MELISSA'S HEALING JOURNEY

Below you can read Melissa's story, and as Melissa is a work in progress, so is her story. We will be adding more details about her journey as she moves forward through healing and self-discovery. It has been such a pleasure to work with her, as she is so intent on allowing the energy to work and heal.

Some may be open to the alternative methods in health and healing, and for others it may take a miracle to turn a skeptic into a believer. Most people have predetermined opinions about psychics and mediums, but have honestly never met one who has truly touched their life. If you have ever lost a loved one or experienced great trauma, you may be affected by the rest of this story, and perhaps it is time for you to understand the meaning behind the said “hocus pocus” once and for all.

I know what it’s like to be near death, to see my angels before me, ready to move on to the after world. I will never forget the day, two years ago in November, when I was crossing the street in Florida, on a family vacation when my entire existence was turned upside-down. I was hit by a car. I later heard my body flew 100 feet through the air and landed on the only patch of visible grass. There were at least 10 people at the scene, but I only remember one woman very clearly. She was a slim, brunette, with a comforting look, and a glow around her face. 

I awoke to find out that I had suffered a broken leg and hip, crushed vertebrae, cracked skull, and a partial paralysis. I was lucky to be alive. Right before I had set out to cross that street, I had a phone call from my best friend in Pittsburgh, who had insisted that she had a dream the night before that I had died. I remembered this conversation immediately and although I knew I had many challenges ahead, I was so blessed to know that I would be here to tell my tale.

I have undergone several additional procedures to correct the damage to my neck and leg. Each time I am forced to face another operation, I fear the outcome. You never know what complications may arise during surgery. In. December 2004, I was in the operating room with a halo in my head, when the surgery had to be stopped due to monitors indicating my spinal cord could be shutting down.  A few weeks later, on a crusade with my MANIAC girls to finally indulge in a night of fun, we met with a few psychics to get our cards read. When I met Rita Teubner RMT, IARPsm, I felt a special connection to her. She was a positively, cherubic mom-type who was going to perform a mini energy treatment and reading.  She stood before me, putting her hands around the crown of my head, tapping into my aura. She explained that she was beginning to pick up things in my energy field. She said I was in a terrible accident involving a vehicle, while there were no physical scars evident. She knew I had seen a spirit guide or angel at the crash site, and described this woman in full detail. The tears immediately began to run down my face because no one other than my family and close friends knew about the woman I remember at the scene.

How did Rita know? Who is she? Could she help me even more? It seemed a little too coincidental for me not to be intrigued. I contacted Rita and she said that she wanted to take me on as a special project. I found out that she is a Reiki Master. Reiki is an extremely gentle, but very effective method of hands on or long distance healing. “I cannot cure anyone. All that I can do is make the energy available to that person to facilitate healing.  Who is to say what way the energy is to be used? The miracle for some may be a swift, painless and peaceful transition from this world to the next. Or the miracle could be physical or emotional healing that enables medical miracles to take place.”  Which is exactly what transpired as I continued to work one on one with Rita.

It was understood that I would have to undergo one very serious 6-hour spinal fusion surgery to correct my deformed neck. This surgery was a high risk with a potential for me to become quadriplegic. Rita had told me to have my mother call her as I was entering the recovery room post operation. She wanted to direct energy my way to help alleviate some of the anxiety and discomfort I may have felt. As my doctors stood before me, I awoke from sedation and lifted my hands as if to slap them five. “What’s up? Thank you guys, I love you.” They stared at me in disbelief, as if they’d seen a miracle, or a ghost. That night in the hospital, I was walking around and eating food. The nursing staff questioned if I had been in surgery that very day. I had been warned prior to that I may not be able to speak or eat solid food for months. Yet I was fine, alert, and convinced that Rita was to thank.

“I always knew I was different. I never really fit in with anybody,” admitted Rita, in her new home office in Wexford. “My ideas about life weren’t the norm.”  Although being raised a Catholic, by the age of 16, Rita thought Buddhism seemed a more appropriate religion. “You find answers from within.” After the age of 40, in an unhappy relationship, Rita seemed pulled to find her calling. “There were 2 people whom I was around and my hands would turn red whenever I saw them. I asked one of them if she would mind me putting my hands on her shoulders. As I touched her, she could feel the energy down her spine. Later that week, my hands turned red again when I saw the other individual. I knew what side she had received a mastectomy for breast cancer on. My hands were pulling toward that side.” After this experience Rita began to read about Reiki and started training with an Instructor.  After much study and practice, Rita was able to open her eyes, file for a divorce, and work with the energy. “I don’t want to push the energy. It comes from the universe, not me. If I try to manipulate the energy, it’ll take the energy from me. The universal energy goes through my hands. I don’t even direct it. I let it go to where it is most needed by the individual.”

After my operation and brush with energy, Rita invited me to her house to help handle some of the physical pain. She had me lay on the Reiki table for a stone therapy energy healing. She slightly placed her hands on my head and moved to my face, throat, chest, arms, stomach, legs and feet for about 5-10 minutes each. While she was moving throughout my body, my mind was wandering from images that I didn’t even know existed - castles, bright surges of color, and crosses popped up all over the place.  During that one hour, I experienced a brilliantly colorful journey filled with shades of green and purple.  Rita told me at the end of the session that purple, representing emotional healing, and green, being physical healing, continuously appeared in my aura.

When she held her hands over my neck, it was extremely warm and I was overcome with that feeling, encompassing my entire body. I could have pointed to exactly where the metal work was fused. I have not been able to physically feel the rod before or after this energy healing treatment.  When Rita was over my right knee, it started throbbing inside as I have a torn ACL and ripped meniscus.  There was no pain over my left knee. As Rita put her hands over my feet, I felt another burst of happy energy again. My angels were in the room. 

After the treatment was completed, I didn’t speak as I wanted to hear what Rita had to say. Unsurprisingly, she had described in detail the vivid images, extreme feelings of warmth, and the appearance of my angels at the very spots I had thought. Believe it or not, two weeks later, I stopped taking pain pills for my physical aggravation.

Rita is special. As a medium, she is able to not only read a person’s energy field and treat it, but she is also able to channel to those on the other side, or help an individual make the transition. While she was married, her husband’s grandmother from Scotland believed in the metaphysical. “When I die, I will come and let you know,” she had told Rita. On the night they received a phone call that she had passed, Rita went to bed and saw little firefly lights in the bedroom. “We had been discussing Ally when she took over my body and talked to my Ex. I knew what was happening. He immediately called his sister back in Scotland to tell her what had happened. He had been very skeptical, but that really opened doors for me. A teacher once told me, when people die, they can pass on a gift. Her gift to me was to enable me to realize who I was.”

I found myself needing to visit Rita again as I began to suffer high levels of anxiety and felt as though I couldn’t breathe. I laid on the Reiki table, excited to find that happy place but this time, dark sinister images kept appearing. Never in my life had I experienced such negative thoughts, and I tried desperately to control my mind and get out, but it was impossible.  At the end of the session, Rita knew my physical and emotional journey to the last detail. She could tell I was a bit disappointed, which she described as all the built up negative energy that she was pulling out and releasing from my body. It had to come out before she could fill me up with white light, or positive energy.  That night I finally started to sleep better, and during the day I felt like I was finally more in control of my anxiety.  She explained this was an emotional energy treatment as opposed to the physical treatment I first had received.

This wouldn’t be MANIAC without something this wild. Yes, to some it may seem hard to believe, and honestly if I was reading this story before my accident, I would have questioned the effectiveness. Truly I have gained the insight into a reality unknown to me for so long, and my energy healing has offered a new perspective on pain, physical healing, and most importantly emotional healing after a traumatic experience.  People visit Rita for readings and energy treatments for stress, anxiety, chemotherapy and arthritis. I know I am a miracle. I am grateful for the opportunity to now express my newfound serenity.  I pray that those that need healing will believe in the powers that be. Consider me, your angel.

Written by Melissa Mittereder

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