Off on a new adventure!

Waaayyyy back in, I think 2007 or so, a family member was diagnosed with cancer and I was devastated. I searched the internet for natural ways to help in the healing.  Ways to work with the Doctor’s orders.  I wanted to help so badly.  During this time, I ran across this modality called, Reiki.

I had never heard of it.  It sounded a little like Mumbo jumbo but I just kept coming back to it.  Reading more and more and I found it fascinating. 

I really wanted to learn how to do it and take the classes but all I could find was some online thing where they sent me soooo many documents to read and figure it out on my own.  It was so overwhelming but I read all of it and tired to follow it and even arranged for a distant session (which looking back now was probably an attunement but I didn’t understand what that was at the time) but again, it all felt off and I eventually put it aside.

Over the next 10 years, Reiki kept coming up for me.  I would run across it all over the internet until one day, in 2017, in a yoga class I was attending with DD, the teacher mentioned she would be teaching a Reiki class later that month and I was so excited!  To get to learn more about it in person excited me beyond measure. My girls encouraged me to sign up, cheering me on the whole way, especially when I got scared and thought about chickening out… But I didn’t and I took the first two levels and couldn’t wait for the third, master level.  I did have to wait until the next offering, a whole month that felt like a year, and then I was attuned to Master Level.

I started using Reiki EVERYWHERE!  I did self treatments, I did sessions with my family and friends.  I sent Reiki out into situations – relationships, while driving, to ill family members. I reiki-ed my house,  rooms I’d be in… You name it I used Reiki.

I was also a lay pastor at the time so I was incredibly busy, so Reiki kind of took a backseat, mainly coming out when I didn’t feel well, or just felt off, or when a family member needed it and requested it.  I never stopped it just wasn’t in the forefront of my life.

Then I became very ill.  My doctor was very worried and was trying to get me into a surgeon because he thought I might need emergency surgery but it was taking forever.  He called a few times over the weekend to check in on me. He was very worried and I was home alone.  Everyone was out of town. One night it was really bad.  The pain was unbearable and I was scared to death.  I started a self-reiki treatment with some healing music and asked God to come join me in laying hands on myself and I felt God’s presence like never before and the healing energy filled me.  That night my fever broke. 

I believe in healing power of Reiki.  I have wanted to start a business sharing reiki from the beginning but even with a business degree, it was a scary prospect.  I had no clue what all needed to be done to have a business here… licenses, taxes… I was terrified of doing something wrong so I just never did…

But over the last few months, Reiki has been coming up for me everywhere, people talking to me about it, asking to do an exchange, or share, asking if I’d thought of doing it as a business and eventually being offered the space to do it!  

So here we are 17 years later and I’m finally getting all set to start my own Reiki business.  It seems crazy, scary, fun, exciting!  I’m nervous but can’t wait to get started. 

Next month, I’ll be offering in-person and distance reiki sessions and I can’t wait to help people on their healing journey.  I’ll be sharing more about Reiki, what it is, its benefits and more in the coming weeks. I can’t wait for you all to experience it yourselves!