26/02/2026
“Sister’s funeral went off well, apart from one brother’s difficulty finding the church. Jan’s little coffin (she was tiny) was up front with a large arrangement of bright flowers – just right. Her innovative husband made two coffins before he died; Jan’s lent a wholesome air to the whole. It had been hurriedly repainted two days before, as it was thought her husband got the colour wrong – he did!
Grandchildren made origami butterflies to adorn the lid, which was just perfect, and they wrote little poems to farewell their Nana. Her personality shone through the whole ceremony. Cousins and another brother came up from Dunedin; the food afterwards in the lounge was amazing and we all reconnected, as one does. Funerals double as reunions after all.
Jan, in Spirit, stayed, commenting and being with all of us for a day after the event, then announced she was moving away. I saw her rejoin some of those who had welcomed her into Spirit, moving away together into a mist, (the scene rivalled any movie exit,) until they were gone. She will appear, I know when she feels she wants to, but like all who have a mission, there is work to do and she was not one to dally. She was a small person, big personality, big mana …we will feel her lack of presence for some time.
Maggie, the hay barn cat, is still coming in for her meal at night. There have been a few spats between her and Jessie, but Maggie is now a well-fed, full-grown moggy who can hold her own, so most encounters are ceremonial – show with few blows. She is getting used to me spotting her waiting early evening at the edge of the trees through a window, but runs when I open the door. My idea of living in harmony with two cats is a long way away, if ever. She is not yet feral, but I think she holds nasty memories of human behaviour.
This week tested my skills with one client. For weeks I have had to go through all my repertoire to find the one thing that will access and dissuade the owner of abusive ‘voices’. My therapist daughter has also been in the healing mix and although not working together, per say, on this job, we shared client and knowledge. Monday saw me working on the problem, exploring yet another avenue when my daughter texted with her current take. Without realising it we had been working together at the same time, that day– two-pronged attack on perpetrator.
Daughter and I often work together, only this time we had not arranged to do so. She reported a shift. I texted our client and what came back lifted a weight. “Physical symptoms all but gone and the voices are not there.”
The danger, when a client presents an etheric difficulty, is the time it takes to solve and losing conviction of one’s own efficacy. Trying something only to have it fail is frustrating … what works on one client does not necessarily work on another. And if one is not careful conviction is eroded – an ingredient important to all healing.
It was a young client whom I had taught a few self-help recalibrating techniques in the past who displayed the problem perfectly. She has a body condition that has dogged her all her life. Medical and alternative treatments have been exercised with accompanying reassurances of her feeling better after … a ‘certainty’ that has not necessarily followed through.
She is an Extreme Sensitive, meaning although the body seems to have responded to the treatment, the etheric bodies are having to cope with medication and environmental memory – they are at times screaming. However, it was a relatively small incident that impacted on her etheric nervous system that she requested help with … she was not adjusting, recalibrating, i.e. the incident’s impact was being held onto, resulting in her feeling awful, and she had forgotten the techniques I had taught her. The ‘after-effect’ she was experiencing is too often thrown into the ‘psychological’ bucket, which means little, merely points to the still dysfunctional etheric bodies needing balance. By using ‘cleansing actions’ to ‘work’ an etheric balancing, both the psyche and the etheric bodies click into place, aligning with the physical. But she had lost conviction of her own abilities.
I advised her to step outside onto the grass, brush herself down from head to foot; step two paces forward and pull colour from the earth (colour pops into the mind), flood her physical/aura with it (using imagination), then slowly watch it recede into the ground taking all disruption with it. Give a little shake and get back to life. She reported feeling better. My client leant on my conviction that the balancing technique works… she did not question it, she just leant, for a moment.
This subject needs a little more airing. But for now, it is enough to remind you that we all have accessible ‘far memory’, which is where threads of conviction (and its lack) come from.”
Linda
Media: Félix Vallotton - The Bookcase, 1915.