I just finished putting together the vlog of the Channeling Erik Weekend, and it looks good. I’ll post it on Wednesday! Here’s more magic from Kate Sitka!
Me: Okay, let’s talk about anxiety including panic attacks and social anxiety. I don’t know if we can just group these all as one thing or focus on the latter two separately. Walk me through anxiety in general.
Kate: He’s showing me this person whose energy field is bleeding out into the world.
Erik: They have difficulty finding boundaries with what’s going on out there and how much it’s affecting you. If you visualize that person and then you’ve got that line of the aural field, the outline is poorly defined, and you get an atmosphere that’s getting thinner and thinner as you get further out. People are putting their feelers out into the world, and they’re really sensitive to the feedback.
Kate: It’s so interesting that you should ask that because when I was a teenager, I struggled with that enormously. I had to get a doctor’s note to get out of assemblies—mass gatherings and that kind of thing. It would trigger panic attacks.
Me: Yeah.
Erik: That’s totally the problem. You had to learn how to protect yourself and define your energetic boundaries. Anxiety can lead into OCD, which can get you into the habit of worrying about what other people think or those negative coping mechanisms, you know, the repetitive habits. But having it start with anxiety—and there are a lot of reasons people can have poor boundaries. A lot of times it starts with how you grew up in this life. The really intense anxiety issues in this life are reinforced by life contracts, coming in with difficult parents, challenging environments when you grew up and not really feeling safe as a kid and having to be hyper alert—especially when you have to be hyper-alert to the emotional moods of others in the house, even more so if there’s violence. Where it gets really bad, especially when there’s violence in the home so that the anxiety peeks to the point of terror, those are the first people that are going to self-medicate. They’re way more likely to develop dependencies on drugs and alcohol because that’s the only way they can dampen down the feeling of terror that’s living in their body. It’s really hard work to deal with that stuff.
Me: Yeah. So do some spirits purposely come in with a contract to or set themselves up to develop anxiety, to put themselves into an environment that produces terror or hypervigilance?
Erik: Anxiety is not the goal. Anxiety is a symptom. It’s sometimes a side effect of the contract. Some spirits are really tough in the afterlife, and they sign up for really difficult lives.
Kate: He’s pointing to you. He’s indicating that you’re one of the super tough ones.
I don’t know about that!
Me: Yeah, my childhood was just brutal. But I think I came in [to that childhood} partly because I wanted to learn how to be assertive and more compassionate. On the other side, I grew up with a lot of anxiety. I don’t have any more to speak of, but yeah, that totally makes sense.
Erik: The point isn’t the anxiety symptoms. That’s the side effect. The point is to heal. The point is to get stronger so you can help others. You can help others get over their anxiety and heal themselves.
Me: Yeah.
Erik: The point is never the suffering. The suffering is the side effect and sometimes part of the journey.
Me: Well, that’s good. How can people learn to protect their energetic boundaries?
Erik: Suck it in!
Kate laughs.
Me: Suck it in!
Kate: He did this tensing of his abs.
Erik: For people that can’t see—
Kate: He’s speaking specifically to someone. There’s someone blind who’s going to come across this.
Me: Oh!
Kate: It’s someone who’s almost completely blind. I’m not sure if there’s a walking aid or something, but there’s a lot of anxiety in his life.
Erik: If you don’t have the vision and visual techniques aren’t going to work, feel hard. Feeling like you’ve got a diamond shell or spikes or something, feeling like your protected, putting your elbows out, standing up straight, and even lowering your voice will help. Practice these things at home. Practice those postures that make you feel stronger like using your voice in a stronger way. Then you’re establishing boundaries. You’re asserting yourself just like you said, Mom. For the people that can see, visualizing things are really helpful: visualizing a bubble—
Kate: He’s tapping into the techniques that I would use. I’d visualize that I was wearing golden armor, and I had a shield and a sword. I was literally energetically arming myself when I was going in and dealing with difficult people.
Erik: Yeah, visualizing armament can help a lot. Also ask for help. Fortify yourself with supportive people. You can get tired when you’re doing it all by yourself. You can replenish your energy by commiserating with friends. Sometimes there’s nothing better than sitting down and having a bitch session with your friends. You feel supportive. You have someone saying, “Yeah, man. I really feel you.” And then that person might be thinking about you throughout the day and lending you their energy. They can help in that way. And never forget you have those on the other side you can ask for help from. Ask them for help ten times a day if you need to. You can say, “I want you guys on full force all day because I need that support.” You watch. It’ll help. Pay attention to your body. Pay attention to the little things before it starts to explode into really big anxiety things. If the early signs are heartburn, if the early signs are a faster heartbeat, learn to pay attention to your body, and learn how to breathe deeply. Some guys like to go to the gym and punch a punching bag. That can make them feel more in control and feel stronger. It helps them get out their anxiety so that they can relax and go to work pumped up and feeling powerful.
Stay tuned for Part Two tomorrow!
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Here’s another review for Erik’s book:
This book taught me a lot of life lessons, things anyone and everyone could learn something from. I can’t tell you what you’ll understand from reading this book, but I can share what I gained by reading it. It is the most intimate view of a family struck with grief now loving and communicating in a brand new way. I cried, I laughed, I smiled and I had a lot of “ah hah” moments and a lot of yes yes yes ‘happy dance of joy’ moments. I no longer fear death, but the coolest thing is that I no longer fear LIFE either. Chaos to Peace. I fretted over writing a review because I lack the words to describe the mountains I climbed emotionally and the freedom I felt inside while reading this book. I wanted to think of myself and how to apply these things to my own life so that I can have the ‘peace’ on earth that Erik has found in heaven. I wanted to thank you Medhus family for the intimate relationships that you have and so willingly share so that I too can be intimate within my own relationships. Understanding the concept of love is not an easy understanding to have, but applying the concepts willingly gives us the ability to become the best of ourselves here now. That’s what this book is to me, this book is a book about the greatest of the greatest loves in life. Loving the people and relationships (Family, Friends, Lovers, Children, Strangers) who give us the information we seek in life and only understand in death. Here we are given an opportunity to understand in life what Erik (and so many others) struggle(d) so deeply with….this book is about more than just a dead guy with a story, this is a love story. Erik Medhus gave me an understanding of…the very things I was drowning in…misunderstood concepts of what love IS. He gave me back my life and desire to participate fully within it. He gave me a “PEACE” of heaven on earth. Thank you Erik for sharing your story, yourself, your family and your love. To the entire Medhus Family thank you for sharing your story from a big perspective. Elisa thank you for sharing yourself, your perspective, your grief and your love…you amaze me. I Love this book so much I bought multiple copies to give to people I know will gain so much from reading this book. Read the book, you’ll be happy you did.
–Corinna Carlson
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