I Love to Do Phone Work

I love to do phone work, especially with folks who are already familiar with the approaches that I use. I've wondered about this preference, and realize that part of the reason is that I'm not distracted by visual cues and body language. This has led me to understand just how much information I pick up empathically. The more work I do by telephone the more I understand that I am always being bombarded with psychic input. But in a phone consultation I have the opportunity to use this information to direct the session and give feedback to my client, whereas in everyday interactions, it might escape my attention altogether.

Everything I experience doesn't actually originate with me and much does not even belong to me unless I claim it by wondering what it is about or what it means. Despite the fact that this is the topic of More Than Meets the Eye: Energy - a book I wrote and published in 1999, I can still forget, in the throws of some strong emotion, that it might not even be mine.

I became acutely aware of the extent of the saturation of psychic input in the energy field when I visited the pyramids at the Giza Plateau in Egypt. I was with Power Places Tours, and Barbara Hand Clow had told us that the King's Chamber was a 9th dimension space, so I was anticipating hearing spirit there. Instead I found it to be an incredibly, eerily quiet space, which indirectly brought my attention to how acclimated I'd become to psychic noise. (See Clow's Alchemy of the Nine Dimensions and Pleidian Agenda for more about her ideas about the attributes of the nine dimensions.)

When I first started working with clients and had less confidence, if I forgot the name of a chakra, or didn't follow the steps of a procedure in the way I'd been taught to do them, in my self talk I would immediately accuse myself of being stupid, forgetful, or inattentive. But as I gained experience I began to ask a different kind of question when I noticed myself doing things in an unexpected manner. If I skipped one of the chakras, I would ask myself why. Invariably I'd discover that these were not mistakes, but guidance directing my attention to something I might otherwise miss.

Now I pay close attention to my own mood. If I find myself getting distracted during a session, the chances are that my client has become energetically dissociated, and I can help direct her back into her body. If my client is telling me her "story" and I am tuning out, she is probably telling it from her "head" and is disconnected from the emotional content. Until I guide her back into her body and she reconnects with the emotional content of that story, recounting the tale will not change it. Encouraging her to slow the narrative down gives her the breathing space needed to allow the emotions connected with the tale to surface. Then we can transform them.

Here, too, my body reveals what is happening on the other end of the line. If the energy is moving, I find myself yawning, belching, burping, sighing. Sometimes I have to explain to a client that this by no means indicates that I am sleepy! Further, the more open the other person's energy body becomes, the less yawning I find myself doing. When the energy starts to move, it will find the most open energy system to move through. Even when I am at a great physical distance from my client, the energy acts as if we were in proximity. I can tell, too, when grief, anger, apathy or fear have been accessed, because I will feel them in my own body. This provides a distinct advantage, because knowing what emotion has surfaced gives me the ability to guide my client in transforming that energy.