I received my Reiki Master certificate from Marcela who teaches out of Encinitas in California. She often will send emails with invitations to do Reiki volunteer work, and I have never been compelled to attend any of these events.
A Call to Volunteer
There was a particular event where Marcela was teaching people at the library in Solana Beach about Reiki to promote her classes and it piqued my interest. After her hour long information session, she wanted to give the group Reiki. I believe that most of these volunteer opportunities are so people can practice Reiki. I am not necessarily needing practice in Reiki but I thought I could be needed at this event for some reason and so I let her know that I could come.
When I arrived at the library, it looked like a pretty big crowd for a Reiki infomercial, but what I didn’t know is that there were 16 people in the audience and also 16 Reiki practitioners. Each person would get their own 25 minute session! Because when Marcela asked to gather with the Reiki practitioners to give them some guidance before they started, suddenly was divided by two.
Entrainment
Due to my sound therapy background I suggested to Marcela to arrange the group in a circle and also to entrain the group by chanting three simple Oms while resting our hands on our hearts. She said I could lead the group in the chant and I immediately recognized the familiar fear in me as I guided the group, thinking how long I’ve come. But the panic of being seen was still there even though it’s less of a crushing 3 foot thick lead wall, and more of a wash of cold heavy rain enveloping me.
Thankfully the entrainment exercise worked for the group as well as for me as I could feel the calm of the universal light building for the group.
Choosing my Person
It was time to pick the people we would be doing Reiki on. There was a lady to my right, whom I felt wasn’t the right person for me. I looked to my left and saw a young woman. I asked her if it was OK that I performed Reiki on her and laid my hands on her with a light touch (some people prefer touchless Reiki where you hold your hands an inch or two above the body), making sure she knew that I would not touch her anywhere inappropriately.
Reiki Makes me Cry Sometimes
I closed my eyes and put my hands on her head and I immediately recognized there was a lot of sadness in this woman as my eyes started tearing up. As I continued, I felt that I should open my eyes and right there facing me on a library bookshelf, was a book titled “I’m Sorry for your Loss”. I felt this woman’s pain so intensely, and that she had lost someone dear to her. I really started to cry and I was mad at myself – Why do you have to feel so much? I didn’t even bring a Kleenex. How embarrassing! I really didn’t expect this sort of impact from a group volunteer event with a stranger in the library!
A Visualization of Christ Energy
Suddenly I started seeing this beautiful white flowing light gathering in my third eye and I wondered what it was. And then I started seeing outstretched hands. This light energy wanted me to recognize this beautiful white light as Jesus Christ. So now my eyes were running, and my nose was running, and I was trying to give Reiki to this woman who was also crying and I just wanted to praise God and Jesus for giving me this experience, but I had to continue providing Reiki to this woman who actually really needed this light to be shone in her. I continued with the session, and after about another 12 minutes, everyone was wrapping up.
After the session came to a close, I asked the woman what her faith was. Because in my mind I was sure she must’ve had an amazing relationship with Jesus because why else would I have had such a beautiful experience working on her? She told me that she didn’t believe in anything. She was in recovery and she was an atheist. The only person who she believed in was her grandmother who had passed, and she talks to her grandmother all the time. We exchanged pleasantries and as I was driving home I reflected on what had happened.
I was looking for Answers
You see, for the last few years I’ve been wondering what I’ve been doing wrong, because all these people have this beautiful relationship with Jesus and go on and on about how Jesus saves and how Jesus takes away all their pain. But I felt no connection and I’ve been sincerely wanting a relationship with Jesus. I also have been wondering why I feel so much pain and have so much fatigue after some of my energy sessions because I absorb and transmute so much of my client’s trauma and stress.
Jesus Teaches me a Lesson
When I had this beautiful light come to me I had this awareness that Jesus was the biggest empath of us all, and literally took on so much pain and sorrow of the entire world. He made me understand that me being an empath was part of who I am and if he can do it for the entire world – I can do it for my clients. And as independent and stubborn as I am not to ever be a burden on anyone – including Jesus – I just needed to ask him for his help.
Now when you learn Reiki, they tell you to protect yourself and guide the energy through you not from you. And even though I did that, I still had many sessions where I was fatigued for days after them. But since I had this personal experience with Jesus’s light, my sessions are just as powerful but I don’t get fatigued from them. I now ask for Jesus to help me and guide me so that my energy isn’t drained and each person can still get the most healing possible.
I grew up with religion and stopped going to church at the age of 25 and sadly was an atheist myself for a long time until I experienced energy healing at 48. I am so grateful that Reiki gifted me with my own personal relationship with Jesus. I’m so humbled by this – how he taught this sinner what healing is all about. His forgiveness is astounding.
I want to personally challenge the idea spread by some organized religions that Reiki is of the devil. Reiki can give us our own personal relationship with Jesus, God and the divine if we are truly seeking.