Does healing yourself have a knock on effect in healing the earth?
When you heal, it goes deeper than you
18 months ago, I began studying soul rescue and using shamanic techniques to help heal and remove energetic blocks within people.
It’s been an eye-opening experience.
But during the short time of doing this work, something strange happened. And not just to my clients but also my garden…
It seemed that my plants were reacting to the shifting of negative, stagnant energy that was removed from my clients. It was like they were either feeding off it (using it as energetic fertilizer) or they were letting go of energy that was stuck within the earth.
This started me thinking: does the earth also heal energetically when we work on healing ourselves?
Giving an offering of thanks
Through the journey of learning to heal and connect energetically, one of the things we do is to give an offering to the earth and to the beings that reside within nature. The beings of the land that we can’t necessarily see but that can make themselves known if they feel safe enough.
Aboriginals call them our ancestral spirits, Native American Indians simply call them ‘the spirits’, and in the western world we might call them elementals.
I had a client coming for an EFT/energy healing session and so I connected to my guides and guardians as I always do. I asked for assistance to be guided to see the energy blocks within her body and help to remove those blocks so that she could find some peace within herself as well as offer any useful information or insights into herself.
As I was tuning in and standing out in the garden connecting to the earth, I also asked the earth for help. (For the first 40 years of my life I’d always connected ‘upwards’, as in, to the Universe).
When the healing session was over, I went outside to my garden and I gave an offering of some food to thank everyone and anyone that had helped with the healing of my client.
That was my first ever offering to the land on which I worked and connected with – and something very cool happened.
That week. And I mean THAT week of making the offering – a mushroom ring appeared in my back yard. (Mushrooms rings are also known as fairy rings in the ancient world).
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This had never happened before
I had lived in this house for more than a year and nothing like this had ever appeared before.
Being someone studying shamanism and energy work, we do have a tendency to look deeper into things and to ask questions – especially when things seem like they are coincidences. (Not that I’m actually a big believer in coincidences at all).
Could my garden be talking to me?
My husband said it was nitrates in the soil – which yes, I get. Scientifically it can be explained. But I just found it strange that it happened the week I connected in and then said thanks.
That wasn’t the only thing that happened though.
My plants reaction
There were three specific incidences outside of the mushroom/fairy ring that caused me to believe that plants have an energy and maybe even an understanding, if you will.
After the fairy ring, the lemons on the lemon tree started to turn yellow – getting ready to be picked.
No one, including me or my husband, could believe the size of the lemons coming off our tree.
The shops were selling ‘lemon sized’ lemons. We had grapefruit sized lemons!
People were asking what we used to get them so big but all we had used was water. Well – water and energy.
I had meditated and connected with my lemon tree many times.
I felt that there was a being, or elemental/spirit, within that tree as it had appeared to me during a meditation along with many other times when I was ‘open’ energetically.
So, I would talk to him and I would ask for his help during healing sessions with clients – should he wish to participate.
The next thing I know, the lemons are huge and so incredibly juicy.
This was again a first time.
The person that had lived at the property for the 15 years before us had never seen a lemon so big come off the tree.
But that was, again, not the only thing that happened in my garden.
The rose bushes
The rose bushesI have to be honest, out of all the flowers, roses were never my thing.
I think because they’re too common.
Strange things to say, I know, but I had a tendency to buck any trends or things that people do all the time. So giving roses or diamonds – I was always very much against those things. If everyone else loves it – I tend to go the other way.
Or at least, I used to.
One day, I am again out in my garden connecting to the earth in order to do a healing session with a client. As I’m linking in, it’s the six rose bushes that seem to want to work with this client.
The energy that came out of those bushes, strangely, felt like six wise ladies. All of them of various age but it felt like six wise ladies, nonetheless.
I accepted their energy and went to work with my client.
This happened a few times with these plants and the spirits within the plants.
My husband and I had recently deadheaded the roses, so we were waiting on the next bloom to appear.
Well. Incredibly – the roses that bloomed next were HUGE!
And not just on the one bush. All six plants had an abundance of some of the biggest roses I had ever seen.
We again had people coming to the house, and I wasn’t even pointing them out, but everyone would say “Oh my god your roses are so big, how did you do that?”.
And it was the same answer as the lemon tree: water and energy.
I simply told people that I meditated with them, talked to them, and even gave them back the stagnant energy that I had pulled out from my clients for them to use as fertilizer.
I’m going to reiterate – I don’t believe in coincidences.
The rose bush that fought back!
The third incident wasn’t as pleasant.
It was another occasion of deadheading the roses but this time it was a bit more of a serious chop, as it was coming into winter. Time to prune everything back.
We’d finished with the roses and we were surrounded by all the cuttings that were on the grass.
I could of picked them up but I decided, as I still had to cut the grass, that I would just run the lawnmower over the rose bush cuttings so that they would go into our compost and break down a little easier.
So I grabbed the lawnmower and began to push it over the rose cuttings. There wasn’t much ‘thinking’ going on except how much easier this was than picking them up. I was going to be done within seconds!
Well – I was ‘painfully’ reminded by one of the rose bushes that I was being very disrespectful. And I say that because the second it happened it flashed through my mind as if someone was telling me off, waving a finger in front of my face.
Somehow, and I still don’t know how as there was plenty of space between me and the rose bush, a branch seemed to reach out and snag the back of my arm. I had already passed the bush. Logic would say that it would snag you on the front of your arm as you walked past it. But not this one. It caught me on the back of my arm and gave me two almighty scratches.
As I’ve mentioned, I felt like I was being told off for being disrespectful…
I guess I was.
Dark Energy
What is the dark, stagnant energy I feed my plants?
We generally all have ‘dark’ or stagnant energy within us.
Don’t let that freak you out though.
‘Dark energy’ is simply a buildup of energy that is causing blockages within the body.
Similarly to the EFT I do with people – the energy (emotions) of the past get stuck within the body. You are able to heal this.
Dark energy is exactly the same thing, but in some cases, it can be caused by things not of this lifetime.
We don’t reincarnate with clean slates. That is technically what karma could be described as on a basic level. It’s balancing the wheel of energy. Its very rare for someone to be born with a clean slate, not having done something to someone in a previous incarnation and then in this life having to find a way to balance that out.
When we get caught up in loops that we can’t seem to break or we can’t break free of feeling a certain way, and you’ve tried everything. Maybe look at what is deeper inside, or find someone that can do it for you.
If nothing else makes sense, try looking at your energy blocks.
Do plants have spirits?
I can’t help but say yes – I believe they do.
My own personal experiences tell me that they do.
If everything is made up of energy, which science has proven, who is to say that plants don’t also have a level of consciousness that we don’t yet understand?
Many cultures in history, and even some of them today, still believe and honour the earth as our mother.
We have forgotten that connection in order to get ahead and keep up with our fellow man.
Not to mention, you may have seen the experiments done in schools and laboratories where two plants are sat side by side. One plant is showered with compliments and loving, positive thoughts, whilst the other one is spoken to with mean, nasty, bullying comments.
The plants react.
You can see it happening. The plant showered with love and kindness grows whilst the other plant that has been treated badly slowly turns brown, withers, and will probably die.
Do we help the earth when we heal ourselves?
I have to say that yes, I believe we do.
Our energy is absorbed into the things we do and people we connect with. You only have to walk into a room where someone who is angry, upset or uncomfortable to know that you can feel it even when nothing has been said to you.
The earth has taken on our energy as well.
With every step you take, you are essentially connecting your energy into the earth.
“When we walk like we are rushing, we print anxiety and sorrow on the earth.
We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the earth.
Be aware of the contact between your feet and the earth.
Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet”.
Thich Nhat Hanh
How can you use this?
I am a strong believer and advocate for us all to reconnect with nature. My clients have all generally heard me say it to them time and time again.
Your feet on the earth is grounding and incredibly calming IF you stop and connect to it. It can help heal you.
You can ask the earth for help in pulling the negative energy out of you and transmuting it into energy that the earth can use as ‘fertiliser’. The key here, however, is to ask. You can’t force it or demand it – you have to ask and then allow.
Many of my clients suffer with traumatic pasts and all of them use the earth to help them connect to that feeling of solidity and peace. There is a safety within the heart of nature. And five minutes a day is all you’ll need if you’re short on time.
Put your bare feet on the earth and simply breathe.
Like to know more?
Interested in exploring this further? I’d love to connect and go on this journey with you.