As I Live and Grieve®
It’s time for grief to come out of the basement, or wherever we have stuffed it to avoid talking about it. When you suffer a loss you need support, comfort, and a safe place to heal. What you are experiencing is painful but normal, unique but similar, surreal but very, very real. As grief advocates we understand and want to provide support, knowledge and comfort as you continue to live and grieve. Host, Kathy Gleason; Producer, Kelly Keck. www.asiliveandgrieve.com
As I Live and Grieve®
When Childhood Grief Meets Spiritual Healing
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The journey through grief often begins long before we realize it. For Cindy Bain, it started at age five when she witnessed her father's fatal heart attack and secretly believed she caused his death by failing to open a bottle of ginger ale he requested during his distress.
This powerful episode reveals how childhood grief can shape our lives for decades when left unaddressed. Cindy takes us through her evolution from a grief-stricken child to becoming a registered nurse working in intensive care units, and finally discovering her calling as a Reiki Master with over 23 years of experience in energy healing. She explains how Reiki—which means "spiritually guided life force energy"—works to release emotional blockages, reduce stress, and promote healing on physical, emotional, and spiritual levels.
Unlike conventional treatments, Reiki isn't something "done to you" but requires openness and willingness to change. She describes how energy healing can address what she calls "ancestral baggage"—inherited beliefs and limiting patterns that operate at the subconscious level, affecting how we move through grief and other life challenges.
Whether you're struggling with recent loss or carrying unresolved grief from years past, this episode offers both comfort and practical pathways toward healing. Cindy even provides a free gift for listeners—access to a one-hour course on healing ancestral baggage that includes a guided Reiki experience you can try at home. Ready to explore how energy healing might support your grief journey? This conversation opens the door to possibilities you may never have considered.
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Podcast Introduction & Welcome
Speaker 1Welcome to as I Live and Grieve, a podcast that tells the truth about how hard this is. We're glad you joined us today. We know how hard it is to lose someone you love and how well-intentioned friends and family try so hard to comfort us. We created this podcast to provide you with comfort, knowledge and support. We are grief advocates, not professionals, not licensed therapists. We are you.
Speaker 2Hi everyone, Welcome back again for yet another episode of as I Live in Grief. I try to check in with you every week, so I hope everyone's taking care of themselves. We tell you that at the end of the podcast, so I think I'm going to start checking in at the beginning. I want you to ask yourself are you taking care of yourself? And that answer needs to be yes, I am. With me today is another great guest. I know every week I say the same thing, but it's true. With me today is Cindy Bain. She's from Canada. Hi, Cindy, Thanks for coming.
Speaker 3Thank you, it's lovely to be here, Kathy.
Speaker 2Thanks so much for having me on oh my pleasure, entirely Okay If you would get us started. Cindy, would you just tell our listeners a little bit about yourself, maybe a little of your story here and there? Who's Cindy Bain?
Speaker 3Okay, well, I mean, that's a deep question and I'm sure I could talk for an hour just on that, and I'm sure I could talk for an hour just on that. But I think I will just start with the fact that I'm a mom, I'm a wife, a registered nurse, I'm a speaker, teacher, energy healing expert. I'm also a mindfulness instructor and a Celtic shamanic practitioner. Earlier in my career I worked as a registered nurse in NICU. I also worked in PICU, and so NICU is neonatal intensive care unit, picu is theatric intensive care unit. I'm also published in medical research from Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto here in Canada. I hold an honours degree in psychology and health and I'm the founder of my own energy healing business, cindy Bain Recharge with Reiki. I have over 23 years of experience with Reiki and I'm also a professional member of the Reiki Membership Association within the International Centre for Reiki Training in the United States. So that's a little bit about my career aspect, a little bit about my personal self as well.
Speaker 3But my story around grief started when I was five, five, five years old, wow. So I was a child when I experienced deep grief and I was home from kindergarten. I grew up I know I live in Toronto now and that's the largest city in Canada. But when I grew up I lived in the country. There was a small village close by, but I didn't even. It was 500 people, but I didn't even live in that village. I lived outside of that village and so I went to kindergarten every other day. The school bus picked us up, and that was just every other day.
Speaker 3On the day that I was home with my dad he was. He had already had his first heart attack. He was 24 years old. He'd already had his first heart attack. And he was 24 years old, he'd already had his first heart attack and he was just trying to recover from that. I remember sitting in the bed beside him and he still had his wonderful personality. He was a teaser. He liked jokes, he liked music. I was entertaining him and he was entertaining me, but at some point he said he felt indigestion. So I knew he had ginger ale in the kitchen. He asked me to go get some and at the time it was this big bottles of pop and you had to use a bottle opener to try and open and I just couldn't hold the big bottle and my hand strength wasn't there. So I went back to the room to see if he could help me and he was purple. His face was purple and he was gasping for breath.
Speaker 3My mom was in the next room vacuuming. I ran and got her. She started CPR. I ran to the neighbors and it's not like being in an urban center where the neighbor is just next door. I had to run a little bit to go see if the neighbor could help and they weren't home.
Speaker 3So I came back my mom's still doing CPR. She said go to the first concession road. There's men working there, ask them to come. And I was not allowed to cross the road. This was a highway, not like not a major highway, but a county road bigger than a gravel dirt road. And I'm five. So I knew I had to go. And to this day I also remember thinking I did not know that my legs ran that fast it was almost as if they were ahead of my consciousness Made it to that corner, asked the men to come. I do remember thinking like they didn't believe me and they wouldn't come. So I ran back to the house. I don't know, did they have Avon in the in the US at some? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, my mom sold Avon at the time and luckily, when I got back to the house the phone rang and it was a customer and then I said get the ambulance. And that person knew what was happening in our home.
Speaker 3My dad didn't make it, he did not survive that second heart attack and nobody knew but me that I thought I killed him. Of course you would, I thought. My old self thought, had I gotten him the ginger ale? Right, right, right. And so quietly I anguished, my heart broke. Yeah, you accepted all that guilt Exactly, and I was close to my dad, like I have an older sister she's not quite a year older than I am and she felt like she was maybe more close to my mom and I was closer to my dad. So I really felt like I was on my own. But not only that dad's gone.
Speaker 3Now this is 1970. I live in rural southwestern Ontario. Yeah, there is no grief counseling, of course not. People didn't tend to talk about their feelings back then and so my mom, grief stricken, was having a bit of a tough time and so I know that she wasn't around for a while. So my sister and I got bounced around essentially to family members. So it felt like dad's gone and mom isn't around, the foundation was ripped out from beneath me. I, you know I can't speak for my sister. I'm sure she felt the same way, but for me, I, you know, nobody was talking to us. I do also remember going. I guess they thought oh well, getting back to our normal routine would be best for us.
Speaker 2So that's what they they thought then that's what it was.
Speaker 3It's okay, you know the burial's over, just get on with your life, so off we go back to school, of course, and so it was show and tell at school, yeah, and I remember putting my hand up, going up to I think we stood on a little tiny chair to address the kids, the other children, and I remember saying so. The teacher said okay, cindy, what would you like to share? My dad died and it was silent, I'll bet. And not only that, but as a five-year-old and I'm a sensitive person as well I fully felt the awkwardness of the moment. The teachers were fidgeting. There was two teachers I don't know why there were two at the time. Now we barely have enough teachers, maybe an assistant with the, with the kindergarten teacher and they both looked at each. I remember looking over to them. They both looked at each other and then was like okay, cindy, you can sit down now. Oh gee, yep.
Speaker 3And from that experience I fully got it I'm not adults don't want to talk to me, nobody can talk about it, right, I am on my own, yep. And so what I did was I was being guided. My intuition said we lived in the country and we had a forest behind our home. Five-year-old me walked into that forest, I sat with my back against a birch tree and talked to God, and being in nature helped to soothe me in a way that I didn't fully understand at the time, but I knew that I felt better when I sat in nature. I just taking in the smells of the forest and the peacefulness and the energy of it really helped just to soothe my grief at the time.
Speaker 3But was I fully healed? Absolutely not, no. Was I fully healed? Absolutely not no. And so that mid 30s, somebody mentioned Reiki and that caught my attention, just on an absolute knowing level within myself. I knew that I needed to investigate that, and that was 23 years ago. And I knew that I wanted to do it because I still needed healing from my woundedness from having lost my dad.
Speaker 2Right Now, reiki is a form of energy healing. Is that correct, right? Yeah, so I have had one and only one experience with Reiki. I admit, at the time I hadn't even thought of the concept of energy, of our bodies being energy. I hadn't gotten to that point. This was years ago, probably 20 years ago and so I allowed this person to do a session of Reiki for me. I admit, I was so uncomfortable I think it's because, looking back, I didn't understand what was happening or what was going on, but it just seemed so bizarre and awkward to me so I kind of put this barrier off of that.
Cindy's Childhood Grief Experience
Speaker 2Oh Reiki, I don't get that at all, so I won't pay attention to it. However, here's the podcast, and here I am, over 200 episodes later, and we've talked about Reiki a little bit. We've talked about energy lots now and now I'm a firm believer in energy. So to help our listeners who might be somewhere between there and where I am now, could you just kind of explain a little bit what is Reiki and how is it intended to help us?
Speaker 3Okay, that is a really good question. So Reiki is a Japanese word, rei, r-e-i means spiritually guided and ki means life force energy. So together they're spiritually guided life force energy. I have not heard that before.
Speaker 3Okay, and this is absolutely an energy healing modality. It is something that helps reduce stress and it promotes relaxation, but it also promotes healing, because when we're in that decreased stress or no stress and relaxation state, we are opening ourselves up to the natural wisdom of our body. It already knows how to heal itself, because when we get a cut, guess what it seals off and then it heals in. So our physical body knows how to heal itself. But we're not just physical beings. There's spiritual, mental, emotional and physical energy beings. Everything is made up of energy. Even though it appears like it's physical, guess what? On a molecular level there are little particles moving around. So everything is energy. So Reiki is something that. So the practitioners go through their training, helping to allow their physical body but of course spiritual, mental and emotional as well to attune to the higher energy frequencies that are wanting to come through. And so your Reiki practitioner hopefully they're a Reiki master, but I know people can practice it with level three, I believe, as well, but there isn't just one Reiki system, which makes it a little bit confusing. Okay, all right. Yeah, so I know I mentioned a little bit about myself that I'm a professional member of the International Center for Reiki Training and I chose that because it's an organization that's been around for decades now. William Lee Rand is the president and has done tremendous work to advocate and bring Reiki into hospitals. Tremendous work to advocate and bring Reiki into hospitals. So Reiki is in hospitals for people that are having palliative people before surgery or any kind of. You know, just being in a hospital is stressful, but I know that he has done tremendous work within the United States advocating for Reiki being brought into hospitals. So that organization is attempting to make it more of a systematic approach so that they have manuals. They make sure that the teachers are following the training so that everyone is conveying the same information. They're trying to standardize the care that people are receiving when they receive Reiki from members trained through the International Center for Reiki Training.
Speaker 3I said there are many systems out there. I'm personally trained in three different systems. Wow, in 2002, I began training in Tibetan Yuzui Reiki and I did that to the Reiki master teacher level, two level. And then, a few years later, there was a system it's still around, of course, but something new that came out was called Karuna Reiki, and you already had to be a Reiki master to be able to take the Karuna Reiki system, and it comes with its own symbols that unlock energy kind of a thing. And so then and that was maybe in 2005, that I trained in Karuna Reiki. So I had two systems then, but in late 2014, a new system was coming into, the energy was starting to come into being, meaning it was being channeled, and so it's called Holy Fire and since 2014, it's now Holy Fire 3. So it has evolved and evolved.
Speaker 3I'm trained as a Holy Fire 3 Yusui World Peace Reiki Master.
Speaker 3I'm a Holy Fire three Karuna World Peace Reiki Master.
Speaker 3And so once Holy Fire came into its existence and it's what I can tell you is, I've worked in Tibetan Yusui, in that system, and it has an energetic feel, a frequency of its own.
Speaker 3Then, when I trained in Karuna, I noticed that had its own feel and I always gave sessions utilizing both systems. Once Holy Fire Reiki came in, it was an energy that could work with Yusui, the Yusui system, with Yusui, the Yusui system and the Karuna system, and so that's why, when I said I was the Holy Fire 3, yusui, all of that like they were working collaboration, and so I have 23 years of Reiki experience. I am fully working within the Holy Fire system now in my practice because I find it is for me and my clients it feels like the highest energetic frequency that is coming in, doing the working for the highest possible good with the best possible outcome, better than we could ever imagine, kind of a thing with my clients. And it isn't just me feeling that way. This is I am getting feedback from my client, a lot of clients Reiki is far more complex than I have ever thought about.
Speaker 2I appreciate that explanation, thank you, and I know, for maybe some of our listeners, your heads might be spinning right. So let's kind of summarize it a bit. If someone is grieving and suffering those symptoms the devastation, the depression, the anger, the guilt, the shame, whatever it brings with it, a whole basket full of different symptoms, different emotions, different mental issues, even right down to it, gets so burdensome and it attacks you physically as well. How then can Reiki help someone who's grieving?
Speaker 3I actually do have clients within my practice that, and it's not just the loss of a loved one, it's grief around not having a trauma happen to you, not feeling like you're in the same state.
Speaker 2Well, there's loss around divorce, losing a job, having a financial issue. Goodness knows, in the States now there's all kinds of issues going on and certainly after the pandemic I'm pretty confident that I can say I don't know that there's anyone in the world who has never experienced some form of grief. They may not have realized it or recognized it as such, but even a toddler who loses their favorite stuffed animal, leaves it behind in a restaurant or on a plane that little child experiences grief.
Finding Healing Through Reiki
Speaker 3Absolutely so. I don't necessarily deal with somebody who is you know, they just lost Right, or it was, that's not true Someone who's lost their job, who's devastated. Yes, I have immediately worked with clients like that. But as far as the loss of a relation in some capacity, they have to actually get to a point where they're not still in the numb, can't feel being completely Okay, all right, because Reiki does require that the client like this isn't something that's done to you To have a Reiki healing session't something that's done to you To have a Reiki healing session. It's not being done to you, you are fully a part of the healing session. It's required because the client well, it's most effective when the client is open and willing to let go and also willing to bring in energies and things that they want. And so somebody who's completely shut down, they may need to go through a little bit more to get to a place where they want to shift out of that state, that initial acute, just need to process kind of a thing.
Speaker 2So they almost need to have reached a point where they have said to themselves or felt I don't want to live like this anymore. Exactly, they almost need to be ready to move forward instead of stay where they are, absolutely Okay, all right, that's important, that's critical, actually. Yeah, because I'd be willing to bet. A number of people have tried it at an earlier stage and, like myself, said it didn't work. He doesn't work and I have not said that. But you have to be willing and you have to have an open mind about it as well. You have to be willing to accept it.
Speaker 3You know, interesting open mind. Some people have come in skeptical but still know something has to change. I had a Bay Street investment banker client come in. Yeah, not sure what this was but had just tried everything else. Yeah, just, it was actually at the prompting of his partner, but he, he came on his own and had a two-hour session and at the end he sat up on the table and said I think I'm going to have to investigate this energy. Wow, and actually, as he was following me out, he said you know what I can feel your energy Interesting? Yeah, which was a huge hit. He was skeptical. Yeah, still willing, still wanting change, not wanting to be stuck where he was. So was he fully out there? No, but he sure was after.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 3And he emailed me on his own two weeks later. Really, oh great. Did I expect that? No, I did not, I'll bet yeah.
Speaker 2Oh, that's you know, that's excellent and I love hearing stories like that. So people need to be ready and accepting. And then the energy. And but it's the energy that they bring in that is helping to heal them, or is it also getting rid of? Do you get rid of negative energy? Yes, okay, all right.
Speaker 3So, but the client, like the only requirement is that you allow yourself to at least somewhat feel like you can open yourself to be vulnerable, okay, open so that you're now allowing these energies that are in there, these emotions that are in there, that are stuck and really needing to come up and be released in a gentle, compassionate, kind, loving manner and the energy that comes in has that feeling around it. And I have actually now in my practice I have more virtual clients than I do.
Speaker 2Really. That is, that was going to be one of my questions. Does it work virtually?
Speaker 3yeah, I have clients in Australia, the Netherlands, california, so LA, british Columbia, nova Scot Scotia, all across Canada. Somebody just outside of Boston? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2Nice, okay, all right. Wow, this is just amazing to me. I'm going to have to try it again. I think there's another way about it. I like to call myself an experiencer. If I hear about an interesting modality, I have to try it. I've tried a number of them. If I hear about an interesting modality, I have to try it. I've tried a number of them. But I think I need to give Reiki another chance. At any rate, you'd be happy to well guess who I would look up to help me with that. You know it's going to be. Really I would be happy to work with you, cassie, that's great. So, yeah, consider me. We'll be talking about booking at a later point At any rate, and I know there are other. You know we've talked about Reiki here quite extensively and I appreciate that, and I know the listeners will profit from that information as well. But there are other types of energy healing modalities too, aren't there? Absolutely? Can you give me a few examples just of the types?
Speaker 3Energy healing Well, you know, isn't that interesting. Okay, so I could suggest things that are Japanese medicine related, like acupuncture, that is, energy going through the little.
Speaker 2Okay, I've tried that yeah.
Speaker 3I haven't investigated them myself, to be honest, because it was an inner knowing for me. This is what resonated with me and this is what I do feel that's important for your listeners to know that there isn't just one way to heal, there isn't just one miracle cure for what ails us. I know that for my Reiki clients it really is about the journey for healing. So you know, one session isn't going to fix everything that's wrong Right In your life.
Speaker 2It just isn't, it's not. It didn't happen in just one session, it didn't happen in just one day. Just one session, it didn't happen in just one day.
Speaker 3It took a while. It took a while. Yes, and I know that you were asking other healing modalities, as massage is something that helps to promote relaxation and stress reduction and it does help the physical body, it does mentally help you. Well, for some people, you know what they don't even like to be not every but those that you want are the massage right Must help them feel more relaxed and maybe just a little bit closer to their baseline where they feel their best selves. Yeah, but you would think that I would know all different kinds, but I really haven't been curious.
Speaker 3It's so interesting you asked me that Because I really am so into Reiki that that is. I mean I just finished a three-year course, the Next Step course, with one of the directors of teaching out of the International Center for Reiki Training and it's advanced Reiki training once a month, three and a half hours, three months for three years that we have this training and that finished in December. And now I'm also in another year long course with the same teacher, colleen Benelli, and this is exploring the 12 heavens, that the 12 heavens are within the holy fire Reiki system, and so you know it just depends where you are on your spiritual journey. To be honest, whether you you know, you don't have to be a spiritual person to do Reiki and receive the benefits of Reiki, of Reiki. But most of the people that train in Reiki are doing it because they're on a spiritual journey of some sort.
Speaker 3That was me. I knew I needed healing from the grief that I. It was still, you know, mid thirties. I'm still crying every now and again. Most of the time I'm okay, but every now and again I feel lonely. I don't have my dad. He's not, he isn't able to see his grandchildren.
Understanding Reiki as Energy Healing
Speaker 2Yeah, it's that double-sided grief Not only do you miss your dad, but you feel bad for the things he's missing and that your children are missing and you just kind of feel double-sided. The perspective I was going to offer on the fact that Reiki is your specialty and the one that you focus on, is that it's just like people. If you're looking for help and you decide that you're going to check out some modality like acupuncture, massage, reiki, whatever it is, you have to understand that everything is not going to work for everyone, that there are different things. So if you try one, like I tried Reiki, and it didn't work for me Now, granted, it was a 20-minute session, which I don't think is enough time, so it didn't work for me. That didn't stop me from exploring other modalities and I found a couple that feel very good. You know they really do and they help me. Do they help me with what I need right now? No, because I haven't done them long enough. I've gone for one session maybe just to see what it's like. So if somebody asked me, I could tell them.
Speaker 2But you have to be prepared to commit to it for a period of time because it's going to take time for you to heal. It's going to take time for it to have its full effect and, just like corporations talk about return on investment, it's an investment, yes, but it's an investment in yourself. And insurance companies are getting better and better now about covering some of these more holistic or alternative therapies that they like to call them. So you know, hang in there. I think it's going to fall into place at one point that Western medicine isn't the be-all, end-all for all of our ailments.
Speaker 3Well, here in Canada Reiki is all considered a complementary medical therapy. Good, and lots of people's extended health benefits will contribute to. I know some insurance plans just give you sort of a lump sum and you just determine what you kind of choose. Yeah, but that's where we are here in Canada it's complementary medical therapy and that's fantastic that it's gotten that recognition. Absolutely yeah, Because 23 years ago I can tell you it wasn't at the same place as it is now, absolutely Now.
Speaker 2I have one more question, but I want to just kind of sneak in there and listeners, please bear with me. This is, you know, every so often I ask what I call my toddler question. This isn't quite that, but I read in your profile something that really piqued my personal curiosity. May or may not be related to grief, but hey, almost everything ties into grief. Somehow I read a phrase in your profile that you helped people deal with. Quote ancestral baggage and limiting beliefs, end quote. Can you tell me what exactly is that? I have my suspicions Right.
Speaker 3Yes, so our you know, just bear with me, listeners, and just try to be open-minded. So our DNA carries energy and information within it from our ancestors, of course, but it isn't just limited to physical traits. We can bring into this lifetime issues that are from our ancestors and belief systems from our ancestors that, like life, is hard. You have to work hard to get ahead.
Speaker 2Does it even cover some things like racism? Oh yes, or females not being in poor Things like that, yeah, okay. So I see women should only work in the house and look after the children. Exactly, exactly, okay, so it can carry all that stuff. That's why it's baggage.
Speaker 3It's heavy stuff, yeah it is, and so perhaps at some point in time these beliefs helped our ancestors through their lifetimes. But is it helping us in this lifetime that we're living right now? And the answer sometimes is absolutely not. And so the I know I've already said that Reiki does not, isn't done to people, it's not imposed on people. It comes, it's the practitioner, facilitates the energy coming in, and then it's the client that works directly with the Reiki energy.
Speaker 3The Reiki energy is enlightened, spiritually guided life force energy. It knows where it needs to get into to do the healing that needs to happen in priority healing sequence. So we might feel like I've got, I can't get rid of this, or I'm always sabotaging myself because of whatever ancestral you're asking about, ancestral baggage. But you know, because I'm always insulting people, that I think women should you know what are you doing in the workplace, kind of a thing. You know that is a problem and what's happening here. And so the energy for people that are open and I always have to preface this because if you're closed and you don't want to do this, then it's not for you, but if you are looking to make changes, this is perhaps a way to do that and so the Reiki energy comes in and it clears out root causes.
Speaker 3Okay, what is creating burdens for us? Help us clear up these deeper blocked energies that we don't even know are there, but they're absolutely influencing how we are in the world, and so often the energy can actually work with our subconscious mind as well and clear out things. It's subconscious, so we do, we're not aware of it, and the energy can get in there and reveal what's happening here. Oh, we accepted a truth in our subconscious mind that is not for our highest possible good. We've accepted the truth that we're unworthy moving forward. We're undeserving, unlovable, all kinds of things All right, that makes sense. That we're just not aware of, but we just don't feel stuck in our lives, we can't pinpoint it, and so Reiki energy is able to access the subconscious mind and heal it in a way that is always for your highest possible good.
Speaker 3This is enlightened, spiritually guided life force energy, so that's the only energy that's coming in. Having said that, it's really important for your listeners to understand that when they pick a practitioner, please don't you don't have to pick the first one that comes up Pay attention to how your. Does this person resonate with you? Does it feel like they're aligned with how you're feeling, because that makes a difference too, because there's trust involved. When this is your personal healing and things are happening in a session that are deeply personal, you want to feel like you can trust practitioners. That's very important to help people relax and be more open to release what they need to release and bring in energies that they would like, like compassion and forgiveness and love and joy and safety and security and things like that.
Virtual Healing & Different Reiki Systems
Speaker 2Yeah, well, that makes sense, and I can understand why trying to get rid of some of that would just make you the person you really want to be in life, and I think that's you know. So many of us now are at that point where we just want to be a certain type of person. We reach that point where we're tired of maybe a lot of the negativity. I reached that point about 10 years ago. I had so much negativity in my life. I actually ditched a few friends because they were just they were bringing me down, and I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 2Well, sadly, Cindy, the time has come that we need to wrap things up. I think you and I could probably talk for hours and hours, but we won't do that to our listeners at this point, at this point. So this is the point in the podcast where I turn the microphone over to you and I will let you speak directly to our listeners and share with them what they might find, for example, if they pop over to your website, or I think you even mentioned to me that you might have a gift for them.
Speaker 3Oh, yes, absolutely, or is yours? Oh, thank you. So on my website I have various things. There's information throughout the website.
Speaker 3I teach Reiki. I teach Holy Fire Reiki to the master level, like Holy Fire 3, yusui World Peace Reiki. I teach Holy Fire 3, karuna World Peace Reiki. I teach Holy Fire 3 Karuna World Peace Reiki, and I also do individual sessions. I do group sessions. These can be done virtually because energy is not restricted to just the physical space that you're in, and actually, through the International Center for Reiki Training, when the pandemic hit in June of 2020, there was an upgrade in energy that was physically felt by all of us who did the upgrade. It allowed us to do our practices over technology, through technology, so that people can be anywhere in the world and feel the energy wherever they are, and so that has really been helpful. So I do virtual sessions, I do group events.
Speaker 3I actually offer what's called the Renewal Journey, and it is a series of Reiki sessions. So this is for people that are really wanting to make a significant change in their life. It's not maybe not for people that just want for today, I just want to feel better, but for people that are looking to make a significant change in who they are, and so it's 15 hours of Reiki sessions and they're within this renewal journey. The way it's set up is people do a pre-session check-in, they do a post-session check-in after the Reiki sessions, and this is done at a pace that's totally unique to the clients, however fast they want to do it. Typically we recommend it's done over a three-month period. However, I have clients that are doing it in three weeks Wow. But these clients are motivated I'll bet Five to six times a week Wow. And they seem to be able to have this energy come in day after day and integrate it and then move to the next thing.
Speaker 3But what I'm explaining about this renewal journey is that, with the pre and post session check-ins, at the end of the package, this healing package, there is a report that we give to our clients so they can reflect on the journey that they've just been on, and so the one I just finished a couple of days ago was 27 pages long. It's qualitative and quantitative report, and a lot of the information is gathered from the pre and post session check-ins, because there's what's their stress level, what's their relaxation level, what are some of the bright points, what are some of the triggers, all kinds of things, and so, when the clients are able to review all of this information, they can go oh my gosh, right, that's where I started, where I am now, and this is what I said about it in my own. Yeah, and it really is. This is how I love to work with my clients, because healing is a journey. It's a journey and it's so rewarding for me, and my clients tell me it's rewarding for them. I have many, many that just go continue on. So I've got two clients that are in their third consecutive healing package and, yeah, so it's something that you have to be at that place in your life where you really feel as though, yes, you are ready to make a change because something has to give. And, yeah, so there's that.
Speaker 3And I do have something free for your listeners if they're interested in healing ancestral baggage. It's an hour-long course, but it's free, and we will make the link available, of course, but it gives some information around ancestral baggage and within this one hour course, there is actually a Reiki healing experience that you can have yourself. So it always contains the energy that I brought in at the time of the recording. It doesn't diminish. It doesn't diminish, it doesn't disintegrate. It is always available because my intention was set for that to happen and it's just something that your listeners may be interested in. They can try it on their own.
Speaker 3I do say also like when I set out a reminder for my clients, I actually give them a lot of information around how to prepare for a session, because if you think that you can relax with pets jumping all over you and people knocking at your door and your phone ringing and all kinds of things happening, that's not the ideal environment to be doing experience.
Healing Ancestral Baggage & Limiting Beliefs
Speaker 3But if you can find a place that's quiet and you won't be disturbed and your phone won't ring or your whatever technology won't ring, and maybe you want to play some relaxing music, if you find music is relaxing or if you like to do it in the quiet, fantastic. If you find music is relaxing or if you like to do it in the quiet, fantastic. You might like a light blanket, because sometimes Reiki energy, you feel warm, but sometimes you feel cool. So you might want a pillow, you might want a little blanket, but I don't suggest that you get all snuggly in your bed. That is when they just fall asleep. If that happens, just listen to it again. But also some people like to sit up, that's so they feel comfortable in a comfortable chair. But just make sure that when you start this, that you're in a state where you feel relaxed and ready to receive. Yeah, and so that's something to try for sure, and that is around feeling ancestral baggage okay.
Speaker 2Well, let me repeat for the listeners that this is a gift. It's free, it's an hour of free and in that hour I'm sure there's a lot of great stuff, but in that hour there's an actual reiki session that you can experience. So, if, if, you're curious about it, what a perfect opportunity to give it a try without anybody else watching you do it. Maybe you feel a little shy, maybe you don't want your family to know what it is you're doing. I don't know why you wouldn't, but this is a golden opportunity and, as Cindy said in the podcast, notes will be the link to this free gift and it'll have the word free there, so you'll know exactly which link. But I encourage you to check out her website. She has a wealth of information.
Speaker 2I know I'm going to give it a try because I appreciate and acknowledge that the last time I tried it it wasn't a good experience and I think it just wasn't. It certainly wasn't done by a master, I know that, but I'd like to investigate it again and see more about this energy that I'm becoming more and more of a firm believer in every day of my life. So we really have to go. You've been great to hang with us all this time. I hope you found it interesting and insightful and I hope you have gotten some information out of it. Check the podcast notes for the links and please take care of yourselves and come back again next time, as we all continue to live in grief. Thanks, cindy.
Speaker 3Thank you, Kathy.
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