Cougar Mountain

A little less than a year ago as of this writing we checked in at the Cougar Mountain Therapy Center in Rock Creek, BC, where we would spend the next 10 days engaged in various energy healing modalities. 

What we didn’t anticipate was the shifted perception we would leave with. 

There is a mystic law stating that synchronicities are signs we are on the right path and that these are not to be ignored or chalked up as mere coincidences.

The first synchronicity we experienced was the head Nurse Practitioner (I'll call her E) knowing my Grandfather. 

He was a man well known for his fence building but he resided some 700km away at his home in Tata Creek, BC. E's late husband had done some work driving a team of horses and hauling logs out of steep and difficult terrain on plots of land my Grandfather was clearing in order to make way for a fence he had been hired to build. 

When E and her husband bought their property my Grandfather helped them to pinpoint the perfect location for their well (he was well known for his divination abilities, aka, "Well Witching"), which E proudly boasted "produced 900 gallons of water per minute". 

For me this was magical because every sip of water reminded me of my Grandfather.

The second synchronicity was E's cat having the same name as Y's Mother which was curious given the geography of being up in the mountains in the middle of nowhere, BC, and the name being a Japanese one 😁

With these two experiences that both occurred on the first day, we decided in that moment to give ourselves permission to open our hearts and surrender to the experience.

Some inspiring lectures were presented by the likes of Caroline Myss, Joe Dispenza, Bruce Lipton, Louise Hay, Gregg Braden, Cheryl Richardson, and so on.

We learned new Tools for calming the nervous system. 

We had Powerful experiences of energy-release through 9Dimensional Breathing. 

We learned about empowered beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and actions. How to release suppressed emotions and how to cultivate positive emotions. 

We received Acupuncture to open our energy meridians. We took in Aromatherapy to calm our senses.

We learned about Quantum Physics and how to meditate for manifesting our desired reality. How to think greater than we feel, and how to open up to untold possibilities for our personal reality. 

We learned about Epigenetics, which teaches us how our perception of our reality changes our bodies on a molecular level. How when we embrace joy, love, and gratitude, our cell membranes physically change to dissolve away the receptors responsible for capturing negative emotional hormones and new receptors are built that are responsible for receiving positive emotional hormones, thus expressing only the best parts of our DNA and leaving the "junk" DNA sitting dormant, unable to be activated, thus making our entire body inhospitable to negative emotion and illness and opening our hearts to greater experiences.

Coming back to real life after the retreat, it was impossible for us to go back to our old habits. We had tasted something profound on the spiritual path and a veil had been pulled back from our eyes.

The future is bright and hopeful, and there are many pathways to healing 💖