Thirty years after founding The Center of Being, Inc. and creating the Integrated Energy Therapy® system co-directors Stevan J. Thayer and Carol B. Armitage are stepping back from the spotlight. As they do, they are empowering IET® students who have transformation as part of their soul’s mission to help us bring IET into the future. Under Divine guidance, Angel Ariel has provided us with an evolution plan for IET that ensures its purity, success and longevity. As Stevan and Carol release their responsibilities and shift to Emeritus status, we are excited to share Angel Ariel’s IET evolution plan with you.

First and foremost, The Center of Being, Inc. will remain a vibrant and healthy company under the leadership of Barbara Stepniak.  Barbara has been the managing director for The Center for the past several years and has done an amazing job keeping the office running smoothly, keeping all IET products stocked and available to students and Masters, answering questions about IET, and efficiently resolving issues within the IET community that arise. Carol and Stevan have continued to work closely with Barbara as she takes on more and more of the responsibilities. Carol and Stevan plan to transfer full ownership of The Center of Being, Inc. to Barbara over the next few years after which Carol and Stevan retire and Barbara will fulfill her soul’s mission and become the owner and director of The Center of Being, Inc.

While Barbara and the angels will have sole authority on all IET policy decisions, you will continue to be the heart of the IET system. Whenever you use IET to support you in your life’s self-healing spiritual journey, or offer your services as an IET practitioner to support others in their self-healing spiritual journey, or fulfill your soul’s mission to teach IET classes and empower other IET students, you are the heart of IET and helping the angels fulfill their mission to heal the world one heart at a time.

IET has always been evolving under Angel Ariel’s guidance. When, in 1996 we began to teach IET classes to help the angels, Stevan was the only IET Master-Instructor and he taught all of the IET Basic, Intermediate and Advanced level classes. Then in 1998, following Angel Ariel’s guidance, Stevan took on the role of IET Trainer, taught the IET Master-Instructor classes and empowered students to become IET Master-Instructors so that they could help us meet the student demand for IET Basic, Intermediate and Advanced level classes. As the IET system grew, in 2002 Stevan took on the role of IET Guardian, taught the IET Trainers class and empowered a few top IET Master-Instructors to become IET Trainers so that they could help us meet the student demand for IET Master-Instructor level classes. We are indebted to the wonderful contributions of our first IET Trainers Karen Puglia and Maria Peterson and are blessed with an ever-growing community of IET Trainers. We now have a worldwide community of IET Trainers who are not only teaching IET Basic, Intermediate, Advanced and Master-Instructor level classes but are also teaching them in languages like Dutch, French and Hungarian.

Up until 2016, Stevan served as the only person empowered to teach the new IET Trainers. Starting in 2017 Stevan finalized his IET Trainer level curriculum and following Angel Ariel’s evolution plan he stopped teaching the IET Trainer level class.

We know that Angel Ariel and all of the Healing Angels will guide, direct, surround and protect all IET students, Master-Instructors, Trainers and Guardians, and ensure that the IET system will continue to evolve and bring us all to pure joy and beyond. We feel honored to have served as the conduit for shaping the gift of angelic energy and wisdom into this amazing IET energy modality. Working with the angels’ energy for the past 30 years has blessed and transformed our lives. We hope and pray that it will bless and transform yours as well.

Are you ready to improve all aspects of your life,  raise your vibration, release all limitations and create the life of your dreams? Is your soul calling you to be of higher service as you interact with people in your daily life? Are you ready to become the Master of your life?

I became a Master-Instructor in 2010. At that time I did not have any desire to teach the IET classes. This class was all about myself and moving through the life events I was facing. As a single mom going through a divorce after 14 years, losing both parents to cancer and tragically losing three siblings all in a very short time frame, I was feeling like a lost soul. This class gave me exactly what I needed to move through and heal from those events. As my energy field expanded, I was able to focus on my reach and understand I was to be of service to others even if it was not through teaching. I walked away understanding that this class is all about the mastery of the IET® energy. With the full expansion of the IET energy ray I could bring an even stronger level of IET energy as a practitioner to my self-treatment, absentee treatments and client sessions.

We all have a vision of what we are meant to do in the world which is called our Soul’s Mission but beyond our vision is the angels’ even greater and grander vision for us in the world – something we call our REACH. Wouldn’t you love to learn the ways to identify and claim that REACH? That is what the class is all about!! The more you work with the techniques from the class the better you will understand your Soul’s Mission and Reach.

According to Angel Ariel, all life follows a divine blueprint that scientists have labeled DNA. The Master-Instructor attunement works with the 6th pair of your 12-Strand DNA. It will expand, realign and restructure this pair of your DNA which brings you into alignment with the Divine. This activation also gives you the ability to activate the DNA of others and attune them to the Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Levels.

So, of course, in this class you will focus on optimizing your 12-Strand DNA, which allows you to open your energetic pathways of manifestation to support you in living the life that you are destined to live and giving you an opportunity to be in vibrational alignment with your dreams and desires. In addition, you will learn new techniques that will enable you to help family, friends and clients live their visions as well.

There is plenty of time for playing in the IET energy during the class. You will practice giving and receiving attunements, as well as learn the special eight IET Master-Instructor techniques. These were all created to open your channels of manifestation, clear your resistance to manifesting your reach and bringing your dreams alive in the world. These are some of the most powerful techniques that I include into my daily self-care and self-healing practice.

• 12-Strand DNA Alignment Technique is perfect for those times we feel “stuck” in life or feel impatient and want life to accelerate. It brings about an expansion of the “Four E’s” (Energetic Potential, Envisioning, Embracing and Enacting) to support you in living your soul’s mission with ease and with joy.
• IET Powerburst technique is a starburst of angelic energy that along with the sacred geometric symbols can be used for additional healing support during a self-treatment, absentee treatment or client session, whenever additional healing support is needed. It can be integrated into a complete IET session or as a stand-alone technique.
• IET I-Chi technique is a combination of a 12-Strand DNA Alignment and a heartbeam. It is designed to align and clear your energetic channel from the Soulstar to the 1st chakra and bring about an expansion of the “Four E’s” to support you in living your soul’s mission.
• “IET Blessing Bowl” is a technique that helps you manifest your heart’s desires with ease and joy. You can also use this technique to help your clients manifest their heart’s desires. It is a special bowl that you will use, along with the power of your Master-Instructor level attunement, and the angels’ help to manifest your Reach or any aspect of your heart’s desire!!
• “Heart-Hug” Technique is designed to support you in opening up your channels for giving and receiving love.
• “Sacred Heartnet” expands the power of the Advanced Level IET Heartnet technique by adding both the IET Heartlink Sacred Geometric Symbol and the IET Heart-Hug. The Sacred Heartnet technique is a wonderful way to bring to you the people who, through the 5th DNA pair, are members of your soul cluster and who need to receive the gifts of service that you offer.
• IET Energy Ray Amplification Technique teaches you to draw or visualize an IET sacred geometric symbol, with which you will instantly bring in, or “invoke” the power of the IET energy ray associated with that symbol.
• IET Master-Instructor Session provides IET Master-Instructor practitioners with a wide variety of powerful techniques that they can include in their self-treatments and client sessions.

Once you receive your Master-Level attunement and you then choose to teach, you will not only be empowered to attune others but, more importantly, you will be empowered to re-attune yourself anytime you want. Each time you re-attune yourself you “Open the IET Energy Ray,” which greatly expands your human energy field and increases your capacity to channel the angelic IET Energy Rays. The more you use the attunement process, the more you expand your human energy field.

If you are ready to Reach for the Stars and Bring Your Vision to Life, improve all aspects of your being, raise your vibration, release all limitations, create the life of your dreams, be of higher service as you interact with people in your daily life and become the Master of your life to a higher degree, then the Master-Instructor Level class is for you!!!!

I once read that as you travel along the spiritual path, it is helpful to record your experiences as sort of “bread crumbs” along the way so that you don’t forget the journey that you have taken. These are some of the bread crumbs from my work with the Full IET WAG Power Healing Process that was written in February 2008.

I have been using the Full IET WAG Power Healing Process two or three times a week and the 5-Minute IET WAG Healing Process almost every day. I find that after several weeks of continuous practice that I do not have to do the entire process to get the entire beneficial effect. All I have to do now is focus on my heart center, heartlink to the angels, bring my awareness into my heart and focus on the experience of joy. I don’t so much focus on the idea of joy, but rather on a tangible feeling of heat and pressure that forms in my heart center.

I observe this feeling with my mind’s awareness as I slowly inhale and exhale. If thoughts come into my mind, I just let them go and focus my mind back to my heart center. I spend about 15 to 30 minutes of time with this process and as I do the feeling in my heart becomes stronger and stronger. Thoughts seem to stop on their own accord. I become aware of how wonderful everything is. I am filled with joy. I am filled with peace. My Zen Master’s words “everything in this moment is perfect and complete, lacking nothing” reflect so beautifully what I am experiencing. It is not that time seems to stand still, but rather that time is not even an issue. I feel currents of energy surge through my body, down my arms and legs. I am filled with life.

As I sit looking out a window, I am aware of birds, trees, clouds, mountains, and sky. I am more feeling their presence, feeling their beauty, and feeling their perfection, than I am thinking about it. While my thinking mind is aware that it is very cold outside, with little food for the animals, short daylight hours, and harsh winter weather, my awareness is only of the perfection, beauty, peace, and rightness of it all.

I have a strong and deep desire to share this energy and experience with others. I heartlink to all of my family, then my friends, then to all IET students, to all future IET students, then to all people in the world, and then to the planet itself. I let my experience of Joy radiate out to touch all of these lives. Then I bring the energy that returns in gratitude back from them into me. I repeat this process several times, an expression of God loving God through two people (in this case it is as though I am one person and the rest of the world feels like one person).

I then am profoundly aware that it is not “me” and “them” but “us”, we are one. I hold the feeling that I am sharing the energy of joy with myself. Then the feeling shifts to there is only me. Not the “only me” as in the looking out for number one – egocentric -narcissistic view, but in the unbelievable awareness that the feeling in my heart, the “Me” that I transform into when the small “I” is not there, the eternal me, the spiritual me, my soul, is the same thing as everything. This is all truly Me but not me at all. I feel such love, such as caring, such compassion for all that is. I want to hug everything. I want to comfort everything. I want to take away all suffering and all hurt.

I find that after about 30 minutes, it becomes difficult to contain the very high levels of energy and it becomes somewhat uncomfortable (sort of like a runner who has reached their limit – while they feel wonderful they are exhausted). I also find that many wonderful creative thoughts arise spontaneously out of this state of unity. My mind is flooded with insights and ideas and my ego-mind leaps in and starts to organize and record and share them. I also find that my mind begins to think about all the things I still need to do that day and I find myself drawn back into doing.

I do notice that while the profound feeling of peace lessens when I return to doing, there is still a tangible feeling of peace and joy present. It is hard to put into words but it is sort of like rather than just doing, I am in a state of being that is doing things.

When Angel Ariel blessed us with the IET Attunement Process she explained that IET attunements are positive, powerful, and permanent enhancements to a person’s 12 Strand Spiritual DNA that enables the attuned student to channel one of the IET energy rays (the Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, Master-Instructor or Trainer energy ray). The IET attunements are actually performed by the angels working through an IET Master-Instructor or Trainer who has already been attuned to that IET level. Angel Ariel explained that the angels cannot attune students directly, and Master-Instructors and Trainers cannot attune students without the angels working through them. When the angels perform the IET attunement they utilize the physical layer of the IET Master-Instructor’s or Trainer’s Human Energy Field to pass the attunement vibration to the student’s physical layer where it enhances their 12 Strand Spiritual DNA. The IET attunement cannot be done without this physical layer to physical layer transfer. The IET Master-Instructor or Trainer must be within 1 foot of the student’s body in order to perform an IET attunement, therefore, IET attunements cannot be done remotely. When I first received this information I was skeptical about Angel Ariel’s “in person” requirement for IET attunements so I did some experiments. I attuned several students using the “in person” method by placing my hands directly on the students during the attunements. Then I measured the students’ Human Energy Fields using both dowsing rods and my own clairsentient abilities and confirmed that the students had indeed received the attunement. I then attuned several additional students using the “in person” method by placing my hands about 1 foot away from the students’ bodies during the attunements. When I measured these students’ Human Energy Fields I confirmed that these students had indeed received the attunement. Then I attuned several additional students using the “remote” method in which I stood several feet away from the students, heartlinked to the students, and performed the attunement on an imaginary version of the student in front of me. When I measured the students’ Human Energy Fields I found that none of the students had received the attunement, thus, confirming what Angel Ariel had told us. I then attuned these students using the in-person method and confirmed they had indeed received the IET attunement.

In January 2009, I channeled a message from Angel Ariel about something she called Homecoming. According to Angel Ariel Homecoming is a return to the mission of your soul and the activity of bringing your sacred gifts into the world. Homecoming is built upon the activity of consciously aligning yourself with the ever-increasing vibration of love and spending more and more time in the Dimension of Love. This involves periodically turning your attention away from seeking worldly treasures and towards seeking the sacred treasures within. Inward seeking requires less of the doing and thinking associated with worldly seeking, and more of being and feeling.

Ever since I channeled Ariel’s message about Homecoming, I have been practicing her Homecoming process. The Homecoming routine I follow is as follows. I encourage you to try it for yourself.

1. I sit quietly (often outdoors in nature).
2. I Heartlink to Angel Ariel and all the Healing Angels.
3. I offer my prayer of invitation to the Healing Angels.
4. Using the WAG 2 process activation, I Heartlink to the 10 layers of the World Angel Grid.
5. Using the WAG 3 process activation, I touch my “Joy Stone” and I bless all the people in my life (those I like and those I don’t like).
6. Using the WAG 4 process activation, I tap my heart center 10 times to awaken my “Heartseeds of Compassion” and I let the energy of compassion radiate from my heart and flow through my body.
7. Then I simply focus my attention inside of my body and feel the energy. Sometimes I sit focused inwardly for 5 minutes and other times I sit for up to 30 minutes. My awareness of this energy generally follows the progression that I have outlined below.

Phase 1 – Tingling Sensation: As I focus on the energy of compassion, at first I feel the slight tingling sensation of the energy in my hands and arms. As I focus my awareness on this tingling I become aware of the same loving compassionate energy tingling in my feet and legs. Then as I continue to focus on the tingling in my arms and legs I become aware of this same energy tingling throughout my body.

Phase 2 – Wavelike Flow Within Me: As I focus on simply feeling this energy (without analyzing it or thinking much about it) the feeling shifts from the sensation of tingling to the sensation of a flow like movement, that I can best describe as being like waves of energy that are moving everywhere within me.

Phase 3 – Wavelike Flow Extended Beyond Me: The more I focus on feeling these waves of energy the more I become aware that these waves of energy are not only flowing within me but they are flowing out of me into the world and flowing from the world back into me. The longer I focus on this flow the less sure I am of where my body ends and the plants, trees, birds, other people, the Earth, and even the angels begins.

Phase 4 – Unity: As I continue to focus my awareness on the flow of energy I lose the ability to separate “things” from each other. Everything in our world, in fact, everything in the universe, is simply a flow of the vibrating loving compassionate energy, and while our thinking mind loves to separate things, this energy has no separation. It is the unity of all things because it is all things. I am aware that I am not something separate from this flow of energy but rather an expression of it. What I call Stevan is simply a temporary convergence of this energy, like an intersection point on an infinite grid.

Phase 5 – Spiritual Surrender: As I continue to sit feeling the energy of compassion that is the fabric of the universe I have a knowing that there is infinite intelligence and purpose in this energy and that everything in this universe has a place, function, and purpose. That this energy subtly directs, almost as through invitation, the actions of all things, and if we simply surrender and (practicing discernment and operating within our limits) allow this flow to guide us, we will not only live in harmony and peace, but we will meet all the right people, in the right places, under the right circumstances, to live our dreams and fulfill our heart’s desires.

Distractions: As I sit in Homecoming and allow my awareness of the energy of compassion within me to bring me through these 5 phases, my thinking mind (which likes to remain in control) will often try to distract me.

To Do List: It may bring to my awareness things that I need to do that are more important than sitting and experiencing the energy within me. When this happens I simply thank my thinking mind and promise I will deal with these things after I am finished with my Homecoming time.

Creativity: Another distraction is creativity. As I sit in Homecoming I am very open to creative ideas, as though I was tapping into a source of creativity. Wonderful creative ideas simply spring into my mind. At first, I stopped the homecoming process and went to my computer to record the ideas. Now, I keep a pad of paper or voice recorder beside me, and I have learned that if I simply let the creative ideas go and focus on feeling the energy until I am done with my Homecoming process, I will easily remember the ideas and can write them down at the end of the process.

Are we done yet: As I sit, my mind keeps wondering what time it is and whether we are done yet. I have found that setting a gentle timer or alarm to signal me when it is time for me to end the process is very helpful. Then if my mind wants to know if we are done, I can let go of the question and return to feeling the energy knowing that my alarm will tell me when I am done.

Benefits: The benefits I have experienced from practicing Homecoming are easy to feel in my life but hard to describe. There is a heightened sense of peace, harmony, and purpose in life. Things seem to be easier and just flow. By spending time “just being” in Homecoming, then after Homecoming “doing” became more efficient and accomplishes more. Life simply feels better.

The Power of the 5-Minute Empowerment Session By IET Trainer Michelle McCarthy

More than once I have heard students say they don’t use the 5-minute empowerment session that we learn in the Basic Level class. It surprises me every time. How can this be?! This technique that you will find on page 11 of your Basic manual is by far one of my favorites to use! As the words say in the manual, “The IET empowerment session is a simple yet powerful way to heal the limiting effects of the past and imprint an expectation for empowerment and expansion in the future. It can be done as a self-treatment, facilitated client session, or as an absentee session.”

This technique does exactly what those words say! It helps me remain positive and open to the great things that Spirit has in store for me and with a sense of ease and grace. I love it because it’s quick and easy. With all of the demands on our time today, it’s wonderful to know I can spend 5 minutes on me that will not only have a positive impact in MY life, but it’s also good for everyone around me. When I feel good I have more to give. The 5-minute empowerment session makes me feel good!

I enjoy starting my day with a 5-minute empowerment session. I love to do one when I’m feeling overwhelmed by all the demands of my day. This is such a wonderful tool to help other people as well. I love to send a 5-minute empowerment session to a client before s/he comes to the office, especially those coming in for the first time. When I’m preparing to teach, I send an empowerment session to my students the evening before a class. I will send a 5-minute empowerment to a list of people while I am doing one for myself. Sometimes I’m very specific with my list; sometimes I ask the angels to send this energy of love and light to all beings who may be hurting and in need of healing energy. I have finished a full client session by adding in an empowerment session at the end! This is the technique I use when I receive the e-mail from The Center of Being with the list of people who have requested Angelic Support on our website www.learniet.com (All Master Instructors are invited to participate in this) This is the technique I share when I do health expos as well.

If I am going to be faced with a challenging situation, when I know I am headed into a meeting with a group of ‘less than’ like minded people, I call upon the 5-minute empowerment session and utilize it for myself and everyone who will be present – asking for the highest and best good for all concerned. This little technique is amazingly powerful, simple to use and when I teach, I encourage my students to use it daily.

Pets love this work too. They love us unconditionally and their lives are so intricately intertwined with ours. They work very hard for us. Sending an empowerment session to a beloved fur child is a wonderful gift for them. I have sent 5-minute empowerment sessions to pets during hurricanes and tornadoes, to pets in animal shelters and to friends’ pets whenever asked.

I have so many stories I could tell about this one technique. I encourage you to take this 5-minute empowerment session and use it daily on yourself and all of your loved ones! I would love to hear your success-ories.

Let the true colors of your Soul’s Mission shine! by Stevan J Thayer

As I write this article the fall foliage here in Woodstock, NY is shining brilliantly. The trees in the Catskill Mountains are ablaze with color. As I look at this panorama of color I realize that we can each learn a lot from trees about shining the divine light of our Soul’s Mission brightly in the world.

Trees naturally display their fall colors. They don’t fear shining brightly, nor do they say “this year I am going to outshine that tree over there.” They are not ashamed if their colors are not brilliant and they are not proud if their colors are brilliant. They simply are what they are. Their brilliant color is the natural byproduct of sunlight reflecting off of the true nature of their leaves. Each tree reveals what they are, without holding back. And in being what they are, when the time is right, their true colors can shine forth whether or not anyone notices or appreciates them.

We are metaphorically like the trees. When we are ready, the light of divinity reflects off of our Heart Star and we begin to envision and understand our Soul’s Mission.

According to Angel Ariel: “Each soul incarnates with a very specific mission. Each soul works with their angels, teachers, guides, and ancestors to design the perfect agenda for this lifetime. This agenda includes the type of early childhood setting and training that best provides the opportunity to live the soul’s true mission. Each Soul’s Mission is not only important for the evolution of that individual soul but is also important for the unfolding of the Divine Plan. As each fulfills its mission, that soul plays an important role in a higher plan that affects all souls.”

The energetic potential for our Soul’s Mission is encoded in our Soul Star (our 8th chakra) and our 12-Strand DNA is perfectly suited to support our envisioning, embracing, and enacting our Soul’s Mission. Everything we need to enact our Soul’s Mission is already within us. All we have to do is envision it, embrace it and finally enact it. Enacting our Soul’s Mission may take almost any form like creating works of art, writing, managing a business, offering acts of kindness, parenting, teaching, cooking, ministering, making music, or any form which expresses our heart’s desires and our soul’s truth.

The real question is when we envision our Soul’s Mission, can we embrace it? And once we embrace it, can we enact it and let the light of our piece of the Divine Plan shine brilliantly into the world?

As we can readily see every autumn here in the Catskill Mountains, the trees don’t resist letting their true colors shine into the world. Unfortunately, sometimes we do.

We may think that the reason that we hold ourselves back from envisioning, embracing, and enacting a piece of our Soul’s Mission is that we fear that we will fail. While we may indeed have this fear, according to Angel Ariel, what we fear even more is that we will be magnificent beyond our wildest dreams. Even though we may believe that our Soul’s Mission will have a positive impact on the world, we can fear that once we let the true colors of our Soul’s Mission shine brilliantly in the world, we cannot control how the world will react to it.

I have experienced this fear. Channeling Angel Ariel’s wisdom is a major part of my Soul’s Mission. I love channeling Angel Ariel’s wisdom and I loved working with my co-author Dr. Linda Sue Nathanson to channel Angel Ariel’s wisdom in response to Linda’s questions for the book Interview with an Angel. However, as the book was about to be sent to the publisher and would soon appear on bookshelves around the country, my level of fear was so high that I felt I could not allow the book to be published with my name on it. I feared what people would do if they knew that I received messages from an angel. Would I be ostracized? Would I be attacked? Would I be killed? These fears and more flooded through me. I even had a repeated nightmare in which I was killed while doing an Interview with an Angel book signing.

With the energy of fear dominating my life, I asked one of my IET students if I could schedule an IET session with them. As they were doing an Advanced Level IET Soul Star Clearing on me, I had a sudden flashback to a previous lifetime in which I literally had to make the choice, deny my spiritual truth or be killed. In that lifetime I denied my spiritual truth and I lived a long but regret-filled life. This flashback not only gave me valuable insight into my fear but it triggered a large release of fear from my 9th IET cellular memory area (kidneys).

I clearly saw that I had brought into this lifetime the subconscious belief that expressing my spiritual truth into the world would cause me to be killed. I also knew that I had come into this lifetime in order to try to master and overcome this belief. Between the suppressed energy of fear I released during the IET session, and the insight I gained about my fear, I was able to leave my name on the book. As it turns out it was one of the most important and best decisions of my life. It also turns out that this expression of my Soul’s Mission has been lovingly received around the world.

According to Angel Ariel, our soul speaks to us through our heart’s desires, longings, and passions.

We each know in our hearts of hearts what we are passionate about. It is something we love to do. It is an expression of love. It moves our souls. We are enlivened by it. It is a positive gift to the world. We also know when it is time to enact our Soul’s Mission and let the brilliance of our Soul’s Mission shine.

IET offers several techniques that can empower you to envision, embrace and enact your Soul’s Mission.

Soul Star Clearing: The Advanced Level IET Soul Star Clearing technique is a wonderful way to envision and embrace your Soul’s Mission as you clear your resistance to enacting it. Advanced-level IET students can easily do the Soul Star Clearing technique on themselves. It is something I like to do on a regular basis as part of my IET self-care routine. Others can receive IET Soul Star Clearings during IET sessions offered by Advanced Level (or above) IET Practitioners.

Karma Clearing: The IET Karma Clearing Process (Steps to Transformation -Step 3) is an ideal way to clear any karmic fear that could limit your ability to envision, embrace and enact your Soul’s Mission. You can either participate in a Step 3 Event facilitated by an IET Master-Instructor, or you can listen to the “Clearing your Karma” audio program offered by The Center of Being.

Vision Board: Building an IET Vision Board (as described on page 6 of the IET Advanced Level Guide) is a great way to let your soul speak to you enabling you to clarify your heart’s desires and envision your Soul’s Mission.

Optimizing your 12-Strand DNA by Stevan J Thayer

Optimizing your 12-Strand DNA can make your dreams come true that may unfold in your life when you are in need of them and spiritually ready for them. These aspects can be at any level from the 1st DNA pair (physical) to the 6th DNA pair (unity with the Divine) and will unfold at the divine right time and in the divine right way to support you in living your soul’s mission and manifesting your reach.

IET Master-Instructor Practitioners have the ability to optimize their own, and their client’s, 12-Strand DNA by focusing angelic energy rays using special IET sacred geometric symbols. Having your 12-Strand DNA optimized can facilitate this unfolding process by creating the optimal energetic environment helping the aspects of your DNA blueprint unfold that are perfect for the current point of your spiritual evolution.

A simple analogy might help to better understand this. Imagine a hiker taking a journey through the woods. The hiker starts out with a map and has a path plotted. They bring the equipment they need to easily make the journey along the planned path. Then somewhere along the journey, the hiker deviates from the path they had originally planned. They end up having to climb a mountain in order to continue their journey. If we were to optimize their journey at this point we would give them an updated map based on where they were at the time and provide them with some additional equipment to help them climb the mountain. Then later in their journey, we might find they were unexpectedly at a river that they need to cross in order to continue their journey. If we optimize their journey at this point we could provide them with an updated map and a raft.

Since you already have encoded within your 12-Strand DNA everything you need for your life’s journey, when your 12-Strand DNA is optimized by Master-Instructor level angelic IET energy, aspects of yourselves that will help you on your life’s spiritual journey can blossom in your life. When this happens, you can discover abilities like writing or teaching that you never knew you had. You can also discover new interests and causes that you become passionate about. You can draw to you people, places, settings, and circumstances that will guide and help you. You can meet soul mates and soul buddies. And you can overcome fears that have been blocking you as you discover strengths and abilities that you never knew you had.

12-Strand DNA optimization is an ongoing spiritual process. Like the hiker in the woods, as you progress through your life’s journey and encounter new and different situations, having your 12-Strand DNA optimized in each situation creates the ideal energetic environment to support the needed aspects of yourself to blossom.

Simply put, having your 12-Strand DNA optimized by the special IET Master-Instructor-only techniques can open the doorways to your divine destiny in this lifetime and help make your dreams come true.

IET – Your Journey to Joy by Stevan J Thayer

When I first channeled this IET treatment sequence from Angel Ariel I was skeptical that this sequence could actually make me feel joy. You see, at that time my life, I was anything but joy-filled. In fact, I had suppressed so many emotions that I had become an emotional flatliner. I seriously doubted that I was capable of feeling joy. Drawn by the hope that Angel Ariel was right, I attuned a few close energy worker friends and shared the IET treatment sequence with them. Then we gave each other IET sessions to see what would happen.

I discovered that each time I received an IET session, I felt the heat from the IET practitioner’s hands, I felt tingling within my body and I released emotions that I didn’t even know that I had suppressed within me. After the session, I felt better, lighter, calmer, and a bit more hopeful, but I didn’t seem to be experiencing the joy that I was expecting.

As I received more and more IET sessions (both as self-treatments as well as treatments I received from IET practitioners), I continued to feel better, lighter, calmer, and more hopeful and my life began to improve. I also began to feel a new sensation in my heart-center that was hard to describe. The feeling was subtle and quite enjoyable. It created a stillness and a sense of well-being in my heart-center. A sort of soft smile in my heart.

Even though when I went back into the world this feeling in my heart-center disappeared, I knew I was hooked on IET. I really liked the way that my life was improving after I received IET sessions as a client, or gave IET sessions as a practitioner, and I was drawn to re-experiencing this new feeling in my heart-center, even if at the time it appeared only temporary.

I did not know then that this wonderful subtle feeling in my heart-center was the joy that Angel Ariel was talking about. You see I was expecting to be overwhelmed with a feeling of joy so powerful that I could not contain it and it would make me laugh uncontrollably with joy. So I did not recognize this subtle feeling as joy.

I have come to understand that joy is always inside of you. The IET treatment sequence does not cause joy, rather, it opens up your ability to feel the joy that was always there and will always be there. The more that IET opens you to experience this joy within, the more that this joy will be part of your daily life.

Much to my delight I discovered another way that IET lets me experience Angel Ariel’s promise of joy. It happens when I teach IET classes. Specifically, during the IET attunement process. When I am channeling the angelic IET attunement energy down my Angelic Heartlink through my heart-center, down my arms, and into my student, the joy in my heart-center is so strong that I can’t restrain it and I often laugh out loud with joy (which is a bit embarrassing so I warn my students ahead of time that this may happen).

My “IET Journey to Joy” continued when I received the Higher Steps to Transformation from Angel Ariel. I learned that the Cherubs were the angels of Pure Joy. In Transformational Step 9: Pure Joy, I learned how to work with the Cherubs to help them weave an energetic layer of Pure Joy into the World Angel Grid and use the power of “blessing” to raise the vibration of my heart-center to the vibration of Pure Joy. Building on my previous experiences with joy through giving/receiving IET sessions and attuning IET students, the Step 9: Pure Joy Process brought me to the most incredible experience of joy yet. Each time I use my “Joy Stone” to re-activate the Step 9: Pure Joy Process my heart-center fills with joy, and my face involuntarily smiles, as I chuckle with laughter. This is the joy that I was hoping for.

After traveling along my Journey to Joy for the past 20 years, I am happy to report that joy is now part of my daily life. Every day I re-activate Step 9 by touching my joy stone and focusing my mind on my heart-center. I am filled with joy, my face automatically smiles, my mind grows quiet and I am filled with peace. I then sit in this state and moment by moment focus my mind on the feeling of joy. As I inhale I feel joy. As a exhale I feel joy. Soon I am not aware of inhaling or exhaling, only the feeling of joy. When I finish, the world around me feels softer, more gentle, and more loving. This feeling lasts longer and longer as I engage in the activities of my daily life.

My current IET Reach (a Master-Instructor technique) is to open so fully to the energy of Pure Joy that none of the outer circumstances of my life will diminish my experience of joy. I am not there yet, but I know that with IET I am on my way. I know that with IET you are too!

If you too would like to work with the Cherubs and learn how to experience Pure Joy, the Center of Being has made Step 9: Pure Joy Processes available to the IET community via audio recordings in which I guide you step by step through the Pure Joy Process. In addition, all IET Master-Instructors are empowered to teach our official Step 9: Pure Joy Process as a special event or as part of a two-day Higher Steps (Steps 8 to 14) Workshop.

IET Soulbuddies by Stevan J Thayer

One of the greatest gifts I have received along my life’s self-healing spiritual journey has been from the love and support of my soul buddies.

According to Angel Ariel, a soul buddy is a soul who supports you in living your soul’s mission as you simultaneously support them in living theirs. A soul buddy relationship is a platonic, non-romantic, non-sexual relationship. Because soul buddies have a strong 5th DNA Pair connection, when you first connect with a soul buddy, you may both feel as though you have known each other for a long time. You can quickly develop a deep level of trust. A soul buddy relationship can start in the most unlikely settings through what you think is a chance happening. Once a soul buddy relationship is formed, they often last a lifetime.

An IET soul buddy is another IET practitioner (at any level of IET study) with whom you exchange IET sessions. You use your IET practitioner techniques to help your soul buddy live their soul’s mission as your soul buddy uses their IET practitioner techniques to help you live yours.

I have found that what worked best for me was an ongoing weekly IET session with my soul buddy. In this way, I would give my soul buddy an IET session one week and they would give me an IET session the following week. With IET, whenever I gave my soul buddy an IET session as a practitioner, I also simultaneously received an IET session. And whenever my soul buddy gave me an IET session, they simultaneously received an IET session. This way my soul buddy and I received an IET session each time we worked together.

One of the best ways to meet an IET soul buddy is during an IET class, IET share, or IET Healing Circle. Oftentimes, the person who was my practice partner during a class or workshop became one of my IET soul buddies. It may seem that the person who works with you as a practice partner in class was randomly selected, but the angels are always working behind the scenes to bring soul buddies together through these seemingly random pairings. If you are looking to establish new IET soul buddy relationships, I recommend that you contact the people who were your practice partners in your IET classes, IET shares, or IET Healing Circles.

Geography does not have to be an impediment with soul buddies. While I prefer in-person IET sessions with my soul buddies, sometimes geography gets in the way and my soul buddy and I cannot physically be together for the sessions. When this happens, I have found absentee IET sessions with a soul buddy to be quite powerful, especially when Skype is available so that we can see and talk with each other during the session.

Please don’t underestimate the transformative potential that having an IET soul buddy can have on your life. Even if both of you are still learning your IET techniques and you each feel insecure in being able to offer each other IET sessions, remember that the angels will be working with you and through you during each session. The angels know exactly what you and your soul buddy need and they know exactly how to bring the perfect angelic energy gifts through you. They will guide, direct, surround and protect you and your soul buddy during the IET sessions. All you have to do is dare to enter into a soul buddy relationship and you will be amazed at the gift you give to yourself and your soul buddy. Some of the most profoundly transformative experiences have been during my IET sessions with soul buddies.

Why not invite an IET soul buddy into your life and ease and expand your life’s self-healing spiritual journey?

IET Practitioners are Gardeners of the Heart by Stevan J Thayer

Orchids are fun to grow and a delight to behold when they bloom. I find that orchids are the perfect metaphor for our spiritual growth and the expression of our soul’s mission through IET.

Each orchid has dormant within it the potential to bring forth the most amazing flower blooms. If an orchid is lovingly cared for and provided with fresh water, the proper temperature and humidity, the right amount of sun and nutrition, annual repotting and pruning, and even heartlinks of IET energy, then its potential will bloom forth. If an orchid is not given the proper growing environment then its potential may lie dormant and the orchid will not bloom.

We are very much like the orchids. We each have dormant within us the potential for our soul’s mission to bloom brightly in our life. But like the orchid, we require the proper growing environment. To me, an important part of this proper growing environment is angelic IET energy.

Whenever we as IET practitioners use our angelic IET energy and techniques for self-care, or to support others, we are like a spiritual gardener of the heart. We can use a 5-Minute Empowerment Session on a regular basis to maintain our ideal growing environment. We can use full IET sessions to clear suppressed cellular memories that hold us back. We can clear our Soul Star to bring our vision board to life. And we can optimize our 12-Strand Spiritual DNA to support us in living our reach. IET Master-Instructor Karen (Fairman) Simpson has written a poem entitled “Gardeners of the Heart” that expresses this beautifully and she has given us permission to reprint her poem and share it with you.

Gardeners of the Heart – by IET Master-Instructor Trainer Karen (Fairman) Simpson

At the center of our being, awakes a tiny spark. A seed of love and inspiration, nurtured by gardeners of the heart. Reaching deep within the darkness, they guide each soul to the light. To grow and remember who we are, beauty is never far from sight. They pull weeds of sadness, anger, fear, and despair. Using the tools of angels, tending each soul with care. Into the river of life, they blend the flow of tears. Watering our souls so gently, peeling back the years. When storms of growth threaten, to bend or break our hearts. They remind us our strength is love, And nourish us with support. We’ve grown within their tender care, and roots have settled down. To support our beauty, joy, and hope, Reaching for light and ground. As each heart flower opens, Memories blossom from before. Of joy and happiness and beauty, God’s love forevermore. In gratitude and love, we see, as one we are never apart. From the essence of their hearts and souls, our gardeners of the heart. (c) 2000 Karen (Fairman) Simpson,   www.pathwaystolivingwell.com

We all have a 12-Strand DNA which is a spiritual blueprint for our soul’s mission, the life experiences and situations that our soul wishes us to have, and all of the creative gifts that we will need in our lifetime. ⇓	D I V I N E	P L A N	Master-Instructor Level IET focuses on modifying your 12-Strand DNA. It allows you to optimize your life and live your life’s dream within the larger divine plan. It accelerates the effectiveness of the Basic, E   Intermediate, and Advanced levels and lets you clear the energy of trauma not completely cleared by them. ⇑
As you grow, your 12-Strand DNA creates imprints in your human energy field (Aura) that can attract the life experiences and situations that will allow you to express your creativity, experience empowerment, and fulfill your soul’s mission. This will include experiences filled with ease and joy as well as ones that are difficult and painful. ⇓	S O U L‘ S	M I S S I O N	Advanced Level IET focuses on your soul’s mission by helping you to understand your soul’s mission, clearing your resistance to fulfill your soul’s mission, and empowering you to live your soul’s mission. ⇑
Some situations that your soul attracts overwhelm you and the energy of the situation is suppressed as trauma into your human energy field. These traumatic imprints can attract repetitions of the situation. They can also limit your ability to express your creativity, become empowered, and fulfill your soul’s mission in life. ⇓	E N E R G Y	F I E L D	Intermediate Level IET focuses on the Human Energy Field and supports your self-healing by clearing the physical, emotional, mental, and karmic imprints from your human energy field. This not only expands your empowerment in life but also reduces the chance of attracting the same type of situation again. ⇑
The energy of some of this trauma is also suppressed as physical and emotional imprints into the cellular memory of your physical body. This suppressed energy can limit your enjoyment of life as well as impair your physical and emotional state of well-being. ⇒	C E L L U L A R	M E M O R Y	Basic Level IET focuses on cellular memory and supports your self-healing by clearing the physical and emotional imprints from the cellular memory as well as by replacing the trauma with a positive empowerment imprint. ⇑

Healing The Wounded Warrior Syndrome by Stevan J Thayer

There is a story that the Native American Indians tell of how birds obtained the gift of song. Here is my telling of that story. Originally, birds did not have the gift of song and in order to get the gift of song, all it would take is for one bird to fly so high that it touched the heart of the Great Spirit and once they did, all birds would have the gift of song. Bird after bird flew as high as they could, but none was strong enough to fly high enough to receive the gift of song. Many birds said it just could not be done, but the eagle knew there must be a way. One day an eagle and a sparrow formed a plan. The sparrow rode on the eagle’s back as the eagle flew higher and higher. It was higher than the sparrow had ever been and still, the eagle flew upward. When, in a state of exhaustion, the eagle flew as high as he could, the sparrow took flight and flew upward with great determination. Well, as you know, the sparrow reached his goal and the birds of the world are blessed with song.

The eagle is what I call a spiritual warrior. The eagle fought against the doubts and even objections of the birds that said it was impossible. The eagle even faced his own fears of failure. The eagle used all his strength and skill to bring the sparrow to a place from which the sparrow could fly even higher. The eagle did it not only for the spiritually selfish reason of getting the gift of song for himself but more importantly, to get the gift of song for all birds.

In human form, the spiritual warrior is the person who soars above the limiting dynamics of their family of origin. They often soar beyond what they read in books or learn from teachers. They do this not only for thyself but also to help others do the same. These are the souls who in every lifetime they have ever lived are never quite satisfied to just be a follower of what others teach. They find themselves following what others teach for a while, and then they are drawn, by some inner drive, to venture into new and often uncharted areas. The desire is always to find new ways to be of service to others, to find new ways to help others heal, new ways to help others grow, and new ways to help others develop spiritually.

As such, these souls embody the pioneer archetype. They blaze new trails and like Star Trek, they boldly go where no one has gone before. Like pioneers of the American Wild West, they often get arrows shot at them. Unlike the American pioneers who got actual arrows shot at them, the spiritual pioneer may on the mild end of the spectrum receive insults, criticism, denouncement, condemnation, and verbal threats, and on the severe end of the spectrum receive imprisonment, torture, ex-communication, and even death. The problem is that these souls were ahead of their time and incarnated in a world that was not ready for their gifts, and rather than receive praise and glory, they received attack and defeat. It is possible for these souls to carry the karmic potential to bring the unhealed trauma of these trials and tribulations into future lifetimes for healing. I call these souls “wounded warriors”.

Many souls who are attracted to the angelic energy and techniques of IET carry the archetypal imprint of the wounded warrior. These are souls who have in their 5th DNA pair the pioneer pattern as well as the spiritual warrior pattern. These souls have a strong energetic potential in their soulstar to bring wonderful gifts of service into the world. They also have an energy body that is up to the task of transforming the energetic potential into a powerful service-oriented enactment in life. It is not unusual for such a soul to be driven to express their ideas through writing, painting, dancing, singing, or lecturing. It is not unusual for these souls to teach and for them to attract a following of students.

Unfortunately, if the karmic wound is not healed, the soul will likely attract people into their life who will metaphorically shoot arrows at them and their creations. This may take the form of people who are over-critical of their self-expression. It may also take the form of people who are very supportive at first but who turn against them and possibly betray them. And since it is a karmic pattern, these arrows may continue until the warrior’s karmic wounds are healed. Once the karmic wounds are healed, the same pioneer expression of creativity that once received arrows and betrayal will receive praise and support. But until that time, the unhealed wounds can continue to invite attack.

When attacked, the wounded warrior may quit the spiritual battle, withdraw from the world, and seek the safety of isolation. This may take the form of a teacher, who stops teaching, or a writer who stops writing, or a singer who stops singing. It is not that the warrior has no desire to express their creativity in service to the world, it is just that the karmic memory of the dangers of past expressions of creativity gets projected on the current life situation and instinctive self-preservation begins to kick in. Withdrawal can provide the wounded warrior with a space for deep self-examination and healing. It is always easier to heal what life has triggered and if the arrows have triggered the karmic wound, that karmic wound will be easier to heal than if it were deeply suppressed.

It is important to note that while withdrawal is a perfectly valid temporary mechanism for the warrior to regroup and heal, it is not a viable long-term hiding place. For in time, the warrior’s creative energy and drive for service will push against the karmic defense mechanism which had urged hiding as a means of self-preservation. This creates an inner power struggle within the warrior. Since the energy of power is focused in IET cellular memory area 8 (the stomach area), you can think of this energetically as the energy of power moving down to IET cellular memory area 9 (kidneys – fear) or up, through IET cellular memory area 7 to IET cellular memory area 6 (heart – love). If the energy moves down, the warrior stays in hiding. If the energy moves up, the warrior brings the next wave of spiritual service into the world.

Receiving a full IET session from an IET practitioner is a wonderful overall healing tool for the wounded warrior. While energy areas 6, 7, 8, and 9 are the primary areas affected by the karmic wounds, other areas may well be affected in a secondary way. Thus, an overall IET session can provide wonderful support.

In addition to an overall IET session, I recommend the following three-step-healing plan for the wounded warrior.

1) Let the wound talk: All too often when a wound, especially a karmic wound, gets triggered by life, the tendency is to quiet the wound and stop the associated bad feelings. Please understand that the wound is like a warning bell trying to lovingly ensure safety. The unhealed wound is operating from the perspective of past lives, and from that perspective of time and context, what is being done in this lifetime seems to be dangerous. The unhealed wound operates from the principle that it would rather have the warrior be safe than happy, and if the pursuit of happiness triggers the wound, it will try to pull the warrior back and keep them safe. Ignoring the wound is like ignoring the alarm. While the alarm may be false, it is trying to keep you safe.

What the wound does not realize is that the time and context of the current lifetime is very different than the lifetimes in which the wounds were created, and self-expression that was dangerous back then are likely to be safe now. Until your life experience proves to the karmic wound that it is now safe to express your spiritual truth into the world, it will continue to view the world through the eyes of the past as an unsafe place for your self-expression. Listening to the warning message of the wound is essential to quieting the alarm, for as the wound expresses its warning, the alarm will lessen. Here is a simple way to learn the wound’s message.

If you would like to listen to the messages of your wound, I recommend that you sit quietly with a blank piece of paper and a pen.

Heartlink to Angel Ariel, the Healing Angels of the Energy Field, and your own personal angels. Ask that they guide, direct, surround, and protect you in this process. Focus your energy on your 8th IET cellular memory area (the stomach and adrenals). Drop your mind’s awareness to this area and listen to what it has to say. Let this area of cellular memory begin to speak, and as it does, write down whatever it has to say. Do not think too much about what you are writing and do not argue with it or try to reason with it. Just record it. What you will receive may be something like “You must watch out…. they will get you… it is not safe…. you will be punished…. they will turn against you… they will attach you…. It is too dangerous… don’t trust them… it is too much… you are going too far.. etc.”

Once you start recording the message of your wound, you will likely find the messages flow timidly at first, then flood out as fast as you can write them, then they will taper off and stop. After you have written down your wound’s warning, it is best to review the messages with a discerning eye. Some of the messages may be legitimate in your life and you can benefit from them. Most of the messages will not be legitimate and you can see them clearly as a false alarms triggered by the memory of past lifetimes. You can in essence keep the best and forget the rest.

2) Clear your Karma: While it is not possible to eliminate your karmic past, it is possible to significantly reduce the intensity of your karmic energy from a barrier that will stop you to a speed bump that will simply slow you down. The IET Karma Clearing Process is perfect for this. The Karma Clearing Process uses the energy of the IET Intermediate Ray, accelerated by the IET vortex process, along with special Karma integration points, and the energy of Angel Gabriel. The Karma Clearing process is described in detail in the IET Master-Instructor Manual. It is also available through an Audio CD Recording available through our www.LearnIET.com website and you can clear your karma simply by listing to our audio recording of this process. It is best to repeat the karma clearing process periodically until the repeat karmic pattern stops.

3) The Empowered Heart: Once you have listened to the message of your wound and cleared the associated karmic energy, it is now time to train your power to rise to your heart rather than fall to your fear. Using sacred geometry and the energy of angels, the Empowered Heart process provides you with the tools needed to keep the energy of your power flowing out into the world through your heart center. This will enable you to express your spiritual warrior truth in the world with such power that it will polarize the world around you. The stronger the polarization, the more people who are in alignment with your message and truth will flock loving towards you, and the more that people who are in opposition to your message and truth will ignore you. Those who would once have shot verbal arrows at you will simply turn away in futility and ignore you. All the while, those who are in alignment with you will see the brightness of your light and flock to you for the service you offer.

Linear vs. cyclic healing: It is hopeful that one pass through these three steps will heal your warrior wounds. It is also possible depending on the intensity of the karmic wounds and the degree to which you feel comfortable with change that you may need to repeat steps 1 to 3 more than once. You will know when you are done with the healing when you are out in the world living your truth and expressing your soul’s mission.

Excitement vs. Fear: One pitfall to the wounded warrior’s healing journey is the fine line between the energy of excitement and the energy of fear. When a person has come from lifetimes of fear around the issue of expressing their spiritual truth in the world, the energy of excitement can at first feel like the energy of fear. This is another opportunity for discernment and listening to the warning message and then as discernment permits, feel the fear and do it anyway.

When the warriors wounds are healed and the warriors spiritual gifts are brought out into the world, the warrior becomes like the eagle, supporting family, friends, clients, and students in every upward journey to heal their lives, touch the very heart of God and bring their gifts into the world.

Heal Your Heart – Empower Your Life by Stevan J Thayer

The attention that Valentine’s day focuses on love, creates a perfect energetic environment for each of us to align with the vibration of love and heal our suppressed cellular memories, especially those resulting from betrayal, rejection, loneliness, or loss. Having an open radiant heart center is essential to living an empowered life and this is a perfect time for us to clear the energy of suppressed cellular memories from our heart center and open our heart center to its fullest potential.

According to Angel Ariel, the purpose of life is love. She says that we live in a universe fabricated from the vibration of love. Every atom resonates with the vibration of love. Everything is built from the vibration of love. Every life form is enlivened by the vibration of love. The most important thing we can do as human beings are to love others and be loved by others in return.

Angel Ariel points out that love is divine in origin. Humans are not able to create the vibration of love. They do however have an incredible capacity to channel the divine vibration of love into their hearts and let it flow through their hearts to exchange it with others. She describes the unrestricted open love exchange between two people as “God-loving God through two people”.

So why are so many people living in a world created from love, surrounded by love, with the life’s purpose to love, and yet not experiencing love? The answer lies in the heart’s self-protection defense mechanism. You see, our heart learns to love and be loved in the womb where we exist in unity with the world around us. In the womb our heart center is open and we unrestrictedly both take in love and give out love. This is why newborn babies can light up a room with the radiance of love and unrestrictedly exchange love with the people around them.

As we journey through our life we may encounter people who reject or betray our love. They love us and then they stop loving us even though we still love them. And when this happens our heart center experiences heartache and pain. If the pain is more than we can safely experience at the time, our heart center’s natural self-defense mechanism kicks in and our heart closes metaphorically like a turtle tucking itself into its shell. Unfortunately for us when this defense mechanism kicks in and our heart closes, all of the heartache and pain that we successfully avoided feeling is suppressed into the heart’s cellular memory. This pain does not simply go away with time. Fortunately for us, love is the perfect cure to heal our wounded hearts. Unfortunately for us, our heart center must be open to receive this cure. This creates a difficult catch-22 healing situation. Our hearts must be open to receive the cure. Yet our hearts will not open because love always brings anything unlike itself up for healing. So as our heart opens and takes in the love, the suppressed heartache and pain we have stored in our cellular memory is reactivated and brought up for healing. And when we re-experience the suppressed pain, our heart’s self-defense mechanism kicks in and we re-suppress the pain before love can heal it.

I know from personal experience that this is true. I experienced a great deal of heartache early in my life’s journey and my heart’s self-defense mechanism worked perfectly, locking the pain into the cellular memory of my heart center. It was easy for me to offer acts of loving kindness to others. But I would instinctively deflect compliments and praise that they would offer back to me by saying things like “it was nothing” or “don’t be silly.” Whenever I was in a room filled with people I would feel isolated and alone as if I were in an invisible bubble that cut me off from others. I even believed that I was unlovable. I once attended a workshop where we had to describe the most painful situation for us that we could imagine. For me that was easy. I wrote, “Put me in a room with a dozen or so people who would love me unconditionally and would not stop and it would be so painful that I would die.” I found out later that it was not the love being given to me that was the problem, but rather, it was my re-experiencing the pain that I had suppressed into the cellular memory of my heart center that was the problem. And since my original heartache and pain had been caused by people, my heart center did not trust receiving love from people.

Ironically, if I had changed the image to being put in a room surrounded by dozens of cute puppies who would love me unconditionally and not stop, I would have felt just the opposite. My heart center would open and I would feel filled with love and joy. That’s because the pain locked into my heart center was not caused by cute puppies but rather by people. I believe that many people have similar experiences. This is why many people feel that they get more love from their pets than from people. It’s not that pets can offer more love than people, but rather, a wounded heart may feel safer and more open to receiving love from pets than from people.

In healing our wounded heart, we need to give our heart love in a way that our heart feels safe and in control opening up. Love does not trigger our natural self-defense mechanism. Fortunately for us, Angel Ariel has given us the perfect way to do this. The IET Heartlink. The Heartlink creates a safe and effective healing environment that will allow us to open our hearts, take in love, and release the energy of heartache and pain from our heart center’s cellular memory.

A technique that I have used to clear my heart’s cellular memory is simple yet powerful and brings together the IET Heartlink, the angelic healing gifts of Angel Cassiel, the power of soul gazing, the effectiveness of telling yourself the love-filled messages that you want to hear and the IET treatment sequence for Cellular Memory Area 6 – the heart center. Here is my technique. (Note: You will need a small hand mirror to use in this technique).

The IET Technique to Heal Your Wounded Heart and Empower Your Life

1. Heartlink: Heartlink to Angel Cassiel and in prayer invite Angel Cassiel to work with you and through you; to guide, direct, surround and protect you; and ask that this be for your highest good and highest healing.
2. Starburst: Receive an angelic starburst of energy from Angel Cassiel and slowly lower it down (using a zig-zag motion) until it floats in front of your heart center. Then embrace the angelic starburst and pull it into your heart center.
3. Energize: Use the energize hand position for cellular memory area 6 – the heart center (see page 18 of the IET Basic Level Guide) and energize your heart center for about a minute.
4. Integrate/Trigger: Place two fingers of your right hand simultaneously on the right and left Integration Points for cellular memory area 6 while you proceed to step 5.
   a. if you have not taken the Intermediate IET training then this step will integrate cellular memory area 6 – the heart center.
   b. if you have taken the Intermediate IET training then this step will Trigger a Release from cellular memory area 6.
5. Soul Gaze: Hold the small mirror with your left hand so that you can gaze deeply into your own eyes (technically you can only look into one eye at a time so pick one eye and stare into it). The eyes are the gateway to the soul so you will, in essence, be gazing into your own soul.
6. Your Love List: When you speak it will be your ego talking to your soul. So say to your soul all of the loving things that you would like to hear. You can for example simply say “I love you” or “I will always love you and never leave you” or “You deserve love” or “You are so lovable” or “You are the best thing that has ever happened to me and I treasure you.”
7. Release: After you have conveyed your list heart to heart from your ego to your soul,
   a. if you have not taken the Intermediate IET training then skip to step 10.
   b. if you have taken the Intermediate IET training you can use your right hand to pull the energy of the suppressed cellular memories from cellular memory area 6 up and out through the four layers of your human energy field (see page 18 of the IET Intermediate Level Guide).
8. Integrate: After you have released the suppressed energy from cellular memory area 6, you can Integrate cellular memory area 6 by once again placing two fingers of your right hand simultaneously on the right and left Integration Points for cellular memory area 6 (see page 18 of the IET Intermediate Level Guide).
9. Powerburst: If you have taken the IET Master-Instructor training then you can create an angelic powerburst and place it into your heart center.
10. Grounding: Complete the technique by placing your right hand on your left knee and your left hand on your right knee to offer yourself some grounding.

You can continue to open and expand your heart center by heartlinking to people in your life and offering them expressions of loving-kindness. Then when they return the love to you simply say or think “thank you” and let the love in. You can go even further by heartlinking to those closest to you and telling them how much you treasure and love them. You can even soul gaze into their eyes as you do. Then, if they tell you about what you mean to them and how much they love you, simply keep your heart open and let the love in.

Don’t worry if at first, it seems that you are giving out more love than you are getting back. Remember, the world is made from the love that is ready to return to you, but your heart center has to be healed enough for you to let it in. Give it time, and just keep giving to others what you really want them to give to you. When your heart center is healed, you will receive the love you have been giving out and more.

Gratitude by Stevan J Thayer

The countless political, economic, and religious battles taking place around the planet are fueling the energy of judgment worldwide. The first line of Angel Ariel’s IET Vision channeled as the twin towers burned on September 11, 2001, are as true today as they were then. The first line reads “In this moment, I will love rather than judge.” The question I have been asking myself lately is, “In this moment am I sending the energy of love into the world or sending the energy of judgment.” With the energy of judgment so strong in the world these days, all too often I have been finding that the answer for me is that I am sending the energy of judgment.

According to Angel Ariel, it is not possible for human beings to love and judge at the same time. She also says that in every moment of time, we will be in either the energy of love or the energy of judgment.

When we judge, we are operating from our brain, energetically separating ourselves from others, and working to enhance our self-image or increase our perceived level of safety by making ourselves right and others wrong. Angel Ariel asks the question, “Would you rather be right or would you rather be happy?” If your answer is that you would rather be happy then you must shift from the energy of judgment to the energy of love.

When we love, we are operating from our heart, energetically unifying ourselves with others, and working to build rather than destroy; to see possibilities rather than difficulties; to serve others rather than serve ourselves; and to realize our power rather than blame others for their actions or in actions. Happiness, peace, and joy are natural byproducts when we love. We can all give the precious gift of happiness, peace, and joy this holiday season by raising our vibration to the vibration of love. And gratitude is a powerful way to do this.

According to Angel Ariel, gratitude opens your heart center and increases your capacity to both give and receive the energy of love. In cultivating and expanding gratitude it is best to focus your conscious awareness on gratitude every day. It helps to bring to mind every day the people and the things in your life that you are most grateful for. Once you begin to cultivate the energy of gratitude, you will find that the energy of gratitude is like a magnet and attracts more and more gratitude. As this happens, you will find yourself becoming aware of more and more people and things in your life that you are grateful for.

The IET Gratitude Process

Here is the simple gratitude process that I use on a regular basis to enter into gratitude and raise my vibration to the vibration of love.

1. Angelic Heartlinks: Heartlink to Angel Ariel, all of the Healing Angels of the Energy Field, and your own personal angels. Ask that the angels guide, direct, surround, and protect you. And ask that this gratitude process is for the highest good and highest healing.
2. Human Heartlinks of Gratitude: Bring to mind a person or group of people that you are grateful for. Send a Human Heartlink from your heart to the heart center of people that you are grateful for.   Once you are connected heart to heart, offer them your gratitude and blessings simply by saying “thank you and bless you.”
3. Repeat step 2 four more times: Bring another person or group of people that you are grateful for to mind repeat step 2 four more times.
4. Be Love: After doing step 2 a total of five times, you will find that your heart center is resonating powerfully with the energy of love. Simply focus your awareness on your heart center and sit quietly for a few minutes enjoying the feeling of happiness, peace, and joy that naturally arise. Know that as you enjoy these feelings, the energy of happiness, peace, and joy are radiating from your heart center outward through your Human Heartlinks of Gratitude to those you are grateful for. In addition, you are simultaneously bringing the vibration of happiness, peace, and joy to the world.
5. Final Grounding: You can leave your Heartlinks of Gratitude in place as you offer yourself some grounding support by placing your right hand on your left knee and your left hand on your right knee.

Please know that I send my Heartlinks of Gratitude to you and to all IET students worldwide every time I do this IET Gratitude Process.

If we all use this simple IET Gratitude Process on a regular basis we can bring the gift of happiness, peace, and joy to the world during this holiday season as well as throughout the year.

Giving and Receiving by Stevan J Thayer

Bringing Your Gifts Into The World

From Healing the Hurt to Living the Dream – IET Does It All: Part 1 by Stevan J Thayer

Part 1: Cellular Memory Integrated Energy Therapy^® empowers you with multi-dimensional holistic healing tools. Holistic healing is the process of supporting a person in their self-healing of body, mind, and spirit. In IET^® this takes the form of supporting the clearing and empowering of the cellular memory, human energy field, and 12 Strand DNA. Each level of IET brings its unique gift to support the healing of one or more of these areas.

From Healing the Hurt to Living the Dream – IET Does It All: Part 2 by Stevan J Thayer

Part 2: The Human Energy Field Integrated Energy Therapy® empowers you with multi-dimensional holistic healing tools. Holistic healing is the process of supporting a person in their self-healing of body, mind, and spirit. In IET® this takes the form of supporting the clearing and empowering of the cellular memory, human energy field, and 12 Strand DNA. Each level of IET brings its unique gift to support the healing of one or more of these areas.

In this second part of my three-part article, I focus on the role of clearing and empowering the human energy field. In the last cyber journal, I discussed the role of cellular memory (part 1) and in the next cyber journal, I will discuss the role of the 12 Strand DNA.

Manifesting your Soul’s Mission: Our soul uses our human energy field as a mechanism for the energy of the pure potential of our soul’s mission to manifest into the physical reality of our world. Our soul uses our human energy field to draw to us all the people, places, settings, circumstances, and experiences we need to help us in fulfilling our soul’s mission in this lifetime. By means of our human energy field, our soul will draw to us wonderful experiences of love, joy, happiness, ease, and harmony. Our soul can also use our human energy field to draw to us experiences of difficulty, challenge, and struggle. All of these experiences help us grow spiritually and support us in fulfilling our soul’s mission.

The Human Energy Field: The human energy field is the egg-shaped pattern of life force energy that surrounds every human being. When this human energy field is perceived through human extrasensory perception (e.g. seeing it clairvoyantly or feeling it clairsentient) it appears to have distinctive layers. In IET we work with a four-layer model of the human energy field (physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual).

As we grow, the energetic patterns contained in our 12 Strand DNA develop into energetic imprints in our human energy field. These energetic imprints can form at any or all levels of the human energy field. As energetic imprints form, they affect our interrelationship with the world around us and they can create a potential for attracting certain experiences to us in life that our soul wishes to have. Since our human energy field is in essence a two-directional filter, we perceive the world around us through the filter of our human energy field and the world perceives us through this same filter. Thus, our human energy field shapes how we see the world and how the world sees us.

When our human energy field attracts more that we can safely experience: As the world around us responds to the imprints our 12 Strand DNA creates in our human energy field, we draw to us the experience that our soul desires. Most of the time the experiences we draw to us are within our ability to safely accommodate, and we will safely grow spiritually through them.

Sometimes, we draw to us experiences that are more than we can safely experience at the time. When this happens, we will disassociate from our feelings, and suppress the traumatic energy of the experience into the cellular memory of our body and into our human energy field.

When the energy of a traumatic experience is suppressed as an energy imprint into the human energy field it also shapes how we see the world and how the world sees us just like the imprints created by our 12 Strand DNA. Furthermore, the energy of trauma suppressed into our human energy field, if left uncleared, can attract more of the same trauma making it more likely that the hurt will happen to us again in the future.

Intermediate Level Practitioners can help people; heal the pain of the past, limit the future repetition of hurtful traumatic experiences, and improve their experience of life in the present: The Intermediate IET energy and techniques provide us with a powerful extension to the Basic energy and techniques that allow us to easily clear energy imprints from the human energy field. The clearing is focused on the four layers of the human energy field with the goal of reducing or removing physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual (karmic) traumatic imprints. The intermediate IET session not only includes energizing and integrating techniques (as done in the Basic level session) but also introduces trigger and release techniques as well.

As Intermediate level IET Practitioners, we gain two important abilities:

The Benefits of Having a Spiritual Obstetrician by Stevan J Thayer

A spiritual obstetrician is a soul buddy or soul mate who helps you safely bring your spiritual gifts out of the metaphoric closet where you are hiding them and bring them into the world. Your spiritual obstetrician sees the wonderful gifts that you have to offer the world, but they do not have the fears that hold you back from bringing your gifts out into the world. It is part of your spiritual obstetrician’s soul’s mission to lovingly help bring you and your gifts out of the closet, onto the stage of your life, and shine a spotlight on your gifts and talents so that others can see and benefit from them.

My spiritual obstetrician was Dr. Linda Sue Nathanson Ph.D. (see photo). I first met Linda in January of 1994 when she came to my office to see if an IET session could help her with an overactive thyroid (Grave’s disease). At that time, IET was still in its early stages of development, and I had only recently begun to channel messages. So I was quite nervous about having a client who was a Ph.D. psychologist who might determine that what I thought were my spiritual gifts, were really a symptom of some psychosis.

In our first IET session we were joined by a very powerful spiritual presence that filled me with so much love that tears flowed from my eyes, heat radiated from my hands and my hands began to shake. When Linda asked what was happening, despite my fears, I let her know that there was a loving presence in the room that I felt was there to help her heal. Rather than pronounce me as psychotic, Linda (a devoted Star Trek Trekkie) was thrilled and she asked the presence “what is your name?” The presence eventually answered through my voice giving the name “Ariel”. As I continued the IET session, Linda asked Ariel several more questions and Ariel answered her questions through my voice. At the end of the session, I was afraid that Linda would criticize me and leave, but she said she liked the IET session, especially the part about talking to Ariel, and she made an appointment for another session saying she wanted to talk to Ariel again.

Over the next few weeks, Linda and I learned several things. We learned that Ariel was an Angel, Ariel was here to help Linda and me, and miraculously Linda’s thyroid problems had disappeared. Linda got the idea to interview Angel Ariel through me, we would write a book based on the interview and call it Interview with an Angel. Angel Ariel not only agreed to be interviewed, but let us know that she had arranged for Linda and me to meet, and the book was Angel Ariel’s idea so that she could get her message out to those who could not receive her wisdom directly. It was because of Linda’s loving role as my spiritual obstetrician that I not only became a channel for Angel Ariel’s messages but also undertook the role of Linda’s co-author.

For two years Linda interviewed Angel Ariel through me resulting in 50 hours of audio recordings. These recordings were transcribed and edited into book form, and in 1997 Interview with an Angel was published and Angel Ariel’s words began to appear in bookstores.

Having the book published was for me like walking a tightrope. I was quite excited to be a published author and thrilled to have helped Angel Ariel bring her message to the world. But in creating the book, Linda had lovingly pulled me out of my metaphoric closet where I had hid my channeling abilities, and I was terrified about what would happen when the world found out that I channeled messages from an angel named Ariel.

Linda, again serving as my spiritual obstetrician, pulled me further out of the closet by arranging for a series of book signings at bookstores around NJ and PA. While I was quite nervous about appearing in public as a channel for Angel Ariel, I soon found the book signing attendees to be eager to hear Angel Ariel’s messages and wonderfully supportive of the work Linda and I were doing.

Linda then pulled me even further out of the closet by arranging for us to appear as guests on radio and TV shows across the country and booking us as speakers at Expos in MD and TX as well as at the American Society of Dowers Conference and the Canadian Society of Dowsers Conference. Since each of these public speaking events was something that I had never done before, I was quite fearful of doing them and I would never have arranged them on my own. It was only through the loving support of my spiritual obstetrician Linda that I had the courage to do them. These public appearances not only presented me with the opportunity to face and overcome some of my deepest fears, but they also provided us with a wonderful opportunity to share Angel Ariel’s messages with larger and larger audiences.

Each event turned out to be a wonderful experience. We received love and support wherever we went. As I overcame my fears, I discovered that I had a natural gift for presenting Angel Ariel’s message in public and sharing with others my experiences working with Angel Ariel. I also knew that I was living a large part of my soul’s purpose. I understood that Linda had seen my gifts right from our first meeting and she had used her fearlessness, combined with her strength and skill, to help me bring my gifts into the world. I also understood that as we worked together Linda was fulfilling her soul’s mission and bringing her spiritual gifts into the world.

As time went on, my work with Interview with an Angel and IET began to merge. I had initially discovered some of the IET techniques by working with clients during my Reiki sessions. As my connection to Angel Ariel became stronger, Angel Ariel began to channel information and techniques about IET that led to the creation of the IET system that we know today. The public speaking skills that I discovered and refined presenting lectures about Interview with an Angel naturally allowed me to present lectures about IET. Groups that had invited me to give a lecture about Interview with an Angel now invited me to give a lecture about IET. And many of those lectures resulted in me being invited to return and offer IET classes.

I owe an incredible debt of gratitude to Linda. It is because of her skill as my spiritual obstetrician that I was able to overcome my fears and cultivate my gifts so that both Interview with an Angel and IET could be brought into the world. It was a great loss to us all when in December of 2013 Linda left this world to continue her work from the Angelic Realm as she helps Angel Ariel heal the world one heart at a time.

It is my sincere hope that you too will find your spiritual obstetrician and they will lovingly help you bring your gifts out of the closet and into the world where we can all benefit from them.

Set Your Energetic Vision for the New Year by Stevan J Thayer

Set Your Energetic Vision for the New Year by creating my own personal vision board. This provides my angels with an energetic road map of the types of people, places, settings, situations, and things that I would like them to work on behind the scenes to help me connect within the upcoming year. It also opens my energy channels to allow me to open-heartedly receive them when they show up in my life so that I do not ignore them or push them away.

A vision board is a simple visual arrangement of images and words that touch your heart and move your soul. The elements of your vision board represent the vibration of what you would like to have in your life in this upcoming year. They do not have to be the exact images of what you desire, rather, they are images that have the same vibrational quality. These images can represent what would fill your heart with happiness and joy if they were to materialize in your life this year.

Creating a vision board is a powerful process for all IET students of any level of training, but it is especially powerful for students who have completed the Advanced Level IET Training. The Advanced Level IET attunement powerfully connects the student’s energy field to their Soul Star (their 8th Chakra) and opens them to the energy of their Soul’s Mission. When an Advanced Level student creates a vision board they not only create their energetic vision at a personal level but also at a soul level, which adds an even deeper dimension to the energetic vision they create.

No matter what levels of IET training you have completed, I recommend that as this new year begins, that you set your own energetic vision by creating your own personal vision board.

Here is how I create my vision boards.

The Secret by Stevan J Thayer

To All IET Students: The popular DVD entitled The Secret, recently featured on Oprah’s TV show, has touched the lives of people around the world. The Secret is an entertaining and informative presentation of how your thoughts create your reality and what you envision will manifest in your life. It is a very worthwhile DVD to see.

The IET Advanced level training encompasses what is presented in The Secret and more. At the Advanced level, we identify four separate phases that you pass through in bringing your dreams alive (something we call the four Es). The Secret beautifully illustrates the first three phases. The fourth phase is a key part of why Advance Level IET sessions are so effective.

According to Angel Ariel, each soul incarnates with a very specific mission that will allow it to have wonderful experiences, develop wisdom, build spiritual mastery, serve others, and experience pure joy.

The first phase of manifesting anything in the world begins with what we call the Energetic Potential (the first E). The energetic potential for your soul’s mission is contained in your soulstar, or eighth chakra, located about four feet above the top of your head. Whenever there is something you want to manifest, that is in alignment with your soul’s mission, the energetic potential for it will be present in your soulstar.

The second phase helps you Envision your mission by bringing the energetic potential into focus. As this happens, the energetic potential moves through your first and second IET cellular memory areas and you begin to see glimpses; bits, and pieces of what you wish to manifest in life. The more you focus on your dream, the clearer it becomes. The Advanced level training even teaches you how to use a technique called a visionboard to help you clarify your dream.

The third phase helps you hold your vision in your heart and Embrace it. As you embrace your vision the energetic potential moves through your third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh IET cellular memory areas and it becomes your heart’s desire. This moves the energy further into alignment with your being and brings it closer to manifestation.

The fourth and final phase is called Enacting. In this final phase, the energy you have embraced moves down through your eighth and ninth IET cellular memory areas and grounds into the earth where it will manifest. I have seen in my own life, and in the lives of the clients I have served, that all too often the energy will reach this final phase and we will slam on the brakes and keep our dream from becoming a reality. It is like the child who dreams of diving off the high diving board, and one day climbs up onto the diving board, runs out to the end of the board, and then freezes with fear and can’t dive off. Fortunately, the Advanced IET session introduces soulstar clearing and muscle tension-relaxation techniques that can clear these final phase blockages that stop you from diving into life and bringing your dreams alive.

Angel Ariel says that “It is our heart’s desire to help you bring your heart’s desire alive in the world”. She also says that all too often she sees an image in which there is a person with an angel on either side of them helping them stay on course towards their dream, an angel in front opening all of the doors to their dream, and an angel behind pushing them forward towards their dream. And all the while there are heel marks as the person resists manifesting their dream. One of our goals in IET is to help you stop dragging your feet and easily pass through the wonderful doorways to your destiny as your dreams come true.

Build your IET^® community with Facebook  By Edmund Carroll

Facebook brings to you a unique opportunity to connect with people from all over the world. With over 200 million active users it is a great personal and business tool to connect with like-minded people. It allows you the chance to have a personal profile, create a page, share resources, and promote yourself. I have found Facebook to be a very effective tool for promoting my own IET classes. It is a great way to put your information out there, give an overview of what Integrated Energy Therapy^® is, and what the benefits are, and advertise your classes or sessions. As with any advertising, it is important to adhere to the IET Copyrights requirements and the IET Code of Ethics in your Facebook posts so that you promote yourself with high integrity and respect. Remember you are what you post and first impressions can only be done once. Below are some guidelines and suggestions for using Facebook to help build your community.

Facebook profiles: The information and “about you” sections include all information to explain what you do, and how to connect to you, and include phone numbers and e-mail addresses. You can add your website here as well, so people can click right over and see your website. You can list all the services and/or classes that you offer.

Facebook Pages: Create a page to promote your business. Share your events, classes, session information, links to your website, and testimonials. Stay active on the “page connect” with your followers and respond to their questions.

Facebook Groups: There are many groups that you can join or even create to connect with others in your area and it is a great tool for networking. Groups can have different settings – some are open to the public others are invitation only. Creating a Facebook group that you moderate is a great way to connect with your own clients and students. Always keep it simple and general; never post personal information about your clients or students.

Use the “Like” feature: When you “like” other pages that you work with or who support you, you have the chance of reaching a better audience and connecting with more people. It also shows your community that you are staying up to date with the happenings in your area and services.

Share Links: You can share links to specific information on your website. This is the perfect opportunity to share classes, session information, and promotions that will direct your community to your website. I love to share personal and professional quotations.

Connect to Others: In the beginning, you may just be connecting with friends and family which is great, but think about reaching out to others who offer the same services, and share your professional interests or needs. This a great tool to connect with other IET Master Instructor or students.

Create Events: Create events for your classes and share them with all your contacts who you think would be interested in attending them. I have found that at least 80% of my class attendees come from seeing my events on Facebook.

As with any form of advertising please understand the platform you are using, read the privacy policies, understand your settings, and practice safety.

IET, The Ascension Process and the Merkaba By Leon Pelletier

As IET Trainer Greetings and Heartlinks to all that choose to read this article. I am grateful for the opportunity to share with you my thoughts about the topic that I chose: Integrated Energy Therapy, the Ascension Process and the Merkaba. I would like to start by offering some of my knowledge and understanding about the term “Merkaba” that I have come across in the last sixteen years. It does have other spellings like ‘merkabah’ and ‘merkavah’. It can also be pronounced differently by either putting the accent on the middle or on the last syllable.

The science of the merkaba goes far beyond the scope of this article. In essence, the merkaba is the ‘vehicle’ that makes it possible for us to maintain our memory/consciousness from lifetime to lifetime. The Merkaba is the ‘vehicle’ that has the potential to bring our memory/consciousness of our soul’s mission into the physical world at our birth. It also brings our memory/consciousness of our soul’s mission back into spirit at our death where it may remain in spirit and/or incarnate back into another physical incarnation. In its optimum state of being, our merkaba is the vibrations/frequencies of love and gratitude. And from this place it is able to cultivate a concept of its reality relating to its Divine energetic likeness/limitless potential, thus making it possible to more easily live the soul’s mission within the Divine Plan.

The merkaba is a field of energy in the nature of consciousness. It is a living entity that can be a fractal expression of the Divine that has the potential to tap into the limitless energy that pervades our universe. When fully activated in our present state of experience it can
be, more or less, sixty feet (18.288 m) in diameter. The field can be measured with dousing rods.

The merkaba, sometimes referred to as the “Chariot of God”, is an ancient word that is used to relate to the container or the vehicle of one’s consciousness. It is a word that is used to relate to our spiritual anatomy. The term is really three words in one and is briefly
described by the following:
• Mer is counter rotating energy fields emanating a light known throughout the universe that when activated/started is likened to a car with its Mer/motor running and in drive when fully activated. There are a number of teachers teaching many different ways to activate the ‘mer’ that are beyond the scope of this article. The IET Ascension process is a wonderful way to activate your ‘mer’ as I touch upon in the
next to last paragraph of this article.
• Ka is our Spirit, our Soul, our Divine Essence. It is our Divine Connection that always stays with us. It vibrates to our Divine frequency/resonance.
• Ba denotes ‘body’ and is the energy relating to the non-physical aspects of the IET model of our 12-Strand DNA. It can contain resistance/limitation or nonresistance/limitless energy that affects our ability to manifest the experience of our heart’s desires. It attracts/creates from its likeness so one needs to be mindful of one’s energy that one chooses to cultivate in order to attract/create what one truly desires.

Keep in mind while spirits do not have physical bodies, they do however define their ba by the concept of the reality that they choose to take with their ka. Another way to say this is that a spirit’s body/ba can be anything that it chooses to cultivate in its energy field like an IET empowerment virtue or belief system. The essence of its ka is constant and relates to the intention of the source or origin of its creation.

Integrated Energy Therapy can be applied in the process of making adjustments in our ba, the non-physical aspects relating to the energy described in the IET 12-strand DNA model. IET gives us a method to address our energy field by using our attention and intention in the focus of a session, class, technique or process. It puts us in charge of the responsibility to always check into our heart’s desires to determine what we need to work on at any given moment. I particularly like the way that IET begins with the Heartlink, a technique that has the potential to tap into the true essence of our power: love and gratitude.

The challenge that we all face is to maintain the awareness of that essence and apply it to our co-creations. Another way of saying this is that IET offers us a method to awaken to our full potential by supporting us to hold the vibrations of love and gratitude that help us to remember, to redeem and to integrate the Divine aspects of our ka into our ba and to fully activate the ‘vehicle’ (merkaba) of our Divine essence/consciousness.

I believe that the IET Ascension Process, Step 13 in the IET Steps to Transformation, in itself has the potential to activate the field of the merkaba. The process, like all IET sessions, classes, techniques and processes begins with the Heartlink. It then brings in the energy of the IET Steps to Transformation 8 – 12. Then the energy is further optimized by the invocation of the IET Energy Rays. The next part of this process is to me the key/climax when the participants facilitate the creation of each their ‘heart stars’ then cultivate the energy of gratitude to anchor the ‘heart star’ permanently into the heart-center. The ‘icing on the cake’ now comes when the process turns to the intention of meeting and receiving love from the ‘soul council’ and learning/using the ‘infinity symbol’ to re-activate the heart star.

To cut to the chase, let us now go right to what was suggested to be the ‘key/climax’ to the Ascension Process. The indigenous peoples of the world have long since applied a similar way to connect before doing ceremony that relates to facilitating the creation of the ‘heart star’. The process itself is sometimes referred to as ‘The Unity Breath/Meditation’. This process is like two human Heartlinks: first one is sent down from the heart to the heartcenter of the Earth (Divine Mother) then one is sent up from the heart to the heart-center of the universe (Divine Father). Like all times when we send our love/gratitude to the Divine, the Divine sends Its’ love/energy back to us. When this happens, a synergy of Divine Mother/Father love is cultivated in the heart-center. This process can activate and magnify the energy of the merkaba especially when the energy of the Child is also acknowledged and merged with the Divine Mother and the Divine Father; The Sacred Trinity of Love!

Conclusion: IET attunements, sessions, techniques and classes are powerful ways in which to focus our attention and intention to make adjustments in our ba. The degree in which we work on ourselves to clear the resistance to love ourselves relates to the amount of love that we are able to hold and unfold from the Heartlink of our Divine connection. The way in which love opens the door to this connection with gratitude holding the door open are key to the process of attuning, activating, optimizing and integrating Divine Intelligence into our merkaba. The optimum nature of our Divine energy field takes our daily attention and intention to simply acknowledge and appreciate its presence in our hearts. To acknowledge and to appreciate its presence is to also acknowledge with gratitude its ability to cultivate the human energy field with whatever forms of the energy that are needed to empower us to walk the walk of your soul’s mission with love, gratitude, confidence, humility, compassion, truth, ease, safety or other virtue. Blessings on your walk!

“Letting Your Own Experience and The Four ‘E’S Move You Into Sacredness” By Maria Peterson

Recently a student asked me about her feelings of wanting to run away from clients at the end of giving an IET session. As I began to write a reply to her, a wonderful piece of information came forward in the response which is the basis of this article. So “thank you” to my student for her question of ‘Why do I feel like I want to run away at the end of giving an IET session?’

Carolyn Myss says “that we meet people in our hearts through our wounds, and that we evolve, by changing this meeting place, by healing the wound and moving the relationship to another plane/place of EXISTENCE.”

As I began to answer my student’s question, I realized that each of us has our own set of experiences. It is through these experiences that we have our wisdom and knowledge and it is through similar experiences that we meet people and draw them into our lives.

I experienced how this energy of meeting worked when I gave a talk at SEARCH, a nonprofit organization for awareness and expansion, located in Rochester, MN. During the talk a woman in the audience kept smiling at me and connecting with me in a very loving and fun way. After the talk she came up to me and started saying that she felt like we knew each other from other lifetimes. In our conversation she told me that her son had died at a young age. I knew instantly where we connected in the heart. My son had also died, something that I had not revealed during the talk. She and I were connecting through our similar experience, very deeply in our hearts.

Whenever we give an IET session we also receive an IET session. We also tend to attract clients who have the same issues as we do, and we never attract more than we can safely handle. What happens during an IET session is that we connect in the heart with people’s energy. Sometimes it is similar to our experience and sometimes not. The energy that is similar can create fear in us because we may not feel that we are ready to look at it yet or simply we are just plain afraid to look at it.

As we all know, it involves some hard effort to look at and even think about what we want to do with what we’ve just discovered in ourselves. Making a discovery of this energy within us is awareness. This awareness is Divine Inspiration and energetic potential. It’s showing which energy is motivating our actions.

For me, not wanting to look at it usually has to do with judgment towards myself. I didn’t act like I wanted to… so there is shame and guilt and shoulds. Then I have to move through all that icky emotional stuff before I come to the action that I think is proper and right. Proper and Right action is Divine Direction orenvisioning. I can look at the situation and feel the emotion, letting myself experience it.

If I let myself experience the emotion, which is what I was avoiding in the first place, I allow my mind and heart to embrace what has happened. This is healing. This is being in the present moment. This is empowerment. Now my being can move on to embrace the right and proper action for the situation in both my mind and my heart and be willing to carry out this action.

The hardest part for me is carrying that action out. Knowing the right and proper action is one thing, actually Enacting it and carrying it out involves strength and courage. Sometimes it involves an apology, sometimes going back into a situation that was unpleasant and clarifying what I meant and listening to see if the person hearing me is hearing what I mean and not running a tape in their head. This means that I have to listen too and not be thinking of what I’m going to say next. Just take in the words, actions and feelings of the moment and then come to a conclusion.

By looking at our everyday life and using the four ‘Es’ is how all of my actions and yours can have sacredness and help us move through our fears. Whether we’ve just given an IET session or we are just moving in life.
The four “E’s” of IET are:
Energetic potential
Envision
Embrace
Enact

Integrating the Gift of Reiki into Your IET Sessions by Hallie Sawyers

This simple method of enhancing an IET session was suggested to me by my Reiki guides and The Healing Angels of the Energy Field. It offers a way to combine the synergistic energies of Reiki and IET to create a dynamic, multi-dimensional healing session. I have been using it since the beginning of April 2003 with wonderful results.

The protocol involves the Reiki Level Two distance healing symbol as I was taught to use it by my Reiki Master Teacher, Esther Velthiem. This method also invites additional assistance from The Healing Angels of the Energy Field to further augment the session. The practitioner needs to be attuned to Reiki Level Two and be familiar with each of the Healing Angels who govern the 9 IET Cellular Memory Areas in order to implement the following techniques.

Prior to the Appointment: Prior to the session ask your client to contemplate the following question from page 12 of the Basic IET manual. This provides a powerful way to assist the person receiving in forming and beginning to manifest their intention prior to the appointment. It also works wonderfully to set the stage any healing modality! Question: If you could shift, change, clear, modify, empower, expand or manifest ANYTHING with the energy of this session what would it be? Once they arrive for the appointment, I ask them about what came up in response to this question and we hone the intent for the session.

Before You Begin:
1. Stand at your client’s side, call in and heartlink to The Healing Angels of the Energy Field – Ariel, Raphael, Gabriel, Celestina, Faith, Cassiel, Daniel, Sarah, and Michael.
2. After allowing the angelic energy of compassion and healing to fill you to overflowing, heartlink to your client and allow the overflow to benefit them through the human heartlink.
3. Call in your Reiki guides and ask that they assist in channeling Reiki into this healing session.
4. At this point I offer my opening prayer to all the guides and angels assembled. Feel free to use this or whatever works for you:
Mother/Father God, Holy Spirit, Mother Earth, Reiki Guides and Master Teachers in Spirit, all the Healing Angels of the Energy Field, I humbly ask your assistance in this healing session for client’s name. Thank you for enveloping us in the angelic light of healing, safety and protection, removing the  cause and core of all negativity across all dimensions of time and space, and manifesting the highest order of the intention for this session and something even better !
5. Use the heartlink symbol to bring the starburst of IET energy down into your client’s abdomen and channel IET energy though your heartlink to your client for about a minute.
6. Proceed to treat the nine cellular memory areas as described in the highest level of IET you have been trained, adding in the following additions:
Integrating Reiki into your IET session:
7. Once seated at the head of the table, place your hands over cellular memory area number one and visualize sending the Reiki Level Two distance healing symbol, followed by the mental/emotional symbol and the power symbol into your client’s third eye (sixth chakra) – that area just above and between the brows. This can be done by sending the symbols line by line or whole if they come to you this way.
8. Then intend (say to yourself): “This hand position now corresponds to all of the hand positions in this healing session for client’s name.” Then as you move your hands throughout the IET session, repeat the phrase above to yourself at each hand position. Be certain to keep one hand on your client at all times to maintain the connection established though the distance healing symbol. If you feel you have lost your ‘connection’ you can focus on the client’s third eye, resend the symbols and repeat your intention to yourself from number 9 above. When working with techniques where both hands are off the body (Soul Star Clearing and Pink Bubble Technique), simply intend that the positions of your hands remain connected to all hand positions in the session. Your intent is the most powerful form of action. This method uses the distance healing symbol to link all of the areas where you will be and have been placing your hands. This allows each hand position to receive a continuous flow of Reiki energy
throughout the session. The use of the mental/emotional and the power symbols are intended to further harmonize and boost the flow of Reiki energy throughout the session. The Healing Angels of the Energy Field also take advantage of this technique. The method creates a kind of interconnected web of healing circuitry which they use to continue to work on all the cellular memory areas regardless of the placement of the practitioner’s hands. Integrating the gift of the Healing Angels of the Energy Field into your IET session.
9. Once you have connected all hand positions with the technique described above, work through the IET session by calling in the healing angel of the energy field who governs each cellular memory area as you progress to that area – Ariel*, Raphael, Gabriel, Celestina, Faith, Cassiel, Daniel, Sarah, and Michael.
* Archangel Ariel governs the Soul Star and she can be called in to assist with this technique from the advanced Level of IET as well as assisting in the overall session if you are not offering advanced techniques. The intentional involvement of the angels augments the healing power of the session even further. You can invite the angels’ assistance in the following way or whatever works for you:

Healing Angel Invocation:
(Arch)Angel ______________, thank you for energizing, triggering and releasing the cellular memory of guilt, distrust, shame, threat, shoulds, heartache/betrayal, resentment/anger, stress/powerlessness, or fear from this cellular memory area.
When you reach the integration phase, thank/ask the angels again for their assistance in imprinting the original energetic essence:
(Arch)Angel ______________, thank you for imprinting the energy of innocence, trust, spiritual pride, support, freedom, love, forgiveness, ease, or safety manifesting client’s name intention across all dimensions of time and space and something even better !

Holographic Healing: The use of the phrase ‘across all dimensions of time and space’ is intended to open the practitioner and client to the multidimensional aspect of soul energy across the hologram of existence. If all of life is holographic in nature – ONE BEING, ONE MIND, ONE ENERGY – then each person’s intent within a session can be a reflection of a portion of the healing which all beings seek. We are individualized aspects of One Being, One Heart, One Healing. By acknowledging this in the intentional contact with the angels and guides who attend and assist the session, the practitioner becomes a channel through which healing is offered to the hologram of being. Described another way, when one person heals in a group of beings who are intimately connected by some means – birth, friendship, etc., – the person who has healed then embodies the energetic blueprint which all beings in that group can access and begin to heal the same or similar patterns for themselves. So by intentionally working with the multidimensional aspect of the soul’s energy across the hologram of existence, the client receives healing on a quantum level and the session becomes a template through which this healing can be offered to the hologram of life itself – Holographic Healing.
And Something Even Better ! The use of the phrase ‘and something even better’ is intended to open the healer and client to the miracles that can occur when human agendas are discarded and the Divine is allowed in to manifest what is best in the unfoldment of the soul’s journey. Spirit knows the perfect path for each soul and when we open to that our lives are transformed. A Blessing May the gift of integrating the twin miracles of Reiki and IET open you further to the magnificence of your healing path. And may the healing that comes through you be returned to you a thousand-fold and something even better !

Namaste, Hallie – Hallie E. Sawyers is a Master Instructor of Integrated Energy Therapy, a traditional Usui Reiki Master Teacher, Nationally
Certified in Holistic Aromatherapy and Therapeutic Massage, and a BodyTalk practitioner.

Case Study: The Quantitative Effects of Integrated Energy Therapy on ten subjects, as Measured by Algometry and the Pro-Adjuster, Functional Spinal Analysis Investigators: Beverly Voss, Jill Luigs, and Stephen R. Summey, D.C., Longmont, Colorado.

Abstract: The purpose of this case study was to investigate the effect of Integrated Energy Therapy on pain perception (measured by Algometry) and spinal function (measured by the Pro-Adjuster, a specialized sensor which measures functional mobility of the spine) using 10 subjects with chronic pain of at least 3 years duration.

Key Word Definitions:
1) Integrated Energy Therapy (IET) was founded by Stevan J. Thayer. Stevan Thayer is an ordained Interfaith minister, international speaker, instructor, author, and lecturer. Stevan and his work with IET have been nationally televised via the PBS Frontline Series and his work is spreading worldwide. The IET technique uses a high vibration pure energy from spirit to energize and release energy blocks through IET integration power points. IET works at the level of each primary human emotion and correlates it to a physical region of the body and the human energy field. The beauty of the IET method is that most people can release the suppressed emotions and related energy blocks without having to “relive” the traumatic event or pain. These energy blocks create physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual disorders. IET is a safe, gentle, nurturing way to release patterns of the past and help to empower and bring more balance into one’s life. More information about IET can be found at www.LearnIET.com.
2) Algometry consists of a pressure instrument known as an algometer, which has a one centimeter rubber-tipped stylus and a force dial which reads in pounds or kilograms. This device measures sensations of pain due to pressure. Kilograms were used in this study. Pain threshold is determined by the amount of force/cm2 required for a person to first perceive pain. This reading is then recorded. Source: Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary @ 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
3) The Pro-Adjuster is a sophisticated technical instrument used by doctors for spinal analysis and adjustment. This system uses an advanced software package designed to assist the doctor in locating spinal dysfunctions, subluxations and/or fixations. Using sophisticated sensors and software, the Pro-Adjuster is able to pick up motion dynamics at previously undetectable levels. These sensors are also used by aerospace engineers and civil engineers to measure for metal fatigue. The size, shape, and frequency of the waveform provide a chiropractor with the specific conditions of spinal motor-units. More information about the Pro-Adjuster can be found at www.pro-adjuster.us.

Procedures: The ten participants in this study had chronic pain for at least 3 years. The various causes were due to car accidents, Fibromyalgia, spinal fusions, migraines, and other minor but chronic strain/sprain injuries. This study was conducted over a three day time period.
On Day 1 the participants completed Questionnaires, which assessed how their pain affected 10 different activities of daily living. They were then measured for pain threshold with the algometer and for spinal function by the Pro-Adjuster. Once the results were recorded by the volunteers, the subjects laid down on massage tables for 50 minutes. Then retested with the same procedures afterward to discover the effects of simply lying down, which is the same thing they would do for IET. This was the “control” situation.
On Day 2, the following day, the participants were again tested with the same procedures as they had received on Day 1. Instead of just lying down, they received a 50-minute session of IET. All but one participant did not know what treatment they were receiving. The practitioners administered the treatment without explaining what they were doing and then recorded which energy fields they felt were released at each of the power points. At the end of the sessions the participants were tested for the last time.
Once all the data was collected and tabulated, the participants met with the volunteers to go over the report of findings.
1) In our IET study, the test subjects rested fully clothed face up on a massage table for approximately one hour. The IET facilitators used gentle therapeutic touch directing healing energy vibrations toward specific areas of the body that hold blocked emotions. What is meant by a blocked emotion is this: As the brain stores the data (name, dates, sequence of events) as related to our traumas, so does the body store the emotions related to our stories. We stuff (suppress) the energy of our experiences when the event is too much for our emotional circuitry to handle. We stuff, or suppress it to best deal with it another time. During the IET sessions energy blocks were released and cleared through IET power points along the spine and elsewhere. Discordant energy imprints were also cleared in the corresponding energy field. Through the IET method we cleared blocks created by suppressed emotions that were related to physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual traumas and disorders. After clearing, IET reintegrated and balanced universal life force energy to flow easily throughout the clients’ human energy fields. This clearing and balancing of the human energy field promoted healing at all levels that were tested.
2) Before and after resting on Day 1 and before and after the IET treatment on Day 2, the subjects were shown the algometer and demonstrated as to how the instrument works. We selected and tested the same points as described by the American College of Rheumatology for Fibromyalgia for a standardized system of points which are consistently painful in these and many other patients with chronic pain. The results and interpretation were threefold:
a. Difference in pressure pain threshold between two symmetric points in the same person (e.g., right upper Trapezius and left upper Trapezius) exceeding 2 kg;
b. pressure pain threshold less than 3 kg; and
c. low pressure pain threshold values as compared to normal values obtained in pain-free control subjects: Various muscle groups (1,2) and lumbar spinous processes. (3)
3) The participants leaned forward on the Pro-Adjuster chair (like a seated massage chair) while the doctor used the instrument to measure each vertebra in their spines before and after resting on Day 1 and before and after IET on Day 2. The software program recorded all fixations and abnormal mobility on a computerized printout. The Pro-Adjuster has an inter-examiner reliability rating of 94.8%.
Conclusions: What we discovered was that overall the subjects tested worse on Day 1 after resting, and improved on Day 2 after the IET sessions.
The algometer readings showed that after testing 16 points on each subject their average scores before IET were less than their average scores after IET, meaning that they tolerated pain better after IET. The higher the score, the more pressure (pain) the person can tolerate, or the less sensitive they are.
The spinal scans revealed that the average fixations and abnormal mobilities were higher before the participants’ IET sessions, meaning that fixations and abnormal mobilities were more prevalent before IET.
What we concluded from these results is that IET affects spinal function and pain levels without ever touching any of the above. Empirically the spinal fixations lessened, spinal mobility improved and pain tolerance improved. The participants told us that they felt more peaceful than they had felt before. One participant who had migraines on a weekly basis told us she hadn’t had even a slight headache since her treatment, which had been about 10 days previous to this statement. She also told us that she had raised her window shades for the first time in years and was able to enjoy the sunlight. As the migraines had made her light sensitive, this was a new experience for her.
Recommendations: During the report of findings the volunteers discovered that the participants were asking what to do next. Overall, each one thoroughly enjoyed their sessions, felt extreme peace, and achieved an awareness that had not been in their faculties before. Therefore, it was decided that we would work with them for six more sessions – one per week – with “homework assignments” in between treatments. The assignments were to help them direct their thought patterns in a way that would help them better cope with their daily distractions and/or interruptions. It’s somewhat of a combination of mental gymnastics with the homework and emotional releasing with IET. Further investigation is warranted with larger populations.
Acknowledgements: Contributing authors/investigators, thanks to the following people for their volunteered time: Beverly Voss is a certified practitioner and Master Instructor with IET. She has spent many years at the Ozark Research Institute (ORI) in Fayetteville, Arkansas as well as Hannah Kroeger’s Peaceful Meadow Retreat in Boulder, Colorado. She is also a Reikki Master. Contact info: 720-898-5678 or heartlink100@aol.com
Jill Luigs is a certified IET practitioner. She worked in a chiropractic office for 21 years. Contact info: 303-651-1303 or angel_light1707@yahoo.com
Stephen Summey, D.C. has been in active practice for 24 years in Longmont, Colorado. He is board certified in chiropractic orthopedics and is certified by the Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians. He is a founding board member of the first multi-disciplinary rehabilitation center in Longmont. He’s also certified in IET, and the first chiropractor in Colorado to integrate the Pro-Adjuster technology into this multi-disciplinary practice. He incorporates IET, physical rehabilitation, massage therapy, nutriceuticals, reflexology, low level laser and meridian therapy into Summey Wellness Center Contact info: 303-776-2939 orwww.Glyco.com/StephenSummey

“Guidelines for Presenting your IET Sessions and Classes at Expos” by Michelle A. McCarthy, IET Trainer

Why do them?
*Great Exposure
*Gain clients for your practice
*Gain students for your classes
*Opportunity to sell products if you have them
*Wonderful opportunity to meet a lot of people who are looking for healing services – all in one place. People are coming to YOU vs you looking for them
*Meet other practitioners/business owners with whom you can network ~ i.e. people offering different modalities with whom you can cross refer, healing center owners who may be looking for someone to teach in their facility. If you are looking to expand your client practice, you may meet someone who is looking for a practitioner
*They’re FUN!
Pre-Expo Planning
•Tell your friends, clients & potential clients. Ask them to come and support and/or meet you. Ask them to spread the word too! Do this via email or snail mail and on your FB page.
•If you have a website, you can put a banner on your home page for the event you’re attending. Your web person (if you have one) can do it for you if you don’t know how.
•Do you have connections to local publications that might give you some press? It is a great opportunity to get a story published about your business and promote the Expo at the same time.
1 Day events
Likely closer to home
Great way to get your feet wet if you’re new to expos
More likely to meet local practitioners with whom to network
Opportunity to do a short IET intro (attendance may be anywhere from 5 to 25/30) – time may vary from 30-45 minutes
Fabulous for ‘building your list’ – newsletter/events
Likely to be more cost effective: Booth fees $50 – $100 vs. several hundred. Expect to pay entire booth fee up front. May or may not have a refundable option if you cancel
Generally more laid back atmosphere
Greater potential to ‘get your money back’ at the event, due to lower cost. You can charge a fee for the service you offer i.e. – 10 minutes $15, $1 a minute. I’ve also seen
people offer mini sessions free of charge. Attendees sometimes come to the smaller events looking for ‘the free stuff’
Measured out space (generally 4 – 6 feet)
You bring everything – including display table and chairs to sit on
May or may not have a contract for you to sign
Electricity may or may not be available; smaller one day shows I’ve had a booth at have provided it at no charged extra.
Shorter set up time – likely to be from 7 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. the day of the event
More word of mouth/e-mail/FB advertising rather than paid advertising
2-3 Day events
Potentially can involve more travel – Expos are offered all around the country. (I’ve given you a list of some of the biggies on the last page)
Larger audience – people come expecting to spend $ – not always the case at smaller events
Booth fees significantly higher – upward to $1,500.00, which will likely include a non refundable deposit of $200 – $250 and may come with a payment plan (or simply a deadline for final balance)
Expect to have a contract to sign
Advertising option *extra charge
If you are selling product, you may be asked to provide a retailers license.
For Sat/Sun events, set up generally starts Friday, times have varied anywhere between 1-4 for the doors to open and set up until 7-8 p.m.
Once these shows open, you are expected not to begin to breakdown until the event is over. Some events specify this in their contract. Should you breakdown early, you may be blocked from being a vendor for that particular event in the future.
Larger booth space options will come with side rails/skirts, back drop, table, chairs, wastebasket, booth spaces usually numbered and will normally have a sign hanging on the booth with your business name. Electricity is usually not included. $65 – $75 for the weekend. But, having it is great if you wish to put twinkle lights around the booth, etc.
Booth sizes vary from 8×8 – 10×20
Extensive advertising is done by the sponsors for these events, on line/FB, metaphysical magazines, billboards (part of why the cost for a booth is significantly higher – the potential for greater exposure)
Opportunity to do Intro 45-55 minute/ larger audience (Potentially 100 or more attendees)
Going it Alone vs Bringing Someone With You
Whether or not you have someone at the booth with you will depend on the size of the event, your comfort level and perhaps the cost of the booth. When you have a booth buddy, you want to be clear with one another regarding expectations, i.e. booth set up, take down, working on clients, sharing the list, expenses, etc.
Planning Your Booth
•Be clear on your intention for participating. What image do you want to project and what do you want the focal point to be (sessions or classes in your office – meeting people who may want you to teach in their home or office?)
•Grab the attention of attendees; you need to find your own sweet spot in standing out in the crowd of vendors. You can offer giveaways, drawings, raffles, etc and interaction with attendees are all ideas that will draw the public into your booth. Just don’t be TOO anxious or “pounce” on people as they walk by.
•Your space should be a reflection of who you are. If you have a real flair for creating beautiful space, create it. If you like simple and clutter free, that is how your booth should look.
•Banners and colorful displays make your space inviting.
•Plan in advance what materials you want to give away during the Expo.
Decide how to capture leads. Give attendees an opportunity to sign up for your mailing list or newsletter or give them an opportunity to enter a drawing. If you do a drawing, you might consider a free remote mini session or a discount on a class or full session.
What You will Need For Your Booth
1-day event, as I said – potentially your own display table, chair(s), waste basket. 2-day event, these will be provided for you
Business Banner (available at Vista Print, Staples, Your local print/copy center)
I generally offer seated mini sessions – so you’ll want a chair for client to sit on to receive session. I bring a folding stool for myself. Chairs may be available for your use.
Signed Consent/release form
Business cards/brochures
Fliers for classes
Event Specials you may be offering
If you’re speaking, have a sign with that information readily visible; make sure you tell people too, “I will be speaking about Integrated Energy Therapy at ** O’clock in the ** room”
Sign Up sheet for sessions/ “Mailing List” sign up sheet.
You may wish to have one that is both a sign up sheet for sessions and your mailing list. If you do, you might have a disclaimer that says, “By signing this form you are agreeing to be on our mailing list. We appreciate you and value your privacy. Please know we will never share your info. You are free to opt out at any time”
Be sure you have restroom breaks and lunch times included on this! (I’ve learned first hand how important THIS one is!)
Bag of Blessings cards with your contact info on them (you may wish to have more than one bag, depending on the size of the event and whether it’s one day or two days)
I have a crystal angel dish that holds these cards and a sign behind it with our Ariel logo picture that says, “Have You Received Your Angel Blessing Today? Please Take One”
Not everyone feels comfortable “taking” a card, but for people receiving sessions, I put the dish in front of them and suggest that they set an intention for their session and then choose a card to see which angel will be working with them
Bottled water, Snacks/lunch, Hand sanitizer (for you), Kleenex (for clients)
Potted plant or artificial flowers
Dish of individually wrapped mints or life savers
Interestingly, this has garnered more than one client at expos. If they’re going to take a piece of candy some people seem to feel obligated to hang around and look at what you’re doing/offering – which has led to sitting in the chair to receive a session!
During The Event
•Wear comfortable shoes and stand as much as you can. If you have to sit, try and sit off to the side, not behind the table.
•Stay fully present to what’s happening around you. This means don’t read, text your friends or chat on your cell phone. In fact, leave your cell phone in your purse! If possible, save meal eating for a scheduled lunch break. And gum is a no-no.
•Listen more than you talk.
•Be willing to help others and get to know the other exhibitors and what they are offering. You can refer to one another during the event and they could become a great referral for you down the road.
•Make sure your booth is staffed at all times.
•Do not start to break your booth down even 5 minutes early. There will be attendees there until the very end. It is not fair to them or to the exhibitors around you if you start packing up early. If you do break down early, you may not be asked back and there are some event sponsors who charge a penalty fee.
After The Show
•Follow up with all of your new contacts within a week after the show. Contact people by email and thank them for coming by your booth and signing up for your email list.
•Ask them how they felt after their session with you. Show them they’re important and you care.
Finding Events
There are many holistic magazines available today. Just in MA we have Natural Awakenings (which has editions all over the country), Wisdom, Many Hands and Spirit of Change. These publications always have advertisements for health expos. If you are new to these events, or not sure you want to venture into having a booth just yet, you might wish to simply attend one or two in your area. Get a feel for the event, the vendors.
Some feel warm and fuzzy; some feel very competitive. Talk to the vendors. Ask about the sponsors. This is a great way to get information about booth rates, attendance, and ideas regarding how you might set up your own booth! You’ll have the
chance to meet other practitioners in your area as well. These people can become friends/referrals, etc.
I have seen ads posted on FB for events that are relatively close (CT, RI, Eastern MA)
Some of The Biggies
•INATS (International New Age Trade Show) is huge/offered every June in Denver. (This one is on my bucket list)
•Whole Health Expos
•Women’s Expos
•New Life Expo (NYC – Hotel Pennsylvania and FL)
•www.healthandfitnessexpos.com (expos by state, including International – search through list, not all would be a good fit)
•www.HolisticGlobeExpo.com (based in FL, offering expos around the country. Must submit app in order to get pricing, etc)
•www.womens-expo.com this organization has been providing events and expos throught the Midwest since 1998.
If you’re ready to dive right in – go for it. They can be great fun, wonderful networking options and have great potential for growth and expansion.
The above information is based on my personal experience doing events and expos for many years. I hope you find it useful.

Remote Integrated Energy Therapy^® Sessions by Michelle A. McCarthy

As an IET® practitioner, you’ve probably had a boatload of experience with hands on IET sessions with your clients. But have you tried using your Integrated Energy Therapy techniques remotely? Based on my experience and the responses from my clients, it has been shown time and again that remote sessions are VERY powerful. Many of my clients have said remote sessions are even more powerful than those received in person. They are also great fun and so enjoyable for me as a practitioner.

In offering a remote session, you can work in your IET Therapy room and imagine the client on the table in front you. You can use a ‘therapy bear’ if you prefer. You can also offer remote sessions while sitting at your computer and documenting what you are finding, seeing or sensing; you can send the notes to the client when you’re done. You can work live via Skype, Face Time or on the phone. One method isn’t better than the other. Choose the one that feels most comfortable for you.

If you’re meeting by phone, Skype or Face Time, will they be calling you or are you calling them? Whichever method you use, agree on a time. Suggest that they be in a place where they will be undisturbed for the duration of the session. You may even opt to schedule a post-session conversation, particularly if you are sending your notes via email.

Remember to arrange for payment. Will they pay you before the session or after? Will they pay through Paypal, mail you a check or give you their credit card over the phone? A remote session takes longer than an in-person session; therefore, I recommend a higher fee for them. How much higher is up to you. As an example, if your rate is $100 for an in
person client, you might charge $125 for a remote. If you charge $75; your remote sessions might be $110.

When I work with clients remotely via Skype or Face Time, I ask them what their primary concerns are at the beginning of our call. When I’m going to be documenting at my computer, we have an e-mail exchange or a phone conversation before the actual time of their appointment. I suggest they set an intention for their session by asking, “if you
could use the IET energy in this session to heal, shift, change, clear, modify, empower, expand or manifest anything, what would it be?”

You’ll decide which level IET to use based on their intention. If they’re experiencing a physical/emotional issue, you might opt for a Basic level session. If your client is wondering about their purpose/mission in life or is perhaps looking for a soul mate, an Advanced level session makes sense. Then, just as you would if they were with you physically, you’ll offer a silent prayer inviting your angels to work with you. Invite your client’s angels to work with them during the session. Ask that this session be used for your clients’ highest good. Establish an angelic heartlink with Angel Ariel or your own personal angels. Use the heartlink symbol to bring a starburst of integrated energy into your client’s abdomen. Begin channeling integrated energy from your heart allowing it to flow down your arms and envision it entering your client’s abdomen. Then, take a breath, remember the angels are with you and they are doing the work. Close your eyes (if it feels comfortable) and proceed to do the session, paying attention to whatever you might be sensing, feeling or seeing. The client may wish to offer input as well.

Once you have completed the session, you can easily check in with them if you are on Skype or Face Time. If you have done the work on your computer, send the notes and tell them you welcome feedback and questions. Or, as I mentioned previously, you might have a post session phone chat scheduled after they have had a chance to read the notes.

I personally LOVE offering sessions remotely; in fact, the bulk of my client practice is comprised of clients around the globe. If you have been considering offering remote sessions, I hope this article will inspire you to try them.

Perhaps The Best 5 Minutes of Your Life! The IET 5-Minute Empowerment by Karen J. Puglia

Well here I am again talking about the 5-Minute Empowerment! Those of you who have been around for a while know that I am always reminding people of the benefits of this technique that was learned way back in the Basic IET class. But I have to tell you it is one of the easiest, quickest, and beneficial IET techniques that you can do in a short period of time. If a client calls me between sessions with some anxiety, feelings of anger, sadness, etc., I do an absentee 5- Minute Empowerment and the report that I get back is that the negative feelings have lifted.

The 5-Minute Empowerment technique (illustrated in the Basic IET Manual on page 11) has many uses. In your busy, fast- paced life, it just takes 5 minutes to release stress, anger, fear, etc. from your energy body. Check out these ways to Empower yourself:

Uses for the 5-Minute Empowerment Technique

1. Mini clearing of negative emotions and feelings and imprinting of positive energy for yourself and others. Great way to start and end the day!
2. Absentee
a. When a friend calls and is in need of a session but there is not enough time in the moment to do a full IET session, do a 5-Minute Empowerment.
b. As an IET practitioner, you may receive a call from a client who is having a difficult time. You can do an absentee 5- Minute Empowerment to help relieve the symptoms in the moment.
3. Health or Alternative Healing Expos
a. Set up a table with information about IET, your IET class schedule, and information about your IET practice. Offer to do a 5-Minute Empowerment session by having the
participant sit in a chair. (Hint – have a chair for yourself, it saves your back!) Participants experience a mini session and feeling the change after only 5 minutes, they become interested in how good a full IET session would feel or become interested in taking IET classes.
4. Information meetings and talks
a. As a part of IET information talks, offer to do a 5-Minute Empowerment session on a volunteer after giving a talk about IET in general.

Pilot Progam – BeHold Vicki Frederiksen, Keith Horwitz & Andrea Dunham
IET Master-Instructors from California

BeHold is a Los Angeles based non-profit project committed to helping those who help others. Our ultimate goal is to revolutionize the human services industry, to spearhead a shift in values from one that consumes its workers to one that regards every human as a precious resource.

We aim to revitalize the human services industry by bringing Integrated Energy Therapy (IET) sessions to care providers. IET teaches that we should always care for and energize ourselves before attempting to reach out to others. This is the model of service without sacrifice that we are embodying and teaching to our clients. IET also teaches us that the results our clients experience are a reflection of their own readiness and not a function of our abilities: all results are client-paced.

We have recently administered a pilot program at A Place Called Home in South Central Los Angeles (an organization that serves at risk youth), and the individual IET sessions and support that our program provided proved to be highly effective. We implemented measures of success via a survey assessing the workers’ physical, emotional and mental experiences of their jobs. The results of our twelve week pilot program are amazing. We had 12 participants who completed the program and submitted our intake, midpoint, and exit surveys. There was an overall improvement of 45% in the category of Emotional Well-Being, 53% in the category of Health, 50% in the category of Job Effectiveness, and 31% in the category of Job Satisfaction.

EXIT RESULTS

Our 12-week program is designed to reduce each participant’s experience of emotional exhaustion and job dissatisfaction, thereby increasing effectiveness, job retention and attendance (the major criteria on the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), the most widely used research measure in the field of burnout). We created our own Maslach-type survey to assess the workers’ physical, emotional and mental experiences of their jobs before the intervention, midway through, and at its completion. To clarify the overall impact of survey results, questions are grouped into four categories: emotional well-being, health, job effectiveness, and job satisfaction. For the agencies that we have served to date, there was an overall improvement of 45% in the category of emotional well-being, 53% in health, 50% in job effectiveness, and 31% in job satisfaction. It is our goal to decrease the cumulative symptoms of compassion fatigue by at least 50% in every category, at every agency who uses our services.

On a scale on 1 to 10:

91% of participants surveyed marked 8 or higher when asked how important their weekly energy
sessions have been. (64% marked 10)

83% of participants surveyed marked 9 or higher when asked how they would rate
the overall impact that participating in the program made for them personally.

75% of participants surveyed marked 9 or higher when asked how they would rate the overall impact
that participating in this program made on their job performance.

58% of participants surveyed marked 9 or higher when asked how they would rate the overall impact
that participating in this program made on how they feel about their job.

58% of participants surveyed marked 9 or higher when asked how they would rate the overall impact
that participating in the program made on their work relationships.

On a scale of 1 to 5:

91% of participants surveyed marked 4 or higher when asked how much having this program available
to them through their employer was an indication of employer support and care. (82% marked 5)

TESTIMONIALS

“I believe you have embarked on a worthwhile and very necessary project. You are healing the world one person at a time! Thank you for allowing me to be a part of this World Peace Effort!” –Chief Operating Officer of A Place Called Home

“At first I did not believe that this program was real because of my ignorance to this form of Holistic Healing, but I feel a difference. I truly enjoy the energy sessions and I feel more in touch with myself.” –Participant

“Overall the program was great. The sessions helped me realize how much power a person can have within and how to be able to know yourself from the inside and be able to grow and become a new person. [The program] helped me a great deal to be able to handle my daily problems at work and at home.” –Maria Botello

“I’m more rested and joyful. I find it so much easier to live in the moment and make appropriate responses and changes according to the situation. I feel much more alive and enjoy that. I also lost TONS of fear and anxiety that I used to bring into every situation.” –Angela Hagedorn

“I have learned to focus and not let things frustrate me. I can make choices more confidently.” –Tisha Johns

“I am very happy that I was able to participate in such a great program. I must admit that at first I was a bit skeptical of the procedures. Now, I actually live by it. I have learned a lot about myself. In fact, I have been taking better care of myself and it has reflected in every part of my life. Thank you, thank you, thank you.” –Richea Jones

“[The biggest benefit of participating in this program has been] paying attention to ME; I don’t think I ever fully understood that my energy, body, spirit, and emotions are working for me daily and that at times they translate specific messages pertaining to me and my well being. Now that I know they are there, it will be easier for me to honor them and myself.” –Participant

Some other quotes from participants:

“The program is wonderful and I find it very interesting. It has helped me feel less stressed. I feel that I am walking into a safe place here on earth. I feel that I am a different person than when I started the program…like a new person is being born inside of me. I want to thank you guys for that.”

“I feel that the program is helping me deal with issues that I didn’t know I had. The program is giving me the tools to deal with issues that had been hidden, and I can now face. The biggest benefit has been that it’s helping me deal with issues and learn how to express myself.”

[From a gang member]: “It makes me feel really good. Lately I’ve been more understanding towards other people’s feelings and I’m actually making them feel all of my goodness. My biggest benefit has been giving and taking in love from others. Since I’ve been a part of this type of therapy, I have turned into a better person as far as receiving others niceness, but I’m still working on giving love.”

About BeHold:

MISSION STATEMENT:
BeHold is committed to empowering people and organizations in the human services field so that they may continue to provide their essential services. BeHold models the truth, integrity and self-empowerment needed to make service work sustainable. These principles are at the foundation of the holistic healing and educational programs we provide.

BeHold serves to hold a light of recognition on the vital but struggling field of service. Human service workers embody the heart of social change. They ease suffering, provide catalysts for growth, and see to the well-being of society’s most neglected, indigent and invisible members. However, their work is largely unsustainable because of excessive demands on their energy, strength and resources. While we may not be able to directly change the structure or resources of an organization, we can definitely impact their workers’ own understanding of who they are and how to be of service.

We are seeking to bring a holistic model of self-healing and empowerment to the human services field. Professional caregivers working within current models of service suffer alarming rates of burnout. A contributing factor is the feeling of failure that human service workers can experience when their clients are not responding to their support. This can create cynicism and blame toward clients, and hopelessness and worthlessness toward themselves. They become depleted and ineffective. With this dynamic in play, human services is not a sustainable field.
It is our vision, our dream, that BeHold will expand to implement its programs across the nation and across the globe. We have been blessed in countless ways and have been Divinely guided each step of this incredible journey. Things are still unfolding, and we are learning more every day. We hope to include the entire IET community in our endeavors as the power and grace of IET continues to change the world one heart at a time. We appreciate all forms of support (including prayers, energy, ideas and financial contributions). If you would like to make a tax deductible contribution to this project, please send a check made out to “BeHold FBO Community Partners” and mail it attention BeHold at 4239 Laurel Grove Avenue, Studio City CA 91604, USA. For more information, please feel free to contact us at that address, or email behold@allonelove.com. For Master-Instructors, we plan on presenting more details of our program and its progress at the MI Retreat in October, 2004.

Vicki Frederiksen, Keith Horwitz & Andrea Dunham IET Master-Instructors from California

Please Heartlink to Atlantis By Maria Peterson

I have been meditating for about seven years. I once took a meditation course called Spectra Dynamics, based on the work of Dorothy Gates, a California psychologist. During that the course I learned a little about how my mind worked.

Memories from other lifetimes began to emerge whenever I meditated. The difficult or traumatic events of my past lives would come forward in little snippets. Sometimes taking a whole year before the entire story would become something that could be understood in a logical way. This is how my Atlantean memories came forward into my conscious mind.

It wasn’t until this past February that I was able to put them in a logical sequence or even be able to say that some of them were from the time of Atlantis. I went to hear Frank Joseph speak in Rochester, MN. Mr. Joseph has been researching Atlantis for the past 30 years. As he flashed pictures, some technical drawings others artists renditions, from his projector my mind began to catalog my memories. A picture of the rings that made up the city of Atlantis during the second epoch brought to mind the time when my fiancé was racing around the track and lost control of his chariot and smashed into the side of the racetrack wall, breaking his body and dying instantly. Other memories fell into order again and again as he talked and showed slides.

The memory that has haunted me the most is my last memory of Atlantis during the third Atlantean epoch. What I remember is that I belonged to a religious sect that resided in the countryside, outside of the city. We knew that something big was taking place from the placement of the stars, the meteor showers and the rumblings in the earth. I carried a bag that held six large crystals and was instructed to place them in the earth at the base of the hill leading to the volcano. Then our group of followers would meditate and hold a thought filling the crystals that would help heal the earth. We placed the crystals into the earth. However, the volcano ended up exploding, killing all of us and destroying Atlantis. For years I believed that I had helped to bring about the destruction of Atlantis.

After Mr. Joseph finished speaking I was able to speak privately with him. What he told me brought such relief and comfort deep down within myself I felt such a wonderful shiver of joy. He explained how placing the crystals in the earth the way that I did, was acting as a conductor to dissipate the energy that was building beneath the volcano. The crystals would transmute the energy and send it out into the atmosphere as electricity, eliminating the force underground. I hadn’t destroyed Atlantis, I was trying to help save it. He also told me that because the force was too large, the small group of people that I worked with, were probably too few to focus all the energy, so the explosion occurred despite our efforts and Atlantis sank.

What I learned from Mr. Joseph’s talk and his book, The Destruction of Atlantis, was that a meteor hit two plates in the Atlantic Ocean. The force of the contact with the plates sent a reverberation across the Atlantic right to Atlantis (250 miles off the coast of Portugal) where movement caused the volcano to erupt and the island to sink. The meteor not only caused devastation for Atlantis, but around the world. It is at this time that all cultures came up with their flood myths.

As I began to digest all this information, I began to realize that if all cultures have a flood myth connected with the sinking of Atlantis, then everyone on this planet is connected to the collective consciousness that holds this memory. A memory of vast floods, tsunamis, explosions, ash covering the sun, no food, acid rain, vast areas being burned and destroyed, loss of family and loved ones.

It is my hope that revealing this memory will help others who participated in these events heal from any trauma they carry in their cellular memory. As I became aware of this possibility, I began to think, what if all the IET students and Master-Instructors around the world heartlinked to this Atlantean consciousness, with the intent of sending love and began to heal this Atlantean consciousness. What parts of our present and our future are being created from this memory of destruction? What great healing would occur for us as
a planet if we would join our energy and create a giant heartlink?

I would like to invite each of you to take time on June 21, 2005 Solstice. Simply do a five-minute heartlink meditation to the collective consciousness that holds the memory of the destruction of Atlantis and send our heartlinks though time and space back to Atlantis. IET students number in the thousands. We can create a loving and powerful healing force to make a better, healthier Earth.

In Peace and Love and For the Earth, Maria Peterson

The Power of having an IET Practice Partner by Nancy Russell

We feel so blessed and joyful after IET classes. The energy puts us into the natural state of understanding our magnificence and connection to divinity through the angelic
realm. The classes show us who we really are and how it all works. I frequently am asked how this feeling can be maintained long after the class.

First of all I remind students of their wonderful energetic “toolbox” and I suggest that they review their IET manuals for self-healing techniques available for use in supporting their process.

Next I ask if they have a practice partner to exchange IET sessions with. I ask if they have received an IET session recently. Receiving IET sessions will expand your energetic awareness and personal balance. For really learning the system and being able to easily integrate it all into your life the Practice Partner concept is most important and helpful.

An IET Practice Partner is a wonderful friend or soul buddy with whom you feel comfortable and also have an exchange of IET sessions on a regular basis. Your practice partner may be someone you studied with in one of your IET classes.

Alternatively, they may be an IET practitioner in your area. If you would like help in finding a practice partner a good place to start is with your IET Master-Instructor. They may know of another student near you. You can also look on thewww.LearnIET.com website at the director of Instructors. Perhaps one of them is also looking for a practice partner.

Exchanging sessions with your practice partner. I recommend that for optimum experience you give your partner an IET session one day and they give you an IET session the next
time you meet. Remember, we call it an IET practice not an IET perfect, so please don’t worry about getting all the hand positions perfect. Just do the best you can and learn from the experience. You can even refer to your book or quick reference guide as you do your session. Try and have fun with the experience. Be lite and let the angels work though you. Talk about the session with your practice partner and compare notes on what you each experienced.

IET on the Pediatric Floor by Denis Becker

A fellow IET practioner, Veronique Redican, set out with the intention to do volunteer IET work in a NY Hospital. Through reaching out and weathering rejection (and with the help of the angels) she manifested it. Since making that connection, a group of us have been getting together and giving sessions on the pediatric ward of NY Hospital. We are all amazed with how welcoming and accepting of us both staff and patients have become.

On our first visit, though, we were initially disappointed. There were only 2 children waiting for us in the playroom where we were to teach an IET for Kids class. We were told there would be up to 30. On top of this, it was obvious that one of the two would not sit still for even part of a class. I felt badly that some of my student and practitioner friends had traveled for over an hour on this Sunday morning to help teach a class that wasn’t going to happen. I wasn’t sure what to do.

After a disappointing moment, I remembered that I had felt the presence of the angels when I awoke and that they had made this visit possible. We all felt that there was a reason for our visit. Rather quickly, we set out to do our work. Two practitioners spontaneously engaged each of the two children who had been waiting in the playroom in conversation and then in sessions. Two other practitioners went around to the childrens’ rooms and gave out teddy bears (laced with energy). Later in the day, I heard about their incredible experiences with the children while doing IET sessions.

I started speaking with the father of one of the children who was receiving a session in the playroom. He looked so sad. Although he spoke only Spanish, he did manage to tell me that his son, Jose, was diagnosed with leukemia and that his wife and son had been living in the hospital for the past four months and that he spent weekends there. When I asked him if he wanted a session, he agreed if with an air of hopelessness.

About midway through his session, something happened that surprised me. He smiled. He and his son started talking and laughing. He appeared amazed and asked me what was going on? angelos? Dios? When I answered yes, he was quite pleased . After his session, he went back to his son’s room and told the family of the child his son was sharing a room with a about us. Eventually, they all received sessions.

After two and a half hours of IET sessions and calling in angels, it was time for us to go. By now the entire pediatric ward, the whole floor was filled with the energy of love. It was incredible. The staff felt it and invited us to return. Joses’ Dad begged us to return.

Although the day did not go as we initially planned, it was perfect. The angels plan well.

Lessons Learned And A Call To Action: A Look Back On 2020 & A Clear Mission For 2021
Written by Samuel Haines ~ MI, PA

I am so grateful for 2020. We spend our lives praying for direction, seeking answers, following inspiration, and slowly building all the spiritual muscles that this life requires of us in order to do well. And then a year like 2020 comes upon us. There is so much that can be said, and has been said about 2020 and all the events within. Perhaps the most obvious thing to acknowledge is that we’ve ALL been changed. All of us have had our worldview, personal identity and so much that we took for granted shaken and challenged.

Let’s be honest, it was painful and it was glorious. As I like to say, 2020 is the year ALL THE RULES

WERE BROKEN. All of our man-made myths and the stories we have been telling ourselves were put to the test, under the light and microscope. We all felt fear. We all felt anger. We all felt sadness. We all felt shame. We all felt joy. But the backdrop of our lives highlighted one thing that is very important: we have to be solid in ourselves and our relationship with our Creator first and foremost.

We were all touched by the woes of isolation and in that isolation, we all saw a part of ourselves that had been hidden, repressed, and denied. We all saw our shadow. And that is where the miracles of 2020 really begin. I mean, that’s why we are here in this community, right? We are here to be bringers of

light – either in our own life or to assist and serve others who need help finding the light in their life. That’s the mission, right? Well, we all got major training in reality, honesty, self-knowledge, and self-love in 2020.

I’d like to share with you our experience of 2020. On day 1 of the lockdowns, March 16th here in PA, Wendi and I were shocked, scared, and excited. We knew something big was happening. We knew we had to make a stand in order to make it through with a positive mindset and to remain connected to our goals. So, we decided that we would do our IET Basic Self-Empowerments every day and hold them on Zoom for our IET student and practitioner community. We got a great response from people and over those first 2 weeks, we had about 20+ people join us. When it became clear that the lockdowns were not going away, we stood our ground and said, “we are here to the end”. Over the next 9 months, our group met every day, and sometimes twice a day so folks in time zones around the world (“hello Australia!”) could join us.

What has happened in the lives of the members of this daily empowerment group is nothing short of incredible. People moved from fear and worry to celebration, joy, hope, peace, and even ACTION! That’s right. Wendi and I had quite a few new students this year who have now joined us in leading this

daily empowerment group! We still meet every day. This group has held loving space for people as they faced all kinds of life’s tragedies – from miscarriages, amputations, loss of loved ones, to the loss of jobs, sicknesses, divorces, etc. This group has also celebrated with its members at weddings, new moves and transitions, new jobs, and deeper experiences of love, joy, and connection than they had known previously.

Yes, 2020 has been a great year. A great year of change and growth for some, and a great year of loss and failure for others. What’s the difference? It’s not luck, or karma, or by accident. It’s by choice. We can’t choose what happens to us, but we can choose how we respond. Wendi and I have seen both types of responses. Those who are doing great and are facing what comes with a light heart are the ones who have stepped up in their own practice of self-love. We use, among other tools, IET on a daily basis. We are so excited for the presence of this daily empowerment group. We are going strong into 2021 and we want you to join us!

The energies of growth and change are just getting started here on planet earth. I am putting in here a direct call to action. Take advantage of this tide and rise. Rise up in your life and call on the angels to assist you.

• You have to take action.
• You have to be willing to play an active role in your prayers being answered.
• Miracles are for those who have the guts to receive them.

Ask yourself:

• Are you ready to step forward and go bigger in your reach?
• Are you ready to receive the gifts, miracles, and blessings that God has prepared for you?
• Are you ready to challenge your shadow, shine the light, and be liberated from all the limiting and false beliefs that you have built-in yourself?

That is the mission of 2021. Illumination. Healing. Growth. Action – authentic and inspired action. You cannot sit on the sidelines of your dreams and wait. It’s time, beyond time actually, to get in the game and bring your passion and vision for your better life to the table.

We want you to know that a daily IET practice has made all the difference. It was not the only great action we have taken this year, but it did set the tone every day for how we showed up. If you want to step into a robust self-practice, know that it is easier and more fun to do it with a group.

• The fellowship is incredible.
• The benefits are uncharted.
• The feast has been set.

All you need to do is sit yourself down and join the celebration! Maybe you want to start your own daily empowerment group for your student community. We are glad to help you get started!

The best truly is yet to come, for those who take an active role in making it happen! Heaven only arrives when we participate in creating it. Our joy is in helping people be inspired to reach their greatest heights, face their shadow, claim their identity, and live their best life.

Join us here: Week of Empowerment
Join our Facebook Group “Sam & Wendi’s Daily IET Empowerment Group”