Catching up

It's been a bit since I've written, am I getting a bit rusty in the writing arena? I hope not! I have been busy, though I'm not sure that's the main reason that I haven't written in a while. I'll work on the reasoning behind the action, it's somewhere floating around in my head and I will find it one of these days.

There is a new, revamped website up and running for Ethereal Touch. I will get all the quirks figured out sooner or later. I am also getting my classes set up to teach on the Internet as well as live in my office. The classes are fun and I've discovered that I love to teach!

I am on the "Faculty" of The Ohio Nursing League and am teaching Practical Reiki (8 CE's for Nurses) through the Reiki Awakening Academy. It was a bit of a smiling moment to see the OK come through and realize that my name is on this list. Who would have thought?

Where do I go from here? What direction do I continue in? I love what I do, I love the people that I meet and interact with on this path that I am on. It is something that is both humbling and rewarding as I listen to the words of appreciation and know that I've made a difference in someones life. I've been looked at and simply told "fix me".

Energy work is a powerful thing, it's an empowering thing. Working with energy and a Client is a team effort, the Client helps themselves as the energy moves through their own systems. It is empowering to know that you are helping to bring your body back into balance so that it can heal as it was meant to do.

I can give Reiki all day long to a person that doesn't want to get better, for whatever reason that might be, and while they may or may not improve, they won't stay that way. Give me another person that is ready for things to be better, the energy is received and the progress is truly amazing. It is a team effort, and the team is comprised of myself, the Client, and the energy that flows all around us.

I read a short statement the other day. It read "Empowerment through Knowledge". I like that statement. I completely agree, knowledge is empowering. Having an open mind to new ideas and understanding helps in gaining that empowerment. I encourage everyone to be like a sponge and soak up all the information that they can. Don't take things at face value that you are told, research what interests you, find the truth behind it for yourself and make it your truth as well.

This Month’s Reiki Share

It’s been busy the past little bit! I am learning so much from my Crystal Healing classes.  My teacher is a biologist and I am learning a lot of the “scientific” information behind why crystals work so well. It’s really interesting to me.

I held a Reiki Share on Sunday and as such I did a very simple demonstration of how energy works. I hoped that it would work as I planned, I hadn’t done any testing prior to the Share, but I knew that the theory was sound, so the demonstration should work just fine. It did!

I made up a crystal grid as I had learned during class. I made it a healing grid and I put it in the form of the eternity symbol. I did nothing more than lay out the crystals and let it be. Then I took a set of divining rods (the type used for finding water sources) and the premise is that as you walk towards the grid, the rods swing outward when they “sense” the energy from the grid.

With the grid just set up, nothing more, the energy field stopped at the edge of the crystals, no further out than that. Then I lit a candle that was sitting beside the grid. From that one small step, the energy was sensed a bit further out from the crystals.

My next step was to “charge” the crystals. I did this with a large crystal point. I ran it from the center stone to each crystal in the grid in turn, connecting them all together in an energy pattern. This created a much larger circle of energy around the grid. I had to step back further to be able to have the rods sense the energy.

We left the grid, candle burning, and moved on to our discussion on chakras. After allowing the grid to be for a bit, I checked the energy level once more, this time it reached almost across the room. This was a very impressive show of how energy works and how it can grow and build.

It was a nice afternoon. We all received Reiki Healing (even me!) in a group setting. I was very proud of my Practical Reiki Students, they are doing so well! They were able to sense the places that needed attention on the “client” with their hands in the body scans. It is exciting to see the sensitivity in their hands getting stronger.

Next month’s Reiki Share is going to be a continuation on the crystals grids, and who knows that else I might pick up along the way! It’s a fun afternoon of teaching, learning, and sharing this wonderful gift of energy that the Universe provides us.