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Coming out…in a manner of speaking

March 7, 2015

For the past year and a half, I’ve been a closeted Spiritualist.

There, I said it. There’s no taking it back.

Why is this a big deal for me to say? Because I can only imagine what you are thinking of me right now. Because it’s what I would be thinking of me right now if I hadn’t seen and experienced what I have in the last couple of years. That is: “Really? I can’t believe she takes this hocus pocus mumbo jumbo seriously! If she believes in that, what other nonsense does she think? Anyone who utters such crazy-talk obviously has their head in the clouds and can’t possibly be very bright.”

I’ve already gotten a taste of this attitude already: when I’d mention this new interest to some friends or acquaintances, the conversation would rapidly get changed to something else; some of my closest friends would at least do me the courtesy of telling me outright how nuts they thought my new ideas were, and then patiently listen to me, amused smiles on on their faces, and forgive me this one defect in my personality because they’ve known me for so long. My own husband is troubled by this change in me as well, all the more so because of the expressions of pity he has started getting from his friends: “Poor guy, so sad his wife is such a head-case.”

Before all this, I myself was a resolute atheist, with little or no patience for spirituality or religion. I’m a scientist (for real! I have a degree in biochemistry) so without a reason to believe in something “divine” or “supernatural”, there is no way I would be convinced to do so. For me, nothing changes without proof.

So how did I get from there to here in such a short time? In a nutshell, I was convinced , little by little, kicking and screaming, struggling with my beliefs all the way. It wasn’t like some huge accident or trauma occurred, with me waking up to “see the Light”. It certainly wasn’t some supernatural experience or some such. It crept up on me very slowly in the beginning, gaining momentum as I started to understand more, to the point where now I don’t have any idea how far down this rabbit hole goes.

It started with an introduction to something called BIE (Bioenergetic Intolerance Elimination). Simple enough. I was taught that everything has energy (that’s not news) and as a result, each vibrates at a different frequency (also logical). The body happens to recognize substances not so much by their physical characteristics, but by their frequencies of vibration. (Little bit of a leap here). This was proven to me over and over again through something called biofeedback analysis (aka muscle testing ). This type of testing, with a remarkable degree of accuracy, can determine if a person has a mild, moderate, or severe intolerance to a substance (or none at all). Even more amazing was the theory that intolerances exist because the body has stopped recognizing the frequency of the substance, and through the BIE process, the body can be reintroduced to it. Sounded completely unbelievable to me, that is, until the process managed to relieve me of a long-standing soy intolerance in under 15 minutes.

A true scientist is a person who can have tightly held beliefs, but in the face of new information will re-evaluate what she knows to be true. The ego is not involved here; it is more far important to discover the Truth than it is to be proven wrong.

As unbelievable as BIE was, I couldn’t pretend that it didn’t work. My paradigm needed to shift. I needed to recognize that Energy played a role in healing. My new Truth was that we all have energy flowing through us, our Chi or Aura, if you will, and our interaction with the world had more to do with this energy than I could quite understand.

This was still very science-based: energy is science, right? You don’t need to believe in some kind of higher power to believe in energy. It was an understanding of energy that most people didn’t “get,” but I was totally comfortable with it.

Then I met Helen and things got strange in short order.

Helen is a Reiki Master (with a lot of other certifications, but that was the one for which I sought her out). A friend convinced me that I should learn Reiki with her, and despite my skepticism, I agreed, and I contacted Helen to teach it to us. While I don’t remember my initial thoughts on Reiki, Helen and I immediately clicked. We knew that somehow our different healing modalities were going to come together, so we started getting together weekly to explore putting together BIE and Reiki. During these weeks Helen and I would discuss the impact of emotions and stress on the development of disease, and I’d go back to my practice to discover that yes, indeed, most people developed a new issue immediately following some stress in their life. She tried to convince me that the new problem is just a message, the body’s way of pointing out an unresolved situation or trauma, and I would listen patiently, thinking that as much as I liked her, she really did hold some very strange beliefs.

Then I read an article written by another BIE practitioner, Kory Monteith, suggesting that intolerances could be cleared simply by using muscle testing to access the subconscious; if one is able to identify the root cause of the intolerance and address it, the intolerance resolves itself, obviating the need for the BIE machine. Hold it.   Whaaaatt??? Isn’t that what Helen has been trying to tell me for the past few months? Intrigued, I called Kory up so she could explain to me her exact methodology. The next day at work I had a client with so many food intolerances that it would have taken me months to address them all, so I decided to test out Kory’s theory with him. Amazed was not a strong enough word to describe how I felt as muscle testing revealed the emotions, timeframe, and individuals involved in a life event that my client readily remembered; then after discussing the situation and releasing it from his system all  of his food issues were completely resolved (and as of a year later, not returned).

So my paradigm had to shift again. I had just witnessed someone heal from 40 food intolerances in front of my eyes by simply figuring out what emotions were trapped in his psyche that needed to be released.

Helen and I later had a client with severe arthritis in her hands necessitating the use of 6 tylenols per day whose subconscious was so protective, we couldn’t access the life events in question because, we assume, it would have been too painful to discuss. We didn’t get anywhere with her that day. Helen, realizing in her wisdom that the life events themselves are not really important, but it’s what we learn from them that counts, asked the Universe what the lessons are that we are meant to learn, sat down at her computer, and proceeded to channel 52 life lessons. The next time that woman came back, we asked her subconscious if there was a lesson she was meant to learn and got an affirmative response. Once we finished anchoring the relevant lessons, her pain completely disappeared. She no longer takes any tylenol for her hands.

Paradigm shift. Now we are beings on this earth with the goal of learning the lessons life has to offer. This is the nature of spirituality. We are spiritual beings living in a physical “suitcase”.

If it were just these couple of cases, I might have been able to convince myself it didn’t really happen, but I see this kind of healing on a * daily * basis. Intolerances, pains, fears, phobias, and more, gone in a matter of a few minutes. Things that a few years ago I would have considered nothing short of miraculous are (while no less thrilling each time), almost routine. There really is no turning back.

I’m coming out with all this now because my “public persona” is about to change, and I need to explain why. I can no longer pretend to be the same person I used to be. I have been on a blogging hiatus as I sorted out what was important to me and what I wanted to say. For my clients, readers, family, and friends, this is my way of making it official.

I can no longer talk about calories and weight loss without focussing on the fact that emotions, and belief systems have a huge impact on whether, on a deeper level, we feel safe enough to let the weight go.

How about sugar cravings? Your body is telling you it is lacking something sweet. What is it missing?

Or even something as seemingly straightforward as an iron deficiency is not necessarily so straightforward…what is your body trying to say to you if it is incapable of absorbing such a key nutrient?

Yes, of course, proper diet plays a huge, vital role in achieving optimal health (I haven’t forgotten that!), but some problems just run deeper than food alone.

I have always been respected for my intelligence and my down-to-earth, practical nature, and I have taken pride in that. I didn’t just change my mind overnight; I haven’t been possessed by some alien being; I haven’t been brainwashed by a cult; and deep down I’m still that same, intelligent, down-to-earth person I always was, but with a deeper understanding of the world than I used to have. I really hope I haven’t lost your respect, but here’s the bottom line: if all of this makes you uncomfortable, then unsubscribe; if not, then look forward to hearing about the world from a whole new perspective.

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The voices in your head aren't you

By Renu Arora • August 30, 2024
The voices in your head aren't you. I was in the middle of doing prep work for completely overhauling my ART training over the next month and I realized that the above was something that I understood from the thousand(s?) of sessions I have done, but have never put into words. The voices in your head are not you. There is only one YOU in your head. That's the one THINKING. Asking questions. Making decisions. The one who knows what you want and don't want. So, who is calling you names? Making nasty comments? Saying things that you know aren't true? Or aren't how you really feel? I refer to these chatterboxes in your head collectively as "the peanut gallery." They fall into one of 3 categories. Something that was a part of you, but split off and is no longer "attached". Something that was never part of your energy. Or it's your inner child. If it's your inner child, that is the childlike part in every one of us that keeps us young, and they need some soothing. We all live with a younger version of ourselves inside. But this younger version has it's own needs and wants, and you have to learn to work together to live harmoniously! If it was never a part of you, it's some kind of energetic interference. Someone else - whether living or dead - is invading your space. It could even be your spirit guides themselves, believing that they are protecting you with that belief, or they themselves need healing and they are imposing their beliefs upon you. Most of the time, we just take the few moments we need to heal them so they no longer feel it necessary to interfere. And then there are the ones that were once a part of you. These are typically referred to as Alters. These were formed out of trauma. As a result of a traumatic experience, the body coped by splitting off the trauma into a separate segment in an attempt to "contain" it. These segments have their own consciousness and belief system...therefore they no longer truly represent YOU. People with dissociative identity disorder (DID. Formerly called multiple personality disorder) have Alters that are so imbued with trauma energy that they can occasionally "take the drivers seat" and during those times, "You" are relegated to the background. As such, people with DID will often have large gaps in their memory when an Alter had taken over. The wild thing is, everyone has Alters. It's only in DID that the trauma is so overwhelming for an Alter to be able to take control. You can speak to Alters. Find out what they need in order to heal. Once they are healed, they can integrate back into the whole. (ie. become part of you once again) And once you address all of the "personalities" that have appeared, the peanut gallery finally becomes quiet. For this week's story, while I was working with a client she suddenly shared that she felt like people want what she has, and wanted her to suffer...while all she wanted was peace. Her subconscious told me that that feeling wasn't the one we were supposed to work on, though. That that was actually symbolic of something else in her life...somewhere else that there was suffering and she wanted peace. She then told me "there's a part of me that wants to die." She clearly hears it say "I want to die." We both know that's not what she really wants. It's a voice in her head. In moments, I discover it's an Alter. This Alter was suffering and wanted peace. This is what we were being directed to heal. Once they are discovered, healing an Alter is actually rather straightforward and simple. So within a few minutes, the peanut gallery was quiet. She no longer needs to hear those words in her head again. What a relief! If you find this as fascinating as I do, then consider learning ART! There is a 5-week, live training course with me (conducted over zoom) and a couple of smaller prerequisite courses. You can find all the information about when the various courses are offered and their pricings by clicking here . You will be amazed by what you learn!

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Losing your connection (spiritually speaking!)

By Renu Arora • January 24, 2024
This is a short one... A client came in for her first session with me, and as I typically do for an intro session, we planned to find and heal a life event for her. This generally starts off with us needing to find out a belief that the client is hanging onto as a result of the experience. I got my clues, but none of it meant anything to my client. I checked into see if we were being blocked, and I didn't see any issues, but still no spark of insight came to her. Worse yet, nothing was coming to me either. I usually get an intuitive hit to guide the conversation but this time, nada. Then it occurred to me to ask if she and I were still connected. I got a "no." No?? I tried again to connect and found, in a nutshell, that her spirit guides had booted me out! It sometimes happens that I can't connect initially, but I don't generally get kicked out mid-session like that. So I asked what her guides needed to allow us to move forward and it turns out that they needed an apology from me! I can only guess that I ticked them off in a past life. 😕 I apologized. Thankfully they accepted. And I quickly found that the information that I had received earlier had been completely false and we had to start from scratch. Happily, they didn't interfere again and my client and I went on to have a great session. 😃 Today's tip: if you are doing your own healing work and you find your intuition shut down, verify that you are actually connected! And don't be surprised if somebody's grudge from a past life comes up to be resolved. :) If you are interested in learning more about whether ART is right for you, either to learn for yourself, or to experience as a client, book a discovery call with me and let's chat!

Sometimes your emotions aren't your own

By Renu Arora • December 31, 2023
Before the year ends, I've got one last story to share for 2023. Today's client reached out to do a session with me because she felt that something was amiss and her intuition told her that I could help. She was finding herself unusually angry with her husband. She's not by nature an angry person so this unnatural rage bubbling up whenever she would see or even think about him was especially disconcerting. Connected to her anger, she also had this strange feeling that he himself was feeling distant and resentful towards her. To be honest, it was a confusing session. I didn't really know where we were going with it, but I always maintain trust in the subconscious and that it knows more than I do - and that everything would make sense by the end. I was not disappointed! My client and I reasoned that since she was feeling his resentment, it made sense that he was the one needing the healing. So, I tapped into his energy and immediately found a huge cluster of trapped emotions and beliefs - disgust, a lack of control, a belief that he couldn't be happy, that his happiness was dependent on others, not being good enough, and more. We cleared all of that after which she sensed an improvement in the resentment, but not yet to the feeling of him being distant. Add to that, she was also now feeling a lack of love, and not being wanted. Even more new, unusual emotions for her. So we kept going. With a little more digging, all of the pieces started falling into place. It turns out that she and her husband have a beautiful daughter whom they adore, but needed medical intervention to conceive. My client knew she was destined to have another child - she had heard this child communicate with her before, during previous sessions with me and at other times, too. Recently she had broached the subject with her husband about starting the process again for this second child and he had not shown any interest. That's when it all clicked. NONE of the emotions my client had been experiencing were her own. The anger, resentment, disconnect, lack of love or anything else...those all belonged to not-yet-even-conceived Baby #2! All the emotions and beliefs we had healed...those belonged to the baby as well! It made so much sense! This baby was aching to join the family, but dad's lack of interest led to feelings of rejection, anger, and sadness. Wow! No wonder my client was so confused as to what to do. The emotions were so foreign to her, not at all how she usually responds to disappointment, and now we understood why! Shortly after that, a wave of sleepiness hit my client, always signal of a message from someone trying to come through: very clearly, she heard the words "Bring me home now" in her head. Baby #2 was no longer angry or hurt, just insistent that it was their time to make an appearance. And with that, my client felt totally better - back to her old self once again. We could both see a visible change in her face - she was smiling from ear to ear. And ready to pass along the message to her husband. 😀 Do you feel like you are behaving out of character? Sometimes your emotions are not your own! Whether they are yours or not, they can be healed so you can feel back to normal once again. Book a session with me and I can help! Happy New Year! See you in 2024!

The meaning in her migraines

By Renu Arora • December 22, 2023
One of my clients came to me to address, amongst other things, migraine headaches. She would get them regularly, requiring daily medication which, when working properly, would mean she would have fewer episodes and (hopefully!) less severe ones. Until working with me, she never felt like her head was ever fully pain free. If you have never had a migraine, or known anyone who has suffered from them, then to put it simply, a migraine is an extremely intense headache, which for most sufferers, can be debilitating. In addition to throbbing pain, they may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and extreme sensitivity to light and sound that can last from hours to days. Many migraine sufferers are forced to sequester themselves alone in a dark, quiet room until the symptoms subside. After a bit of work, her subconscious lead us to one key experience in her childhood. It was in grade 5, when she was newly designated as "enhanced" at school. That change meant that she was suddenly required to be taken out of her regular classes to participate in extra programming with the other enhanced kids. And she hated it! She was being pulled away from her friends and being given extra work to do, to boot! Yuck! Are you ready to play detective...what do you think the connection is? That kid was angry. The injustice of it all! Teachers, parents...the whole system seemed to be forcing her to do something she had absolutely no interest in. Deep inside her, there was an inner child screaming to the world "will everyone just leave me alone?!?" What happens when someone gets a migraine? The whole world has to leave them alone! It took giving her a lot of pain to get it, but that inner child eventually got what she was asking for. Crazy, eh? It's actually more common than you think. Once that was understood, our next task was to heal that child so it could stop being so angry and upset. And shortly after that, my client's head stopped hurting. That little bit of pain that she always felt, was gone . Her subconscious no longer had a purpose for her migraines, so it was time to let them go. If you suffer from migraines or know anyone who does, book a session with me so we can make them a thing of the past. 

The Cause of her Self-Sabotage

By Renu Arora • December 14, 2023
If you find yourself holding yourself back on doing something, you are absolutely not alone! It is one of the most common things that I see, but it is often one of the more devastating. To know that you have a gift to share with the world, to want to do it and know that you should, but to feel this invisible resistance keeping you from your dreams...it is heartbreaking! It invariably leads to us questioning ourselves, wondering "What is wrong with me?" It's just another case of your subconscious trying to tell you that you've got something from your past that needs to be healed. That was the situation for my client in this week's story. My client in question is a fellow alternative health practitioner. She had an event coming up and was afraid that people wouldn't sign up. I could see her whole heart wasn't into it. She was doubting herself. But it was bigger than the one event. It turned out that the emotions she was feeling surrounding the event could be found in other places in her life as well. She had to admit that she wasn't 100% certain that her husband was fully on board with her work. And quite frankly, part of her doubted herself and whether her work was as effective as she thought. (A sentiment I could absolutely relate to from the early years in my practice.) We discovered that she had the phrase "Am I ridiculous?" anchored into her subconscious. It took us some work, but eventually the memory surfaced that when she wanted to go to university, her parents didn't approve of her desire to go into music therapy, and they made it very clear that they thought she ought to do something else. This made her question her own judgement, and the thought "Am I ridiculous?" anchored in. Together we shifted that belief and integrated the phrase "I do amazing things and am loved for it!" in it's place. She ended the session with a new level of confidence and self-assurance. And the event? It went great! If you are an entrepreneur and you find yourself questioning your ability to be successful, book a session with me and we'll have you ready to take on the world in no time!

"Why don't I fit in?"

By Renu Arora • December 8, 2023
A client was struggling with feeling like she doesn't belong anywhere. She moved to Canada from Chile when she was young, and despite living here for so long, has never felt entirely at ease. But during trips to visit Chile, she would feel like an outsider there as well. We discovered that her subconscious was holding onto the belief "Why don't I fit in?" As long as that belief was programmed into her psyche, we knew she wouldn't feel at home no matter where she was. Together we determined that what she really wanted to believe was "I am comfortable anywhere". So where did her subconscious anchor in the belief "Why don't I fit in?". As it turns out, at the airport, on the day she arrived in Canada as a little girl, she and her family encountered something they had never seen before: an escalator. My client accidentally managed to get separated from her family and onto the escalator...and they all panicked! They were terrified that she was going to reach the end and get sucked into the machinery. Of course, the escalator monster didn't end up eating her, but it left her completely puzzled, asking herself "Why don't I fit in?"! She and I got a big chuckle out of this one! Once we healed the terror and embarrassment from the experience we were then able to release the negative belief and program in her new belief "I am comfortable anywhere". That is now her new truth. If there is a moral to the story, it is this: trauma is in the eye of the beholder. Even seemingly insignificant events can have a huge impact on our lives, because what would be meaningless to an adult can be terrifying for a child. So if you've got embarrassing or uncomfortable stories from your childhood, don't ignore them - they are probably impacting you in ways you would never expect.

The subconscious seldom reveals what you expect!

By Renu Arora • December 1, 2023
That was certainly the case with a recent client. In her first session with me, my client admitted that she has been struggling a lot lately, suffering with feelings of inadequacy, and imposter syndrome, which had been triggering her to engage in avoidance behaviour, including turning to internet surfing and television watching to cope. We quickly found that she was holding onto the belief "I'm not good enough." In my head, I thought, "well that would make sense...if she doesn't feel good enough to engage with the work she is meant to do, she would be drawn to procrastinate and do other things, like TV or internet." Where did the belief "I'm not good enough" come from? We tracked it to a time when she was younger and her older brother bullied her. Despite her telling her parents that he was mistreating her, they took no action, and the torment continued. To her, "I'm not good enough" really meant "I'm not good enough for my parents to care about me...I'm all on my own". This general problem came attached to a specific memory that came to mind, though. In this one, her brother "decided" that she would no longer be allowed to watch TV for a year. He put a sheet over her head to prevent her from viewing the TV, and would interfere in other ways anytime she would try. As always, her parents did not intervene, and this behaviour went on for some time. And then it hit us. She wasn't surfing the web and watching television because she was avoiding doing other work. She was watching it because the little girl inside her wanted to watch TV and was upset with her big brother for not letting her! My client's subconscious was communicating with her. That "desire to watch a screen" was meant to remind her of an earlier experience of when she had that same desire; it was trying to direct us to heal the abuse and neglect she experienced when she was young. By the time we were done healing the experience, my client said the thought alone of spending hours in front of a screen made her nauseous - she had no desire to do it. She even wrote me later and told me that she had no craving to spend time on the internet or TV, and instead her evening was "pleasantly filled with other joyful stuff." Yay! Do you know anyone who is addicted to their screens? If they would like to get hours of their life back doing meaningful activities that would bring them more joy, let them know I can help and suggest they book a session today.

Can't drink milk? You probably have mother issues

By Renu Arora • April 25, 2022
Everything we react to, whether it's foods, things in the environment, people...whatever...the reaction is there for a reason . Your subconscious is communicating with you. Let's take lactose for example. Some people (okay, most of them) will say that lactose intolerance exists "because the body has stopped producing the enzyme that digests lactose". (I was a registered dietitian for 12 years, so that was exactly what I believed, and didn't think twice about it.) But have they ever asked themselves why the body stopped producing lactase (that's the enzyme). Like, did the person's DNA change? And all of a sudden, this one protein is unavailable for production? Or did the production system change (and miraculously only this one single protein was affected?) I was never, ever, provided with a satisfactory reason for why the body couldn't do it's job anymore. "It just stopped" is a description, not a reason . So let's look at the symbolism of lactose. Lactose is found in only one place: milk. Milk has only once source: mothers . To the subconscious, milk (lactose) represents mothers. Let me give you a real-life example. I met with a new friend for a get-to-know-you coffee date. Without any prompting from me, he told me exactly what his subconscious had been trying to tell him for 30 years, in under 30 minutes. As we were settling in and he was adding cream to his coffee, he casually mentioned to me how until recently he used to be unable to tolerate any amount of dairy for years. He used to love milk as a kid, but sometime after university, milk stopped loving him and even the littlest bit would have him running to the bathroom. Over the last few years, however, he started to be able to tolerate more and more, so now he can have the cream in his coffee or a slice of pizza without digestive discomfort. So far, so good. Then we started talking about our families. He was pleased to let me know that his youngest of three kids had just graduated from university and admitted to a sense of relief that his mother had been able to see all of them graduate. He went on to tell me that when he himself graduated from university he didn't want to go to his convocation ceremony, so he neglected to tell his mother about it. She was devastated! She had very much wanted to see her son's graduation and so he had felt guilty about it for all these years. Now that she was able to see her three grandkids in their caps and gowns, he didn't feel quite so bad. Bingo! My friend's reaction to dairy was directly related to the level of guilt he felt towards his mother. So, if you have an issue with milk, there's an exceptionally good chance that you've either got an issue with your own mother, or a maternal figure in your life, or the concept of motherhood. I've seen it over and over. Heal the issue with mom, and you can say hello to ice cream again. :) Do you have your own allergy or intolerance you'd like to get rid of? Book a session with me and we can make that problem history!
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