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Speak from the heart

April 27, 2019 by Helena Trent Leave a Comment

Last night, in another lucid dream state, “Master Breath” showed up to teach again in the silence and stillness of the night when I was in a complete relaxation state.

This time, I was lying on my back. After following it for a few relaxing breaths in and out, it guided me to drop the back of my tongue as if tucking my tongue to sleep. I followed and immediately breath flowed to the back of my throat and opened the airway wide open. I never realized I was stuck on the front of my throat… as if I was ready to defend myself verbally anytime. LOL! Have I been like that my whole life?! Even in my sleep??

As I breath into it, it started to open the front of my neck bones. I had an auto accident over 20 years ago that gave me a severe whip lash. The front of my neck was closed in. I can’t tell you how many chiropractors have tried to “correct” that curvature without success over the decades. Now it’s opening on its own!

The sensation in my throat was open and relaxed and my breath immediately traveled to the upper lobe of my lung where the original tumor is. A white light pulsated through my lungs.

My throat chakra opened. The throat chakra has to do with how we express ourselves in the world. It’s connected through our hands, what we do with our lives including career choices we make.

As I relaxed and connected with the chi flowing through, it dropped into my heart directly. That’s the heart chakra. There was a strong bond/circuitry forming intensely between my throat and my heart like it’s pulsing as one. Is that why people say “speak from your heart?” Words have a powerful vibrational energy when it comes directly from the heart. As I was dazed from the realization, a strong circulation coursed through my hands and my heart… like “holding the ball” in so many of our tai chi moves especially in transitions between one movement to the next. Is that why we “hold the ball” so many times in so many different ways in our tai chi set?

When our heart is open, it flows out in the work we do in this world. It makes sense that if/when we choose work that’s not in our alignment with our heart, in order to get the job done, we would have to close our heart to disconnect in order to push on. No wonder we could be so exhausted and depleted. If we try harder, we tense up even more.

When the things we choose to do are aligned with our heart energy, we are open to receive the generosity of the world and energy flows through in everything we touch. We are able to give and receive with effortless ease.

There have been three different astrologists in my life with completely different training backgrounds and traditions that told me I have a book in me. I just never had a reason to write a book. Until my cancer journey, I had no reason to make my writing public even though I have been writing almost on a daily basis for over a decade.

I thought Tagrisso was the reason I was getting better so fast initially, but looking back, maybe it was writing this blog that uplifted me. I posted on my blog almost daily initially, then as I got better I started to sensor myself. Meanwhile, I thought I could go back to my business doing what I was doing… which my body clearly did not support based on the latest scan results.

Well, Destiny, please meet Digital Age! There is a reason I spent the last 20 years building websites. I am not going to write a book (yet), but I will build a website so that the lessons I learned on this journey could be shared to help others in their healing journey instead of being a personal blog.

Once again, life gave me exactly what I need even though it’s the last thing I want! I could act like a little girl and cry about how I have been a good girl and I didn’t get what I wanted and life is unfair… or I could be a mature adult and let go of my desire so I could truly receive from life what I am meant to receive and do with an open heart. Thank you, Life!

I am leaving tomorrow for a tai chi week next week. I am going dark on electronic devices. I can’t wait to experience a tai chi week under the guidance of “Master Breath”. What an interesting week I have to look forward to!

With all my love to you all… have a wonderful week!

Filed Under: Conversations with Cancer, Inspiration

Whispers from Breath

April 26, 2019 by Helena Trent 1 Comment

Each night as I get ready to sleep, I read a little moon light meditation. As I lay down to sleep, I ask my breath to guide me to my inner wisdom to heal myself.

I am so moved by your generosity, in one day, I have raised over $2600 towards my treatments. Never in my life have I ever asked for something with nothing to offer in return. I had to do it so that I don’t end up adding financial stress to physical stress. Thank you all!

I decided to share my lessons with “Master Breath” as my way of giving back the only thing I could offer. Maybe my healing journey somehow, somewhere, sometime will help another person heal.

Last night the “teachings” came in a lucid dream state. My breath guided me to be aware of the cancer regions in my body. It started with my neck, C6, where the new metastatic disease was found in the most recent scan. I dropped my awareness to the cellular level. I asked, “who am I?” A breath answered. I breathed into each cell and united with it as one.

Cancer cells are ironically cells don’t know how to die. They mutate and lost their way. Each breath is the cycle of birth and death, if you combine birth and death, you get “breath”. (Cool, huh? I wish I could take credit for that one, but it’s from Matt Kahn.) As I breathed through each cell, each cell remembered who we are and in connection to the whole body. I breathed in light and healing, I breathed out darkness and exhaust.

My body was rested, my mind was at peace. I smiled. That smile rippled through several cells at a time with my breath. I smiled bigger, a gentle wave swept though my entire body. I laughed out loud, a surge of white light encapsulated my entire being… I am safe.

Filed Under: Conversations with Cancer, Inspiration

A Whole New World

April 24, 2019 by Helena Trent 1 Comment

I was shocked by my scan results not because it turned out bad… let’s face it, I have had worse, but because it didn’t match how I feel. I was confused and devastated that I don’t have a correct sense how my own body is doing. It’s not that I am afraid to die, I have made my peace with death at the beginning of this journey. Death doesn’t have to hunt me down, I will go willingly when it’s my time.

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I was devastated because if I can’t trust how I feel, what can I trust?! In the darkness and silence of the night, breath answered, “Trust me. Follow me and I will show you places you have not felt before, love like you have never loved before, live like you have never lived before. Follow me and I will show you the way.” I laughed out loud so hard that I woke up! No wonder there is a breath teacher just came into my life in the last few weeks! The universe does have a sense of humor! In Chinese, breath is chi, chi follows the breath. Chi is the vital energy force of all beings.

I thought I was done with cancer, but there is another level to go. I have this word on my wall, “evolove”. Cancer brought to realization I have love backwards. I completed the first half of the evol, but now to complete the journey I actually have to love forward.

Six months ago, I didn’t know I would live to see the spring, but now that spring is here, the sun is shining, birds are chirping, flowers are blooming, I feel the resilience and renewal of life on earth. I am totally tuning into and enjoying the spring energy. That’s how I feel inside as well. Just as nature shows us, there is a season for everything. I was diagnosed around winter time. The winter season was for me to let go of all that no longer served me and turning inward to conserve my energy. I did that. Now, spring is for me to plant the seed for a new life ahead of me. Summer time is for nurturing and maturing. Fall is for harvesting, reaping the rewards of the planted seed in the spring. To know what season I am in gives me perspective and patience for the journey ahead. I have good energy because good energy is what it takes to go through the journey ahead. Life has blessed me with that regardless what the scans showed. The scans are showing me what my body needs. It’s OK I don’t get the results I had hoped for today, I am in the spring season of my journey.

My oncologist might be fearful to make adjustments, but I am not. Yes, doctors are human too, I saw fear in his eyes because he knows the only other tools he could offer are invasive, last time he ordered radiation, it almost killed me. That’s why he didn’t want to do anything. He wanted to wait 4 weeks to give me a PET scan. I am not going to sit around and wait for cancer to advance on me. I know other alternative paths I can take that’s in support of my body’s healing journey.

I have decided to add intravenous vitamin C, Chi Nei Tsang treatments, acupuncture, and possibly ozone therapy to my treatments. These are alternative methods I learned through a cancer documentary in Asia. These treatments are not covered by insurance and they are quite expensive which was the reason I didn’t go there in the first place. I was hoping immunotherapy alone could do the job, but it worked for a while, now my body needs additional support. All the treatments I mentioned are from $75-$225 per session and would require multiple sessions a week consistently for a few months to be effective.

I am self-employed, since the diagnose, I have stepped back from my business and hired a couple people to help me. I also stopped taking on new clients in order to heal. My income has dropped considerably. It’s ok when insurance was paying for most of my treatments, but to undertake alternative treatments would be a real stretch. I estimate it would take about $20,000 to go through these treatments for the rest of the year. I have set up a gofundme page, if anyone would like to contribute to my treatments, I would appreciate it.

    
Helena at the bottom of the Pittsburgh Incline
Helena at the bottom of the Pittsburgh Incline
View of Pittsburgh from the top of the Incline
View of Pittsburgh from the top of the Incline

Here I was a few hours after I received my scan results, at the bottom of the Pittsburgh Incline. Life is about to lift me to fantastic vista of the city, but the road forward is steep. I need help.

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