Healing Tool 18: Paradox
Gathering tool 18: Paradox
Paradox is a special kind of truth. It is unexpected which leads you to know in a very deep, profound, sense that you are onto something quite true and wonderful!
I’ll offer some stories.
When I first began my healing practice some thirty years ago a young woman approached me to do intuitive work for her. I was going to get paid and this was to be my first try with doing professional intuitive work. I felt so inexperienced despite my abilities. This woman wanted to know if her grandmother was happy, okay, in her living environment which was a state run nursing home facility. I anticipated that her grandmother would be unhappy cooped up in a facility alone. I was told that she had dementia and was unable to speak. When I approached the side of her bed, I greeted her and assured her that I was safe and happy to see her. She was awake and unresponsive to me as she moved her hands back and forth like a wave. I felt into her situation and heard, “I am so happy to be sitting here with nothing to do and with no responsibilities, I am free to live and rest.” Here’s the paradox…. There was no way I could have dreamed this response. It was not what I expected. When I went out to speak to the granddaughter she was deeply relieved. She was happy for her grandmother. It all clicked together into a superb knowing.
I sustained a bad head injury snowboarding. I wanted to try the sport again so that I could snowboard with my husband at the time. I made a deal with my guidance. I implored, “I promise to listen to you as I learn to snowboard. If I’m in danger please just say,”Go inside and I will go into the lodge.” I promised to listen and work with them. They wanted me safe for my work. And so, I boarded on the bunny slopes for a few days on this very tiny mountain in NH. When I heard, “Go in”, I went into the lodge fast. I would ask when to go out and they would let me know. I listened. When I got tired of the same bunny slopes I asked them to give me indication as to whether I was ready to go up to the top of the mountain. On the next run an elderly man came up to me and said, “I’ve been watching you, and you’re doing great!” That was my sign! Up the chairlift I went. I didn’t even look at a trail map, and I’d never been to this mountain before. Oh Geez, I thought, how will I get down? On my way up on the lift I heard, “Take the easiest way down” from my two Tibetan guides who were speaking over my right shoulder. Out loud I said, “ I don’t know the easiest way down.” Giggling they kept repeating to take the easiest way down and I kept responding in kind. I arrived at the top of the small mountain and there was a giant wooden hand with a giant pointing finger. Written on the pointed finger was EASIST WAY DOWN! I had never seen anything like this before on any mountain despite my years of skiing. It was hysterical. So, the unexpected, the paradox, the proof, that my guidance was helping me all brought me to laugh out loud. I was hearing and getting help as I learned to snowboard. The paradox is to see the unexpected.
Frequently while working, I will locate issues in a patient’s body that were not disclosed in the initial interview. Patient’s are always amazed. It’s for the patient’s good that I am getting this information as it usually ties into the treatment. As well, I believe I get this information so that patients develop a deeper trust in my work and me. This validation helps me to trust my work more deeply. The paradox is in knowing various realities at the same time.
As healers we learn to trust and be grateful. We see that the power is in the paradox.
glimpses of miracles
arriving
lilacs
in the desert
sun and moon on the horizon
elephants
deja vu
proof
reality
truth
paradox
Talk to your guides and ask for insight, trust and follow. Watch the truth arrive in perfect moment of the perfect wave. Watch for the validation, the messages from the Divine.