By Josslyn Streett, Reiki Master/Teacher for Rain Shadow Reiki in Sequim, WA
Baby M nursing while mom writes notes in her Reiki binder. Multi-tasking is not new to moms.
Well it took two weeks, four classes and eighteen hours, but we completed the Reiki I class with a nursing baby and it was FABULOUS!! I’m posting a few photos here for fun. We knew this class would take a little more time and patience due to having an 8 month old baby with us, but really, he was the most well-behaved and the quietest of us all. LOL. Baby M rarely fussed at all and when he did we knew it was for a good reason, diaper, nursing or I was just talking way too much. Usually the last one.
I got a whole lot of baby holding time during this class, during each meditation, each practice session, it was a great blessing to me who has older kids. I got my ‘baby time’ for sure.
He liked watching me talk a lot, as long as my hands were moving too. He watched all the attunements with great interest, 35 minutes straight and he watched each person while they did the practice healings on each other, until he got bored with that and was more into his teething and rolling over.
The ladies involved in the class had great questions that provoked interesting conversations thus causing us to have a wonderful time but also go a bit over on time. But, as we learn in class IT’S ALL GOOD! I had a great time and I believe they did too. Hopefully some of them will comment here so we know. Hint hint.
Amber practicing on Gigi. This hand position is good for relaxing and dissolving stress and fear, sinus problems, eye, nose, tooth and jaw ailments. It also balances the pineal and pituitary glands which correspond to the 6th and 7th chakras.
When working with Reiki I teach that there is no wrong. It’s important to remember this when you leave your class and go home to practice. I’m not with you but your Reiki guides are. They will remind you, you cannot do it wrong. Even if you do something ‘wrong’, you learn something from it and thus, it was perfect all along. Therefore, IT’S ALL GOOD!! This allows us to open up our box of possibilities and try new things, stretch our abilities and imagination and thus, learn more, do more and be more. It is one of the things I love most about doing and teaching Reiki. I cannot do it wrong! Even not doing it, is a lesson in and of itself.
The practice sessions went really well. Each person was able to FEEL the energy both giving and receiving. The practice session is the most important part of the class.
Gigi practicing her Gassho (Gas- show) meaning ‘two hands coming together’ or ‘prayer position’. This is a time of grounding, centering and intention. At this position she is calling on help from her Reiki guides
It takes everything we have learned through the days of class and brings it all together in action. DOING and having an EXPERIENCE with energy is critical to being able to go back home and feel confident practicing by oneself. During class each person gets to practice on oneself and on one other person, cementing in their new abilities.
I find that each and every class had a common thread to it. We have something that brought us together, something we all have in common. This class, among other things, was, of course,our love of children.
Congratulations ladies and Baby M. you have completed Reiki I class!! Go practice and have fun with it. I have a feeling your families will get lots of good Reiki practice too. Lucky families.
Blessings to Baby M and all the ladies who participated in this experiment. I’d call it a success all around!!
Love and Light to you all,
Josslyn
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By Josslyn Streett, Reiki Master/Teacher for Rain Shadow Reiki in Sequim, WA
WHAT A FABULOUS DAY!!
Another first for me, I taught my first Reiki class today with a nursing baby in it. This class came together so quickly I knew it was meant to be. I didn’t even know three of the ladies in the class a month ago so I know my guides set it all up for us.
I didn’t take a Reiki class until my youngest son was three years old. So when I was approached by a nursing mom to take a Reiki class, I was very happy to accommodate and so were the other three ladies who signed up. Each person knew there would be a baby in the class and that we may have to stop and allow his mom to take care of him throughout the class, but they all wanted to be a part of this class. It was a beautiful thing, I must say. Each ‘mom’ took turns holding him, mainly because we all wanted baby time, but sometimes to keep him occupied while his mom could meditate or write in her journal. We are holding class for shorter days but more of them spread out, to accommodate not only Baby M and his mom but also another mom with a young child in day care. See how it all works out when it’s meant to be?! Perfectly. Many woman with young children want to explore their spirituality but have a hard time doing it with young children at home. I totally understand. I’ve been there. I’m grateful to be in a position where I can be flexible. And, I get to have some baby time too. A win/win.
Baby M asleep in my arms while I continue teaching the Reiki class after he fell asleep.
Baby Fix
I got extra long baby holding time, while we did our morning meditation, which is about 30 minutes long. I got to hold him while I read the meditation so his mom could get the full effects of the visualization and relaxation. I put my book on a music stand, held Baby M. and fed him Cheerios and let him suck on my finger for most of the meditation. Near the end he fell asleep in my arms so I got to continue holding him until lunch. He was so calm and didn’t mind being held by a total stranger. He loved my brightly colored blouse and the little sparkles on it. Such a blessing. One of my students took a picture of me right after the meditation when Baby M had fallen asleep. Here is me teaching Reiki while holding a sleeping baby, which felt oh so natural. Brought back some wonderful memories. Our babies truly do grow up so fast.
Just thought I’d share this beautiful moment.
Blessings to all the ladies in this class and Baby M for hanging with us all day, we have three more days and I’m really looking forward to them all,
By Josslyn Streett, Reiki Master/Teacher for Rain Shadow Reiki
Last night, ten woman and two babies gathered to talk about Reiki and other spiritual issues surrounding Reiki practice and our spiritual journeys. For me, as many Reiki events are, the evening was nothing short of MAGICAL It is so difficult for me to describe these feelings to others who were not there, but I will do my best as a means to inspire others to start their own spiritual round table group or come to ours. (Been to Sequim lately?) Finding a spiritual group you vibrate well with is more important than ever as we are, many of us all at the same time, waking up to a whole new spiritual way of living. Have guidance and fellowship to help you through this is key to progress and having more fun with it. Please read on, especially if you were not at this event.
SHARING SOUL TO SOUL
I’m sure each and every person there had a different experience and the same experience all at the same time. I felt a connection, a synchronicity with each person both on an earthly level and a soul level. As they would talk, I would connect with them on the levels of having been through what they had been through, understanding the feelings they were having but also FEELING them myself as well, feeling their soul speak the truth, speak from a higher level of being without even realizing they were.
The ladies and babies of our February 2014 Reiki Round Table for Rain Shadow Reiki. Photo by the amazing Chelsea. Please do not reuse this photo without permission.
TOPICS
We talked about so many different topics starting with a basic introduction as to what Reiki is to the new guests, then moving onto talking about our souls and our higher self and what it is, downloads of information, vortexes, spirit guides, the difficulty of the healing journey and finding bliss in our lives in the process, plus many other topics I’m sure I’ve absorbed into my psyche but don’t consciously remember at the moment. It was beyond fabulous! We got really deep last night and it was beautiful, confusing and fascinating all at the same time. It was poetic.
A SPIRITUAL COMING TOGETHER
I can’t share details because everything we say in round table is kept private, but I can share how I felt. I felt a spiritual community coming together. I felt a group of ten women and two babies who mostly didn’t know each other, sharing and baring their souls and feeling healed by it. HEALED BY IT!! I felt elated by the time the evening was over, full of gratitude and literally exploding with Love and Light of our Divine Creator and of these individual souls. I couldn’t go to sleep because I was so filled with gratitude and joy, so I stayed up and wrote love notes to my two boys and snuck them in their bedrooms for them to find when they got up in the morning. Then I settled down and did Reiki on myself. I felt the Reiki working very powerfully, with flashes of light every ten seconds or so like an MRI machine moving over me. My eyes were closed, the light was within. I hadn’t had that experience in about seven years, since a Reiki Master in C.A. worked on me without touching me but created a light show that has not since been surpassed.
GRATITUDE
I’m incredibly grateful to my student, L.T. for inspiring this event. I’m grateful to all the spiritual people who come to participate. I’m grateful to Divine Creator for all that is. I’m grateful to all our Reiki guides who come and surround us with power, protection and support throughout. And, I’m grateful to my family for supporting me in these Reiki endeavors even though it takes my time away from them in the evenings and weekends. (Maybe they are happy for the break. LOL)
So there it is. Worth taking two hours of my evening on a school night to be with a group of people just talking? SO WORTH IT!! I can’t wait for the next one! What will Divine bring to us then? I’m already looking forward to it. The next Reiki Round Table is scheduled for Monday, May 19th at 6pm. I pray you can make it, if not in person, then in spirit.
By Josslyn Streett, Reiki Master/Teacher for Rain Shadow Reiki
Thank you so much for your Reiki questions via comments and emails. A recent email question gave me the idea for this blog. A new Reiki Master was building a new home and wanted to know if they could put Reiki into the walls before the drywall went up and if so HOW? The HOW is my thing. I love writing about the HOW because it helps to open up people’s boxes about what to use your Reiki for and how easy it is.
Yes!
Put Reiki into all aspects of construction when adding on a room to your home, especially if the room will be used for spiritual work or sleep.
The answer is YES! Definitely put Reiki in all aspects of the construction process of your home, add-on, office, what ever you are building where you will live, work or spend time. Whether it’s one room you are adding on or a whole house. Put as much Reiki in the construction of your home as possible from the cement, wood, walls, insulation, electrical, appliances, plumbing, etc. Building a new home, what a fabulous opportunity to fill and surround your home with Love and Light.
Yes, I Have Done This For My Home
I did this when we added on the Reiki room to our house a few years ago. It was only one room so it was pretty easy. But, each day after the workmen would leave, I’d go out there with my ‘Reiki hands’ and do this process to the whole space and construction materials. I do believe everyone who comes into the room to this day can FEEL the effects of the Reiki in the room. I get comments on the energy in that room ALL THE TIME. And, I can feel it myself every time I work in there.
Intention is EVERYTHING!!
Put Reiki into bricks and mortar walls too.
Intention before and during the process is MOST IMPORTANT!! Hold a positive loving intention for your space. Be centered and grounded so you are not bringing stress in from other events in your life. This will bring stress into the space and invite in not so loving energies. This would be the opposite of what you want. Be in a very loving place in your heart before you start the process. Breath and be calm and with Divine. ( I talk more about intention below, but, safe and sacred, calm and loving, grounded and centered, loving family space, are all positive intentions you can start with.)
HOW to Reiki Construction On Your Home Under Construction
Put Reiki into the walls and windows. Seal Doors and windows with the Power Symbol with the intention of protecting the home and occupants.
Remember, with Reiki, there is no wrong way. This is one way I have come up with that works for me. If it does not feel right then tweak it or change it to feel right for you and your situation. This process is intended for people with Reiki symbols but I have put added ways to do this if you do not have symbols. Having Reiki symbols with this particular process will make it faster and easier and you can typically run more energy with a Reiki II attunement, but it is not required. Anyone can do this with a Reiki I and some time and intention.
Stand in the space quietly, connecting with the space that is your home or going to be your home. Honor your home and ask it for its permission to bring Love and Light into it with Reiki. This is showing respect for your home, the space, the land and the spirit guides who watch over your space.
If you were taught the Gassho, prayer position, put your hands in prayer position and ground yourself to Divine Source and to Mother Earth both. Make sure you are nicely grounded and feel very focused and centered in your heart. Very present in the NOW.
While in Gassho, ask Divine to send down the Reiki with the intention of filling the structure with Love and Light, Power, Protection and Support. Safe and Sacred Space is another one.
Move your prayer position up to your third eye and ask Divine to send down the Highest Spiritual Form of Reiki Guides and Angels to help you and guide you through this process. Thank them before and after the session.
Prayer position back to your heart – chant the symbols starting with your Master symbol/s until you feel the Reiki flowing. If you do not have symbols yet, this process will still work, just get your Reiki running with the positive intention and let it flow.
If you have a Reiki II training or above, then draw CKR, the power symbol, in front of each of your chakras starting with the root and ending with the crown and motion it into your chakras. Draw once, say or chant name three times and motion in to the chakra. After the crown put a very large CKR towards your whole body. This is energizing your whole system and helps you to run more Reiki and stronger and faster for this process. I do this before attunements and setting space and any time I feel tired. REIKI I LEVEL – If you have a Reiki level I then run energy on all your chakras for at least thirty seconds each, with the intention of energizing your chakras for running lots of Reiki through you.
REIKI II LEVEL – Draw in the air one at a time each symbol, starting with the highest symbol you have DKM (Master Symbol) or HSZSN (Long Distance Symbol) and going down to the SHK (Mental/Emotional Symbol) for cleansing and calm and sacred, then to CKR (Power Symbol for sealing and protecting. Draw each one in the air one time, chant the name three times and visualize it floating in the air. Then do the next and the next symbol until all symbols are floating in the air. INTEND for them to float through the air for a couple of days at least supporting you in this process. You can even ask them to follow you from room to room as you move through the house. REIKI I LEVEL – Imagine flowing the Reiki out of your palms and into the room you’ll be working in, filling the room with Reiki for help and guidance throughout the process. Intend; blissful space, sacred space, calm and clean space, safe and protected space.
Start in the room that is most important to you spiritually. Imagine your Reiki flowing out of your hands like paint from a paint gun, thick and full and filling all spaces easily. Imagine beautiful calm and sacred colors flowing out of your hand chakras towards the walls, ceilings, floors and all the space you are in. I usually start with one wall, then move to another until all four are done. Then I do the ceiling, floor and the inner space. Do windows and doors, imagining the Reiki surrounding them with protection. All Love and Light may come in but lower energies cannot.
If you are attuned to Reiki III, start with Usui DKM (Master Symbol) for blessing the space or CKR (Power Symbol) if Reiki II also for blessing the space, then SHK (Mental/Emotional Symbol) for cleansing and emotional healing, then CKR (Power Symbol) again for sealing with power, protection and support. That is how I do it. (Then I run all my Reiki symbols through the walls and space the same way. It is up to you how much time you have and how many symbols you put it. The more the merrier I say but depending upon how much time alone you have in the space, do what feels right. Getting the three in the walls first is important. This paint process is fast and beautiful and feels so nice. You can do a room with a lot of intention in about 15 to 20 minutes each. Faster if you are in a hurry. Take more time in the rooms where you will sleep and meditate.
Permanent Symbols – Some of you may want to put drawings or pictures of the Reiki symbols in the walls. I feel this is fine. I actually sat in meditation and talked to my guides about this and they thought it was a great idea. You can spray paint them in the walls before the insulation goes up, pin-up pictures of the symbols on the walls beforehand and any other spiritual symbols that you feel adds Love and Light to the space permanently: Om, Reiki Guides, Usui Sensei, hearts, spiral, sun, etc. Whatever relates to you and adds positive energy is great. You may cover them with paper or some kind of covering if you are concerned about other people seeing. That is a personal preference. Most people who will be in the house working on it won’t know what the symbols are and they won’t really even register with them if they see them. But, do what feels right to you. The symbols are sacred to us who work with Reiki, but they are no longer a secret. They can be seen many places but rarely do people recognize them unless they have knowledge of Reiki and/or the symbols are part of their subconscious mind. It’s all good. Go with your intuition on this one. I trust you and Reiki trusts you.
Hold the intention that this Reiki is permanent Love and Light that is now vibrating through your home, land and space forever!
Thank your, home, your guides and your Reiki.
Reiki a garden wall as it is being constructed for a peaceful and spiritual garden space.
QUICK TIP – Don’t try to do the whole house in one day unless you are truly in a time crunch. Put more time into the spiritual rooms if you have to do this. Otherwise, do the three symbols in all the rooms and go back to the most important rooms if you end up having more time.
Anything you do is better than nothing so no worries.
You can also do it after the drywall if you run out of time. Just imagine the Reiki flowing through the walls and filling every space inside, like filling the cells of your body, but filling wall, boards, electrical, plumbing and insulation instead.
I don’t know what you have been taught by your teacher so hopefully some of this you already know. I figure more is better and you can adjust it from here.
I would love to hear from you if you try this on your new or add-on construction, please comment here as to how it felt for you and how the process worked.
By Josslyn Streett, Reiki Master/Teacher for Rain Shadow Reiki
Our first Reiki circle of the new year was filled with a great deal of Divine Love that we all seemed to feel very tangibly. After each session that seemed to be the theme that we would talk about, FEELING the LOVE, FEELING the CONNECTION. It was AWESOME to say the least.
Reiki Circle January 11, 2014, photo by Josslyn Streett, please link if used.
There are so many parts of Reiki circle that I love: being part of a Reiki community, practice, sharing and receiving Reiki from others, which I don’t very often have a chance to do. But, I feel now, the number one reason I continue doing the Reiki circles is the total connection I feel with the other people during a Reiki healing. Feeling connected by our heart chakra cords, coming together for a common purpose with such loving intent, consistently gives me hope for our world. But, it also gives me that reminder that we are not alone, on earth or in heaven. Divine Source is with us, our guides are with us at all times and other Reiki people and healers all over the world are all together working for a better future for our planet. We are not alone in this earthly experience and Reiki circle reminds me of that in the most beautiful and profound way. To FEEL God working within you, that is purpose.
Thank you to the precious souls who participated in last nights circle with us and thank you to everyone who participates in a Reiki circle or share in your community. If you do not, I highly recommend finding one and making it a regular practice, for you, for everyone. There is so much love to be shared, lets share it. JUST DO 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, 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!!
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!!
By Josslyn Streett, Reiki Master/Teacher for Rain Shadow Reiki
Every year I take summer break with my kids. I’m a Reiki Master/Teacher part-time and a mother full-time. So when they are off school, I’m off too. I enjoy the down time, the time away from schedules and the ‘have tos’. I do not teach classes or circles in the summer, I do see clients, but less often.
This blog started out as an apology to my followers for not writing more blogs for the last two months. I’m usually more consistent than that. But, especially with my writing, I go with the flow of the energy and the creativity. And, if it’s not meant to be, then it doesn’t happen. Apparently I needed some time off because it hasn’t been happening.
“Activity and rest are two vital aspects of life. To find a balance in them is a skill in itself. Wisdom is knowing when to have rest, when to have activity, and how much of each to have. Finding them in each other – activity in rest and rest in activity – is the ultimate freedom.” Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Celebrating Silence
My Amazing Reiki Guides
But, what this blog is really about is my amazing guides and how they allow me to take time off to recharge my batteries and how YOU too can work with your guides to get the time off you need and exactly when you need it.
Talk To Your Spirit/Reiki Guides Daily
I talk to my guides daily. I tell them my ideas, what I need, what I want and then I simply ask them to help. I have told them they have a right to read my mind so they know what’s going on all the time. We must give them permission for this, otherwise they will not invade our mental space. If it feels right to you, just talk to your God, Divine Source and hold the intention that you are fine with your guides of Love and Light reading your mind. This saves time and it helps to know that they love us no matter what and only want the best for us. Otherwise you’ll want to speak to them specifically and with intention to let them know you are talking directly to them.
An Example – when summer is approaching I say in my mind, “I’m really tired, I need some time off. Reiki guides, please help me to have the time off I need this summer. Unless it’s an emergency, Please hold off any clients until I’m ready and refreshed and able to do my best job for them.” And you know what? They do. They do exactly as I ask. I have had only a few clients all summer and exactly at times when I was ready, willing and able to work with them. When I got back from our Sedona, AZ trip and I was ready to work again. I simply though “I’m ready to get back to work next week!” Amazingly I’ve had clients calling and emailing all week and I’ve been booked up! Thank you Reiki guides!! ( If your guides are reading your mind, they will know automatically when you need a break.)
So, give it a try. Work at communicating with your guides more. Give them specific measurable tasks to attain and see what happens. Play around with them, have fun, say Please and Thank You and you’ll be surprised by the outcome.
And, I’m back! I’ll be putting out more blogs soon. This is just a teaser for now,
Pray you all had a wonderful summer and some rest too!
This message has been coming through from my guides lately and my clients’ guides. It is linked to a message for women that I received and blogged about before at Healing the Solar Plexus and Self Love. It’s a short blog and I suggest you read it again after this new blog. The self empowerment messages in the blog particularly are important. The messages from each of these blogs connect to each other. I asked my guides today, “What message do you want me to post on this big day, 12-12-12?” This was the answer.
Holding Space
Goddess Mabon, I used this photo in my Solar Plexus blog but my guides wanted me to use it again.
Many of us have been in waiting, holding space, preparing. But, for what? We have been waiting patiently for direction, waiting in faith that the answer will come and we will know what to do. If what I write here feels right to you then do it. This is the message I have gotten and I will do it. Many will without even reading this, automatically, intuitively they will sit in meditation and do this.
Women Around the World Unite
Women all over this planet have signed up to participate in this birthing process much before we came to Earth. We came from all over to help with this process. Divine works with our grounded earth energies by us being on the planet and having a very different vibration because of being here. Divine uses this to help bring in this new energy. In that way we are needed and participate by sitting in space for this energy to come in, to be birthed.
Re-birthing
Re-birthing the energy for earth
We are all currently in a process of rebirth. We are preparing to rebirth the earth energy right now. We are preparing with many thousands of other women light-workers all over the earth who are holding space and preparing to do this with us. Many of us are needed to do this, to usher in the energy that is coming. These women play a vital role in this process and many of them have come to earth at this time just to do this. When I sit in meditation and FEEL the energy of this group of women it feels like a sorority, which means “sisterhood.” We all chose this before we came, we chose to do this together and all are needed in order to follow though with the process and our path. Some will chose to go home after this process and some will stay to continue helping the earth with other tasks. Mother Nature is at the head of this sisterhood of women and she is aiding and guiding us in any way she can to help us to know what to do. (more on that later)
Women and the Birthing Process
Mother Nature pregnant with the earth
Women have been chosen for this process because it is our God-given natural ability to birth, not just babies, but energy and love as well. Any soul can come to earth and chose to be a woman at this time to do this and many have. There are many reasons we choose to be male or female and giving birth, the experience of creation and nurturing, is one of those reasons. It is an amazing gift because we are in Divine’s mirrored power of creation when we participate in this beautiful and amazing gift to the planet. The ability to create, bring forth something totally and completely new and different is a huge undertaking and an even bigger blessing to each and every one of us. Many of the women in this sorority have been mothers in this life and/or many other lives. It is a part of our soul to birth and go through the birthing process as a part of preparing for this day as well as learning from the experiences. We have prepared and we are ready. Now what?
Mother Nature wants us to all gather together and meditate before December 21 to the 25th, 2012. Meditate visualizing the other ladies in the sisterhood in a circle together with us. Visualize all of our hearts connecting with all the other women and Mother Nature in the middle helping and guiding us along the way. She wants us to SEE ourselves connecting to each other, working together for this process. We need to do this while holding the intention of bringing forth this new vibration of energy to the earth. The more we do this meditation and visualize the other women, Mother Nature and the earth as well the more we will get messages about what else we need to do. for some just being may be enough. Being in a place of Love and Light and allowing may be enough. Each person will get individual messages to listen to and follow though with.
Artemis Protecting Us
Artemis, Greek Goddess of the New Moon, she looks a little wilder to me, like the photo above with the hair flying all around. But, I thought this one was beautiful.
I was meditating today and a new guide came to me to work at my crown chakra area. I’ve been doing a lot of healing on my top three chakras lately with the help of fall head colds. This new guide came to me and introduced herself as Artemis and also said Artemisia, which is a plant. I think she knew I would ‘know’ where to do my research if I had both words together as I always do research when I receive a new guide. This guide was tall with long flowing greek like white robes. When I do research I do it to receive left brain information to add to my right brain intuition. Here is what I got on the internet that spoke to me.
“Artemis is Apollo’s sister, and Queen of the witches. She is the goddess of the moon, the herbalist, the midwife, the birthing woman, and the hunter. Artemis is an untamed wild woman who runs free with the deer and the hounds. She is the woman who runs with the wolves. She is “Mother of all Creatures.” “Leader of the Sacred Bitches.” “Great She-Bear.” She is owned by no man, and thus she is “Forever Virgin.” And the plants named after her share her qualities.
If you see an Artemisia growing beside the door — or painted on it — you’ve arrived at the home of a herbalist or a midwife, a home guarded by Artemis.”
Right Brain info on Artemis
Intuitively what I got from this passage is that Artemis is the guardian goddess for all the women in the sorority and will be with us though this change protecting us along the way. Include her in your meditations and prayers and thank her for coming to help us at this time. Communicate with her and get any more information about what we can do to help bring forth this energy at this time. When I visualize the circle of women with Mother Nature in the center I see Artemis all around the outside of the group circling us, protecting us as we join our hearts as one. She feels beautiful, gentle yet powerful. She is an amazing Goddess of feminine power and can be called on for many other uses; animals and wildlife, camping and hiking, children, environmentalism, fertility, conception and adoption, and increasing and honoring intuition. Feel free to call on her. Remember to say thank you.
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