Cougar Mountain

 Today is November 8th, 2025 

(EDIT: rather, it was November 8th, 2025 but today as I circle back to this unpublished post it is now March 18th, 2026 and our live has taken on a miraculous shift which I'll do my best to cover in upcoming posts)

Now, back to Nov 8th 😁:

A little over two months ago we checked in at the Cougar Mountain Therapy Center in Rock Creek, BC, where we would spend the next 10 days engaged in various energy healing modalities. What we didn’t anticipate was the shifted perception we would leave with. There is a mystic law stating that synchronicities are signs we are on the right path and that these are not to be ignored or chalked up as mere coincidences.

The first synchronicity we experienced was the head Nurse Practitioner (I'll call her E) knowing my Grandfather. He was a man well known for his fence building but he resided some 700km away at his home in Tata Creek, BC. E's late husband had done some work driving a team of horses and hauling logs out of steep and difficult terrain on plots of land my Grandfather was clearing. My Grandfather was also well known for his ability to locate well water through divination (using dowsing rods or simply just a couple sticks). When E and her husband bought their property my Grandfather helped them to pinpoint the perfect location for their well, which E proudly boasted "produced 900 gallons of water per minute". For me this was magical because every sip of water reminded me of my Grandfather whom I loved very deeply.

The second synchronicity was E's cat having the same name as my wife’s Mother, and it's a rare situation for a cat in Rock Creek, BC to be named Mitsuko 🥰

With these two experiences under our belt less than halfway into the first day, we decided in that moment to give ourselves permission to surrender to experiences set to unfold.

Some inspiring lectures were presented by the likes of Caroline Myss, Joe Dispenza, Bruce Lipton, Louise Hay, Gregg Braden, Cheryl Richardson, to name a few.

We learned new Tools for calming the nervous system.

We had Powerful experiences of energy-release through 9Dimensional Breathing.

We learned about empowered beliefs, thoughts, feeling, and actions. How to release suppressed emotions and how to cultivate positive emotions.

Some sound bites that sit with me and continue to pay spiritual dividends are:

"Thinking greater than you feel"

"Raising your energetic frequency"

"Choosing your thoughts and feelings"

"Extraordinary becomes the Ordinary"

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We took in Acupuncture to open our energy meridians.

We took in Aromatherapy to calm our senses.

We learned about Epigenetics, which teaches us how our perception of our reality changes our bodies on a molecular level. How when we embraced joy, love, and gratitude, our cell membranes physically change to dissolve away the receptors responsible for capturing negative emotional hormones and build new receptors responsible for receiving positive emotional hormones, thus expressing only the best parts of our DNA and leaving the "junk" DNA sitting dormant, unable to be released. This makes our entire body inhospitable to negative emotion and illness and opens our hearts to greater experiences.

We learned about Quantum Physics and how to meditate for manifesting our desired reality. How to think greater than we feel, and how to open up to untold possibilities for our personal reality.

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Coming back to real life after the retreat, it was impossible for us to go back to our old habits. We had tasted something profound on the spiritual path and a veil had been pulled back from our eyes.

The future is bright and hopeful, and there are many pathways to healing 💖