Excerpt from a draft of Peace at Any Price by Janet Hastings

Sandy told me about Brad's free Healing energy workshop. I went to see what it was all about. When I walked in the room Brad was standing behind a woman and doing an energy healing on her. I sat down to observe. She was an elderly woman. Brad was waving his hands pulling energy away from her. I saw colors of red shooting out of her like an electric current. I didn't understand what I was seeing, but there was no denying it. I did tell Brad what I was seeing. He told me I was psychic. I kept telling him I wasn't psychic, I just see colors coming out of the woman.

When it was my turn to sit and have the energy healing, I was nervous. I had no idea what he would see and move. First Brad asked me if I wanted a healing, I said I did. He stands away from me and feels my aura. He said mine felt white and fluffy. And it was a pleasure to do energy work on me. He said my charkas were all clean. While he was waving his hands I could feel the energy being pulled out of my chest. The healing only lasted 20 minutes and many others had come into the room. Brad told me later the energy from another person in the room distracted him so much he didn't feel he gave me a very good healing.

While Brad was healing Sandy he saw past lives. He went on to tell her she was a knight in a past life. Which is why she lives by a code of rules to this day and doesn't understand why others do not follow the codes. Don't they know this is the proper way to do things? It was so true of Sandy's personality. She was always politically correct and gracious with her manners. This information about past lives intrigued me. Which is why I attended the next monthly workshop.

This time I asked Brad to tell me if he saw any of my past lives. Brad went on to tell me that in my past life my husband rejected me by leaving me for another woman and mistreated me. I went insane in my past life, which is why I had to replay the story out again in this lifetime, and get it right. He said you have been successful. You have come through the same pain but this time with amazing strength. He asked me if I had brothers. One of my brothers was my husband in my past life. As I wondered which brother he was referring to, he told me that in this lifetime this person cannot do enough for you. He is still trying to make up for his past mistakes.

I knew instantly it was my brother Tommy. Brad said it is hard for you to accept all he does for you. Tommy will help me with things around my house and stay up all night and do ten times more than was needed to be done. One year for my birthday, he wanted me to have a disc for satellite TV. I live in the woods. Tommy cut down 5 trees trying to make a path for the dish. He was out there at 3:00 AM cutting a huge tree down by a hand saw because it was so late for the noise of a power saw. I kept begging him to go home. He was determined to get this done for me. The next night he was up on my roof till 2:00 AM installing the dish. I called my Mother and told her I didn't know what to do, it was like he was possessed.

It all made sense to me. From the time Tommy was born I had closeness with him. I felt bad for my brother Michael who was in between Tommy and I. I never understood why I was so attached to Tommy. As I was growing up my friends would ask me why I always brought my younger brother Tommy around with me. I just loved him so much.

Brad went onto say, my husband this time tried to make me and others think I was insane. Chris did admit that to me once years before. I asked Brad to heal me so that I would be open to a loving relationship. I knew I had blocks in the relationship department. I had many good relationships since my divorce, but I seemed to run away from them as they got to close or they just didn't work out.

I left that night thinking I now understand why things had to happen the way they did for my own inner growth. I also knew how all this was blocking me from truly trusting a man again. Yes, they loved me, but did they love me enough. Brad moved the energy and a cord he said was at the top of my head, which was connected to another with negative energy, my ex-husband I expect. I left knowing I had a shift in my consciousness. A new understanding. A month later I met the man of my dreams. I am now able to love him on a level I hadn't been able to with anyone else.

My girlfriend Meg was anxious to give it a try so I asked Brad to come to my house and give Meg and I a private session. I wanted to work on my career blocks and Meg wanted to work on her relationship blocks. Meg went first. Brad went through her layers around her naming them and telling her their colors. I started seeing the colors and most times Brad and I saw the same color. Things were going along good until Brad got down to the fourth layer. He told Meg "it is as if someone hurt you and you processed it to mean you were not good enough and you have been carrying that thought process around with you with every relationship." 

Meg didn't get what Brad was talking about. Knowing Meg well, I said I do. Your ex husband cheated on you and you processed it to mean you aren't good enough. Because it had happened 12 years before and Meg thought she had dealt with all those feelings, it hadn't occurred to her. But when I said it, her eyes filled up and she knew that down deep in her subconscious she has been playing a tape saying if I had been a good wife my husband wouldn't have gotten into bed with another woman. If I wasn't good enough for Tom, I am not good enough. With the tears came a relief. She knew what Brad had said was true. He moved the energy up and out. Meg became bright and ecstatic. She was so happy to finally have those negative thoughts out of her. She also knew now she could now have a successful relationship.

As Meg was being worked on, I was feeling like someone was strangling me around my neck. I was getting sick to my stomach. The energy was so powerful.

I sat down for my turn, thinking I was going to work on blocks around my success. Only to find out again this block was due to my ex-husband.  We were so successful so early on in life and were able to acquire a lot. Through our divorce he got everything. I fought the legal system for 4 years and ended up going to his lawyer and signing it all to him but the house. I felt the injustice everyday. I kept saying I didn't want him and I didn't want the money. I will make it on my own. But the resistance continued as the shore house I bought with money from my store is now worth close to a million dollars, the restaurant that was my idea has afforded him a lifestyle he didn't deserve. To top it all off, my children did not believe I had anything to do with his success. They believe his stories of how he made it all a success. Anyone close to me who tried to tell them how it all came to be, they think are just on my side and not telling the truth. I kept putting it aside saying it didn't matter, someday they would know the truth. But deep down it has blocked me from my own success. As all this was coming up I was getting physically ill. I thought I was going to pass out. My tongue was swelling and I felt as if I was having an attack. Brad told me to tell my body I was not going through all this now, I am just remembering, and immediately the swelling went down and I calmed down.

When the night was over I was glad. I felt like I went through hell and back between my session and Meg's.

The next day I woke up and cried all morning. I felt so depressed. I hadn't been depressed in years. I work very hard to keep my spirits aligned and stay happy by meditating and new energy work on myself. Brad had told me to expect these feelings and let them surface to rid them. I emailed Meg and she was so happy at work feeling good.

I couldn't work I lay in bed and cried, for Meg and me. For the pain our ex's caused us and for the continued effect they had on us. They were both on with their new lives. Remarried with babies. By 3:00 Meg emailed me saying she couldn't wait to get home so she could cry. It had finally caught up with her too. I emailed Brad and told him I felt like a Mack truck ran me over. He told me to treat my body to bath, ice cream, whatever would sooth my body. The next day I was fine and knew I had shed some necessary energy. I have lighter feeling about work and success. I am in a much better place.

Meg and I agreed to have a monthly healing. We can work on ourselves, but there is so much we are unaware of hidden deep in our subconscious mind.

Postscript:  Janet is now married!  And her book has been published and has hit bookstores.