Reiki Healing - The journey and the medicine

My journey with Reiki

In 2020, I had a painful breakup with my twin soul that led me to attempt suicide on my Saturn return. That was the first time I felt completely lost physically, emotionally and spiritually. It was very different from the depression I had experienced, it's way deeper and i learned later on that called the dark night of the soul which is spiritual depression.  I've tried all the things I could do to help me feel better, but none of these normal ways you could think for depression worked. So I had to open my mind to try alternative healing as I knew I had nothing to lose at that point in life.

I was sceptical about all these "woo-woo" things until I did a Mirimiri workshop with Jolie Davis (Maori healer from Manawa Ora). That experience showed me tangible evidence of some higher force's existence and that's a true turning point in my life.

When the healer removed an entity/curse inside of my body, I physically felt the energy moving out as well as the emotional pain while it moved, I uncontrollably cried and screamed shit out of me until I finally let that energy out. The moment that energy was removed, I knew the demon I was talking to every day, denied by all the counsellors and therapists, was gone. 

That moment was profound, everyone in the group who had witnessed it cried for me and celebrated my liberation from a heavy burden. I still remember when I asked the healer what was that thing in my body, she said it was gone and that was what matters, don't be caught up by the story. This is still my healing principle now,  we don't need to get caught up in all the spiritual stories, as the most important thing in healing is to clear the old energy that no longer serves us and fill that energy space with love, peace and trust.

However, Mirimiri was too physically demanding for me as a practitioner. So I developed a huge interest in energy healing and feel the urge to share with others. Before Mirimir, I was already attuned to Reiki 1 & 2. Even though Reiki helped me go through the crisis in a profound way I wasn't fully convinced by it until I had that tangible experience in Mirimiri. 

After that experience, I started practising reiki on others actively while volunteering at Mana Retreat for an extended 6 months due to Covid. The most intense session I had was with one of my friends, during the session his whole body was shaking and it even scared me a little bit, as I had no idea what was happening,  but that's also tangible evidence for me that reiki works. Since then I have started to practice Reiki on others, and it's been 4 years now.

I still loved every session of it. Because it allows me to trust the healing will happen as it should be not how I want it to be.  It has transformed my life as well as so many people I have encountered in my reiki sessions. I felt truly fulfilled and happy when I saw people's energy change after the session and the healing truly landed in their hearts. 

What is Reiki Healing?

Reiki is a form of energy healing that activates our body’s innate healing ability. It’s a gentle push to our body so we can balance our chakra system and release stagnated energy. Reiki often brings things hidden in our subconscious mind to the surface in a way we can handle, so we can facilitate true healing emotionally, mentally and physically. Reiki “homework” is always a crucial part of our healing. Remember, there is no quick fix to all your problems, you are the magic itself. 

Why Reiki?

From my experience as a practitioner and client at the same time, i felt reiki healing is the most gentle and basic healing modality that allows you gradually handle or face the things you suppressed or restored in your mind, body and spirit in a way that no need your mind get involved. It balance your chakra, release the pain and speed up your body's innate healing ability to heal. It has been sicentificly proven its health benefit and being even used as an alternative healing in health industry across all over the world. 

Distant reiki is also as efficient as in person. this gives another benefit of reiki healing is that you could do it at any time wherever you want.

What to expect?

I've practise Reiki for 4 years now. And the answer for this question is expect nothing. I have no single session is the same. Sometimes people just went to sleep and felt deeply relaxed; Sometimes i get people crying due to emotional release; i also get people have a lot of physical sessions all over the body, the extreme example is whole body shaking; And some people can have a very strong psychic vision during the session. It's really depends on where you are and how much you could handle in the time you requires a healing.

I normally say to people, if you are new to Reiki, give it 3 session to optimise its healing effect on whatever you needed at the moment. The reason behind that is the first session allows your body get used to these channelled life force energy (As your body may have resistance to it), the second session normally will be more intense as now your body fully accepted its healing and allowed it to work with you, the last session will be just intergrade all the healing you've done. But how many session you need is really depends where you are at and how deeper you want to go.

People often take reiki as an one off type of healing, have a boost and relaxed and then move on into life. Each reiki session will bring subtle "homework" for you to tackle. It speeds up your life and even bring some very strong purge physically, emotionally or even real life event endings. All of these is telling you where your life is imbalanced and where your awareness should be focused right now. If you do going through some physical purging after reiki, don't panic, that's exactly reiki working on you to help you detox physically. Always be aware what brings to your awareness after a reiki session, no matter is flash back, random thoughts, dreams or messages from strangers that's the healing work part you need to do your self. The practitioner is simply channel whatever the healing energy you needed at the moment, the rest job is on you.