Crazy Business

In the course of a psychic expo, all sorts of people come for consultations. Some stand out.

The Client
One young woman seemed very fragile, emotionally brittle. In a consultation she asked about two men. It was apparant she was trying to decide which man to be with. One was her husband who wanted a divorce. The other a new lover. Her husband's business was bankrupt so in order to get money she'd begun selling hard drugs, meth, cocaine, ecstasy, and pills of all kinds. When he told her he was done with the marriage and was leaving, she attempted suicide by putting the drugs in a blender with some liquid and drinking it. She was rescued somehow, but did not tell me how... that was not the direction of the reading with her.

Help Without Rescuing
She needed help. Counseling. Housing. Stability. The real issue wasn't which man to be with. It was her need for being taken care of. The new man was a user of people and drugs, so that offered no stability. Counseling, welfare program, YMCA housing or something similar was her REAL need. So that is the direction we took.

The Challenge
So often people at a crisis point of their lives cannot think through to a clear path for themselves. They rush headlong into the arms of more chaos thinking it will rescue them. After getting upset with one of my responses to her she was going to leave but I engaged her further in conversation. At this point she was crying continually. She was very vulnerable and I simply wanted to be present for her. Someone willing to totally listen to her was more important than anything else. Full focused attention of really hearing her and being present for her let her experience her own self worth. Each of us is god within expressing and experiencing.

The Outcome
By the time she left she was calmer and understood that in spite of her nightmare, she was a worthy person with talents that could bring her stability. Her vulnerability could be used in her massage work to be so in touch with her clients it would alomost seem like magic that she would feel exactly where their bodies needed massage most. Her vulnerability could be seen as a gift, not a curse.

"E-motion"
All emotion is simply energy-in-motion. It can be focused and applied to healing, loving, joy, clarity, abundance or any of a hundred positive outcomes. It does not have to be turned inward upon the person in a self destructive way.

The gift to herself
She left uplifted, seeing she had worth, possibilities, direction, options. That is the work we do. We are not here to save people or to fix them. They are not broken. I repeat. They are not broken. We must see each of them as a creator. They have created a reality that brings them to their present state. They can change that direction, because, deep within, they are still that creator... the god impulse within.

This is a crazy business, but I can't imagine doing any other kind of work.