Be Your Own Shaman
Heal Yourself and Others
with 21st Century Energy Medicine
 
An Interview with Deborah King

Here are some simple guidelines for protecting yourself in any encounter you have:

Form an intention every day to be protected by your guides. Connect with those who advise you, and ask them to cover your back.

If you’re in a situation where you suspect someone may be sending negative energy your way, don’t face that person head-on; stand or sit at a 90-degree angle to protect yourself from a direct hit of energy, whether intentional or not.

Every time you have an unpleasant encounter, spend a few quiet minutes alone. Ninety percent of the time, you’ll immediately know if you got slimed or not. If you picked up some negative energy, take a clearing bath that night with one pound each of sea salt and baking soda. It cleanses and charges your field, and you’ll feel totally refreshed the next day.

You also can purify yourself and your room, even an entire house, by burning Epsom salts. Put one cup of Epsom salts in a ceramic or glass container, pour a teaspoon of 150-proof alcohol over it and light. Holding the handle with an oven mitt, shake the container, move it up and down in front of your body and around the room. Go from the floor to head height in every corner, getting the glass windows, the paintings, and behind the furniture.

The initiations sound wonderful! Tell me about them.

DK: Life on Earth is all about evolution, specifically the evolution of consciousness. We are given this particular lifetime so that we may experience relationships and thus have the opportunities we need to master the particular life lessons our souls are here to learn. Our consciousness is a part of that vast force field we call the unified field, Source, or Spirit. Our ultimate goal is to reach ever-higher levels of consciousness that bring us closer and closer to manifesting that God-force within. We call the experience that expands our awareness and brings us closer to Source an initiation. An initiation means that our consciousness has been expanded to some degree.

Initiations have been a part of every religion and in every culture. But even an initiatory experience of the One is only a momentary glimpse of a reality that is infinite. This is why a near-death experience is an initiation—it gives you more love for yourself and everyone you meet, and a clearer sense of your true purpose. Each initiation opens and clears the chakras. That’s not to say that your problems, the ones you are handling with such grace and acceptance that brought you the initiation in the first place, will go away. If Spirit thinks you need something to keep you humble, your difficulties won’t magically disappear. But once you’ve been initiated, even though you may wake up the next day with the same issues, nothing will look or feel the same ever again.

Is healing the same thing as curing?

DK: As shamans and healers, we make a distinction between a cure—physical recovery and elimination of a disease condition—and a healing, which can occur on spiritual and emotional levels and may not involve a correlating physical resolution. Ideally, both will take place. For a period of time, it was convenient for me to excuse my own failures to effect a cure based on the idea that a client had decided at a soul level not to accept help. But some part of me remained unconvinced. After working on many tens of thousands of people, I’ve come to believe that it is not common for someone who is seeking to be cured of a physical condition to be at the point where his or her soul has said, “Time’s up—I need to leave.” So I’ve swung back to my original training: I believe that it’s the healer’s job to make it happen.

Deborah King is a master healer, teacher and author of the national bestseller, Truth Heals: What You Hide Can Hurt You and her latest book, Be Your Own Shaman: Heal Yourself and Others with 21st Century Energy Medicine. She left the corporate arena for the mysterious world of healers, sages, and shamans. Deborah mastered ancient and modern healing systems—ultimately developing a powerful healing technique of her own. Visit her website at: www.DeborahKingCenter.com .

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