This is Freddy Set Reiki, a podcast about Reiki, the universal energy life force, from the curious beginner to the season master teacher, welcoming all systems, all litages, and all levels. Reiki is a journey and not a destination. And on this Ready Set Reiki journey, I refer to myself as a guide rather than a host. So I'm Tracy S. Right, and this is Freddy Set Reiki.
SPEAKER_01Hello, Reiki family. Welcome to Ready Set Reiki and many Reiki blessings to you all. So another journey I am blessed to guide you through. And what an amazing and beautiful guest that I have today. So let me tell you just a little bit about her. Now, her name is Alisa Grativa. Beautiful. And she says it so beautifully, I don't do it justice. She is deeply passionate about trauma work and is dedicated to integrating both traditional and alternative healing approaches to support deep and lasting transformation and expertise in methods such as EM, DR, CBT, logotherapy, and spiritual guidance as well as ketamine assistant psychotherapy, also known as KAP. Now, in addition to this, she specializes in trauma, KAP, grief and loss, life transformation, and spiritual growth. So let's give a warm Ready Set Ricky to Alisa. Welcome to Ready Set Ricky.
SPEAKER_02Thank you so much for having me. It's such an honor. I'm so excited. I've been looking forward to this moment. So thank you for having me.
SPEAKER_01Beautiful. And thank you for joining me on this journey. So let's get started. Now I only told our listeners just a little bit about you, but there is way, way more about you, all the amazing things that you do. So tell us a little bit about yourself.
SPEAKER_02Well, I'm, I don't know if I can talk a lot about me as far as what I do. I think the main point is that I love to be there for people struggling who are going through a lot of things in their life, trauma, maybe any other life transitions or changes they're going through that they're struggling to navigate. And it's an honor for me to provide the space where they're able to transform themselves themselves. So I think the major point is that my passion for this mission, for service to people, and anybody who is coming to look for different tools, practices, especially when I'm able to guide them a little bit more into the spiritual realm, because I think for trauma work, it's a very important aspect as well and the part of the healing. So I think this is the main, the most important thing about me.
Beautiful. And we need it more than ever. Our world that we are navigating through, oh my goodness, finding more and more. And I'm sure you have seen it too, specifically in the last five years, right? Since COVID, just the trauma that's out there. And what I love seeing is that people are finally getting to that point that they are open to these healing modalities, something else in addition as a beautiful supplement to what they're, you know, going forward with their primary caregiver. So it's wonderful. So a modality of service, why we're here today, about Reiki. When did Reiki come into your life? Did Reiki find you or did you find Reiki?
I think it was back in 2018, if I'm getting it right right now, because my mind is a little bit um, it was a lot of things going on, like everybody, right? For the last five years, as you said, it was a lot of changes. I think they started even before that. And also I see a perfection in all of these things that are happening with us in this world because we need the the difficulty in order to find the truth, find our mission, find the or the reinvent ourselves, even if we're not yet sure where we're going in life. And so I think all of these parts of life that we've had to struggle with through COVID, and even before then, was all meant to be. And so for me, the journey with Reiki began before when I went on my spiritual journey, and it started with the ayahuasca that was one of the medicines that led me to experience the other side in a more vivid way. Because before that, yes, was a spiritual of course. I think we all are spiritual, there's no other way of seeing every single human. Sometimes we get lost in human life and we forget our past. And sometimes we need to go through a lot of trials and tribulations in order to find, you know, the next right step. And so Reiki was a very powerful moment in my life when I began to see the world and energy in a different way. And incorporating Reiki in my back in the day, I wasn't yet a therapist when I started that journey. So bringing that as another modality to heal myself first, and then incorporating that into what I do now. As a therapist, as a clinical worker, I bring that into the space to hold space better for people when they're there to also protect myself in certain ways, because dealing with trauma can be a lot energetically. And so Reiki became a big part of my life as well, and energy in general, and bringing that to people, allowing the healing also to incorporate that when I do work outside of my sessions, but I also bring my clients into the space where I do prayers for them and energy work. And that's something that's been a beautiful tool for me to use and to find different ways of navigating my clients' troubles as well.
SPEAKER_01Beautiful. And I love how you put it as you worked on yourself, needing to be grounded so that you're the best version that you can be to help support and be there for others. And Reiki is one of those tools that can really help with that self-healing, taking care of what you need to get taken care of, deal with the triggers. And then the interesting thing with the time too. I don't know about you, but you know, right after 2019, I feel like, you know, uh time has either flown by or it's gone so slow that when people ask, like, when did this happen? I have to pause and really think about it. So I really think there was something in the matrix that gets us to start, like, wait, what? It's been five years, but wait, it feels like five minutes.
SPEAKER_02I know, yeah, so true.
SPEAKER_01So, as you have these beautiful modalities that you work with, uh, you're working with the energy, an energy healer worker, Reiki. What are some of the misconceptions that you find that people think about Reiki or even the work that you do with energy?
Well, not everybody believes in that per se, and not in the form of their questioning what modality is. Um, I'm not a person who will be going around convincing people I think there is the right time for that. It's not something that can be enforced because everybody has a different way in their spiritual journey. I think it's a part of the spiritual evolution for us to understand who we truly are, and energy in itself, we are made of energy. And it's weird for us to even question that because we believe in electricity per se, but we don't believe in some people don't believe in energy. That's funny to me because you can't see electricity either, but we have the result of it, and the result of energy is you making, you know, statements, talking, um, experiencing life, having emotions, all of that is energy in motion, right? And we forget that we are that energy. So, one of the misconceptions is that people don't know how to, if they don't see, they don't believe it. And that's funny to me because again, we just have to expand our consciousness a little bit and see other examples in life that are right there for us to explore and experience. That's one thing. Um, that it's not making big progress, right? Or people expect something if they go for one Reiki session and they expect things to be, they're healed. It doesn't work like that either. I mean, it can in certain instances. I'm sure there are a lot of examples of those miracles that happen, but it sometimes takes time, and we have to understand that it's a practice, like you said, right? It's a journey, not a destination. It's something that when we practice, the more we practice, the more aware we become of its essence and how it's experienced, and how we can practice to make it stronger. And when we notice that we don't have enough energy too, because I have those days when I'm sitting by myself and I'm tuning in and I'm receiving uh energy and I'm I'm practicing Reiki, and I understand that I am really depleted, but I didn't have that feeling before. So that becomes it's uh kind of growing and expanding awareness as well of ourselves through that energy work. Right. And I don't know what did you find as a misconception, if you can share.
SPEAKER_01Um the misconception, the big one, I grew up in a home that was very Bible-based, so that it was like it's Buddhist, it's this, it's it's Japanese, it's not of God. So that tends to be it, albeit different markets or events, and someone will come over and they're like, oh, I don't do that. So just the word, and even with yoga as well, the word tends to bring these emotions out in people. And when you kind of stop and investigate and go a little deeper and learn about it, it's not that at all. So it's that the misconception that there is a dogma or a religion attached to it, and that's not what it is.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, for sure.
SPEAKER_01That's what I have found. So you are an E uh EMDR trained, somatic therapy trained, licensed mental health counselor. You're helping and being of service to your clients. But as you've gone through your journey, what has been the biggest challenge you have faced in your own life?
I have to say, probably finding, we're gonna call it God for me, right? Because I feel like we often find ourselves when we're working through struggles and traumas, and I have plenty of that in my past per se, and we're gonna experience that as we continue on our journey as a human. We're gonna have a lot of those moments. I would say fortunately, because we grow through trauma, but finding that we're not alone through it, and whether we have a support system or it feels like we're isolated because I was an immigrant, I moved to the United States when I was 18 years old, I didn't have no family with me, so you can imagine the journey was hard, and it's been now 17 years since I'm here in the United States as well. And feeling alone was a big part of my life, and even before I came here. So the journey of finding that I was actually never alone, but overcoming that through a lot of pain and despair and frustration and exhaustion, and then finding that all of that suffering was technically unnecessary, but practically I needed to go through that in order to get to the next destination. So I would say searching for solutions for that, searching for ways to heal ourselves, that was a journey for me. And it took many, many years. Again, I've been a victim, I've been a warrior, I've been a victor, right? We have all of these different parts of ourselves, and I think all of them are equally important, even the victim state. And I've been there for years myself in the past, and I can say that it was absolutely necessary for me to get to the next point, but that was not a sentence, it was freedom that actually served me in the future.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, it's just kind of interesting, is we go through this life, we go through this journey, and we've had these challenges and setbacks and sometimes devastating things that you really question is there a God when this darkness happens? And uh, I recall watching uh, and I hope I'm saying his name right, Neil uh de Grassi Tyson. He is a uh an astrophysicist, so so brilliant, and he talked about different points in our history where you know bombs went off. And he talked of the story about how people had seeked refuge in a church and the church, you know, crumbled to the ground. And where was God there? So that seems to be a question that people, you know, reach out to, especially when we have all this kind of things happen in life, right?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, for sure. I think it's a journey for everybody, and there will be different ways for us to experience that. I really love this analogy when they say, ah, we can get wet from the word water, right? It has many different names. Akva, vaser, vada. We can call it so many different names, but we don't get wet from the word. So it doesn't matter what we call it life force, chi, god, reiki, right? There's that energy, that consciousness, that intelligence that creates planets, that created me and you, that creates every single thing we see with our eyes. And so understanding that the words don't do it justice, and words are very limiting this way. The more we practice, not the knowledge, but the knowing, I think there's a big difference in that. That can give us the clues to proceed on our own journey. Because yes, sometimes we can get a great teacher on our path, but if I'm not ready, I'm not gonna get the lesson right anyway. I'm not gonna learn it, I'm not gonna experience it in the right way. So every path that we have is perfect in its way, but we have to remember that it's still leading us somewhere. So letting go of the past, continue on the path of trying new things and experiencing new things. I think that experience brings new energy. I love the quote of uh Albert Einstein. We can't solve a problem with the same mind that created it. Yes, so we need to get a new mind. So we have to explore an experience, not feel uh one of the things that I hear a lot is people say, I've tried it all, nothing helps. If you would have tried it all, you would have been in the next step of your development. But something is preventing you. So what is it? Let's explore it together.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and it may not even be well, I tried it all, but what were you consistent in? It's what you go back to, what you said about Reiki. If you've had trauma from when you're five, six, seven years old and you're coming in as a 40-year-old, it may take a little bit more than one session. It's cumulative. So it's consistency there that's the key. Even, you know, when you for yoga, like, okay, many misconceptions about that is I'm not flexible, right? Well, you got to get to the mat. You have to, you know, go inward. And it really helps with the ego. It's the yoking, the union, the wholeness, the oneness, the body, mind, and spirit. So, whatever that is, whether it's exercising, if it's journaling, if it's going out in nature, stick to something for a little while. I mean, we want instant gratification, but it could have taken decades for this trauma just to sit there and stick to you, you know, and you gotta kind of gently kind of break it down and break it apart through time. So that's another thing, too. Like, I'm doing it all, but what are you sticking with? You know, give it a try, how it feels, experience it. And the thing with Reiki, it's so hard to describe. It's like if we went together and I'm like, oh, you got to, we gotta go to this pizza place. It's amazing. You have to heat this uh piece of pizza, and you're like, well, what does it taste like? Well, it's hard to describe it unless you go and taste it, right?
SPEAKER_02I love it. Absolutely.
You have to experience it because you can have it's so personal, you know, and uh designed for you. So you have to go and have that own experience and be consistent with it. So as you learn Reiki, what are some qualities that you look for in a Reiki practitioner or the qualities that you saw in your Reiki teacher?
SPEAKER_02Gentleness, allowance, the deep feminine principles, I would say. Because force would not be a good option, or having an expectation that I'm gonna heal you, we have to get out of the way, allowing the Reiki to do its work, right? Of course, we're conduits, we're I love how you said you're a guide, right? All of these parts are absolutely essential, but our people, the clients, will be predicting the destination, they will be dictating that moving forward. And the more open we are as well, I think openness going to any experience first. Because if you have the mind that said, okay, I know it's not gonna work, but let me give it a try, you're gonna waste your time with that. Even if there will be certain things that will be shifting, you may not notice because your mind will be blocking that from your experience. So I think keeping an open mind not only for the person receiving that for the practitioners as well, and allowing that softness and presence, the essence itself, right? Just being there, holding that space. I think that can be one of the most transformational things for us and for the clients as well.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. And it's just, you know, I call myself a guy because I don't I don't know anything, yeah, anything, right? I mean, because it's just, you know, learn from everyone that you connect with. I kind of look at it like how you go out and you're driving. Every time you drive, it's a different experience, right? You'll encounter different things. And even those who have been doing Reiki for decades, just this past April, they released information about Azui Sensei's resume. So we got to see in his own handwriting what he's done since age 23, all the way up until he connected to the energy. And so those who have been in this field since the 90s or the 80s, this is new information that now we've pe we're piecing the puzzle together. So stay relevant, you know, stay current, you know, have that attitude of being humble, right? I'm gonna be humble because I don't know everything and you're gonna learn things and you're gonna uh connect with a client. You're like, whoa, this is different. This is a different experience. And so, yeah, with that mindset of just being gentle, being open, right? Being humble. These are some really great qualities. Uh, I even had a client um had asked me, she said, um, when we finished the session, well, what do you recommend? What do you recommend? How many times should I come see you? And I said, I'm leaving that really up to you. Like, this is your body. You need to listen to yourself. And she was really surprised. I says, I'm not this type of practitioner that's going to have you come like weekly or monthly. It's really up to you, really up to you on that journey. So, what advice would you give someone who is just entering this profession?
Profession of uh Reiki work or therapy. So, entering profession. First of all, we have to learn from that experience ourselves. There is so much wisdom and sitting with ourselves, sitting with Reiki, that takes me every single night I'm on my knees. I do my devotional, I do my energy work. And if I'm able to really be present with that, because we all have different days, right? That we go through different struggles and things of that nature. But if we're present, we're really in tune and aligned with that energy, with our higher self, we will be able to receive a lot of messages. I call it mystery school. I know it sounds weird, but or cliche, but it's really a lot of insights, a lot of realizations that come through that path. And it's fascinating to me. I'm not having, I don't have enough imagination to come up with what I'm gonna receive. And sometimes when I get some insight, and again, I'm not sharing a lot of it with people unless I'm beat to share certain experiences or things or insights, but I know they're for me for my own development. So, starting point is to really get to know yourself, your higher self, your practice, how you experience that before we're serving someone else. Because if things will begin to come up during the session, how you know you be you begin to be in tune with someone else's trauma, and maybe some energies that you may even take on yourself. We have to be very attuned on what to what's happening, and that comes from spending a lot of time knowing our energy, our space, how to protect ourselves, and how to hold the center. So I would say, for me, it's never-ending learning process and learning experience. And every time I'm like, okay, I think I've gotten to the next step and I'm good, and then something else comes. I'm like, oh my god. All right, all right, learning, continuous learning. So just always being, oh my god, continuously being the student of this practice, I think, rather than saying, I've got it, I'm a master, and this and that. Um I can't even say that about myself when people talk and I have that level. That's not I'm an energy worker, I'm a trauma specialist, because for me, this is something that's more encompassing rather than giving the title to myself. So I think always remaining the student and just spending a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot of time with oneself before we even serve others. I think that's the most important aspect.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and I think, you know, as going and being pulled towards being an energy worker, that energy sure does humble you. So you go along your path, your things are flowing in. And like just recently, this was in September, like I ended up getting COVID for the first time, and then I got a sinus infection, then I got a bronchitis, and it was like, okay, I get it, I get it. I'll scale back my schedule, right? Um, so all those things happened, and it's just a reason, okay, there's a reason I'm supposed to take a little pause, a little hiatus. I get it. So I think it's more intense as we're, you know, on this path of healing and healing ourselves and healing others. And but the universe is like, nope, you need to rest. And I knew that in the beginning. I knew like in in like March and May, and it was a whisper, and it would the universe like, you're not listening. And I just couldn't because I had so many commitments. And then finally it was screaming. There, we're gonna bring you down. So it's just interesting. Um, you know, my way the universe gets me down is by getting sick. And I have a friend, she's like, Wow, just like you get sick, the money stops for her. So money gets her attention, right? As we do. charge through life. So it's just amazing how if you allow it, the energy will help guide you to exactly what you need.
SPEAKER_02I love that. Absolutely. I think it's also important to listen to that and to see it in the right way rather than thinking it's a punishment. Because I think it's very we're very prone as humans to see that we've been punished for something.
Yeah. I like to think yeah a lesson. Absolutely. So that's what I mean. If you can reframe things in a teachable moment, what is this teaching me? And I always in the last, I think even the last five years, instead of looking at it as the victim or why me, it's the idea of what am I going to learn from this? Let me learn the lesson so this doesn't happen again because you see when you look back in that journey of life, you have some patterns. Why do I keep feeling attracted to this person? Why am I getting myself into this mess? So I'm like, no no no I'm going to learn this. Preferably from the first time right exactly please please with ease and grace. So I always like to throw ease and grace in there. Ease and grace. So what books do you recommend?
SPEAKER_02What books? Yes. Sorry yes books. Well anything on spirituality that that you want to experience there's so many books. My one of the greatest teachers that I follow a lot uh who passed on already is Wayne Dyer and his book Spiritual Solution to Every Problem. I love Joe Dispenza breaking the habit of being yourself becoming supernatural. The more we learn and even for those people who are more cerebral the meditation has now science underneath it that also explains spirituality in a very different way right through energy through our brain structure how we what meditation does to it as well. So we have to just follow through and explore and experience many different books. I think it's an exploration for different people I really love uh the book Anita Murjani Dying to be me I think it's an excellent resource powerful every time I listen to her you know to this book it's my second time going through it I just start crying every time because you feel that there's truth to it. Again it's medical um in nature it's her story when she's about she she passed on and she came back she had that near death experience and she was not supposed to be alive anymore based on her medical history. And so that's a powerful reminder to us to pay attention to those things because miracles are everywhere and books sometimes can bring that so but it's an exploration again some people may like it some people may prefer to explore more of different types of topics there's no right way about books I think we have to be called to read the next right thing for ourselves but those are the authors I love and listen to a lot beautiful so what other modalities you offer do you offer classes trainings events uh right now I'm actually working on a trauma course so that's going to be out there soon um modalities as far as working with people again we went through some of them already I have a book that's out now it's actually was published last I guess I'm excited about that last month is called Walking with Spirit and there is insights about mental health and how culture and people are shaping our lives as well and then the sacred self and how to be okay with inevitable change and moving forth with the faith or improved understanding of that too. So I'm excited to be sharing the course soon as well and it's going to be with the community too so if people need extra support they will definitely receive it there. So I hope I will reach more people with that.
SPEAKER_01Okay. So where can we find you online? Do you offer online in person? How do we get in touch with you?
SPEAKER_02Um if you Google me you should be able to be led to different profiles like psychology today I'm on Alisa Gorcheva. I have uh Instagram alisa underscore arg my website www that sins that life and I offer consultations for free so anybody wants to consult about trauma or just connect you know sometimes we just need to connect with someone I would love to be that source for them as well. So I'm I'm open to receive anybody who wants to connect beautiful and where can we find your book?
Amazon uh walking the spirit the sacred path to wholeness perfect all right well that ends the first part of our journey I'm gonna guide you into the second part which are questions sent in by Reiki students and listeners. So here we go.
SPEAKER_02Number one what inspired you to work in trauma my own journey and the pain I went through of course I think all of us who are in this we're gonna say field of again providing service for those who are struggling with something yes going through and healing at my own pace without having much of the support led me to this deep desire to be of assistance to other people who don't have the same support just like my story as well. And so I don't want people to be struggling the same way I did. I want to make sure that I can provide some insights that may be helpful for them on this journey. Professional of course I'm trained in that but also just being a human and providing the spiritual perspective because I know in a clinical mental field we have to be careful about um spirituality right and it's all about exploring your own concept of that and understanding your own values more also your own higher self right it's just different perspective. So learning about that in my own time I wanted to be of assistance is in the same way to others so that they can heal faster of being you know just being providing that space for them to transform themselves.
SPEAKER_01Beautiful and thank you for working on yourself so that you can be of service to others. So thank you for that yeah number two why do you believe being grounded is so imperative for one's mental health love this question.
One of the most important things we have to understand especially when we're talking about trauma or just life experience is stress right and I'm gonna go a little clinical here we're going into sympathetic dominance anytime we experience stress and unfortunately right now we're so conditioned every little thing on the outside tends to make us aggravated frustrated irritable right and a lot of people find themselves even driving I'm in Florida right Florida is known for driving problems it took me a long time to be able to figure out my own frustration with drivers and driving and it took me years actually now I'm completely chill I'm navigating I'm meditating through that experience that doesn't bother me anymore but I also know how hard it is to process that so when we go into that sympathetic dominance it's almost like a lion is next to us about to eat us. When we have the sympathetic dominance we're stressed out we can't think clear at all so our neocortical function goes down and our how rationally or creatively we look at the problems is just minimized and compromised. So if we learn to ground in meditation while we get the new insights actually yesterday during my own meditation and prayers and energy work I begin to finally get clear on the outline of my course and I was like why didn't I bring that into my space because I keep it separate and then when I brought it into my space when I was in that grounded and connected way suddenly I begin to receive different insights about it. So we need to go into this creative space and that's only possible when we're grounded so whatever tools we use whether it's spiritual nature whether it's senses type of grounding somatic work is something that I'm so passionate as well is just being present with yourself because we're not often in our bodies really we're all over there spiraling and oftentimes it's triggered by the sources on the outside of ourselves or our own mind that's being a little bit restless too. But yes grounding is imperative for us if we want to be more creative in our approach not reactive but responsive to situations that happen and it's a skill it's not a given so just like you mentioned you know consistency in everything we do. I cannot go to the gym once and then expect to kill our body until the rest of the year right in or if I've driven once in my life I'm I'm not expected to be able to respond well if there is something going on on the street the next time I drive so it's just like any other skill we have to work on it consistently and grounding is a big skill to master because that's creating the peace of mind that we so desperately need right now.
Yeah. I mean it's definitely skill in action I I think people don't realize the impact of these small little things during the day. So for instance if you're at a shopping center and you're waiting on that parking spot and someone cuts in and takes that parking spot and that enrages you, there's a ripple effect it's going to affect your whole day and then you're grouchy and then you're short with your family and you're yelling at your spouse and just miserable the whole day from that one little tiny moment in time but to have the tools when you're like oh and then just to breathe just to what can you do? Count, humming there's so many different things that you can try to explore and there's going to be things that aren't going to feel right for you. But okay I'm just gonna put my hands here I'm gonna breathe especially like with grief you know walk in somewhere something reminds me of someone who passed and instead of this floodgate of like anger coming in and breathe you know and you feel it coming on. So it's great to have these tools to help you navigate and it's so important to stay grounded somatics are so important. I love how yoga you know shifting to somatics how the body's feeling the body's keeping score we're remembering this and we need to get this out. I mean you think of it from the moment we get up we are inundated with information things happening in the world we see things in real time as they unfold and happen right versus our great great grandparents that didn't know they might take weeks to get that information or they may not have known about a war for months and waiting on a letter or waiting for some type of communication. But you get into this doom scrolling and it's like oh then the worry then that and it just gets on you and it you don't realize how it sticks to you right absolutely information at the and it's so tempting at the palm of your hand you have access to the world's knowledge right anything that you can think of you can find out in seconds. But it's like some of us go hours a day eight hours nine hours on phones and social media and all types of things and we don't have time to breathe and be in nature and be bored to be bored right I love it. Yes for imagination you know as a kid I remember just laying in the grass and looking up at the clouds and you know how many times do you do that a day a week a month right I mean even think of how many times you maybe laugh how long do you laugh 15 minutes a day? And as kids we laughed two to three hundred times right a day. And now as adults we don't so we lose a lot of that so number three how can KAP ketamine assisted psychotherapy help those who need deep healing ketamine is a beautiful psychedelic it's um again we have that available now for people which is absolutely beautiful it helps to make your brain a little more flexible so there's a lot of science behind it when we're talking about a brain cell in order to let's say learn a new skill or get a new habit in place we all know how difficult change is for us as humans.
SPEAKER_02When it comes to the brain structure in order for our brain to encode a new skill to make new connection to grow new neuroplasticity it needs to be flexible enough and have enough enough of dendrites but the dendrites after we have stress or abuse or trauma they diminish in its amount and the number of those dendrites so the the brain cells are not able to bind easily as if we have again didn't have any trauma per se. So ketamine allows to grow those dendrites allowing the brain connect faster into new habits but again the the the main secret of that is is working on establishing new habits because sometimes people take and that's not only with calf but with any other medications medications can be useful. I'm not against modern medicine sometimes we do need it in certain situations but it's not a solution to the problem. It's helping you finding a solution in an easier way and to practice those new skills and then it's a temporary patch we're not drinking cold medicine when we don't have a cold right we don't we're not expected to be taking all of this meds when again if we're not doing the work that we need to do. So it's important to if we're working through the ketamine and I work for one company but I also went through myself through the same treatment modality and it was powerful in how it helps you restore and restart restart new habits as well. So if you go for a more deep kind of psychedelic trip with ketamine which is again a powerful experience it offers more of the spiritual insights I've integrated a lot of people who went through the same treatment and it's nearly as intense as ayahuasca can be it's a little different in nature ayahuasca is more it's more spiritual there is much more connection with different entities per se and yourself and a darker part here is more physical but yet you can also get spiritual realm into that trip as well but yeah naturally it helps the brain become more flexible for instance people with depression certain brain regions are become a little more rigid. That's why it's very hard to see things in a different way it's hard to really connect the dots with new routines. So ketamine can be of great assistance with depression anxiety and trauma as well addiction too actually addiction is it's one of the one of the treatment modalities for alcohol addiction for instance so it can be useful in the clinical field right now it's not for everybody just like there's no one single medicine for everybody but it can be useful for those people who want to give it a shot and try may not be immediate but it can also be in a faster rate of a treatment.
Beautiful I I live near a military post and I live very close to the border so a lot of you know military uh veterans border patrol and uh I hear about this type of treatment and a lot of them they did all the modalities they did all those things and they're like well now let's try to do this a lot of post-traumatic stress a lot of trauma and I've heard very positive things and and it helping so thank you for that.
SPEAKER_02So that is our last question as we've been talking is there anything else you'd like to share or uh tell the listeners the floor is yours thank you um one of the messages I always like to give to others is to get to know yourself to really be more consistent with things that may potentially be useful. Again consistency is the key to everything we do really and taking the time for that and trying new things for a longer period of time just than just once because sometimes we'll say well I've tried meditation doesn't work of course it doesn't work just like if you decide to drive for the first time you're not going to be able to do that successfully we need to drive a lot in order to be able to be good drivers so taking the time for yourself creating schedule and sticking to that routine but looking at it comprehensively so it's spiritual mental physical energetic all of this has to take place and it has to be regular just like we're going to work to to receive benefits of money right we need financials in order to afford our life and we do that relentlessly we're gonna go and we're always gonna work most of us right going to work a lot of hours in order to make more well if you would like to progress in your own journey take the same type of um system we have to also dedicate a lot of time to that and consistency but then check in with yourself after a month or two months and probably you will see dramatic change that you will go through. So just stay consistent treat yourself with compassion but also with discipline and allow the things to show off for you keep your mind open.
Yeah and it might take years I I remember when I began getting heavily into different modalities and I doubted myself too on the journey is this working how do I know and it was I guess about a good two years later something happened I had a student in the classroom that started choking and the Tracy five years ago would have been like ah but it was so calm and I went to him and got him through that situation and it was that realization oh my goodness this is working that's where the healing is through the calm you know I'm not noticing like wow like I was doing yoga nidra for a while and I was and I still do it but I was consistently twice a week listening to this and my reaction to things when someone cut me off in traffic instead of me wanting to go and give them the finger I just said you know what you have a great time you must be in a hurry. So I gave them grace like oh they must be in a hurry instead of getting so angry and frustrating and things like that. And I'm like wow this this really is working I can feel it in me. So you may not know until everything hits you and you're like oh it's working so keep going it can take months it can take years you know um for it to show well thank you alisa so much for taking time out of your busy busy schedule to join me on this Ready Set Reiki journey. We were able to connect be together and share your story thank you so much. Thank you all right my beautiful listeners if you would like your question featured on Ready Set Reiki reach out www.ready setreiki.com find me on social media and check out Feather Sister Wellness offers yoga classes and Reiki sessions so you can check me out on there I'm doing holy fire and money reiki so thank you everyone I'm Tracy Crite and this has been Ready Set Reiki