Reiki 1 Class Was Good

We had a great Reiki 1 class on the 1^st of February. Six students showed up to learn about and then practice Reiki on themselves and others. It was a fun day with lots of good questions, lots of good practice, and was enjoyed by all. We look forward to seeing some of these people in Reiki 2.

Reiki 2 Now Accepting Students

The Reiki 2 class scheduled for March 1^st is open for enrollment. We currently need a minimum of three more students to register to be able to book the hotel. And we need to have them booked by Thursday evening, February 20^th as I need to confirm or cancel the hotel on Friday the 21^st. We will still take students until 11pm on the 27^th (two days before the class), but we need to meet the minimum earlier as the hotel needs a week’s notice if I have to cancel. 

Taking this class will allow you to take the Reiki 3 class the following month. Anyone who has had Caring Palms’ Reiki 1 class (no matter when you had it) is welcomed to sign up if they are looking to move to the next level. If you have had Reiki 2 before and want to come play, you would be welcome. Just let me know you want to come.

Abilities and Learning Them

by Brian Dean

I’ve been watching the old TV show, The Greatest American Hero. For those that don’t know it, the plot deals with an ordinary person that was given a “super suit” by aliens, which gives him special powers. These abilities ran from flying to strength, invisibility, telekinesis, honing in on someone, and more. The trick was that he could only do these things when he was wearing the suit (occasionally referred to as the ‘red jammies’). The other gotcha was that he lost the user manual. He had to figure things out for himself, trial and error, success and failure. Seeing this got me thinking (it happens now and then). His learning the suit is very much like learning psychic abilities and energy.

When one discovers that they have a gift (or curse depending on how you look at it), they need to learn to use it, it and the additional abilities that come with it. just like our man gifted with a suit from aliens, there is no instruction manual. 

So, one tries things, one feels things. Wow, I feel emotions. OMG, I feel everyone’s emotions. It’s overwhelming. How do I shut it down? This is where one learns to shield from the chaos out there (think Star Trek). But either that idea comes to them, or they happen to run into another empath, and learn from them. 

And it is all trail and error. One finds that thinking in a certain manner produces a certain result. And this may work for a while, but then something changes. What previously worked does not. Now one needs to find a better way to do it. The bar to jump over keeps getting higher.

Success and failure is a constant landscape. Working with these abilities changes, grows, expands, allows access to more things. Focus and visualization are always needed. Somedays we might be distracted, or have problems focusing. This also affects how things work.

Ideas on how to do things come from all types of places. You can learn from someone that teaches these things. You can also get ideas from articles or books (I prefer sci-fi and fantasy). One could watch some TV show and say “It would be great if things worked like that.” But that might give one an idea of something to try. 

Everything I do, I’ve learned over the past 35 years, learned, tried, failed, tested, tried again. It started with meditation, then crystals. This was followed by some unusual energy training. And then came Reiki, and even that took a while to lock it down where it would always work at full capacity. I then moved to mediumship and trance. Along the line I learned other things which I incorporated. It did not happen overnight. I didn’t just put on a red suit. I know people want it to happen fast (and things will increase with their abilities and their ability to handle it). But it still takes time.

The point is that it takes practice. And with practice comes trust and confidence, and growth. And even after all this time, I’m still learning, and intend to do so for some time to come.

Dreams

by Brian Dean

We all have dreams, mostly. These happen during REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep. Some dream in color, others in black and while. Experts tell us our dreams mean things, but I am not a dream analyst. I just understand things based on my goings on.

When I am worrying about something, I usually have dreams about someone chasing me, trying to get me. I remember working at this one place and really not liking it there. I was constantly off balance, unsure, and my manager kept me that way. I had a lot of bad dreams during that period. I remember one (and this happened decades ago) where I was trying to get away from two or three people who wanted to do me harm. I was trying to climb the stairs and get out of the basement. Usually in these dreams, I can’t seem to fight back. In this one, I was actually doing pretty well. I was halfway up the stairs when one of them grabbed my ankle. That was the moment my wife nudged me to wake me up as I was flailing around a lot.

Usually, when I am going through rough times, I am trying to escape something. Sometimes I do, and then wake up. Other times, I just wake up. These are dreams I remember. Sometimes, I will get up during a bad dream, use the bathroom, and then fall right back into it (the same can be said for good dreams). Other times, I just move on to something else, the next episode in the series. 

Many times, I will be the one trying to help others escape from whatever danger they are in. This is when I start questioning whether this is happening just in this dream. It might be playing out on some energetic plane where what I am doing is actually helping someone, just not in the literal sense that I am seeing it. 

I have been told that a lot of times when we dream, our body rests while our subconscious goes out to play. I have had dreams where I was learning some energy technique. When I do remember these things, I try to employ them. Many times, I do not remember my dreams. 

But even when these training sessions are not remembered, they still remain in the subconscious mind, waiting to be brought forward and used. 

So, what do you dream about, and what state of being are you in when you do?

Expanding Energies

by Brian Dean

First off, what does this mean? Well, we are all energy, and we expand and contract based on our needs at the time. Those that work with energies do this consciously. Other times, it happens automatically and naturally.

When I teach classes, many times I will talk about auras. Sometimes I will do a demonstration. I stand someone against a blank wall and tell those in the class to look at their shoulder (which is something solid and easy to see the energies around). I have them unfocus their eyes and look at the shoulder, ignoring the shadow behind the person. If one does it correctly, they will see another line parallelling the shoulder (almost like a second shoulder). This is one level of their energy field, their aura if you will. If one tunes in, one might be able to see the next two layers that are several inches further out each. 

If there are two people, and one is yelling at the other, the one that is angry is pushing their energy field out. And if one can look at it, they can see that it is extending much farther out than normal. And this happens without conscious thought. 

On the flip side, the person receiving this anger has their energy field pulled tightly in. It is a very defensive position, and yes, also happens without conscious thought. There is a perfect place to practice this… the grocery store. Don’t be too obvious, but just let your eyes unfocus as you look at people walking by.

Now energy workers manipulate their energy fields (as well as others’) to do whatever they need to do, whether it be to heal people, gather information, feel emotions, or any number of things. Many that I have worked on over the years know that I stand them facing me (before any questions are asked or paperwork is looked over) and I tell them where their problems are. 

In doing this, I am expanding my energies to meet someone else’s energies and letting information pass back and forth. Now in truth, distance is not a factor. 

I do a trade with the therapist that works across the hall from where my room was. Yesterday was my turn to work on her. While she was in the back setting up the room, I decided to save time. Sitting in the lobby, I expanded my energies and connected with hers. I then filled out the treatment notes (also known as SOAP notes) while sitting in the lobby. When she called me back to the room, I told her where her problems were. I was spot on. 

I used to do this with people that would request healing on a Reiki board I belonged to. I’d tune in and ask what was going on with the other problems they did not list.

It is also possible to manipulate the energies to distract people from seeing me, or to change how they saw me. One place I worked, I would walk through the warehouse periodically to make sure all the computers were working right. If I did not want to be called over, I would set my energies so that I was invisible. Now, was I really invisible? No. But the energies played with other people’s energies and made it so they did not notice me. 

When I travel, I try to make my car invisible to police and radar, but visible to everyone else. Rule 1… never drive an invisible car. 

So, now you get to practice. Just start by expanding and contracting your energies, and looking at others’. You can do it. All you need to do is try. So what will you be expanding to today?