Full moon combo

Put a full-moon eve, a sleepless night, and a bottle of Aura Soma together and one has the perfect recipe for a perfect healing. And so, it was last night.

I had exchanged two of my books for an Aura Soma mini reading at the Mind, Body event at Pukekohe the other weekend. I chose my four bottles then picked out the one I wanted to work with, which was bottle number B84, Candle in the Wind. B84 is a combination of pink and red with the keynote: A vulnerability that becomes our strength and way towards a higher purpose. The main theme: It awakens the true power of love – the desire to care.

Each of the two colours also brings in additional meanings.

For people not familiar with this modality, Aura Soma entails choosing bottles that one is drawn to, from a selection of two-coloured bottles displayed next to each other. When I chose my bottle, I was offered to take it, rather than ordering and receiving one online. As the practitioner tried to unscrew the lid, it remained tightly shut and no amount of persuading would budge it. ‘’Perhaps this is not for you,’’ she commented. I looked at my other chosen bottles then knew very clearly that, yes, this was the one I wanted. We both tried some more, then the top loosened. I think it was good for me to have that doubt put in my mind as it helped reaffirm that that definitely was the bottle I wanted to work with.

I was instructed to shake and then spread a few drops around my buttocks each day, with a warning that using it at night could keep me awake.

I have had a number of Aura Soma treatments over the years and worked with two bottles before. One of my friends was a practitioner and so we often did swaps. When I was a journalist, I once did a feature on a local practitioner, to place in the lifestyle section of the paper, much to the dismay of the ad rep. My argument was that she lived on a lifestyle block and that would suffice. The ad rep thought differently, but fortunately, I won and the article went ahead.

One of the things I talk regularly about to my clients and in my talks is that things are never about now. When something is pushing our buttons, or we are arguing with someone, the trigger is always from an earlier time in our lives, generally an instant that happened in childhood. Until we heal that, we will keep getting triggered.

As I lay awake last night at 2am, I decided to put on my meditation for releasing trapped trauma stored in my body. The full moon was making me feel a little down and bringing up some hurts that had happened several years ago. I am sure the use of the Aura Soma was also bringing these closer to the surface to be worked on. As the meditation played, I was taken to the period when these hurts occurred, but no matter how much I tried to remove them, I could still feel the heaviness of the energy involved. And then suddenly, I was back in childhood, aged about 11 or 12. There was a cool boy in our class, whom most of the girls had a crush on. I didn’t, but I still regarded him highly. When we had been in Standard four, four of us, two girls and two boys, had been taken out of that disruptive class and put into another for accelerated learning. He was one of them, so the four of us became quite involved.

The incident that was coming to mind, must have happened a year later. I can’t remember the exact details, I think we were competing to get to the patter tennis courts, but he turned to me and told me to ‘‘get out of the way, you ugly spaz’’. That cut so deep and I had obviously stored it in my body. I now felt the hurt dissolve and saw all the others doing the same thing. All the hurtful things that had occurred since that experience had been triggered by that one incident. I was almost laughing to myself at the simplicity of this healing. How many times had I tried to heal some of those other hurts, to no avail? All I had to have done was to follow my own advice, ‘’nothing is ever about now’’ and search for that first childhood incident. But I hadn’t. I had tried endlessly to remove them, only to find them resurfacing sometime later.

I felt so free and so healed as I switched off my phone an hour later. I had totally forgotten about that insult and the impact it had had on me at the time.

I am so thankful for the combination that occurred for me last night, but as I have said before, spirit often puts things in place at the perfect time. I feel so grateful.