A new heart
It started in the redwoods, when I asked David Quigley
who was seating across the picnic table “Do you believe
that heart disease has psychological roots?” “Yes” said
David "it is well known and has been proven”.
Well, after a few weeks of training in Alchemical
hypnotherapy with David, I was open to the idea that
yes, a few in-depth journeys into my subconscious might
help with my heart condition and when David asked for
a volunteer for a somatic healing session which would
involve psychic surgery, I thought “let's go for it, what
do I have to lose?”.
Back in 1990, when I was only 29 years old, I
experienced what is called a TIA or transient ischemic
attack. As I was driving up hill to a country restaurant,
my right foot suddenly didn’t respond to my pressing on
the accelarator’s pedal and the car started rolling
backwards until I realized the right part of my body was
not responding and that I had to use my left foot to slam
the break pretty fast.
I was driven to emergency room, asked a ton of
questions, heard a nurse say “so young !”) and went
through a cat scan and an heart scan. After two hours,
the right part of my body was working again and it had
been discovered that the small clot that appeared in my
brain was caused my a condition of mitral valve
prolapse, a small valve in my heart having the wrong
shape causing palpitations, arrythmia, irregular flow of
blood and consequently, high risk of clots. It was also
found that I had a heart murmur.
I was told that about 8% of the American population has
a mitral valve prolapse, just to live with it and take an
aspirin every morning and that I would be fine.
So, yes I lived with it pretty well over the past 17 years,
waking up in the middle of the night from “panic
scenes” to find out my heart was beating like crazy or
woken up by the absence of the familiar beat, feeling
that’s it, it’s the end, when suddenly not hearing or
feeling any heart beat for a couple of seconds that feel
like ten minutes.
So I had nothing to lose by laying on this mat in front of
David, and also, I had a powerful session a few days
before with another hypnotherapist, Zandria, a session
which aim was to find out if the fact that I was born at 6
months 27 days rather than 9 months old, had any effect
on my present life. In that session, I relived my birth,
relived my anger at witnessing a bunch of feverous and
agitated medical staff trying to get me out of the womb
when I did NOT want to come out, I felt « I don’t have
enough time ! ».
So we went on a journey, a journey to heal my heart.
Through David’s precise and clear guidance, I entered a
trance and accessed a different field of perceptions. In
that field, small tiny delicate baby hands (mine?) started
to reconstruct my heart, healing tissues, mending my
heart with lotus flower sap, yes, this is what my Inner
Healer chose, a substance looking like liquid mother-of-
pearl repairing the life-long damage, strenghtening my
heart and its walls and giving it the smooth and
beautiful flexible texture of a lotus flower. The session
lasted about 2 hours that felt more like 20 hours and
when I got up, I felt something I never felt before, my
whole circulatory system fully and simultaneously
spreading each branch and ramification in my whole
body which felt like wholly made of water.
During the whole training, I missed my 3 hours weekly
yoga and my fast walks up hill in nature that I started to
do several years ago to keep my heart somewhat fit.
Two days after the end of training, I went on a fast uphill
half-an-hour walk with my friend Linda. Guess what: I
had no palpitation, no arrythmia, no short-of-breath
experience. This was a few years ago, and my heart is as
regular as can be, I have not had any waking up at night
with palpitation nor slowing down of my heart. I still
have a cynic inside of me, but she doesn’t touch my
heart...
The firm and supportive voice of my Inner mate keeps
wispering to me in stressful situations: “relax your heart
and breathe deeply”.
Agnès Cartry, Certified Hypnotherapist.
My practice, Heal yourself! operates in Grass Valley and
Yuba City and in the Bay area, California .
You can contact me at (530) 277-9513 or at
agnes@2healyourself.com.

After we ended the session, I was shaking. I realized
there have been at least 6 incidences in which I told one
of my Dr's that something was wrong in my body. I
told them what I thought it was. They dismissed it each
time and I ended up sicker or improperly treated. That
is the tie in! I NEED TO BELIEVE IN MY BODY; IT
HAS NOT LED ME ASTRAY! I am getting the chills as
I write this.
You are a TRULY gifted therapist with a beautiful soul.
Many thanks.
Linda R., NY