adjust to new circumstances.  You can choose to focus your attention on happier, more positive thoughts.   Remember, the idea of who you are is not dependent on your circumstances.  Focus on what your strengths are and work to use your strength and abilities to move you forward.

If you tend to compare yourself to others, choose how much and with whom you compare yourself and about what.  If income and material goods are your measure of comparison on the happiness scale, know that an increased standard of living does not bring happiness. Once your basic needs are met, any additional income will not increase your happiness with life.

Develop an attitude of gratitude that focuses on noticing all the positive things in your life, including the small ones.  What did you think, see, feel, taste, hear or smell that brought you pleasure, joy, or feeling good about who you are?  Studies have shown that those who take time daily to write down the positive things from the day are happier.

Take time to “smell the roses.”  In other words, spend time in nature.  Nothing is more grounding than being like a child, barefoot in the grass.  When you are grounded, you are able to run off your stress and look at life more objectively and less emotionally.

Every day you have many opportunities to focus on the present, the beauty around you, and

the good in your life.  Don’t wait to be happy in the future, for the future is now.

Are You Psychic?

You have psychic ability, whether it is intuition or extra-sensory perception, but you may not be cognizant of your ability all of the time.  In some these abilities are stronger than they are in others. To help you recognize your gifts, I put together a list of the various ways that you can receive information.

Many we speak of psychic communication, we are talking about the “Clairs.” The word claire is French for clear or light, thus the “clairs” are a clear communication from your angels or guides and it can be a direct connection to your deepest inner knowledge and wisdom. The clairs relate to the senses of hearing, smelling, knowing, tasting, feeling and seeing.

Clairaudience- being  clairaudient – clear hearing

Clairalience - being clairalient - clear smelling

Claircognizance – being claircognizant – clear knowing

Clairgustance – being clairgustant clear – tasting

Clairsentience – being clairsentient – clear feeling

Clairvoyance – being clairvoyant – clear seeing

Have you ever sworn that you heard someone call your name or that the doorbell rang or the phone rang and found that no one was there? These are some soft and gentle signals that you have a communication coming and to use your clairaudience or extra-sensory hearing abilities. Just sit quietly and see where your thinking takes you.

When I first started doing healing, while working on a young man, I suddenly heard the word “sepsis”. This was my clairaudience giving me information. I instinctively knew it was related to the blood, but had to look it up to discover that it was a blood infection.

Maybe you have smelled something that has no visible source, like the smell of flowers, your mother’s favorite perfume, or your father’s cigar. This is a sign of being clairalient.

When I took a healing class, I unexpectedly smelled roses very strongly. Since everyone was busy watching a video, there was no possibility that someone had brought roses into the room. Surprisingly after smelling the roses, I was inspired to create the logo that I now use for my business. It’s patterned after the Flower of Life design.

The next psychic communication is an inner knowing that many parents have when their children are in trouble or are lying. You just seem to know what is going on. Sometime knowing comes when you have been asking for guidance to solve a problem. This is claircognizance that lets you know what is going on when you need to know it.

For me this was very obvious when I was traveling and stopped to buy postcards to send to family members. Somehow, I just knew that I did not have to buy a card for my Great- Grandmother. When questioned about why I hadn’t picked out a card for her, I simply replied that she had passed. How could I know that while traveling overseas without phone, mail or email communication with family? I was using my claircognizant ability.

Have you ever had a desire for a food so badly that you could taste it even without having anything in your mouth? Maybe this ability ofclairgustance is just your body’s way of telling you what you need to be eating or helping bring to mind an event or feeling related to the last time that you consumed this food.

Perhaps you have met someone and just had a gut feeling that you didn’t like them or maybe you entered a place and instantly felt uncomfortable. Gut feelings in the solar plexus area are part of clairsentience. These gut feelings are often ones that the police recommend that you not ignore for your own safety.

Clairsentience can be a lot more powerful when you are a sensitive empath. Then you may pick up on the physical pain or emotions of others, so you are in effect sharing their joys and sorrows. This can be both a blessing and a curse, a blessing because you know where people are truly coming from and a curse if you are unaware of what you have picked up or don’t know how to get rid of other people’s stuff. (Call me for help with this.)

Clairsentience helps healers, like myself,  to know where physical problems are, have been, or will be in the body. It also helps to pinpoint the emotional issues that the individual needs to deal with or release in order to feel better.

Are you able to sense where to find things? Do you ever feel the need to alter your route only to hear later that you avoided an accident scene or big traffic jam? Have you ever thought of a friend just before they call?  You are using your clairvoyant abilities.

Clairvoyants can perceive or “see” things with their mind’s eye that others are unable to see. They may see auras, spirits, colors, pictures, shapes, organs and glands in the body. The image seen is often related to a specific memory or connection that you or the client have to the particular image. For example a cake may remind you of someone’s recent or upcoming birthday. Many times these images briefly pop into your mind as a movie or snapshot that can show you the past, present or future events.  You can always ask for clarification to be sure of the correct interpretation of what you are seeing.

Many psychics use clairvoyance to predict the future or see the past. Healers use it to identify what may have happened to cause an unresolved issue in the client or to show where a physical problem is in the body. When a person comes to me for a healing, I use all of the clairs to gain information.

The first time that I “saw” an organ in the body it was of a young lady who appeared to have a spot of a sticky, black substance in her lung. This was residue from smoking marijuana. With her, I also felt that she had something on her left knee. When I went down to scan her knee, I saw an elf-like man sitting on her knee. He was a nature creature who wanted me to know that this girl was very connected to the earth.

Speaking of connection to the earth, being grounded and clearing your lower chakras is important if you want to develop your clairs.  “As above, so below” is a spiritual law that applies to understanding that those who wish to develop their upper (third eye) chakra need to work on the lower chakras first. In addition, being cognizant of how you receive information, and trusting the information you begin to expand your psychic abilities.

Which are you: Clairaudient, Clairalient, Claircognizant, Clairgustant, Clairsentient or Clairvoyant? Maybe you have a combination of psychic abilities. If you pay attention, you will begin to realize that you are receiving a lot more information than you ever dreamed possible.

If you would like some chakra clearing or assistance with opening to your psychic abilities call now for an Intuitive Energy Healing Session or Spiritual Counseling

Thoughts to Ponder

“Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.” ~ Ovid

“Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.” ~ Jonas Salk

“The only real valuable thing is intuition.” ~ Albert Einstein

Faith is a passionate intuition. ~ William Wordsworth

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself. ~ Alan Alda

Often clients have called me in panic or crying hysterically.  Yet, within 5 minutes they are calmly sharing what has triggered the upset.

What has led to this sudden return to calm?  It was not some magical power that I possess nor the sound of my voice.  What led to the calm was the clearing, grounding and brain balancing that we did together.

Clearing is done to create an energetically clear space.  Many of us are empathic, to a small degree, and in our sympathy and compassion for others, we get triggered by what may not even be our own energies.  When you have picked up a lot of other people’s energies you could be reacting to their stuff and not yours.

Grounding is THE best exercise to do for your body on a daily basis.  When you are grounded, your energy is connected to the earth, which helps you to run your stress off into the ground.  At the same time, grounding also brings healthy, supportive energies into your body.

Brain balancing helps you to access both sides of the brain simultaneously.  A balanced brain gives you the benefit of processing information from a more balanced perspective or viewpoint.

When you are cleared, grounded and brain balanced you are making decisions free from overwhelming emotion.

Say the following clearing prayer daily and whenever you are feeling stressed or panicked. CLEARING PRAYER – My Holy, Holy Spirit, clear me, the beings and auras of all those within 500 feet and this building itself of all intrusive energies; Block, disintegrate and transmute them, clearing our entire existence of their presence.

To learn how to do grounding and brain balancing, follow the instructions on my videos. http://www.youtube.com/alterra1

If you want to know more about Grounding and Brain Balancing purchase my e-book called “Tools for Living Easy – Proven strategies to help you see you life more objectively and less emotionally.” The e-book is available for purchase on the “home” page or “Services and Fees” page on my website: www.healinggateway.com

Dear All,

Healing Power Tools

Many of you know guys who love their power tools.  I have power tools that assist me with healing and the release of negative energies.  I love my healing tools as much as the guys love their power tools.

A while ago, I incorporated tuning forks into my healing sessions.   I love the way that they assist with grounding and brain balancing.  The Om tuning forks, which match the vibration of the planet, help with grounding.  The high and low C’s tuning forks assist with brain balancing.  Within the past year, I have used tuning forks at several health fairs to assist hundreds of people with the releasing of stress that comes from being grounded and brain balanced.

I have used tuning forks in many intuitive energy healing sessions whether it is a hands-on or a distance session.  Since each note relates to a different chakra, I have noticed that they seem to do a deeper clearing of the chakras   Used individually, the tuning forks can shift the energy in a problem area.

I love the portability of the tuning forks as I can easily take them to events, to a friend’s house, or on vacation.  It is fun and simple to work on your own chakras with the tuning forks. On bad days, I pull them out for self-healing.

Recently I discovered a fabulous healing tool known as Orgone/Orgonite.  For those unfamiliar with it, Orgonite is man-made and consists of crystals and metal shavings suspended in a resin with little or no color added and formed into shapes with various molds.  Orgonite come is the shape of a hearts, cones, roses, cupcakes and pyramids.

Many claims have been made for Orgnite. It is said that it turns negative energy into positive energy, improves the weather; improves plant growth, eliminates chemtrails, and mitigates the harmful effects of EMF/EMR radiation.  I can’t say that I know first-hand about these claims but I can share with you what I have found using it for healing.

I purchased a set of Orgonite from a former nun who was led to make organite.  She uses her intuitive gifts to guide her in the energies and prayers which need to be incorporate into each piece.

Shortly after receiving the orgonite, I had a client with problems with her feet which felt stiff as a board.   Spirit led me to pick up the purple heart-shaped orgonite and put it on the bottom of each foot in turn.  Surprisingly, within just a minute or two her feet softened up, and she no longer had a problem with her feet.

My next client had recently received knee surgery. A hot spot had appeared on her leg that she suspected was an infection.  I was again led to the purple heart-shaped orgonite and placed it on the hot spot.  She said that her leg began to feel as if she had an ice pack sitting on the spot.  Within five minutes, the hot spot was completely gone.

Next I used the orgonite on another client who had knee surgery.  On the top of the knee cap area wherever I place the orgonite, it felt warm inside her knee and then returned to normal temperature.  However, when the orgonite was moved to the tight muscles in her calf and thigh area, she felt cold within her leg. The heart itself never changed temperature. The tight muscles relaxed for the client.  She did a lot of emotional releasing and had a much greater range of motion in her legs afterwards.

I have a set of orgonite designed for use on the chakras.  I place a specially colored piece on each of the chakras.  In addition, I have been guided to use the tuning forks with the orgonite to magnify the healing experience.  My client, who has had life-long depression problems, experienced greater emotional centering and balancing and the effects are still ongoing.

I have since acquired a variety of pieces of orgonite and continue to learn new ways to work with them.   When using the orgonite as a healing tool, I delight in the profound emotional and physical shifts each of my clients experiences. In addition, many who come for healing feel the amazing energy difference in my home and office especially since I started working with orgonite.

If you have not had a chance to experience a healing session which incorporates these healing power tools, call to schedule a session.  If you are interested in acquiring some orgonite or some tuning forks, contact me and I will lead you to my amazing sources for these healing power tools.

Thoughts to Ponder

Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred others away. – Chinese Proverb

It’s not what you’ve got; it’s what you use that makes a difference.-  Zig Ziglar

Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star. – Don Williams Jr.

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.- Max DuPree

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece! – Unknown

Whatever our hands touch…

We leave fingerprints!

On walls, on furniture

On doorknobs, dishes, books.

There’s no escape.

As we touch, we leave our identity.

Oh God, wherever I go today

Help me leave heartprints!

Heartprints of compassion

Of understanding and love.

Heartprints of kindness

And genuine concern.

May my heart touch a lonely neighbor

Or a runaway daughter

Or an anxious mother

Or perhaps an aged grandfather.

Lord, send me out today

To leave heartprints.

And if someone should say,

“I felt your touch,”

May that one sense YOUR LOVE

Touching through ME.

– Author Unknown

May you receive all the heartprints you need

to feel happy and loved

and

May you find ways you can add to the heartprints

you leave behind in others.

“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We’re all crew.” Marshall McLuhan.

Crew, I hopw we can all work together to take care of this spaceship called ‘Earth’.

October 4, 2009  Sunday 10am -7pm
Pathways Magazine 33rd Natural Living Expo.
110 Exhibitors      56 Workshops
University of Maryland University College
Inn & Conference Center by Marriott
3501 University Blvd. East,
Adelphi, Maryland

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I will be sharing a table with my friends, Jeri Hemerlein, creator of earthen, elemental and flower essences, and Christina Montana, animal communicator extraordinaire.

Tell your friends to attend my workshop at 6pm
A Metaphysical Approach to Less Stress & a Healthier Body
Sherry Dmytrewycz
Chasen Family Room
Your body and mind are suffering if your “flight or fight” mechanisms constantly on alert. With an interactive presentation you will release your stress and know how to continually improve and maintain your health. #67