A GAIA PURPOSE
The first time it happened, Gaia Chinniah thought she was losing the plot.
She’d been going to a Māori healer for massages and herbal treatments to help her soaring stress levels, and on one visit the woman told Gaia she’d sensed an energy change in her, and suggested they swap places. The healer got on the massage table and told Gaia to do “what you know how to do”.
Gaia didn’t have a clue what the woman meant. She was a busy executive, running a product distribution business and dividing her time between New Zealand and Malaysia. She knew nothing about healing.
“I was thinking, ‘What are you talking about?’” recalls Gaia. “But she lay on the table, so I went and touched her head, and in that instant my life changed forever.”
All of a sudden, Gaia says, she lost her eyesight, but was able to see information about the woman in her mind. “I could see her previous lives. I could see all the cells in her body. I could see future things coming up for her. I was freaking out because I’d never experienced anything like it. Up until then I thought I was in control of my life, but in that moment with her, I had no control.”
As shaken as she was by the experience, Gaia instinctively understood that she was somehow being guided to perceive certain things about the healer. “I was able to tell her about an illness she had. I was very upset, because I wasn’t sure what
