How I came to learn about healing

In 2003, I was working as PA to the Managing Director of a luxury Caribbean tour operator. It was an extremely stressful time of my life and when I went home to see my family in South Africa, my Mom recommended that I go see a gentleman called Jan. I didn't know what I was going to see him for, nor what to expect - the funny thing is that I am generally a bit of a control freak, so for me to go along somewhere without knowing anything about it must mean that it was destiny!

Well, Jan turned out to be a healer and an extremely gifted one at that. We spoke for a while and then he explained the healing act to me and that I was going to lie on the healing table; that he would move around my body holding his hands above me and that at the end of the healing, he would touch me on my hand to tell me that he was finished. And so the healing began...

I remember the experience with crystal clarity because it was so different from anything I had ever experienced before. I recall my mind feeling completely active and awake. At one stage I could hear a baby crying somewhere in the building and felt frustrated that the noise was intruding so much on the quiet atmosphere. I also very clearly saw a dogs face that was created by mould on a painted wall (sounds strange I know but it was really beautiful).

I also distinctly remember lying there thinking "I must do this for horses. This is what I must do. I must do this for horses. I could really do this with horses." If nothing else had happened that day, the mere fact that I was repeating that in my mind (knowing nothing about what therapy it was I was experiencing mind you) inspires wonder and awe in me to this day. I feel like in that moment, my higher self and soul were completely connected and a deeper guidance that I wasn't aware of was showing me the way to my life path. In the years following that experience I have sometimes thought back on it and wondered what the significance was but now, as I am spending almost every week giving healing to horses, and loving every second of it, it seems my life has come full circle and my soul has, thankfully, found a way to keep me going on the right track. (Excuse me if I just interject a little WHOOOOHOOOO here!)

At one stage I also remember feeling what I thought was Jan touching my forehead with one of his fingers and applying pressure. It felt nice and warm but very powerful. Finally Jan came to touch my left hand and instantly I was awake. I asked him why he bothered touching my hand if I was awake anyway and his response to me was "You don't snore when you're awake do you?" I couldn't believe it and yet I couldn't dispute it either. There was no doubt that I had been fast asleep however my mind had felt awake...what a feeling! I really had been on another level! I also asked Jan why he had touched me on my forehead and he said that he never once touched my body, although he had held his hand above my brow chakra and that was what I felt. How amazing, that just the energy coming from his hand actually felt like a physical pressure. My last question to Jan was "What was that and what did you just do to me?" and he replied simply "Spiritual Healing".

Well, needless to say I was absolutely blown away by the powerful, beautiful and extremely peaceful experience I had had. The best part is that I am a bit of a skeptic too. I'm not one of those people who will discount and question everything you say just to be different or difficult but I certainly don't just accept things because they're 'nice'. I quite like to have facts and reality prove things to me and the consequences of just that one healing certainly did so.

I saw Jan once more before leaving to return to the UK. Following my first healing I had been feeling, literally, like a new person - fresh, positive and happy about life - whereas before I felt jaded, worn out and positively stressed out... and had the illness to prove it too! I asked Jan where I could find out more about this "Healing" therapy and he gave me the name of the NFSH (National Federation of Spiritual Healers) in the UK. This all happened in April 2003 and by the end of August that year, I had completed my NFSH Parts 1 and 2 of the healer training.

That was what I quite like to refer to as the start of my "spiritual path". Since that first course, my life changed dramatically. I did a yoga and meditation course and from there I began to pursue more courses about personal and spiritual development and here I am five years later with a wealth of experience under my belt (and yet I can also easily acknowledge that there is SO much more to learn and this is just the beginning).

However, the person I am today is so much more true and real and in keeping with my soul and I will be eternally grateful for the change my life took the day I met Jan.