The other day I was at a paranormal fair. It was fascinating and what a lot of people attend. It was crowded, but fun. I was with my father-in-law. He does finger reflexology. And one of his teachers was standing there with a stall, and he wanted to support her for a while. I said, "I want to come along.
Reading
I wanted to go there because it had been years since I had been there. It was completely full of booths and dings. I bought some incense and some big stones. Super cool. Also Chakra candles, which I can light while meditating. All in all, it was a fun day. I did all kinds of things. I thought I'd also do a reading with someone. That's usually tricky, though. See, the "best" ones are always taken right away. Then you have to draw numbers and stand in line. So I thought, well, I'll go to Gerard Heutink. That's a well-known psychic. I drew number 60, and number 55 was up. I went a few laps, and then number 55 was still on. At one point it was number 56's turn, and then I thought, I'll go get a reading from someone else.
So I went to an Indian, and he first looked at my date of birth. Then he started reading my hand, and then he did another kind of spiritual healing. It was good. Whatever you think of it ... I also find some things. First I had an aura photo taken, the man went to explain that, then I thought, With all due respect, that doesn't make any sense. But anyway, there are a few things that I thought, okay say more about that. You have to imagine: I'm also in a field of influence, of hypnosis, mentalism. I know people who are very good mentalists. They can guess you, really, the tears go down your cheeks. They know everything about you. And that's a trick. I also know tricks like that, like deciphering someone's PIN number, all that kind of stuff. You have no idea how that works - I'm not going to explain that now either - but I do know how that works. So with that knowledge you're listening differently anyway. Then I think Oh my god, that's not quite true. But okay, fine.
Spirituality
But this guy, yeah that was something though.... You have to look at it this way - I started in spirituality. That sounds a little crazy but if we talk about the spiritual body, emotional body, mental body and physical body. Then I actually started in the spiritual body, then emotional - mental body, then physical: crossfit, eating, sleeping - and now I went all the way back to "the beginning. It's all related, one is not separate from the other, of course. But yesterday I did notice 'Oh, man I did miss this'. I am already quite clairsentient, but usually I don't work with that so much. Now it was really suddenly opened up.
This interesting man said all sorts of interesting things. Of course, you have a lot of chaff in the wheat. But he was "pure" and top notch! The thing is, as a recipient, you obviously have to open yourself up. It is actually the same with hypnosis. We always say: you have a transmitter and a receiver. That transmitter can be hearty. Imagine: I am a radio transmitter, and I am sending a signal. If you are not on the right frequency, you will not receive that signal. Then I can send whatever I want, but you won't receive anything at all. So we have to kind of connect somewhere first for anything to happen. That happened with that man and that was top notch.
So I had undergone that healing and I was still thinking as I walked away, Yes this is what I used to undergo - 20 years back - really quite often and also performed. What I was doing a lot. I never really do that anymore. Then I thought: Oh yes, that's fascinating that I was thrown back into that. I do have completely different baggage, but that makes sense. I am a bit older, I have experienced all kinds of things. That's fine. I thought: shall I go back to the first guy to go deeper? But then, of course, number 60 had already passed. Of course. Because apparently it was no longer necessary, I had already heard from the other man.
You're naturally curious about what I heard from the man, aren't you? I don't have to tell you everything, but basically it came down to this: - And he did have a point there - that I worry about things quite often. Consciously and unconsciously, I do worry quite a bit. That also makes me kind of tired. He was talking about that, and I thought, Yes, the man has a point. And he said, "There is nothing at all to worry about." Then I thought, Yes, he has a point there, too. I suspect it's still an old habit . That might also be interesting for you - at least for me it was interesting - that sometimes you are still doing things when it is not necessary anymore at all.
Where does your problem come from?
For example: I worry about certain things, often unconsciously... Where does that come from? When I just started my business, for example, it was really stressful. I wasn't actually making ends meet, and with that I was still going to work a little bit and get paid "so". Then I would go and help cut trees, or work in the garden. I did anything I could get my hands on. For maybe €100 a day or €150 a day. Working all day from early in the morning until sometimes really late in the afternoon or early evening. I thought that was great at the time, then I had some money again. That was hard work but I am fine with hard work, I have no problem with that. But anyway, that was really struggling and then clients in your business as well.... Suddenly I got that realization. - The man said, But it's all going well now, isn't it? What are you worried about? I thought, Yeah, what am I really worried about? That was an interesting realization.
Now you may be thinking, "Couldn't you have figured that out sooner? Yes of course, but sometimes you just need people - me included - to say the obvious. They just say 'Hello, didn't you see this sign? Which is right in front of you muzzle, which says STOP'. Uhhh, no. I had just missed that one. Something like that, so to speak. And that was very funny. So after that he did another treatment and I felt all the tension go away. Mainly in my shoulders. It made me completely nauseous, I thought: man stop. But this is it huh, all this tension that really doesn't have to be there at all. But it's all unconscious control, and then you look around in your life and you think: it's really not necessary at all. Anyway, that's what you have when you have experienced a traumatic event, for example. Maybe you recognize it, you've experienced something, maybe years ago. An intense relationship, for example, with your friends, with your parents or with your children. That you experienced something very intense. Life has already moved on. For example, your children are doing well. So then you don't think about it: Gee, do I still have to deal with that? Because you look around and everything is fine. Why should I have to process it?
Complaints caused by unconscious problems
But subconsciously, there is still something: Yes, well, things are going well, but....Something. And that can cause all kinds of symptoms. With me, this was a fear. A deep fear that it could all just be over, that it could all go wrong. While I know, really know it too, it doesn't make sense. Because imagine, everything goes wrong. Yes fascinating. Then I'm going to do something else. I know that. That's rational lol. I know that consciously, I look around me: it's fine. But subconsciously, pfoe. And that man who poked at that, who looked right through that. He said: that's it. He also saw it in my hand. And I think: that man has a point.
Yes, and the great thing - in my case - is that I know all those techniques and can therefore do something with them. The man was treating me. I thought: nice, I should do this more often, this kind of thing. Spiritual guidance. I have a very good personal trainer, physically. On an emotional/mental level, I can do most of it myself. But anyway, you always have blind spots. I actually need a spiritual leader. A mentor or coach. So that's what I'm looking for now, well looking, it comes naturally. Because I think yes: those sides may be balanced, of course. That was maybe the biggest realization of yesterday, and yet something deep resolved. So that was actually pretty cool from such a fellowship, which I didn't necessarily expect. But yes, you get what you get and not necessarily what you expect. And sometimes that matches, but sometimes you get things you don't expect. But then in retrospect, that's often the best part.
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