Written by Kristina N. Terzieva, Reiki Master Teacher
Kristina N. Terzieva is a Reiki Master Teacher, as well as an energy healing practitioner with experience in sound healing and voice spectrum analysis. She is the founder of Astraea Healing Connection – a private holistic health practice – which offers distance healing through the following modalities: Reiki, sound healing, and voice analysis.
Within all of us there lies a reservoir of creative energy, the expression of which we most often associate with the arts, be it visual or performing, or crafts, but its healing potential rarely factors in our mindset. As with all other forms of energy, creativity has multiple facets and manifestations. It drives us towards new endeavors, urges us to broaden our horizon, and, occasionally, helps us heal on more than one levels. Tapping into this energy and channeling its power through a healing modality could be a powerful and transformative way to upgrade our energy healing practice, be it in service to others, or as means of self-healing and self-help. What led me to this discovery has been my own path of energy healing.
“Creative energy is the essence of all healing...We physicians do nothing, we only help and encourage the physician within.” – Albert Schweitzer
As a holistic health practitioner, I place an emphasis on healing myself first, before I turn to helping clients. Regardless of where each of us may be on our soul journey, we always find ourselves seeking means to shift and uplevel by releasing patterns or energy blockages that restrict the flow of life-force energy within us, or somehow constrict our ability to receive this energy from the Source. Releasing such obstructions to the energy flow could have a profound impact on our overall wellbeing. Due to the interconnectedness of our energy selves, a shift in one area would generate a ripple effect throughout our field.
During my own personal meditation practice, I accidentally stumbled across and dissolved an energy blockage in the area of the sacral chakra (Swadhisthana) – energy center around the level of the navel. Through this experience, I made two “unexpected” findings. For one, I gained a newly-found appreciation for our creative energy as a limitless source, which we can tap into and direct towards healing, similar to the energy of love, or even Reiki. Second, the domino effect of this release revealed a tight connection between our second and fifth chakras, or between our creative center and our voice. The fifth chakra (Vishuddha) being the energy center around our throat. In other words, this implies a close energy tie between the energetic "health" of our second chakra and the quality of our voice.
These “discoveries” influenced my understanding of how I could incorporate my creative energy into the holistic health modalities that I offer. namely Reiki and sound healing. Previously, I have had experience in offering healing with love energy and it has made an impactful difference. As a Reiki practitioner, I have occasionally incorporated love's healing energy when practicing on myself and others. Now I have discovered that creative energy that we tap into through our sacral chakra could be similarly used for healing. If you are a Reiki, or sound healing practitioner, you may invite this energy to assist and guide you during a session as you work with clients.
On different level, I have come to realize that often trauma that has been sustained in the area of the sacral chakra, basically any kind of energy damage to this field, would show up as an imbalance in the voice. Our voice can be considered as an anchor that connects us with the Universal Source on one end and grounds us to the Earth in this current lifetime on the other. In this capacity, it runs through all energy structures of our multidimensional self and resonates with all that we are. That may sound very broad and complex, but it merely means that our voice could be interpreted as the living imprint of our energy vibration overall that extends through all structures of our Being. That said, in order to address any imbalances in the voice, we need to adopt a multi-faceted, multi-pronged approach to healing.
Thus, tying these concepts together, I could offer the following simple daily practice for balancing the second chakra, while incorporating vocal toning and chanting. Take a deep breath in, deep bellow the belly button, as you hold the breath, visualize a color of your choice, which you associate with creativity. As you exhale, let the breath out with OOO (as in “you”) or chant the seed mantra VAM. Self-created sound can be a powerful tool for healing. The effect would be further enhanced by adding externally-generated sound. A crystal bowl tuned to the key of D (“Re”) would be a great accompaniment, as the note D corresponds to the sacral chakra.
To enhance this practice further, you may use a crystal that you associate with creativity. For me, sunstone (heliolite) epitomizes this type of energy. Incorporating this stone in your daily meditation, or energy healing modality, be it for yourself or others, promotes vitality and stimulates the body’s innate self-healing powers.
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Kristina N. Terzieva, Astraea Healing Connection
Kristina N. Terzieva, founder of Astraea Healing Connection, has a long-standing interest in energy medicine and Hermetic philosophy. She considers Reiki to be her guiding light and a "universal medicine" in its own right. Kristina recognizes and appreciates Reiki as a holistic medicine in the broadest sense. Her profound connection with Reiki, which she understands as Buddha’s Light, motivated her to become a Reiki Master Teacher, after 20 years of having worked with this energy on different levels. In addition, Kristina has dedicated significant time and resources into sound healing and voice spectrum analysis. For Kristina, sound healing has proven to be another type of "universal medicine" and a potent tool for inter-dimensional healing.
