Where I Started: The Emotion Code

For me, energy healing started with the emotions.

About a year after I started studying Andy Shaw's work on quieting the mind, I was introduced to The Emotion Code®. That's when I started doing energy healing and muscle testing.

I had come across muscle testing once before, years earlier, with a chiropractor. But The Emotion Code showed me how to use it. Dr. Nelson's work says emotions from the past can get energetically trapped in the body. You ask your body a question, and it shows you a trapped emotion. Then you let it go, using a magnet and your focused intention.

At first it seemed almost too good to be true. I was a little skeptical. But as I practiced it, I felt lighter. I felt more centered, and more like myself.

And I realized you could use it for your body, for your mind, for just about anything. At the same time, I was learning to quiet my mind. And something amazing happened. These two practices were a perfect match, like two puzzle pieces that fit together.

So I decided to get certified. I've been a certified Emotion Code practitioner since 2015. I've been practicing energy healing for more than ten years. During my certification I was able to help 30 people with energy healing. Later on I took the Body Code certification too.

Dr. Bradley Nelson is a personal mentor of mine, and I've had the privilege of meeting him. His book, The Emotion Code, is what inspired me to become a healer.

If you're new to this, I always say it helps to begin with the emotions. It's simpler to get used to the whole idea when you're working with the 60 emotions of the Emotion Code. Later on there are thousands of other things you can find, with the Body Code, or with the Quantum Matrix Code, the healing system I designed. But the emotions are a good place to start. That's where I started.

Something to try

This is a little thing I learned in my Emotion Code training.

Your governing meridian starts at the top of your nose. It goes up over your forehead, over the top of your head, and down your back.

Think of something good you'd like more of in your life. Say it out loud as an intention. As you say it, pass your fingertips along your governing meridian, from your nose up over the top of your head. Go as far as is comfortable. I usually reach to just below my neck.

When I was taught this, I was taught to pass three times as you state the intention. Your fingertips have energy in them, and that helps the intention go where you want it to go. You can also use a magnet, even a refrigerator magnet.

You can try it right now, or later when you have a quiet minute.

Some of you have already started on this path, and for some of you it's brand new. Either way is okay. Just try it and see.

Where I learned this

I learned The Emotion Code from my mentor, Dr. Bradley Nelson. If you really want to know, you can start with Discover Healing and the Emotion Code, which is where I started.

This is my special link, my affiliate link: The Emotion Code certification at Discover Healing. So if you do end up getting something, I end up getting something too. It doesn't cost you anything extra.

If you want to know more about how I do this work, come check out my free Truth Whispering class. I teach it once a month, and you're welcome to come. And I tell the story of how I found energy healing in my third book, Truth Whispering Part III: Living the Truth.

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Kind Words for Your Water

We often assume we understand water. It's simple, and at the same time it's complex. Its mysteries are just starting to unfold before us.

Water is known to have a memory, just like crystals have. Both will absorb energy and vibrations, including emotions, thoughts and beliefs.

Dr. Masaru Emoto showed this in his amazing book, The Hidden Messages in Water. He froze water with words attached to the glass, and photographed the crystals that formed. The beautiful ones came from words like "Thank you," "wisdom and truth," and "I love you." And there was one of polluted water, photographed again after a prayer. Suddenly it was looking much better.

So when I teach this, I ask my students to ask their Higher Self a few questions. Would my body be happy if I bless my water? Would my body be happy if I pray over my water? Would learning about the energy of water be good for me?

People all over the world have long blessed their water, or set an intention for it, before drinking it. You can hold a sense of gratitude before you drink. You can offer a prayer, or a positive affirmation like "I am grateful." You can even write a word like "love" or "gratitude" on your water bottle.

Water has a spiritual side too. In Hinduism, bathing in the sacred waters of the Ganges River is believed to cleanse one's karma. On many of my trips to India, I would bathe in the Ganges River. One time stands out. I was staying in a cabin right on the bank of the Ganges, high up in the Himalayan mountains, where the river is less than 50 feet across and only a couple of feet deep.

When I went out to bathe in the river, it was ice cold, fresh from the glacier. I slowly got in and squatted down, so the water was up to my neck. And I stayed in the flow of the river for about 15 minutes, meditating very deeply on the Gayatri mantra. After a while, I felt this powerful energy, like electricity, flowing right through my whole body.

Then I noticed a monk had come to the riverbank, doing his morning washing. When I came out of the river, he was amazed. He'd been watching me for a while. He said he could only take the cold water for a few minutes at a time. And when I told him which mantra I was using, he understood right away.

If you'd like to learn more, I strongly recommend Dr. Emoto's The Hidden Messages in Water. And for the recent discoveries about water's special properties, I also recommend Gerald Pollack's book, The Fourth Phase of Water. I've read both books, and I really appreciate them.

Something to try

Before you drink your next glass of water, hold it for a moment. Say a kind word to it, out loud or in your mind. "Thank you." Or "I love you." Then drink it, and notice how it feels.

It turns a glass of water into a moment of gratitude. You can do it with the next glass you pour, right now, or with your first glass tomorrow morning.

Some of you have already started on this path, and for some of you it's brand new. Either way is okay. Just try it and see.

If you want to know more, come check out my free Truth Whispering class. I teach it once a month, and you're welcome to come. And I write about the energy of water in my second book, Truth Whispering Part II: Knowing the Truth.

https://TruthWhisperer.as.me/workshop

Like a Hummingbird

You might have noticed that the hummingbird shows up again and again in my books. Hummingbirds have always fascinated me. Not just for their beauty. They seem to carry a deeper message.

In our back yard, we have bird feeders that we fill for them. We have three of them. They get low, and sometimes we change three in a day, or four in a day, even. They're for hummingbirds, and they eat sugar and water.

We feed about 30 to 40 hummingbirds each day. And some days we go through close to a kilo of sugar. It's insane.

I watch them hover, sip, and then zoom away. They're so fast. And at the same time, when they're there, they're completely there.

They're amazing little birds. They're the only birds that can fly backwards. When they hover, their wings can beat anywhere from 720 to 5,400 times a minute, depending on the kind of hummingbird. That's where the name comes from, the humming sound their wings make.

Their little hearts are something else too. When a hummingbird is resting, its heart beats about 225 times a minute. When it's flying, it can go over 1,200. And they're fast. They've been clocked at close to 30 miles an hour. When a male dives to show off for a female, he can go more than 45.

Most hummingbirds weigh less than a nickel. The smallest one, the bee hummingbird, lives in Cuba and is only about two inches long. And those beautiful shining colors on their feathers come from tiny structures that work like prisms. They break the light up into all its colors.

The mother builds the nest by herself. It's a little cup about the size of a walnut shell, woven from spider webs and bits of plants. She lays one or two eggs, each one about as small as a pea.

They only live in the Americas. There are more than 330 kinds of them, and most of them live south of the United States. Some of them fly 500 miles across the Gulf of Mexico every spring, for about 20 hours without stopping. A bird that weighs less than a nickel.

You can find them all the way from the tip of South America up to southern Alaska. Some live high in the Andes mountains, as high as 16,000 feet.

And they rest a lot. All that flying takes so much energy that they spend most of their time sitting quietly on a branch. At night they go into a deep rest called torpor, where everything slows way down. Then in the morning they're back at the feeders.

They love red and orange flowers, especially the long ones shaped like a tube that hang down. The nectar in those flowers is about 26 percent sugar. That's about double what's in a soft drink. They draw it up with a long tongue, the same way water climbs up a straw.

They eat more than sugar, too. They catch tiny flying insects right out of the air, and they feed them to their babies.

They remind me of how we can be both fast moving and deeply present. And how we keep returning to the source for nourishment, the same way we keep coming back to the truth inside us.

There's another hummingbird I've always been drawn to. It's in the desert in Peru, among the Nazca Lines. These are huge figures drawn on the ground a very long time ago. The hummingbird is about 300 feet long, and you can really only see the whole shape from the air.

Who made them, and why? People have all kinds of ideas about that. Nobody really knows. I like to leave it as a mystery. But I find it interesting that of all the things they could have drawn there, one of them is a hummingbird.

The hummingbird hovers and finds what it needs in the smallest flowers. We can find answers in the small, quiet things in life too, if we're willing to be still and look closer.

Something to try

In the middle of a busy day, stop for a moment, like a hummingbird at a flower. Be still. Take one slow breath, and be completely where you are. Then zoom off again.

It's a way to be fast moving and present at the same time. You can try it right now, or the next time your day gets busy.

Some of you have already started on this path, and for some of you it's brand new. Either way is okay. Just try it and see.

If you want to know more, come check out my free Truth Whispering class. I teach it once a month, and you're welcome to come. And I write about the hummingbirds in my third book, Truth Whispering Part III: Living the Truth.

https://TruthWhisperer.as.me/workshop

Little Games That Show You Where You Are

When you're connected with your Higher Self, you get into a state of flow. And there's a certain thing that happens when you're in this flow state. I want to share it for a moment.

Years ago, when I first started to play with connecting my energy with my reality, I was just starting to do mindfulness. I was still a teenager. And just as a kind of mind game, I would try to drive across town and see if I could hit every light green.

If I was really centered and grounded in an inner way, it would just be green light after green light after green light after green light. And if I was in my mind, it would be red light after red light after red light.

Another time I was experimenting with my intention, I guess you could say. I put a quarter on the table and started spinning it. I put my hand over it, waved my hand over it, and said, "Heads, heads, heads, heads." And when it came to a stop, it was heads.

I actually did that six times in a row, and got six heads in a row. I don't know what the odds of that are. But at that point, that was enough to convince me that things weren't just random.

Now, another thing I do. Sometimes I wonder, am I feeling in my heart right now, or am I kind of in my head? So there are little things I do to check. And this one sounds really silly.

In the morning, when I get up, it's time to go around the house and open the curtains. The curtains all have two strings on the side. And I just intuitively grab for one of the strings. If that's the string that opens the curtain, it's an indication to me that I'm in my heart center or my gut center, and I'm connected to my Higher Self.

If I grab the wrong string, it's like, okay, you're in your head. It's the other string. And it's just a slight little reminder. It's a little game that tells me I'm in my head right now.

Even as a master Truth Whisperer, you still have times when you're in your head. The difference is that you notice it yourself, before the universe has to nudge you somehow.

And when you're in the flow, these things start happening on their own. People you think of just suddenly call you. You're driving along, looking for a parking spot, and the parking spot opens just as you arrive. You come to the traffic light, and it turns green just as you arrive. Not miracles, but just little signs from the universe that you're on the right path. It's like the universe is winking at you, saying, "I know that you know that I know."

Something to try

Pick a little game of your own. Something small you do every day, with a right choice and a wrong one, like which curtain string you reach for. Before you do it, let your intuition choose. Then notice when it's right, and when it isn't.

It's a friendly way to notice when you're in your head and when you're in your heart or your gut. You can start today, or tomorrow morning when you get up.

Some of you have already started on this path, and for some of you it's brand new. Either way is okay. Just try it and see.

If you want to know more, come check out my free Truth Whispering class. I teach it once a month, and you're welcome to come.

https://TruthWhisperer.as.me/workshop

The Monk Who Was 117

I've been to India many times. And on several of those trips I went to the Maha Kumbh Mela, a festival held every 12 years that draws millions of pilgrims.

In 2001, I made a camp at the Maha Kumbh Mela for Westerners. It was called Jagashanti Camp, and about a hundred Westerners came to stay there with me.

It was at that Kumbh Mela that I met an ancient teacher. He was 117 years old. And he taught me a practice to clear my thoughts.

First he said to just breathe and close my eyes. Then he told me to imagine I was looking out of a large window that stretched across my whole view. He said the window was a bit dirty. So he told me to wipe it off with a cloth. Dusting it very slowly, back and forth, starting along the top, then working my way down. Going slowly, from the top to the bottom.

I was so concentrated on this task in my mind that I just fell into the state of no mind, easily. I guess it was about 15 minutes later when he said to open my eyes. And I was brought back to the normal mind state. It was amazing to feel that silence, in the middle of a festival of millions.

He suggested that I do it for an hour every day. Needless to say, it was very hard to do it for an hour every day without his help.

But years later, when I started to practice no mind more regularly, I discovered the effects it has. My intuitive senses were sharper. I was able to connect with my inner peace more easily. And as I was doing energy healing and muscle testing, I started to feel the answers. Just before the muscle testing answers came to me, I'd feel them. It really opened up my intuition, beyond muscle testing.

I learned the no mind practice from my mindfulness teacher, Andy Shaw, in his book Creating a Bug Free Mind. Andy says he didn't invent the method, he just found it helpful. And when I met that teacher in India, I learned that Andy was right about not inventing it.

The way I do it, you visualize that you're standing there in the middle of your mind with your hands up, like a traffic cop. No, no, no, stop. No, not even that. No, wait. Everybody stop. You stop. You stop. Everybody stop.

And you get to a point where your thoughts stop, and you hold it, just for about 15 seconds. It's really hard, just for 15 seconds. But once you start doing this, if you practice it each day, maybe a couple of times a day, you can extend it to maybe 30 seconds.

Now, you don't actually know it's 30 seconds, because you're not in your mind. But it's the idea that you're the one in control. You're deciding right now, nope, stop, we're taking a break. It's like rebooting your thinking, and then starting fresh.

Something to try

Close your eyes, and imagine a big window in front of you, a little dusty. Take a cloth and wipe it very slowly, back and forth, from the top down to the bottom. Or stand in the middle of your mind like a traffic cop, put your hands up, and say, "Everybody stop." See if you can hold that quiet for 15 seconds.

It gives your mind a break, and a little room for your intuition to come through. You can try it right now, or later when you have a quiet minute.

Some of you have already started on this path, and for some of you it's brand new. Either way is okay. Just try it and see.

If you want to know more, come check out my free Truth Whispering class. I teach it once a month, and you're welcome to come. And I tell the story of the 117-year-old monk in my third book, Truth Whispering Part III: Living the Truth.

https://TruthWhisperer.as.me/workshop

Grateful for No Reason at All

One of the tools I use for mindfulness is a gratitude list. It's simple. You make a list of all the things you're grateful for. It's a gentle reminder of the blessings in your life, big and small.

Something as simple as writing down three things you're grateful for at the start of the day can set a positive tone for the whole day. I also like little reminders around the house. A sticky note, or a magnet on the fridge, that asks, "What can I be thankful for in this moment?"

Now try to go beyond the things that you're grateful for, by just being grateful. Grateful for no reason at all. Just being grateful. Grateful for being, simply being. Sense how that feels, and really go into that feeling. It's a deeper level of gratitude.

There was a time when I wanted a really nice car. So I set my intention on it. I made a mind map with all the parts that would be good to have. I played with it, and made it nice colors and pretty shapes. I was really feeling it, but in a playful, wouldn't this be cool kind of way.

Sure enough, I got this electric car. It was a three year lease on a Chevy Bolt, and I loved it. I live up a really steep hill, and I was just bombing up the hill with this thing. Coming down the hill, it would give me regenerative charging, so I'd get free electricity driving down. It was thrilling. I was excited like a little kid.

But I don't go a lot of places. Maybe once a week. So after a while it wasn't a thrill anymore. When the three year lease was up, they asked, "Do you want a new one, or do you want to buy this one?" And I said, "Nah, you can have it back."

After that I drove a 1990 Honda Civic. And I loved it. It was kind of a beater. If somebody scratched it in the parking lot, I was totally relaxed about that. It was like the no worry vehicle. I'm happy with whatever the universe gives me.

I had to have the nice car first. I enjoyed it for a long time. Then I got to the point where I was done with it. You can't just tell yourself to feel the abundance. But when you start getting what you want, the hot tub, the trip to Nepal, the perfect house, the perfect relationship, at some point you ask, what should I manifest next? And I got to that point where I literally couldn't think of anything I needed. I'd look around, and it was like, nah, I'm good.

When you get to that point, there isn't really anything you need. If there's something you need, it'll just come into your life. And where you are on the path is the perfect place for where you should be on the path.

Something to try

Write down three things you're grateful for today. Then put the list down, and spend a minute just being grateful. Grateful for no reason at all, just for being. Notice how that feels.

The list helps you notice the good in your life. The minute after it takes you a little deeper. You can do it right now, or tomorrow morning when you start your day.

Some of you have already started on this path, and for some of you it's brand new. Either way is okay. Just try it and see.

If you want to know more, come check out my free Truth Whispering class. I teach it once a month, and you're welcome to come. And I share my gratitude practices in my third book, Truth Whispering Part III: Living the Truth.

https://TruthWhisperer.as.me/workshop