Good morning, Beth. Good morning, Mel. How are we

doing? I'm good. The weather is

sunny. We're going through that period where it's ten

seasons in one day. All of the seasons. I just did the school

run, and I think I had three of those seasons. I don't know. It's crazy,

isn't it? I literally walked from one side of a car park to the

other and experienced hill, sleet,

and sunshine yesterday. So we're in changeable times

then. Yeah. Change is here and change is good.

Change is good. So I wanted to talk to you about something

specific today. Okay. Because

somehow I know that you've just started your Reiki journey.

Yes. And I

think that there will be a lot of listeners who'll be very

intrigued about how that feels from the

beginning. For me, that beginning journey feels like a long

time ago. So I just love to talk to you about how

finding it, what's happening, what's going on, your understanding.

Yeah, all that cool stuff. Okay. I'm up for this.

So for the listeners, I'm teaching Beth

Reiki in a really nice group. I'm

super excited about you starting on this journey

personally, and I just want to know what drew you

to Reiki and so far,

how is it stacking up? So I have

felt energy for a long time,

and the physical feel of the

energy was calling me even more and more. So I could

literally feel in my hands that there were

things happening in the work that I do. And so I think

that was the call. That was the first

inclination that I wanted to do something official with it, because I

always felt like that energy was there, and I just wanted to use it

and know more about the energy and how I could use it. There was

a bit of trepidation, I'll be completely honest,

because I have

had, I don't know, I felt around the symbols of Reiki

that there was a little bit of resistance to them based

on what other teachers have said in the past. But I felt with you, and

I felt with the holy fire Reiki, that it was

different to other modalities of Reiki. So I just trusted my

intuition that this was the right one to do. So

that's what drew me to it, is that I have this energy. I could feel

this energy getting more and more intense, and I wanted to be able

to direct that and use that in the work I do with the other modalities

and the other kind of work I do in the world as well. Love that.

It's interesting what you say about the symbols, because in the Reiki traditions,

we have these three symbols or four symbols, and

they are meant to be kept. Some people say the word secret.

Yeah, I prefer the word sacred. And,

you know, there's like, nowadays you can just google Reiki

symbols on the Internet, and they're all in there. But that wasn't always the case.

They used to be very much only passed down from a Reiki teacher to

Reiki student. And it's interesting that you felt a

trepidation about that. And I think that's maybe one of

the reasons why they're important to be kept within

the community and within the teachings, because

certainly, from my point of view, the symbols aren't

Reiki. The symbols won't really work if you're not attuned

to Reiki. And it's interesting if it can

put someone off doing it. If they weren't all

just out there, then you wouldn't wait for it to be put

off. I think in the end, it was more about,

I felt and understood that it was the intention that is behind

the work and that there is

nothing negative to come from that. I think it's come

from, I've done previous trainings, I've done sutras and

TM meditation, and there is a lot of talk in that, that sometimes the

Reiki symbols can block certain things

in that. And I think I've had such a great experience in that

world and that I didn't want to undo any of the work that I'd done.

But for me, I know that intuitively that this is the right thing

to do, and it is about the intention that I put behind it.

I'm okay with that. But I think it's an interesting conversation and piece,

because maybe I don't think people talk about this side of things.

So I think it'd just be interesting to get your take on that as well.

It is. It's the first time I have heard a lot of

stuff about the symbols. And actually, we were sharing this in the call

last night. The symbols aren't Reiki. The symbols are a directed

intention, if you like. Yeah. And so just like we work symbolically

as humans, if I asked you to picture, forgive me,

two golden arches, then you would

instinctively, probably most of you know what I'm talking about,

and that would start to bring up either bodily

responses of either salivation or disgust,

depending on the scale, and essentially,

potentially memories and other things. And for some of you, that might even

drive you to go and move towards having that for lunch.

Right. We are symbolic, and we work very symbolically. And in

the Reiki teachings, the symbols are taught at Reiki too.

The idea is that you've already started with the

Reiki energy, which is what Reiki is about. It's a healing energy. It's

universal life force energy, and it's a direction of

healing intent. Essentially, when we

start bringing the symbols in, they give us this. I

suppose you could call them, like, a shortcut into

the three intentions of the symbols,

which are focus, power, which essentially is Reiki

here, please. Now. Yeah, Reiki stay here, or Reiki

enhance here. That's the meaning of the first one. The second

one is about balance and healing. So it's the healing symbol, if

you like. So if you're working on anything that needs some,

what is healing, it's coming back into homeostasis. It's coming back into balance.

So this symbol is all around balance. It's not increasing

or decreasing. It's balancing depending on what it needs. And the third

symbol is around distance, and it literally means no space,

no time. So it can move through dimensions of

time, space, and maybe even further, depending on your belief

systems. But actually, the symbols aren't

Reiki. There'll probably be some Reiki teachers that don't, like,

aren't good at what I'm about to say, but you actually don't even ever need

to use the symbols in Reiki if you don't want to, unless you're teaching it,

and then you do. But it'll be interesting for you when you

receive the symbols, how you begin to work with them

and how you find them. And maybe

you find that when you're doing certain work, you don't want to use them, or

they don't even come into mind. Maybe you find, oh, look at that. Like

I'm seeing. The power symbol will, for example,

come to me when I go to sit in meditation, because

maybe that will anchor you to where you are, help you become more

present. I don't know. The symbols don't always do the same

thing in every situation. They

hold the intention to increase balance or

connect, essentially, depending what it is that you're doing.

I'm going into this with an inquisitive mind, and for me, it's about

understanding more the symbols, and I

will use them as I intuitively feel. I

think I wonder if, because I don't like lined

paper, I don't like being hemmed in a box. I like to be

creative, and I'm wondering whether the

symbols for me almost feels like this is you

don't teach it. This way. You're very much how everybody experiences it is how they

experience it. And there's not a one way, it's not like a tick box thing

where everybody has exactly the same experience. And so I know that

however I receive them and however I work with them is

exactly how I'm supposed to work with them. And you as a teacher would be

absolutely fine with that. But I am wondering whether it's this idea

of a symbol representing something, and I don't like something

representing something. I like to be so creative. Like, there's a

multitude of different ways of being, and I think that's maybe part of it as

well. But I'm open, I'm here for it. Wanna digest and learn everything, and

I will use them and integrate them into however I want to

use them. To me, that we'll probably use them exactly in the way

they're intended, actually, because Reiki, we were

talking about this last night as well in the training, that Reiki

translates as universal life force energy,

and it is in its essence, a

creative energy. If you think about life force

energy and what it is that same intelligence that changes the

seasons and that grows the plants and creates the twelve

seasons in a day, if you're in the UK at this

time of year and it has its own

innate intelligence, yes, but also it is a very

creative force, whether that is

the spring blossoming or the leaves falling off the tree,

which we might associate with falling away or dying,

there is still this growth going on, there is still this

creation going on. There's still this continual

spiral, if you like, continuing to move up. And Reiki

really enforces that. The

healing aspect of that, one of the higher aspects

of that, and the symbols

simply give you a direction in

that, but you can use it in any way. And Master

Asiri himself, who was the founder of Asuri

Reiki, said, our job as practitioners is to improve

the quality and the quantity of Reiki that we have in the world.

And if that's true, then that means that we are to use

it and to create for this healing intention, whatever that is, whether that's for

growth of you, whether that is for aligning to your purpose, whether that is

to help other people, whether that is for physical, mental,

emotional well being, whether that is for writing a book.

I used Reiki when I was writing my book. The quality and

quantity aspect was the thing that was most

intriguing on the call last night, because it was about,

yes, this is about how I can create something new and

more of something to the best of its ability. And whatever

that is, that was what really appealed to me in taking what we

already know and infusing it even more with Reiki and creating something

even more special to bring that to other people. Yeah, that was the

bit that I got. Oh, that sounds good for me. That's like

a big point with Reiki. I think many people teach it or go into

learning it as a healing modality. I can now do this,

and just like I might learn how to give a massage or

just like how I might learn tapping or just like how I

might learn whatever. Now I can give Reiki,

and yes, you can when you've done your Reiki training, but it's not that. It's

how do I now having this access at

all times, I'm going to do anything really

complicated. At all times, I have access to this pure

potential of creative healing, life

force energy that with the holy fire especially helps

me come back into my authentic self, heal

those parts of me that I've had to try on, put

on, or become in order to fit into the society that I'm

in. How do I use that so that I can become more of

me? And then as you do that, the healing comes with it. And then

as I become more of me, then I become a better

version of myself. And then as I become a better version of myself, then

I'm automatically going to help other people.

It's a knock on effect, and it can actually be quite

dangerous. Again, I might be shot down by some other Reiki

teachers for saying this, but it can be quite dangerous. When I come into that

going, I'm learning Reiki so I can heal myself.

Pet, child, partner, the world,

my clients is not that it's, you can do

that, but it's not that. It's a personal journey

of, I suppose you could say enlightenment.

I'm loving it so far. So tell us about your

experience feeling. Because you said that you've felt

energy move through your hands before. Had

you, now you have had the Reiki attunement or placement. The

theory is that can increase it. Yeah. I wonder how your

experience is with energetics now. It's definitely

increased it. I don't have to say anything. It's just there,

incredibly warm. Interesting, though, last night, because

you told us to do his homework, and I immediately, like a good little student,

went away and did, went to bed and did my homework in bed,

and when I placed my hands on myself, it actually went

cold. Like really cold. Like, really

cold, which I'd not really felt in the week prior.

So it's very hot. Like, I can feel it all the time, but, yes, when

I placed it in all the different positions. Cold.

Your hands were cold. Yeah, my hands were cold, and then my

body went cold. Yeah, yeah. And I wondered what was going on.

Then I think I probably fell asleep. So I didn't get to internalize what was

going on. How did it feel with the

cool, the cold? It just felt like that's what it was supposed to be. I

don't, the only thing that's coming through is it was almost like, like a full

circle kind of thing. Like it's coming back on itself, if that makes sense.

Like a circuit. Yeah. Like, it's.

And then cold. Yeah. So

I think, again, we can imagine, especially when you're doing a Reiki

called holy fire, that it's going to be boiling hot. But

essentially, it's energy. And energy, by

its nature, is meant to move. That's what it wants to do. And emotion is

energy. Emotion. Energy wants to move and transform and

become. And the homework last night was self

reiki. So I invited the group to place

their hands on their body to cover the whole body

and to channel the reiki to receive self healing, which is one of the amazing

benefits of Reiki. Right. You can. The power is always in your hands.

And I found that when I'm giving self

Reiki, sometimes I actually feel very little

in my hands sometimes, but I

feel this peace or this comfort in my body. Yeah,

that's okay. Sometimes my hands go

boiling hot, and what I feel it's doing there is,

it's kind of burning, if you like burning

things away. Right. Or it's this increasing

energy. Sometimes I feel it go really cold.

And when it's doing that, my, and this isn't true for everyone, but

my experience is then it's almost like it's bringing a balance into the

space. That's not a fundamental

truth, that hot means this and cold means this, but this is how I've

experienced it and interpreted it. The truth for me of what's happening

is that we're tuning into an energy as we're placing our

hands on or near the body, we're first of all tuning in,

okay, there's something going on, and we start to feel a difference. That's the first

thing. There's something that feels different to this. And

then our brain goes, okay, that is hotter or colder or that is

stickier or smoother or that is clearer or

denser or whatever, and we use our senses to begin to

interpret what it is that's going on. Quite a common one is that's

hotter, that's colder, and then as we bring our hands

onto or near that space, then the energy

starts to do whatever it needs to do. Because Reiki is a creative life

force. It knows what to do. It knows how to turn the acorn into the

oak tree. Right. The energy then gets to work to

bring that homeostasis or that balance. And sometimes we

feel that and sometimes we don't. Either way,

it's working. Like, I've had points. Well, put my hands on my

stomach, and I'm not feeling anything in my hands, but

suddenly, I don't know, it just feels quite comforting. Yeah. And

then all of a sudden, my stomach starts going

to feel this movement going on when I'm

digesting. And I love it when that happens, because then,

especially early on in the journey, then it's like that proof to you, okay, something's

going on. Yeah. And when you do come to work

with other people, if that is something that you choose to do, then you,

you can learn to trust more. I don't have to feel everything in my hands.

I don't have to know everything with my head. And I actually don't need to

interpret whether something's burning away, balancing,

removing, releasing, filling it. Like it actually

doesn't matter. The Reiki will do what it needs to do

because our body knows how to heal. Yeah. And

as practitioners, we are, if you like, creating

the ultimate conditions. Yeah. Rest and

repair instead of what we're mostly in fight and flight

or freeze or fawn, we move through these stress

periods for most of our days. A lot of us, when we're doing

Reiki, our body goes, oh, okay, I'm safe here. I can begin

to heal, balance, repair,

relax. That's what we're doing. I

love it. I'm excited to learn more.

So the other things that I've seen is the colours. I think I mentioned that

in, in the week one. So this yellow, which I thought was quite interesting

given, like, the sunny and melon conversation we've had before and the joy, the yellow

smarty, that I always knew that the yellow was significant.

When we did the exercise last night with the

partner, I saw a colour in them as

well. So that's, this is new. This is new to

me. This is new kind of perception, seeing the colors in other people. So this

is quite nice. But then as I did that, I was like, oh, do I

need to bring my yellow in? Do you know what I mean? It was like,

oh, like just questioning, does the yellow need to come in now,

or is it that kind of thing? But try not to get too much in

my head and just go in with the flow a little bit. Like, it is

okay to get in your head because you want to know. And you, Beth, in

nature, you are very inquisitive and curious, and

I think that's okay, and we'll discuss it more in the week. But there is

this balance also between being very passive in Reiki

and being directive in Reiki. And here

I am going, Reiki is an intelligent force, and you don't need to do anything,

but you do because Reiki is coming through

you, and you

being naturally intuitive and

open and also visual, and also with all the other work that

you've done, it's very likely that these other

gifts and skills and talents that you have are going to come in and come

through. Now, we know, and probably better than anyone,

that the intention is key to our life.

Yeah. And we don't. We're not passive in our

creation. Life doesn't happen to us. Life happens for us, and we are

very much in power

to be able to move and manipulate and

begin to attract or experience what it is. And where does that stop? That always

starts with intention. Reiki is creative life force. It's always

there. Why do you need a Reiki practitioner or a Reiki attunement to

tune into it? It's a focused intention of Reiki here. Now Reiki

comes through me. I'm holding this power. I am opening myself up to,

yes, my authentic self, my healing journey, my potential

is important to me. Now. I'm having an attunement, of course, learning

to do that. And if we can combine

this surrender, guidance, intelligence of

Reiki, I'm tuning into this divine intelligence, or, okay, I'm getting the colour

yellow. What is the colour yellow? It's a frequency I'm seeing with my

eyes or my inner eyes, a frequency of yellow, which to

me means joy and happiness and all of this.

Okay, that's interesting. With experience, maybe it

will be okay. More yellow here. Maybe experience will

be okay. What's the opposite color to balance

it out? Is it too yellow? Reiki won't do any harm.

It doesn't really matter. I think Reiki will always win in

the situation, if you like. Yeah. Because it's always working towards

your highest good. But when we can truly

bring those two things together, that intuitive guidance

and that focused intention in with this

force, that is, I'm moving towards your healing,

your purpose, and your greatest good, then real magic can

start to happen. Yeah, like the. There's no

resistance for me wanting to bring it in. It was just more of a, do

I do this now? Those kind of thoughts that go through your mind. Yellow for

me is joy and is the highest

vibration emotion. And I think if somebody is,

I take myself in this as well, not just somebody I might be working on,

but if somebody or myself needs to

reconnect to joy, then placing that and

having that within the session, it's almost again, it's

not me turning the switch on for somebody, or it's

almost just, this is here, it's in your. In the Reiki. It's

infused in the Reiki, and then it's accessible,

especially for people that maybe feel that joy is out of

touch. The other thing that came through incredibly strongly the first

week was this sense of home. And I'm

interested to see how this develops because I feel like this is going to be

quite significant. Those feelings and emotions that feel like home

to people. And it's hard to describe that, I think because

everybody's version of home, what that means is very different.

But there's something in that energy of home, of

safety, a boundary of unconditional

love, of familiality. Can't say that.

I think we all desire maybe on

some level, and I think there's going to be something in

the work I do in the future around bringing people, maybe both back to

joy. And I see them as two separate things.

But in my attunement,

everything that I saw was very much visions of

home, the vision of connection, the memories

of being, being young, the unconditional love of a family.

And I appreciate not everybody has that. People have brought up in very different

situations, and home life might have been very turbulent, but

for me, I'm very blessed to have that support mechanism around me. And I think

as we grow old and we move into our own homes and own

worlds and create our own versions of life, it's very

easy to forget that there's this base

level of home and sanctuary that we

maybe take for granted. And that was very much in my attunement. It was a

bird's eye view, literally boundaries of my

home, almost like the location that I'm in and how far that

stretched out. And there was snippets of primary school and

teachers and family life and memory and grandmas and grand, you know,

and my dad and all of these things all merging together

to bring me back to this feeling of home. And so that is

something that I can anchor into more just generally. But also I feel like that

is part of my journey will be to, and I already do this a

little bit in some aspects of the work that I do, but I think there's

going to be more of a focused piece of work

around helping people anchor into this sense of

home because it's very empowering. Even if

your home right now isn't calm, that doesn't mean

that you can't create what that homely feeling

means to you. I remember you shared that on your

post. And it's true. Reiki does bring you home. And

again, like you said, we've all had different home life

experiences, and even those of us who have

had the best home life on paper still

going to have been traumas that we'd internalized. Even they're

known as little t traumas, like little things or somebody

said something and we've internalized it. One comment from a teacher and

all, like the things come up for us. But this

sense of home is actually something that's quite different than

actually what was I as a child. Because if you think

about the essence of home, it's where we've come from, it's

where we've incarnated from, and often that's

what we're trying to get back to. And if we do that in

unhealthy ways, that's often where we find ourselves in

addictions and certain personalities,

the funny things that we do as humans. Yeah. If we keep breaking

it down, it's we're trying to find this sense of

peace or enlightenment or even joy, and we

don't know how. Now, what is home?

If you think of it in the best sense, it's safety, it's comfort,

it's that holding. And it's if you imagined

the essence of Mother Earth, that's home. And

if you think of that in an energy body point of view, that's our lower

chakras, our root, and this is the space that needs to feel

right in order for any of the other experiences to

happen. And yes, we can get so far, but if we don't feel safe, if

we don't feel secure, if we don't feel like we're in the right

place, then we're only going to get so far. It's

psychology, it's energy, it's all of the things. There's been many papers on

this, and I think what Reiki does

is it brings you that sense of, okay, I'm

here as a soul in a human, and this is the place that I meant

to be right now. Yeah. And yes, that for some of

us, that will bring a whole healing journey and curiosity

and shedding and all the things that come with that. And for some,

it will be that reminder. And from what I'm hearing

from you, it's like that anchoring in a remembrance of who we were

as a baby, as a child, when we were so close to that soul of

ours and we knew, we were like, I'm coming down here and I'm going to

experience this stuff and I'm gonna, I'm gonna learn this about me and I'm

gonna grow in this way and I'm gonna have this evolution. And yes, things might

be tough and hard, but I'm gonna remember my essence

and that's gonna bring me through. Reiki reconnects

you. It doesn't give me that. You've already got it, but we forget it.

It's gone. We've moved from home, right? We've started our

own thing. We're busy with our jobs and our lives and our families and our

phones and all the things that are bringing our awareness

outside the Reiki seems to anchor back in that,

yeah, I'm here for a reason. I'm safe

where I am now. Where do I go?

What do I choose? So I love that. And I

can imagine with your work when you're really

helping people move into this aligned,

created, powerful version of themselves

that what a great place to start.

Well, we start from home and from here and from where we are now. And

we know how to navigate to where we want to get to. I think it's

also because often, especially when

people create a vision, that bridge from where

they are now to where they want to go can feel like, pretty daunting. Like,

how am I going to go through all of these steps? And I think there's

comfort in the fact that we go through those steps and we do transform and

we do change, but we still anchored into this sense of home

and where you are. Like, you're not going to be adrift in the

sea, just bobbing up and down in a boat and seeing where that takes you.

You're still anchored into that essence of home. And I think it's very

telling that I still live

five minutes away from where I was born. And I've got, I

have a really strong desire for travel. I love travelling,

but my home is my home. And I feel, I don't feel I'll

ever leave this because it's a very, I feel like it's got a very

powerful energy. The place that I live right now. And I think it's very

telling that the home is starting to come out more.

And yet I've always intuitively never really wanted to

leave. I left for university, but came back about as far as I went.

And even then it was only like 10 miles away.

So I'm anchored here and there's certainly lots of magical,

mystical places and memories and I think that's what the attunement

was showing me. There was a lot of forests and

bluebells and all kinds of different things popping up from, like,

memories that were centred in my home and

to be able to see the bird's eye view of, like, how far that goes

out, because it's not a tiny little space like I live in a. It's not

even a village like a hamlet, and then there's villages around it, but

it's quite a wide, like, that space that I

saw is quite a big area. And,

yeah, it was nice to. There was comfort in the boundaries

of, of the home as well. Love it. Finding,

finding that space of home wherever you are and

actually connecting with that essence of the

bluebells, even if you're on the other side of the world,

is possible. And we'll

discuss that more in the regi two with the. When we talk more about the

symbols. But it's. Yeah, it's life changing. But you're

absolutely right. It's where it all begins, with this sense of

who am I? Where am I?

Yeah, who am I? Where am I? And from there we can

build everything. What are we going to

talk about today? And I thought Mel will know.

Mel know what we're going to talk about today. I'd love to hear your

experiences either with Reiki or where

you are now with it, or if you've also been in that space of.

Oh, I'd love to, but I'm not sure. Get in touch. We'd love to hear

your experiences and questions around all

of this.