My Life with Reiki

     Nearly 20 years ago, I had the pleasure of taking my first Reiki class.  I loved it. I used Reiki everyday.  I used it on myself, my food, my pets, my family and friends--anything that moved got Reiki.  After, a few months, I realized the value that my new found path held.  So, I delved into Second Degree.  Learning some of the advanced techniques of Reiki took me even further along my journey.  I soon realized, as my Master had taught me, that the more I used Reiki, the more I connected to it.  Many years passed, and I came to use Reiki more and more.  Until, eventually, I realized that it had sneaked into and permeated nearly every aspect of my life.
     During those years of using Reiki, I had continued learning and studying other healing modalities--crystal healing, aromatherapy, etc...Just about anything that fell onto my path.  Yet, what I found was that Reiki was always there.  It augmented all of those other techniques.  So, I would always return to it as a constant in my daily practice.  It was truly at the core of all that I did.
     As time went on, I realized that I wanted more.  I realized that I wanted to share what I knew about Reiki on a deeper level.  So, I pursued Mastership.  I wanted to teach.  And, I did.  I taught Reiki in the same fashion that I had learned Reiki--as a healing modality.  That was what people wanted to learn.  In fact, for many years, it was the only thing that people seemed to know about Reiki.  They had come to know it as a "healing technique".  As I taught,  I realized that not everyone was getting the same thing from Reiki that I did.  So, I stopped teaching for awhile--thinking perhaps it was my teaching style or maybe I had missed an element in learning to teach.
     So, I began to research and meditate.  I just sat with the energy.  I returned to what I knew about Reiki.  I knew that IT would show me the way.  What I saw in my study of Reiki was that many of us in the West were struggling with the same issue.  So, as more and more students began researching (some even going to Japan), more knowledge became available to all of us.  This only fueled my love of Reiki.  Then, I realized all of the things that I was learning about Reiki had been taught to me by my Master.  She, just taught them in a very subtle way.  So, I jumped right into all of this "new" knowledge.  I wholeheartedly began to incorporate it into my own practices.
     Thus, a new way of Reiki was born into my life.  It took me a few years to pull all of the pieces together.  However, what I realized was that I had come full circle.  My life with Reiki was reborn with a new and deeper understanding of the Art of Reiki.
     This "new" path only echoed what I had known to be true for so many years.

Reiki IS a way of Life!