Hi, today I had reiki which turned into something like past life work as my master needed to do something with what came up.I would like to continue this thread as a documentation of my journey as I am doing reiki 1 on Thursday but for now I'd like to describe what happened today 
She began the session and said my headwas charged with power, she put her hand on the leftsideof my forehead and asked me if I got headaches 'just here' which I do. Then she went down to my throat which became tight. (I keep alot of emotion inside and when I feel the urge to cry it really gets stuck there and hurts so much).
She said if Iwantedto make any noise I could and it began with squeezed out tears and then something like amoan or grunt and this became quite regular. She said she was moving from the reiki for a moment and asked me what was happening, who isdoingsomething to me. At first nothing came butthenI saw aman in a kind of black loose fitting robe with long sleeves. She asked me what he was doing and I said hurting my throat. She asked what with and I replied his hands. She asked me who I was and I wasn't me I was a ladywith long flowing raggy dark hair in a beige smock kind of dress. She continuedto ask what was happening and to gowith what happened next - the man kept his hands around her neck until sheslowly died and fell to the floor. me - as the soul went above the body and watched people come over, touching, kneeling by the woman. They didn't take her anywhere but stayed around her.
I was then guided to lay her to restin the way I thought was fitting, so I saw her buried with a stone to mark her grave. I was then guided to the place where souls go and asked if I wanted to meet theman who did it. I said yes and asked the question 'why?'. He looked angry and pointed, but not in anger to just past my left shoulder, behind me, but there was noone I could see. He said he had to do it. I was asked if there was anything I wanted to tell him and said 'You didnt have to be so violent.'
Iwas then askedif there was anything her sould wanted me to take from this and I was told over and over 'forgive'.
She then continuued with the reiki and and spent a long time on my second chakra. She said it was shaking, blocked. My left arm began to go numb and she asked me to put it over my heart centre and tofeel love for myself.
She saidI had been really hurt and asked who hadhurt me, my feminine, so much. I said it wasmy ex best friend. We parted ways nearly a year ago and the process of the friendship breaking was like grieving for me. I couldnt escape seeing her and every time it hurt so much. She asked if it was sexual, mental or emotional absue and I replied emotional.
She workedhard tohelp my feminine return and asked me to visalise a beautiful place and me laying on the ground feeling the feminine energy and the male from the sun as she held my head and base of my back. I found connecting with the earth so very difficult.
Afterwards we spoke and she picked out a pack ofcards 'crone cards' I think they were called and she asked me what my wisdom shows and I picked a card. this card had a set of phrases regarding loving yourself, remembering you are beautiful, to stay healthy, sensual and juicy, take a husband a lover and love yourself.
This card was so pertinent, when she askedme to read it out the final line about being beautiful choked me to say it.
We spoke a little more and I came to the realisation that I don't think my ex friend was the focus ofthe imbalance with the feminine. My mother has made comments about my size for years. Not big ones, but they still cut and even when I am trying to improve my health she says unknind things. so we now think that some of this blockage has come from my mother.
This experience has been the most intriguing I have ever had. I very much look forward to doing reiki one with her and think I have a huge amount to learn about myself through it. I am prepared for the release of dreadful things that I have soaked up for years and believe that now is the time for me to start this journey and look forward to the future. Maybe shedding some of these burdens I have been carrying.
intreseting session huh? :rolleyes:
Wow, that sounds amazing,looking forward to reading your next post, thanks for sharing
reiki 1
Hello again,
Well today I was attuned to reiki. During the guided meditation I askedmy guide ifI should really be doing this (as I have had some self doubt) and he nodded enthusiastically and grinned atme. When he left he gace me a box with a heart in it. It took the heart and pushed it into myself. It felt wonderful.
My master began the attunement and afterwards she asked how I felt. 'Different' was all I could muster. She said 'You look wonderful!'.
Then I practised healing myself with her guidance. Ill give you alittle run down of everything here - I was pretty amazing and dispelled any doubts I had been having.
We started over the third eye. Here Isawa red, slowly, slightly rocking red/dark pink blob. This blob had a stem almost like the stem a piece of a lava lamp makes - bulbous head andlong sinewy tail. It didnt seem to be physical or mental or emotional and seemed to be mine.
I moved to the crown - woah the sparks and crackles in my brain! Nothing seemed to need healing it was just there, working i guess.
I moved to the back of my head and nothing came.
Then my throat - physically i saw it all tighten like i was looking through a medical camera. i accepted it and blew it out a few timesandit loosened.then mental nothing but emotionalthe tightening came again this time with tears.Again i accepted it and blew itout a few times, this took longer but it loosened and i felt ready to move on.
then the heart chakra - here i could see my physical heart striped with fat (i am rather overweight) so i asked forcells tobe healed and if not healed replaced.
After that the solar plexus. on the right side of my body I saw a stone coveredin oily stuff, almostwrapped in it like seaweed. I felt for itand unwound it, reachedin and thre itout a few times before it looked like it was gone and wound it back again.
Then the sacral chakra - This was a mine field!! Physicallyon my left side i saw an ovary on a long thin fallopian tube. Theovary looked weak. i askedfor cells to be healed or replaced. I have dreadful periods and my master later advised me to practice reiki a few daysbefore I am due. Then mentally I saw my mother shouting angry - i accepted this and released ita few times and she quietened. Finally emotionally - I saw my mother shouting at me, a kindof speechbubble coming out of her mouth with harsh lines inside it. I accepted and released many many times before it quietened and I was ready to move on.
the root chakra nothing.
My knees and ankles - I saw the bones and muscles but nothing to address.
My feet - here i sawa black circle, almost a very loose spiral very slowly rotating on the left side of my head (funnily enough where she had asked if i got headaches on tuesday) I felt it wasnt mine unwound it, scraped it out again and again until i felt it was gone and wound up again.
We finished there as this had taken a long time.
For my first ever go at reiki I was astonished. The things I saw were just there. I drove home feeling on top of the world, laughing smiling. Very joyful.
Ill let you know what happens next time!
Love andlight,
Melonie
Wow, Melonie, thank you for sharing this. You have a gift for remembering and reporting the experience, and are clearly sensitive. I can picture you using your psychic/intuitive skills in your own future work.
I look forward to hearing more of your story.
Im unsure if this is just me being weird but...
I have justfinished my first own reiki session at home, about 5 minutes ago and i have a great sense of the guide who was in my meditation before i was attuned and the lady who was strangled in the session i had on Tuesday standing together above me justto the right in the place i visualised in the meditation. They are smiling and I feel great. Anyone else had this kind of thought?
Anyway - strange things aside - quite a lot went on today although i do not feel that i had prepared my room enough to be completely present throughout the reiki.
When iwent to the back of mt head i saw something that looked like a childs drawing of an angel - buzzing round and round and round in my head.I laughed at her and accepted her.
Later I saw a snake, languid, upright on the right side of my head. Not threatening and mine apparently. I dont know what this menas/is/signifies.
My throat was tight again and i asked for physical healing and accepted the emotional side and blew it out.
I saw my heart again, and emotionally i saw a wall around my heart. I accepted it was there and that I didnt need it any more and some ofitcame down. I think it is a strong wall I have had for a long time. Later that spaced filled with light and it felt wonderful.
Next at the solar plexus I saw physcially a dark thick looking sphere where i guess either mybladder or womb area is. It was slowly turning. i asked for cell healing.the turning slowed. I have no idea what this was. Does anyone else have a similar experience?
At the sacral chakra i saw both overaies this time. Physically iaskedeach in turned for healing and they plumpedup rather than looking weak. Emotionally and mentally mu mum was there - mentally once i had accepted it she started to smile. which felt wonderful.
when i gotto the top of my feet again the black swirling thing was in theright side ofmy head so i unwound again and pulled it out. filling the space with light and energy before closing.
I did my back today - isitnormal forsome of the things you have seen before like the heart wall and the fatty heart to be there again?
i hope i am doig this right - i would appreciate any comments or actions that maybe i should take if these things happen again.
Thanks
Love and light
Melonie
hello again
Hi all,
Well I've been on holiday so I've been unable to report any goings on!
Recently when I have been self healing I have have snippets.of conversations.and words pop into my head. Nothing to do with everyday life and from people I don't know which has been interesting. Although hard to recall at the end of Tthe session. Yesterday I felt my deceased friend.behind.me and giving me a hug. I asked my guide.if this was.real and he replied yes.
I must admit 'seeing ' my reiki guide from my first guided meditation before attunement is quite odd. I've never been one.for.believing in 'spirits etc hut he is.certainly there sometimes obvious. And.sometimes faint. I've been wondering of im.cracking up.when.during the day I ask him questions! Is this just me.being odd or is this something others have experienced?
Apologies for the typing I'm on my phone and can't see the text!!
Also a friend asked me to try reiki on her. She said she had had it once previously and it didn't work. So I tried. I didn't expect anything to happen but I was wrong! She was almost asleep within minutes. I had the feel of a black hole in my eye and asked her if the migraines she suffers start from behind that due. She said they did. Later I ' saw' a wrinkled rock by her left hip and I put my palm over it asking her if there was anything she had physicLly here. She said she had had camera surgery and had scars there from an operation. Over her solar plexus her throat became tight. When I reached her feet my guide told me to unwind a mark I felt on her left temple. Later she said dhe also gets headaches there so bad she has to press her palm to her head. Over her naval her skin physically tightened. A strange sensation indeed. I asked my guide to help heal and felt him add his hands. She remarked at how heavy my hands felt. She said when I was working below her navel to her feet she could hear an old fashioned phone ringing. There wasn't one!
I have a few questions. Is it ok to try reiki on others when really I don't feel knowledgeable enough to help with big things? Do you just know what the problem is with someone or is it more of an awareness of a physical/ mental or emotional issue in certain areas? How do I k know what things mean when I do reiki on myself? For instance the other day when working on my crown I saw an archer with a huge bow and arrow in my head. He was pointing the arrow upwards. And does anyone recommend any books to help me understand the parts of the body the positions relate to and the emotional and mental issues that could be held there?
Thanks for your help
Mel x
Apologies for the typing I'm on my phone and can't see the text!!
That's ok, it looks fine.
I have a few questions. Is it ok to try reiki on others when really I don't feel knowledgeable enough to help with big things?
How else are you to learn? If they wish for Reiki, and you're able to give it, then why not. 
Do you just know what the problem is with someone or is it more of an awareness of a physical/ mental or emotional issue in certain areas?
More of an awareness. One shouldn't try and diagnoise or come to conclusions about what something may be. You will intuitively be able to sense where Reiki is needed and intuitively know how to apply the Reiki there. In Japanese Reiki they refer to this 'scanning' as Byosen (not sure I've spelt that correctly? I'd have to check).
How do I k know what things mean when I do reiki on myself?
Why do you need to know? If you sense Reiki is needed in an area, give that area reiki, wether it's a physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual area. There's no need to analyse these things, that's just your mind being curious.
For instance the other day when working on my crown I saw an archer with a huge bow and arrow in my head. He was pointing the arrow upwards. And does anyone recommend any books to help me understand the parts of the body the positions relate to and the emotional and mental issues that could be held there?
It's a bit like dream interpretation. You can buy books on it, and they will tell you that experiencing A and B means C, but in truth, it varies from person to person. A archer to me may have completely different associations in my memory than an archer does to you. So the best way to interpret anything, if you feel you must, is to consider what meaning it has to You, not what somebody else thinks it means.
All Love and Reiki Hugs
Thankyou for the reply. I've been thinking about it alot and I'm glad diagnoses are not something I should be looking for. I guess I did the right tthing with my friend then- just helping.the reiki.flow where it seeemed that it was needed. I'm also glad its ok to practice on friends etc even though I'm newly attuned.
I'm.very.much.enjoying reiki and glad I took it further than having a session every now and then.
You will find some "masters" who would say that you should never practice on anyone but yourself until you have done your Reiki II. This isn't the case and is a limitation of their own beliefs.
Lawfully speaking you shouldn't treat other people for money without having insurance, and insurance companies will typically require that you have Reiki II in order to be insured. That doesn't mean that you can't treat friends and family to practice in the meantime.
When I first learnt Reiki, it was encouraged that we should self heal and also practice on others and attend reiki shares to enable us to practice and ask questions.
It's good to practice. Keep at it.
All Love and Reiki Hugs
update
I haven't updated this for a while but tonight I feel compelled to do so.
I lead a busy life, I'm a teacher and have recently moved in with my partner and we have lots of work going on at home. I've been finding that my reiki sessions have been, for want of finding better words, empty. When I first started I 'felt' a lot going on and this reduced to almost nothing. I put my trust in reiki and continued.
I've recently been wondering why I've felt this nothingness and realised that most of the time I do reiki when I'm tired, near bedtime, and I've been falling asleep through it a lot.
Today I found time.early on and had such a full session.
I felt a rainbow energy over my face and rose up looking down on myself and saw it grow to the length of my body and go inside filling me with rainbow light/energy. It was a wonderous feeling.
I felt very open and so energized afterwards.
I never lost faith in reiki but had begun to feel slightly routine about my sessions and have completely experienced a renewal of my awareness I guess.
Lessons learned: make time when I'm not so tired I drop off during a self healing session!!!
Love to you all.
Mel
Hi Mel
I lead a busy life, I'm a teacher and have recently moved in with my partner and we have lots of work going on at home. I've been finding that my reiki sessions have been, for want of finding better words, empty. When I first started I 'felt' a lot going on and this reduced to almost nothing. I put my trust in reiki and continued.
I've recently been wondering why I've felt this nothingness and realised that most of the time I do reiki when I'm tired, near bedtime, and I've been falling asleep through it a lot.
Can I suggest that you place your trust in yourself, you are the one who is doing this, that is why you find it hard to do it when you are tired.
Performing healing requires more focus than doing most things, it take a lot of time, effort and practice to learn how to create and maintain the focus required over a long period of time, so practice, practice and then practice some more.
Or on the other hand, so to speak, let the energy lead where it will without your concentrated focus. Do the self-healing, fall asleep if you will and authentic energy will continue even without your effort. After all, it doesn't come from you but through you. It can do that even as you sleep. =)
Sweet dreams!!
Ha
Or even just your fingertips will often do quite nicely. What you haven't heard of energy acupuncture, chuckle.
Control and manipulate or go with the flow the choice is yours
reiki 2
Hello all,
It's been a while. I've now been attuned to reiki 2 and have been getting some practice on others in. Had a great experience today. My friend saw a massive white circle with a black dor in the centre and under it was waves of some kind. She burst into tears and wasinitially scared of the circle then let her emotions out. We discovered it was hers AMD old. I was instructed by my guide just to leave it. Whilst working on her back I saw her heart centre with a bbright crystal wall and began removing the crystals. Over her sacral chakra she felt pain like a period pain. And again she cried when I was at her solar plexus. It was wonderful to feel part of her.emotional release and I hope she feels better for it. We plan to do reiki again on her and this time ill stay longer on those areas I think, as the eenergy flow was strong.
On the flip side last week I was working on another friend who refused to lock her cats out of Tue room. The result was cats jumping all over us AMD no real relaxation on her part!! They're out next time!!!
I love working with reiki. It feels so positive and I have so many things to learn about working with others. I'm really glad I went down this path and look forward to it continuing.
X
its been a while!
So, since I last updated this so much has been happening!
Im now a reiki drum practitioner, holding a reiki share, booked in for master training, done animal reiki, been inlvolved in a lot of shamanic practices, power animals, divination etcetc.
From that first post after reiki 1 my healing life has bloomed. I trust in the universe whenever I am healing and dont question my effectiveness or whether im doing this right.
I ve changed as a person in a great way and I am loving life. Still teaching by day and one day, when the time is right, I hope to branch out into having my own practice space.
For now though - if people fancy a session, Im there for them!
Love and Light
mel 
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Agh, here I return...an update
I'm a reiki master now and I run a monthly energy share in South London. I've registered my business OneLove Energy Healing and am building a client base.
I run workshops on power animals, shamanic circles and a women's circle. I also run children's meditation groups.
I am trained in reiki, reiki drum, Reikara, Hopi ear candles, Indian head massage, animal reiki, crystal healing, tarot cards and lots of other things.
How life can change in a few years!!! I'd have never said the day before my reiki 1 this is what my life would be like! I'm grateful for every day, every new experience.
Namaste
I've just retread all my previous posts. What a learning curve you go through eh?
If I could tell my self something a few years ago it would be to trust, let intuition be your guide and go with the flow!!!!