My Trip ….

I had the best trip to Dublin, Ohio! It was a two-fold trip, the first part was to see Connie Dohan and take her metaphysical business mentoring workshop and the second was to visit my younger sister and her daughter. I couldn’t have asked for a better trip had I had the opportunity to plan it for myself!

I have met some of the most interesting people on this trip. They are all warm, sincere, lovely people that have nothing more than the giving spirit that seems to surround people in the metaphysical world. Elaine, her friend, and I all went to the Festival of Light on Saturday. It was a really enjoyable time there. I spoke with several different people, the smiles were genuine and the joy was very real.

I think that the most interesting person that I met there was Frank. I don’t know his last name, but he even looks like a “fairy” person in the flesh. Elaine had met him first and he was giving her a treatment when Elaine’s friend and I walked up and watched. I have never seen a person with so much joy surrounding them before. Frank is a very tiny person, Elaine said that he was smaller than she was, but personally I think that they are about the same size. He was wearing purple plaid pajama bottoms, a baggy knit sweater with some design on it, and a denim shirt beneath that. His attire fit him to a tee. His long ponytail and scruffy beard were also fitting for this elfin creature. He had a smile and a simplicity that touched the heart and drew people to him. As Elaine put it, Frank is pure joy and he just makes you feel good being around him.

I don’t have enough room to write all that I did on this trip, but I will hit some of the highlights! Elaine’s friends and I went to Yellow Springs, an energy vortex in Ohio that is somehow stuck back in time. The energy there was wonderful and the little shops were fun to browse through. We did have a purpose for going to Yellow Springs as we were attending a group meditation there. It is held once a month, normally on the first Sunday of the month, but I was lucky as they had changed it to the second Sunday for this month.

Once again I met some people that I won’t forget. Lisbet (and I hope that I got her name correct!) is an amazing woman. She is the one that leads the meditations. She is a writer as well and it made me smile to realize that she belly dances! Her favorite is tribal dancing, which I enjoy as well. Her sweet and sincere spirit made her another person that I feel blessed to have met.

I learned a lot at Connie’s house, both in ways to help my business move along and ways to improve my Reiki treatments. I also received Reiki treatments from Connie and this was such an added bonus for me! I got to play with Connie’s metaphysical toys as well, I felt like a little girl in a toy shop! Of course, one of my favorite ones was the one that she used on my niece. It was a fairy wand that lit up with different lights as she told my niece that she doesn’t get enough recognition for the good works that she does so she touched her with the wand and told her what a good person she is!

It was very sweet of Connie to invite my sister and her daughter over on the last evening for homemade pizza and aura camera time! That is the most amazing metaphysical tool that she has, the aura camera. Someday … well someday I would love to have one as well! I checked the prices out and decided that might be a bit down the road, but it’s on the list!

It was a wonderful, amazing trip. I couldn’t have asked for anything better. I came away with so many good ideas and a business plan that will help to grow our Center. I feel more capable of doing the things that I feel called to do, to make it easier to help more people and continue with what I have begun. Life is good!

I Just Realized Something …

I was reading over some of my writings that have to do with different Client treatments and what was or wasn’t done during the treatment. I didn’t realize that I have switched from using the word “I” to the word “we”. That’s how strong it is, this guiding that I am receiving, that it isn’t an “I” thing, it is most certainly a “we” thing.

I am never alone when I have a Client in the room; I am never alone at any time as far as that goes. The more that I open myself to “hearing” what my guides are telling me to do, the more things that I learn in the realm that I find myself in. It is amazing to me, the things that I can learn when I am open and ready to receive the instruction.

I had to smile as I read things like “and then we picked up this or that and did this with it”. I hadn’t even realized until I reread my writings that I was using the term “we”. It’s an accurate term.

During a treatment the other day, a new Angel appeared. She was all dressed in pink. She told me that she has been there all the time; I just haven’t been ready to see her. She’s a powerful Angel that heals the Client of stress to the heart. She has a very calming manner to her and her smile is, well it’s angelic.

There is a union at work here. I am the person that the Client sees, but I’m not the only one that is there helping them to feel better. I am part of a team and it’s a powerful team! I am the least of the members of this team. I know that the team is huge and that I only know some of the main players. The quarterbacks and the receivers are the ones that I’ve worked with the most. Now I’m beginning to learn the names of all of those on the line that aren’t in the spotlight, but without them, we couldn’t accomplish the things that we do.

It’s such an exciting world that I’ve entered into! The rewards are huge. Those that come to me are the ones that should be there. It is a fit from the first. How they are led to be there is a journey all by itself!

I have three new Practical Reiki Students about ready to receive their certification. It’s been asked if I worry about competition. Not in the least! Every person is directed to the Reiki Practitioner that is right for them, there is no exception. The more Reiki Practitioners that are out helping those in need, the better that things will be.

The True Miracle …

I can’t tell in words the reality of how good it feels to know that I have made a difference in someones life. This week has shown me just how blessed I am in having guides that work so well with me and the loving light of the Angels that are always in the room and helping as I work with my Clients. This is a journey that helps others, but it helps me more than I can express.

To be able to see with my own eyes the progress that is being made by my Clients is huge! It can’t be denied. One came in to show me that her poor swollen fingers, swollen so badly from rheumatoid arthritis that they were painful and had no movement at all, have places that are no longer swollen. That she can actually pinch skin and move it! On top of the noticeable physical changes, her emotional well being has changed so much. She has energy, she wants to do things and her smile is so beautiful that I can’t help but smile back at her. Such is the miracle of energy work.

To have another come in the next day, again all smiles and glowing, such a transformation! To have her tell me that her week was amazing to her; that others have commented on how good she looks. Her outlook is so much brighter and clearer and she is embracing life at the moment. What more could anyone ask for?

The hugs and happiness of my Clients is a big deal to me. I don’t work alone, I’ve never worked alone and I don’t claim to be the worker of miracles. The true miracle is the miracle of the Universal Light Energy and the ability to work with it. To know and trust the things that you see and hear to be true and follow through with them are a part of that miracle. To be able to see beyond the scope of my physical eyes and understand (though I don’t always understand) what I see and know that the energy and my helpers will be there to assist, always there to assist me, is a big deal.

Thank you, my wonderful little sister, for encouraging me to learn about the gift of Reiki. It is truly a gift and my Clients are a gift to me as well. By helping them, I help myself. It is a win-win situation and it makes my world a very beautiful place to be living in.

My Birthday Thoughts

I was wondering if 53 is really old enough to have any profound birthday thoughts. I guess it doesn’t matter the age, anyone can have thoughts that seem, to them anyway, profound.

On this day I have the chance to look back at where I’ve been and ahead to where it is that I am going. While the past is very clear, my future is not all that clear. It is open to infinite possibilities and in that respect I am a very blessed person. I have learned so many new things about myself, about life in general, and about things that I am capable of when I decide to just be open to whatever comes along.

To go back in time, to see where I have been before and equate it with where I am now, it’s hard for me to wrap my mind around at times. The person that had to hold a wall while she walked to keep from falling over has moved on to a different arena. It’s as though she never existed but in a very bizarre movie. I know that she did exist; she had to exist so that she could fully comprehend the magnitude of where she was versus where she is today; where I am today.

Brad tells me that I haven’t cured myself yet. I understand that as I have an incurable disease, that doesn’t mean that I have any intention of being any less than what I am capable of. I believe that the mind is the strongest part of any person. The things that can be accomplished when a person really puts their mind to it are nothing short of amazing. Miracles happen at that level. I believe in miracles, I don’t think being cured as a miracle, I think living a full and wonderful life; helping others with Reiki, continually learning and growing, regardless of my age, that is the true miracle. Deciding that age has no relevancy to what I can or cannot accomplish is a miracle. My medical records have no part in this, it’s me being all that I can be and loving every minute of it.

I have been blessed to see first hand what energy work is capable of doing. As a person progresses with treatments I know that the energy has made a difference. I have had a client with rheumatoid arthritis come and show me that her fingers aren’t as swollen as they have been for so many years. She could pinch the skin and it was loose, she hasn’t been able to do this for a very, very long time. Is she cured, no, is she better, yes!

Smiles are a very good indication of how things are going, so are hugs. I judge my life on both and I receive a very large amount of both of them, smiles and hugs. On this day, I couldn’t ask for anything more than what I already have. The future is filled with promise and bright sunshine. I have a family that I love very much. My life is filled with people that bring out the best in me. Happy birthday to me and I truly expect to have many, many more of them.

“The Orion Mystery”, a Review of Sorts

I just finished reading a book called “The Orion Mystery”. It was a very interesting book and I learned things that I had no clue of before. The book was recommended reading for me by an influential guide to my spiritual journey. I took it with me on our vacation to California, enjoying the ability to relax and read. This wasn’t the type of book that you could relax and read without paying attention to what it was that you were reading!

We stopped to have dinner with friends on our trip. They were interested in this book as well as it dealt with the Egyptian pyramids. They had made a trip there two years prior to this and had actually walked in some of the areas that were being described in the book. They gave me more insight to the things that I had read up to that point. I had never been able to pick the constellation of Orion out in the sky before, I can now. The link between the Pyramids and Orion is amazing to me.

There is a lot of very specific jargon in the book pertaining to longitudes and latitudes, meridian lines, angles, the movements of the stars, and a religion that I had no idea of its existence, the stellar religion. I wish to learn more of this religion after reading this book.

While in California, we spent a lot of time outdoors. The sky is so vast from the desert, it seems as though standing there in the dark, I was one with the sky and the stars. Orion stood out clearly; I found it on my very first glance at the night sky. I wondered at the thoughts that went through the minds of the Egyptian people as they stood, all those years ago, and watched the night skies. They were very observant of the stars and their movements.

The pyramids at Giza hold a new meaning for me. I look at them differently than before. I will always marvel at them, but to realize the full magnitude of what they represent is almost more than a mortal mind can comprehend. The night sky, built on mother earth. The magnitude of that undertaking is huge. All those years ago, way before the birth of Christ, they had it figured out. They understood what they were looking at and the Egyptians matched it, star for pyramid, upon the earth. The river Nile runs as the Milky Way, it’s truly amazing.

As I stood and felt the night sky around me, watching the stars rise and move across the sky, each star appearing slowly as the night deepened, I could almost feel the awe that went through the Egyptians as they put things together. I feel in awe of all that I have learned. I miss not having that huge expanse of sky at the moment as I am back home in the Pacific Northwest with the clouds covering the sky.

I highly recommend this book to any that are interested in the meaning behind the Pyramids. I will never look at the constellation of Orion again without thinking of the Pyramids and the amazing understanding of the Egyptians that built them.

This is a bit of a post script to this blog entry. I received a gift last night for my birthday and it mentions once again the “star people” in reference to Native Americans. Until last night I hadn’t put things together, but both the Egyptians and the Indian tribes looked to the night skies in religious beliefs. When I set sacred space for the Munay-Ki, it’s “Father spirit, leader of the Star Nation” that I ask to help set my sacred space. It’s an interesting thought and one that I shall have to think upon a bit more.

The Ability to see Takes More than Just Your Eyes

It is amazing to me that I became a Reiki Master only last May. That means that I have not been a Master a full year yet - my how things change in such a short amount of time! When I first started to learn Reiki I had no idea that I would literally “see” things. I realized this possibility when I did my first self-healing. I saw pictures in my mind while giving Reiki to myself. I didn’t know about Clairs at that time and had no idea what this meant, but I went with it.

Then I started giving Reiki to other people and that was the first time that I heard the word “Clairvoyant” used in describing myself. I had to absorb this a bit and then decided that they were incorrect. Did I ever have a lot to learn at that time! I started seeing all sorts of things while giving Reiki after that. I would see things in metaphor. These would normally be things of an emotional origin. Of course there was the time that I kept seeing flashes of wedding veils and wedding rings, I had to ask after the treatment if my Client was getting married! I should have known, well I guess I did know, they were getting married and hadn’t told anyone about it yet!

In the beginning I saw things that I didn’t understand. With Connie Dohan’s help I am beginning to understand the things that I see when it comes to the medical as well as the emotional realm. The newest metaphor was a paw that kept coming up. It was a different type of paw each time, but it was always from the underside of the paw and the claws were always curved as if ready to strike. This led me to ask my Client if they were having little prickly type pains anywhere on their body. They were! They had been having prickly pains like pin pricks on the top of their head. Sometimes the deciphering takes a bit, but sooner or later I can figure it out. I am getting much better at just telling the Client what I see and letting them tell me what it means to them.

I am seeing more and more animals all the time as well. I now have a reference book to grab close to hand to understand the significance of the animal that wandered through. I had to smile as one Client had two different animals wander through, but when I looked them up they both came from the same animal family. The meaning was the same but it was reinforced by the two different animals.

I feel that I am slowly but surely being led in a certain direction. The things that I am starting to deal with came to me slowly but oh so very surely. There is a reason that I am learning about certain types of healing that were never introduced in my Reiki classes. There is a reason that I have met the people that I have. These are people that know what I am describing to them and they know how to deal with it. I don’t think that it’s the ordinary run of the mill stuff that is coming through my doors, but it is not boring stuff.

The ultimate compliment to anyone in this industry is to have a Client crying tears of happiness after a treatment because they no longer hurt. Reiki energy is available to everyone, we all can be attuned to the energy and channel it for the greater good. I cannot stress enough how good it feels to know that you can truly help someone that feels they have lost all hope in ever getting better. To be able to give in this way, to be able to learn more and more how to work with this wonderful energy along with the other modalities that I am learning is fulfilling. I am not alone when I work with a Client; I am surrounded with loving, helping, healing guides. I listen to them and I no longer question what I hear. Do I believe in miracles? I feel the fact that we are living and breathing is a miracle and a blessing, so I would guess that the answer is a very resounding yes.

I am learning …

I have discovered that there isn’t anything normal about giving a Reiki treatment. Each and every one of them are a new experience.

I am learning by leaps and bounds how to deal with these new and different experiences that I am coming up against. What might have scared me even a few short weeks ago is very quickly becoming the normal. It is more that the abnormal and unusual is what the new normal in our little Center is!

I am teaching Jen and Julie Practical Reiki. I think that this is a very good addition to what we are doing as there are times it takes more than just me to do the energy work. Julie is taking a class for her continuing education credits on Massage and Energy work. I am really excited about that, what an addition to what we are doing here!

Jen is busy writing up her meditation classes as we now have people that are interested in learning how to meditate.

I have discovered that if you are truly open to whatever the Universe has for you things move in a hurry. I no longer question anything, I just go with it. There are things in this world that you can’t question, they just are. When you decide, and yes it is a decision, to let go of the doubt and judgment, the doors open in your world and the most beautiful things can appear before you. Of course, we all need to remember that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and not all out there might agree with my assessment of what is beautiful!

In a short week I have seen things that had I been introduced to them at an earlier time, I would have said either I was crazy or you were. Guess what? No one is crazy. Things are what they are and sometimes it takes going a very long way out of the box to help others to heal. Don’t ever question what your intuition is telling you, it probably knows much more than you do.