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.

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Tonight while my boyfriend was using my computer I lay on my bed and gave myself Reiki while listening to an audio recording of The Tenth Insight by James Redfield, the follow-up book to The Celestine Prophecy. In his book he wrote about birth visions. Intrigued, I turned off the tape to meditate on what my birth vision was.

I looked at my birth family to figure out why I’d want to be born to them, then started having a vision that may have been a past life experience. In my vision I saw myself as an unhappy young Native American woman. In one section of my vision my hands were bound. I felt myself laying against the ground, feeling downtrodden. I realized I was in a group of natives being relocated, and unfortunately, I didn’t make it to wherever I was going. I felt totally unloved and unwanted, by anyone. So then I went back to my birth family and saw, first of all, a little girl there. I would have a sister if I was born to this family, and that excited me. It was the first thing that attracted me to the situation. Then I saw how the parents, especially the father, gave this girl lots of love and affection, and I wanted that. I wanted to be in a family that would love me, want me, and care about me.

Beyond that, I couldn’t see any reason for wanting to be in that family, and I questioned again, meditating on what my purpose in this life might be. I wondered why I have such a propensity for putting myself into situations where I’m helping people… just as I am with this energy therapy endeavor, and other things I do. My attention was diverted to another vision where I saw myself as a very young boy - about seven or eight - whose parents sold him to a slave trader. I was told via clairaudience that it happened in 13th century Persia. I was abused by the slave traders and taken to the court of a person who I identified as a king. The king said, “he isn’t one of mine” and said I must go to work. I was forced to work in a dark place that seemed like a dungeon or cellar, alongside other men, shoveling what I think may have been coal for winter heating fuel. Next I saw myself being executed for having led or participated in an uprising. I’d tried to help the people I worked with find freedom from this forced labor. So in this way I was told that I always wanted to help others. It is a part of who I am now.

I continued my Reiki, and considered how even though I chose my birth family for the feeling of being loved and wanted, I still didn’t feel 100% loved and wanted. I never have, even though both my parents are decent, kind, loving people, and always have been. Then I realized I had this lack in my energy body in the front of my head, in the area just over my third eye. I placed my hands there and sent Reiki and Quantum Touch energy, and healed myself. Then I felt massively loving, and realized it was what I’d been looking for. Through clairaudience I heard these words: “You are the love you give. That is how your soul gains power, strength and beauty.” And I realized this is a message I need to share with my energy healing.