Introduction
I used to have Fibromyalgia-( Chronic pain with 10+ areas of trigger points/pain throughout the body”) I love to say that - used to. There was a time when I didn’t think I could. It was a long ,journey - sometimes hard, sometimes wonderful.  What I will share with you is my best healing techniques that took me 30 years of trial and error.  -Top Secret Health Techniques - secrets only because I had to discover them for myself. Everyone’s Quest is individual and so not all of these steps may apply to you, but your heart will know.  I’m hoping I can give you some of my hard earned nuggets/secrets so it won’t take you quite as long.  In my search for answers for my health problems, and my clients, I was able to study with some of the best teachers of holistic health practices that were current in the 80’s 90’s and 2000’s. In my quest to heal my pain, I was following a Path with Heart - an idea from Carlos Casteneda- that struck to me and wouldn’t let go - akin to reading the worlds of Robert Frost - “ Two roads diverged into a wood ..and I, I took the one less traveled by.”  The moment I read them in 7th grade, I knew he was speaking to me. When I discovered the idea of a Path with Heart in 1968, the Path became clearer - find the path that resonates with my heart, one with good intentions, honest and kind - and keep knocking with faith until the doors open. It also turned out to be the Road Less Traveled.

In Gratitude
I would especially like to thank my daughters, without whom life would never as been as miraculous or fun. They helped me become a better person and kept me on my toes. I couldn’t believe that by the age of 10 they were able to outrun me - as they have in many areas. They have far exceeded my expectations as wonder-women.

Special thanks to Rich Phaigh, without whom I wouldn’t be able to run or dance around the world as I have been these past 30 years! OMG!!! can it be that long ago?

Thanks also to my wonderful family, blood relatives and soul relatives. Thank you Dad and Mom for believing in me and in the Healing Arts.

Thank you, Nana for being such an inspiration in my life!

And …. Expect a Miracle!

INTENTION + VIBRATION = MANIFESTATION

HEALTH   QUEST

INTENTION + VIBRATION = MANIFESTATION

  I +V = M

      The equation came to me one day while talking with a friend, Alex, in New York. It’s kind of the emotional equation of E=MC2. It seemed to answer why focusing on something could be helpful or harmful. One’s Intention may be for the good, but the Vibration/emotion may be something other. My Tai Chi teacher, Daniel Wang often says “You are your own Healer,”  and with clear intent and positive vibration, that can come true. For many of us, good health is not just a given. Some have genetic and family issues that turn good health into a Quest. Some of us have good health and lose it due to illness or accidents; to find good health again becomes a Quest - for some a lifelong quest - or is that true for all of us?
	The other quote that comes to mind is “Worry is like praying for negative results.” Rather than worry about possible bad things, I pray and visualize positive outcomes for me and all my loved ones. “There are only 2 forces Love and Fear.” When I am in the fearful/worry mode, I switch to visualization, prayer and mantras. 

YOU ARE YOU OWN HEALER

1.  DREAM QUEST  

 I came back from a training in with Rich Phaigh on the island of Molokai, Hawaii. I was energized about what I had learned and how beneficial it had been for me after years of pain and struggle - grateful that I was still alive. I worked with an excellent chiropractor and was getting great results, but there was no room for a massage school in his office. I held classes in a basement of another building and looked for a home for my school.

I wanted to create a 500 hour school rather than the typical 100 hour programs available in Idaho. I started looking for space for a school and found a beautiful office, then the deal fell through. This happened 4 more times and I began to doubt myself. I had a friend that was a counselor and taught the self awareness class that I thought essential for healers. She told me about a Maori tradition of praying for guidance just  before bedtime. Drink half a glass of water before sleep, then drink the rest in the morning in order to remember the dream. I asked my angels and guides for help finding a home for the school. I drank half the glass of water before bed and the other half in the morning when I awoke. The dream was very vivid and distinct, and was in 4 stages:
1. One of my first students, Caroline, was leading a group of students doing a dance that I had taught them. They were in front of a brick building that looked like a “real” school building 
2. One of my students was doing the Star Energy Exercise in the upstairs of this school building
3. There was a huge earthquake - the ground was opening in front of me and there were tall Blue Buildings  behind the circle and the fountain. The Blue Buildings shattered and crumbled to the ground.  A construction foreman reached down his hand and helped me over the abyss and took me to a safe landing in front of a street sign that said Santa Clara.
4. I see myself  packing my clothes/bags carefully into the back of a sports car. Then I get in the front- in the passenger seat - I don’t see who’s driving - Im happily getting into the passenger seat of a convertible that resembled an older corvette,  “ a cherried out sports car.”

The next day I was in one of my favorite coffee shops in downtown Boise and saw  Caroline -the student that was in my dream! I hadn’t seen Caroline for over a year and there she was! We spoke briefly and as we finished I looked out the window and saw a building- A beautiful brick building! - one that I had strangely never noticed before! I was shocked! I walked across the street and met the owner of the building. It was a financial office and the owner had just rented it to a woman who wanted to use it for furniture sales. I offered to write a check to make a down payment in the event her contract was cancelled because it felt like the right place! It FELT like a real school - like in my dream.The proposed tenant got engaged, cancelled her contract for the building and I moved in three months later in December! December 12 1992 or 12/12/1992 was the open house. 

Coincidences / Synchronicities are like little breadcrumbs through the forest of our lives, showing us we are on our Path. The next part - finding the Star Energy Exercise did not occur for another 12 years.  Part 3-The Blue Buildings crumbling- took another 20 years to be revealed. When the twin towers fell in 2001, on 911, I was amazed that I had seen them falling in my dream 10 years before it actually happened. When I moved to NYC in 2003 and saw the Trump Towers I wondered if those were the buildings in my dream, rather than the twin towers.  When the sun is out, the Trump Towers reflect the sky and look completely blue. Just before COVID, my dream came back to me, and I was overwhelmed with a feeling that something bad was about to happen. I flew to visit both my daughters and told them I thought we needed to make a disaster plan because I had a feeling something was coming. They both laughed and said -“We’ll go to Victoria Island.” When I got to the Seattle airport to fly home, I saw an Asian woman with a mask on and again, my warning bells went off. I got quite sick when I got home to Los Angeles in February of 2020. By the end of the next month, our disaster plans had to be updated, since our main plan had been to go to Canada, and Americans were not allowed.

Part 4 of the dream quest showed me in a convertible sports car. Once of my favorite TV shows was and still is” Route 66”. Since the dream quest showed me being set down in Santa Clara, I drove there from Idaho to see if I could find anything that resembled my dream. I did not. It then occurred to me that in the dream it was a street sign not a sign indicating the name of the town. I left Idaho to go work in New York. Just before leaving, I saw a cherried out corvette, but did not get to ride in it… 15 years later I moved to Venice, California, where I did drive to the end of Route 66, with many adventures in between. Still waiting for a ride….:) And who would be in the driver’s seat, since I was on the passenger side?? Can’t wait to find out! Possibly one of my Angel guides..	

 2. Star Energy Exercise

	
My Bachelor’s degree in philosophy included studies in both Western and Eastern traditions.  Eastern philosophy and Eastern medicine are based on the balance of  yin and yang - opposite forces that create the universe.  Health in Eastern medicine is seen as the balance of theses forces and the free flow of energy through the meridians and chakras. Blockages of the meridians or chakras cause imbalance and dis-ease or disease. One of the ways to balance the chakras and meridians is with  meditation, along with herbs, acupuncture, & acupressure. Western medicine sees the body as a series of systems: cardiac, skeletal, vascular, nervous systems, etc, focusing on the physical. Eastern medicine focuses on the energy of these systems. The chakra centers are closely aligned with the main nerve centers and main systems of the body. The Meridians tend to follow the vascular  and peripheral nervous systems.
The aura, chakras, meridians and layers of the bodies electrical fields can be seen on the opposite page.

The Star Energy Exercise was in book of meditations that I lost in 1973 and I could not find another copy. That was in the old days - before the internet and I could  not just google it.  A friend gave me the book for my 25th birthday. A few days later I put my 3 year old daughter to bed- after she did her laps around the fireplace. I went outside in the cool mountain air to look at the stars. I stood in the star position, and began to meditate - visualizing myself as the conduit between Earth and Sky and feeling the Energy from both coming into my aura. As I was meditating I heard the voice of Grace -one of my favorite patients, “ See I can still do something nice for someone.” Those were the last words she had spoken to me after I fed her lunch one day. Grace had offered me her pudding - butterscotch. I didn’t really want the orange goo, but I couldn’t refuse her gift, so I thanked her and ate as much as I could.  That was last time I saw her.This night under the stars, I knew that after she died, she had made sure that I received the book with the Star Energy Exercise.  As I was doing the exercise I heard her say the words again -“ See I can still do something nice for someone,” from beyond the grave. I lost the book soon after and it seemed like a miracle when I finally found the Star Energy Exercise again.

 	The Star Energy Exercise can be done standing, sitting or lying down.  It is often the last thing I do at night and the first in the morning. The Star position is similar to Leonardo DaVinci’s Vetruvian Man - legs shoulder width apart, arms extended to the sides. The left palm faces upward - the “receiving” position, and the right palm faces downward.  As I start the meditation I say a little prayer/ affirmation - “I ask that only my highest spiritual guides and angels be with me to guide , direct and protect me on my path to spiritual enlightenment , wisdom and power. I ask for the power to help make the world a better place through meditation, music, movement and massage.”  I breathe in light and energy into the crown chakra. I visualize the golden energy flowing in through the crown chakra down the spine, clearing any negative energy. The divine cosmic energy flows into the crown chakra at the top of the head down the back channels. Old or negative energy flows down the spine clearing the chakras and meridians and flows down the grounding chord at the base of the spine. .Divine energy then flows up the front channels along the spine and energizes the chakras and meridians up and out of the crown chakra and into the aura - the electrical field that surrounds the body like a giant egg of light. I visualize the energy body expanding and feeding the chakras with divine energy as I breathe in slowly to the count of 10. As I exhale, I visualize the energy coming down the back channels and down the grounding chord.
I visualize the cosmic energy as golden or purple, but you can use whatever color you feel you need. See the energy as it flows in down the spine clearing and energizing each chakra.Part of the cosmic energy flows down into the legs and feet. Part of the energy flows up and out the arm channels and the rest flows up into the crown chakra and out into the aura in a fountain of light and energy, filling the aura around the body with multi colored light and energy. The final visualization for this exercise is to see a protective shield around the outside of the aura - which I often visualize as a liquid silver layer. I do this meditation first thing in the morning and last thing at night and whenever I am anxious or need energy. 

The exercise is simple and I often wondered why it seemed so important. One night while taking a break from my 12 hour night shift as a labor & delivery nurse, I heard the answer . I was watching a science program that I was hoping would put me to sleep. Instead John Lithgow’s voice said “ …and in the end - WE ARE ALL CONDENSED STAR DUST!”  It seemed to resonate as the answer to why the Star Energy Exercise (SEE) felt so simple and yet so important- why it may have such an impact.  Finding the source of the SEE was rather tragic but also a miracle.
	My school, the Healing Arts Institute, hosted wonderful teachers who shared some excellent healing techniques - many which I am sharing in this book.  A full list of teachers and references is in the back of the book. For 12 years a variety of therapists and teachers came to the school. I was working with a chiropractic office to bring in an energy healing workshop called Reconective Healing. Diane, the office manager and I had been friends for several years and were organizing the workshop together when a near tragedy happened. My friend Glenda and her 3 children were staying with me while she was going through a divorce. She and I were going to see the movie “Frequency.” and meet another friend, Parto, at the theater. Glenda brought her children to my school to be cared for by one of my students, Elyse. I didn’t know what the movie was about - just the name “Frequency” and knew I had to see it. Glenda and I were late leaving - we had planned to leave at 4;30. All day long I had been saying to myself “If we leave a little after 5 it will all work out”  
      The kids and Elyse were in the basement to make magic wands. Fortunately we were late leaving - a little bit after 5…  As we pulled away from the curb, Glenda looked up and saw a fire on the top floor of the building! We ran back inside: Glenda went to get her 3 children and Elyse.. Will, my new instructor, grabbed the hose and sprayed the building with water while I called the fire department and opened the back gates.  The fire was over the front door and before Glenda and I left, I  had locked the back gates - 12 feet high! Fortunately Glenda got the kids and Elyse out just in time. The fire department arrived, and eventually got the fire put out - cause unknown, but old wiring likely.
     	 After the fire department left I snuck under the crime scene tape and back into my office, and grabbed my appointment book. As I opened the top drawer in the smoke filled room that had been my office, the drawing of my new logo literally flew out of the book - a Phoenix! The day before I had asked one of my students to draw one for me. When he showed it to me, I thanked him and I said “Great! Can you please make the flames a little Higher?” Ha Ha
	The next day I was having a fire sale at the back of the building and had a flash back to the Dream Quest I’d done to find the building for my school. Diane stopped by to firm up plans for the Reconnection workshop and asked how I got interested in energy healing. I told her about the Star Energy Exercise (SEE) and how I lost the book, 20 years before. She asked if I recognized her ring - a ring from her grandmother. She said “My grandmother was the last teacher of the Star Energy Exercise and I have all the manuals. The Irony of another part of the dream coming true- after the school burned, the fire and phoenix flying out of my appointment book- was not lost on me. My search for the author of the SEE was finally over!!….I have learned other meditations, but the Star Energy Exercise is still my favorite. The Star Energy Exercise is  described in Eugene Ferson’s book “The Science of Being”. My friend’s grandmother and Eugene Ferson had worked closely together in the 1920’s.