Where My Healing Journey Pivoted

When I began my practice

I had been on a healing journey for some time. In fact, I have been meditating on and off for years, worked with crystals, did therapy, and dabbled into oracle cards as tools to bring me closer to my intuition—and began healing my wounds.

While those things were satisfying and helped me to recognize my traumas, I wanted to go deeper.

I just knew I had wanted to deepen my journey with my spiritual practice, and decided it was time to get attuned to reiki—I am now attuned to the level of Master. I initially wanted to practice reiki to help others on their journey, but hadn’t realized how much it would also change within me.

In fact, every time I channel reiki through me for others—I receive benefits from it. Further, during the attunement and practice through the different levels, particularly level I, daily self-practice is highly encouraged. That being said, I have been giving myself a daily dose of reiki almost every day since my attunement in May of 2020. Only exceptions are when I decide to receive reiki through another practitioner, or when I just need to take a break which hasn’t lasted more than a few days at a time. Through reiki, I started building a solid daily practice which includes daily meditation, reiki, and yoga ideally.

Reiki has led me on a deeper level of healing for myself—funny while that was not my original intention. So, how did I even know that I needed healing?

I have suffered from physical ailments that doctors would not recognize and dismiss for years

Well, for one, I have suffered from physical ailments that doctors would not recognize and dismiss for years—so I had no choice by to self-heal for a good 10 years. I often have physical pain in my joints, muscles, and soft tissue, developed food intolerances and allergies to name a few. For me, these changed over time, and spiritual healing, as well as practicing reiki has helped improve my physical symptoms.

Further, I realized I was in a space in my life where I recognized the path I was on was not really in full alignment with myself.

I wanted more out of my life

I realized during me 2nd year in grad school—becoming a YA and children’s librarian—that I wanted more out of my life. Honestly, I didn’t exactly know what that “more” was, but had to admit that somehow I felt like I was not fully opened to my potential.

In fact, in my career—if you can even call it that, I always felt under-utilized, under-employed, under-paid.

Anyhow, I decided for myself to fully open up to allowing myself to dream up what my life could look like if there were no restrictions. So, that has put me on the path I have been on for the past years.

Even though my healing journey as a whole has been ongoing for over a decade consciously, but probably way longer subconsciously, these past two year shave been the most pivotal for me.

So, if you are in your life where you suffer from physical ailments that you may not even know what they are after speaking with doctors and perhaps doctors haven’t taken you seriously, and you feel like you have not fully reached your potential or are longing for more, it is time to go on your healing journey as well.