I was reading a Reiki manual a few weeks ago and came across an exercise for creating energy spheres. Basically what we can do is turn on the Reiki, then slowly bring our palms together until we feel some resistance, then form the energy mass into a sphere.

Of course I had to try it, and sure enough, soon I had a sphere of energy about six inches in diameter. I played with it for a while, then decided to direct it into my heart chakra.

I could feel it going in, and then a moment later, realized I was feeling a most profound sensation of love and peace. The Reiki energy sphere had an amazing effect on that chakra, to the extent that I’ll never again feel that Reiki is anything but effective. I know it works, and works well, because of this amazing and unexpected experience I had.

After that I developed a new Reiki exercise routine for chakra balancing and healing. It is simply this - to create an energy sphere and send it into each chakra in turn, to heal and enhance the proper functioning of each chakra.

Today I gave Reiki to a friend whose shoulder was dislocated last winter as it is still causing him pain. While I was doing it I felt my hands tingling and before long, a great sphere of energy surrounded both my hands and his shoulder. I continued the Reiki, sensing deep inside his shoulder for the source of pain, knowing the Reiki (universal life energy, also known as chi) would go where it was needed. We will repeat the Reiki daily for a while as this condition is severe and not likely to go away immediately.

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Submitted to the Carnival of Healing #91, held at Wisdom of Healing.

There are many methods that can be used to end pain and suffering; how will your energy therapist know which to use when? Chances are, your healer will use intuition as a guide. Intuitive healing is the name given for judging what to do in a medical situation by using inner insight and wisdom rather than through intellectual analysis. Intuitive healers not only know enough about how energy therapy works to be able to practice it, they are confident that their insights are valid and are not afraid to act on them.

For example when working on someone with pain in their neck I may start by running Reiki energy into the afflicted place, then add Quantum Touch, then decide that a section on the back of the head needs energy attention, then move to another place that I sense may be affecting the neck problem. I might add some EFT to all this, to clear energy meridian blockages. I will proceed by what I feel is right for the patient; doing this is what I call intuitive healing; my ability to do this has been gained from many years of experience with my intuition, and confidence in my ability to do the right thing using energy healing methods.

All this doesn’t mean a client shouldn’t also consult a medical doctor; I am all in favor of using traditional medicine where needed. But running energy into the site of pain can and often does alleviate the situation. It helps a person use their body and spirit’s natural tendencies to heal. People can heal themselves, and energy healing practitioners enhance their abilities to do so by directing energy, the positive chi, to the right places.

I am excited that I’m employed outside my home again for the first time in almost eighteen years. I stayed home with my two youngest, homeschooling them and watching after their special needs. Though I had a few work-at-home businesses, I missed working at a J.O.B…. so now that my kids are older and getting out on their own, I decided it was time. After a few applications I got a job working in the local pizza parlor!

I’ve never done anything like this before. I think if my employer knew I have two college degrees he’d never have hired me. Fortunately his application didn’t even ask! I got a paycheck last Friday for the first time in years and let me tell you, it felt so good!

But what doesn’t feel good is my FEET. I’m not used to standing up for so long, and I’m overweight - enough that it makes a big difference in the amount of pressure I’m putting on my ankles for hours every workday. So a few nights ago I decided to run some Reiki energy into the painful areas… and I am so excited to report this cleared it up FAST. After a few minutes of Reiki, the pain was history!

I tried it again the next night, and the same thing happened. The pain disappeared fast! And today after work there was no pain at all.

If we want to help raise the planetary vibration, we must start by raising our own. In other words, if we want to make the world a happier, safer, more humane place to live, we must start by changing the way we ourselves think, and how we interact with others.

This thought came to me last night as I was washing dishes, something I do every evening just before retiring to my bedroom for computer time. It was one of those brainstorms that came from out of nowhere, but begged to be written about.

I realized I’d had a consciousness-raising experience a few days ago when I participated in an energy healing session. I was running energy into a friend who was experiencing pain using the methods I’ve been learning by reading Quantum Touch: The Power to Heal by Richard Gordon. As we did this, we listened to one of my friend’s CDs, Music for Reiki and Meditation by Shajan. It was intensely peaceful and the session went well, lasting for about half an hour.

While I was running the energy, which is to be done with love and intention to help the other person heal, I experienced moments of intense love transferring with the energy. As I meditated on my breath and energy transfer, the love grew and became stronger. Not only did Quantum Touch help alleviate my friend’s pain, it caused a major shift in my own vibration and capacity to give love. Later in the day he noticed that another problem he’d been having that day was also gone. Though Quantum Touch practitioners direct energy toward a specific affected body part, the energy will travel to wherever it is most needed, and I believe that’s what happened in this session.

As I was thinking about this and washing dishes tonight I realized I’d read something about mutual self-improvement recently. In Education and the Significance of Life, J. Krishamurti wrote that in “helping the student towards freedom, the educator is changing his own values also; he too is beginning to be rid of the ‘me’ and the ‘mine,’ he too is flowering in love and goodness. This process of mutual education creates an altogether different relationship between the teacher and the student.”

A relationship between an energy therapy practitioner and the client is similar. There’s a process of mutual improvement. One cannot help someone else without being helped oneself. There’s a lesson to be learned every time we give of ourselves to help another person. When we take time out of our day to sit with another human being, transferring love and energy, we bring the light into ourselves as energy flows through like a river.

By running energy with love and intention, the practitioner’s love vibration is enabled. Like a light turned on, some of the darkness of this world dissipates. Clarity is brought into focus. Shadows recede. It affects not only the participants of a healing session, but anyone around them. The planetary vibration will be raised, and everyone can benefit from these efforts.

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Disclaimer: I’m only halfway through reading the book by Richard Gordon, and don’t want to misrepresent his healing technique. What you just read was my personal impression after studying, learning to run energy, and giving my first Quantum Touch session. I’m still taking baby steps here. Though I’ve done intuitive healing for many years, this past year is the first time I’ve tried harnessing my healing energies by learning techniques like Quantum Touch and EFT (Emotional Healing Techniques). I have a lot yet to learn. If you want a clearer impression of what Quantum Touch is like, you can read the book, which I bought through Amazon, or you could go to the Quantum Touch website for more information.