#2: Moselle
"Any kind of prayer is about surrendering the 'how.'"
I see health and healing as a grounding space for truth’s “pathless land,” a domain where practices of intuition, resonance, and reverence are sanctified through our physical being. To be “healthy” is to serve as a responsible caretaker for your body’s instrument of grace and will, and therein to remember your true nature, why your distinct frequency is needed here, at this point in time, and how you chose this earth plane assignment. If you can take these as first principles, stay with me….
For context, much of what follows was gleaned over many health “crises” throughout childhood and adolescence, culminating in what approximated a durational NDE, in the form of a severe traumatic brain injury, as a teenager. I spent several years in the folds between worlds, and from that state, learned to travel “elsewhere,” only to again and again come back home—cycles which, in retrospect, were initiating me into more dynamic ways of being present in life and creation.
After over a decade spent touching into therapies Western and non-Western in orientation, what I have found is that because of the high pitch at which I run my energy, it is both extremely valuable to have a daily physical practice that anchors me in my body, and simultaneously, the effects of any single healing measure have proven to be only temporary when detached from a more spiritual corollary. The practices I will be referencing here are invested in seeding energetic self-mastery and self-expansion amid transitions in mass consciousness, as imperatives for our future-becoming.
Resources & Skill-Building
For energetic hygiene
Energetic hygiene—or the whoosh you feel of you returning to yourself after what can be a vast dispersal—fosters equanimity, freedom, peace. It also calls for rigorous training, as you would any muscle.
A miraculous gift for me has been Maryam Hasnaa’s exceptional teachings on this topic and many others within her community. Maryam’s emphasis on nuance, skill-building, and resourcing from nature has empowered me to redesign structures in my aura while releasing cords and programs at the subtlest of registers. And the refinements keep going with every lesson and pop quiz that composes a life.
Maryam’s work has been vital for me, but many teachers have mystery schools, including Ken Jover, Hadar Cohen, and Leila Sadeghee, on The Shift Network or Gaia Channel—not to mention going to Integral Yoga and Advaita Vedanta materials directly. See what speaks to you: I use Lee Harris’ monthly updates to cross-check my own energy reads, and Steve Nobel’s guided meditations for collaborations across realms. As Lee discusses, attunement will take different shapes for different people. The joy is in recognizing and claiming your own tools.
For breathwork
I learned about Maryam, as well as Lee and Steve, through my friend Andrea, an artist, intuitive, coach, and healer who leads amazing Breathwork (David Elliott) sessions. There is plenty to say about the wonders of Breathwork, but I will leave it at: Breathwork allows you to move through the layers of your physical, emotional, and energy bodies and make contact with your team-in-spirit by accessing the full intensity of your life force.
Some Breathwork groups meet in person, though virtual options can be just as fruitful. Sharing a sample and explanation from Erin Telford, and you can also do David’s album and other tracks on Spotify. You’ll know when you need it.
Practical Magic
Setting your energy
Before going on the subway or to a party with lots of people, try giving your chakra system instructions on handling that experience, even without knowing how exactly they will be implemented. Any kind of prayer is about surrendering the “how.” So notice the difference when you create an intention for entering an environment, flag the parts of you that need to be “on,” and turn the others off. Cyndi Dale’s chakra and subtle body manuals can be beneficial for visualizations.
Not complaining
I was quite struck by something Taganyahu Swaby said here about it being extremely difficult and extremely important not to complain; that you can always complain to your guides and ancestors without vocalizing those feelings openly to fellow humans; and that complaining can be harder to give up than sugar (and high-sugar fruit). This is not about being righteous or punitive but cultivating a squeaky-clean interior to encompass your devotion.
Going back to the heart
Heart-centered approaches are a major theme right now. Very often, when we seem lost in the bowels of the mind, we have actually evacuated the heart. If you don’t know what to do next, ask: where is my heart? Let your heart give you a yes, no, or neutral (check back later) answer. Being able to dissolve the calcifying numbness and heaviness of fear, anxiety, and despair to make decisions from heart, not head—and you can start with a pericardium stretch, first—will become increasingly crucial to our nascent heart consciousness.
Phone-less park time
Basic but important: please, please do not sit in a park to just go on your phone. I say this, and of course we all do it, we assume that the trees are perfectly okay with standing tall, absorbing and transmuting our toxins for us. De-installing that tendency can be as simple as staring out into space and become as nuanced as an appreciation of how the plant and wildlife that surrounds you, or that you choose to nurture on your own, harbors specific medicine and instructions. I like Asia Suler’s writings and videos on “mirrors in the earth” and dialoguing with nature, even and especially in ecologically compromised circumstances.
Corporeal Remedies
Asana yoga
For Westerners reared in secular traditions, asana yoga is often a first hook into the deeper energetics of body-as-vessel. And it can, with consistency, furnish you with a beautiful container. For the past few years I have mainly practiced Katonah, a newer framework; generally, I am most drawn to the Ashtanga and Iyengar lineages and to alignment and mantra. Eddie Stern at Broome Street Ganesh Temple has a $10 weekly class on Wednesday evenings for under-30s (a lot of NYU students). For Qigong: Mimi Kuo-Deemer, hands down.
NAET therapy
For allergies and persistent physiological imbalances, especially with hormones, NAET (or NAET combined with acupuncture) has helped modulate how my energy field reacts to certain variables. If Klinghardt Autonomic Response Testing and other kinds of bodywork show you your reactivity flashpoints, NAET enables you to treat them, though this can take some commitment, and again, there are always stages to it.
Supplements
* This is not medical advice—notes from hop-on, hop-off trial and error… *
Monolaurin weekly or after a night out for immunity, same with Augmented NAC. Most urban dwellers are Vitamin-D deficient: recently I’ve been back on this DK compound. Glutagenics for rebuilding stomach lining (in liquid—water, broth—daily AM). Metalipoates (ALA) post-carb. B-12, methylated. For liver repair, Liposomal Glutathione packets by Altrient are the gold standard but mostly unavailable/overly expensive in the US—there’s this option from Cymbiotika, Phos-cholines, serines with Ubiquinol; Berberine; Dandelion tea. For Magnesium, I like it glycinated and as a powder. You can get these at Vitahealth Pharmacy on the UES, and online.
To aid digestion (fundamental for honing intuition): Gerolsteiner mineral water, priced decently at Trader Joe’s; NOW brand SuperEnzymes alongside their Red Mineral Algae as a prebiotic to “till the soil.” For something stronger, people like Bentonite Clay (diatomaceous earth), I do one capsule of Oxy-Powder with lemon water. I’m still configuring a parasite protocol… Also, just carving out time for screen-less chewing!
Etheric Remedies
Bach Flower Essences
I used Bach flowers, primarily Rescue Remedy, quite often as a kid, though it took me much longer to research and appreciate the extent to which essences address frequency dynamics at their root. The Bach system of 38 essences avows totality, yet other philosophies suggest that as our planet changes, we can call on a wider range of botanical life for its delicately targeted properties. I love these offerings from Resonance Apothecary and Alaskan Essences.
Flower medicine is playful and immediate—see what compels you, all the while bearing in mind that plants are relational, and relationships take work. Meet a plant as you would a person of authority: over a period, with respect and an openness to hearing what comes through. If you can’t obtain an essence within its window of relevance, you can also make a photo of a flower your phone background for a week or so and work with its vibration that way.
Crystals from Pink Heart Healing
As with plants and environments, you can also tap into crystalline energy remotely from a picture. Gem “elixirs” can likewise be excellent delivery mechanisms, such as Shungite for EMF, Aquamarine for courage, Orange Calcite for sacral activation, Kunzite for angelic contact. When dealing with energy blocks or malefic exposures, salt baths (Magnesium Chloride) and Hematite, Black Tourmaline, Jasper.
Archetypes
For apprehending the “why” and “what” of your outer existence in its complexity, and when embarking on shadowwork, refer to the 7 Laws of the Essenes, which I discovered again recently after studying them as a child. Star Parans readings to examine another tier of your celestial map, along with Vedic astrology for granular insight into the cyclical phases of your present incarnation.
That’s it for today…thank you for reading and to Lily for inviting me to contribute. Reach me here with questions :)
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Moselle (@mosellle) is a writer and visual artist currently living between Zürich and New York City. Read the full version of her post here.
