Who do you admire and Why?

What does it mean to admire someone? For some, it may mean to look up to someone, respect them for how they go about each day of their life, or even to like a certain trait that they have within them. In my opinion though, I think admiring someone means a combination of all three with adding the fact that we also learn many different lessons from these types of people. With this being said how do we go about finding people that we admire and why is it important.

My Vision for this Blog

In this blog, I am going to share a list of people who I admire and why, how you can become a person other people admire, why it is important to have someone to admire, and provide a preview of a future blog post.

Who do I Admire and Why?

Growing up, some people may describe me as being a introvert because I was quiet,tend to spend more time by myself than with other people, and didn't really express myself in the way that other kids seemed to do so naturally. For me, I learned from others through observation which then helped me to improve and gain the different traits that I wanted to adopt from other people with how they handled different situations. Some of the people I admire include;

1. My mom
2. My dad 
3. My sister
4. Nick Vujicic

These four people are the ones who inspire me to keep improving and growing into the type of person I want to become in this lifetime for many reasons.

Why do I Admire these People?

Come to think of it, there are tons of reason why these people are a big inspiration to me; but to keep this post short I will list my top three favorite traits I love about each person.

Mom

• Her dedication for always wanting to help other
• Her fun and playful spirit
• Her creativiness with different activities

My mom is by far the biggest person that I admire in the world. Not only does she love helping other people when they need it; but  she also puts herself in my shoes to teach me how to cook different meals and deserts with one hand. The next thing I admire about my mom is that she has such a funny and playful personality with everything she does whether it is big or small. It would really take a lot of energy for anyone not to laugh and have fun along with her. The last big thing I love about her is how creative she is when doing different activities. From arts and craft to creating something for he business she has a creative eye for how she imagine things will look. There is so many ways she inspires me, but these three things are the traits I admire her for the most.

Dad 

• His Handyman skills to fix just about everything
• His map- like brain to be able to just know where we are at and were we need to go no matter what
• His extrovert personality that allows him to interact with other people with such ease

I have no clue how my dad has done some of the things that just comes naturally for him. My mom and I call him our personal handyman because everything for the most part that needs to be fixed around the house or if we have a vision of, but can't find in the stores he can build it for us with problem. The next thing I admire about him and amazes me is the fact that we can be in the middle of nowhere; but somehow figure out exactly where we are at or which way we need to go without a map. The last thing that I admire him for is his extrovert personality. He is the only person I know who can just start up a conversation with someone and stand there talking with them for hours like they have known each other for years or the fact that he walks into Walmart and knows almost all the workers by name. It just amazes me how he can do all these things with such ease.

Audrey 

• Her unique personality
• Her extrovert personality
• Her  imagination ans drawing skills

My sister, Audrey has been another big person that inspires me. The top reason I admire her so much is because of her unique personality that keeps things fun and interesting. She is like one big walk meme that always knows how to make us laugh. The next thing I admire about her is her extrovert personality. No matter where she was at, no one was ever a stranger to her which allowed her to touch so many people while she was here. The last thing I admire about her is her imagination and drawing skills. From a young age she could draw these in depth pictures that looked professional in which some we thought she traced on the computer when she actually looked at it and hand drew it. I myself have started drawing Caricatures which are funny big headed cartoons because drawing was her favorite this and it brings me joy and closer to her. 

I am still learning, but here are some of my drawings

Nick Vujicic

Even though I have never met him in person, I love that he

• Always tries his hardest to accomplish tasks without giving up
• His positive way of thinking
• His courage to get up on stage infront of hundrends of thousands of people to do his talks

The first time I learned who is was I was in 9th grade and my social studies teacher stopped what she was teaching because some of the other students were complaining about having to do the work so she pulled up YouTube and put on a video of him climbing a mountain to teach us to not make excuses.

These are just a few of the many many reasons why I admire these people; but how do we get to the point of being the person that other people admire?

How to Become the Person Other People Admire

I will admit that for the longest time when people said "I admire you" I would of coarse say" thank you"; but deep down I asked myself over and over again how I am I person that other people admire. In my eyes I just looked at myself as an ordinary person just living life with no real hidden talents. Later though, as I went through a  self discovery I realize that this was far from true. I actually have many different talents, traits, and skills that are admirable. Once I looked deeper inside myself I realized that if I wanted to be a person who admires me that I just have to be myself.

Why is it Important to Have Someone we admire in our life?

Did you know that by hanging out, joining a group, or following someone that we admire actually helps us grow, learn,and inspires us to become our best version of ourselves. More recently I joined a few groups on Facebook to interact with people that have similar interests as me. One is a hiking and adventure group in North Georgia close to where I live and the second one is a drawing group. Both of these groups are full of people that are

• Fun spirited
• Encouraging
• Positive
• Curious
• Enjoy the small moments in life
• And overall make up an enjoyable community

By engaging with other people like this I feel more motivated and inspired to keep working towards the goals I have for life.

What am I Planning for a Future blog post?

ome of you guys have probably heard of or seen some of Nick Vujic( an American -  Australian motivational speaker who was born with no arms or legs) videos or talks. Back when we were just a few weeks into Alyssa-bilities I tried to get in contact with him; but didn't get any response. Today I am trying at my second attempt of contacting him to see if he was interested in me interviewing him for Alyssa-bilities. I haven't gotten a response back yet , but I am setting my intension that he will get my email and if he is interested then having an interview with him as a future blog post.

Conclusion 

Having someone in your life that you admire whether you know them in person or not can help you dig dip within yourself to see what type person you want to be, what traits you would like to have, and the type of  people we hang out with on a daily basis. The people in my life helped me in learning different approaches to handling situations, discover my hidden talents, and has motivated me to accomplish my goals. As we go through this week, I want you to ask yourself who you admire and why? 

Happy Thanksgiving from Alyssa-bilities

 

Fall is a Wonderful Time of the Year

 The time around Thanksgiving is such a wonderful time of year. To me, nothing beats the outstanding weather that fills the air with it being not too hot, but at the same time not being too cold  as I walk the property around my family's house.Then there is the changing and falling of the leaves that just adds to beauty of the season. What a wonderful place to call home. Although these are big reasons why I love this time of year, the biggest reason is because it gives us a chance to give thanks to God for the moments that meant the most to us throughout the year while celebrating with friends and family. With this being said, what does Thanksgiving day look like through the eyes of a person with disabilities.

My Vision for this Blog

In this blog, I will share my fall experience so far since we have moved out here to Georgia, what a Thanksgiving day looks like to me, some Thanksgiving traditions that my family do each year, and leave everyone with a challenge as we go through this week and celebrate this holiday.

Hey Corn Girl; Where is the Corn?

I'll be honest, moving half way across the country was a very big, life changing, and some what scary decision for my family. Colorado was our home for 20+ years with it being the longest place my parents have lived even with being in the military, so it was very hard to imagine us living anywhere else. After what felt like endless searching, tons of miles driving around Tennessee, Alabama, north Carolina, and Georgia to look at potential homes, and several dead ends we finally found our dream home on 19 acres of beautiful green grass, rolling hills, and trees that provides us with a nice barrier of beauty between us and the near by neighbors that are down the road. Since we were lead here by the need to be closer to family it has allowed us a easy and quick commute to family, allows us to be able to help out more when they need it, and overall provides us with opportunities that we wouldn't be able to experience while living in Colorado.

My favorite expirences so far is centered around a cute little buck that had one strong antler and one that looks more scraggly  like it had formed weird so we named him Elliot after the cartoon deer in Open Season  because in the scene where he puts a berry bush branch on his head in the place where his broken antler was located reminds us of this cute deer that keeps making an appearance around our property. In the beginning when we moved in; roughly three weeks back, we would look out the window almost constantly throughout the day hoping to see some deer like roaming around like the previous owners did during the time they lived here. For the first week as we started unpacking our belonging there wasn't really any movement from any animal. I personally thought that the recent tropical storm we got on the first night we moved in or the visit we got from the bobcat on the second night had startled them and they were hiding, but after we got some corn for deer from a supply store and continued the routine that the previous owner had started of sprinkling one big scoop full of corn out on a short, but wide path that was covered with trees located in between the backyard grass area that was cleared of all the tree when the previous owner was planning to build the house and a separate even more green clearing towards the back of the property. A few days later after I continued the process of putting corn out once a day we happened to look out the window of our livingroom before getting ready to start our day when we say our first deer that was hunched over eating the corn I had laid out for them and then a few days after that we looked out the same window around 11:00 or noon to experience two young deer chasing each other around the grass field at the back of the property and a bigger deer (probably the mother) running through the path that I put the corn down at as she keeps an eye on her babies.

The first time we came in contact with Elliot was an experience that I will never forget. I know with living in Colorado that seeing deer out in the open is an almost everyday event; but getting to see him up as close as we did in our own yard was awesome. It was early afternoon and we had just finished lunch when my mom first spot him in the backyard. Mom called out to my dad and I who were still in the kitchen/dinner as we finished and cleaned up in a soft voice as she told us to quickly, but quietly come to the window. I set place my plate on the counter to head over to the window where my mom stood to find Elliot walking across the yard  from the left side of the yard roughly fifteen to twenty steps away from our house.  I was amazed with what I was seeing as we stood there watching him walking across our yard and following him through the windows of the house being as quiet as possible as he walks from the back of our house to the side yard, and then around the front of the house; looking up at us once in a while before continuing his full circle around the perimeter of the house heading back into the woods. The crazy part about it was when he walked around the front we had our front door open with the glass screen door closed and the dogs saw Elliot in the yard and started barking at him; but he wasn't startled by it and instead stopped to look at them as if he was asking them what they where and why they were so noisy before turning to walk away. 

The second time we came in contact with Elliot was on Friday morning as he stood on the beginning part of the path were the grass of the backyard ends and the woods began as he stood there for a few seconds starring at the house before running off into the woods. I didn't put the pieces together at first;but both time we saw Elliot there was no more corn left when I went out to feed them. I think he may be the food scout for his heard and if he could talk I would imagine he is saying " Hey corn girl; where is the corn?" 

What does Thanksgiving day looks like to me?

With living in Colorado, we have always been like our own little island when it came to celebrating the holidays due to the fact that we didn't have any family around us and we would have to drive 20+ hours one way to visit with them on the East Coast where they lived. So, we ended up just celebrated by ourselves; which was perfectly fine for us at the time.

The day of Thanksgiving is always a crazy time with getting everything ready for Thanksgiving dinner; but at the same time it is full of lasting memories, joy, laughter, and really is a fun time of year to spend as a family. In the past our day includes;

• Getting up around 6:00 to start making our turkey
• Eating cinnamon rolls for breakfast
• Making and baking a chocolate pecan pie, an apple pie, and a pumpkin pie 
• While the pie and turkey are cooking we start preparing our green bean casserole and yams, so they can cook when the pies are done
• Doing some sort of family activity while our sides are cooking 
• Set the pies out to cool while the yams and green bean casserole cooks
• Cooking so crescent rolls
• Set the table
• Sitting down to give thanks to God and eat the many choices we cooked that could easily feed a whole army 
• Relaxinh for a while as our food settles
• Eating pie
• Watch TV for a few hours
• Going to bed

As you can see, my family doesn't really do anything special for Thanksgiving; but this year I am really looking forward to getting to experience a big Thanksgiving get together with our family which I think will be really fun. 

A Dickens Thanksgiving Tradition

Each holiday has a tradition whether it be sitting around eat hard boiled eggs on Easter, screaming our heads off as we eat our favorite candy while watching all the scary movies we can find in complete darkness on the night of Holloween, or staying in our PJ's no matter what on Christmas;but what kind of tradition is there for celebrating Thanksgiving. For my family, each year since my sister and I were younger we use to make a list of at least ten things we are thankful for that happened throughout the year and then we would go around the table to share our list. I really like this tradition because it gave us a chance to revisit the events that happened throughout the year and is something that I personally brings us closer together to each other and God on this special day.

Conclusion

Fall is by far one of my favorite times of the year. The weather is lovely, the scenery is gorgous, and it is the time to celebrate with family as we give thanks to God for the different events that we are thankful for that happened in that year. Even though moving was a big change in my family's life; I am very glad we did it because it will allow us to get to experience new things, get a fresh start, and overall assist us on our path of healing.

A Challenge to you; what are you Thankful for this year?

I know that 2020 has been a crazy and hectic year with everything that has occurred over the past 11 months ( covid 19, riots, and the election.) As we head into this week with celebrating Thanksgiving though; I ask that we as a group release all the negative events that happened this year and focus on celebrating in the way that feels right to us. Before I end this blog post, I challenge everyone to think of one thing that happened this year that you are truly thankful for and post it in the commit section either on my website or on my Alyssa-bilites Facebook page. I will start, I am thankful that my family is in wonderful health with a beautiful place to call home.

Putting on Gloves with One Hand

Winter is the Harshest Season

In my opinion, I think winter is the toughest season of them all. Not only is it a time where people go into a deep depression with not being able to go outside very often;but it is also a time of what feels like non-stop cold. For most of the states in the United States of America, winter lasts for maybe two months with some places not getting very much snow fall( 1 or 2 inches at most) like it is here in Georgia; but that wasn't the case in Colorado. During the period I lived here it seemed like there was only two seasons with having two or three months of summer and seven or eight months of winter with roughly 37 inches of snowfall throughout this period of time.

 Preparing for winter is hard enough with trying to find affordable products to keep you warm; but it is especially hard when trying to find things to wear that you can do with one hand. A little while back we discussed how to zip your coat with one hand which takes care of keeping your body warm; but the challenging part is keeping your hands warm. With this being said, how do you put on gloves with one hand?

My Vision for this Blog

In this blog, I am going to discuss some challenges with using gloves, share different technics to easily put on gloves, and some products that can increase your chance of staying warm.

The challenges of using Gloves

I have never really been a fan of winter. As a little girl I spent time outside doing what other kids did in the snow with having snowball fights with family and friends, sledding, making snow angels, and of course trying our hand at making a good sized snowman. It was fun at the time I will admit; but after a while I would get bored with the lack of activities I could do in the snow or the rare times that the cold would catch up to me causing me to retreat indoor to warm up. Come to think of it though, the real reason why I would bundle up and play in the snow wasn't really because I enjoyed it that much,but rather it was due to the fact that it allowed me to be outside along with the fact that my sister loved to play in the snow with me; so I would embrace being out in the snow for a while because that is what big sisters do. 

For me, preparing myself to go out into the snow wasn't as easy as it was for my sister with just putting on my snow gear and going out to play. Instead it took me a while to get my snowsuit on, my hat, boots, and finally my gloves which ended up taking the longest. I think the biggest struggle with trying to put gloves on is trying to get the fingers of the hand I don't use into the correct finger positions on the gloves; even with the help of my parents. I found this very tricky especially when my hand and fingers were stiff from being in a fist all the time that it was a struggle in itself. Once my parents got my hand open they would move my fingers around to get them in the finger slots with me not being able to help them since I can't use that hand. For roughly 10-15 minutes it would be spent getting one in finger in the correct hole and then taking one of my other fingers out of the wrong hole. Sometimes my fingers would get so tangeled up with one another that we would have to start all over. After what felt like a century had past I would have my fingers in the right slots and would get to go outside to play.

If that wasn't challenging enough there was one more struggle that I encountered as I played in the snow. Growing up the left side of my body developed in a strange way with everything from my veins running all over the place, my bones/legamits not being as strong as the right side, and overall my left side being smaller than the right side. On more than one occasion I would be so focused on playing with my sister that I didn't even realize that the glove I was wearing on my left had fallen off since I had no feeling on that side of my body. This caused me to have to stop playing, retrace my steps, and shove my hand back into the glove the best I could, so I could get back to playing.

There has to be a better way

Much like the different inventions that I talked about with zipping a jacket with one hand there are also different ways to easily put and keep gloves on with on hand. For a while when I was younger I started using mittens instead of gloves so I didn't have to worry about getting my fingers in the correct spot each time I needed to wear them. This took care of spending forever getting ready, but I still had the problem of my mitten falling off my hand when I played. As I got older I started using regular gloves again,but instead of spending time putting my fingers in the right position I just kept my hand in a fist and pushed it into the glove as far as it would go and tucked the top part into the sleeve of my jacket to try and keep it on my hand.

Some other ways to easily put on and keep gloves on includes;

• Wearing gloves or mittens with a zipper on the side
• Wearing gloves or mittens with a velcro strap up by the wrist of the glove

By wearing these types of gloves it will help you easily put them on, keep them on, and keep your hands warm in the winter.

Another way to keep your hands warm in winter

Back in October when my family was in the process of packing up a UHaul to start our moving journey from Colorado to Georgia we were surprised with winter early and got a sudden snow storm on the night we were suppose to leave for our first trip out here to Georgia. This storm felt colder and more harsh than any other storm I have experienced. It was icy, cold, and still snowing with tons of snow already on the ground. With every step even though we had all our winter gear with layers underneath it was still super cold to the point that our bones even hurt from how cold it was and we still had to pack up the car in it. The only thing that kept us somewhat warm was putting hot hand packets in our gloves and the pockets of our jackets which helped us with each trip we made back to Colorado to keep us warm while we moved more of our stuff to our new home where we have all four seasons.

To Conclude

I truly believe that winter is the harshest season of them all; especially for places like Colorado; but with the right winter gear and products you can easily prepare and stay warm in winter.

How to Take Care of a Pet with Disabilities

A Man's Best Friend

A man's best friend comes in all shapes and sizes. For some, it may be another human that we get together with to talk, work on projects, or to go do an activity with; but for others it may be in the form of a pet whether it be a dog, cat, horse, or who knows maybe even a lizard. No matter what a friend looks like to us in life they were still put in our lives for a reason.

My Vision for This Blog

In this blog I am going to share my experience with taking care of animals, different technics I have used over the years, what I have learned, and dig into the advantages/ disadvantages of having a pet.

My Expirience 

In my opinion, I think that owning a pet can be a really fun and rewarding experience.

Over the course of 20 years, my family has owned pets including about a million fish, lizards, hamsters, bunnies, birds that my sister would try to rescue, cats, a horse, and of course dogs. I can't be sure but I think we like animals just a little bit😉. With having this many animals though, each of them taught me a different level of

• Responsibility
• Time management
• Loyalty
• Compassion
• Living in the moment 
• Unconditinal love

But more resently with dealing with four dogs at once with two having massive behavior problems it has taught me to 

•  Be Patient
• Analysis how I react to stressful situations
•  Not make quick decisions when stressed and frustrated
• Be proactive in finding a solution
• Keep working with them because practice makes perfect 

As I continue to work on learning these different lessons with our four current dogs I have noticed that by talking in a calm voice even when frustrated to them will allow them to feel more calm in which they will be more willing to do what we want them to do at the time rather than them shying away because they are scared and resisting what we want them to do, using training tools like barxbuddy to correct bad behavior that doesn't hurt them, and being patient as we work with them will is beginning to help in changing a stressful situation into an enjoyable one like we had with a previous pets.

Bang! I want that dog!!!

Choosing a pet can be a challenging process with trying to decide on a pet, finding a good place that has that type of pet, and choosing the one that has the personality that is the right fit for our family. This wasn't a problem for my sister and I when we were trying to decide on a golden retriever to adopt. It was a sunny spring day and after searching online for the perfect place that still had golden retreivors that were available for adoption we made the decision to make the drive out in the middle of nowhere to see if any of the puppies would be a good match for our family. After what felt like the longest car ride in history we finally arrived to a cute white house that was surrounded by beautiful green rolling hills on all sides in which the owner greeted us in the drive way. From there she lead us around the back of her house where there were roughly ten to twelve babies and their mom. For roughly forty-five minutes our parents stood there talking to the owner while we played with the dogs trying to decide which one we wanted. It was a tough descion at first because all the puppies looked the same, were all fluffy, and very playful; but just varied in size. We stood there in the middle of the sea of puppies asking ourselves how we were going to make the final descion on a dog. A few moments later our dad picked up a tennis ball to throw for the mom. As she ran off into the distance to get the ball one of the babies; which happened to be the runt of the litter chased after her as fast as he could to keep up with her. At one point they came across a brick wall that the mom leaped over to catch the ball; but the baby was too small that he attempted to just over the wall but instead ended up running face first into it with a big bang. He stumbled backwards to sit down, shook his head, and let out the saddest cry. We set down one of the other puppies and bolted to his rescue and as we lifted him up into our arms we turn to the direction our parents are standing and yell out "we want this one."

That is one of my favorite memories. Henry was such a good boy and to this day is still one of my favorite dogs we have owned along with our  pomeranian chihuahua Annie.

Technics to Easily Take Care of a Pet as a Disabled person

I have always been really mature for my age with being responsible for doing things like my school work or chores without being told; but with taking care of a pet I've always been on top of taking care of all our pets from the time I could walk and physically do everything that was required to take care of that pet to my ability. As I got older I came across a few technics that helped make some of these tasks a little easier to do with my disabilities. These technics include;

• Putting the dog food in a easy to open dog food container 
• Putting the serving size offood for each dog on a plastic cup for easy measuring 
• Add clean up after pets to my chore list since that was one thing I always got done no matter what 
• Use a gardening bucket with a Walmart bag inside and a one handed poop scoop to clean up after dogs

Yes these may just be simple technics that some people may already use, but to a person with disabilities it makes a big difference when helping out with taking care of pets. By having a good routine down has helped me easily take care of my pets while still having time for the fun moments with them and time for myself. With this being said, what are some advantages and disadvantages of taking care of a pet.

What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Owning a Pet?

Taking care of a pet I will say brings along a mixture of emotions with one moment be glad that my family has our four legged furry friends and the next wishing that it would just be easier if it were just us. Come to think of it though, there are many different advantages that comes up with owning a pet.

Advantages of Taking Care of a Pet

There are so many reasons why having a pet is one of the best experiences with each pet providing it's own advantages, but for me I am glad I have pets because

• They have their own unique personality
•  They will love us no matter what
• They are people pleasers
• Teach us valuable lessons
• They love to be with us 
• They assist us when we are in need

These are just a few of the many advantages of owning a pet; but there are also some disadvantages of owning a pet.

Disadvantages of Owning a Pet

On the other hand though with having a pet also comes with some challenges when being a pet owner. Some of these disadvantages include;

• Finding someone to take care of them when going on vacation
• Having the money for vet costs when they come up
• Worrying about them when gone for a long period of time
• Meeting the needs of the pet

To Conclude

Owning a pet is a wonderful experience that people with disabilities can easily do on their own. Best friends look different to everyone. For stone they may have a stronger relationship with other humans, others may have a stronger relationship with pets, or they may fall in the middle like my family; but the important thing to keep in mind is that their is a friend out there for everyone and they are put into our lives for a reason.

Wait! I Can Heal Myself Through Energy

Everything is Energy

Everything around us is made of and holds energy whether it is positive or negitive. In Fact, God created the whole world out of energy. If we take a minute to look at our current surroundings everything from the the tables we eat our meals at to the devices we use to read this very blog is a form of energy; but what if I told you that we are also made of energy? Yes, I know it may be hard for some of you to wrap your head around the idea so I am going to give it a minute to sink in. Ok are you guys ready to contenue?

With everything I have learned through research, talking with others, and expiriencing the technics for myself I have discovered that we can actually connect to the power within us to heal our bodies in amazing ways through energy.

What Will I Cover in this Blog?

In this blog I will analysis what one of my top favorite songs in the world means to me, discus how it is possible to heal ourselves through energy, provide the hand positions to do a self Reiki treatment, and share two times that I have healed myself through energy.

Our God

                         Our God By chris tomlin

Late last night as my family and I made the grueling 21 hour drive back to Colorado Springs from Georgia to get more of our belongings this song came on the radio. As I sat in the back seat with my four dogs who had plenty of room; but dicided to lay on one another to create a doggy pile on top of me I started singing along to the song. There is many reasons why I love this strong the beat, the words, just because it is a song about God; but the biggest reason I love this song is because of the meaning of it that reminds people of all the wonders God can do and that he is always with us no matter what situation we find ourselves in life. 

Once the song went off, I sat there replaying the song in my head and realized that at least to me it goes way further than just a reminder that God is always with us.

Some of the thoughts that came into my mind include

• The many blessings he gave my family over the years from helping my parents through my medical stuff, providing us with the opertunities to have the money to help my little sister with her mental illness, live life how we want to,and  providing us with the change to get a new start in Georgia.
• All the times he protected us with car accidents, making decisions, keeping us safe in a tropical storm the night we closed on our house in Georgia, and providing us comfort when we heard a bobcat let out a scary screetch in the middle of nowhere which was also very close to our house the night after closing and sounded like a women screaming loudly.
• That we all are a nation under God 
• He created us in the image of himself so he can live life on earth through us
• A reminder that we have the power within us to do amazing things 

Some people may not agree with me and that is perfectly ok, but I truly believe that when Jesus was living life on earth as a human that he was more awakened than the other people of his time by being an extended master, healer, and doing things that no other human knew they could do at the time. In the song the writer sings about God "opening the eyes of the blind" in his beginning stanza I truly believe that he did this,but I also think that between the belief and trust that the people had in Jesus that he could heal them just by touching a part of him or by Jesus laying his hands on them and the confidence that Jesus had in himself to help the people that were in need which I think is a big part in what helped them heal quickly in the way they did at the time. 

How Can We Heal Ourselves Through Energy?

Being a part of God is actually pretty cool  because we all have the ability deep down  to learn how to access our inner powers that God gave to each and every one of us. No, we may not be able to walk on water or have  disciples that are around us like Jesus did, but we do have the power of the mind, the power to control ones life, and the power to heal ourselves or others through energy. How you may be asking yourself? There are two ways that I have found that one can learn in order to develop these gifts.

Meditation

Learning to master the mind is the biggest step that one needs to master in order to unlock the hidden gifts within ourselves. One of the best ways I found to build the mind like a muscle is to spend a certain amount of time in meditation each day to help clear it, discover ourselves, and speak what we want into our lives into our exsistance. Meditation has been part of my day to day life whether I did an hour long meditation or just a few minutes at a time; but I have gotten to the point where I set the intentions for bigger objects to fit into small places like when my family was selling our air hokey table to get rid of things we no longer used so we had less things to put in a truck to move to Georgia. When someone was interested in the table my family drove our Honda CR-V to meet the family at our storage unit in which they arrived in a smaller van. For a while my parents thought it wouldn't fit in the back of their van and thought we were in a pickle with not having a car that would hold this big air hockey table, but then I set the intention that it would easily fit in the back of their van and a few minutes later the table fit easily in the van and we sold the table.

Reiki

Learning how to do Reiki is the biggest way I have healed myself through the use of intention, hand positions, and trusting in myself that I can heal myself.

Steps to doing a self reiki treatment

The nice thing about doing healing work with energy is that you don't have to use your hands in order for it to work; but it is always an option if you are the type of person who likes the hands on technique.

These steps include;

1. Sit in a place where you won't get destracted. Preferably in a area where you don't do any other activity and where you can sit cris cross your legs to help you get relaxed; but not to the point of falling asleep during the session.
2. Connecting to reiki energy. I normally say something along the lines of " I call upon Reiki energy to assist me in this heal." This allow for the energy to start flowing through the body.
3. Setting your intention. Once I connect to Reiki energy I then set my intention for what I want to accomplish during the session. This can be anything that you want to heal within yourself. Reiki doesn't have a limit to what it can heal. An example of what I say is something along the lines of " I ask Reiki energy to assist me by releasing any unwanted energy from my body that no longer serves me for my best and highest good.
4. Welcome all extended masters, reiki masters( past, present and future) guides, angels, and any other light beings who want to assist you in the healing to please come forward.
5. Drawing the reiki symbols in the air. With your finger draw the following symbols. The first three are for self reiki and the fourth symbol is added to the other three when you send reiki to other people in which you would then do the same process; but ask reiki energy for permission to be a sergeant for that person and then set the intention for what that person wants to heal in that session.
   
   
   
6. Doing a body scan. In this step you bring your fingers together at the finger tips horizontally in front of you. Starting from the top of your head slowly move both hands down the front of your body feeling for sticky spots. This can be different for everyone; but for me I can tell I have a lot of unwanted energy in my body by feeling a bunch of tingling in my chrakas ( seven energy points throughout the body). Repeat this scan three times.
7. Play soothing music with bells or chimes every three minutes to switch hand positions
8.  Begin the session by cupping both of your hands and placing them over your eyes. This helps heal and balance the third-eye chakra. 
9. Once the first three minute timer goes off move down to your cheeks and cup your hands around them for the next three minutes.
10. Next, move down to your neck cupping your hands around it until the next ding goes off.
11. After that you will move up to the back of your head. Cup your left head and place it on the center of the back of your head. Then cup your right hand and place it on top of your left hand. This helps heal and balance the crown chakra
12. The next hand position requires you to place your left hand on your heart and your right hand on your throat. This helps heal and balance the throat chakra. 
13. From there while keeping your left hand on your heart move your right hand down and place it over your left hand. This helps heal and balance the heart chakra. 
14. You will then move down a little bit and place your hands underneath the bra line for girls and roughly the same area above the belly button for boys in the same hand position you use for the body scan. This helps heal and balance the solar plexus
15. Right under your belly button is your next chakra. The hand position is the same as the solar plexus; but this helps heal and balance the sacral chakra
16. The final chakra is the root; but it is not the last hand position in the session. With this one you place your hands between your legs to help heal and balance this chakra
17. Once you complete the main chakras you know have to work on the smaller energy pocket where you spend three minutes on the back of your root chakra, placing your hands on your kidneys, then on your shoulders, move downs to your knees, then your left foot, and then the right one to heal and balance these areas.
18. Once you have done all of the hand positions you will then do another body scan and those sticky areas should feel a lot less intense than when you started
19. Finally you will thank reiki energy for helping you with the healing for example "thank you extended masters, reiki masters( past, present, and future) guides, angels, and any other light beings who assisted me in this healing. Thank you." 
20. End the session

Ways I Have Healed Myself

I have used Reiki for many different things and have been really amazed how I could heal myself each time just through energy. The two biggest times I can recall using reiki for healing and it happened so fast was a few weeks ago when I got a pretty big blister in between my third and fourth toes on my right foot from walking. This blister went from the top of my fourth toe all the way down to where my toes meet my foot and then spread to the top of my fourth toe. It was quite painful to the point it hurt to put a sock on it once I realized that the blister was that bad. I imidently started doing reiki on it for a couple of days with setting my intention that it will heal and within two days it had already scabbed over and healed fast. I did the same process a second time when I accadently kicked the side of my bed and hurt another toe. I set my intention once again that it would heal and within a day or two of doing reiki it was all healed up and I was able to continue to do the activities I love to do each day.

To Conclude

Healing yourself isn't rocket science. All it takes is the right methods, practice, and a mindset of being open to the healing technics and the want to heal when injuries come up. Sometimes it isn't as easy to heal yourself with energy like I did in my situations. Most of the time you will be able to heal an injury through energy; but in some cases it may be harder because there is some sort of lesson you have to learn before you can heal from that injury. Afterall, everything happens for a reason even if it is not clear at the time.