This updated blog was first written in 2006 but so much has changed since then. Hopefully, in the current turmoil, my words will encourage you to reduce your own stress levels and discover your true purpose in life.
In the 1990s, in search of an understanding of spirituality, I began my own healing journey. Healing was a word frowned upon in the UK National Health Service (NHS) where I was currently employed as a speech and language generic specialist. My therapeutic work involved coordinating and delivering an area wide service to adults with learning disabilities and children with additional and complex needs. I was continually looking for new and creative ways of working to improve my clients’ communication without the need to ‘shine a torch’ on their specific difficulty. Over the years, I began to realise that an orthodox, symptom focused approach didn’t work. Instead, if the adult or child was engaged in a creative and enjoyable activity of their choice, all aspects of their communication would spontaneously improve . When we are relaxed and happy, we are unaware of our problems and in this space healing can take place. This isn’t rocket science but it wasn’t the prescriptive way I was expected to work.
Meanwhile, my home life was running out of control. I was in the throes of juggling a demanding full time job with supporting my mother in caring for my father with a terminal illness ( cancer) and desperately struggling with the unhappiness of a troubled second marriage. The emotional roller coaster of being a mother to five children from my first marriage, three of whom my ex husband and I had fostered prior to adopting (the children were challenged by their own personal traumas), combined with family problems associated with three visiting teenage step daughters from my second marriage. I was exhausted. Not surprisingly, our family lurched from one crisis to another….. In an attempt to find some inner peace, I read books on Buddhism and earnestly practised a plethora of meditation techniques without any noticeable success . My anxiety interfered with my attempts to focus and quieten my thoughts .
Thankfully, my life turned a corner when I overheard a colleague’s conversation about a therapist and healer she was seeing locally. I requested the contact details of Carol Lamb, the therapist in question and eagerly booked an appointment. At the close of my first session, Carol introduced me to a method of energy field alignment which focuses on the emerald ray. This is a method of attunement to a higher stream of consciousness , a primary source of energy that governs the body . The alignment process forges a connection to the heart and to the intuitive faculties to correct imbalance and restore stability ….an attractive prospect. Energy field alignment had an immediate and positive effect .
Although excited by this new experience, I was cautioned that before taking the alignment to my clients, I would first need to exercise patience, gain understanding of the process and focus on my own mental health and alignment requirement (‘physician heal thyself’). Determined to discipline myself to use the emerald alignment on a daily basis, I initially struggled with visualising the process of light entering my body through the crown of my head. When I closed my eyes, I could only imagine a beam of emerald light in front of me , not in me…. but this was a start. Since that time, I realise that many people have difficulty visualising colour and this doesn’t matter because a key principle of healing is ‘energy follows thought‘ and if we listen to the words of the alignment and focus our thoughts and attention on the desired outcome, the action follows through. I persevered and after several weeks, my ability to visualise the alignment process, dramatically improved.
As my emotional responses began to stabilise, I attracted less drama into my life and as a consequence, family life improved . My fogged mind began to clear as anxiety lessened. Up to that time, at the end of a busy day I had felt as though I was carrying a block of concrete on my shoulders and by the evening I could barely turn my head from left to right. Regular alignment practise was energising me, my senses were sharpening and I was increasingly aware of the colours of the natural environment around me. Instead of focusing inwards on my own anxieties, I looked outwards and upwards at the sky instead of down at my feet. With enhanced awareness, I became aware of bird song, the rustle of leaves, the splash of water, the fragrance of a flower, a cool breeze .
With daily practice of the alignment exercise, my brain relaxed and I was prompted to meditate and I joined a group, rather than trying to meditate alone . I became more confident about making decisions and enjoyment returned to my life. Recognising dreams as intuitive messages, I kept a notebook and pencil next to my bed to write them down on waking.
At the beginning of 1999, in order to make sense of what was happening to me, I trained with the Academy of Spiritual Sciences . Through the study of metaphysics and the principles of healing , I recognised that negative imprinted memory from past experience impacts on our beliefs, perception and behaviour. The transformative power of energy field alignment sustained me and opened and deepened my awareness. Further training took me to an understanding of metaphysics and the principles of healing and as Principal of the Academy of Spiritual Sciences and senior tutor therapist I was able to pass this understanding to others who were eager to learn.
Spiritual exploration inspired an interest in the healing impact of sound vibration and specifically the human voice. Through a direct experience of non local communication, as described in Carol’s book Born Remembering, I was given deep insights into my work with adults with learning disabilities and children with special needs, which I have since documented in my blogs , radio interviews and research Through this experience, I was taught a unique system of eight chakra vocal tones which link to specific anatomical areas of the body and was asked to pass this effective system of self- help healing to all who would listen. I had had no previous understanding of toning but travelled internationally to teach this ancient and powerful system of healing through workshops and seminars. Rainbow Chakra Tones has proved a popular self-help tool. Leaving speech and language therapy in 2003, Light Voice, an holistic consultancy practice was established which combines toning and colour with energy alignment, as a simple and effective healing process to strengthen and empower the voice.
The Emerald Alignment is now fully integrated into my daily practice, it plants me in the present moment, where I can choose to surrender my will to a higher authority and begin the real work of addressing negative patterns of behaviour that have impeded my spiritual development. Positive lifestyle choices and painful sacrifices have strengthened my resolve and have helped me to realise goals and aspirations that at one time had seemed an impossible dream. An international online Tinnitus Clinic, helps to ease the suffering of those brought to despair by this debilitating condition. Clinical practice provides evidence for my research in partnership with Carol Lamb at the Living Memory Research Trust.
Don’t ever be afraid of your intuition and always be open to different ways of working.
Jennifer’s introductory training manuals offer insights into alternative ways of working with both children and adults, incorporating energy field alignment and toning.
Although excited by this new experience, I was cautioned that before taking the alignment to my clients, I would first need to exercise patience, gain understanding of the process and focus on my own mental health and alignment requirement (‘physician heal thyself’). Determined to discipline myself to use the emerald alignment on a daily basis, I initially struggled with visualising the process of light entering my body through the crown of my head. When I closed my eyes, I could only imagine a beam of emerald light in front of me , not in me…. but this was a start. Since that time, I realise that many people have difficulty visualising colour and this doesn’t matter because a key principle of healing is ‘energy follows thought‘ and if we listen to the words of the alignment and focus our thoughts and attention on the desired outcome, the action follows through. I persevered and after several weeks, my ability to visualise the alignment process, dramatically improved.
Spiritual exploration inspired an interest in the healing impact of sound vibration and specifically the human voice. Through a direct experience of non local communication, as described in Carol’s book Born Remembering, I was given deep insights into my work with adults with learning disabilities and children with special needs, which I have since documented in my blogs , radio interviews and research Through this experience, I was taught a unique system of eight chakra vocal tones which link to specific anatomical areas of the body and was asked to pass this effective system of self- help healing to all who would listen. I had had no previous understanding of toning but travelled internationally to teach this ancient and powerful system of healing through workshops and seminars. Rainbow Chakra Tones has proved a popular self-help tool. Leaving speech and language therapy in 2003, Light Voice, an holistic consultancy practice was established which combines toning and colour with energy alignment, as a simple and effective healing process to strengthen and empower the voice.