About Reiki and Me

Welcome to my reiki blog.  I learn many great things about Reiki each day, and I would like to share them with you.  This is why I have started My Reiki Notes.

What is Reiki

I almost started telling you about me and Reiki before properly introducing Reiki.

Reiki is a healing technique that works with energy.  We can all do Reiki, we just need to be attuned in order to do so.  But it is not a technique just for a few "chosen" ones.  It is available to all.  Do you want Reiki?  Great!  Just take a Reiki I course, give yourself Reiki every day and start living better for the rest of your life.

Our body has major energy centers that are called chakras.  Whenever you have a problem, illness or something difficult in your life, energy starts accumulating and creating blockages.  Reiki helps liberate those blockages and improves your body's energy flow.

When I give Reiki, I am using the energy of a source that is available to all.  You can call it God, Budda, Ala, the Cosmos, The Universe or simply call it Love.  It is energy that will always do you good, and that can never be used to harm or manipulate.

How I stumbled Upon Reiki

I first listened about reiki many many years ago.  There was this person I did not like, who said she was a Reiki Therapist.  I did not even care to ask her what Reiki was.  I let my own defects get in the way of having learned about Reiki earlier in my life. 

Later in my life, I was living in Madrid and a friend invited me to a meditation.  I have always liked meditations and anything that can help me live better.  If you speak Spanish, visit the meditation Website, there are many mp3s of meditations that you can download for free http://www.medita.es/

At the end of the meditation, there was this man that offered a Reiki Introduction for all those who had questions and wanted to know a little about Reiki.  He was there mostly to answer questions, and since I had no idea about Reiki, I had no questions to ask.  But I started to get a general idea that Reiki was some sort of healing technique that worked with energy from the questions other people had.

I kept going to meditations and one day my friend told me that she had completed her Reiki level 1 course and that she needed someone to practice with.  This is how I received my first Reiki session.  Even though I felt sensations and things happening in that session, it took me almost a year to register for Reiki I myself.

I received my attunement in Madrid, from Reiki Master John Curtin (http://www.sanacionysalud.com/) and my life started changing.

My Attunement

I received my attunement on a Saturday afternoon.  I had always had cold hands.  Now my hands are always warm.  Even in cold weather, they do not get as cold as they did before my Reiki attunement.

I was taught to give myself a reiki session daily for the next 21 days while a cleansing and energy liberating process was taking place in my body.  I felt physical changes during these 21 days.  A secondary reaction to this cleansing was that I was sleeping great, even a little sleepy during the day; and I had to go to the bathroom a lot in the first week.  This was my way of cleansing and liberating all those energy blockages that were present in my body.

Why did I want Reiki?

Little did I know...

I wanted Reiki because I suffered from chronic lumbar pain.  My knees were pretty bad and I used to get headaches.  I was told that Reiki helped to heal, and I wanted to be able to help my body.

What has Reiki Given me?

A new life.  Reiki not only has taken away that chronic lumbar pain - I do get it from time to time, but it is not a daily issue for me anymore - it has given me wonderful changes in all aspects of my life.  It has taken harmful friends away from my life.  It has given me wonderful new friends in return.  It has given me a new life in a new Country, and it is giving me serenity, joy, and happiness.

My Physical Changes

I am sure there are many changes I am not aware of and cannot describe.  But I am aware of not having lumbar pain daily, of wanting to eat better things for my body, of the warmth that I feel inside me.  I had not realized until now, that I do not have headaches anymore.

My Emotional Changes

I am a different person.  I am more patient.  I always wanted to rush.  I do cultivate these newly acquired assets, but Reiki makes it so much easier.  I also truly believe that I have to give the best of myself wherever I go.  That I always have to clean my side of the street and that it is not my place in life to take other people's inventories.  I used to think that everything was the other person's fault, never mine.  I see now, that I'd rather be happy and kind than be right!

My Spiritual Changes

All these emotional changes and being able to surrender my character defects to reiki, and fill them up with energy so that they can work for me instead of me working for them (the story of my life) have taken me to another spiritual level.

I want to live better and be happier every day.  So my body, my emotions, and reiki are just taking me to that path.

I have a daily ritual where I practice gratitude before starting my day and set intentions of kindness for my life.

I am able to trust there is a power greater than myself that can help me with absolutely everything in my life, that this Reiki energy comes from or is that power, and that I am no longer alone against the world.  I am now a part of it that is grateful and willing to surrender my life to what is best for me.

My Reiki Notes

There is no wrong way to do or receive Reiki.  Give yourself that gift!