How I Came To Reiki

“Your daughter has cancer”. I heard this from the doctor in 2017 about my then 13 year old daughter. It was a few years after my divorce and at this time I was feeling more hopeful about life. Then with this news I was stopped quickly in my tracks! It was a hard punch to the gut! No parent wants to hear their child has cancer.

We went on this journey for 6 months of her having treatment and it was hard to see her suffering. What helped me with some of the uncertainty was that she was on a “schedule” of treatment, so I knew what to expect after the initial diagnosis.

Through this journey I was relying on my “partly anchored” spiritual beliefs to get me through this tough situation, but I was also still questioning those beliefs at times of how did this happen to her and us?

I am a middle aged man who has had a lot of battles with anxiety and it resurfaced again during this time because of the uncertainty, as you would imagine.

One positive thing that occurred for me during this difficult situation was that it brought me to Reiki. I was in a Reiki share group but not fully trained it prior to her diagnosis, so now I felt the call that this was the right time to get trained in it!

I knew I could help my daughter by using Reiki to help reduce the side effects of the mainstream cancer treatments, and I believe that Reiki did help her with lessening the side effects! The biggest news is that my daughter is now 20 and is still cancer free!

After her treatment ended, I resumed regular life as a middle aged man, but now changed by what my daughter and my family went through. I had come to Reiki, which helped me open up further spiritually and emotionally. But I was still batting with anxiety, which had present most of my life.

I used this time to continue to work on myself more. I noticed I had not been taking care of myself as much as I should, caretaking more to others than myself. I knew I needed to up my level of self care and this time was for that, to put the oxygen mask on myself first as they say when you fly on airplanes, before putting a mask on your child.

Even though I had worked on myself most of my life being a therapist, I knew there was still more issues I needed to work on. Psychology strategies that I had used had helped somewhat as I felt better than in the past, but I felt I needed additional strategies to help with anxiety and other issues.

The use of Reiki on my daughter led me to study Reiki even further. I continued to use Reiki on a daily basis, to keep myself physically healthy. I also was hoping that Reiki would help my anxiety.

But it was not easy.  I was having a “mini” mid life crisis as I look back. However, I kept pushing through and doing the inner work because I wanted more inner peace, and I knew that I could continue to help others, but in an even bigger way when I came out the other side of this.

I did form a consistent daily routine with Reiki and other strategies that helped me to manage the anxiety better, and I felt I had more control over it than in the past. Even though I had lost many battles with anxiety, I had finally won the war with it!

I felt I had plowed through the Iceberg of my issues, rather than chipping off pieces like in the past shattering it into pieces, and myself at times, but then I felt more fully whole coming out the other side! I felt more inner peace and felt I had fully transformed!

I felt more empowered, felt more freedom because I now had control over my thoughts, and learned to be less reactive when triggered by events in my life. I felt more grounded in general. I continue to take care of myself at a higher level, which has allowed me to help others in a bigger way because now my tank is on full!

I felt I went from being more lost in some ways in my life during middle age, questioning things in my life after my divorce and daughter’s illness, to finding my purpose to help others with Reiki healing to have relief from stress, anxiety, physical pain or other issues.

I want that for you now- to feel relief from physical pain, illness, emotional pain, or anxiety. I now help others go from feeling stress, in pain, being ill, or having anxiety to feeling more relief and having an overall better sense of well being.

I do this using Reiki healing energy so you can start feeling better both physically and emotionally.