The things, like protection beads, worship crosses, crystal stones, that we all somewhat know about... The stones that are to keep you from harm, wrong doing, etc. These tools that I was taught in Massage Therapy school are no longer relevant. The use of beads, crosses, stones and prayer is no longer needed in my life. A light bulb went off recently. The light bulb to energy work, Reiki to be specific. I am Reiki certified. However, each person practices Reiki a little bit different. I met someone recently... She is the first woman to be certified in Reiki in all of Wisconsin. She was certified in 1980. Let me tell you, what a wonderful, splendid woman she is. What she told me was something similar to what the Oracle told Neo in the Matrix. She told me what I needed to hear in order to make changes in my life. I was wearing beads to protect me from bad juju or Mojo, bad energy, call it what you will. She just about clobbered me when I told her about my beads and why I wear them so often. Her reaction caught me completely off guard, caught me by surprise- because I didn't know any better.
This Reiki Master was the person who told me, that Reiki IS THE UNIVERSAL life force, no religion, no -anything is above it. why should i need protection from a UNIVERSAL life force? I voiced to her, "I needed protection from client's bad juju or bad energy. I don't want that." She just about damned me to hell when i said that. I know her intentions, and no, it definitely was not to damn me. It was to show me, and wake me up from a permanent cloudiness that I have been living in. I immediately looked at my shamballa beads on my left wrist and felt bad. I like these beads. It was hard to take them off knowing I have had them on for so long.
I felt...ashamed in a way, joyous in another. How could one person say one thing to me- to make me wake up from this sleepless dream? Her reaction took me about three days to recover from. There are many things out there that I know, and many that I do not know. That was one of them. So, I'm ready for the next step in my life without protection, without any help. Just the Universal Life Force.
