As someone in her early fifties who likes to maintain an active lifestyle, I am very conscious of recovery strategies not only for my body but also for my mind and spirit. I try to eat a balanced, nutrient-rich diet, and consciously carve out time for rest, something which can be a real challenge as a working student.
Recently I performed a reiki energy healing session on a professional dancer who had just completed a performance, and was in need of rest and self-care. As I was doing reiki on her, these words kept coming up for me: “Reiki for Recovery.”
There is still a lot of mystery surrounding energy healing modalities such as Reiki, mostly because there has not been any financial gains associated with large-scale studies validating its effectiveness. Nonetheless, aside from recovery, Reiki has been known to assist in speeding up the healing process, clearing mental clutter, helping with sleep problems, alleviating stress and anxiety, reducing pain and worry, among other benefits.
This year I will be celebrating one decade of sharing reiki - what an amazing adventure it has been! I am grateful to my teachers, clients and students and look forward to my next decade of bringing this beautiful practice to an ever larger audience.
For those of you who are afraid of getting old… 2024 was the year that I turned fifty and it was one of the best years ever! I was able to fulfill my goals of spending more time in nature and with my family.
I healed from heartbreak, completed two challenging statistics courses, moved closer to home and learned so much. I feel a little more confident than a year ago and have been able to face and heal core wounds. I was blessed with amazing new friends, clients and students.
Of course the year had many challenges and rock bottom moments but my faith and trust now run deep.
New, beautiful seeds have also been planted and my wish for 2025 is to keep nurturing them with mindfulness, patience and compassion.
Here’s to new alliances, collaborations and more light - Happy New Year everyone!
When you grow up in an environment where you need to perform or behave a certain way in order to get approval and love from your primary caregivers (oftentimes, parents), as an adult you will have the subconscious tendency to keep overgiving in attempt to fill the void that may result from not getting that energy from others.
In other words, loving and accepting yourself AS YOU ARE is almost impossible when you had no experience of love without conditions as a child. In order to make this happen, first you have to experience what it would feel like to be in a space of pure love, free of expectations. This takes time, imagination, guidance and support. There is a specific technique in ThetaHealing (an energy healing modality) to download these types of never-before-experienced templates, but mindfulness practice, reiki, even Yin yoga and certainly Meta or Loving-Kindness meditation tools can help with this.
Remember, you deserve to be loved without having to work for it.
