Welcome to the ReikiMastery News!

Reiki Intro Night WEDNESDAY June 11th, (the flyer had said Thursday, that was a misprint) in Pasadena.

I have classes in NORTHERN and SOUTHERN California coming up in next few months, plus the July ONLINE distance healing class open to anyone anywhere Reiki 2 and above. Full list of dates is in left column

Reiki Healing Night in Sierra Madre is Thursday May 29

Japanese Reiki Techniques! June 7-8 in Sierra Madre(Pasadena) Learn how Mikao Usui and early Reiki founders did Reiki differently, meditations, etc that were dropped from the western system.

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Healing Night & Class Schedule

I am very excited about the Online Distance Healing class. My first attempt which started in early May is doing very well, and giving me lots of good feedback and encouragement, so the July class will be fantastic (Everyone attending the May class will be comped into the July class) This is the beginning of a series of online classes on different advanced Reiki topics, from the nuts and bolts of teaching Reiki, guided meditations, Japanese Reiki techniques and more. It takes a lot of work to develop each class, but I hope to add a new class every 6 months or so.

New **Online Distance Healing Class** $99, July 15

Distance Healing is one of the most powerful aspects of Reiki. Come explore what we it really can do. This 9 week online class will use a combination of videos and text to explore what Reiki Distance healing can really do. Basics, Situations, Levels of the Soul, Abundance, Specific healing complaints, distance space clearing, Ghosts and more. Will also include sending energy to each others healing and manifesation requests.

To register, you must be Reiki 2 or above. New classes will be posted on Wednesday evenings, you can watch the videos and post comments and results throughout the week.

To Register for Online Distance Healing Class Click Here

TO REGISTER

The full class schedule is in the left hand margin. CLICK LINK to register.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Tell everyone about the Reiki Holistic Healing Demonstration I'm doing at the Pasadena Central Library on WEDNESDAY JUNE 11. The auditorum seats 150 people, so lets have lots! The format will be more of a formal introduction (about 30 minutes) followed by doing Reiki on people. Would love to have you come and help. Could you download and print 5 copies of the flyer and pass them out or post them?

Click to see full flyer .pdf file

My full healing night schedule is posted for both Pasadena(Sierra Madre) and Santa Monica (at Santa Monica College Bundy Campus) I have upcoming classes in both locations, including a weekday class in Santa Monica

Be the Lighthouse, Not the Sponge

People often ask me about how to not take in other people's energy. They go to social gatherings or malls or theaters and after being around people with an intense emotional reaction, they go home feeling sick or tired.

Imagine you are at a gathering and someone is telling you a story of woe, a person is yelling, or radiating their worry to the room.

What do you do? Not what do you do physically, or socially in terms of what you say or if you stay or go, but what do you do energetically.

I am encountering many people (heck, I do this too) that try to act as a sponge and absorb the negative energy in the room, sort of a psychic housekeeping, as if someone has spilled something, we rush to clean it up, before it generates a bigger mess in the room. It is also useful for evening out the emotional states of the people present. So the mood of the group more or less matches each other.

The person with the sponge has saved the day, restored social order, and helped the unhappy person release some emotion.

And they all live happily ever after, until the next..'spill'.

Well, not quite.

What happens to the person with the sponge? Often if there is only an occasional spill, the sponge strategy works fine, but in areas where there are lots of upset people, or you spend a lot of time with one very upset person, the sponge gets pretty dirty and pretty full.

When the sponge can't take any more, the heavy negative energy affects the mood, and eventually can affect the health of the person who uses this strategy, because until they figure out a way to get rid of it, they will always have this dirty energy under their skin.

Cleaning The Sponge

A number of strategies are useful for cleaning the sponge. Lying down on the earth, leaning into a tree, or even taking a walk are all good strategies for letting the energy of the natural world clean any negative energy you have picked up. Another good strategy is to either take a bath with epsom salts, or to use a salt scrub on your skin in the shower.

Be The Lighthouse

While you will still find many times and places to use and clean the sponge of your energy system, or more effective strategy is to change the way you take in energy by changing the way you conceptualize it.

Nobody decides to consciously be the sponge, but it is a good description of an approach many of us take subconsciously.

Students frequently ask me how can they stop taking in other people's energies. The reason many of the techniques that people use do not work long term is that we dont really want to stop taking on other people's energies, because we want to be able to still be sympathetic, and lower the stress, anger and anxiety around us. What is needed is a different approach.

Imagine you are a lighthouse on a rocky shore. The lighthouse shines the light of its presence over the murky roiling waters, it does not try to absorb the water itself. As the water crashes into the lighthouse, instead of being absorbed like a sponge, it is split, and made to go around the lighthouse. Energetically, let other peoples stress and strife fall to the left or right of you, dont suck it in. move the energy sideways around you.

Imagine also that you have a whirlpool to the left and right sides of your rock, where you can dump in any negative energy and let it be pulled away. Next time you feel that negaitive energy is building up direct it sideways to go past you with your hands or with your mind, and let it go down the drain of the whirlpools.

But you are also the lighthouse. Let the light of the Reiki energy shine posititve light through you onto the people in need. So they can not only release their negativity, through the whirlpools, but also they and you can recieve the positive energy of light.

MUD after FIRE

Last months newsletter was all about the fire in Sierra Madre that burned the hills. This month, indeed last weekend, it rained, hard. 6-12 inches of mud filled the street, closing it. Firefighters, bulldozers and local citizens dug it out.

Once again I had the same sense of double vision. If I had still been living there I would have been worried, and would have canceled my vacation to see my folks in Indiana, and my friend Carl in Wisconsin.

And yet, once again, what could have been a much larger disaster wasn't. The homes are fine, life continues.

If you would like to read a blog about the event (not by me) with pictures, go here.

http://www.sierramadrenews.net/2k8/may/sierramadremudslides.htm

LETTERS

We took your Reiki I & 2 in SF in March. Thank you, thank you, thank you for being SUCH an amazing, grounded and fun teacher. It is incredibly difficult to believe it has only been 2 months since our training!!!! Let's just say....Reiki has quickly become a vital, connecting component in our lives and of everyone we know! haha Yup, lovin' the distance Reiki since many of our close friends live far away!!!! I learn something new each and every time I access Reiki --- it feels very natural and a part of me. I feel so very blessed.

Hi Jess - Not sure if I already sent this to you, but here's a recent comment on your Reiki & Sound video:

" i thought only buddhist monks could do that after years and years of practice...learn something new every day. Jessica, you have one absolute killer smile girl. Why not take a trip to iraq...probably would stop the war."