Back in 2018 when I was living in Barcelona, there was a time just around summer where I didn’t feel good and I couldn’t put my finger on what exactly was wrong. I had good friends, was in a new relationship, it was summer in Barcelona and the air was filled with the typical extroverted summer energy. But all I felt like was being alone and sitting indoors at home. I found myself googling Reiki “out of the blue” and without reading, thinking or even having a Reiki treatment beforehand I signed up for a 1-1 Shoden (Reiki 1) course with my teacher Jordi Ibern. It wasn’t until years later I remembered that a psychic lady had told me I should look into Reiki, when I went for a yearly check-up at her place.
Well, then I found myself going to Jordi weekly for a period of almost a month and I remember one of the first things he told me to do was to start meditating. I attempted to do so a couple of days, but recall getting quickly frustrated and finding excuses to why not do it. Too many thoughts, the Barcelona heat, the noisy neighbours etc. Every time I came to see Jordi the first thing he asked me was “Cómo estás? (How are you?). Such a simple question we are asking so often, but sometimes when asked by the right people at the right time it simply hits differently. I noticed an urge to cry almost every time he asked me. In retrospect it is easy now for me to see things weren’t flowing and I was unconscious about that. When I told him about my non-joyful state of mind, I was recommended to do self-treatment everyday on my lower back (kidney area) and the first few days I will be honest and say I didn’t feel a damn thing. But one afternoon lying in my bed giving myself Reiki on the lower back I suddenly felt something burning! I am not talking normal heat I feel when giving a session but real FIERY sensations! I had to open my eyes and reassure I wasn’t actually on fire, haha! Until the day of today I haven’t felt such a strong sensation when giving or receiving Reiki.
After the course I started using Reiki almost exclusively in my relationship at that time, because I saw the immediate effect it had for insomnia.
Somehow, I stopped using it consciously for a long time and it wasn’t until the end of 2021 that because someone asked me to give them Reiki I remembered tI could actually do Reiki. I did doubt that it still worked – I thought it might have gotten rusty after years of not using it. More about that for the next post!
