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A Balanced Life

with Source Connection Therapy

Genie Monte-Pelizzari, LMP

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A Balanced Life

with Source Connection Therapy

Genie Monte-Pelizzari, LMP

Cover Art and Illustrations by Genie Monte-Pelizzari

Published by NorLightsPress at Smashwords

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High Praise for Source Connection Therapy

During a stressful time in my life, I began working with Genie and her Source Connection Therapy as a way to find balance and peace as I entered a new profession. After only two sessions, I noticed a difference in my body and mind. Instead of feeling constant anxiety, I felt peaceful. Ultimately, SCT provided insights to blending my sole practitioner work with a more standard work environment. I am profoundly grateful for this insight and direction. I look forward to watching SCT become a universal treatment modality to people around the country.

S. Wiley

Healthcare Executive

Source Connection Therapy is one of my favorite healing therapies. After taking the SCT workshop with Genie in 2004, I now use the treatments on myself with wonderful results. I feel calmer, grounded, and in the flow with the spirit during and after a SCT session. I’ve used SCT in my therapy practice for six years, in conjunction with massage and sometimes as a stand-alone treatment. My clients find it especially helpful for insomnia, anxiety, integrating new information, releasing blocked energy, and for aches and pains such as tendinitis. Thank you, Genie, for bringing this into the world and teaching it so well.

Fairin Woods, LMP, RM

Founder, Port Townsend School of Massage

Source Connection Therapy is an important tool I use regularly in my massage therapy and Energy Medicine practice. This treatment will correct most of the imbalances found in different energy systems.

I love SCT and appreciate what it does for me and my clients!

Cindy Wright, LMP

www.waysforchange.com

206-370-4555

Seattle, WA

I do long distance clearing, healing, and guidance work, including angelic healing and guidance, clearing entities and negative thought forms, flower essences, reiki, soul retrieval, and connecting people with their guardian angels. I added Source Connection Therapy to my practice seven years ago and find it helps my clients integrate the work done and move forward into health and happiness. I value Source Connection Therapy as an important part of my practice, both for myself and my clients.

Lindy Swartz, RM, SCTP

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Disclaimer

The author is a licensed massage therapist practicing in Idaho. In no way does she intend to provide medical advice or promise any cures for any disease or illness. Rather, she recommends that you consult medical professionals of your choice for any illness or disease for which you may need attention.

Medicine and healing are two different things. The information in this book is not medicine and does not constitute medical advice. In case of serious illness consult the medical professional or healing practitioner of your choice.

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Author’s Note to Reader

Dear Reader,

You and I are establishing a relationship. I bring to our relationship my honest attempt to be helpful and provide you with valuable information. I also am sharing with you some very personal aspects of my life and my career. What you can bring to our relationship is an open mind, eager to learn and to understand that not everything useful is visible and tangible on first sight.

I present Source Connection Therapy in this book in the context of my life because I think it’s important for you to understand how the therapy developed. I believe that in seeing this healing modality in terms of a real person’s life, you will recognize that it can work for you just as it did for me.

I have included in the text and in text boxes descriptions of clients’ stories, case studies and other examples from my practice to help you understand the nature and magnitude of Source Connection Therapy. I am very conscious of and careful with confidentiality. Thus, in those examples and case studies I do not use client’s names and in some cases have changed non-essential facts to avoid revealing the identity of the person. I also have consulted with those individuals highlighted in this work, and they have agreed to have their story used in this book.

My hope is that my sharing the information in this book will help many people improve their lives. For therapeutic massage practitioners and those in healing arts, I hope this book helps you expand your practices and to reach clients in a new, positive way.

You will notice that throughout this book, I refer to genders sort of randomly, sometimes the masculine, sometimes feminine, sometimes both (his or hers). Nothing about Source Connection Therapy is gender dependent, so please accept my intention that a specific reference to a gender in no way implies that it is limited to either male or female. Please read each reference as applying to both genders.

I am always happy to hear from you. I would like to hear your thoughts, questions, and stories. Please contact me any time through my website.

www.sourceconnectiontherapy.com

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Dedication

To my brilliant, loving, and wonderful adult children, Leah Sage Just and Rodney Tyson Just, who with their love and patience saw me through motherhood. And, to my mom, my dad and my step dad. I Love you all.

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Acknowledgements

In a life blessed as mine has been, there are many people who helped me become the person I am. There are too many to mention by name. I hope that each of you who helped me along this path accepts my thanks.

Without my faith in God, and God’s faith in me, this book would not have been written and Source Connection Therapy would not be available to everyone.

Ken Larson encouraged me to put my personal journey and my gift of Source Connection Therapy on paper. Without Ken’s encouragement and editing help, this book would still just be in my head. The excellent, patient work of Nadene Carter at NorLightsPress.com has been invaluable. Thanks.

To all of my wonderful family and dear friends who have supported me in the past and continue to encourage my personal growth, I send a special thank you.

Thank you to Marsha Lutz for her photography from which I created my illustrations, and to my models—Amber, Annie, and Zach.

Over the years, my clients and patients have shared their personal healing experiences and showed me their bodies’ intelligence. Thank you all for helping me recognize the benefits of Source Connection Therapy and how to apply it.

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Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 - My Gift of Source Connection Therapy

Chapter 2 - From a Gift Comes Therapy

Chapter 3 - The Energetic Body

Chapter 4 - The Body Mind Connection

Chapter 5 - Source Connection Therapy - An Overview

Chapter 6 - Source Connection Therapy - Help Yourself

Chapter 7 - Source Connection Therapy, Applying the Treatment on Others

Chapter 8 - Responsibility of Being Balanced, The Sunny Side of the Street

About The Author

Cited Works

Introduction

“Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God”

French Philosopher, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We all are too busy with our lives. Work, family, and play overwhelm us, taking our time and energy, leaving little down time. In today’s America we learn these habits at a very young age. School children have little time to simply play and learn who they really are; rather, they have school, homework, music lessons, and soccer practice. Even when school is out, kids often are sent off to educational or activity-related camps. They are kept busy. The pace of these behaviors accelerates as we get older and become immersed in the work-a-day world.

Because of this stressful lifestyle pattern, we ignore our own ability to listen to our bodies. We ignore trouble signs and often wait until we suffer chronic illness or breakdowns to recognize that we’re in trouble. Even then, most people fail to listen to their bodies and ignore the clues on what is needed. Rather than turning inward and seeking their own solutions during times of crisis, people most often seek professional help.

This book has been written because we all feel a need to be connected to a source greater than ourselves. How do we live in this world and feel like it all matters? Answer: through our connection to Source, whatever we each call it. Churches, for example, originally were places that united people in this need to find and communicate with Source. The churches, before they became political, were quiet, meditative places where a person could peacefully relate to one’s Source, making connections to bring life back into balance. They were places where we could gain understanding about our place in the world.

As I have written so often, Source Connection Therapy is about balance. People frequently ask what I mean by the term balance. They ask: What does balance mean? Is it the ability to walk a tight rope, or rubbing your tummy while patting the top of your head? Is it you being able to walk a straight line without stepping off or being able to hop on one foot without falling over?

I have a sign to the right of my front door that reads, “Balance is chocolate in both hands.” That pleasure of a piece of dark chocolate is part of balance, being good to yourself, I think.

Balance is all of those things, of course, but so much more. In a very real sense, you are more than one person. In fact, there are many aspects to that being which is you. To overly simplify this point, ignore the myriad complexities that make up a whole person and just think of yourself as being made up of three major dimensions, your three selves.

You are, of course, the physical you—the one who can stand on one foot or walk a straight line. Maybe you can even ride a unicycle or do hand stands. If your physical self is in good health, that’s great, but it doesn’t mean you are a balanced person.

You also are a mental self. Your brain, your mind, is always active, driving your physical self. It keeps your heart beating and your lungs breathing. Your mind is the center of your intellect and essential skills, like walking and talking and writing. Your language, your artistic abilities, and your reasoning play a huge role in determining who you are, yet even that doesn’t make you a truly balanced person.

You are an emotional, spiritual person, as well. How you feel about yourself and others or how you see the world and how you connect to it are critical aspects of your life. Your belief in God or nature or the ever-present energy fields allows you to achieve greater things, to reach higher goals, and to be a better person than if you were not a spiritual being. The spiritual you provides you with something greater than yourself, something of a higher plane on which you will learn to rely and from whom you will seek direction.

Each of your three selves, your three persons, has a gigantic role to play in identifying who you are, yet no single one can exist alone. Each of your three selves must function in harmony with the other two. The closer they all work together, complementing one another, the more in balance you are as a whole person. Balance, to me, is the uniting and bringing into total harmony all three aspects of who you are. When your physical self, mental self, and spiritual self are all in balance, then you’ll find joy and connectedness in your life. That is how I see balance. To me, that broad view of balance has become pivotal in all I do. In fact, this belief in my Source and in a fully-balanced life have become who I am and how I view myself in this world.

Source Connection Therapy is a simple, gentle balancing of our body’s energetic pathways that has proven to be beneficial, often pivotal, to a person’s full-body healing. It is premised on the fact that unhealthy patterns can be unlearned, and that the individual has the ability to learn new, positive ways of living and relating to one’s self. Through this balancing and repairing process, unhealthy physical, energetic, and spiritual patterns are revealed and can be reversed.

You deserve to be happy. You deserve to be healthy and feel vibrant. I firmly believe it is possible for you to achieve a high level of happiness and health, if you will take the time and allow yourself to be open minded.

Let the healing begin.

Genie

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Chapter 1

My Gift of Source Connection Therapy

I had convinced myself that when I graduated from massage school I was going to be a sports massage therapist. I imaged myself working with professional athletes, meeting exciting people, and making lots of money. That never happened and it’s probably a blessing in disguise.

Instead of sports therapy, my first job out of school was in a hospital. While I was thrilled to be hired straight out of school by the local hospital to work in their rehab department, it wasn’t even close to being sports massage. I worked with a wide range of people—old, young, big, little, every shape you can imagine. I was with each patient about fifteen minutes or so, which was long enough to do the treatment protocol given to me based on the physical therapist’s orders, but not nearly long enough to get to know the patients or understand their underlying problems This was hard work and demanded every bit of training and energy I could bring forth.

Because of the physical and mental demands of this hospital job and the short time I was with each patient, I was forced to learn to be effective and efficient. Beyond the protocols and efficiency, I learned much about myself. I began seeing myself as a person who could make a difference, a person with something to offer people who were hurting. And, I quickly learned a great deal about human bodies.

During those busy days in the hospital, I learned that bodies seemed to know what they needed better than the heads they carried around with them. The body, I concluded, does not lie, but the mind does.

Even though it was often tough, I enjoyed going from patient to patient. I loved learning my trade and perfecting therapeutic massage techniques. I enjoyed the variety of problems I worked with and the fact that this job was never boring.

Beyond hearing the clients’ words during these sessions, I sensed that I was hearing other, often conflicting things during the massage. In fact, I was! My clients’ bodies were talking to me. In many cases, their bodies were yelling at me, desperately trying to convey what was going on with them. Over time, as I worked with clients, their bodies provided more and more information, but these clients were unable to hear that same message. I realized that if I could help people listen to their own bodies’ messages, they could achieve greater health and emotional wellbeing without having to seek outside help. Maybe, I thought, most of these people could avoid illness all together.

I’d been hired to teach a number of courses during these years and I conducted workshops on chair massage, craniosacral and other therapies. As it turns out, the saying “we teach best what we need to learn most” clearly applied to me. Teaching, I found, forced me to look even deeper into techniques and their influences on clients. Teaching, I found, really does force the teacher to become a better practitioner with a clearer understanding of how people are affected.

As I look back at my growth over the past years, I recognize that in my own practice I have learned something even more valuable than the massage techniques: I learned to listen, to understand the person. In my private practice now it is very different from the rush of the hospital. My practice is quiet, focused, and I’ve become very open to listening to my clients, taking time to get acquainted with the body’s intelligence and what the person’s body needs. During treatments I sense who the underlying person really is.

Unknowingly, I became more open to seeking and seeing a new way of understanding. It has been quite a journey from being the person I was before I learned massage therapy to the person I am today and the practice that has evolved.

You see, during much of my life I was out of balance myself. I had low self-esteem, I spent ten years in an unhealthy marriage. My children were getting older and would soon be moving on to college or work. I felt a push from inside myself to give something back, to help create a better place in this world. In an effort to resolve my destructive life patterns and other issues, I started looking for personal growth and change. The problem was I really didn’t know where to look.

I was frustrated, sad, and feeling alone and sorry for myself. I worked retail, selling sport shoes and women’s clothing. I tried to become a police officer, and I looked into becoming a dog trainer. None of these efforts helped. I was uncomfortable in every aspect of my life. Taking classes like Kung Fu and going to massage school were life changing, positive growth experiences.

Step by step, even as a running shoe salesperson, I began to understand that what I really needed was to help others. People would call to ask my advice for their problems, but I always asked myself, “How can I help others if I can’t even help myself?”

Events were happening very subtly and subconsciously that were directing me toward a solution to my life’s issues. I was being led in a positive direction, even though I didn’t realize it at the time. I was changing. I started believing in myself more. Looking back on this time in my life, I’m convinced God was talking to me. Even though I wasn’t consciously listening, His message was getting through.

As if being pushed by an invisible hand, I was moving toward a life involving health care. This direction seemed to fulfill my need to help others. Based on the economics and time demands of various vocations, I found that massage school was doable. A community college some distance away offered exactly what I wanted, but it was a long commute, which I couldn’t do. Then, a friend, Shannon Africa—as if she were my personal doorman—told me of a massage school opening soon within blocks of where I lived. She was correct. I jumped at this opportunity. As soon as that door opened, everything became available to me. This was a life changing moment, another step that I now believe was directed by God. Finally, I was moving in a positive way. I had started listening to a voice, one that was kind, loving, forgiving, and warm. I was becoming more and more open to these messages.

Fairin Woods, the director of the massage school I attended, offered me an opportunity to study Reiki, which is a hands-on, spiritual-healing therapy. It was developed in 1922 by a Japanese scholar. The basis of Reiki is the energy found in all life. I became a Reiki Master, even though I was very skeptical. I’m really not a woo-woo person, and very pragmatic in most ways—always questioning—and I doubted seriously if this type of spiritual healing was real. I openly questioned much of what I learned, including the Reiki. Yet, two further life-changing events proved to me that many of these spiritual, alternative healing modalities have validity.

My mother became very ill with emphysema in the late 1990s. She was hospitalized for a time and experienced deep depression after my brother and I brought her home. I felt as if she had given up on life. She was scared and angry at herself and her physical condition. I felt helpless as I sat with her. I wanted to help but was unsure of what to do. Without thoroughly realizing why, I applied Reiki. I placed one hand on her chest and one hand on her back. She was small, and I held her like this for only about a minute before I could feel the healing energy pulled from my hands. They became hot. The heat was tremendous. Feeling the intense heat herself, she asked, “What are you doing?”

I didn’t know how to answer. My skepticism stood in the way of me understanding. I was shocked at what I was feeling. I stuttered and said, “I’m just holding you, Mom.”

Within thirty minutes my mother started feeling better; in twelve hours she was up and functioning, seeming to be about eighty-five percent better. She later told her friends and others that I saved her life.

This experience had a profound effect on me. Even though I still questioned much of what I’d learned, I had discovered without a doubt that there are forces greater than ourselves that can heal, if we are open to them.

During subsequent years further training and several experiences pushed me toward a deeper understanding of alternative treatments. But, the most profound of these was about seven years after the Reiki experience—the day my mother died. This was such a life-changing event that I have no doubt it opened my mind to receiving my gift of Source Connection Therapy from God.

All of my siblings—two brothers and two sisters—were with me at the hospital where my frail mother lay in her bed, connected to a breathing bag. She had instructed the doctors not to give her artificial life support. She asked only for morphine so she wouldn’t be so afraid. I sat next to her bed, as I had done years before at her home. This time, though, my mother was in a coma, although I felt she could hear me. I felt her fear and shared her anxiety. Doctors told me the end of her life was near—very near.

After we had been with mother for several hours, my brother asked if I wanted to go get lunch with the rest of the family. I declined because I’d been watching our mother’s signs, looking for indications the doctor had told me would signal the end. I felt she was getting ready to leave us. I suggested we stay a little longer.

I talked with her, trying to soothe her. She was gasping for air and her body was tense. I leaned close and told her everything would be fine, that we would all be fine. I told her to not be afraid. Even though she would have totally rejected the idea, I said, “Angels are coming for you to keep you safe.”

It was then that I felt her body became very still, very quiet. In my mind, I could see her essence move out of her body. Maybe it was because of what I had seen in life, maybe even in movies, but what I saw was a ghostly image. It was almost like a vapor moving horizontally from her. Even more than a visual sense, for me, it was an awareness of her spirit leaving, moving away.

Regardless of whether this was a visual image or a subconscious imagining, the event was real to me. I knew at that moment, the life force of my mother was gone and what now lay next to me in the hospital bed was her shell, a now empty vessel that we call a human body.

This experience changed me; for the first time I had seen the most primal part of our life cycle. Not only had I seen the death of someone I loved, but I had seen the very essence of life. I knew then that the spirit does not die. Again, my mind was opened to an awareness of things greater than myself.

Only a year after my mother’s death, I was given the gift of Source Connection Therapy. Here is how it happened.

First, the name Source Connection Therapy came to me through a discussion with friends. I asked them what they thought I should call my massage therapy business. At the time, I was working at a resort spa, work much different from what I did at the hospitals. I stayed connected with physical therapy work by doing some in-home therapy, and two days per week I worked at a physical therapy clinic. In discussing my work with friends that night, we decided what I was really doing was helping people connect to their personal Source. I had learned that my work was simply assisting people in their healing, and that the real healing takes place in their personal connection with Source. We called my work Source Connection Therapy, even though I had no idea of the full implications of what was going to happen next.

A mere week later, I was at my first appointment of the day with an in-home client doing craniosacral therapy because she was quite fragile. As I was nearing the end of the treatment, a voice inside my head directed me to place my hands at specific places on my client’s body. Without questioning, I followed these instructions, placing the holds exactly where I was told. My client responded, saying she suddenly felt very relaxed.

I, too, was calm during this experience. The voice I heard was soothing, like a soft-spoken man’s voice, clear and precise. It was so real.

For years, I felt that people’s bodies had communicated with me, but that was a sense of feeling tension or heat or trauma. This day, however, was different. It was clearly a voice, a command telling me what to do and instructing me to do this treatment on everyone I touched that day. So, I did. For the rest of that day, I applied these holds for five minutes on each of my clients. The first two asked what I was doing, because it was different from my typical treatments. With the clients after that, I headed off the discussion by telling them I was using these techniques to prepare their bodies to be receptive to the regular physical therapy treatments. I didn’t fully understand the treatment myself, but I accepted the gift.

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Chapter 2

From a Gift Comes Therapy

I didn’t discuss the events of that first day with anyone. I felt the instructions I had received made sense. Although the manner of receiving the message seemed quite strange, the message itself was clearly logical and fit within my professional knowledge. Even though I’d been a skeptic, experiences leading to this event had shown me that even things we don’t fully understand can be quite real.

For example, often while working in the physical therapy clinic with my boss, Steve, we used craniosacral and other alternative therapies to help patients release emotional trauma from their damaged or stressed tissue. Doing these therapies, we frequently witnessed unexpected and profound changes in people’s bodies. We had no name for these negative energies that we were releasing, so we jokingly called them cooties. As we applied these therapies we could see and sense the patients’ bodies reorganizing and beginning to heal far beyond what we could expect from typical Western medical treatment. Thus, I obviously was open to some unusual, unorthodox messages from unexpected sources.

It was almost like holding my breath during that first day as I did the treatments. Even then, I didn’t question these events because I was so stunned by what had happened and how I had reacted with such trust. That evening, I joined my friend at a local pub. As we talked, I scribbled onto a bar napkin a diagram of the therapeutic holds that had been revealed to me that day. I didn’t feel crazy or in distress, but later I did recognize the similarity between my frantic drawing on the napkin and Richard Dreyfuss’ building the Devil’s Tower out of mashed potatoes in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I admit it was quite weird.

My friend, Vince, asked what I was writing. Holding up my sketch, I suddenly burst out, “Look what God gave me today.”

Vince, like most people, reacted by saying, “You can’t tell people that. You can’t tell anyone that God talked to you. They’ll think you’re crazy.”

I didn’t know how to react. I finished my sketch and put the napkin in my pocket. I felt deflated and didn’t mention it again until later that night when I called my younger sister and told her the story. Anna, a completely non-religious person, spoke carefully, rejecting the idea of God altogether. “Genie, how do you think people like Einstein get their brilliant ideas? If they are from God, I don’t think He’d mind if you took credit for it by saying you developed it yourself.”

I suspected she thought that soon she’d be coming to spring me out of a mental hospital. For a time, I adopted a cautious attitude, but with people who knew me well, I could be open about where I felt this came from. I could tell them this therapy came to me from my Source—God.

Source means different things to different people. Perhaps each of us sees this aspect of our spirituality in a unique, personal way. Regardless of how one defines his or her Source, I felt strongly that the depth and power of this therapy came directly from that Source. For me, the Source is God. For others, the Source may be something different—Allah, Great Spirit, Buddhist Teachings, or a unique fundamental belief structure—but the effect is the same. Once we learn to connect with our personal Source, becoming less fragmented and more focused, we gain the ability to hear and understand what is needed for us to heal and become more balanced in our lives.

Over the next few weeks, I questioned everything. I focused and asked my Source a ton of questions. I’d been so shocked to hear my Source’s message that it took some time to become comfortable with it. When I did become comfortable, though, I questioned everything. I figured if He was going to surprise me with this gift, then he better be ready to explain a few things.

I’m a little reluctant to tell you such personal details about my conversations with God because so many people seem close-minded about the subject. As your mind opens to accept that there is something greater than yourself from whom you can gain guidance, then it makes more sense.

A few weeks after my first encounter with God’s voice telling me what to do with my clients’ treatments, I asked, almost demanded, “What exactly am I doing with my clients.” The answer: I was balancing their energetic systems, and the connection points I’d been shown are naturally occurring places in the human body. I was told that by touching these connection points, we are just reminding our bodies to be connected and to shore up the body’s grid structure.

I received bits and pieces of information this way. I could only accept a little information at a time because I was so in awe of what was happening. This experience was so far beyond anything I had known previously, that it was a bit difficult to handle.

I was told that unhealthy patterns can be unlearned, that sometimes we get stuck in a pattern and don’t see a way out of a bad situation or away from pain. We always have a chance to change and heal, the Source told me. This made sense. In my practice I recognized that change was possible, but often people were motivated to change too late, only after pain or disability overwhelmed them. I was being guided to teach people to see the need for change and to make healthier decisions before pain wreaked havoc in their lives or before they became immobile. I was being directed by a force greater than myself to share Source Connection Therapy.

“Why me?” I asked. The answer was a straight forward, “Because you asked.”

Well, okay, I thought, if I can do this, then can’t everyone? The answer to this question took some time, but clearly I’m not the only person given this gift of treatment. I was told there are many who have asked and been given the same gift, but this balancing can come in many forms.

The overriding goal of the treatment gifted to me, I was told, was to allow people to become balanced so they are self-contained, not fragmented by outside influences. Life stressors—work, play, conflict, illness, accidents, and countless other distractions that take us away from our paths to joy and fulfillment—can be overcome.

“Where did this treatment come from,” I asked, pressing for more information.

“From the Ancients,” I was told.

I was stunned. This was way out there, far beyond my normal belief system. By this time I was a little freaked out. I talked with a couple of my woo-woo friends who assured me this was not so bizarre after all because there was written text about some of the things I was hearing from my Source. The Ancients, I was told, are the Elders of the Inter-Planetary Guild. And, Source, God, a higher power, oversees everything.

I was taken aback by all of this, yet, it seemed so real and so understandable to me, that over time I accepted it. At first it seemed confusing because I’d been raised without a belief in God. Both of my parents were raised Catholic, yet they had rejected God all together. I was taught there is no God, that we are alone and on our own to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. My parents taught me that each person had to deal with everything alone. But contrary to what I was taught, even as a child I sensed there was something greater than me, and I sometimes felt as if something was guiding me. Much of the time I didn’t see it or wasn’t listening. Now, my Source had my full attention.

Early during this discovery process, I worked on a woman who had many physical ailments. She told me that while she knew this treatment wasn’t making her disease go away, she felt happy inside for the first time in years. As I heard more of my clients relate these experiences, I gained trust in my therapy. As this trust increased, I applied the techniques more frequently and for longer periods during treatment, always listening to their bodies, always alert for clues and guidance from them. Mostly, I believed, I was in some small way connecting with my clients as they were unknowingly connecting with their individual Source.

During those first years I was cautious. I applied the techniques my Source revealed to me sparingly, just a few minutes for each client and sometimes not using it at all. But, over time, clients on whom I had applied my Source Connection Therapy told me they felt better. Some told of specific changes, including feeling relaxed and better able to cope with daily stress. Some experienced physical improvement, and nearly all said they seemed emotionally and spiritually more comfortable, more at ease with themselves. Better sleep was a common benefit.

Eventually, I became quite comfortable with giving the treatments and followed the guidance I was given. I developed a useable and effective protocol and was feeling very positive about the changes I saw in my clients. They liked the new therapy, and I found it to be a wonderful adjunct to the massage, craniosacral, and myofascial treatments I frequently used. In fact, one of the great benefits I saw with Source Connection Therapy was its flexibility. I could use it as a stand-alone therapy session or incorporate it into a wonderful compliment to other modalities. In some instances, I found the new therapy to be a perfect vehicle to prepare clients for further treatment because of the deep relaxation it provided.

I also continued teaching. The Port Townsend School of Massage asked me to conduct a workshop on chair massage. I see now it was another example of being led in a particular direction. Before my scheduled lecture on chair massage, I was doing some shopping and ran into a friend, Joanne, who was a former student of mine. I was surprised to see her since she didn’t live in the area. She was there to take my class. We met totally by coincidence and chatted for some time. I told Joanne about Source Connection Therapy. After class, three of the students, including Joanne, set up a massage table, and I showed them the basic balancing procedures I had learned. I told them the detailed story of how I was given Source Connection Therapy and about all of the questioning I had done. I later explained to Joanne that I was reluctant to market the treatment because it felt like bragging about myself.

Joanne’s response: “Genie, this is not about you. It’s about what we all need, and it’s what the planet needs.”

I knew she was correct, yet I still felt uncomfortable talking about it. I could see people’s bodies reacting positively and continued using Source Connection Therapy at the beginning and end of all of my treatments. I applied the balancing treatments frequently to a variety of clients.

Joanne and seven other therapists carpooled over three-hundred-miles from Seattle to attend a two-day course I hosted at my home in northern Idaho. My younger sister was visiting at the time. I wondered how she would react to my introducing these therapists to Source Connection Therapy. The class was full, and the two-day session was intense.

As I spoke about my conversations with God and how the therapy worked, I was amazed at how comfortable everyone was. It seemed to make sense to all of them, with the possible exception of my sister, that God was guiding me in this treatment method and encouraging me to make a difference. This two-day encounter opened my eyes to the fact that this protocol is very real and that I could be helpful to others beyond my own little world. My sister, to my surprise, was accepting, although during much of my talk about God’s messages, her eyes were pretty wide.

I’ve worked with hundreds of clients over a period of seven years, slowly understanding the depth and power of this therapy. I remind myself frequently that it is not about me, but about doing what God is guiding me to do. As I said, at first I didn’t trust it; I remained the skeptic. It wasn’t that I didn’t believe this therapeutic technique would really help people, I was hung up on thinking that I was making it up or that I was bragging about myself.

Whether a client’s problems relate to physical, emotional, or mental injury, I have seen that applying the techniques found in the following pages of this book will help nearly everyone. Specifically, the reader will learn balancing techniques, including the connection points on the body. Either physically touching or imaging the connection points crossing the mid-line of the body energizes the bones, tissues, and other systems. This alignment also brings the right and left brain hemispheres into harmony. From the focus of Western medicine, the endocrine, circulatory, respiratory, central nervous system, lymphatic, craniosacral, and other body systems are positively affected. From the viewpoint of Eastern medicine, the meridians, chakras, and Qi are all brought into alignment.

Source Connection Therapy reunites naturally-occurring energetic connections in our bodies that are often broken through life’s stresses. The benefit is relaxation, focus, and a greater ability for the body to heal itself. As we become more aligned with Source, we are able to hear what our bodies need. Following the guidance of this book, you will feel a noticeable improvement in sleep patterns, increased feelings of wellbeing, and an enhanced ability to handle life’s ups and downs.

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Chapter 3

The Energetic Body

Before we get involved with the application of Source Connection Therapy, there are a few basic aspects of the healing process I would like you to understand. In Source Connection Therapy you’ll be taking steps to allow your own natural energies to promote wellness and healing; thus, we will review the basics of the energetic body. A great deal has been written on this topic, and many on-going research programs continue to expand our knowledge of how the human body’s energies work. If you want to delve more deeply into the topics presented here, I have included a reading list at the end of this book. For our purposes, however, I will provide a short examination of energy systems so the techniques of Source Connection Therapy make sense to you.

Electro-Magnetic Fields

For thousands of years, Oriental medicine has recognized and utilized the human body’s natural energy. Modern western medicine, however, usually ignored or has been antagonistic toward the concept that a person’s natural energy can be used for maintaining wellness, predicting illness, or as a help in healing the body. Most often, western medicine has regarded our bodies as not having intelligence. During the last decade or so, that trend has turned toward a greater effort by medical doctors to integrate aspects of energetic healing, including acupuncture, acupressure, and therapeutic massage. This acceptance of the energetic body by modern medicine is partially driven by the results of scientific studies that clearly demonstrate the existence of and application of energetic processes.

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Chapter 3

Electro-Magnetic Fields