Reiki

Have you ever had a Reiki treatment? It's something you have to experience, I think, to really understand. I mean, before I became attuned or received a treatment I don't know if I really would have gotten it. How can someone's hands hovering over you and gently holding yours do anything?

Once during a women's retreat, my friend Sheree offered to do Reiki as a demo in her room so people could see what it looks like. I, being very skeptical but wanting to support my friend, hopped up on the table and tried to make her look good. I didn't have to work very hard. The minute she took my hand a jolt of energy came rushing up my arm. Now, at the time I would have said it was the power of friendship and it was. That & much more, that is what Reiki is, just love and friendship, wanting the best for someone and asking for it. Consciously asking for it, also known as the power of prayer....

After that session, another friend came up to me with tears in her eyes. Now this friend is even more skeptical than I. She is very dismissive of new agey stuff, in fact, she was the one who was very upset about my SoulCollage stuff, feeling that I had become wiccan or something. She said that the minute Sheree took my hand she 'saw/felt' a huge flash of white light and it made her start sobbing with the power of our friendship. It's even more interesting when you consider that I barely knew Sheree at the time. Had only met her less than a handful of times....

It's hard to talk about stuff like white light, energy and prayer without getting all woo woo but sometimes it just really is unexplainable. Reiki is hugely mysterious, even to those of us who are lucky enough to be a conduit of the energy. We don't know why we can feel where the Reiki needs to go, why is there so much heat and why does it make people feel so much better? The thing about being a Reiki healer is that you don't need to know. You don't have to have the answers, you don't have to question the energy, you just know it's there. It's all about trust. Trusting the Source of the energy and power.

Reiki found me after I had attended a seminar at CCPC with a gentleman named Dr. Theodore Lichtmann. He was talking about his power to heal and how he discovered it when he was a child. He was a hands on healer I think, I don't think he was Reiki attuned but I could be wrong. The point is, he started talking about it and something within me switched on and I realized that I had it.... I had always had it but was reluctant to trust it or let anyone know I had it. I came right home and told my husband to let me try something... said a little prayer and just gave my self over to intuition and began 'healing'. I instantly felt heat in my hands and knew where to place them, it was wild. He had a shoulder injury for years that the next day went away. Now, some might say it was the power of suggestion or positive thinking. And It was. And more.

I decided after that to go ahead and get my Reiki attunement even though a part of me knew it was unnecessary. I already had it. But I thought it may make other's feel better....I didn't realize how it would deeply affect my life though. I had always been caring for others, Reiki helped me to start caring for myself. It's like a constant source of strength, like a physical sense of healing, like it is circling me and guiding me all the time, I just take a breath and there it is. There are so many 'coincidences' around the Reiki and the energy that I cannot deny it's validity-- even my skeptical raised by rednecks self. And I mean that in the most respectful way.

Ooops, gotta go to work, more on this later....