Author: Melissa Thompson Energy Healer

The Power of Choice

Melissa Thompson Energy Healer

I have realized through my own inner work that choices are an incredibly powerful part of our lives. Do we chose to live as if we have no choices, or do we embrace the beauty of conscious choice throughout our daily lives. One way of thinking will hold us back and the other will make the journey that is our life significantly more beautiful and fulfilling.

My early life was full of physical pain and trauma, and emotional pain. Throughout my early years, right through most of my 40s, I lived my life as though nothing that happened in my life was a choice. I powered through every day with a ferocious drive to survive. This drive was actually fueled by fear. I lived in fear of what COULD happen. This fear kept me from living in the present and embracing my true power. This power is the power of choice.

We have choices about how we react to situations and people, whether we feel gratitude or not, what we purchase, how we nourish our bodies, who we spend time with, what we read or watch and how we care for ourselves. Everything about our lives has happened based on our choices. Once we see that and allow ourselves to make self-empowering, conscious choices, the lives we live can change significantly.

I chose to see every day, every moment of my life, as a gift for which I am very grateful. Even situations that may seem negative or feel bad in some way are gifts. These situations have all taught me lessons. The lessons may feel painful, but I am always grateful for what they have shown me. Every time we chose to feel gratitude instead of fear something shifts. We are embracing our power of choice.

These choices are ours to make, and ours alone. Believe in your inner power of choice and begin your transformation today.

Self-Love

Melissa Thompson Energy Healer

Self-Love is THE most important love you can feel or experience. Without it, no other true love is possible. Yet self-love seems to be so elusive for a large portion of our population.

We live in a world that seems to value acting like you love yourself. This is expressed in many ways, most prevalently with selfies on social media. Do you love yourself if you love a photo of yourself? Only if you look at the photo and see yourself as whole and perfect, no matter what your hair or your clothes look like. Loving yourself in any given moment is very different than loving yourself in EVERY moment.

There are many issues from our past that can contribute to our lack of self-love. Some are quite deeply rooted. The good news is that anyone can get there. It just requires diligence, determination, an open heart and some healing work.

With healing work, we can begin to peel away the layers of self-loathing and get to self-love. This is a journey, not a destination. You will continually learn about yourself and why you react the way you do to situations and people. As my friend Sue says, it’s like peeling an onion. One layer at a time. Start your journey by contacting me for your first appointment.

The Universe…

Melissa Thompson Energy Healer

“The universe is constantly conspiring on your behalf.” – Eleanora Amendolara

This is something my teacher, Eleanora Amendolara, has said to our class too many times to count. But, what does it mean?

Does it mean only good things are going to happen? Beneficial things? Things that we want? That all depends of what is best for us according to the universe. I realize this is REALLY vague, but hang in there.

Have you ever had a really bad experience that resulted in a positive outcome further down the road? A divorce that, while incredibly painful and disruptive, gets you out of a marriage that you didn’t realize was unhealthy? You forgot something at the store and had to run all the way back which lead you to run into someone you had not seen in years?

The point is, not all bad things are as “bad” as they may seem at first glance. We may never know what we are meant to do in this lifetime. However, the universe is gently leading us in the right direction. What we do with the direction or information is up to us.

Try to look at every situation in a positive way. A gift from the universe. Each and every day represents another chance to move forward on our path. Be grateful for every day.

Sit Quietly and Connect

Melissa Thompson Energy Healer

Can you sit quietly without being connected to a device?

In today’s crazy, hectic world we are constantly “connected”, but to what? Our cell phones? The TV? Laptop? If we do sit still we are on some sort of device. We are certainly not quiet. Our brains are going a mile a minute.

For me, sitting quietly was almost impossible. There was always something I needed to do. Didn’t the bathroom need to be cleaned, clothes folded, lists made? The last thing my mind wanted was quiet. The quiet was scary. Distraction was much easier. Thankfully there were no cell phones back then or it would have been far worse.

All of this connection to things other than our spirit causes our body and mind stress. Learning to sit quietly, with nothing in your hands, can be transformational. Connecting to your core or center, or your favorite place, in your mind relaxes the nervous system and gives your body some time to heal.

Give it a try. Put your phone, tablet or laptop in the other room. Find a comfortable spot in a comfortable chair, or outside in the fresh air, and just sit and breathe. Your mind will wander. This is normal. It sometimes helps to just focus on breathing in and out. Picture your favorite place and go there in your mind. Breathe in the fresh mountain air or the ocean air… If you can manage to do this for just 5 minutes every day, it will make a difference.

Thanks to my energy healing sessions, I can now sit quietly. No more hopping up to run in the other room and get something done. I just sit quietly and breathe. I do this twice a day for a few minutes and it completely relaxes and calms my mind. It helps me bring my focus back to my body.

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”  – Eleanor Roosevelt

Melissa Thompson Energy Healer

One of my absolute favorite quotes. I would like to take it even further. No one can make you feel anything without your consent.

We learn behaviors at a very early age that affect us throughout our lives. As an energy healer, I work with my clients to undo these behaviors or reactions. One of the most damaging is our certainty that other people’s opinions about us are facts. In reality, nothing could be farther from the truth.

We chose what to believe about ourselves. This gives us power over our own lives. Are we beautiful? Are we smart? Useless? Not meant to be successful? The list is endless. I chose to believe that I am a beautiful person and I can do whatever I want to do in this lifetime. If you make the choice to believe good and positive things about yourself, your life will change.

There is an old saying, “Never assume. It makes an ass out of you and me.”, which illustrates this point even further. We assume what people are thinking about us based on small things like the way a person looks at us or what we perceive as a disgusted look on their face. These are all assumptions NOT based on facts. These assumptions are based on our past experiences and must not be allowed to affect our current lives.

The next time you hear that little voice in your head say something like, “she doesn’t like me because she looked at me funny”, ignore it. Not only does it not matter whether people like you or not, but you must never give that kind of power over your life to another human being.

Energy healing can help you remove these life-force blocking habits one layer at a time.