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I want to dedicate my first blog post to my experience with Reiki and how Reiki has impacted my life.
I had my first contact with Reiki in 2018 when I went on my first holiday to Bali. I had previously completed training in India as a yoga teacher and had developed an awareness of the connection between body, mind, and spirit and how they need to be in harmony to live a healthy, balanced life, but energy work, just as Reiki, was a topic that was very distant from me.
My big dream was always to be a doctor and later to do various studies at clinics around human health. Things like energy blockages, pent-up energy, dissolving them by "merely" laying on hands seemed "wu wu" to me and I didn't want to deal with it. But when I was in Ubud somehow felt the calling to attend a treatment, up until today I don't know what drove me that day to book a session, but maybe it was a feeling of curiosity and helplessness.
At the time of my Reiki treatment, I was suffering badly from my thyroid-related autoimmune disease and feeling very badly treated by the doctors, I was so desperate that I was willing to try anything - even what I never thought much of - energy work. The description sounded promising - calmness, relaxation, working on illnesses ... but I was still very skeptical about the whole thing.
When I arrived at the Reiki healer, I was received in an atmosphere that radiated an incredible calmness. I immediately felt at home in her house. As I made myself comfortable with the treatment, she advised me to just go with it. I could already tell that this was going to be a big challenge for me. I have to say that I am a person who always needs an answer for everything. For me, everything always has to have an explanation, otherwise, I have no peace. But now I was lying there. Me - the one who never believed in energy healing, but hoped to find a little more clarity, peace, and health improvement.
During my Reiki treatment, I partly thought I had fallen asleep, but I was present because I felt a warmth spreading over every part of my body. At first, I was so shocked by this sensation that I wanted to jump up and open my eyes and stop the treatment. But when my initial panic about the sensation passed, I enjoyed every single moment of the treatment.
It was as if I was completely detached from my body. When the 60 minutes were over and I slowly regained consciousness, I was more than thrilled by the immense power it had had on me. I hadn't felt so relaxed, calm, and clear in a long time.
I thought that was it and the treatment was finished. But the Reiki healer explained to me what she had felt and I could hardly believe what she told me. She knew nothing about me, my mental or physical state, my medical history, or my personal experiences, but her stories hit the mark with me. She told me that she could detect incredibly strong energies in the area of my throat chakra, as well as in the area of the ovaries and the heart region. She told me that her hands became very restless in these areas and that she had the feeling that the energies in these areas went "up and down".
I could hardly believe was she said. Not only did I have an autoimmune disease with my thyroid gland and was very poorly medicated, but I was also suffering freshly from a break-up with my boyfriend of 6 years and was struggling with a lot of heartache. The fact that she perceived strong energies in the ovaries also made more than sense to me, as I was suffering from a hormonal disorder and also had major health problems here.
I was perplexed, fascinated but still skeptical. I told myself that maybe it was just a coincidence.
So I left her house in complete amazement and could not believe what she had told me.
A small quiet voice inside me told me - I want to learn that too, I also want to have the ability to feel something like that and to help others. But sadly, the bigger part inside of me was not yet completely convinced of energy healing and its power - too big was the voice of my ego that kept telling me I had to go the way that is recognized by society and dedicate myself to my studies in science.
So there I went, with a great experience in Reiki, but I devoted myself to my studies in science and did not allow myself to integrate spirituality and energy work into my life. Too big was the shame that people would not take me seriously and the fear that the (hoped-for) recognition that I wanted so much from the outside would not come.
But it turned out differently than expected. In the following years, everything in my life turned around.
More about what happened next in Part 2.