C: All that tension I told you about before my session; my neck hurt and my stuff in my chest and my knee and all of that, as you worked on me it just caused that release in those areas. Everything that was stuck just started flowing.

J: What did it feel like?

C: It had different feels to it but it felt like there was movement in it. Like when she was working around my head I could feel the energy begin to dissipate. It was all stuck there and my neck just started feeling better. There were flashes of heat, chunks of stuck stuff was letting go and moving out and my neck was not as stiff. And then there were times when she was working on my heart chakra where I was just panting. I don’t know why, I was breathing just fine, but I just couldn’t contain all that movement of energy inside. And she’d just hit different spots and my head would sweat. (Addressing L) When you are working in my aura and you are not touching my body why does that area all of a sudden get hot? Why does that heat rise up through my body and through my head? I’m not doing anything to stimulate it. I’m lying prone on the table totally relaxing and in a semi-waking state.

L: The energy is coming down through my head, the reiki energy. It’s coming from up above me and it’s being channeled through the top of my head, through my face, down my shoulders and arms, and out through my hands. And our auric field travels about 3-4 feet out around us. We can make it grow, we can make it shrink. And when I work in your energy field I’m holding my hands about 3 inches above your body and you can feel that even though it is not a physical touch feeling it’s an energy touch feeling.

C: That’s what it is, the energy you are working with inside of me has to go somewhere and I’m lying prone and one of the areas it goes is out through my head.

L: Yes and often times our head and feet are energy release points. For you energy released through the crown of your head.  It can be different for everyone. Some people release through chakras, others through other body centers.

J: Did you cry? Some people cry when they have a big release.

C: No, it wasn’t that kind of emotional feelings release, more like energy moving through me. I can see better now, more clearly, both physically and mentally. Before the session I’d look out and see clumps of things, light=room, dark=bookcase. But now after the session, I look out and I can see the bookcase. I see the shelves. I see the edges of the books, the colors on the books. I don’t just see the light shining through the doorway, I look and see the light shining on the wallpaper boarder and the cabinets and all the things on the counter. I have the capacity to look and see new layers of detail now. So now I can take that level of detail in whereas before I was just dealing with so much it was all clumped together.

L: It’s like the analogy of dusting; it’s like your aura has been dusted and you can see more clearly now. Our aura builds up all kinds of dirt and debris over time and if we don’t clean it regularly it gets cloudy and it gives us this weight of oppression that makes us feel blah.

C: Well, if an aura is supposed to be light and it surrounds you and if you don’t take care if it, it gets dirty and now it’s filled with stuff all around you but you have to wade your way through the world with all of this stuff attached.

L: Yes, like a physical weight attached to you. Really, this is all about vibrational medicine. It is understood in the East and is slowly making its way here to the West. If you think back 20 years ago people who first heard about acupuncture said, “You’re going to put a needle where?!? And for what?!?” But now, they understand how energy is blocked and released by the needles in the body. In the next 10 years I am willing to bet that people will hear the term vibrational medicine and reiki and know what it all encompasses.

C: It’s cool stuff, huh?

L: Yeah, really cool!

C: What’s it like for you when you have a session? (Addressed to L)

L: I feel the energy passing through me but I set protection ahead of time so I don’t absorb anything being released by the client. It catches up in my hands and they feel like dough and that is why I use the Om Aura spray to transmute the energy. And, I always feel better after a reiki session too. Although I’m not holding the session for myself, I am feeling the healthy affects of the fresh, clean energy coming through me on its way to the client.

C: Do you think you get revitalized by that energy coming through?

L: Yeah, I do. That’s why I love doing it. It feels great.

C: What was your session like? (Addressed to J)

J: I felt heat. I usually feel heat around my head when she starts there. I might have fallen asleep for a little while and I think I lost a lot of anxiety that I was feeling before hand. When I was done I felt less anxious. I felt groggy after the session was over, like I was coming out of a deep sleep.

C: Yeah, as I sat up at the end it was clear to me that I had been in a different place.

J: I don’t remember too much of my session… I was out in dream land!

C: The other thing that affected me in my session was color. Yeah, at the end you were all done and you were telling me to wake up I couldn’t even speak. I asked for you to put your hands back on my head because when you first started the session I was seeing all of these shades of black and white and grey, clouds and blobs moving through. And, as you worked on me it changed over to actual colors. A pale green, a horizon of green came up and I saw images like the horizon and more blues started flowing through like clouds, shooting all through. And, at the end and I sat up I needed you to put your hands up to my head and the colors came right back. More greens and blues, the colors just intensified. There was a light blue.

L: That light blue was the color that I painted over your whole being at the end of the session.

C: (Laughing) it came through! Wow! I feel so much better. It works. It’s like… I can’t tell you how it works, I can’t tell you why it works, I can’t tell you what it is that is working but I feel better. It’s kind of like smelling a flower. I can’t tell you what makes the smell or why it smells or how I can smell it but it’s there so… it works.

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