reiki
hello friends!
If you want to jump straight to the Reiki session and not read the details leading up to this, then find the three orange asterisk symbols below=***
I wanted to jump on here and share my experience about my first Reiki session and wow..such a beautiful experience. Quickly for those who don't know, Reiki is an energy healing technique performed by Reiki practitioners. I have been looking to do a Reiki session for months, but never knew where to look or who to trust. My intuition told me to choose someone I trust to do it, and I thought I would never find anyone! How the heck would I know if I could trust them? But as I know, the universe works in mysterious ways and is one sneaky creature...
Flashback to 2005, my Sophomore Year of High School...
I dated a guy for a couple of years when I was living in California and spoiler alert, it did not work out.
Now flash forward to me living in Las Vegas...
I joined the dance community with my dance fam "Meccamee", and we used to have a sibling team named "Rascals". Come to find out, my exes cousin Rachel joined Rascals! Such a small world I tell ya. This was probably in or around 2008-2010? Ugh, I can't remember..it feels like an eternity ago. I never truly hung out with Rachel back then, but we always said hi to each other if we were at the same class, party, gathering, etc. I do remember Rachel being the sweetest to me if my ex ever brought me to his family gatherings, and we have followed each other on social media for quite some time now. Years and years pass by, and the Vegas dance scene started trailing behind me... "adult life" started to kick in.
Present Day
As most of you know, I am one whole ass year into my Spiritual Journey (yay!). I bump into Rachel at one of my events at work, and we engage in some small talk. Come to find out, this beautiful soul has been on her Spiritual Journey for quite some time now, practices Reiki (opening up her own spot!), and is one hell of a creative. I was in awe of her entrepreneurship spirit, her woke mind, and her welcoming personality. Our conversation led us to brainstorm about how she can partner with the store I work for, and inviting me to do a Reiki session. Heck. Yes.
I schedule a session with her, head to her home, and walk-in with an open mind. Before our session, we talked for about an hour about life, our experiences, psychedelics, shrooms, just everything. I felt so relieved! Like I've been holding my breath for months because I don't really have anyone who truly understands what I go through and experience. I could explain something to her, and she would be like "YEA AND THEN THIS THAT THIS" and I'm just mouth open-squealing with joy inside. I couldn't help but feel so grateful that we crossed paths again.
I HAVE TO PAUSE TO WRITE THIS MOMENT I LITERALLY JUST HAD (one am)*
As I'm typing this blog post, I am listening to the Reiki Playlist Rachel made me on Spotify. The song "Unharnessed" comes on and I remember Rachel texting me that this song puts her in a trance-like state. I decided to take a listen...
As I was listening and getting lost in the music, my body started moving. It was snake-like in movement, but it felt like it wasn't me doing it. When Rachel and I were talking about spirit guides, she told me her experience when she found out what her spirit guide was. Long story short, It told her through her body. That moment popped up in my head, and I let my body do the talking and believed that it was possibly my animal spirit guide finally showing itself. NOTE When I meditated yesterday, I asked my spirit guide to come to me because I wanted to meet them (been wanting to meet them!), and the same snake-like movement happened. I remember my body moving like a snake, but also felt like I was flying? So I initially thought it could possibly be some type of bird. Bird felt closer than a snake, but my gut knew that wasn't quite it. I knew I was super close. I felt grounded but felt like I was in the air as well. It felt like strong energy, but also fluid and free. The amount of big-ass birds I googled after that was ridiculous...Although I truly hoped for a bird, I just knew my guide in this moment of time was NOT a bird.
So knowing this information from yesterday, I dove in and really tried to understand. As I was sitting here on my kitchen table letting my body move me, I asked again if my guide was a snake. Nope, felt no shift in energy in my surroundings/body. I then felt like I was flying again, and I knew it wasn't a dang bird. My body then decided to move like it was flying downwards as low to the ground as it could go, and then swooped all the way up reaching towards my kitchen light. The timing with that movement and the music was beautiful, and I don't even know this song. I then had a realization that my guide HAD to be a dragon. I put together the snake/reptile vibe I picked up yesterday, and the flying feeling! I asked if my guide was a dragon, and I felt a wing-like movement in my body to signify that YES, it was a dragon! I was so happy, my body felt like it was soaring, and I felt my guide get on all 4's to stand tall and proud. I opened my eyes after that, researched dragon spirit guides, and cried. LOL...what. just. happened.
alright... now onto my Reiki session.
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Our Reiki session began with me laying down on my back, closing my eyes, and facing my palms up. I was a bit nervous that I wasn't going to truly be in it, and leave feeling like I got nothing out of my session. She started playing some music on Spotify and that's when I started to slowly drift away. I remember I felt a lot of energy balling up on the right side of my body for the first few minutes. I also felt like my body wanted to move to the music, but I remember resisting. I started drifting and floating, and felt like I was being shown a vision of a warrior-like woman, who everyone was leaning on for guidance. She liked to dance and be carried away with the wind. It was like she could travel through the wind. It felt like me. That vision kept flashing in and out of my mind, and I remember questioning if it's me making it up or if it's truly what I was seeing. I took my own advice and reminded myself that we drop hints every day to ourselves, and it could possibly be a past life vision? Who knows.
A couple of songs later, I hear a song with some drums. I felt "awake" again and active in my mind. I saw black pulsating circles with some hints of dark purple, and almost a figure of something. Everything in my mind was a blur but it felt safe. When the sound bowls played, I first felt the tingle in my mind trickling down to my stomach and then feeling it vibrate and pulse in my body. It almost felt like my soul was pulsating in and out of my body. Such a wild feeling. After my session wrapped up, she made me take a couple of deep breaths and told me to slowly open my eyes. This session was probably about 30-40 minutes?
That might've been the longest I was able to meditate and drift off...I woke up and just felt like I had a lot to process. I didn't even know where to begin with what I went through, and I honestly still feel like I'm processing everything haha. What Rachel told me afterward sort of blew my mind.
I'm going to reserve and save the super personal details, but I did want to share some special things she told me. Some of my close friends know, but I am working on starting a YouTube channel about my life shenanigans. I want to vlog my journey about figuring out how to be my own boss, work FT as a creative, share my psychedelic experiences, spiritual journey, and everything in between. I want to show the ugly side and frustrations as a creative, and I want to bring whoever follows me along for the ride. This channel is 100000% for me because I love to look back on where I was in life. As long as I inspire kindness, spark that creative side of someone, and stay true to myself, I am fulfilled. I in no way want to be what we call an "influencer", but no disrespect to any of them! They are creating a life they want, but I cannot relate to almost any of them.
I want to take Chris with me on this journey, but I never want to force him into anything, for he is on his own journey as well. Rachel let me know she had a vision of me writing, and that Chris worked for me somehow either capturing content or who knows what. She said that he finds his "thang" in life through me, and it's something he truly enjoys. It was my FT job and we were working together. That is insane because Chris has recently been looking to pick up photography or some new hobby. He just doesn't know what. This news got me so dang excited and sparked something in me to continue to work hard to make her vision my reality. I want to be a full-time creative! I WILL BE A FULL-TIME CREATIVE.
Hearing Rachel talk about her future plans and how she wanted to possibly collaborate with me was so exciting and inspiring. She is on to something huge, I know it, and I can't wait to see where life takes her. I left feeling like I finally finished writing a chapter I was stuck on and ready to start a new one. I have a blank page right now and I can't wait to start. I'm so grateful for Rachel...grateful for her wisdom, and grateful for her generosity. I am deserving of this life I have. I will continue to make myself proud.
Ugh, I love the mystery of life.
