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Episode #158 Louise Cruz Mother Mary's Messenger: A Conversation with Louise Cruz

• Tracy searight • Episode 158

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What happens when universal energy meets profound spiritual connection? In this captivating conversation, Reiki master teacher and evidential medium Louise Cruz reveals how energy healing transformed her life journey from childhood trauma to spiritual awakening.

Louise's story begins with her earliest spiritual experiences – feeling healing energy as a child and connecting with Mother Mary from a young age. Though drawn to metaphysics in her youth, she pursued a career as a registered dietitian before rediscovering Reiki during a period of overwhelming stress. "It honestly changed my life," she shares, describing how Reiki's gentle approach helped her process childhood wounds from a violent household that maintained a perfect religious facade.

One of the most fascinating aspects of this discussion explores the relationship between energy healing and religious faith. Louise powerfully challenges the misconception that Reiki conflicts with Christianity, explaining how her deep connection with Mother Mary enhances rather than contradicts her energy work. "They're not mutually exclusive – they blend beautifully together," she explains, offering reassurance to listeners navigating their own spiritual paths.

The conversation takes unexpected turns when Louise shares remarkable psychic experiences during Reiki sessions – from seeing Jesus standing beside a client (who independently confirmed the same vision) to receiving validated messages about injuries and surgeries she couldn't possibly have known about. These moments of synchronicity highlight the mysterious connections between physical healing, intuitive awareness, and spiritual presence.

For those beginning their own Reiki journey, Louise offers practical guidance on finding qualified practitioners (watch for ego-driven claims), continuing education, and living the Reiki precepts in daily life. Her powerful perspective on gratitude – transforming even frustrating moments into opportunities for appreciation – provides a framework anyone can apply, regardless of their experience with energy work.

Ready to explore how Reiki might transform your own life? Connect with Louise at louisecruz.com or through her Facebook pages to learn about her Reiki sessions, classes, and mediumship readings. Your healing journey awaits!

Louise Cruz RDN, LD, Multidimension Healer

Owner Life Balance Healing

Reiki Practitioner and Teacher

Psychic, Evidential Medium

Meditation Teacher

Registered Licensed Dietitian

 

 

Louise has always been spiritual and even as a child was connected to healing energy, angels, saints, and Mother Mary.  She began studying Reiki in 2015 and finished her Master level in Usui Reiki in 2017, and her Master level in Karuna/Holy Fire Reiki in January of 2022.  She has mentored under experienced Reiki Masters such as Bruce Taylor, Andrea Kennedy, and Christine Renee. 

Louise began training as an Evidential Medium in 2021, taking classes with Suzanne Giesemann, the Arthur Findlay College, MavisPatilla.com, and Janet Nohavac’s Journey Within Church. Through her mediumship training, Louise has begun channeling messages from Mother Mary.   She is documenting this in a blog and hopes to publish a book in the next 5 years. Louise has been a Registered Dietitian since 2000. 

Her business, Life Balance Healing, has been open in Marietta, OH since December 2021.  She offers Reiki sessions and classes, readings, meditation classes, and nutrition counseling.  All of her services are done both in-person and online.  Most re

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Speaker 2:

This is Ready Set Reiki, a podcast about Reiki, the universal energy life force, from the curious beginner to the seasoned master teacher, welcoming all systems, all litigations 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 Seawright and this is Ready Set Reiki. Hello, my beautiful listeners, welcome Ready Set Reiki. I'm Tracy Seawright. Well, can you believe it? It has been exactly three years that I have been in El Paso, texas. As you know, I've been on quite a journey from coming from Pittsburgh, pennsylvania, to El Paso, texas. Now lots going on. So if you are interested in money Reiki, reach out to me. I'm doing a training this June and July, also a yin training as well. And just a reminder to check out the Dragonfly Reiki Marketplace If you are a master teacher. This is a wonderful place. It offers an opportunity for Reiki masters to come on and promote what they do, their services. And as a thank you for the listeners of Ready Set Reiki, dragonfly Reiki Marketplace has kindly offered a 20% off coupon on the whole site. You can find that at wwwreadysetreikicom.

Speaker 2:

Now, today, as we begin our journey, a wonderful individual is going to be on this journey with me Luis Cruz, now amazing owner of Life Balance Healing Reiki master and teacher, psychic evidential medium, meditation teacher and a registered licensed dietitian. Now, she has always been spiritual. Even as a child, she was connected to healing energy, angels, saints and one of my favorite Marys, mother Mary. She began studying Reiki in 2015 and finished her master's level in the Azui Reiki in 2017 and her master level on Corona Holy Fire in January of 2022. Now she has mentored under experienced Reiki masters and wonderful teachers here, and she began training as an evidential medium in 2021. So let's find out about all these wonderful experiences that she has here and we'll start our journey together here as we bring Louise on. So here she is. Welcome, louise, to Ready Set Reiki. Thank you.

Speaker 1:

Tracy, I'm so excited to be here with you today.

Speaker 2:

Wonderful and you have a wonderful biography, and it goes on and on and on. But let's hear it from your very own words, as your experience. So tell us a little bit about yourself.

Speaker 1:

Sure, well, I have something in common with you. I'm originally from Massachusetts but I lived in Texas for a while, but I was more central, I guess I was near Dallas, so I was in that area Excuse me and I'm in Ohio now and this is where I'm settled and hope to stay. As far as Reiki, you know, looking back, I really think it's been with me my whole life. As a young kid. I can remember my grandmother sending me to sit with like the sick relatives or the dying relatives and as a kid kind of freaked me out. It was like why do I have to go do this? But you know, now, looking back, I'm like I think I had that healing energy with me and I just didn't understand what it was.

Speaker 1:

I started having experiences with Mother Mary also when I was young, so she's always been a very powerful part of my life, which is very cool. So I was very interested in metaphysics when I was like a teenager in my young 20, but then I decided to go back to school for nutrition. So I went to the other side of my brain and kind of let all that go and really I mean I've had a beautiful career with nutrition. It's, you know it's a healing art. I get to help people with their health and feel better. So I've, I've loved it. Get to help people with their health and feel better, so I've, I've loved it. I still do it. That's not going anywhere, um.

Speaker 1:

But in Texas I was in a job that I loved, but it was so stressful. It was literally 24 seven and I thought I'm really like I'm not going to be okay if I keep doing this. And so I looked back into like the metaphysical stuff that I used to like, and I found Reiki and I was like, well, I kind of know what it is, but let me check it out. And there was a course that was affordable. So I went, I did the level one and I just fell in love with it. There was, there was no going back and it honestly yeah, it really honestly changed my life and that's like no exaggeration.

Speaker 2:

Wow, wow. So you became a registered dietitian in 2000. You have this business Life Balance Healing that you had opened in Ohio since 2021. And then here comes the Reiki. So would you say that you found Reiki or Reiki found you.

Speaker 1:

I would say we found each other, or Reiki found you. I would say we found each other. I would say it literally presented itself when I needed it the most Because, yeah, at that point I didn't have my business yet at that point and it really just like I needed something to help me relax and it, my stress level went down, I was able to handle things. Things that would like kind of really freak me out or kind of ruffle my feathers Wouldn't bother me as much. I was sleeping better, I could speak to people better, I was able to get out of a really bad relationship that I was kind of stuck in. So it really did shift me in a different direction. And then I ended up in Ohio and this is where I started the business.

Speaker 2:

Wonderful, and that's one of the amazing things about Reiki is that it helps, empower you, right, that stress modality that helps. And then you're working with that Corona, holy fire energy, right, helping to shed that culturally creative self, right, beautiful, beautiful. So, as you've been studying, as you've been working with the energy, cultivating that relationship, as you've gone from a zoo to Corona, what are you finding as a misconception about your work, about working with Reiki?

Speaker 1:

a misconception about your work, about working with Reiki. I think a lot of people think that it is not compatible with religion. So I do, you know, spend time talking to people about that. You know I work with Mother Mary. She's a religious figure too, so I don't. They're not mutually exclusive, they all go blend beautifully together. You know the Reiki is this divine energy, so it's, it goes with everything. So I would say that's one thing. I think the other is that people feel like they need to be, like I need to be spiritual, to go get that done, like I can't do that kind of thing. So I think that's another misconception about it, right?

Speaker 2:

I had grown up in the church and my mother is very Bible based, so this was something that did not resonate as the yoga. I teach yoga as well, so she always had very much an opinion of this. And people are often surprised, like I'll get a message in my inbox and saying you know, I'm going to pray for you and I'm like great, please do. And they don't. They can't wrap their head around that you could have a relationship with God, that you know I bring in Mary Magdalene, mother Mary as well, and that you can have something that is christ-based, that allows you that ability to choose if that's what you want to do.

Speaker 2:

But there seems to be this some individuals that keep that as a separation, thinking that there's some kind of dogma or religion attached to reiki, and that's not what it is at all. You know to get that kind of understanding that, yes, there we have that tradition, yes, we have certain hand placements, yes, it's fueled by intention, but it allows you that ability to kind of customize it to your journey and your belief in your practice with that. So you have that, you're not tethered to it. I have students that you know they pray to God or they pray to a goddess, or they don't believe it. They just call it universe, they call it source, and that is a wonderful freedom to have when you're working with something like this, that you have that choice to kind of make it your own.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I agree, and I think you know, like you mentioned, like Jesus and Mother Mary, like I don't think they have to be exclusively owned by a church. You know, I was raised Catholic, I don't practice anymore, but yeah, so they don't have to. Like you know, catholics don't have to, or Christians don't have to, own Jesus, like everybody can interact with Jesus, you know, and and Christ means the enlightened one. So any of us can be working towards that enlightenment as we're going through life, which you know everybody should be, whether you do Reiki or not. So, yeah, I agree with what you said, right, right.

Speaker 2:

So your business is life balance healing. So you are a Reiki practitioner. You also are a medium right, an evidential medium, so you're finding people that are coming to you, you know, needing questions, needing that evidence. Maybe they've been going through challenging times in their journey, but what has been something that has been a challenge for you in your healing journey?

Speaker 1:

That's a good question, so let me back up with that just a little bit. So with the Reiki, I think the Reiki really opens you up, no matter who you are. If you're a Reiki practitioner, it just opens you up because you're feeling that energy, and in that energy and in that people will often find that their psychic abilities start to wake up, and so that is definitely what happened with me. I always felt like I had psychic and mediumship abilities, but not anything that I was ever going to do anything with, but they really started to expand. So that's when I began training and now I use it as a modality. So when I do Reiki, you know you do get some some psychic hits and you get some emotion, you know from people, and so I will ask them. You know you do get some psychic hits and you get some emotion, you know from people, and so I will ask them. You know, like, do you want to talk about this? I don't combine the mediumship with it unless someone has specifically asked, because you don't want to hijack somebody with hey, your grandmother was just here. Like you don't want the two. So I keep them separate. So they can schedule a mediumship or a psychic reading. They can schedule Reiki. If they want to schedule back to back, we can do that.

Speaker 1:

So for me, I think the most difficult healing part has been it's been a journey. You know, like you said, it's a journey. There's not a, there's no goalpost to it. It's not, it doesn't end, and you know I'm very open about my where I come from. I came from a very abusive family, and you know Catholics as Catholics, they didn't show that. You know. They show this like good front of. We go to church every Sunday. Dad's a deacon in the church. She's a stay-at-home mom. Dad's a deacon in the church, she's a stay-at-home mom, but behind closed doors.

Speaker 1:

It was very violent and just really not a great way to grow up. So that leaves you with a lot of baggage. There's no way around it, right? You're taking scars and stuff away from that, so the Reiki helped me heal through a lot of that, most of that. What's really beautiful, though, is that Reiki does it in a very gentle way, so it didn't like push me off a cliff where I was having like flashbacks and memories and couldn't handle it. It was just very gently being able to understand like that's why I react that way, that's why I feel that way about certain things? How can I turn this into love? How can I be grateful for this instead and in that I do get a lot of clients that come to me who have backgrounds of trauma. So I think, in being able to heal myself, it then helps me to be able to help other people go down that healing path.

Speaker 2:

Right, right, I kind of say that Reiki helped me become lighter inside so that I could be of the light. Do you know, you attract the people that need that healing as well. And I read, you know, I also shared with growing up in the church we were Episcopal, so that's like one step away from Catholic right that rigidness of every Sunday at church. You had to go to Sunday school, then you had to go to the service. I was an acolyte and it was really kind of drilled into that, and so Reiki is just a really wonderful way to kind of help shed that culturally created self, to help gently, you know, kind of, and we're not forgetting it but we're able to kind of make a little bit of peace of it for ourselves. And you may not necessarily stay in Reiki, but it's something that helps you move in a direction to where maybe it does open that psychic ability up or clear things right. It's that like, oh, I'm able to see a little brighter now, right, A little clearer.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, it really does. I like the way you put it, how it lightens you up so you can be the light. Yeah, that's a great way to put it. I love that that.

Speaker 2:

I might steal that from you so, um, and you can tell you're, you're a medium, because I it popped into my head and then you said it when I one of the things, because I always had that ability when I started doing reiki, my teacher would tell me stop giving the psychic stuff because it's your ego. And I'm like like, but things are coming up. So I often kind of like, okay, try to keep it in. And then someone asks like, did you see anything? And then they keep, you know, asking, asking, fine, and you know I'm able to see like different, you know time periods, things like that as well. But that's what I was going to ask you like, do you blend it? You know, and so you must have read that in my mind, that question.

Speaker 1:

That is funny, and I use the psychic part because, like you know, psychic and mediumship work are not part of Reiki, so it's something that we bring in which can be very beautiful. But, you know, like I said, not everybody wants that.

Speaker 2:

Right, Not everybody needs it either. And it's not true to you know, like I said, not everybody wants that, Right, but I think that either. And it's not true to you know, a zooey, he was intuitive, you know, but Dr Hikashi, he was diagnostic and Madam Takata didn't do that either. So you don't have to have that many people, and that can go back to another misconception. They think that you have to have some type of gift with that and you just don't.

Speaker 2:

It's the intention you want to help. You feel the calling. If you feel a calling to do this, then by all means what? Who am I to be? A gatekeeper, right, you know, go for it. And and you know we need a lot more people out there to sprinkle Reiki out there for sure. This next question can go either for the mediumship or the Reiki, because there's so much out there. I know when I was younger and I was kind of dipping the toe into, you know, readers and psychics and mediums, that there's such a variety out there. How do you look for when you need, like that, energetic tune up or when you need to have a reading done? What are some qualities that you look for in a Reiki practitioner or a medium?

Speaker 1:

I think anybody in this realm who's practicing, I really look at where their ego is, because you need to. You know you can't be ego free. We're human, our ego is part of us, but you don't want to be ego led. So if I come across somebody that is like I'm a Reiki master and I have healed people of A, b, c and D, I stay clear away Because, like I tell my students, we're not healers, we're channelers for healing energy so that the client can bring themselves into that state of healing. So I'm very wary of, like, anybody who's really, you know, throwing ego out, even for mediums. I really am careful with that too.

Speaker 1:

I call myself, like you said at the beginning, an evidential medium because I will give evidence. So I'm not the person who's going to say like oh, your grandmother is here and she loves you and she wants you to know. You know, blah, blah, blah. I might say I have a woman here. She feels like a grandmother, she's showing me a ring, blah, blah, blah. And then you'll be like oh, my goodness, that's my grandmother, you know, like, so there'll be evidence, there'll be personality described. So I look for that in people who do readings like that they're, they're pulling information to help you and they're not trying, to like put on a show of how amazing they are yeah, there's some of them out there, for sure yeah, and it's you know it's a shame, but again we're human.

Speaker 1:

So you know ego is part of who we are. So and looking at you know, for somebody who's been doing it for a while um, so they have some kind of experience with that and people who continue their training, I think that's really, really important. Typically, I don't call myself a Reiki master. I say I'm a practitioner and teacher, because if you ever think that you've mastered this, then you're done Trying to find a name you know and I came up with energy coordinator.

Speaker 2:

I was trying to find a name you know and I came up with energy coordinator. That's what I meant. Coordinator, because I thought you know, because we're not a master, you know, there's no there. So I thought what could I call myself? So I've been using energy coordinator as my.

Speaker 1:

That's fun. So see something like that, that's something good to look for too in a practitioner Like what do they call themselves? How do they word things? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2:

And it's just a constant learning too. I mean, I enjoy doing the podcast because everyone's a teacher to me, coming on and connecting, and you learn something new every time I connect with someone and then I can turn around and share it as well. So it's just been a beautiful, beautiful journey. So have a business. All the experience that you've had you've even got yourself. You got a bachelor's degree Congratulations on that and your master's right. You finished your master's. I'm working on the master's, so I have.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I have a bachelor's degree in food and nutrition, which I've had for 25 years, and yeah, so I just did the bachelor's degree in metaphysics and so now I'm working on the master's and plan to go all the way to the PhD with that. So that's really, that's exciting, something different, wonderful.

Speaker 2:

So, with all this knowledge, all this experience, what advice would you give someone who is just starting out in this profession? They're listening to this and they're like, yeah, this is, this is what I want to do. What pearls of wisdom do you have?

Speaker 1:

I think the biggest thing is to be open-minded, because sometimes some of this stuff can really sound crazy, you know, but at the same time you want to be a skeptic because you don't want to believe. It's hard to explain, right, but you don't want to believe everything. You want to be able to vet the information. So, really being that skeptic so you can go in and find the truth for yourself, right, because what works for me may not work for somebody else.

Speaker 1:

So, just being very open-minded as you go into this and then know that it's you know, I'm going to say it again what you said it's a journey. There's no end post, so it's a continuous learning. So, like I tell my students after we've done the classes that this is not the end, I have not covered everything, I haven't even come close. I've opened the book for you and now you get to go and continue this journey and keep learning from other people and, you know, find different things that you can add to it, that you like, or how different people experience the energy and how they work with the energy. So really just being open to that and knowing that it's something that's going to keep going. You're not going to take a class and be like here.

Speaker 2:

I am, and also to you also, with being a journey. You have the option of pausing and being still and stopping and redirecting option of pausing and being still and stopping and redirecting. And you know, all of the month I had this just expansion of just things happening, and then I had another month where it was everything of letting go, and now I have to pause again and say, okay, what direction now do I want to go into and just take a moment to step back. I mean, you know, when you have these seasons, especially of abundance, you know, and it usually I don't know if it happens for you, but when the abundance comes, it's like here, here's everything at once, like whoa, wait, face it now. And then the body doesn't know what the nervous system is. Yeah, it's okay to stop and rethink things and reinvent yourself and go in another direction and um and, but just keep on going.

Speaker 1:

You know, if you stop for a little bit, keep on going, yeah, yeah, and like what you're saying, that with keep on going. The, the self-healing never stops either it doesn't either.

Speaker 2:

You've got to be prepared for that.

Speaker 1:

I like to say that when you think you're like, hey, I'm good, I dealt with all this stuff, I've got this, the universe is, oh, say that when you think you're like, hey, I'm good, I dealt with all this stuff, I've got this, the universe is like oh, I'm glad you think that Push.

Speaker 2:

You're back again. And the other thing too, when you had said about you know you're keeping that open mind and things. You know, there's such surprises with this, like when things come through, this is like crazy. Like I had something that came through and it wasn't a gargoyle and the gargoyles eyes moved and I felt called to reach out to this person and it was like this is like you're going to think I'm crazy, but there's this gargoyle and I described it and then just get to get the validation. She like oh yeah, I know what you're talking about. It's a statue and it was just this childlike amazement.

Speaker 2:

They're like you can't make this stuff up, like to pop something into your mind. And then you, and moving to El Paso, you know I didn't have the Spanish background. I had a few years in school, in high school, and then forgot it all. And then I'm here and so things will come in Spanish to me and I don't know what some of them mean, and so I'll hear it and then I'll say it and they're like and it's just like it, just how does it do?

Speaker 1:

this it really is. It's like we can touch this magic that like I wish everybody could see this and experience this and those moments really do like solidify that, hey, something's happening here, right?

Speaker 1:

so we're talking about like religious stuff. I was doing Frankie on a woman one day and I see Jesus standing over her left shoulder and I'm thinking to myself holy cow, I've completely lost. Now I think I'm seeing Jesus right. So I was just like you stay there and do your thing, and I'm going to stay here and do my thing and we're not going to talk about this. And when the session was done, the client said Louise, I have to tell you the weirdest thing, but I swear that Jesus was standing right at my left shoulder and I was like, oh, that's bizarre, Right.

Speaker 1:

Yeah it's just this stream of. I mean, I know like it's not really magic, but it feels like a stream of magic that we just step into and it's so beautiful.

Speaker 2:

And it's always with this child, like wonder, like wow, like wow. And then I remember Kim Russo, who was the happy medium. She always said if two or more confirm it, take it as the truth. And then when you have that validation from somebody, it's like, oh my goodness, Unbelievable, Unbelievable, yeah.

Speaker 1:

That's. That's a good point, that there's never a session that at the end I'm like you know, that was pretty good. At the end of every session I'm like, oh my goodness, did that? Like that was amazing. When they say stuff like you know I'll be, we'll go back to the shoulder you know, say I'm feeling a lot of energy on that shoulder, so that's where I focus a lot of the session. They have their eyes closed, they don't know what's going on. And then they'll say something like know, oh, I felt all this heat in my shoulder. Or it'll go the other way. I'll say I was really drawn to this shoulder, you know, it feels like there was an injury. And they'll be like, oh my goodness, I had surgery on that like two weeks ago. How did you know? So yeah, just the way these things tie together is, I mean, it's like miraculous sometimes right.

Speaker 2:

Then you have people that'll say, oh, I wish I had that too, but it gets a little scary sometimes, doesn't it? Like you just like, oh my, and it takes your breath away sometimes and it's like well, be careful what you wish for, because sometimes you get some information that you may not want to know.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's very cool.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and that's also why that Reiki comes in handy as well. Breathe just for today, right, I will not worry. So what books do you recommend?

Speaker 1:

So I love this question because you know I'm very big into like that continuing education as a dietitian. It's something I've had to do, so it's really ingrained in me. So I'm going to show you some of my favorite books, and they might be backwards when you see them, but at least you'll see the covers, so they'll know. So this one is called why Woo Woo Works why Woo Woo Works.

Speaker 1:

And this is a fantastic book because not only does it cover like all the stuff, but he's got like all these like references in the back, so he's actually talking about like scientific studies. So this is great, because then, when you have the people that are like that's crazy, that's not even real, you can be like, well, actually it is. There's a study by so-and-so that says so. I love that book. Um, you always need a good manual on hand, so this is one that I have, just a reiki manual. Um, this one I used a lot when I first started teaching. It's really easy to follow, so that's a good one. Um, I'll show you a couple on my ipad, because I use that a lot too. So, anything written by Franz Steiner I think that's how you say his name he is fantastic. He's very well researched. So this one, the Way of Reiki, is great. And then the other one is the Reiki Sourcebook. See that? Yeah, kind of One more I'm going to show you because typically, when people are into this stuff, they like crystals, right, yeah, so this is a new book that was literally just came out, wow, and it is um, welcome to the world of medic physical crystals, and it's by victoria berry, and this book is like intense, like it goes through just every crystal you can think of and all this information, and I got it on Amazon, it's not expensive at all, so I definitely recommend adding this to your library.

Speaker 1:

So those are some of my favorites. I have probably 300 books in my Kindle and I'm real famous for like oh, I need to read that one, I need to read that one, and then I'm like reading like three books at the same time. So I need to learn to like read one, read the next one. But yeah, I think that's really important is getting in there and just reading stuff.

Speaker 2:

All right, beautiful. So what modalities do you offer? What are you offering at Life Balance Healing?

Speaker 1:

So obviously I do the Reiki. I'm a Reiki practitioner. I also teach, so I do have some in-person classes coming up, so I teach a level one, two and three. I will be starting doing some of that online. I am going to be teaching a new class which I'm really excited about Buddhism, so really looking at the Japanese kind of heritage of it, so that'll be exciting, so that'll be good. I've started doing meditation classes so that's been really fun doing that and of course I do mediumship and psychic readings. So a lot of these classes are going to be coming online. So I would say in the next, you know, couple of months that people can really watch for that.

Speaker 2:

All right, and that leads great into our next question when can, where can we find you, to get in touch with you?

Speaker 1:

So I I have made it real easy it. My website is louisecruzcom. You can email me, excuse me, at info at lou LouiseCruzcom, and I would say, if you're interested in, like, what's going on, shoot me an email and then I'll put you on my email list. So you'll get things as they're coming up or you can keep checking the website, but I think the email list is a fun way to do it. So the website and my email. Also, you can find me on Facebook under Louise Cruz or under Life Balance Healing. I'm on Instagram, but I don't do as much on Instagram. I probably need to, but I'm more on Facebook. Right now it's hard to do everything right, it's hard to do everything.

Speaker 2:

I can't keep up with the TikTok.

Speaker 1:

Yeah me either.

Speaker 2:

I was teaching for a while there, many classes, and it was just hard to get on there and go live. You also have a blog, right?

Speaker 1:

Yes, I do have my blog where I write about my experiences with Mother Mary. I also have a Facebook page for that too, and it's called Mother Mary's Messages, and that is. It took a lot for me to put that out there, because you know, these experiences I've been having with her since I was a young kid and she continues to come to me in meditation with just beautiful messages, and I got to a point where I was like I can't keep these to myself. These messages are obviously for everyone, and if people think I'm crazy, they probably already think I'm crazy. So we'll put it out there and see what happens, and I've gotten great, great response to it. So, yeah, that's very exciting, and you can find my blog is on my Web page also.

Speaker 2:

Perfect. So that ends the first part of our journey and I'm going to continue to guide you into the second part, which are questions from listeners and Reiki students. So number one and this is perfect because it's back to Mother Mary again. So, in working with Mother Mary, what appears to be her consistent message that you often hear from her?

Speaker 1:

Her consistent message is love, like it's just over and over and over and over again, is love. And you know, know. She sees what's happening in the world. She sees all the anger and the hatred and the strife and the separation and she talks a lot about, you know, not just understanding love, but embodying love, and not just for the people who you agree with, you know, but for everybody. And really understanding that that's the only way we're going to change things is that if we can really figure out that we are all connected and spread love through that connection, then we can change things.

Speaker 1:

But you can't, you know, bang it over somebody's head, because then you're not in a space of love, right? So've got to, um, not lose your cool when somebody does something that you don't like or when you hear something on the news that, like, makes you crazy. You've got to learn to be able to, like, transmute that energy and still send love to the situation. So it sounds easy, but it's, it's not, it's tricky, but that's yeah, yeah, and I would say that's the biggest thing that she talks about is love, and it's really beautiful.

Speaker 2:

Beautiful. So, number two, which system of Reiki do you find yourself using? More Usui Reiki or Corona Holy Fire Reiki?

Speaker 1:

I would say that I use Usui Reiki more. I like the simplicity of it, Maybe that's the way to put it. My Reiki sessions are very quiet, they're very simple but they're very powerful, Like the things you know, I see and the changes I see in people. The emotional healing and spiritual healing and physical healing too. I mean it's, it's amazing. So that's the one I use the most because I also think it's the easiest one for me to keep myself out of, If that makes sense, Right, Keep that ego out and just let that energy just come through. The Usui and I'm sorry, Karuna and Holy Fire Reiki was very healing for me. I was able to move through a lot of like religious trauma when I did those trainings, so I really feel like for me that's what that was for more for me to heal rather than me to use, if that makes sense.

Speaker 2:

Well, it does, it does. Yeah, zoe, is the simplicity of you know, he had people sit on a rock right and just let the energy flow. You didn't need all those things. And and not to say that sound bowls and tuning forks and chimes aren't wonderful, but it is that simplicity of just putting the ego aside and letting the energy flow, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and I think that's what makes it so beautiful, right.

Speaker 2:

And you know, of course we have. I kind of look at it as a Corona holy fire is the, the flavor in the coffee, right that adds, just depending on the energy. I tend to be more of a fire energy, so for me, I agree, it helped with that trauma, things like that, that deepness and then, um, you know, doing like animal reiki and then kid reiki. Kid reiki, uh, help with, like that, inner child issues as well. So it each had a piece to my puzzle to put together and so it's a nice little variety in your energetic toolbox for that particular client that may need it.

Speaker 2:

But I often get that people ask that question because when I first began my journey I just thought that was it, it was one type. And then it's like you realize, whoa, there's lots of different flavors out here and so many types and styles and systems, and it's not saying that one is necessarily better than the other. But it's nice that you're able to kind of gauge. This energy feels a little different from that and I tell people, start with a zooey, start there and then go out, get a little sample.

Speaker 1:

that may not be for you, it might be amazing, right, I mean that's part of that continuing education right Going out there and seeing what's what's what.

Speaker 2:

There's a lot out there. There is a new, new stuff every day, and it's the same thing with yoga too. Like I had a laugh a little bit cause I was someone you know it's so fascinating. Someone was having like emo bit because I was someone you know it's so fascinating.

Speaker 2:

Someone was having like emo yoga and I was like, excuse me, I might want to try that Someone here in El Paso and I'm trying to take the class, but every time she has it and it's like Tesla light yoga and I'm like what is that? Like, I just so. There's a lot of wonderful things out there, which is great because it's getting people moving, it's getting people excited, yeah, and it's getting people towards healing. So, number three congratulations on that degree. How has obtaining your bachelor's degree in metaphysical science helped your practice and your business?

Speaker 1:

That's a great question really. I think what's been really interesting about getting that degree is that it's a broader like viewpoint of metaphysical information, so it's not focused on Reiki, you know. So that's been very interesting is really looking at things differently, like how you process things, how you respond to things. A lot about very similar what Mary, Mother Mary, talks about, about bringing in that love and, you know, feeling it from a deeper level. So I would say, spiritually, it's really opened me up a lot more, which is awesome because it gives me that opportunity to talk to my clients in a different way and I'm more like, I'm more comfortable and more confident way.

Speaker 2:

Beautiful, beautiful, and it goes back to the Reiki helping you build that confidence, right. Yeah, the courage, I love it. I love it. Well, that was our last question and, as we were talking, is there anything that you might have forgotten to mention or a message that you would like to tell the listeners? The floor is yours.

Speaker 1:

You mentioned them a little bit. So there's five Reiki precepts and as a Reiki practitioner like we, it's kind of part of it that we really try to to live by those and pay attention to those. I have them on my business card so that my clients can see them and try to teach them how to live by them. So the first one is I will not anger. Second one is I will not worry. Now doesn't mean that you're not ever going to be angry or that you're never going to worry. And the beautiful thing about the precepts is that actually says just for today, I will not anger. Just for today, I will not worry. There's plenty of things to worry about. And there's plenty of things to worry about and there's plenty of things to be angry about. And not saying that you can't do that, because sometimes it's justified and it's right, but just really, you know, paying attention like am I flying off the handle because somebody just cut me off at a red light? That's kind of crazy. I don't need to do that and there's a lot to worry about. But I tell people, worry is a prayer for chaos. So yeah, something bad could happen, but something great could happen too.

Speaker 1:

The next one is and I save one for last. So the next one I'm going to say is I will be kind to every living thing, which includes yourself. So that's really something to ponder, because we can be really horrible to ourselves. You know, we're kinder to other people than we are to ourselves. I will do my work honestly, which for me is a lot of like what we talked about keeping that ego out of there, keeping this work pure. And then the last one, which is my favorite, and then the last one which is my favorite is, um, being in gratitude. Just for today I will be in gratitude and I save it for last, because if you can do that be in that gratitude then everything else is going to flip right.

Speaker 1:

The example I give my clients is the grocery store. So you go to the grocery store and the person rings up the cashier, rings up your stuff, and then they kind of lean back and wait for you to bag your own groceries. So it would be easy to like fly off the handle. But if you take a breath and say, you know what? I have a car that got me to the grocery store, I'm able to walk through the store, I have money to purchase what I need. Like there's so much to be grateful for in that moment.

Speaker 1:

And, you don't know, maybe she's worked a 12 hour day and she's exhausted, and how grateful am I that I can give her a moment of reprieve. So, living in that gratitude, you know, even if it's something as simple as it rained today and my shoes didn't get wet, as it rained today and my shoes didn't get wet Boy, am I grateful for that right. Something that can change your life and I think that's a big part of how Reiki changed things for me so being really able to change that thought process. So, yeah, I think that's a big lesson for people is really just learn to live in gratitude, spread that love and know that, wherever you come from, healing is possible. I think that I am definitely proof of that Beautiful.

Speaker 2:

Well, thank you for sharing. That I also find, too, is a lovely reminder, is if we get to the end of our day and we do those precepts and maybe you missed all of them, and we do those precepts and maybe you missed all of them. There's a wonderful Japanese technique called Kaizen, where it's slow progress, you know, but you're making movement. And how can you be one more percent better tomorrow, with that idea that you know what? Yeah, I blew it today. I worried most of the day, I lost my temper, but you know what, guess what, tomorrow's a new day, just for today. And how can I be one more percent better?

Speaker 1:

I love that. Yeah, and you have to be honest with yourself. The way the world has been, there are some days that I'm like, no, I'm going to worry, I'm probably going to get angry. All I can give you today is that I'm going to do my work honestly.

Speaker 2:

So we're just going to do that today, and then you're great of gratitude that you have a whole new day to start over again and to give it an extra five. There we go, beautiful Well. Thank you for taking time out of your very busy schedule to join me on this journey. I deeply, deeply appreciate it. Thank you.

Speaker 1:

Thank you. This has been a very joyful. Thank you, wonderful.

Speaker 2:

All right, my wonderful listeners, if you would like your question featured on Ready Set Reiki, reach out wwwreadysetreikicom. And don't forget, dragonfly Reiki Marketplace is offering a 20% coupon off the whole site. Just use code FP4XTQHZ. And that, of course, if you can't remember that, you can look that up on the website and it'll be right there. It'll be great. All for until September 31st 2025. Thank you everyone for joining me. This has been Ready Set Reiki. I'm Tracy Seawright. Have a wonderful day.

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