There are many ways to see the world...

...and this is one of them.

Oh I feel nauseous, I wonder what “truth” I carry about myself that I feel nauseous in writing a article that permits me to stand naked in the world with what, “I know.” Even in this article where my intent is to draw your attention to the information in you as opposed to teaching you anything or providing you with “the answer.”

Last Friday night, I am in our local bookstore with my daughter and it is pretty rare that I pick up a magazine these days. My life is at a point, in time, where I feel a resistance to looking outside of me for answers. I simply want to stay with me, I breathe, feel the intimacy with myself which allows my signal to be heard by me, step into the simple “yes” or “no”, breathe and move again. And yet, I was drawn to your magazine, your captions, the titles, themes, the colors, so drawing for me. So much about not only the world that attracts me but the world that I am creating. It was different, for me the experience of reading your magazine was a gathering of people sharing their experience as opposed to the giving of answers, simply this how I am experiencing this in my life and providing an invitation to consider this for yourself.

Once home I very quickly discovered why I picked your magazine up. Catherine, in your editorial you share,

          with respect to the actual consultation, I have found that even with practitioners who do not have limitations on time and where I am willing to pay, issues are still unresolved. For example, even though there is much talk about having a holistic approach, there isn't enough (or sometimes any) emphasis on the emotional and spiritual aspects of health. Certainly, in one of my consultations (which was for 2 hours with a student at a local university with a supervisor sitting in) there were a couple of questions where I could feel my emotions rising and my body reacting. So, in my opinion, a good practitioner should identify this and if they don't have the expertise to consult further about it, at least refer on to others more qualified.

Catherine Mercer, The Art of Healing, Vol. 4, issue 29, 2010

This has been my experience, not only with allopathic medicine but also with alternative and integrative medicine. I state here loudly that my Naturopath knew how to stay with me when energy was moving. This is a woman who has done and continues to do her own work. She is one person.

A guide who has done their work, uncovered their holes so that they feel so safe in themselves that when the person who is coming to them for ease or healing fires off, they do not shut it down or divert or deny the movement in the body. I get that this is the teachable moment, this is the information showing up that I have been looking for. If the expert shuts it down, we go right back to when the information got wired in the body, often for our childhoods. To where our culturally conditioned beliefs, values and attitudes were formed. Where,in the moment, it was normal to shut down, deny it, suppress it. Frankly, in most peoples lives, where was it not normal? Children know, and they are told they are wrong until they are convinced that they are wrong.

Alternative medicine has by no means escaped this element which we so highly criticize in allopathic medicine.

I would like to introduce your readers to how I walk through my world. As a seeker who resisted breathing and lived the first forty-five years of my life pretty much cut off from the neck down I was seeking a different way of seeing my world and experiencing myself, that worked for me, celebrated my senses. The body of thought that holds this paradigm for living, I found in WEL-Systems® experiences. A body of knowledge, a paradigm that has brought together not dismissed all other things in my life that light me up. In this way of experiencing my world it is all about “the wave” energy in motion, what you call emotions as it moves through your body. As you can imagine air is essential for the movement of the wave, stopping dropping the shoulders, stomach soft, and breathe.
Even, even when the practitioner sitting across from you does not get it, taking the time and space in order to have movement and flow. With this way of walking through my life, I create an environment within my body in which energy can flow, not good emotions or bad emotions, just energy flowing, the signal, the authentic me, just streaming in. No labels, no good or bad, simply energy flowing.

I used to wonder why when I went to yoga or had a massage, anything where breathing was emphasized why it did not bring the more, for me. Why isn't this experience of feeling and metabolizing the information, a given. My experience is that if they are used as modalities, if they are still a form of giving away your power, not owning the energy flowing in my body (in the moment, at work, at family dinners) then the solution is temporary. You can't fake this stuff, it is a completely different way of walking through this world. Breathing in a yoga room can work for me, if I claim all of me, not try and make myself feel calmer but use this time to pay attention to how I think, what are the sensations going off in my body and comparing them to chakras and my level of thought.

Much of the material that informs this body of knowledge is , Bruce Lipton, Candice Pert, Deepark Chopra, Shaminism and more and yet the difference is in the experiencing of “me” - it is not about reading a book listening to a CD, or a modality. It is about a safe and sacred environment in which new information is presented of who I am, a quantum biological being and having an experience, a rising up of the information of my body where it is witnessed. Where my intellect can be satisfied to the point in which my body is freed up to metabolize and reconfigure and to have cellular change.

Is it as simple as breathing? Yes and not breath as a strategy, breath as an opening to the signal of, my authentic self to cascading down into my body and allowing the signal to be heard by me, pure, easy, floating, magical, because all of us coming from crazy homes of process or substance addictions, we relied exclusively on the power of the intellect of “getting it”, understanding it, analyzing it. So, what used to be normal is that when energy flowed in my body, intellect stepped in, thought took the place and with it, the distancing of the experience rather than just owning it. It becomes an intellectual experience and thus I loose it, I loose the opportunity that is right there and always has been giving me the more of my life. If I allow it, recognize my body as this alive, organic quantum biological processor it waves through me, like smoke, it does not have to get lodged in.

So, I ask you. Do you want to steer you life from the seven to nine bits of information that you intellect is capable of providing you or your body, with three trillion cells, alive and ready for you to hear it, to process at incredible speeds. Each cell carrying your mind and your experiences.

In the end, this response to Catherine's editorial is what “good company” do you keep? Do you have the awareness to approach healthy healers or people asleep and wanting to stay in a coma? If you continue with “good enough” than I invite you that when there is movement in your body, to stop, raise your hand or leave the room (whatever you need to do to feel safe), drop your shoulders, relax your stomach and get the more of you. When and only when your body stabilizes then it will move and your life will get a whole lot simpler and a whole lot more satisfying. A life worth living.

Habit, a new habit to take the time as the charges of my culturally conditioned beliefs, values or attitudes rise up, it is an incredible pain preventer or you can bump up against yourself and get a headache. As the wholes and the charges disappear than the energy cascades down and the breathe is simple the more, often with no words and yet you know your body has changed. The intimacy with myself starts and ends with me.

When energy rises up in “my body it is the opportunity for me to get the more from my experience with myself. If I surround myself with people who are so incredibly uncomfortable with this, no matter what their title or what their belief, then I loose the more, and I want to be alive, this isn't about your story or even about taking up a lot of time, and it certainly isn't about writhing around on the floor or throwing up. Eyes up and open and flow, what Catherine describes is her experience is giving away the moment or not taking it for yourself, your moment, the unconscious or deliberate shutting down of “the” moment. I call it the hit and run. Stop!!!! Stop!!! take it back and go with people who can teach you to take it back!

We are talking quantum here and now!

For the record, breathe, let the energy rise, keep your head out of it, eyes up, and ...when your body metabolizes, than you move.

If you would like to learn more about WEL-Systems ® or to contact me personally, you can do this through my website at www.sandraheron.com or http://louiselebrun.com/


Sandy Heron (B.A.Sc., and M.Sc. Adult Doula)