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There's a song that goes something like "reach out with your hands... reach out and touch a heart".... can't remember it right now, or the title, but it's going through my mind right now as I write this.
I was going to bed about an hour ago, but I couldn't quite fall asleep. Dusk was laying beside me, and he's a bit sick so I was doing some healing work on him while lying there not-quite-sleeping, and I had a few things happen that do not normally happen to me while doing healing.
1) It was brought to my attention that my technique was lacking in certain areas. I was focusing my attention on the surface of the skin, and just expecting the energy to go off on its own. I was guided to look deeper, focus first inside... on the parts of the body I was trying to heal... then deeper still.
2) I was guided to view the physical body as a manifestation of the soul/energetic bodies... I've heard this theory before, and I do put stock in it, but I had never really utilized the concept in this manner during energetic healing sessions. I did so, and found it quite effective...
3) At about this point, I also started getting flashes of images, something that does not normally occur to me while healing... I'm reasonably sure that they symbolized past-events that were sources of built-up stress for Dusk, I even think I identified one of them with a particular incident he had related, though it was entirely symbolic rather than literal.
I mostly wanted to archive this here for my own benefit, I'm afraid I'm not going to remember these points in the morning if I don't write the experience down, and I wish to explore these insights and their source more after I get some sleep.
One last cryptic thought before I go to bed: be careful what you say yes to, especially in the realms metaphysical. You may find the full implications coming up to bite you unexpectedly years after the initial assent was given.
-Jarin
Edit: I should add that I have not in the past worked with reiki guides, so the experience of being suddenly critiqued and guided during a healing was VERY unexpected.
Another edit: note to self - I may wish to post about this to otherkinreiki at some point. It's stuff that should be "basic" but somehow isn't... stuff people need to be reminded of sometimes, or have pointed out to them at least once, like it was for me tonight.
I was going to bed about an hour ago, but I couldn't quite fall asleep. Dusk was laying beside me, and he's a bit sick so I was doing some healing work on him while lying there not-quite-sleeping, and I had a few things happen that do not normally happen to me while doing healing.
1) It was brought to my attention that my technique was lacking in certain areas. I was focusing my attention on the surface of the skin, and just expecting the energy to go off on its own. I was guided to look deeper, focus first inside... on the parts of the body I was trying to heal... then deeper still.
2) I was guided to view the physical body as a manifestation of the soul/energetic bodies... I've heard this theory before, and I do put stock in it, but I had never really utilized the concept in this manner during energetic healing sessions. I did so, and found it quite effective...
3) At about this point, I also started getting flashes of images, something that does not normally occur to me while healing... I'm reasonably sure that they symbolized past-events that were sources of built-up stress for Dusk, I even think I identified one of them with a particular incident he had related, though it was entirely symbolic rather than literal.
I mostly wanted to archive this here for my own benefit, I'm afraid I'm not going to remember these points in the morning if I don't write the experience down, and I wish to explore these insights and their source more after I get some sleep.
One last cryptic thought before I go to bed: be careful what you say yes to, especially in the realms metaphysical. You may find the full implications coming up to bite you unexpectedly years after the initial assent was given.
-Jarin
Edit: I should add that I have not in the past worked with reiki guides, so the experience of being suddenly critiqued and guided during a healing was VERY unexpected.
Another edit: note to self - I may wish to post about this to otherkinreiki at some point. It's stuff that should be "basic" but somehow isn't... stuff people need to be reminded of sometimes, or have pointed out to them at least once, like it was for me tonight.
