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Denise: My name is Denise VanVliet, I am a lot of things, I am a sign language interpreter,
so I'm a communicator, I'm a Licensed Massage Therapist and my specialty modality is craniosacral
therapy and energy healing. I was asked to do what I use dowsing for. I've been using
dowsing, a device or what ever you have. I happen to use a necklas, that's what I like
to us, and have been dowsing for about 10 years. I met Atala who invited me to come
to your meetings. So thank you for having me at the Dowsers Midwest Association. Hopefully
I said that right. I'm going to be using Lee in my demonstration.
But I just kinda want to get an idea of who's here. How many Reiki practitioners are here.
Male voice from audience: Trained but not practicing.
Denise: How many people don't know about the chakra system? Okay, just a couple of people
don't know about the Chakra's. I basically use what ever is handy. I like to have something
that is very much available. So to me this will get less looks than if I just pull out
a pendulum. Some people don't care. You can adjust the lenght. With doing energy work,
the lenght doesn't matter. I know with doing some polarity work there is a certain length
you want to have. With testing the energy centers of the body it does not matter because
I'm using this as a tool to see the intensity and the amplitude and the direction the chakra
center. Part of the work I do is I work with women that have experienced *** assault
or domestic violence and I also work with those that experience specifically bipolar
disorder and I do work with other mental illnessess but it seems I'm being drawn to those with
this specific mental disorder. This is a wonderful tool. One of the first things I'll do before
I see a client is kind of clear myself. I will ask my guides to come in and clear me,
ground me. Becuase I don't want my baggage coming into the healing where I'm working
on someone. How many do that? Good! It only takes a few seconds. What I do is set out
my intention. And intention is a very powerful thing. To just clear me, balance me, ground
me. And when it's done it's going in a strong clockwise direction.So that I know I'm ready
to move forward with the healing work that I have in front of me. If we bring our energy
with to the healing work. There is no healing that will be happening. It's like 2 negative
magnets trying to come together. Or it's counter-transferance. I could be transferring my energy to the person
I'm working with or I could be picking up their energy. So I want to make sure I'm clear
and balanced. So we're going to have our guine pig...Lee
has volunteered to be my guine pig. What I like to do is have the head pointed in a some
what north direction. So if you could have your head up this way. I kinda sorta checked
the table. Make sure the table stays fairly grounded. Are you comfortable? So really quick
for those that don't know about the Chakra system. There are 7 major chakras in the body.
There are chakras all over the body. Many of us dowsers know abou the ones in the hand,
the Jesus points some will call them. But within the spinal colum, there are 7 major
chakras. The frist one is the root chakra. It's right at the base of the tail bone and
Eastern Religions will call it the Kundelini. And Kundelini means wound up coiled snake.
So when that energy begins to open up and release it starts to move up the spine. So
checking that first chakra, this is our grounding. This is what connects up down to the earth.
The second chakra, its color is orange. The first chakra its color is generally red. The
second chakra its color is orange. This is our creative center. This is also the energy
we are all created from. It's our *** center. When working with women that have experience
*** assault for domestic violence, there may be a lot of suppressed energy here within
this second chakra. Because of the suppressed stagnant energy, it could manifest as ***
organ issues. So keep that in mind, you want to make sure the energy is moving and doesn't
become stagnant so that it doesn't manifest in the physical in some way. The 3rd chakra
is the solar plexus. This is our will power. This is where we give our will power away.
This is alow the area where other people can connect into us, we call those energy cords.
Where others can kind of dump into us. Have you every been around someone, even just for
a few minutes, and you leave and you're completely exhausted. Many of us have experienced that.
I like to call them energy vampires. They suck you dry, literally. They're sucking your
energy away. But we have full power. When we do that, we always give permission in some
way for them to come in and take our energy. So when I'm doing energy work, I'll cut off
any cords that maybe attached here. And remind the person that they are in full control with
who they allow in, always.You have a question? Question: Is that connected with the adrenials?
Denise: Yes, the kidneys and the adrenials, yes, thank you for that.
Question: With the thought, for example, what ever you want to say no one has permission
to enter me. THen no body can get in. Denise: Yes, we do have communication. I could
be internally communicating with the subconscious. Words are very important. We want to express
ourselves in a way that is positive. The subconscious doesn't hear, don't think of a pink elephant.
The first thing you're going to think of is a pink elephant. So just allow yourself to
be protected. I allow myself to be protected. That's it and ground yourself.
The color here is yellow. I always encourage people to wear their chakra colors. You don't
have to wear them outside, you can have a pretty yellow bra on or different colors.
It's the vibration of the color that will help the energy centers.
The next energy center is the heart. It's color is green and sometimes pink. It's interesting
to me because we have 3 major energy centers that connect to the earth and then these 3
major energy centers connect to Source. The heart is right in the middle. If you'd like
to do some research on the heart center, there is an organization is called Heart Math and
their website is heartmath.org and they have some great tools on there that you can use
to really connect with the heart center. They've actually measured how far off the energy comes
off the heart center about 8-10 feet and then they admitted that their device only measures
8-10 feet so that should leave a lot to our intuition and intention with the heart center.
For those that do communication with animals. Animals respond to our chakra system. If we
are in fear in solar plexus, they smell it. So if you're dealing with an animal that might
be aggressive, from your heart center, send pink energy and imagine that pink energy surrounding
that animal. It's naturally calming to them. Play with it. See if that works for you. If
you ever come across working with animals and I do work with animals and have animals.
Those of you that do energy or Reiki work with animals. Something to think about. But
again, the heart center is basically the middle of everything. It's the sandwich. It's between
earthing and Source. The next energy center is the Throat. It's our communcation center.
Its color is blue. And if we're not speaking our truth, this energy will tend to slow down
or close up. And many of us may have experienced maybe growing up, children should be seen
and not heard. Those kinds of things. Where you really didn't learn how to express your
basic needs, and it does take practice and maybe thought and you actually start teaching
yourself to speak your truth. I had thyroid issues, I was diagnosed with hashimoto, this
is just a quick personal story, one of the things that happened to me, I had a very abusive
grandmother, and she had died and all of these memories and emotions started coming up and
they stopped right here (throat area) and they were stuck here for quite a long time.
I actually didn't know about this energy stuff. But I ended up manifesting Hashimoto Disease,
which is a thyroid disease, an autoimmune disease where the body starts to attack the
thyroid. After she died, I sat down and I'm going to just speak my truth, I wrote a ten
page letter, front and back, just wrote everything out. Left it there. I went to her funeral,
and stuck it in her casket. --Laughter
Denise: Well, my father didn't know until last year. He didn't appreciate that. But
it helped this energy to move. So in the last three years I no longer have Hashimoto. So
it take time to make that energy shift. It took time to create it, to block it. It's
going to take time to really consciously and with intention keep that
energy moving. Question: You don't have to answer but I'm
curious from a personal way, why would a grandmother can be like that.
Denise: Well you know I try not to look at it from that perspective. Why would she do
that to me. I look at it from this was my experience, okay. She may have been taught
that herself. It may have happened to her and that's the only way she knew how to treat
children or how to treat her family. I don't know. I just look at, okay, that was my experience,
what can I take from that. Because we might look at the whole experience as something
negative that that happened TO ME. But I was there, and there is a gift in it, and I found
the gift. So I would rather take that gift and bring it on rather than dwell on why would
she be that way. Because then when I take my energy and ask why would she be that way?
and why would she do this to me? I am now the victum. If I just take myself within that
experience and say where is the gift in this? And take that gift with me, I am not a victum.
Does that make sence? Audience: yes,
Denise: But energetically it keeps my energy moving within me and as soon as I take my
thoughts outside and why would somebody do that to me, I am no longer balanced.
Audience: I have to think that she was a perfectionist, and she had rage that she was never able to
deal with. Denise: She's gone. She's gone onto other
things, which is fine. Audience: She love you but no how to express
that. Denise: Yes, well thank you for that.
Audience: She was very strong determine, it was not because of you.
Denise: Well I'm beyond that. --laughter
Audience: That's great because that is a gift like you say.
Denise: Yes, and I learned what not to do to my children. That's a gift right there.
I chose to break the cycle. And that's a choice each one of us can make because I know many
might not admit it but we all experienced something in our live's that we would rather
just push away, and push down and suppress. Audience: Exactly
Denise: Well that suppressed energy is, something is happening to that energy, it requires a
lot of energy to or subconscious energy to keep, I like to call them beach balls. To
keep those beach balls under water, and water representing the subconscious, so that beach
ball under water and suppressing it, rather than just letting it come up and freeing up
that energy. But anyway, back to the Chakra system, thank you for that. The next one...how
you doing Lee? You falling asleep? --laughter
Audience: just needs an apple in his mouth. Denise: the next one is the third eye, it's
also the pineal gland. A little information about the pineale gland, it's actually shaped
like the eye and has the same type of fluid as our eyes and it has, and I can't remember,
our regular eyes have cones and rods, the third eye has one of them. I believe it's
just rods. I'd have to research that, but it has just one of them. So that's our internal
eye and our internal eye is our intuition and our dreams. It's color is indego, some
people will see it as purple, purple light. So we're just going to give him a moment.