A Healing Rapport

A healing rapport – a sense of ease and trust must be established between myself and the client before a session can begin. This supports the state of deep relaxation upon which the success of the session depends. Without these conditions, the parasympathetic state that enables the healing trance of the session would not be possible.

The importance of relaxation As mentioned, the parasympathetic state can only be experienced when one is deeply relaxed. Conversely it is impossible to experience it when one is stressed, tense, or making too much effort. For this reason, a relaxed almost playful attitude is encouraged. In the healing trance state, one experiences the paradoxical juxtaposition of a deeply relaxed, almost somnolent state with profound mental alertness and acuity. The efficacy of the session depends on this combination of lucidity and the parasympathetic state. This experience may seem unfamiliar to most Westerners, but is a typical quality of Eastern meditation.

Unfortunately, in the West there are few analogs for this type of consciousness. One is the use of mind-altering drugs and hallucinogens – which I do not use in the sessions. The other is hypnosis which often involves a greater degree of passivity than would be appropriate – for a session involves the client’s active engagement and participation with their process. Rather than use these methods, I induce the trance state through direct psychic transmission. In it, the client remains lucid and awake so that they can help direct their session experience.

Preview

A session involves a direct sharing of consciousness between the client and myself. This is only possible if there is a “healing rapport” or compatibility between us. Not only does this compatibility depend on our ability to form a deep psychic connection, but also on whether my own personal experiences and knowledge will enable me to deeply understand the issues the client is seeking to heal. For these reasons, before I agree to give a session, I check in with the Divine and ask whether I will be able to be of assistance to that person.
If the answer is yes, the Divine gives me a “preview.” In it, I psychically see an overview of the issues we will be confronting.

This “preview” fulfills two purposes:
The first has to do with my own emotional preparedness for what I, as a facilitator, am about to go through with the client. The trauma reexperienced by the client can be very heart rending and severe. In my role as a clairvoyant healer, I will be literally reliving those experiences with him or her. The “preview” allows me to prepare myself psychologically for the traumatic events we are going to revisit, so that I can maintain a calm demeanor and more effectively guide the client through their process.

The second purpose is to make sure the client is psychologically ready for what they are about to experience. The timing of presenting information crucial to spiritual growth is of the utmost importance. Information, though it may be factually true, given at the wrong time can be detrimental to the healing process. Thus, the “preview” allows me to make sure that psychic information is presented at the most beneficial time for the client’s healing. It also helps me to anticipate the intensity of what they are going to experience. This enables me to be ready to intervene if the client gets too caught up in trauma-related experiences and thereby risks retraumatization. This is done by directing their attention away from the traumatic experience, and bringing it back to the consciousness of the soul.

This is not to say that re-witnessing trauma is counterproductive. To the contrary, it is a necessary part of healing. But rather, it is to say that trauma has to be revisited at a pace that the psyche can assimilate, and when it becomes too much, intervention is sometimes necessary.