Following the Path into Becoming an Energy Worker
Hello friends! As I begin this new journey as an energy work practitioner, I realize that many may be wondering how I got from Environmental Educator/Science Communicator to Botanical Stylist to Energy Worker. I wanted to share a bit more about my personal story – how I came to energy work, or how it came to me really, along with the methods of energy work that I specialize in.
Sensitive from a Young Age
Ever since childhood I was sensitive to energy, especially the energies of Nature. I was a kid ruled by touch and feeling, and spent hours outdoors interacting with plants and critters and making wormhouses in mud! I am also an empath, meaning I both sense and unintentionally take on others peoples thoughts and emotions. I remember being really confused by these big feelings, choosing often to separate myself from large crowds or situations where I was feeling too intensely the emotions of those around me. It felt very intense and confusing especially because I am a deeply feeling person on my own – and it wasn’t until just in these last few years that I began learning how to discern and differentiate my own feelings from those I am picking up from people around me (and this is definitely an ongoing lesson and practice for me). Yet I was also the kid that could walk into the room, and as my father is fond of saying “light it up”. I was outgoing and silly, funny and adventurous and was easily able to bring smiles to those around me.
As a kid and teenager, I loved playing around with touch and energy, without really knowing that’s what I was doing. I remember long lazy weekend and summer days, holed up in basements with my friends, giving massages and playing energy games like “Light as a Feather”, where we would manipulate our ability to lift up someone laying on the ground making them heavier or lighter through intentional collective focus. I was also often the person that my friends would come to when they had minor aches and pains, asking me to lay my hands on them or give them massages. For some reason, with no training whatsoever in reiki, massage or other forms of energy manipulation, my hands just always intuitively knew how to find the trigger points and help relieve pain.
Finding Energy Work in My Own Quest for Wellness
It wasn’t until I came to energy work as a client - seeking relief from spiraling thoughts of anxiety and depression related to the state of our world and negative patterns within my own mindset - that I began to really study and learn more about energy and how it impacts our physical, emotional and mental health. I always knew that I was meant to do work related to educating others about this amazing planet we are lucky to call home. I loved working at zoos and aquariums, connecting others with the wonders of our natural world and witnessing their appreciation and awe. Yet I also couldn’t shake feelings of despair watching us pollute and damage the Earth - destroying habitats, polluting the land, the water and the air, and pushing hundreds of species into the brink of extinction. I wanted to feel hopeful and share with others an optimistic vision for a more sustainable future – yet too often I wasn’t hopeful. Too often I was sad and scared, frustrated and cynical. And I thought that was the normal way to feel.
I grew up in a family where we talked openly about depression and mental health because it has historically affected family members on both my mother’s and father’s sides. Yet in my family treatment always seemed to focus on medication and distractions as opposed to full on transformation – which was what I was looking for! I wanted to transform my feelings of worry, sadness and fear into feelings of hope, joy and love – not only dull their edges with medication and bury them amongst numerous distractions. Let me be very clear in stating that I am in no way against medications for mental health! I have been on anti-anxiety and anti-depressants in my own life and they were extremely helpful for me at those times. I know they are literal lifesavers for many many people. Yet for me personally, in the times when I was on medication, my hope was always to get to a place in my thoughts and emotions, where I no longer needed them. And that is where learning about energy work really began to help me transform the way I think and feel.
When I began to create living art working with succulents, wood, stones and crystals I did so because it quite simply made me feel better at a time when I was not feeling good. I had been living with postpartum anxiety and depression for a year, and my racing mind had gotten so out of my control that I was dealing with terrible insomnia. (You can read more my story with mental health and how I came to work with plants HERE and HERE). It was astounding to me that no matter the worries on my mind, when I got present creating botanical art, my mind body and soul would just relax, easing into states of acceptance, allowance, inspiration and joy. I was realizing how Nature assisted me in raising my own energetic vibrations. The I stepped it up a notch when I began to work with crystals combined with plants.
Crystals Calling
Like shells, stones, feathers and driftwood, crystals have always always called to me. When I began working with crystals regularly, I also noticed how much better I was feeling on a consistent basis. More optimistic, creative, intentional and excited. I got curious, wanting to understand more about why I was so drawn to them and why I inevitably felt good while working with them. I began to work with a crystal energy worker, and began to experience first hand the power crystals hold to help us purify and realign our own energies.
Almost exactly a year ago, I got certified as a Crystal Energy Worker myself and over these last months I’ve conducted many crystal energy sessions on friends, family and myself. Over the last few months I have been working with a mentor, learning more about Pranic Healing® and recently got certified as a Pranic Healer as well. This allows me to work on energy, within both the physical body and energetic auras, with even greater intention and specificity.
I’ve taken the information I’ve learned and combined them in a unique way to create a personalized energy work session that works deeply to clear and realign energy within your physical body (through chakra realignment) and your energetic body (through aura cleanses). For months I have been practicing this work, and I am now feeling confident enough, and incredibly excited to begin to offer these services to anyone who might feel the call.
LEARN MORE about the mechanics behind Energy Work, Crystal Energies and Pranic Healing® by clicking HERE.
Energy Sessions I Offer
For me, providing energetic cleansing sessions using elements of Nature, feels like the right next step in my personal mission of connecting others with the infinite powers of Nature. The natural world offers us so many opportunities to just feel better – feel more alive, excited, present and appreciative, which are all needed remedies for the modern stressors of our daily lives. My entire life I have felt the pull of the natural word, felt how it could always lift my mood, fill me with appreciation, unharness my creativity and bring me back to the present moment. Now with studying how energy impacts the way we feel emotionally and physically, I understand more why nature pulls me so strongly. And I truly believe that we can all find benefits in harnessing nature’s energies to intentionally raise our own energies and thereby improve the way we feel! The energy sessions that I conduct harness the power of nature directly through the use of minerals, plants and that which truly powers us all – vital life force energy or prana.
In my energy sessions I combine Pranic Healing techniques along with the stable energy of crystals to cleanse, purify and reenergize the energy flowing through your physical and energetic bodies. I also offer the option of using plant prana in energy sessions, in which succulent clippings are used as part of the chakra cleanse and energize, and gifted to the client to be planted and tended to.
Here is more information about the energy sessions I offer:
1. Chakra Read
During this short session, I will read your chakras and let you know where energy is stuck, leaking or flowing well. I will also offer some suggestions for crystals and affirmations to assist you in realigning yourself.
2. Remote Cleanse & Energize
During this remote session (using the phone or video chat tools), I will assess your energy and read your chakras, letting you know where energy is flowing well, where it is stuck and where you might be leaking energy. I will then conduct a full general sweep and cleanse of your Inner & Health Auras. From there I will conduct localized clearings of your chakra system and cutting of energetic cords. Each session will conclude with energizing and stabilizing your energy.
3. At-Home Cleanse & Energize
This session is the same as the session listed above but will be conducted in the comforts of your own home. I will come to you to conduct the full cleanse and energizing of your physical and energetic bodies.
To learn more about these services please click the button below!
Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. it can be no other way.”
-Albert Einstein
Thank you all so much for reading, following along and supporting me over these last few years of botanical art and appreciation! I hope that I can now support you through the new energy work services I offer!
With gratitude & appreciation,
Rachael
“if you want to find the secrets of the Universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
- nikola tesla