Tips for Days 5-7 of 21 Days of Free Distance Reiki
Do you know when it’s time to let go of old stories & open to love? Are you living a life full of enthusiasm?
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Some songs are so embedded into memories of the person I first heard them with it becomes hard to distinguish if it is really the song, or the person, or the moment I am longing for when listening to it again.
I think I first came across this concept, or something similar, in a Trisha Yearwood song I loved as a girl called “The Song Remembers When.”
And now, many years later, I finally understand what it means because it takes truly loving someone and losing them in real and tangible ways to understand it as more than an idea—to actually feel it.
One of the best things to come out of my Reiki practice is how much more I feel now than I did in the past. It is not just the Reiki, of course. I have been doing self-work for sixteen years and focusing on the transformative healing arts and embodied ways of knowing for four now.
But, Reiki has been an integral part of what has allowed me to feel at a greater capacity than I could before.
When I am doing either distance Reiki or hands on healing, I am surprised at the feelings of connection, compassion, empathy and caring that I feel for each person. It is unlike anything else I have experienced. It is unexplainable and mysterious and beautiful. . .and then it ends, and I go back to my day-to-day life.
In some ways, letting go of attachments and old stories is easy for me, and then, I come across the ones that I still want to hold onto and am reminded of what it is to be human: to be attached, to want to hold onto things and to romanticize the past. Listening to a Sarah Brightman song the past few weeks as practice for an upcoming dance performance, I came across her English version of “Time to Say Goodbye,” a song I used to listen to with an old friend in the car driving around the streets of Sacramento, though we listened to the Italian version by other singers.
We spent some of our last close times together around March and April several years ago, and it’s strange how it all came back when listening to a different version of the same song—the love, the good moments, and then the bad ones that inevitably outweighed the former two.
It occurred to me how the relationship had become memorialized in my mind with the song, and now it was really time to say good-bye to those years with that person, the song that remembers it all, and most especially, the story of the person who loved unconditionally and without concern for my own well-being in order to try to fill something that really couldn’t be filled by someone else. And, how strange that even the letting go could come through the same song.
People keep saying these strange and uncertain times are an opportunity to re-make a better world. And, I can feel that as well as the sadness and the grief that comes with embracing the new and letting go of old and familiar ways of being.
I have been embracing what is new and changing within me while letting go of the old stories using Sarah Brightman’s music and allowing the loss of those times, that person, and the old me to be felt too.
How have you been embracing what’s new for you in this period and letting go of what’s old?
In the embrace, I am living with an enthusiasm that comes from the new. It feels invigorating, revitalizing, fresh and great!
As I complete my first week of Free Distance Reiki, and enter the second, I also feel the dynamic of embracing and grieving, opening and closing with my clients.
As I mentioned above, it has been surprising for me to feel such a strong connection, caring, compassion and oneness with each of them. It is a sensation I want to carry with me and hold tight in my hands, but even within the 40 minute session, I know I need to spend the last 5 minutes releasing it, and them, and returning us to our own lives in the present moment.
And, what I feel I am opening to within myself through these Distance Reiki sessions, is a growth in my own capacity to love—truly and unconditionally because from the beginning, it is about the highest good for each person with the intention of releasing them by the end of each session.
It is love without holding, grasping, longing or agenda beyond bringing the most healing for the person within the time frame I am working with them. And, isn’t that true love?
