Fresh off the gathering of thousands of Natural Living Expo attendees last weekend in Marlboro, MA, I am more enthusiastic than ever about the healing power of group energy. The expo crowd spans every generation from 20 to 90-years-old. Every individual vendor and workshop offering their specialty of tools for personal healing, along with the overwhelmingly positive intentions of every person attending, generates an unparalleled atmosphere of healing opportunity. We’re all there for the same reason!
Group mind is powerful energy, and just being present in that space makes opening the door to your own natural healing so much easier. Every year I have found some new expansion of my healing skills at the Expo, whether from a new product discovered or a vital piece of information gained at a workshop or even just a passing comment from an old or new friend. All are available to me only in-person, because I showed up, and because the Expo’s vibration attracts a unique healing quality. Show producer Michella Brudner has created an amazing community healing space over the past 18 years that only gets stronger every year, spanning an amazing age range of generations from 20s to 90s. Vendors and attendees agree that connecting in person is the best part of the show!
Two days later, I attended an outdoor memorial service in Vermont, and found myself talking to a woman who had attended the Natural Living Expo when it was held in Sturbridge a decade ago. She told me about her healing experiences over the past few decades, including healing from shingles on her face in her early 40s, and recently freeing up her teenage daughter’s frozen shoulder.
As she described the agony and intense pain she endured with the shingles, she also affirmed her quiet certitude that she could speed the healing of this condition, along with the prescription anti-viral she took. “I didn’t have any healing training,” she stated matter-of-factly, “but I just knew from somewhere inside me that if I pictured the cells on my face healing every day, this would clear the shingles.” And sure enough, much to her physician’s amazement, within just weeks her extensive shingles had cleared.
Likewise with her daughter’s frozen shoulder she applied “Reiki” before she even knew what it was by directing healing intention and hands-on placement to release the shoulder, quietly compelled by nothing more than an inner knowing. Years later, she was formally introduced to Reiki, making the connection to her natural healing MO. At some point she looks forward to learning more in-depth in a class, believing it would only serve to amplify her innate skills and understanding.
As we traded healing stories like everyday conversation, I was overjoyed to be empowered in my own self-healing beliefs by listening to another’s success. It can be challenging standing alone at the edges of non-physical reality where self-healing occurs, taking thought beyond places it has been before. Every single one of us is a natural born healer, and my new friend just confirmed that. What an exquisite gift for me to receive because of showing up in-person that day!
As I see AI erode our confidence in what is real and what is fake, and see the outright destruction of our democracy and common bounds around us, it is clear a time of new beginnings has already begun. Affirm the visions and values you want for your future, and understand you have the power to project thought and reality responds with manifestation. Make all of your positive feelings as big as you can, then share them with like-minded others in person to amplify those feelings within yourself and the world around you. “No man is an isle.” We only thrive in community.
Find your tribe. Put the 19th Annual Natural Living Expo on your calendar for November 14-15, 2026. And watch this space for the Spirit of Change 2026 Retreat Guide at the end of this year for the ultimate in in-person healing opportunities!
Carol Bedrosian is the publisher of Spirit of Change online, founded in 1987 as a holistic print magazine. For over four decades she has explored and enjoyed the extensive benefits of using alternative medicine for self-healing.
Find holistic Classes and Workshops in the Spirit of Change online Alternative Health Directory.
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