Part of the same.

I feel so blessed to have Reiki in my life.  What an amazing, wonderful, uplifting day I spent yesterday.  Yesterday morning I gave a treatment to a close friend whose dad had passed away a couple of years earlier and who had buried her mum last week after many years struggling with dementia.  Around 18 months ago she had had an operation on a non-malignant tumour behind her ear that was nevertheless pressing on her brain and would have been life-threatening if not removed, and which had left her face partially paralysed in the same way that a stroke would have done.

I first did a quick Reiki session on her dog who had cut his paw open several days earlier.  I felt very few of the sensations I’ve come to associate with Reiki and will be interested to see if she recovers more quickly or not, as my mind and the energy were really guiding me towards doing a full treatment on my friend.  I wasn’t truly ‘present’ when treating the dog, although I did have the best of intentions.

The treatment on my friend was very powerful, and I sensed a huge amount of energy throughout the session.  I felt guided to put my hands in positions that I have not used before, particularly around her mouth, chin, brow and one side of her face.  I saw many different colours, blues, violets, orange and gold, but I was also aware of a very intense white light throughout much of the treatment.  Afterwards, without my having mentioned it, my friend said that she had felt as if she was had the sensation of being bathed in white light, and a sensation almost as if water was being pumped gently through her body. 

From early on in the treatment I had a recurring thought that, although in my usual ‘inner voice’, seemed somehow disconnected from my ‘own’ thoughts.  Over and over I heard “Tell her, tell her.  We are not apart. We can never be separate as we are part of the same.”  I cannot for the life of me find the words to explain how but I knew it was a message from her parents.  As the treatment was drawing to an end I felt the most overwhelming feeling of intense love, so powerful that I felt it physically, and it left me with tears rolling down my cheeks as the session drew to a close.  I feel truly honoured to have been in the presence of such raw and deep-felt emotion.

I finished the morning by treating her horse who had had a bout of colic a week or so earlier and who had since had filled (swollen) legs.  Even a non-believer would have been convinced that something was working on some unseen level by her expressions during treatment.  She kept chewing and yawning and turning round looking at her stomach.  I found that my hands were drawn to a blockage just in front of her hindquarters (behind her saddle) and I felt I needed to keep them there longer than usual.  As I did so her stomach started growling and rumbling, and when I put my hands on her filled legs her stomach rumbled in the same place.  I can’t wait to see if the swelling goes down.

I can’t believe how my own family life has changed since I started working with Reiki.  My husband, who I can see now was deeply, deeply miserable, has a spring in his step and is interested in his work.  We laugh together so much more as a family now, and my husband and I seem to have found the love and affection that was present when we first met, and which has been absent for many, many years now.  My life, quite frankly, was a mess before, but now I seem to be much more focused and am finally getting some semblance of order back into my life.  Another of those thoughts that don’t seem like any of the thoughts I’ve previously had is that we are ‘Like trees who must shed their dead leaves before generating new growth’.  I feel that as a family we have been shedding much of the old, negative energy, thoughts and actions and they are slowly but surely being replaced with something more positive and profound.  I feel much more driven by kindness and compassion and a recurring thought is ‘How can I serve?’ as opposed to ‘What’s in it for me?’.  It’s taken me a long time, but I finally realise that my life is so much more satisfying now that it is driven by love than it was when I was motivated by material things, by what I own, or what I do. I feel an incredible sense of peace because I don’t just believe, I know that this body is just a container for the eternal spirit and love of something that is too big or incredible to name.