Fellow Energy Workers

I have been out of contact with other energy workers. At first, I didn't think about the impact of this. But I realize that contact with other energy workers (especially those with higher vibrations) is really important. It helps me ground as well as connect to the community vibration.
When I am losing touch with the people around me, it's easy to look to the spirit realm, but then sometimes I lose touch with connecting with fellow energetic souls.

I just joined a group of women in spiritual pursuit and the group is really good for me. I can speak freely about my experiences, use my intuition all the time (instead of only when appropriate socially), question the dominant paradigm and transform old beliefs. That helps with my practice a lot.

I love doing Reiki and many folks have been asking about it...but I am out of practice in communicating effectively about one of the gifts I've been given. I LOVE to channel Reiki for others and I love getting paid to do it. It's better than therapy and it feels so good.

This group is reminding me that I love this, that I'm an excellent channel, and that my work is needed in the world. Sometimes I forget.

Let It Flow

I've been having a strange block between my third and second chakra. It's not that my second is slow, or my third, but they don't connect. It's like I am good at trust in relationships, but I don't let that trust or that power in the relationship move into my third chakra to EMPOWER me. Friendship, marriage, family, etc. I let that energy just sit there. So I am working on melting the barriers. Letting my little girl guide me through that incorporation. She's been talking to me a lot lately. Reassuring me, talking to me, spiritually kicking my belly. It's a weird feeling to already feel spiritually pregnant. Luckily, no morning sickness. :)

I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends...

In a session last night I felt some more feelings about what it's like to be a lightworker. While I have been a Reiki practitioner for a time (4 years!), I have most likely been a lightworker most, if not all, of my life. As someone who connects with unseen beings, plants, and God/Spirit easily, it's not always easy to find others like me. I have struggled with that for a while. Recently I have found a few folks I can speak candidly to about my experiences, but I'd love to do it more and with more people. Everyone is on their own path regarding consciousness and it's just good for me to keep looking for others who are more conscious than I am. I know a few, but I need more contact with them. It does make me feel better.

I'll be doing a session tonight and I'm excited to get back to energy work.

Gestation

No, not yet. I'm implying that my Reiki practice is gestating. I've had a little break while our kitchen gets redone (hard to have clients walk through our "combat" zone of remodel). It's still pretty chaotic, as our kitchen is in our living room and our living room and dining room are one. I will be happy when I can go back to our separate rooms. :)

I've been thinking a lot about how I want to further my practice. What is the best way to increase Reiki in the world? While I love the one on one aspect of a private Reiki practice, I also really enjoy the teaching component and the group energy around attunements. Energy is so fun to explore that I would love to do more group stuff.

I am learning new stuff every day...less from books and more from experience. I'm wondering if it would be successful to have a group that simply has a chance to practice, hold space, and really explore chakra work. That would be fun. Hmm. Fun is a good thing for me to hold in my heart.

Attunement Ceremony

It was great! I let go of doing it the right way and it went perfectly! I had awesome music, everyone was super into it, the energy flowing was awesome, and attunement successful. Everyone had at least one Reiki guide show up to help and then there was just a room full of guides. Very cool. I am aware of divine presence 24/7, but it doesn't make it any less amazing when it's happening.

Doing the attunement the way I wanted to create it was really empowering. There were several ways that I read about how to do it but it worked the way I created it too. Awesome.

Doing energy work after that was incredible. I feel a lot more grounded and less surprised about my ability. It is helping me shift as I complete my apprenticeship. I let my self-doubt determine my fees, my ability, and my access to the Divine and yet the doubt is not real. It's just something I use to keep me vibrating lower.

I had a good realization about that too. I feel like I am working out some cultural/ societal issue regarding vibrating at a 9-10, rather than a 4-5 (mainstream vibration). Or whatever the mainstream society vibrates at...100-175.
I should dowse my actual vibration. Also, I want to buy another pendulum that I can carry it with me. Simple, lightweight wood again. I love my pendulum.

I am excited to attune folks to the next level and then the third level with the teaching aspect included. It was great times.

Really? Inspired Reiki?

I know the title of this blog is left wanting. Wanting to be more exciting, that is. In fact, as I am nearing the end (it feels like the end, anyway) of my apprenticeship I am realizing that I have a focus on healers and I want more of an edge in energy work. I don't especially relate to the typical view of energy workers. I know that a few folks I have worked with are not airy-fairy about their practice, but I'm wondering if there is room for energy work with an edge?

I already know that I work well with other folks who can channel/flow energy. I'm pretty down to earth in my estimation. While I, of course, talk to people who aren't physically in front of me, I see them pretty clearly. Some people have really good intuition. Intuition is to thought as psychic abilities are to the senses. I can see, hear, sense, and smell energy. It's real to me. Just like intuition is real. I haven't been able to taste energy yet...:)
I hear distinct voices and see specific things. Stuff comes to me intuitively and sometimes I am not even a part of the genesis of the thought. It's not freaky anymore. Ever since I was little I've been able to do it. I get better and better, as I become a better channel and energy worker.

So I will let the 'energy work with an edge' concept sit with me more. Something will come to me.

I'm giving my first Reiki attunement(s) on Sunday. I haven't given one, much less a group of them, but this group is special. I know them all personally and they are all healers already so I don't imagine it will be a hard attunement. In fact, I am looking forward to being able to channel more energy myself, and creating healing partnerships with this group.

My eating has been affecting my energy transmission. I can hold energy just fine, but I find that I am MUCH better when I am not stuffing my energy down, or making it really hard to flow through me. Raw food really helps with that.

I have been blocking (or at least impeding) my 2nd chakra. I know what the issues are, but I keep doing it. Soon I will choose to stop doing it. I will take a deep breathe and move into that space in a conscious and healthy way. Yay!

I'll update soon about how Sunday goes...

New sensations and feelings

As I practice more and more Reiki, on various people, things are opening up left and right. Each person I work on/with gets me to practice new things, open up to new voices, and trust more of my process around healing and holding space for others. I worked on a body worker and we did boundary work, which is ESSENTIAL when dealing with all types of people, especially those with issues, ailments, traumas, unstable energy, etc. I had never done anything like that during a session, but we actually practiced protection techniques and I think it was really helpful. I'd love to work on more healers as I think the healing profession, by its very nature, often neglects the healers and the care they need for themselves. I know from experience that healing others without healing yourself isn't very effective and clients know, albeit unconsciously, if a healer is able to take care of his/herself so that they can hold open and clear space for the client in their shit.

I had a healer guide coming to my sessions in the beginning, helping me observe and correcting me if I was harming myself, but she has since receded into the background, watching, no doubt, as I use more of my intuition in my sessions. I don't do Reiki like anyone I know, but I do practice it well and it is successful.

I used to have silent treatments, primarily, but I am practicing the more open, guided sessions at present. Some people like to talk, some like to have a moment of peace and do internal work. I usually know when to switch it off and on. Some areas need more communication and others need peace and quiet.

My confidence has done a 180 degree turn. Weeks ago I was eyoring my way around Reiki and my practice and now I am actively seeking out folks to practice on. It helps to have the apprenticeship, but I know that once I am online and out there, I'll be successful and prosperous. I really enjoy what I do and if anything, that's a great selling point.

I am working with Derek Dunnom on my website (FINALLY) and today I was thinking about business cards (which was a HUGE block for me a month ago). Very cool. Y'know, I don't need to know why or how I got to this point (there are several factors: hypnotherapy, an attitude adjustment, raw food, therapy, preparing for pregnancy, my retreat with Josh and his guided truth-telling, etc., I'm just happy to be here.