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....

Reiki

Once a month, my Reiki Master, my Spiritual Sister and I give Reiki to all who enter the Sanctuary seeking healing at church. Reiki is a very powerful healing energy with one practitioner but when you triple it, it's like a continual grand finale at the fireworks show. Reiki changes your perspective in so many ways. It's hard to describe, when you talk about it you sort of become at a loss for words which is way I think people think we are woo woo. How do you describe something truly mystical? The Tao te Ching says: That which can be named is not the Eternal Name. But I'll try.

When I am healing someone I feel like there is a white band of light connecting me directly to God and a warm red pool around my feet which is rooting me to Earth. Maybe times I feel Jesus hands right on top of mine giving an added boost of healing when it is needed. Often my clients will remark on it-- they feel the presence also. You don't have to be Christian to know that Jesus was a powerful healer. With all that energy coming through me, I feel the effects for days, it's beautiful and calm, keeps getting stronger and deeper as time goes on.

Last night was very overwhelming. Before we started I spent a bit of time in the sacristy visualizing a white light spiraling around me in protection allowing nothing but pure Love to emanate from me to whoever needed it. I was very glad I did. It is a privilege to be so intimately involved in other's healing. It is an honor to be a conduit of God's Love when people are so desperately in need. I am humbled and moved by the triad of healing Jan, Sheree & I created and the willingness and courage of those being healed to open themselves up to it.

After we were finished with the first round of seekers, we had a chance to do a bit of healing on one another. I wonder if un-attuned people feel the same vibrations of energy that exists when healers work on one another? I just felt wave after wave rolling across my body, it was so powerful. I felt as if there was nothing I had to do but just enjoy the ride. I could feel the areas that needed some help--they were twitching with electricity, popping. When they worked on my head, my ears started ringing. Later when we worked on the next round, one of the clients said she could hear the sound of our healing ringing in her ears. Amazing.

I realize this entry has just rambled. Oh well. I am blessed to have this gift. I am thankful everyday that the Reiki came to me. I am grateful for the opportunity to share it. Last night was beautiful-- you never know how much you need something until you have it.

"I never knew how empty was my soul until it was filled"
.....a quote on my kitchen wall spoken by King Arthur in the movie Excalibur.
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SoulCollage

I had the most amazing weekend. Have you ever had one of those experiences that you know is going to change your life while you are in the middle of it? Like you step out of the experience for a moment and witness yourself changing? At one point, we all laid down the new cards we made in a large circle and walked slowly around viewing each other's work and it hit me, this is something far bigger than I ever imagined, what a community we created and how exciting to have the opportunity to take it back to our communities and share it!

Wow. Let me back up. That's Seena Frost in the middle of the circle. She created and developed SoulCollage. SoulCollage is part art, part therapy, part good old fashioned wisdom. You create cards with images that you cut out of magazines or books or pictures you've taken and you paste them onto a sturdy 5x8 card and then you let the images speak. The process is amazing--I have done many, many forms of healing; BioSpiritual Focusing, therapy, tarot, yoga, meditation, tai chi, prayer, etc and I have NEVER had an experience as safe and enriching as I did this past weekend. And that says a lot, I have had some amazing "mountaintop" events in my work and in my life. The potential for helping people from all walks of life to REALLY get in touch with themselves and get some guidance and wisdom as they learn to trust their own intuition is enormous. Plus, the whole art side of it gives a remarkable opportunity to pass on a real legacy of your life.....who you are and where you've been. What a gift to leave behind.

SoulCollage is being used by hospice workers, art therapists, bereavement counselors, ministers, spiritual directors, the list goes on and on. Anyone who works with people who ...... well, who are people, I can't think of ANY group who wouldn't benefit from this. Kids, teens, people getting married, people having children, people getting older, people in all stages of life and death, the list goes on and on.

I was in a group of 60 women, Reiki Masters, Ministers, Hospice Workers, Therapists, Psychologists, Artists, Counselors, Teachers, Writers....It was unbelievable. Just to be a part of it was an overwhelming gift. The energy brought me to my knees. At one point, my "pod" mate, Martha, and I had our backs up against the wall, tears in our eyes, shaking with the intensity of the positive energy of all the various voices in the room. We all laid all our cards out in a large circle, the "One" Source card as the center of the circle and then the "Many", all of the other cards that everyone of these women have made as spokes in this great wheel of voices...

There are no words to describe the feeling of the many different parts of our souls combining and sharing at the same time. It is futile to try. After we laid ALL these cards, hundreds, we got to walk into the center of the circle with our "Pods", 4 of us who became real Soulmates after all we shared this weekend, we quietly, reverently, soaked up the energy of the cards while all the rest of this amazing group of healers sent energy to the center and to each of us. It is an experience I will never forget for as long as I live.

That's all I can say right now. Talk amongst yourselves.....

If you do nothing else, do this. It will change your life in a way that you could never imagine.

It's Ready!

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Sorry :) But if you need a good laugh....check out Sue's comment on my last post. Isn't she a stitch?!!!!

I'm Back

Did Reiki on one of my students yesterday. It was blissful. Afterwards, we were chatting and she said, "you're back from Oregon now, aren't you? You weren't last week but you are now." I nodded and smiled, knowing exactly what she was talking about.

I got to thinking about that this morning, trying to decide if it was a good thing or a bad thing. Just going by my classes, I do feel like last week I was inspired. Now don't get me wrong, my classes are always inspired, mainly because it just comes through me--I just get out of the way and allow the Spirit to lead. But last week not only did I get out of the way, I was sitting right beside Spirit watching as she led. I was filled with earth energy and completely grounded as I flew through the air. I was way up in woo woo land.

When I called upon the Reiki yesterday, it was like going back to the mountain. It was instantly there and instantly strong and comforting. I am reluctant to say it was even more powerful than before because I didn't believe it could get any more powerful without me blowing up but it is a force that keeps growing. Having the actual experience of the mountain has put the mountain in me. Have you seen a real mountain? What a strong crystal it is. When I was at my friend's head, she said she felt waves of purple and green. As I was sending her crown chakra (purple) oceans of love and heart energy (green)....hmmmm.

Like I told Lori's dad, "you don't have to believe in it, it will still work". He had a horrible ear clog/sinus infection while I was out there. Lori convinced his skeptical self to let me do a bit of Reiki on him. Now, I had been told that normally when he gets this, it takes months for it to clear and he has gone to many doctors and taken many drugs to no avail. He was in miserable enough pain that he let me try. And yeah, you guessed it....he woke up the next day with nothing. Completely gone. Course he said, "you can't prove that it's the Reiki that did it". And he can't prove it wasn't. LOL!

But I digress. Last week I was soaring high, almost like Icarus getting too close to the sun. Anyone that was at my Thursday class can attest that although the class was a ton of fun, there was not a whole lot of meditation going on. This Monday was more down to earth. There must be a balance. The mountain is still there. The waterfalls are still there. The beach is still there. I can call upon them at anytime. But sometimes we need to work too. Remembering that play is just as important, and finding that perfect synergy is what to look for.

Although it was really cool to soar so high. Will have to take some time to do that everyday.....join me.

Reiki

Had one of my best friends ask me to do a Reiki on her the other day। I was very excited because I hadn't really had a chance to do Reiki on other people since the Lenten night a few weeks ago. That morning before she called, I went to do my self Reiki and felt very ambivalent and decided to skip it for the day and then she called. When you do Reiki on someone, your own Reiki energy increases so the opportunity is a blessing for both.

So we made an appointment for later in the day and of course, I got bogged down in a million details and completely lost track of time।Fortunately she is a kindred spirit so she understood completely and waited patiently for me to set up. I decided to set up in front of my altar in my bedroom. Now normally, I would not bring people up there--just the dust alone......but as I said, she's a kindred spirit. And the altar is probably the cleanest thing in my house so as long as she faced that direction LOL!

My friend is a dear sweet soul। She's a Pisces and very intuitive and open. All her emotions are right on the surface, much to her dismay, she cries at the drop of a hat and feels things very deeply. I love her, her exuberance and lack of deception are such a blessing. She's so fun to be around cause she gets very excited about things and will start sputtering and waving her arms around and she reminds me so much of Pooh Bear and Rabbit combined. (She just read The Tao of Pooh and of course, understood it completely) She cracks me up. I have had conversations on the phone with her that consisted of nothing but loud giggles and snorting for minutes on end.

Anyway, doing Reiki on her was amazing। When I called upon the energy it was like a shot from Heaven. Instantaneous and Fiery Hot. Her comment, "Did it hurt when you put your hands in the microwave?" Normally I don't feel the heat from my own hands, I've had all my clients comment on it but I usually just break out in a heat flash when I hit one of their "spots" that needs work. With her my hands were so hot that when I put them in the position with one on top of the other it became almost too much too bear. It was unreal. When I did my initial scanning to see where she needed work, it felt like her solar plexus just reached up and grabbed my hands HERE LINDA, START HERE. The whole session was like that.

At one point, I was having some trouble getting a spot to clear so I reached behind me and took a crystal from my altar। I placed it in my palm and gently put her hand on mine and then my other hand on top of hers. When I need extra Reiki energy, I just focus on the love I feel for my client and allow the love of God to pour through me to them. Of course, with someone you know well this is a bit easier but we all have a Universal Love for all mankind that exists so it always works. But on my friend! I have never felt that much energy! When I pulled my hand away, I looked at my palm and hers because I was sure there had to be burn marks and an outline from the crystal. There wasn't....but wow.

The wildest thing of all: When I was attuned, my Reiki Master encouraged me to find my own Enlightened Being or Spirit Guide to be able to call upon when I feel like I need guidance। In meditations, this Guide has come to me and many times I feel His arms around my shoulders and I feel like the energy is pouring from Him down my arms into my hands and to my client. I feel a strong sense of healing at the same time. It's one of those woo woo things that I have never told anyone about. While I was sitting at my friend's feet, with a hand on each one, I felt the presence of my Guide hands on mine and I just kinda settled in, let it pour through and relaxed in the energy.

Out of nowhere my friend says, "wow, I just had the most amazingly clear image of Jesus laying his hands over yours and helping the healing coming through"

3 guesses on who my Spirit Guide is.

Ahhh Yoga.....Good

My class this morning was heavenly. While my students were in relaxation and I was sending them positive energy, I had a thought. It was that I am just never, ever more happy and fulfilled than when I am teaching. Do you ever just have those moments where you are just completely 'in the moment' and then you realize how great that moment really is? I have them all the time. It's a wonderful feeling--I call it joy.

Found a fun site this morning--was up late last night with my solar area hurting (no doubt all that nasty food I had been eating during the power outage) Sent some Reiki to it and fell asleep. Got up this morning and it was gone but I just had this nagging feeling it was trying to tell me something. When I did my morning meditation, I lit the solar chakra candle and concentrated energy there. Got curious about chakra sayings and went and googled it and found this site that gives you a test to see which chakra needs refining.

Go here http://www.cobolt.com.au/index.asp?pg=findchakra&sStatus=reset for the link to take it yourself.

Oh....and the one that I needed to refine?

Surely you don't need to ask. LOL! My results:

Well Done! The Chakra that you most need to refine is your Solar Plexus Chakra!...


Yellow: Self Esteem, Confidence, Power.The solar plexus is your inner sun (light), and it is about your relationship to yourself - how you feel about yourself - so from here comes self esteem, self confidence, self worth, or self doubt. This is also the seat of your power. The more genuine self worth you feel the more empowered you are, the more self doubt you have the less empowered you feel.

Big surprise right?