A trending topic in "spiritual social media" is self love. While essential and wise, the concept of what it means to truly love one's self is as elusive to many clients I work with each week as it has always been to me. But what the dark has already begun to teach me is that nurture is a beautiful opening towards understanding how to love ourselves. Sitting in stillness, in the silence of a room in my home, a blackout mask removing any distractions from the world around me, I find that the mind wants to go first to fear, then to wandering, sometimes frustration, then boredom, then nurture. I think (and I've heard from past retreatants) after a constant 7 days of this it will land on love. One reason I've found the conceptualization of self love to be so elusive is that the feeling of being loved is tailored specifically to each of us. No one can explain what it really means to love ourselves, nor can they help us understand how to do it, because no one knows what each unique person needs to start doing, stop doing, think, feel or become to be more loving to themselves. Only I can discover this for myself. Only you can discover this for yourself. Only we can unearth what truly loving ourselves means to each and every one of us, uniquely.

We don't need a doctorate or a PhD to ease another's pain. I learned how to sit with someone and let them feel what they're carrying through the times when my mentor, Vida, sat with me. I sit with coaching clients and witness their suffering as they feel safe in the space I hold for them and feel their own pain — release what no longer helps them cope. My husband sat with me as I reconciled my lengthy relationship and the demise of it with my old friend Pain. All that's required is care, presence, and safety.

The love that is here for each and every one of us is more plentiful than oxygen. Each of us gets the full amount unless we have some kind of ego impairment which impedes us from receiving our full share. Imagine that the entire world is a blank canvas, upon which the Divine is attempting to paint pure love.  When we refuse to accept all the love intended for us, we leave our little spot on the canvas a glaring blank void. 

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When we steady our heart rate and become calm, we change the energy we are sending out and influence the way others feel around us and the way they interact with us. 

Simply put, this is essentially what a Reiki Practitioner is doing in a session with you. They are channeling through and sending you the energy you wish to feel. They are, in a sense, “becoming” the energy you wish to feel.

Reiki practitioners who are very tuned in can sense the subtle difference in vibration and interpret for you what the nature of the energies are that you’re holding onto. Then they assist you in releasing them.

The Tower’s gift: Erin Gilbert’s ascension to Reiki. An in-depth look by Natalie Pricer.

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REiCOVERY Reiki Receives 2024 Madison Award

Madison Award Program Honors the Achievement

MADISON March 8, 2024 -- REiCOVERY Reiki has been selected for the 2024 Madison Award in the Alternative Medicine Practitioner category by the Madison Award Program.

Each year, the Madison Award Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community. These exceptional companies help make the Madison area a great place to live, work and play.