Through my years of practice I have experienced the different types of healing that Reiki can manifest in us. I have often used Reiki to help with physical healing to relieve my itchy allergy eyes. It has helped me to concentrate and focus when grading those end of semester research papers. Reiki has even helped me come to terms gradually over time with emotional and spiritual matters. But Reiki is not the only tool I use to help me along through life.
Recently, I began using The Grief Recovery Method to work through some emotional wounds from the past. A friend recommended it to me and offered to work through it together. It is hard work. Sometimes it is sad and a little scary to face the darkness, but I know it has to be worked through. It can't be avoided, walked around, or buried. I had a picture with a quote by Robert Frost, "The best way out is always through," from an artist I found at the Ann Arbor Art Fair years ago and found it so beautiful. But a few years ago I couldn't stand it. Actually, I realize now I couldn't handle going through the pain of my grief. There are days I'm still not sure I can stand being with the pain, but I know in order to get to the other side I must go through it. I'm thinking I might need to reorder that lithograph and hang it where I can see it everyday.
In working through The Grief Recovery Method, it addresses emotional healing. Last week I heard a podcast from Sounds True's Insights at the Edge that dealt with the physical healing that needs to occur to finish releasing the emotional residue from trauma. Now not all emotional pain is trauma, but I'm no expert and really can't speak to that. Dr. Peter Levine and Dr. Maggie Phillips address that very clearly in the podcast.
What I am learning is that using only the Grief Recovery Method alone will help with the emotional pain from loss I have suffered in the past. But to complete the healing (and maybe get rid of some of my yucky headaches), I need to find ways to address the pain from a spiritual and physical perspective too. Physical exercises to shake away the pain and continuing in earnest with my spiritual practice should help. I don't have the complete answers yet, but serendipity seems to be guiding me along with just enough information to travel the road to recovery. For all of us, it is so important to pay attention to the things around us and what we hear, watch and experience. The miracles are all around us if we just slow down and pay attention.
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