Connect to Centre

Rob Christie - Reiki with Rob

• Michelle • Season 1 • Episode 4

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This soulful episode of Connect to Centre interviews Rob Christie of Reiki with Rob to explore the mysterious and powerful world of intuition. Rob opens up about his lifelong connection to intuitive experiences - from sensing others’ emotions and physical sensations to receiving real-time guidance. He shares personal stories from childhood to present day, including an uncanny connection with a beloved pet and profound insights gained through his reiki practice.

Listeners will discover how Rob's journey into reiki amplified his intuitive abilities and gave him the tools to understand and trust his inner knowing. He speaks candidly about the role of spirituality in his life and offers practical advice for those just starting to explore their intuitive gifts.  Whether you're spiritually curious or deeply experienced, this conversation is a heartfelt reminder of the wisdom that lies within — and the power of connection on the path to self-discovery.

Michelle:

Welcome everyone to Connect to Center, the podcast where we talk about intuition, how to access it, and how it shows up in our life. Welcome, curious friends, to this episode where we're interviewing Rob Christie from Reiki with Rob, an alternative and holistic health service provider. Welcome Rob.

Rob:

Hello Michelle. How are you today?

Michelle:

It's lovely to have you here, Rob. We've been friends for a while, and I'm so in awe of some of the abilities that you have in using your intuition. I see how you certainly embody someone who uh is very much in touch with their intuition and uses it quite actively. So very keen to hear your take on the questions that we're going to be talking about today.

Rob:

Yes, that'd be wonderful.

Michelle:

So let's get started with the first question. I'd love to hear about how intuition shows up in your life.

Rob:

Yes, I had lots of odd things happening with the picking up how people are feeling, things like that, and strange other things that would be happening. Answers to questions, but I also get a bit of guidance as well. But yeah, yeah, really Claire, growing up, I had a lot of what I thought were messages coming through, and I wasn't sure. I'd started writing all these odd things that happened down so I could summarize what I'd actually seen and heard. And yeah, some interesting stuff.

Michelle:

And how do you receive intuitive messages? Some people see or hear or feel or know or taste. How does it show up for you?

Rob:

For me, it's definitely here. I do hear a voice. I hear a voice, but I also feel as well. I might feel how someone feels or feel attention somewhere and think, oh, where's that? But I also have instructions. You know, like talk to that person, smile, and things like that. I have little words that come through to me now.

Michelle:

And does it show up differently when you're doing a Reiki practice to in your everyday life?

Rob:

I I do think um Reiki for me was one that really upped the feelings, really kind of put me into a direction I needed to go. Quite interestingly, I was doing some Reiki on my wife probably six months ago and I did the head position and um I thought, oh, I feel I've I felt a what would you call it, like a sharpness. And I carried on to do the rest and I I said to her when we've finished the Reiki session, I said, Oh, I felt a bit of uh sharpness in your head, and she said, Oh, I've got a headache. But I get a lot of that type of thing, you know, like I'll be um it'll be along those lines. It's uh it's quite an interesting newer thing that's been happening.

Michelle:

Have you built up a library of knowledge, if you like, over time that's feeling something like this or hearing this means a particular something?

Rob:

Yes, I'd have to say yes to that. I have similar feelings than I I used to. I back, you know, when I was a younger fellow, I I'd had this cat from a kitten, we kind of grew up together. My dad always knew when I was coming home because the cat would be he'd be on the windowsill or on the seat asleep, then he'd get up, he'd do a stretch, and he'd go up to the front door. And my dad always knew when I was coming home. When he passed away, I was in Canada. A very strange thing happened. I'd got up in the morning, I'd got into uh got into the shower, came back into my room to get some clothes out. Right beside me, just his face and his ears and his eyes, just for a literally one second, and then he was gone, and I thought, oh, he's passed away. That experience really made me think there's a lot more than our five senses pick up. I've also a lot of things, but I think it started off for me. I I'd turn off the lamp to go to sleep, and within a couple of minutes there's someone beside me breathing, someone who's asleep. I'd have to reach over there's someone asleep to turn my bedside lamp on, click it on, and there's no one there. And it's like, well, what's that? So I asked mum and dad, and the dad said, Oh, you're you're asleep yourself. And I thought, well, I'm not asleep, that's not me. So you know uh had lots of different odd things.

Michelle:

So many people have that story of having been aware of things and having others around them say, No, that's not the case. That's not what you're seeing or f feeling or hearing.

Rob:

Yes.

Michelle:

So I was wondering how your abilities have evolved throughout your life.

Rob:

I've had it for a long time, but it's only a recent recognizing what it is and through strange experiences like that. But I I definitely think starting to do the Reiki, a lot of things have fallen into place and it was like, oh, okay, yes. I see that, I feel that. So I get a better feeling of stuff now. Since the age of nine, I knew uh there was something seeing different things, different shapes, but it's only a recent thing where I've been able to say, okay, I'm happy with it.

Michelle:

And as your understanding of your intuition or your engagement with your intuition has deepened, how does it now enrich your life? Do you use it consciously to make decisions, or does it work in the background to guide you?

Rob:

It's mostly a background guide with real-time, I'll call it real-time instructions, like messages or something will come through about someone or something. I'll often be driving, and I'll know that someone's gonna pull in front of me, so I slow down. More recently it's bigger stuff, intuition of what people are gonna say or what people are gonna do.

Michelle:

It's really fascinating how it shows up differently for different people. It's such a range of answers, I adhere to that question. Another interesting question is where intuition fits into people's bigger belief systems, and I know that's very important to you.

Rob:

Yes. I've had something for a while that I couldn't explain, but now I can kind of know what it is. I was uh doing a meditation and I asked who the creator is. I don't know, like a couple of days later I went onto YouTube, one of my kind of favourite kind of things. In the top corner there was a a video from a guy talking about Yahusha, and I don't normally watch those types of things. Without realizing it, I clicked on it and watched it, and I thought, oh, I was actually answered the question I asked, then um Yahusha has been quite a takeover in my life of recent.

Michelle:

And tell me more about Yahusha. Is Yahusha a word for divinity from a particular religious tradition?

Rob:

It's the original creator. It's um who created us, and uh Yahusha actually means I am deliverance.

Michelle:

So what would you recommend as a starting point for someone wanting to explore their own intuitive path?

Rob:

If I was new to it again, I would certainly ask people like yourself who have experience in it. For me, that's the better way. You can get a book from the library and have a look, but actual talking to someone who is having it the experience, you would have a lot more information.

Michelle:

Can you give any examples of times when you've had conversations with people and it's really enriched your thinking?

Rob:

It would have been up to the start of Reiki, when um I met a lot of new people, yourself included, that I was able to talk about these things, you know, and uh have someone to say, oh yes, that's uh interesting, I do that as well, you know. Uh you know, I know my friend does that or can do that. I think the start of Reiki was a turning circle for me.

Michelle:

And then lastly, where can listeners find you and engage with you so that they can have some conversations with you, perhaps, to learn from you?

Rob:

I've started up a Facebook page called Reiki with Rob. I've just got a couple of comments, things I've seen. The last one came to me again. That's another message. Yeah, so drop me a message.