Some Fun Things That Happened During Healings

If you haven’t experienced energy work, these stories may seem a bit weird to you.

The best and worst experiences I have had while doing energy work on other people have all happened during in person sessions but they weren’t Reiki sessions. I am going to share a few stories with you, and most of them are Reiki because that’s all I can remember today.

First the coolest in person session was when I was practicing a new modality (not Reiki) on a friend. Her husband was out of town and we were at her office, waiting to pick up a take out order. She laid down on her stomach and I did my hand waving and clearing thing. The part of the healing modality I was practicing was “pulling” your spirit out of the body. It’s like lifting the furniture to clean under couch. It just results in a deep meditative journeying process where we allow spirit to work on you. They take you on a bit of a journey. Sounds trippy and weird, doesn’t it? It isn’t really in the moment - it just sounds that way. It really just feels like a very restful quiet time. My friend and I had a hard stop time limit and I was getting worried that we would go over the amount of time we had if I didn’t “wake” her up or disrupt her meditation. Usually when this part of the healing is over, people will “come back” on their own. It’s sort of like waking up. My guides had told me that we would be finished by a certain time. I can’t remember what time now but let’s say 4:15 pm. It was getting very close to the time we had to leave and I was getting worried. At exactly 4:15 pm, my friend started wiggling her feet and coming back into the room. That was my first experience with my guides telling me how long a session would be. Since then, they always tell me how long a session or reading will be. And, again, when we get close to that end time and the client asks another question that doesn’t feel like we will wrap up in the 9 minutes we have left, it miraculously concludes at exactly the time they say it will. I am always amazed.

When I was learning Reiki I it was the middle of August in 2014. A hot day. We were in a basement of a building and it was cool in the room. My fellow student was on the table with a light blanket covering her. While I was working around her head - so in the first few positions, I started to get very, very hot. And I was still very shy back then (and always assuming there was something wrong with me) so it took me awhile to say something. I had a drop of sweat that was about to drop on her face from my nose when I finally said “It’s a little hot in here.” My Reiki Master looked up and noticed I was dripping in sweat. He stopped me and took my pulse and whatnot. I kept my hand on the other student until the heat calmed down. It felt like what older women would describe as a hot flash. Fire from within. It’s happened a few more time when someone has been working on me and once when I was training to be a Master Teacher. One of the women in the class I was monitoring was pregnant and she was having a fire baby. I wasn’t working on anyone but whenever she would be in deep meditation or working on someone, the Reiki Fire would erupt within me and the sweat would pour off me. I had to get away from her at one point or I thought I might burst into flames.

Another cool story was when I had just learned Reiki II and I was looking for any opportunity to practice distance Reiki. A coworker noticed that another coworker had asked on social media for healing energy and prayers and whatever for her daughter who was severely disabled. It was a genetic condition and I cannot remember now what it was. Maybe her mother will remind me in the comments. I tuned in to the daughter and could see a tiny little person on a Reiki table. I saw her dark hair and I think she was wearing glasses in my vision. She was no wider than one of my thighs. Very small woman. After the session was finished, I told the first coworker what I saw. She sent me a picture of the daughter and that was exactly who I saw during the session. This sort of experience at the time was mind blowing. It is commonplace for me now, but I remember how it felt so cool and surreal in the moment.

When a session goes badly for me in person it is usually because neither of us felt or experienced anything. I call the feeling “flat soda”. Its embarrassing when that happens and imposter syndrome kicks in strong. One evening I was holding a group session and at the end, I offered individual hands on sessions for everyone for a few minutes. The entire evening one woman who does not believe in any of this energy stuff was sitting directly across from me in the circle. The expression on her face the whole time was of complete boredom. She only came to the event because her friends were going and she didn’t want to be left out - wrong reason to join anything energy healing related. After everyone else had their mini session, she said “I don’t know girls. Should I try it?” and everyone excitedly said yes. I put my hands on top of her head and I felt nothing. Flat soda. She didn’t feel anything either other than more boredom. Those are rough sessions when they happen. Fortunately they are infrequent.

Another Reiki distance story - another coworker was having knee pain from an injury. I sent her a healing cloud of energy and she felt an icy-cold feeling on her knee, which helped with the pain.

One last Reiki cloud story. I had a friend who announced at a celebration dinner that she was having her gallbladder out in a couple weeks. I had agreed to send her Reiki energy to help heal from the surgery. I figured I would send her a Reiki cloud with a future time stamp on it so I wouldn’t forget on the day of the surgery - if I even knew the day of the surgery. I don’t remember if I actually did it, program the cloud. I completely forgot about the surgery. In my defense, I had just started a new job the day she told me about the surgery and I was overwhelmed with the new role. It’s also possible that I might be a bad friend at times. She texted me a couple weeks later and thanked me for the Reiki energy. I panicked because I had forgotten. But she said when she was coming out anesthesia she felt a warm bubble of energy around her and my name came to her mind. So, I must have programmed the cloud before forgetting about the surgery!

I know there are other stories of working on people with the stronger modality I use, the one that is not Reiki, but I cannot remember them right now. Even though I have been a practitioner for 10 years, I haven’t had many opportunities to use these modalities because I haven’t had a physical space. So, for the bulk of my practice I spent the time developing ways to do group healings. Those are fun. I don’t feel at all called to do those group healings anymore. And also because I knew I wouldn’t have a physical space anytime soon, I developed a way to use the healing energy modalities for healings over the phone. These are the healings I typically do now. They are based on what another mentor of mine called Reiki Chats - where she and her clients would have a lovely little chat with tea and through the intuitive conversation she would perform Reiki on you. Her words were imbued with the healing energy. I know those sessions I had were real because they knocked me over! I was exhausted for days later. When I got home after the first one, I had to crawl up the stairs to my bedroom because I didn’t have the energy to walk. And, I know my clients are getting something similar because they have a strong feeling of a weight having been lifted off of them and they have an excitement that wasn’t there when we began.

I learned how to do these sort of Reiki Chats using my other modality and following the sessions, clients would leave relationships they had been trying to leave for years. They quit jobs they hated and found jobs they loved almost immediately after quitting. Energy work is very powerful if you are willing to do the integration work after the healing.

I would love to hear any stories you have either as a practitioner or receiving a session. Bonus points if you remind me of a session we had that I am not remembering today!

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I don’t offer healings and energy clearings very often anymore, but I still perform them for friends when they ask me to. It is tough to describe what they are because they are different for each person. On the phone, they feel like a comfortable chat with an old friend. I search your energy for blocks or anything out of alignment and we talk about how that energy is playing out for you. While I have you talking, I clear the energy. So, no awkward silences, just a lovely chat. In person, if I have that space available, you lie on a Reiki/massage table and I clear energy from the areas of you body or energy field that need work. You can fall asleep if you want or we can chat while I work. Often times I will find younger soul parts that are in need of reintegration into your energy and I walk them back through your timeline to the present moment. These sessions are so wonderfully healing in unexpected ways. And, so sweet when they happen. If you are interested, please reach out. You never know when I could be persuaded to schedule one. I do often think about doing a clearing clinic with a pot luck dinner element. That might be fun.