Working with Chakras for Belief Change: The Healing InSight Method

Preface

Many of us are seeking more from life than our current experiences. We carry emotional and physical pain and are trapped by insecurities and limitations from our past, uncertain of how to shift these deeply entrenched patterns of conditioning. This book seeks to make real the idea that healing is possible. Using real-life examples of that healing in action, it offers reassurance and insights, tools, and methods that guide self-directed transformational healing.

The importance of diet, detox, exercise, and mindfulness for health has been well established. The new consciousness revolution of science and spirituality shows us that healing is possible when we understand the mechanisms of what it is to be human—that we are light/energy beings at varying vibrational densities connected to a wider field of consciousness. If we are to heal we must remember who we are. It is time to free ourselves from the negative beliefs and emotions that keep us limited, fearful, powerless, and separate.

I write to share my learning, understanding, and wisdom as a counselling psychologist, healer, intuitive, and empath. I have journeyed from the tough, industrial North of England through a painful adolescence into womanhood, from chronic incurable autoimmune disease into health, and from ignorance into blissful spirituality and love. I have witnessed magic unfolding as I surrendered to my inner calling and came to trust and work with the flow of the universe. A lover of life, light, integrity, and creativity, I have and will continue to walk my talk, which requires the courage to step through the darkness of the birthing canal in order to transform and innovate.

On my journey, I discovered how we can heal lower vibrational emotions, such as hurt, sadness, hopelessness, anger, and fear, and live in the vibration of love for self, our beautiful planet, and our brothers and sisters throughout life, with its many twists and turns. Evolution requires us to clear our karma and lower vibrations so that we can resonate with and restore the natural world. The time is now for big change to occur. We must start that process by first healing ourselves if we are to heal our Earth.

The beginnings of this book, though derived from my life’s work and inspired in part by the therapies I have practised, were conceived in 2014 as seven simple affirmations representing the seven chakras. Three years later, those affirmations had developed into a comprehensive and transformative healing system, with a set of channelled beliefs in a 56-card deck (available as an app) and this book. The cards, which are included as images in this book, are designed to bring you into resonance with the vibration of the chakra aspects they represent. The colour frequencies, animals, deities, and words shown on the cards hold a unique vibration, directing your attention towards your intended alignment whilst rebalancing the overall health of your body, mind, and spirit.

The innovative method utilizes qigong, whole-brain hemispheric integration, and visualization, which together help to align the body, mind, and spirit with the vibration a helpful new belief. This shift affects our vibrational field(s), which allows more joy, love, connection, and expansion in our reality.

My gift to you is a unique healing system that not only reprogrammes the subconscious mind with healthy, life-affirming beliefs but also identifies and clears vibrational patterns that previously prevented resonance with these beliefs. The result is transformation and awakening to the inner truth of your being, supporting healing in the direction of your desires.

This work has a momentum all its own. Its intent is to bring healing and help unite us. It is time for personal empowerment, and this system provides just that: a self-help healing system that offers powerful transformation. All you have to do is play and let things be easy. Commit to yourself. Choose love over fear. Honour yourself and your truth, and be of service to the greater good. Together, we can create Heaven On Mother Earth (HOME).

I begin by offering insights from my own life story and follow this with information about the science of consciousness and evidence that shows our potential to affect our realities, for healing or otherwise. I lay out what you need to know to use the Healing InSight system, including qigong and muscle testing, and follow with the method itself. The book contains channelled beliefs for your exploration and alignment and is supported by case studies, meditation and qigong practices, and a forgiveness and manifestation protocol. Further support can be found in the Resources in the Appendices at the end of the book.

I give you my sincere blessings. Go for it. It might just transform your life!

PART ONE

Development of Healing InSight: My Personal Journey

AS A PSYCHOLOGIST AND HEALER, I run a full practice in both the small West Sussex town of Midhurst and Richmond, southwest of London, integrating counselling psychology with energy psychology and healing methods. I teach qigong and reiki, along with my own Healing InSight self-help belief realignment method.

Like all healers, I went on my own painful journey of self-discovery to find my true self, heal my wounds, and awaken to deep compassionate love and joy, the great spiritual essence of life.

In the following three chapters, I take you on my own journey of personal and professional discovery, mind-body-spirit connection, and understanding of myself as a spiritual being, connected to God, Oneness, or Source energy. I share the how-tos of my path and purpose: to bring the magic of healing and fulfilment to my own and others’ lives. If I had not experienced adversity, pain, separation, sickness, and desperation and learnt how to transform them into their polar opposites—joy, connection, health, and possibility—I would never have discovered the pathways to transformation. Along the way, I share important aspects of my life story, weaving in personal insights and how I came to develop this system of practice-based evidence. In a world full of possibility, I hope to demonstrate that all truly is possible.

I trust that my story will resonate with you on some level, readying you to further your own healing journey with the help of the Healing InSight method. I have witnessed many transformations in others, so it is with great pleasure that I offer my insights into how healing can be in sight.

Chapter 1

My Awakening

I grew up north of Nottingham, one of two children. Mum was a homemaker, and Dad ran a precision engineering company. There was a lot of love in our home, but as I became more aware, I began to experience an inner discomfort. My mother was a gentle home-maker, but when I saw British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on television, I realized that women could be powerful, have careers, and make a difference. I knew from an early age that I wanted more from life than what I could see. Discord and injustices deeply bothered me.

I developed a progressively difficult relationship with my dad, a critical Virgo perfectionist type who always knew best. My dad and I are both wise old souls, but there was not much room at our dinner table for more than one opinion, and as a sensitive and empathic teenager, I felt worn down by this. Eventually, I stopped speaking up and often skulked away to my bedroom, feeling hopeless, frustrated, and disconnected, pushing down emotions, and pretending to the outside world that I was okay.

I enjoyed the community college school my brother and I attended, and did well academically, but my outer and inner light faded as a result of bullying, family dynamics, and existing in a culture where it was not okay to shine. I hid for two years at school and couldn’t seem to get it right at home, either, so although spirited and strong willed, I lost confidence in my ability to be present and express myself.

Lifelong patterns were set up during this time, and I believe it was these trapped, unexpressed emotions, belief patterns, sensitivity and self-rejecting thoughts that led me to develop an autoimmune disease: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE).

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

At age 18, while studying for my A Levels, I started to experience a dull, aching pain in my hips and legs, which moved to my arms and shoulders. Two years later, whilst at Leeds University studying for my BSc in Psychology, I was diagnosed with SLE.

SLE is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system mistakenly attacks the skin, joints, or organs, causing inflammation, as it does not recognize the body as self. It is a serious chronic condition that is said to be incurable.

I felt sad that I would have this condition for life, suffered in silence, but carried on regardless, taking 800mg of Ibuprofen three times a day to deal with the pain. I was unable to sit for any length of time and woke frequently in the night with such severe pain it left me breathless. During exam time, I remember being unable to walk downstairs in the morning, my feet in agony and inflexible on waking. I would be hit by occasional sudden and severe chest pain and had to lie still and shallow-breathe until the pain subsided. I tried to hide these symptoms and be a normal 20-year-old. I did not tell my flatmates half of what I was experiencing, but my boyfriend’s support was a breath of fresh air for me.

Chest x-rays revealed nothing, so I was mostly ignorant about how this disease was playing out in my life. I discovered years later that I had inflammation of the rib joints, not suspected heart problems. It was scary and challenging trying to navigate these huge changes in my body during my university years.

I was determined that SLE would not become the focus of my life. I had to come to terms with it and battled through like a warrior, making sure it did not define who I was or what I was capable of. I persevered, remained positive, and good things happened. I made friends, fell in love, enjoyed my studies, and began dancing again. Looking back, dancing was the one activity where I was fully in my body and free to express myself. Although I could barely walk downstairs in the morning, I won the Intervarsity Ballroom Dancing Competition for the quickstep in 1994. I received support from the Psychology Department and was given special dispensation in sitting exams as I was only able to sit still for an hour without pain. The determination paid off, and I achieved a good honours degree in Psychology in 1996.

Falling into Therapeutic Work

After university, I moved to London to take up a temporary opening in the Occupational Therapy department of a North London mental health hospital. I found an advert in a local post office window for a room to rent and, within the space of one week, my boyfriend and I had moved in with a French couple and my helping career had begun.

I think that my physical being became a separate entity to me at this point. Disowned, abandoned, and treated with painkillers, I pushed through without listening to my body or my unresolved emotions. There was some easing of my lupus symptoms, perhaps because I felt more relaxed and a sense of purpose and connection to my work, clients, and colleagues.

In my work as an occupational therapy assistant, I did my best to engage with patients, either through talking, relaxation classes, or activities like art and music. I remember vividly an elderly Greek lady who had been depressed and mute for months. Each day I would go onto the ward where she was sitting, her eyes filled with sadness. She was on medication and undergoing a course of electroconvulsive therapy. It seemed that her condition was deteriorating, and she had begun to lose urinary function.

I sat with her every day for two weeks, speaking a little, but mostly we just sat together. It was agreed that I could take her outside, and we would sit on a bench. She had come to trust me and would hold my hand as we sat, looking at me once in a while. Her pained expression seemed to convey something she was unable to express verbally.

By week three, I took her into a music therapy class to see if she could break her silence through instruments. In her second class she beat a drum, and then, as if the heavens were opening, she started to sing. A hauntingly beautiful song escaped her lips and as the sound of despair and sadness transmuted into more joyful sounds, a cautious smile began to crinkle her eyes. She cried tears of joy and sadness that day. It felt profound and beautiful, as if her spirit reconnected with her physical body.

She looked into my eyes, held my hands, and said, Thank you. You made me talk again. I was, young, naïve, and completely humbled. I have tears in my eyes as I write this, remembering how the power of simple human compassion and connection transformed her hopelessness. That was my first taste of the power of love and compassion to heal dark despair. I believe that it began the journey that has shaped me over the years.

Lesson no. 1

The power of human compassion and connection transforms and heals—the simple art of being in loving kindness with what is.

New Beginnings

After this, I spent time living and working abroad and began a new relationship, but I realized that I had become depressed. I was prescribed antidepressants, which helped lift my mood, but they did nothing to change my thoughts, beliefs, limiting self-talk, and patterns of aloneness and helplessness. At work, I was surrounded by mental health difficulties, hopelessness, isolation, depression, and anxiety, which were challenging as I didn’t have much to give, but I began to cope again on a daily basis.

My time overseas offered the time and space to see that without my usual crutches of friends, family, and a secure relationship I felt lost. I finally had to admit to myself that I was unhappy. My heart was not singing a joyous song. On my return home, I became determined to discover a future pathway into personal happiness.

I took up a community outreach post in London serving those with mental health difficulties. I enjoyed the clients but hated the system, which I felt could not meet the needs of the clients. A weathered psychologist told me that I had on rose-tinted spectacles and it was better to remove them. My clients’ stories were dismissed, even rejected as lies at times. The system I experienced felt too impersonal and absent-hearted to me, and again I moved on.

I trained as a counselling psychologist and began working in a charity sector residential drug dependency rehabilitation unit. I started a new relationship with an old friend from university who would become my husband and father to my two eldest boys. Although working with this new client group was challenging, I loved my work and was good at it. I started my MSc and felt part of something meaningful for the first time in years. I planned a big white wedding from our little flat in South Clapham, and we had grand plans. I still had to push through lupus daily, and began taking immune modulators (anti-malarials) and steroids to help with the aches and pain.

I was a naturally gifted therapist, and 90 percent of my clients stayed clean and completed the six-month residential programme (a success rate of less than 50 percent is typical, so I realized that something I was doing was getting results). I worked in the rehabilitation unit, facilitating groups and counselling, whilst doing other work experience in a women’s therapy centre. I also completed the research component of my MSc, writing my thesis on The Process of Recovery from Drug Dependency in a Residential Rehabilitation Unit and passed with distinction. I recognized that I had a gift for therapeutic work.

Empowerment

Three years into the job and training, now married and pregnant with my first son, I encountered a new life challenge: I became very sick with hyperemesis (chronic and acute pregnancy sickness), and lupus was now causing inflammation in my brain. I was exhausted and being bullied at work by an angry colleague who considered me too inexperienced to help this client group and resented my success.

As part of my training, I was in therapy with a great Gestalt therapist, and this proved to be a lifeline. I began to face my past demons and saw how those patterns were repeating in my present work situation. I was supported to honour my being, find my voice, and step into my power. It was terrifying, going through this transition, but I could not continue with the pattern of hiding, playing small, and allowing myself to be victimized any more. It was vital, now that I had a beautiful innocent being growing inside me.

I found the courage to write up my grievance against this work colleague, which led to a long process of dispute and his suspension. He was eventually reinstated with a final warning. His return to work was challenging, but this situation and his behaviour towards me was a gift. It enabled me to get in touch with my anger, my voice, and my personal power and to set and hold acceptable boundaries and begin to heal important relationships.

Lesson no. 2

Addressing our hurts and fears brings healing rewards—find the gift in your life challenges.

The Golden Key of Personal Responsibility

I completed the loose ends of my post-MSc in Counselling Psychology and welcomed into the world the light of my life, my dear son Jackson. Nine months later, when I was thinking about beginning to see clients, a gift from God arrived, and I became pregnant with the second light of my life, Benjy. I again suffered from hyperemesis, and having one baby already to look after made the pregnancy hard. My husband would go to work and leave me and Jackson in the playpen with food supplies, nappies, and sick bowl. If I ate, I threw up. If I moved, I threw up.

After becoming dehydrated from vomiting, I was put on 30 mg of steroids by the specialist. This helped the sickness, but perhaps had a consequence: poor Benjy was born with chronic reflux, intolerant of many proteins, and screamed most of the day and night. I did my best as a mother of two with the awareness I had at the time, but it was devastating being unable to ease Benjy’s suffering and having to ply his tiny body with drugs. My unresolved health issues took hold again, and I could no longer ignore them and push on through.

I began my healing journey and connection to spirituality when Benjy was four months old. We were holidaying in Cirencester, and my husband had taken the babies off for a few hours. Knowing that I needed something to change, I found myself sitting on the bed, meditating, and repeating the statement I open myself up to the healing energies of the universe over and over again. Amazingly, two hours later, I came across a leaflet for a healer. With a mixture of curiosity and trepidation, I booked a healing session with her later that afternoon. I was physically exhausted when I saw her, my ribs and hips were hurting, and I had not been able to breathe properly for over a month due to the inflammation in the rib joints.

The first thing the healer said to me when she saw me was You know that you’re a healer? I smiled in confusion. I had been asked in rehab a few times, Are you a white witch, a healer? and had no idea what this meant. That world was alien to me. I was good at reading people, compassionate, and seemed to bring comfort through my being and words, but healers were mystical, almost Jesus-like, and I couldn’t align myself comfortably with the idea of being super-powered at that time. Of course, now I recognize that we are all super-powered!

I was surprised that the healer didn’t want to know anything about me. I was desperate to tell her about the pain in my hips and ribs, but she cupped my jaw for most of the session and then we were done. The session was relaxing, but I left with the feeling that I had not got what I needed. However, when I awoke the next morning, I was astounded to find that I could breathe and the pain in my ribs and chest had gone. I felt a pang of excitement. Maybe healing was possible after all.

In time, what I now understand to be universal guidance led me to a healer in Surrey, who I began to visit once a fortnight. I started to process my inner world in a new way, and each session finished with 20 minutes of hands-on healing. I cleaned up my diet and started to use herbs and supplements and my health started to improve, but consumed with my busy toddler and poorly baby, and still getting very little sleep each night due to his screaming, it was all I could do to focus on getting through each day.

Benjy’s health issues resulted in two solid years of worry, continuous sleepless nights, numerous hospital visits, and interventions. I had lost faith in Western medicine. I was in less pain, had cleared the underlying low-level depression and some of the lower vibrational energies through the healing work, but I was exhausted by the continuing stress, worry, and lack of sleep and was at an all-time low.

I was producing very little cortisol and no DHEA in my adrenals, no growth hormone, and my baby boy was being traumatized with drugs, needles, and tubes. After one blood test too many for my baby, I decided to put a stop to all of the invasive investigations and went into protective mother mode. I realized that if I didn’t attend to my own recovery, I would never ride a bike with my boys or see them grow old. This was scary but true. I guess that until that point I was still waiting for something outside of me to come to the rescue. I realized that our lives and health are in our own hands. Health and happiness are an inside job. So I took responsibility for my current reality and the one I wanted to create. This was life lesson number three!

Lesson no. 3

We are powerful creators of our own reality, and we benefit from taking responsibility for our own health, happiness, and healing!

Chapter 2

Let the Healing Begin

I threw myself into healing. I cut out dairy, gluten, most sugar, anything chemical or artificial, and started taking supplements and herbs. I took Benjy to see a naturopath who used muscle testing to find out which foods he could not tolerate. Remarkably, within two weeks, the screaming, arching, and diarrhoea had stopped. After a two-year marathon, finally he was able to sleep!

We can use the body’s energy system to muscle-test, with reasonable accuracy, if something weakens or strengthens us. The body’s feedback provides a response, giving us a yes or a no. We can muscle-test our compatibility with substance and for the presence or absence of beliefs in the subconscious mind.

Gradually, I substituted anti-inflammatory herbs such as turmeric and boswellia for painkillers and immune-modulating (adaptogenic) herbs such as astragalus and schissandra for steroids to aid my recovery. I also did a 12-week course of acupuncture, which helped rebalance my energy flow. I noticed the biggest shifts, however, through energy psychology and healing work, and excited by the results I was getting, began to train in these techniques. My health and vitality improved, and my body became largely free from pain and illness. I increased my client intake and set up a practice in Richmond.

My husband was understandably preoccupied with his daily work challenges as the family provider, and our marriage began to feel the strain, so we decided to move to the countryside to enjoy more space, freedom, and nature. My husband and I had both settled away from our families and were craving the security of a closer village community. In the hope of a new start we moved to Haslemere, Surrey. It was here that I began to immerse myself in energy healing and energy psychology work.

As you start working with energy flow, you recognize its wisdom and desire for expression and the way it reveals a unique pathway for healing. A brief introduction to several therapy modalities and my learning and experience with them follows. Each offers great value and possibility for healing.

The Emotional Freedom Technique

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) works by tapping on various acupuncture points related to the meridians, or energy lines, in our bodies whilst allowing emotions to be explored and expressed. I found this technique profound, particularly Matrix Re-imprinting, and went on to train in it. I started to play with emotion as energy, and it was easy to follow the expression of energy back to where it was experienced earlier in life.

The key shifts within EFT often occur through what is called a cognitive shift. Very often we perceive events through the eyes of the child we once were and make decisions or form beliefs about ourselves, the world, or others according to specific incidents in childhood. Healing comes not only from releasing the emotion but also from shifting our perception (story and beliefs) of the difficult event. With Matrix Re-imprinting, we often ask What does the inner child need? and then give the child the understanding and resolution they had needed (and not received) energetically at that time.

On Day One of my training, I nervously volunteered for a demonstration with EFT Master Karl Dawson. We worked through my lost voice and frustration with myself and my dad at the dinner table. This was my first understanding of how I had developed lupus. Lupus is a disease in which the immune system attacks the body indiscriminately, and here I was, angry with myself and my dad for not being able to communicate my frustrations or to express myself at all. In the echo of myself as that 14-year-old, I saw how lonely she was then, bullied at school, misunderstood, and helpless.

Four years later, my physical body expressed all of the internal pain and anger I was unable to express