We are all made up of different energy levels and expressions of how we can contribute it are up to our own decision-making. There are a wide variety of practices and methods that can be used to create an aura of showing that energy in a wide variety of ways, which we often think about in the physical sense. However, when tragedy strikes, how we use that energy can be a determining factor of how we move forward in our lives. Today's guest, the owner of Reikispace and Learning Place in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, shares her over 3 decades of experience in the practice of Reiki, a healing technique for our energy levels and expression, and how she has influenced thousands of people as a result of one decision she made to use her energy. Our journeys are dictated by the choices we make, and this captivating interview shows that we can use our decision-making powers for the greater good.

Guest Bio

Rickie Meryl Freedman is a Reiki Master/Teacher, PT for almost 30 years with her focus on Integrative Medicine. Rickie is Certified in ReikiSound and ReikiVoice, and is also a Certified Holistic Wellness Coach, speaker, author, and mentor. She created and opened “Reiki by Rickie ~ ReikiSpace & Learning Place” in Harrisburg PA in 2013 and has a full-time Reiki Practice offering Heart-centered Energy-based sessions, classes, workshops and events. Rickie shares her Mentorship program entitled “Follow your Heart AND Do it Smart!” with other practitioners and healers desiring to take their next step “From Passion to Profession”. Rickie teaches Reiki classes all levels including Reiki for Healthcare Professionals and ReikiKids. She authored “ReikiRickie shares ReikiKids” Coloring/Activity Manual, and will be launching her second book "Radiating Our Reiki Light ~ Reiki Healing through Real Stories from Clients, Students, Practitioners and Teachers"

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Intro/Outro By: Michael Dugan, Podcast Host: Voice4Chefs

Welcome to the podcast where relationships, confidence, and

determination, all converge into an amazing, heartfelt experience.

This is Speaking From The Heart.

Welcome back to episode number 68 of Speaking from the Heart.

Today we have Rickie Merrill Friedman.

She is a Reiki master and teacher for almost 30 years with her

focus on integrative medicine.

She's a certified in Reiki Sound and Reiki Voice and is also a

certified holistic wellness coach, speaker, author, and mentor.

She created and opened Reiki by Rickie, which is a Reiki and learning place in

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 2013, which we talk about in this episode, and has

a full-time reiki practice that offers heart-centered energy based sessions.

In addition to sessions, she offers classes, workshops, and events.

Rickie shares her mentorship program entitled Follow Your Heart and Do It

Smart with other practitioners and healers desiring to take their next step

from passion to profession, which is why she's known synonymously as "Mama

Rickie" amongst the Harrisburg community, which we also talk about in this episode.

Rickie teaches Reiki classes of all levels, including Reiki for healthcare

professionals and also Reiki Kids.

She has offered Reiki Rickie Shares,, Reiki Kids Coloring Activity Manual,

and it'll be launching her second book, Radiating Our Reiki Light: Reiki Healing

through Real Stories From Clients, Students, Practitioners, and Teachers.

Now, if you thought that was a tongue twister, imagine all the different other

things that we're going to talk about in today's episode that aren't so much of

a tongue twister, but I will say this, despite all the things that she has

been through in her life to get to this point, she is definitely a soul that

is self-healing and grows from all the different things that she has learned

from being not only a self-proclaimed mom, not only from herself but also

the different practitioners that are around the community, but she has lived

up to having that relationship with others that are so important in order

to build upon the best version of all healing and of all different backgrounds.

With that, let's go to the episode.

All right, we're here with Rickie Merrill Friedman.

Rickie, thanks for sharing your heart with us today.

Oh, that's awesome.

That's where I live-

I love that you said that-

I live right from my heart, and Rickie is total unconditional,

heartfelt, non-judgmental love, so when I saw the title of your podcast, I just

knew that this was something for me, and I'm so thrilled to be here with you.

Thanks, Joshua.

I'm so thrilled that you're here too, Rickie, because I have been looking

for people that have this authentic story, and when you reached out and I was

checking you out, I was like, "Oh yeah.

She's got something from the heart too, especially with what she does."

Absolutely.

So, that actually leads into my very first question because some people

don't know what this is, and I was telling you a little bit about the fact that

I have never done one of these before.

Can you explain the concept of Reiki and how that works, because I'm

sure some people are thinking, "Huh.

That's an interesting sort of technique.

I wonder what that's all about.", so can you explain a little bit about that?

Absolutely.

Education is part of my mission in the world, so Reiki means

universal life force energy.

In other words, it's the energy that we are all made of, connected by,

supported by, and that we all can choose to tune into once we remember,

because in our Western culture, we don't educate about the energy of us.

We grow up learning about the physicalness of us, and that is just one portion of

who we are in the world, so many people when they hear Reiki, think of Reiki

sessions, and that is of course, the bulk of my practice here, where people can

come in and they get to lie down on a very comfortable massage table, fully clothed.

It's a very comfy, cozy nurturing session, and it consists of

gentle, light, stationary touch.

There's no manipulation like massage.

It's very gentle and also balancing right in your energy field, which radiates from

all of us, and many people can feel that, even though I'm not touching with them.

The essence of a Reiki session, which originally was from Japan, is to

help balance your energy because we all have natural healing responses,

and when our energy is balanced, our bodies can work like they are meant

to do and help us heal naturally.

We feel more centered.

We feel more of a sense of inner peace.

We feel more grounded so that we can be more productive and creative in our

lives, and it's really, for many people, world changing and non life changing work

because for many, it's the first time that they've had their energy attended to, so

Reiki sessions are a beautiful, gentle, peaceful experience, but the essence of

Reiki is to use Reiki sessions and the other things that we learn to move forward

with being and living Reiki in the world, and what that means is being conscious

of the energy of all our thoughts, our words, our actions, our emotions, and how

that affects not only our own well-being, but because our energy does radiate, it

affects everyone around us and literally out into the world, so it becomes a way

to live a very authentic life in integrity and making the choice to come back to

your place of inner peace so that we, and we all have the potential for this,

can be a healing presence in the world.

I love that because, for me, and I was even sharing this with you a

little bit before we started, about some of the energies that I have going on in

my life and even because of doing this podcast, how that's really contributed

to the positive energies, but I love the fact that you focus on that more

discreetly and more intimately when it comes to just understanding how the

body, how our thoughts and feelings, interact with so many different people,

because for me, as a life coach myself, I have to worry about that with some

of the clients that I even had through my business too, and that really leads

into what I was thinking about when you were talking about the definition.

What actually got you involved in this field?

Was there somebody that helped you with this or maybe there was a life

experience that happened to you?

Can you tell us a little bit about that?

Sure, but I do want to say one thing about your comment though

is for people who are sensitive, and I suggest that you are, Joshua, and

many people who are sensitive are very attracted to the energy of Reiki.

It becomes a way of staying very heart-centered and connected, and

learning how to manage your energy in the world, so that you're not taking on

everybody else's stuff and you're not being drained of your personal energy, and

that is one of the real gifts of Reiki.

That's a good point to make too, because I think that we have to kind of

create that understanding for ourselves that this is about what our energies

are and what that's contributing, but we need to take care of what is internal

to us first before anything else.

Absolutely.

Good point.

So I would love to share my story and then if you don't mind bringing me

back to that, taking care of yourself point, because that's really important.

I am a physical therapist by background, which is another form

of hands-on healing, of course, and my physical therapy background

continues to serve me well every day.

I'm a very full-time Reiki Master teacher now, and I have my own Reiki

center and such, so my physical therapy background gives me that left brain

logical thinking balance and allows me to present Reiki to any audience in a

way that is grounded and relatable, and I'm also very involved with a lot of

healthcare professionals, specifically because I can relate in that world.

In 1994, friends of mine, they were husband and wife, took a Reiki class.

I was living in a small, rural, conservative college town at the time.

I never heard of Reiki, but they asked me to babysit for their son, so I was

just doing them a favor, and they came home and practiced on me, so I had a

really intense personal reaction to the Reiki because I had been holding

a lot of stuff inside personally for a very long time, and it was time for

me to start to look at those things, because I felt the Reiki so strongly

and dramatically, I initially took Reiki One for my own personal healing.

The essence of Reiki one is about self-healing because it

always needs to start with you.

Every level of Reiki class that I took, I really thought would be as far as I would

want to or need to go, but when something is for you on your path, you are just

drawn along every step of the way, so I moved slowly through the path of Reiki to

gradually become a Reiki Master teacher.

I initially started sharing Reiki from my home; didn't charge a fee.

I just had a love donation box in my room and people could share whatever

they felt comfortable to, and that was a great start for me, and then I was

actually doing physical therapy in a nursing home locally, and one of the

nurses there who was one of my regular clients, opened a little wellness center

and asked me to come in and share Reiki, so that was kind of the start of my

professional Interaction with Reiki.

I was still doing physical therapy at that point, and I gradually started to do less

and less physical therapy to fit it in around my growing Reiki client schedule,

which just really blew me away because this was very new to that community.

However, when I share Reiki and share about Reiki, I love it so much.

I'm very passionate about it, and people feel that, and people were

attracted to that, so I continued to grow my Reiki practice, and in 2008 I

was very clearly guided about coming to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania where I

live now was the next step for me.

Once I worked through a little bit of my own internal resistances about making the

move, I finally got here and I got another really strong, intuitive guidance that

said it's time to let go of the security blanket and really do this, and the

security blanket for me was the physical therapy work, so I trusted my guidance.

This was a total step forward in trust because when I first moved to Harrisburg,

I basically knew one person, and no one in this area really talked about Reiki.

There were some massage therapists that had learned some Reiki, but no

one promoted it, talked about it or had it as their main practice, so I had a

lot of work to do to have people feel and experience Reiki, educate them,

and get myself known and establish my own credibility, so that was in 2008.

I went into someone else's practice initially while I was building

and growing, and in 2013, I was told it was time, so I created

Harrisburg's first Reiki center.

It's called Reiki by Rickie: Reiki Space and Learning Place.

It's a beautiful, peaceful, healing center and we celebrated our 10 year anniversary.

We're continuing to grow and blossom.

There are now many Reiki practitioners and teachers out in the community, and

probably 90% of them have received Reiki training with me, so I'm kind of called

the "Reiki Mama", not just because of my age, and that's awesome just to see this

grow and spread around the whole community because you know it was needed here, and

that's why I was attracted here, so we continue to grow and blossom and there's

more coming and that feels awesome, yeah, so that's it in a very nutshell because

there's so many details of the story.

Yeah, I appreciate you sharing it because for many of us, we sort of

can we really do this if we open a business

and we put ourselves really into that position, and I had that sort of

imposter syndrome, which is really the expression that I like to use when it

came to even opening my own practice here of coaching earlier this year.

It's almost been a year since I opened, and it's crazy to see that growth

potential just come to where it is now for you, because when you were doing it

in 1994, I was seven years of age and just getting into elementary school-

So was I.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

There you go.

I knew that you were young at heart, so that made sense to me.

I'll go with that answer.

I was going to ask you about what you were mentioning earlier

about taking care of yourself.

You asked me to remind you about that because I think it is something too that

we often forget about when it comes to even doing a business like yourself.

You have to take care of yourself, especially so-

Right.

Do you mind elaborating a little bit on what you wanted to share,

but more specifically when you do, I'm kind of curious about what your

personal experience is with taking care of yourself, being the owner,

and also a mama to so many of these instructors now out in the community.

Yes, that's right because you need to live your work, right?

It needs to be in total authenticity and integrity, and I know the reason

Reiki space continues to be successful, besides the fact that it's a beautiful,

grounded professional practice, is it is entirely managed based on the

love and service principles of Reiki.

There is no emphasis on dollars, numbers, competition, or fear here, so in order

for something like that to manifest literally, it all starts with you,

and with Reiki we have what I have now endearingly called our Reiki aerobics,

our daily work in this, right, because we need to stay, open, connected, and

in balance in order to radiate this energy and allow the healing energy

to flow through us and not from us.

It's not our personal energy, so we need to stay as clear as humanly

possible because we all are having a very human experience, so for Reiki,

that means doing our self-healing every day, which is a very simple practice

that you learn in a Reiki One class.

It means finding, and this will relate to you, Joshua, a grounding practice, right-

Mm-hmm.

Yep.

So that we can take all those wonderful ideas and visions and

inspirations and literally bring them to life in a concrete real and lasting

way, so that requires grounding, right, and for Reiki, it also requires a breath

work and meditation practice where we actually fill ourselves up with the

light and healing energy and practice radiating that bigger and brighter so

that we lead the way with our light and people can really feel that, and that

becomes a healing energy, a healing presence, and so these are the things

that we need to do for our own daily work.

In addition, we need to get on each other's tables, right?

There's only so much we can do ourself because we still need

to be active in that process.

Part of the gift of a Reiki session is allowing yourself to be open

and vulnerable and just receive.

We have all received some very old messaging, especially women, that

our jobs were to nurture and take care of everyone else first, right?

Mm-hmm.

And then maybe if we had a little time or energy left over, we could do a

little something for ourselves that we'd probably feel guilty about it, right?

Mm-hmm.

So through reiki and just a forward progression of knowledge, we

know that we need to fill ourselves up first, right, so that when we

choose to share, we don't become drained, burn talent and resentful.

We are able to let that energy flow through us in a very heartfelt way,

and that helps to heal us as well as the people that we're sharing with, and

I don't mean sharing Reiki sessions.

I mean sharing within our life and our work in any way that we

choose, right, and because if we don't take care of ourselves, our

bodies will eventually speak to us.

Our energy directly connects to our physical bodies, and if we are out of

balance for a length of time, our bodies help us learn that by symptoms, and

it'll start out with really small little messages, but if we don't pay attention,

we can get bigger messages until we finally acknowledge and make the changes

that we are supposed to make, right?

Yeah, and from what you've said to me, I even shared this with you before

we started too, about the fact that I was out of balance for a long time in

my life, and when I had that shutdown of my body, I realized that was a big

negative energy coming out of me as a result of not taking care of the signs,

because there were certainly signs of burnout and just retreating into more

inward thoughts as opposed to sharing those thoughts with other people and

having that conversation where needed, and from a practical standpoint, even

when it comes to just having that verbal communication, it can be very tough, but

you're talking about essentially too, not only removing that energy, which yeah,

you mentioned it, we're all humans, that it's really tough to kind of extract that,

but letting that positive energy come through you can be a healing principle

in itself, which as I heard you say that, it makes me really think that there has

to be something in your own life that maybe Reiki has been something that has

helped you to get through a tough time, and I'm wondering if there's something

that you could share personally that has allowed you to practice this technique

so much within your own life, because I know that we're not all perfect and we

all have our stories of where we are able to come from to have our rise from the

ashes, the Phoenix moment in our life.

I'm wondering if you could share a little bit about maybe something that

has happened where you've been able to practice Reiki in your own life.

Oh, yes.

Very many what I call choice points along the line in smaller ways for sure.

Am I ready?

Am I worthy?

Is it time we all come to those decisions, but, as you're speaking,

probably the biggest and most impactful thing that happened, and luckily I

was already Reiki at this point is I had two adopted sons, 11 weeks apart.

Wow.

I had a four day old and an 11 week old at the same time, and my

first child, Ryan, and this is public knowledge at this point, chose to leave

this world when he was 20 years old.

He was, by traditional medicine, labeled bipolar, schizophrenic.

He had a very, very challenging life, and the way I look at it now is he chose

a path of peace for himself because he couldn't find it here, so the story that

I would like to share about Ryan, because he encourages me to share his story, even

still when I had to go back to work very quickly, I had another son and this was

my main means of support at this point, and I remember very strongly the first

day that I went back to my Reiki space and I stepped over the threshold from

the office area into my healing room, literally one step in there and the Reiki

words, which in Reiki we call the Reiki healing principles, which I'm happy to

talk to you more about that also because that's about living Reiki but they really

just literally came right to my face and they said, "Are these just words?

Are you going to really choose to live by this now?"

Mm.

And I was very strongly still in my grief process, right, but

when I share Reiki, it flows through me also and helps to heal me every

session, and I knew in that moment I had a choice and I could choose.

Not living was not never a choice for me, but I could choose to live my life as a

victim because as a parent who's lost a child, society would've condoned that,

right, or I could choose to step forward, do the work I needed to do, and become

a healer, a healing presence for others, and in that moment, I needed to make that

choice, and right after that, in that same moment, the inspiration of a workshop

that I would eventually come to share, and I've shared it several times now, called

From Grief To Gratitude, came to me.

I was nowhere near ready to even think about it, but I just kind of tucked that

seed away, and actually about five years later, I was finally ready to share Ryan's

story, so that was a really impactful moment with Reiki, and I had lots of

people sharing Reiki with me at that time, and I just really knew, I knew so strongly

that I was going to make it through this, and I wanted to do it in the healthiest

way possible, looking at and releasing whatever feelings I needed to from the

depths of my being, so Reiki was kind of lifesaving for me during that time.

I wanted to pause you there for a second because it

sounded like it could have been really, like you said, two choices.

It could have been-

Mm-hmm.

Living in that grief and not really overcoming it and letting that

be, become part of your identity, or, in a way, be liberated from it so that you

can be not only a healer, but also be a communicator to those that are going

through those sort of aspects in their lives, so I have to commend you for

taking that path of just wanting to help others to understand and to feel that,

and again, I know that for Ryan's sake, I want to say sorry for your loss, but

in a way you have used this to not only redeem him, but also yourself by just

helping so many countless people, and I'll let you continue, but I'm really

curious how many people do you think you've made an impact because of that?

Well, thank you.

I'm not a numbers girl, but I do need to tell you about two years ago, I was

connecting with someone who was actually giving me a mentorship session and she

made me go back in my calendar and count how many Reiki sessions I shared in a

year because I never keep track of that.

It's not about the numbers for me.

Yeah.

But it really literally blew me away too, so I shared in that

particular year, almost a thousand Reiki sessions, and that doesn't even include

the ones at events or health fairs.

These were just Reiki sessions in my Reiki space, so when I say I

have a very full-time production-

Yeah.

I'm not kidding, which is amazing in this area it totally is, and-

It is.

I see clients every day, usually about five clients every

day, plus I manage the center and I create and share workshops and teach

Reiki classes, including Reiki for healthcare professionals and Reiki kids.

Jumping back to Ryan, from what I really know and believe about energy,

the science of energy is that energy cannot be created or destroyed, it just

transforms or transmutes, so I still feel like the energy, the essence, the

soul, the spirit, whatever you choose to call it of Ryan, is with me every day,

especially when I'm sharing this work, so what helps me is I look at it as if

I still have a relationship with him.

It's just on a different level now.

He sees things from that higher perspective, so I have to tell you,

I don't have it right here with me, but I do have fluffy puppy.

Oh, you can't see anyway, we're on recording.

I can see him.

Just for my listeners, she is holding up a stuffed puppy

that is really cute, adorable-

Very soft stuffed puppy, but I'll tell you why.

Several years ago, when I was in Sedona, which is a very powerful energy place in

Arizona, Ryan came and inspired me because I was already teaching Reiki kids class.

He inspired me to create this Reiki kids coloring activity manual, which

is basically my whole Reiki kids class that is written for the kids, right,

so it's very interactive and just really unique and I'm very, very proud of it.

It's on Amazon if anyone is interested, and periodically I share a workshop

for parents and teachers and other Reiki professionals if they want

to learn how to use the workshop to share Reiki with kids, because that's

really the future in my perspective, so Ryan continues to inspire me.

The little puppy goes along the manual is taught by Reiki Rickie,

which is kind of like a teenage version of me, and Fluffy Puppy.

Fluffy Puppy is Ryan's original stuffed dog from when he was a

little boy that I still have.

Oh my gosh.

I use him when I share Reiki two classes, so I have found these little tiny

versions that look much like Fluffy Puppy.

They're called Baby Reiki Fluffy Puppies that people can get with their coloring

books to follow along and they're all blessed with the Reiki, so the kids

are magnetized to them, literally, and they can use them to hold and comfort

themselves or even in their hearts, to share Reiki through Fluffy Puppy

to grandma or whoever they can't be with in that moment, so that's been

really wonderful, and I'm actually getting ready to publish my second book.

You want me to mention that now?

Yes, please do.

Yes, please do.

I'm very excited about this too.

It's called Radiating Our Reiki Light: Reiki Healing Through Real

Stories From Clients, Students, Practitioners and Teachers.

I've gathered other people's stories, not just my students and clients, so

when people read these stories, these inspirational messages, how Reiki

has changed and saved people's lives, they can resonate with their words.

There's lots of books on Amazon from other Reiki masters, right, but this is

from every day people from every walk of life, including Reiki professionals.

Glad that the book came out and you know it is available

for those that are interested.

I'll put a link in the episode notes.

Yep.

I'll put a link in the episode notes in case you are

interested in checking that out.

Thank you.

Rickie, we're almost out of time, but I just have one more question for

you that I really would like to have the audience listen to your response, because

I feel like you have a profound response to it and a lot of people probably are

hearing you today and saying, "Yeah.

She has a lot of experience doing this over three decades.

That's incredible, but I'm not buying into this.

What energy and all these different sort of healing principles and dealing with

the different aspects that can help me in my life and that I need to be more

positive; ba humbug!", to use the Scrooge sort of term, especially since we're in

that time of season, but for somebody that is thinking about it and maybe has some

curiosity about it, but is just not quite sold, what would be one piece of advice,

I'm just asking for one piece, that would help them to point them into the right

direction of at least checking it out, or at least asking more questions, especially

if they're skeptical of how this works?

Well, we could talk about this odd infinitum for hours and hours on

end, but really, if you are open to having a personal experience, once

you feel this, it becomes undeniable.

I work with a lot of healthcare professionals, doctors, other

professionals that come in curious, but skeptical, and that's perfectly

fine because Reiki works on a very deep, subconscious level.

Deep down within our bodies know exactly what we need, and it doesn't have to

do with our thinking minds, so if you are willing to feel this energy, have

your personal experience, even if it's just a little mini session that

will answer many of your questions.

Awesome.

Thank you for that, and I encourage my listeners to go check that out,

especially if you are in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area or if you're not,

definitely check into any local instructors or even practitioners

for that matter that could help you with getting into the Reiki practice.

Rickie, I-

And we can also share Reiki long distance, so-

Well, there you go.

If someone you know is not local, I mean there's nothing like getting under

someone's hands, having face-to-face personal interaction, but people can

feel that energy just as strongly.

Thank you for sharing that because what I was going to lead into is

actually giving you the last few minutes to talk about your business, and that

is probably something that many people would've wanted to know too, if there was

anything virtual available for something like this, so thank you for sharing that,

but at this time, I want you to describe where you're located at, if there's

something else additional that you offer.

If people have questions, how can they get in touch with you, especially since

I know you have mentored many of those since you're the mama around here when

it comes to this practice, I'm sure that some people might be interested in hearing

a little bit more, but at this time, Rickie, I'm going to give you the last

few minutes to pitch your business and let us know how we can reach out to you.

Okay, well, Reiki Space and Learning Place is located off the

Linglestown Road in the Harrisburg area, which is a really nice area.

I'm in a professional business building, and the space itself

is very peaceful and healing.

I also have other reiki practitioners here with me that have all received

Reiki training with me, and we all bring other skills and abilities to the work,

so for example, I'm also certified in Reiki Sound and Reiki Voice, so I can

blend in those vibrations, and I'm a certified wellness coach as well.

We have someone else who does reflexology in Reiki.

We have what we call Reiki Massage, which is more traditional massage

with the Reiki blended in, and we have several other things.

We offer lots of classes and workshops and events, so I would suggest that you

get on my Reiki by Rickie email list, and the easiest way to do that is to go to

my website, which is reikibyrickie.com.

R E I K I by R I C K I E.com and on the homepage you can

sign up for the mailing list.

I will not bombard you.

We send emails twice a month.

I know that's important to some people.

I'm also very active, especially on my personal page on Facebook,

and I invite you to join me there: Rickie Merrill Friedman.

I do post a lot of my events and workshops and classes, but they are all on my

website and you can just scroll down and you can register for most of them

right through the site to schedule your own personal session, reach out to me.

I'm very communicative, so you can do that through Facebook.

(717) 599-2299, and you can email me: rickie@reikibyrickie.com

and I will be happy to reach out to you and figure out what works for you.

Wow.

Thank you, Rickie, for sharing all that.

I'll put all that information also in the episode notes in case anybody wants

to have the hard reference to that, including even the phone number, if

you like to just call directly and have that conversation, but I want to wrap up

by saying, Rickie, Thank you for being so open about your story about Ryan and

just how, essentially, 30 some years ago-

Mm-hmm.

It got to the point of where you're at today, just by hearing this,

you have me excited about being the prospect of heading into a direction

myself as somebody that works in somewhat a different field, but also works

among the same energies, if you will.

Absolutely.

Relating to it, and I think just hearing it definitely

makes you my adopted mom, so thank you mom for being part of this.

Can't wait to get you under my hands.

There we go.

You heard it now folks, I will now be under the hands of this mom.

Rickie, I want to say thank you for being on Speaking From The Heart.

I really enjoyed our conversation and getting to learn a lot about you

along with my listeners as well, and I really enjoyed our conversation today.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I did so much.

Appreciate you, Joshua.

I want to thank Ricky for being part of the show today and really sharing

her skills as it relates to not only the healing energies that are around us, but

being able to use that healing energy to help others see it within themselves.

I think this was really a profound interview and that allows us to understand

that the universal energy that we use and what's involved with it requires

us to also understand that there's some balance that goes through; not only

the things that we do in order to build our business, but also to build our own

personal lives, but I think the biggest underpinning and the biggest takeaway

I could ever mention about this episode is about taking care of yourself.

It's really about the consciousness so that we have of our thoughts,

our feelings, and all the personal aspects that are involved.

Because if we're ever going to understand those three things, we also have to go

under the microscope, if you will, and look at how self-healing is impacted

by those three things, and I think that for many of us, we often have to take

a step back and breathe just to be able to understand that quite a bit, and

that's why it's so important to breathe, especially when we have that sort of

experience happening to us, because really when we grow and we share and we

breathe, we're able to understand how to foster what's really needed in our lives.

It's really about centering the energy levels that are all around us, and

with Reiki with Rickie, I know that for that love and service, despite

being such a tongue twister, as I mentioned even when we opened this

episode, it helps us to understand that practice of starting with you.

That means that Reiki by Josh might be coming to you in the near future,

especially after I get certified by the mama of Reiki, but with all

kidding aside, I think that's why her practice is so important in order

to help instill confidence in the ability to do such practices with

other people, because it isn't just about another fad, quote unquote.

It's about leading the way with her light; being able to understand that

we have a contribution that we can do, not only centered around the practice

or the skill sets that we have, but knowing that we are not the only

ones that can do it by ourselves, and that is why it's so important to just

understand, with great magnitude, about how we can make that impact just by

the sheer aspects of our own lives.

We have to understand that we're not the only ones that are situated in this world.

I'm not the only life coach or business coach or whatever

coach you want to call me.

I'm not the only one that's setting goals for other people.

How boring is that?

Yes, I am saying that about myself and my own business, Your Speaking Voice.

It could be boring, but that's the thing.

Some people will see it that way and never want to walk through my door or

even have that confidence to talk about it with me, and that's perfectly okay.

That's almost saying that your neighbor, who is next door to you comes over every

night and helps themselves to some cookies from the cookie jar, and by the way, has

some coffee and tea to go alongside of it.

Do you let them in your house every single day?

Absolutely not.

As a matter of fact, I hope your Ring camera doorbell is picking up every

single step of that footage that's happening, but that's the thing.

We're out of balance.

We're out of commission sometimes when we are not in that universal

energy level that we need to be in.

That's really, in my terms and my association with this concept,

about centering ourselves into what the real expectation is that we

typically want to have, and then we also understand that we might need

to go to another sort of thought or feeling to be able to understand that

all things are not created equally.

Going back to my example of why people don't come to me for coaching, it

isn't because they don't like me.

I think I'm a pretty likable person.

It isn't because that I'm very tough, but I am, but some people

prefer that I'm very tough.

It isn't because I have some sort of personality disorder; at least last

time I checked, but the thing is that we have to understand the stories that are

surrounding our energies, our lives, and I think that the death of Ryan, which

Rickie talked about in this episode, is really what motivated her to continue

taking that energy that Ryan would've had on this

Earth and be able to apply it to something that she knew had to be a calling to

help so many others, which by the way, after we talked about this on the actual

recording, we talked more afterwards and was impressed by the fact of how many

people she has served over three decades of doing this, but that's the point.

She could have lived as the victim of Ryan's death and

not done anything about it.

She could have let neighbors come into her house and let her raid her

refrigerator and her coffee machine.

She could have been a very despondent coach.

She could have not had to do any of this, but yet she chose to do it.

She didn't live as the victim.

She works now to heal others, because she knows that the power of healing comes

not just from inside, but from others as well, and I think that sometimes we

often associate that with the relationship we might have of a higher power.

It can pay off massive dividends if we have that sort of opportunity.

I'm sure that many of us are believers of whatever faith that might be, and again,

Speaking From The Heart appreciates all the different types of backgrounds and is

always willing to listen to any sort of background that we have because in order

to speak from the heart, you need to have a different perspective on everything, so

I'm waiting for you, those that are devil worshipers, to please come on my show.

I would love to have a conversation with you, but this

isn't about devil worshipers.

This is about Rickie.

This is about her not being skeptical and just trying it once to see what's

involved, to see what's needed, and she took a chance on this Reiki, this

concept of healing within inside of ourselves, using that energy, being able

to understand that we can be able to take care of ourselves if we're just willing

to share that energy with others, and that's really the essence of what this all

episode's been about because we can heal.

We can have love and service through a practice such as what she does in

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and she can create that start with you aspect so that

you can appreciate and enjoy the wellness that has yet to come in your own life.

I think that we often get in our own way with the light that we shine on the world

because we often are looking at other people and other places in which they're

successful, and then you look at yourself in the mirror and think, "I can't do this.

This isn't worth it.

I can't have these healing powers.

That's all mumbo jumbo", and for those that are thinking that

this is mumbo jumbo, why are you still listening to this episode?

You should have turned it off a long time ago because it is, to you, but

to me, as I've gone through my life, especially the last three and a half

years of my own existence, and now have gotten to the point that where

I'm at now, I have realized that this has been something so much more.

This has been something of power, conviction, and strength, not just

about taking care of yourself, not just about the self-healing that we need to

do so that we could stay away from our own consciousness of our bad thoughts

and feelings, and even the personal aspects that invade our very life, but

I think it's about understanding that we can't do it always by ourselves.

Believe it or not, I had to revisit some of my previous episodes to think

about this because I know I've had some Reiki practitioners and now I often

think about those people that I've interviewed and wonder if they were

influenced by the mama herself, but I will say this, that mama was influenced

by many different other things in her own life, and even with the adopted sons

that she has, she decided not to be held back from what she could potentially

be to others, and that's why she's been truly successful for over three decades.

That is the most defining success of it all because that's the

story that she wanted to share.

That's the energy level that she wanted to create.

That is why she's radiating that power through her books, through her talks,

through all the different things that I would do, even in her shoes, and

what I continue to build in even my myself, for that matter, but we have

to think about the positivity with it.

We have to think about the aspects in which we can create not only the

best version of our relationships, but also how we can tell our voice

in this ever-changing world, that it's okay to keep helping others

because we don't do it alone.

We do it with a team, and through that universal energy, we can have

balance, we can help others, and we can be something that maybe the universe

will heal ourselves in, over time, if we're just willing to give it a chance.

Thanks for listening to episode number 68 of Speaking From The

Heart, and I look forward to hearing from your heart very soon.

Thanks for listening.

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