This is a simple five-step method for clearing emotional distress.

1. Get some rest. If you haven’t slept recently, lay down and rest for a few minutes. Give yourself a break.

2. Relax. Rest until your muscles start relaxing. Relax them intentionally if need be, by sending the command, “relax” to your various muscle groups starting with your feet and moving up to arms, shoulders, and head.

3. Breathe. A simple 4/8 breathing pattern will do the job. Breathe in through your nose to the count of four, and then purse your lips and breathe slowly out through your mouth to the count of eight. Do this at least five to ten times in your relaxed condition.

4. Rejoice. Breathing leads naturally to rejoicing because you are alive, and the breathing reminds you of that. You are a point of consciousness using a physical body to navigate through an evolving moment of time. Forget all your sorrows as you rejoice in being here now. Center yourself in this awareness of who you really are, and you will be able to make more appropriate decisions about how to feel and react in the situations you’re enduring.

Be grounded, knowing that your physical body is part of Mother Earth, and your consciousness is a gift of Father Spirit, implanted in the part of earth you occupy. You are here for a purpose, alive on earth, and in this, you have the reason to rejoice. You know who you are, and you are equal to and independent of all others, though through Father Spirit and Mother Earth we are all related.

5. Be clear of all emotional struggles. If something doesn’t feel good - it is a struggle. Don’t be afraid to eliminate cording between you and anyone else involved. If a relationship is good enough to keep, it will naturally build new cords of love as time passes. Don’t be afraid to start over with the people you love and are attached to.

To eliminate all old cords, many recommend cutting them mentally, however I prefer to dissolve them. The reason I do this is that cutting cords leaves traces of them wrapped around your emotional body. Instead, visualize the cords dissolving naturally, dissipating into nothingness, and be sure the dissolving reaches to the ends of any cording wrapped around you. In this way you free yourself from all attachments and come back into your own power. You become your own leader and your higher self, aware of its reality and conscious presence on this earth, guides you to appropriate decisions and harmonious emotions.

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This came to me in a flash of inspiration and I wrote it down. As soon as I had a need for it - I tried it - and it worked for me. I hope you’ll find it helpful should you be dealing with depression or other difficult emotional conditions.

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If emotional distress continues, have a look at a few of my other sites: EFT Joy and EFT - Emotional Freedom Techniques. EFT has been very beneficial to me and I recommend it for everyone. If I were ever to actually set up a healing practice, I’d be using EFT and dowsing along with my other energy healing techniques.

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Submitted to The Carnival of Healing #92

I was reading a Reiki manual a few weeks ago and came across an exercise for creating energy spheres. Basically what we can do is turn on the Reiki, then slowly bring our palms together until we feel some resistance, then form the energy mass into a sphere.

Of course I had to try it, and sure enough, soon I had a sphere of energy about six inches in diameter. I played with it for a while, then decided to direct it into my heart chakra.

I could feel it going in, and then a moment later, realized I was feeling a most profound sensation of love and peace. The Reiki energy sphere had an amazing effect on that chakra, to the extent that I’ll never again feel that Reiki is anything but effective. I know it works, and works well, because of this amazing and unexpected experience I had.

After that I developed a new Reiki exercise routine for chakra balancing and healing. It is simply this - to create an energy sphere and send it into each chakra in turn, to heal and enhance the proper functioning of each chakra.

Today I gave Reiki to a friend whose shoulder was dislocated last winter as it is still causing him pain. While I was doing it I felt my hands tingling and before long, a great sphere of energy surrounded both my hands and his shoulder. I continued the Reiki, sensing deep inside his shoulder for the source of pain, knowing the Reiki (universal life energy, also known as chi) would go where it was needed. We will repeat the Reiki daily for a while as this condition is severe and not likely to go away immediately.

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Submitted to the Carnival of Healing #91, held at Wisdom of Healing.