“I am a healer, a Reiki healer.” Mike announced soon as he walked in. “Why do want to have a session?” I was puzzled. He explained: “I simply want to experience my past lives. I tried to self-hypnotize myself, but it did not work.”  I laughed out loud: “Ha ha ha… I tried to do it on myself too. No, it did not work. Because I fell in sleep.” He smiled.

I told him that I have to go over some issues in his current life. “Why?” “Well, based on my experience, if I don’t take care of strong issues in current life, the clients will visit the sites where the problems have happened. They will be pulled back by their real concerns in current life.”

He admitted that he has been a smoker for many years, but he only smokes 4 or 5 cigarettes a day. I told him: “I know a few psychologists or psychotherapists are smokers, heavy smokers.” Mike is a healer, so he does all the psychic protection, grounding, and chakra healing on himself regularly. That means he is not influenced by his clients’ bad vibes.

“Why do you keep smoking? Since you know all the tricks.” I was curious. ‘I have fear.” “Fear?” My curiosity got higher, but I soon sensed that he was relying on smoking to provide security. It is emotional dependence.

“I got divorced with my kids’ mother. I made very bad investment and lost my shirt. I came from recreational drugs to heavy drugs … till one day, about 10 years ago ….. my friend took me to Mexico to get treatment. They used a root extract from an Africa tree to make me drink. I vomited my whole things out, I slept, I thought I got into nirvana. It took me a good week there. When I came back, I did not have any desire for whatsoever drugs.”

“So, the only think you keep is smoking?” I asked him. “Yah, I don’t drink.” It was obviously that he was using the action of smoking to escape something he did not want to deal with.

“Yah, you know, my partners and I are planning to set up a retreat center for heavy drug addicts. It is a new adventure. Sometimes, I need to go outside from the meetings to smoke. My girlfriend, I call her wife, is also a strong woman. I usually go outside to smoke and watch the stars before I go to bed every night.” He continued: ” You know, I am in my middle age, I am supposed to have very strong desire to make money. But ever since I got the experience of nirvana, or at least I felt that way, in Mexico, I lost the desire on chasing money. I made a lot of money, but I lost all.”

We now see it clearly that his fears are [what if the new adventure of setting up a retreat center fails?] and [lack desires on chasing money which might affect the relationship with his girlfriend (wife)] Smoking is only an action to get temporary escape. So we figured out a way to substitute the action of smoking. I also reminded him: “Word of mouth. I believe that you will recommend heavy drug addicts to that center in Mexico, right? Share your own experience, money will follow you.”