My Love Affair with Reiki

About 10 years ago, my life came crashing down around me. It was shocking in its thoroughness and magnitude. In a short period of time, I lost my job in a sexual discrimination snafu. I got divorced. Not only found I was infertile but that I needed a hysterectomy to be comfortable in my body.  I got re-married. My step-daughter died in a motorcycle accident. We sold everything and traveled by RV, and moved to Hawaii.

Whew. 

Then my health collapsed. I got a headache that would not stop. It did not respond to Western medicine, acupuncture, chiropractic, massage. Nothing. I learned a lot along the way, and I cleaned up my body and my health choices along the way. 

Then Reiki arrived in my life. And it was so gentle. 

So gentle, in fact, that I didn't notice at first. But Reiki is persistent and patient.

Gradually, as I received Reiki from a practitioner, I noticed that my thoughts were less about blaming myself for not being healthy enough, and moving toward the ideas that I could bring myself back into balance. 

And that is what has happened, and continues to happen. Over the course of a year, I took the training to become a Reiki Master, and I found myself becoming more balanced and healthy in my head and heart than I have been in my life.

When I first started practicing Reiki, I had to discipline myself to do 5 minutes every day. Now I apply Reiki to all my life -- meditation, driving in town, talking with friends, playing music, and relaxing.

My love affair with Reiki is one that brings me great peace and joy, and I'm thrilled to be able to share it with others...

Reiki Tip: What is Reiki?

Reiki is the Universal Life Force energy that can be directed through human hands into concentrated doses to relax the body, mind, heart, and spirit and allow natural healing.

You deliver Reiki when you comfort someone. When you kiss a boo-boo. When you hold a friend when she is grieving. This is Reiki. You give Reiki when you comfort a scared dog and sing to your plants. You give Reiki when you pay for someone else's toll, let someone else go first, smile at a stranger.

A Reiki practitioner has been trained and entrained to deliver this energy of comfort in concentrated doses. Think of it as Love on Steroids. Reiki can be applied many ways, mostly commonly hands-on delivery. Some share Reiki through artwork, and I like to share Reiki through music and videos.

Reiki is the art of giving comfort. It is a folk art, which means that anyone is capable of doing it.
Reiki practitioners learn how to give it in concentrated doses.

Reiki Music...a YouTube meditation

As Reiki practitioners and energy healers -- whether you have received formal training or not -- it's always helpful and handy to have a place where you can relax and put your feet up.

After lots of teaching and session work, it's nice to receive the flow of Reiki yourself. YouTube offers many lovely Reiki music videos, little retreats from the day. Here's one from the artist, Llewellyn.




Let me know about your favorite Reiki videos and music. I'd love to share them with others.

Blessings and Aloha from Hawai'i! -- Cymber Lily