learn reiki

So, tomorrow night is ball, and my friend A and I were discussing our preference for Strongbow cider over any other ciders, or beer, for that matter. As the conversation wore on, we decided that tomorrow night we’d go somewhere that serves Hoegarden, because I think A would like it – not very “beer-y” tasting, just that nice ginger-y sparkly taste. Well, she may order one, but I won’t be.

Then I’ve been invited out on Saturday night for wine and a movie….then I get an email from The Cottage organizer telling me to be sure to bring some wine or whatever I’d like to drink…. and the worst part is that I’m not a heavy drinker, AT ALL. Whenever my doctor asks me at my yearly physical how many servings of alcohol I think I have in a week, my standard answer is “0.3”. I can go weeks – sometimes even months – at a time without having alcohol. But now that I can’t, I have all these opportunities to. Man, being pregnant is going to be a bitch.

I just realised that next week is the week I will go to The Cottage to work. I’ve been hired to treat the guests at this cottage for a few days; they pay me for the work I do and I get to eat and stay with them – and socialize with them! They are an amazing group of people: mostly older women who have been friends for decades. I worked there last year with my friend M who is a reiki master and pyshic medium. She has opened the energy in that place so that it is very easy for spirits to come through to those who are open. She is not able to attend this year, and has passed the torch on to me, and I am very honoured. But when I realised how quickly the date is approaching, I realised that I have not been diligent in my practice of reiki. M feels that my third eye will be opened even further during my stay there, thanks to my mom. So, I need to practice every night this week in order to prepare myself. I also have to remember to not drink any caffiene or alcohol. The alcohol is not a problem, I don’t drink that much any more…but I just have to remember if I go out after ball this week I can’t have a beer. And caffiene, well, I will just have to do without.

To add this:

I was thinking last night about how I should have been doing reiki on myself, I felt I needed it. I thought about how I should have been lighting a candle as well, to clear the energy in my room and as I lay there, I thought more about reiki and energy, and my mind started to drift to FB and our situation, and how I wanted to manifest a change in our current ‘standings’ when all of a sudden, I heard someone say very loudly, and a kind of angrily “Don’t do it.” I couldn’t tell if it was a male or female voice, it was almost asexual. But it scared me!! I asked my mom’s spirit to come to me, and I felt her enter the room. So I lay there with my heart pounding for a few minutes until I calmed down enough to fall asleep. I know my third eye is opening more and more, and my mom has a lot to do with that. I am grateful, and excited to develop my abilities, but sometimes it catches me off guard.

On a client of mine; she was super keen to try it. She wanted to “see” things; her sisters had had reiki done at different times and “saw” colours and felt incredible sadness that then left them. She was hoping for a Big Thing as well. I told her that everyone was different. I also told her she might feel like she was asleep or flying….she felt neither. I shouldn’t have said that. I should have just stuck with “everyone’s experience is different”. She didn’t see anything. I don’t think she’s a seer. I think she’s a feeler. She told me my hands were boiling hot on her hips and legs, but nowhere else.

She was hoping for a sign of The Afterlife. She wanted a message from a family member or friend who had passed over. She told me a brother whom she had been really close with had made her promise him when they were very little that if she died first, she had to come back and give him a sign. She told him that if he died first to leave her alone (hilarious!). He passed away over twenty years ago, and she is beating herself up for telling him not to come around. But she doesn’t realise he’s been right there all along. He laughed when she told me that. I saw him.

How do you tell someone that all they’ve ever wanted is right there in front of them? How do you express how important it is to NOT look for it. Because it’s in the not seeking that we see the most.

I will have to ask my friend about this; I have been having trouble lately with feeling “left out” by my friends. I have tried to get together with some of them, I have wanted to initiate us getting together more often, and it never works. But all of a sudden last night I was having three conversations at once with three different friends on MSN; then today a good friend emailed me out of the blue and is desperate to get together; another friend just emailed me – more so because she needs a treatment – but still. Five people is enough to warrant some interest.

I guess its just been a shift. Very interesting.

Just did this today.

My friend is a Reiki Master, and has just started teaching. I love it!!! I’ve been waiting for her to become a master; I’ve always wanted to learn from her – as she said to me today, I’ve been called to do Reiki for a long, long time. I was just waiting for her to be the one to attune me.

I realised in class today when I was practising on my partner that I have been doing Reiki on my own, just without being attuned. Which may not have been such a good idea, but I didn’t realise it…so…..yeah. Anyway, the feeling I had when going through the hand placements is the feeling I have when I’m treating most days. I can feel the energy flowing down from above and through me into whomever I’m working on. So I’m happy about that.

We discussed not being present while treating others; and how its a bad thing. But lately I have been feeling like I have a gift to treat other people. And maybe I’m not honouring that gift by not being “present” fully, but at the same time, I feel like I just don’t have any idea of what I’m doing and yet I’m still doing good. I’m not sure this is making sense. I guess I feel like something is moving through me at all times – it’s not really me, or even belongs to me. Its like I’m being used as some other being’s vessel. All I kept thinking while practising Reiki today was that hymn “Make me a vessel of your peace”. It was an interesting feeling.

I now know why I was such a cranky pants all week; M told us what signs we would have experienced over the week as our bodies prepared for receiving attunement, and I pretty much went through all of them. heh. So I’m really interested to see how I feel now following this class and receiving treatment. M is also a medium, and can see and hear spirits, and passes on messages. So while I was treating my partner, she was watching my hand positions and she started laughing. I didn’t pay any attention, but she told me my mum was there and she was going to tell me what she said after I was finished. Turns out Mummy (my birth mom; passed away just before I turned two) really likes FB, but she’s pissed at him because he doesn’t have his head straight – he can’t decide what he wants. Which I know. Anyway, M was laughing because Mummy showed her an image of herself smacking FB across the head. I laughed then too, because she’s done that before to him. Heh. Glad she’s on my side and even happier she likes him. :) Apparently she has more messages for me, but she told M that they were private, and she wouldn’t share them with her. So now I have to figure out how I’m supposed to hear them. I think I will ask her to write them down for me and show them to me in a book, or on a board or something.

I’m so blessed with all that Reiki has brought me, and all it will continue to bring me.

Saturday is The day!! I’m pretty jazzed. I’ve been told to avoid caffiene and alcohol for the week. But I’ve already gone without caffiene for at least a week, and I was just dying this morning, so I broke down. I filled my cup three-quarters full with decaf, and less than a quarter of regular. So it’s not as bad as it could have been.

I’m taking a Level One class in March. Pretty excited. My last client tonight just blurted out: “So what do you think of Reiki?” Totally random, and not at all the type of person I would have expected to want reiki!!

Anyway, she’s first on the list of people to treat. I’m even more excited now.