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Riad Reiki with Amanda

• Stephanie Graham • Season 1 • Episode 7

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Ever wondered how sensitivity can become your greatest strength? Meet Amanda from Riad Reiki, a holistic therapist, Reiki healer, and psychic medium with over a decade of insight into the world of healing and spirituality. Amanda takes us through her personal journey, revealing how her innate sensitivity has transformed into a powerful tool for connecting with and healing others. She opens up about the vital role that spirit guides play in her practice, sharing how they help her determine whether a client needs a healing session or a reading.

As we navigate the challenges of modern life, Amanda reflects on the lockdown's impact and the newfound importance of slowing down. Her personal anecdotes illustrate the transformative power of spiritual readings and healing, as well as the profound messages from spirit guides that promote healthier lifestyles. Childhood sensitivity, once misunderstood and criticized, is now embraced as a cherished gift that fosters compassion and deeper connections with others.

Amanda also brings to light the fascinating concepts of past lives, reincarnation, and soul contracts, sharing stories of meditative experiences and spiritual growth. Her work with special needs children and Alzheimer's patients underscores the significance of adaptability and holistic healing. For those eager to explore further, Amanda's workshops offer a gateway into meditation and spiritual guidance techniques. Listen in as we uncover the mysteries of spirituality and healing with our inspiring guest, Amanda.

If you wish to speak with or work with Amanda, please contact her using the details below:
https://riadreiki.co.uk/
Mobile: +447505287410
Email: riadreiki@gmail.com
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Speaker 1:

The content provided in this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. Please always seek the advice of your healthcare professional regarding any physical or mental health conditions. Hi everyone, welcome back to Tranquil Topics. I'm your host, steph, and today I have a special guest with me. Her name is Amanda. She has been a friend of mine for many years now. Amanda is a holistic therapist, a Reiki healer and a psychic medium. She has over 10 years experience and has worked with clients from all walks of life. She's helped guide them on their spiritual journeys and I've personally seen the transformative effects of Amanda's work. So I'm excited for this conversation. Let's get straight to it. Welcome to the podcast, amanda Hi everybody, I'm so excited.

Speaker 2:

I was really nervous, but now my energy has just completely changed.

Speaker 1:

Okay, so for those listening, can you just tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do?

Speaker 2:

It's a really exciting one because I feel as though I've always been sensitive. I've always been told I've been sensitive from being a child, but I think that's who I am and what I do now. So I've always felt vibrations, how people have felt. You could call that being a sentient. So we know when people, when they walk through the room, whether they're upset. You could call that being sentient. So we know when people, when they walk through the room, whether they're upset, whether they're happy.

Speaker 2:

So we read off people's energy and how they come across and then we can adjust to either help or kind of rescue us as well. So sometimes that can affect our mood because we want everybody to be happy and to be healed and to be loved, and it's not always the case. As a healer and as a medium myself, we've normally gone through quite hard backgrounds in this life and other lives as well. So we can understand, we can empathize and we we've been through it to understand it, which is it's hard as well for people to kind of um come to you and and not feel our pain as well, for people to kind of come to you and not feel our pain as well as their pain. So you don't want to kind of give them too much, but at the same time you're saying, yes, I know where you've been with this journey.

Speaker 1:

Wow, so can you tell us more about what is a holistic therapist?

Speaker 2:

Holistic therapist in my eyes because everybody's obviously very different and the way they heal and who they are, and for me personally, a holistic therapist is, as I said, you're being intuitive from my point of view. I do work with my guides. So when you come to see me if you've not been to see me before is your guides might show me beforehand that you know you're either nervous or excited, how you're feeling. I'm starting to pick up on what you need so you may have booked a healing when actually you need a reading. So that could be a medium reading or it could be a card reading. If you've come for a reading and you need a healing, then my guides again will say you know they don't need a reading, they actually need some healing because they're either burnt out or they've got an injury or, you know their minds kind of burnt out. So I give them sort of healing in that respect.

Speaker 1:

So when you say guides, are they spirit guides?

Speaker 2:

They're your guides and we were kind of sort of briefly touched about this because it's trying to explain what a guide is. So from my childhood to my adulthood now my guides have changed. Being adopted, I would have had guides to protect me and and help me through it. You know, as a sensitive baby and changing environment, being taken away from your parents and then put in a home and then adopted that would have been quite a traumatic and stressful environment for that baby Not that I remember it, but obviously there's some trauma there that sometimes I've had to heal. So my guides were beautiful and protective and kind and my guides now are these really strong healing guides who have given me interesting insight into kind of going with guides who can give readings, going with guides who can give healing, and my main guide, I would say on my mind, angel archangel, is archangel Gabriel, even though I do work with Archangel Michael Raphael and several other guardian angels as well.

Speaker 1:

So do you. I'd like you to explain what consists of a healing. So somebody comes to you and they've booked in for a reading, but they actually need a healing.

Speaker 2:

What the process so when you come to the house, the reason why I call it a re-ed is because it's a safe space. It's like a garden space, it's, um, a healing space. So you're kind of coming in from the desert and you kind of come in to be watered and fed and healed and looked after. So that's where the re-ed comes from. So when you come in you kind of feel that space automatically. I think I do. The intention is set already when you step through the door that this is, you know, a wonderful place and it smells good and it feels really kind and and relaxing. So when you go into my healing room it kind of comes a cocoon a bit.

Speaker 2:

I've been told many times that go I'm going to Amanda's house to have a lie down in a beautiful safe space and when I wake up I'm a different person through the healing. Now I do do Reiki healing. I've been attuned to do that. That's where the psychic medium has come from as well, when I was attuned and kind of guided and connected with with the higher beings or souls, and that's where that's come from. But I do trance healing as well. So the trance healing is where I can step back and your guides come through and they tell me what you need, specifically with Steph about having a heart reset.

Speaker 1:

So that was quite interesting yeah, I, I know I mean I've known you for years now, so you were with me when I was going through all those investigations and stuff and I remember you drilling into me how important it was that I actually learned to relax and you were like bring your comfies, bring your slippers, I'm gonna teach you how to relax, because I was so tense all the time as well. And yeah, but I know, the first time I had a healing with you I was. I just didn't know what to expect because I mean, I'd had my cards read before, I'd seen mediums before, but I'd never had a healing and I was like I don't know what's going to happen. And I felt tense during that. But afterwards I was like I need to book in again right now. So your healing.

Speaker 2:

You got on the bed and it was just really went. I was like what is that sound, yeah? And then all of a sudden this guy came through and said everybody, stand back, we're going to restart the heart. And I went oh my God, stop, don't leave me here. And it just ba-bum. And they listened for a couple of minutes and they went right again everybody, stand back. I'm going in my own head, stop, don't leave me here. Ba-bum, and they listened for a couple of minutes and I'm nearly losing the will to live here. I'm panicking but not scared, but it was just a bit unnerving. Again.

Speaker 2:

The last time they did it for the third and final time, your heart just kind of just did this rhythmic, kind of just normal heartbeat that you would actually hear and that blew my mind and I thought, wow, this is a bit special. This is very different from Reiki healing, which I love, and how it's kind of started me off to, you know, trance healing. So this is a very different attunement. Healing it's a psychic one as well, where you know these guys will come in and sort of speak to me in my own head and show me pictures, and then you know, stand back and everything's okay and you got off the bed saying you felt completely different. I did yeah, because you were under the hospital at the time, I think.

Speaker 1:

I was, yeah, nobody knew what was wrong with me really, and then they put it down to stress from, obviously, when I was working at the time. I won't name any places, but it was quite a hard time for me.

Speaker 2:

Stress does some really draining, health-concerning things to the body. This is why I stressed about being relaxed. There's being relaxed and there's trying to relax. There's the gym, there's meditation, there's swimming Whatever you feel is relaxing to you while swimming, you know all the joys. Cycling anything that brings you joy. Used to horse ride as a child. That brought me great relief and outside, and you know, kind of gave me that relaxation that I needed. So now, like I said, to your mind now is, like you say, the, the mindfulness, from meditation to going out for a walk, just talking with my friends, to be honest as well, sharing a problem or, um, doing healings okay.

Speaker 1:

So I know we mentioned your treatment room. Can we just go into a bit more detail about that, because it's not just healings and Reiki, so you do spa treatments as well, to help people relax.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I think again with my guides kind of guiding me as well. So when you say like a facial, it would be more like a lymphatic drain where they would be guiding me, that you, where it is to be going. So I'm really guided with my hands with healing, so I can feel where energy is like really kind of being old, so it's you know, it's like you banged yourself and that feeling of it's been there for a long time. That energy is there. So when I start to heal you, it feels, it does feel like it's been drawn out. People do say that they can feel it being drawn out. It gets lighter and lighter and lighter until eventually it goes, and that's how I'm guided. Until that stops, then I know I've finished and I can move on to another area or they'll just continue to heal you where you need to be healed. There's the distance healing, with the trance healing as well, so I can send you distance healing.

Speaker 1:

So once you that work.

Speaker 2:

So again. So again, you don't necessarily have to come and see me, but I have to ask for your permission. So your guides, I can't very, you know, I can't go into you remotely without your permission. So I would say, or you would give me permission either via text, or I'd speak to you and then you know, obviously then you can kind of give the healing. So you would send me a text and say, oh, you know, I've got this really bad pain wherever you know, can you send me some healing? And I would be guided by my guide.

Speaker 2:

So I might do like a five or ten minute meditation, and then they and I would sort of say, right, when you go to bed tonight, or you know, go and lie down now I couldn't do it while you were driving or if you're out socially, because you know you feel a bit kind of light-headed. So you would go and sit down or send it overnight and then the next morning you should be okay. But the healing is your guides who are with you, sending you the healing where it needs to go. Don't ask me why sometimes, don't ask me how they do it. They are phenomenal.

Speaker 1:

As I said to you, I am more of a vessel healing you through your guides, which is an honor so I remember when I first came to visit you and went in your treatment room and the bed that you mentioned it's is it a massage?

Speaker 2:

bed. It's a.

Speaker 1:

It's like I say, a therapy bed, but I've got like a, a massager machine on top of it yeah, so you had made it lovely there was a pillow blankets and, considering, I was finding it hard to relax at the time because, even though what you taught me was that, even though I was lying down, I was still in a tense position like I wasn't actually relaxing. Now I can do that, and it took quite a while for me to get to the point when I was like, oh so this is what it feels like, rather than being so just tight all the time.

Speaker 2:

What does relax feel like when you're not relaxed? Relaxed Anybody. I'm the same. I was very kind of tight, worked up, stressed. Overthink it's overthinking, that's it's. That's what is not relaxed overthinking actually training the brain to kind of just slow down. I think we've seen this with lockdown. Everybody throughout the world now has had some form of relaxation some form of well-being, had some form of healing.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, lockdown changed a lot, didn't it?

Speaker 2:

really for the world. If you'd asked or spoken to people before that, they'd probably have gone. What are you talking about? The world was going so fast and I remember saying to one of my friends who you know, kind of put me on to this I probably can say her name Madeline- Hi Madeline.

Speaker 2:

She, you know, we were sat there obviously doing this development group that we do as well, and we were both saying God, the world, I don't know. Life is so fast. I feel really stressed, I can't keep up with it, my mind's I just I couldn't put what it was. And a friend of mine came to see me I can say again, jackie and she had a healing. And they came to me, the guides, and they said and she was smoking at the time and they said the world is going too fast. And I was like what do you mean? And they were saying when I came out and I said to her you know you're not breathing properly, I felt like there was someone sat on your chest and there was something going wrong and it was, you know, breathing wise and you know you need to be careful, otherwise this might kill you.

Speaker 2:

And within a month or so we were in lockdown. And she came to me like about six months later and she said do you remember the reading you gave me? Do you think it was lockdown? And I was thinking to myself I thought it was personally to you looking back now with the breathing and not being able to breathe and smoking, and she, you know she stopped. Whether that helped, whether that was to do with it, it was a warning, I don't know, but it was. It was quite strange and always is. With all the readings I ever do, all the people I ever encounter and come across, every reading is very different, every reading is very spiritual for them and they only want the best and highest and love and guide for you, always. So if you are nervous, don't be because they're the ones who are so excited to give you this gift, to give you the gift of healing, the gift of a reading from a loved one and you are sometimes. Give them a healing, even in spirit, just to say that you're thinking of them, that you love them.

Speaker 1:

So I know you said that you've always been sensitive, even as a child. When did you, when did you notice? When was it clear to you that you had a gift? Do you remember? Are you aware or did it just?

Speaker 2:

very young, just always been a scared of my own. You know how she say when we I was a child and I'd be in houses and they were very old house which we lived in and they'd always need work doing and we don't we know, but ever knock it down a wall. Or I remember being in a coach house this is in Romney where I used to live as a child and then it was part of like the house at the end would have been the coach house, to the stables, connected to it with the pub at the end. So it was kind of a sort of small facility and the energy and the old ways that you know the world would have been, it kind of goes into the bricks or wood or the stone and it's kind of stored there, for want of a better word. And I just used to feel all this energy and be a nerd because I didn't understand what it was or what was happening or why. I would hear noises and they'd say you know, did you hear that? And they'd be going no, and I'm going. Well, why am I hearing it? Nobody else is. So I thought I was going out of my mind and maybe I'm a bit weird.

Speaker 2:

Um, and then you would see things on tv, you know, like the horror stories and the horror films, and I think, well gosh, that's me because I'm hearing it, and it wasn't like the film because it wasn't scary but it was unnerving. I didn't understand it. You know, being seven or six, I was always told you're too sensitive. I was always told you've got the patience of an angel and that would really kind of perturb my, my adoptive mother. She didn't really like that about me. So, you know, sometimes she'd be like shaking me and going. You know you've got the patience of a saint and I never understood what that meant either. But that's just my nature, that's what I was brought into this life, with, patience and kindness, and I won't change or be anybody else other than that.

Speaker 1:

How did it feel when people were saying that you were too sensitive highly sensitive, because there are lots of highly sensitive people in this world, very sensitive to the word, very like I didn't understand why.

Speaker 2:

What you know I'm like doing this, you know go. Why are you saying this about me? What's wrong with me? What's wrong with being sensitive? Yes, I am sensitive. So now, as an adult and looking back and actually doing what I do now, I'm so pleased to be sensitive. I'm so happy to be sensitive. I welcome and I'm glad I'm sensitive.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

So, instead of looking at it as a negative and going, well, I wish I wasn't and why, and you know I should be a bit more harder. That's fine if that's who you are. That's who you are and that's your background and that's your personality. But this is my personality and so why am I being judged for not being nasty or unkind or not thinking about what I say before I say it? So that's being sensitive, because I'm always worried about what I'm saying, Overly processing what I've just said, maybe going home and rethinking what I've just said in case I've said something unkind.

Speaker 1:

Before we pressed record, we were talking about if you need assistance or help with something in your life that you can ask your guides. Yeah, but they can't. Could you explain more about? We were saying that they can't help you unless you ask.

Speaker 2:

I can't send you healing without your permission. I can't ask your guides without you giving your permission. We can't interfere with you. You have to ask and we do that in life without our guides being involved. So just an example that I don't know how you feel, even though you might be trying to portray it on your face and I might sense it, but I don't actually really know what's going on until you say do you know I need your help with, or you know that can be finances, that can be just a chat, that can be you know a physical ailment where I'm not going to go to the doctors, we don't ask for help or go, and it's not going to heal but it's just going to continue. So your guides are sort of sort of standing at the side of you. They know exactly what you need, who you need and what you need. And then soon as you say, you know I need my guides to help me. Can you show me, can you guide me?

Speaker 2:

And we do try and push our way and try and make it that we think we know what we want, when actually our path, our guide, has already been done, it's already preconceived, we think we're planning and doing. Well, actually it's already done, but we can choose a path. So I don't want to go down that path of being angry and, you know, abrasive, or don't want to let that go. It's going to make me happy. I'm, don't get me wrong, don't get fooled. You know this voice and who I am. I can get annoyed in the car and you know I can, you know, be quite abrasive, but I don't start off like that. I know it's something that you can either choose to do or not. It's a choice. Do I need to get to that point or should I just let it go?

Speaker 1:

yeah, so it's choices.

Speaker 2:

Your guides will give you choices as well. Do you want to go down this path or this path, even though you've given your warnings? An example you coming out of teaching special needs. For many, many years I didn't want to do this. Madeleine was saying you need to do your Reiki, you need to bring this and give this to people and do this. And I'm thinking, no, I'm not good at this, I'll never be able to do this.

Speaker 2:

And so I fought and, fought and fought. For many years I did it on the side. I would have clients, I would have people come in, I would train with them. For you know, 15 years I've been doing it, and then the 10 years I've been doing specific healing at home and my business getting running, and there was stuff happening at work and I was literally holding on to staying there with my fingertips because I thought that's where I should be, because this isn't as classed as as a profession as such, and so my guides pushed me out of work. Something really kind of unkind happened, because I was just not listening, I wasn't heeding, I wasn't doing what I should do, and so they pushed me out.

Speaker 1:

So were you ignoring life's nudges? Yeah, were you aware of them, a lot of people do it.

Speaker 2:

I was, and I didn't listen to it and it was to my own detriment. I mean, I should have said you know what, enough's enough. But because I'm sensitive, you don't want to give up on stuff and you don't want to stop doing it. You continually think you're not worthy as well you're saying stuff for too long.

Speaker 1:

That's not good for you, yeah, so in episode one I spoke about nice little nudges that you, they appear, and they appear, and they start as a whisper until it hurts, and then they get louder and then you get clobbered with it because you've ignored it big time yeah, and so if you're going through that at the moment, you're thinking why me is because you're not listening.

Speaker 2:

Sit for a minute and say right, what is it is going to bring happiness into my life, what? And that could be a friendship, it can be a relationship. You know, there's things in our life where we've had like a contract, before we've come here, that you might have a child with somebody, but then that contract ends and you might have a marriage with somebody else or a friendship with somebody else. They are then going to teach you something my other half, by the way. I love you, darling, but my God, you're hard work. What is he teaching me? Well, in a way, way I've got to hear, and he's really supportive. He is blown away with what I do. He's arabic, by the way, so convince an arab. I've shown him things that he just would I would not know. So that then gives me validation. That gives me evidence. I'm always looking for evidence to say this is what I've seen, just out of interest. So I'm being shown him.

Speaker 2:

This is very bizarre, by the way, with this large bird, and it's the birds that pick at dead bones. What are they called? Vultures, vultures. I've never seen a vulture before. So, as I said, I couldn't even tell you what the bird. I said this is very bizarre. I was literally going, oh my God, you know, in my mind's eye, as I'm healing and I'm seeing this, this, I thought what the hell is this? I was terrified and when I came out I said I'm like in this building, going up these stairs, and there's this vulture. And he said, yeah, yeah, I am In his Arabic voice, he does.

Speaker 2:

I was trying to sort of heal it and give it, I was trying to sort of look after it. Very bizarre, but that was evidence that I would have never known about, that he's never spoken about, to say there's your evidence, this is who we are, we will show you your life. And he, from then on, it was just giving him reading after reading from his mother to his father, to his friends. And his father used to go across the kind of Sahara on camels and and do all his trading to Syria and send grain, and you know. And his mother was there and they were sort of looking down this encampment with all these these camels and and he said, yeah, he went to pick her up from kind of the Turkish Syrian border to bring her to Iraq, to Mosul wow that blew my mind did it blow his mind as well.

Speaker 1:

It blew his mind as well his dad was very strong.

Speaker 2:

I was like, oh you know, when they're coming in, they knock me for six. I feel very sick, my head can kind of go, I feel like I'm drunk or I can fall off a chair to the side. It's very unnerving and you have to learn how to sort of cope with that is that because of the energy that they're bringing?

Speaker 2:

yeah, and every energy is very different. Some of it I can't even feel it's so gentle and soft and you just get this little waft. It's like someone just breath, you know, is breathing on you very gently. Then other energy I'm like, oh my gosh, now my head's just completely gone, wow. So, and you know, and some of his friends are characters as well, you know, I don't want to tell you about the girlfriends it had, but I'm just going to say anyway and I'm going oh my god. So it's, it's bizarre, it's funny, it's interesting. As I said, I never know what's going to happen.

Speaker 1:

I suppose that's what makes it so interesting as well. It's because of that you don't know who's coming to the door.

Speaker 2:

It scares me to death. I'm like, you know, sometimes I can't even read anybody. Sometimes it's like an open book. The recent one I had, it was a lovely lady. Again, you know, I'm out and about. This is what's happening now.

Speaker 2:

Now they've gone right. Okay, are you ready for this? Because you've asked for it, I'm going okay, I could be having my nails done. I'm giving somebody a reading. I go to have my bra fitted and the lady comes in and I'm trying not to read it. So I just said you know, I don't know. Obviously she doesn't know what I do.

Speaker 2:

I said but there's a card and she went oh my god, we were just talking about this, this is what I wanted, and spirit does that. Now they will literally guide me to people. Or you know, I'm literally giving out a card and I'm literally going no, no, no, because of my insecurity, my sensitivity, because I don't want to be judged or someone say oh god, you know, I don't want to do that. Are you scared? You know, there's that sensitivity and worry that someone's going to judge me as well and not be kind because of my own sensitivity of like, am I good enough? You know, there's that kind of always worrying about. You know how people perceive me or what they say, because people have said the most stupid things or insensitive things. It's not necessarily who they are, it's just, then, how I perceive it, that, oh, are you going to tell me how to win the lottery. Oh, you know, you're going to tell me there's a spirit in, and I don't want to offend them or worry them. And that's when I become sensitive again.

Speaker 1:

Because I'm terrified of worrying, you know, or them feeling uncomfortable around me. It's hard, isn't it? Because I can relate to the. To be honest, I think probably most people, if not all, can relate at some point in their life to feeling like a fraud, not knowing what I'm doing, but you know people are going to see me for who I am.

Speaker 2:

I don't know what I'm. You know what I mean. It's all insecurity when you actually are good enough.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, and so many people around you that actually know you are like what are you talking about? You need to go for this.

Speaker 2:

Women especially. You know I need to go for this. Women especially. You know I'm, I want to be and I try to be and I always want to be an activist for women to say you know, you are good enough. I've met the most amazing women in in education and the NHS and what I do now and they blow me away. You know, michelle is another one who drives me insane. She's the most best teacher I've ever met and I remember going into a class and thinking, oh, my head was down and I felt really uncomfortable and she was so inspirational and she still is and yet she's got no confidence. I love the way she did this right. Everybody, everybody, shh, shh, shh and it was so comforting and she would just keep doing that until she got their attention. She never raised her voice. This is because I was, I said she.

Speaker 2:

My vibration doesn't really necessarily like that, whereas that's been quite my upbringing, so I do have quite an issue with that sometimes. That's just my own personal book to bear. It's not anybody else's fault, it's just mine. So when I was in that class and she's going shh, shh, shh and you know, talking to them and teaching them in such a way, I thought if I was in her class as a child now I would have absolutely reached for the stars with her. Wow, different teaching from the 70s to what it is now.

Speaker 2:

Children are treated quite sensitively and caringly and with thought, and it's getting really hard for teachers to teach them in a way. You know that you have to. There is boundaries. It's very difficult for parents to sort of have that as well through fear of. You know, I think government and other people kind of interfere a little bit with that. You know these are your children. You know what they need. Some children need to be shouted at, some children need to be kind of more sensitive. Some children need a bit more of a firm hand, as in. You know no, no means no, and that stems back to women as well in our confidence to say no, I can't do it, or yes, I can and can you let me have a go, or am I allowed to do this? Your guides will go, we're going to let you do this. Do you want to do it? And it's up to you if you listen do this?

Speaker 1:

do you want to do it? And it's up to you if you listen. And what happens if you think I want to do this but it's not actually the right path for you? Do they make it more uncomfortable?

Speaker 2:

yeah, they'll let you have a go and then you learn yourself. You know you have to learn yourself. Learn yourself, you know you have to learn yourself. It's free will. I can't interfere. If this, if this is so what you want to do and you really do have drive and commitment and, you know, want to sort of tame this, they'll go with the journey as well. It might not necessarily what they wanted you to have, but they'll certainly go with it and then would you be redirected at some point can do if you so wish.

Speaker 2:

As I said, she, this is just self-will. They want you to do what makes you happy and so if you don't do it in this life, you might do it in another life. You know, we have many lives as well. I've literally done a meditation where you know, as I said in the development group, and that you go into a room and there's these mirrors kind of all around you. It's like a little booth and you've got mirrors and your lives flash up, quite slowly first of all, and then it speeds up, speeds up, speeds up, and you're thinking, my God, how many lives have I had? So I'm stood in this booth and I see Tibetan, chinese, japanese, red Indian.

Speaker 2:

I've been shown all kinds of so many lives women, men, women, men, women. You know Spanish Armada was one of them was quite interesting. So then I kind of did a deep dive into this. Then, like, right, show me that life that you know it was in Spanish Armada. So one minute I'm sitting on the boat and I kind of got these lapels on and like the gold kind of shoulder pads with like the little bits of thrill on it, and I'm looking down at, like you know, the younger kind of people who were around me and I can see in the distance the shape of the Spanish flag and the boats were very different and the next minute the boat goes boom and I'm gone.

Speaker 1:

Wow, really.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, which was really interesting. I love boats, I love being on the water. I've got sea legs but I have a very healthy respect for the sea. But I love to drive a boat, I love to be on a boat. I feel really at home on a boat interesting.

Speaker 1:

So, in terms of past lives, then if we go down that route reincarnation, when you said before that you have a contract when you come back, do you have a soul? Because I've heard this, that you have a soul, family, yep, and that there's I don't know specific numbers, but there's a certain number of people that you will re-meet and that you will.

Speaker 2:

I don't know. Let's just seek out and find again and say what have you learned?

Speaker 1:

who are you again? Yeah, and like people that. So what's the difference of people that you are just drawn to when you meet? What is?

Speaker 2:

that there's magnetism. You know it. You know this is your partner, this is your friendships, this is an aura. You know this is just. They could just walk past and you go, my God, you know it's just something that you can't actually put your finger on it or say what it is.

Speaker 2:

So, for an example, when you came to the house and you know a daughter was there with friends and your light was just bright, brighter than anybody else's, and I looked at it and I was like, oh gosh. And I think you looked at me and you were like, oh, what's going on here? So it was one of those things again where it was like a kind of comfort, but I don't know what's going on here, but I'm not sure. But it just happened and it was like what, what's reiki? What? What do you do? And I'm thinking, oh, my god, I'm disturbing them. They're gonna think I'm, you know, a bit strange again. So it's my insecurity going. Oh god, you know she's gonna think, but you didn't. And then I was like, yeah, so it was meant to be, and you always your spiritual growth. This time, or you might be a new soul, and I'm quite an old soul, as you can tell. So you know, you can tell new souls from old souls. Your friend, I did a reading for.

Speaker 2:

I never had a problem in life. Folks, I was like I'll never see this again yeah.

Speaker 1:

So for those listening, when I turned 30 I had my closest friends come around to the house and Amanda came around and she did her thing. She did treatments for them, readings, and it was a lovely sunny day, which was fab because we was out in the garden and it worked perfectly because it was the four of us and it was one in, one out, and the girls they're not a group like.

Speaker 2:

I know them all individually, so some of them were meeting for the first time and it was just great, with this weird woman who does this healing. They're all like oh my god, what's happening? I could tell they were nervous, actually, so you're trying to put them at ease straight away going. Don't worry, don't be, you can have the best time of your life.

Speaker 1:

I think it's the not knowing, though, isn't it? When you haven't done something before, it's always going to be like what am I doing, what am I getting myself into?

Speaker 2:

So I'm giving these ladies or girls readings one after the other, and then this special lady comes in and the cards. I'm going. This is a bit different, it's a bit special she's. You know there was nothing there that was like a warning or a heeding, or you know you've had this, or you know worry, worries, or you know, watch this and don't do that. And they're doing this. And I paused for a minute and I'm thinking this is a bit strange and in my own head I'm trying to sort of fathom this out. And she's just sat there with this big, beautiful smile and his beautiful hair and I'm just like, oh, she's always smiling, gorgeous girl.

Speaker 2:

You know, and again you know, being a woman going, gosh, she's blessed, not, you know, she's a bitch or a hero she's. You know why can't I be like there was none of that. It was just like, wow, awe and amazement and like, yes, you know, we need to see this more often. So it's quite an empowering moment for me, really, and I just remember looking at her thinking, gosh, she's blessed, but she's a new soul. She's a new soul. So, you know, there's all this to kind of come, this learning, and you know, when we say, this is like an earth plane that we're on. It's not easy being here. You know, when you hear, why would any religion, you know, do this? Why would they do this to me? You know, sometimes we've done a contract to have, you know, a relationship that might not last a long time but it's been so unique and beautiful and such a connection that you think why would you stop that? Because it just was meant to be. And it's not easy and it's not nice, but it just was. It was just what you needed at that time. Nothing lasts forever, as we know.

Speaker 2:

Sometimes, you know, we say that about children with disability because they teach us. You know all the years I've worked with disability, they are just the most amazing people that make us look at life in a very different way. You know, they're not concerned about themselves, it's just the bigger picture and what the world offers to us. And it's wonder Children with disability offer us wonder and they are just the most amazing people to be around every day. I mean I say you know a lot with Downs or autism or Asperger's and Downs children. They just have this like come on, let's do it, you know, and it's just this brightness and you're just like, yes, you know, and you get swept along with it and you're like wow, and they're just gorgeous. And again, with autism, they just have this real insular life. That is wonderful again, and the way they view life is just amazing. So their soul journey is very different. But sometimes we're learning from them and I think I've learnt a lot over the years, from that to getting to be here again, which has just come to me now, which is quite interesting.

Speaker 2:

How long were you teaching for um? I kind of went from, obviously, school um into college, did my NNEB, did my BTEC and then was like you know, don't want to do so, anyway, did special needs? Had my children young, by the way, which again was a blessing. I needed those, I needed children. My children needed to come into my life to teach me because they've been quite sensitive and quite hard sometimes my childhood, and not for any necessarily reason, it was just my learning time. So I don't you know my dad, by the way, who I absolutely adore, he's just my guide, he runs mine in the lake district in grange, over sands. He's just a special, special soul who's been brought into my life to teach me this as well. So yeah, I don't start crying when I talk about my daddy, but yeah, he's just a special soul who, again, you know, has got a lot of patience and time and so he's always kind of said to me do what you want to do and go with it. So when I said I like special needs, he said, well, go for it.

Speaker 2:

So I went specifically, mainly being like mainstream schools with integrated special needs, so you would have autism or special needs, or sometimes in wheelchairs, so cerebral palsy. And I applied for a job at Stepping Hill, actually for the Child Development Unit, and it was like a thousand applicants and I literally was like I won't get this. You know I won't get this job. It was not. You know I'm not good enough. So I went for the interview and I'd rehearsed and my CV and she just said so, tell me about yourself. And I just went uh-oh and went into this. You know I'm adopted and you know I had my children young and you know how special I was treated very differently, being brought up in a very white area, being mixed-raced, being judged and being told that you're different.

Speaker 2:

And I'm thinking to myself I'm no different than you, I'm just me. And that's how I view children with disability or people who are very different, you know, on Asperger's or they just have a different way of going about things. So when I had that conversation she said you've got the job. So I was like what she said, because special needs is about being adaptable, having you know life experiences, about not judging, about being who you are and just embracing life. And that's what we're looking for. That so many people rehearse and say this isn't and think that's what it's about. And it's not because people are at crisis, people are just stressed out with it all because it's hard work and it's about visits and hospital visits. It's a different way of life at a mainstream birth and child that we're geared up to have.

Speaker 1:

It's a very different kind of path that you go on with a disavowable child, but it's very special wow, so can you, uh, just enlighten the listeners to the work you do around alzheimer's and dementia as well? Well, that's.

Speaker 2:

This is a new one. Uh, I was just saying to staff before rochdale seems to be my spiritual home. Everybody in Rochdale. I'm Derbyshire originally and I now live in Altrincham near the airport, manchester airport. This is a group that I do with a couple of friends. This is the development group, so you're learning how to meet your guides, which I'm going to start doing actually in rochdale at blue pit mill, and so I'm based there at the moment.

Speaker 2:

So with this development group I met this lady called trish hi trish and she runs alzheimer's d-dementia and they do like holistic therapies and massage and reflexology, and so she asked me to go along and so I took some cards up before I even got up. She's given me, you know, like six or seven people to give readings to, and I was like, oh my god, you know I'm out of my house, so I'm at my comfort zone. I've learned to be comfortable at home, not, you know, to go out and read as such. I've learned to do like group readings, but not that far out. So this was a bit of a push. So went up there and before I got there I came off the motorway because there was a young lad that came through and he was funny and he was a character. So when I got there I gave this lady this reading. I'm just going off track here, by the way.

Speaker 2:

I will get back to the story of Rochdale and Alzheimer dementia. So I gave this reading to this woman and she'd she'd lost him in a fire actually, but he was so funny and charming and happy and still her son. And so when I got up to Rochdale to do this holistic stuff, I've done more readings and I have sort of healings, holistic therapists really for the dementia and Alzheimer's. So they would come with a carer and obviously the person with Alzheimer's or dementia, and so we would offer, give them, you know, 15-20 minutes of a therapy, a chat, and just to come in and just be happy and change their routine really. So they, you know when they have a massage, you have a chat, they don't sleep. You know they're on guard all the time. You know they're stressed, but the most beautiful, the most caring people I've ever met. That's what I'm doing at Rochdale. So from that now I'm going to be doing, as I said, the developments at Bluepit.

Speaker 1:

Wow.

Speaker 2:

So when I say that anybody's welcome, I'm literally going to charge about £3.50.

Speaker 1:

And how long will it be for?

Speaker 2:

Probably an hour and a half, so you'd learn how to meet. You guys do meditations and you know, read stuff, hold crystals, read a card so if people were interested in that, how would they contact you?

Speaker 1:

where can you be?

Speaker 2:

found on my website or you can email me at my website is wwwriadreikicouk. So RIAD is spelled it's all lowercase R-I-A-D and REIKI is R-E-I-K-I. So I'll say that one again. It's a bit of a mouthful wwwriadreikicouk and RIADREIKI is spelled R-I-A-D, r-i-a-d-r-e-i-k-i. Can I get my number as well?

Speaker 1:

you can, if you like, or I can put it um yeah in the bio on the bio yeah, contact me by my, I know it's on your website anyway as well, isn't it? So people can text or ring you to book, because I'm very busy. Folks sometimes send me a text great well, thanks so much for coming on, amanda. I know we didn't get through everything that I wanted to, but we are coming to time, so would you come back on?

Speaker 2:

I would love to. It's been amazing. I've just really got into it oh, thank you so much.

Speaker 1:

Thank you, I really enjoyed it. Thank you, guys, and if you've enjoyed listening today, you can follow me on instagram at tranquil topics, and please rate, review and subscribe to this podcast wherever you're listening from. Thank you, and I'll be back in two weeks with another episode. Bye.

Speaker 2:

Thank you.