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Creativity Through Reiki
By
Zachary Weiner
I grew up in a nuclear family with two sisters, a doctor father and
a nurse mother. I followed in the typical footsteps of suburban culture.
Yes I had interesting moments, but overall the only word that could
sum up my life would be “typical.”
I went through high school, college, and got a job in business. I went
to work every single day in a white collared shirt and striped necktie.
It was a drag, I knew I was missing out on something in life, but had
no clue what the something was, and worse, where I could find it. I
was living in a world of greys with only a splash of color here and
there. I found solace only through magazines, novels and television.
None of these were my own true experiences. I was living vicariously
through books and movies. I knew things had to change.
I began to experiment with differing forms of spirituality. My thought
had been that maybe I was missing something spiritually that could be
the reason my life seemed so dull.
I started off meditating and in general reading up on differing types
of religion and spiritual practices. I was going to a weekly meditation
group. It was a wonderful retreat, and I gained many things from meditation.
Still it wasn't what I was missing. I still floated through my life
with the doldrums around every corner. I extended my spiritual practices
to some of the more new age beliefs that I had heard of or read about.
Chakra therapy, kundalini yoga, herb therapy, the list went on and on.
My life was taken over by simply trying out new practices. All of them
were incredibly mind opening and expansive. I learned new things about
my being and personality. I gained new experiences, but still I was
only brushing the surface.
I had been going to a hypnotherapist for a couple of weeks to take my
spirituality to deeper levels. One day, the therapist asked me if I
had ever heard of Reiki. The therapist recommended a colleague of hers
that was a Reiki master, an energy healer. Of course it sounded appealing
to me. I made an appointment with the Reiki master that very same day.
I remember approaching the master's door with some hesitation, never
having received any sort of spiritual treatment directly at someone's
house. Moments of questioning the impending experience went through
my mind. Why was I not going to an office or workshop? Why was this
practice directly from her house? Was this some sort of sham, or scam
for that matter? I knocked on the door regardless.
I received the Reiki treatment and floated for weeks. After several
more treatments the Reiki master asked if I wanted to be 'attuned'
to Reiki and give myself and others treatments. She claimed that receiving
a Reiki attunement was a life changing experience, that it opened vast
energy channels.
I received two attunements that day, which is quite a bit. From that
moment forward I was changed. I left the house feeling peculiar, with
my hands tingling and feeling warm all over, a reaction many people
receive directly after the attunement process. For the next few days
after I went through some sort of physical and mental detoxification.
I felt like I had the flu and suddenly was confronting mental issues
I had faced in childhood.
My life suddenly took a drastic one-eighty after only a couple of weeks.
I became a completely new person. Something inside of me had been sparked
and it caught my entire being in flames, and like a phoenix, I then
rose from the ashes renewed.
I was a fountain of creativity. I quit my job, and began to write novels,
paint pictures, and my drab life suddenly had the color it was lacking.
I was not only happy, but I was spiritually satisfied. I felt the void
I once possessed completely replaced. After months and months of indulging
myself with my new found creativity I was living how I wanted to. I
sold my novels. It was a difficult process, but all of a sudden I was
a published author. People were reading my book, I was writing, and
traveling on book tours. It was something that would have been completely
foreign to me in my past form of existence, but it was right. It was
me at my absolute purest.
Two years later, I am still writing and loving every single minute of
it. My life is a color wheel of new experiences and pure joy. The attunements
I received changed my entire person for the better. It turned me around
from my world of number crunching into one of unbound creativity. I
became who I wanted to be, I found the something I was lacking, and
I would encourage anybody who felt as I once did, to figure out what
can turn their lives around for the better. To discover the essence
of their being and figure out their life's passion. Through Reiki
I did, and I couldn't be happier.
Zachary
Weiner is the author of “City at Night” and
“The Experts Speak.” His new book, “A Simple
Fate of Twists,” will soon be published by Random House/Ballantine
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