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Psychic exploration relieves tensions
Susan B. Reintjes, a psychic counselor and healer, confers with a patient
DTH Larry Childres
Counselor uses her psychic abilities to help others
By VICKI DAUGHTRY
Staff Writer
Although most people with psychic ability are unaware
of their talent, Susan Reintjes has known all her life that
she possesses a special ability centered around her sixth sense.
"I worked for years to gain a balance and awareness so
that I could handle the energy I receive," said Reintjes, a
local psychic healer and counselor. "It's a great responsibility
on my part.
Reintjes said, "The first clue to psychic work is sending
out a lot of love.
"Most psychics feel what their clients are feeling," she said.
For this reason, psychic counselors must be very stable about
their own identities.
The psychic energy transferred to the psychic counselor
or healer enables the healer to identify the problem more
clearly and discover otherwise unknown details.
Reintjes received her Master's Degree in French from
UNC. Prior to becoming a psychic healer and counselor,
she taught French and dance.
As a student, Reintjes said, she could read professors'
minds and determine what would be on a test. But she said
she limited her ability so she did not violate others' privacy.
As a professional, Reintjes has used her psychic ability
to help solve crimes and find missing persons in the Chapel
Hill area.
In helping solve crimes by psychic ability, a practice which
is gaining in popularity, a group of mediums, or psychics,
gathers and surrounds itself with positive energy, Reintjes
said.
"You request any information that is needed to solve that
crime," she said. "You act as a channel for this information.
Everyone is in a quiet, meditative state. Different information
can come through different psychics."
Reintjes' job, however, is mainly one of psychic counseling
and healing. She helps people discover their past lives and
interprets what these past lives have contributed to their
present lives.
Reintjes can also use Her psychic power to heal physical
problems, she said. She explained that she communicated
with "past persons" and helped some patients live out past
traumas that might be causing problems in their present lives.
Reintjes counsels a wide variety of types of people. "I
see a wide range of ages and professions. Some people come
for health reasons, emotional needs or interest in exploring
their potential in psychic development," she said.
Although her job requires knowledge of a wide range of
areas, Reintjes has a special interest in the treatment of eating
disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulemia. This special
interest is due to her own struggle with anorexia, she said.
Reintjes is working on her own book about her experiences
with the disorder. "There are many books about anorexia
nervosa, but I feel that I have something special to offer
since I can give my points of view both as a professional
concerned with helping the disorder and a victim who has
lived through the disorder," she said.
Reintjes also lectures about her experiences with anorexia
and psychic healing and development. She conducted a
workshop in a four-part series entitled "Mind Your Own
Mind," sponsored by the Carolina Union's Weekly Features
Committee earlier this semester. In the workshop she
discussed the many uses of developing a person's sixth sense
and provided suggestions for furthering that development.
"Were I not able to use my ability to help others with
their problems or to help them develop their own ability,
I would feel that my talent was useless," she said.
By VICKI DAUGHTRY
Staff Writer
You can do it in bed. You can do
it in the shower. You can even do it
in class. Wherever the place, meditation
and psychic exploration can benefit
your mind, body and even studying,
according to local psychic healer and
counselor Susan Reintjes.
"Everyone is psychic," Reintjes said,
"but the degrees are different."
By becoming "in tune" with his mind,
a person experiences greater degrees of
relaxation. This relaxation can be
conducive to better eating, sleeping and
studying habits, Reintjes said.
"Through psychic exploration, you
can find peacefulness and power," she
said. "It helps you create your own
reality and become master of your
world, as long as your motivations stem
from love and sensitivity."
Although students often claim to
work better under pressure, Reintjes
said, "This is probably a result of their
being accustomed to this type of
studying, however, this type of studying
might not be the best way.
"When you relax, you not only learn
better, but you also learn how to study
more creatively," she said. "Finding a
spot in the woods or listening to a
classical music station on the radio
might produce an atmosphere which is
unique to that student and therefore
makes studying much less of a tedious
task done at a desk," she added.
Besides helping people reach higher
levels of relaxation, psychic exploration
can help them discover who they are
and even who they've been, Reintjes
said.
"By helping you see more clearly your
good and bad habits, your strengths and
weaknesses, psychic exploration teaches
you how you fit into this vast society,"
she said.
Although psychic exploration is
widely practiced, many people are
unsure of their feelings towards its
validity.
"Those who are skeptical about
psychic healing should open their minds
to realize that there are different ways
of approaching problems," said Barbara
Hartley, manager of educational servi
ces at the Community Wholistic Health
Center in Chapel Hill. "Here at CWHC,
we believe that the mind controls the
body. Outside pressures such as stress
from classes or relationships can create
physical as well as emotional problems."
Reintjes said she recommended using
the power of the right side of the brain
to combat stressful pressures.
"Western culture concentrates on the
use of the left side of the brain, where
math, analysis and language are done,"
she said. "The right side is in charge
of creativity and psychic ability. Eve
ryone can benefit from a more equalized
use of these two sides."
By exploring psychic ability, a person
can achieve "clarity of vision," Reintjes
said, which can be helpful in choosing
a career and in studying. Clarity of
vision can increase memory and senses,
making the person "finely tuned," she
said.
Classes, guided visualization, reading
and tapes can guide an interested person
through his or her psychic experience.
Practice and meditation, Reintjes said,
are essential to developing individual
intuitive, or psychic, energy.
Awareness of signs of psychic ability
also is necessary to develop the highest
potential of psychic ability, she said.
"You must be constantly aware of
coincidence and synchronicity. Every
thing that happens to you has some sort
of meaning," Reintjes said.
Psychic exploration and meditation
are only successful under certain
circumstances, Reintjes cautioned.
"The reasons for using psychic work
should not be based on greed or any
other negative feeling because they will
prohibit the success of the psychic
process, which is based on the use of
positive energies such as love and
sensitivity," she said.
To successfully meditate and explore
psychic ability, Reintjes said, a person
should clear his mental energies of
negative feelings and focus on positive
feelings.
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