Journey To Egypt And Inner Child Healing Meditation

In this episode of Blue Dragon Healing, join Bjorn as he interviews Damla Aktekin, an inner child healer and intuitive reader, about her pilgrimage to Egypt, followed by a Damla-led inner child healing meditation.

Discover how spiritual peaks have deeply influenced Damla's path as a healer, unlocking insights and transformations. Explore the ancient mysteries of Egypt and their modern healing implications in this captivating conversation.

Transcript

Welcome to a new episode of Blue Dragon Healing.

I'm Bjorn Lestrude,

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In today's episode we're speaking with Damla Akhtekin.

She is an inner child energetic wound healer,

Crystal healing teacher,

Soul healing writer,

Intuitive reader,

Astrologer,

And podcaster.

She helps self healers and healers move beyond energetic wounds of their inner children,

And through her own healing journey,

Damla discovered a unique approach to crystal healing based on cultivating a loving relationship with the crystals.

Her inner child healing approach is inspired by a guidance dream she had of visiting Egypt.

So in this episode we're going to explore Damla's pilgrimage to Egypt and a life-altering experience she had there,

And we're going to conclude with Damla leading a guided meditation for all of us.

I hope you enjoy the episode,

It was a lot of fun making it.

Hi Damla,

I was curious if you could talk a little bit about how you first got started on your path as a healer,

Like when these things first opened up for you.

Yeah,

Absolutely.

It wasn't that I started out my career or professional life thinking that I would be a healer.

It was sort of my life evolved that way.

I actually studied engineering and then did my MBA and found myself in the corporate world,

Which then found me with super long days of working and a few family issues.

I had a loss in the family and that led to some health issues.

And I realized that I need to change some things.

And this was a time where I wasn't particularly familiar with having a body.

Now looking back,

I see that in my corporate life and the life before that I existed in the mind and the head,

And that was praised and that was expected of me.

And I tried that road,

Which led me to health issues,

As I mentioned.

So that led me to going into yoga.

And with yoga,

I became truly enchanted with it.

It led me to realizing that I had a body.

Lo and behold,

I wasn't just my head and mind.

I had the body and that felt fabulous.

And I became a full-time yoga teacher very quickly,

And then a yoga studio manager.

And I honestly thought that would have been it.

I thought that would be my life.

I would open a yoga studio one day and that would be it.

However,

Life had other plans.

In 2012,

I became a mom through emergency section.

And what I knew and practiced through yoga wasn't helping me anymore.

In that time of the demands of being a new mom and not recognizing my body anymore,

Just my body wasn't able to be the channel that it was for my connection to my soul and to life.

So I went into this with a very conscious intention and talking to the universe,

Source,

Or divine,

Whatever you want to call it.

And I said,

Okay,

I would love to heal and be there for my child,

Who's a light being in my hands.

Just lead me,

Guide me to whatever.

And I promise to do whatever you show me to fully and completely with all of my heart.

I was first led to mantras.

And the mantra practice was something I could do while I was nursing.

It didn't require too much of my time.

That like sort of cracked open the door for a connection with my soul.

And then I came into contact with crystals.

And that opened like a bigger crack in the door,

Maybe just opened a part of the window somewhere.

And that became the exploration for me of realizing that I'm not just my mind.

I am not just flesh and bones.

We are all vibrational beings,

Drops of OM swimming in a sea of OM,

A sea of vibration.

So you went from I'm a mind to I'm a body to I'm a vibrational being.

Yes.

Interestingly enough,

Yeah,

I know.

It's so funny,

Because I didn't think that would have been the path.

And interestingly enough,

Now I'm almost backwards.

Once I go,

Like truly into the vibrational and quantum realms.

Now I'm going back to my body and refueling my body.

I like working with what I call the inner children's realm,

Which is all the sensations you have under the skin.

To me,

That's the realm of the inner children.

And it's fascinating to me how much multidimensional information the body holds.

And our minds and hearts and vibrational intentions all come together.

So it's become this,

Like all the three came together for me,

In helping me discover a new way of being and a new way of healing people.

So initially,

You were discovering these things just to heal yourself.

And you mentioned going back to the body after you went through the discovery of your beyond,

I guess we'll call it.

And how has that shaped the work that you do now?

Tremendously,

Because I've come to realize,

Going back to even before my first touch point with my own healing crisis,

In my corporate career,

I woke up one day with a huge,

Incredible pain in my head.

And I ended up in the emergency room,

My migraines started that way.

Anyways,

That was what led me to yoga.

But now looking back,

I know that that was because I was just holding too much in my body.

I was trying to resolve too much in my body without relying on other ways,

Without relying on the knowing in my body.

Not listening to or not knowing how to listen to when my body needed me to stop and pause.

Not having any basis for regulating or now what I call regu-loving,

Regularly loving my body.

And then not realizing like through the crystalline realm,

That there are a lot of multidimensional help and resources out there for us if we're open to tapping into that.

With your work,

You have what people would know as clairaudience.

Is that correct?

I work with clairaudience,

Which is I hear guidance.

I am also increasingly getting clairvoyant images.

And I would say clairsentience,

Or the emotional knowing.

Yeah.

And with these things,

These paranormal aspects of your work and you and your process,

When did these start to crack open for you?

That's interesting.

They're very normal to me,

Björn.

Have they always been though?

Okay.

I grew up in Turkey where intuition was part of the vocabulary.

My grandmother would have a dream about me if I was about to go take a big exam or something.

And the family would say,

Oh,

The dream was good.

It's all going to be fine.

And then I grew up around Turkish coffee readings,

Which is a way of channeling guidance while looking at the grains of the coffee cup,

Which is actually something I've been offering in my intuitive readings.

And I feel the presence of my ancestors there.

So it has been present,

But it wasn't talked about as like,

It was just a fact of life in my culture.

But it wasn't like,

It was never considered a career path.

That was another journey I needed to take.

So in that way,

I want to acknowledge,

I guess,

From my origins that it was always there.

It did become stronger when I became pregnant.

I could definitely feel a shift.

I went and bought a little pink tutu for my daughter on the first week of me becoming pregnant.

I could sense and feel that she was a she,

She was a girl.

So it just became more something about being a mom.

And I've heard this from other healers too.

I imagine it would be similar with being a dad too,

But definitely something physiological happens to you when you become a mom.

And then afterwards,

The main thing,

Well,

Two things.

The first thing that got me,

That got it deeper and stronger was crystal healing,

Meditating with crystals,

Healing with crystals myself,

Because each time I could feel it getting stronger.

Like I used to measure my chakras before and after healings,

Just to sort of convince my engineer mind that this actually works.

And then after a while,

I realized even before I measured,

I knew what was happening in my chakra system.

And then later I could see and feel and know what's happening in others' fields.

And the second piece there is I had a pilgrimage to Egypt in 2022.

That opened another piece for me,

Because I have been this like,

Okay,

What am I even accessing?

What is this?

What's happening here?

And what I came to realize in Egypt was where the whale is 10 in those temples and beautiful,

Amazing places,

We're just surrounded by love.

And I came to realize that I am love,

We are all love.

So when I think about it this way,

And when I changed my intention to,

Okay,

Let me just tune into the love,

That opened up the channels even more.

So let's zero in on this Egyptian experience.

You were talking about how you came to realize you were surrounded by love and that we are love.

A lot of people,

They say that,

They convey those words.

What was the experience that you had?

What did it feel like to open that part of your perspective up to recognize that within yourself?

Absolutely.

I think the first part of this for me was beginning to study astrology,

Which is another multidimensional quantum healing tool for me,

Or that's the way I see it.

With astrology,

I came to realize,

Oh,

All these things I thought or I've been made to feel occasionally were wrong about me,

Or were weird about me,

Are part of this amazing setup to experience life through this body's perspective.

How amazing,

Weird,

And beautiful is that?

And we each have that.

Each of us have this beautiful,

Unique archetypal birth chart map of or makeup of soul,

Life,

Expressing it as a unique being.

Then the Egypt part of it,

I can talk about a dream that led me to there,

But just to answer your question first,

It was just so undeniable,

Bjorn.

And I went with a highly spiritual group of women who are themselves healers,

Seers,

And intuitives.

And we used to joke that people can visit Egypt,

But not everyone journeys into Egypt.

It takes a little bit of intention and that being open to seeing the spiritual side.

Anyways,

For me,

The energy is so palpable with these gigantic,

Beautiful,

Sacred geometric structures.

The places that they're placed are so powerful.

It's undeniable what's there.

And I felt what's there to be just pure Gaia's love combined with galactic love.

The word that I can describe it as that comes to my understanding is love.

Someone else might call it divine,

Or they might call it weird energy,

Or I don't know.

But to me,

I experienced it as love.

We went and journeyed into the King's Chamber in the Great Pyramid.

And each of us laid down in the sarcophagus.

Everyone had their unique experience.

It wasn't like a group meditation.

I was guided internally to have a Markabah meditation.

I saw a pyramid come down from the top of my head down.

And I saw another upside down pyramid coming up from my feet up.

They became a Markabah.

And the center was my heart.

And I was told everything I've ever needed is and was always in my heart.

When you go through something like that,

It's kind of like undeniable that we're led and guided and there are divine forces out there.

When you were laying in the sarcophagus,

Would you say that that was a peak part of the experience you had when you were in Egypt?

HM.

Inside the King's Chamber.

I mean,

We were done later,

Each holding space for each other as we each laid down in the sarcophagus.

So yeah,

Internally,

Yes.

And then there was another experience where we went to Karnak Temple.

And there,

There's a statue of Sekhmet,

The divine mother,

The goddess with the lion,

Lioness head,

And a human body.

And hugging Sekhmet,

That was the ultimate divine love experience.

That I can't even explain.

Like she knew me,

I knew her.

I immediately started to cry in her embrace.

Like I could let things go,

Let things down in her embrace.

And then later when I came back,

Actually,

I wrote guided meditations for each of the temple visits and each of the god and goddess encounters that I had and we had as a group to help people tap into those energies.

But yeah,

Absolutely,

Amazing.

You know,

You just led me into some sort of a deja vu.

I bet.

Going back home after this experience,

What was that like?

How did things change?

And how did you find yourself making different choices?

It has been an evolutionary experience ever since.

I'm finding my voice is steadier,

If that makes sense.

I'm finding I'm having less doubts on being led and guided on this path.

And immediately after I came back,

Like I said,

I wrote the meditations and then during my entire time in Egypt,

I was also told that I need to be writing and I need to be writing a book about crystal healing and then other books.

So,

I am now in the final stages of finishing up my book.

The other,

I would say,

Personal thing that has been happening is,

And that goes along with the current astrology,

I have been asked,

Almost demanded,

To re-evaluate each and every relationship that I have.

From the doctors I see to the yoga studio I go to,

To friendships,

Family relationships,

All of those,

I'm finding the need to re-establish my boundaries and revisit where I am expanding my energy and where I need to be preserving my energy.

So,

With all these different choices,

How has that changed and shifted the environment around you?

Oh,

Tremendously.

I'm finding the relationships are easier now for me because it's easier for me to set respectful boundaries.

I am finding it's easier for my body because I've made some sort of peace with her.

I'm not pushing her again.

I'm regulating,

I'm regularly loving her,

Regularly loving her.

I am finding that at this point in my life,

It's a little bit less about being productive and a little bit more about how can I expand the joy in this?

How can I expand the appreciation in this?

And then if there is an appreciation or joy there,

What's missing?

Do I need a boundary?

Do I need to take this off of my life?

So,

Those are the questions.

It's like a continuous Marie Kondo-ing of my energetic and actual life,

You could say.

Let's talk about joy for a little bit to segue into that.

Aside from the experience in Egypt,

Since then,

Are there any moments you can point to,

Peak moments that were extremely joyful that have really stuck with you and changed you?

Yes.

I am finding an incredible amount of joy in connecting with women,

Women friends,

Women groups.

I am finding that I'm able to be more vulnerable,

Both in my relationship with my husband,

Partner,

But also in that woman-to-woman space holding places.

The other thing that has been happening is this,

Of course,

When you relax your body in a container and then open up the energy of love to flow through you,

It opens all sorts of things.

I am finding now in my astrology readings that I see symbols,

Like personal,

Unique symbols for the entire birth chart and then for different elements of it.

And then what I do now is simply tune into those symbols rather than relying on technical knowledge,

Which comes in handy too.

But these symbols that get channeled through me give a whole and unique and loving story and guidance to the people that it excites me to go there with them and to experience their unique inner realm.

A lot of good things.

So you mentioned a few things here.

You've been really enjoying a lot in connecting with women.

Was there one particular experience that really opened that up for you and shifted your awareness that that was something that you really wanted to pursue more of?

Yes.

I think the Egypt trip,

Again,

Was a catalyst in that.

For the Egypt trip,

Because it was with all women and you're together 24-7,

Of course,

There are times that you trigger each other.

I mean,

There were things that we worked through and worked with also with each other.

And now we became like the goddess for each other.

Some of us had trouble climbing the inner,

Very narrow staircase of the Great Pyramid,

And the younger ones would cheer them on and help them.

And at other times,

The older ones would cheer the young ones on about their doubts.

It was just such a beautiful coming together.

And around that time,

I have an interview too.

Interestingly enough,

I interviewed this channeler.

She channels a being called Vigrain.

Jessie is her name.

And she said something that stuck with me.

She said,

Damla,

There comes a point in your healing journey where it's no longer about keeping things out.

But what do you do when the love you're looking for is present there?

What do you do when the connection that you are looking for just comes and finds you?

Can you stay open to that?

And that's what I have explored in my Egypt trip.

And We Are In Touch is going like almost two years strong now.

We have stayed in touch.

And I made conscious efforts to stay in touch with other girlfriends and women groups.

Thank you for asking that question.

It's been truly magical.

Beautiful.

Yes.

You talked a little bit about whatever gives you comfort.

So I've been going through this introspection about joy and how the joy is only experienced at the level of being and is not really the same as happiness,

Which I'll call as an emotional experience.

And I've come to learn that I can actually be in a state of enjoyment at the level of being even if I'm not tuned into it with my focus.

Because I might be focused on something that where I might be having an emotional experience that might be sadness or frustration.

But then there's another part of me,

My being that is actually enjoying that.

And so when you were talking about going through the page and just select whatever gives you comfort,

To me,

What you're saying is feel like that intuition is bringing people into whatever they're actually going to enjoy.

It's really powerful.

We recently did a chat with a channel,

Being is named Balan,

And their thing is all about joy.

And they always tell people if you want to practice embracing joy and making decisions from your own truth,

Which is joy in your life,

They said,

Go to a restaurant,

Sit down at the table,

Take the menu out,

Scan the menu.

When you see an item that sounds good to you,

Close the menu,

Order your food and enjoy.

So it just brought me back to that when you're saying,

You know,

Just choose whatever brings you comfort.

It's what brings a person comfort,

But it's probably also what they're actually going to enjoy,

What connects with their being.

Yeah.

Yes.

You know what that's bringing up in me is my new life goal,

Which is at the end of the day,

When I sit down on my couch,

I would like to be able to look into emptiness towards the window or just look around and just be okay with where I am and who I am in life and who I am becoming.

So that to me,

It goes hand in hand with what you're saying,

Which is it becomes less about going somewhere and becomes more about,

Okay,

It's possible to choose something here in this moment.

And if I'm not able to sit still in that couch,

I know that I need something.

I know that I need maybe some fresh air.

I might need some exercise.

I might need a good long shower where I get a lot of ideas and intuition,

Or I might need a good lying down with a crystal healing,

Like you were saying.

And then like,

Once I give myself what I need,

That kind of balance and quiet comes over and being able to let myself be there,

Being able to not get caught up in whatever else is remaining on my to-do list,

Just being comfortable with,

Okay,

This was my energy level today.

And this is what I accomplished or didn't accomplish today to the best of my ability.

And these were the interactions I had today.

Do I feel comfortable with them?

If not adjustments that day or the next day.

So that like constant little,

Mini small adjustments that let me just sit in peace on my favorite couch,

Watching the sunset at the end of the day.

I love the sunset.

It must be a nice couch.

It's a 20 year old couch,

Bjorn.

Were you going to say something about it?

It's one of those things where I was talking to a friend about it.

Like there are parts of my life that I'm so deeply grateful for.

Other parts,

I make an effort for the gratitude.

When I sit on that couch,

It's an ugly couch.

But when I sit on that couch,

I remember all the people who sat there.

We actually lost three people already who have sat there over the years.

It doesn't have to be the most stylish looking thing,

But it's there to support me.

And yes,

It is comfortable.

It's a little too comfortable.

Actually,

You can't get out of it.

I don't want to sit in that couch and just see what's not there.

I want to sit in their couch and enjoy what's there.

Does that make sense?

It does.

Yeah.

Well,

I think we're kind of getting to the point in the conversation where if you would like to offer some type of meditation or healing on the episode,

We can accommodate that now.

Yeah.

As we transition into the healing portion of this episode,

Please ensure that you are in a comfortable and relaxing environment.

Enjoy.

So I'd like to invite you and everyone listening into silence.

And if you're driving or cooking or something,

Perhaps you can pause and come back to this at a time when it's comfortable for you to be with yourself.

And you could be standing,

Seated,

Lying down,

Doesn't matter,

Eyes open,

Closed,

Doesn't matter.

But just inviting that silence,

Letting your gaze travel into your body,

Underneath the skin.

Feel into the space there.

Feel into the space that exists between the cells,

Between the molecules,

Underneath that,

The atomic particles,

And underneath that,

The subatomic particles,

And underneath that,

You are simply vibrating pieces of light.

According to the physics string theory.

What looks like skin is not skin.

What looks like your eye is not an eye.

It's all this vibrational symphony happening inside this container,

Which is not even that contained because you extend beyond your body.

Let's come into your heart.

And there,

Most of us,

Unless we've had just too much,

Too muchness,

As I call it,

Too much wounding happening,

Unless that was the case and that's really,

Really hidden.

Unless that was the case and that's really,

Really hidden.

And even then,

I want you to feel into the heart,

The center of your chest,

And then the center of the center of your chest,

And then the center of the center of your chest.

And there exists a small,

Tiny light.

That is the light of an inner child waiting to be discovered.

That is pure,

Unbroken,

That has been there forever and will always be there.

And it's there waiting for you to connect with them.

Without thinking about it too much,

Know in your heart how old this child is.

How old is he?

How old is she?

How old is our day?

And if you can't sense into an age now,

That's okay too,

Just stay with the sensation around your heart.

All that we're going to do today is to look at this light and we're going to tell this light,

How beautiful are you?

You are so beautiful,

So bright,

So amazing.

And with your words as intentions,

This vibration travels into that little,

Tiny light,

And you can see that light getting a little brighter with a little bit more life,

With a little bit more juice,

If you will.

And then you're going to ask this light,

What can I give you as a gift?

And we want them to show you an object.

And whatever this object is,

It could be a crystal,

It could be a light,

It could be something to eat,

It could be a ball,

It could be a toy,

Whatever this object is,

Is a magical object that has everything that this part of you needs.

Go ahead and give it to this part,

This child,

And show them what you can give them.

And let them place this gift,

Magical gift,

At the center of their chest.

And the moment this gift touches the center of their chest,

At the center of your chest,

It expands into a beautiful explosion of light,

Nourishing not just that part,

But every part of this child and every part of you.

What would it have been like if this part of you was nourished from the beginning,

From the moment you were conceived?

What would it have felt like if all your inner children were nourished and loved and cared for in the way that you needed to be cared for from the moment you were conceived?

Feel that in your body.

What would it feel like to have been fully loved,

Cared,

And cherished,

And appreciated?

And if this brings out some grief in you,

Just gently let that grief happen,

Because we do have those places where we haven't been nourished,

And that's okay,

Because you're now here to nourish them.

And let this nourishment stay with you,

Open you up,

And show you all the places that need your love.

And breathe into your body as you gently open your eyes.

Let this enjoyment,

Let this expansion carry over into your life.

That was very beautiful.

More centered,

Calmer.

I released a lot of emotional charge,

Which I always feel like through my body is like a chills,

Like almost like static moving through.

You touch base with the book and with me when you get a chance.

Thank you so much for taking the time to come on today and for sharing part of your journey with us.

My pleasure.

Thank you.

My pleasure.

Thank you.

Thank you for joining us for this episode with Damla Akhtekin.

We hope you've enjoyed our exploration into her journey and healing practices.

Thank you again for listening,

And we look forward to sharing more healing stories and practices with you in the future.

Bye.