Thursday, February 23, 2012

How it all started

2/23/12

Hello my name is Pat and I am a massage therapist and a Reiki Master/Teacher. Welcome to my new blog about Reiki. I started this blog to talk about my experiences with Reiki and how it has changed my life in so many positive ways. Of course I am a bit prejudiced and think EVERYONE should get at least 2 Reiki attunements to quickly achieve enlightenment and good health but I leave it up to you to judge for yourself if Reiki is for you. Basically this blog will be autobiographical with some anecdotal examples of how Reiki changed my life and the life of many others that I have personally attuned to Reiki. For the better!

It all started back in 2003 while I was attending massage school. I attended the Wellness and Massage Training Institute in Woodridge ,IL which alas is no more but is now Cortiva Massage School. While I was studying massage therapy, I met a Reiki Master/Teacher named Linda Miller (no relation to Ray Miller who owned the massage school at the time). Linda Miller is also a channeler and an ordained minister, massage therapist, Reiki Master/Teacher so she wears many hats. I became interested in energy healing while I was studying massage and decided to take her Level 1 Reiki class to see if it was something that resonated with me.

Well did it ever!

As soon as I was attuned to Reiki Level 1, I heard a voice loud and clear and that voice said Shakti to me. Just like someone in the room had said it. I had no idea who or what Shakti was or who the voice in my head was but it was significant, that I knew. So I said out loud to no one in particular...what does Shakti mean? Someone in the room said, she is a Hindu goddess, the word is Sanskrit. At the time I knew it meant something but didn't know what so I had to do some research on it. Turns out that Shakti means "to be able",the sacred forces of the feminine...Shakti is the personification of divine feminine creative power, The Great Divine Mother in Hindu. I had never studied Hinduism before and I had never taken yoga at the time so I knew nothing about the Charka system and Kundalini, etc. Needless to say I got very interested right away! And that was only the first in a series of clues that I would receive from my "brand new" spirit guide who I later came to know as Augustus, who was a Greek physician (what we would now call a chiropractor) who took up residence inside of my head.

This was not to say that I didn't already have voices in my head before my Reiki attunement, I did even as a child. I will talk about some of the things that happened to me as a child, and also some things that happened to me right after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in future posts, but this voice was so clear and strong as I said as if he was in the room with me talking to me like a normal conversation. It was almost as though the channel was not quite on the right frequency and then as soon as I was attuned BAM it locked in. And I could instant receive the messages from my guide (I only had the one I could hear at the time, that changed over time).

Now I have to pause here and just say, this does NOT happen to everyone who is attuned to Reiki, at least not right away. It might take several attunements and a lot of time in between to get to this point. I believe that everyone who is attuned to Reiki does have spirit guides but they may not necessarily be able to hear them right away. You may have to do some work asking for signs and then they are not always verbal. For me all my senses were heightened after the attunement, my hearing, vision, touch, and sense of smell all  became heightened (didn't notice if taste was too but my sense of taste was always pretty good). Colors were brighter, I could hear sounds that no one else could, smells were more potent and my sense of touch became so much more refined which is a good thing if you are a massage therapist! I was told many times that I could "find the spot" so fast when I was working on someone. I realized later that it was like Braille almost, that my hands could "read" what was going on inside the body. Very cool.

A month later I was attuned to Reiki Level 2 by Linda Miller and then a few months later, on my birthday in 2004 I was Attuned to Reiki Master/Teacher. I knew it was my calling and what I have a huge passion for and just simply love to do. Best birthday gift I ever got!

So that is a little background into how I got here. In the next entry I will talk about some of the ways I used Reiki to heal myself and others, and give some examples of my greatest healings. I will try and write here a few times per week at the very least once a week.

to be continued...



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