Like many of her friends and family, Janice’s everyday life was suddenly changed by the COVID-19 crisis. Businesses closed down in her rural area, and she was forced to work from home, not seeing friends or family. She felt lonely and isolated.
Some of her friends were almost celebrating the change, because they had more time to catch up on projects at home, but Janice’s boss had told her that he expected the same productivity at home as she’d managed in the office. That meant upgrading software, learning video communication, and turning her private life into her work life. The virus situation was panicking her anyway—she constantly worried about faraway family and friends who were in self-quarantine.
But this additional pressure of time made her feel like a prisoner.
Browsing through Isabelle’s newsletter during a break from work, Janice saw an announcement of a new remote Gemstone Therapy session: Healing Your Relationship with Time.
She had been a participant in other remote group sessions with Isabelle and loved the subtle but powerful changes that occurred both during and after the session. Time was obviously a big struggle in her life right now. She signed up.
The first “aha” moment for Janice came in the opening few minutes of the session, when Isabelle asked the participants to declare an intention for themselves—an intention about something going on in their life right now that had to do with time, or something pertaining to the past or future.
Janice wrote in her journal: “I want to reduce this constant anxiety I feel and explore steps to greater well-being during this time of world crisis.”
Isabelle described how the body’s energies would now rearrange themselves around this intention, and Janice felt the truth of that: that her whole being was focused on smoothing out this tangle she’d been experiencing.
The session began with a visualization of the earth energy holding each person in the embrace of gravity, then the heaven energy above lifting them as well.
“The more grounded you are, the more tangible this energy becomes,” Isabelle said. She began going through the different chakras, paying attention to the here and now. “Not one second in the past or future,” she said. “Can you be in your intention on the razor’s edge of here and now?”
At this, Janice felt a swoop of release as if her body and emotions and mind were settling fully into this present moment. Rather than worrying about how she’d accomplish all her work or if her family would get sick, she felt a surge of relaxation, as if all was perfect and as it should be. It had been so long since she consciously felt that, she’d forgotten the possibility!
Now she could see the anxiety as something apart from herself. Fascinated, she watched it take shape in the atmosphere near her left shoulder. It looked like a buzzing cloud of fast-moving energy, similar to a swarm of bees she’d once seen from a distance.
As Isabelle moved through the chakras, clearing and nourishing each one, Janice perceived this cloud of energy stay apart from her except twice: it came closer at the heart chakra and the stomach chakra, and she knew this was connected with her emotional stress about work and the state of the world, and her real fear of getting the virus.
But she was also curious—she knew the virus affected the respiratory system, not the gut. Why was there such anxiety at the stomach chakra?
Isabelle reminded everyone to stay consciously in the here and now as they began to perceive the chakras.
“In the here and now,” Isabelle said, “you know that everything will work out OK. You can find trust. You’re not looking for answers—that’s the future. And you’re not asking why—that’s the past.”
So Janice just let herself gently observe the buzzing cloud and where it touched in, without trying to figure it out.
Next, Isabelle asked them to study each chakra, looking for any anchor points in the past or future that were residing at that chakra. “Look for any promises made in the past that are no longer relevant,” she suggested.
Janice had her biggest “aha” moment when she saw two anchor points, one at her heart and one at her stomach.
At her heart lay a work promise she’d made to her boss that hadn’t felt right at the time and had been gnawing at her ever since. She realized now it was a promise based on fear, not love or a willingness to serve, and it had closed down her heart.
At her stomach was an anchor point from ten years ago, a memory of a trip with a dear relative who had become very ill with a stomach virus. It had greatly affected both their trip and Janice’s relationship with this relative, due to the emergency situation.
Isabelle guided them to bring any anchor points into the present, where they could be dissolved. Janice imagined gently regarding each of them with the peaceful feeling of “all is as it should be.”
To her surprise, both disappeared, like mist on a hot day. The buzzing cloud vanished as well.
Janice slept very deeply that night. When she woke up, she felt refreshed and knew immediately how she’d negotiate the work promise to make it more reasonable. She also reached out to the relative, just to touch base.
Her heart was light, and she felt none of the shadow of the past experience from their travels together long ago.
The remote Gemstone Therapy session was practical and effective for Janice. She didn’t know what she would gain from the session when she signed up, but it wound up giving her two very unexpected gifts: the realizations that the easiest way to live from love rather than fear was healing her relationship with time, and that freedom to face the challenges of life actually resides in the here and now.
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