Healing happens on various levels – emotional, physical, mental and spiritual.  So when we begin to heal, we need to address these different aspects »»]]>

The answer is “YES”.

Healing happens on various levels – emotional, physical, mental and spiritual.  So when we begin to heal, we need to address these different aspects of ourselves.

One person who understands this and travels the world over is Mr Dominique Bourlet.  Born in France, Dominique has spent the last decade honing his craft and meeting with healing Masters the world over.  In particular, he has spent extended periods in the Phillipines and Bali, Indonesia, learning from the local practitioners.

“I am an Energy Hairdresser,” declares Dominique when asked exactly what he does!

He combines various techniques and has ddeveloped a few of his own.  Two which are so innovative are ASIFU, which stands for Asian Fusion and Hello BOP, standing for body part.

If you are in need of healing:

Have you recently broken up from a long term relationship?

Have you got a long term illness in your body?

Have you recently had an accident causing your body trauma?

Need healing in relationships?

No matter what your issue,  Mr Dominique Bourlet comes highly recommended.

I recently interviewed him while on holiday in Bali!

CLICK HERE to find out more

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On Christmas Day 2004, my husband and I together with our four children set off to Phuket, Thailand for a family holiday.

We arrived in the afternoon on Christmas Day. We checked into our hotel, the Patong Beach Hotel,  unpacked and made one quick phonecall, prior to setting off to enjoy the busy streets of Phuket.

My husband and I had been to Phuket many times and had become close friends with a Thai family on our previous visits. Now we had brought our four children with us to meet this family.  We had talked about doing this for a number of years. The phonecall had been to this Thai man.  We had made arrangements to meet him the following day, being Boxing Day, in the afternoon.

The next morning I was woken by a strange movement of our bed shaking, I had a very eerie feeling. My husband was also woken by this movement. We decided to ring our Thai friend and ask if he would like to meet us in the morning instead of the afternoon. He agreed.  We woke all the children and told them to quickly get dressed, as the plans had changed. We went down for breakfast, without our money or personnel belongings, and within 30 minutes, our Thai friend arrived albeit a little early. We thought we would just be saying hello, and then meet up again for our evening meal with him and his family, but he insisted we get in his car and take us for a drive. The children hesitated as they had no money with them or even any shoes on.  I quickly replied “Don’t worry, we will only be gone for a little while, so let’s go.”

Our friend was a taxi driver and owned a tut tut which is like an enclosed small ute.  He took us out of the busy Patong strip, to a quieter location at another beach.

We stopped at a small village restaurant where we all got out and sat down. We ordered a drink each and started to catch up with our good friend.

Before long there was noise, then screaming. It was getting louder. We looked up to see people running. We had no idea what was happening, we stood up to have a look, and to ask people what was all the commotion.  Someone yelled “Run, big water.” As we looked towards the road to the left of us, to our horror it was a wall of dirty water, filled with cars debris and bodies coming our way. We ran to the car which was parked on a slight hill, which gave us enough time to run so the water would slow down. As we sat in the back of the tut tut, safe we watched behind us as the wave took many lives.

It was the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami.

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Stay tuned for the next post where Fran shares the impact of PTSD on her own life and how she has overcome it.

Have you or anyone you know suffered from PTSD?  [Share your thoughts by commenting here.]

for Part 2 – go here

Over the years this question has been a constant. One I put to groups of students often in various forms.

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What is spiritual healing?

Over the years this question has been a constant. One I put to groups of students often in various forms.

What is the relationship between mental, physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of yourself or life in general?

Responses reveal the different paradigms or perceptions people have of life. They also reveal how people process information and learning strategies or styles. For example someone who sees the world more visually, such as an artist, will most often give a pictorial explanation, while someone with a mathematical, logical preference may show the relationship graphically. Social science types may show a flow chart over time or a mind map with notes to differentiate each aspect. People with differing religions may draw a picture of Buddha meditating in his lotus position or Jesus preaching.

For me these are all intertwined. One aspect is intimately integrated with another. For example, someone who has mental toughness and yet has no relationship with God (infinite intelligence) will only ever operate on the physical plane and when his mental (and often physical) toughness fails, he will collapse.

In recent decades in Western culture the focus has been on physical and mental teaching. This can easily be seen with the typical school syllabus

• maths
• science
• reading/writing
• physical education

There has traditionally been no allowance for encouraging the development of emotional intelligence. Previously spiritual intelligence may have been encouraged through religious education in school however over the years there has been an absolute decline and largely due to the failure of the teachers in this area – ie the flawed religious leaders getting in the way of the personal relationship between the individual and God.

I am an advocate for a holistic view of life to incorporate mental, physical, emotional and spiritual teachings.  I also advocate developing your financial intelligence. How are we able to help the poor if we are one of them. Of course one person can make a difference however burn out is a natural consequence for us mere mortals who have to work to earn a living then add various volunteering tasks on to a busy work schedule, running a household, family and other day to day responsibilities.  Why not become wealthy and employ others to also help, perhaps begin your own foundation or duplicate yourself such as with the Pay It Forward phenomena.

With more money we are able to help more people. Although the purpose or passion comes first in many cases, then the money will come. Or as in the Kevin Costner movie ‘Build It and They Will Come’. While others spend the first half of their life accumulating wealth and the second half giving it away – an extreme example of this is Bill Gates of Microsoft fame, who has given millions to various charities including running his own foundation with his wife.

So spiritual healing, I believe should be right up there. When we are still and go within, we can recognize that there are usually two voices in our head – one is the inner critic who rears it’s ugly head when we are out of balance in our lives. The second is the encourager who tells us we CAN do it! Depending on your own paradigm, we may even say the good one is our guardian angel while the other is the little devil trying to get us into trouble. Anyone ever been around two little boys getting up to mischief – perhaps you can understand this one   When we listen to our higher selves, our guardian angels or our encourager we will know what to do and know if it is the right thing to do.

I am pleased to announce that very soon on this site will be available the inspiring interview with Mr Dominique Bourlet, who not only lives and breathes healing on an international scale through his practice and training workshops and his books, but also his commitment to lifelong learning and honing his craft to the absolute highest level.  For me, the reason he stands out apart from so many others is his commitment to spiritual healing.

In this interivew, Mr Bourlet, shares his story and background of his transformation into a gifted healer and his experiences with Phillipino and Balinese spiritual healers.

Full audio is now available **click here**

Alternatively, you can email me direct on cathy@cathyelliss.com if you do not wish to receive these motivational emails from me every three days.

For a taster see a short excerpt where Dominique explains his unique ASIFU technique of healing.

Your thoughts?

However I have been aware of things happening »»]]>

Hi – sorry for the absenteeism lately. I have been having some technical issues, moving country… many things happening.

However I have been aware of things happening around the world.
Today I am especially grateful for the traveling team of Canadians who are working with Living Waters doing 2 day workshops on overcoming abuse and addictions. I saw them in Bali Indonesia then they were off to the Philipines.

It was also so heartening to see so many young people so passionate not only about God but walking the talk by spending time especially with slum kids in Bali, Indonesia. Thank you guys from YWAM (Youth with a mission), you are making a difference not only for the kids but also for those adults around you who see and feel your passion.

For me I write for many different purposes:

on a professional »»]]>

To many people wirting is not nice!  To others it is therapy or sunshine on a rainy day.

For me I write for many different purposes:

on a professional level:

I love to work with a group of people for a common goal and bring together the different aspects waiting to be realised.  Often this has been via funding submissions for particular projects with a capacity building focus in the areas of heritage, culture, arts, educational, sporting and recreational.  Of course each of these has an aspect of bringing together different parts of the community and empowering minority groups such as Aboriginal people, women, or migrant groups.

Other professional writing projects I really enjoy are much smaller and could even be interviewing and writing articles about topics of interest for certain groups of people.  Over recent years this has most regularly been for business and economic development.  Soon I aim to complete at least one e-book on a series of interviews for expat business people on the island of Bali.

On a personal level I sometimes use it for therapy or to record details such as with journalling which I highly recommend.  Especially when I cannot sleep or I am too busy or both, journalling is fantastic to work out how I feel about things in my life or to de-clutter or prioritise.

Putting pen to paper or these days more often fingers to the keyboard has definite benefits!