Finding our Way to Inner Peace

I took a Reiki class on Monday - taught by William Rand of the International Center for Reiki Training. His school offers energy upgrades for Reiki Masters and this one was focused on World Peace. It was awesome, I honestly feel less anxiety floating around my subconscious. 

The class was meant to help us cope with what seems like never ending stress and escalating conflict, with the world coming out of the pandemic, into a war.

At the time I had all of these intuitions about the absence of peace and where it comes from. I want to share my thoughts, as best I can, because a lot of it has slipped away.

Thoughts on The Absence of Peace: 

• Biological Stress and Anxiety: In some cases stress or turmoil might be due to chemical imbalances in the brain. This is not my area of work, but a person would benefit from seeing a mental health professional. One of my friends works with genetics and mental health conditions. She works with people who are affected by their DNA and not just their circumstances. Coincidentally, lifestyle factors do influence our mRna, as discussed in my first book, A Personal Guide to Self-Healing, Cancer & Love (2013). 

• Stressful Situations: There is the chaos and alarming news of the past few years, which added to our usual stress levels. The brain is wired to keep an eye out for threats and emergencies, no doubt a remnant of our survival and wilderness days - which are only a few centuries behind us. The amygdala is triggered when we are stressed; the body goes into fight, flight or freeze mode. In time, we may find ourselves in a state of constant stress. This lowers our immune system, as physical energy is redirected to crisis management. 

• We all have individual joys, concerns and responsibilities (life!). This may be what we think about on a day-to-day basis, but the collective adds weight to our shoulders.  

• Health & Financial Worries. The pandemic put both of these under a huge stress-test, even at odds with each other. My blog has international readership; the experience will have varied for those in the USA or Europe vs India or Mexico. When it comes to individual health concerns, it's not just covid - there are so many things to think about. Reiki & meditation have been great stress-relief tools for me and with the World Peace Upgrade, I feel like it goes deeper even though it’s only been a few days. 
• Your mental chatter is a big one too. Stress relief tools & meditation are essential, so long as we include meditations to calm the mind and to process underlying emotions.

• In terms of healing the rift, I'm a fan of combining conventional health care (or economic measures) with coping mechanisms and a bit of soul healing. As mentioned in my Self-Healing, Cancer & Love book, Reiki is one option but there are lots of things that we can do to bring a sense of peace into our lives. Here is an intro to meditation from a cancer survivor conference. And obviously, counseling is wonderful too!  

• The macro level is beyond our control - this is where a lot of stress and uncertainty come from. What matters is that we have coping tools, that we focus on what is in front of us, and that we lean on each other! 
• Let's Meditate Together (On Youtube) 🕊 Energy healing aims to address the points listed below.  

• War and Violence: This one is the toughest to address. As reiki practitioners, we learn to use the distance reiki symbol in the 2nd level. This is used to send Reiki to the root cause of a problem, or to send Reiki across time and space (sounds like science fiction!) When there is a natural disaster or a crisis, we send Reiki with then intention to alleviate suffering. Ideally we'd also send Reiki to people causing that pain, so that they stop acting out and hurting others. It’s always the damaged parts of human nature that create havoc. We send healing to underlying the causes and to any collective patterns or narratives.

Conflict has been around forever, but the ego/saboteur in all of us has to become exhausted and redirected in a functional direction. It feels hopeless when the conflict is at a distance, but I believe that we do have a bigger chance of healing our corners of the world because we are part of them.  

• It’s important to look at our own damaged parts - William Rand calls it the unhealed parts of our ego. What part of me feels anger, envy, jealousy or hurt? Are there voids that I try to fill with approval, status or competitive behavior? We can also send Reiki to people around us who cause pain, and to their dysfunctional patterns.

• There is an element of Free Will when it comes to Distant Reiki. In healing school, we were taught to ask our intuition for permission before sending healing to someone else. We can also set the intention for it to flow to someone who needs it, if by chance, the intended recipient rejects it on a Soul or Higher Self level.  

• Grief & Emotional Pain: This one is tough too. How do we process feelings like grief, anger, anguish or even hatred and revenge? (We do live in that world). In 2019 I wrote a post called The Mechanics of Forgiveness; an essential step on the road to peace, but curiously, not the most important one. Reiki is wonderful and I swear by it, but we need strong emotional skills from an early age. We may need counseling as well as a deep cultural shift. To quote my book, A Personal Guide to Self-Healing, Cancer & Love:  

 

“We need to learn to work with our emotions on a daily basis so that our lives are empowered by our changing mood states and not held hostage by them” Regina Chouza

 

Please join me in sending healing to the world. Yourself and myself included! 🤍

Reiki hugs, 

Regina 

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A Crystal Grid to Remove Turbulence

Hi Chickpeas, This week I have a few thoughts to share with you -  firstly, I am enrolled in a fun crystal healing class at Hibiscus Moon and my homework this week was to create a crystal grid - essentially a crystal layout which can be charged with intentions. It amplifies your magick  💝

The concept of programming crystal grids to send healing is right up my alley. In Reiki classes we learn to program crystals for energy balancing - I add them when the client’s energy is so stuck that I’d have to spend a lot more time on each hand position  (Byosen Levels 4-5*). We also learned how to program grids for distant healing in the Reiki Master classes. 

One of my Reiki teachers set up a grid - actually four - and placed them at the North Pole, South Pole, Jerusalem and Hawaii to cover the four corners of the Earth (that is William Rand). Reiki practitioners all over the world have a picture of it and we use that image to send Reiki to the World Peace Grid, and through it, to the world. 

We can use any type of crystal to send healing but as mentioned in Chakra Healing & Magick, my ideal starter kit would include Rose Quartz, Amethyst and Clear Quartz as we can cover all our bases with these three - including self love with the pink, clarity and purpose with clear, and the ability to transmute any difficult vibrations into love with the purple stone. One of my favorites. 

Below you will find a grid that I set up to transmute household stress during quarantine. It has one of my favorite stones, Black Tourmaline - great for stress relief and transmuting negative energy, and Blue Apatite to dispel confusion. It may or may not be a coincidence, but the stress felt with my quarantine buddies went down substantially after setting up the grid this weekend. 

This morning I switched the intention for this grid to send peace and grounding to the whole world. Feel free to take a picture of the grid and visualize it radiating light to you. And if you would like bring energy healing into your own life in a proactive way, please read either of my books to awaken your Inner Healer and connect with your intuition for guidance and support (Bookstore HERE).

An Astrology-Inspired Meditation 

Beyond that I would also like to share an energy healing meditation with you. A lot of what we are experiencing now can be explained by looking at the planets, especially Pluto and Jupiter in Capricorn - both of which can create quite a bit of upheaval. When Capricorn shakes we tend to feel insecure or scared and in my case, meditating with Black Tourmaline has done a lot to calm my nerves. Please try this guided meditation to transmute the feelings of stress and uncertainty. 

Capricorn is an Earth sign, concerned with financial issues and the stability we enjoy in the material world. It also relates to authority and governments, which are all being shaken up at the moment. Pluto pushes us towards transformation and it would be much easier for all of us if necessary changes happen with love and proactivity, and not from a place of reactivity or fear. Pluto transits through Capricorn every 250 years. It has been in Capricorn since 2008 and will leave in 2024. In 2020 the effect was multiplied by Jupiter's 12-13 month transit through this sign, and Saturn having just exited it (a lot of weight in one sign). As well as pushing us to find new footing, upheavals in Capricorn bring up a shadow of fear and uncertainty.  


Meditating with Black Tourmaline crystals has helped me a lot - especially the past few years as I have a key planet in Capricorn and had been feeling anxious even before this. Those of you who are into Bach Flowers Remedies may want to try Mimulus Remedy as it is said to help calm fears related to Capricorn, acting on the emotional body. As always, energy healing and vibrational remedies are complementary to medical care, not alternative. 

 

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FOOTNOTE

* For those of you who are unfamiliar with Reiki, practitioners feel a range of sensations on their palms while giving Reiki. This is how we know that Reiki is flowing, and how we sense or perceive the energy field. At the lower end of the Byosen scale, we feel practically nothing or absolutely nothing; that is a signal NOT to keep your hands there and to move to a different part of the body/aura. In the mid levels, the Reiki practitioner feels tingling, hot, cold, or pulsations and at level 5, it’s super uncomfortable and often painful. The stronger the sensation, the more time is needed at that location. I incorporate crystals at levels 4 &5 to let the crystal do the healing, instead of keeping my hands there. 

When I was starting out, I perceived a lot more in the energy field (either clairvoyantly or through physical sensations). Over time, the clairvoyance has taken a back seat and I see/feel only when the client needs energy healing at a specific part of their body or energy field. I think it’s my own curiosity going down, and practicality taking the lead with sessions. 

 

Chakra Healing & Magick Book

As you may know, I’ve been on this journey since 2010, when I began studying intuition and energy healing. It blew my mind, and opened my heart to a world of possibilities.

Today, I am excited to share my book with you - learn to channel healing yourself.

Why read this book???

Chakra healing is its own kind of magick, quite literally, as clearing these energy centers brings more love, abundance, and joy into our lives, literally – but also in a figurative sense, as the tools in this book take us on a journey of self-discovery. 

One where we discover our spiritual power, becoming catalysts for change, personal growth and happiness in our lives. Key themes include angels, energy healing, psychic abilities and crystal magick. 

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Regina

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My Distant Healing Workshop

There is so much to tell about the last few weeks, I already have six posts typed up and waiting to be published. Today I'm going to zoom in on one exciting adventure, the distant healing workshop I attended 2 weeks ago. This was the same event where I gave the energy reading that linked back to the Little Mermaid (sigh ... so much fun!). 

The day started out with basic energy management, space clearing, and then that afternoon we moved on to our first distant healing session! Distant healing comes naturally to most of us, if you've ever prayed for someone to recover from an illness that's distant healing. We also send love and light to our friends and family. Overall I'd say there are 2 big differences between the distant energy healing we learned in class, and the prayer based healing I learned as a kid from my non-psychic parents:

1)  In any healing session the healer will use their body as a channel for healing energy. This applies to contact healing where you are physically standing in the person's aura, as well as to distant healing. We started out by grounding, centering and throwing down our energetic roots so that we could draw earth energy up from the center of the earth to our heart chakra. The next step was attunement, you use your intention to connect to the highest purest form of energy, and bring it down through your crown chakra to your heart. When these two energies mix, you really feel your heart expand and start to overflow with healing energy. In the case of contact healing, the energy is channeled down the healers arms and out their palms into the healee's energy field. With distant healing, we use our intent to send the healing energy straight out from the heart and across space to the person we are healing. 

2) The healer channels the energy without asking for a specific outcome, so technically we aren't supposed to wish or promise tha they will get "better". The healing takes place in the best interest of the client, but we have no idea what that might be. This might be a reflection on the way that I was brought up, but as a kid we usually prayed for good things to happen to people, and our prayers were influenced by what we thought was a good thing. For example, I might have prayed for a classmate to recover from leukemia, but what he really needed was a peaceful and painless way out of life. It has more to do with the state of mind of the healer, and knowing that we are just channels for the energy (we can't control or influence the outcome). The benefit is determined by the person we are healing, and their path in life including any difficult lessons they might need to learn.

So on to the distant healing excercise! 

The teacher lined us up on two sides of the classroom, in pairs so that we were each facing the fellow student that we'd be working with. There was a lot of space between us to make sure that we were out of each other's auric fields. First off, it was my turn to send energy to the woman that was sitting across from me. I had my doubts about distant healing, and in an effort to overcompensate I may have bombarded her with energy. My eyes kept drifting open and shut, as if to check in on her. She opened her eyes a few times and I was worried that my gaze might make her feel uncomfortable, so I let my eyes go hazy and looked at her aura instead. If you remember the 90's, there were these pixeled posters that were all the rage. If you looked straight at them you'd see a bunch of dots, but letting your eyes relax would bring out shapes of buildings, monuments or angels. This fuzzy eyesight is the one I use to look at aura's, still a beginner and I get tired so the visual won't always be clear. It was enough to keep my focus on the classmate during the healing session.  

We went on like this for about five minutes and then the teacher had us do a quick feedback session. It was cool because she did feel the energy coming her way, she described it like having someone invade your space. In a good way. She gave me feedback on where the energy was concentrated, which was cool because I hadn't sensed it during the healing. We went back to our seats and she distant healed me. It was a peculiar experience, that's the only way I can describe it. For starters, I felt the energy very strongly, with a lot more pressure than I get during contact healings. At the time I was getting over my conjunctivitis and my eyes were still sore and tired. The first thing I felt was pressure on my forehead, and it built up like a tornado that was sucking all of the excess energy from the brow chakra. I could feel this whirwind of pressure on my skin but also in the air in front of me. It must have gone through the etheric, emotional and mental layers of my aura. It felt good while it lasted, and all along I was conscious and happy that my eyes were getting healed because that's what I needed the most.

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