This week’s episode with Chiquita Davis is all things ENERGY! Chiquita is a dynamic reiki master who practices the healing art of hands on reiki. She not only provides the reiki for a wide cross section of clients, she conducts classes to teach others to do so. Reiki is an ancient healing art which is a Japanese technique for relaxation and stress reduction that promotes healing. Energy work is often overlooked in our culture but can be a powerful adjunct to any healing journey. This episode is for anyone wanting to learn more about what reiki is and how it can be applied to your life!

EPISODE TAKEAWAYS (what you’ll learn):

How Chiquita always knew she was very intuitive and as a young woman, she studied various forms of healing

When Chiquita received reiki through a friend, she just knew it was her calling

Reiki as Universally guided God consciousness life force energy!

How reiki taps into our energetic fields/auras

How getting out of fight or flight and into a relaxed energy state is a foundation of reiki

You cannot heal if you are in a fight or flight state

How reiki creates a space for healing

How we tend to discount and devalue relaxation in our culture yet it’s so necessary

The need for regeneration wee have as human beings with physical, emotional and mental bodies

What energy feels like to Chiquita when she is giving reiki to her clients

The stuckness of our emotions and how reiki helps us release suppressed emotions

How you can protect your energy in stressful life situations

About the Guest: (bio, personal links, resource links)

Chiquita Davis, Reiki Master Teacher 2nd Degree. Chiquita is a 2nd Degree Reiki Master Teacher + Practitioner. And part owner of Awaken Your Spirit + Embrace Your Journey Healing Center in Oak Park for 11 years. Chiquita uses Reiki to help stimulate a change in consciousness and the energy field to ignite the body's innate self healing abilities. Through her own healing journey, she's personally experienced the profound healing that transpires with Reiki. She facilitates individual Reiki sessions and provides Reiki practitioner training + certification. Her compassionate, focused and humanistic approach offers each client an intimate and personalized experience.

Learn more:

Embrace Your Journey

Instagram: @embraceyourjourneyreiki

Email: eyjonharrison@gmail.com

About the Host:

Maureen Spielman is the Founder of Mystical Sisterhood, a podcast dedicated to bringing more joy, healing and expansion to the world. She is a seasoned life coach who supports individuals through one-on-one coaching, groups and workshops. Connect with Maureen:

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Okay, welcome back to mystical sisterhood. This is your host,

Maureen Spielman. Today, I'm really excited because I'm here

with my Reiki practitioner, a phrase that I probably at one

time never knew I'd say, Chiquita Davis. So welcome

Chiquita. Chiquita is a second degree Reiki master teacher and

practitioner. She is part owner of awaken your spirit and

embrace your journey Healing Center in Oak Park, Illinois for

the last 11 years. She uses Reiki and I'm going to let her

go all into this, but to help stimulate a change in

consciousness and the energy field to ignite the body's

innate self healing abilities. I want to say thank you so much

for being here. And just let the audience know, I never had done

Reiki I had heard of it. And it was when I was diagnosed with

breast cancer, that they the doctors had said, Okay, we

recommend chemotherapy. And I was searching for alternative

ways that I could possibly sort of alleviate the side effects of

what I was going through. And friend recommended you Chiquita.

And so I came down to your studio. And just as soon as I

entered the space, it was such a warm and welcoming space. And I

always love that you have a chalkboard out with like, what I

was thinking is a message of unconditional love. That's how I

register it, just, you know, in the window of your studio, and

then just walking in, to learn about Reiki to experience the

energy healing. So for me, I've always done this experientially,

and you know, we've had nice conversations. But I think a lot

of people out there don't really know about Reiki. And they might

be beginning to know about this healing art. But I want to kind

of go in today to all things Reiki, and just, you know,

welcome you here to share your story and the work you do,

because I think it's so valuable to put out into the world. So

welcome. Well, thank

you so much. Thank you, Maureen. I really

appreciate it. I'm truly honored to be a part of this and honored

to be able to share, you know my story and what Reiki is with

everyone, everyone who listens, because it is a very beautiful,

loving, compassionate, conscious energy that this just helps to

ignite that. Change and focus in your energy.

Yeah, I love I love it. And I think that we'll

get into sort of, you know, this idea that everything's made of

energy, and then we learn it through this art. And but just

you know, in the welcome for you. I was wondering if you

always knew as a kid that you might have some healing

abilities. Maybe not specifically in this area, or

when did this come to you? I I love hearing people's story. And

sometimes I feel like oh, yeah, it was something I felt like

when I was very young. And then other people I talked to say

like, Well, I had an inkling, but then when I was this age and

I went to this workshop, I just had an aha moment. So how did

you come about Reiki?

Well, I've always been fairly intuitive, so

fairly able to sense energies. And you know, just kind of feel

just feel when Things are have change in the air. So and that's

been since I was a child. But I came to Reiki when I was, I was

managing property. And I was also doing life coaching. And I

felt like there was a piece that was missing. And I didn't know

what that missing piece was, until I met my business partner.

And she was a Reiki practitioner, or she is a Reiki

practitioner. And she gave me a Reiki session. And that was it.

That was that was that Aha, that was that missing piece. And for

me, the missing piece was really feeling that connection to

spirit, and feeling that unconditional love. So for me,

Reiki, was the first time I ever truly felt connected to a higher

power connected to God, and also unconditionally loved. And

really interconnected. Like there was more than just me, and

there's more than just my emotions, and there's more than

just what I am experiencing. Yeah, I can connect. Yeah. And

connect with that, and interact with that. And so it was, and I

started to really understand spirituality a lot more. It

really ignited. For me, it ignited that, that change in my

consciousness to connect with my spirituality. And I turn Yeah,

go ahead.

Well, I was just gonna say it sounds like

it's an unspoken language, but it was, I keep on kind of

queueing into or leaning into the fact that there's, I always

used to think like, the language was were English, French,

Spanish, you know. And then there's like this idea of

language being so much more. And this is sort of like the

language of energy, which felt like it was almost like your you

were born with it. Like it was sort of like your birthright,

you came with it. And it wasn't until like you knew when you

were a kid, that you were an energetic, you just felt that

like the energetic being and connection. And then, like later

on down the road in that Reiki session, it, it woke you up to

it all

clicked, it all clicked and I had tried other

things, to develop that connection, other religions and

different types of spiritual practices. But it wasn't until I

received a Reiki session that I I just was immersed in that

loving, unconditional feeling. And from there, that's all it

took for me to want to learn Reiki. And the interesting part

about when I look back on my journey, is that I didn't even

ask questions. Other than Where did you learn it? And then I

went along and signed up. That was it. I didn't look it up

online. I didn't look it up on YouTube to see a sample session.

I didn't look up any of that. I just went full steam ahead, as

if something else was calling me and encouraging me to do this.

Ever since then, yeah. And so now for eight years, I've been

practicing Reiki and teaching Reiki and initiating and

attuning others to become Reiki practitioners, so that they can

use this beautiful energy as well to improve their life.

Yeah, it sounds like you were meant to do

it. And that's been my experience with you. And I

imagine that when you really find that thing that you are

here for, that you can do it with such ease and grace, like

you don't need to look up all the other information, you just

need to learn the craft.

Correct? Absolutely. And I really do feel

like this is my calling this is this is how I am called to serve

and to be of service. And this is a part of that

interconnectedness of life and me, you know, receiving these

beautiful blessings or miracles or just you know, changes in my

life and I want to be able to share that with others and

really support others through Reiki. And the great thing about

Reiki that really attracted me to it after I learned what it

was It is that it's simple. It's not a doctrine that I have to

follow. It's just a very simple practice that I can use as a

spiritual practice or as a healing modality. modality.

Okay. And that being said, Chiquita what, you

know, for our for our listeners who have not experienced it yet

or don't really know. I mean, what is Reiki? How do you define

what is

it? So excited? So very simple. Reiki is a

Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that

promotes healing.

Okay, that's it. All right. That's it. And

they just yeah, this forward.

It's Yes, it's that simple. And the Reiki that

I practice is called Usui Shiki. Real hope, Reiki and that Reiki

was taught by Macau Usili. And so I'm a part of that, that

lineage through the Reiki attunement process. And that is

the Reiki that I teach. Okay.

Okay. So when someone comes in for a Reiki

session, what, what can they expect?

Okay, so let me just talk a little bit more

about just explain a little bit more about Reiki. Okay. So

that's the definition a technique for stress reduction

and relaxation. The word Reiki means in a simple form,

universal, universally guided God consciousness, life force

energy. Okay, so this is energy that is coming from source, God,

the Creator, whatever you want to call it. So this is coming

from that pure, loving neutral space. And so when what Reiki

does, is through laying on hands, so gentle and light

touch, I the Reiki sends in a vibration, of peace, of love,

and it's a high vibration. And it seeks to raise the vibration

of whatever it encounters the weather with, whether it's a

person, whether it's a situation, what have you, it

Reiki is seeking to raise it to its highest and best vibration.

Okay. So I have a question there. And that

is all right. Can you speak to how how you describe us as

energy bodies are enter energetic beings and, you know,

our bodies and even at that cellular cellular level?

Oh, yeah. Okay. So Reiki Reiki works on all

those levels, okay, so we are energy first. And we all have a

bio field, or energetic field, or, or an aura it, those are all

the same thing. Okay. And so everything starts off is energy,

and then it moves into matter. And so that is the way Reiki is

able to help because it affects the energy, and then it also

affects the physical. So it affects the matter, though it

comes in, and it raises the vibration of the energetic body,

the physical body, the emotional body. And everything else that

we know and don't know. Yeah, so it works. It works on all those

levels. So when people come in, they lay on the table, they're

nice and cozy. And I just come in and do light touch throughout

the body. And that's starting to begin the process of relaxation,

okay, so it starts to relax the nervous system. And when we when

our physical bodies begin to relax, so when we move out of a

fight or flight, then we are able to process things better in

our own bodies, our physical body is is able to start to

regenerate, relax, rejuvenate, and ignite the own personal the

own healing ability, the innate healing ability, because when

we're in fight or flight, and our adrenals are going we're not

able to really be Your highest and best self, were not able to

really be present and interact in a in a way that is helpful.

And stress free. Yeah, they did the great thing about oh, go

ahead.

Well, I was just gonna say you certainly

can't really heal if you're in fight or flight.

That's right. And that's where the healing

part of Reiki comes from. So Reiki is creating, helping to

create the space for healing. So it's not coming in and being

like this miraculous, like, you know, it can't it can't make the

arm grow back if we cut the arm off. But what it can do is

create optimal conditions for healing.

Yeah, yeah. And okay, so if I'm following,

and it's my experience, too, but just to say, again, that it is

that kind of, when I've experienced Reiki with you, it's

coming into this environment. So it seems to me that you

specifically designed even the outer environment for when the

client steps into the space, as very, I use that word warm, you

know, the warmth of it, and welcoming, welcoming, so right

when you go into your studio, I clients going to register that

and then going into the room where you perform and it's just

always that that warmth, so that speaks to that relate relaxation

you're talking to so it's almost like even the experience before

you're on the Reiki table is escorting you into the

relaxation and healing state. So those are kind of things that I

feel like are unbeknownst to the person walking in. But yeah,

they're gonna be so beneficial.

Yes, and I'm so happy to hear that, because I

actually use Reiki to achieve that feeling. So I use Reiki on

the space. So I Reiki use Reiki on the door. I use Reiki on the

Reiki on the sign Reiki on the table. We Reiki the space to

really lift and raise the vibratory level in and around

this, the studio.

I was, yeah, so no, go ahead. And Reiki

is also Reiki is also driven by your intention.

And so I do hold the intention that when someone enters into

the space, they feel comforted. They feel relaxed. It the

relaxation process begins. And I think a lot of times, especially

in our society, we discount the we devalue relaxation, and think

that it's a luxury. But that's why I like to treat Reiki as a

very simple, simple practice. Because when we're able to be

relaxed, we function better. We don't function when we are in a

heightened state of worry, a heightened state of fear. No,

and we're not able to move forward. Yeah. And

to your point of relaxation, it just makes me

think about, okay, we might admit, or acknowledge that sleep

is restorative to us, but sometimes in our culture are

busy doing culture, just sitting on the couch and relaxing. That

was when we were little, you know, we were told we were lazy.

And so knowing what you're saying is that just by being in

relaxing state, it's a gift to yourself, you're not lazy. It's,

you know, those are those kinds of things where we have to

override the kind of voices of our childhood to say, No, this

is like, what if we actually said are sitting downtimes were

healed are healing your body, which we all know is beneficial

for culture as a whole. We've got it we have a lot of illness,

we have a lot of stress, you know, autoimmune, different

diseases. And so what could be more important?

Absolutely. Absolutely. It's important

because, you know, we need to regenerate. Yeah, I mean, I

think that goes into using, you know, using the mind as just a

tool and listening to your heart. That's another thing that

Reiki helps you do. Because when you're less stress, you can get

out of the mind and get out of the hurry disease, and you can

drop into your heart, then you can start listening to your

body. You can start listening to what you need and honoring that.

And it's not really difficult. It's really just about okay, you

know, I'm in a space where I recognize I am Tired, I

recognize that I need to rest. Okay, I'm gonna take some time

I'm gonna rest whether it's 30 minutes, whether it's one hour.

And then you know you're able to there we go function better go

to the world, say to endure a high amount of stress.

No, no, which is so clear.

So so as you get Reiki, okay, so just as we have

a muscle memory, we have an energetic memory, meaning our

energy is always going to want to revert to its net, its normal

state that it's been in, okay, going back to how it's been. So

if you've been, you know, always on the go, go go, then you're,

that's how your Energy wants to be. So with Reiki, it helps to

retrain your energy. After a few sessions, your response to

different to outside stressors becomes different. And so that's

how it starts to change your energetic memory. So then you it

says, okay, you don't have to go into fight or flight. We can

handle this. We can process this. It takes you out of the,

again, the fight or flight and helps you to observe. And

sometimes we just need to step back. And we need to observe

rather than act or react.

Yes, absolutely. And I feel like when

I've walked out of sessions, like with the guard to what you

were saying about bringing, you know, it's almost from the

headspace to the heart space. I yeah, I always feel that I'm

more my tuned into my intuitive self. And that's the heart

space. I think that you're helping shift people into. Yeah,

yeah, dude. Yeah. Is there anything you have to say about

that?

No, exactly what what I'm working to do?

Absolutely. Like, that's why okay, I do. So that's why it's

important that from the moment you walk in, that you under that

you feel comforted and supported. Yeah. And that you

feel that this is there is unconditional love, you are

perfect, just as you are. And you deserve to be supported. And

that's what I'm here to do. I'm here to help you have a shift.

And after you continuously get Reiki, what happens is, this is

my this is what I get most excited about seeing in people

is a shift in consciousness. So the shift in consciousness, take

them out of their headspace, like you said, and into the

heart space, and into a more observer role and understanding

and yet more observant, less reactive. And also that looks

like the clients doing other things to help support their

Yeah, give them feeling good. That's when the shift in

consciousness comes. So it becomes when they become active

and active participant in creating what they want to

create. Yeah, I hear you the whether that's, you know,

whether whether that's less anxiety, whether that's, you

know, more focus, whether that's being present. That's what Reiki

can help you do and instead of reacting like you normally

would, you are in, you're able to then look at things and

decide and choose. Make a choice on how you respond and how you

interact.

Yeah, it's hugely beneficial to begin to

become the observer or the witness or of your of yourself.

Instead of just being in that headspace all the time. I

appreciate that and kind of how the Reiki sessions can build

upon each other. And sometimes, you know, it's not, it's not

always measurable as we knew to measure things, but it's a it's

a quality of feeling like that changes over the course of time.

That's how it's felt to me more and I love the space you're

creating because the word safety and trust come to me and that's

such a huge thing to be able to embrace and receiving?

Absolutely. Because your energy field is a

sacred space. I don't take that lightly. You know, I really

honor your energy. Because our energy, it's like the it has

everything about us. It's like the book of you. It's an ever

changing and ever creating novel about about you, for lack of a

better analogy that I have at the time. But it's every

experience, every thought, every word. It's all energy. It all

has a vibration. Yes, so it's creating.

Hmm, I have I have more questions about that.

And I want to remark to before I forget is that there's so many

things I want to ask you. But I came in to see you. My most

recent appointment after my dad died. And you spent most of the

time on my upper body, and what felt like that and then I

remember leaving the session and just chatting with you and

commenting about that or inquiring and you said, Well, of

course Maureen, that's your heart space and you just lost

your father. So my question around that is, that was so

fascinating to me, because I was going through a lot of grief.

But when you are doing the Reiki practice practicing on a person,

you have your hands lightly over their body. What does that feel

like? What does it feel like when you get to a black? Can you

actually feel an energetic black or what are the different kinds

of vibrations or sensations?

Oh, okay, this is I like this question. Well, I

feel pulsating. Sometimes I feel okay, so pulsating. I feel

sometimes a magnetic pole. I feel so if it's a block, okay,

or an area of stagnation, and the what that means is that's a

chi. Okay, the Chi Chi is the lifeforce energy that keeps us

all alive. No tea, no alive, okay? Is it feels just like

stuck. So think of if you're just touching an inanimate

object of book a brick, and you just put your hand on top of it.

It's not, you don't really feel any type of movement or any even

connection, okay, because we're all chi and we interact with

each other's cheat. Okay, so even without being a Reiki

practitioner, you will be able to feel the difference. If you

put your hand like on a person, and then put your hand on a

brick, okay, you will be able to tell the difference between

something with chi and with that, so anywho so a lot of

times it feels as if it's just kind of like a inanimate object

there that I'm that I'm sending Reiki to, because then I can

feel. So I feel more of the Reiki coming back to my hand,

instead of the areas soaking up, so then it just takes time. It

takes time and then through intention. Through changing my

intention that I'm thinking about, or using Reiki symbols,

I'm able to change the vibration that the Reiki is emitting, and

to, to, to assist with releasing that block. But with you, it

wasn't it's not necessarily always a block. Sometimes it's,

I like to just think of it as like turbulence, okay, or

imbalance, but specifically it can energy can be stagnant, it

can be overactive, it can be, it can be a block, it can be

choppy, and I'm sure there's a myriad of other things that

maybe I'm not aware of, or conditions that I'm not able to

explain. So anywho so with you, it felt as if there's a there's

when someone dies, there's sometimes like an emptiness and

a heart. There's an emptiness in that place. There's a there's a

grief, a feeling of grief. And so what I've worked to do is

fill you up with love. So that's why I work harder at that area.

And or that's why I was focusing on that area to really fill that

area up with love. So then you're not feeling like this.

This you know, just empty feeling. This feeling like

something's missing, because you can feel that connection when

their energy does leave the earth plane. You Hmm, yeah. And

what I've noticed in an energetic pattern, when someone

close to us passes, we tend to like retreat a little bit out of

our body. So our energetic body, or our energetic body just

shifts a little bit. And it's almost like, the best way for me

to describe it is like a head in the clouds, kind of feeling kind

of kind of energy, like your head, that's why it is, you

might not be able to get it together, or, you know, every

was think of things that are normal, everyday things, it kind

of just knocks you out of your body a little bit.

Okay, that's it. Yeah, I've never heard that.

That's fascinating. And thank you for sharing it. Yeah, that

process is, and that's just,

that's what I learned through my practice, and

working on people who are grieving is they're shifted out

of their body just a little bit. And that energy strands in

connection to the person is weakened, because they're

grieving. But you're still connected to that energy. So

that's why I'm filling you up with love. So that, you know,

you feel that connection is not fading, it's probably going to

get stronger.

It's so pretty to because then, for someone to

understand that and you know, kind of know that reason as to

why they feel the way that they do, it feels like it's also a

call when you're going through something like that for more

self care. Because if your energy has sort of left you,

you, you just sit and re nourish and replenish is really

important.

Absolutely. And Reiki helps you get to that

place. So it helps to bring you back into your body, so that you

can now be integrated and think of things to help you. But

sometimes we just can't, because of that energetic piece that

just endured that piece that's like missing. Yeah, you can't

put your finger on, it's not tangible.

Now, and you can't really can't really

manipulate it, you just got to be with it and work through it.

It reminds me of, I wanted you to talk about our emotions as

energy or energy, emotions as energy in motion. And the thing

that I've been wanting to read more about and understand is in

Reiki would be important for this. I never really realized

that all the experiences of my life that especially things that

I suppressed and to kind of didn't deal with reside within

the cells of my body. Is that right?

Yes, absolutely. Absolutely.

Yeah, why and why? Having that pattern, which

is a lot of people, because we were raised in the generations,

we were by people who were doing the best they could. But if I,

that's where, you know, there's nutrition for health, there's

movement for health, health, but for me, now, I want to make sure

that I'm moving my emotions. So talk about that.

So our emotions are also energy. And when we

don't move through the emotions, they can get stuck. And they can

be trapped in our energy field in our physical body. And that's

how this is manifest. And certain different types of

emotions have certain densities to them. Okay, so let's see,

like, your envy. Let's talk about things like this envy,

okay, jealousy, those are also emotions. Those are heavy,

heavier, denser, then something like grieving or sorrow. Okay,

you win. Okay, and but how can grief and sorrow become heavy,

when you don't address it, when you don't acknowledge it, it

finds a place to hang out. So whether you address those

emotions, or even beliefs, that that aren't serving you or

aren't in alignment or aren't congruent to how you really want

to live your life, they're gonna find somewhere to sit. Spear is

going to find a place to live. And it manifests in your

physical body, because it all starts starts out at energy. So

those emotions are energy Yeah. And they're going to, and

they're going to settle somewhere. And they're going to

create this ease. imbalance, whether it's in the mentally,

emotionally, spiritually. Okay? And a lot of emotions are stuck

in our bodies. And I always encourage breathing, breathing,

breathing, oh, my students are probably sick of me saying,

breathe, breathe, breathe, okay, then I come up to them. And I

put my hand on their belly and I say, make your belly big, and

make it small, because we start to relax the nervous system,

then we're relaxing our muscles. And so those emotions, that

might in pockets of emotions that are stuck in our bodies are

able to start to dissipate, dissolve, and move out. Okay?

I have a question about that. Okay, so

let's take something that's not super serious malady. But

something like your body talking to you. And it's showing up as

lower back pain. Are there ways even I could because you do

Reiki, but you're a healer within that. So I had said to

someone close to me recently, who is experiencing a bot, like

a body pain like this? You know? Did you ask it what it has to

tell you? And that just comes to mind when you're because with

the breath, it made me think of it with the breath. Because I've

done some breath work recently. That was I'm just gonna say more

intense. And the way that it felt to me, because it left me

in a pile of tears, in a good way, is that the breathing helps

dislodge the energy that was stuck. And I can't I can't say

like, Oh, that was this memory from this time or this that

needed to be healed? I have no idea. I just know what I

experienced. But you know, in terms of even self healing

applications that can help us understand what's going on in

our bodies. You know, are there some things like that? Like, how

can we understand what that breath is doing? For us? It's it

because when we're taking when we're taking, like mindful

deeper breaths, you know, are we are we kind of moving energy?

Yeah, yeah. Because the breath is also

energy. So the more you breathe, the deeper you breathe, the

different techniques you use, is accessing different parts of

your body in different parts of your energy field. It's taking

energy, that breath energy to those areas, and exactly like

you said, dislodging those emotions, or sometimes it just

dissolved them.

Okay. Yeah, it's

the great part about Reiki is it really helps

to dissolve them sometimes without needing to have a

cathartic experience. But having more a bit of a just a release,

you know, it not like you said, it does, you didn't have a

thought about you know, it's from this experience or what

have you. But because sometimes it's an accumulation, and it's

stuck in the body. And so think about even when you if people

get massage, getting massage, and they hit a plate, and you

just start weeping or crying. Just because that's the stuff

energy.

Yeah, I'm laughing because me recently,

and this guy was he was a he was getting very intense. Like, I

don't know what they call it sports massage or something. But

he hid somewhere in my hip. And I was like, get away from that.

I don't think I was ready to process that. And something was

trying to come up.

Yeah, yeah. And it's so it can be so

overwhelming that you're just like, Wait a minute. Now. I

didn't expect this to occur. But But yeah, like I said, it

resided somewhere because you never got it out of your energy.

And then it turned into matter. It turned into something that

was stuck in the physical.

And so based on people's physiology, or even

life experiences, kind of depends on where these things

settle.

Absolutely. Okay. Different. Yeah. And we

all have different energetic conditions, just like we've had

different experiences in life. But there's, you know, the first

so our first three chakras, so the base, the sacral and the

solar plexus. Those are more connected to Our Earth, body,

Star Earth experience. That is why there's the saying of, you

know, drop getting people into the heart. Because the base is,

you know, safety, security, the sacral is survival. The solar

plexus is desire, how we process the world. So this is all

physical stuff, physical living here stuff. So getting you into

your heart starts to connect you with the outer world as well. So

what is the outer world, the unseen energy that you are? And

that is all around you? Right? Yeah. And it gets you connected

with your intuition. Yeah, and into your heart, because that's

where the true nature of who we are resides is in our heart.

That's why there's the saying, your your heart's desire,

because your heart carries the true nature of who you are.

That's so beautiful. I'm glad you brought

up chakras. Yeah. Before I was thinking about our talk, I meant

to talk about that. I feel like that could be a whole nother

podcast.

Yeah. But yeah, that totally could be a whole

nother but but you know, the chakras are a great system. But

we don't need to get deep into that. No, I

love having the copy. Yeah. So because it's

like, for me, the when I talk about this, and when I hear it,

even the Reiki and the energy talk today, it's perfect. I was

gonna say, a friend of mine, who she definitely is a healer. We

were at a friend's house. And my friend's dog was very sick and

of life. And my healer friend went up and rubbed her hands

together and perform some Reiki on the animal. And I thought

that was really pretty. And then I was kind of playing with that

with my son and our dog when she had a hurt leg. And I rubbed my

hands together, and she was sleeping. And it's kind of like,

I'm wondering, after I tell you this, you know, are there sort

of like ways that we can do subtle Reiki on ourselves, even

but I remember, my dog was completely asleep. And I created

energy between my hands. And I was gently gliding them on top

of her body, not touching her. And she started to twitch, and

she started to move. And my son and I looked at each other,

like, what, what is she doing? But clearly, she felt the energy

above her. And it was kind of funny, because she didn't she

she kind of, she didn't nip at me. But she kind of got up and

looked at me like, What are you doing?

Wow, this is so fascinating. And congratulations

to you for connecting with that energy, the energy around you,

you will connect and you're bringing in a love energy, your

intention was love, your intention was to heal, and to

help her and absolutely, we can all do that. We can all do some

form of energy work. But I think it takes really recognizing that

we are energy bodies, and then the dog animals are so sensitive

to energy, okay. And a lot of people say, Well, why are dogs

so sensitive to energy? Well, because they can't talk. You

know, they that's the level that they're constantly dwelling on

is a genic instinctual level, but you know, it really it's

funny, but we don't think of it like, no, like no navigating the

energy of everything to to live because they cannot communicate

with us. They can't speak to us. They don't have spoken language.

So they are constantly they're looking yes, they're looking at

our behaviors. They're looking at our patterns, but they're

also navigating the energy. So that's how so animals are very

sensitive. Yeah, that that is actually a normal personal

experience. Normal reaction from a dog first, first time

receiving Reiki.

Oh, that's so cool. Yes. Oh, wow. Well, I know

that we're wrapping up our conversation. One question that

just came to me out of the blue was how can people protect their

energy? You know, I feel like I know a lot of people who will

say, Oh, I have to go to this event and I know that it's going

to pull from my energy or you know what I mean? They feel like

it's an energy drain. And how can I protect my energy?

Okay, so the first thing is knowing that you

are powerful, and you don't have to succumb to those energies,

okay? And calling in, whatever whoever your divine guides are,

whoever your higher power is, and ask for assistance and

surrounding yourself in white light. regulate your breath. I

always say, because it helps keep you in alignment, so that

you're less reactive. And you're less susceptible to those

energies. Because we are an organic body. We're an organic

material. We're porous, but we're porous to them energies as

well. So yeah, so So in the more so it's not just one time, okay,

because we didn't get it took a long time for us to get this

way. So it takes a long time to it takes constantly practicing

and surrounding yourself and white light for it to get

stronger, stronger, stronger and stronger. You are less. Yeah,

yeah. And just to address one thing that you we were talking

about, about the emotion, different types of emotions, or

worries, do settle in different areas of the body. Okay. And so

a lot of earthly worries, and cause concerns and stressors

tend to settle in the lower parts of the body. I mean, also,

other parts of the body, don't get me wrong, but like, it

settles in the lower parts because of the safety security.

And those first three energy centers being so connected to

the wire. Okay, so you worried about your safety, security, it

could be you know, your finances or socio economic or what have

you that you might have some back pain?

Okay. Mm hmm. Good to know, and everyone

should have like a pocket chart they carry around.

Okay, actually, actually, Doreen Virtue, she has

a book. I forgot the name of it. But she has, she created a

chart. And it has the different aches, pains, diseases or

ailments. And it will tell you, like what mental or emotional

condition could have created that. And then she gives you a

mantra to say, to help change the energy surrounding that.

Yeah. And then she does have a pocket guide. And I think you

may have seen the book before. You probably seen it around. I

forgot the name of it. But anyways, she does have that. And

it's fairly accurate.

Yeah, yeah. And the thing is, the, I'm

thinking of is how, you know, however, things manifest in our

body, and in relationships to emotions that we may have just

stored, we, it's like, we've all done it, right? Because there,

we're just responding or reacting to life. And then

whatever. However, we were conditioned, and this is just,

it's a principle of an energetic body. And there's no right or

wrong to it. And we're all, you know, we're all in many ways

susceptible or open to the DIS ease in a way, because we

haven't learned how to move our energy effectively. And so just

I try to look at everything is like there's no, there's no

right or wrong to it. It's just, it just is and just to have a

tool.

Absolutely. Absolutely. Because you were all

going to experience we all experienced the ebb and the flow

of life. Yes. Okay. The good that and the neutral. And

everything surrounding you know, with that, so, yeah.

Oh, so good. You could see I told you, we

could talk forever, and, and I'm gonna circle it, circle it

around to our ending here. I know you also do Reiki training.

So obviously, people know where you're located, but where can

they find you? And if you want to share about the Reiki

training you do any other like any other kinds of workshops

that you? Yeah,

yes, anybody can learn Reiki I teach Reiki every

single day. I enjoy it. I teach Reiki one on one. You can find

me at awaken and embrace the.com You can also find me follow me

on Instagram at embrace your journey. Reiki and My email is

Ey J on harrison@gmail.com. And anybody can sign up for Reiki

and become a Reiki practitioner is held in three classes. So and

we meet one on one. So it's a really intimate and

individualized connection. And you are able to ask all the

questions and we practice, practice, practice. Reiki,

that's the most important part.

Oh, it's so exciting. I might be a future

student of yours. But today, it was spectacular. I have to do a

deep bow down and just so much gratitude, and thanks for being

here.

Thank you. Yeah.

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