Connection

Just when I thought it couldn't get any better....

This week in the Usui Virtual Retreat our facilitator, Pamela Miles, asked us to think about Reiki as connection, "connection to that which connects us"  and again, she has put into words something that I have felt ever since my Reiki 1 class, but couldn't find the words to express.  Thank you Pamela :)

I don't know that I had ever felt connected, a part of, one with much of anything, at least not on a visceral level, until I became Reiki.  In fact, I often felt the opposite - disconnected, isolated, alone.  And it showed - in the way I viewed myself and the world and in the way treated myself and sometimes others.

Of course there are still moments in my day when I let myself feel stressed in response to something that is going on around me, but when I'm able to step back for moment (even if it's just in my head) and place a Reiki hand on my solar plexus or heart, I feel grounded again, safe, at-one-with, and that feeling allows me to proceed/respond in a way that is life-giving, light-giving and love-giving for myself and whomever else is involved.

Could it be that the sense of disconnection and isolation really is the basis for all that is wrong in our lives, in the world?

Could it be that Reiki is the answer?!

Namaste,
Janet