Small Tidbit on my Personal Healing Path.

I'll share small stories from my personal journey with using and understanding energy work and healing. I have been doing some energy-based work for nearly 40 years now.

My first couple of years were spent trying to understand it, get past my misconceptions like religious beliefs, cultural beliefs, societal beliefs, and any other belief or judgment that shut off this natural connection to myself.

These negative beliefs ran rampant as I tried to cultivate and use the power of healing energy on myself and others. I might not have gone this way 40 years ago, if I hadn’t gone through what I went through with healing my own illness, I would have never needed it.

By learning a meditation that taught me to move energy through my body, I felt different; I saw improvements in my health and in how I managed stress. I think that would have been enough for me.  Until my wife said to me, " Hey, they are giving a free Reiki demonstration at a local bookstore in the city. She said you should check it out. It's something about hands-on healing stuff.  I said no and told her I wasn't interested. Of course, my wife, being who she is, took me to lunch down the street, and after lunch, she said she wanted to go to the bookstore. The rest is history. A couple of weeks later, I was a Level One Reiki Practitioner.

The young woman I trained with had a plan before she even came in, and while I just wanted to learn about energy, she shared her reason. She had a friend who had twins, and they were premature, and they were having a tough time breathing, and their oxygen levels were low. The woman read about Reiki and heard it can help in these situations.  She asked me, "Do you want to volunteer to give Reiki to her friend’s babies after our class?" We got permission from the parents and the hospital. We went in, me putting my big hands through the gloves of the incubator’s walls. The nurse gave me my instructions. I was not to touch the baby but place one hand a few inches away from the top of the head and the other a few inches away from the baby’s feet.

I watched the O2 monitor. When I placed my hands near the baby's head and feet, the O2 monitor returned to normal for a healthy baby. I couldn’t believe it; I moved my hands a couple of times, only to see the O2 level drop. My hands and feet began to feel hot and tingle. At that moment, I was hooked. I completed all three levels of Reiki training and studied many other healing modalities throughout the years.

The one thing I had to do was remove the fear of this kind of work. The negative thinking that comes with people's fear of the unknown. The religious beliefs I was brought up with. Feeling of unworthiness, or the belief that I was worthless. This type of thinking creates those blocks in our energy systems. These beliefs are not even our own. They are forced on us by others, not for our harm, but out of their belief that it keeps us safe. To keep us like everyone around us. To keep us in the culture of the norm. I always thought: what if every child were shown and told they could perform miracles? That with a simple touch, they could heal or remove pain. They were taught they had all the knowledge of the universe, and they are tapped into it.

Remember one thing: we are our thoughts. If you believe something like being unworthy, guess what you are. If you believe you are wonderful, talented, and beautiful, you are.

As you read this, what are the voices in your head saying? This is ridiculous, this is blasphemy, or worse. Suppose you listened to the voice in your head. Who is it? Whose voice? Your parents, teacher, a holy person, the kid down the street.

The other month, a client came to me asking for help. She had a problem with chronic pain. She found out through the grapevine that I did a form of energy healing like Reiki. We did the session, and she got instant relief. She was so excited that she went to tell her friends, and her friend quickly told her that it was a demonic practice and that she should ask for forgiveness.

I will end with this thought. I spent the first 20 years of doing healing work trying to learn, working hard, fighting off the demons. The second 20 years were spent releasing the thoughts and beliefs that were getting in the way of my true healing path—more about uncovering it than seeking it.

Thank you for being my teacher.

Bob