Changes and New Phases

My life has gone through many changes lately and one more tie to the past has just been shed. After almost three years, the Reiki Meetup has been dissolved. The feeling that I have had of the need to move in a different direction has been growing these past several months and so too it must have been with Myles.

I am grateful for the many sessions of sharing fascinating discussions, debates,  and tablework. I have met so many fascinating and gifted people in this journey.  I am studying towards my Master Teacher designation and I am eagerly anticipating the developments that this change brings with it.

I look forward to maintaining contact with those who wish; reikithoughts@gmail.com.

Blessed Be.

Sometimes you just need that extra little “umph.”

Reiki Circle was tonight and we dived into the work like always after our own individual prep. Working, working, working. All through the first treatment, I was feeling incredibly itchy. Suddenly I felt like I was having an allergic reaction on my skin. So I asked what kind of environments the person had been in, who they had been interacting with, how they were feeling. Well, no obvious sources came out of the discussion.

I decided we all needed to smudge. I pulled out a special mixture of smudge and used my Raven wing fan. Sure enough, I smudged the client and then both of us doing the treatment smudged, my itching disappeared. The others also indicated that they felt better after smudging and it was suggested that we smudge before each Reiki Circle as a habit.

And I might just make sure that I have the smudge bowl out next time. Sometimes you just need that extra little “umph” that you can get from using a different technique or tool.

Remembering the gifts we are given

I was wracking my brain to come up with a topic for meetup this past week and I happened across some groups on Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=103927806318561, and other blogs  requesting people send Reiki to the oil spill, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10093904.stm, and its effects  in the Gulf of Mexico.  I know I get so lost in the loop of doing and running and checking tasks off of my lists that I have periods of time where I forget to engage in some simple ways to give back to my community.  As a Reiki practitioner I have a beautiful tool for sending energetic support to endeavours for which I can’t be physically present.

Distance Reiki, Hon-Sha-Ze-Sho-Nen, is a significant part of the tool kit but I find that additional tools can help me focus. I decided to bring up this topic with the meetup group.  I have quite a few tools that I use to aide my focus for Distance Reiki. I have a Reiki healing altar that includes crystals, a candle, and a golf ball. The crystals are only used in healing work and I can send energy to them or through them. The candle is only lit when I wish to send Reiki to a specific person or situation; it is regularly charged with Reiki as well as it has many Reiki symbols drawn on it with a marker. The golf ball is imprinted with the image of the globe so I use it for healing Mother Earth.

Some of the books in my Reiki library talk of Reiki boxes in which practitioners put names, photographs, situations, or representative items and then send Reiki to the box as a whole. Using a stuffed toy or doll as a proxy for the recipient is another great way of refining your focus for Reiki. I have printed off maps or made drawings of a country or location to which I am sending Reiki. I used the map method for some work I did with the Haitian earthquake in January.

I was grateful for the reminder that I have this gift I can share even as I am sad that there are so many difficult situations that would benefit from Reiki.