I marked it by receiving my Level 2 Reiki Attunement.
Reiki teaches that we each have four bodies: the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies.
There are energy centres located across the body called CHAKRAS.
The flow of Universal Energy into these chakras and through them, around the body, is the key to maintaining health
Imbalances in our emotional body cause blockages in our chakras which creates imbalance in the cells of our bodies which manifests as dis-ease.
I learned how to heal by moving energy, through the body.
How to read a person's body energetically.
How to heal others from a distance.
How crystals amplify energetic healing, and how to use them in distance healing.
My Reiki Master taught me that crystals are living things.
Just as we are energy formed in to matter, so are crystals.
They carry power and emit vibrations.
I learned how to access that energy, how to be in tune with their vibrations.
How to work with that energy, direct that energy, for healing.
As I felt the resonance of the crytsals course with a palpable energy, which I would describe as healing, my Reiki Master spoke of Atlantis: an ancient place where the healing powers of crytsals and light and intention combined to inform a developed and sophisticated civilisation.
She spoke of her own feeling of having been there. Of her feeling that her work in this life, in this age, is a continuation of, a resurrection of, her memory and work of the healing in Atlantis. She wondered if we had not all been Atlantean healers
at one time, and our call to work with energy was a re-awakening of our ancient, inner knowing.
I felt an understanding, a knowing that came from beyond me. I felt peaceful and connected to the Reiki and open to the concept of an ancient knowledge of healing in a past life civilisation. The experience of becoming a Practicioner felt so rich, so illuminating, so deep. Then I felt my conscious mind thrash about, grasping for something more familiar, and I wondered...energy, healing, crystals and now the possibiluty of Atlantis...if this is what it is to commit to energy healing, am I healing or am I going mad ?
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In 2007, I was the management trainer in one of the UK's top hospitality companies, tasked with overseeing management operations in some of the best bars and restaurants and hotels in the world. It ought to have been a satisfying highlight in a career in hospitality and retail management; an enjoyable and rewarding challenge after closing down my own business. Instead, it precipitated within me an identity crisis so severe and prfound that it encouraged me to radically transform my life me forever.
I sat in a materially beautiful environment and felt cold and nauseous every day. Surrounded by Designers Guild fabrics, chandeliers and black marble, I felt a growing chasm between the world I inhabited at work, and the spiritual dimension, full of meditations, karma releasing, angels and energy clearing, that I inhabited outside of work.
Coincidentally, the bus I would take home, on the occasions that I took the bus, suddenly started carrying a fixed sign on its wall, which I had never seen before, and which I have never seen since.
"WHO ARE YOU?"
In October of last year, after an incident that finally led me to trust absolutely in the existence of an energetic field, that is intelligent, that is communicating, that can be accessed and tuned in to, I made the decision to quit working in hospitality and to commit to working with energy for a living.
Neti is a 29 yer old woman who worked in one of the units I looked after. One day as she started her shift, I was overwhelmed by images of her looking after horses, in jodhpurs and a riding helmet, on a horse, smiling. I was confused by the random imagery, it being so incongruous with our highly styled surroundings.
I tried to ignore them, but something inside me kept urging me to ASK HER ABOUT THE HORSES... ASK HER ABOUT THE HORSES... I tried to ignore what was happening, but as I looked at the girl, I felt her stress and un-easiness as she prepared to get through the evening's shift, five hours of relentless hard work under pressure ahead of her, and I thought to myself, 'There is a message for her here...'
I remember saying to myself, 'OK, I'll do it. And if I am guided, and tuned in to that guidance, I'll know this is a sign. And if I'm not, I'll know there's something wrong with me.'
'ASK HER ABOUT THE HORSES...'
I explained it to myself by believing that all that was happening was that I was really intuitive and that she needed to know that spending more time with her horse would bring her great happiness. I wasn't crazy. There was a reason for this happening.
'Neti, do you own a horse ?'
I knew she lived in Edinburgh city centre. I knew she worked over 60 hours a week for us, and I knew that, like most people who work long and late hours in hospitality, after work she stayed back to unwind with her friends, with a bottle of wine. She did not rush back for an early night so that she could muck out her stable the next morning. She had never mentioned a horse. As I heard myself saying the words, I knew that she didn't own a horse.
She looked at me a strained smile on her face, slightly harassed, and said 'A horse ? Me? A horse...No.' and walked away.
I was was confused. Baffled. And concerned about my own state of mind. And disappointed. I had wanted to be able to know that I am definitely intuitive. I had wanted to be able to confirm to myself that I can read energy. But I was wrong. And yet the image of her and a horse persisted, and somewhere inside me, I was genuinely pleased that I had said it.
She came back 10 minutes later, puzzled.
'Why did you ask me about the horse ?Because it's funny that you said that...I was just talking to my friend about it yesterday, on the phone....We were thinking about maybe splitting the cost of one, as a way of being able to afford it...i thought it might be good, so we even spent yesterday looking in to how much riding lessons will cost, and where to take them...'
'Oh.' I said. I didn't really know why I had even asked her about it. I didn't want to say 'Because I felt like I had a message for you...', so instead I said:
'I just had a feeling - I could see you being really happy with a horse...'
'I would love to...I've always wanted to, it would be amazing.' and now she was relaxed in her body, and happy. Her energy had changed.
'I think you should,' I said, ' I really do.'
She walked away smiling.
And I stood still, looking out at the super-styled bar and restaurant I was meant to be key managing.
What just happened, I thought ?
Out of the blue. Out of nowhere. I had just intuited something about this person and felt compelled to offer her direction on something that was happening to her in her world, of which I had no prior knowledge.
Something just happened, and out of nowhere, the words flashed up before me:
'WHO ARE YOU?'
In that moment, there and then, on the floor of Tigerlily in Edinburgh, I decided, I was ready to commit to really working with this energy that was creating these experiences for me, to heal and to help others.
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It is six months after the horses.
Last night I dreamt of a sea. It was a saphire blue and aqua green. Standing next to it, I felt a healing energy come from it and surround me, come in to me in my breath, making every cell in my body vibrate and sparkle.
I dreamt someone I have not seen for a long time spoke to me and forgave me for something in our past. We smiled and she was warm.
This morning, I feel a healing has occurred. In the coming months I feel I will see it so, in our relationship.
Energy is everything.
Everything is energy.
And energy in motion is how healing happens.
Through time and space.
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