LunaHolistic Podcast

In this podcast episode, Rita Reddy and Geneva Robins share their heartfelt experiences with grief and how Reiki helps grief to ease. Learn how Reiki can fit into your self-care plan while coping with loss.

Reiki is very gentle and helps to provide a caring and nurturing space for all kinds of strong emotions, including grief. As part of an overall care plan for grief, Reiki works very well when combined with therapy, family and friend support, and other forms of wellness like exercise and meditation.

When the emotions are very strong, as they are in the acute stages of grief, it can be very difficult to access the healing benefits of meditation. Reiki can help calm the mind and provide that centring focus when the tide of feeling is strong. You and your practitioner set an intention at the beginning of your Reiki session, and this is the energy that is held for you. In the session, your practitioner holds that focus on your intention and helps hold space for balancing and harmonizing with this energy. 

Sometimes, you might have a powerful emotional release. It is not uncommon for people to cry during their sessions, especially when they are processing grief. You might find that you feel a lot during the session, but you leave feeling slightly better than before. A powerful clearing and processing can occur in Reiki sessions, helping move stuck emotional energy and bringing a greater feeling of groundedness and peace.

Of course, if the grief is very strong or is accompanied by trauma or PTSD symptoms, we highly recommend therapy as a primary tool for your well-being during your grieving process.

Some Resources for Grief:

We have many tools we’re fond of in addition to Reiki. Here are a few mentioned in this episode:

• The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
• EMDR therapy and Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)
• The Big Snit – National Film Board of Canada
• Grounding Meditation
• Bedtime Meditation
• Infinite Universe Meditation

The Hidden Beauty of Grief

Love is the emotion under grief. When we lose someone dear to us, the pain is enormous beyond words. This strong feeling is often a direct match to how much we love them. The love we feel for the people who have passed emerges more and more as we slowly heal from the anguish of their passing. This keenly-felt emotion wakes us up to the fragile beauty of life and how nothing is guaranteed.

The vulnerable uncertainty of life is highlighted when we lose someone close and makes us ponder the deeper meaning and purpose of our own lives. This energy can help give us more motivation to be present and attentive to those who survive with us.

We can notice the beautiful subtlety of each sunrise with a renewed sense of awe and wonder as we watch the peach hues soften into warm oranges and vermillion-tinged clouds spread across an indigo sky. We notice the delightful sweet chirps of birds on still morning air and savour the first sips of coffee as the light of dawn stretches across the heavens. We are alive.

On a personal note:

I don’t think I really noticed so much beauty in the daily and ordinary as I did after losing people I love dearly. All of a sudden, I started paying attention to the life I was living and lost my fears and petty grievances. In exchange, I took hold of the life I had and loved every part of it to the fullest I could muster. This embracing of life following loss radically transformed my career path, leaving behind my science job for a career in Reiki. I put full effort into LunaHolistic and created the Reiki courses. 

And, most importantly, I started paying attention during every moment with my loved ones. I put down distractions to be with them and make memories together. I’m not 100 percent mindful; I’m still human. But it was a powerful shift in my relationships and my ability to be present with others rather than avoiding or numbing out during interactions. I wouldn’t choose grief, not at all, but it did give me some powerful lessons about the value and preciousness of life and how sacred each moment can be. 

Death is part of life. One is always connected to the other. So, too, is grief; it’s part of life and part of loving and being loved. When the pain of grief is processed, all that remains is love.

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Yes! Affirmations work! That's our short answer to this very big question. Angela Hoogeveen joins Geneva Robins in this episode to share their experiences with how affirmations have worked in their lives to move forward, lift fear, and decrease pain of all kinds.

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If you only use an affirmation once or twice, it's not as likely to turn the tide of negative thinking. Affirmations work best when you repeat them frequently until you experience relief. That relief might be in your mind and emotions at first, but sometimes, it will shift the energy and biochemical state in your body so much that your body is able to heal.

All is well in my world.
Everything is working out for my Highest Good.
Out of this situation, only Good will come.
I am Safe.

~ Louise Hay ~

Resources for your Affirmation Work

We share a couple of fantastic resources in this episode. Our first and go-to affirmation resource is You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay. This is a fantastic read and is one book that we recommend be on everyone's bookshelf. Louise Hay is a pioneer of affirmation work and guides you through how to apply affirmative thinking in every corner of your life. We love it so much it is a textbook for our Reiki Courses.

If you're interested in the science behind why affirmations have an effect on the body, a wonderful resource is The Molecules of Emotion by Candace Pert. This book discusses how Dr. Pert was part of a team that discovered the endorphin receptor and goes on to share how information chemicals are linked to emotional states.

We also discuss how the Affirmation Ladder process in The Secret Art of Happiness by Geneva Robins can help you work with affirmations in tiny little steps rather than hopping straight to a strongly positive statement. You can get to that positive mindset in small statements that ease you forward just a little bit at a time.

Another great resource is tapping or EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), where you tap gently on acupressure points while repeating statements that start with what you are currently feeling and thinking and move your way to more and more positive statements. The app The Tapping Solution is wonderful for decreasing anxiety and creating a sense of calm.

We use affirmations all the time in our Reiki sessions. Reiki is a powerful way of accessing a deep meditative state. When you are in that state, affirmations can go right into your subconscious to promote well-being on all levels.

How does this sit with you?

How does this all resonate? How do you use affirmations as part of your self-care? Leave us a comment or drop us a line at our website: https://www.lunaholistic.com/podcast/

We love answering questions here! Learn more about our Reiki Courses and Sessions, and catch up with our blog articles for more information on all the ways that Reiki works and can help you.

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How do I connect to the Angels?

If anyone else can connect to the angels or their spiritual team, why not you? This was the idea that motivated my spiritual journey to expand my intuition. As I connected to my Reiki practice, I expanded my connection to spiritual guidance. Reiki has a way of opening up the channels to universal life force energy, and with that connection flows not just energy but also information.

With time and practice, you can learn to have conversations with any spiritual being with whom you have a connection. Getting clear energetically with the Reiki self-healing you learn in our Level I course helps you get clearer messages and strengthens your intuition. There is also a question-and-answer practice and divine connection meditation in my book The Secret Art of Happiness that helps you strengthen your connection to your higher being and Divine Team.

How long does it take for Reiki to work?

It does really depend on the person and the situation, of course, but many people feel calmer and more centred right away after a Reiki session. A willingness to change is also a big factor as that helps to mobilize an energy to help clear out the old and welcome the new. Some people feel changes right away; sometimes, it can take a few sessions. Each session creates a momentum behind it that really helps to build on the energy shifts of the one before.

Usually, I recommend getting two or three sessions about a week apart if you're dealing with something acute that is bothering you a lot. Then, as things calm, you can space them out every month or two just to keep everything flowing and open. By the end of three sessions, you'll have a good idea of how Reiki works for you and where it fits into your self-care plan.

What do you wear to Reiki?

Wear comfortable clothes to your Reiki session or Reiki class. Reiki is fully clothed on a standard massage table, so you can wear what you feel most cozy in. If you're coming straight from work, that's no problem, just wear what you have on! We've got lots of blankets and pillows, so you'll be warm and comfy.

Reiki class is the same! Just be comfortable and wear what makes you feel happy.

What does seeing a purple light in Reiki mean?

Purple is the colour of the crown chakra and usually indicates a spiritual connection to an energy that is protective, loving, and pure. So if you're seeing purple in a meditation or Reiki session, most often that means that you are connected to source energy or that universal life force.

In our work with Reiki, we use a practice called the Violet Breath that keeps the energy clear and straight from Source. Your practitioner is guiding the Reiki energy from the Universe to where you need it. Seeing a purple colour often means that the session is helping you connect to that pure and protective energy.

Who invented Reiki?

Master Mikao Usui lived in Japan from 1865 to 1926 and is the founder of the Usui Shiki Ryoho System of Natural Healing, the form of Reiki we practice at LunaHolistic. Master Usui studied a Buddhist Qigong practice, and after a 21-day meditation at the base of a waterfall on Mount Kurama, he got the insight for the creation of the Reiki system of natural healing. All of our Reiki practitioners can trace their lineage back to Master Usui.

Can Reiki treat Depression?

IMPORTANT: Depression is a life-threatening illness, and it is very important that you have a good support team of medical and mental health specialists to help you. If you live in Alberta, you can call 988 for suicide prevention and 211 for access to a 24-hour support line and other social support services like shelters and emergency child care.

Reiki can be a wonderful addition to your care plan for depression. Some people feel a lifting of their spirits right away, and others find that a series of Reiki sessions are helpful. Reiki is much like a facilitated meditation, so you can get help getting into that calm mental state and get some support as you learn to practice meditation and grounding techniques. We hold the energy steady for you so you can harmonize with the feeling you want, peaceful, calm and grounded.

Of course, big problems require a big team, and we often work with therapists to help support people with a variety of mental health challenges. If you're looking for a therapist in the local Calgary area, we recommend Joanna Card or Leah Thompson. They are both wonderful therapists. We highly encourage you to find a qualified therapist in your area if you are struggling with depression or think you might be.

What does Reiki feel like?

Warm and cozy! You can sometimes feel a buzzing or tingling or a deep sense of calm or peace. Some people fall asleep! You can feel the heat from the practitioner's hands (our hands heat up a lot from Reiki) and even the continued feeling of the hand even after the practitioner has moved on. It's pretty cool.

Most people feel a deep sense of calm. They feel more grounded and centred, and that feeling can last for days to weeks after the session.

What is Reiki good for?

Reiki is fantastic for relieving stress-linked conditions. You get help to drop out of the fight-flight response and into the relaxed parasympathetic part of your nervous system. That restful state is where the body can heal itself. You often get insight into the mind-body connection and an awareness of how events in your life may relate to your physical well-being.

We set an intention before every Reiki session, which changes the focus of the energy healing. You can set your intention to be for anything you like as long as it is positively worded and just about you. Reiki can help with past life healing, releasing patterns and unwanted habits, multigenerational healing, connecting to your spiritual team and angels, manifesting abundance, or connecting to your life purpose.

 

Ask a Reiki Master Anything!

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Empaths Absorb Emotional Energy, and Reiki Helps to Clear it

Sometimes, empathic people absorb other people’s emotional energy and Reiki helps to clear off any of that emotional smog. Reiki helps you set up clear energetic boundaries between you and other people. You don’t have to take responsibility for other people’s emotional states. You get a filter between you and other people’s energy. It helps you get clear. 

When you have clear energy boundaries, then it is much easier to keep and set boundaries with others. It's much easier to say a kind no if you need to if you’re in a state of clear energy. You don’t have to take responsibility for other people’s energy.

Reiki Self-Healing and Emotional Regulation

With a Reiki session, you get help settling your emotions. The practitioner holds a gentle and steady focus on your calming intention. And then the energy combined with gentle touch helps you to regulate strong emotions. 

Learning Reiki is an amazing journey that has been life-changing for us. Raven is beginning her teaching journey in the new year. We teach over the course of eight weeks, so you get lots of practice. That way, you get an opportunity to integrate these powerful tools into your daily routine. Reiki can give you your power back. 

Reiki can also help so very much with stress-aggravated conditions like IBS or chronic pain. Both Geneva and Raven have experienced management and reversal of stress-linked conditions. In committing to the healing practice of Reiki, much healing has happened. It's a huge shift in quality of life.

Emotional Wellness Practices and Extra Support for Strong Emotions

We’ve got a number of resources that can give you extra support if you’re experiencing strong emotional states.

Therapy!

There is a strong need to talk things out with a qualified person. Therapy can help to give you tools and work through some of the big events that have occurred in your life. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, EMDR, and Accelerated Resolution Therapy are all wonderful ways to learn valuable skills and work through various levels of trauma. You can do a search to find a therapist in your area, or if you live in Calgary, contact either Leah Thompson or Joanna Card, two exceptional therapists.

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz

People are working through their own stuff, and it might spill onto you, but at the end of the day, it is not about you; it's about them. The Four Agreements is a classic book that can help you not take things personally, be impeccable with your word, let go of assumptions, and always do your best.

You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay

Affirmations are simple, positive statements to counteract the inner critic. It helps you to shift your mindset and encourage a gentle inner atmosphere, freeing you from strong emotions. You Can Heal Your Life is a textbook that we use in our courses to help set positive intentions for Reiki sessions.

The Secret Art of Happiness: Change Your Life with the Reiki Ideal by Geneva Robins

Affirmation Ladders are a way of accessing a shift from strong feelings to a more peaceful space. You don’t have to immediately shift to the most positive statement, you can gently acknowledge how you’re feeling and then work your way up to the next affirmation up the ladder. It helps you to acknowledge the feeling and then make a kind space for the feeling. The Secret Art of Happiness is Geneva’s book and a textbook for our Reiki courses.

Plum Village App

Mindfulness is a powerful tool to take care of your emotions. The Plum Village App helps you to find a calm state no matter what is happening. The app offers recorded teachings and meditations from the late Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh. It’s a valuable resource for emotional well-being.

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Compassion is a way out of Resistance

When the pattern is harsh, the solution is gentleness. The resistance pops up the most when the thing we want to do has the potential to change us. There is a hyperactive protective ego that gets engaged so that we don't change anything. To the ego, any change is viewed as dangerous, even if your actions are positive, like exercise or meditation. 

What if resistance is simply fearfulness of our inner child? If that's the case, then we have to be gentle with that tender part of you, much like how the only antidote to shame is empathy.

Curiosity and Adventure as a Path Forward

Taking small and healthy risks can help stretch your comfort zone. When you begin moving forward in small steps, you gain courage, and in that space, you get momentum going. Approaching your new behaviours with a sense of adventure can sometimes lower the fear of the new. 

Even if you still feel resistance, even a tiny move is still helping you make progress. Comfort your nervous system with something nourishing, like a cup of tea or a fuzzy blanket, and then make another step. Bringing true kindness to the resistance you feel can powerfully shift you into a new flow of energy.

 

 

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The Creative Cycle is a Natural Cycle

Thinking of your creativity as a cycle can be liberating. Sometimes, we think of creative projects as a linear process with a strict first-next-then series of steps that must proceed at a set timing in order. But what if it is a cycle instead? What if the pause of a project or a slowdown is just a redirection of the creative energy to other areas.

Slumbering creativity is nothing to fear. The waking is a natural part of the slumbering process.

The Hidden Benefits of a Creative Slumber

Just like with actual sleep, having space and time to rest and dream are important. Sometimes, the creative work needs to be incubated a bit longer. Tools and resources need to be gathered. Sometimes, the creative energy is being used in other ways, like physical and emotional healing.

Respect this need for rest and consider ways this phase of your creative cycle may actually be enhancing the final product. Many accomplished artists and writers take decades to create some of their work. Leonardo da Vinci took 25 years to finish one painting. Laura Hillenbrand took seven years to write Unbroken. The final piece can sometimes benefit from a long incubation.

While that process is occurring, get yourself to your tools. Handle the physical objects you use to create. Just get yourself there daily and let yourself dabble and play. Even a trip to the dollar store for new materials can open things up and get you in the place where the work can occur.

Helpful tips to clear a Creative BlockMeditation to Wake up

Meditation is a huge help to free up a creative block. Rita spends a few minutes a day meditating before journalling. Even the briefest pause when you catch yourself numbing or delaying can be a beautiful invitation to meditate. Just 30 seconds to close your eyes and mindfully breathe can put you on a new creative track.

Getting out of the intellectual side of the brain and into the interested and creative side can be helped by meditation. Meditating shifts our consciousness, restores energy and naturally boosts creativity. This also happens with Reiki self-healing too. Try the Self-Healing Meditation to get the flow going.

Be Curious Like a Child

Playfulness and curiosity are key to gently reawakening the flow of energy in your creative work. Sure, you could set a loud alarm and push yourself back to the task. But that might cause an inner rebellion that puts you straight back to a grumpy sleep. What if you can instead use things that spark joy and playfulness?

Creativity rides on energy. So, if we do things that spark joy and fun, energy gets released that ultimately rekindles the work. Think of it as a gentle invitation back to the creative process. Sometimes, working at a tangent is best. Try new things. Explore new media and let yourself dabble your way back into the stuff you actually love to do.

Connect to Inspiring People

Doing a bit of research can be a gentle way of catching the energy of making. Watch videos of people in other fields of creativity to side-step the inner comparing critic. There's a really cool documentary called The Colour of Ink; it's a fascinating watch.

Get out of your house and go to live performances. There are often free or low-cost concerts and recitals happening in the community. Geneva went to one by Mustafa Kamaliddin, a Renaissance ukulele musician. Being near other creative folks can sometimes inspire you to do your own brave and new ideas.

Wandering through a gallery or going to a book reading at your local library can be wonderful ways to spark a return of your creative wakefulness. This can be part of the Artist Dates that Julia Cameron encourages in her book The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity.

Reiki and Energetic Eight Coaching

Reiki can also help creative slumbers. The energy around a creative block can be painful and many-layered. Getting a bit of energetic help can help you balance your sacral chakra, the energy centre that is the birthplace of creativity.

Geneva also supports creative folks through Energetic Eight Coaching to help you connect to your source of inspiration and take those baby steps to make your creative work real.

Blanket Forts! The Best Way to Clear a Creative Block

Of course, this is the best solution of all -- Blanket forts! Creative dreams need a safe and protected space to incubate them. We fully support adult-sized forts of all kinds! In fact, we might be in one right now. What way can you bring that energy of that safe container for your creativity forward?

Maybe it's a weighted blanket on your lap while you do a bit of blogging. Maybe you can put on a cozy hoodie (with the hood pulled up, of course) to have a portable blanket fort. Maybe a special piece of jewelry or crystal on your desk at work. Maybe a sign you put up on your studio door or workspace that gives you permission to just play with the materials and test things out.

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Resources to help you with the Change in Seasons:

Here are a few of the resources we share in this episode:

The Work by Byron Katie

Embracing Change with the Apple Tree Cycle podcast episode with Rita Reddy

Grounding Meditation

Infinite Universe Meditation

Creative Manifesting Workshop Meditation

Mini Retreats and our new sessions of Past-Life Healing, Multigenerational Healing, and Creative Manifesting Sessions (upcoming).

Acceptance and Gratitude ease Change

One of the biggest helps for us is simply acceptance of the changes each season brings. This includes changes in the seasons of our lives too! Taking a few moments to stop resisting the change before us and accepting that it is happening provides a big relief. so much energy can go into resisting a change!

Trying to control the outcome of the change and transition can wear us out. But the beautiful thing is that this extra energy all can come back to you in a moment of presence and grounding. Try our Grounding Meditation on Insight Timer to help you catch your breath.

Manage your Energy rather than your Time

The change of season invites reflection and going deeper into your spiritual work. This includes having a moment to review and revise your self-care routine to ensure you are recharging your energy throughout your day and week so you can keep up with your busy schedule.

Focus on routines that help your thrive. Even a few moments of self-care will help you manage the shift of routine. Reiki and meditation are wonderful because they give you a massive dose of energy in just a few minutes. Try our Self-Healing Meditation to give yourself a quick five-minute boost anytime of day.

Nature helps us to Heal

The grounding and rooting energy of the fall helps you plan and prepare. If brings you back to your root chakra and emphasizes what makes you feel safe and secure. Sometimes this energy also can bring up old mucky stuff and emotion. If this happens for you around this time of year, that's okay. It's perfectly normal to feel this way. Be very gentle and kind to yourself when you're in any kind of transition.

Give yourself extra rest if you need it. Let go of things you no longer need, including any harmful, self-critical thoughts or patterns of worry. One helpful resource for this is the gentle questioning of your thoughts with The Work by Byron Katie. This is a journalling process that lets you become curious about what thoughts are helping you and which you can let drop, just like the leaves of fall.

The Magic of the In-Between

The middle point of a transition like the change in seasons, is also a prime time for manifesting. It's like the normal rules loosen their grip on you for a few weeks and in the middle times, when things are neither here nor there, you have access to a towering energy field of pure potential energy.

If you find yourself in the in-between, you might really like two of our meditations, the Creative Manifesting Workshop Meditation and the Manifesting Miracles Meditation. 

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We are also very happy to share the gift of Reiki through our Giving Back Program! Every month we give away free Reiki sessions to exceptional people. 

Learn more here: https://www.lunaholistic.com/giving-back-program/

We've got Staycation Retreats happening in-person at our Calgary location and Virtual Retreats happening through Zoom. Our next Mountain Retreat is currently being planned!

You can also do a self-guided Retreat with our LunaHolistic Retreat Journal.

Learn more here: https://www.lunaholistic.com/retreat/

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In this podcast episode, Geneva Robins and Raven Healey chat about past-life healing and how Reiki can help release trauma stored in time. It's kinda wild, but past life memories and stored trauma can come up and be released and healed through a Reiki session.

Reiki is beyond time and space. It doesn't matter when any trauma has happened, even if it is in a past-life. Trauma and karmic patterns can hold you in a loop of behaviour and situations. Reiki can help break you out of that loop and see it from the outside.

Reiki can be a psychic tow truck!

Past-life journeys and meditations can bring up very old patterns that might be repeated in your current life. Reiki helps to release those energies even the energetic forms of shackles or other images of harm. When those energies are lifted, people often feel free and clear in a brand new way.

Since Reiki is Universal Life Force Energy, it is inherently beyond time and space. It helps us access not only energy, but also information. All the information that exists is held within this energy and when we get into the right headspace, we can understand it. Its the same energy field that holds the Akashic Records, which is an information source some healers and teachers talk about as a way to understand this field of information.

Past-Life memories happen now

Time is a construct. All time is happening in the eternal now. When we do past-life work we connect to all moments of 'now' present time. We access the now-moment that happened in a past-life that is meaningful for you now. Its sort of like a super-mindfulness trick to get there! In our sessions, we help you remember lives that are useful to you.

You can test this out now in the Past-Life Wisdom Meditation. If you love the Insight Timer App, this meditation is there!

When you clear the karmic wounds you get access to all the knowledge you had in a past-life. It integrates and all that wisdom can be accessed by you now.

Recommended Reading for your Past-Life Healing

Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives by Brian L. Weiss M.D.

Past Lives, Present Miracles: The Most Empowering Book on Reincarnation You'll Ever Read... in this Lifetime! by Denise Linn

You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay

The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle

 

 

 

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In this episode, learn how to access your intuition and wise guidance. Rita Reddy and Geneva Robins share their top tips to connect to your inner wisdom.

Come to Stillness

Taking time to centre yourself with a few breaths can help you tune in. Being in stillness, preferably in nature, can calm the sensory overload that can block your awareness of your inner space. Even a few slow breaths can calm the tension in the body.

Meditation to Calm and Connect to Inner Wisdom

Turn down the inner static with a few moments of meditation. Meditation is intentional. You're deliberately turning the noise down on the parts that don't know. And it turns up the volume on the wisdom inside.

The ego mind can only access what is right in front of you. That part of you has no ability to know what's coming next or what is aligned with your inner wisdom. Your wise-self has access to all the information of your soul. 

Try this Grounding Meditation to create a space to hear your inner wise-self.

How do you know what is ego and what is inner wisdom?

Inner being messages are relaxing and calming. The sensations in the body are felt in very internal core places. You might feel your deep wisdom in your heart or your gut. You can question this information and it will continue to give calming and wise answers.

Ego messages are tense and demanding. The places you might feel these messages are up in the head. The ego doesn't like change and will discourage your questions. It often speaks in an always-never language. Thinking about following the ego message usually creates more tension in the body.

Be Kind to Your Ego-mind

The ego is also a part of you and protects you. And for this reason alone, being kind and compassionate to this protective part of you is useful. Imagine the ego as a scared child that is just trying to keep you from harm.

When you're connected to your inner wisdom, that part of you knows the path forward and also is aware of what the ego needs to feel safe in the changes. Once that connection has been made, you can explore how to navigate forward on the things your soul longs to do. 

Listen to the Wisdom in the Body

Your body instantly responds to the energy in the choices on your path. Listen to Rita's discussion at 31:36 of how to tune into the knowing of the body, a process she learned from career coach Julia James. It's amazing how much the physicality of your body can act out what your inner wisdom is saying.

We have a new podcast episode every month! Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.  You can send us your question in the comments below or record your question here: https://www.lunaholistic.com/podcast/

We are also very happy to share the gift of Reiki through our Giving Back Program! Every month we give away free Reiki sessions to exceptional people.  Learn more here: https://www.lunaholistic.com/giving-back-program/  

Join us on an unforgettable self-healing and meditation retreat in Kananaskis - July 28 to 30, 2023

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In this episode, Geneva Robins and Kim Star share how Reiki self-healing has improved their lives, restored balance, and provided nurturing, safety, and guidance. Self-healing with energy is simple to learn and can immediately begin shifting your energy state to one of peace and calm.

Why do we start with Reiki Self-Healing?

Before you can help others, you have to start with yourself. In Reiki, we start our teaching with Level I, the self-healing level. We spend eight weeks on self-healing before moving on to learning how to do Reiki on others. Why?

The simplest answer is that all healing is self-healing. When we are helping others with Reiki, we're actually simply supporting their own self-healing process. The energy that connects with the person is generated by their strong desire to heal. As practitioners, we are merely conduits of that energy.

Our work is to be as clear as possible so the energy can flow without resistance.

Self-healing is something we do everyday. Partly because that is the best way to help others, the session goes so smoothly when we are tuned up! But mostly, we practice Reiki for ourselves because it is a major tool for clarity, peace, energy, and our own mental and emotional balance. So much growth and healing can happen in only a few minutes of self-healing.

Can anyone learn Reiki Self-Healing?

Yes! We have a self-healing meditation you can try right now. In just a few minutes you can dramatically shift your energy to one of peace, calm, and well-being. Check out Insight Timer for other meditations which can boost your self-healing practice.

In Reiki Level I, you get lots of time to practice self-healing and to understand the core principles of Reiki. Its easy for anyone to begin learning a new way to connect to your spiritual side and also meet others who are sensitive and kind.

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We are also very happy to share the gift of Reiki through our Giving Back Program! Every month we give away free Reiki sessions to exceptional people. 

Learn more here: https://www.lunaholistic.com/giving-back-program/

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