Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding the truth – Ludwig Borne
In his book Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Dam Millman receives the following message: “you don’t see your prison because the bars are invisible. Part of my task is to point out your predicament, and I hope it is the most disillusioning experience of your life….
Disillusion is greatest gift I can give you…. a ‘freeing from illusion’….”
What a great statement that is… and what a mindshift…
I find myself at a crossroads in my own life with with one foot in the day-to-day and one foot in the energetic/mystical world and am reflecting on the illusions that may have held me back in the past. I am realising that am so much more than the sum of my experiences because I have the ability to dream, to imagine and to create something out of nothing.
When I look at my most impactful work it has always been helping individuals, groups and companies to break through, to change mindsets and to create something new. Have you ever experienced a ‘blitz’, where someone comes in and helps you through a process to smash through something either physical like clutter (a full up loft, shed or wild garden, etc.) or a mental/emotional blockage? There is nothing quite like it to help you to break through.
I have always found it to be incredibly satisfying and empowering and powerful process, especially when we are supported through it by a guide.
Are you aware of your own illusions or your limiting beliefs/glass ceilings. Sometimes the most impactful way of shattering illusions is to have someone help you with a big, quick purge of stuff that no longer serves you. Big piles of our stuff act like an anchor to hold us down and can be overwhelming whenever we contemplate doing it on our own. All of a sudden, it as if life opens up and the lens changes. We are able to take a big deep breath and start again from a different place. What physical things need clearing from your life?
Take the leap and shatter some illusions, there will be no looking back….
First posted on Linked-In 30th September 2024
When are people going to look for other possible causes?
During a conversation recently I was introduced to a publication titled: “Is It Really Fibromyalgia? Recognizing Mast Cell Activation, Orthostatic Tachycardia, and Hypermobility”, written by: Leslie N Russek Clarkson University in 2018.
This section stood out specifically: “Scenario 2: 14-year-old female presents with widespread pain, anxiety, and fatigue that prevents her from attending school. Symptoms began 2 years ago after forced bedrest due to a severe flu. Her primary complaint are the debilitating fatigue and anxiety attacks, but she also reports headaches, brain-fog, episodes of syncope, tachycardia, difficulty sleeping, activity/exercise intolerance, and cold hands and feet. Pain 4/10 most times, 8/10 during flares”
My first thought was why has nobody considered dowsing her bedroom for detrimental geopathic stress?
Having worked with energy in peoples home and workplaces for almost 30 years now I have found so many examples of people whose health has been negatively impacted by them sleeping over detrimental earth energy lines or geopathic stress as it is more commonly known. We are impacted by so many different types of energies in our homes and workplaces and are generally blissfully unaware of them. Some of those energies are man-made and some come from the earth itself.
There are case studies of children in cots whose parents keep on finding them huddled in one corner or at one end of the cot, only to have a dowser confirm that there were geopathic stress lines underneath the avoided section of the cot. Babies can also be impacted by having wireless baby monitors too near their heads and especially so if the ac adaptor is plugged underneath the cot or if the Wi-Fi router is on the other side of the wall from the cot.
Women more so than men are impacted by geopathic stress and can have trouble sleeping and recovering when their bed is too close to certain energy lines. Mobile phones, especially when left charging overnight at bedsides are generally shown (in my experience) to have a detrimental or weakening impact on people. Sleep is such an important part of good health and recovery from illness and if our bodies electromagnetic signal are disrupted when we are asleep this can impact recovery and general health.
Medicine has come on leaps and bounds over the years however there are some more basic tools and processes that could easily rule out some of the common causes from the energies around us that we cannot see and can rarely sense if left to our own devices.
So what next can I do about it if I have concerns or questions?
Employ the services of a home healer, space clearer or dowser to tune in remotely or visit your home to rule out any detrimental energies that may be impacting your health and wellbeing.
Have a look at my website for more information about the different types of energies that can impact us.
Maybe sometimes it is an Issue with our Environment and not with Ourselves!
Having worked with energy in people and places for close to 30 years I have realised that as humans we have been deconditioned to have an innate awareness of and being tuned-into the energies of our home and work environments.
As well as geopathic stress from the earth we are bombarded by electromagnetic and other types of energies and waves, many of which can be detrimental to our health and wellbeing and most people have no idea they are being impacted. Buildings also act like hard drives by storing imprints of past events and emotions as well as illness residues. If we or any of our family have trouble sleeping, are constantly tired, suffering from one illness after another, etc.. it is almost always worth considering having someone look at where you spend most of your time to see if you are being detrimentally impacted. Dowsing has been documented for thousands of years and is still used by many, all over the world to help locating underground water and also oil. In addition to dowsing rods there are also a number of scientific devises that measure EMF’s radio waves, etc. that can be used to not only detect but also measure detrimental energies. There was an article in the Daily Mail a few years ago reporting that Thames Water’s leak detection engineers were still using their own dowsing rods to help them locate leaks!
One of the things that I have noticed over the past couple of years is that a number of people working from home had been reporting feelings of tiredness, lethargy and trouble concentrating. This was due to them sitting for hours in a part of the house that they never would have before, for any length of time. If you are feeling something similar try moving your work area to see if that makes a difference. Some people claim to be able to diminish or move geopathic energies however the easiest thing to do is to move out of the way of them.
I brought some measuring equipment into an office as one of the senior managers had been complaining of constant headaches at work for a number of weeks. It was quickly apparent that the cause was the base station of a wireless headset on a neighbouring desk that was emitting pulses that were off the scale of the meter. Once it was unplugged the problem went away and she had no more headaches. I find it scary that the same technology is used in baby monitors and they are very often situated near babies heads with the ac adaptor sometimes plugged in underneath their cots.
When we sleep, our biological systems send out signals to repair our cells, if this process is disrupted our bodies do not heal properly and many believe that in extreme circumstances, sleeping over geopathic stress lines can result in serious illness and difficulties healing.
There is a great book written in the 70’s by an Austrian lady called Kathe Bachler, who carried out thousands of dowsing case studies into a direct link between geopathic stress lines and ill health. https://www.foyles.co.uk/book/earth-radiation/kthe-bachler/9780968632352
There is also a really interesting documentary about geopathic stress that was filmed in Ireland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Wprr9TYUwo
It would really be worth considering taking some time out at home. Take some deep breaths, stand in different parts of your home with your eyes closed and just notice how you feel. Are you steady and calm or are you aware of feeling disrupted or agitated. It is amazing what you are able to notice when you put some time aside and have clear intent.
I have not seen anything like this posted on Linked-In recently so this may be new to many of you. If you have any questions please let me know and I will do my best to help. If all else fails you could always arrange to have your home or workplace surveyed.
Your life as a house and the impact it can have on your life. Explore what your home is saying about you.
Carl Jung said that the space in which we live is not just a physical place but also a direct projection of our unconscious. The house is a silent mirror of what happens inside us. If there is order, harmony and positive energy, our mind and spirit will also benefit. But, if the environment is chaotic, full of stress and devoid on intention, this will be reflected in every aspect of our existence.
Our homes can either support and uplift us or at worst, can keep us stuck and make us ill. There are so many types of energies that can impact us in our homes but the most common one is energetic imprints. Our homes act like hard-drives by storing energetic imprints from previous occupants, including their emotions, anger, depression as well as their joy and laughter. When I am called to carry out home healing, my first task is to read the energetic imprints in order to work out why the people were drawn to the house and how it could be affecting them.
One powerful exercise I encourage people to do when they come to me to learn more about the energies impacting them in their homes is to close their eyes, take some deep breaths and relax before imagining themselves coming home and noticing what comes up as they approach their front door. How do they feel? Welcomed or apprehensive? Do they feel as if they have ‘come home’ to a place of safety and comfort or does something else come up instead? Is the colour of the front door in alignment with the building and with who they are?
What greets them when the front door opens? Sights, sounds, smells etc. and what thoughts and feelings are evoked when standing in the hallway and looking around?
This is such a quick and impactful start of the journey into discovering what your home is saying about you and how it may be impacting you in ways that you couldn’t even begin to imagine.
Are you able to see how your home is mirroring you and your life? Is it supporting you or keeping you isolated?
I would be interested to know if this concept is new to you or not, and also if anything here struck a chord with you?
Posted on Linked-In 6th March 2025 – https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/your-life-house-impact-can-have-explore-what-home-saying-chris-colgan-oohqe/?trackingId=E%2Fgf5tlh5fQiXYeOIQGYCA%3D%3D
Signs that your home may need healing
As energetic beings we are impacted by all kinds of energies in our homes and environments. How do you know that is what you are being impacted by and what can you do about it?
- There is a history of illness in the house
- Struggling to sell it or to get the right tenants
- You are feeling stuck and/or isolated
- You are struggling to get anything done
- You are wanting to attract a partner
- It just doesn’t feel right
- There are spots in the house where the dog just won’t go or settle.
Those are just a few of the possible impacts of there being detrimental energies in your home.
The biggest cause of issues in the home is related to geopathic stress from the earth and the myriad of potentially harmful earth related energies. They can very easily impact our health if we find ourselves sleeping over detrimental energy lines as they impact our sleep and subsequently our bodies ability to heal itself.
The second biggest cause of issues in a home is related to energetic imprints left behind in the space from previous occupants and also from your own possessions.
So What can you do about it?
Geopathic stress from the earth can easily be picked up and detected by good dowsers/home healers. I use a pendulum and/or dowsing rods to identify and they clear a lot of these potentially harmful energies and this work is mostly carried out remotely using a floorplan of the property. In some instances a bed or piece of furniture may need to be moved out of the way of the energy line if it is too strong.
Energetic imprints left behind are best dealt with by a home visit where I would read those imprints in the spaces and help you work out why you were drawn to that property in the first instance, how it might be impacting you and then help you to clear out all the old unwanted energies. I know it is not generally known but it baffles me that people move into new homes that are empty of everything except for historic, stuck energies that have been left behind. The older the building the bigger the problem. Also there have been plenty of buildings such as asylum’s that have been converted into flats. Can you imagine the energies that have been left behind in there. Same goes for old pubs and churches that have been converted in to homes.
Once the energies have been identified there is a ceremony to get rid of them and clear them out of the space. The final part of the process involves you setting very clear intent for each space, starting at the front door where you decide how you want to feel when you come home and what kind of people and energies you would like to come in to your home.
Old possessions also carry an energetic imprint based on your state of mind when you bought them, who gave them to you and also their symbolism (which is a post or article all on its own for anyone who is interested.)
Sometimes we hold onto things that we know at a deep level are not good for us and they literally tie us to an unhealthy relationship or past trauma. I once cleared the energies in a family home and came to a chest of drawers that held incredibly bad energetic imprints. The ladies husband had set himself on fire in their old home and the chest was the only thing saved from the fire and it was brought into her new home with her children. Imagine the energies that would have been imprinted on that piece of furniture. It had to go.
If you think that you could be affected by any of these things there is more information on my website. Please DM me if you have any questions.
First posted on Linked-In on March 14th 2025
Ever doubted your impact, only to realise later it changed someone’s life? This is how I learnt to trust the process
Thank you to the very insightful Claudia De Carlo for not only prompting me to share this as a post but who also came up with the great title.
I had a lady recommended to me for some energy balancing work and by the end of the session, for the first time ever, I seriously doubted if I had achieved anything with her at all and considered giving her a refund. She tried to rebook a follow-up session and I wouldn’t let her. I advised her to wait a couple of weeks to gauge the results of the first session before committing to a second one. She returned about 3 weeks later for her second session and then booked to do Reiki Levels 1 & 2 with me some months later.
At the end of the day on the last course when everyone was sat in a circle sharing their experiences, this lady said that the first session she had with me was the single most impactful event in her life to date (and she was in her mid fifties). She went on to describe what had happened afterwards and since and how her life had literally been transformed!
I then shared my experience of that session and how I had felt afterwards. I could barely believe the difference between the 2 very different stories we shared. From that day on I started to believe and to trust that if I showed up with integrity to all of my work and acted as a catalyst for change and transformation, that was all I could do. Regardless of whether I received feedback or not.
When working at a deep energetic level it is possible to create massive shifts and not everyone has to come back or share their experiences with you. I feel blessed that this lady came back for more, to learn Reiki with me and most of all that she was able to share her experiences with the group that day. I am forever grateful for the lesson.
Live with purpose, show up with integrity and alignment and trust that God/The Universe will take care of the rest. All will unfold as it should and we cannot make ourselves responsible for another soul’s outcomes.
First posted on Linked-In – March 6, 2025
How Does Kinesiology Enhance Management?
April 3, 2025
A very long time ago I started to learn about energy flows in the body and how to test and rebalance them. It enhanced my Reiki practice and also gave me an invaluable self-development tool.
Alongside my curiosity for energetic and spiritual things, I was managing Support teams for a rapidly growing internet start-up called Global Internet. Everything was new and the growth was so rapid that we were literally laying the tracks as the train hurtled towards us. Everything was new and exciting and the learning curve was incredibly steep. Over a period of 5 years I grew a support team of 9 into a support division of 150 people, at a time when everyone had a desk, a pc, a phone and a headset (both of which were enabled by racks and cards in the comms room).
I had already completed a Diploma in Management (DMS) and had a robust set of ‘tools’ that I had learned and experienced that I called my Management Toolkit’ and it wasn’t enough for the speed of growth and learning that we had to deal with on a daily basis.
What changed the game totally for me was when I started to merge both of my worlds into one. When you understand the basic energy flows in the body you are able to:
- Strengthen Central & Governing flow – vital for dealing with confrontations
- Ground yourself – vital for making things happen
- Enable your energies to cross over – vital for making right decisions
- Strengthen Triple Warmer which is the energy flow connected with fight or flight – vital for managing stress & for being more resilient
- Regulate your emotional triggers & knee jerk responses – vital for managing large teams of people & dealing with contentious issues
- Strengthen and calm your nervous system – vital for virtually everything
Before long I was not only managing myself and others better but my stress levels dropped, my sleep improved, and everything became less of a struggle. I was also sharing this knowledge and teaching it.
If your ‘management toolkit does not include a basic understanding of some of the key energy flows in the body along with the ability to test and rebalance them, I would say that you are missing a trick.
A half-day workshop for key managers would go a long way to starting the process in your business and I know from personal experience how simple and powerful it is.
My close friends started to call me The Energy Man which is what I am now know as in this work. I am happy to answer any questions you may have and am also curious to know what other ‘tools’ you have in your own management toolkit ?
Energy Reset
I completed a home healing dowsing session for a friend yesterday and had a realisation. When looking back over the years of doing this work, the one constant for people who wanted their homes healed was that they were ultimately wanting help to reset or restart their lives.
They were out of alignment but couldn’t have explained it. They were compromising massively and were not happy.
Most people don’t realise that the subtle energies in their homes can contribute to stuck-ness and that once they have been identifies and removed, things can flow so much more easily.
Maybe instead of just teaching what I do I should also be offering energy reset days where people can come along and work with others in a safe space to explore the energy flows in their bodies and where they might have blockages?
Posted: 01/05/2025
The Power of ‘Alternative’ Methods
When domain names were still free and the company wanted to make a massive push by giving away a free domain name with every dial-up paid for service. Technical support needed to grow by approximately 50% and we had 8 weeks to find, interview, employ, induct and train over 40 new technical support staff including a brand-new night shift. We advertised in the Evening Standard newspaper and the local paper in Putney, hired a hotel and booked a date for the interviews.
We produced a multiple-choice technical test on floppy disk to help narrow down those with the right level of technical knowledge, we started the day by leading a number of the existing customer and technical support team members in a guided visualisation, to consider what kind of people they would like to attract for the day, the kind of people they would like to work with and who shared their values, etc.
We cleared the old stagnant energetic imprints from the areas of the hotel we were using and we opened the doors on a stormy, wet Saturday. We worked tirelessly seeing, testing and talking to almost 550 people that day and ended with 44 confirmed job offers by the end of the day. 6 weeks later they were sat at desks with new computers, phones and headsets, having been inducted and trained and ready in time for the launch which resulted in Global Internet, overnight, becoming the largest Domain reseller in the UK.
Corporate Space Healing
We were running a thriving and rapidly growing ISP (internet service provider) start-up and were growing so fast that we were running out of space for our support teams. We leased 2 floors of a building down the road from our existing office in Putney that was owned by the council and had been used by social services for many years beforehand.
The 2 floors were filled with partition walls and cubicles and were very dark and dingy. We hired builders, ripped everything out and ended up with a couple of small offices, meeting rooms and 2 large open plan areas for support to expand into. We pendulum dowsed to choose the colours of the walls and the carpet tiles and put a huge amount of time and energy into creating the best possible working environment for our teams.
All was great until the very first day that we moved the teams into their new office space, which was by far the most modern and properly designed space in the company. Within the first week all measurable stats dropped, from time-keeping to average speed of answer, satisfaction scores and even un-measurables like the office-vibe dropped off with people being grouchy and unsettled. I was stumped until I stayed behind one evening when most people had gone in order to read the energetic imprints of the new offices. Imagine if you will the kind of energies, emotions and frustrations that would have been generated in such a working environment!
Armed with the info I gathered together a small team of support staff who were sworn to secrecy (because what we were doing was a ‘bit out there’ in the corporate world and also because we wanted to be able to monitor the outcome of the process.
One Friday evening after work we cleared the old stuck energies out of the 2 floors and replaced them with thoughts and intentions of what kind of environment we wanted to work in, how we wanted to feel when we came into work and how we all wanted to be treated.
Monday morning came around quickly and immediately all of our stats climbed back up to their previous high levels. Timekeeping improved and the staff were generally happier. We ended up having issues with our meeting rooms getting booked out by staff from our other building. When questioned why they were not using their own meeting rooms we were told “it just feels better here”!
That was almost 30 years ago and was the first time I had cleared energies on that scale.