By Josslyn Streett, Reiki Master/Teacher for Rain Shadow Reiki
We all have those days or times of the day when we don’t feel at our best. Many people use coffee or other pick me ups to get them through. My body doesn’t tolerate many of them, especially caffeine so I have had to come up with alternatives. Apples give a great boost, just like having a cup of coffee. I have an apple a day, usually for lunch. But at about that 3pm mark, I still get the sluggish tired feeling. Reiki is a great pick me up and I’ve already written how it can be like having three cups of coffee in one of my blogs which you can click and read.
But, this blog is about a simple and quick technique to do when you don’t have time to do a full healing or even a fifteen minute healing. When you are stuck for time, here is a quick, less than five-minute Reiki Pick Me Up that anyone can use who is attuned to Reiki to give them that extra boost of energy when they are feeling down. I use this technique often.
HOW
For Reiki I
Sit in your Gassho, center and ground yourself and call in your Reiki guides of the highest order.
Hold the intention that you want the Reiki energy to give you a boost in energy to get you through the day or whatever intention you feel is best for you for the greatest good.
Starting with your root chakra run Reiki energy in your chakras from bottom to top for as long as you feel necessary or for about thirty seconds. (If top to bottom feels better to you, then do that. It’s all good and there is no wrong.)
After running Reiki on your crown chakra run Reiki all throughout your aura with the intention of energizing you.
Closing Gassho and go!
For Reiki II
Sit in your Gassho, center and ground yourself, and call in your Reiki guides of the highest order.
Activate your symbols in whatever way works best for you until you feel the energy in your hands.
Starting with your root chakra draw the CKR Power Symbol, in your chakras from bottom to top. (If top to bottom feels better to you, then do that. It’s all good and there is no wrong.)
After drawing CKR in your last chakra, draw a large CKR in front of you activating it and bringing it into your body and aura.
Do your closing Gassho and go!
I Pray many of you give this a try when you are needing that pick me up and that it helps. Let me know how it works for you.
Love, Light and Blessings to all of you,
Joss
A BIG THANK YOU to my teacher, Catherine Morris, for teaching me this technique as part of our attunement process. So grateful for ALL you have taught me!!
By Josslyn Streett, Reiki Master/Teacher for Rain Shadow Reiki
I’d love to say my Great Grandmother used to say this to me and it stuck. No…. no great grandma or even any cute old lady said this to me. I have no memory of where I learned it, probably T.V. But, it did stick. And, in a world where mothers are taught to take care of everybody else first, this has become a mantra that got me through some tough times. My kids know it by heart.
In the days when I still didn’t believe that I came first, I had to go to this quote to remind myself that I do in fact come first. I am the most important person in my universe and that is true for EVERYONE! And, it is true, if I’m not happy, my whole family is not happy. It’s a power I never asked for and never quite knew as a mom I’d have. But, it’s true. Somehow, we moms became the barometer for how our family is feeling. It’s a huge responsibility, but then so is being a parent. Unfortunately for my kids, their mother happens to be a recovering depressant, a current invisible immune system illness sufferer and a practicing empath who feels the emotions of not only their household but the whole world pretty much in any given moment.
Weather Report for the Streett Household. LOL
This does not always bode well for our daily weather report within the home. Most often, like the weather where we live, in the Pacific North West of America, it changes constantly. If the weather is sunny, you can always count on it to change. Change is the only thing we can count on both in weather here AND in my moods. So, being responsible for the moods of three other people and four pets can be an overwhelming responsibility.
Thank God I have Reiki and I’m Not Kidding
I don’t know if I truly agreed to this contract of being a mom, an empath and challenged with physical, emotional, mental and spiritual illness ALL IN THE SAME LIFE, but apparently I did. I’m here. Doing it. We sign up for much more than we can chew while we are in that blissful place called Heaven and all things are perfect. But, once we get here, reality sets in about the same time as our true memories disappear. For many of us that is about age 9. Bummer. We all have something that makes our life a challenge or we wouldn’t be here. Or, we’d be on ‘spiritual vacation’, which some people are. But, unfortunately, most of us are not on vacation. Most of us are here to learn and we work hard at it.
LOL
I struggled for many years without any guidance as to how to do this thing called LIFE ON EARTH. I struggled, until I found Reiki and my Reiki guides. I’m not kidding or making this up to make Reiki more important than it is. It is important. It is MY true connection to my spiritual Divine Source, my God. It keeps me sane on a daily basis when I need it most; like when the kids come home from school upset about a bad day and won’t talk about it just stomp around, or when I home school my temperamental empathic 9-year-old mini me for four hours and desperately need a break. Reiki is here for me ALWAYS when I need it. There’s just one trick, I just have to DO IT.
JUST DO IT (Thank you Nike for the BEST Ad Phrase Ever!)
And, here is the difference in my life, before, and my life now… I do, DO IT. I do it just about every single day and sometimes more. I do it when mini me is at karate. I do it when I’m sitting in the car waiting for my volunteer time at school. I do it after a stressful day of dealing with hormones and homework and I do it to fall asleep at night when my mind is racing more than I can handle. I do the Reiki whenever I feel I need a break, an escape. I use Reiki like others use coffee, sugar, T.V., alcohol, even drugs. Reiki is my drug. Yes, I watch T.V., and do some of those other things too, but my body is too sensitive for most, like it’s too sensitive to drink coffee, take even prescription drugs or to ingest anything stronger than red wine. I know, another bummer.
This may not be how it always is, but this is how it feels! We moms deserve this feeling every single day!!
Reiki is Calorie Free!!
But, Reiki is calorie free and always good for me, and it always gives me a buzz that is better than any drug, so it’s a win-win. And, with all that moms have going on in their lives, we all need something like Reiki to pick us up and help us feel better, stronger, like a Super Mom to get us through the day. I know I do. Being a mom is tough. Too many moms are turning to unhealthy ways to get through the day and take away stress. Wouldn’t it be great to have something that gave you energy, a positive spirit, a calmer demeanor, AND helped you connect with your Higher Power too! ALL AT THE SAME TIME!!
Another good one to remember. Because we are the queen of our castle. Don’t forget it!
No, it’s not a magic pill. But, it does help you feel better quickly and the more you do it, the more you feel good. And, if Mama is happy then the whole family is happy. Well, most of the time anyway. This quick thought of mine, of course, turned into this long blog. But, I truly am incredibly grateful that I have Reiki in my life. Because I am a mom, I am a wife, I am a homeschooling parent, and I am a healer too. I need a lot more support than “The Big Bang Theory” can offer me one night a week. So, yes, Thank God I have Reiki!!
Blessings to you all, I pray you find your Reiki too,
Josslyn Streett, Reiki Master/Teacher for Rain Shadow Reiki
By Josslyn Streett, Reiki Master/Teacher for Rain Shadow Reiki
My husband, Robert, is one of those guys that can fall asleep the second his head hits the pillow. I’m the opposite. So, I do my Reiki at night while I’m attempting to fall asleep. This has been a lifelong issue for me, not falling asleep. I remember as a child laying awake in bed for hours on end waiting to get sleepy, not knowing that this was not normal. Now, the Reiki helps me to fall asleep within thirty minutes or less just about every night, its such a blessing. For my husband, this obviously doesn’t work, he’s asleep right away, seriously, that fast. This always amazed me when we first met. I didn’t know people did that. Anyway, in attempting to find a time of day for him to do his daily Reiki, bedtime was not going to work. So, he has gotten in the habit of doing his Reiki first thing in the morning, before he even steps out of bed. For me, doing Reiki at night, it helps me relax and fall asleep quickly. For him, doing Reiki first thing in the morning, it wakes him up. He says he feels like he’s had three cups of coffee. (and, that was when he was OFF the coffee!) The Reiki will do whatever you need it to do at that time, its brilliant like that. Your intention helps it be ever stronger.
I am a very go-with-the-flow person. But, when it comes to the first few months of practicing with your new Reiki energy, I tell my Reiki I students that in order to really make Reiki a part of your daily lives and get the most out of it, it is critical to make it a habit every single day. Right away. Make it a priority in your life for that first month, and do it daily. Find a time that works for YOU and do it at the same time every day, just like any habit you are working on. Reiki is no different in this way. Once you have made it a healthy habit then you truly will feel the effects that Reiki can have on your life quickly and you’ll keep it up, even crave it.
Mini Miracles
When you are working with your Reiki regularly in your life, mini miracles start happening right off that bat, I hear about these all the time in my Reiki students when they start working with the Reiki energy. It really is amazing how the smallest detail is not too much for spirit to help with once we are working with Reiki daily, once we are ‘in the flow.” From helping people’s stressful jobs going smoother the very week they start practicing their Reiki, to finding a little statue of their spirit guide quite by “accident” in a store they’ve never wanted to go into before, but were suddenly drawn to. When you work with the Reiki, Reiki works within you.
Quick Tip for Starting Reiki Practice on Yourself, Creating Mini Miracles and Having a Happier “Go-With-the-Flow” life!
Make DOING Reiki a priority for YOU! IT’S ALL FOR YOU! When you are happier those around you are happier. Simply tell yourself and your Divine Source that Reiki in your life IS a priority and you will DO it every day this next month.
Do Reiki every day at the same time!
Think about an intention to add to the strength of the Reiki healing. Such as “Reiki, please help me heal any issues I have about healing myself,” or “Reiki, please help me fall asleep quickly and easily.”
Then JUST DO IT! You will be surprised at how easy it is to make this positive habit stick with you if you make it a priority for this first month to start. It feels so good and relaxing you may even get addicted to the feeling.
Watch for synchronicity happening in your life, these are mini miracles just waiting for you to get in line with the universe. Once you are in alignment, the ‘coincidences’ happen ALL THE TIME!!
Email me or comment here and let me know how it’s going.
Reiki is with you forever once you’ve been attuned. But, it’s like anything else, if you don’t use it, you don’t get the benefits of it. Divine waits patiently for us to DO for ourselves. When we DO, we are rewarded in more ways than I bet you can come up with yourself. Please feel free to comment here with the mini miracles YOU have seen in your life since you’ve started working with your Reiki.
Love and Light to you all,
Josslyn Streett, Reiki Master/Teacher for Rain Shadow Reiki
By Josslyn Streett, Reiki Master/Teacher of Rain Shadow Reiki and her dear friend, Stephanie Pelly
Joss’ baby album. (Please do not use these photos.)
There are many ways to heal your childhood trauma. The key is finding the perfect one for YOU. A close friend of mine and I were talking on the phone and she came up with a great one and said I could share it with my readers. She had the idea, instead of hashing up memories that your mind has repressed from childhood for good reason, going through your family photo album and doing Reiki on all the different photographs instead. We usually only have photos of the happy times which reinforces that there were indeed happy times even if the unhappy times are overshadowing them right now. But, if we run the Reiki over the photo album with the intention of healing all the times in between the photos, healing will take place. Our intention and desire to heal those more difficult times is very strong and will direct the Reiki to heal what is needed most. This may take some time like any healing or therapy, but it could be a win/win situation. While NOT having to rehash the ‘bad’ times you are also reinforcing the ‘good’ times that you and your family had at the same time by looking at the ‘happy’ photos.
Where to Start?
Joss at 1 week old, so cute and shy. (Please do not use these photos.)
You could start with one photo or memory at a time. You could start with one page at a time and do a little bit each week or each month. Or you could start with one phase of your life at a time. Whatever feels right to you.
Healing Birth Trauma
This could be a great way to heal birth trauma as well since many of us don’t actually have conscious memories of our birth but some of us have photos relating to it, hospital or being wrapped in a blanket and held shortly after. Reiki those photos with the intent of healing your baby self’s birth trauma.
Be Kind to Yourself
Joss’ baby album (Please do not use these photos.)
Be patient with yourself and the process. For some, healing childhood memories could be easy and quick and for others it could be a very long and challenging process, yet fruitful as well. It could be good to do some Reiki on yourself prior to working on a difficult time frame in your life or before doing this process at all. You can trust your intuition on what you need. Be kind to yourself in the process and do Reiki on yourself as often as possible and as often as needed. When it feels too much emotionally then stop and do Reiki on yourself to guide yourself through the process. It’s all good. Pick it up later when you are calmer and ready. The trick is, to be patient and take your time, but to not give up. If you feel this particular process is helping, then keep it up.
Sending blessings to all of you healing your child self, Love and Light your way,
Review by Josslyn Streett Reiki Master/Teacher for Rain Shadow Reiki
I am currently reading a wonderful Reiki book about using Reiki on our beloved pets and even wild animals, Animal Reiki. (Please work on wild animals from a very safe distance.) The book is excellent in explaining all the basics of how to do Reiki on animals and why, but my favorite part is the stories about the animals themselves and how they benefit from the Reiki. I teach in stories and I learn in stories so this book is wonderful for me. The authors, through their words, you can tell, are animal lovers and put the animals first and foremost in their work with them and Reiki. The animals’ wishes are put first and all animals are treated with great respect. The authors remind you gently many times to ASK the animal if you can do Reiki on them and to OFFER for the animal to take only what they choose to take. I would expect nothing less from Reiki people, but to write about it, share it with the world so that others can also learn to care for and respect animals in a similar fashion is a wonderful service they have provided.
“Animal Reiki” by Elizabeth Fulton and Kathleen Prasad
I highly recommend this book for anyone who loves animals, who wants to do Reiki on animals or who just wants to expand their heart chakra to be more compassionate towards animals. Working with animals and Reiki is a wonderful way to accomplish all these goals. I’ve been reading the book to my 12-year-old son who adores his most precious cat, Half-Pint, more than any boy I’ve ever seen. While she sleeps in his bed with him many nights he talks to her, listens to her and does Reiki on her too. Their connection is quite deep. While I’m reading the stories out loud to him about the pets who get Reiki he cries for them when they are abused, laughs at their anecdotes and shakes and giggles with joy when they are healed or adopted. I would highly recommend you read this book out loud to your Reiki kids to instill compassion in them for pets as well. Who knows, maybe they’ll want to learn Reiki just to work on their special pet. This book is a tiny treasure, easy to read and such a joy.
Please continue to read below for one of my favorite animal stories in the book. There are many.
In Love and Light of our Divine Source,
Please ask YOUR pet if you can do Reiki on them, and wait to hear their answer. I bet they say YES!
Josslyn, Rain Shadow Reiki, Master/Teacher
Book Excerpt from “Animal Reiki” by Elizabeth Fulton and Kathleen Prasad pg. 40 & 41
“Nanuk Finds Her Perfect Place –
Nanuk was a lovely seven-month-old Malamute dog who had been turned into a local shelter as a stray. She was transferred to the local Northern breed rescue organization, where two volunteers, Laura and Adam, committed themselves to helping her to heal and find the right home. However, Nanuk had no training of any kind, was terrified of people and any indoor or enclosed space, including cars, and would immediately attack another dog. She was exceptionally intelligent and an accomplished escape artist. When she first arrived, she was severely underweight and had no familiarity with food, bowls or leashes. Laura and Adam deduced from her behavior that she had lived outside and been almost totally isolated and neglected. When I met her, Laura and Adam were the only people with whom she was comfortable. They asked me to give her a series of three treatments in the hope that her chances of adoption would be increased.
A Malamute
During the first treatment I sat just outside Nanuk’s run and offered her Reiki, asking her, as always, to take only the amount of energy with which she was comfortable. The initial thin flow of energy became a moderate one, but otherwise I could barely tell that she knew I was there. She continued her usual habit of circling rapidly around her run, jumping onto the roof of her shelter and back down repeatedly, while constantly scanning for Adam and sniffed almost imperceptibly at my hands once as she sped by in her circling. I was otherwise completely ignored.
Undaunted, and knowing from the flow of Reiki through me that she had accepted the treatment, I returned the following day for the second treatment. This time, when I arrived, Nanuk looked directly into my eyes for a moment and circled for five or ten minutes with less agitation. Then she lay down with her head on her paws and slept deeply for about 25 minutes. An especially loud noise woke her, and she got up and did a quick circle of her run, but then she lay down again and slept for another 15 minutes or so. I sensed a strong flow of energy and was pulled deeply into the treatment until a nearby voice said, “What did you do to them? I’ve never seen them so quiet!” I looked up and noticed that all the dogs in that area were asleep despite the high noise level in the facility. After Nanuk awoke the second time, she went back to circling and searching for Adam with no further signs of interest in Reiki. The flow of energy greatly decreased, and I knew she was finished with the treatment. When I started to leave, she tried to follow me, which surprised both Laura and me.
The third treatment was uneventful. Nanuk took a moderate amount of energy, but it felt superfluous, almost as though the work that Reiki was undertaking, whatever that might be, had been accomplished in the second treatment. When I left, Nanuk made sustained eye contact, but it was not clear what the results of the treatments had been.
Two days later the rescue organization received an email from a couple who had seen Nanuk’s photo and story on the internet and had fallen in love with her. They realized that she would need a lot of love, patience and help and felt that she would teach them many things while they worked with her.
They lived in an area of California known for it’s year-round cool climate (perfect for a Malamute), in a beautiful home set among trees on many acres and surrounded by protected forest. The house had floor-to-ceiling windows throughout, and all of the interior materials were natural wood or stone, so that being inside was as much like being outside as possible. The couple had no children or other animals, worked at home, and immediately built her a large run so they could work on introducing her to indoor spaces as slowly as necessary. Within 20 minutes of meeting them, Nanuk bonded with the husband and stayed by his side as Laura and Adam departed.
The couple had a scare the first full day she spent with them: Nanuk slipped her leash during a walk and ran off into the forest, but hours later she returned and walked right back up to them. After hearing the story, I felt that Reiki had truly brought the perfect home to Nanuk. – Elizabeth”
If you are interested in having Josslyn do Reiki on your pet local or long distance you can contact her at 360-460-7829 or email her at rainshadowreiki@gmail.com
By my husband, Robert, writing as a guest writer about his real life shoe finding incident for Rain Shadow Reiki
To read the first article Josslyn Streett wrote, “Using Reiki to find lost objects.”
Reiki Lost and Found
“In front of our house we have a 10 foot wide by 50 feet long patch of juniper bushes that came with the house. I’m not a fan of junipers, one reason being they “eat” things! Baseballs, squirt guns, toys of all kinds…and shoes! In true “Little shop of horrors fashion” our junipers “ate” a neighbor boy’s shoe last night.
Under the noon glow of the pacific north-west overcast sky, half a dozen of the boys and I climbed into, over and through the whole patch. We lifted, tugged and pulled on branches. We stuck our heads under the top layers and peered into the nether regions the sun had long ago forgot. We looked and looked for 30 minutes, covering every square foot (or so we thought). When we were convinced the lost shoe was not in the bushes, we looked around the rest of the yard. This too revealed nothing so I turned back to the dreaded bushes.
Robert scanning the junipers with Reiki running.
When I still couldn’t find it I decided to do a “Reiki scan” of the bushes, much like I do when performing Reiki on a person. I set my intention to find the object as I slowly walked the length of the bushes, using my hands to direct the Reiki and “pick up” on what area to look in. After walking half the length of bushes, I had an ‘knowing’ that my hands were over the area, but continued until I was ¾ of the way to the end. The “scent” had gone cold and I could tell it wasn’t at that end. I turned around and went back to the area, roughly half way, that I had stopped at before. I looked around, then feeling this was the right spot, I reached in and moved one branch to find the shoe lying there!
Reiki Success!!”
Reiki makes each and every part of our lives more successful, we simply have to work with it regularly for it to have an impact on our lives.
Love and Light to all of you reading,
Josslyn Streett, Reiki Master/Teacher for Rain Shadow Reiki
To read the first blog by Josslyn Streett on HOW TO use Reiki energy to Find Lost Objects click on the link.
I was driving home with my boys last night and they knew I wasn’t feeling well. I have a little cold in my nose and sinuses and just wanted to get home, treat myself to some Reiki and the hot sock treatment and go to bed early. I’ve had chronic sinus and sore throat issues from childhood and allergies and often deal with this is the fall and winter time. My twelve-year-old son, from the back seat, says very matter of fact and maturely, “Mom, have you ever thought that maybe this sickness is from a past life?”
Mama Proud
My boys and I on the Dungeness Spit in Sequim our first visit.
I smiled and responded, “yes honey, yes I have. And you are right, it is. I’ll do Reiki on it tonight before bed time.” It made me proud that I’m teaching my kids to think on all levels. I’m teaching them that there is much more to illness and disease in the body then just taking a pill for it. That illness has spiritual roots, emotional, mental as well as physical roots. Yes, sometimes a cold is just a cold and just on the physical level. But, most of the time I have found it to be on more than just one or two body levels at a time. For me it’s usually all four levels (spiritual, mental, emotional and physical) and this needs to be investigated each time I’m clearing a layer. If I do not clear the energy from all four layers each time then the cold continues and often gets worse as if I’m not really listening to its message.
Reiki Mom, Reiki Kid
The night before my son said this I was doing Reiki on my him so he could fall asleep due to a tummy ache. He’d been indulging in left over pizza for days on end and was now feeling the effects of it and having trouble moving the pizza through. (This was not the usual gluten-free pizza they eat.) I was grateful for Reiki that I was able to help him through it naturally, calm him down and get rid of the pain he was having so he could fall asleep. Fall asleep he did, rather quickly too. And, when he woke up he was quite chipper and told me right away that his tummy ache was gone and that the Reiki worked. It makes me feel good because these, I know, are long-term lessons my boys are learning, lessons that will stay with them whatever career they go into, where ever they go in life.
My parents didn’t know about natural remedies when I was a kid and I had plenty of medicines since I was sick a lot and extremely sensitive as a child. But my dad was a Psychologist and believed in NOT using medicine to solve all your issues. He quite often questioned our medical professionals and did not take their advice. Then he’d search for answers that felt right to him, right for our family.
At one time multiple doctors thought I had to have jaw surgery for my T.M.J. (Temporormandibular Joint) issue. He said “No Way!” The doctors said I wouldn’t be able to eat normal food and would be sucking through a straw by the time I was 30. He still didn’t believe that surgery was the answer. Well, I’m over 40 now and I’m still eating food. My parents kept searching for other ways to heal my issue as it got very painful in my teen years. My parents opened me up to other ways to heal. Very advanced for their time back then, they found through friends an Osteopathic doctor who did Craniosacral therapy and basically solved my T.M.J. issues. I still go now and then for Craniosacral therapy to get ‘tune ups.” More often my Medical Intuitive, Candia Sanders works on my cranial bones energetically, long distance, and that does the trick. I also do Reiki on my head to keep it in order in between healings. If I can do it myself gently and naturally, why not do it?!!
But, I’m still chewing to this day with little or no pain. That lesson has stayed with me my whole life and has molded who I am today and how I heal myself and my family for everything else in my life. For that I am extremely grateful to my parents for teaching me these lessons.
Reiki is More Than Just For Healing
Many questions and sharing at the Kids Reiki Circle. We had nine boys and girls who just couldn’t get enough time to share. Learning about energy is never boring and always an adventure.
Reiki is not just a way to heal but also a way of life and a way to teach children about how to go about life in a spiritual manner including your Higher Power each and every minute of it. Reiki also teaches how to heal your karma and prevent creating more karma by being aware of what it does to you and others around you. My boys and other Reiki kids are learning that everything we do has an effect, good or bad, and that it can all be taken into consideration before we do something. It also teaches naturally and gently that everything has consequences, even as simple as eating too much pizza. But, that it is all good because he learned quickly and fairly painlessly that next time he eats pizza, he might want to NOT eat it, or go easy on it and eat a whole lot less of it. These little lessons stay with us just as much as the big ones. They stay with us certainly more than me lecturing to them about eating healthy food.
It is also important to teach our kids to question our medical professionals. They may know more about medicine, but do they know more about YOUR body? No, they do not. YOU are always the best compass for your body and what will work best for you. Question, research, and try new therapies always until you find what works for you. This will teach your children to do the same. This teaches us to think for ourselves and to use our own intuition, rather than just blindly following the ‘experts.’
For so many reasons, I’m more grateful than ever to be a Reiki Master, but even more grateful than that to be a Reiki Mom!
It’s Easy to Become a Reiki Mom
If YOU would like to be a Reiki mom, take a Reiki class. Come to my Reiki circles and bring your children to my Kid’s Reiki circles. If you do not live in the area then find a Reiki Master near you and encourage them to start a children’s program. Feel free to refer them to me for help in starting a kids program. I’m always happy to share my resources with other teachers who want to work with children. It takes more time and effort but the rewards are HUGE and so worth it.
Thank you Divine Source for this blessing and gift you have given to me and so many,
In Love and Light, sending blessings your way too,
Josslyn
for mor information about Children’s Reiki classes clink on this LINK to Josslyn’s Kid’s Reiki classes page!
Colorado River view, lower Grand Canyon, photo by Robert Streett
Years ago when we lived in California my husband and I used to go on camping trips in canoes with a large group of his fraternity friends from college. We would load up the canoes with camping gear, food, jugs of water and take off down the Colorado River for three days. It was a blast. The company was great and we loved getting away from it all, literally. This was ‘dig a hole’ to do your private business, type of camping. When I had my two boys I took a few years off and Robert went without me.
Our youngest was almost three years old when he went on his first Colorado canoe trip. He was a natural.
Adventures
When my youngest was almost three years old we started going again, the whole family. We took some friends of ours for their first time, a single mom, Cat, with her four-year old son Blake. They were adventurers like us and had a great time. However, the second night on the river Blake came down with a fever. Cat came to my tent at about midnight concerned. We were out in the middle of nowhere and she had used up the last of the children’s Tylenol when she put Blake to bed. I woke up anyone who had children on the trip and asked but no one had any more medicine to give him. Blake couldn’t sleep and was crying and very hot. I had just received my Reiki II level advancement and asked her if she wanted me to try Reiki on him to calm him down. She was aware of the Reiki I did and jumped at the chance to try something that may help.
Our family has always had a thing for rocks. Here is our oldest son holding a rock he found on the trip and brought it back in the canoe with us.
A Long Reiki Night
I laid down next to Blake and asked him if I could put my hands on him to send him some healing. Cat laid on his other side and told him it was ok. He was very cranky and hot and just plain miserable. I laid my hands on his head and after only a few short minutes he calmed down and went to sleep. Cat and I noticed that whenever I had my hands on him he seemed cooler. He certainly was calmer. After about an hour I figured that was enough so I told her I’d go back to my tent. As soon as I got up he awoke and started crying and fussing again. So, I put my hands back on him and ran the Reiki again. I tried a few times to get up and go at different intervals with the same reaction each time. I finally asked her if she’d prefer I just stay in her tent all night and she seemed happy I offered. I stayed all night long running Reiki the whole time. I’d doze off at intervals here and there but held the intent that the Reiki would continue to run though my hands to Blake. As long as my hands were on or near his little head, he was calm, cool and sleeping. I was tired the next day but so grateful for this gift God has given to me to help others. When you have nothing else with you, Reiki is always with you.
We left first thing the next day, a day early to get Blake back home to his own bed. He had an ear infection and was better in a few days. Having the Reiki to help him sleep and be calm was a true blessing.
I had forgotten about this scenario until tonight when my oldest son came in with a tummy ache. While I was giving him Reiki to fall asleep I drifted back to this story and felt the urge to tell it. You never know what circumstances you’ll be in but you can always count on the Reiki being with you.
Reiki is Always With You
Once you have been attuned to Reiki you are always attuned to Reiki. Even if it has been many years, the Reiki will still run through you when you place your hands on someone with the intent to heal. If you have not worked with Reiki in a long time it may be nice to take a class again and get a refresher, even another attunement. The more the better I say. But, it is not necessary. Once you have Reiki, you always have Reiki. I suggest you USE IT!! And use it often!!
It is time Goddesses to stand up and fight for what we deserve, our own self-love. We have for so many centuries, for so many life times been told that we are not as worthy, not as strong, not as important and not as intelligent as men. It has been so ingrained that we carry with us this belief pattern within our subconscious minds and our energy systems that it is true. It is not true. We know this is not true, yet it is in our belief system. This belief is held in our solar plexus quite often which is our place of spiritual power. This is strongly connected to our heart chakra as well because it has to do with love. But I have been more often finding it in the solar plexus do to the relation to personal power or the feeling of the lack of it.
Meditate on this art work with the intention of healing this issue with your solar plexus. Art by Roberta Weir
A Universal Pattern Among Millions of Women Worldwide
This is a Universal patter that I’m seeing healing after healing lately. Why lately, because universally we have chosen this as the time to let it all go. All of us together. It is a very powerful time to heal. It is time to reclaim our power as souls of Divine Source of all Love and Light and believe in ourselves again. We are needed at this time to feel totally and completely our God Selves and nothing less than. It is time for us to shine bright and to literally FEEL the Goddess within us, not just think it is there. NOT just be told that it is there, but to FEEL it in our cells in our soul. When we FEEL it, we KNOW it within and then we can shine the LOVE out to everyone around us and others will be healed by our love light.
How Do We Do This? You May Ask
Goddesses stand united in a healing purpose and it shall be done
There are many ways to heal ourselves to release the old patterns of belief. But, this is a blog about Reiki so for me the obvious answer is to do Reiki on this issue as often as possible right away. Reiki all your chakras starting with the root and going up (really what feels right to you) but put a special intent when working on all of them that the Reiki energy is healing this Universal belief system of worthiness and self-love. As each one of us heals this issue it creates a ripple effect and makes it easier and easier for others to do the same.
I also carry around beautiful yellow stones to help me heal this issue. I have been wearing an orange calcite on a very long chain for about six months. I hands just above my solar Plexus. I take it off at night while I sleep to cleanse it and put it back on after my shower in the morning. Choose a yellow stone that speaks to you and wear it proudly. Don’t forget to thank the rock for aiding you in your healing goal.
The Ripple Effect
Goddess Mabon
When I do a healing on a client, afterwards I stand in my Gassho (closing ritual) thanking Divine for the healing and I hold the intent that the client and I are both healed by this session. Then I hold the intent that the whole world is healed by this session. At that time, I can SEE though my third eye, just by putting my attention on it, the grid that surrounds the earth that every single human and animal is connected to. With each healing I do, I see how lights on the grid are lit up. I can SEE how each and every healing that someone does effects everyone else. THAT is how I know in my heart that all will be well with the world. Love is always strongest. Light is always strongest. All will be well with the world!
By Josslyn Streett, Reiki Master/Teacher for Rain Shadow Reiki
Are You Getting Dumped On?
Times are tough. The economy is down. Jobs are hard to find and get. People are busy with holiday shopping. People are stressed. That means that those of us who are sensitive, empathetic and compassionate are probably experiencing a lot of ups and downs as well, and some of them NOT EVEN OUR OWN!!
The Energy of Stress
When people are stressed, knowing it or not, they feel the tremendous need to rid themselves of that stressful energy. Stress is energy too. One way people dump on others is by finding a compassionate friend or stranger, like YOU, and dumping their energy with you. You probably know what this feels and looks like. A friend comes over or you run into them somewhere around town ‘unexpectedly’. They talk and talk and talk about their problems. They say good-bye and leave. Suddenly YOU feel horrible, irritable, even angry. They dumped their stressed energy on to YOU! It’s that easy. It quite often is not even someone you know, but maybe the person next to you in line at the post office or drug store.
It Can Happen Anytime, Anywhere
You don’t have to even know the person to have this happen. If you are an overly compassionate person (Yes, I said OVERLY) then it makes you a target. These ‘dumpers’ intuitively know how and who to dump their energy with.
Personal Experience
It used to be like a mine field for me to go out in public because I was unaware of this happening. I’d go to the grocery store in a perfectly good mood, humming going about my business. Then I’d wait in line next to someone I didn’t even know. They would unconsciously dump their bad energy mood with me. I’d take it in because I was so compassionate of a person, I wanted to HELP THEM. Right!? How many of you are HELPERS out there? Yep, a lot of us. By the time I’d walk to my car I’d be depressed, angry and ready to tear into someone. I’d wonder, “Wow, where did this bad mood come from? I felt fine when I went in to the store.”
Time to Change the Program
Use this HOW technique before going into a crowd every time.
This process could not happen at all if we did not allow it to. Yes, that is right, I said WE are allowing it by being HELPFUL and OVERLY compassionate towards others. As energetic beings it is not helping us or them for us to take this on. But we do it because of our own personal and social programming. Time to change our programming. We are not helping others or ourselves by taking on their crap. Period. This is what we call, a lose/lose situation. I will explain how to create a win/win situation for everyone involved.
THE HOW
How you may ask, do we do this? (I love the HOW! I’m all about the HOW!)
Kids love to work with the Oscar the Grouch visual. Teach them to send all the energy that needs healing from them or others into Oscar’s trash can. Then they can have Elmo or Big Bird with Divine’s help, fill them up with beautiful colors afterwards.
There are many ways to do this, but for a QUICK REIKI fix, here is what I do. You can do this anywhere, anytime as often as you need to. (O.k, NOT While driving, obviously, do not do this while operating any type of vehicle.)
In the beginning you may need to do this multiple times a day especially in stressful situations where you will be around a lot of people or in work situations where you help people, such as; therapists, healers, message therapists, etc. The more helpful you are, the more sensitive you are to picking up other’s emotions, you’ll need to do this more in the beginning and at least once a day after that. Whenever I’m going to be in a crowd of people I do this again, even if I did it in the morning before I left the house. I do this before I leave the house or in the car before I get out, PARKED OF COURSE!. In the winter time up here in the Pacific North West it’s cold. So, while my car is warming up, I do this visualization to get me started and warmed up too. Give it a try, it becomes easier the more you do it.
STEPS
I imagine one of these long shower drains all around me like a moat. I send all energy that is not mine or that I no longer need down into the earth through this drain to be healed and turned back into Love energy. The Earth can do this or the angels can take it to the Light to be transformed.
Call on Divine first to surround yourself with Love and Light. With Reiki you’d do this during your Gassho.
Visualize this Love and Light as a beautiful protective and loving color. I imagine the Reiki energy flowing from my body and surrounding me with Reiki colored Love. Any color you love will work. White is often recommended but I find white can often times be too powerful or more than you need for every day use. I usually like a soft off-white, pretty pink, yellow or blue to surround myself with. I love color! You can get creative and think of this color as an invisibility cloak or some other creative covering that works for you. Opal works great for this too. Surrounding yourself with stones. Have fun with visualizations. Make them your own, personal to you. Trust YOUR intuition as to what color you need that day.
Ground yourself to the Earth. There are infinite ways to do this; be the tree growing into the earth, a cord with an anchor, a beam of light, etc. Lately I’ve been connecting to the rocks, crystals and lava within the earth to help me be one with our Earth and therefore grounded and flexible. (The more intention, the more visualization you put into this the more powerful the connection will be.)
Create a place to send the energy that you do not want. Creating the intention of a recycling source for the energy that others send to you and for any energy of your own that you want to be recycled will help you to NOT take on the energy into your personal field. We do not need to be ‘weighed down’ with other’s energies, do we?! (Good visualizations for this could be a shower drain, toilet, mushrooms, hole to the earth, crystal cave, trash can maybe with Oscar the Grouch, or any other plant or physical manifestation of something that will take the energy away to the earth to be healed. The intention of the energy being healed is important.)
Reaffirm the THREE parts to this whenever you meet up with someone who is trying to dump on you. (Receive them with love and remember they are not consciously doing this, they just need relief. Divine, Ground and recycle and their energy gets healed, your energy doesn’t take on crap you don’t need and every one is happy. They feel better, you still feel good and you have helped them without taking on their stuff. WIN/WIN. I do this every time I leave the house and then reaffirm the shower drain or the mushrooms all around my feet, kind of like a moat of cleansing and recycling all around me as needed.)
Last and very important is to REFILL yourself and others with beautiful Love and Light of the Divine after the ‘old’ energy has gone. This will help you to feel lighter, happier and more confident the more you do it. With this you can imagine a Divine ball of Love and Light or Reiki above the other person’s head flowing into their crown and all through their body filling them up. Again, be creative and intuitive and do what feels right for you or them.
These beautiful red mushrooms make a great visualization for recycling the energies you no longer want or others try to ‘give’ to you. They give me a happy feeling just looking at them which can help with your overall intention of Love while working with difficult people.
Mushrooms
Mushrooms work as a great visualization for recycling energy, from other people or from yourself. Imagine these beautiful red mushrooms surrounding you all around your feet at the bottom of your aura, inside and out. All energy that is no longer helping us needs healing for whatever reason you choose. Imagine it flowing down to the mushrooms. They will, along with Mother Earth, cleanse, heal and return the energy completely recycled. Again, you can do this for yourself or others. When people are ‘dumping’ their problems on you by complaining, wining or arguing, you can imagine the energy flowing down to the mushrooms instead of at you. Try it, it works.
Give this a try. If you are sensitive to energy like me or tend to be a ‘helper’ or healer you will need this energy work daily. I tell my clients, we take our trash out daily, why not our ‘trashy’ energy too!!
Feel free to contact me for help on learning how to take out the trash regularly and clearing any blockages you may have to following through with this technique. I love to mentor new Light-workers!!
Love and Light to you,
Josslyn
In Love and Light of the Divine, welcome. Here, I share ideas on how to live a more spiritual life using Reiki and other spiritual tools and techniques. I help private clients –like you– break through blockages so you can freely move forward on your spiritual path. –Josslyn Streett
