Before I elaborate on the theme of this article, indulge me in two relevant pieces of information about myself since this is my first contribution to the Psychic Horizons newsletter.
First, I have been a student (some may say fixture) here since 1996. Recently, I started helping Jenny Leme' teach our beginning How to Heal Yourself class. Consistently, I've been taking classes and workshops to increase my spiritual awareness and improve on the use of my psychic tools.
One use of my psychic tools has been to manage the stresses in life and help me to see it as a fun adventure.
Secondly, not long ago I went to the doctor about a recurring prblem I was having with stomach aches. After this test and that scan, the doctor told me my body is responding to stress. My reaction to this diagnosis made me so angry my face turned purple. "What!" I screamed to myself. "I've been working on my self awareness for six years now. How can this be?" I wasn't mad because I thought the doctor was wrong. I was angry because it brought into question all that time I spent learning my psychic tools. "My tools didn't work!" I moaned to myself, and the last thing I should be doing is teaching this stuff!
It took a while, but I learned a great lesson from this incident that was really quite liberating. It allowed me to see my psychic abilities in a whole new light, in addition to improving my confidence as a teacher and healer.
After the doctor appointment I shared my frustration with friends. They offered tons of good advice on how to relieve my stress. What I had to learn was that I had to rediscover for myself things that helped me relieve stress - taking walks for example. I rediscovered my psychic tools the same weay. We all have our own way of grounding out foreign energies and the stress relief easily follows. On my walks, I noticed, "Golly, Robert, look how grounded you are!"
In classes, we often ask student to draw the tool thay they're learning, say a grounding chord. Drawing your own grounding chord makes it real for you. Drawing it also makes it yours. People often ask me, do these psychic tools you learn really work? I think it's a more useful question to ask first how they work for you. Whether they work or not then becomes a no-brainer.
What does your grounding chord look like? How does it work for you? What energies to you consciously fill in with each day? Discovering your own answer to these questions, I think, is what giving to yourself and stress relief is all about.
-Rev. Robert Agne
Rev. Robert Agne is working on his PhD at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Rob teaches How To Heal Youself at Psychic Horizons Center.