In doing some spring cleaning of old files I came across this keynote speech I did for the One Gathering back in 2007. And yet, the sentiment is timeless. Enjoy!
We are connected to everything. I know that sounds cliché, but its so true. I’ve been practicing and working with the Universal Energy of Reiki for over 10 years and I’ve come to understand this connection. But recently, I completed my scuba diving certification and through this process I came to tangibly experience what I’ve come to embody as a Reiki practitioner and teacher.
Floating through the infinite expanse of the ocean, one begins to imagine what it is they want to create. Think of starfish, a starfish appears. Watching your bubbles cascade upwards, one sees physics in action. Sinking to the bottom of the sea floor, one is reminded of gravity effecting all the earth, everything. Seeing a starfish engulfing a clam, the process of living and dying is present in from of ones eyes.
Reiki is like this circle of life, it is ever present, ever existed. It permeates all of the world, we need to create the space and place to dive in and experience this phenomena. This gathering, all of the OOL and volunteers have been aware of this process of working with energy. Coming together, we all create a field of potential, channeling this energy into a space of intention. The intention is to lift the vibration of all who are present. To raise consciousness. To allow for a transcendence of physical and mental limitations.
Like the scuba diver, one is able to become neutrally buoyant in a sea of healing energy. What does not serve you can leave, falling away effortlessly. What is true to your essence remains. That is the heart of Reiki. It leads you to the place you were meant to be. What do you want to manifest? Like the popular book and film, ‘The Secret’, working with the energy of Reiki allows one to attract and be attracted to that which is of the highest good.
But it is not a manipulative energy. Like the ocean, it just is. You can’t force the ocean! There are no boundaries, there is just infinite, infinite potential. Like outer space. On my CD, Permission to Receive, I guide listeners on a cosmic journey to their inner and outer space. This vast expanse is our true realm. This physical, 3D realm in which we spend the majority of our lives only represents one view. Dive deep into the oceans, cast out into the stars….these places are not just physical manifestations, they exist within the soul of each and every one of us. When we take this journey, we transcend our boundaries. We become aware of what this gathering is all about…that we are ONE…we are not our ego identities….we are not are personalities…these are colors of the rainbow each and everyone of us represents at any given point in time.
Give yourself permission to receive the experience of universal healing energy. This is your birthright. When one takes a Reiki class, one is opening their mind, body and spirit to the force that is all around us. As one progresses along the Reiki path, the power of attention and intention become ever more a working reality.
I wish I could take you all to the bottom of the Puget Sound, where I was just a few days ago, in a warm, insulated, wetsuit, of course! Somehow, being in the substance of water makes the concept of ‘ki’ and what it is that much more visible. The dive team, a collection of random individuals, came together and became a connected unit, much like we are today. We are in a sea of ‘ki’, we just can’t ‘see’ it, like we could if we were all in the water. We could see particles of plant life floating about, random fish darting here and there, bubbles of oxygen rising from our tanks, floating to the surface and releasing out and merging with the air. ITS SOOO VISUAL. Can you see what I am describing?
What prevents us from seeing this and feeling this phenomena is our hard and fast attachment to the ego. This is a part of our personality that thinks ‘its in charge’. Its only one facet, like one side of diamond. Its not the whole jewel. I’ve often heard EGO stands for ‘Edging God Out’. God being a force greater than our Selves.
You can use the wetsuit as the analogy of our ego. It allows one to travel, function and survive through the matrix of the water environment. It’s a covering, a protection, and a container. It keeps one’s physical body intact. Yet, the wetsuit only works when you let some water (ki) into it. As that water coats your body, the insulating layer of the suit allows the water to heat to your body temperature. But when it comes down to it, the wetsuit ego, is only one layer on top of the layer of water on top of our physical body, which is basically a bag of water contained by a layer of skin.
When we remove all those layers, those preconceptions, we are exposed and engulfed by the sea of ki, of Reiki, of the Universe.
But unlike being in water, where if we were to remove the wetsuit we would be in peril, when we move the go aside in the air, on the land, we merge with the air molecules…with the oxygen bubbles we can’t see, emitting from each and every one of us, from all the plants, the grass, the trees, the flowers, the water around us.
Let yourself go, feel the force of the energy present in this place, the nature, the people, the intention. Reiki is about getting out of the way and making space for healing to occur. Healing means becoming whole. We come into ‘attunement’, at oneness with our true essence when we do this.
Reiki practitioners and masters (teachers) serve as guides on this path back to source. We are your scuba instructors. Take the dive, journey and return transformed.
Copyright 2018 Eileen Dey Wurst
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