Breaching the comfort zone

It’s too easy to do Reiki in the comforts and confine’s of one’s treatment room.  Setting the tone with music and lighting and surrendering to the flow, letting it channel through you to your client.  Yes, the whole process of setting aside the ego does take time to master, but once accomplished, session after session flows easily, and profoundly.

Conducting public presentations on Reiki is always a challenge and a rush at the same time.  Will the audience ‘get’ what it is I’m saying, what I’ve devoted the last 15 years of my life to?  And surprisingly, after only about 10 minutes with various hands-on exercises they do and are curious and hungry for more learning and experience.

But each community is different and presents various challenges.  In Reiki-infused Portland, OR, the practitioners there wanted to know how they could go ‘further’ with their practice.

In land-locked Helena, Montana, the group was just amazed to meet others like themselves.

In affluent Houston, TX, stay-at-home-moms felt for the first time they could ‘come out’ with Reiki and begin practicing on their families because they learned that over 100 hospitals in the US have Reiki practitioners employed on staff.

In New Orleans it was a different task altogether.  Even after 5 years, the amount of collective grief held from the devastation of Katrina was apparent.  So levels of healing needed to be attended to before practitioners were grounded into offering the healing to others.

After only 6 weeks I’ve accumulated about 6000 miles of travel and will probably triple that by my book tour’s end next spring concluding across the world in Ephesus, Turkey where the ancient Greeks worshiped the power of the mother Goddess.

I can only imagine between now and then many more expansions in what I’ve considered ‘comfort’ to a whole other zone of reality.