A healing session with Audrey Cooke is aimed at releasing the traumatic experiences that have been imprinted on certain parts of the body. These imprints are what cause pain and diseases to fester itself in the organs and joints throughout the body. Through her work, Cooke claims she is able to extract these imprints, thus clearing and healing the client's mind.
The healer also says she is 'intuitive'. She says she can tell exactly what is wrong with a person and knows where any pain, trauma or difficulty is being stored without being told. She is also able to see into a person's future. But, she despises being called a psychic because of the negative connotation that has been attached to the word.
"I want to tell people about the possibilities they have in their lives, about the good things I see for their future. I advise them on what they should focus their energy on. A lot of people don't realise that their futures are more fluid than psychics make them out to be. Sometimes if you get a reading, the psychic won't tell you that. That is why people often leave them feeling dis-empowered. My work is about empowerment, not to dis-empower."
Cooke says she embraces all religions. "I was brought up in a Christian society and I truly believe in the Christian way. But, if you look into the Buddhist and Muslim ways there is not much difference between them and Christianity. It's all about loving thy neighbour and treating them how you would like to be treated. Underneath it all, the names are apparent differences but there is still a oneness that they all preach."
My healing experience
My stomach plummeted. Still, I was lured by the promise of being told my organs were discreetly on their way to destruction, and what she foresaw in my future. I was stricken with curiosity. It was the force that led me right to that operating table- one I would never forget.
As I leaned over, just about to lie down, something went through my mind - "Curiosity kills the cat". Would my inquisitive mind lead me into a tumultuous meeting with the spirit world? It was then my nerves overwhelmed me. What had I got myself into?
Then, I took a hold of myself. I kept telling myself that God would take care of me, that I needed to keep an open-mind and I needed to stop being irrational. With these affirmations I managed to relax. Little did I know that my anxieties were soon to be reawakened.
The truth is, I am pretty open-minded when it comes to these types of things. I don't immediately think that people like Audrey Cooke are insane. I don't even think that they're talking a bag of mumbo-jumbo. I try to understand, and usually I do. But, there are the occasional few whose philosophies are just so far-out that I'm left lost, confused and convinced that the person was a little off their 'rockers'. To me Audrey Cooke wasn't one of these people.
She placed me face down, and then she began... She gently placed her hands on what must have been important points on my body (like my lower back and along my spin). I relaxed, thinking that it was going to feel like some kind of massage-like session, without the kneading.
Then suddenly, my heart leapt through my throat, dropped back into place with a hard thump, and skipped several beats!
JOLT OF ELECTRICITY
Ms. Cooke surely wasn't aware that she had almost led me to premature heart failure. The very loud, very long, gasping noise she made ricocheted off the four walls of the room, and drummed the insides of my ears. Shocked, my heart racing, I turned my head and looked up at her, only to catch her in the midst of an uncontrollable shake, with mouth still open, the sound still bellowing from her insides. Her body convulsed as she held her eyes closed as if a jolt of electricity was finding it's way through her body.
When it was all over (finally, after what seemed to me like decades - but surely wasn't), she softly told me that her noise was all a part of the treatment process. She was balancing an "imbalanced area" in my body. She was releasing some of what was built up in that spot.
Whatever it was, it sure had my insides twisted.
But, I was forced to get over it, as the noises persisted so often after that very first time that I just had no choice but to do so. Granted, I was frightened occasionally during the healing process, but I had already been forewarned by the first outburst, at least the shock factor was lowered which saved my heart and my stomach from going haywire.
So, on she went - healing me. Eventually, she began talking to me. She asked me questions about my past, about what issues I had that I wasn't talking about, about who had hurt me in my life and who I had resented. At first, I felt excruciatingly uneasy letting down my personal walls. Firstly, I'm not usually willing to be completely open when it comes to my personal issues, as I suspect most people aren't, and secondly, I am certainly by extension not the type to tell my secrets and fears to some stranger. But with Cooke's probing , I ended up giving her an adequate amount of my life's worries. To her credit, 'spilling out your guts' isn't so hard when you have someone like her listening. Her responses were completely non-judgmental and her tone was calming and put all my fears and tension at ease. It seemed as if she had perfected her counselling techniques.
SELF-ACTUALISATION
While talking to me, she revealed things about myself that I never told her. She also told me what she saw in my past and a few things that would happen in my future. I might add, that most of her guesses were right on the ball, and if they weren't then they were close to the truth.
While she continued to place her hands wherever she thought she must place them, we talked. I talked about things I haven't talked about in a while. I got answers to questions I had long struggled to find answers for. She had me repeat uplifting phrases (like affirmations) that had to do with loving and accepting myself, about God and about letting go of past experiences and moving into the future positively. She gave me advice about the direction my life would be headed, and about the choices I needed to make. The things she said about my personality were pretty much.... on the ball. All the while she still made those bizarre, piercing noises, but like I said, they had become a lot more bearable.
It was all a lot to swallow in less than an hour, so I don't know if that's why when I got up off the operating table and made my way back to my seat, I felt disoriented and dizzy. When I told her how I felt, she told me to stand back up, then she took items which resembled a drum and drumstick and hit them as she stood behind me. She told me that the vibrations from the 'boing' sound would help bring my system back to regularity.
She further said that a lot of toxins were being released from my body, and that was why I felt the way I did. When I returned to my seat I felt a little better. She told me a cup of tea would be ideal, unfortunately for me she didn't have any at the time. In hindsight I wonder if my reaction was psychosomatic. Who knows...
On reflection, I suspect that something (I don't know what) must have occurred on that table. I was just lying there on my back, quite comfortable, so how is it that when I got up, I actually felt disoriented? Since when does lying on your back make you feel dizzy? Probably, she was really directing energy through my body. I'm not sure what to think.
Alright, so I left there, and I will admit that mentally I felt a little awkward for the rest of the day. My experience replayed itself over and over again in my mind. It literally took me the entire day to digest all that she had told me, all that I had experienced in that one short hour on the operating table. By the following day, I reached the conclusion that surprisingly enough I am very glad I got the opportunity to have the session with Ms. Cooke. They say it's good to talk about things that bother you, and I guess it really is.
