RSD patient taps into psychic abilities to cope with pain

Photo by Jack Reynolds
Rebecca Lynn provides her full attention
during a spiritual reading held at Hanu Yoga.

“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” could be psychic, medium and spiritual advisor Rebecca Lynn’s life mantra. The 32-year-old Bayville resident said she suffers from chronic pain due to an autoimmune disease called Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, also known as Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. The disease, which was triggered by a car accident she was involved in during March 2008, is so severe that she actually opted into a six-day ketamine-induced coma to reboot her nervous system. Unfortunately, the reboot failed and has left her in a wheelchair on and off for the last six years. Her illness also contributed to a divorce and the loss of a six-figure job. She worked as a senior mortgage loan officer at Wachovia, the third largest bank at the time, where she was considered the top 16th performer in the country and the youngest female to hold that title.

It wasn’t until Lynn learned to cope with the physical pain of RSD by stepping out of her physical body, or astral projecting, that she started to understand her psychic abilities.

RSD is also known as “the suicide disease,” but “I had no desire to stop living; I just wanted to get better,” said Lynn. “The pain is something we don’t even have words for, so for me to cope, I would actually step out of my physical body to escape from the pain. I was completely aware of this physical body, but I was right in front of it, and that was how I could function to some extent and have a conversation with people. I would always bump into walls and walk into things because I was having to control my physical body from standing in front of it. It’s because of my psychic abilities that I believe I was able to do that. I know it sounds pretty insane, but it saved my life,” she added.

Though Lynn had always been considered clairvoyant or intuitive and deemed as a know-it-all as a child, she said tapping into her spirituality, going holistic and detoxing from almost all 13 of her doctor-prescribed medications has helped make her abilities sharper and her messages clearer.

Photo by Jack Reynolds
The spiritual adviser turns
to her angel cards to help
redirect the reading

“It was at that point that I realized I really didn’t need much, and I really simplified my life in every aspect,” she said. “The simpler I got, the better my health got and the better my life got and the stronger my abilities got.”

Though Lynn doesn’t have any recollection of receiving messages as a child, she said she can now pick up “little bits and pieces” of what people are thinking. She said she receives information about other people all the time and is often compelled to provide healing energy with her hands. Of course, she provides such therapy only if asked.

Lynn claims she also sees colors and energies, which she described as an essence. Spirit energies seen closer to a living person are considered to visit more frequently than those seen from a farther distance, she explained. Ascended masters, who are believed to be spiritually enlightened beings that in past incarnations were ordinary humans, include Mother Theresa and Thomas Edison.

“I’ve encountered their spirits, primarily John Lennon, which is really funny because I was never a Beatles fan. I was more of an Elvis person,” she said with a laugh.

Lynn said she also frequently works with Mother Mary, who is strongly referenced in The Beatles’ song “Let It Be.”

The most perceptive time for people to connect with spirits is during that half-awake, half-asleep state right before falling asleep or waking up, said Lynn.

Photo by Jack Reynolds
Lynn knocks on the deck twice to clear
the last person's energy from the cards.

“That’s when the veil is thin and our defenses are down,” she remarked. “Usually if you have a really vivid dream that sticks with you where you feel like you were there, that’s you going to a different dimension to either learn something to bring back subconsciously or that’s you visiting friends or family to try to get a message or greeting.”

Spirits can also be picked up on in the peripheral view. Warmth or static felt running around the legs may be a visiting pet.

Lynn uses her spiritual abilities to provide readings to others and help them navigate their lives. Her services are strictly a hobby because her RSD is very debilitating and very unpredictable. Though she holds herself to the utmost integrity, she said she cannot control what information comes through.

Symbolism is used during her readings to help people better understand the messages they’re receiving. A broken pipe leaking with water, which symbolizes emotions, might mean a person is breaking down emotionally. Getting whiplash after being rear-ended in a car usually means something is pushing a person in a direction he or she doesn’t want to go, i.e. a literal pain in the neck.

“There’s a lot of symbolism that gets incorporated into our everyday life, stuff that we don’t even realize. What we project out we get back, just in a different form,” said Lynn.

Unlike “The Long Island Medium,” who strictly connects with loved ones who have already passed, including miscarriages and abortions, Lynn can also channel a person’s prior and future lives. She said she prefers to help people learn from their past lives rather than risk altering a person’s path due to impending information.

“If I tell you what your path may be, or give you a couple of options of what your path is that I can see, that doesn’t mean that it’s going to happen. Me even telling you that could alter your path,” said Lynn. “What I prefer to do and what I really love to do is to tap into past lives and to see how past life issues are affecting your present situation. That to me is so much more productive and significant because we keep repeating lessons until we learn them.

“There’s a purpose for everything and every interaction we have in life, even if it’s just somebody who smiles at you when you’re in a really bad mood. It’s hard for us to figure out what that purpose is all the time, but if we just have faith that there’s a purpose for everything, then it’s easy to move through life,” she explained.

All souls have the chance to sit down with God, whatever that may be, and their spirit guides to map out their lives, which can take any number of different paths, Lynn claimed. Once souls arrive on Earth as humans, they’re considered clean slates and are unlikely to remember what they already know.

“Every single pregnancy that I have come across where a child has come through, has come through with gratitude because they had the opportunity to see the life that they were going to have. We choose to come into the world, and we choose not to,” said Lynn.

To best help clients, including young children who are more perceptive to spirits both good and bad, Lynn said she needs to know what a person is looking to get out of a reading.

“For me to do really in-depth medium work, I have to shift my mind so that it’s not so much psychic stuff coming through because they’re all different channels of information. I have to change the frequency of the reading,” she explained.

She compared the mind shift to trains on a track or stations on a radio channel.

Though Lynn believes everyone has the power to tap into these spiritual abilities, she said most people are too bogged down by technology, chemicals and fear to realize it.

Lynn hopes to one day open a holistic healing center offering spiritual advising and energy therapy to help people live better, more productive lives. In the meantime, she offers psychic, medium, spiritual advising and angel card parties by appointment. She also takes spiritual advising and reiki reservations every other Saturday through Hanu Yoga, located in downtown Barnegat. Call 609-290-7218, or email brownicess@hotmail.com for more information.

— Kelley Anne Essinger

This article was published in The SandPaper.