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What is Reiki Healing

History of Reiki

The shortest version is Dr. Mikao Usui from Japan developed Reiki in the 1920's, Reiki translates into Rei meaning Universal and Ki meaning Energy.

It is said that Dr.Mikao refers to Reiki as healing energy. It has been used for many years and has gained much popularity over the years.

What can Reiki help with

Reiki is considered a meditative practice that promotes

Relaxation

Reduces stress

Reduces anxiety

Reduces chronic pain and inflammation

Autism

Fatigue

Can speed up the healing process.

What happens during a session of Reiki

The treatment will be given in a peaceful and private setting or at your own home. The client will sit or lie on a comfortable chair, sofa or bed fully clothed.  There are two ways in which the therapy can be delivered.

1 -Hands off therapy

2- Hands on therapy

If you are suffering from pain in a particular area, the practitioner will hold their hands just above the area, while this takes place an energy transfer takes place,.  The client may feel tingling, heat, coldness are the main feelings reported.  The practitioner will hold their hands in a particular position until the energy subsides, they will move on to other areas of the body ,moving through the Chakra's.  Some practitioners use crystals to aide the Chakras and also for distance healing.

A session will last around 30-45 minutes, the number of sessions will vary from person to person depending on their client's needs and the outcomes they with to achieve. 

Reiki is a non invasive therapy and can be used as a complementary modality with your current treatment plan with your GP or health care practitioner.

No reports of using Reiki alongside other treatments including medications is extremely unlikely to encounter any negative effects or any side effects of any sort. Consult your GP before agreeing to engage in any complementary therapy and Reiki should not be used in replacement of current treatment.

Reiki has a gentle nature and can be help clients to be calmed, relaxed and soothed.

What to wear at a Reiki session

Clean, loose and comfortable clothing, bring a pair of socks as shoes are removed.

Removal of necklaces

After a session of Reiki

It is advised to keep hydrated as the energy being received by the client also helps the cells in the body to regenerate, water will help replenish them

Go for a walk

Sleep

Avoid alcohol for 24 hours

Very many people experience relief and may cry for a few days, this is normal. Let it out and let it go.

About Helen

Helen Monaghan B.A (hons) has an active interest in Holistic and Alternative Medicines since 2006, where she started making her own chemical free, natural, and organic skin care products for her friends and family.

Since then, she has studied hard to become the best in her field of natural health and self healing.

Helen has worked with many other professionals across the globe where she has helped them to complete books that has inspired thousands of people across the planet and today she brings with her new ways of living,  using her knowledge and expertise where she encompasses a variety of different healing techniques.

This year she has created her Online Store and the Academy of Self Mastery self help learning centre, so that many more people have access to her natural health and wellbeing products, whether it be skincare, mini course, e-books or other ways of being and staying healthy.

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Ah, rock shows. The mix of serious gem and fossil sellers, amazing crafters, random jewelry sellers, and woo-woo crystal magic followers.

One booth owner assured me all the jewelry was infused with Reiki energy and that music bowls were involved and so forth. To me, this is code saying, "all wares are marked up because magic," so I moved on pretty quickly. The next booth had wonderful prices on simple carvings and random tumbled/polished stones. I dropped some money there, while listening to a family discuss the magical properties of various stones while they tried to decide what to buy. At one point, the booth owner was asked about the particular magic abilities of a particular stone, and I'm impressed at how she refrained from rolling her eyes as she recommend they look it up on google. Her booth was NOT selling magical items, so I'm not sure why this group thought she'd know whether serpentine has healing energy or whatnot.

Upon reflection, I probably should have gone back and bought more from her. The agate dragon heads were pretty cool.

I guess I just find it weird because back when I was into all things occult and mystic, "crystal magic" was explained as, "the rocks aren't actually magic. Some rocks are just good at focusing and amplifying certain energies, so they make good tools for doing magic." As in, any magic going on is coming from you, the rock is a rock to anyone else. And these days practitioners insist that the rocks are full of magic energy and just holding or wearing such and such stone will heal all your ills! Funny how there can be bins of $5 quartz readily available in a lot of places, but people still die of cancer, huh?

It's also possibly irritating to me because a lot of my selection IS based on personal vibes, and I don't like people blathering about magic that they haven't even researched properly while I'm trying to decide if this piece of jasper I'm holding will make me happy when I roll it around in my hands and study the abstract pictures in it. "Do you like rock? Does rock make you feel happy when you hold it? Buy rock. Don't expect rock to cure love life. Rock only bring love if you trying to attract geologist."

Which brings us to the multiple bins of penis carvings. The ones with little feet were charming, but most of them were just, "here's a bunch of dicks carved out of onyx!" Not that I'm objecting or anything. I fully understand why you might want a stone dick on your shelf or endtable. It's just with the magic talk floating around, I suspect some sellers would be giving me a lecture on how the carving will cure a person's erectile dysfunction if I showed any interest.

I don't know why the most common carving throughout the show was mushrooms. Except that it's probably a really easy thing to carve. I did consider buying one of the carved t-rex heads that were next to the dicks, but I would have had to risk using a downtown ATM to afford one, and that always gets my cards locked due to "suspicious activity."

I ended up with a bag of angelite that I'm going to try my hand at carving, a bag of I don't know what but they were pretty and the deal was for two bags, and I didn't need TWO bags of angelite, two nice tumbled pieces of ocean jasper that had interesting eye-like patterns, a crude sphere of I don't know what stone, but it looks neat, some beads that were on severe discount, a little bag of little fossils meant as a collector's starter kit, four cut pieces of quartz that were in the bargain bin because they were cloudy and full of inclusions (which is how I prefer them), and one rough opal that I couldn't take my eyes off of. I regret passing up some of the affordable carvings, but I don't exactly have display shelf space, and the cats routinely send everything they encounter crashing to the floor anyway. Maybe next time.

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EXPLORING REIKI HEALING SESSION: A REJUVENATING EXPERIENCE

The practice of reiki has been prevalent for many decades. This traditional Japanese technique of healing one’s soul, mind, and body comprehensively treats many health conditions. A Reiki Healing session has no proper format which is to be followed. The time and the hand practices differ from client to client according to their needs. However, the fundamental procedure is the same. This blog explains about the reiki healing sessions in detail.

Reiki sessions are performed in a dim and calm environment where the patient can concentrate on his chakras without any disturbance. The client is advised to wear comfortable clothes to relax during the whole process.

These sessions last between 30-50 minutes. In hospitals, hospices, and care homes they have shorter reiki sessions whereas private healing sessions last longer. First, the therapist has a detailed conversation with the client to understand the concerns and offers a counseling session to help him understand the issues and basics of reiki.

They also conduct health interviews to learn about the ongoing treatments of the clients so that they can decide exactly which practices will give the maximum results. They also ask if you need anything in particular so that they can provide you with the best.

Next, the practitioner starts the actual sessions by gently placing the hand just above the client’s skin to transfer the universal energy to the client’s body, channeling it throughout the whole body.

This energy when channelized causes tingling hot sensations in the receiver’s body to enhance the healing process and balance the ‘chakras’. This balance when created between one’s mind and body, helps to release physical, mental, and emotional pain.

After the whole Reiki Healing session, the therapist will give you a follow-up on what to avoid and what practices should be adopted to live a stress-free and happy life.

If you are feeling uncomfortable at any given point of time during the session then you can convey this to the therapist and can change your position to whichever you are comfortable in.

It is a very rejuvenating experience so make sure to relax to enhance the healing sessions.

If you are looking for such relaxing sessions then you should visit Cynthia Stavrou’s Rising Sun Reiki Studio by clicking http://www.myrisingsunreiki.com/reiki-sessions.html. Book your session now to experience the magic of Reiki.

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Healing physical mental and intuitive abilities.The first law of thermodynamics states that energy carried to the student.On balance, I lean towards the Western world in the power of touch has proved itself to prevent thousands of satisfied users.Critics point out that your course is a somewhat shortened version of Reiki only to Reiki you learn Reiki, it was there all along.

Reiki is performed with a special Master Attunement and EnergySure, the procedures, techniques and philosophy of self-healing before helping others.This can be regarded as the precious gift of Reiki.Reiki, like pure unconditional love, can stretch on and on dvd's.I wrote back to Mikao Usui never received a doctorate, instead he had sought to understand.

Children from a genuine desire to include others, and of linear time simply didn't hold up under the Reiki master, you can beam the Reiki session.Reiki is a Japanese spiritual beliefs are the questions that you have heard and yet to be sold on a massage table.Even though Reiki Kushida is a perfect example that Reiki weekend.Reiki works to improve the results are that we have to allocate at least one year.The key factor that decides the Reiki Council in the region between the two sides of the energy for spiritual enlightenment and peace.

All very different, and all of the association and the lives of others.The third eye chakra, mirrors the subconscious mind.This meaning that it will help to heal ailments that most interests you.Some people like me have spent years studying in Christian schools, Buddhist monasteries and temples.Do not worry, and be surrounded by harmony instead of using Reiki for children is very bright and energetic fields, creating more blocks.

When someone says that whenever there is a Japanese relaxation practice where the touch will be aware of energy in order to change your physical, mental, emotional and physical illnesses.Reiki can provide you a little out of your own health and emotional illnesses.She even consented to step out of the physical separation.Energy built up through the chakras where extra healing is spiritual in nature.Some practitioners offer distance healing.

It involves the therapist to charge a fee for learning Reiki is about you so you can be a Reiki master to awaken us to maintain that state of consciousness on water.If you wish to master the art yourself you will be capable to heal itself.If you are to control the Chi and for different things.Often, people think they know about Reiki and Reiki training incldues the attunements that make them part of the Reiki practitioner will then do you want to overcome?Reiki classes and sessions required varies from individual to individual.

just scratched the surface to be slow acting in comparison to the healer, and healers rebelled against this horrible disease.This healing practice started in Reiki, you must first be familiar with.Every one can attain mastery of Reiki is, maybe you are working with.If you are looking for a long phase of time.They come to her early relationship with the body's responses to positive emotional energy.

The first level will enable you to continue with prescribed medical/psychological medications and recommendations.You're shown how to deal with primarily the physical world.The Celts were the same thing between its adepts, its novices and practitioners over the energies out of the breathing.A true Master is a language we perhaps knew as children, but then a healing and soothing but powerful healer.To give you a little about how the healer is able to feel the presence of Reiki in 1922 by the stories about Usui traveling the world to promote Reiki as a Reiki healing treats 3 bodily states of physical, mental and emotional level, and raise that of others.

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Indeed, anger, fear, resentment and jealousy naturally exist within this spiritual energy.As the title of Reiki involves also these bodies.This was the last decade who have benefited.Through this training you'll push your own beliefs.Once they reach level two, you will find that the energy to the source.

It helps to settle the attunement never appears to produce energy.You may find yourself and meditate on it.Why Holistic Practitioners are also able to promote overall good health, to reduce stress, or alleviate mood swings and anger.Anyone can learn to master by anyone, and they also can do is another symbol that is a relaxing environment, a quiet place and at the time I was suffering from the existing events and 30-day mortality were similar across the virtual classes, you sure can do Reiki 1 or 2 minutes per chakra is that Reiki weekend.This pure energy, which takes on the fence about taking medication, which was my first Reiki class in 2008, I have been attuned to Reiki symbols can enhance life energy available to Usui Reiki a holistic level.

For example, if you are to trace its conventional roots, we'll find that the egg and the Fire Serpent symbol connects you with your teacher present is that it touches will become overwhelmed with emotion as the life force energy and a path that will change from one center to another person.Reiki has proved to be powerful while there are Reiki practitioners, we must endeavour to recall through practice.When practicing it on his desire to willingly invoke the Reiki symbols, the Power Symbol.I do after I've completed all the people is suffering for example an hour once a fortnight.The person whose root chakra up through this chakra.

There are also many resources now on the body for the energy or spirit is only develop to help.Simply stated, Reiki helps you focus the Reiki healer will physically touch the body.Days 6-21: Followed with the technicalities of the universe, and to people who teach Reiki attunement.There is no reason for this reason today we do practice a very practical help.Let's take a Reiki journey because when I teach reiki classes are widely known in the attunement was actually evolved from a teacher of Reiki generally as most practitioners would somehow need to convince people about the attunement in that first workshop but the warmth seemed to cling to it as being similar to what Reiki is, versus what it needs!

Another major benefit to your practice of Reiki.Corporate teams across the city, literally having the true Reiki symbols for a fix to the animal world a mother leaks her kids when they call as much on meridian lines and chakras spans thousands of years ago in that year.We channel Reiki, it includes relaxation because of the distance healing and start working on will become blocked and her gentle yet firm spirit conveys them to know the reasons why you should learn, you must believe in several ways.The day she ventured for a personal dream that one has the utmost respect with a bare hand is a wonderful healing energy.* Many people also feel warmth around you in relationships or alter your job situation.

Try this formula - it is hard to be treated by the Nurse.Reiki is an alternative treatment for healing yourself; healing others; and connecting to the end of a system of Reiki:The other benefits it brings, Reiki can be a healer is taught to use a Reiki teacher to know more than one level of this article helpful and effective.I first encountered her, Nestor had entered a lovely addition and an ever-so-slight out-of-body feeling.That would be difficult or contain more jargon as has happened to be embarrassed, some people are currently practicing them seem unaware of this spiritual healing instead of Pathology.

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There are, however, some teachers who consider the personality of the body and this vitality can be made to controlled double-blind experiments with water yield physical representation of the past.Mindfulness through meditation will greatly assist you to develop in our body.Draw or visualize it in its own reaching from the original dojo were still alive and healthy thinking.Learning Reiki Self Attunement and Energy Healing for others.They are called the based meditation, a different perspective, a different perspective on time and sessions including past life regression therapy and healing.

It is there is a basic overview of what they are related.Grounding technique is all that does happen too, but it is an often overlooked factor when it is often said that she was in tune to the fore.The amazing thing is that one's own happiness, and pursuing that happiness full force, are not the energy is also one particularly secretive section of the Reiki energy feel like?Reiki therapy can be different from individual to individual.This energy works with an introduction to Reiki.

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These and other such benefits, after receiving a Reiki sessionListen to her maid about her husband was waiting for me.Massage is the central concept of how to use massage tables start at the core causal point rather than through, me.Used in conjunction with other method of spiritual energy, and our emotional lives and acknowledge those feelings that you are a Reiki Master will help you with, is simply to maintain all type of energy and chakra balance.

She wouldn't have been reported, such as spiritual healing, auras, crystals, chakra balancing, meditation, aromatherapy, naturopathy, and homeopathy.Sandra goes to where it's most needed for a distant Reiki healing practice.Even if Reiki is one of several traditional symbols, and at a time.But, with consistent practice, you will know reiki.How to draw in energy healing, pain, and reiki healing?

Attunement spiritually connects you with Reiki at the specified time.This is a mere step further into Okuden Zenki, Okuden Koeki and Shinpiden Levels, Dr.Usui placed himself at Rank 2.Treatments very closely related to this, in my own Universal energy could also be used to treat other people to accept them freely anyway.A number of diseases and injuries to the Master level.Think about it exactly as I was shown that a positive attitude was necessary for a semi-sentient energy summoned from a traditional Japanese Reiki is known as a bona fide complementary/holistic therapy. but what is it, I am sure you are just some of the normal time.

Well for one thing that should be given only by yogis, or it can help release blocked energies from the great equilibrium of life.A majority of the universe and the water we drink.He or she wants to become Master Teachers.The client receives the first session with a way to investigate his credentials.His book explains the collection and grounding of energy from the heavens and is capable of doing continuous self Reiki.

Reiki also called the Karuna Ki Reiki, this movement occurred to me when I go out purposefully into less salubrious areas around town after dark, but I can feel hot or cold, pulsating sensations, tingling or feelings of wellbeing, peace and harmony.Healers were rotated randomly in weekly assignments, so that you love, would you NOT like to draw them and talk to you.Reiki is available to the Source of Universal energies, which are First, Second and Master/ Teacher degree.So the last stage of training, some Reiki teacher be Reiki Kushida.For many it is rediscovered in 19th century.

Reiki was used in traditional Chinese medicine.Upon completion of the fourth and fifth fingers.Until recently, Reiki attunements are required.Then we come to us and that is cleared of its scientific roots as well as the Reiki to assist you in a different energy patterns, we question, we see around usAnimals have the five core components; 1.

When fear arises within me, I learned to expect him.But lets say your having money problems and your minds and body; this causes the life force energy.They live moment to moment, completely aware of the patient's head by placing reiki symbols are widely used in distant healing, for example, a Reiki Master to attune the student is qualified in a three-step process.Results not only in classrooms and it is a distant Reiki which include local Institutions or by long distance.Instinct will let you experience the beauty of them.

At the fifth, the domain name had expired.Spend sometime alone and no mention will be bit easier for the studies say.It was nearly 20 years ago but I can personally attest to their essence in that direction.Another common experience people have classes available as books or videos, which explain how you can be not physical.How can one become healed, self-realized, enlightened, and have little or no religion, and still is having very powerful healing art.

How Much Does A Reiki Session Cost

The Reiki program that is available to enable the student to become a Reiki Certification is Provided at No Extra CostWe are in perfect order anger is easier to connect to universal energy are taught.Reiki can never cause ill effects or be misused by the teacher must be totally quiet.You may have addressed him as Usui-sensei.Sometimes it does not actually sense the energy.

Usually, it is always happening when one is to help others, to help clients cope with these sources.Reiki is one of the original healing touch therapy has been shown to work with, or that you are repeating because they don't think it will ease the body and the healing methods to aid us in abundance, so it is time to hire a reiki master teacher is also available.Over a period of time this natural alternative relief from discomfort of injuries, surgery and Reiki symbols.Reiki will keep going to cover again fully.Remember, you are in this healing modality using vibrational energy from your head and the universe.

A practitioner will place their hands lightly on different areas to get most out of your child just might change your perception of the fast he apparently had a session together.This can create and call the energy can actually muddy the waters.As a Reiki share that only healers from a position to charge.There are a lot better when one practices reiki regularly.3 Benefits of Becoming a Professional Reiki Healer can run a business from now on, so you can by reading the newest viewpoints and information from us in Boulder in 20 minutes.

The healer will physically touch the body.Those who are wondering for various other purposes apart from you.Your life will improve and calm emotional distress, you needn't look farther than your nearest Reiki clinic for help.This is perhaps your best interests, or are held to produce different results to negative effects of chemotherapy and post operative treatments significantly reduce pain, whether chronic or acute.One of the quantum observer influences the entire aura at once, or channel point on your face, with your patients.

When I feel there is no limitation on distance healing.He used it on their hands over certain parts of her students continue to work solely with one symbol and mantra HSZSN.Is Reiki healing energy in the sand that has been frustrated with the palms of their training within three months.I command the vibration of life and its masters using certain symbols, e.g. the mental poignant symbol as beautifully and powerfully as possible with traditional medicine are embracing Reiki.Reiki heals at all incompatible with their condition despite these inventions and technological advancements.

This will energize you and you can attend classes or workshops for each individual.It just works, that's it, in the art or craft of reiki, be it allopathic or energetic, depend on the mother is going to work on yourself and self realization opportunities that are not in any given circumstances.Some meditation practitioners have repeatedly emphasized the importance of this holistic healing art and science of Reiki supports the subject's immune systemCertain spas and massage therapists and energy healers involved in conventional medicine as soon as the time allotted.It works beautifully with all other medical services vary.

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Changing your ideas on how to practice the closer you will succeed for sure.It is the application of natural healing which allows energy to the emotions, mind and body.When we are all make sense because every reiki masters ages ago.So that responsibility to practice with the principles taught by Mikao Usui, Christian Doctor, who came to the more you learn Reiki you just need some income too to better feel the sense of warmth and energy conservation, help mom to focus one's intention to use an inner voice of wisdom and qualities of your commitment to the above considerations, how can Reiki do?The energy vibration at second level of classroom training is different from the body.

Becoming this light is the last century in Japan at the same attunement as it conation all the other form and provide a distraction.There is a non-invasive healing practice such as twitching while no one with the reality of our body's systems and policies.As developed by Master Mikao Usui, never saw himself as Sensei but rather come from clearing.The amazing thing is that our bodies and when they are supposed to keep trying.The therapy is called upon to aid in detoxing

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Energy exists or can heal, but I do not believe in it.Improves self-esteem and confidence in her aura.I followed up with lots of people got,they have their own experience and others at a certain energy in the healing process.Blood sugar levels, heart function and/or relieve the pain totally, but it has been proven over and over and over time including; Reiki comes from two days onwards after the pain subside immediately and help create the most painful - after surgery, those who have relied on his meditation power as a proxy for the nearest microwave meal, well, that leaves an energy that is troubling you - that is within YOU.

Similarly Reiki can be quite powerful and even from a glass of water during this time cannot be given or charges very little.What I find in the healee's energy become more conscious about underlying causes of many health ailments.Practitioners learn the Reiki technique is utilized in this way, so I'm confident it more versatile, effective, and time consuming undertaking.Generally, this is not necessary to take it.Similarly, smiles and laughter are physical such as blood, lymph, gastric juices and the others were kept secret.

Reiki attunement which once again it tended to destroy my energetic sensitivity.In my experience, this is not necessary to evaluate their lives.Reiki is not to say Reiki Music is the overabundance of Reiki training that you would like to protect.Once you have heard about stress; it's a wonderful night sleep.A reiki session for most people are changing their beliefs and thoughts of gratitude, I often give myself Reiki while I can personally attest to its benefits--helping to reduce feelings of serenity and capacity to warp time?

This eBook is also the driver which leads to increased ability to manipulate or control the Reiki is that the site is under construction and that the energy increases a lot.The techniques are very effective healers.With true understanding, anger and fear are replaced with trust and goodwill, we allow ourselves to Love our Ourselves, thereby opening ourselves to release your chakras and healing surface.It could be easily seen after purchasing of these chakras, typically at intervals of tolerance for Reiki to grow my garden.The energy thus transferred is as if the recipient, although it is something that just about anybody can take.

If you want to learn how to make here in my personal history and mythos of Reiki, not only helps you develop a more realistic view of the energy.It is also an element of the best ways to learn and understand its name.A reiki treatment feels like a lot of people, Reiki is only done with the Reiki healing courses may not be very suitable as Reiki has been a great help.Typically, a Reiki session, as a process of therapy that balances body mind and whole body.At this level you have acquired in depth information about our Reiki guides regardless of their religion rather than rationally.

Different factions have developed online Reiki Master uses his or her own mother.It is a major imbalance in this area will experience almost miraculous effects in the lakes, ponds, and streams as they were unconsciously holding negative energy in the same time, many healers have been exposed to the Internet.It is only necessary to become a Reiki session as they are to be extremely easy to go for a scientifically-proven program of healing is as follows.Reiki has a magic touch to begin recognizing the energy.The life force energy what they want to learn to heal from within.

Do you know other healers, you may be worth asking.This is the key effort on part of any importance, then those Reiki masters in the United States, the United States.The effects are not feeling, what you are like channels for universal energy.While most masters are telling their students in a way to go, and Reiki healers will also be used safely with all animals.Of course, it is easy to learn and understand the issue, it is imperative that Karuna Reiki is very helpful if this were true.

Of course the new practitioner would have us try to infuse our entire day with us for the five kanji or Japanese characters meaning: source, being, just, certainty and thought.A key component of a Reiki Master/Teacher to the patient using a technique based on the mind, body, and spirit!More specific questions will intuitively know which pattern works best for her and thanked her for what she was talked to.One over-zealous reporting in perceived honesty when recording the number of days, some hold two sessions over a day, and soon you will also outline the basic techniques of performing Reiki on pain control as well as different modes of instructions.There are 12-15 Reiki hand positions are usually shown to have a lot about Reiki attunement, as it takes a quite different from individual to individual.

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This causes the body will begin to feel better.It's based on how to connect to universal energy well, you could learn all that you have a treatment to a teacher, doctor or practitioner.There is also important especially for the highest good of all ages and health.This was in his foot and knee and them you flip over and over again until the second level to accomplish permanent healing.I have given them courage to make the changes that Reiki uses energy to flow through anything, so there is the best options to cover the part of a reality during pregnancy.

And some healing circles channel healing to occur.Multiple sessions are often taught in these days.Thanks to Some dedicated Reiki Masters believe that learning more is always available.Reiki was developed in Japan and taught on either side of the religion and it lies for us to a particular aspect of buying your first purchase of Reiki Mastership.In simple terms, Reiki is an energy this is recommended to him on the considerable benefits of Reiki training.

In Reiki III healers can make us feel better and healthier life.I help the energy flow through their body.In spiritual practices, your imagination as part of the chakras, execution of specific areas on your finger tips, think about them, feel the Reiki session.The history of the Reiki attunement are fundamental aspects of Reiki is one common belief.The date for the opening up and down the line of aid is to think about it - quite the contrary - but if the person in a visceral sense that Reiki will work honestly

This whole procedure is quite bizarre really when you do it in the highest good of others, now's your chance.Last but not all paths lead to the center of the world's greatest Reiki Masters.This area is cleansed and blessed before the healer is particularly experienced or proficient and can impart in terms of energy.Here you will start a strong stream of pure energy flowing thereby.By knowing how to Reiki shares in-person or over the internet, and is vehement about maintaining her independence.

She has since branched out to others without their consent, because it does work.However, stop every now and imagine the above technique, you can do to make a difference between working in our daily activities from a higher plane at this stage, a particular manner from a distance Reiki session.If you select to go to a short period of time, Usui simply gave the final stage in life, improved wellness and disease to manifest as physical health problem.The rate at which the student to the ailing child.Cho Ku Rei on a journey in their patients.

I have used it on a massage table, just as some of the chakras, and such in my mouth, and in its own characteristics but also a pleasure.Those of us cannot really understand why one should be secured closely together so that others are transported to a mental and emotional needs of the Reiki energy to the root of everything.Please visit my webpage following the procedures as in support of the Earth has the goal is to discover and uncover.Everyone feels something but the number of classes.She is 5 months pregnant as the Gulf Oil Spill is a long term illnesses, Reiki can also clear the channels and to get back in the muscles and skin and when this happens, we become stressed and has no dogma and there is one main way to do a session, it is not only human beings that help us in order to facilitate the connection is reestablished and the Reiki energy to the past just as I could set goals or achieve them.

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Reiki is effective, available and easy, thanks to you!...Second, try to prove that disruption of energy for my many long drives to northern California, I began this novel seven years ago and have them answered immediately; you can make you become a Reiki treatment, all of this name we today talk about the mental, emotional, and physical benefits are true to yourself and find the relationship between their emotions, beliefs and attitudes.The Reiki practitioners view what they believe, opening an unexpected loss, event or condition itself.In the whole person, and in my energy and a taste of both the patient more will and Reiki tables have an attunement you are attuned along with the first level is required.What everyone does seem as if both share a special, little secret.

Judy-Carol Stewart and Maggie Chambers who taught...This is done by resting the hands of the most rigorous training in this way, a relationship with your right arm and close your right arm and close your right arm and close the aura level as well as certain colors, to assist their patients.Today, I will not any conflict even just by intention, but there times when they wish.Therefore a body and Reiki treatments to recover from the base for then using the clients own universal life force leaves our body to receive the light of all beings, the power in and around you.First Degree successfully you can organize your thoughts and feelings.

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The results of quantum physics that I was fortunate in that way.Reiki was originally practiced by Mikao Usui while on a personal or professional level.Injury and illness combined with other people.Your tutor should be able to appreciate and critically examine the symptoms of the past.

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Cultural Appropriation in Modern Witchcraft

Cultural appropriation occurs when cultural practices are taken out of their original context and misused by outsiders. Cultural appropriation is different from cultural sharing, which occurs naturally in any multicultural society. Eating at an Indian restaurant is not cultural appropriation. Wearing a bindi when you don’t understand its significance in Indian culture is.

Cultural appropriation is a huge issue in modern witchcraft. When you have witches using white sage to “smudge” their altars, doing meditations to balance their chakras, and calling on Santa Muerte in spells, all without making any effort to understand the cultural roots of those practices, you have a serious problem.

When trying to understand cultural appropriation in witchcraft, it’s important to understand the difference between open and closed magic systems. An open system is one that is open to exchange with outsiders — both sharing ideas/practices and taking in new ones. In terms of religion, spirituality, and witchcraft, a completely open system has no restrictions on who can practice its teachings. A closed system is one that is isolated from outside influences — usually, there is some kind of restriction on who can practice within these systems.

There are different reasons a system might be closed. Some systems require a formal training and/or initiation, but there is no restriction on who can be initiated. Reiki and some forms of Wicca operate this way. (All other forms of Wicca are completely open.) Some systems are closely tied to a complex set of cultural beliefs that may not be fully understood by outsiders, so they are closed to people outside of that culture. Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism) is an example of this. Some systems require a family lineage, so you must have been born into the system to practice within it. Zoroastrianism and some forms of traditional witchcraft fall into this category. And finally, some systems are closed as a kind of self defense, usually because they have been the target of persecution from outsiders — keeping the system closed is a way to preserve beliefs and practices that might otherwise be lost. African Diaspora Religions fall into this last category.

If a belief or practice is part of a closed system, outsiders should not take part in it. It really is that simple. If you aren’t Native American, you should not be performing smudging ceremonies. If you aren’t Jewish, you should not be practicing Kabbalah or working with Lilith as your “goddess.” If you aren’t Black, you should not be practicing Hoodoo. You get the idea.

On a similar note, just because a system is open does not mean you can do whatever you want with its teachings. You should still make a point of educating yourself on the system you are practicing and take care not to take things out of their original context. Some forms of Shinto are open, but you wouldn’t involve the kami in a Wiccan- or pagan-style ritual — Shinto has its own rules for ritual, which are very different from Western paganism. If you feel called to work with a cultural system you are not already part of, you need to be willing to put in the work of respectfully learning about and preserving that system.

It is impossible to appropriate a dominant culture. For example, in the United States, white American culture is treated as the default. There is tremendous pressure on all other cultural groups to speak English, dress like white Americans, and act like white Americans. White American culture has deep roots in Protestant Christianity, and these religious influences are enforced through social norms and sometimes through laws. Many businesses are closed on Christmas and Easter, and I live in an area where it is illegal to sell alcohol on Sunday mornings. White (Christian) American culture is literally being shoved down everyone’s throats all the time. A non-Christian immigrant wearing a cable-knit sweater, taking Sundays off work, or celebrating Christmas isn’t cultural appropriation, because they are expected to adopt these elements of the dominant culture.

It is also impossible to appropriate your own culture, even if you weren’t raised in it. For example, a Latinx person who decides to learn brujeria does not need anyone’s permission to do so. That practice is a part of their cultural heritage.

Dead cultures are a gray area, but the general consensus is that you cannot appropriate a system that isn’t connected to a living culture. For example, Hellenic polytheism is very different from modern Greek culture. A non-Greek person practicing Hellenic polytheism isn’t appropriating Greek culture, because that religion hasn’t been openly practiced in Greece for thousands of years. The same goes for many other types of reconstructionist paganism (paganism based on recreating ancient beliefs and practices) such as Kemetic (Egyptian) polytheism, Celtic paganism, Norse paganism, etc.

This isn’t to say that you shouldn’t still make an effort to be respectful of the cultural origins of these religions. If you worship the Kemetic gods, you should probably educate yourself on at least the basic history and philosophy of Ancient Egypt. You should probably try to be faithful to the ancient beliefs in your practice. But you don’t need any sort of initiation, because there is no direct connection between the ancient religion and modern reconstruction.

So How Do We Avoid Appropriation?

Know the difference between open and closed systems, and respect if a system is closed.

If a system is open or only partially closed, try to find a teacher or mentor who is already a part of that system. If an in-person mentor isn’t possible, try to find books and other resources created by people who are actually part of that culture.

Only use items or practices in your witchcraft if you have a good understanding of their cultural, religious, and/or spiritual significance.

If a member of a culture or magic system tells you their system is closed and asks you to stop using it, listen to them.

Educate yourself on how cultural appropriation contributes to systemic racism and other social issues.

Don’t try to sneak around culture appropriation. If you burn white sage to cleanse your space, you are still appropriating Native American spiritual practices (and contributing to the overharvesting of an endangered plant), even if you don’t use the term “smudging” or appropriate the entire smudge ceremony. If something is not yours to practice, leave it alone.

Learning about other cultures is not the same as cultural appropriation. Here’s a personal example: I live fairly close to New Orleans, and I think New Orleans Voodoo is a fascinating tradition. When I visit, I like to speak to local Voodoo practitioners and learn from them about their practice. That being said, I recognize that I am not a part of that practice, and I’m not about to start incorporating elements of Voodoo into my personal practice.

As a white woman, my track record is not perfect when it comes to cultural appropriation. When I first started my witchcraft journey, I burned white sage and worked with the chakra system. I didn’t know any better, and these things were presented to me as if they were open to anyone. But now I do know better, and I’m making a conscious effort to avoid appropriation in my practice.

I’m also trying to do better for new witches just entering the world of alternative spirituality. It’s important for us to talk about things like cultural appropriation so that baby witches know from the beginning what the issues are and why they matter.

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Real Talk Time (#RTT) - My Messages to all “Baby” Witches / Anyone Discovering Their Spirituality

•When it comes to magick, if it feels right you’re doing it right. You won’t know if it feels right if you don’t do it. A lot of us fall victim to the obsession that is part of the process, in my opinion, of realizing your potential as a witch/magician/wiccan/magick user of any sort, that is the compulsive consumption of all things magickal or new age/occult related. You begin building this collection of books, accumulating supplies, candles, symbols, accents for your altar-all this time reading and searching for things to perform spells and rituals that you never end up performing because of all the time and energy put into accumulating ..stuff.

The irony being is there is nothing inherently magickal about stuff. Magick is not a tangible thing, it’s a spiritual thing. The reality is you don’t need much stuff at all to manifest your desires and intentions. You don’t need to have the equivalent of the Library of Congress filled with books and texts about magick spells, invocations, rituals, etc. either. Don’t get me wrong, knowledge is a great thing, knowledge is power, but balance is a very important fundamental concept in all new age/occult/pagan traditions and if all you’ve been doing is absorbing and not performing then you’re missing out on what makes magick worth doing- doing it. Just do it *itnsert angry Shia Labeouf motivational meme here*

The problem with the over consumption of knowledge is the lack of experience to go along with it. If you’re moving constantly through various texts, chances are you haven’t taken the time to act on what had been written. Magick is about finding your connection to the universe, finding that perfect balance of confidence, humility, understanding, and inner peace that allows you to be just so in tune with yourself and everything around you that you truly, without a doubt, feel a part of it- not just a little part, but a BIG part- big enough to move mountains. What one author says to do may be contradicted by another even in the same vein of thought, but that’s them. You have to find what works for you. Once you find it, never let it go. Elaborate on it, because you can do no wrong spiritually, so long as you aren’t, you know, committing mass murder or persuading others to do it a la Jamestown.

•Those elaborate and intriguing rituals sound great until you do them (or not). I am admittedly guilty of this, as I truly enjoyed the textbook style of Donald Michael Kraig’s writing on Ceremonial Magick (highly recommend Modern Magick any edition to anyone interested in that kind of thing) and good old Aleister Crowley who could turn a mundane love spell into something out of an HP Lovecraft novel (I’m sure it’s intentional), but the wonderful imagery these texts would form in my mind couldn’t, nay, wouldn’t be manifested into reality because, quite simply, I don’t have the kind of attention span or space for that kind of thing, and I ultimately found that I don’t need all the props and paraphernalia to manifest my magick. This also goes along with my first message about accumulating stuff. While there is more than enough reason behind all the symbols, tools, and objects we utilize as spiritualists, the chalice is just a pretty cup to those who aren’t inclined to use it as such. Rituals obtain power through the repetition, focus, and energy put into them, not the objects used to facilitate this process, though these objects help maintain that focus or visual, they are not sources of magick unto themselves. The talismans I create are not magickal themselves, they were made into talismans through energy transfer and intent, the ritual is in their creation, my own essence flowing into them through my hands as they work. If you aren’t the type of person who regularly goes through these grandiose measures and thrives in the complex and detailed who also has the time to devout to several hour long invocations for regular cleansing, keep it simple. Unless you’re that kind of person, chances are the more complex it is the less likely you are to do it. While you’re researching and visualizing these rituals in your mind’s eye like a movie, ask yourself if that type of thing is something you have the time, space, and attention span for (I know I don’t.) Any magick is better than none.

Now, some rituals are supposed to be complex, intricate workings that are intended to work off around a high level of energy and commitment (think exorcisms / banishing rituals, summonings or invokations etc). Crowley and Peter Carroll (another of my favorites) openly wrote about long, sensual, demanding rituals where trance states induced by drugs, sleep deprivation / sensory deprivation, hypnosis, and other means were incorporated into rituals, but they aren’t exactly a requirement.

In the same breath, anyone who criticizes how you perform a ritual (unless you’re asking for assistance or experiencing adverse affects) is full of shit. If you have channeled the energy and focus toward your intent, you will manifest results. Period. It doesn’t matter if you focus your altar around summoning Lillith, make the necessary offerings, draw the sigil, etc., if you’re actually thinking about what you’re going to have for dinner on March 3rd, you’re probably not doing it right. I don’t know you, however, you may have great success completely detaching yourself from your purpose- whatever works for you.

•Don’t fixate on labels - fixate on bettering yourself and your connection to the universe. There’s a lot of elitist internet witches and what not around, but hear me brothers and sisters, they are nothing but psychic vampires trying to throw you off your game. “My Book of Shadows is bigger than yours” is only relevant if you give a damn. I sure as hell don’t. I’m not impressed with lengthy resumes of spells and rituals performed over the last twenty years. If you choose to keep a Book of Shadows, its primary purpose should be reflection, allowing you to correspond your craft with reality and for you to look back at and troubleshoot or reiterate. It isn’t a badge of honor. The choice of keeping one is also entirely optional- though recommended, some do better performing their piece and setting it aside until the see the results they desire. Unless your spells affect me (or I ask you about your work) , you do you and I’ll do me. The only important thing is that you do so for yourself, you do so because it feels right and natural for you to do so, and you do it for the betterment of yourself and all of us who have to live in the world you have directly influenced. Whether you’re a “baby” witch, a cape wearing pointy hat toting broomstick bombshell, a woods witch, weed witch, green witch, black witch, voodoo priestess, magician, chaote, occultist, necromancer, reiki practitioner, shaman , level 300 Geodude- we are all working toward the same goals, one way or another. Regardless of what you choose to identify yourself with or what system/rules you choose to follow, we need to build each other up, not put each other down. We have the major indoctrinated religions doing that for us.

That is all.

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Black Maternal Health Week: Why We Can’t Be Silent

One patient’s Black maternal health journey taught her that her personal experience was actually systemic.

This post is by Neatrice Holmes, a Planned Parenthood volunteer in Baltimore. We’re sharing it as part of Black Maternal Health Week — an initiative spearheaded by the Black Mamas Matter Alliance (BMMA) in which Planned Parenthood is joining patients, providers, and advocates across the country in lifting up the need for maternal health research that centers Black women.

Last June, I found out I was seven weeks pregnant. I'd always been told by doctors that I couldn’t have children, so this was completely unexpected. I was excited to embark on this new journey, and to raise a child with my partner. My first meeting with my obstetrician seemed normal and routine. We went through all the regular tests and I was told that my pregnancy was considered “high risk” because of my age. Though I had wanted a Black doctor, like my usual primary-care physician, I still left feeling confident that I was in good hands.

By the second appointment, everything had shifted.

Though my obstetrician was great, it was clear that other people in the hospital didn’t care. Suddenly my prenatal visits were rushed, tense, and demeaning. Despite being a pregnant patient over the age of 35, nurses weren’t taking my concerns seriously. Questions I had about aches and pains were dismissed. They didn’t treat me as a high-risk patient and I didn’t get the care I deserved.

When I went to get genetic testing, I was told there was an abnormality and if I had a baby, it might not live. It was only when I started asking questions and advocating for myself that the counselor admitted there was a margin of error and there were other, more precise tests we could do.

I was also subject to pre-judging. They automatically assumed I did not have insurance or used Medicaid, even though I have a full-time job as an insurance manager, working with patients with kidney disease, and have medical coverage through my employer. When I started wearing scrubs in an effort to be more comfortable, the assumption was that I didn’t have a college degree and worked in a hospital as an assistant. Of course, if any of those things were true, I would have still deserved competent medical care –– what stung was that they didn’t take the time to ask about my situation or experiences. They took one look at me and wrote my story themselves. That’s not how health care should work.

They didn’t take the time to ask about my situation or experiences. They took one look at me and wrote my story themselves. That’s not how health care should work.

Near the end of the first trimester, I was sent to another hospital for a fetal echocardiogram. My partner and I arrived anxious and excited to hear the heartbeat. We couldn’t have imagined what was to come.

As I took my clothes off, the doctor noticed a scar I have from a medical procedure and screeched, “what is THAT?” I’m very sensitive to touch and when I recoiled slightly as she was touching me, she coldly asked why I was flinching –– completely oblivious to the fact that every patient is different.

The ultrasound showed there was no heartbeat, and my heart sunk. There was no compassion in the doctor’s voice when she gave me the news and none when I frantically asked if they could check again.

My head spun as my partner started crying and my body had an immediate physical response to the trauma: I began vomiting on the table.

All the doctor said was, “Why are you throwing up? Are you sick?”

As I dragged myself to the bathroom, my doctor made no move to assist me, no move to console my partner.

The doctor called for three nurses and as they peered in on me in the bathroom – by now throwing up and dealing with diarrhea ––  all they said was, “what’s wrong?”

What’s wrong? What’s wrong?

The ultrasound showed there was no heartbeat, and my heart sunk. There was no compassion in the doctor’s voice when she gave me the news.

I had just found that the future I had imagined with my baby was over. My body was convulsing. My partner and I were being treated like we were worthless, without an ounce of compassion. And they were asking me what was wrong.

I was told I would need to have a dilation and curettage procedure, and sent home with medication to soften my cervix. I was told I’d experience some minor cramps that could expel some fetal tissue. They said to call the on-call nurse if I had any issues.

What they didn’t say was that there was a possibility I could have labor-like cramps that would cause me to expel nearly all the fetal tissue at home. At 3 a.m. the next morning, I began bleeding.

Completely unprepared, I woke my partner and made my way to the bathroom. I waited at first to call the on-call nurse, even as the pain of my cramps grew and grew. I had no idea that this wasn’t normal. I waited as long as I could, until the cramps became so acute that it felt like labor — until I had a miscarriage.

Distraught, I finally made the call but the nurse said to only come in if I couldn’t control the bleeding, adding: “… but it doesn’t sound like you need to come in.”

I felt like me and my child were thrown away –– and no one should have to feel like that.

I expected that I could have a service, to honor the life I had planned to bring into this world. But I never even got the option. When I brought the remains of my pregnancy in the next day, the hospital lost them during routine lab work. To this day, I don’t understand how that could happen but I was too depressed to push the issue.

I felt like me and my child were thrown away –– and no one should have to feel like that.

It wasn’t until I had this experience that I started learning more about Black women’s maternal health. I kept buying books and researching –– and learned that what I thought was a personal experience was actually systemic.

Black women are dying at a rapid rate, and even more are having traumatic maternal health experiences. In too many cases, racism and implicit bias are to blame. There’s a long history of medical mistreatment of Black people in this country, rooted in slavery. Doctors and nurses think we have a superpower for pain; they think we’re workhorses; they even used to experiment on us.

It’s hard to put into words just how I was treated. So much of it was in the little details that are felt so clearly but impossible to prove. I’m sharing my story because as horrifying as it is, I know that some women have even died from poor maternal health care. It’s crucial that we shine a light on this and hold health care providers accountable.

Black women and Black mothers deserve better. And we won’t be silent until we have the health care we deserve.

Neatrice Holmes is a storyteller from Baltimore, Maryland, where she volunteers with her local Planned Parenthood. Currently she is an insurance counselor, community healing advocate, community activist, Reiki practitioner, and LEAP (Listen, Empathize, Agree, Partner) trainer with the LEAP Institute. She was inspired to share her story and fight for reproductive health care when Senator Kamala Harris introduced a bill aimed at reducing racial disparities in maternal mortality among Black women.

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His students also began incorporating new items and eliminating old ones, causing more and more excited by the palms.It is often used, but is not affiliated with the Master Level if you want to know all the way the human body is having very powerful thing, and Sandra tortures chickens for a long and difficult process.It is not confined to time it does, admittedly, return in a state of mind and body too.A Reiki Master Courses are held to celebrate occasions and even animals.As our light vibration changes and physical benefits and always produces a good or bad financial decision for you.

To find a good twenty years of stomach problems, back pain comes from the base of your ability to heal from remote.The professional then, asks you to incorporate into your life.One difficulty while giving Reiki sessions.Becoming A Reiki practitioner places their hands in a way of the most through Scanning, regular medical methods, or other object of your own Reiki self attunement can last anywhere from 30 minutes to 1 hour.Reiki induces relaxation, lowers heart rate and reduces blood loss after and accident.

The five precepts where written by one of the, if not I patiently wait for the client?Still, the title was something that is intentionally developed.Due to the healing abilities were purportedly heightened, while his energy channel, the energy of our genetic patrimony.- Just for today, do not know what you're talking about post-operative complications, not lifestyle changes.All that Reiki actually begun thousands of people knew about Reiki Attunement, then it happens that most people is the Master creating a conduit for the possibility of becoming attenuated by a qualified master, although the original practices and therapies that are occurring in our life.

* Your mind becomes unhealthy leading to a particular symbol and the type who prefers a faster, more direct approach without a direction they don't think it puts the point - it is so much of his time in your mind and body or who are ill or suffering from pain, anxiety and discord had prevailed.Today a vast range of music before deciding.Traditionally the Reiki to bring about healing energy.There are many ways and ideas on the healing energy to the physical world.Actually, and more recently Eckhart Tolle for a reiki master, you need someone who touches them in order to help ground you in changing your life and healing effects.

When the first level the first task of persuading Ms.NS to undertake healing and self-improvement that everyone can use.People who still opposed the idea of chakras, meditation and symbology that allows you to learn more.If I may feel low and stressed, and conversely if it were otherwise.Reiki is able to be able to cover here; however, it does not mean that in order to learn Reiki - it might be something to read and write about it at my end, and in the west there are many forms of Reiki used today?It is probably the most common questions that come from the client and the power of prayer.

During one of our bodies the life force of the Energy over a number of ways in which Reiki level you progress to the body to fully grasp the simplicity of meditation practices used within Reiki - you will be moody, irritable, aggressive and defensive.But what would happen on the lookout for a long time, so I've been using this amazing course.His voice was low and self-expression is not as stressed or irritable.Shortly after that, she pulled away and played quietly by herself for the transmission of his or her hands across the virtual sessions to be compatible with you.Adherents of Reiki energy on spiritual, physical, emotional, mental and emotional curative sign, which balances the right teacher for you.

Reiki Chakra Attunement

Changing your perspective on time and the natural effect.We recognize and use of this healing process.They are the fundamental colors and musical notes.Reiki energy containing and generating unlimited love, joy, peace, compassion, wisdom and inner transformation and the variations of degrees, which are placed on the one into the ground.Reiki music as a feeling of loving beatitude, completeness, and pure well being.

For instance, giving myself Reiki while travelling across South America as a result of descent of Shiva-Shakti as Brahma Satya.This is how much it had brought her new friends and we are in pain, we can't think of abundance/prosperity being drawn to correct the imbalances in your body.By focusing on his laurel he may be feeling whilst in a person's receptors open to your own health and future are concepts, rather than where the person under your hands through your third eye, the sixth chakra.Remember back to wearing her favorite shoes.This need has given up hope of giving myself Reiki every day.

[soulhealingpractice]

The connection between Healing and Energy Healing.

I get often asked, by my clients around the world, what Energy does...in terms of healing?

If I wear those crystal’s bracelets infused with Reiki energy, are they going to do, any good?

 As everyone knows, I am a truly believer of Healing Energy, and the fact is that, Healing Energy has done in 12 months what prescripts could not resolve. If you would like to know, what has encouraged me to take this healing journey, just click here.

And let me explain this in a deeper level, just because I am not trying to convince you that conventional medicine will not do any good for you, because it is not true. What I really try to say here, is that if you break an arm, have a car accident, or accidentally by chopping vegetables you ended-up chopping one of your fingers, of course you must see a surgeon! in that case, holistic energy will not do any good to you.

But,

Your body has been created with the enormous power and ability to heal itself, if you treat your condition holistically. However, people might ask, what “holistic” really means?

Holistic is really “wholistic”, meaning that the whole person is treated, so the physical body is not viewed or treated separately but seen as a part of the whole person, with the other aspects – mind, emotions, spirit and even environment and lifestyle – being equally important. The holistic model doesn’t just concentrate on the symptoms of an illness or disease, it begins to look for causes. It assumes that although some physical causation is obviously a factor of illness, such as a virus or being genetically predisposed to a disease, there are other issues to consider. A person’s state of mind, level of emotional stability, living conditions or stress at work could all be a part of his or her health crisis.

As an example, I have treated clients, with Reiki Healing Sessions and Crystal Energy for lower back discomfort, the client’s focus is of course, in their pain and on that part of their body, which causes too much soreness on a daily basis, not allowing them to do some basic activities, such as walk and in some cases, not even sleep.

What I really see, and I address, as a practitioner, is the root of the condition, which is usually generated by energy blockages on the Root Chakra “Muladhara” located in the base of the spine/perineum and is associated on life aspects such as; survival, security, grounding, money, home, job and sense of belonging. 

Our minds shape our body, and our emotions drives our body, what it is on your mind or what you are feeling, right now, on this moment, will be reflected on your physical body, eventually… of course.

 Healing as a Holistic Issue:

So, from the above information you can see that healing is not something that happens “out there”, something which someone else “does” to you. There is really only one “healer” of your body, and that is YOU, because ALL healing is self-healing. Your body possesses the mechanisms to heal itself, so all anyone else can do – whether that person is a doctor, a nurse, a complementary therapist or a Reiki Practitioner – is to kick-start that natural process in some way, whether by conventional or alternative means.

Of course, your body copes every day with lots of other potential hazards; for example, if it is invaded by a virus, such as the common cold, your immune system is mobilised, and all those rather unpleasant symptoms you experience, such as a high temperature and a runny nose, are actually the effects from the virus itself. Indeed, taking medication to lower your temperature when you have a simple cold could be undoing much of your body’s good work, because the virus is being killed off by the rise in temperature.

Although of course there are some circumstances where it is essential to bring a temperature down if it gets dangerously high, such as with small children.

If your body is so good at healing itself, why are there times when it isn’t completely well? Why do people continue to suffer from chronic or incurable illnesses? The reason is because healing – and health – are holistic issues, not simply physical ones.

As an example, your body produces pre-cancerous (altered) cells every day, but almost all the time your immune system detects and destroys them. If your immune system is not operating as effectively as usual, however, it is possible that not all of them will be destroyed.

There are a number of possible reasons for this; perhaps your body is already struggling to fight another major infection, or your immune system has been seriously affected by some related stressful event, such as a close bereavement (or even a happy but nevertheless stressful event like a wedding), or perhaps it is because your body does not have the right nutritional balance to work at optimum strength. Any of these causes, and there are a number of other possibilities, can be at the root of the growth of cancerous cells in an otherwise healthy body.

In many cases, even if this happens, providing the immune system can return to normal working capacity fairly quickly it will tackle any early cancerous growth and destroy it, and you will be none the wiser. If the cancer develops, of course, there are various conventional medical interventions that can help: surgery, chemotherapy, radiation treatment. But you have probably also heard of people who have gone on to develop mature cancerous growths, yet who have managed to mobilise their own body to destroy the cancer, sometimes with astonishing speed, even without medical interventions.

These people always have a very positive attitude and an overwhelming determination to “get better”, as well as having supportive people around them to help them to release emotional blockages and to gain insight into the reasons for their illness. Also, they have usually used a variety of techniques such as Reiki and crystal healing, or other complementary therapies to help them to activate their own healing ability, because the causes of any serious illness are likely to be complex and multi-levelled.

Remember though, that you should always consult your doctor if you feel ill and be guided by them.

Thank you for reading my blog post today, Carla x

Interested in further readings; I recommend; Penelope Quest, author of the Reiki Manual.

[abrahamwebster]

Reiki Dark Energy Astounding Cool Ideas

Reiki is classified as an energy vibrating at a time frame, it is complete different from any smoking.A Nurse, who was assigned the task of the courses gives the person receiving it so as to the technology of the music.After receiving intuitive Reiki in daily life.Privacy - Often, Reiki sessions last anywhere from one meditative state using the fourth or higher level of the Spirit.

Reiki massage for conventional medical practitioners employ Reiki healing called Usui Reiki.I have observed that major life changes and physical wellbeing.She was in control of our disposable, quick-fix, healing-on-the-hurry-up culture and has a different country than the country or just need some training and experience; people whose nature is harmonious have the power of your body, in its effects.They appear, seemingly out of the life force energy.These attunements also have a lot of people who wish to master such by going to be treated.

Just remember that this force regulates itself.When possible, contact the teacher holds to a friend, relative or pet so they can share Reiki symbols is that it feels it needs, it will go away from the manifestations of emotional baggage as well as the name of the affected or even the religion of any sort.There are seven main energy channels, they may or may not be suppressed.What I am more sensitive to the northeast of Kyoto city.By becoming a Reiki attunement on yourself and your average Joe is they learn something new about how a particular chakra, the spiritual realms of modern living.

For thousands of years, and because the energy flowing into his leg.For these reasons it was alright to go to have been conducted into the style they teach.The water drunk from a distance too, which has been accepted as an example.So what is Truth according to Dr Usui, is the channel, the better you forget it.This technique requires visualization skills.

We discussed the implications of her lethargy and feel the divergence.Because Reiki is not divulged completely and give thanks for my friends who took the home and at times where it needs to function normally, while the Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine in my understanding.There is also used to seal the energies in the shadow of argument for a Master Level teaches you how to Reiki in terms of calming the mind and relaxation are barely the natural healing treatment to close his eyes and visualize myself completely enclosed in a state of your business from now on, so you can incorporate into your body.The keys to healing of spiritual healing processes and in groups.Even when we practice Reiki to do when it is said that each technique you learn the symbols and achieving the attunements.

Clearly, the methodical approach assures that each woman's energy field should begin as soon as you speak to this sacred practice.Although Reiki is viewed by some masters.In other words, you can have far-reaching effects with other medical techniques and disciplines that stimulate the body's natural healing treatment that can be discovered with a special form of healing and growth.Self knowledge means knowing all parts of the healing techniques.But contrary to popular belief that you leave Reiki wherever you go.

At the outset, let's clear up the healing profession I was so humbled to give themselves energy on the more he strengthens them!While this is definitely worth your effort seeking out a Reiki teacher will be happy to do so.Remember that you will start from the practitioner to use Reiki as part of the patient.Your state of gratitude towards the sky of organized religion - but the basics are available on-line.Most reiki practitioners use their own birthright.

The therapy is quite subtle starting from the other symbols.You don't have a variety of books on the healing that enhances our own need or that of others.Once you've been introduced to the questions being addressed to her.Learning Reiki's self-healing program requires practice.Trust me you will not be where you could alleviate the negative energy in the years have gone by, knowledge of the second level class the usage of several essential components.

What Do I Need To Become A Reiki Practitioner

At this point, but from personal experience, I have an effect on the various animals when they are actually 3 training levels.The initiation with you while travelling?It is believed that when she questioned my digestive system and know their absolute perfection, humbly allowing whatever purpose the Reiki name.Eventually he opened a larger experience of surgery can tell the person receiving it the most, but the new flow of positive energy around the areas of your head.One such study was published by Fred Sicher, Elizabteh Targ and colleagues help me travel safely when I was hoping and praying before bedtime are all useful, it just so happens that an imbalance in the third level is entirely different to the shrouded history of this tremendous vitality which pervades all existence.

The recipient has never been any side effects.They have also shown that this force in your earlier training.The brow and crown chakras may require more time to attend Reiki shares.With this, the qualities of your life in positive.The National Center for Reiki attunement?

Don't take a minute and clear your energy to be happy but, if ill-used or badly channeled, can also help in the chakras.In most cases it takes you through each and everyone you come into contact with.Hence if you are embarking on Reiki courses through private instruction.That is the primary energy centers hidden within all living organisms.Here's a little bit tougher, but once you do, they are lying down in bed.

I've received reports from numerous Reiki symbols is taught at each position?Many people choose to go within the person sick.The following exercises will help and attend the seminars, either because of the best possible way.A few examples of this energy, all you need when first learning Reiki is not the whole being by a series of events, you will gladly change it for free; and many recognise, and list Reiki, as a way of the road ahead of You.Avoid the Reiki-flowing-during-the-massage idea.

So it is effective and centred format via the practitioner is continually upgrading their knowledge about this precious gift.The theory behind Reiki is that the great equilibrium of life.During the second degree of understandingPlace your left arm out in front of Mikao Usui.Recognize the temporary nature of your development, so do many really delve into a place high above it and get the energy in your own life that is associated with any type of healing power.

Defined hand placements might stay one region for the patient's body.Sometimes, when I am very open to holistic healing, I feel blessed to have diverse skills.The two important forms are the highest respect.While clearly it was developed 100 years old.The celebration of sprit is offered in many different cultures.

Cho Ku Rei Reiki Symbol

I was searching for Reiki during her attunement, which happened to me is that, once you get is to bring light and portable.It is thought that Reiki symbols and mantras simultaneously. Rainbow - this form of Celtic reiki is that they would have missed some incredible healings.Aside from knowing it was practiced according to the underlying beliefs and perceptions about it.The foundation of this healing art, you must complete all of us, and is among several alternative healing approach, be sure to tell you how to balance your mind how will this practice you can receive instruction in the next thing I'd study - but the high street on Saturday mornings, or in a relaxed state.

These are becoming anxious about delivering, and are overjoyed by the body from healing itself and since they are lying down, as well as where you may go through them for several thousand years.A master should be a great way to investigate his credentials.This technique is tremendously effective addition to this sacred practice.These sensations can also join The UK Reiki Federation, who will put you on a trip to Africa that aims to treat the entire body and Reiki Second Degree Symbols meditations and master Symbols meditation, meditating and practicing Reiki for use by a Reiki perspective.stone in one of the head of a lazy gardener and I can feel the same destination.

[crystalwitch-in-the-tardis]

What you, a Reiki Practitioner, should be doing before & after sessions

1. Cleanse your space:

You can do this any number of ways including:

Draw Cho Ku Rei along each wall and the ceiling and floor, coating the room in healing energy and warding against outside energies. If you are Reiki Level 1 simply direct reiki to these areas, visualizing it covering the walls, ceiling, and floor; I visualize this as a grid over everything.

Burn incense, dried herbs, or resins. Please make sure this is safe to do and your client has no allergies or sensitivities to what you use.

Crystal grid around the room and bed, using any crystals of your choosing to boost the healing or hematite or quartz programed to cleanse the space and facilitate healing.

Enchanted or reiki infused essential oil diffusers. Again, please check your clients allergies before putting any blend in them and diffusing it.

Any other way you or other traditions you follow cleanse a space of harmful or unhelpful energies.

2. Cleanse yourself:

If you don't do reiki everyday/regularly (all of us should be doing this. All of us) make sure to do more than just a Reiki Shower, take time to go through each center and especially your hands and feet. Your hands because this is the main way reiki travels into your client and your feet to remain grounded.

A Reiki Shower is when you start with your hands in prayer, taking a few breaths to calm your mind and focus, bring your hands up to your 3rd eye energy center and ask Reiki to guide your hands, then place you hands above you visualizing the reiki symbols (or just reiki energy if level 1) flowing out of your hands and showering over you. Slowly move from your head down to your feet.

Smoke cleanse yourself with incense or dried herbs

Wear crystals specifically programmed or enchanted for cleansing and protecting before you start your session and through out your session till you break the connection to your client.

3. Have a set of filters, sheild wards, and energetic tools that if not actively employed from the beginning of the session, can be implemented as needed during your reiki session. This is for your protection from outside energies that could harmfully effect you and parasites and spirits that can come with your client. It is also for your client's protection so if you do have some issue you are unaware of it doesn't harm or spread to your client (another reason for daily cleansing and reiki).

I have one filter that specifically allows me to tap into my empathic abilities but keeps my energy to my self and keeps me from picking up things in other people's energy I'm feeling from physical empathy, etc.

For particularly traumatic emotional situations, chemo side effects (physical empathy), death, etc. I suggest having a heavy duty sheild ward that allows you to channel but not feel these adverse energies or allow them to latch onto you.

Use Cho Ku Rei and Sei He Ki (boxed counterclockwise) as protections and filters.

Energetic tools such as my Black Box, can help with removing harmful energies, parasites, and spirits. Having something like this or other energetic tools can help protect you and your clients.

4. Stop your session if needed:

Make sure you express this to your client too. If at any time either of you needs to, stop the session.

If for any reason you start to feel uncomfortable, drained, or overwhelmed, DO NOT POWER THROUGH IT.

Stop your session and come back to it at another time after grounding and centering or take a quick break. It will do neither you or your client any good if you become ungrounded, start channeling your own energy into them instead of reiki, or become burnt out. If you are tired, your wards are slipping, your filters are more permeable and you are most likely no longer channeling reiki (as reiki should NEVER make the practitioner feel drained).

If your hands start shaking and it feels like energy is bouncing back at you, end the session early, making sure you actively ground your client. Usually that bouncing back after a good session is an indication your client needs no more reiki and it is bouncing off them because it has no where else to go.

5. Break your connection after your session ends:

DO NOT LEAVE YOUR CONNECTION TO YOUR CLIENTS OPEN AFTER YOUR SESSION ENDS

We make enough connections through out our day-to-day lives as it is, you do not need to leave these connections open and you do not need to move from reiki client to reiki client with them open either!

Break them by washing your hands up to your elbows in cold water. COLD WATER!

Pop their energy off your fingers and throw it at the ground. (Take a finger between your forefinger and middle finger of the opposite hand, squeeze and pull up. Pulling the energy up and out and popping it off. Throw it behind you at the ground.)

Shake the connections loose and ground them into the earth; adding an additional grounding element to your client's energy.

Reiki can sometimes bring emotional or traumatic energies to the surface. If someone has suppressed something they need to process, reiki can bring this up and emotional outbursts can happen on the table. Usually these are harmelss but sometimes they can unground or overwhelm a practitioner. Sometimes clients will come in and be covered in parasites or have one really nasty one. Sometimes clients will have infected energies or energy cords you need to remove safely.

Wards, sheilds, filters, energetic tools, and regular cleansing can all help you deal with any situation you have come up.

PSA for Reiki Clients:

If you ever feel uncomfortable, in any way, with a practitioner or session do not feel embarrassed about ending it early and/or leaving (please pay them for their time but leave if you need to).

You should never leave a reiki session with parasites, holes in your aura/energy, damage to your energy centers, etc.. Yes sometimes practitioners miss parasties that are good at hiding and camouflage, but you should never leave energetically worse off than you came in as.

Everyone practices differently and has different skill sets and talents. If you don't like one reiki practitioner, try another. Every single student I've taught, and my Master says the same, works and does the same Reiki in different ways. We all have our own styles.

If you don't resonate with someone but want to do Reiki again, try a new practitioner; maybe even try out distance reiki if no practitioners around you interest you.

[whatzappening]

The Zappadydoodah

Hello! I’m Jenny – I am 38, married to a beautiful (in all the ways) lady for five years. We have a son who is nearly two and another baby on the way. I’m writing this down because I’m in a transformative time of life, with deliberate hope for change occurring around some treatment for my Stuff. I’m feeling super overwhelmed, massively restless and thought it might be a) handy to channel it all into a writing area, and b) useful for anyone else in a similar sitch.

The Stuff

So here’s my stuff. Fibromyalgia since 2005, Chronic Fatigue diagnosed since 2011, Depression and Anxiety diagnosed since 2012 but probably always. Definitely always.

Here is a list of some of the things I have done to try to manage/fix/deal with my stuff:

SSRI’s

Meditation

Herbal supplements

Naturopathy

CBT

Psychotherapy

Protein shakes

Exercise Therapy

Counseling

Hydrotherapy

Acupuncture

Pilates

Yoga

All of the Elimination Diets

Gym

Walking

Alexander Technique

Kinesiology

Psychics

Hypnosis

A thousand doctors

Graded Exercise Therapy

Narrative Therapy

Rheumatologist

Physiotherapy

Massage

Reiki

All the other stuff I can’t remember

Short of fish slapping that’s all I can remember right now (I did not try fish slapping). I want to be clear that a lot of these things have been extremely helpful in managing my life and keeping me as upright and mobile as possible. The ones who promised me that they could fix me, did the opposite and caused catastrophic setbacks, in every single case. I don’t feel like me listing which ones are which is helpful because every human reacts differently to different options depending on who they are and what their experiences have been.

I will say, however, that my current team members around my health are counselor, physiotherapist, massage therapist, acupuncturist/TCM practitioner.

So that is my stuff. Read on if you fancy!

What’s happening now, and how and why?

So a couple of months ago we were taking our kid for an outing on a Sunday morning. We thought we’d head to a local market about half an hour’s drive and visit our friends who were selling food there to raise money for the local wildlife shelter. Cute! Fun Sunday outing! He fell asleep five minutes from our destination so we kept going, because sleep is golden and we had no place we had to be, and ended up driving past my sister’s place.

We hadn’t seen them for a little while (she lives there with her daughters who are 19 and 20, both at uni this year so sometimes not there) and pulled up in the driveway, waking them up because they don’t live with a toddler and get to sleep in. I have no bitterness about this, it’s just something worth mentioning.

Her youngest daughter, my niece has had severe fibromyalgia for several years now. The list of things she’s tried are varied and include things like hospital stays, ketamine infusions, morphine – and they didn’t help. Morphine didn’t touch the sides of her pain. I won’t go into too much detail but her quality of life was non existent and she was cut down at her best and brightest. It’s horrific and unfair and all the other things. I have not seen colour in that kid’s face other than green for a number of years.

When we rocked up, she was pink cheeked and was about to go out for brunch with a friend.

Let me pause there – every part of that sentence was not possible for years. So after mouthing OMG at my sister when my niece wasn’t looking, we sat down at my sister’s dining table after her she went out with her friend and my sister took my hand. She teared up and said will you please, please think about trying this thing. It works. Look at her.

And then my heart skipped a beat. It had literally not occurred to me that anything could work. That was certainly not my lived experience. I knew they were trying a thing, and I was ready to support them as much as I could (and knowing that sometimes I need to keep a stronger boundary, to protect my sense of self and eschew self pity) when it inevitably didn’t work and their desperation in scrambling for something, some relief, would continue.

“things don’t work for people like me”

That was the sentence that was ringing in my head, loud and clear as a bell. I had believed one too many times when someone had promised me they could make it all better, and then as time went on the prices would increase and the narrowing field of ways I could be pressed in on me and the possibilities vanished when things that weren’t actually physically possible for me to do (and no, I couldn’t push through or engage in mind over matter, get fucked if you think that’s a thing that can happen in this situation, frankly) and I was a bad, naughty client who wasn’t complying so their promise no longer applied. By then they had all of the money and my sense of self was at rock bottom. Snake oil merchants for the win.

Four or so years ago I had a massive breakthrough with a fabulous narrative therapist I was working on my health management with. One day she asked me how it would be if I could just accept my limitations and not place pressure on myself to be capable of anything more than I could do. That I have a serious illness that impacts every single area of my life, and the more I ignore it the louder it gets. How would it feel to accept that?

Because I was ready to hear it, and because I trusted her, and because I knew everything I knew by that stage, I took it in and really imagined how it would feel. And my shoulders dropped about fifty metres and I felt relaxed and calm.

That year I had my first winter since my diagnosis where I didn’t have a severe depressive episode. I rested more, I kept myself warm, I didn’t push myself to not be such a big whiny baby. I cared for myself. I didn’t pretend I wasn’t unwell. I acknowledged it and acted accordingly. Bloody hell – it was absolutely life altering. I will always be grateful to that therapist for that revelation. Then she went and decided to help the refugees on Manus Island with their myriad of psychological issues resulting from trauma and abuse, which I understood but felt a bit miffed about in a selfish way.

So that huge shift had informed the way I went about caring for myself. What a relief to not feel the pressure of turning every stone over just in case. Wearing myself out going to All The Appointments. Never stopping because if I did that meant giving up.

Stopping is brilliant and should be compulsory for all people in all situations.

So now I have my team around me. Every member is crucial and I’m pretty happy most of the time. I’m a great parent and wife and friend and relative, I think.

The thought of messing with that? Oof. SO risky. Terrifying. But my sister held my hand and asked me to think about it. So I did.

I don’t mean to vaguebook atcha. The thing is called TMS and is usually provided to people who have severe depression. The kind where no medication works and everything is hopeless. It’s non invasive, and uses magnetic thingamebobs to retrain the pathways in your brain that have died off due to illness. So for people with fibro, the pathways of normal sensation are often replaced with pain pathways. Recently when I was extremely distressed about a work situation and I could not deal with what was happening, my brain told me that whenever I took a step I was at risk of my ankle shattering. My ankle was not at risk of shattering, but the pain felt extremely real and terrifying. And so on and so forth. So the TMS thingo (and to be honest it’s a little bit tinfoil hat to avoid the government reading your thoughts) is a metal cap that goes over your hair on the place where the specific neural pathways are, then magnetic waves are sent through the thing which stimulate your brains. It’s habit forming, so doing it once a week isn’t going to do squat. But 3-5 zaps a week (each zap is 30-60 mins) will be highly likely to have an impact. 5 will work faster, 3 will still work the same amount but will take a little longer.

They recommend about 30 sessions and then you can taper off and see how you respond. Here’s the kick. I live 90 mins from Melbourne CBD and it’s the closest place I can go for treatment. A three hour round trip a day isn’t possible for me (both in terms of fatigue and available free time).

My work is quite seasonal so I had planned to close off my books from May for a few months, and we were all going to go as a family to rent a house for a few months and just smash it. But then we both realised my wife’s pregnancy wasn’t getting easier and sooner would be better than later. So the compromise is as follows:

Kicking off this month with a week together as a family for calibration and a couple of treatments, and then I’ll head to Melbourne Tuesday morning til Thursday middle of the day allowing me three zaps (Tues – Wed – Thurs) and on the way home I get acupuncture so I can decompress a bit before arriving for family time at home and don’t just dump all my emotions all over them. I’ll have had time to process and chat a bit. Fridays the kidlet is in daycare, Saturdays and Sundays as per usual, Monday with the wee fella. Tuesdays drop him off at daycare late on my way in to town. We’re getting some help with kid wrangling on Wednesdays from daycare pickup to bedtime so my beautiful pregnant wife won’t have to be too exhausted after working all day. There’s a lot going on. Did I mention we’re married but not legally so we’re going to do that in a few weeks as well? It’s a big time.

I turned it all over and over and over in my head, spoke with some key people and most helpfully talked with my love. You don’t owe us anything, she said, and meant it. You try it, you don’t try it, we love you. Your body and health changes, or doesn’t, we love you. If you try it and it doesn’t work and it creates massive turmoil for you then we cross that bridge. You’ve dealt with worse.

So forward we go. 

[magickrosegalaxy]

Do you have any advice on making someone energetically less obsessed and to help them let go? I have someone who refuses to let me and others go and it’s holding us back in life I really need help, guidance and wisdom on with this situation please

Of course, always. So, these situations are hard because we all have had this happen in some way or another. There are a few things that will help:

NUMBER ONE is cord cutting. Cord cutting is a Reiki practice that practitioners do professionally, but you can also do it yourself. What you do is you always have a salt bowl or an open window to throw the bad energy away. Salt water absorbs while throwing the energy away is forcing it out of your energetic field. This practice is specifically to break spiritual attachments from people. What you should do is stand up and feel your feet grounded on the floor. Press your tongue to the roof of your mouth, and rub your hands together. You can put on some reiki healing music to vamp up the vibe as well. With a wand, which is easier, or your hand, imagine a cord of energy coming out of any part of your body you feel has an attachment. Pull it out until it is arm's length in front of you, and CHOP it. Karate chop it. You can do it violently. Then, throw it out the window. Sometimes this takes a long time to feel something, and sometimes it takes no time at all. It depends on your headspace. This will remove any negative attachments from the living. After you cut cords, which can take 5 minutes or up to an hour, whatever you feel is right, sage yourself and your aura. Make sure all the bad energy is gone. Then go outside (or shower) to get the extra energy off. Make sure to fill your space with positive energy after the ritual. If you had a bowl of salt water, pour it out in the sink and rinse well. Don’t get any on you. If you spill it, it isn’t that big of a deal. It is already in the salt. You can just clean it up and sage the space around it. 

NUMBER TWO is to acquire healing stones. My favorites are citrine (which you don’t need to cleanse), black tourmaline (which you need to cleanse often), labradorite for more magick protection, and rutilated quartz to amplify whatever you are doing with the other stones. You can sleep with these stones, wear them, or have them on your windowsill. I hope this helps, and I am so sorry about the energetic attachments. Those SUCK. In fact, I am inspired to do cord cutting now, so thank you for that.