For some reason I have avoided phyllis dai komyo. This potent symbol has a similar name to a buddhist chant I do-- daimoku--which is interesting, and I've only started using it because long distance reiki worked so well when I did it without Phyllis. But she's needed now as I need all the help I can muster for a couple of my great friends.
One of them is my best friend's grandmother, Electa, a vibrant 94 year old who stayed up until 1am to watch Barak Obama win; she'd been following the election for two years, and her dream was to see him become president. It's fascinating to watch: a small white woman, born at the beginning of the century who puts a black man at the top of her list. CNN has been her best companion for the past two years of both of their lives.
Her mind works better than mine, she reads a book a week, she hobbles around her spacious apartment where she remarkably lives on her own and marvels at the flashing coloured lights she can see stream up and down the CN tower from her window. As a gift, I bought her Obama's autobiography before I left Toronto, and she relished and devoured it within a couple weeks.
Few visit her other than myself, her hairdresser, and her sister. She eats frozen food as it's just easier to heat food in the microwave than cook, she says.
I visit her once a week when I'm in town and bring her fresh food, movies, and just listen to her talk about how she used to be in plays and always got the starring role when she was younger, how she'd play hockey, her wonderful sister, and how her great grandchildren ask her if she was born in the age of the dinosaurs!
She usually goes to bed at 9, but has been feeling quite tired and "off" since staying up late that Nov. 4 to watch the election. I'd like her to live the rest of her life at home, with great quality, so I'm sending her reiki twice a day and empowering it with Phyllis. When I return to Toronto, she will receive some in person too!
For Kiki, another great friend, I'm doing the same. She's an incredible singer (at www.myspace.com/kikimisumi) and she inspired me to join Buddhism and to practice it daily which has saved my life. Now her life needs saving, as a cancer has come back--this time in her lungs. Just two years ago, she had a huge tumour removed from between her heart and lungs and she's been in great fear since. Maybe the fear attracted more, maybe the mold in her house did, maybe the cancer just spread despite all the vitamins she has taken, but she needs a big dose of reiki before the surgeon does another Cat Scan in December to decide whether to open her up again in January. I've been so ill that many times I have wanted to die, and she wants to live so desperately that she puts me to shame.
I send her reiki whenever I think of her each day, ending in Phyllis to help aussage my worries, and I ask you to visit her webpage photo and send it to her also.
I've taken up the practice of also sending reiki to other souls in need that I read about in newspapers, new ones each week; perhaps Kiki and Elekta can be the ones you add to yours.
Friday, November 21, 2008
Sunday, October 26, 2008
The Grace of Reiki
Some people are drawn to places for their beauty, others are drawn there by community, others by an energetic "pull". I like to think that I was drawn to the magical BC island where I learned reiki by all of the above, perhaps with karma being the source.
After several months of doing mostly Barbara Brennan healing which showed me that the brain is actually an energy field throughout our entire body and can be healed so that we feel whole again, I found myself on the magical island of Salt Spring where, after several weeks of house-hunting, I surrendered on a yoga mat.
I just innately sent out a prayer into the surrounding ether, as I did my deep inbreaths, that I find the perfect house. Little did I know that manifestation can work so quickly while one is moving energy, and my new landlord would offer both me and the yoga teacher rooms in her house (well, I overheard the offer to the yoga teacher and I asked if she had anothe room I could rent too!). I needed the energy of a female household after living with a person who knew no boundaries.
Within a couple weeks, Brenda's friend, Annie Klein came to visit, took one look at me lying slumped on the couch oblivious to all the laughter between the two and announced, "you need energy and I can teach you how to bring some in for yourself." Little did I know that I'd have to travel 5000 kms (from Toronto) to meet one of my greatest karmic guides. And, initially, I scoffed, but thought I'd try it. "After all," I thought, "What do I have to lose?". The healings others were doing on me were costing me $90 a week and to remain sane, with my brain injury, I seriously needed them daily.
After a couple hours training, I had Reiki Level 1, but my stubborness hadn't given out yet. I would wait for 8 months to seriously try it on myself, so great was my disbelief I could actually do self-healing like this. I was back in Toronto, lying on the bed of a Howard Johnson's hotel (where I was living till I found a place), and felt like a truck had driven over me. I seriously thought someone would find me dead. "Well," I thought, "Things don't enter my life by sheer coincidence, and meeting Annie was too special, so in honour of both her and myself, I'm going to try this."
I quieted my mind, announced to the universe that "now I'm doing reiki" and just travelled my hands over the chakras of my body. By the time my hands reached my waist about 25 minutes later, I had felt such a woosh of energy enter my body and felt so clear-headed, I jumped out of bed, called Annie long distance and thanked her for truly giving me an amazing gift..and saving my life.
The grace of reiki is many things, for many people. In my case, reiki saved my life, made me whole, returned me to my sense of self after years of loss from multliple chemical sensitivity due to lead and mercury poisoning which had me often in a state of stupor so severe I could barely function. So bad was it that I had to leave my education in a medical school. But such was the grace that I came to be introduced to reiki which, other than yoga, was a greater life gift than any other I have ever received in my adult life. The following posts will detail the beautiful reiki stories that have entered my life and are also yet to come.
Love Alissa
After several months of doing mostly Barbara Brennan healing which showed me that the brain is actually an energy field throughout our entire body and can be healed so that we feel whole again, I found myself on the magical island of Salt Spring where, after several weeks of house-hunting, I surrendered on a yoga mat.
I just innately sent out a prayer into the surrounding ether, as I did my deep inbreaths, that I find the perfect house. Little did I know that manifestation can work so quickly while one is moving energy, and my new landlord would offer both me and the yoga teacher rooms in her house (well, I overheard the offer to the yoga teacher and I asked if she had anothe room I could rent too!). I needed the energy of a female household after living with a person who knew no boundaries.
Within a couple weeks, Brenda's friend, Annie Klein came to visit, took one look at me lying slumped on the couch oblivious to all the laughter between the two and announced, "you need energy and I can teach you how to bring some in for yourself." Little did I know that I'd have to travel 5000 kms (from Toronto) to meet one of my greatest karmic guides. And, initially, I scoffed, but thought I'd try it. "After all," I thought, "What do I have to lose?". The healings others were doing on me were costing me $90 a week and to remain sane, with my brain injury, I seriously needed them daily.
After a couple hours training, I had Reiki Level 1, but my stubborness hadn't given out yet. I would wait for 8 months to seriously try it on myself, so great was my disbelief I could actually do self-healing like this. I was back in Toronto, lying on the bed of a Howard Johnson's hotel (where I was living till I found a place), and felt like a truck had driven over me. I seriously thought someone would find me dead. "Well," I thought, "Things don't enter my life by sheer coincidence, and meeting Annie was too special, so in honour of both her and myself, I'm going to try this."
I quieted my mind, announced to the universe that "now I'm doing reiki" and just travelled my hands over the chakras of my body. By the time my hands reached my waist about 25 minutes later, I had felt such a woosh of energy enter my body and felt so clear-headed, I jumped out of bed, called Annie long distance and thanked her for truly giving me an amazing gift..and saving my life.
The grace of reiki is many things, for many people. In my case, reiki saved my life, made me whole, returned me to my sense of self after years of loss from multliple chemical sensitivity due to lead and mercury poisoning which had me often in a state of stupor so severe I could barely function. So bad was it that I had to leave my education in a medical school. But such was the grace that I came to be introduced to reiki which, other than yoga, was a greater life gift than any other I have ever received in my adult life. The following posts will detail the beautiful reiki stories that have entered my life and are also yet to come.
Love Alissa
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