PSYCHIC HEALER
By Sheila Farland

When told I was to interview a “psychic healer,” I had no idea what to expect. It the age of Psychic Friends Network and the current barrage of self-proclaimed new age clairvoyants, mediums, channelers and outright mountebanks, I certainly had my share of healthy skepticism.

Sharon Gerber was nothing of the sort. She welcomed me into her sophisticated, “normally” decorated apartment, (okay, she does have a vast array of crystals), wearing a tastefully tailored, “normal” pantsuit. Operative word: normal. The last thing I would categorize her as is flaky.

By appearance, the most striking thing about Ms. Gerber is her eyes. They’re akin to the strange light blue of a husky’s. She says some people do tend to get lost in them. They are rather captivating.

TALENTS PROVEN
Ms. Gerber explains she has been documented as a bona-fide psychic, proven via testing at various labs, such as in Duke University’s telekinesis laboratory. (One test involved manually bouncing an electronic ball across a computer screen, then maintaining the action minus any physical contact). These tests actually ignited her creative mind. She wanted to apply these abilities to physical healing.

A separate examination involved the feat of correctly diagnosing a doctor’s patients in Los Angeles without personally meeting them. Her findings matched the doctor’s official medical diagnosis. After the lab tests in 1975 she said she first knew without a doubt that she could alter her own physical body as well as others.

Gerber says she doesn’t need to see a person. She can and has worked with people over the phone.

DEPTH OF GIFT
After a debilitating auto accident in 1973, Gerber was inspired to discover the true depths of her gift. Doctors had informed her that she would be invalid for the rest of her life. She was determined not to live her life that way. “That’s when I really started tapping into my ability to alter the cellular structure of m own body,” she says. She’s fully functional and in excellent shape today.

SPECIALTY
“I specialize in consulting (which includes business consulting) and healing, with a particular emphasis on working with people in the entertainment field. I do it simply because I enjoy it. If you have the ‘gift of sight,’ you can go into any (psychic) arena that you wish. It’s boundless. However, my chosen field is primarily health, with a lot of that involving emotional issues.”

WELL-KNOWN CLIENTS
‘Over the years I have been flown to theaters all over the country to help save the performance. An example might be a singer who is having difficulty as a result of fatigue, a virus, or emotional stress.

Most high profile clients prefer to maintain a confidential relationship. However a well known singer pianist client, Michael Feinstein says, “I’ve known Sharon for over ten years, and am grateful for her life changing transformational work. She’s helped me with every conceivable situation from health and business to the deepest, most personal matters.”

SAFE ENVIRONMENT
Sharon explains how she works. ‘What I first do in a session is to create a safe environment for the person I’m working with. (She admits this can be the most time consuming part of the work.) Once the client is relaxed and available to receive the energy, the work simplifies and moves quickly. We establish the intention of releasing any disharmony in the body, basically giving oneself permission to let the pain go. Unfortunately many people believe deep inside that they deserve their pain so I help to reeducate themselves.”

“I then do a reading of the body and see what topics need to be addressed. As we talk my energy helps bring the pain to the surface. I teach the person how to simply let the pain out, basically through the breath. This is not anything I learned. I just somehow know what to do or say. I never force it. I simply allow it to happen.’

PROBLEM SOLVING
“I was born with this powerhouse of energy. I believe it has to do with the frequency that I was born with tat calms people and corrects things.”

“I’ve worked with all kinds of diseases and illnesses. Often the ailment is the manifestation of an emotional problem stemming from an earlier traumatic or negative experience. Many times I work cooperatively with a client’s therapist s or doctor.”

“An example of this is a man I worked with who was to compete in the Senior Olympics in gymnastics. He was having problems with his knee. I saw that when he was a kid he had a bicycle accident. I asked him what happened when he was six that involved a bicycle. ‘Oh, I remember that!’ he said. His mother had gotten very angry at him for being careless. He in return was very angry with his mother for seemingly not caring about his injury. Something in his life had stirred up that memory, and the anger from it was debilitating his body. We cleared that up quickly and simply. He was back in the competition again.”

“I’ve been working with someone a lot this week who has cancer. It all goes back to situations from her childhood that cause cancer to evolve. We’ve already arrested it, and there is no longer a need to operate.”

“Something just happens when I’m around. People have been coming to me for healing ever since I can remember. I can raise and lower people’s blood pressure, return energy into limbs scheduled for amputation (an accomplishment for which medical doctors present didn’t acknowledge, although they were first-hand witnesses). I’ve worked with everything from leukemia to tennis elbow.”

“It’s not all crisis work. I have clients that come to me on their birthdays, for general tune-ups, or simply for insight. Not every physical ailment has an emotion issue attached to it either, I might add. A client may simply need to have their chemistry balanced or stress released.”

WHAT IT FEELS LIKE
“What does the healing feel like?” I asked. “The experience is different for everyone,” she explains. “Some people see colors. Others feel a current of energy. Some start having memories. We all have different make-ups.”

“It’s mandatory that the client want to have healing,” she explained. “It’s been my experience that some people are not ready to let go of their pain. Timing is important. Some I can take into readiness, others I have to turn away or recommend other procedures until they are ready to face their issues.”

I wondered if she ever feels overwhelmed, what with having the ability to instantly see what’s wrong with people. “Can you tune it out?” I asked.

“I have to. Years ago I was to sensitized to everything. I would go to a restaurant and know if the chef was angry, for example. But I’ve learned to disconnect. Being real grounded is essential. Although I love helping people, I need to be able to stop working and just hang out with my friends.”

NO TRESPASSING
“As a rule, I never ‘go into’ someone unless it’s in a scheduled session or a friend asks me to. I feel it’s an intrusion. I’ll have people come to me, at a party say, and they’ll ask me to give them a reading. Most of the time they’re not prepared for it. Someone really pressed the issue once, and I became angered and said: “Okay. Your sinuses are infected, your kidneys aren’t functioning properly, your lungs are off, and on and on.” “Okay, okay, never mind,” he said. You see, how people receive information is very important. Again, I stress the importance of the safe environment I create for my clients.

“Unfortunately, some people just want to use me for my gift. I leaned early on how to tell my real friends from the false ones.”

I asked what she though of such organizations as the Psychic friends Network. “I’m really against it,” she said with stern conviction. “Not that there aren’t good psychics out there, but the format and the way in which they give information is often irresponsible. For instance, a psychic may tell a woman she will meet a tall man with dark hair that she’s going to fall in love with on a certain date. This woman may then go out and pursue a relationship with someone completely wrong for her, based on that physical description. I once had a client who had an astrologer tell him that he would never be in a happy romantic relationship. When I heard this I called the astrologer and yelled at him. True, my client did have a lot of issues to work out, but we are ultimately in charge of our destinies. A lot of these organizations cause clients to become dependent upon them. I believe in the absolute opposite. I try to help people clear issues up and get them operating on their own at full capacity.”

MY SESSION
A few days later I met Ms. Gerber for a session of my own. It was quite an experience. She had me sit in a chair and concentrate on my breathing. She spent a lot of time just getting me to open up. As we talked, she would draw my attention to certain areas of my body that were holding tension. She would then point out emotions correlated to the tension. She’d then ask me questions that were related to that emotion. Let me tell you, it was uncanny. Without getting too personal, I’ll share with you that she mentioned I was not producing a normal amount of estrogen (it’s true that my cycle has not been normal). She also recounted word for word part of a conversation (well, confrontation) I’d had recently with someone that had been troubling me, bringing up an old, yet related issue. I mean, she pulled this stuff out of the blue.

There was much more, but I’m afraid it’s just too private for print. However, as she looked at me while making various sounds, I did feel tension leaving those spots we were discussing.

When I left, I had virtually forgotten about this damn cold I’ve been battling. I know you maybe reading this with one eyebrow raised, as I might have. All I can say is that I felt physically, emotionally and mentally rejuvenated. I also got answers to some things a year in therapy had failed to produce.

ENJOYABLE WORK
“What I do is such a joy,” she confides. “I’m really just a normal, healthy person with this particular ability. Some people can sing. I can’t sing. But I can help to heal people. That’s something I can contribute. Yes, there are stigmas attached to what I do. But if a person comes to see me in pain, and they leave feeling good, that’s all I care about.”

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