Trudy, Author at Awakening Touch - Animal Healer & Pet Bereavement Counsellor

How To See & Feel Energy

by Trudy | Apr 20, 2020 | Energy Work, Reiki, Spirituality, Uncategorised

What is an AURA?

First things first. A basic answer is that the aura is a living energy field that surrounds all living creatures. We are all made up of energy. Even though your body feels solid it is actually made of energy waves vibrating in a certain way. Everything we see and feel is made of energy and molecules clustering together to create their unique pattern that you can identify. Our auras reflect who we are and they extend out from the body. Everybody is different and there is no real set length that they extend. It can be anything between 1 and 5 feet. This can also depend upon our mood, our state of mind etc.

READING AURAS

As you know, the aura surrounds everyone and this energy field is like a magnet. It can pick up the vibrational energies that are floating around everywhere you go.

Your vitality and wellbeing depend on maintaining a healthy aura. Ill-health, emotional upset and turmoil as well as food, drink, any drugs, medicinal or otherwise, our environment, all affect the aura.

Now you can see why it is important to keep your aura in tip-top condition. One of the most important things we can do for ourselves is to cleanse our auras regularly. This will help keep out negative effects from our environment and other people. I use an essence called Astral Clear and I put a few drops on the palms of my hands and then smooth from the top of my head right down my body until I get to my feet, I smooth and ‘fluff’ my aura every morning. (sounds like I’m talking about a cushion doesn’t it saying I fluff my aura, but I can’t think of a better way of explaining it unless you saw me do an actual demonstration of it.

FEELING AURAS

Now you’ve read about what the aura is you’ll probably want to have a go at feeling the aura. It is quite easy to feel the aura and most people are really surprised at how easy it can be felt. Firstly, you need to find a willing person to practice on.

Ask them to sit on a chair where you can stand behind them.

Do you remember the energy exercise I told you about where you rub your hands together and then slowly (palms in front of you, facing each other (as if you were going to clap) then slowly push your hands together and you will find a resistance, that’s energy and you’re feeling energy. It is the same with the aura, rub your hands together and do as I said above, stand behind a person who’s sat down and go above their head and slowly lower your hands until you feel ‘a resistance’ as I call it.

Hold your hands about two feet over the top of their head, close your eyes and slowly allow your hands to move down towards the top of their head until you find contact with their aura. In most cases, this will be between 2 – 6 inches from the top of their head.

The aura will feel different to everyone, however, generally, you will know when you have found the aura as you will be able to feel one or more of the following: – tingling sensation – coolness – warmth – resistance – a rush of air, for me, it’s the ‘resistance’ feeling as that’s how I feel the energy a lot of the time.

Once you have found the aura over the top of the head keep your hands so they are just in contact with it then slowly see if you can follow from the top of the head down the side of the head and over the shoulders. That’s all there is to it! Simples!!

It may take some practice, the same as anything else, but once you’ve done it once you’ll find it easy to do again. Once you feel confident enough, try to find different people to practice on.
You will feel the difference in other people’s aura which all change with how they are feeling health-wise and emotionally etc.

METHODS FOR READING AURAS

There are various different methods. I will give you a couple to get you started and see if they suit you. Feel free to find your own unique way.

SEEING THE AURA FROM YOUR FINGERTIPS

Although it might take a bit of practice, once you get the hang of it you will be able to see the aura fairly easily. I am not talking about picking up the sensations with psychic senses, but actually seeing with your own physical eyes.

Some people can sense the auras rather than see them, others can feel them as heat or cold or buzzing sensations rather than see them (with me it’s the resistance I’ve told you about.

First, make yourself nice and comfortable and relaxed. Try to find a room that is dimly lit, but not dark. Bringing your index fingers together almost but not quite touching. Now, look at the space between the fingers. While you do this allow your eyes to defocus slightly so you are not looking at it in a hard way. In a short space of time, you will be able to see a light hazy mist going from one finger to the other. Just practice this on yourself for a while so that you are confident you can see the most/energy. You are then ready to try to see other people’s auras. Try practising on anyone that will let you!

SEEING ANOTHER PERSON’S AURA

To work with another person you will need to be about 6 feet away from them. It is usually better if you can manage to have them with a neutral coloured background – grey or black is best but cream can work too. Just as long as the colour is not vibrant. Again the room needs to be dimly lit. This is not for any mystical reason at all. It is simply because it takes away distractions whilst you are learning. The energy is very subtle and until you are more accomplished in seeing the aura the fewer distractions the better!
Again, defocus your eyes and look at your subject without staring.

It is best to look at the area around the head. Although if you have practised on yourself before this you should now be able to see the bluey/whitish outline around the whole body (the etheric aura).
Don’t’ worry if you can’t see it straight away – practice will help. This outline sometimes looks as if it is shimmering – much like looking at a road on a sunny day and you see a heat haze rising.

Many do not see it the first time if you look directly where it is. Then like magic, the aura will seem to appear. This can take from 10 seconds to 2 minutes. Once you see the aura try not to get too excited lol or blink – keep relaxed and don’t look directly at it or it will ‘disappear’.

Keep your eyes focussed. Practice and you’ll soon see it 🙂

After you have trained your eyes you can look directly at the aura without losing it. Once you can see the outline, keep looking in that disinterested way and you should see colours starting to build outwards from the etheric aura (emotional aura). If you concentrate on the edge of the etheric aura (the blue/white edge around the body), again eyes slightly out of focus, you should soon be able to make out colours of the emotional aura. As said before the depth or intensity of the aura very much depends upon the vitality of the person. Therefore, you could see anything from a couple of inches to a couple of feet.

Like everything else in life, your skill will improve with practice. If you watch people who do Facebook lives or online videos that is a really good way to see their aura, just let your eyes totally relax and glaze over and you’ll see the aura. I’ve only just started to see colour within the last few days. But I’m going to keep practising so I will be able to see colours fairly clearly from now on.

SEEING AURA AROUND PLANTS AND TREES

Relax in the same way you have done for seeing auras around yourself and others. Get a bowl of flowers or a plant. Gently gaze beyond the flowers or the tree with a soft gaze as before. The aura will soon be seen as energy.

If you can look at treetops this is also a good way to develop your skill.

WHY CAN’T I SEE THE AURA

For most people, it takes time and practice. There are a few that are able to see the aura very quickly but for the majority of people, it takes a bit longer. Initially, we try too hard to see the aura. This is one of the things that you should try to avoid. It is very difficult as I can remember how excited I was when first trying. However, the trick is to relax, more like daydreaming, rather than straining. Seeing the aura is a technique that can be learned by most people. It is not a gift to some select few and not to others. It is simply a matter of practice, practice, PRACTICE!!!!

I will tell you more about what the colours mean another time, first practice seeing the actual aura first and I’ll keep practising to see colours and we’ll take it from there.

Hope you’ve enjoyed today’s tip.

Love Trudy xox

SMUDGING & SPACE CLEARING

by Trudy | Feb 21, 2020 | Energy Work, Psychic Attack, Uncategorised

SMUDGING ~ SPACE CLEARING & CLEARING NEGATIVE ENERGY. (it’s a perfect time to do this after a Full Moon)

Smudging is an ancient ritual which cleanses and purifies the air and the energy around you, your home, your work or anything else you want to clear energetically.

The use of dried white sage, however, is a 2,000-year-old Indigenous American practice. The shamans used dried sage plants on their fires as a ritual of calling upon ancestral spirits.

Any conflict, anger, illness or evil was absorbed by the sage smoke to be released or cleansed from the energy field of a person and transmuted with love.

Some ideal (or necessary) times to sage smudge your aura and/or space, home office, sacred space etc would be:

When you move into a new home and you want to clear the energy.

When you begin a new job or start your own business

Before and after a guest enters your home

Before and after a healing session

Before meditation

After an argument or any illness or any general negativity that is going on in your home, office, sacred space or in your life in general!

When you return home from crowded situations

THERE ARE THREE EASY WAYS TO DO IT

Use loose dried white sage or a white ceremonial sage bundle (aka wand), which is usually bound together by some string. I will put a photo of mine in the comments below.

You can find sage bundles at your local metaphysical shop or I get mine online from Amazon or eBay. You could make one out of dried sage but I haven’t ever done that myself (yet) 🙂

Next, place it on any heat-proof burning surface like a shell or a little dish.

Light the bundle by holding a flame to it until it begins to smoke. I usually blow on it so it’s just glowing, (you don’t want a flame coming off it because it would be dangerous, so please be careful doing this). A lot of the time I find that I have to re-light my sage bundle as I’m walking through the house as it can go out but don’t worry about that. I also use White Sage Incense Sticks or Palo Santo Sticks (again I get these from Amazon).

Once you have a nice smoke going, use your hand or a feather to direct the smoke over your body from your feet up to your head, then back down again. As you do this, visualize the smoke removing any unwanted negative energies from your energy body.

There are various things you can say when smudging but it doesn’t matter what you do say as long as you make a clear intention that you are removing all negative energies that do not serve you. Some people like to say things like:

“Into this smoke, I release all energies that do not serve me, all negativity that surrounds me and my home and loved ones. I release it all with love, and so it is!”

Once you have smudged your body, begin to move through your house or area you are smudging. Wave the smoke into all corners, across doorways and into the dark shadow spaces. I usually put the Reiki symbols in each of the corners of each room but smudging is enough to clear the energy).

I keep saying the prayer or incantation as I’m walking through the house as it keeps me focused on the intention that I’ve made.

Once the space is cleared, allow the sage bundle to either burn out or gently press it out in your heat-proof shell or container.

So that’s how easy it is to smudge and clear the energy in your space.

Have a go and tell me how you get on 😊

Love Trudy x

WTF IS PSYCHIC ATTACK?

by Trudy | Feb 21, 2020 | Energy Work, Grounding Your Energy, Mindfulness, Psychic Attack, Uncategorised

WTF IS PSYCHIC ATTACK???

Psychic attack is a very loose term for different types of negative energy being directed at you, either intentionally or unintentionally.

Psychic attack can be from one individual to another or it could be a group attack and that would generate more energy because of the group as a collective and the power of their intentions would be multiplied.

An intentional psychic attack can come in the forms of cords, curses, black magic, someone wishing you harm either physically, emotionally or both & any other negative thought forms.

Cords can be thick like rope or even like barbed wire. You know generally that if you are corded from behind it has been done intentionally. You can cut cords yourself or get an energy worker to cut the cords for you.

Negative thoughts directed at someone are a form of psychic attack. An example might be something like jealousy, maybe your neighbour got a new car or you got overlooked for a promotion at work or you have been betrayed by a partner because they cheated on you and had an affair with someone else. If you feel angry and resentful towards that person or people, and start thinking of ways to pay them back, to get even, any form of revenge is a low vibrational energy and will result in psychic attack (not to mention the karma that will come back and bite you on the ass).

The power of your thoughts and intention are so powerful.

We are all human and we all have human moments when we are mad at someone, or maybe feel annoyed or jealous, but it’s so important to always remember that your thoughts are energetic and where intention goes, energy flows.

Keep your thoughts as positive as possible and be conscious of what you actually are thinking.

It is our job to protect our own energy by properly getting grounded and protected each and every day and cutting cords each day with ‘whatever does not serve us for our highest and greatest good’.

It is not a bad thing to do, to cut cords with people. It’s good energy hygiene.

It is also imperative to have good energetic boundaries in place, especially from people who drain your energy.

I don’t really like calling these people energy vampires as it’s assuming that they are doing it on purpose and sometimes that is not the case at all. They might just be in a bad place and you pick up on their energy.

We can protect our energy in lots of different ways. We can visualise ourselves in a bubble of high vibrational white light and intend that nothing can penetrate the bubble unless it is of the highest and purest vibrational light.

We can ask our Spirit Guides and the Angels to help protect us. You can call upon Archangel Michael each day and ask him to come into your energy body to cut all cords that don’t serve you.

You can also ask for St Germain to blaze his violet flame right through your energy body, blazing away any negativity.

You can have a Reiki shower, draw the Reiki symbols above the shower and intend that all negative energy is being washed down the plug hole.

You can shield yourself by visualising a shield around your body, you can make the shield reflective so that anything that is sent to you is bounced right back to the person sending. (I personally don’t like that method as I always have ‘karma’ in the back of my mind.

Also, as I said previously, having good boundaries with people is good energy hygiene too.

SO HOW DO I KNOW IF I’M UNDER PSYCHIC ATTACK?

I know if I’m feeling different to how I normally feel and if it goes on for a few days, that I may be under some form of psychic attack. If I feel emotions that aren’t normally mine, if I feel teary or depressed or anxious, have bad dreams or nightmares and things generally start going wrong for me, or if I feel as if I’m being watched, I then start to think I might be under psychic attack. I can also sense the energy around me is different and denser, I can’t really explain that but it literally feels to me like I’ve got a dark cloud around me and I actually feel as if I’m suffocating if it’s extreme.

Objects can move or break too. It depends on the severity of the attack and the extent of the intention behind it.

WHAT DO YOU FEEL WHEN YOU’RE UNDER PSYCHIC ATTACK?

The first thing I would do is ask someone to check me out to see if I’ve been the subject of some form of psychic attack or whether I’ve picked up some negative energy from somewhere (like a hospital or nursing home where maybe there maybe spirits who attach themselves to your aura/energy body). Then, I cut cords with everyone and keep cutting cords. I have an Epsom salt bath, sage and smudge the house, give myself Reiki and do everything I can to raise my vibration. That might be using certain crystals for protection, using power shield and astral clear, essential oils and essences. Putting salt above the doors and across the front door is something I do, I also have a wind chime in the hallway that helps to break up the energy in that area. But I always make sure I really ramp up my self-care.

Keep affirming that you are safe and protected.

DO NOT go into fear if you feel you’re under psychic attack as you are then giving more energy to the situation that you are wanting to release.

PSYCHIC VAMPIRES AND ENERGY VAMPIRES

That sounds really really scary, doesn’t it? But they may be friends who are going through a particularly bad time in their lives and they are feeling low and you pick up on that energy because you’ve not put good boundaries in place.

An example of this is if you go to see them and you’re feeling good when you arrive but when you leave, they feel better and you feel absolutely drained and feel like shit and literally, as if you’ve had your life force energy drained from you (which you most probably have)

This is especially true if you’re an empath or sensitive to the feelings of others. This can be a form of unintentional psychic attack.

It is your responsibility to know who drains your energy and to act accordingly by protecting your energy. Someone who is ill and feels really sick may unintentionally take your energy. They are not doing this on purpose so this is another reason to keep your protection ramped up especially in low vibrational energy places like hospitals, care homes, hospices etc.

There are also such things as power objects that can cause energy imbalances too. You might have inherited an object from someone and since that object (say for example a vase) has been in your house things start going wrong and you ‘feel’ that the energy in that room is out of kilter. You can check for these power objects by dowsing and testing to see if the object is a power object. If it is, then give it away. Get rid of it! If you are no longer friends with someone or an ex-partner for example, you may want to get rid of the things that they gave to you especially if the friendship/relationship ended in a bad way.

Houses can be imbued with negative energy, think of builders, say for example who were being poorly paid for their hard work, the energy they imbue into the building of the house can cause negative energy and negative thought forms which results in an unpleasant energy. Houses get sick too. Your house may be built on ley lines or have a lot of EMF around it that is detrimental to you. If something has happened in a house or building, say for example someone took their own life, then this energy can remain until it is cleared by someone who knows how to clear energy or if there was a lot of dis-harmony or domestic violence then the negative energy can remain there too.

This is specialist energy work and you may wish to ask someone who is able to do this to check your property and see what the problems are.

So, you see there is a lot to think about with psychic attack, if you feel you may be under attack then please do not hesitate to contact me as I can do the necessary energy work to help you.

Trudy x

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF REIKI

by Trudy | Feb 21, 2020 | Animal Healing, Dogs, Empath, Energy Work, Grounding Your Energy, Meditation, Meditation & Mindfulness, Mindfulness, Pet Bereavement, Reiki, Uncategorised

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF REIKI

<3 REIKI ~ WHAT IS REIKI? <3

Today I’m going to tell you a little bit about Reiki and explain what it is and how it can help you in the most amazing ways.

The word Reiki is composed of two Japanese words – Rei and Ki. It is pronounced RAY KEE.

Rei is often defined as ‘Spiritual’ and Ki as ‘energy’, so roughly translating the Japanese word we get ‘spiritual energy’ or ‘universal life-force energy’

Ki is the non-physical energy that animates all living things.

Ki is flowing in everything that is alive including plants, animals and humans

<3 EVERYTHING IS ENERGY AND I MEAN EVERY SINGLE THING! <3

YOU are energy, I AM energy, animals are energy, objects are energy, the table, the chair, the ceiling the floor are all made up of energy.

So when we think of ourselves as being ‘energetic beings’ we can understand more easily that if there are any energetic imbalances within our body then we can become sick, or not function as we should.

That can affect our physical, emotional and spiritual well-being.

Think about this as an example, when you were a child and you hurt yourself and you went running to your mum and she kissed it better, that is actually a form of energy work!

If we have pains in our body, we instinctively hold our hands over our bodies where we hurt or where the pain is, and instinctively we know what to do. Again you are working with your own energy!

<3 Everyone can use Reiki <3

All you need is to learn how to do it and receive an ‘Attunement’ – where the Reiki Master gives the sacred energetic codes & symbols to the Reiki student and opens up their channels for the energy to flow through so they can perform Reiki. This is done on a 1-1 basis. Or I do it on a 1-1 basis. It can be done in person or distantly. When energy work is done ‘distantly’ it is called ‘remote’ healing, or ‘remote’ Attunements, ‘remote or distant’ healing.

Reiki is a non-invasive, completely benign healing technique which has become THE MOST POPULAR energy healing modality.

As Western medicine continues to explore alternative methods of healing, Reiki is destined to play an important role as an ACCEPTED & RESPECTED healing practice which is now widely used in hospitals and hospices.

<3 SO WHAT IS REIKI GOOD FOR? <3

Reiki reduces stress, illness, emotional and physical dis-ease.

<3 WHAT HAPPENS DURING A REIKI SESSION? <3

During a Reiki session, the practitioner places their hands on or above the client’s body and they activate the energy so it starts to flow from their hands. They place their hands over specific areas of the body BUT the energy will go EXACTLY where it is needed. Reiki is a really intelligent energy and it’s a beautiful energy to work with.

<3 INTENTION is vital during ALL modalities of energy work, remember even our THOUGHTS are energetic so you always set the INTENTION that the Reiki is used for the highest and greatest good of all concerned.

It is also really important to remember that we are only CHANNELS or VESSELS for the Universal Life Force Energy to flow through. <3

<3 CAN I FEEL ENERGY? YES, YOU CAN, TRY THIS:- <3

Rub your hands together briskly, then put your hands in front of you with your palms facing each other, (as if you are going to clap), slowly, very slowly push your hands together and slowly move them apart. As you do this, you will find a ‘resistance’ type of feeling, keep doing it and you will find that you can really ‘feel’ the energy between your hands……

This is energy, you can now feel the energy!

Try the exercise again and try to mould that energy into a ball. If you’ve done that, you’ve made a chi ball (a ball of energy)

<3 WHO CAN LEARN REIKI? <3

Anyone can learn Reiki, absolutely anyone and when you can use Reiki you can use it for every single thing in your life, (as I mentioned before), you can send Reiki to your food, your drinks to infuse them with healing energies, you can send it to objects like your car, (so it starts up) you can make a huge reiki chi ball and place it completely around your home – may be so nothing goes wrong with your home or to keep it protected and safe – Reiki can be used on crystals, technology, relationships, projects, your house. It will work on everything and anything, how amazing is that?

Animals are very energy sensitive. I have 6 cats & 2 dogs and whenever I do Reiki they gravitate towards me. I often give my furbabies healing when they are sat on my lap or beside me. When they have had enough they get up and move away. You can also give Reiki to wild animals and that’s a lovely thing to do.

Plants and trees love Reiki. I often re-energise my plants & flowers. If I see a plant wilting I will send some energy & in no time it’s thriving again.

Water (infuse it with Reiki energy) – I ‘Reiki’ my water and my food. It can all be infused with the universal source energy.

Crystals can also be charged & infused with Reiki energy.

So to re-cap, Reiki can be used on crystals, technology, relationships, projects, your house, it will work on EVERYTHING with your intention of healing.

Reiki is like a muscle the more you use it the stronger it becomes.

<3 IS IT SAFE TO USE REIKI ON PREGNANT WOMEN, CHILDREN & BABIES? <3

It is safe to use Reiki on children and pregnant women & babies. It is 100 % safe & totally natural.

Reiki can do NO HARM whatsoever.

You can also use Reiki to help people pass over to the other side when they are dying (or making the transition). It is now widely used in many hospices and hospitals.

When you get more advanced in energy work you can also use energy work to help lost souls (attachments) or whatever you like to call them to transition smoothly.

REIKI BOXES AND INTENTIONS

You can write your AFFIRMATIONS AND INTENTIONS on paper and put them into a Reiki Box and send healing to your Reiki Box on a daily basis.

You can put people’s names in the Reiki Box who need healing and send healing to the Reiki Box with the intention that it is going to the relevant people.

You will see significant changes in all areas of your physical, emotional and spiritual health & wellbeing if you use Reiki on a regular basis.

I absolutely LOVE Reiki and am so passionate about it so I want to share it with everyone.

If you are interested in learning Reiki then feel free to contact me or visit the Reiki Online Course I have here – just click on the link below.

https://awakeningtouch.co.uk/reiki1programme/

Love Trudy x

THE LOVE BUBBLE TECHNIQUE

by Trudy | Feb 21, 2020 | Animal Healing, Dogs, Empath, Energy Work, Grounding Your Energy, Intention, Mindfulness, Spirituality

THE LOVE BUBBLE TECHNIQUE

This is my Love Bubble Technique that I’m sharing with you all 🙂

It’s a simple exercise to align your vibration and open you to the experience of more love in your life.

By having unconditional love for yourself invites self-acceptance, self-love and self-forgiveness, also aligning and raising your energy accordingly.

Love Bubble Technique:

Visualize yourself being surrounded in a bubble of pale pink light. Imagine this pink light of love surrounding you and immersing you in the energy of love, washing away and dissolving any resistances to that love (any past hurts, wounds, loss, grievance, loneliness, pain, isolation, grief, etc.).

Imagine and feel this pale pink light entering into your body and being absorbed into your cells, nourishing and soothing you with the wondrous healing power of love.

Bathe in the vibration of this pink bubble of love and enjoy!

You can also imagine putting people you love or objects (such as your home or car) in a pink bubble to send them love! I do this regularly and I also put my fur babies in a bubble of love and protection 😊

This simple technique is also especially useful to use with a negative person as it sends loving energy outwards and inwards.

Really, it is my way of sending positive intention & energy to another person, animal or situation.

“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” ~ Louise Hay.

Have a go and send a love bubble to someone 😊❤️

Love Trudy xox

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