by Sarah | Apr 2, 2025 | Healing
I learned a long time ago that healing was not something to be achieved, rather it’s a journey to travel. It’s not a one time thing either, it’s a journey that you repeat many times throughout your life. Each time you take the path, it will look different, feel different and the tools you need to use for the journey will inevitably change.
Each road you take allows you to unfold in layers, allowing you to heal from past wounds, emotional burdens, or energetic imbalances that have hidden or harmed parts of you during your life. Each road gives you experiences, tools and skills that will be useful during other journeys as we work to reveal our true inner selves. Some will be useful in every journey, and some will be useful once only and then need to be discarded.
This month, I’m exploring the tool of Mindfulness here at Soul Studio. Through the work I have done, both through my own healing journey as well as with the journeys I have been privileged to support, mindfulness has proved its worth. I’ve found it serves as a guiding light, helping us to stay present with each step we take. It enables us to learn from the journey, to take it at a pace that is useful rather than rushed, and to remember it for future journeys.
The Role of Mindfulness in Healing
Mindfulness invites us to meet ourselves exactly where we are, without judgment or resistance. This, I have learned, is vital if we are to take a healing journey. We simply cannot progress any further until we can accept where we’re currently at and that we need to do something to change it, even though more often than not we’re not aware of what it is we need to do or of the causes behind it.
When we embrace mindfulness as part of our healing process, we open ourselves to developing our self-awareness which in turn gives us a deeper insight into what it is we’re working on healing. It allows us to find stability in this very moment right now which stops us living in past pain or worrying about what the future may bring and allows us to focus in what is happening for us right now. It also helps us to grow deeper levels of self-compassion which gifts us a safe space to heal without criticising ourselves for not doing better or blaming ourselves for things that aren’t our fault.
Mindfulness Practices to Support Healing
One of the great things about mindfulness is that it doesn’t require grand gestures. Instead, it thrives in small, intentional practices woven into daily life. You can take your pick as to what suits you too, there’s no end to the possible ways you can use it and it can be fun to explore what will work for you.
Here’s a few examples for you:
- Breath Awareness: Pause and take a few conscious breaths, allowing each inhale and exhale to guide you back to the present moment. Please be careful with this is you have any lung conditions, it may be better to look at other options.
- Body Scanning: Gently check in with your body, noticing areas of tension, discomfort, or openness. This practice fosters a deeper connection to your physical and energetic self. This one isn’t for anyone who doesn’t feel safe in their own body.
- Journaling with Presence: Instead of analyzing or overthinking, allow thoughts and emotions to flow onto the page without judgment, creating space for inner clarity. Don’t be restricted to just writing, journaling can be written, video, art based etc.
- Mindful Movement: Whether through yoga, walking, or stretching, move with intention, feeling each sensation as you reconnect with your body. Again, this one isn’t for anyone who doesn’t feel safe in their body and it is worth seeking out someone who can give you professional advice if you haven’t exercised for a while or have a chronic condition.
- Mindful daily living: Practice focusing on all aspects of a thing. For example, washing the dishes you can observe the feel of the plates in your hands, watch the bubbles as they float in the water, admire the colours in the bubbles etc. This can apply to any task at all.
Embracing the Journey with Mindful Intention
Healing is a sacred and personal process, a difficult journey for anyone to undertake but ultimately worthwhile. Mindfulness offers us an amazing set of tools to support us while we’re walking the path so we can not only deepen our own inner healing but also create a ripple effect, bringing peace and balance to every outer aspect of our lives.
With deep roots and an open heart,
Sarah x
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by Sarah | Jan 22, 2020 | Healing
I get asked a lot what the benefits of energy healing are – indeed many wonder if there’s any point to it at all. Believe me I wouldn’t have put nearly fifteen years of my life into healing if I hadn’t seen its positive effects both for the people I have treated over the years and for myself.
In fact, for me, the difference between times of actively applying energy healing techinques and not using them at all have been all too easily identified. It has kept me sane, helped me to heal and shaped the way I think and feel in a positive way. It has helped pull me from the depths of grief and supported me while battling lifes challenges and the symptoms of complex PTSD. It’s not been everything that I have needed, for that I have had to spend time with doctors and mental health professionals but it has held me on that road safely and steadily all the way to today.
So how does energy healing achieve this? It has some delightful effects including:
- Encouraging deep relaxtion
- Bringing balance to both your mind and your emotions
- Promoting feelings of calm, wellbeing and peace
- Encourgaing and supporting positive personal life choices
- Promoting a calmer response to life’s inevitable challenges
- Working effectively alongside orthodox and traditional healthcare
- Reiki especially is easily adapted for most conditions and is suitable for all ages, in any situation (apart from in a medical emergency, nothing should replace reliable urgent care when needed)
When I get off the couch after a healing, I can feel a subtle difference in myself from lying down at the beginning. Its a little like the subtle difference between glass when its cleaned, somehow I can see things a little clearer, my body feels better aligned and solid in its connection with the ground I stand on. I feel calm and able to cope for a good while after as well as being able to sleep a little easier. I find coping with my rather crazy family is less stressful and tiring and my focus is sharper.
The opposite is true when I don’t find time for it. I become fuzzy headed, emotional, stressed and I can get physically and mentally unwell if I ignore it for long enough. The same is true when I forget any of the other things I do to help myself stay whole and healthy.
I wouldn’t be without energy healing in my life now. I’ve known it with and without its influence and for me at least, its an essential part of my self-care.
Bright blessings,
Sarah x
by Sarah | Jan 22, 2020 | Healing
Healing tools are mostly thought of as things like crystals, pendulums, herbs, oils and the like – and that is very much true. I have explored several of them over the last decade and a half of being a healer and they truly amaze me each and every day when used with the right person, using the right technique and all at the right time for them to help them move forward.
There is a wider truth though and that is that a healing tool can be anything that provides help in someway or comfort and support when you need it. These items aren’t things we can’t do without, they’re things we call on when the time requires for them to help us through, soothe our hurts a little and provide a source of comfort that we can rely on. This means that not only can we use the commonly thought of items, we can also use therapeutic techniques, medicines, exercise, food and a myriad of other things to help support us while we deal with something that’s happening for us whether physical, mental, emotional or spiritual.
Some of the best healing tools I have ever known include things like childhood teddies and toys that stay with their now grown up owners, pictures of loved ones and favourite books and stories. All had the power to connect the person with them to another person in their life who they knew would hold and support them as well as giving them what they needed to get up and carry on again. Yet to anyone who did not know that person or item, it would just be another thing with no significance.
I’ll be exploring all the possible healing tools I can find over the coming weeks and months on my blog and in the articles I write, keep checking back for new things!
Bright blessings,
Sarah x
by Sarah | Jan 22, 2020 | Healing
We all share one thing in common – we have a physical body that is made up of interconnected systems, each with its own specialised function role in keeping us moving through life. Each cell has the primary job of helping us function in one way or another and it can only do that through an exchange of energy with other living beings. We can see this mirrored in our outside world too. Our communities are made up of people (cells) that have their own specialised jobs (each system’s function) that work together (the interconnected system) to ensure the whole community survives and moves forward with the job of moving life forward.
Under the surface of all life is a haze of different energies we are unable to perceive ourselves. We have our physical energy system, which works automatically every second of every day to keep us alive and as well as we physically can be, and we have our subtle energy systems that play a part in that network of interconnected systems. These energetic structures have been perceived all over the world, by many different people who come from some very different cultures. They all describe relatively similar systems though obviously using the language and culture unique to their place on earth.
We can learn to nourish the subtle systems we have just as much as we can the physical and energy healing is one way to help heal, maintain and nourish your subtle energy system. These systems are most commonly known as meridians, chakras and energy field or aura. Very simply described they are the meridians – the channels through which subtle energies flow, the chakras – energy centres which work as gates for directing energy around the body as well and the energy field or aura – emits from your whole body, surrounding you like an egg shell working to protect you from the energies you don’t need to be taking on yourself.
How we can do this is different for each person but there are a wide array of tools you can work with, each coming with its own subtle energy that can cause effect to our energy systems. It should be said here that there is as much that can cause harm to our systems as there is that can have a positive effect so tread slowly and with care.
Bright blessings,
Sarah x
by Sarah | Jan 22, 2020 | Healing
On the subject of healing paths, I gather that most people would expect me to talk about the different disciplines of healing that are readily available out in the world right now – for example, most will have heard of Reiki, crystal healing, colour healing along with a good few others that I won’t list here now for the sake of length and not creating confusion. These are all valid modes of healing but are not what I’m discussing here. What I am talking about is the path that any individual needs to follow for their own healing and that can encompass a whole lot of different techniques and tools.
The healing path an individual needs to take is both complex and unique to them and depends on a few factors. The first thing to consider is the illness or injury itself that is causing them to seek help. This will provide an understanding of what the problem is, it’s symptoms as well as clues to the root cause (if there is one) and possible treatments. This is followed by who they are as a person and what speaks to them and their core beliefs. This will give further information on possible root causes, if there are any, and their possible treatments. Lastly thorough consideration of the possible techniques and tools that could be applied in light of all that information so that the proper medicine, treatment, therapy or other tool can be found and used. They could need daily medication from their doctor at the same time as receiving a monthly healing therapy such as hands on healing or they might need daily physiotherapy while also receiving occasional advice from a priest or access to a counsellor, just as two examples.
It’s also important to understand that while following that path, a person might find that they need to change paths from the one they’re on to another that suits them better or to one that’s parallel but leads to a slightly different destination. This happens as changes come to light both in their issue and within themselves during the journey, so we must be flexible and willing to change approaches as necessary.
Whatever it is a person needs to heal, it has an affect on all aspects of who we are from our physical bodies, through our thoughts and how we feel about things to our spiritual nature. For example, someone could lose a limb through an accident and need surgery, physiotherapy and medication as well as prosthesis, but this can have far reaching affects beyond the body. It can also affect how they see themselves and the world around them, how they feel about those things and their spiritual viewpoint meaning that they need other help besides the conventional medications and treatments. As another, someone could go through a traumatic incident that, while not physically harmful at the time, still leaves them feeling not only mental and emotional effects but also physical effects such as fatigue, aching bones and joints, headaches etc. This means they might need not only mental and emotional support and treatments but also help for the physical effects from medicines and medical treatments.
In short, I feel its important that we recognise the fact that rarely does one thing on its own lead us to healing. It’s more likely to be complex web of solutions that work together to take us on a journey that will make us feel whole again.
Bright blessings,
Sarah x
by Sarah | Dec 17, 2019 | Healing
When most people talk about healing, they mean it in relation to a physical, mental or emotional issue. They use the word healing interchangeably with curing but they’re not quite the same thing. Curing is ridding someone of an illness or fixing an injury completely. Healing goes deeper than that and it doesn’t usually mean the absolute curing that is inferred. Rather while it can and does apply to all of those parts of us as humans, it can also apply to that intangible part of us. Immeasurable as yet to our scientists and the tools they have available, the human soul or spirit is a subtle, yet powerful, part of ourselves that can also need healing from time to time.
I am an energy healer, I work with the subtle energies that are the soul or spirit that exist within the dark spaces between our cells, muscles, blood and bone. These spaces house the rest of us, the part that makes us who we are but remains hidden from our limited vision. We feel it though and it is a powerful part of each of us.
The goal of this kind of healing is to heal the soul rather than the body or mind – those things are for medical and mental health professionals to specialise in. It means taking a journey that’s tough to travel no matter what damage has been accrued along the way so far. It can be lonely, life-changing and seemingly never-ending but it is worth it when you’re ready and the good news is that help is out there.
Healers are companions, facilitators and space creators. They’ve been on the journey too, indeed are still on it because it never truly leaves you. They understand how to make space for a soul to be heard, seen and honoured. They have explored the dark places and found their way out slaying both their demons and their own fears along the way using tools they picked up on the journey.
Healing is magical because it’s empowering and at the same time, soothing and supportive. It reconnects you to that bit of you that feels missing or lost somehow.. Working from the inside outwards, healing for your soul is just as essential in my eyes as seeking medical attention for an illness or a broken bone, or therapy for a poorly brain. It helps you to find your way in the world, feel happier and connected to life again. I use a lot of tools that many witches would recognise from their work too, such as crystals, aroma, sound, candles and colour – in fact anything from the world that might be useful to creating a space suitable for healing to happen.
I hope this clears up what is meant when we talk about healing in an alternative context to conventional therapy and treatments and I hope that if you need healing, you find it in whatever form makes sense to you.
Bright blessings,
Sarah
