 Hi, I'm George Kau and today I'm with Claire Marie Barton and she's going to be she has a special gift with sound healing That she's gonna be sharing with us, but first I'm gonna have her share a little bit about the lessons that she's learned in growing her business and then we'll get into What sound healing is and and how you know she can actually do a bit of a demonstration for us So that I'm excited for that Let me begin by reading out. Well, first of all, hello Claire. Thanks for being here. Thanks for the hi George Thanks for having me. So let me Claire Let me read your bio so that those who are watching can have some context for what you do Claire is a holistic therapist and she offers sound healing Angel card readings and I'll have you talk a bit about that as well as assemblage point Alignment and I'll have you I'll ask you about that too She does this in West Cork Ireland as well as on the internet Her work is all about connection to self and creating space for healing Especially regarding emotional issues. She is the author of the book letting go a mother's healing journey through diaries poetry and song and She teaches beginner ukulele classes for adults which are currently locally in Ireland So Claire, thank you for being here and sharing with us Thanks, George. Yeah, so a couple of the you know, we'll just touch on the business lessons briefly and then I'm going to ask you some of the questions about the work that you do and how you do some demonstration of the sound healing so uh, you know, one of the things that you've been learning is about letting go of perfectionism Maybe you can talk a bit about that Yeah, I mean when I started Doing my sound healing business. I was really excited because I'd discovered sound healing and I'd done the course and I'd done the angel card reading course so I was all ready to go and just really wanted to get into the work and then I kind of Suddenly realized that I needed to have the business side of things as well and that's something that I had no real training in in the past and I just had to make friends with the word marketing and and try and find away with that and You know finding you and doing your courses last year when you were doing offering Your courses on facebook and different things like that. I started doing them and started learning and I think in the past like year and a half. I've been doing a lot of Learning learning new skills techie skills computer skills and then using things like facebook and And in that I would find I'd get overwhelmed really quite easily and I Was in a mode of perfection And the problem about being in perfection is that it paralyzes you from doing anything so When you think about doing your website and think okay, I'm going to do my website and then oh, but it has to be like this This and this and it's going to be amazing And then I found like I did nothing on my website for like six months and I couldn't get past that so A big lesson for me has been to To just do it You know and and improve as I go. So I think it's better to have A website that isn't beautiful But has the information how to contact you and has some relevant information And then as I go I'll tweak it and make it better So I can still have that picture of what I wanted to be like But that it won't stop me from from doing it And so I've been trying to bring that into You know all the aspects of my work and that's been difficult um Because it's it's work in progress And whenever I find myself not doing something I realize it's because Wanting to have a certain standard or perfection stopping me. Um, and then I just have to go. Okay I'm just I'm just going to do it anyway. So that's been one of my big lessons really Thank you for sharing. Yeah, absolutely It in the act of creation and this is probably true with with music too You know, it's like We hear a professional musician and we're like, oh gosh, look look where I am at You know, how is that even possible? But then step by step as we practice it gets better and better sound a little bit closer and closer To what we hear the professionals doing and same thing with websites. Yeah, it's not how can we expect? You know We're especially we're creating our own website. How can we expect it to look like a professionals? You know when we're just starting out. But yes, like you said, you know Realizing hey, at least people need to find how to contact us At least they need to see what the information is for our upcoming event You know, just start with the basics and then we'll add more Features or add more design Sophistication or something over time. So yeah, thank you for thank you for saying that um, I'd love to talk about your work and There are three things, you know, we introduce in your bio and just maybe you could touch on each of these a little bit We'll save the sound healing for last because that's you're going to give us an example or an example of that Okay, what is angel card readings? What is that? What is that and how? Yeah, tell us more about that Okay, well There are angels trying to give us messages All the time in many different ways and it doesn't have to be with cards but if we tune in and ask for help that I believe that help is given to us and and we'll get little signs of encouragement and They're they can be totally personal to us and we can have this really personal relationship with our angels and When we're looking for messages They have to make sense to us so it's something resonate with us and We'll know in our hearts. Yes. This is a message and it doesn't work if you tell someone else it's skeptical or what? You know it's a skeptic and they go. Ah, yeah, but you know, this is a coincidence It's not for them. It's for it's for your own for your own connection But the angel cards are just um, a really Nice tool that help us connect So it makes it a little bit easier for like the translation because sometimes we're just like we're not able to see the signs and we can just ask a simple question and pick an angel card quite often we'll get A card that really resonates and makes a lot of sense Or we can just use it as a tool a daily tool For the day starting your day And what what what do I need to know to the day or what's something I can focus on? so You can use the cards like that. So I've been using I've been Doing angel card readings now for the last few years and I trained with reverend elvia and in online and It's been it's been an amazing journey and I've also been doing the sound healing kind of at the same time. So I was offering the two Services separately, but I noticed that a lot of times the people are coming for a reading um They can be very polarized because something big has happened or they want a yes-no answer But more than that, they want the right answer. They know what they want the answer to be So in some ways then there's a maybe people can be closed to What the angels what the message might be? Because it might come in the form that they want it might be what they want to hear and the readings I do are very Um gentle and empowering. So it's never like oh you have to do this or You know, it's it's not like that at all But it just it's it's to kind of get an insight because I think when we're When we're preoccupied with our own stuff We can't get any perspective. It's really hard to see another perspective And I think that's where the angel cards readings can come in handy Because they just shine the light in another place And they they shine the light on you and what you can do because sometimes we're in a situation and we feel Empowered and we're talking about another person and what they're doing and how they're making your life miserable or whatever And really it's about bringing it back to ourselves. Are we attracting and what do we want to attract? and Why might certain patterns and relationships Um be happening in our lives and what can we do and to help that? And usually that that's kind of connected to the chakra work as well And it'll be looking at where this balance needed in different places. So it's it's very gentle kind of guidance um and then I found that When I did sound healing first and then People were really relaxed. They were really open even when they had come Mainly for the reading and weren't that interested in the sound healing. They were just very receptive and Rather than sometimes I'd say would you like to ask a question or would you just like to hear about the angels have to say to you? And quite often they'd say oh, I'll just hear what the angels have to say And that's really nice then because there's no um This this kind of you're taking the agenda off and you still get the same answer, you know And but and it resonates. It makes sense um So that's why I I I now offer sound healing and angel cards readings together because they can't They it they're like two different parts that kind of come together to give you a better insight really into what's going on with yourself and it's part of the Connecting to yourself when you're in that safe space Yeah, and I think that's one of the things that makes you unique is the combination of these two modalities you might say to heal transform guide give insights so Let's actually take the rest of time Or some of the rest of the time just a couple minutes for you to show us a bit about sound healing. So um before this before we started you mentioned about maybe balancing our chakras using vowel sounds so Teach us. Yeah Okay, so um Just I just say just a couple of words about about sound healing in case um Someone hasn't heard of it before so it's basically using sound in um in a therapeutic way So it's kind of beyond music. It's it's incorporating music obviously, but it's it's coupling intention and Sound the vibration of sound and the combination is really powerful And it works on all levels of the body It works mental emotional spiritual Levels so it really is powerful and I suppose how well I was attracted to it more because it's it's um It's really profound in the spiritual level and for emotional And clearing and it can really help with that. It can get to the core of issues And in my sessions, I love to talk to people and I love to put space where they feel safe and if they want to talk That's perfect. They can and they can do that But some people don't want to talk. They're very private or something terrible has happened to them And they just don't want to talk about it. And that's absolutely fine. I don't need to um Have them speak because I'm setting an intention in the session for their healing and for their highest good And the sounds that are best for them. I ask to come through me And sometimes they'll sound really nice and sometimes they'll be quite strong They won't necessarily be nice, but it'll be the tones and the sounds that are that are needed and I just trust that the right sounds will come through for the right person and that sense they um They Um, they just get to just get to relax And and sometimes emotions will come up and they might be able to put a name on it And that's fine too because we're not trying to go into our heads And the sound just goes in where it's needed and it can it can do some really beautiful healing So usually at the start of A session I'll work through the chakras. So I'll be balancing the chakras and there's various different ways of doing that but when it easiest ways To do it is using the vowel the sounds. So we take the o or a e and and then and kind of a high pitched o for the for the crown chakra So we're starting down in the base chakras and and working up. So we're using the the seventh chakra system and It's I'll I'll demonstrate it now And and when I'm doing it, it will be balancing your chakras Basically, and anyone who's listening it Just listening to it will balance your chakras and the other thing is you can do this It's so simple like you can do this yourself. So or you can you can relisten And and it will do it the same thing, but it's something this The kind of almost the magical thing about sound healing is that there isn't anything Magical about it in so far as anyone can do it. It's just a matter of of claiming it I'm doing it. So it's I think it's a very nice practice to do for yourself And you can do it on any note Um, and you can do it like if you find one chakra is a bit stalker Or you're enjoying it then you can just keep going for a little bit longer Um, but today I'm just going to do I'm going to do three breath on each chakra And unless I feel drawn to do it longer on any particular one So will I just do that then? Yeah, that's great. And we've got about five minutes. So yeah, just Yeah, whatever we can do that time is great Yeah, perfect So if you you might want to close your eyes And take a nice deep breath Just like to take three nice deep breaths To start to wriggle your fingers and toes When you're ready, open your eyes. Thank you Claire I you have done some sound work with virtually with people over the internet. Yeah Yeah, yeah, and it's worked most of the time Yeah, yeah, I have a slightly different setup for that. But I I use I use zoom as well and And yeah, so I love I love working online with people Because it's amazing how much we can connect even When we're not in the same room and I can still um Feel into what what's going on for them And I also give an audio I record The sessions and I the sessions are recorded on an audio recorder So it won't it won't have any um sometimes it can be Not quite as good going through the internet But um the recording I will send out is is a is a better version That's great. Yeah, thank you for your work I will be sure to put the link to your website your facebook page so that people can check it out you have A monthly sound bath and that's through the internet as well And you have a different setup. I think it's more optimal than probably today's connection So I encourage folks who are watching this you want to experience that check that out It's in the link below And claire, thank you so much for being part of this call Oh, you're very welcome. Thank you very much for having me Take care