Clairaudient Helen hears spirits' voices and uses her healing hands to help animals and people
Hearing spirits has been part of Helen Williams' life for many years. As a clairaudient - someone who can hear paranormal messages, as opposed to a clairvoyant, who sees them, or even a clairsentient, who feels them - she says that spontaneous messages from the spirit world have become more frequent in the past 12 months and she is also now able to help animals by communicating with them.
Her connection with the spirit world has also helped Helen, who lives in north Derbyshire, to be able to help spirits to move on who may have become trapped in various environments such as rooms and buildings and recently carried this out from a distance at a couple of the county's former hospitals.
She said: "I am fully aware that there are people who will not believe what I am saying happens to me. But you couldn't make up the things that happen to me and no-one was more surprised than me when I realised I could communicate with animals.
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"Being able to hear animals, see their thoughts in my head, communicate and offer healing from grief and trauma, support owners and families with pet loss and ask questions from owners to get an understanding of pet’s behaviour and how to help is very rewarding."
Helen's ability to carry out interspecies telepathic communication - animal whispering - came about was when she noticed an elderly horse at a local stable that seemed to be down and through touching him and communicating discovered that he was upset and fed-up because he no longer was allowed to take part in riding lessons and go into the schooling area like the other horses.
She said: "I told his owner this and she agreed to let him go around the jumps and explained he was having a well-earned rest after years of hard work. She had been sceptical but said that after I had spoken with him and she had realised there was a problem, he was a different horse and much happier."
Helen has carried out healing on three other horses with positive results. She added: "There was another horse who told me she had pain from a hip injury and she kept needing to stamp and shake her legs but she had healing which helped it. She also told me she liked her new saddle and her owner confirmed she had recently changed it.
"I loved working with the horses. They were all very different. Different energy and ways of talking to me. Some showed me pictures, some gave me clear sentences and some made me feel things in my body."
One of the first things you notice about mum-of-two Helen, is her wonderfully calm and reassuring manner, as she talks about her contact with the spirit world and her ability to use her hands to heal mind and body with people and animals
She says that she has been used to share information by the spirit world and in many cases the dead are using her to help support people to get over their fear of death and for some celebrities - Matthew Perry, John Lennon, George Michael, Freddie Mercury, Whitney Houston - who have channelled through her, they want to to talk about things that are important to them and not necessarily their earthly celebrity lives.
She says she was encouraged to put some of the messages out on social media by the celebrities themselves and since then has found a large number of people contacting her to ask about healing and receiving messages from spirits. Helen said: "Quite often people are looking for guidance because of a life event and other people are just curious.
"I have learned a lot from the people who have approached me and the more spirits I channel, the more I am able to do this. It's as if I take on more possibilities, I receive more gifts.
From an early age, qualified nurse Helen recalls being able to use her hands to heal people. Over time, she attended courses and studied hard to understand how she could develop her abilities. Helen, who has a degree in the psychology of human communications, said: "I stocked up on angels and crystals and undertook a couple of courses about meditation and channelling. My mum had done reiki and I had received it previously so I started to practice it."
The Japanese word "reiki" means universal energy. Eastern medicine systems work with this energy, which they believe flows through all living things and is vital to wellbeing. A reiki practitioner puts their hands on or near a person's clothed body. One of the main aims is to help people relax. A reiki practitioner aims to change and balance the "energy fields" in and around the body.
Helen herself visits a fellow healer every two weeks to get a healing herself. Each time, spirits communicate with her, she has a physical reaction. She said: "I yawn a lot and my eyes and nose run as the energy goes through my body.
"Sometimes I get pins and needles and a tingly feeling in my feet and legs. Sometimes there are external signs as well such as flickering lights and Alexa does strange things."
As a result of her experiences, Helen says she has no fear of death. "It is just a gateway to the next stage". She added: "We are spiritual beings having a human experience. I know that people are sceptical but I hear spirits and I cannot ignore them and I have to listen to them."
She had her own personal spiritual challenge this year with the death of her father. She says that she is still able to communicate with him and he with her. Helen said: I knew he was holding my hand as I read his eulogy at his funeral. I miss him physically but I know that watching him suffer was really hard and I know now he is free from that and happy.
"I think that many people could do what I do if they spend time learning and studying. Meditation and reiki has opened doors to possibilities for me.
"I think my busy family and working life keep me grounded and in touch with reality. I have accepted my abilities and despite people's negativity about it, I am not crippled by that. I can't avoid the spirits and self-belief is very important to me."
If you wish to get in touch with Helen she can be contacted at healingworkswhw@gmail.com or by clicking here.