Joy Caffrey

“The first time I met Joy I had no idea what to expect. In that session and every session since, I’ve felt cherished and safe. Joy brings with her a sense that — profoundly, fully, without reservation — everything is just fine. It’s an amazing experience. This experience of complete acceptance provides the space in which to grow and explore, address and resolve imbalances, examine new possibilities.
In a way, Joy heals as Florence Nightingale would have. Miss Nightingale operated on the assumption that the human experience is characterized by the drive toward health. To her, the healer’s job was to create an environment, in which that drive can operate without impediment. The healer managed light, ventilation, sound, hygiene, nutrition and hydration. Healing environments were light and airy, calm and interesting. People in the healing process were kept clean and given nourishing food and fresh water. What a healer like Joy brings to such an environment is a sense of confidence and competence — that the universe is unfolding as it should — that no one is alone because no one is separate — that no one is overwhelmed because no one is intruding — that all of us, singly and collectively, are beloved.”

Louanne Lawson, PhD, RN, FAAN, DF-IAFN

I decided to add a category to this blog where I can share worthwhile video clips or articles. If you have a favorite video clip or article related to living, learning and loving let me know.

This teachers last lecture had been circualting on the web and then was picked up by Oprah. Here is the lecture. His vitality, courage, and essence of life’s meaning is good medicine.

Check it out.

http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=ithct48cqw

I had the opportunity to be a guest lecturer for Paula Mathews class of grad students at the UofA today.

I wanted the class to be experiential and hands on learning. The time flew by. We discussed Human Energy Dynamics and did a few exercises getting to play with the 5 movements of energy: diffuse, pull, contract, push and stop.

Here is a list I put together for the students: Tools that are in My Healer’s Tool Box. I didn’t have enough time to go over this list. So I invite the grad students (or anyone else) to ask a question on the material below or anything else that was discussed today.

Tools in My Healer’s Tool Box

• Shamanic attributes / clairvoyance
• The ability to move from consciousness to unconscious to the collective conscious
• Body Mirroring, interpreting pain as information
• Subtle Sense Perceptions of Energy Field
• Understanding the mapping of the Human Energy Field
• Ability to use sound to give rise to information
• Ability to use sound to restructure the Energetic Field
• Translating sensations into cognitive awareness
• Compassion / Unconditional Love
• Discernment
• Active Imagination
• Guided Meditations
• Observations skills
• The ability to meet my client in their contracted places with non judgment, and compassion
• The ability to navigate the inner territories with out losing a sense of self
• The ability to ground myself and client
• The ability to simultaneously activate Delta, Theta, Alpha and Beta states
• The ability to lucid dream for my client
• The ability to recognize and reflect client’s inner wisdom
• Discerning quality touch

“Joy is a gifted healer. Once, prior to having surgery, Joy helped me with energy work in preparation for surgery. I had never considered preparation for surgery on this level. Because of Joy’s interventions, my surgery experience was more integrated into my being and into my life, instead of something to recover from and forget. “
Robin Ross, MD — Fayetteville, AR

A Consumer’s Perspective

In my experience, the following is a list of reasons why people come to me for healing:

Physical Issues
- Chronic pain, illness, or disease
- To avoid surgery
- Dealing with pain management
- Feeling disconnected from one’s body

Emotional Issues
- Feeling stuck
- Feeling overwhelmed
- Working through grief, anger, hate, etc.
- (On a deeper level working through the barrier material of
shame, guilt, fear, terror and judgement)

Mental Issues
-Inability to concentrate
- Too much chatter and internal noise
- Mind feels dull, or “in a fog”

Heart Issues
- Not sure what to do with intense feelings of love
- Feeling unloved or unable to love
- Wanting to deepen one’s capacity to love
- To open the doorway to compassion and self-compassion
- Relationship healing: working with dysfunctional power cords

Spiritual Issues
- Feeling a loss of self
- Feeling disconnected from Spirit
- Feeling something is missing from one’s life
- Searching for one’s life task
- Feeling called to one’s path and desiring confirmation and direction

Dealing with Change
- Changing careers
- Relocating
- Ending or beginning relationships

Personal Growth Issues
- To understand how one uses their energy
- To understand defensive use and radiant use of energy
- To understand established negative beliefs and choose new beliefs