I eat meat. I drink coffee. Well, latte’s. I don’t drink caramel macchiato’s anymore. But for some reason I feel like it is time for me to start learning Reiki. I recently read the book, Crystal Enlightenment. And I learned a great deal about the healing properties of crystals. And I also read that some crystals are actually crystalline life forms. Deep down I always believed that some crystals were life forms, but it felt great to see it in writing. I personally believe that everything that is and everything that is not in our universe has varying degrees of life force. Actually, just writing that down makes me feel good. I love life forms! That’s how I feel about it. So maybe I should persue Reiki because I love life forms. And since I believe in crystalline life forms I will include them in crystal healing sessions in the future. I was born June 26th, 1980 so that makes me born the week of the empath. That means that I’m supposed to be empathic. That means that I am able to share in the emotions and feelings of others. This is true about me.
I remember in high school I used to tap into the empathic side of myself. I was in the peer assistance league in high school and I also was a part of this program called KSR the Knowledge and Social Responsibility Program. Those programs taught me to tap into my emotional and socially aware sides of myself.
Why do I want to learn about Reiki? Is it because I am trying to become more powerful? Is it because I feel something inside or lack something inside that I am trying to fill by supposedly helping other people? Is it out of greed? Deep down I think I can honestly say that I have been interested in Reiki in the past because of one or more of those reasons. I mean it is very romantic to envision oneself as having the power to lay hands on someone else and use the power of one’s own life force to heal them. But I think my old desires to want to help people were what was stopping me from taking the first steps in Reiki. What I mean by this is that Reiki is more about accepting energy that is already there than creating something out of nothing. I know this now intuitively without having to talk to someone else about Reiki. This is because just like how I am now more in tune with my crystals, I can understand that wants come from lacking, so do desires. But abundance comes from accepting responsibility. You have to accept things like they both come from within yourself and are confirmed by the outside cosmos at the same time.
Lately I have made some major breakthroughs in my life. I have been able to sit down and study math, albeit basic math. I have entered into programming with the Python language, which is something I’ve always wanted to do since I was very young. And now I am starting to finally study crystals and begin to treat crystals as lifeforms that need to be listened to not like how one listens to a person, but how someone might listen to a tree or a mountain range. I can feel my quartz crystal ball upstairs wishing that it was down here on the kitchen table with me helping me write. But the mere fact that I am sensitive to my crystal and can remember it’s beautiful spherical shape and many intricate planes and interior sensitivities.
As you embark on your own spiritual journey. I wish you nothing but great success. You already have all the tools you need to find what you are looking for. You just need to accept the fact that each new skill and ability requires responsibility. To yourself, and to the cosmos. The more powerful you become, the more mindful and emotionally and intuitively stable you will need to be. Otherwise, your power will be short lived. I can attest to that personally too many times than I’d like to admit. It seems like every time that I thought that I got to the place that I needed to be where I would either be happy or financially self-sufficient to support my goals I would eventually self-sabotage myself or become overwhelmed. The only solace is that for every failed attempt at either enlightenment or tranquility, the cosmos and I have shared a few memories. Those memories can be learned from and they make the process of becoming more in tune with one’s own spiritual, physical, mental and emotional abilities less like a chore and more like a pleasant brisk walk to the ocean.
It may be cold outside,
but the walk keeps our bodies warm,
like the gyro,
always spinning slightly,
we too learn,
with every new revolution.
Thank you for reading this article of mine and I hope you remember that now that you have read it, this article belongs to you as well. For the observer and the observed, the writer and the written share the sacred bond friendship with every drop of time that they spend together.
-Tyler