Angela Levesque: Calm Mind, Open Heart
ANGELA LEVESQUE: Thank-you so much for the opportunity. I have been actively involved with OMTimes for over 3.5 years, first as a writer and now as the host of Entanglement Radio, so it is such a blessing to be featured in this way. OMTimes is a fantastic community and I am proud to be a part of it. My work is about developing awareness. Awareness is found only when the mind is calm and the heart is open. Whether a person’s challenge is weight loss or deciding the next chapter in their life, people need to understand why they make the choices they make and understand the beliefs they hold that are the foundation for those decisions. So in my work and writing, I combine intuition, spirituality, energy work and mind/body practices that encourage people to look within for the answers. Everything we seek is within ourselves; sometimes people just need a bit of assistance in connecting with their center.
OMTIMES: In your opinion, what is the role that Alternative Healing plays in your current Counseling and Health Practices?
ANGELA LEVESQUE: My formal education is rooted in healthy lifestyle change as an exercise physiologist. What I quickly learned upon working with clients is that I could write a great exercise program, but if my clients didn’t know themselves, any gains would be short-lived. It is not enough to know what to do or how to do something; people need to understand why they do it. And even more than that, they need to see how their choices are connected to their values. This is how we makes changes that last. This realization led me to explore solutions within natural health. I wanted to be able to engage people on a mind, body, and soul level. Since that time I have been trained in Reiki, Healing Touch, Reconnnective Healing, hypnosis, and meditation. When I started combining the mind/body tools with the spirituality and energetic work, people not only started to make those positive lifestyle changes, but they started to get excited about their lives. So if you get people connecting their choices to their values, passions, and gifts, healthy changes become a preference and not a sacrifice. This is the true gift of natural healing methods because they treat the whole person and the whole person needs to get involved when making big changes.
