A Little Bit of Reiki In My Life

One of the first things taught in Reiki classes is how useful it is to give yourself Reiki every day, even if it’s just 10 or 15 minutes. If you're not familiar with Reiki, it is a self-healing technique that involves bring life-force energy into the body (link). The first month after a new student has been attuned to Reiki is devoted to self-Reiki. After that, students can  share it with others too, so long as they keep up their self-Reiki sessions! The biggest benefit to learning Reiki is using it in your life and with family; I love it because it soothes, relaxes and uplifts my spirit on a daily basis. Also, Reiki is always complementary to medical care, not alternative. 

Up until recently I took self-Reiki advice literally and went through a hands-on session daily, two chakras at a time, to get through the seven main chakras in 20 minutes, or just focusing on a different chakra every day of the week. Reiki is refreshingly simple to practice because as soon as we intend to use Reiki, the Reiki energy starts flowing through our hands. You feel it tingle, and when you practice on someone else, they do too. I begin by holding my hands in front of my heart chakra, palms together, while the energy builds, before starting the session. 

A Daily Reiki Meditation 

A few months ago I decided to hold this pose for 20 minutes (used in Gassho meditations), and it dawned on me that this lets Reiki flow from your palms to your whole body. The Heart Chakra regulates the flow of spiritual energy to the heart and lungs; by breathing in and out slowly, we can intend to fill our breath with Reiki, but also the blood that pumps through the heart and flows through the circulatory system to every last cell in the physical body (this we learned in Energy Healing School). 

Next, I went onto visualise white or pink Reiki light in my Heart Chakra, letting it flow up and down my spine through the rest of the Chakras, and then down my legs into the ground. When that was done, I put my hands on my lap,  palms facing up, and intended for the Reiki energy to flow through the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual layers of the Aura. In energy healing school we learned to always ground and protect ourselves after a healing session, hence the light flowing into the ground. The last step is to see yourself surrounded by fiery Reiki.

Would You Like to Know More???    

This has been a relaxing way to get my daily self-Reiki dose, even though it doesn't involve putting your palms on your body. If you would like to learn more about Reiki or Energy Healing, here are a few posts: A Brief History of Reiki or have a look at this introduction to the Aura and the Chakras. Sign up for class or read one of my books to get started with energy healing. 

Reiki Keeps Us Calm and Focused

I took a picture of this Buddha statue in Nepal a few years ago. It stood out because of a sign that read "DO NOT SIT ON BUDDHA" 

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Regina Chouza is an energy healer, angel medium and the author of A Personal Guide to Self-Healing, Cancer & Love and Chakra Healing & Magick. Blogging at Diary of a Psychic Healer since 2010, her passion is bringing the qualities of love, joy and empowerment to healing pursuits. Read her books to heal yourself.  Find her on Instagram.com/reginachouza or on Facebook, as DiaryofaPsychicHealer

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The Three Wizard Kings

Hi Chickpeas, Happy Belated Three Kings Day! 

In Latin América, where I am from, this day is almost as big as Christmas. The Three Kings or Wise Men are translated as Wizard Kings (los Reyes Magos) because little is known of their geographic kingdoms, but they did follow the stars to find baby Jesus, bringing magical gifts including Frankincense and Myhrr, which are still used to create sacred space in churches, and gold to reflect Jesus's lineage. 

The first author that I saw make the link between the magical and earthly sides of these Wise Men was Christopher Penzcak, author of Buddha, Christ and Merlin: The Three Wise Men For Our Age. In the book, Penzcak talks about the divine wisdom, love and power that are taught by each of the three traditions and how we need all three to live balanced lives.  

I haven't read Penczak's more witchy books but I would definitely recommend the Three Wise Men,  or Magick of Reiki. As a healer, the book that best represents the love aspect of Christianity is The Power of Healing Prayer by a healer-priest, also one of my faves. They say not to judge a book by it's cover, but trust your intuition and read the one you're drawn to. If you haven't read my Crystal Healing & Magick book, also a good place to start! 

About Wizard Kings Day

The Christmas season in Mexico officially starts on December 12th, the day that Mother Mary is celebrated, and begins to end on January 6th (Reyes Magos), when we get together to eat a cake called Rosca de Reyes, which typically has dried fruit and yummy toppings that I'm at a loss to describe in English. There is a tiny doll in the cake, and the person who finds it in their slice then throws a tamale and hot cocoa party on February 2nd, when the celebrations officially end. It makes New Year's Resolutions a little bit tougher to follow! Though from an astrology point of view, those are best left until the 21st of March when the Sun moves into Aries =) 

Here is one of my favourite roscas, a modern twist of scones, chocolate and deliciousness. Those of you in Mexico City can find Macorina Bakery HERE. 

So that is all for now! If you would like to follow up on any of the traditions mentioned in this post, click on the World Religions Label HERE for entries on Buddhism, Christianity, Kabbalah, Mayan Religion and Hinduism. To name a few =) 

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Regina Chouza is an energy healer, angel medium and the author of A Personal Guide to Self-Healing, Cancer & Love and Chakra Healing & Magick. Blogging at Diary of a Psychic Healer since 2010, her passion is bringing the qualities of love, joy and empowerment to healing pursuits. Read her books to unlock your intuition. 

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Awaken Your Intuitive Super Powers!

The past few months I have been leading an intuition class where we awaken the Chakras with creative meditations, and through the Chakras, the different aspects of our intuition: sight, sound, feeling, taste, touch & smell. 

And GUESS WHAT? 

I am taking the meditations to YouTube! Yay! =) 

The focus has been on the Chakras because they each relate to a specific intuitive skill and life sphere. For example, communication and clairaudience at the Throat, clairvoyance and thought processes at the Brow, or personal power in the Solar Plexus. One of my favourite meditations involves visualising light as it makes it's way through the body, usually blue or violet in color - a simple way to activate our Chakras. 

By healing and clearing the Chakras, we can also change the way we view and relate to the world. We can learn to access our intuitive hunches in our daily lives, while using those insights to boost our personal relationships, career and hobbies ties with fresh energy, passion and optimism. 

In hindsight, taking this visual journey through the Chakras and awakening them one by one (bottom-up) made my learning process easier. It makes is less likely for us to feel overwhelmed - a common complaint from empaths and highly sensitive people. 

A Picture of The Chakras

Meditation: A Quick Intuition Booster

This format works well as students come back to meditate every week, engaging in practical exercises from my book, Chakra Healing & Magick. For the next few months I am going to be piloting online sessions on my YouTube Channel HERE. You can listen to the meditations without reading the book, but the two go hand in hand so it is worth reading if we want to make the most of the meditations =)

The meditations in the Chakra book are loosely based on tools that I had the pleasure of learning in my student days at the School of Intuition & Healing in London, where I felt like Hermione Granger for the better part of two years. My sister teased me about that, how I moved to the UK and found a magical school right away! An amazing experience that I'd like to share with others. 

So When Do We Start???

I will upload a guided meditation focused on gratitude after Thanksgiving (Update!!! HERE IT IS). In the meaning, please begin with one of the guided meditations below as they will help you activate your energy, especially the lower chakras which are so vital to grounding and shielding ourselves intuitively. The second one is my favorite! 

A) The Chakra Meditation will guide you through activating your Chakras and closing down at the end. This makes it easy for us to switch on our intuition when we need it, and to shut it off once we're done. Otherwise, we can become overwhelmed by crowds, or in social situations with lots of people.  

B) The Flowerbed Meditation teaches us to ground and activate our energy before going into the Heart Chakra to connect with our angels, spiritual guides and our higher self. Both of these meditations are from my book which explores intuition, energy healing, crystals and angels in depth.  

The weekly meditations have been great fun to lead each week, and I am looking forward to giving them online too. For now we are going with YouTube because it is open to everyone. Facebook Live is fantastic, but some of my readers aren't on Facebook (how they have managed to resist, I don't know LOL). We will have a private Facebook group HERE, though. I hope to see you there! 

A SPECIAL UPDATE! 

The gratitude meditation is available below! Learn to ground yourself in Mother Nature through the Root Chakra, gently clear emotions and/or beliefs through the Sacral & Solar Plexus Chakras, before letting your Heart overflow with love, energy healing and plenty of liquid light. 

Hope you enjoy these meditations! I would also suggest that you read through the guided meditations in Chakra Healing & Magick, and record them for yourself as your body and subconcious respond best to your voice. After all, we listen to our thoughts and words all day, programming the our energy body and mind without doing it consciously.  

Reiki hugs, 

Regina 

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Regina Chouza is an energy healer, angel medium and the author of A Personal Guide to Self-Healing, Cancer & Love and Chakra Healing & Magick. Blogging at Diary of a Psychic Healer since 2010, her passion is bringing the qualities of love, joy and empowerment to healing pursuits. Read her books to unlock your intuition. 

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Theta Healing Basic DNA Course (Review)

It has been a while since I was super excited about a healing class. The last time I signed up for something totally new was Tibetan Reiki in 2012. There are different kinds of energy healing and generally, I’d say it’s a good idea to pick one and run with it until you understand its applications, before moving onto something else (assuming it suits you). 

The past seven years I’ve been focusing on Energy Healing, as taught at the School of Intuition & Healing in London, and on Usui Tibetan Reiki. The two are similar, although Reiki courses tend to be lighter in terms of theory, guidelines and practice. Already having the Energy Healing qualification helped loads. Though Reiki is enough. 

Whenever I mention energy healing, people ask me if it is like X, Y or Z that they are familiar with - most often Reiki or Qigong. After moving to Mexico, I started getting lots of questions about Vianna Stibal's Theta Healing classes and I even met a few Theta Healers. As far as I could tell, it was the same but different: using your intuition and guided visualization to identify and release blocks from the mind, body and emotions. Of course, with the familiar spiritual-energetic slant that I love =)

Two months ago I finally signed up for the basic Theta Healing class, and this was when I discovered that the main focus is on removing limiting beliefs so that our mental patterns don't paint us into a corner. That and awakening our intuition. It resonated because that is what my Chakra Healing & Magick book is about: a creative journey through the themes of each of the Chakras, where we question our attitudes and beliefs, using creative tools, crystals, and healing to change our perspective on life. 

Removing & Replacing Limiting Beliefs 

Theta Healing aims to do the same thing, but with a shortcut that involves 'muscle testing' to see where the beliefs lie. For example, is it something you heard  as a kid? Next, the Theta Healer moves onto a semi-hypnotic process where we eliminate the 'negative' belief and replace it with a positive one. So for example, if I believe I am doomed to fail at math or just really bad with numbers, whenever I open an Excel sheet my eyes might glaze over. But if I change that belief to "I rock at math," spreadsheets would be less daunting (I actually really liked Finance, Econ and Analytics in grad school LOL, so maybe not the best example...) 

To summarize, the idea is that we can change the way we see ourselves and how we relate to the world by changing beliefs that undercut our self-confidence or predispose us to generate disappointing experiences. We can also use Theta Healing to download the feeling of what a positive experience would be like. 

If you've read my earlier posts on manifesting, the feeling or emotion is key because the Universe (and other people) respond to our vibes more than our words. This is also true for affirmations. 

Downloading Feelings and Experiences 

Theta Healing shows us how to release the belief or the fear that holds us back, and to replace it with phrases such as "I know how it feels to do X, Y, or Z" or "I know how it feels to be safe" (or loved). The workshop was pretty cool, but in some instances, the feeling work didn't do it for me. So I'm telling myself that I know what going through the fear feels like, but do I like what I find on the other side of the fear? 

I was thinking about this at the Mexican version of Soul Cycle last weekend (the musical spinning class)  when one of my favorite songs came on, Enrique Iglesias's I Like How It Feels. That is when it finally clicked - you have to download the program "I know what X, Y or Z feels like" and also download I LIKE HOW IT FEELS. That did it, the music (or the workout) helped me release the fears that I was trying to release, and I had so much fun in spinning class. 

Music Makes Everything Better

On a side note, Theta Healing talks about different planes of existence and one of these has music, sound and vibrations. Adding music makes a huge difference, it makes the feeling real! Music is one of my favourite creative healing tools and the first one mentioned in Chakra Healing & Magick. The seven notes resonate with the seven chakras in the body. That's why we feel a song's vibration as well as the emotion that goes with it. 

Theta Healing turned out to be a lot cooler than I expected, and I am psyched because this workshop was the first of six or seven (geek that I am, I have already read the books for two of the advanced classes). If you'd like to try it for yourself the best thing really is to sign up for a class with a certified instructor at ThetaHealing.com, though you can also read Vianna Stibal's books on Theta Healing. I would suggest taking the basic class as having a teacher guide us through the process is essential. Then you can read the books to go deeper. 

Lastly... 

Is there a downside to Theta Healing? Not with the technique itself. But as with anything, if you dedicate yourself to practicing it, the results will be better than if you go to a weekend workshop and expect to work miracles straight away. Theta Healing does teach instant healing (and that is FAB) but my understanding was that healing happens in a moment once all the belief, feeling and intuitive work is done. That is what Vianna's book says. 

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Regina Chouza is an energy healer, angel medium and the author of A Personal Guide to Self-Healing, Cancer & Love and Chakra Healing & Magick. Blogging at Diary of a Psychic Healer since 2010, her passion is bringing the qualities of love, joy and empowerment to healing pursuits. Read her books to unlock your intuition. 

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Finding Your Footing After An Earthquake (Chakra Meditation)

The last two or three weeks I have been leading a meditation class in the evenings, aiming to help students activate their energy fields for self-healing. 

The first session was dedicated to disaster relief after the recent earthquakes in Mexico City. It was a cozy group, and the purpose was to send healing to different locations by connecting with Mother Earth and visualizing streams of white and pink light flowing from our hands, into the earth, and through it to plants and trees in the more affected zones. We used this technique to send distant healing {LINK}

We also charged a few dozen rose quartz crystals, infusing them with Archangel Chamuel's loving energy. Each of the students took a handful of stones to plant and different sites throughout the city, to help with the healing and rebalancing process. I can't even begin to describe how it felt to be here for both of the earthquakes and while my family and friends were lucky,  thousands of families still need help. 

When something like this happens (especially an earthquake, but really anything that shakes us up in life), the Root Chakra may need a lot of attention as it is where we tend to hold feelings about our sense of security in the world, whether physical, material (finances) or with our immediate community. It is about safety. 

In the second week of class, we spent most of the hour on healing meditations to clear and balance the Root Chakra and through it, the physical body. The funny thing about these meditations is that I never plan them in advance, describing the images that come to mind during class. Some of my students see it before I say it too - they are very clairvoyant!

Anyhooo, this time around, I saw the dust, debris and 'hurt' that needed healing as specks of light - almost like glitter - and we visualised red crystalline energy coming up from the center of the earth through our grounding cords to our feet, up our legs and then sweeping through the Root Chakra. That crystal energy dislodged the glitter and sent it down to the fire in the Earth through our grounding chords. 

I had never seen such beautiful 'negative energy' and the message that came through intuitively was that we have nothing to fear in Energy Healing or by looking at the body. By seeing this heavy energy as sparkles of color, dust, and light, we can engage with clairvoyant healing without being afraid of what we may find. 

One of the things that I tend to shy away from as an Healer is telling people when I see blotches of energy or shades of grey in their Aura or Body. Who wouldn't react to a blotch of black with fear, when in reality, these visions show us what we can heal  by using crystals, Reiki or chakra meditations. These images are not there to frighten us, but fear can block healing on mental, emotional and physical levels. 

So yes, next time you try a Chakra Meditation, visualise any extraneous material in your body as light, sparkles or glitter and let it be washed away in a swirl of beautiful colors. Click HERE for a step by step guide to channeling crystals =) 

The only change I have made after the earthquakes, is to visualise these roots going deeper into the Earth, below the layer that shakes when there is an earthquake (tectonic). The more we clear both our Root and Sacral Chakras, the easier it is for us to let go of fear and any emotions that it triggers within us. 

This following healing meditation my also help! It was originally written for my first book,  A Personal Guide to Self-Healing, Cancer & Love, but it can be used in just about any situation. 

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Regina Chouza is an energy healer, angel medium and the author of A Personal Guide to Self-Healing, Cancer & Love and Chakra Healing & Magick. Blogging at Diary of a Psychic Healer since 2010, her passion is bringing the qualities of love, joy and empowerment to healing pursuits. Read her books to unlock your intuition. 

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