Reiki

I attended a Reiki workshop some time in April of last year. It is a beautiful form of energy healing. At that time, there was still so much anger in me. I was betrayed by my own husband. With that kind of an experience, who wouldn't have anger in her heart? It is not a pleasant feeling to keep. And I knew that the only way to free myself up of the anger is to forgive him. But how can I if he is not even remorseful of his act of infidelity?

Anyway, my Reiki Master asked for me to sit in front of the class for a crystal pendulum demonstration. She asked me to relive and think about my worst experience. So I thought about our final confrontation wherein he admitted to his affair with this local actress. I had my eyes closed and the pendulum was right on top of my head. My classmates at the workshop were just quietly observing. After that, she asked me to think about the most joyous event in my life. I thought about the day when I gave birth to my eldest child. My Reiki Master asked me to go back to my seat and asked the other participants about their observations. They said that when I was thinking of the worst experience in my life, the crystal pendulum just stood still. That means that there was dead energy or it's as if the energy was being sucked out of me. When I was thinking about the happiest moment in my life, the crystal pendulum swung in circles. That means that there was positive energy feeding me. So what does this all mean? That means that my anger plus trying to think about negative experiences would really make me look stressed, sick and somewhat lifeless. It was slowly killing me. Whereas if I think about positive experiences, life energy or life force just keeps on adding up. Therefore, thoughts and feelings affect our health.

If I continued on thinking about how hurt I was, it would have been a downward spiral and I would probably be in a rut right now. I decided to think about how blessed I was. I had my children, the support of family and friends, I had wonderful clients and a whole lot more. Life became better and better.

And so during the workshop, I was attuned as a Level 1 Reiki healer. A month after, I was attuned as a Level 2 Reiki healer. I did self-healing plus healing others and the wonderful effect of the whole thing was that I was able to convert most of my anger into compassion. Compassion leads to forgiveness and forgiveness leads to emotional freedom.