Welcome to The Gift - a simple pattern that is both ancient as well asmodern, with a thousand and one uses, that can make the world a different place for you, for the people you love, for the people you don't love, and for those who you haven't even met yet.

It may be that the act of giving The Gift can make changes at a far widerlevel too; as more and more minds become involved in this wonderful process, wemight well have the opportunity to permanently influence matters on a profoundplane of reality.

Having worked professionally with Energy Therapies for many years, I am veryaware that we receive far more information and insight about the nature ofreality around us than we could consciously ever understand, or evaluate, oreven respond to.

Much of this information is invisible - but you can still feel it and itcertainly has the power to make you happy and bright, or to bring you down; itis this information or knowledge that makes the hair on your neck rise onentering specific buildings; that gives you a strange feeling in the pit of yourstomach before the telephone has even rang, and that accounts for "gut levelresponses" to people, situations, proposals and ideas.

When you are engaged with another in any kind of healing relationship, andthis could be both as a professional therapist or just listening to a friend whois in trouble and you are trying to help them somehow, both you and I have thepower to help in a most profound way - if only we knew how to transfer ourinvisible and unspoken understandings into action in some way.

The Gift is the bridge over which your deep and unspoken understanding andyour knowing about how to help can travel to the other person. It is easy togive, any human alive can do this - children are especially good at it - andyou will know that a change has occurred when you have given The Gift.

What exactly happens when you give The Gift is a mystery. It has beensuggested that you could be making a healing adjustment to the other's energysystem, or maybe that you adjust the flow of the meridians through their bodies,or perhaps align a chakra or two in just the right way. I'm not sure whathappens, only that something happens, that it feels wonderful and right, andthat it creates positive change both for the giver and for the receiver.

I invite you to try it for yourself. It's a simple thing yet endlesslyapplicable in its very simplicity and profoundly useful and helpful in manysituations.

How To Give The Gift

Very simply, we are going to ask for a metaphorical representation of ourunique contribution to the person to whom we are going to give The Gift.

The name metaphor means a container - and in the case of The Gift, ourmetaphor will "contain" whatever the person needs from us at this precisemoment in time and space. It could be an understanding, a special vibration oflove, something that might remove a certain negative energy, something thatcould unblock something, or provide nourishment in some way, support, anembrace, a space of silence or perhaps sanctuary or sustenance.

We do not need to consciously understand what it is that we are giving; and Iam saying "consciously understand" because when you have given The Gift, youwill have a different kind of understanding - you will know that it was theright thing to give, because it "feels right". You might not be able toexplain in words how it was the right thing - but then, metaphor and intuitionare from the unspeakable realms, where what exists is beyond words, and that'sjust fine.

So, for a moment, consider a person to whom you might like to give The Gift.

Allow yourself to consider them in all ways, and beyond the face they may bewearing, beyond their social status and clothes, beyond their problems andsuccesses, beyond any love or jealousy you might have for them.

Consider them and then ask yourself this question:

At this time, at this moment, I ask what gift I can give to this person.

Relax and let an idea or image bubble up in your mind. This image, sound,feeling or idea is the container that will carry your unique gift to the other.

Here are some examples of gifts that appeared when the question was asked:

- a small blue and red bird

- a multi coloured spiral

- a small tree in a flower pot

- a pair of wings

- a huge field of green grass