Paradigm shift?

Isn’t it funny how I knew virtually no-one who did Reiki, and yet suddenly so many people seem to be drawn into my world that either have been trained in it and use it themselves or who have had energetic experiences of some sort or another? I put a comment on Facebook to the effect that I’d booked my first course and was expecting a load of quips (especially from the blokes in my life) to accompany the support from those closer to me. What in fact materialised was a string of comments from people who I’d never have imagined being interested in such things, all of whom had either trained as Reiki healers or who dreamt of doing so. Mad. It’s like buying a new car and then seeing the same make everywhere you look.

 

I went to a meeting yesterday and mentioned in the break that I was off on a Reiki course the following week. No sooner than the words were out of my mouth than the chap who was hosting the lunch went to his bookshelf and produced a treasured copy of Barbara Brennan’s Hands of Light – A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field which he has very kindly lent me. What a fascinating book, so honest and full of insight. It gripped me into the wee small hours last night.

 

I seem to read things that leap out at me from every source imaginable that make me realise that many credible people I’ve admired over the years have a deep understanding and respect for these energetic forces, even if they might package it up differently and put their own particular human label on it. I’m not talking about overtly religious or spiritual works, although of course they are equally valid. The wonderful Sally Swift and her amazing Centred Riding book, the world-class show jumper Michel Robert and his visualisation techniques before a round & coaching methods (you might have noticed I am horsey…), Marie-Claire Carlyle whose How to Become a Money Magnet inspired me when our backs were up against a financial wall, the amazing Australian speaker and lifestyle coach DrJoanna Martin who really grasps how women can capitalise on their female strengths, and Bob Proctor of course with The Secret and The 11 Forgotten Laws.  Albert Einstein, I read in Barbara Brennan's book, once said ‘I maintain that cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest incitement to scientific research’. Albert Einstein for heaven’s sake, you don’t get much more credible than that. Barbara Brennan herself is not only a healer, but has an MS in Atmospheric Physics and was a research scientist for NASA. Frankly I’m incredulous that I’ve scraped through the past 45 years without realising.

 

Everywhere I look, at business conferences, in webinars, in books I read and articles that are tweeted I keep coming across references to the huge paradigm shift that lies ahead. An evolution of mankind, a fine honing of our consciousness and a desire to do go about life in a more organic, compassionate and collaborative way, a more feminine way. My Reiki teacher Laura Lefebvre said she has more contacts than ever before recently from people wanting to learn from her. There is much talk of a massive increase in energy that is compelling this process to happen. I can’t help feeling that it’s true, and I know from the very depths of me that I want to be part of that change.