As we end 2012, I have succumbed to a deeper story that I didn’t realize existed until I looked profoundly at the story of why I am the Self-Care Queen.

Earlier this month, I attended an event, Your Ecstatic Wealth with Christina Morassi and I participated in an exercise to look at my story. I know my story(ies) like the back of my hand…or so I thought.

Well, the truth is that an even deeper story came from me. You see, in my twenties I was the Berkeley electrical engineer graduate who was very disappointed in her career choice and didn’t enjoy engineering at all. The good news was that it paid the bills well, but the drawback was that I didn’t like, no less, love it. I was like a robot going to work to get a paycheck so I could pay the bills, be generous with others and save some for a rainy day. I moved onto, or shall I say, up to Technical Sales, which afforded me more luxury in my life, but the truth was that I was still a slave to a job that I didn’t find passionate enough to really excite me! I needed to make a difference in the world that meant more than selling semiconductors or engineering hardware development tools. I had health projects that spoke to me, and I tried every natural thing that I knew at the time from herbs, to massage, to nutrition, to essential oils.  

Well, it was like the Universe hit me over the head in my early thirties and said ENOUGH when I came down with severe fatigue and my immune system was hit pretty hard. I had never been hit that hard before with a simple cold/virus. I couldn’t get out of bed in the morning because I was so tired. A cold would normally take me a few days to get over—well, this one took weeks and really didn’t ease up until I saw an energy healer. Many dismiss energy healing because they don’t understand it or they just think it’s woo woo and doesn’t have any substance to it. If I talk about it in terms of Chinese medicine, I might get a more credible response since Chinese medicine is accepted as primary care here in California. I mean for heaven’s sake, it’s been around for over two thousand years (since 206 BC, to be exact).  

Anyway, let’s get back to my story about how this work helped heal me on so many levels. When I received my first treatment (oh God, how can I call it treatment since it is not a medical procedure – that’s what the medical community would say), I began to feel like I was plugged into source. I saw my life flash before me as if I had a bigger purpose, and I had to get back on track. You see, I was twenty-eight years old when I got pregnant and then married. Yes, the cat is finally out of the bag, and if anyone knows me they would know that. I had set intentions to find my life’s purpose before all this began. I had books on my shelf about When 9 to 5 Isn’t Enough and later, Work with Passion. I was excellent at my job, but I didn’t love it like I LOVE the work I do today.  

Lo and behold, who would have thought that when I started to clear up my health challenges with this healing art called Jin Shin Jyutsu (very similar to Chinese medicine, it could be a branch of it), I would go on to study and practice it. When something impacts your life significantly, it makes you look at it more deeply…at least that is my truth. I say that this was the start of my true healing process. I was healing on the physical level and on a deep mental-emotional level as well. I started to shed the weight I had accumulated from my two pregnancies, and I also started to take care of myself physically. I went back to jazz dance and took up yoga again. I stopped reacting to stressful situations the way I had been for so long, and I began to find more joy in my life.  

About six months into my treatments, I took a self-help Jin Shin Jyutsu class and made a choice to continue studying it after putting my hands on a co-worker who said those encouraging words that I will never forget: “Tomasa, you are a healer and you don’t even know it.” I will never forget the feeling of my whole body heating up as I put my hands on that co-worker who had a stiff neck. Even as I write this blog post, my eyes well up with tears because my soul is deeply touched by the story of me finding my life’s purpose and passion. All I ever wanted was to make a difference in the world, and my life has shifted so profoundly after having this healing art in my life. Because I found my life’s purpose and passion, I have impacted hundreds of women and men by the thousands of sessions I have given to help them with their physical ailments, with many on my table realizing their life’s journey…and to think that this all started out with taking care of one’s own body.