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Stop Trying to Heal Everything at Once

by Energy MedicineEventsFeatured

We live in a culture that treats healing like a race.

Everyone is rushing to “fix” themselves, stacking meditation challenges on top of shadow work, therapy, journaling, supplements, and a podcast or two before breakfast.

By noon, the spirit is exhausted.

But real healing doesn’t happen in motion. It happens in pause… in the small quiet moments after the lesson lands, when you stop trying to rearrange yourself and simply let what’s true settle into your bones.

There’s a rhythm to transformation, and it isn’t linear. Energy work—real energy work—requires cycles of expansion and integration. The inhale and the exhale. The forward and the fold. The student who keeps reaching for the next revelation never realizes that the medicine they’re chasing has already arrived. It’s waiting patiently inside the space they refuse to enter: stillness.

The Spiritual Overachiever Trap

Many seekers secretly carry the same wound: the belief that more work equals more worth. They treat spiritual growth like an endless syllabus—always one module away from enlightenment.

This is the “spiritual overachiever” trap. It’s subtle, dressed up as devotion. You tell yourself, I’m doing the work. But underneath that drive is anxiety. A fear that if you stop, you’ll regress. A fear that stillness means stagnation.

That fear is an illusion.

Healing can’t be forced open. It unfolds naturally once you stop gripping it. Think of it like a bruise. You don’t peel back the skin to check whether it’s healing. You give it air, protection, time. You let the body do what it knows how to do.

Your energy field is the same way.

Integration Is Devotion

In LifeForce Energy Healing®, integration is as sacred as initiation. After a deep clearing, your system needs to re-pattern. That takes space. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do for your healing is… nothing.

Sit under a tree.Light a candle without asking for anything. Let your nervous system trust that the work you’ve already done is enough for today.

You can tell when integration is overdue. You’ll feel heavy after too many sessions, jittery after too many revelations. Instead of lightness, you’ll feel static. That’s not failure—it’s feedback. Your field is asking for stillness so it can reorganize.

This is where faith comes in. Faith that the energy continues to move even when you aren’t steering it. Faith that the Universe isn’t keeping score by how much you do or how many layers you peel back.

Step Away, to Go Deeper

From Tuesday November 18–Friday November 21, Deborah will lead four luminous days of healing and renewal in Santa Barbara, California.

It’s an invitation to rest inside the work, not rush through it—an in-person retreat where energy settles, hearts recalibrate, and the next chapter begins quietly.

Learn more about the 2025 LifeForce Energy Healing® Retreat in Santa Barbara →

Why Rest Feels Dangerous

If you grew up equating rest with laziness, this part of healing will feel uncomfortable. You’ll try to fill the silence with more practice, more learning, more doing. But the discomfort you feel isn’t boredom. It’s withdrawal—from urgency, from self-fixing, from the adrenaline of perpetual transformation.

There’s a deep identity tied to the idea of being “on the path.” To pause feels like betrayal of the mission. But the real mission isn’t endless pursuit. It’s embodiment. And embodiment requires digestion.

Imagine your last profound breakthrough like a rich meal. Would you eat another feast right after? Or would you sit back, savor, and let it nourish you?

Integration is the spiritual version of digestion. Without it, you’re spiritually malnourished no matter how many courses you consume.

The Body Knows the Pace

Your body is a map of divine timing. Notice its cues.

When you feel wired and sleepless after intense inner work, your system is signaling overload. When tears come for no reason days later, your cells are still releasing. When you crave nature, solitude, or simplicity, that’s your body guiding you into integration.

Trust those signals. They’re your built-in compass. You don’t need a guru to interpret them. You just need to listen long enough to recognize the language.

Every healer I’ve ever trained reaches a point where they must learn this lesson: how to stop forcing their own evolution. The irony is that real mastery comes from restraint. Knowing when not to dig deeper. Knowing when to protect the soil after planting the seed.

Let the Lesson Breathe

Here’s a small practice:

Tonight, instead of adding something new to your routine, review your recent lessons. Choose one. It might be a truth you resisted or a habit you finally released.

Write it down. Then don’t analyze it. Don’t ask for more insight. Just sit with it for three minutes in silence.

That silence is medicine. It allows the insight to sink below thought, into the body, where it can actually do its work. Healing isn’t about accumulation—it’s about absorption.

The Season of Integration

We’re approaching that time of year when everything begins to slow down. The days shorten. Nature withdraws its energy underground to restore. You can do the same.

Every spiritual path includes this season of retreat, though most people skip it. They chase light without honoring the dark. But the soil needs winter to prepare for spring.

Let this be your winter, however brief.

Rest your rituals. Stop rewriting your story for a moment. Let the old layers compost into wisdom. There’s power in the pause… not absence, but gestation.

Your Energy Doesn’t Need You to Rush

Healing is cumulative. Every honest moment adds up. Even your exhaustion, even your resistance, becomes part of the lesson. You don’t lose ground when you rest—you root deeper.

So the next time you feel the urge to fix another piece of yourself, remember this: wholeness isn’t earned by effort. It’s revealed through presence.

Stop trying to heal everything at once.

You’re allowed to arrive piece by piece.

Each breath, a quiet completion.

✦ Join Deborah in Santa Barbara ✦

If your spirit has been whispering that it’s time to rest, to ground, to remember what healing feels like when it isn’t hurried—come to Santa Barbara.

From Tuesday November 18–Friday November 21, 2025, Deborah will lead four quiet, luminous days of energy work, meditation, and renewal at her annual LifeForce Energy Healing® Retreat.

It’s the pause your system has been asking for—a chance to let go of the noise and reconnect with your own rhythm.

Space is limited for this intimate gathering. Reserve your place here >>

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The Trance of Productivity (And the Spiritual Gift of Stopping)

by Energy MedicineEventsFeatured

Productivity has become the modern altar. We measure our worth in tasks completed, emails answered, goals achieved. Even spiritual seekers aren’t immune. Journals fill with checklists of meditation sessions. Practices are tracked, optimized, measured. The Light itself becomes another project.

But beneath this rush to do more hides a trance. A collective spell that convinces us we are only as valuable as our output. And under that spell, the nervous system burns. The soul whispers faintly, buried under noise.

Stopping feels like failure. But in truth, stopping is sacred.

The Trance We Don’t Notice

The trance of productivity is dangerous precisely because it feels normal. Our culture praises it. Work harder. Push through. Be efficient. Even rest becomes performance, marketed as “biohacking,” tracked by apps, optimized for return on investment.

Spiritual seekers absorb this trance, often without realizing it. Meditation becomes another task to accomplish. Journaling another checkbox. Ritual another duty. You complete your practices faithfully and yet feel emptier afterward.

Why? Because you were still caught in the trance. You weren’t stopping. You were producing spiritual activity. That is not the same as resting in the Light.

Ancient Warnings Against the Trap

The ancients knew this trap. In the Jewish tradition, Sabbath was commanded as holy not because work was evil, but because constant productivity eroded the soul. Without stopping, the people forgot who they were.

The Desert Fathers wrote of acedia… a restlessness that disguised itself as busyness. They warned that endless activity numbed the spirit, even when that activity looked religious.

Buddhist teachers described the “monkey mind,” leaping from task to task, refusing to sit in stillness. Indigenous shamans observed that when a hunter or healer lost the rhythm of rest, they fell out of harmony with the tribe and the land.

These voices across time agree. Stopping isn’t laziness. It’s alignment. It’s a practice of remembering.

What Happens When We Never Stop

The nervous system was not designed for perpetual doing. Without stopping, your system remains in subtle fight-or-flight, endlessly producing adrenaline, endlessly scanning. Over time, this thins the aura. Your Light flickers, not because you lack devotion, but because your structure is exhausted.

Spiritually, endless productivity breeds illusion. You may be “doing the work” but not touching the core. You stay on the surface of practice, like running fingers across water without ever diving in.

And perhaps the most dangerous effect: when you never stop, you lose the ability to hear. The inner voice grows faint under the hum of constant doing. Intuition doesn’t leave you. It simply can’t be heard over the noise.

The Gift of Stopping

Stopping is not absence. Stopping is presence.

When you stop, the nervous system resets. The aura draws back to its natural size. The subtle bodies realign. You enter coherence not by effort, but by release.

Stopping is the moment when the soul can finally speak. Not in shouted instructions, but in whispers that carry depth. The most important messages rarely arrive when you are rushing. They arrive when you are still.

Stopping is not empty. Stopping is full. It is an act of trust. You step out of the trance that says your worth depends on output, and you enter the field where worth is inherent, untouched, eternal.

How to Practice the Gift of Stopping

Stopping doesn’t always mean hours of silence. It can be woven into ordinary life. Here are ways to reclaim it:

  • Sacred pause. Before opening your phone in the morning, place a hand on your heart and breathe three times. Acknowledge that you are alive before you become productive.
  • Micro-Sabbath. Choose one hour each week with no agenda, no goal. Simply allow the moment to unfold. Notice the discomfort that arises. That discomfort is the trance dissolving.
  • Witnessed rest. Join with others in silence. A circle of stillness magnifies coherence. This is why group meditation or group healing carries such potency.
  • Embodied stopping. Lie flat on the floor for ten minutes, eyes closed. No music, no phone. Just body to ground. Let the earth itself remind you how to stop.

These practices are not complicated. But they require courage, because stopping will always feel countercultural.

The Deeper Invitation

The trance of productivity is powerful. It tells you that if you stop, you’ll fall behind. That if you rest, you’ll be forgotten. That your Light depends on output.

But the deeper invitation is this.

What if your Light shines brightest when you stop?

What if the most profound spiritual work happens not in the endless doing, but in the moments of pure being?
You don’t lose your path by stopping. You find it again.

An Invitation to Step Out of the Trance

The trance of productivity is strong, but you do not have to face it alone. True stopping happens when you are held inside a living field that steadies your nervous system and restores coherence.

This November 18–21, Deborah will gather with a small group of students in Santa Barbara. For four days, you will be immersed in sacred teaching, energy transmission, and practices that pull you out of doing and back into being.

The retreat is not about adding more to your schedule. It is about entering a container where the Light holds you steady, and where the trance of endless productivity finally dissolves.

If your soul has been asking for rest, this is your invitation.

Reserve your place in Santa Barbara

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How to Know What Still Serves You (And What You’re Just Afraid to Lose)

by Energy MedicineEventsFeatured

Letting go is one of the hardest things we face on the spiritual path. Not because we don’t want freedom, but because the difference between release and abandonment can feel razor thin. The mind clings. The body resists. And often we convince ourselves that holding on is wisdom, when in truth, it is fear.

So how do you know when something still serves you, and when you are simply afraid to let it go?

The Seduction of Familiarity

The first thing to understand is that fear often hides beneath familiarity. The nervous system equates sameness with safety. It would rather stay inside what it knows, even if what it knows is painful.

That’s why people remain in relationships long past their expiration date. It’s why they stay in jobs that drain them. It’s why seekers cling to practices that once opened the heavens, even when those practices now feel flat.

Familiarity feels like comfort. But comfort isn’t always truth.

Signs of Life vs. Signs of Fear

So how do you discern the difference? Begin by asking: does this bring me life, or does it bring me contraction?

  • When something still serves you, it carries aliveness. It may challenge you, but beneath the challenge there is growth.
  • When fear is driving, you will feel a shrinking. The thought of leaving triggers panic, not because your soul wants to stay, but because your ego doesn’t want to face the unknown.

Fear will tell you, You can’t live without this. Wisdom will tell you, You will be more alive when you release this.

Ancient Guidance on Release

Every tradition has taught the art of discernment. In the Vedic texts, seekers were instructed to test practices by their fruits. If the fruit was clarity and compassion, the practice was still ripe. If the fruit was dryness, it was time to move on.

The Desert Fathers of early Christianity spoke of holy detachment. They warned that possessions, attachments, even beloved routines could become idols if they blocked the flow of Spirit.

Shamanic cultures practiced seasonal release. What was harvested in autumn was never carried into spring. Ritual fires consumed the excess, making room for new cycles of growth.

The lesson is the same across time: what still serves you will feel alive. What you fear to lose will feel heavy.

The Questions That Cut Through Illusion

Here are questions you can sit with when discerning whether something serves you or whether you are just afraid to lose it:

  1. When I imagine releasing this, do I feel grief or do I feel terror?

    Grief often accompanies true endings. Terror usually indicates ego clinging.
  2. Does this relationship/practice/role bring me into deeper alignment with my soul, or does it keep me looping in the same story?
  3. If I met this for the first time today, would I choose it?
  4. Am I protecting myself from loss, or am I protecting my Light?

These questions don’t give quick answers. But they open space for the soul to speak through the static of fear.

The Role of Ritual in Letting Go

Letting go is not just psychological. It’s energetic. That’s why ritual matters.

When you release a relationship, an object, or even a practice, you are shifting more than thought. You are shifting resonance in the body and field. Rituals of release… burning a letter, burying an object, speaking a farewell aloud… give your nervous system the signal that it is safe to let go.

Without ritual, the mind keeps clinging, insisting that nothing has changed. Ritual tells the body the truth: the cycle has ended.

What Happens When You Don’t Let Go

When you hold onto what no longer serves, stagnation builds. Energy that should be flowing toward growth gets trapped in maintenance of the old. You start to feel heavy, tired, uninspired.

Worse, you block the very opportunities you’ve been praying for. Spirit cannot pour new water into a vessel already full. The universe cannot bring you the next chapter while your hands are clenched around the last one.

This is why fear-based clinging is so destructive. It doesn’t only keep you stuck. It keeps you from receiving.

What Happens When You Do

When you release what no longer serves, space opens. Your nervous system exhales. Your aura brightens. The current of life begins to flow again.

Often the moment after letting go is tender. You may feel grief. You may feel emptiness. But very quickly, you also feel lightness. Energy that was bound up in fear returns to you.

And in that space, Spirit moves. New relationships appear. New practices feel alive. New guidance flows with clarity.

This is the paradox: we are so afraid of loss, but what we fear losing is often the very thing blocking the gifts we seek.

The Practice of Courage

So how do you build the courage to release? Begin small.

Let go of one item in your home that carries old energy. Let go of a practice that feels rote. Let go of a commitment you’ve been keeping out of guilt, not truth.

As you practice release, your system learns safety. It discovers that letting go does not kill you. In fact, it frees you.

From there, you can move on to larger releases: a role, a relationship, an identity. Each step strengthens your capacity to trust that Spirit fills what is emptied.

A Final Word

Knowing what still serves you and what you’re just afraid to lose is not easy. It requires honesty. It requires courage. But above all, it requires trust.

Trust that your soul knows when something is complete. Trust that release is not abandonment, but alignment. Trust that when you let go, you are not left empty. You are left open.

Fear clings. Spirit releases.

If you want to know whether something still serves you, ask yourself this: Does it bring me life?

If the answer is no, then let it go.

Because what you are afraid to lose may be the very weight keeping your Light from rising.

Step Into a Field That Helps You Release

Letting go is not easy. The mind clings. The body resists. Fear disguises itself as wisdom.

This is why release rarely happens in isolation. You need a container strong enough to hold you while you let go of what no longer serves.

That is what Deborah will be creating this November 18–21 in Santa Barbara. For four days at the Courtyard Santa Barbara Downtown, you will be immersed in sacred teaching, energy transmission, and live practices that help dissolve what is complete and open the space for what is next.

This retreat is not about leaving everything behind. It is about learning to discern what is truly alive for you, and having the courage to release what is not.

If you’ve been carrying weight that no longer belongs to you, this is your chance to set it down inside a field where your nervous system steadies, your soul is witnessed, and your Light can rise again.

Reserve your place in Santa Barbara >>

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Are You Mistaking Guilt for Intuition?

by Energy MedicineEventsFeatured

Many spiritual seekers pride themselves on their ability to listen to the still, quiet voice within. Yet one of the greatest traps on the path is mistaking guilt for intuition. The difference between the two is subtle, but the consequences of confusing them can keep you bound to false obligations for decades.

Intuition is clear, direct, and free of shame. It guides without accusation. Guilt, on the other hand, is sticky. It loops in the mind, weighs heavily in the gut, and disguises itself as moral responsibility. When you confuse the two, you begin to believe that bending to pressure is a form of spiritual growth. In truth, it is a cage.

The Impersonator Few Recognize

Intuition often arrives as a neutral knowing. It might be inconvenient, but it carries an unmistakable sense of rightness. There is no drama in it. The Dalai Lama once described true inner guidance as “clarity without noise.” That description alone is enough to expose the imposter.

Guilt, by contrast, is noisy. It fills the chest with tension and wraps decisions in fear of what others will think. It demands compliance through the vocabulary of “should” and “must.” Guilt does not elevate. It diminishes. Yet it dresses itself in the clothing of spiritual duty.

For empaths and highly sensitive souls, this impersonation is especially dangerous. They absorb other people’s emotional currents with such precision that they assume those emotions belong to them. What feels like inner wisdom may simply be the echo of someone else’s expectation reverberating in the second chakra.

Second and Third Chakra Confusion

Guilt masquerading as intuition almost always originates in the relationship between the second and third chakras. The sacral center (second chakra) governs intimacy, emotional exchange, and boundaries. The solar plexus (third chakra) is the seat of personal power, direction, and will.

When these two centers become entangled, other people’s needs flood into the body and override personal truth. You feel the tug in your gut and call it divine instruction, when in fact it is the energetic residue of another person’s fear or demand. Over time, this entanglement trains you to distrust yourself. The inner voice becomes a hall of mirrors, reflecting programming that never belonged to you in the first place.

The Telltale Signs

How can you discern whether you are listening to guilt or intuition? Begin with this test. Think of a decision that currently troubles you. Hold it in your awareness and ask:

  • Does this sensation bring peace, even if the decision is difficult?
  • Or does it create a mental loop, filling me with anxiety about disappointing someone?

If the answer carries peace, even in the midst of discomfort, you are hearing intuition. If the answer loops in endless self-blame, you are listening to guilt.

Intuition speaks once and rests. Guilt repeats endlessly. Intuition is clear even when it asks for sacrifice. Guilt punishes regardless of the choice you make.

The Cost of Mistaking the Two

When you confuse guilt for intuition, you silence your authentic self. You begin to believe that saying no is selfish, that charging for your gifts is greedy, that setting boundaries makes you unloving. You give your power away because you have been conditioned to view self-preservation as betrayal.

The physical cost is severe. Every time you ignore intuition in favor of guilt, you tell your nervous system that truth is unsafe. Over time, this pattern can manifest as chronic tension, digestive issues, and even autoimmune conditions. Spiritual traditions across the globe speak of the link between false morality and illness. In Tibetan texts, guilt is described as a “poisoned wind” that corrodes vitality from within.

Where Does the Guilt Come From?

False guilt is rarely spontaneous. It is passed down like an heirloom. Religious institutions teach that suffering is holy. Families teach that pleasing others ensures survival. Communities teach that silence is safer than truth. Each of these messages lodges in the body, and together they form the scaffolding for the voice you mistake as intuition.

But guilt cannot be unraveled with logic. You cannot argue your way out of conditioning that was absorbed before you had words. The only way forward is to engage the energy itself. This requires practices that bypass intellect and touch the root of the pattern.

Rewiring at the Root

Begin with awareness. The next time guilt arises, do not immediately obey it. Pause and notice where it lives in your body. Does it press against your solar plexus? Does it tighten your throat? Observe without judgment.

Then separate the voice of guilt from the voice of intuition by asking: Whose expectation am I carrying right now? Very often you will feel the image of a parent, a teacher, or even a collective rule appear. Once you identify the source, you can begin to release it.

Techniques such as cord-cutting, chakra clearing, and breath practices that emphasize the solar plexus are effective here. Even simple physical gestures like shaking the body or pressing the hands firmly into the ground can break the trance of guilt long enough for clarity to emerge.

Why You Need More Than a Solo Practice

While these techniques help, the roots of guilt often run deep. They are tied into ancestral lines and reinforced by decades of reinforcement. For many, the confusion between guilt and intuition is so entrenched that self-guided practice only scratches the surface.

This is where sacred community and guided work become essential. In a group field, supported by teaching and practice, you can identify patterns that remain invisible when you are alone. You begin to see how false guilt has shaped your choices in relationships, career, and spiritual life. And you finally experience the difference between genuine inner guidance and the counterfeit that has held you captive.

Why We Are Gathering in Santa Barbara

This is precisely the kind of clearing we will be doing at the retreat in Santa Barbara this November. The setting itself carries an energy of purification, bordered by mountains on one side and the ocean on the other, creating a natural container for transformation.

Over the course of four days, we will work directly with the second and third chakras, untangling the energetic contracts that keep guilt welded to your intuition. There will be guided practices, live teachings, and community rituals designed to free you from the grip of false morality.

If you have spent years confusing “should” with “soul,” this retreat offers the chance to restore your inner compass. Imagine leaving with a body that no longer translates obligation as truth. Imagine knowing, without hesitation, when the voice within is authentic guidance and when it is a lie handed down through generations.

You can learn more about our upcoming Santa Barbara retreat by clicking here.

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The Sacred Science of Coherence

by Energy MedicineEventsFeatured

Coherence has been misunderstood for years.

Some think it’s a personality trait. Others mistake it for stillness, serenity, or even niceness.

In truth, it’s a physiological condition and an energetic one. Measurable, trainable, and directly connected to how your system interacts with the world around you.

You can feel coherence before you understand it.

You walk into a room. Someone is speaking, but they don’t say much. They’re not flashy or loud. Yet something in you settles. You feel a spine in the space. Not because of control or charisma. Because the field is stable.

That’s coherence. It has nothing to do with being quiet and everything to do with being structured.

What Coherence Actually Is

At the physical level, coherence occurs when your body’s systems move into rhythmic agreement. Your brain waves, heart rhythm, and breath fall into a synchrony that creates clarity. Your nervous system softens. Your attention steadies.

The energetic level reflects that same organization. Instead of jagged edges or collapsed fields, the system forms a perimeter. Breath deepens. The field begins to hold its shape without effort. The spine becomes an axis, not a metaphor.

Most people live without this. They aren’t broken. They’re just fragmented.

Stress, multitasking, past trauma, and emotional debt scatter the field. The system begins to leak energy in multiple directions. Decisions feel foggy. The body tightens around stories that don’t need repeating.

The longer that scattering remains, the harder it is to recognize as distortion. It starts to feel normal.

What Happens When Coherence Is Present

You don’t need to say much when you’re coherent. The field speaks first.

People often talk about “holding space.” That phrase gets thrown around until it loses meaning. But real space-holding begins when your system can remain rhythmic and responsive. Even when others are chaotic, emotional, or lost in their own noise.

The nervous system senses it instantly. Coherence creates entrainment. That’s not an energetic idea. That’s measurable. The Institute of HeartMath, among others, has published studies showing how one coherent heart rhythm can influence others nearby.

This happens in conversations, in groups, in healing sessions, and in families. Someone becomes the still point…not by suppressing emotion, but by staying intact.

When you reach coherence, you begin to transmit stability through posture alone. The frequency of your field shifts. You’re no longer absorbing and reacting. You’re creating shape.

Why Stillness Isn’t the Goal

There’s a common trap in energy work: chasing stillness.

Stillness, when it arrives, can be deeply nourishing. But many people confuse stillness with disconnection. They sit still while their thoughts race. They say they’re at peace, but their bodies are bracing.

You can be in full movement and still be coherent. It’s not about stillness. It’s about symmetry.

Breath leads that. If your breath is fragmented, no amount of visualization will recalibrate the field.

This is why Deborah begins every live event, including the Santa Barbara Retreat this November, with breath. Not shallow repetition. Not stylized yogic performance. Breath that builds axis. Breath that tracks expansion. Breath that slows the signal enough for the body to receive it.

How Coherence Affects Others (and Why That Matters)

The moment you stabilize your own field, you change the space around you.

Clients feel it. Students feel it. Strangers feel it.

You don’t need to project anything. You don’t need to “send healing energy.” When your system is in coherence, it offers a nonverbal invitation: Come into rhythm.

Others won’t always accept. That’s not the point. You’re not guiding them. You’re anchoring yourself. And from that anchoring, something opens.

This is especially important for those in healing, teaching, or leadership roles.

If your system fluctuates with every emotional spike in the room, you can’t hold long-term transformation for anyone else. The field becomes unpredictable. The results become inconsistent. You might get lucky… but you can’t sustain it.

How You Build Coherence in Practice

You build it slowly. Breath by breath. Moment by moment.

First, you regulate breath rhythm. Then you drop into spine alignment. Not military straightness. Natural awareness of verticality. You let the back-body reenter the conversation — the space behind the heart, the kidneys, the sacrum.

Then you create tension in the field… and remain rhythmic within it.

That’s the part most people avoid. They want coherence without contact. But it’s contact that tests your structure.

This is why in-person work matters. You can only entrain to live frequency through proximity.

At the Santa Barbara Retreat, this is trained explicitly. Not passively. Not conceptually.

We will cover:

  • Breath rhythm entrainment
  • Partnered energetic field exercises
  • Defense mechanism scanning
  • Ayurvedic prakriti awareness
  • Group coherence alignment and initiation

You’ll work directly with Deborah and her teaching team, inside a high-frequency group field. You’ll receive feedback on where you collapse, where you overextend, and where your structure holds.

You’ll learn how to stay in contact without losing center.

The Link Between Coherence and Accurate Intuition

Many people want to be more intuitive. What they don’t realize is that their lack of coherence is what blocks them.

You can’t read others clearly if your system is fluctuating.

The moment you’re out of rhythm, you begin confusing signal with projection. You think you’re sensing truth… but you’re echoing something unprocessed.

When coherence sets in, intuition sharpens. Tracking becomes easier. Sensory information sorts itself. The clutter clears. And you begin to discern not just what’s present, but what needs to happen next.

Why Coherence Must Be Lived, Not Learned

You can’t mentally understand your way into coherence.

You have to live it. In breath. In body. In presence.

There are moments when the system remembers something ancient. When breath finds its pattern. When the body aligns. When words stop rushing to explain. And you feel, through the chest and spine, that the field is holding you.

These moments usually don’t happen in isolation.

They happen in groups. In practice. In proximity to others who are holding shape when you forget.

This is why Deborah’s live retreats are structured for entrainment. They aren’t performances. They’re containers. Designed for students and practitioners who are ready to build the energetic capacity they’ve glimpsed, but never sustained.

If You’re Ready to Practice This for Real

The Santa Barbara Retreat runs November 18–21, 2025.

It’s Deborah’s only in-person event remaining in 2025.

You don’t need certification. You don’t need to be advanced. But you do need to be willing to let your system learn through breath, structure, and contact.

Over four days, you’ll move through:

  • Advanced practices to restore polarity and rhythm
  • Field scanning to identify where coherence collapses
  • Daily alignment entrainment
  • Hands-on work with Deborah and her senior team
  • A high-frequency group field that will challenge and steady you

If your system has been reaching for something more structured — but still alive — this is where that lives.

📍 Santa Barbara, California
📍 November 18–21, 2025
📍 Registration now open

👉 Learn more and reserve your spot »

You don’t need more techniques.

You need to stabilize what’s already rising.

Let the field teach your body what rhythm feels like again.

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The 3 Most Dangerous Myths About Energy Healing

by Energy MedicineEventsFeaturedMaster-in-Training

And what to do if your body knows it’s time for deeper work.

Energy healing has exploded in popularity in the last decade.

Which sounds like a good thing… until it isn’t.

Because with popularity comes distortion. Simplification. Shortcuts. And a long list of myths that get repeated more often than they get examined.

You can feel it when something’s off. The language might sound right. But the transmission isn’t there.

In the energetic space, false structure is worse than no structure at all. And it’s how people (even with the best of intentions) end up harming themselves, or others.

Let’s call it out.

Myth #1: “You need to protect yourself from other people’s energy”

This is one of the most common and most seductive beliefs in spiritual spaces.

You’ve heard it:

  • “Put a shield around yourself”
  • “Surround yourself in white light”
  • “Block out negative energy”

It’s widespread. And it’s built on an illusion: that energy is attacking you from the outside, and the only defense is withdrawal or resistance.

But that illusion dissolves the moment your field is structurally intact.

You don’t need protection. You need form.

A healthy energetic system is semi-permeable. It breathes. It filters. It transmits. It doesn’t flinch at every emotional gust in the room.

The reason people feel the need to protect themselves from energy isn’t because they’re sensitive. It’s because their system has no clear edge.

At the Santa Barbara Retreat this November, we don’t talk about energetic protection.
We build energetic spine.

You’ll spend four days expanding your structural capacity. Anchoring your central line, activating polarity through the breath, and experiencing what it feels like to transmit presence instead of reacting to the noise around you.

If you’ve ever walked away from a conversation or a client session feeling foggy, shaky, or “off”… you weren’t under attack.

Your field just didn’t hold.

And that can be fixed. Not through shielding, but through shape.

Myth #2: “Intuition is all you need”

This one is harder to untangle… because intuition is real.

But untrained intuition is often indistinguishable from projection. And projection dressed up in spiritual language still causes harm.

Your gut instinct might be right… or it might be your nervous system echoing an old trauma loop.

You might “know” something about someone… but if your own system is charged, the read is contaminated.

True perception doesn’t happen through guesswork. It happens through structure.

At the Santa Barbara Retreat, you’ll train in multi-layered field tracking. Learning to sense subtle data across your own system and others. Temperature shifts. Field tension. Pull. Spin. Dispersal. Recoil.

You’ll learn to read the body and the field before interpreting what it means. And you’ll receive real-time feedback from Deborah and her teaching team as you do it.

You’ll learn when to pause. When to go deeper. When to step back entirely.

This isn’t instinct.
It’s skill.

And skill is what makes energy healing safe, repeatable, and precise.

Myth #3: “You have to be peaceful to be a healer”

No. You have to be coherent.

Calm is a surface behavior. Coherence is an internal state.

Coherence means:

  • Your breath is in rhythm
  • Your spine is aligned
  • Your field is symmetrical
  • Your presence is integrated

You might be soft. You might be fierce. You might carry the frequency of stillness… or the frequency of fire.

The tone doesn’t matter.

What matters is your capacity to stay intact while holding signal.

In Santa Barbara, you’ll train in postural alignment not for looks…but for function. You’ll learn to track where your field compresses, where it leaks, where it distorts.

You’ll move through breath-based alignment exercises designed to engage the back-body. The area behind the heart, behind the diaphragm, behind the knees. Places most healers never track until it’s too late.

By day four, you’ll feel the difference between standing up… and standing in transmission.

And it won’t be conceptual. It will be cellular.

So what actually creates transformation in energy work?

Not knowing more. Not feeling more.

Transformation happens when your body becomes the site of coherence. And when that coherence becomes strong enough to affect the people around you.

You don’t do this through force. You do it through structure.

The breath becomes organized. The spine aligns. The field listens. The nervous system settles.

That’s when the intuitive signal clears up. That’s when the feedback loop stops distorting. That’s when people begin to heal just by sitting in your presence.

And yes…that’s teachable.

What Happens in Santa Barbara?

This November 18–21 2025,  Deborah will lead a 4-day in-person retreat in Santa Barbara, California.

It’s the most energetically advanced way to train directly with her.

Here’s what happens inside:

  • Daily energetic transmission sessions with live group clearing
  • Training in polarity breath, posture, stillness, and field structure
  • Advanced perception work: reading movement, vibration, direction, and tone
  • Live partner exercises with in-the-moment coaching
  • Subtle energy labs where your blind spots get revealed gently, but clearly
  • Group coherence practices that allow the entire field to lift together
  • Optional 1-on-1 sessions and opportunities for practitioners and teachers

This is spiritual discipline held in a loving field. Where your nervous system, posture, and presence learn to organize around something higher than performance.

You don’t need prior certification. You don’t need to “feel ready.” You just need to be willing to show up and see what your system can hold.

If that excites you… or scares you in a way that feels honest… this is for you.

Reserve your spot now »

There are things you can learn online. And then there are things that can only be taught in presence… in posture… in person.

This is one of those things.

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When Healing Isn’t Enough: The Shift from Clearing to Carrying Light

by Energy MedicineEventsFeaturedMaster-in-Training

There comes a moment on the spiritual path where healing… just isn’t enough. Not because the work is done, but because something new is asking to emerge. A deeper responsibility. A quieter, bolder light. That moment? It’s not confusion. It’s calling. This week’s post is for those who feel the stir. For those who know it’s time to move from clearing to carrying.

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Energy Healing Isn’t Magic. It’s Biology, Spirit, and Willpower Together

by Energy MedicineEventsFeatured

There’s a common misconception about healing: that it’s something that happens to you.

That if you just find the right teacher, the right healer, the right moment, transformation will simply arrive like a sudden bolt of lightning, changing everything in an instant.

While it’s true that profound shifts can happen in a moment, real healing (the kind that lasts, the kind that rebuilds you from the inside out) is not magic.

It’s the meeting place of biology, spirit, and your own willpower.

Healing isn’t passive.

It’s a living process that calls on all parts of you – body, mind, soul – to participate.

Healing Begins in the Body

Your body is not just a vessel you walk around in. It’s a finely tuned instrument that records every experience you’ve ever had (joy, sorrow, trauma, resilience). Every emotional wound, every belief, every moment of love or loss leaves an imprint.

When I teach about the energy field, she often points out that illness and imbalance rarely begin on the physical plane. They start in the energy field. But if left unaddressed, they eventually filter down into the tissues, organs, and systems of the body.

That’s why real healing involves the body just as much as the spirit.

Physical practices matter. Nutrition matters. Sleep, movement, breath. They all create the conditions where energy can move freely, where old wounds can release, and where the light of new vitality can take root.

Healing isn’t about escaping the body. It’s about returning to it…lovingly, consciously…and making it a safe home again.

Spirit Does the Deep Work

While biology lays the foundation, it’s your spirit that directs the deepest layers of healing.

True healing is not just about symptom relief. It’s about restoration at the soul level. Reclaiming lost parts of yourself, reconnecting to your divine essence, and restoring the flow of life force energy through every part of your being.

This isn’t something you can “think” your way into. The spirit speaks a different language: the language of dreams, intuition, emotion, energy.

That’s why so much of my work focuses on reawakening your sensitivity to subtle energies. When you attune to your spirit, you start to recognize where healing is needed, even before physical symptoms appear.

You learn to follow the invisible threads. The quiet longing, the persistent patterns, the old wounds that surface not to torment you, but to invite your transformation.

Healing on the spiritual plane is about surrender. Allowing the greater intelligence of your soul to guide you back to wholeness.

Willpower Is the Bridge

Even when biology is aligned and spirit is engaged, there’s one more essential ingredient: willpower.

Not willpower in the harsh, forcing sense. Not gritting your teeth and pushing harder. But the steady, conscious choice to participate in your own healing. Day after day, moment after moment.

It’s easy to romanticize the idea of transformation. It’s harder to live it.

Healing asks you to choose, again and again, to listen to your body’s messages. To sit with uncomfortable emotions instead of numbing them. To trust the slow work of spirit even when visible change feels far away.

This is where many people falter. They want healing to be effortless. They want to be lifted out of pain without having to walk through it.

But real evolution happens when you meet the process with open eyes and an open heart.

Willpower is the bridge that allows spirit and body to work together. It’s what keeps you showing up for yourself, even on the days when old patterns whisper that it’s easier to turn back.

Every small choice – to meditate, to move your body, to speak your truth, to forgive – becomes a sacred act of healing.

Healing Is a Collaboration

If there’s one truth I return to again and again, it’s this: healing is not something someone else does for you. It’s something you do with the universe.

The teachers, healers, courses, and sessions you encounter are allies, not saviors. They hold the space. They offer tools. They remind you of your own power.

But ultimately, healing requires your participation.

It’s a sacred collaboration between you and the greater forces of life.

When you embrace this truth, you stop looking for magic outside yourself and you start recognizing the miracle that’s already unfolding within you.

Ready to Step Into Your Healing?

If you’re ready to step beyond passive healing… if you’re ready to participate in your own transformation with awareness and support… the path is here.

Each year, a small group of students commits to a deeper journey. One that weaves together biology, spirit, and the daily practice of showing up for yourself. That journey is LifeForce Energy Healing® Level IV.

It’s not a quick fix. It’s not a feel-good workshop. It’s a yearlong commitment to your healing, your intuition, your growth as a light-filled presence in the world.

We’ve quietly opened the doors for the next Level IV class, and we’re already closer to capacity than we expected at this stage.

If this work has stirred something in you… if you’re ready to stop circling your calling and start living inside it…

We invite you to take the next step to learn more about the program by clicking here  >>

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How to Tell When You’re Being Called to Grow

by Energy MedicineEventsFeatured

There’s a moment, often quiet and easy to miss, when your life starts tugging at you from the inside. It might not feel dramatic. There’s no thunderclap or flashing sign announcing what’s happening. Instead, you simply start feeling… different. Something that once satisfied you now feels incomplete. Patterns you once leaned on start to feel constrictive. Familiar routines lose their sparkle.

These feelings are not random. They are the early signs of a deeper invitation…the invitation to grow.

In our energy healing work, we often talk about the subtle, invisible ways the energy field moves long before a major life change becomes visible. Growth always begins beneath the surface. Long before you switch careers, leave a relationship, or step into a new spiritual path, your energy has already begun rearranging itself, preparing you for the next step.

Many people overlook these early signals because they expect spiritual growth to look a certain way. They wait for unmistakable signs. They assume growth will feel comfortable or exhilarating. But in reality, the call to grow often begins with discomfort. It can feel like restlessness. Irritability. A vague sense that you’re outgrowing the life you’ve built. Even if that life is, by all outward appearances, “good.”

If you’ve been feeling off-balance lately, it’s worth asking: is your soul trying to get your attention?

There are several ways the call to grow tends to show up:

  • You feel drawn to new ideas or teachers that wouldn’t have interested you before.
    What once seemed irrelevant or strange suddenly feels magnetic. You find yourself pulled toward learning, even if you don’t fully understand why.
  • Your old habits feel uncomfortable.
    Behaviors or routines that used to feel effortless now seem hollow. Even small patterns – like how you spend your evenings, who you spend time with, or how you talk to yourself – start to feel misaligned.
  • You experience unexpected emotional waves.
    Growth often stirs the emotional body first. Memories might resurface. Long-forgotten dreams might nudge you awake at night. You may find yourself crying easily, laughing unexpectedly, or feeling moments of pure tenderness toward yourself and others.
  • Your intuition grows stronger.
    You might start noticing synchronicities. You think of someone and they call. You feel an urge to change a plan at the last minute and later realize it saved you trouble. Your inner knowing becomes harder to ignore.
  • Life challenges intensify.
    While it might seem counterintuitive, obstacles are often a hallmark of growth. They force you to stretch beyond old limitations. They make it impossible to stay where you are.

When you start noticing these signs, it’s easy to doubt yourself. The mind will often resist. It will say, “You’re being irrational.” It will argue for staying in the comfort of the familiar. But spiritual growth almost always asks you to move before you feel fully ready. The discomfort isn’t a mistake. It’s part of the process.

At its core, growth is about expanding your capacity to hold more light, more love, and more truth. It’s about stepping into greater alignment with your soul’s blueprint. And like any process of expansion, it will require you to loosen your grip on old structures, even if those structures once served you well.

Sometimes, the call to grow means letting go of people or situations that no longer reflect who you’re becoming. Sometimes, it simply means showing up differently in your existing life, speaking more truthfully, loving more freely, honoring your inner guidance more consistently.

There is no one-size-fits-all path. Your journey will be as unique as your soul. What matters most is your willingness to listen. To pause when life feels restless. To inquire, rather than immediately rushing to fix or distract yourself. To ask: “What is Spirit trying to show me?”

If you’re feeling called to grow, know this: it’s a sacred moment. It deserves your attention. It deserves your respect. Growth is not something to squeeze into your schedule between errands and meetings. It’s an unfolding that asks for your full-hearted participation.

You don’t have to know exactly where you’re headed. Growth rarely hands us a map. But if you can trust the process (even when it feels uncertain) you’ll find that life has a way of meeting you exactly where you are, providing the support and opportunities you need at just the right time.

Ready to say yes to your next step?

If you’ve been feeling the nudge to grow, if you recognize yourself in these signs, there are a couple of powerful ways to answer that call.

Our upcoming LifeForce Energy Healing® Retreat in Scottsdale offers a rare opportunity to step away from daily life and immerse yourself in profound energy work and spiritual expansion, guided personally by Deborah. It’s a deep, live experience that can shift your trajectory in ways you can’t predict but will certainly feel. We’d love for you to join us in the desert. And you can reserve your spot by clicking here >>

If traveling isn’t possible for you right now, or if you’re just beginning your spiritual path, LifeForce Energy Healing® Level I provides a beautiful foundation. You’ll learn to work with energy, heal old wounds, and build the inner strength and clarity needed for lasting transformation. All from home, at your own pace. Click here to access this foundational course now >>

Whichever path resonates, the important thing is to respond to the invitation life is offering you.

Growth doesn’t wait for perfect timing. It waits for your willingness.

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Sacred Ground, Sacred Work: Why Certain Places Hold Power

by Energy MedicineEventsFeatured

There are places that hold beauty. There are places that hold memory. And then there are places that hold power.

Not power in the modern sense. Not influence. Not domination. But energetic coherence. A resonance that doesn’t just feel good—it feels aligned. Grounded. Ancient. Alive.

In cultures that still honored the Earth as conscious and responsive, sacred spaces weren’t chosen for their convenience. They were recognized. Discovered. Revealed by the way the body responded to the land.

There was no need to explain it. The nervous system already knew.

You see it in Delphi, where priestesses sat in chambers carved into stone and listened for the voice that only came when silence was complete. You see it in the great kivas of the Southwest, where circular ritual chambers mirrored the rhythm of the Earth. You feel it in Sedona, where travelers still speak of vortexes without always knowing why they’re drawn there.

What those cultures knew was simple: the land speaks. And when it does, it changes everything.

The desert doesn’t shout—but it speaks clearly

Nowhere does that truth hold more weight than in the desert.

There’s a reason prophets, mystics, visionaries, and seekers have always found their way to arid ground. The desert offers no distractions. It offers no excuses. It strips away what isn’t essential. What’s left is presence.

The desert is clarity. Not because it’s empty—but because it’s honest.

This is the energy that surrounds The Casa in Scottsdale, where Deborah will be holding her LifeForce Energy Healing® Retreat from Tuesday, May 27 to Friday, May 30, 2025. It’s not a random location. It wasn’t selected for aesthetics. It was chosen because it supports the kind of spiritual transformation that doesn’t stay on the surface.

The land is part of the field. And this land knows how to hold sacred work.

The Casa carries decades of spiritual imprint

For over 70 years, The Casa has been home to spiritual retreats, energy healing, and personal transformation. That kind of sustained intention builds resonance. And resonance builds capacity.

When you enter the grounds, the nervous system responds. It softens. It steadies. It recognizes the frequency of focused, ceremonial space. You’re not just attending a retreat. You’re entering a container that’s been curated by time, intention, and hundreds of souls doing their work before you.

This field is not theoretical. It lives in the stones. In the trees. In the air. What’s been held there before still echoes. Not loudly. But clearly enough that the body hears it.

When that kind of field meets you with presence, change becomes not just possible—but inevitable.

What participants experience when they step into the field

Over the years, retreat participants have shared similar stories. A sense of grounding before the first session begins. Unexpected tears. Vivid dreams. Old stories surfacing for release. Creative impulses coming back online.

The field doesn’t wait for the itinerary. It begins to work as soon as your system says yes.

Because it’s not just about being in a new location—it’s about being in a location that remembers. That knows how to hold intensity, integration, and transformation without collapsing.

The desert supports this by creating space. Deborah supports it by holding frequency. The group supports it through shared presence. And the land carries it all.

Why this work needs sacred ground

Most people don’t realize how much their environment interferes with energetic integration. We try to heal in spaces designed for performance. We try to regulate in homes built for speed. We try to open when the energy around us is filled with interruption.

When you remove all of that—and replace it with land that knows how to hold a container—you meet yourself in a completely different way.

There is no urgency at The Casa. But there is structure. There is no noise, but there is depth. The moment you land, your system begins to remember how to feel again. And that feeling becomes the foundation for all the work that follows.

What you’ll experience during the retreat

The LifeForce Energy Healing® Retreat is four days of field-based work with Deborah and a community of sincere seekers. You’ll be immersed in guided energy practices, live teaching, group healing, and sacred witnessing.

This is not a conceptual retreat. It’s a full-body recalibration. You don’t just learn—you shift. Your nervous system reorganizes. Your field begins to clear. Your relationship to your own intuition, emotion, and truth starts to rewire.

The retreat is structured to support every layer of your experience. There are group sessions, personal practices, shared meals, and private space for integration. It’s designed to move you through energy—not around it. And the results don’t stay at the retreat center. They follow you home.

Because this isn’t something you “do.” It’s something you become.

The invitation is open

This is not a sales pitch. This is a call to listen.

If your system has been asking for something more structured, more sincere, more real… this is a space that can hold it.

If you’ve felt disconnected from your own path… this is a return.

If you’re tired of managing and ready to be held inside work that actually moves energy… the desert is waiting.

Join us May 27–30, 2025, in Scottsdale, Arizona for a live retreat that doesn’t ask for your performance… only your presence.

Register now >>

Some places hold beauty.

Some hold memory.

But a few… a very few… still hold power.

And that power is ready to meet you.

Spirit Guidance & Sacred Sutras

Meister Eckhart: Meet this Key Mystic

by Energy MedicineEventsFeatured
Spirit Guidance & Sacred Sutras

There are times that you might be seeking some additional guidance in your personal, professional, and spiritual life. Maybe you are feeling anxious about a decision, big or small, that needs to be made. What if I told you that you had a source to life-changing wisdom readily available to you? By learning to connect with Ascended Masters, you can receive the direct guidance, love, support and healing you are seeking. The roles of the many different Masters may be varied, but they have all acquired vast knowledge, mastered the spiritual, mental, and physical aspects of their lives and now, want to serve as your spiritual guide, healer, and teacher.

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A key mystic and Ascended Master to consider is German theologian and philosopher Meister Eckhart, who was born around 1260 and died about 1328. He was born in what is now central Germany while it was still a part of the Holy Roman Empire. Although he fell into disfavor after he died, in the 19th century there was renewed attention to him and his sermons. He gained a status as a great mystic and has attracted enormous interest from scholars interested in medieval scholastic and philosophical histories.

The central theme of Eckhart’s talks is the presence of God in the individual soul, and the dignity of the soul of the just man. He rarely spoke about anything else. Here is his own summary of his central message: “When I preach, I usually … say that a man should be empty of self and all things; and secondly, that he should be reconstructed in the simple good that God is; and thirdly, that he should consider the great aristocracy which God has set up in the soul, (so that) man may wonderfully attain to God; and fourthly, of the purity of the divine nature.” What he’s saying is that when we initiate to higher levels of consciousness, we reach God consciousness, where we are all one.

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Carl Jung

Eckhart was one of the most influential 13th-century thinkers of his day, and he was widely read through the later Middle Ages. Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Jung summed up his view of Eckhart this way: “The world-embracing spirit of Meister Eckhart knew … the primordial mystical experience of India as well as of the Gnostics and was itself the finest flower on the tree of the ‘Free Spirit’ that flourished at the beginning of the eleventh century. Well might the writings of this Master be buried for six hundred years, for ‘his time was not yet come.’ Only in the nineteenth century did he find a public at all capable of appreciating the grandeur of his mind. 

Would you like to connect to this mystic (and others) for direct guidance and wisdom? It’s possible. These Ascended Masters are standing by, ready and willing to help you. You just have to learn how to open the communication channel. And that is one of the things I will be teaching you how to do during a free video event on Thursday, July 14th at 5:30 PM PT/ 8:30 PM ET. Space is limited, so be sure to register now by clicking here >>

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Power of red coral

The Unique Balancing Power of Red Coral

by Energy HealingEnergy MedicineEventsFeatured

Gemstones are resonant objects, objects that pulsate and vibrate with the resonance of specific planets and cadences, providing us connectivity and understanding.

A gemstone, at its very basic definition, is a mineral which has been cut or polished. These minerals are created through the rhythmic creation processes of Earth — from volcanic eruptions to intense pressure under the layers of Earth. It’s a beautiful process whose product – gems – reflect and capture the energies and motions of the Earth, and it is these captured rhythms which we strive to sync.

But not all stones come from those processes. In fact, one stone – red coral – comes from a unique and altogether wonderful process on Earth. I want to share this process with you.

Red coral comes from a life cycle. We’ve all seen images of the beautiful coral reefs in the oceans, or perhaps taken a snorkeling trip through the underwater forests. The coral that forms these reefs are the exoskeletons of living organisms.

Coral was alive. These small, precious living things live, thrive, and die in colonies. As they continuously grow and die, they deposit small amounts of calcium carbonate – the same mineral that makes up pearls and eggshells. These small deposits grow over time, building these magnificent underwater forests that we call reefs.

Within these mineral skeletons, new corals continuously grow, giving rise to coral’s nickname: living rock. This lifecycle is what makes coral so vibrant, so unique among the gemstones that we study and align with. It’s a powerful, deeply connective stone that is in tune with the oceanic circle of life.

Red coral, due both to its red color and its very deep and root resonance to life, aligns with the planet Mars. Mars, which we affectionately call the Red Planet, exists as a symbol of masculine virility, passion, and war throughout cultures in the East and the West — in both Vedic and Western astrology. When properly aligned, Mars’s energy brings vitality, strength, resolve, and passion. When overly charged, Mars’s energy can bring anger, irrationality, pain, and destruction.

The ancients knew this. The Greek thinkers specifically understood that Mars energy, whom they called Ares, ran the risk of becoming too aggressive, too warlike. They understood that Mars energy needed to be moderated. They understood that Mars energy could consume an unwary soul. In those days, they would call upon the wisdom of Athena — the goddess of wisdom and strategy — to moderate that passion. Today, while you still may call upon your higher divine wisdoms, I encourage you to also look to precious red coral. Remember, within this precious gemstone is an entire ecosystem of life, death, creation, and destruction.

This tether to life and death, unique to coral among all gemstones, imbues this stone with a profoundly moderating energy, which helps you filter out the aggressive powers that Mars can bring. This is the beauty of red coral. It strengthens you with the powerful gifts of Mars, while preventing you from falling into the throes of irrational passion.

When you connect with Mars, and I encourage you to do so, do remember that you are dealing with a powerful, primordial energy. Respect the vast, passionate, masculine power that flows through Mars, and understand that this energy should be moderated and mediated. You may also wish to call upon the strength and wisdom of the Pallas Athena. Her energy is best thought of as strong, even-tempered, intellectual, and righteous.

The beautiful and oceanic power native to red coral provides an excellent and protective conduit for this energy. I would love to teach you more about how to connect with the vibrational frequencies of gemstones and planets such as red coral and Mars. If you’re interested, please come and join me at the Shift Network, where I’ll soon be teaching a seven-week course on Vibrational Medicine.

Come on over and resonate with us!

Vibrational Medicine

The Science Behind Vibrational Medicine

by Energy HealingEnergy MedicineEventsFeatured

You are a living, breathing field of energy. Your body is made up of molecules and atoms that produce energy, which is always in motion. So like everyone and everything else in the universe, you are creating energy through your vibrations.

My field of energy medicine is also called vibrational medicine because we use the energy within and around you to benefit your health.

Research has shown how the body’s electrical and magnetic energies kickstart the chemical processes of the body, and there is evidence that these energies definitely impact your health.

Vibrations work in a rhythm. There are big rhythmic patterns, like the ocean tides or the changing seasons. Inside your body, your beating heart, the rate of your breathing, and circadian rhythms can all be felt and measured.

But there are also much smaller vibrations happening inside your cells. Researchers have even been able to detect the nanovibrations of a single strand of hair!

All these big and small vibrations together generate waves of electromagnetic energy. The vibrations and the energy they create can change your cells, which in turn affect the way your body is working.

The molecules of your body vibrate at different rates, which can move faster or slower when things change. For example, a change in temperature can affect a molecule’s vibration.

What those of us in energy medicine have long known, and researchers are now studying, is the way your body’s rhythmic vibrations, and therefore your health, are affected by your thoughts and emotions. Anxious thoughts, for example, trigger stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline, which speed up or slow down your heart rate. A continued change in vibration over time can affect your health.

Your personal energy field and its chakras are powered by your emotions. That’s such a key point – let me repeat it: your thoughts and emotions affect your field and your rate of vibration. If you are inundated with negative thoughts, you will vibrate at a lower frequency. If you are exposed to an ongoing low frequency energy, you will feel negative and may eventually become ill.

Think of the way the vibrations of music can affect how you think and feel, and thus affect your body. You know how the music in the movie amps up the intensity of what you’re seeing on the screen. The soundtrack for action movies, for example, pumps up the tension and your sense of excitement at key points with a rapid tempo, while chick-flics inevitably have a string orchestra playing love songs to lift you into a heart space.

If you change your thoughts and emotions, and even your environment, you can slow down or speed up the vibrations that are happening at the cellular level. A change in even the smallest nanovibrations can influence how you feel and the health of your body. It’s the mind-body connection.

Science doesn’t yet understand how vibrational energy does what it does in your body, but in vibrational medicine we see how a change in your body’s vibrations can shift your mood, improve your health, and help you realize your goals and dreams.

You are very susceptible to changes in frequency – the rate of vibration. There is plenty of evidence that links positive patterns of thoughts and feelings to better health and overall well-being. A high enough frequency, created by vibrations of joy, peace, and forgiveness, and you feel good, happy to be alive, and grateful for your spiritual awakening and your community. If your vibration dips too low, you may feel fearful, confused, angry, or in despair.

My goal, as a teacher of vibrational medicine, is to help you elevate your frequency, so you vibrate at a higher rate and be filled with positivity, wellness, and light.

The higher your frequency, the more likely you are to experience an initiation, those illusive step-ups in spirituality that I’m famous for helping occasion: spiritual breakthroughs in which you are admitted to the higher planes. Just as initiations are forms of higher consciousness, so too their existence is predicated on higher frequency wavelengths.

When our atoms vibrate together – or resonate – they form a connected consciousness. That is why when you resonate with another being, you feel less like a solitary figure and more part of the whole. Raising your individual consciousness requires raising your vibratory resonance, so you can connect with others and with the universe at large. Your field must oscillate faster and more intensely to resonate with the manifest beauty the universe has to offer you.

Want to experience a higher frequency? Come join me this coming Saturday, June 5, at 10:00 a.m. Pacific, on Shift Network, as I go in-depth on this topic and lead a guided meditation to do that very thing!

2020 Winter Solstice

Standing Still in the Solstice

by EventsFeaturedMeditationSelf Love

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about standing still. About pausing, breathing.

We’re approaching the Winter Solstice, the time of year where the day is shortest in the Northern Hemisphere. At the arctic circle, it’s completely dark for 24 hours.

I know that many of us have felt that we’re facing our own, personal winter solstices. Our communities feel fractured. Uncertainty, loss, and grief are now part of the atmosphere.

We all want to know, “when will this darkness end?”

But the word solstice doesn’t refer to this darkness. It refers to something different.

Imagine, for a moment, an invisible line in the sky. Day or night. It bisects the sky into the North and South, just like the equator around our planet. We call this the celestial equator. Twice a year (at the equinoxes), our Sun crosses this equator. Right now, it is heading South. On the Solstice, the Sun reaches its southernmost point in our sky. It takes a pause.

It stands still.

That’s what the word “solstice” refers to. The Sun “standing still.”

With the Sun’s pause comes a host of other occurrences. The shortest day, the longest night. It’s easy to look at these extremes and feel a sense of foreboding – that somehow night has enveloped the day, and the Sun itself has become frozen. But this sense of foreboding ignores the beauty and hope that the Winter Solstice represents. And embracing this beauty might be the key to us breaking through our own Winter Solstices.

Like a wayward traveler who has voyaged to a distant land, the Sun finally stands still on December 21st. It pauses, holding its place in our sky, before finally returning North.

Think about it. The Winter Solstice is only the shortest day because the sun stands still and then returns North. It’s only the darkest day because the next day is slightly brighter. It’s only the lowest point because the light turns back.

The Winter Solstice is the Northern Hemisphere’s rock bottom. It’s the “darkest before the dawn moment.” And this “darkest before the dawn” can inform how we journey our own, Spiritual Solstices.

Our journeys this year have been unexpected and perilous. Oftentimes, it feels like we’re a passenger in our journeys, as opposed to a pilot. But we have a choice that we can make – an action that can give us insight, strength, and (hopefully) some community in these fragmented times.

We can pause.

On December 21st, I encourage all of us to pause – collectively, though separated. I want us all to feel the faint rays of the Sun and imbue ourselves with the energy of a star and a planet who have paused in extremity.

Absorb this energy. Coax out the intuition of this celestial stillness.

Let’s pause each of our journeys – for just that brief day – to take stock of how far we’ve gone, where we’ve come from, and where we wish to go. Let’s stand in our stillness, and look back at the joys we wish to recapture.

We can examine our choices, our habits, our relationships; and decide how we will carry forward.

The Winter Solstice is a blessed time! It’s a rare time for introspection, reflection, and change. This energy is mirrored in our cultural celebrations around winter. New Year’s Resolutions? What is that but a pause and a change of direction?

I know that the Winter Holidays can be a circus. We all work double-time to purchase that perfect Hannukah gift, make that perfect Christmas roast, and plan that perfect New Year’s celebration. It’s hard to pause when there’s so much to do!

But your spirit deserves a Solstice.

Embody that energy of the Winter Solstice in order to become an active participant in your own journey. It feels counter-intuitive, but by simply taking a day to be still, you will gain unprecedented agency and insight into your own voyage through life.

It’s always darkest before the dawn.

Deborah

Meditation benefits

Benefits of Daily Meditation: Turning Back the Hands of Time

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Have you ever daydreamed of turning back the clock to a more youthful, more energetic, more carefree time in life? Or perhaps having at your disposal a magical cosmic “Undo” button that could erase certain effects that have accumulated over the course of time—from stress, abuse, and destructive habits that have left you with less than perfect health or a waning enthusiasm for life.

I experienced the need for a second chance at a clean slate earlier in life than most. I was just out of law school and not even 25 when I received a diagnosis of cancer. That cancer was just the last in a whole host of serious problems I’d had. Those of you who are familiar with my story know that I had a horrendous childhood filled with sexual and emotional abuse. I’m certain I had post-traumatic stress disorder by the time I was four. By my teenage years, I was a complete wreck. At that point, I began doing everything possible to numb my feelings and run from them—I smoked, drank, took drugs, and acted out all over town. I was anxious. I was depressed. When my cancer announcement came, it was really time for a change. By then, I needed some truly powerful help to undo all that I had been through so that I could continue to live.

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Amazingly, I found it—the way to turn back time and release the many effects of all of the stress that my mind and body had endured. That way was meditation. A daily practice of 20 minutes, twice a day, gave me much more clarity to address my disease and ultimately helped me to heal my cancer, release my addictions, end my destructive streak, and get on my true life path. I can honestly say that meditation is the best thing I have ever done for myself.

I am not alone in this discovery. Science and religion alike have studied and documented the vast numbers of benefits of meditation, revealing that meditation has a positive effect on people suffering from or at risk for many physical and mental health conditions, including high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, congestive heart failure, stroke, diabetes, menopause, ADHD, memory loss, anxiety, obesity, and much more. It was even found to be twice as effective in helping people to quit smoking than the other popular remedies. Given that smoking is the number one cause of preventive death in the U.S., this is no small benefit! The studies also show advantages in other areas of our lives, such as making us more effective on the job and in school. Later this week, I talk about these studies and more in this free webinar.

So what is meditation and how does it create so much good for our bodies and minds?

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A big part of meditation’s success on improving conditions like those listed above is its powerful ability to reduce and release stress, as stress is often a precursor to so many of our physical and emotional problems. But the manner in which it does this happens at a lot deeper level than many people might think. Meditation works at the level of our consciousness.

There are four states of consciousness: waking, sleeping, dreaming, and meditating. So, meditation is actually a different state of consciousness from our waking life. It is a far more expanded state. Many people think that the purpose of meditation is to tune out, to get away from it all. While that’s partially true, the real purpose of meditation is actually to tune in—to take the journey into expanded consciousness that meditation provides.

Meditation expands our consciousness by helping us to get into the space, the gap, between our thoughts and taps into the incredible energy that exists there. So you have a thought, and then another thought, but between the two, there’s a little space. According to the ancients, this space between the thoughts is the portal to the infinite intelligence of the universe, our Source. Some people call this energy “Spirit”; some call it “God”; some call it the “Universal Energy Field” or the “Unified Field.”

Once you get into that gap, you’ll find that, through this all-pervasive web of energy, everyone and everything is connected to everything else. You also discover that this universal field of energy is unlimited; it’s pure potential, and anything can be accomplished when you’re connected to it.

When we connect to the Unified Field through meditation, our bodies and psyches are cleared, leaving us refreshed, restored, and balanced. Just 20 minutes of meditation offers as much rest as 1-2 hours of sleep! The effect is truly a turning back of the clock, where we look and feel healthier and younger.

We can experience other profound changes by tapping into the Unified Field through meditation. To heal ourselves and fix our lives, we need information. We need to root out the true cause of what is ailing us, and find the most expeditious and effective route to a cure. I certainly learned this with my experience of cancer. When you tap into the Unified Field, you are accessing life’s great encyclopedia—where every fact of the universe, past, present and future, exists and is accessible.  You are also connecting to your own highest wisdom., and the insights that come from meditation help us to heal every area of our lives.

In this way, meditation paves the way for emotional healing. On an energetic level, it helps to remove any blockages that come from holding on to anger and resentment. Meditation thereby ushers in what is perhaps the most crucial part of the healing process, forgiveness. It opens us up to our connection to other people, and to All That Is. In this way, meditation also paves the way for global peace and well-being.

That brings me to the most important reason I can think of to meditate. Even after all of the benefits I’ve touched upon here—the better health, becoming wiser, doing better at school or work, experiencing forgiveness, and having less anxiety, more creativity, greater joy, looking and feeling younger—I still haven’t told you the real purpose of meditation.

The most important outcome of your meditating every day is that by expanding your awareness, by bringing yourself into balance and experiencing greater peace, by raising your consciousness—you are actually assisting every other person and creature on the planet to do the same. Remember, we’re all connected by one vast field of energy. The ripple of energy you send out into the world is a reflection of your inner state of being. Your ripple touches and affects others. If you’re uplifted, you uplift them too. If we’re all in a higher state, we just might feel more inclined to help one another and come up with some harmonious and creative solutions to our global problems. What a different world that would be!

I can’t recommend enough that you learn to meditate—for your own well-being, for those you love, and for making a positive difference on the planet and fulfilling your life’s potential.

If you’d like to know more about meditation, register for this free event:

Clear Energetic Chaos and Create a Better Base for a Meditative Practice.

This event is perfect for beginners looking to establish a proper base for their practice. But is also great for the advanced, experienced meditator that wants to revitalize their current practice.

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