What is Reiki, how does it actually work, and what should every practitioner know before learning or offering energy healing?

In this episode of Spirit Sherpa, Kelle Sparta begins a new series on energy healing by exploring Reiki—one of the world's most widely practiced healing modalities. Drawing on her own experience as a Reiki Master and energy practitioner, Kelle explains why Reiki provides an excellent foundation for learning energy work while also discussing its limitations, common misconceptions, and the responsibilities every ethical practitioner should understand.

Kelle shares practical insights into energetic hygiene, healing crises, practitioner boundaries, and why lasting healing requires more than simply clearing someone's energy field. She also discusses how beliefs create energetic patterns, why clients must actively participate in their own healing, and how practitioners can avoid becoming wounded healers who unintentionally transfer their own energy to others.

Joined by co-host Jules, who shares her personal journey through Reiki training, this conversation offers a grounded, experience-based look at Reiki that goes beyond certification and focuses on developing discernment, responsibility, and sustainable energetic practice.

What You'll Learn

• What Reiki is and how it works
• Why Reiki is an excellent foundation for energy healing
• Common mistakes new practitioners make
• What a healing crisis is and how to avoid one
• The importance of energetic hygiene and protecting your space
• Why belief patterns recreate energetic blocks
• How to channel energy without draining yourself
• Developing ethical, responsible healing practices

References Mentioned

• Essential Reiki by Diane Stein
• Mikao Usui
• Hawayo Takata
• Holy Fire Reiki
• Energetic hygiene
• Healing crisis
• Chakras
• Reiki symbols
• Wounded healer
• Tree Meditation

Resources Mentioned

Kelle Sparta

https://kellesparta.com

Boundaries for Empaths Free Ecourse

https://courses.kellesparta.com/products/courses/view/1144322

Tree Meditation on YouTube

https://youtu.be/Bp8zIPEDm7I

Note: Inner Peace 101 referenced conceptually in this episode is now called Welcome to the Woo.

https://learn.kellesparta.com/welcometothewoo

Hello, and welcome to Spirit Sherpa, the show that helps you on your journey to unlock your magic mojo. I'm Jules, your co-host. If you're new to this work, please start with episode one. Intermediates, you can start with episode 98, and advanced students, practitioners, you can jump ahead to episode 200.

With me as always to share her insights and wisdom is the spirit doctor, Kelle Sparta. What's up, Kelle? Ha. I'm Weird Barbie. Yes. Yes, you are. Yes, you are. Y'all, if y'all have not seen the Weird Barbie thing- Weird Barbie ... you got to go check her out. Uh, uh, w- where did I see you, on Facebook, Instagram? 'Cause I don't have TikTok.

TikTok. But I, I know you're on TikTok. I think I posted it everywhere. Yeah, everything. Oh, my God. Flipping hilarious. I, I... There's a, there's a bar near me, and they like me to MC some of their stuff, and they were having a Barbie party. And so I came in as Weird Barbie. And so I haven't seen the movie. I keep wanting to see the movie, but once, once it's been past two weeks here in Panama, it's all in Spanish, and so my Spanish isn't good enough to go see it.

But, but, uh, so I've gotta wait till it comes out on, on video. But, um, but I saw the, I saw the clip and so I, I went in all, I went all in on Weird Barbie. All right. So, so for people who have no clue what, what a or who a Weird Barbie is, and haven't seen the clip. Yeah, Weird Barbie is the one that, you know, you cut her hair, and you painted on her, you know, you drew on her face, and, and you, you painted her nails and her fingers, and, and, uh, and she smells like basement.

Like- That is not a good smell ... that's Weird Barbie. Yes. We've all had Weird Barbie, you know? The funny part is I can remember as a kid, there was this other, it was like just the head, right? And, right? And they had one, it came out after I got mine, that it regrows the hair. Right, which we, we all desperately needed, 'cause we all wanted to cut her hair.

Yes. And so finally I'm like, "I'm cutting her hair 'cause I'm gonna be a beautician when I grow up." Yes, I said beautician, people. It was a word back then. And, and so I cut that hair, and I'm trying to pull the hair out, and I'm like, "It's no more there to grow." Mama said, "No, you don't have that one." I'm like, "Well, can you get it?"

And she's like, "Yeah, no."

But, but I wanted to practice. But, but, but I wanna practice. I wanted to be a hairdresser too. I did. I did. That was the coolest job ever. I cut my Barbie's hair too. I did. Yes. Yeah. I was all about it. Yes, indeed. Yes. And then y- you see those, uh... Okay, you know the statue of Buddha, like the typical statue of Buddha?

All right. That's what my dad looked like, okay? Just saying. Except he was like, white American dude, right? So, but he had the little hair- He was bald on top, but he had the little hair going all the way around. Okay? So I would ask him to grow his little hair out so I could put the curlers and, like, the sponge rollers.

I would put the sponge rollers in his hair, and then y'all... Okay, so for you youngins, y'all can look this up Way back when, when women used to go to the beauty salon and, like, get their hair done f- each week, they used those bristle ones, right? With all the little things sticking out. That, that- And you had these little pins

like, scratched the crap out of your head and yeah. Oh my God, they were terrible. Yes. Well, he got so used to me doing that, I even used the bristle ones on him, on this little bald man, and he would fall asleep and take his afternoon nap. And I was just, honey, going to town doing his hair, thinking I was just doing something.

That was a very good father, Beth. Yes. Let me tell you. He had his moments, but on that he, he's- he scored on that one. Yeah. My father would never have done that in a million years. Oh, yeah. That would never have happened. Oh, yeah. Even Mitch, my husband, whenever his daughter was little, he sat there and painted his nails, painted his toenails, everything.

The whole nine yards. My dad would never have allowed that. Never in a million years. That would not have happened. Would've been like, "Go do it to your mother." Yeah, yeah. Oh my gosh. That is not for men. That was his thing. That's hysterical. Well-

All right, so, you know, enough about Barbie. No, enough about Barbie. All right, we're gonna put Barbie away now. Um- Putting the Barbies back in the basement, yes. Yes. Back in the basement. Continuing to, to acquire their smell. Yes. That's it. So, um, so today we're gonna talk about the ... We're gonna start our energy healing series, which is also part of the overall heal- healing series that we will be doing over the next however long, till we get tired of it.

And then we're, today we're gonna talk about Reiki because anytime you're talking about energy healing, Reiki is the default that everybody thinks about, so we're gonna start there. And, um, you know, you guys have all heard my opinion of, of Reiki in the past, which is, you know, it's great training wheels for energy users.

Um, and it is a great cur, uh, you know, starter point. Um, I, I know a lot of people who are Reiki masters who no longer use it, but when we used it, it was super useful, right? And I did use it for probably 10 years before I moved on and created my own dynamics and my own energy patterns that I use now. So, you know, um, this is one of those things that is a jumping-off point, right?

You, you learn the basics of energy work in your Reiki training, and from there you can evolve out as you learn other practices and other systems. Some people continue to use it their entire career. Some people use it for a while and then move on. Depends on the person. For me, I used it for a while and moved on, but I do acknowledge that it was a really valid, uh, foundation point for me in my energy work.

So we're gonna talk about it from that perspective. We're not gonna give away all the hints and secrets of Reiki because, you know, that's not our place to do. And besides, Diane Stein already did that in her book Essential Reiki, so if you want to cheat and get all the details, you can just go buy that book.

Um, but, you know, don't go and do the weekend workshop that takes you from zero to Reiki master in a weekend because that shit'll fuck you up, man. That'll fuck you up hard. So there's this wonderful thing in Reiki called a, a, a healing crisis, and if you wanna experience a healing crisis at a steroid level, do zero to Reiki master in a weekend.

That'll kick your ass. That's a really bad idea, okay? Um, I don't even know if she's still doing those, but, um, don't do it. So no, you should ... You shouldn't ... Y- yeah, you can do one and two in a weekend if you, if you want to. Those ... That could be done. But don't go beyond that. Um, you need time for it to settle in your system.

Here's the thing about any energy healing process, right? So Reiki is, is sort of the foundation piece, but any energy clearing process that you're looking at, if you go to somebody for a chakra clearing or anything like that, what you have to recognize is that the cleansing of the, the chakras, the cleansing of the aura, the cleansing of your being-ness, right, is only as good as the shift in your mentality that goes along with it.

Now, there are a few exceptions to that rule. So if you are If you are having a problem where you are dealing with issues that you picked up ick from somewhere, right? You, you went to an event and it was icky and entities came and it sucked on you or whatever, then an energy clearing will be permanent for that until you get another one.

Obviously in case you've, if you don't have a shield up. This would by the way be a reminder to set your shields, right? And so, um, but the, the upshot is that if it's something like that, it can be cleared and it'll be one and done, right? But for the vast majority of stuff that's in people's chakras, th- those energetics are belief created.

And so they're created out of the inner beliefs that you hold. And so you can clear the chakras all day long, and they'll be that way for a while, and then they'll, the pattern is gonna come back if it's belief based. Because if you're not changing the beliefs, then the pattern is created by the beliefs, as you engage the beliefs, then the whole thing comes back.

Okay? So you know, there's limits to, to energy work. And this is one of the things that as an energy practitioner you need to disclose to people, right? So I, I had a situation where a friend of mine called me up and she's like, "Oh my God, I've got this steel plate on my shoulders." And I, I think I've told this story but I don't think I've told it in like four years so I'm gonna tell it again.

But the, uh, she said, "I feel like I've got, you know, this steel plate on my shoulders and, uh, I, I just, I, I can't move my shoulders, they're so stuck and I just need this pulled off." And I said, "Well you do..." I said, "What do, what's going on?" And she told me about all the stuff she was doing in her life and how she was taking care of somebody else's kid and would go to court and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And I'm like, "You do realize the plate's functional for you, right? It's, it's helping you to hold up the weight of the world that you've got on your shoulders, Atlas." Right? You know? It's like she's- That, that, that she has created. Yeah, exactly. And she's like, "I know, I know, but I just, I need it gone." And I'm like, "Oh, okay."

And so I pulled it off and she's like, "Oh my God, thank you." And I'm like, "You do realize it's not gonna last." She's like, "I know, I know. It's okay." And we talked a little bit more like 10, 15 minutes later and I'm like, "So how's that plate doing?" And it was back. And she's like, "Oh my God, it's back." I said, "I know baby, I told you it was functional.

It, it had a purpose. And the minute you started talking about all the stuff you were carrying, that plate came back because you were aware of it and therefore it was necessary again." And I said, "It's gonna be there until you put this stuff down. That's how it works." You need to let people know that, right?

And you know, I'm gonna tell you some of the things that your Reiki master may not tell you, okay? First is energetic hygiene, and we talked about this in the very first season of the podcast. First, very... I, I wanna say it was in the first, like, 10, 15 episodes. I think it was episode eight or nine, actually.

So, um, terrifying that I remember that. Okay. Anyway, that was a freaking long time ago. But the, uh, energetic hygiene is, is crucial if you're gonna do energy work, especially if you're gonna do it in your own home But energetic hygiene meaning don't take on other people's crap, don't leave it sitting on the floor.

You don't wanna walk through it and have it attached to you. You don't want it to get spread throughout your house. You don't want it to walk out into the street with the people who are getting off the table. Make sure that you transmute that energy or ground it so that it is not sitting there, right?

And I know a lot of Reiki teachers who don't do anything around this, and so they don't talk about setting space. They, they may teach the putting chakras up on the walls, but they rarely tell you floor and ceiling. So if you're gonna use the... Or not chakras, the, the chokurei. Oh, you're gonna say... Wait, the- Yeah, chokurei

yeah, the, the... I was like- Yeah ... chakras? What? No. Okay. Yeah. Chokurei is the- Power, power symbol. Yeah ... power symbol. Yeah. Power symbol. Um, yeah. Brain fart. Anyway, um, so they, they'll tell you to do it on the walls, but they, they often forget to tell you floor and ceiling. And so, you know, it's no good to set a container that has open floor and ceiling.

It's not a container, right? If it's not complete, it's not a container. So they'll often do that. Um, they will often also, uh, not talk to you at all about how to clear your space when you're done, uh, or anything like that. So, um, they- That was one of the first thi- first things that we learned in, in, in, in, in my class.

Yeah. Yeah. That was, that, that was kenyoku. That was the first... one of the first things that we did. But Reiki is taught in an energetic vacuum, and if... And people get their materials from a lot of different places, and it's unregulated. And so you don't know what somebody decided wasn't important or what somebody didn't include or...

And Reiki itself was taught as an apprenticeship, so it wasn't structured until Mrs. Takata brought it to the US. Um, and even then she taught it as an apprenticeship for a long time. So, you know, anybody who came out of any of those lineages could have any randomness that they picked up or didn't pick up from their apprenticeship.

And, and people... I mean, Reiki is basically a big game of telephone, right? You know? I train you, you train the next person, they train the next person, and unless everything is written down, you know, the trainings will shift as people go through. And even if it is written down, people are gonna teach from their own knowledge base, and so they may drop things out and put other things in because they think they're more important.

And, you know, if they're teaching out of their home, which is warded and protected, they may not put in anything. They may not put anything in the program about protecting your space because they're operating in a protected space so it doesn't matter to them and they don't do it. There's lots of reasons why people may not include things that I think are crucial, right?

Um, which is why I wanna mention them The other thing about Reiki is that, and this is energy healing in general, right? Um, oh, what was it that I was gonna say? It's gone now. The other thing about Reiki is, is, uh, specifically is that, you know, we give out the message that Reiki can do no harm, which is theoretically true.

The energy itself can do no harm, but it's, it's practically often not true. And the challenge there is that when you are getting Reiki, you're not always necessarily getting only Reiki And so while the energy of Reiki itself can't do harm, it doesn't stop the practitioner from sending you other energies at the same time.

And so it creates a false sense of security. Oh, if they wanted to interject their own stuff in there? Yeah. Okay. Or if they unconsciously interject their own stuff in there. Or, you know, even if they're not, um, trying to interject something else, if they have their own emotional energetic associated with, um, something going on, if they've...

if they're triggered by something or if they're, you know, if they're in the classic wounded healer position, right? They may have own energy all built up around it, sending that through because they can't get out of their own way, and so they're sending all that ick into your energy field, too. So I have a, I have a concern about telling people that Reiki can do no harm because it sets up a false sense of security for that reason.

And so, you know, I would be careful about marketing it in that way for that reason. You know? So just keep that in mind as you're going through the process, right? So now energy healing in general. As a practitioner, it's important to make sure that you, uh... When people come in for energy healing, they are often coming in in a do me position.

They're like, "Oh, just do me. Make it better." Right? They're- they've abdicated their power to you as the healer, um, to do healing work on them, and we all know that that's not how it works, right? We know that we can only bring the energy, but they have to actually allow the healing. They have to actually engage with the healing work to make it more significant or long-lasting if they're gonna...

if it's a belief-based issue. You know, so, so as the healer, it's your job to really bring the person back into a, an understanding that this is a done with you prosna- process, not a done to you process. Now, the exception to this rule is if you have somebody who is so amped up, so overdone, that they are incapable of managing their own emotions and their own...

any energy and anything else. If they're just beyond, like, overdone. If they're fried and crispy crittered, they're not gonna be able to participate in their own healing. But you're not actually gonna be able to do healing with them either. What you're gonna be doing is pulling the stress out of their energy field, right?

And that's a different thing. So you're not actually healing, you're just taking them down to baseline. You're s- you're draining the energy of overwhelm, and overdone, and crispy crittered out of their central nervous system. That's what you're doing. And that is all you're doing in that scenario, because even if you get that fully emptied out for them, they're not gonna be in a position to participate in their healing until they've sat in that space for a while, and they've reminded themselves that they are sovereign, and that they, they have their own volition, they have their own power, they have their own ability to make choices, and, you know, all of those things, right?

Um, until they've reminded themselves that they have the ability to participate in their own healing, they will not be prepared to participate in their own healing. That make sense? Yes. Okay. So you've been taking Reiki classes. Yeah, I'm a Reiki too. You're a Reiki too. So why don't you talk about what that experience is like for, for those who are thinking about becoming a Reiki teacher or a Reiki practitioner, um, and, uh, you know, how, how that went for you.

Oh, it was way fun. Now, I... My Reiki master, um, she, um... It's a... I'ma give her a quick little plug just because, uh, Riverside Reiki, um, Miss Gail Mason, and, um, she... We have a book that we used, um, and it's, uh, for first degree and second degree, and the one that I took specifically was Holy Fire, um, Reiki. And so what that is, it's, I'll say a, a cousin, it's a derivative, right, of it, um, where whenever you get your attunements, which in Holy Fire we call placements, until you get to the master level, it's called ig- an ignition, um, but same thing as an attunement.

So you have your w- first level that you can give Reiki only to yourself. Second level you can give to other people. Then mastery level, that's when you can start teaching it, and you can attune other people. And so in that, the Holy Fire, whenever you're getting the attunement, which is now the... It ignites that Reiki energy within you Um, it, that comes straight from source as opposed from the source through the Reiki master into the student.

So it kinda goes along with what you were saying, Kelle, earlier, is that w- what some of the... What some people were finding in the Reiki community was that as people were giving Reiki and even attuning their students, they were passing on their own "interpretation" of how the Reiki should work instead of, honey, this has been around since ancient times.

Leave it alone. It don't need your help. So to kinda get, get that out, um, and have to... and have a more powerful attunement, uh, from that, um, it comes straight from source. The gr- the master is just literally holding space for that attunement to happen once certain things are done. I'm just gonna leave it at that 'cause that's a master thing.

Y'all don't need to know that yet. Um, then that comes straight to you. And in Holy Fire Reiki, um, it's called you have an experience. So you kinda... You do a short med- Now, I have book work. Like, I had to know here's the history. I had, you know, where it came from, from, um, uh, s- uh, Usui Sensei when he started, and there's a whole story about him going up to a mountain and, and getting the, you know, information from Reiki and then coming down, and they're like, "What?"

He's like, "Yeah," and just kinda working with that. Um, and, like, we learned, you know, what actually Reiki means, the two sections of it. I had to learn my symbols. I had to learn the five precepts, and as a level two, I also have to practice them in Japanese. So yeah, that, that's a thing, so precepts are, um, just for today, I will not get angry.

I will work hard. I will be kind to others, and I haven't written down... and I'll be grateful. And I won't worry, yes. Um- I was just gonna say. I didn't hear the one that I- Yeah. The only one I remember from when I used to- Yes ... assist. Yes. Yes. And so, so you have to know... My opinion, you have to know the history for your basis of what you're gonna be doing, right?

Um, you show respect that way. You show respect to the ancestors, all the ascended Reiki masters, you know, everyone who's come before you, you know? And so I fully agree with, with what you were saying earlier with those people who are just kinda doing this, that, and the other. Well, they're not... In my opinion, they're not respecting, you know, kinda those that came before them.

So in mine, you, um, went to class, and we did it virtually. And, um- We had the attunement, and for me, when I had my placement, th- there was such an overwhelming feeling of unconditional love. I have never in my life experienced that. It, it, it was crazy. And, uh, it, it, it was really, really ridiculous. I just felt like...

So I felt my spirit guides before, but that particular time they were like, "Hey, we here." And it was in droves, and it was just such a strong energy. Um, for my level two, it was that times 10, you know? And I, I remember this specifically 'cause you're doing all this in meditation. You know, Miss Gail's doing her thing.

I, I don't know what she's doing. I'm in meditation. I'm in la la land. And it's like, okay, so you know how like whenever you have a baby and, like, you lay the baby down, it's like in the, what's that thing called, bassinet thingy, right? And so like, okay, preten- so I'm the baby, and I'm looking up, and I see, like, dark, shadow-ish figures, kinda like everybody's gathered around the bassinet looking at the baby going, "Oh, how cute."

You know, that kinda thing, right? And I'm j- I'm so focused, I'm like, "What the fuck?" And I'm like, "Oh, hey, y'all. How you doing?" I don't know who these people are, but I knew I knew 'em. And it was every ki- and I have this one dude. I, I say dude. They know. I, I don't know who they are, but that's okay. He's a ancestor of some kinda thing.

He's like big warrior Indian, like been there, done that, gonna whoop some ass warrior, like poof, right? Like, all chiseled and everything. Dude, he was there. And then I had this blue light, like shiny thing. I don't know what she was, but she was really pretty. And it, it wa- it was amazing. So for me, that was like a, whoa, I'm in, I'm in the big leagues now, you know?

That was seriously transformational for me. I had, I had not experienced that kind of energy running through my body So fast-forward, of course me, I'm like, "Okay, I gotta practice." So who do I practice on? My walking internship of a husband. Okay, uh, the man chops wood, he builds stuff, he's a outdoor- he's a lumberjack.

I mean, he, you know, he gets hit in the face with, you know, 40 tons of a log because it slipped out of the log splitter, and he's like, "Ow," you know? And he's pissed off at the thing, you know? So I'm like, "Oh, God." So, you know, bad knees, feet, whatever, but, you know, he's keeps going. So every night I'm, like, practicing giving him Reiki, right?

And he's like, "Cool. All right. Sweet." And then my mom, I was practicing on her 'cause, like, she goes and gets her knees worked on and stuff. She gets, like, the injections. Of course, she still ballroom dances. She's, you know, hundred-and-something years old, you know? And, and she still dances, so I do Reiki on her.

Well, she's like... When I do it on her, and my prayer is, you know, let me be the perfect hollow bone for Reiki to do what it's gonna do. It doesn't need my help, y'all. It don't need y'all's help. It knows what to do. So I tell my ego, "Please step aside. Let Reiki work." And then y'all, it's the funniest thing. I put my hands on my mama's knees.

She's, like, 90 pounds dripping wet. She's like, "Ooh, I feel the heat. It feels like a heating pad." And it just, it is crazy. So I went from a little bitty pin, like in the middle of your palms, to my entire hand now. Like up to my wrist just goes whoosh. You know, I can, I can feel it. And then it's funny for me experiencing it because literally it'll tell me when the tank's full, and that's how, that's how I say it, because it goes cold.

Yeah. And I'm like, "Okay, well..." And for me it feels like a vacuum cleaner, like khh. And it's just, you know, her body's just sucking that Reiki in there, and I'm like, "All right, cool." So it, it's been an interesting ride. It is. It is. And I remember, um, I remember one time when the energy that I ran was not hot, it was cold.

That can happen, too, yeah. Yeah. It was because, um, somebody I was working on was having a nicotine fit. And so his body, he said it felt like he had ants crawling all over his body, and he was just like agitated. Ah. And so I just put my hands out and I let the Reiki flow, and my hands were ice cold. And he said, "I can feel the cold creeping up my arms, and it is soothing my skin, and I feel better."

And so that's the only time that I've ever channeled cold energy instead of warm or hot energy. You know, the ... So here's the thing about Reiki, and here's, here's the thing about ener- any energy work that you do, okay? You are, you are creating and/or expanding an energy channel within you. In first degree Reiki you're creating the specific channel that is tuned to the specific energy frequency of Reiki one.

And then in Reiki two you're expanding that channel, and in Reiki three you're expanding it more, uh, you know, or advanced Reiki, however you look at it. And some people combine advanced Reiki and Reiki master, some people teach them separately. I learned them separately. And again, you get more as a teacher, right?

And so it expands even more. Um, and each time you get an attunement it expands more. So like I've had multiple Reiki master attunements over the course of my life, because every Reiki master I met we would exchange attunements to expand our energy fields, right? And so that was, that was great. So, uh, what I did discover though is for some magic users, Reiki breaks.

And that is because, uh, Reiki is, uh, in a traditional attunement, the, the symbols are bound into the hands. And if you do any other energy work through your hands and you don't wanna send it through Reiki because it's not meant for healing or whatever, you know, you're doing, then it ... you can break the attunement.

And I have, I've had a student who did that multiple times. And so I ultimately had to develop a specific attunement process that was for magic users, and it just changed the way that the, that the symbols were put into the hands and things like that. So if you would like a copy of a description of how to do that, if you're a Reiki master, you have to prove to me that you're a Reiki master for me to give this to you.

But if you're a Reiki master and you would like to have a copy of that process where you can attune it in a way that the Reiki still works the way it's supposed to, but you don't have to send everything through the Reiki symbols for it to work, uh, for it to come out of your hands, then, uh, just send me an email at [email protected] with an attachment of your Reiki master certificate, and I will send you a copy of the, um

I'll send you a copy of the Reiki master ... or the Reiki master attunement for, uh, energy, uh, Reiki for magic users. Magic. Yeah. Reiki for magic users. Yeah, I can talk. Yeah. Yeah. It's been, it's been a long day. Yeah, yeah. Oh- Yeah ... were you gonna say about it not draining your personal energy? Well- Was that the thing that you were gonna say but you forgot?

Yeah, yeah, I think it was. So yeah, if, um- Thank you- ... hearing that ... I, I love it when she, like, jumps into my head and reminds me- ... of what, what the hell I was thinking when I couldn't remember it. Anyway, this is why we hang out with others. This is. Yes. So, uh, energy work should never drain your own energy field.

If it is, then you are doing it wrong, okay? If you're giving away your own energy, then one, you are handing over your crap to somebody else because your energy contains your crap. Don't do that. They don't need your crap. They've got their own crap, right? And for two, you shouldn't be sending them your energy because that's codependent crap unto itself, and, you know, the universe has nice, clean, pure energy without crap attached, right?

So you should be channeling that shit, and if you are not capable of channeling that shit without handing over your own energy, then you need to not be working on other people until you figure out how to do it right. And that's when you go back to your Reiki master and go, "Okay, I'm not doing this right.

How do I fix it?" And they will walk you through that, okay? Um, so if you are feeling drained at the end of a day of doing energy healing for people, un- unless it's just physically drained because, you know, standing for five hours is a long time. It's, it's, you know, physically drained is f- one thing.

Energetically drained, that's another, okay? If you're energetically drained at the end of even one or two sessions sometimes, you're giving away your energy instead of opening up. And, and this is a pretty common thing for healers, right? Because we will go into the energetic fetal position if we feel challenged at all, and that means we close down our crown chakra.

We close down our root chakra, and now we have no access to energy, and now the only thing we have to give is our own energy, and that sucks for all the reasons I just stated, right? Um, you know, it's your energy. You'd kinda like to use it yourself, right? So, you know, the, the key is to open up to the energies of the universe.

And so I'm gonna remind you that on the YouTube channel- is a tree meditation that will help you to open your crown and root chakras. You should absolutely do that tree meditation before you do any energy healing work because then you know you're open to source instead of just giving from your own energy.

Okay? So all of this to say, you know, pay attention, take care of yourself, take care of your environment. This is a lot of self-care. We become healers because we wanna heal others because we have a hard time healing ourselves. And so, you know, pay attention to taking care of you because until you have dealt with your issues to the point where something triggers them, you don't go into panic, "Oh, my God, ah," mode.

You are, you are subject to being a wounded healer, which is not ideal. So make sure that you are taking care of your own issues, and if you are finding that you're getting triggered and you don't know how to deal with those, we have a program for that. It's called Welcome to the Woo, and we can help you walk through all of those issues very quickly.

In four months, you will walk through the things that are, are, like, sending you flying, right? And it'll help you come to a better place of safety and security in, in your energetic field and in your personal self. And so that program is there. It's available. It's on the website at Kellesparta.com. Uh, you know, if you're interested, you can sign up for a discovery call, which is in the top of the, the website, the, you know, navigation.

You can sign up for that. Happy to talk to you about it and see if it's a good fit for you, okay? In the meantime, please share this podcast. Please rate it. Please, you know, join the mailing list, and you can do that by downloading the Boundaries for Empaths program at the top of the website. That is a fantastic program, and it gets you on our mailing list at the same time, and it's free.

So we love free, right? So Check it out. Rate, subscribe, share. We love you. Thank you. Yes. Thumbs up- Thumbs up ... subscribe, everything. All the things. All the things. All the things. Yeah. All the things. All the things, all the- And- Yes ... uh, oh, and one other little thing I, I'm, I keep hearing in my head, um, is along what you were just talking about.

For me, m- I'm, I'm talking about what Jewel's experience has been. One of my things, of course, when I went into your program, was trusting. I had huge trust issues, and that includes trust in the universe, y'all. I ain't even kidding. I mean, w- I have cussed out the universe a time or two, let me tell you.

Haven't we all? And, and... You're right. You know, I'm just saying. And so, um, so with me, when I'm doing my Reiki... And y'all, you know, remember, I'm, I'm, part of me is right brain, part of me is left brain. I'm an auditor, so my analytical side is pretty darn strong. That's where my ego lives, right? And so I have to literally say, "Ego, please step aside so Reiki can do its thing," because then if I don't, I'm using my energy, and it's like, no, no, just leave it alone.

It, it, it... I'm just, I'm just, I'm just the hollow bone. It's just flowing right through me. But when I started, I wasn't f- I didn't always feel, so I'm like, "It's not working. This is bullshit. It's not working. I'm not chanting." And then every time, I would have a dream that night, and it's like the elders come in, whoever the- they are, the beings, and they're like, "All right.

You got to get out your own way." It's working. It's working. And then my m- then my, um, Miss Gail will be like, "Darling, what'd I say? I tell you, allow. You got to allow. You, it, control is a illusion. You're not gonna control this. You have to allow it. The more you allow, the more..." So all of that to say, for me, your program helped me with the trust issues, um, so I could let go, and I could, you know, you know what?

The universe is gonna take care of me. It has this far. I'm still breathing. We still g- even if I wasn't breathing, it'd still be taking care of me. So, you know. And the more that I just was like, "All right. It's working. I don't have to feel it. I don't need that self-validation 'cause I already know there's a higher power at work," you know?

So for me, that helped me tremendously, you know? Um, 'cause whenever you're starting out, it's like, y- Kelle, you know how I am. "How do I know it's working?" Oh my God, we've had that conversation so many times. Yes. Yes. I'm like, "I need validation. It's not working," says my ego, you know. And I'm like, "Um, here's all the evidence that it is."

Yeah. And you're like- Uh ... "Wow, that counts." Oh, okay. Oh. I'm like, "Uh, yeah, kind of obvious." I didn't know that counted. Shit, I have been doing it. All right, cool. So, oh, and the internet sc- 'cause when I was looking, too, the internet courses are like, "Oh, spend $20 and you don't even have to go to class. This, watch these videos."

Yeah, y'all, that's a scam. Don't do that. Just please don't do that. Yeah. So. Please don't do that. Yeah. So, yeah. All right. So why don't you do the Kelleism for the day because you seem to have connected into that. Allow it to work through you. You don't need to control it. It's okay. So we're s- that's the gift of it.

We're the vessels. So, oh, and I'm, I'ma tell you funny, I wrote down that Miss Gail told me. Okay. So reiki healers are the tow trucks of the woo-woo world. Let me explain. Chakras are the gas stations, right? The meridians and nodes throughout your body, that's the highways and byways. Reiki healers are the tow trucks clearing all the wrecks, the blocks, off those highways and byways.

So there you go. Okay. So I'm gonna take what you said and, and squeeze it down into a, the size of a Kelleism. Open, relax, allow. There you go. All right. Well, that's all we have for this week, folks. Tune in next time when Kelle adds another chapter into your guide to energy, magic, and the spirit world. I'm Jules, still a level two, here with Kelle Sparta.

And you have been listening to Spirit Sherpa. So long, y'all. Bye.