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Margie M. Mulligan, Ph.D. - Biography
Margie's Journey to Healing - Why and How I Chose this Path What is it about me that I ended up building a healing business at the time when most folks are retiring? It has a lot to do with the kind of family I grew up in and my own response to the growing alternative healing and organic food movement in the U.S. But most importantly, it was my own personal journey to healing. You see, discordant emotions and critical thoughts were very challenging for me. I gradually began to learn that it was those very emotions and thoughts that really CAUSED many of my health and relationship challenges. Of course, Spiritual issues are major contributors to illness and social dysfunction, too, maybe the ultimate source of them. I didn’t know it then, but I wanted wellness and wholeness, so I kept searching for ways I could move that direction, even before the “wellness revolution” gave me a name for it. But, I’m getting ahead of myself. My Dad had jobs in small companies before health care was offered to their employees. Ever since I was 12 years old, he had a real estate business, commercial and residential. My mother worked at home most of the time. Our family didn’t have health insurance, so we used most of the “old wife’s remedies” that my mother had learned at home on the farm as a child. We didn’t go to Western Medicine Doctors much. I remember very vividly my first trip to a chiropractor. Back in 1957, the choices were limited. My Mom, sister and I all had “back problems”, so we went together to have our backs adjusted. It helped all three of us. So, I’ve gone to chiropractors ever since. When I went to college in 1961 and had access to the Student Health Center, I discovered that whenever I took a drug prescribed by the doctors, I had a negative reaction and didn’t usually get much better. So I kept calling my Mom at home to send me the “old fashioned” (natural) remedies that worked or tell me what to do. She had been the healer in our home. She was trained in home economics, but mostly she just had healing and soothing energy and her Mom had taught her about natural remedies. Natural products became harder and harder to find in drug stores as the drug industry became more powerful. By the time I ate junk food in college and lived on a tight food budget with roommates in apartments, I found that I was getting sick often when I started teaching. It was a surprise, since I had been pretty healthy until I went to college. I began seeing how the foods I ate and what I drank affected my health. The summer after my second year teaching junior high school (‘68), I had the summer off with pay. So I spent the time getting a tan, reading about and planting an organic garden. I also read a number of books by Adelle Davis about vitamins in (or missing from) foods and started to take vitamins and herbs to help regain my health. It took a whole day to do grocery shopping back then, before places like Whole Foods and Vitamin Cottage provided the variety that super markets had, but stocked with healthy foods and safe products. I had to go to the raw milk dairy, an organic farm for animal proteins, the fresh fruit and vegetable stand, the store with organic grains and nuts and then the super market for anything I couldn’t find in the other places. But the super market was the last place I went, because I read the ingredients on the labels and found that EVERYTHING had preservatives and toxic chemicals listed on the box, can or bottle. I made a life style choice in 68 to eat healthy and to heal myself naturally. After finishing graduate school and college teaching, in 1980, I came back to California and found a job in the corporate world. It was good for my bank account, but not for my health. The benefits in the health insurance plan didn’t give me any choice other than Western Medicine, so I paid for trips to the acupuncturist and chiropractors out of my own pocket. But fortunately, by the 90s there were Corporate Health Care Reimbursement accounts and I could pay pre-tax dollars from my salary into this account and then use it to pay for the wellness care I preferred. I still went occasionally to MDs, but very rarely, and usually ended up wishing I hadn’t gone or spent the money for the drugs they prescribed. They didn’t work well for me even though they were free or didn’t cost me much (co-payments). I kept having better and better results from going to the acupuncturists I found over the years. After all, I discovered, the Chinese have been perfecting this method with their millions of citizens for nearly 6,000 years. They have really learned how to treat the underlying causes of most illness, injuries, even emotional and spiritual issues. But, just having an acupuncture license wasn’t enough. The person I went to had to have advanced training in the field to be really good. Getting lasting results takes lots of training and practice. The Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine was a real boon for me, too. I could take these herbs and really get better, not just mask the symptoms until they popped up again. I also continued to learn more about the mental, emotional and spiritual causes of illness or dysfunction in relationships, career, and health. From the time I finished climbing the academic ladder and had all those letters after my name (“alphabet soup for the ego not the soul”), I realized the over-reliance on mind and intellect was the major source of my distress, so I started regularly taking therapeutic and spiritual training programs. In fact, my corporate career funded all of that. I’ll be forever grateful for that parallel education in mental, emotional and spiritual healing from 1980 until I left the corporate world in 2005 to dedicate myself to sharing what I had learned. I had had over 25 years of training in psycho-spiritual, physical or energy healing that few other people had pursued. I found that “what I knew” even about vitamins and American herbs was not obvious to other people and they were often surprised at how easily and simply we could heal ourselves. There are many self-help natural healing books available, and most of them spent some time right next to my bed stand where I could reference them before sleep, in the middle of the night, or first thing in the morning when most issues appeared for me. I also continually studied therapeutic, spiritual and energy healing…for my own use and healing. I didn’t honor the strong, conscious intent to become a "healer" then because I didn’t see a path forward to that kind of career from the corporate world where I was trying to live. I just knew I was in pain and needed relief to survive the negativity and stress of corporate life. I found that when we shift our emotional state or change our thinking (think gentler thoughts), everything gets better. A before and after picture shows a dramatic decrease in the facial and body muscle tension after any kind of natural healing session as well as a big jump in the amount of light coming from our eyes and entire body. I don’t personally have any aura or kirlian photography equipment, but I’ve got some amazing photos that show how the energy and light in our bodies changes after an energy healing session. Starting with Egyptian energy healing (from an Egyptian Mystery School in 1987-1992), I was drawn more and more into the world of energy and sacred ritual healing, because I could do it myself and get relief from the emotional, mental and spiritual distress from my corporate life. I used to joke with friends when they asked why I took all these “crazy” classes. I said it was to keep my sanity in the corporate world. And it was true. I was also able to coach some of my more open and receptive corporate clients, behind the scenes. I called myself a “corporate healer”, but what I really was in that environment was a person who healed herself. My partner at work in Colorado was also spiritual and we worked together, behind the scenes, to set the energy in the room and use ritual before a meeting started. Those meetings went beautifully and our clients were very impressed at what we could accomplish together with their teams. Here’s the sequence of my healing journey and some of the significant insights I gained about my ability to heal myself and help others heal: o From self-hypnosis tapes, I found I could calm my emotions and thoughts to go to sleep and calm myself when I woke up in the middle of the night. o From Creative Visualization and Somatic Therapy, I found that I had an intuitive gift for reading people’s emotions and where they were in the body, helping them move from negative to positive states through psycho-drama. o From Psychology of Mind, I learned some of the spiritual principles underlying a healthy state of being. These principles helped lift my level of function emotionally and socially. They are very similar to the teachings in “The Secret”. o From Egyptian Mystery School, I learned that chanting had power to uplift my state of consciousness and break through negative patterns. I learned that by putting my hands on myself or another and intending energy to move, emotional, mental and physical improvements would happen. Moving energy in specific ways in my body created astounding mental and emotional shifts for the better. o Hindu spiritual practices such as chanting and meditating had a powerful effect on my mood and the tranquility of my thoughts and emotions. I learned that sound was a powerful healer to neutralize the negativity of every day life. o I AM Source training showed me how much conscious control could be exercised over emotions and feelings. The key was recognizing how to bring in the vibration of a desired emotion so it was an antidote for the dysfunctional emotion. I also learned that I have a strong kinesthetic sensitivity and can feel the energy in a person’s energy field, where it moves freely and is blocked. My ability to tap into my intuition or higher self was strengthened. o I learned Reiki energy healing and was trained to move energy for myself and others using specific hand positions and symbols. Energy healing became a palpable force for healing in my every day life. Magnified Healing was also a good addition for certain energy healing situations. o I started experimenting with making vibrational and energy medicine a business, while I was still in the corporate world, testing the waters for a change in career, going to local healing fairs. o Sound Wave Energy CDs raised my vibration to the healthy frequencies for physical, emotional and spiritual healing. The insight was that frequencies on a CD could have a healing effect, could even replace vitamin and mineral supplements. I played those CDs in the background 24 hrs a day for over 6 years with great benefit to my health and state of mind/emotion. I used them regularly for targeted issues. o I learned Quantum Touch and learned the power of breath to boost the energy healing and get faster, better results. Simply breathing deeply can shift many kinds of stuck energy, emotional distress and negative thoughts. I teach these classes regularly and can teach "anyone" to relieve pain, stress or speed healing. o With each new healing modality, I learned how to raise the vibration of my and my clients’ cells so they could perform the bio-chemical and electrical functions as they were intended. I found that this higher energy helped the body heal itself faster and more easily. o The Healing Codes system taught me that I didn’t have to intend to move energy through me and out my hands for healing to occur if I used 4 important points in the head and neck. Just holding my hands over these spots made great shifts in emotional, mental and physical healing. I healed carpel tunnel syndrome in my right hand in 60 days of regular use. o Studying the teachings of Abraham, through Esther Hicks, is a continual reminder to me of the power I have to choose what I think and feel and how healing the experience of that spiritual knowledge is. o The Egyptian Healing Rods provided a power to tap in to my intuitive gifts, even when I was triggered. When I focus their energy toward my own physical healing or manifesting, things really move in the world. My clients said that their symptoms or stuck emotions and thoughts shifted more quickly than in past healing sessions. I realized that high vibration energy, from crystals and metal cylinders charged in a pyramid for 12 days and nights, brought a great source of power that could be directed toward healing and manifesting. More than anything, this description of my healing journey taught me something unexpected. I realized that I “teach what I need to know”. Every insight or skill I developed is something of value in my and my clients’ healing. When I am sick, injured, stuck, feeling lost or powerless, or feel overwhelmed or doubtful, I already have all the knowledge and skills to help myself shift to a more resourceful state. I just need to remember “what I know” and “who I am”. That lesson is what I continue to relearn every day and what I offer to my clients.
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