It all began

I went to a women's Herbal Symposium-stayed in a  tepee with 5 women (daughter with me) the weather was cold and rainy for 3 straight days and dipped to 32º in evening on night before I left, I wandered over to the "wellness tent" where first aid and general advice for problematic health issues was dispensed they also gave wonderful massages and just lots of women pampering. I was cold and ready to go.  I signed my name up for a massage and when i went to my appointed time. It was pouring the talent show which is annually held around the campfire was moved within the "wellness tent" and they were canceling all massages my masseuse asked if I could reschedule--and as I was leaving next day she agreed to just do a massage on table in corner out of the way.
Microphones were setting up--crowd was sitting-kids singing-instruments tuning
I was there for a nice body massage ( my fellow tent person gave me a neck massage on day 1 as she is also in the massage therapy field) so here I lay all ready for nice Spa treatment
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She told me to close my eyes and asked if I had any specific health issues
I said yes, chronic pain in right leg for years--she said concentrate on the pain and describe it and do this with eyes shut and breathing through the pain. I just lay there waiting for all the rubbing of tired cold achy muscles to commence and thought of my leg nothing--no touching occurred
I felt immense heat at my toes and ankles and peeked to see her standing at my feet eyes shut hands out and mumbling. great...so this was my "energy massage"
crap
she told me keep breathing and not to worry all was going fine. I stayed still and concentrated on my leg. The room was now loud crazy talent show going on --as she moved up to my sides I felt a rush of shivering coldness
I was startled and I tensed
she spoke calming me and asked me to keep doing deep breathing
as she moved to my head I was shivering and she got more blankets
I started to feel... and this part was freaky
I felt wind in my face like i was in the rain at the helm of a ship--or a moving open air vehicle--sounds odd but I began to cry and was shivering, she told me just relax and concentrate on my leg
she massaged my temples and I started to feel better--warmer slightly
she then kept speaking softly and told me to think of any sounds-tastes-images-smells that were associated with my leg pain. she moved around me slowly and ended by long warm strokes on legs and arms, tapped me and told me to rise when I was able
I was drained
I couldn't rise yet and she went to get me OJ
I was so out of sorts with what just took place
what just DID happen to me?
where was my spa treatment--and what the hell good is an "energy massage" that leaves you drained?
she came back and said
"tell me about Scotland"
huh? scotland?
yes
what can you tell me about Scotland?
well I'm doing ancestry research and I have tried to connect some dots because I feel drawn there
yes she said you are
ok i said are you a seer?
tell me more about what you just felt
wait I said
why scotland?
she said I saw you there
okkkkk I have visited it and I was doing a watercolor for the Historical Society of Scotland
yes--well you will not find this answer in any books she laughed
what happened to me?
you fought in the battle of Culloden (she pronounced it wrong KILL I DIN ) and you have a deep deep wound that you have just connected with
wait Isaid
I dreamed a painting of the battlefield and sketched it before my trip to Scotland--when I was at Culloden it was a muddy empty moor and the tourist group almost left without me--i couldn't leave the place stunned that i had sketched in the US what i had dreamed and now saw it in person -same landscape-- I could teach a class on this event 4,500 men died in 45 minutes and the clan system died that day along with the freedom to where their tartans
yes she said no doubt
you have a pattern
Ibelieve you run away
run away?
yes a pattern--you tend to run
I said I was a fast runner as a child...
no run away from things in your life
oh
i just moved to Key West
yes, I think you may have left the battlefield wounded
crap
so wait...
you see me from fighting in 1744 and i have a wound in my leg?
yes
wait...I'M A GUY???
yes
I cannot deal with this
I know she said
you need to find someone that can continue helping you with this pain--an eastern medicine energy masseuse but that's only IF you ever have it again
wait--you think it will be gone?
very much so
I saw auras and you are a very very strong person who needs to tap that strength and open that door
yikes--this is way tooo heavy for me
ok I know let me take your email info and i will send you some info
in the meantime
journal-write everything about your leg--every item is a clue as to what brings it on
crap--can't you just massage the hell out of it?
I called upon spiritual healers and spirits to assist and guide you in this journey to help you find the connection to the pain
great--I don't believe in that
well that's ok---they were here
ummm ok
thanks....i'll keep ya posted on my pain

I walked in a daze back to my tent pondering the experience
I woke very early
it was freezing cold and misty
a few had gathered around the campfire
she was sitting alone--her name is Marg she is from Canada and i really think I was meant to have met her--it was her first trip to this even as well as mine
she sat and smiled
I sat beside her and said this is all pretty damn freaky
she gave me a name of a book FOCUS
I said ok--if you have helped eradicate my leg pain-- I will be thrilled and read any book you want to throw at me
I told her dragonflies seem to be following me for a few yrs now--hell I have them in my own graphic artist logo now and have them as refrigerator magnets and they have even followed me into a restaurant LADIES ROOM!
she smiled and said--yep dragonflies that stay near is the sign of a person strong in the spirits
hell i thought it was dad
:)