It has been a while since I posted out here. That’s quite a change from the time I was posting almost every day. Well, several things have caused that including working way too much as well as having several things going on (none of them in the least bit ethereal). One thing I have been doing that is ethereal is teaching. Since the last entry, I have taught Reiki 1 twice, and Reiki 2. And I am scheduled to teach Reiki 3 in a few weeks.
I had been contacted by a lady from Waycross, Georgia for Reiki 3. She wanted it so she could teach her family as there were a lot of them that needed healing. In talking, I had determined that she had only had a little of what I teach in Reiki 2. Since I was teaching Reiki 1 in a week (to a lady from Atlanta... talk about Georgia day), I asked her to audit the class at a reduced rate.
She had taken Reiki 1 and 2 from another, and felt that her teacher had been distracted with other things, and did not fully give enough attention to her teaching. When she told her teacher that she was going to look for someone else to teach the next level, her teacher got real irate and rude.
When she took my Reiki 1 class, she was surprised at the information taught, and the method. She told me that her last teacher had done nothing more than read from a book. There was no hands-on training at all. She had actually gone home and studied the book, and practiced the hand positions (at least those for healing oneself). She never did get to practice on someone else.
Excuse me, but this is a hands-on healing art! How can anyone teach it by reading a book, and think they have done a good job? I know I spout off about teachers and their methods now and then, but how can someone care so little about their students as to just read from a book? And then how can they care so little about the art that they teach this way? I certainly can't understand it. At any rate, both students did very well at Reiki 1.
One funny thing did happen though. My other student long ago had some problems that makes her a little untrusting of men. I got a chance to see that energetically when I went to sight scan her for demonstration. While I was trying to do it, I felt like there was something pushing me away. It felt exactly like the time I went over to Deb's apartment to clean it. The force pushing me toward the door was exactly like what I felt emanating from my student. I mentioned this to her, and she calmed herself more. The push stopped.
Not too long afterward, I was teaching the same ladies Reiki 2. Because of work, I was extremely stressed out, so much so that I almost cancelled class to a later day. In fact, both ladies said that they had felt I was going to do that, and were surprised that I hadn't.
When I teach Reiki 2, I review the basic energy exercises that I teach in Reiki 1. This day, I started with a new exercise. We clasped hands and then brought in white cleansing light and watched all our negativity wash off of us, and go into the ground.
This was a very energetically powerful class. The distance healing was spectacular, both the single distance and the healing chain.
The group healing was also very wonderful. What I like about the group healing is that I get the opportunity to be the 'victim' and get a healing. It was interesting watching them scan me. They methodically went over me silently, then told of what they found. They found all my problems, and were surprised at how many there were. It was great getting a healing. It felt so good and relaxing that I had to fight to not fall asleep.
I had scheduled a master’s class for the following week for the student from Waycross. Unfortunately, problems came up at work causing me to work late (I am a computer programmer in real life, and am on call 24/7). I had to call my student and put her off until the next night. The following day, more problems occurred with my boss wanting them 'fixed before you leave here tonight'. I had to cancel one more time. This unfortunately caused problems with her scheduling. She had wanted to earn her masters before Labor Day. I offered a number dates, night and weekend that would meet her goal, but she found it easier to find another instructor, than match any dates I could offer her.
It upsets me to lose a student, at the same time I have to realize that Reiki does not pay the bills. I wish it did. I wish I could make a living as a full time healer/teacher. But the bills get paid by my working a regular full time job, not Reiki. When the boss tells me it is critical to the business that I work late and get a problem solved, I don't have a lot of options.
The student from Waycross told me she felt drawn to me (as so many of my students had). I can see that was so she could get real hands on training with good instruction. I guess it was just as plain that her path needed to take her elsewhere for her masters. Unlike her last instructor, I wished her well on wherever her path takes her.