Inspiration

Earthing

Earthing has a lot of physiological benefits. Here, I am sharing with you another perspective that will help you connect deeper with how Earth communicates with us.

With love and light,

Damla

 

Equilibrium

Often we are pulled in different directions by our emotions and thoughts. Repetitive mind stories, patterns and emotions tend to run our lives. Luckily you have the option to turn back the tide.

It comes down to thinking about what brings you to balance. The balance I am talking about is not a state of mind. It is the recognition that whatever thought-form is pulling you in a certain direction, you have the power to recognize it and pull in the opposite way.

This may look like a thousand different ways. It may be you recognizing how isolated you have been lately and taking the time to reach out to a friend. It may be realizing that this story in your mind has been on repeat forever (I am not enough, I am not lovable, etc.) and consciously replacing it with a new life-affirming one. It may be understanding when you have failed to meet your body’s needs and taking the time to tend to your physical being.

Creating equilibrium begins with knowing when to take care of yourself. It all starts with recognizing what is going on and balancing your life accordingly. Sometimes if the scales have been tipped in a certain direction for too long, you may need some expert help to figure out where to start and how to bring yourself back into balance. Small steps combined with the support of someone you trust are absolutely important in re-balancing your system.

Here are a few ways for working on your equilibrium:

  • I would be happy to work with you on figuring out your unique equilibrium needs. Schedule a chat with me at this link.
  • ​I have been sharing tips about intuition and seeing auras (and what it all means for you), in my private Facebook Group Chakra Bliss Party. You can join and watch them here.
  • Here’s a Youtube video I prepared last week, that gives you step by step directions for receiving dream guidance. This is a simple and powerful way to connect with your intuition. You can watch it here.

With love and light,

Damla

On Being A Healer

Here are a few things you should know about me as a Healer and about the process of working with me:

  • I read your vibration. You can tell me how good you feel all you want. As soon as we connect over the phone or you step into my office, I have a sense of where you are in your life. It shows up as a knowing of your chakra states and tells me a lot more than you can tell me with words. Where you are isn’t who you are. Before even meeting you, I will know exactly what chakra blockages and issues you are working with right now.
  • There’s no point in lying or pretending. Your vibration speaks louder than words. I know when you aren’t telling me the truth and when you are circumventing the real issue. In these cases instead of confronting people, I gently direct them towards what needs to be realized. Sometimes this takes one question. Sometimes we need to have three sessions before they will feel safe and brave enough to tell me what’s actually going on.
  • I reflect your wisdom back to you. I will tune into your inner knowing and wisdom and translate your highest vibrational guidance back to you. Meaning the wisdom, the guidance comes from you (not me) and I am a translator for your inner knowing.
  • I hear clear guidance when I ask. It means that the vibration of your system and the guidance from your highest vibrational guides and helpers are translated into words in my system. In other words, I hear guidance to specific questions I ask or sometimes it simply drops into me as I am listening to your system or you may be talking about something and I will be hearing something contradictory or seemingly unrelated to what you are saying. Another way this happens is through bodily sensations.
  • I am not telling you everything I hear. Every single thing I hear as a guidance passes through my internal election mechanism. At any given time I am only sharing about 40 to 50% of what I am hearing. Sometimes it isn’t the right time for you to hear something. Sometimes it isn’t helpful. Sometimes it would get you out of your body and into your mind. I refer to guidance more often than you can imagine to filter out what’s unnecessary and give you only that which you need to hear.
  • It is not my job to heal everybody and I don’t offer unsolicited advice. For me to work with your energy field, your consent is required. The moment you make an appointment with me or register for a group event you are giving me your consent. Occasionally I do check on people around me when I am in a Cafe (mostly happens automatically) or when I am with family or friends to make sure that they are OK, but unless someone specifically asks me, I won’t let them know what I am reading or any messages I might be getting. Your free will is the most important shield you will ever need. Most people aren’t ready to dig up old wounds or to embark on a healing journey. It is not my job to discern that, it is yours. I do hold the intention of healing energy to work through me anyway it can and send loving kindness to everyone I come into contact with. But diving into what needs to be healed has to be your decision.
  • I don’t work for you. I work for your soul and the souls of all beings everywhere, and the life-affirming, life-supporting energy of the universe. You may ask me to work on your throat chakra, but your soul and energy system may tell me to start with your second. In that case, I will work on your second chakra.
  • I hold you in healing light. There are times when I am not given a specific guidance because it may be too complex or too many layers may be involved. In those times, I am guided to hold you in the life-giving, life-affirming healing light of the universe. I leave it up to the intelligence of this source energy to know how to work and where to work. I am often asked if I get tired after healing sessions. The answer is a big no. Because the healing light isn’t coming from me personally, I am a channel and space-holder for it. And the truth is as I channel this intelligent source energy, I am basked in it too, which is a wonderful gift. There are multiple ways that this energy works through me. I may be looking at you and it flows towards you from my eyes. It may flow through my hands. It may flow through my words written or spoken out loud. It may flow through the tuning forks. Lately, I am finding that it has a mind of its own and likes to flow in and through my entire body when it is needed.
  • When it comes to healing, there is no straight line. We may get to the truth and the wisdom you need quickly. Or we may get there in three months. Healing is a non-linear, multi-dimensional, magical, extraordinary journey. You and your soul are in charge of how much and in what way the energy will work for you in establishing new life-supporting pathways.
  • How you start out with me will not be how you leave. Through seeing what needs to be seen, heard and understood, and through getting in touch with your inner wisdom, you will leave with more ease, a deeper understanding of yourself and most importantly with a higher vibrational state than you came in with. That to me is a miracle that I feel honored to witness with every client.
  • Every time you heal an energetic wound, you are healing everyone around you. This is another miracle of healing. By discovering your patterns and re-shaping your vibration, you are creating ripples in the universe that travel through your DNA and energy field to positively affect everyone you come into contact with and everyone in your blood and soul line. What is in one is in the whole. By taking the time to heal, you are helping heal our species as a whole.
  • Miracles begin to happen the moment you decide and take action to heal. You have free will. You are in charge. This means that your decision to heal and look at and be with your patterns and be open to creating new life-affirming ones, changes everything. Often, the energy begins to work in you and on you the moment you make an appointment with me. Whether you decide to work with me or not, remember this one: your decision to heal and hold more light is one of the most important, magical, life-changing, life-affirming decisions you can ever make.

All of these apply whether we are having a conversation on the phone or in-person, or working with crystals, forks, tapping or simply talking. I am available to chat with you to listen to where you are energetically and give you a recommendation on where to start your chakra healing journey. You can reserve a 15 Minute FREE video call with me at this link.

Have a beautiful, miracle-filled day,

With love and light,

Damla

Welcome to A Drop Of Om

Welcome to A Drop Of Om! I am so glad that you found your way here. I am Damla Aktekin, creator of the website and blog adropofom.com and a Healer who helps people with healing their energetic wounds and reclaiming their joy. I would love to find out what brought you here and what is asking you to be healed in your life. Please leave me a comment to let me know.

Please take a moment and join me at the Chakra Bliss Party Facebook Group for more healing inspiration.

With love and light,

Damla

Every Day Is A New Opportunity

Taking a good look at your choices begins by pausing and understanding that each moment is another opportunity to make another choice. Your choices brought you to where you are right now. Your choices will take you to where you wish to be. Your choices will allow you to be ok with the in-between state while you move towards where you want to be.

Your choices matter a lot. Choosing who to hang out with will shape if you get nourished or depleted in your relationships. Allocating your energy at work, at home, and in your relationships will determine whether you end up exhausted at the end of the day. How you prioritize your limited resources of time, energy, and attention will create your reality and how you relate to it.

Every day is a new opportunity to choose more life-affirming, life-supporting actions, thoughts, intentions and to re-determine your priorities. Sometimes this takes a sacred pause. A pause where you are not responsible for anything or anyone other than your precious self. Where you put your daily hustle on hold to see what matters most to you and how your choices are affecting you and those you love every single day.

When you find yourself stuck in your past and current choices, find some precious time for a sacred pause. Take some time to re-evaluate what you want, what you need and how you wish to allocate your resources to live the life you really want to live. If you need help with figuring out what you want, need and what to do next, let’s chat.

With love and light,

Damla

You Are A System

You are a system. You are not just your stomach. Your stomach doesn’t exist hanging in space. It is a part of an intricate mechanism and is intimately in relationship with its surrounding cells, tissues and organs. So are all of your ‘seeming’ parts and pieces. You also don’t end where your skin ends. Your electricity and your field extend way beyond your physical body. The physical, the electrical, the emotional, the energetic bodies all form an interwoven, extraordinary, and an always changing system.

You interact with other systems. You don’t exist in the ether all alone. Just like your stomach, your physical, emotional and energetic bodies interact with everyone and everything around you. You get affected by other people, other planets, and the stars including the Sun. And you, in turn, affect everything there is.

You are a probability cloud disguised as a body. The ability of your system to re-organize and make itself whole is unbelievable. Moment-to-moment you get to make choices, even choosing your own energy and vibration, and your whole system responds to your choices. Every single time you make a life-supporting choice, you are changing your system and everyone and everything around you in a positive way.

You are a multi-layered, multi-dimensional light-being. So your healing cannot and will not be just one dimensional. You need to take into account how everything in your life works or doesn’t work, and you need to figure out how and where to start. Here’s the secret: your system actually knows exactly where and how to begin your healing journey.

When I tune into your system, I sense your vibrational reality and I translate that experience into words. Some people call this intuition. Some call it clairaudience. I call it bringing what your system needs and wishes you to see, hear, understand and transform to light. Let me know if you need my help.

Damla

Remembering What Matters

At the end of the day when you are in the midst of your exhaustion, I invite you to pause and remember what matters most. It isn’t what you haven’t accomplished yet or what you have. It isn’t the argument that your mind keeps coming back to. It isn’t money that is or isn’t in your bank account. It is how much you cared, how much you opened up to being loved and how much you loved.

Loving doesn’t mean you do everything that others like. Sometimes loving and being loved involves placing healthy boundaries around your relationship. What is OK and what is not OK to be said and done by both parties? Where are you stepping on each other’s boundaries? Where can you re-establish healthy boundaries that would work for you both?

Loving doesn’t need you to sacrifice yourself to the point of becoming exhausted. It means knowing your limits and making sure that you are not the only one who has an enormous amount of responsibility. It means we don’t ‘help’ each other. All of us living in the same house have and own an equal amount of responsibility for everything we do. We can divide up the tasks according to what we do best. But noone feels like they are drowning under a pile of tasks that they don’t like.

Loving doesn’t mean that you will say yes to everything that is knocking on your door. In fact, you will say more ‘no’s, and you will say more ‘let me check my calendar’s before any ‘yes’s. It also means you will do yourself a favor and clear any electronic news, emails, ideas, apps, social media feeds that are leaving you feeling unnecessarily stretched thin.

Loving doesn’t mean that you have to lock everything inside to the point of numbness or sickness. You will allow yourself to feel what you feel. And sometimes, you will let the people you love or people you trust can support you, to see these feelings. You will share what scares you the most, what you cannot even think about carrying on your shoulders anymore, what’s eating at you day and night that you can’t seem to get to the bottom of.

Loving doesn’t mean that you need to take a bubble bath every single day. There will be days that you do. On the days that you aren’t able to, you will still brew a cup of tea with love and hold it in your hands to feel the warmth, reminding you that this is OK, this will pass and you will still be there to take care of your precious self.

Loving doesn’t mean that you need to be present for your loved ones 24/7. The truth is, they need their own time to grow and learn too. But you will take the 20 minutes you have together, setting aside your phone, shutting down the TV, and you will look into their eyes. You will get interested in their lives and ask probing questions. You will then get excited about what they are excited about. And you will get to know them again and again as both your lives evolve and shift.

May you be loved, may you love deeper than you can imagine, may you navigate your life always and always through the lens of love.

With love and light,

Damla

 

What Your Stress Is Telling You

Stress is a constant companion in our lives. Yet it takes a toll. We all have some tools or strategies to deal with it. But it keeps coming back to haunt us. Part of the reason is the way our lives are set up. Through our work, relationships, and environment, we are constantly bombarded by stress.

As a healer, I am more interested in the other reason: what’s underneath the stress? Which wound is replaying itself every time you get stressed? What strategies that you downloaded from your family or formulated in your early years are no longer helping? And most importantly, are you able to decipher when your stress points you to what in your physical and emotional life needs tending to?

More often than not it is not just the wound energy that needs to be neutralized but also how you deal with it. What strategy have you picked up from your parents, teachers or grandparents that is no longer serving you? What can you change about the way you handle life to not use up all your energy resources? How can you shift your perspective not only for your wounds but also for what you assume cannot be changed (aka your strategies and patterns)?

Here’s what happens when you tend to the wound underneath: suddenly what seems stressful doesn’t affect you the same way. You find yourself more resourceful and a lot more present to be able to deal with whatever life throws at you. With an increased capacity for presence, you are able to see the patterns that come up to the surface. You can then choose a new pattern, a new strategy, a new way to better handle your reality.

With love and light,

Damla

In The Depth Of Winter

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” Albert Camus

It is that time of the year when those of us living in the Northern hemisphere, especially where I am in New England, get to experience being in the depth of winter. If you are someone who gets deep into winter blues, here are some suggestions to turn your experience around into one of grace and ease:

  • Tend to your body. Get a blood test to check your Vitamin D levels. Practice daily self-massage to move bodily fluids and prevent stagnation. Make sure you are well hydrated. Your body needs extra love and care in the long winter months.
  • Everything you see is you. Pay attention to how you talk about the weather. Is there a way you can energize and lift that conversation from ‘This is such a dreadful weather’ to ‘The cold is refreshing and energizing!’?
  • Know when it is not the weather but it is all about your untended to wounds from your past and present. Support your nervous system and clear, expand, and update your energy field daily. I am sharing a free one hour Chakra Bliss Healing recording to support you on your healing journey. You can download it at this link.
  • Make the most of it! I love this video about the Danish concept of Hygge, aka the beauty and joy of cozy winters, enjoying real or fake fireplaces, hot drinks and taking comfort in relationships.

What are your favorite ways of being in the depth of winter with joy?

With love and light,

Damla

All You Need Is Here

All you need is here. Life at any given moment brings out the best opportunity for you to see, feel, transform and release your wounds. What comes up right now as an issue in your life or in your chakra system is related to an earlier wound that is coming up to the surface to be healed.

Pay attention to what you wake up with. What keeps appearing in your life to side-track you? Is it health or relationship-related? Is it about your finances? Clearly identify what it is that is asking for and receiving your attention.

Take time to unpack it either by yourself or by the help of someone you trust. Often you have already tried to unpack, resolve, be with or get rid of it by yourself. Perhaps it is time to bring in the help of a healer. My job as a healer is to help you connect the dots and know what is asking you to be healed, and offer you vibrational support and tools to transform it with ease and grace. Just remember this: you don’t have to do it alone. It is ok to ask for and receive help.

The unpacking usually will bring up stuff. Stuff you need to look at, see, feel, hear and understand, so that it can begin to transform into an ally rather than something that bugs you or makes you feel uncomfortable or keeps you stuck.

All that is rising up to the surface is an opportunity to feel wholeness, beauty and love. The question is what will you do with it? Will you fight it, feed it, ignore it or will you make an effort to understand it, see it, feel it, and offer it love and compassion? That’s what’s between you and the transformation of rising above your conditions, conditionings and circumstances.

With love and light,

Damla