Reiki ll

Finally, finally I made it to my Reiki ll course. I’ve been itching to go for a while now but with one thing or another I had to keep putting it off; either the money wasn’t there, the car was off the road, I was too busy at work or we had something else on. After what seemed like a really lengthy wait the course was finally arranged for this Monday, only to wake to find the roads were too treacherous with recent snow and ice, and Laura, my Reiki Master was in bed shrugging off a heavy cold.  I was really disappointed that the course was postponed, and spent one of those days (quite rare at the moment) when nothing seems to go right and I felt completely lethargic.  The course was rearranged for the following morning. As usual I woke around 3 am, but this time brimming over with energy and realised that there was a beautiful full moon. I reckon that course was meant to happen when it did.

What a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful day I spent. As much as anything it was just lovely to have the day to bounce a million questions off Laura and spend the day chatting to someone who completely understood what I have been living over the past few months. She’s only in her forties but I reckon she’s a very, very old soul; she speaks such wisdom.  I came away from my day with a great sense of clarity (and a very long reading list!).  The most significant moment for me was when Laura looked me directly in the eyes and said that she had been teaching Reiki for fifteen years and that what I was experiencing was very rare; most of her students didn’t feel the Reiki with the intensity that I have been, and that she had felt from my first attunement that healing is to play a very important role in my life.  I think I have known it for some time, but I didn’t dare believe it could be true.

Most of the day was spent learning about and practising the sacred symbols. As you know, I’d already picked up quite a bit via the Internet and had started using them for distant healing with some success.  I quickly realised (as I had suspected) that I had only a rudimentary understanding.  Many of the fundamentals had been missing, and I came away with what I can only describe as a profound reverence of them.

The day finished with my attunement, just one this time, as opposed to the four attunements during my Reiki l.  It was beautiful, and very, very powerful.  I saw the colours in the same way as during my Reiki l but the energy was extremely strong.  At one point I felt like someone was sitting on my chest and back, pushing them together.

Of course, I couldn’t wait to put what I’d learned into practice, so that evening I gave my husband a Reiki massage.  For the first time ever I could see the energy rippling over his body and shimmering, pulsing, a bit like when you look at the sun shining on the sea on a hazy day.  I cleansed my crystals (which I am also now starting to see in a whole new light, as partners and friends as opposed to mere objects) and the heat that came off them when I did so was quite astonishing. I also did a distant healing for my sister-in-law in the UK who has been troubled by arthritis very young (and received email confirmation the following morning that she had spent a pain-free evening). I felt far more connected to the energy, and more rapidly, and can definitely sense it more strongly (which I hadn’t thought possible).  There is no doubt that the symbols feel more powerful when used in an informed way. 

When meditating I have felt a tightening around my forehead like something is busy working away on my third eye chakra.  I now have to give myself a self-Reiki for 21 days, in much the same way as I had to when I did my first attunements.