There’s an ancient healing method in front of you right now. In fact, it’s everywhere we look. Every time we gaze upon something, we are using color therapy to harmonize our energy fields. Since we live in a quantum universe, even being near a color or thinking about it imparts its energy. When we use color in an intentional way, we can bring about healing in body-mind-soul. How do we know which colors we need? Simply notice the color(s) that you are attracted to lately. What colors have you been wearing, buying,  eating, noticing, admiring, thinking about, etc? Those are the colors you need right now. These will change over time, so be sure to re-evaluate. Use your intuition to ensure you’re selecting colors you feel genuinely attracted to rather than colors you think you should be attracted to. It’s really that simple!

Color has become an invaluable diagnostic tool with my self-healing and in facilitating healings for others. Working with a simple palette of the 7 colors of the rainbow, themes quickly emerge. I may ask a client what colors he has been drawn to lately, and they will invariably match up with information that came through during his healing session. If it wasn’t already apparent in his wardrobe, as the case often is This is another form of confirmation, and helps determine what is needed to get that person back into vibrant health. Color therapy is super easy to do once you know what color you need: simply surround yourself with that clear and vibrant color.

Here’s how this form of “vibrational medicine” works. *Put your science hat on for 3 seconds total* All matter is energy that vibrates at certain frequencies on the electromagnetic spectrum. *Remove science hat* These frequencies are ruled by natural laws, which mean their inherent symbolic meaning will be the same for everyone. Whether I associate red with love or anger doesn’t matter: I will still receive the innate properties of red when I am exposed to it. Although, I may be more open to receiving that energy if I enjoy the color, and less open if I am not a fan of the color. This ties in with color as a diagnostic tool, since we always attract that which we need/want. For example, I used to like every color but green and orange, which I thought were unattractive. These are associated with the heart and emotional centers: places I know I stored trauma. At this phase in my life, those are my favorite colors, and I know it’s because I am finally ready to achieve balance in those areas.

All animals – including humans – have 7 major energy centers in the body. These are commonly called chakras, and each one corresponds with a color, as well as certain body parts and states of being. (There are other correlations, too, like musical notes, astrological signs, planets in our solar system, soul rays, and the list goes on…) Of all the systems that give symbolic meaning to colors, I find the chakras the most accurate match. Here is my personal take on them.

Red:
Self Survival & Survival of our Lineage (tribal nature)
Security & Safety
Connection with the Earth
Relationships & Community
Sexuality*
*The 2nd chakra is often associated with sex, but my intuition follows Donna Eden’s assertion that “[sex] is basically a root chakra affair.”
Body parts associated with red/base chakra

Orange:
Imagination & Creativity
Playfulness & Innocence
Nurturing & Healing
Emotions
Faith in the Big Picture
Body parts associated with orange/sacral chakra

Yellow:
Identity/Ego
Self-Worth/Honor
Earthly Intelligence/Logic (thoughts entwined with your identity)
Will Power
Body parts associated with yellow/solar plexus chakra

Green:
Self-Love
Love & Compassion for Others
Uniting Spiritual & Physical
Body parts associated with green/heart chakra

Blue:
Communicating Truth
Listening to & Receiving Truth
Body parts associated with blue/throat chakra

Indigo:
Inner Wisdom/Intuition/Vision
Extra Sensory Abilities
Abstract Thought/Processing the Big Picture
Body parts associated with indigo/brow/third eye chakra

Violet:
Spiritual Insight
Connection to the Divine/Oneness
Prophecy
Body parts associated with violet/crown chakra

What about black and white? Black is the total absence of light and color. There is a lot of information that says black is strengthening to the base/red chakra and I agree for the most part. I will use a very deep shade of red, but pitch black feels neutral rather than enlightening to me. Still others say that black is a “negative” or “bad” color, but this thought is based in duality and is not true. White contains all colors, so it is like an energetic multi-vitamin

Since color is all around us, we have an endless amount of ways that we can incorporate color therapy into our lives. Our favorite methods are using colorful healing crystals, wearing clothes in our favorite colors, and meditating on a color. They are all very simple and often don’t require any new purchases, making this a truly free healing technique.

How do you use color therapy? Share your tips and ideas in the comments!

We’ve made a big change and we’re so excited about it! After a few months of offering healing sessions for a cost, we feel guided to evolve to a donation system. Instead of us trying to put a price on the miracles that occur, we encourage everyone to give an amount they feel good about. This allows us to facilitate more healings, and it’s very satisfying on a personal level, too.

Lauren’s Take:
There’s been a thought in my mind that has existed as far back as I can recall. Maybe you’ve had it, too. As a child, when I was told an item was “too expensive” I would often think “Well, why do people charge so much for things? Why doesn’t everyone give everything away for free? Then we’d all have everything we want or need. Isn’t that the Golden Rule?” And that is when an adult would sigh and summarily explain, “the world doesn’t work that way”. That answer has never, and will never, satisfy me. Even today, despite knowledge about “how the world works” and hearing most people swear that evolving beyond capitalism is impossible, my heart tells me otherwise.

I don’t know all the details of how our world will make the switch to a barter system (and then eventually to just true giving), but I’ve always felt that it was both possible and necessary. In fact, this decision strikes me as so funny because I frequently catch myself saying that “money is the Old Ways and will soon make way for something better”. But when? And how? It was as if I was waiting for someone else to have a genius idea and lead the way.

You know the saying “change starts with me”. This world needs to see a new way to live: one in which all of the needs of all people are met. Regardless of one’s financial situation (or the root energetic causes for lack of abundance), I want to give of myself if I am able to help a person. I don’t want something as ephemeral and symbolic and illusory as money to stop that flow of love! It’s going to take everyone working together to make this our new reality, and I feel very honored and excited to try my hand at it.

A section in Conversations with God book 2 mentions this lofty, but achievable idea:

When the chief aim and goal of your society (as it is in all truly enlightened societies) is the survival of all; the benefit, equality, of all; the providing of a good life for all, then your need for secrecy and quiet dealings and under the table maneuverings and money which can be hidden will disappear.

The secret here, the watchword here, is visibility.

Visibility is simply another word for truth.

Can you imagine what corporations would do if they had to put two figures on every price tag – the price and their cost? Would that bring prices down, or what! Would that increase competition, and boost fair trade? … not only would you know more about each other; you would know more about everything.

It seems radical in primitive societies, yes. In enlightened societies, it seems obviously appropriate.

Well said, eh? So we’re moving ahead on faith, knowing that even though we’re just 2 people, our intention and accompanying actions are creating ripples throughout all of Creation. We’re grateful for the opportunity to hop on the burgeoning no-fee bandwagon and experience first hand what miracles come from it. While there is absolutely nothing “wrong” with charging money, having money, or wanting money, we are excited to see what the next step in our economic evolution will be.

Sean touches on some other important factors in our decision, so I will turn this post over to him now.

Sean’s Take:

When I first started playing with energy healing I felt very called to helping others heal for free. It felt like a simple truth… like it was based on love… like that’s just the way it’s “supposed to be”. Then I think I started listening to my ego and it’s fear-based ideas.

Before I get too far ahead I want to explain a bit of my history before I even considered “being a healer”. I was a teenager when the Internet came to our home back in ‘96 or so and one my favorite things about computers was that a the core truth is that software is all 1’s and 0’s. It’s all in how those 1’s and 0’s are arranged that creates the software. (I didn’t realize at the time, but it’s easy for me to see now that this concept is analogous to “everything is energy” in our physical reality.) This meant to me that any software restriction or company imposed limits has a work around. In other words, the entire functionality is there, they just wont let you use it without $$. Well I learned rather quickly that we just needed a key/serial number/etc. to unlock it. Unlock it to it’s full potential, that is. (Again, this is a perfect analogy for spiritual healing.) With a little searching it was easy to find other people who felt this way and then I read about this strange thing called open source. “Open source” just means the source code (the special arrangement of 1’s and 0’s) of a particular software is made available to the public. You know, like true sharing. There has always been a little voice in me that asks “If a person really thought their software could help the world why wouldn’t they want everyone to have it, thus benefiting the entire world?”

As the years go by, I was able to teach myself (due to “cracked” software and free online tutorials) the skills necessary to use software to create anything on the Internet that I want. I was then able to use these skills in my corporate job as well as at home to make money. Soon I got to help teach my new life partner what I learned, thus empowering her as well. That’s right, I felt empowered to have these digital insights and therefore skills. We could take them anywhere. We took them straight home and stopped working for someone else and started working for ourselves. In hindsight, I feel that we finally felt empowered enough to “make it on our own” and become our own source of income. Isn’t this what a lot of people want: to be free from someone elses rules? We did.

I started working as a mobile computer technician for anyone who asked. Now when you start working for yourself in a service based position, I thought you have to decide how much you are “worth” per hour. Sounds weird when I present it that way, but pricing has always been a facet in business. My love for everyone encouraged me to charge a small price so I could be available to all. I’m going to say that again: so my skills could be available to ALL. Then I started hearing my ego again, and other people’s fear based ideas, and they all sounded like reasonable ideas! Other people were telling me to aim high, because “I had the skills” and “businesses will pay that/are used to it” and hey I’ll admit it … I still had a fear of lack of money. So I settled on a price somewhere between my love-sponsored idea and the fear-sponsored idea.

Much of the computer work was so “easy” for me that, after a few years and a couple price increases, I felt like I was “ripping people off” again. Discussing the idea of pricing with friends and online encouraged me to “remember my worth.” So I begrudgingly stuck with my hourly price, and while I was happy to get cash for my help, I was also happy to give people discounts. Or a free visit if it seemed like someone was hurting for money, which was a sly way to get around my ego’s “need to charge”.

It was about here where I discovered energy healing and what it can do, and that there are many other people doing this. Then it happened again… I felt so much joy and love for this new toy… this new gift… that I really wanted to offer it for free! So that’s what Lauren and I each said to one another… we are going to do healings for free!

Shortly after, I followed a calling and went to the Reconnective Healing workshop. It was there that I not only witnessed and participated in miracle healings, but also got to hear, in lecture format, why we should all charge for our services. They were, and still are, great ideas for reasoning out why healing practitioners should get paid money in exchange for the facilitation of a healing. These ideas were so appealing that my ego said, “See! They are doing it for money, they probably have loads of cash, are still livin’ a satisfying spiritual life, and feel good about themselves.” So I was stoked that I was feeling good about charging $$ for a healing because of all the reasons they helped us all talk about: musicians and artists get $$ to share their “gift”, Jesus practiced equal exchange and had benefactors, these healings show results, because your time is worth it, and that customers actually say “I feel like I’m getting more by going to the person who charges more than the others that do the same thing”, and plenty more legitimate Truths.

At the deepest level though, I feel that these are all based in lack mentality: the fear that there is a lack of $$ in the world, or that if I truly gave of myself by offering free services, that God/Spirit/the Universe wouldn’t take care of me. That’s actually quite silly to think of now. ::sarcasm:: Yeah, you can work hard helping heal God’s children, but you won’t get help in retrun. ::end sarcasm:: Like God has limits … sheesh!

So after a couple months of trying to get clients, and setting my price nice and high so I am perceived as reputable – but not so high as to be unreachable – and trying to advertise, and maybe come up with discounts, rebates, and special group rates, or package deals, etc… I got tired of it. We both did. It just still didn’t feel right. Here we were offering God-given miracles: healings of body, mind, and soul, but for a fee. Although $100 is a small price to pay for a miracle healing, it still felt as though we had to “convince” others why paying us $$ was necessary. Why?

I think because we weren’t in right relationship with God. The Universe said software is free, art is free, gifts from God are free, and to “do” this work takes zero resources besides yourself, so why not share it freely? Would I not want a free healing if I was in pain, and had to “save up cash” so I could get some energy healing? Heck yes I would want it for free!

That is why I like this no-fee service plan. It feels right and true… for me.
I am now putting my trust in God, and the awesome power of the Universe to take care of all my needs as I share my God-given gifts with the world. I know that simply by sharing our true joy, the Universe will supply all the right people and situations to make sure all our needs are met. I’m done relying on the man-made system and I’m now relaxing in the comfort that our Creator knows better, and has grander things in store for me than I could possibly imagine. So here I am stepping into that truth.

And so it is. Thank you all for listening and we hope our story can help shed some light onto your journey, too All individuals, organizations, and companies, are blessings to the Earth, regardless of their payment structure or lack of. This set-up feels right for us at this point in our journey. We wish you peace in whatever phase you are in with your relationship to money.

And what is money? For each of us, it is simply My Own Natural Energy Yield

Do you offer your services at no cost, in the spirit of true giving? Do you know of a company that does? Please spread the love and let us know about it in the comments.

“You don’t even know you don’t know…”

Talk about seed planting. We saw the original What the Bleep movie in theatres back in the Autumn of 2004. Everything presented was new to us and we struggled to piece things together. We walked out glad we saw it, but confused as to why it was raved about and recommended to us as such an “amazing, life changing” movie. We knew nothing at the time about quantum reality so we weren’t even sure if it was sci-fi, documentary, or parts of both! It was a fun ride, though.

Some of the seeds planted during our first viewing of the movie only started to sprout several years later. When The Secret got huge, we remembered how What the Bleep talked about “creating your own reality”. When affecting things at a distance – energy healing, Qi pushing/pulling, etc. – presented itself in our lives, we recalled something in the movie about quantum physics being able to explain those otherwise unexplainable concepts. When channeled information finally became a part of our framework for understanding the universe, we remembered JZ Knight/Ramtha’s existential contributions in the movie with interest instead of just a giggle.

When my holistic chiropractor introduced me to Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) that “releases emotion stored in the body”, the cartoon scenes of the colorful dancing blobs began to materialize in my mind’s eye (see image at right). When we learned that the true quality of water is highly dependent on it’s cellular memory – what happened to that water before it got to us – we recalled with amazement the beautiful crystal patterns of Dr. Emoto’s “loved” water shown in the movie. When “ascension into the 5th dimension” became a phrase we were hearing everywhere, I tried so hard to recall what Bleep mentioned about other dimensions. (Note: Down the Rabbit Hole includes a final cartoon that explains 5D as best as anything can right now. So helpful!)

So even though our first viewing felt like it went way over our heads – and it did – it served as a launchpad for many great future realizations. Life is like that

To continue this chain of beautiful synchronicities, in early 2008 I was at the library and saw a DVD that sounded intriguing. Dr. Joe Dispensa’s “Mastering the art of Observation“: a 60 minute presentation that proposed that “becoming a skilled observer may empower us to exercise a greater degree of mind over matter”.  I remembered Dr. Dispensa from What the Bleep as the guy who said he creates his reality every morning. I scooped that DVD up so freaking fast and we watched it that night. Production value aside (that aspect is MST3K worthy), the scientific explanation of mind over matter was amazing and it left us hungry for elaboration and practical ways to apply it. That’s when we found out that a new version of What the Bleep had been released and that it contained hours of extra footage. Score!

Questions like who am I, where did I come from, what should I be doing, why am I here, where am I going, etc. are the biggest questions we will ever have. What the Bleep Down the Rabbit Hole helped give us some insight on them. But better than that, it raised even more questions! (Cuz you know you’re on the right trail when you find more questions than answers.) I might even say that the movie helped us better form those questions and to begin to see how they are all inter-related. Nothing is random, nothing is outside the scope of anything else. Truly, All is One. You’re asked in the beginning of the movie “how much about your true nature do you really want to know”? Well, it came at a time in our lives when we were ready to throw ourselves head first down that rabbit hole, and we’re so thankful we did…

Where this movie really excelled for us is it’s accessibility. Sean’s and my mind work similarly: very logical and analytical, yet appreciating the right brain stimulation of a fun “how to”. We both latched onto the format of having quite detailed interviews being interspersed with scenes of “drama” that gave examples of how the concepts looked in real life. The visualizations it provides for concepts that otherwise felt impossible to understand were also invaluable! The colorful blobs of emotion really brought the point home about the chemical dependency we all exist in with respect to our emotional states. The Dr. Quantum in Flatland cartoon at the end was invaluable for helping us wrap our head around 5D. We know what height, width, depth, and time are like, but what will the 5th dimension look like? (Answer: we don’t know. We can’t even imagine yet, but it’s going to be amazing.)

If you haven’t seen Down the Rabbit Hole yet, you can get an affordable copy from Amazon, eBay, or Half.com. Your local library might even have a copy! Ours didn’t so we bought a new copy and are donating it after we watch it a couple more times. Gotta get the info out there…