| Often what one teaches is what one needs to | | | | significant pain under the ball of my driving |
| learn. This article clearly demonstrates the | | | | foot. I frequently gave my hurting foot Reiki |
| importance of trust. | | | | treatments. From my extensive experience of |
| | | | successfully channeling Reiki energy to |
| A WEBSITE IS BORN | | | | cancer patients and other seriously ill |
| | | | recipients, I knew that a little bone problem |
| When I first conceived the idea of offering | | | | should be a piece of cake to heal. My |
| distance healing via a website, I became very | | | | assumption was that I had another bone spur. |
| excited. I knew that by using the World Wide | | | | I directed Reiki to this foot problem just |
| Web, I would be able to facilitate the | | | | about every day. There was no change! How |
| healing of many more individuals and | | | | could this be? I have witnessed Reiki perform |
| situations than I could by local | | | | much greater healings! What followed was a |
| word-of-mouth. The path of creating the | | | | plunge into doubt. I doubted myself and gave |
| website was fraught with challenge. At that | | | | little credence to the many healings I had |
| time, no other site was offering this | | | | facilitated. I felt like a Reiki failure. I |
| service. The general public was unaware that | | | | made the decision to have the surgery during |
| Reiki energy could be directed from a | | | | the summer. I was a teacher, thus the summer |
| distance. One challenge was creating a proper | | | | decision for the surgery. I had far too few |
| title for the site. I realized that people | | | | sick days to spend on this foot. My |
| would need to "trust" that I would indeed | | | | retirement medical benefits are tied to the |
| follow through and actually send them the | | | | number of remaining sick days. It would have |
| Reiki energy for the contracted number of | | | | been unwise to have the surgery performed |
| days, hence the name "Reiki With Trust." | | | | during the school year. A second problem |
| | | | would have been transportation to my school. |
| LAYERS OF TRUST | | | | Not one other teacher was conveniently |
| | | | located near my home. |
| During the year it took in the creation of | | | | |
| the site, I came to realize that the word | | | | ANNA LISTENS |
| "trust" had multiple layers of application to | | | | |
| what I was trying to create. The recipient of | | | | Then, it happened. I just snapped one day and |
| the distance Reiki energy also had to "trust" | | | | was absolutely driven to have the surgery the |
| the Reiki energy. This means that the | | | | week prior to my February vacation. I had |
| recipient had to understand that the Reiki | | | | less than two weeks to make a multitude of |
| energy I channeled would be sent to the | | | | arrangements. I insisted on reserving the |
| "highest and best". As much as my ego wanted | | | | surgery date prior to the actual appointment |
| to have the Reiki remove a client's source of | | | | with my foot doctor. I was happy to have |
| pain, I had to continuously remind myself | | | | found a teacher substitute who had a degree |
| that the recipient's soul was the healer, and | | | | in Biology. I began running off the reams of |
| neither I, nor the client's conscious mind, | | | | papers the substitute would need for the |
| would know what their "highest and best" | | | | students' lessons. I found two colleagues who |
| would be. Without this intention for the | | | | would go greatly out of their way to pick me |
| "highest and best", lessons that needed to be | | | | up and drive me to school. I was learning how |
| learned in this lifetime might be avoided. By | | | | to ask for help. As I found myself in this |
| avoiding the lessons of one's path, they are | | | | fury of activity, I kept asking myself "why?" |
| bound to return with a vengeance. | | | | It appeared that my decision was terribly |
| | | | illogical. Yet, I just had to do it NOW. |
| SPIRIT KNOWS BEST | | | | |
| | | | REIKI'S WISDOM REVEALED |
| To help me combat my ego need to want to | | | | |
| specify precisely what the Reiki was to do, I | | | | After many phone calls, the day for the |
| recall an article I read a long time ago. It | | | | meeting with the podiatrist arrived. I felt |
| was about a Reiki Master whose friend was | | | | as if I was going to my death. As I sat in |
| suffering from cancer. The friend was about | | | | the over-crowded and uncomfortably hot |
| to receive chemotherapy and was very | | | | waiting room for over two hours, I kept |
| concerned about the impending loss of hair. | | | | wondering "why am I doing this?" The meeting |
| Her request to the Reiki Master was to direct | | | | with the doctor revealed all. His attention |
| the energy to preserving her hair. The Reiki | | | | went immediately to a mole I had under my |
| Master knew the dangers of second guessing | | | | foot. I have had it my entire life. He |
| the intentions of spirit. She sent the Reiki | | | | insisted that it be removed as soon as |
| energy to the friend's "highest and best". | | | | possible. As it turns out, moles in areas |
| After her friend had received the | | | | that take punishment are very prone to |
| chemotherapy, she did lose her hair as | | | | becoming a melanoma. due to it's location I |
| expected. In her friend's quest to purchase a | | | | would have never noticed a change in its |
| wig, it just so happened that the salesperson | | | | appearance. The actual bone pain was due to |
| at the wig store knew of natural cancer | | | | the loss of padding under a tiny bone, in |
| remedies. These remedies did lead to a | | | | addition to inflamed ligaments. An injection |
| healing. I cannot remember the details of | | | | was all that was needed. I left the office |
| the healing, but I did learn the lesson of | | | | delightfully relieved. |
| the story. | | | | |
| | | | THE LESSON |
| FEET AND DOUBT | | | | |
| | | | I know that everything happens for a reason. |
| A few years ago I had a painful bone spur and | | | | I am glad I have learned to trust powerful |
| serious joint damage to my left foot. The | | | | drives to do some normally illogical and |
| surgery that followed not only removed the | | | | seemingly stupid actions. I was willing to |
| bone spur, but also removed a section of my | | | | take a huge risk. Now the lesson. If the |
| big toe bone. I had faithfully sent Reiki to | | | | Reiki had healed my foot pain, I would have |
| the future events surrounding the surgery. | | | | had no need to see the doctor. I know, in the |
| The surgery went well. I had minimal pain, | | | | deepest recess of my being, that my lifetime |
| and the healing was atypically fast. After my | | | | conversation piece, my mole, was about to |
| post-op visit, the surgeon admitted that I | | | | turn into a life-altering nightmare. It is |
| had the "most excruciatingly painful" | | | | clear that I should have trusted the Reiki. |
| surgical procedure he performs. I was tickled | | | | Even when it seemed that the Reiki energy was |
| to realize the power of Reiki worked for me | | | | not working, it certainly was, for the |
| as well. Two years later, I started to have | | | | "highest and best". |