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Foremost, she wanted to become the kind of holistic practitioner who helped people heal emotionally and spiritually as well as physically.

Now a nationally certified massage therapist, she works with adults, children and horses in her private practice, where she also employs other techniques such as cranial sacral therapy and shamanic and energy work.

Second, Mitchell-Dominguez wanted to help holistic practitioners blend their passion with business sense and create a community. Today her Holistic Mentorship Network, started in 2005, has seven chapters statewide and publishes MARCI, an online seasonal magazine that educates the public about holistic services and products.

Later this month the network presents "Cycles of Abundance," its second seminar at Morristown Memorial Hospital. Open to the public, the evening will feature holistic speakers, vendors and networking opportunities. (See accompanying box for details.) Its theme is how people can change patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving that cumulate from life experiences but no longer work and even contribute to unhappiness and stress.

Mitchell-Dominguez knows about that kind of change. Transitioning from her last job in traditional medicine to opening her holistic business was financially stressful. She had to be re-educated, and her money went into that education, not rent, meaning she was homeless for a time. She lived with one person, then another and another. Until she had a realization.

"I was changing where I was living," she said, "but kept the same pattern of living."

When this epiphany struck her, she moved into her office in Butler, which led to meeting her husband, more opportunities and more epiphanies. Instead of staying on old, well-grooved paths, Mitchell-Dominguez took the road less traveled. The one that was scary at first. Now that road has lead to an abundant life that would have been unfathomable on the old paths
 

Once she worked with a child who suffered anxiety attacks concerning school, even when merely driving past one. She applied cranial sacral touch therapy to his head, spine and tailbone, a technique designed to facilitate the flow of cerebrospinal fluid and improve overall body function.

"I was so connected to the boy that I could feel his tears before they were shed," she recalled. "Then he began crying and his mother handed him a tissue. He shared and released what he felt in the safe place created by cranial-sacral therapy, all without words."

In this philosophy, the healing continues as the formerly turbulent inner space is filled wholly with divine love. No more churning emotions, no more inner conflicts. From that clarity and peace naturally arises a vision, she said, and the insights needed for it to mature naturally. Holistically speaking, this state is called abundance.

Once the boy's anxiety was released, for instance, his mind was at peace to explore the world again, Mitchell-Dominguez pointed out. His relationship with himself and others was restored.

The seven speakers at the conference -- most of them holistic providers, including Mitchell-Dominguez -- each will talk about a different facet of creating abundance. Chuck Davis, a marketer in the biomedical field for 30 years, will deliver the keynote address, "Nuts and Bolts of Entrepreneurship, 10 Rules to Live By."

Applying sound advice to a business vision is important for holistic providers, according to Mitchell-Dominguez.

"If we run only with our passion," she said, "we are going to trip ourselves."

Davis, who works at integrating what he calls "insurance-code medical environments" and alternative healing practitioners, said a key rule for holistic practitioners is to be great at what they do.

"A customer can see it in your eyes when you have a passion for your area of expertise," he said. "Always learning, studying and reading, all to develop the talents you were given, is key to success."

Creating and enhancing a business or personal vision comes when a person takes the time to discover himself and his purpose -- discoveries holistic practices can cultivate, Mitchell-Dominguez said. When a person has a placid inner pattern of life, he is less likely to succumb to a less healthy cultural pattern. He also has a way to bring order to personal crises instead of letting those crises undo him.

A spiritual vision deepens experiences, she said, and experiences deepen a vision. The two are not in conflict.

The sponsors of "Cycles of Abundance" are Natural Awakenings Magazine and Ideal Farm and Garden Centre of Lafayette.

For those who want to go deeper into the experience of personal visions, the Holistic Mentorship Mentorship Network is holding a retreat at Full Moon Resort in the Catskills Dec. 7-9. Next year, a healing arts fair is planned. The vision of Mitchell-Dominguez is nowhere near finished.