What a Difference a Year Makes
It’s really hard to pinpoint the “when” and “how” of my “awakening”. It’s becoming more evident that I’ve used some of my intuitive skills my whole life. However, the difference this last year has made in the person I am today is remarkable. (Lucky for me, I have a blog in which to remark all about it!)
I have had a friend since birth. Like many friendships that have lasted that long, there have been ebbs and flows, and ours is no exception. The good thing is that we have reconnected over the last few years and noticed that we have an understanding like never before. I would even call it a Spiritual Connection because our souls seem to have a language that speaks more clearly than our earthly beings have been able to.
In June of 2019, this friend of mine was diagnosed with a brain tumor (which actually turned out to be two brain tumors and she had surgeries three weeks apart in August and September 2019). I really wanted to go visit, but apparently Divine Timing was intent on making sure we didn’t jump the gun, so a number of obstacles were put in the way so it wasn’t possible until last March (2022). We met up in Phoenix to plan our trip to Sedona, which would include healings at her favorite shop there, Center 4 The New Age. This is where my Spiritual Journey began to really take off in a way and at a pace I never expected.
My friend had told me a little about reiki, because when she was diagnosed with her brain tumor, she had taken Reiki I and II and begun doing reiki shares, as well as self-healings. She really wanted me to experience it, but the healing I had signed up for was more of a combination of a crystal grid and reflexology. The woman facilitating my healing was talking to me and said something that I took to heart. She asked if I did reiki. I said, “I have heard of reiki, but never experienced it.” She told me I should do it.
When I returned to Minnesota, I called up my friend in Wisconsin who is a Reiki Master Teacher. I had noticed that she had a Reiki I class coming up and I KNEW I had to take it. I asked her if she also had time for a reiki session with me before the class because I thought I should perhaps experience it first. Wow!! I was amazed at how much energy I had and how good my feet, which had been plagued with plantar fasciitis for seven months, felt. That night, I took a walk with my husband and was able to keep his pace instead of him slowing down for me.
A week later, April 07, 2022, I took Reiki I and I was hooked by the time we broke for lunch! I told my friend/Reiki Master that I would be taking all of the levels from her. Where did that comment even come from? (*my Higher Self)
Our homework was to do self-reiki, a meditation, and keep an experience journal of the miracles we observed everyday. It so happened that I had already begun meditating with the fantastic Insight Timer App I blogged about previously (See: a Few of My Favorite Things), and I had a deck of Oracle Cards, from which I was choosing a card and journaling each day. The only change would be switching my meditations to first thing in the morning and adding self-reiki. I was a good student and did my homework everyday. I even made sure to practice reiki on other people who agreed to be my guinea pigs. I noticed changes right away! During the first week I saw dozens of hawks and eagles. I noticed an increase of energy. I was impressed that people who let me use reiki on them were feeling a difference. I began seeing more angel colors, with my eyes open as well as closed. My body had moments of pain, but nothing lasted chronically, like before.
Now, I don’t think chronicling all the changes and miracles I’ve experienced over the past year are a good use of this blog space - because A) there’s not enough room, and 2) lest you think your results/path should be the same as mine, it doesn’t work that way. Never fear though, this is a good thing! We all have unique gifts and talents and when we use them according to “our unique purpose”, we can work together to raise the vibration of the earth and make it a better place to live.
So - in May, 2022, I was able to take Reiki II and I was so excited! Reiki II allowed me to use the new symbols I had learned to send reiki distances. I continued with the meditation, self-reiki, journaling, practicing on other people, and I added practicing sending reiki to family and friends when they were sick, in pain, or struggling emotionally with something. I found that I was seeing more miracles and signs around me. I also noticed that I was getting calmer. I was/am also a spirit living in a human body, so I did lose my temper a couple times, but was really shocked when that happened because it didn’t feel like the “real me” anymore. The real me was becoming more Zen. As I kept my chakras balanced, my mood became more balanced. I also noticed that I was feeling more “oneness” with everyone and everything around me. I had read and listened more about Spiritualist practices and liked the equity in it. It allows for unconditional love (not unconditional boundaries) and it really helped me to become less judgmental. I really like being less judgmental. I think it’s a product of being less fearful, and who doesn’t want less fear and more optimism in their life?
In June, I contacted my Reiki Master and asked her about her Reiki III/Master-Teacher Class. She informed me that usually she made a person wait at least six months from Reiki II before taking the Reiki III/M-T level class, but because I had been consistent in practicing and all the other homework, she could see that I was ready to move on. We scheduled it for August 12, 2022. I was ecstatic! It was that class when I confessed my latest desire: to start my own business.
I had a couple of obstacles in front of me. First; in two weeks, I would be heading out of the country for 10 days, so the timing felt a little off. Second; my husband. Marrying an engineer with a need for hard scientific proof never seemed like a problem until I started flirting with the idea of starting a business with something he didn’t see as “real”. Plus, there was the little problem of that one time I became a consultant for a MLM and ended up investing thousands of dollars and buying my “free” car. If that weren’t enough, he had recently begun talking about retirement and was hoping I could get a little job working only hours when he was at work, so we could have money for health insurance and enjoy our empty-nest time together. I was NOT looking forward to that conversation.
As it turned out, our trip abroad was wonderful and the days before we left gave me more time to practice and to look into some of the logistics of starting my own business. The bigger miracle, though, was <3 My Husband <3. Of course he brought up the past MLM “lesson”, but the other part about thinking my business and new life is way more woo-woo than his scientific mind can handle turned out to be my own fear. Well, yes, he does think that - BUT, he has completely supported me in this venture. I think he likes this new version of his wife. It’s true that I’m now working a couple nights a week and a couple weekends a month, and he would prefer I had them open to hang out with him instead, but he likes that I’m calmer and actually have income every week. And he loves hearing that his wife “has a gift”. This is all good, because I still am not sure how to tell him “we will be fine” in retirement because abundance is coming and will continue to come because of this new venture - I can “feel it” and have multiple people confirm my feeling with their visions. I’m just going to have to show him over and over.
So yes, I started Peaceful Soulutions LLC on September 21, 2022 - six months (and four days, but who’s counting?) after I was asked if I did reiki. I had learned reiki and become quite adept at reading oracle cards and channeling messages when I use them. I started working at a metaphysical shop and getting walk-ins and meeting all sorts of people who were meant to be in my path. Then in October, I took a Medical Intuitive class and learned how to “feel”, or more properly, “identify” specific places in the body as needing special attention in my reiki sessions. I continued to open up my intuition and became a better/stronger reader and reiki channeler. In November, the shop where I was practicing was forced to close its doors, but I was led to a closer shop with a higher vibration and began experiencing even more abundance. I was getting more readings and reiki and meeting more people that were meant to be in my life (for a reason, a season, or a lifetime).
It’s funny. I was self-conscious when I first started about being so new at this. I didn’t know how I was going to compete with all the people who have been “awakened” since childhood - seeing angels, channeling readings, channeling energy. What I have realized is that it’s not a competition and no one is here by mistake. I am part of a community who is working to support one another to spread love, a deep love energy, to as many souls as are open to it. I am working with the people I have met, with my clients and friends who I see regularly, with my shaman and medicine woman who are helping me understand concepts that are wonderful and sometimes seemingly above my head, with new people I meet along the way - and we are ALL working to raise the vibration of the earth. There’s a lot of chaos and mayhem out in the world today. Mother Earth is showing her power and might. But!!! We are also surrounded by a lot of people who want to help heal the world.
My mission is to help healers who want to heal themselves so they can help heal the world. If you are reading this, you are a healer. I thank you for your role. We don’t all have to be Reiki Masters or businesses teaching reiki, giving reiki, or reading cards. It so happens, after 53 years on this earth, I finally figured out what I was meant to do with my life, but likely it’s not the same path for you. I don’t even know that this is my forever-path. It’s what I’m called to do right now. That’s okay. We need people spreading love light energy from right where they are. You will KNOW if you’re not supposed to be where you are. You will get signs and messages. It’s up to you to heed them. I promise that if/when you do, the earth will come up magically to meet your feet at every step.
This last year has been a miracle for me. April 3, 2022, I couldn’t even conceive of me on this path. All I knew was that “I should do reiki”. I took the first step. Now, on April 7, 2023, one year since I took my Reiki I class, I will be teaching Reiki I and I feel confident about it. This is how following your dreams works - dreams are desires of our soul, not there by accident, but to help us realize the reason we incarnated here on Earth at this very time. Where are your dreams leading you?
