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No but like stop for a second and look me in the eyes <em>-imagine I&#8217;m staring at you really intensely right now, cause that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m doing- </em><strong>YOUR DREAMS ARE MEANT TO BE FULFILLED.</strong> </p><p><strong>The whole point of this life journey we&#8217;re on is to rise up.</strong> Get to know our true nature, discover that <strong>we are Source dressed up in a human costume.</strong> Enlightenment, Nirvana, Heaven, that&#8217;s the ultimate goal of the journey. Knowing oneself. Everything is Source, nothing is not Source, we are all made of the same stuff. The same Creative Power that created, and is still creating, entire universes, made us. <strong>We are it.</strong> It&#8217;s all one, all the same Creative Force. And our mission here is to discover that truth, discover our true nature. <strong>The degree to which we know this truth about ourselves is the degree to which we experience this Heaven-like state.</strong> Letting go of limiting beliefs, small ego-driven thinking, perception distortions like fear, that&#8217;s the journey. <strong>Let go of fear and fear ceases to exist.</strong> The filter is taken off, perception distortion removed and one moves up to a different reality, a reality powered by synchronicity, effortless creation, flow and love. Does nature struggle to create? Does the cosmos struggle to expand? No. It just does. That&#8217;s how we&#8217;re mean to live. And we do when we finally get out of our own damn way. When we stop ignoring our dreams, our calling and finally walk towards it. We&#8217;re slivers of Universal Consciousness, little walking manifestation of Source. Basically limitless, we just forgot. Remembering and embracing this truth is the whole point. </p><p><em>Anyway. </em></p><p>So your dream huh? The big vision. That thing, your thing, that sparks love in your heart. That awakens something in you. That ignites your soul on fire. You know what I&#8217;m talking about, we all have THE THING. For me, it&#8217;s this. Spirituality, well-being, psychology, helping people heal and thrive and then sharing my journey, writing. When I was little I wanted to be a vet. Then teenage years, a nutritionist and a personal trainer. I had a health-care blog at 13 years old. (It was pretty damn successful.) Then I was convinced I will study medicine. Finally psychology and psychiatry and then bam, coaching, energy healing, holistic health. Yes there were twists and turns, important ones cause they were leading me exactly where I was mean to be, which is right here, right now. The destination was always one though&#8212;my heart&#8217;s desire: thriving and helping others thrive. </p><h4>When you follow that spark, that guiding force, when you follow the dream, you will always be successful. </h4><p>Why? Because it&#8217;s in your heart. Because you love it. Because it makes you happy and joyful. Fulfilled. Extatic. You wake up and you cannot wait to jump back in. You feel like you were BORN TO DO THIS. Cause you were. You were born to follow your dream. We all were born to follow our dreams.</p><h3><strong>Following your dreams generates the energy of love, joy and bliss.</strong> </h3><p>That elevates your frequency, and the frequency of those around you. AND THAT&#8217;S THE WHOLE POINT. <strong>The whole point of our existence is to elevate our frequency. </strong>That&#8217;s the journey to Nirvana, Enlightenment, Heaven. And because you attract what you are you get more of the same thing&#8212;love, joy, bliss&#8212;(law of attraction, we all have read about it at this point). You step into the current of creation, you move with life not against it. </p><p>Listen to this. I know a person who is a professional magician. They do magic tricks, like cards and stuff (but not Tarot) are really good at it, and sell courses for others to become professional magicians. Random? Maybe. But that person loves it. LOVES IT. This was always their dream. At they beginning people probably told them they were crazy. Now, they earn over 20k EUR per month, but those are probably old numbers, we haven&#8217;t spoken about it in a few months. </p><p>THE UNIVERSE WILL SUPPORT YOUR DREAMS BECAUSE YOU FOLLOWING YOUR DREAMS WILL MAKE YOU A HAPPY BUNDLE OF LOVE AND JOY, INFECT OTHERS WITH THAT JOY AND ELEVATE THE FREQUENCY OF YOU AND EVERYTHING YOU TOUCH <strong>AND THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT. </strong></p><p><em>If you think I was yelling here, I was. If I could type with no hands, I&#8217;d be clapping too.</em> </p><p>Doesn&#8217;t matter what the dream is. As long as it&#8217;s truly yours and generates joy and love, embrace it.</p><p></p><p>When I was forcing the corporate career I hated, it felt like dreading through mud. When I looked for a different jobs in marketing just to be less miserable, just to earn more money, just to sustain myself and survive in this &#8220;cruel world&#8221; I encounter block after block, all the time. I was qualified but I just couldn&#8217;t find the new job. Block, block, block. I was forcing. Literally forcing. Pushing forward. Against the current, not with it. Making things happen by force. </p><p>Is it possible? Yeah, I guess? But at what cost. My focus was on the destination. &#8220;When I get there I will be happier&#8221; &#8220;When this heavy period is over, I will relax&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s Friday soon&#8221; &#8220;Let me just go on my holiday and forget about it.&#8221; </p><p>Spoiler: the heavy period was never over, heavy period was the reality I was living in.  </p><p></p><h4>Fast forward to now, </h4><p>I started making moves towards my hearts desires. I took a decision to go for coaching certifications. I finally moved to Spain because I always wanted to and it felt right. My frequency elevated, I elevated, I became happier, thing started to speed up. Life met me half-way and I got laid off from my corporate job. A tragedy? No. A blessing. Look at the universe helping me out, removing obstacles. Thanks Universe! </p><p>I saw it as an opportunity. And more opportunities followed, opportunities started to &#8220;show up out of nowhere&#8221;. I embraced them with open arms, gratitude and an <em>omg thank you, I&#8217;m gonna cry this is so amazing</em> attitude. The Universe loves it btw. <strong>When you start praising live for how amazing it is, life is like </strong><em><strong>omg look at me I&#8217;m so great, let me send more good stuff so I get more compliments for how great I am!</strong></em><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>It&#8217;s like with men</strong>. </p><p>So life sent more opportunities. Life really said: <em>Finally, she fucking listens, follows and isn&#8217;t miserable. </em>And now it&#8217;s a loop. It&#8217;s raining opportunities. Things are moving and I&#8217;m in awe everyday about how effortless life can feel. This doesn&#8217;t mean I&#8217;m not doing things, quite the opposite. But learning about how to be better at my dream job is not work. <strong>Sessions with my clients do not feel like work.</strong> They lift me up. They lift them up. The frequency goes up, everyone is lighter, more joyful. So the Universe responds and sends more opportunities for me to continue to walk this path. All I have to do is show up, say thank you, more please. <strong>Ya&#8217;ll it&#8217;s finally not about the destination anymore, it&#8217;s about the journey. </strong>Wow. Me two years ago would have not believed. </p><h4><strong>Do you get it?</strong> </h4><p>When you say yes to your dreams, you elevate your state, raise your consciousness and life supports it because the whole point of human existence is to raise consciousness. </p><p>But of course, this requires trust. The period in-between can be experienced as scary. <strong>When you don&#8217;t see the path fully yet, or you see it, but your nervous system is used to controlling everything for safety, this can feel fucking scary</strong>. I had moments (last episode was last week lol) where I was crying, not knowing what the fuck is happening, no knowing where I&#8217;m gonna get the money from. And I will likely have those moments, it&#8217;s human. But I chose this path and I&#8217;m walking forward. I&#8217;m running on belief, vibes and Prana. So I yelled at God in the shower, felt the discomfort and let it move through me. Opportunities showed up as soon as I shifted my focus back to trust. More about this in my piece: <em><a href="https://substack.com/home/post/p-195324143">When Structures Collapse.</a></em></p><p>But that unknown, that void, is where miracles happen. From this unknown, anything can emerge. You just gotta <strong>trust</strong> <strong>and walk.</strong> </p><p>But let me repeat it again, for the people in the back: </p><p>THE UNIVERSE WILL SUPPORT YOUR DREAMS BECAUSE YOU FOLLOWING YOUR DREAMS WILL MAKE YOU A HAPPY BUNDLE OF LOVE AND JOY, INFECT OTHERS WITH THAT JOY AND ELEVATE THE FREQUENCY OF YOU AND EVERYTHING YOU TOUCH <strong>AND THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT. </strong></p><p></p><p>Thanks for tuning in. Now go and read The Alchemist and The Surrender Experiment. </p><p>With love, </p><p>Kat </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is Energy Healing?]]></title><description><![CDATA[And Why You Need it]]></description><link>https://thesoulfulencounter.substack.com/p/what-is-energy-healing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thesoulfulencounter.substack.com/p/what-is-energy-healing</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kat 💌]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:43:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qwsC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51442034-a50c-4220-8d11-b959ea27740d_6912x3456.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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I know it all too well. The conversation usually goes like this: </p><p><em>So, what do you do Kat? </em></p><p><em>I&#8217;m a coach and an energy healer :)</em></p><p>[empty stare] </p><p>&#8230; </p><p>I get it. What does that even mean? <strong>What the hell is Energy Healing?</strong> </p><p>Let me explain.</p><div><hr></div><p><em>(Before I start, I use the terms energy healing, clearing &amp; balancing but also Reiki interchangeably. Reiki in Japanese means universal life force energy and is the tradition I followed. In India they call it Prana, in China Chi, but it&#8217;s all the same thing.)</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Everything is energy.</strong> There are different levels of density, but when we boil it down, everything is made of the same stuff. Our physical body is condensed energy (matter) but it is still energy (atoms, particles, all this stuff).</p><p>We all can agree that <strong>we are more than our physical body.</strong> We also have a mental body, emotional body and an energetic body. Remember Shrek? He was right, we&#8217;re all kinda like an onion. We have layers, the layers talk to each other and influence each other.</p><p>We see our physical body. While we don&#8217;t see our thoughts, we all know we have them. Same goes for our <strong>energetic body.</strong> It&#8217;s not directly perceived (until you learn to perceive it) but it&#8217;s very much there. </p><p><strong>Our energy is our most subtle yet fundamental layer.</strong> When the energetic filed is out of whack, everything else starts to crumble. A domino effect.  </p><p></p><h3><strong>What&#8217;s an energetic filed? </strong></h3><p></p><p><strong>What makes up our energetic filed, our energy? </strong></p><p><strong>Emotions. </strong></p><p><em>(Also our thoughts, state of the nervous system, beliefs, subconscious patters, the state of our physical body because, again, it&#8217;s a system and everything affects everything but emotions are most important)</em></p><p><strong>Emotions are simply energetic impulses moving though the body. E-motion = energy in motion.</strong></p><p>Emotions need to flow freely. <strong>An emotion arises, we notice it, we feel it, we let it pass. </strong>Like a river or waves in the ocean. New emotions constantly arise and we simply let them flow. Ideally we don&#8217;t identify with them, we only experience them. Ideally we&#8217;d behave like a straw, a tunnel. Things flow in and out. Everything in nature moves, nothing is stagnant. Flow = health, prosperity, abundance. </p><p>But when we don&#8217;t feel emotions fully, when we suppress, distract or numb ourselves, or when trauma happens, emotions get stuck. The energy gets stuck. </p><p></p><p>Unprocessed feelings = tapped emotions = stuck energy = <strong>energetic block</strong></p><p><strong>An energetic block is a disruption in the natural flow of energy in your system.</strong></p><p></p><p>Once the energy is stuck, it keeps poking. It distorts the word view. When fear is trapped because it wasn&#8217;t processed, suddenly fear is everywhere. Everything is doom and gloom. That stuck energy emits a signal out to the world and draws matching experiences back. We&#8217;re all walking, over-sized magnets. We walk with fear so we get more of the same thing, more reasons to be scared. </p><p>(A bit of a contradiction here but the fact that trapped energies attract matching experiences to us is actually <em>a good thing</em>. It feels shit in the moment but that only happens so we get an opportunity to notice the trapped emotion, witness it, sit with it and let it go. So this actually happens for us (and <strong>not</strong> to us) to release and restore the flow. Unfortunately most often we only push those uncomfortable feelings further down and the cycle repeats. Speaking from experieeeenceee hereee, I used to hold a PhD in vicious cycles. I resigned though. I&#8217;ll go deeper into this soon.) </p><p>When energy is stuck and the flow of life force in the body disturbed, eventually physical diseases also emerge, because again, this is a system and everything affects everything. </p><p><strong>A one big shit show. </strong></p><p></p><p>And have you seen the world we live in? Emails. A demanding boss. Pressure to look a certain way. Bills. Mortgage. Traffic. Feeling behind in live. Social media. Constant comparison. War. AI. Unstable job market. Inflation. Recession. Career instability. Climate change. A global pandemic not so long ago. </p><p><strong>That&#8217;s so fucking much.</strong> We are in chronic stress. Danger, danger, danger. </p><p>No wonder we&#8217;re all blocked. To keep up with the demands of the modern world is quite a task. </p><p></p><h3><strong>Energy Healing to the rescue</strong></h3><p></p><p>Energy healing deals with the lest tangible and invisible but very real layer of our being - the energetic filed.</p><p>During an energy healing session, a practitioner channels universal life energy (Reiki) to move stagnant energy, balance it and get rid of energetic blocks in the body. </p><p>I know how this sounds. Channels??? Yeah. Channels. I can be explaining all day long but you low key need to experience it yourself to get it. But let me keep going anyway. </p><p><strong>To put it simply, it&#8217;s like a shower for your energetic field.</strong> Think about it. We brush our teeth but we don&#8217;t clean our energy, our most fundamental layer? Kinda weird. </p><p></p><p>Let me remind you about the fact that we're huge, walking onions, we have layers. Balanced energy equals emotions that move freely &#8594; thoughts that are naturally more loving &#8594; physical body returns back to its natural state which is healing. </p><p></p><p>That&#8217;s exactly what happened to me after my first ever energy balancing session. Suddenly I felt lighter, my mind was so damn quiet, the world was brighter, more hopeful, I started glowing, attracting better things into my life. My desire for anything and everything I can smoke (except crack, I have never smoked crack) - gone for a solid few months. It returned and I finally dealt with it once and for all but that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m also a coach, I can help you integrate and maintain the changes. </p><p>A beautiful domino effect. </p><p></p><p>Are there other ways to deal with stuck emotions? Sure, plenty and I&#8217;m a fan of all of them. Yoga (amore), meditation, breath work, talking with a someone equipped, physical exercise, being in nature, grounding, simply a healthy lifestyle. But Reiki interrupts the pattern and it does it fast. An immediate shift. </p><p></p><p>Reiki is truly like a factory reset button and I love it for it. </p><p></p><p>Have you tried? Let me know. Wanna try? 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Are we still holding up? This is a serious question not just a little intro hook, I wanna know. Man, this year is something else. I always said I love novelty and changes, and listen, I do. I looooove novelty. But this is muchos even for me. I love it. But I&#8217;m also secretly (or now openly) freaking out. </p><p>For context: my 2026 began in a relationship, with a <em>stable</em> 9-5 marketing job (soul-sucking but <em>stable</em>), recently having moved to Barcelona from Amsterdam, ready to slowly but surely ground my life in my beloved Spain. Fast forward to now, I got laid off from my job on January 15th (that was fast), left the relationship, about to put all my things in storage except one suitcase and head out on an excursion to Bali, with no apartment to come home to for the first time in my adult life.</p><p>Most of the structures I had in my life - gone. I have no fucking idea what&#8217;s happening anymore. And listen, all of those events are blessings, I truly mean that. My intention and order for 2026 was: <em>give me everything that&#8217;s mine and remove that is not</em>. And boy did the Universe RUN WITH IT. Take the job for example: I was praying for a layoff for months before it happened. When they put us on that call early January and announced that this is indeed about restructuring I was like<strong> </strong><em><strong>I&#8217;m gonna unmute myself and volunteer</strong></em>. I&#8217;ve been plotting my corporate world exit plan for a hot minute, calculating and strategising. I knew that the coaching and healing path is my calling, I just needed the right moment. Leaving a <em>stable</em> corporate world is a big step. So life took in its hands and was like <em>alright the right moment is now, you wanted to quit this year, well there you go, January 15th, fly birdie</em>. Not so stable after all. </p><p>My conclusion? If it happened now it means I&#8217;m ready now. I am ready now, I&#8217;ve been for a while. Life took this decision for me, and I&#8217;m so thankful. No overthinking, this is what is, deal with it. A perfect opening for my new path, my soul&#8217;s mission. A portal to my future fuelled by a severance package. I&#8217;m trusting and grateful but at the same time ??? ok and now what? </p><p></p><h2>What if our only structure to rely on is life itself? </h2><p>All of those events got me thinking - we build all of those structures in our lives - jobs, relationships, contracts, you name it, to fall back on - and for a good reason. We need to feel safe in this world. We need our basic needs met. </p><p><strong>But what if our one and only structure to rely on is Source, life itself?</strong> All of those things are manifestations of Source anyway. What if when we hold the belief, with firm conviction, that life will catch us, that life supports us, then it does? </p><p>When this idea popped into my head, I saw myself walking on this path which represented my life, <strong>holding the belief that I&#8217;m safe, supported and provided for</strong>. That life will always catch me. And then in my vision, people would show up eager to help me. Situations would arise <em>out of nowhere</em>, showing me the next step, giving me exactly what I needed at the exact right moment. </p><p>What if this collapse of structures in my life was exactly there <strong>to show me that the source of my safety in life is my belief that I&#8217;m safe</strong>. That the real Sugar Daddy is the Source itself. <strong>That am I, and always was the true source of my safety because source is living through me.</strong> That my task is to trust the current, do my part of working on myself and sharing my gifts with the world and then believing that I am safe. </p><p><strong>Cause once we truly believe that we are safe then we are. Life mirrors our beliefs. </strong></p><p>I always somehow knew that when I jump, life will catch me. <a href="https://thesoulfulencounter.substack.com/p/your-dreams-are-literally-meant-to">Especially if I&#8217;m jumping towards my hearts mission.</a> And here I am, jumping, or rather being pushed out. About to board a plane to Bali next month with very little agenda. Yet again not really making decisions here, just a passenger princess. The Universe is making decisions, I&#8217;m simply following the flow. Jesus took the wheel. </p><p>If you&#8217;re also in the unknown, please share your experiences. let&#8217;s support each other. You&#8217;re safe, I believe in you. And if you can relate to my journey, I highly recommend you read the Alchemist and The Surrender Experiment, two of my favourite books. Super helpful in navigating the unknown. </p><p>If you wanna stick around to see what happens next, join the club, that makes two of us. I'm really exited to document this journey of flow. Welcome to my own Surrender Experiment. </p><p>Thanks for tuning in. 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