Empowered Healer: Gain the Confidence, Power, and Ability to Heal Yourself

By Susan Allison Ph.D.

After years of not paying attention to the honest voices inside you, you may not remember how to listen to your intuition. This disconnection may have caused you to feel worn down or depressed, weakened, and powerless, and left your immune systems vulnerable and open to illness. In Empowered Healer, author Dr. Susan Allison helps you relearn how to access and listen to your inner guidance and become empowered to take action to heal yourself completelyboth physically and emotionally.

Allison has spent more than twenty years developing a formula to help you:

Believe in yourself and stop blocking your healing
Fill with power and create a team to support you
Tune into and listen to your physical symptoms
Find the emotional causes of your distress
Release physical and emotional pain
Create and live the life of your dreams

Using anecdotes and examples from her personal experiences as a healer, Allison communicates the keys to believing in your own power to restore yourself to wholeness. A powerhouse of wisdom, Empowered Healer helps you heal from the inside out to create greater happiness in every area of your life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Aug 23, 2011
• ISBN: 9781452537931

Susan Allison Ph.D.

Susan Allison earned a doctorate in transpersonal psychology and maintains a private practice in Santa Cruz, California. She supports individuals and groups to change and to heal. Her mission is to help people become more empowered, transformed, and fulfilled. This is Allison’s third book.

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Contents

Acknowledgements

PREFACE:

A Personal Story

INTRODUCTION:

The Empowered Healer Method

PART I:

Believe You Can Heal

PART II:

Receive the Power to Heal

PART III:

Achieve Self-Healing

PART IV:

Perceive Greater Healing

Notes

Bibliography

About the Author

This book is dedicated to my husband Thomas for his grace under fire. It is also dedicated to you, dear reader, for your willingness to heal yourself and your life.

There is a healing force within each of us, a kind of divine physician seated within our minds and in communication with every cell of our being.

Marianne Williamson

A Return to Love

Acknowledgements

This book has been a work of love, a commitment of five years of time and energy and devotion. It has been both fulfilling and a test of my endurance. I have many people to thank for their assistance on this project.

First, I thank my husband for being willing to use the Empowered Healer Method when he first became ill. He helped me to become fiercely committed to his wellness, to this method and to the book itself.

I am also grateful to my many clients whose stories appear in this text. It is their courage, optimism and tenacity that shine on every page. Without their practice of Empowered Healing and their willingness to share their stories, this book would not exist. Thank you all.

I am indebted to my thesis advisor, mentor and superior editor, Dr. Morris Berg, for his honesty, wisdom and faith in me.

To my agent, William Gladstone, thank you for encouraging me to keep working on the text and finding the perfect publisher to bring it to fruition.

To the staff at Balboa Press, and to their parent company Hay House, thank you for all your guidance, encouragement and expertise.

PREFACE:

A Personal Story

May you accept this book as my heartfelt gift, and be willing to transform physically, emotionally and spiritually.

PREFACE: A Personal Story

Dear Reader:

I’m so glad you’re here. Welcome to my book and to a process that can be life changing. My greatest hope is that I can help you heal your physical and emotional issues. This dream of being able to help you and others has been with me most of my life. I remember as a young child wanting to heal people and animals with my hands and my love. I recall a time I tiptoed into my mother’s darkened room and placed my hands on her forehead. She suffered from migraines, calling them sick headaches, and I knew she often cried from the intense pain. She would feel my hands and say something like, Oh, Susie, that feels so good. I feel better already.

I also crawled into my father’s lap and put warm hands on his tummy. I remember it gurgled constantly and he often held it and drew in his breath. He told me he had ulcers, and even though I had no idea what they were, I knew he was in pain and I wanted to help him feel better.

I also tried to help our pets with their aches and pains, cuts and scratches. Our cats Buttons and Bows would fight with the neighbor cats and I tended their abscesses, but then a weasel tore out Bows’ throat and I couldn’t save him. This was my first experience with death, and I realized on some level that I couldn’t save everything, and this made me very sad. His death didn’t discourage me, though, and I even tried to save the bees that died on our hot patio. I remember trying to put their wings back on and reconnect their torn bodies. Eventually, I created a graveyard with a little white cross for each bee.

My compassion was deep as a child, and I cried for the suffering and death in the world. My mother worried that I was too sensitive, and tried to protect me as much as possible, but as I grew up, I felt even stronger about trying to help everyone. I once took trays of water and orange juice to Mexican workers in the neighbor’s orange grove. It was so hot and they looked so tired. I told my parents not to worry because I had angels to protect me and help me heal others. My mother humored me, but I know she didn’t believe that I flew with four angels over our house! I really did, and I have felt their presence and their love ever since.

When my parents became ill and eventually died, I was an adult, and I knew on some level, it was their time, but I still mourned their deaths. My father was ready to die, mostly because he was tired of life and the suffering after his stroke. It was hard to see him so depressed and still resentful of many people, all the way back to the fourth grade. I couldn’t save my father from his own self-hatred and lack of forgiveness for himself and the people in his past. With his death I realized that you can’t help someone who isn’t ready to be helped, or who doesn’t want to live. It is their path and all I can really do is love them. This is also true in my relationship with you, dear reader. I am offering what I’ve learned after years of training and practice. I am sharing The Empowered Healer Method of Self-Healing, but only you know if you are ready to try it; only you know if you are ready to heal your own discomfort.

With my father’s death, I tried to stop playing God, but found myself still trying to shelter my children, my husband, my students, my therapy clients and many others. I kept learning and re-learning that I can love, can feel compassion, can help people discover what they want and are ready for, but I need to allow everyone to find and follow their own paths. When my mother died, I knew on some level that she wasn’t ready, that fear and stress had brought about the stroke that killed her. A close friend saw my mother in a dream standing on a bridge, looking back at sunlight on dandelions, and taking in one last breath and vision of her life on earth. I couldn’t save my mother any more than I could save the bees or my father. I grieved her death the most, and silently I vowed to continue my work as a healer and teacher, perhaps more realistically, but still with the same passion for service. It is this passion that I pour into my therapy practice and that I offer to you in this book.

When my husband Tom became ill with larynx cancer, I found myself in a frenzy at first, returning to that child who wanted to ease all suffering and save my loved ones. And once again, I had to accept that I can feel compassion, I can be loving, giving and present, yet I cannot direct someone’s path or determine their fate. It is up to each person to determine his or her own soul’s journey. I know this about my husband, and I know it about you. I encourage you to read my book with an open mind and heart, practicing the exercises with a willingness to see and feel whatever presents itself for healing.

In reality, when the person I loved most in the world became ill, I wanted to do whatever possible to help him. Several times this meant being directly helpful, and many times I had to step aside and let him choose the treatment and support he needed. I also am very respectful of you, and am offering you many choices in this book for your ultimate healing. My husband Tom also had many decisions and choices to make on his journey.

Before Tom’s cancer diagnosis, he saw several doctors who said his raspy voice was caused by acid reflux. Tom’s mother had died a month before and he was grieving her passing, not sleeping, and feeling his stomach churn from the stress. Finally, after months of taking medication for the acid condition with no improvement in his voice, we sought another opinion. This time the doctor knew just from looking at his vocal chords that it probably was cancer, but Tom never shared this possibility with me. The doctor immediately scheduled Tom for surgery in order to remove the lesion and biopsy it.

Sitting in the waiting room while Tom was in surgery, before I knew the diagnosis, all I could do was pray and send him energy, light, and love. It was difficult to sit there in complete unknowing and powerlessness. For years I had helped my family and clients heal from equally serious ailments, yet now I could do nothing but sit and wait. After an hour and a half, the surgeon came out of the double doors and sat next to me. By the look on his face, I knew the news was grim. He didn’t soften his words but said, Your husband has cancer of the vocal chords. I removed one lesion, but a part of the tumor still remains deeply imbedded in the tissue. I can’t remove it or he may lose his voice permanently. I heard only part of what he said, something about radiation and six weeks of treatment. I began to cry just as another surgeon appeared and tried to make me feel better by saying, If I had to choose a cancer, I would choose this one. It is localized, is only one millimeter in size and can be easily eradicated. Somehow her words didn’t help. All I could take in was the C-word, which is feared by most people, including me. Most of us have lost a loved one to cancer, or at least know someone who has died of this disease. I tried to feel positive, but I couldn’t help but go to the dark side and think about my husband’s possible death.

Once we returned home that day, I thought about how to help Tom. I could contact my colleagues across the country and ask them to send him energy medicine and do distance shamanic healings. But I didn’t think I could work with him myself. We were just too close, and I might try too hard, or panic; I might do something wrong or make him worse. What if I did everything I could and he still died? I thought of all those I had loved and lost in my life, all those I couldn’t save. I tried to turn over my fear to Spirit and pray for the highest outcome for all.

On the Thursday before our Friday appointment at the Stanford Tumor Board, I received a phone message from a colleague in Los Angeles. Maria is a gifted hands-on healer whose client list reads like one of the tabloids. Many movie stars see her, as well as average citizens who are ill and need help. In her message, Maria said, I can’t think of anyone more capable of helping Tom than you. You need to do a session with him right away! Her words freed me from my fear and sent me into action. I asked Tom if he would like me to work with him, and he said yes.

I asked Tom to lie down in my home office and close his eyes. I followed the steps you will find in Part III of this text. First, I used calm, soothing words to help him relax each part of his body. Then having him breathe deeply, I helped him go into a hypnotic trance. I asked him to call on his own spirit helpers and guides to be of assistance. I also closed my eyes, relaxed into a meditative state, and called on my own spirit-healing team to show up and work with us. Three of my spirit helpers responded: Jesus, Lao Tzu and my grandmother. In Part II of the book, you will learn how to connect with your own spirit helpers by visualizing a special place in nature. I also have a sacred place, a spirit garden that I visualize in order to find peace and support from beings that love me.

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Wonderful Self-Help Book On HealingEmpowered Healer is a wonderful self-help book that will take you on a journey of healing and peace. The reader will learn how to create happiness in their life through four parts of the book: Believe You Can Heal, Receive The Power To Heal, Achieve Self-Healing, and Perceive Greater Healing. Highly Recommended.