The Reluctant Hand Analyst
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Gather round friends as I tell you the tale of how an Actress in L.A. became a Certified Hand Analyst. This story has magic, dragons, adventure and danger… or it will once I add all that in. Way back before the turn of the 21st century a friend said to me one day:
You should really get your hands read. There is this amazing woman who does it and you learn so much about yourself, etc etc. |
Being someone who was relatively open to such “out there” suggestions I made an appointment with a mysterious lady from San Francisco, Terry-Linn. We met in the dark middle bedroom of this friend’s house to do my first Hand Analysis session. Every corner of the room was filled with stacks of old newspapers and magazines so there was just enough room for the two of us to sit across a tiny table and do the reading. At this time in my life I was acting and beginning to get some good work so my thoughts were all on how to become famouser and famouser. The reading was insightful and accurate but I wasn’t completely blown away and bowing at Terry-Linn’s feet like all my other friends were at that point. In fact I wasn’t even sure if I liked Terry-Linn.
I left with my belief intact that other people have amazing experiences with psychics and hand analysts and such but just not me.
And then a year passed. During this year 3 of my very close friends starting studying Hand Analysis with Terry-Linn and they kept talking about how great it was when I knew very well that it was just fine but not amazing. Finally one day after hearing more “but it’s life changing” talk I said to this friend “okay you take a look at my hands then” and she did. She said enough interesting things that I had to go “humph”. I decided to attend one of Terry-Linn’s public seminars and give this Hand Analysis stuff one more try.
For whatever reason, on that fateful day of the seminar, my mind opened up just enough to realize that this could be amazing life changing information. And I did like Terry-Linn after all. I signed up to do a weekend intensive class with her.
I was on fire to know more about myself!
After the weekend, which was mind-blowing, she told me about a year-long Hand Analysis certification course that she would be teaching soon and how helpful it could be in my quest to know myself better.
But I am an Actress. I don’t want to be a Hand Analyst.
I said with a flip of my hair.
This isn’t about being a Hand Analyst this is about really knowing yourself and growing.
I put on my resistance pants and pranced around in them for a while until she said:
Maybe you’re not ready for this class. You may not be done sacrificing yourself yet.
That did it. I signed up for the class. You see, as well as being an actress, I was a waitress working long grueling shifts and sacrificing my time and energy to the great Awful Job God. And I was in a relationship that was challenging my every fiber so my default position was to sacrifice my desires instead of ask for what I wanted. And I was becoming disillusioned with the acting business anyway and wondering what else was out there. I needed this class. She knew it. I finally accepted it. I loved the class and I hated the class.
The information was transformative – having Terry-Linn call me on my stuff was excruciating.
I signed up for the second year of study. And somewhere in the middle of that next year I decided I did want to be a Hand Analyst after all, in fact I wanted to teach Hand Analysis too! Terry-Linn ignored me. I had to announce at least two more times over the course of that class that I did indeed want to do this Hand Analysis stuff for real. Finally she took me under her wing. Years later Terry-Linn told me she just couldn’t believe that I really wanted to teach and be a hand reader so she dismissed it. And she admitted she didn’t like me either after that first reading. Now, eleven years on, she is my mentor and dear friend and my life is forever improved.
I could write a lot of old platitudes at this point like –
But instead I will give you some new platitudes of my own. At the beginning of this tale I had promised you magic, dragons, adventure and danger so here it is –
Magic happens when we face our inner dragons. The danger lies in not engaging our own great adventure.
The End
I left with my belief intact that other people have amazing experiences with psychics and hand analysts and such but just not me.
And then a year passed. During this year 3 of my very close friends starting studying Hand Analysis with Terry-Linn and they kept talking about how great it was when I knew very well that it was just fine but not amazing. Finally one day after hearing more “but it’s life changing” talk I said to this friend “okay you take a look at my hands then” and she did. She said enough interesting things that I had to go “humph”. I decided to attend one of Terry-Linn’s public seminars and give this Hand Analysis stuff one more try.
For whatever reason, on that fateful day of the seminar, my mind opened up just enough to realize that this could be amazing life changing information. And I did like Terry-Linn after all. I signed up to do a weekend intensive class with her.
I was on fire to know more about myself!
After the weekend, which was mind-blowing, she told me about a year-long Hand Analysis certification course that she would be teaching soon and how helpful it could be in my quest to know myself better.
But I am an Actress. I don’t want to be a Hand Analyst.
I said with a flip of my hair.
This isn’t about being a Hand Analyst this is about really knowing yourself and growing.
I put on my resistance pants and pranced around in them for a while until she said:
Maybe you’re not ready for this class. You may not be done sacrificing yourself yet.
That did it. I signed up for the class. You see, as well as being an actress, I was a waitress working long grueling shifts and sacrificing my time and energy to the great Awful Job God. And I was in a relationship that was challenging my every fiber so my default position was to sacrifice my desires instead of ask for what I wanted. And I was becoming disillusioned with the acting business anyway and wondering what else was out there. I needed this class. She knew it. I finally accepted it. I loved the class and I hated the class.
The information was transformative – having Terry-Linn call me on my stuff was excruciating.
I signed up for the second year of study. And somewhere in the middle of that next year I decided I did want to be a Hand Analyst after all, in fact I wanted to teach Hand Analysis too! Terry-Linn ignored me. I had to announce at least two more times over the course of that class that I did indeed want to do this Hand Analysis stuff for real. Finally she took me under her wing. Years later Terry-Linn told me she just couldn’t believe that I really wanted to teach and be a hand reader so she dismissed it. And she admitted she didn’t like me either after that first reading. Now, eleven years on, she is my mentor and dear friend and my life is forever improved.
I could write a lot of old platitudes at this point like –
- You just never know what is in store for you.
- When the student is ready the teacher arrives.
- Resistance pants are unflattering.
But instead I will give you some new platitudes of my own. At the beginning of this tale I had promised you magic, dragons, adventure and danger so here it is –
Magic happens when we face our inner dragons. The danger lies in not engaging our own great adventure.
The End