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Steal My Calm & Joy

heather • April 26, 2024

What Reiki Can Offer You, Too

> Parenting can be more Easeful
> Family can be Enjoyed
> Intimate Relationships can feel Aligned and Fulfilling
> Career can feel Rewarding

Inside this deep joy and calm, which I liken to genuine contentment, is deep trust in the Universe. I have been cultivating this trust and connection to the Universe since I was a teen. Many different, challenging life experiences harkened my return to and relationship with my own Spirituality.

Reiki became a part of my life after the horrifying events of 9/11. I was in Boston for my second year of my Masters program, from where one of the planes took off. While I was in school in Boston, both childhood and college friends were starting their careers in NYC. The frenzy and fear to locate them all hung on my heart like chains! At a time when having a cell phone wasn’t the norm, the internet was dial-up and the only social messaging app popularly used was AOL’s IM, I went home that weekend and made the decision to take a year off from school.

While I was home, I visited my local, neighborhood’s esoteric shop in New Paltz. As I perused the crystals, seeking solace for my sorrowful heart, one of the shop’s employees opened up about how the weight of the world can burden those who are particularly sensitive, empathetic and attuned to the world’s energies. This revelation struck a chord with me, suggesting that perhaps this burden was affecting me more profoundly than I realized. She recommended exploring Reiki classes as a potential remedy. I enrolled in the Reiki Class series, the Winter of 2002.

From there, Reiki stayed a part of my life through all the other phases of my life. It rode alongside me like a sidecar to my motorcycle. Whether I was practicing clinical social work, selling children’s books or being a stay-at-home mom, Reiki was always there with me.

Reiki practice became the spiritual framework through which all other aspects of my life flowed through. It grounded me in all my hardest, most challenging life moments. It lifted me like a Phoenix, from the deepest mound of ash. And it guides my mindfulness practices and self-evolution.

It also magnetized to me, some of the most gorgeous humans to walk within these chapters of my story.

It embues my parenting, offering spiritual guideposts so she grows with a sturdy foundation of faith in something far greater than us, yet within and all around us.

It gives me a paradigm to serve others seeking solace from life’s hardships, spiritual reprieve from religious dissatisfaction, and a paying it forward so they too may have the option to be of service to humanity.

If you feel the call to learn the spiritual practice of Reiki, and deepen your own spirituality through this framework, I’m offering rolling enrollment.