sound healing – Rain Shadow Reiki

By Josslyn Streett, Reiki Master/Teacher for Rain Shadow Reiki in Sequim, WA

Hello Reiki friends, thank you for being patient with me while I process the death of my father. I have not written a blog for a while and the grieving/healing process is why. Therefore, this blog which I meant to post much earlier is a bit late. But, better late than never, so I present to you a very exciting sound healing opportunity, Bach Flower Remedy Music!! If this sounds exciting to you, please read on….

Music affects subtle energies, only called subtle because we don’t know how to measure them. These energies allow you to achieve goals and dreams – or not. These energies allow the spark of life to live in you, inspire you, and give you joy, so you can become an adventurous explorer, curious and in awe of the wonders of the universe. When you’re consciously in touch with life energy within yourself, you have control of the valve that connects you to Spirit, and whether or not you have accidentally turned it off or on.
— Al Harris

Al’s Bach Flower Remedy music can be purchased at Rain Shadow Reiki or at CDBaby

PENINSULA HEALERS CIRCLE Hosts Musician/Healer, Al Harris for its August 2015 Speaker

We are so fortunate to have veteran musician Al Harris choose the Olympic Peninsula for his home and come to present for our healers group.

About Al Harris

Al Harris, Musician/Composer/Healer — Al Harris, Musician/Composer/Sound Healer

Having loved music from a young age, Al Harris “traded in” his law degree for a music career, and for 12 years wrote and arranged scores for radio, TV and film.
Sensing the healing power of music, he studied widely and deeply; and to better understand vibrations and frequencies, he studied alternative healing: herbology, sclerology, reflexology, acupressure, kinesiology, geotran, holodynamics, flower remedies, holographic re-patterning and tai chi. Subsequently, he composed and recorded the music for the Bach flower remedies.

Al Harris is a musician who, after encountering the Bach flower remedies, realized the value of using them with music to foster health and well-being:

Final and complete healing will come from the soul, form within — “Final and complete healing will come from within, from the soul itself.” Dr. Edward Bach

The Process of Composing

“Writing the 38 Bach Flower Music pieces was both interesting and grueling. Over a period of a year, I experienced each emotion so I could find the particular music that would heal it….

An emotion would surface to show me which remedy to work on next.
I read Dr. Bach’s writings, to tap into his healing intent.
I found the frequency of the flower remedy I needed, using kinesiology.
I played the frequency to myself for a week, to tune into the remedy.
I wrote the music based on what the remedy “told” me.

The 38 pieces of music were written with the following flavors – blues, bluegrass, Brazilian, classical, country, East Indian, “forties,” Irish, Jamaican, Japanese, and jazz. As I “lived” with each remedy, it suggested a particular style.” Al Harris

The Benefits of Listening to the Music

There are three main things you can do with Bach Flower Music:

Balance your emotions when you’re stressed or anxious.
Tap into your inner knowledge to create what you want.
Increase your prosperity

OUR PHC BACH FLOWER SESSION WITH AL

At our teaching session with Al, he told us that people who have worked with his Bach Flower CD have told him it works as good or even better than the remedies themselves. And the Bach Flower music can be used in conjunction with the remedies or by itself.

This is a good chart for seeing which flower essence to be applied to which emotional situation. But Al taught us that we cannot always take them so literally, sometimes we need a different remedy. This is where our own intuition or muscle testing can help us to determine what we truly need. Click on it to make the chart larger.

For our class he played the music while we practiced some automatic writing. He’d play one of the choices three times based and we’d write about how we felt with this music. Then he would tell us what emotion we had been listening to. It was very interesting and sometimes emotional. Then he let people pick some of the remedies they were interested in hearing and listened to them. Then we focused on individuals who wanted healing for a certain situation. Al used kinesiology to determine which music they needed and while playing it we all practiced automatic writing about their situation and then shared with them our insights. It was enlightening for us as well as the person who asked for the healing information.

We had a lot of fun and got a really good idea of how we could work with this music. It helps if you know kinesiology and can test which music you need and how many times to play it, but if you trust your intuition you could do this too. It is not background music that you put on and just let it play, each short 3 to 4 minute composition is a healing tool. Based on what you need, that is what you play. The muscle testing helps you to know which composition and how many times to listen to it and for how many days.

Al’s Bach Flower Remedy music can be purchased at Rain Shadow Reiki or at CDBaby

Some information for this blog was taken from The Flower Society & Al’s website

Thank you to Oscar Hammer, my co-conspirituor in leading the drum circle. He brings the fun to our group and a little bit of the outlandish! Love it! — Thank you to Oscar Hammer, my co-conspirator in leading the drum circle. He brings a great deal of fun to our group and a little bit of the outlandish! Love it!

By Josslyn Streett, Reiki Master/Teacher for Rain Shadow Reiki in Sequim, WA

My Guides Deliver a Mini Miracle Again!!

The weather called for rain all week for Saturday, the day of our annual drum circle. I just kept the thought in my head of “My guides chose this date 8 months ago, they wouldn’t choose a date we’d get rained out on, unless it was part of the learning experience.” I felt confident all would be well.

The older kids playing outside in the sun before the drumming started. Grateful for beautiful weather.

It was a good thing I was correct in that assumption because we had so many people at this drum circle, plan B would have been a very cramped but cozy drum circle in our living room. Gray skies and rain threatened all day long, then just as people started arriving, just like a miracle, the sun came out and shone down upon us. It was beautiful and much celebrated. We had out biggest and most lively drum circle so far.

Potluck

We started with a potluck for the first time, with some fabulous gluten-free, organic and healthy dishes to choose from. What a pleasure to eat at a potluck and not have to worry about what I’m eating. I’m sensitive to so many things, mainly in packaged foods, soy or wheat. No worries here, I ate happily as did many of my sensitive friends. The food was amazing.

Blessing Ceremony with Sage

We took turns making sure everyone who wanted to receive the sage got it.

Then we moved onto a cleansing, grounding and blessing ceremony with beautiful sage from California that my soul sister Heather gave me as a gift. Sage is known for it’s cleansing ability to clear away negative or like I call ‘old’ energy. Energy that we are ready to let go of, it helped us, but is no longer needed. We intend for this energy to go to Heaven or Mother Earth to be healed too. This is also a blessing to each other that we do this FOR each other in love and devotion to the cleansing of ourselves and our world, together as one.

Oscar went around the circle making sure all the instruments received cleaning and blessing too.

It’s quite a perfect experience. We also just had a lot of fun smoking each other with the sage and feeling our stresses and worries drift away with the smoke. Some had not done this before so it was a completely new experience and others had done this many times. Even the kids got to experience something entirely new to them, opening up their boxes of life experiences at a young age.

Drumming for Healing

“Sound is the medicine of the future.” Edgar Cayce

Divine told me to get out of my chair and drum on each person in the circle. So, I listened. It was better for me too since moving around is preferable for me to sitting. It was healing for me to be able to move and dance to the beat of the drums.

I truly believe, because my guides have been telling me for about two years and getting stronger and stronger in their messages the more I listen, that sound is the medicine of the future. They are doing great research about how different sound frequencies heal different diseases. (Click on the link on ‘frequencies heal’ to watch a 17 min. video of how sound shatters cancer cells. It is incredible.) It is working against cancer and other diseases such as bacterial infections.

Really getting into the flow of the energy, melding our vibrations together in music and vibrations for healing. When we are all in the trance of the drumming the playing takes on a life of it's own and we are able to drum from intuition. — Really getting into the flow of the energy, melding our vibrations together in music and vibrations for healing. When we are all in the trance of the drumming the playing takes on a life of its own and we are able to drum from intuition.

Therefore, I truly believe in the healing power of the drum and other musical instruments and machines that create vibration. When we are feeling joy, bliss and spiritual connection at the same time, such as during a spiritual community event like a drum circle, we can only be lifted up and healed by the process.

Reiki and Drumming

By running our Reiki while drumming we are assured to be safe from taking on

The Reiki brings spiritual power, protection and support to all who are running it and surrounded by it. Tonight, that would be everyone. — The Reiki brings spiritual power, protection and support to all who are running it and surrounded by it. Tonight, that would be everyone here and everyone we brought in with our intentions and our hearts.

any energies that are leaving the other people who are being healed as well as our own. The Reiki and our Reiki guides take this energy to the perfect place for it to be healed itself and recycled into love and light again. It’s a win/win for all involved. While running our Reiki during spiritual activities like drumming we also are able to receive intuitive information that is much-needed. For me this came in messages about getting up and drumming over each person. Then it came in the form of who needed drumming most and where on their body they needed it.

Getting into the vibrations and the music.

I listened and the people who needed the stronger vibrations of my Reiki Attuned drum, got them. One person said when my drum was over their head vibrating it felt like golden Divine Light was streaming into his crown. That was a radiant personal example of why we run Reiki while doing ANY other spiritual activity. Reiki brings Spiritual Power, Protection and Support!!

Fun and Games

After three rounds of healing drumming we took a break and Oscar Hammer, a

Having fun playing a new and a bit of a whacky game. — Having fun playing a new and wacky game.

Reiki Master too, led us in a game called King Elephant. It was funny, hilarious and we were all cracking up by the end. Here is a link to HOW to play King Elephant but we picked our own animals and signs and stood up. Here is a link to a very large group playing King Elephant where each circle of people is assigned to one animal. Challenging but a total blast.

Winding Up

We had some casual mix and mingle time where Reiki people got to meet and talk with other Reiki people. Then some of us did another round of drumming and some of us kept connecting through talk. It was, speaking for myself at least, a truly blessed evening. I slept like a baby too.