At the beginning of each year WordPress puts together a review of my blog. I love to see what countries people are from who find my blog and which posts are the most popular. It seems, of my new blogs for 2013 the most popular was “Reiki Your Grocery Cart!” There are links and other great info on this blog if you are interesting in other posts that people liked.
Thanks for reading and posting your loving comments. I am very grateful for this form of communication. Being able to reach Reiki people all over the world, to me, is priceless.
Blessings to you all,
Josslyn
rainshadowreiki@gmail.com or 360-460-7829
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 23,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 9 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
By Josslyn Streett, Reiki Master/Teacher for Rain Shadow Reiki in Sequim, Washington
The Holiday season is here and many of us will be traveling to be with people we love. Nothing can spoil a visit with loved ones like lost luggage. The busier we are and the more people who are traveling, the more likely an accident with your luggage will happen. One year traveling on the train to come visit us, my sister had her entire suitcase of Christmas presents stolen. It didn’t ruin our holiday but it certainly put a damper on it.
The Archangel of Travel Lends a Hand
I had a healing/reading recently with a client who was going to be traveling out of the country with her two sisters. This was going to be their first trip together as fully grown women to their ancestral homeland. My guides alerted me to the fact that another woman was going and was possibly going to have luggage problems that would disrupt her mood the entire trip and therefore make the vacation for all of them not as spiritual as they had hoped. My client then confirmed that her sister-in-law would be going on this trip too. My guides told me that her sister-in-law is not grounded because she is going through a lot and this may cause energy imbalances in her own ‘universe’ that could lead to the luggage getting lost. My client agreed that her sister-in-law had a whole lot going on in her life right now and even more big events right before they take their trip. She agreed that this could very well be the case. Since my client wasn’t sure if her sister-in-law would be open to Reiki and grounding techniques, my guides recommended that she Reiki the luggage before the trip for her instead.
Nothing can ruin a vacation like lost luggage.
I also recommended that she ask Divine to send for an angel of the Highest and most Sacred Order to help with travel. The only angel that has come for me when I ask for travel help is Archangel Raphael. Ask Divine and receive, Archangel Raphael would go with them and the luggage to ensure safe arrival for all. It worked beautifully. They recently got home and all went well. They had a spectacularly spiritual trip and a wonderful time being together. Of course, there is no way to know if the luggage would have gotten lost, but why take the chance when it’s so easy to take an angel with you and Reiki your luggage. It only takes a few minutes to do some preventative Reiki work.
How To Reiki Your Luggage
As always, there is no wrong way to do this, other than not doing it. Even that is not wrong because if you know about Reiki, read this and still choose not to Reiki your luggage and it gets lost, then it was a wonderful learning experience. Nothing is ever wasted, we learn from every experience if we are open to it. But, wouldn’t it be easier to just spend a few minutes surrounding you and your family’s luggage with Reiki before you head out for an adventure? Yes, it would be. By doing this, you ensure you are in the flow with the Universal energies and they will be with you through your whole trip helping and guiding a long the way. If your luggage still gets lost, then it was a learning experience you couldn’t avoid.
WHEN
Before you leave the house is probably the easiest time to Reiki your luggage. While it’s all together sitting by the door, before you load it into your car, sit with it for a few minutes and run your Reiki through and around all of it.
If a big group of people are going and you won’t all be together before getting to the airport or even on the plane, use your Long Distance Symbol (HSZSN) and run Reiki from your home anytime before the trip with the intention of sending Reiki to all person’s luggage.
At the airport you’ll be a little more stressed and pressed for time, just activate your Reiki symbols if you have them and let the Reiki do the rest.
At the airport, if you forgot to do it earlier and are now a little rushed for time, simply draw the symbols of the Mental/Emotional (SHK) and the Power Symbol (CKR) over the luggage and send them with Reiki blessings.
Don’t forget to Reiki your car, your train, boat or airplane to assure a safe and secure travel experience.
And, always Reiki YOU!
HOW
I hold up my hands or imagine the luggage in my mind’s eye and the Reiki flowing to it.
Close my eyes and mentally/intentionally invoke the Reiki as if I were in the prayer position or the Gassho. Next, ask Divine to send down my Reiki guides to help me. I never do any spiritual work without my Reiki guides.
Let the Reiki flow with intention. You can visualize the Reiki flowing into the luggage, send Reiki symbols into the bags through your hands or through your eyes. You can chant the Reiki symbols in your head with the intention that they are flowing out your hands and into each individual bag. Set an intention of the safest and most joyous trip for the luggage possible. Use an intention that works for you and your travelers.
Reiki your luggage until you feel it is enough.
Thank the Reiki and your guides! Enjoy your trip!!
DON’T FORGET
Ask Reiki Source/God of your heart to send down the Highest and Most Sacred, the Best of the Best of travel guides to go with you and your family for a safe and
Archangel Raphael has been one of my healing guides from the beginning. He is the only guide I know of specifically meant to help with travel. Call on him for any travel needs. He’ll lead the way the entire trip.
joyful trip. Put any positive intention to how you want your trip to go: calm, blissful, serene, prosperous, positive relationships, etc.
You can Reiki the plane, your hotel you’ll be staying in, the rental car, your journey, anything and everything having to do with a safe and wonderful journey!
Many Blessings to you all at this magical time of year!
By Josslyn Streett, Reiki Master/Teacher for Rain Shadow Reiki
Grounding yourself with tree roots into the earth.
I recently had a question from a student about grounding. The normal tree roots and cords from her root chakra connected to the center core of the earth, didn’t work for her and I have to confess, it never worked for me either.
Grounding Challenged
Grounding has been a consistent challenge for me for many years and I have found a similar theme with many of my students and clients. I found I was trying to ground in the way other people said to, not in a way that worked for me. Grounding to Mother Earth doesn’t feel safe and stable to many people, it feels the exact opposite; unsafe, stressful and chaotic. Many of us have had traumatic and/or abusive past or present lives, making life on Earth seem unsafe.
Star People
Also, some of us are originally from other planets, and are not used to the heavier energy here on Earth. People who originally incarnated on other planetary systems before earth are sometimes called ‘Star People.’ Earth does not always feel like home to these souls, making it more of a challenge to be here. It often feels stressful and dangerous to be on this planet even though we don’t have conscious memories of our home planets. We do however, have subconscious memories that bleed through from time to time. However, Star People are here in masses, to help the evolution of Mother Earth and to help us on this planet to move forward spiritually in a big way, quickly.
So how does one ground when they have these feelings about grounding? Easy, anyway you want. Any way that feels good and makes sense to YOU!
What is Grounding?
I feel it helps a bit to understand why we ground in the first place. We ground to feel in the moment, centered and focused. We ground as a way of being focused on something outside of ourselves, a distraction lets say from the turmoil and emotions going on within. By being focused on an outside aspect of the world, whether it be in our minds visual or a visual in front of our eyes physically, it gets us to a more centered and stable place where we do not judge or allow our emotions to run away with us, a safe and stable place, so to speak.
Spiritually, many believe in grounding to the core of Mother Earth to bring up the earth energy into our bodies to help us feel more grounded, to heal and for other spiritual help. I too believe in the beauty and power of Mother Earth and believe it is important to work with her energy in this way. However, it was not possible for me at first and it is fine if it is not possible for you too. There are other ways in the beginning until you feel safe enough. When you are ready, then it’s the perfect time to invite the Divine Earth energy to merge with your energy and feel safe and confident about it.
Reiki Guides You to Your Grounding
You can google ‘grounding’ or ‘grounding to Mother Earth’ and read a bunch of meditations and suggestions on how to ground. That is probably how you found this post. I suggest after you read my ideas and try them, you then do some more research until you find one that works best for you. Try the ones that feel right and you will be successful. It takes time and determination but it is so worth it once you find a way that works for you. At the same time as doing this research and practice don’t forget that your Reiki is a great guide to helping you ground. Run Reiki before you meditate or visualize any grounding. Your Reiki guides will be there with you, helping, guiding and giving suggestions that will work best for you. Listen and trust what they tell you and you will easily find a way that is all yours.
Reiki Heals Your Grounding Issues
Work with your Reiki to heal your issues with Mother Earth.
While you are going through this process, you also want to heal the aspects of you that are making it difficult to ground to Mother Earth. You may or may not know what these are. It doesn’t matter. Do your Reiki daily self-treatment with the intention of healing the blockages keeping you from feeling safe on the earth and keeping you from grounding. In your time the Reiki will help you heal. Turn to Reiki for any and all issues like this and you will slowly but surly heal yourself. It is very empowering.
Here are the tips I give in class to help my students.
How to Ground For You
Run your Reiki and always call on Divine Source to send you the Highest and most Sacred Order of Reiki Guides to help with any spiritual process before you start. These are tips, suggestions to help, make them yours. Make them FEEL right to you.
There is no ‘wrong’ when it comes to grounding, so don’t worry. What feels right to you is what is best for you. As long as you feel centered, stable and in the moment, you are grounded. The other ways to ground will come in time, be happy with what works for you today.
Ground to Divine Source – You do not have to ground to the center of the earth as many meditations lead you to do. If this does not feel right to you then don’t do it. Ground to your Divine Source first and foremost. I do this anyway, every time. I connect to my Divine Creator with visualization and intention. You can do this many different ways. I start with visualizing the beautiful Love and Light of Divine coming down from above: a cloud, the sun, a rainbow, the heavens, the stars or some other place that makes sense to you. Or you can imagine the Divine Light as part of you, IN YOU, because we are all one with our Divine creator the energy is already within us. Imagine this Light in you or coming into your crown chakra and filling you up head to toe with Divine Light. Focusing on your heart center being filled and glowing first and expanding out from there. Then imagine it filling all your chakras, each and every cell in your body.
Find what you love about Mother Earth and ground to that. Visualize and imagine what it is that you truly LOVE and admire about Mother Earth; the crystals, the volcanoes, plants, water, mountains, etc. Feel emotion about that part of earth that you LOVE. This will help you ground. This will help you find what you feel closest to about the earth and safest with as well. Whether it’s mist, fog, dirt, forest, rivers, mountains, trees, metals,
I love mist and fog, and work with its essence in many of my visualizations. See if this works for you.
picturesque views, etc. As with any visualization the more FEELING and visualizing you put into this part the more connected and grounded you will feel. Intention, intention, intention!
Ground to the beauty of the earth – If you still feel you need to ground to Mother Earth, want to get closer to doing so or want to desensitize yourself over time to this fear you have, or you just want to practice this in some way, try grounding to the beauty that earth has to offer. I have become aware of and been told by spirit guides that earth is one of the most beautiful planets with the most distinction in topography and color that there is. So, many of us who incarnated on other planets first, Star People, find it stressful to be ON the earth, however, at the same time, we truly enjoy the beauty that the earth has to offer us. This technique works well for Star People who have difficulty grounding. (Close your eyes and imagine the most beautiful places you’ve seen on earth, either in photos, movies or in person. Let’s say you are drawn to the beaches; imagine the beaches, palm trees, monkeys in the trees, sea shells, sand, crystal blue water, etc. Get really into it. If you are into forests, then visualize trees, waterfalls, lakes and rivers, mushrooms, lichens, eagles and more. Again, put a lot of detailed visualization into this, and a lot of emotion. The more emotion you put into your visualizations the more grounded you will become and STAY grounded throughout the day.)
Imagine you attaching to the earth with your grounding cords just like these ropes are attached to the balloon.
Ground to something that is already IN the earth or to the outside of the earth itself – If these other visualizations don’t work, get creative! Ground to the trees on the earth, or a tent stake (thank you to my students for these great ideas), ground to the earth like tethered to a hot air balloon. Try wrapping your grounding cords around the earth rather than going into it. Imagine a hot air balloon of the olden days with ropes tied around it. Imagine your grounding cords wrapped around the earth in much the same way but upside down. This way you are connected to the earth but don’t have to go into the earth. Again, there is no wrong, get creative and listen to your Highest Guidance as to what is right for you.
Breathe deeply and slowly from your Hara (Sacral Chakra).
Other ways to ground– exercise, picking and eating foods right
Exercise is a great way for some people to ground and get out of their emotions and into their physical body.
from the earth, playing or listening to certain music (I find drumming very grounding for me), holding crystals, hugging trees, walking on the earth, laying on the grass (called Earthing), saying kind and loving things to yourself out loud, focusing on your present environment (such as; the walls are blue, this chair is hard, the day outside is cloudy, the carpet is soft, etc.), the body scan is a great physical way to ground, and one of my all time favorites, taking a Reiki bath with Epsom Salts. I’m sure there are many more that you will find during your search. Feel free to post them here if you like to help others who are reading.
Again, these are just a few ways, I can only guide and suggest, it is up to you to do the work. Never lose faith in Divine’s guidance, keep moving forward and you will succeed. I have faith in you as a brilliant soul of our Divine Mother and Father.
Blessings to you all, thank you for reading and commenting with love,
By Josslyn Streett, Reiki Master/Teacher for Rain Shadow Reiki, please use daily and share with your friends.
Taking Care of YOU!
I am reposting this process with some changes, because it is the one blog I recommend to people the most. Especially those people who tell me they have read my “Are You Emotionally Psychic?” page and feel they are Clairsentient. I use this technique or parts of it, every single day and sometimes multiple times a day to take care of my energy system.
Being healers and caregivers we often do not take care of ourselves because we are too busy taking care of others. However, that is a catch 22. If we are not well, we cannot care for others. By not taking care of ourselves first and foremost, we are doing ourselves and the people or pets that we care for a disservice. We are also not modeling healthy behavior to those we care for if we are not taking care of US first.
Energy Body
We take care of our physical body every minute of every day. We bathe, eat, wash our faces, brush our hair, use the restroom, drink water, think positive thoughts, etc. all day long. But, quite often we don’t think about taking care of our energy bodies. These need daily care as well but we were not taught this growing up in most modern societies. Here is a simple beginning technique to get you started caring for your energy system daily. Do this every day. In the beginning I would do this two to three times a day until you really feel it’s staying with you all day long. If you like this and want to learn more about taking care of your energy bodies I recommend doing research on Donna Eden and her healing work. She has many videos on You Tube to watch and wonderful healing books on Amazon. Find what works for you and have fun with it.
Daily 5-minute meditation to keep YOU clear and centered and protected.
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, social workers, etc. Sometimes healers do this after each and every client to make sure they are clear and clean and protected. Taking care of YOU is the most important. If you are not healthy, grounded and centered you cannot help others. 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! (Do not do any meditations while driving.) In the winter 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
Call on Divine first to surround yourself with Love and Light. (With Reiki you’d do this during your Gassho.) Ask Divine to send down the Highest Order of guides to help you and be with you all day. Give them your intention for the day to help you and guide you towards it.
Visualize this Love and Light as a beautiful protective and loving color. I imagine the Love and Light or (Reiki) energy flowing from my body or coming down from Divine and surrounding me with beautiful loving energy. 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 or rainbows work great for this too. Have fun with visualizations. Make them your own, personal to you. Trust YOUR intuition as to what color you need that day. FEEL emotion about what is surrounding you and how much you love the feel of it. Our guides respond to emotion and will work with you more often if they feel your love.
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. All energy is good energy, some of it just needs to be recycled back into higher vibrational energy.)
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.
Mushrooms
Mushrooms work as a great visualization for recycling energy, from other people or from you. Imagine 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!!
“Several reasons can explain why the Reiki power has been able to bring the world together. The most obvious of all is that it is so simple. In Dr. Usui’s own words, ‘everyone can learn and practice Reiki.‘ The second reason is that Reiki brings results. The results are the healing of the physical, mental, and emotional bodies with all their states of pleasure, pain, health, and disease. Reiki heals the present, as well as the past and the future. It heals the healthy and the sick, the wealthy and the poor, and the young and the old. It heals the Hindu, the Christian, the Buddhist, the Muslim, and the Jew – no matter where they live and what they do. Reiki has transcended these divisions and brought together all religions, races , and people who live and love across the vast expanses of this planet.” Frank Arjava Petter in “The Spirit of Reiki”
By Josslyn Streett, Reiki Master/Teacher for Rain Shadow Reiki
My four-legged client, M.M. the day after her Reiki session. Her mom said “Can you say, RELAXED?! Yes she can. Animals heal very quickly on the physical level with Reiki. It still takes them a little longer on the emotional and mental level, say after an abusive situation, but they do process and heal on the whole quicker than humans. They don’t seem to have as many mental layers as we do, blockades to allowing the healing. That is one reason working with animals is so rewarding. Give it a try.
I often tell my new students if they want to truly see and feel the effects of Reiki quickly, to work on their pets, or anyones pets. Animals respond very quickly and often quite predictably with Reiki. I have found this very much with dogs, whom I work with the most. They will often sniff your hand to investigate the Reiki, then they will settle down somewhere near by and comfortable to them, even on your lap, and quickly doze into a Reiki nap. I have often witnessed that they get so deeply in their Reiki trance that if I talk, cough or breath loudly and/or move,they will quickly jolt awake and look at me annoyed. Oops, I bothered their Reiki nap. They get back quickly to it and are snoring away again. Then they wake up when they’ve had enough and come lick you or they look at your very pointedly to say “Thank you for the Reiki!” I’ve heard other students describe the same situation with their dogs and even cats when they do Reiki on them. It is obvious they are soaking up the Reiki. Even new Reiki students can often feel the Reiki being pulled from their outstretched hands towards their pet. It is an awesome feeling and quite reassuring that the Reiki is doing its thing. This is the kind of confirmation people are looking for when they are new to Reiki and are still working at FEELING the Reiki energy flow. It takes practice and more practice before your hand chakras get sensitive to the energy and you start to feel it regularly. Practicing on your pets is a great way to get this confirmation early on in your practice.
Practicing with Pets
Sit in the same room with the pet you’ll be working on, where they are most comfortable.
Perform your Gassho (prayer position). During your Gassho let Divine know that the pet can take as much or as little or none of the Reiki energy and that it is totally up to them. They have free will as to whether or not they want Reiki. Yes, some do turn it down, and that is just fine. Try again another time. When they know you respect their wishes they are much more likely to let you another time.
Put up your hands and run the Reiki across the space between you and your pet. If it is a new animal to you, a small pet, or a small pet in a cage, stay across the room and run it to them from there.
Give the pet time to get used to the energy and decide if they want it or not. Given the choice, they usually do.
Allow them to pull the energy, never push an animal to take Reiki. You will feel the energy being pulled from your hands and after a few minutes start to build.
When you get a message from the pet that the Reiki session is over (they get up and leave, they say thank you to you, they wake up and start to play again, the energy stops pulling) or if you have to leave, thank them for the opportunity to give them Reiki and close with your Gassho.
Every animal is different but every one of them is a gift to practice Reiki on. You’ve got nothing to lose by practicing on your pet. Give it a try. Let me know how it goes.
Comment here if you have any questions, I love to hear from you,
Blessings,
Josslyn Streett, Rain Shadow Reiki
rainshadowreiki@gmail.com or 360-460-7829
Animal Reiki by Kathleen Prasad and Elizabeth Fulton
Much of my style for working with animals and Reiki comes from “Animal Reiki” by Elizabeth Fulton and Kathleen Prasad. Their technique is very kind and gentle for all animals and extremely heart centered. A fabulous book if you do not have it in your library I highly recommend it. I have it available in the Rain Shadow Reiki lending library if you are close and would like to check it out.
By Josslyn Streett, Reiki Master/Teacher for Rain Shadow Reiki
I have talked over the years with many other healers about the ego. It’s a big topic and everyone seems to have a different way of handling their ego during a Reiki healing on a client. Most people see the ego as a negative influence on the healing process; questioning, denying our intuitive thoughts, etc. Therefore many people label it as bad, in the way, something that needs to be dealt with, like a naughty child.
What if we heal it, not extinguish it?
I have considered these views over the years and tried many of the methods I’ve been taught by others. Unfortunately, none of them felt right to me. I believe it is because over the many years of healing myself and my thought processes, I have found that my ego has been here all this time mainly to protect me from myself and others who have hurt me. It adds a cushion between me and getting hurt again. Like many things in our lives, this protection may have been needed as a child, or at one time in my life, but as I have grown and changed, I have new tools to work with now. I have Reiki and I’m an adult with a new more mature view on life, so this type of protection is no longer needed. But, it keeps ‘protecting’ me whether I want it to or not because that is how our human selves are made.
What Is Ego Protection?
Treating my ego like this didn’t feel right to me. It was like punishing a part of me. I had to come up with a new way that worked for me and my ego both.
Often the ego protects us in the form of what seems like negative behaviors; defensiveness, anger, procrastination, non-movement or freezing, judgment towards others or yourself, and any other ‘negative’ behavior that protects you from living life to the fullest or making so-called mistakes.
Example of Ego Protection
For example, when we meet a new friend, we may be excited because we really like them and we feel a connection to them. Maybe you are really ready to make a new friend and have been asking Divine to send you someone you really connect with. But then your ego may cause you to sabotage the friendship in someway because you’ve been hurt by friends in the past. It could have been in childhood, or even in a past life, probably both. You may not even remember the original incidence, but your ego does. Your subconscious mind remembers and created a protection device way back when to help you not make the same mistake again. Well, the same mistake might be keeping you from having long-lasting friendships or even long-lasting relationships now. Even though this happened a long time ago, it’s still ruling your current life. Probably not what you want. We have many of these protections that our mind and ego together have created. Our mind creates the thought process and our ego carries out the orders, like the heavy. It’s a great plan, until it’s not.
Ego Vs. Intuition
Quite often, as a Reiki practitioner, our ego gets in the way of the process of Reiki flowing during a healing on others or on our self. When intuitive information comes in, sometimes the ego second guesses it, questions it or totally dismisses it. This ‘conversation’ can be going on in our heads causing a blockage of energy flow and information flow. This also often causes us to not be grounded during a session because of the battle being waged in our minds. Not the scenario we want. We want the energy flowing as well as the intuitive information without questioning without blockage.
Why does this happen?
There are many reasons this may happen. This is something you’ll need to work on with Reiki and meditation on your own to figure out. But, one theme I have found quite common amongst healers is the past life theme of judgment, condemnation or death for being a witch, healer, pagan, or psychic. Therefore, our ego believes it is not safe to do healing or intuitive work and therefore protects us from doing this. Many of us in this day and age feel quite safe doing this kind of work but our ego remembers long ago when it was not. It is still protecting us to this day because it does not feel safe.
Positive Vs. Negative
When you start viewing the world as ‘It’s all good!” then it becomes all good and much can be healed. When I started viewing my ego as a positive part of me that is here to help me, I was able to open up to ways to help heal my ego and thus heal me. A whole new world opened up to me. Anything can be viewed this way because we learn from everything. Therefore, everything is good. Even illness can be a gift when we view it as part of our learning journey on this planet.
How to Heal Your Ego While in a Healing Yourself
Prior to a healing or meditation, this is how I take care of my ego so as to keep the energy and information flowing nicely. I do the prayer position or the Gassho before every meditation and healing that I do. So this is my technique. As always, this is one way, a way that I have found that works for me. I teach this in my classes and have found it to work well. If it doesn’t work for you then please feel free to be creative and find what works with your ego. There is no wrong. We are all unique and we all require a unique method that speaks to us.
Place your hands in prayer position, the Gassho. While doing your beginning invocation; grounding, affirming safe and sacred space, and affirming that you are a clear channel for the Reiki energy, you also add in a place for your ego to go. (If you don’t remember the Gassho, get your Reiki I manual out or your Reiki book and review this information. I find it extremely helpful to my centering of my mind and being prepared during a healing situation.)
The first few times you do this, put extra intention and visualization into it. You may want to practice this before you meditate so you can spend a little more time on it at first. Then add it to your healing invocation.
Create a safe space for you ego to go during the meditation/healing. I send my ego to the day spa. I create a beautiful sanctuary like space up above my higher self in between me and my Divine Source connection. I imagine my ego on a massage table receiving Reiki healing from angels and spirit guides. Get creative with this and make the spa irresistible to your ego, so wonderful that your ego will want to stay there for a very long time.
If your ego feels like this, it won’t be bothering you during your healing.
I hold the intention that my ego is receiving a healing just like myself or my client and that for the greatest good for all, my ego will get the healing it needs and deserves for the many years of service it has given me. Be truly heart centered here.
Ask Divine Source, Mother Father God, to send down the Highest and most Sacred Order of Reiki guides to help with the healing of your ego while they also help you with the Reiki healing or meditation you are about to do. Ask that your ego get everything it needs to feel safe and secure during this time.
Wait until you FEEL that your ego is safe and happy and then move on to your healing or meditation.
Continue healing your ego with meditation, psychotherapy, hypnosis, Emotional Freedom Technique or any other technique that works well for you in between healings. These are powerful healing tools for the mind.
Remember the ego is a part of us, a part that is doing it’s best to help us and even heal us. When we open up to new possibilities, miracles can happen. How is your ego trying to help you?
That’s it. Practice, intend, visualize and put emotion into it and you’ll be all good!!
Let me know how it goes, I love to hear from you!!
“The system of Reiki is considered a practice. That means that your intention and commitment to the ‘doing’ of Reiki is important to your own development, healing, and understanding of the healing process, as well as your ability to facilitate more energetic flow through your physical being. This practice never ends; it is a lifelong journey of self-discovery. The more you work with Reiki, the more you will open to this flow. For this reason, practicing Reiki can deepen your intuition and cause tremendous growth and change on all levels.” Kathleen Prasad in “Reiki for Dogs”
Book Quote from “Reiki, The Legacy of Dr. Usui” and words by Josslyn Streett, Reiki Master of Rain Shadow Reiki
“Reiki, The Legacy of Dr. Usui by Frank Arjava Petter
This morning I picked up one of my favorite ‘go to’ Reiki books, “Reiki, the Legacy of Dr. Usui” by Frank Arjava Petter and I read this passage. It spoke to me, so I’m sharing it here praying it helps others as well. I read this book over and over again and still find new passages that I wonder if I’ve ever read them before. I know I have, and I got out of them what I needed then. But, apparently, I needed them again.
Many people are ‘waking up’ from their denial dreamland for the first time. People are experiencing feelings they haven’t felt before. Knowing that these feelings are not good or bad is important. They have a purpose. That purpose is to communicate that there is an imbalance in their system, their life, their body. It is time to LISTEN to this communication and not push it down or label it as BAD. I’m all about the HOW. HOW do we do this new thing, listening to our emotions, that we have not done before. I felt this passage from the book explained it well.
Expressing Feelings from “Reiki, the Legacy of Dr. Usui.” page 56
“I often heard my master Osho say that feelings must be brought to light in order for their purpose to become clear to us. The purpose of so-called negative feelings should be brought to light so that they can heal and the so-called positive feelings so that their light can spread even further.
Expressing our feelings is a balancing act at the start. Like tightrope-walkers on the circus rope, one tiny wrong movement to the left, right, upward, or downward is identical with falling into the depths. It isn’t easy to share our feelings with someone close to us without pouring them over him and burying him beneath them.
The only way to learn how to gracefully express our own feelings is to practice doing so. Because it is often more difficult to express our feelings to people close to us, it is best to start with ourselves. Simply go for a walk or sit down alone in a quiet place and tell yourself how you feel about yourself. Then tell yourself how you feel about a person close to you without passing any kind of judgment on your feelings. There actually isn’t any difference between the so-called “good” and “bad” feelings. The person who feels them is always the same!
When you have done this a few times, choose someone in whom you have total trust. Ask her or him to simply listen to you and then unconditionally pour our your heart. In a relationship, it often isn’t easy to be honest because we say that we don’t want to hurt the other person. I think this is true only to a limited extent. The rest of the truth is that we are afraid the other person would no longer love us if we express our feelings in their entirety. I recommend that you enter into a pact with your partner that allows both parties to be unconditionally open and honest.
The simplest way is certainly just plain openness. By constantly being honest, we disassociate increasingly from our feelings. At the beginning, we may possibly swing from one extreme to the other like a pendulum and somewhat exaggerate the expression of emotions. It will become increasingly easy to share the ‘negative’ feelings with time. After a while, it then becomes possible to speak about our feelings as if they were someone else’s feelings.”
I have found this to be true. The more I practice at this process, the more my feelings are not as extreme, I’m not as attached to them. It’s like I’m looking at them as someone on a movie screen like I used to have my clients do in hypnotherapy, to gain distance from them. Of course it’s harder at first and that is why it is helpful to have someone like me or a therapist or a very close friend to help you and guide you though it. But after some practice and experience, believe me, it gets much easier. Good luck, may Love and Light be with you during this process. The most important part is to DO it and to PERSEVERE. Stick with it no matter what.
“Reiki, The Legacy of Dr. Usui” is available for check out in the Rain Shadow Reiki lending library. Come and ‘check it out.”
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined! As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler, solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness, weakness.”
Henry David Thoreau
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
