I took a 2 day class about Reiki, which is essentially energy work...becoming attuned to energy which is around us and in us. I decided to write about it because it was an intense experience and some of you might enjoy reading about the effects it had on me and the way I perceive things lately. First of all, I went to the class with the intent on learning a lighter way to work on people via bodywork, as I am a bodywork professional. I had no idea what to expect but went with the desire to make the most out of what the instructors had to offer. The first day was about us, personally. We did meditations which focused on energy throughout our own body, visualizing our chakras and what they represent and are attributed with (I.E. ancestral chakra providing wisdom inherent; heart chakra intertwined with human nature; heaven chakra which has no boundaries..) As we did these meditations, I was focusing on trying to realize all that was being mentioned. I tried to have a clear concept of this energy...visualized it becoming clear and illustrious and pure, so that it could shine brilliantly and possibly help others. It was very hard for me to stay focused at first. In fact, the first 3 times we meditated in this way, I was trying different tactics in visualizing water flowing over and cleaning my chakra, or color flowing from my hands to my chakra, or anything just to feel a connection with the energy. The fourth time we did a meditation I actually felt connected to myself. That was hard to do. Connect on a deeper level with self. I get so caught up in work and worry and business/busyness that I think I actually forgot myself. Actually, it's strange. It's like myself knows me but I don't know myself (that is a clue why I put this in the mental part of hip forums Like, I never took time to get to know myself because I was too busy getting to know all kinds of other things. My conscious and subconcious was there in my meditation, though. It's when I realized all that the Reiki Master was trying to say when he said "come to the place where you feel at one with yourself..." Aftger a long period of time, I had a clear picture of a waterfall, with a cave behind it, and a secluded pool and botanicals. Behind the waterfall was a brilliant light, which I felt had always been there. In a way I felt that this was a place I had always had inside, a place of serenity and peace and oneness. A place with abundant knowledge and experience and understanding. It made me feel calm and loved, and was overwhelmingly good. In a way, that was me and myself. My subconscious, with me in my dreams and in waking life, which interracts with everything around me, and which cares about me although I don't think too much about it. Later on in the morning, we all practiced connecting to other people in the groups chakras. While I was on the table and 3 people gathered around me without touching me, I felt another intense experience. I felt someone's hand on my leg, and I thought that was strange since we were not grounding in that way, we were not touching anyone. After getting off that table, a girl said she had an image of my mother and me as a child, being held by my mother. So then I asked, "Who put their hand on my leg?" and of course, no one had. Some people in the room were comfortable with the thought of spirits around us and spirit guides in the room. Personally, I felt like I could have cried. My mother has been dead for almost 7 years. I rarely summon the courage to think of her as it is painful, and emotionally distressing at times. Meanwhile, it has been almost a week since that Reiki I seminar. I have noticed very interesting things as far as my mental aspect goes. I have become drawn to intellectual things, such as reading a good non-fiction book about Myofascia Release. Artwork, Conversations with strangers, travel and other things that I used to relate with and enjoy are coming into my life again, whereas previously I was not connecting with myself enough to enjoy the outside world for awhile. I am becoming aware of things, my own strangenesses, like for example my ability to put myself out of the scene I'm in (sounds strange cuz it is, Believe That.) Anyway, now I actually am aware of presence more in 3D than 2D. For example, I don't want to be here in this town, so mentally I've detached from people and places, and my thoughts wander. I stop noticing things that make life interesting and now I seem to be noticing those things, and it's almost like WHOOSH and I'm back in the middle of the scene again. Now, it's something I'm working on. Honestly, when you detach yourself it's weird to others around you, too. Come back to earth and it makes the time you spend with others more enjoyable.
That's great man, you should definately keep on writing and letting us know how things progress. It would be cool to see the evolution of a reiki novice -> master.
