I've always been a glass-half full kinda girl. But as my life's journey detoured into airy-fairy woo-woo intangible craziness (10+ years of energy healing), it's gotten me looked at down some long noses. Do you know this one?
Whatever I've been into, I've been into with enthusiasm! Excitement! Joie de vivre. Each new area of study has been fascinating, exciting, and so new! If I didn't understand it, it was even more entrancing, a puzzle to solve. I loved talking about my journey and sharing each step of the way.
Oops. People who love me have gently expressed their, er, concern over my enthusiasm. They assumed I'd gone hook line and sinker, believing anything I was told. Actually, the truth was quite the opposite.
When I discovered healing and spiritual practices, I was an incurable skeptic with one redeeming quality: optimism. Nope, I didn't believe ANY of it. Yet... I personally experienced miraculous results. Ack! What's a girl with cognitive dissonance to do?
Clearly: Investigate. Take the healing classes to discover the trickery. Find out how they conned my body into clearing up a 30-year chronic condition, and then call the papers and clear this silliness off the planet!
I didn't believe in miracle (meaning working in a way beyond what I understand or expect) healing. That stuff belonged in myths, stories and holy books. Even as I became a practitioner, going through these interesting processes to eliminate icky health conditions, a big part of me still didn't believe my results. And I was getting great results. Downright miraculous. Over and over.
The optimist in me knew this, however, and it has propelled my life through the darkest times:
I am one person. No matter how smart I am, I still don't know everything. If there is a miracle cure out there that for some unknown reason really works, I might not believe or understand it, but I'm not going to be dumb enough to pass it by.
Yes, I'm practical. I'm a realist. I'm an optimist who sees the glass as partly full, even if it's just a drop or it was wet yesterday. You can get something good out of EVERYTHING.
But only if you look.
I have SO LOVED my journey examining "crazy" ideas or practices to see if they bear any faint resemblance to uncrazy ideas. Sure, I found a lot of chaff... and a slew of extremely rare gems. Today I see a beautiful pattern that ties together science and religion, modern and ancient healing practices. They're all the same at their core truths.
The way I got there was being an optimist, looking for the water in each glass. Do you do this, or are you afraid you won't find any... so you avoid looking? Some glasses were pretty empty for me. I moved on. Some glasses were full and I lingered. A rare few bear unending supplies of water: the more you look, the more there is.
So yeah, I'm an optimist. I'm an enthusiast. My writing coach calls me a spiritual detective. I know that I don't know everything. But thanks to that, I know enough now -- about how to walk the human spiritual journey and awaken your natural healing powers more easily, fully and quickly -- to help a whole lotta other people live better lives.
And I couldn't be more excited about that.
Lessons Learned: Let the skeptics in your life go. Treat your own inner skeptic lovingly. Seek to understand and move through what's holding you back from exploring your unknown. Listen to life with an open mind and follow your heart and inner knowing. You are in exactly the right place right now.
I love you. Go heal.
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