Karuna Reiki Training & Finding Peace Within ✨

✨ In this conversation, I share my transformative experience during a Karuna Reiki training in the Redwoods of Northern California. I reflect on the healing power of nature, the importance of self-discovery, and the significance of solitude in fostering personal growth. I emphasize the need for trust and surrender in life's journey, encouraging listeners to embrace uncertainty and find joy in the present moment. I also discuss the role of Reiki in healing and the importance of spreading light and compassion. ✨ 


Takeaways

Going on a trip alone can be a healing experience.
Nature has a powerful impact on our well-being.
Self-care is essential for personal growth.
Trust and surrender are key to navigating life's uncertainties.
Finding joy in solitude can lead to greater self-love.
Reiki is a valuable tool for healing and connection.
It's important to give ourselves what we need.
Spreading light and compassion can make a difference in the world.
It's okay to not have everything figured out.


Sound bites

"We all need little resets sometimes."
"It's okay to not know."
"We are supposed to be the light."


Chapters

00:00 Journey of Self-Discovery
02:53 The Healing Power of Nature
05:51 Embracing Solitude and Self-Care
08:45 The Importance of Trust and Surrender
12:04 Finding Joy in the Present Moment
14:53 The Role of Reiki in Healing
17:46 Navigating Uncertainty in Life
20:47 Spreading Light in a Dark World

Keywords

self-discovery, healing, nature, solitude, trust, surrender, Reiki, joy, uncertainty, compassion

Transcript

Meredith Jayme (00:01.422)
Hello, welcome back to all the above. I'm so happy to be recording. It's been like a minute since I have sat and recorded, maybe over a week or so, maybe like a week and a half. And I was away all last week. I was doing a Karuna Reiki training in the Redwoods of Northern California. So that was incredible. I had a healing, beautiful week.

in the woods, literally the whole time. And I went and did it alone. So it was a healing experience. Just going on a trip alone is so good for me. I felt like I was just taking myself on an adventure. I mean, even like the drive for me was a little bit of a, I was a little nervous. Like I don't drive all that much and having to do full highways, it was like a six hour drive and I had to stop and charge my car. So.

It was a lot. was a little, you know, anxious about doing that on my own. but just as I drove and I got into kind of the middle of nowhere and it was like these rolling golden hills and then trees. And I just had this and the road was like basically empty and I was just cruising. And I had this moment where I was like, I am just taking myself on an adventure. And that's really what my whole trip felt like. It felt so healing and just, it was really nice to listen to myself and like,

Okay, if I want to, after training, go randomly to this hiking location, like around the corner and do a three mile hike and yeah, I did that. And if I want to just go to like this health group, health food grocery store and get dinner and then just eat it outside on my patio of my Airbnb, like, yes, that's what I'm doing. If I want to go to dinner, like going to dinner. And I mean, it was just even aside from the training, just doing something.

for myself and having that space and time to myself was really, really nice and healing. Then the training was so incredible. mean, Karuna means compassion, compassionate action. It was also world peace. just so much came up and just being in the Reiki energy for three entire days of the training was so powerful and beautiful and so needed. mean, I just, feel like we all.

Meredith Jayme (02:25.272)
I'll need little resets sometimes. And this was my first time meeting my teacher in person. I've done other trainings with her online, but just to be in the energy of someone who is so, just has such beautiful energy and healing energy and has such this incredible perspective on life and the world and what we're going through right now was hugely impactful.

Yeah, and our group was really small. was just a small group of us, which was so nice to really be able to have that intimate connection and just everyone shared in every moment, every experience. We all were able to share how it was for us. And it was just incredible. There's so much to say. And I kind of want to talk more about Corona maybe in a separate episode because it just feels so peaceful and healing and

I mean, I guess a little bit more about my retreat, the training. wasn't really a retreat, a training. but yeah, we met and walked into this beautiful space in the Redwood forest and spent the entire day there from like nine 30 to six, six 30. Um, and it was like a 10 minute walk to the bathroom. So we were like really out there and surrounded by these incredible ancient trees that are.

thousand, like over a thousand years old. think the oldest might be 1800 years old, which is just so cool. The trees are so big, you literally can walk inside of them and like their little like hiding spots and holes. And there's this one where a family fit in there. Like I watched a whole family walk out of there. Just literally the coolest thing. and being in nature, was just to lie down on the earth for that much time to be sitting on the ground, to be so grounded.

We did so many healing experiences and to just open your eyes and wake up and see all of these trees above you and the sun peeking through is just so special. My teacher sent me something where after there's like a nature pyramid and I think the benefits of it kind of go like a pyramid. And I think three days is the point where you hit the top of the pyramid of just being in a different brain state, just a full reset.

Meredith Jayme (04:51.725)
That is really what it felt like. I'm still processing a bit of it. I got back like three days ago, so still soaking it all up and processing, but I was doing Reiki this morning and my cat came and just sat right in my legs and she was receiving it in my hands. I just felt such a strong connection to Reiki and the energy felt so powerful. And I'm feeling good about sharing Reiki with more people and

offering sessions and yeah, just this trust in knowing that I am this healer. can do this. I can share this with the world. that in a way is really, it's not meant for me to keep it to myself. know, like sometimes these gifts, we are really meant to share them. And whether that's just my cat on the floor next to me in the morning or, you know, maybe someone that I bump into or who knows.

so many possibilities, but I'm really excited about sharing it more and letting other people experience the gift of Reiki who might not know about it or who do or who are seeking it, teaching it, sharing it just because it is. I think it's so needed. I think it's so peaceful and powerful and healing. yeah, I guess another little interesting thing, I, someone that I've connected with through

a mediumship circle, he and I have found that we had this kind of like connection a little bit and some things in common and we kept being paired together in the zoom breakout rooms so many times where it was just kind of funny. but anyway, we ended up having just a chat outside of class and we were talking yesterday and he was like, that's so funny. I told him that I was on the Reiki retreat. He was like, that's so funny. I keep hearing about Reiki. I just had a session where someone told me I meant to be a healer and to

explore Reiki and he was experiencing a major loss and grief in the present moment. I was telling him how I kind of reflected on how my Reiki journey also came at a time of grief and how healing it was for me. So just the power that it really has and yeah, just wanting to share that with the world. And I really do want to offer some sort of Reiki.

Meredith Jayme (07:19.469)
like meditation or something through, I don't know, like a video or just something to share Reiki in a different sense. So I am pondering that, but if you are like one of my friends or you know me and you want a Reiki session, please let me know. And I'd be happy to have you come over or I go to you. have my table that I got. So I haven't gotten to use too much. So, uh, yeah, I love Reiki and I'm really grateful that I had.

this time in the forest. And yeah, and then like the day after the training, I went and took myself on a day, kind of. I wanted to do this one hike on the ocean. And I thought I was going to do just like, I thought it was like a two mile hike. And I was like, okay, I'll just bring my like juice and my tea and didn't even bring my big water. And then I was just so into it and inspired. I ended up doing an eight mile hike, like casually and like had finished my water, but it was just so.

beautiful and I just like sat on the beach and I like you could just wander down to these like little private beaches and it was so magical and just being on the cliffside and I was just like so it was so kind of desolate and there weren't that many people on the trail so I could just kind of walk and I was like saying certain like chance that I had learned in the training and just kind of like singing to myself and

just being like stopping in these moments and just saying out loud, like, this is the most beautiful thing. Like nature, you're so magical. Like this is incredible. And just, I felt so free and so peaceful and I didn't have cell service for a lot of this trip and a lot of my hikes. And I loved that. It felt so good to be so just on my own and exploring and yeah. And then the night that I did the little hike after class, I like found this

giant log, this tree that was down over the trail, but you could kind of walk on it. But it was so, it was really high up. Like if I fell, would have been injured. But I, I was like, I just want to walk over this and like take a little video of myself doing it. And it was so fun. I just felt like my inner child was out to play and just exploring in the woods and like climbing on trees and having fun. And it's so beautiful because it was all just by myself, you know? And it was like, I'm just having this really fun time with myself and

Meredith Jayme (09:44.715)
I think it's so important to connect to ourselves in that way and have that, like, be okay with being alone and being on our own and being able to make ourselves happy. I think there's a lot to say on a bigger level with that. think, like, that ties into a lot of relationships and friendships. And yeah, I think people probably would, like a lot of people would probably be like, wow, it's so kind of weird that you...

like traveling alone and like going on a trip by yourself. And after this, this is like my second time doing something kind of on my own like this second Reiki trip that I've done alone for like five nights. And now I'm like, I think I need this like every six months, at least every year. just, there's something about being in your own energy and just really doing what you want to do for that amount of time. And

Yeah, and like I felt so energized in this crazy way after like my little solo hike the night after class where I was just like wired. I felt so good. literally I was like taking selfies of myself, which I don't do that often anymore and just felt so because I felt so good and I felt so beautiful. And so like in love with myself, it was really, really special and a feeling that I haven't had in a while.

Then yeah, my big day of hiking where I did like eight miles on the beach hike. And then I went back to our class location and hiked further there than I had had time for previously. And I did like a four mile hike there and my phone died at the end. But yeah, there too, I was just like so happy and just taking pictures of myself, like the sun hitting my face and just, because I just felt so happy. I felt so good and just.

in nature and with myself and just my soul felt so happy there. So I think if we can find those places and those moments and those times to really give ourselves that happiness and that peace and that presence. And I mean, whether you do it with someone or alone, I think there's something really powerful finding it for yourself on your own. But yeah, I'm thinking a lot about how I can.

Meredith Jayme (12:06.029)
bring that into my life. Instead of just making it every six months or every year type of thing, how I can really, like, okay, I'm going to take a Saturday and go somewhere I've never been before, take myself on an adventure on a little trip and go to a hike that's maybe a drive that gives me a little anxiety that I'm a little worried about or, you know, like...

somewhere further than I normally would go just to somewhere new and make a day of it and like have time alone with myself and just kind of again cultivate that peace and that joy and that bliss that I felt out there alone by myself in the redwoods. So yeah, I think it's important to come back to ourselves, back to our own energy because we're so

not in that space, a lot of us, maybe some of us, maybe if you are someone who is like single or lives alone, you're experiencing more of that. But again, I think just doing those things for yourself, like maybe you're not, you know, like, I don't know, doing like the fun activity on your own. I think there's something about that and like really leaning into what makes you happy. Like maybe it's not nature hiking for you. Maybe it's a...

like a really nice dinner or a, I don't know, an activity of some sort, like booking yourself a massage or spa day or whatever it is, but doing it for yourself. There's so much going on around us and we have to give ourselves what we need. I think that's a big lesson. think we so often want other people to...

give us what we want and need and we expect them to and maybe we think that it's all on them. But I think our happiness is really on ourselves in so many ways. And if we can make ourselves happy, I think we make others happy and it radiates out into the world. Yeah, if we can be that piece, just one of us, just one person that can be the piece that radiates.

Meredith Jayme (14:25.846)
and makes an impact, really, it really will make a difference. And the more and more of us that can find that inner stillness and peace and euphoria and joy and bliss and that connection, it will really make a difference. So yeah, I'm integrating back into my life and it felt a little stark at first. It felt a little like, okay. I'm back to just back to the routine. Here I am again, doing the same things again and again.

But I do feel a greater sense of peace. feel more unfolding. I feel like this is another initiation in a way of going deeper, of going within more, of finding more peace and compassion for others and for myself and for where I am in the journey. And yeah, a little message that kept coming to me over.

my time in the training was kind of that it was, it is and is always okay to not know. And for me, that was kind of like my journey. don't, sometimes I don't feel like I don't know where I'm heading. I don't know what is next for me. I don't know what the future holds. I don't know like so many questions and it's okay not to know those things. It's okay.

Like we don't have to have it all figured out and yeah, it's okay just to be where we are and to be working on ourselves or working on a project or whatever is most dear to your heart. Maybe that's just working on like feeling good every day or not even every day, you know, whenever you can. I think it's about just bringing your heart.

mission, your heart centered feelings and thoughts and emotions forward and leaning into that more and knowing that even if you don't know, it's okay. yeah. And what I originally thought I came on wanting to talk about was the idea of surrender, trust and surrender keep coming up for me again and again. I've probably talked about this, but I think that ties into this so well because I think

Meredith Jayme (16:51.817)
if we can just trust that everything is working out for us and know that it is. Because really, I've said this before, but if you look back at your life, I look back at my life and see how even when things felt like they were just falling apart or broken or lowest of the lows, I'm so grateful for all of those moments and experiences and those low moments always lead us.

where we're meant to be, they redirect us, they teach us lessons that we're meant to know, and it turns into wisdom. And it's hard to say that to someone in the thick of it. So I hope you are all on the other side of those times and moments, but yeah, surrendering to the journey, to life. I really do believe there's such a plan for all of us and it can always change, but.

I yeah, we're so not alone. We're always being guided and helped and redirected when we need to be. So surrendering to all of it, I think, to everything. Like if we could really just put down our expectations of what we think we should be, what we should be doing, who we should be, like every little thing, how much money we should be making, like what our job title should be, where we should live.

If we should have a family or not, like when we should be doing all of that, how people should want to like see us or identify us. think who we should be with, like put it down, put it down, surrender it and trust and know that there is something so divine for you and perfectly planned out better than, than you could imagine. and yeah, I don't know if we ever.

just feel like, I'm there. I've got it all figured out. Like I'm perfectly on the path. I think there are always things that we're like thinking through and working through and wanting to better. But at the same time, like I can say, I really trust and know that I am exactly where I'm meant to be right now. And it's okay for me not to have everything figured out and have this like...

Meredith Jayme (19:16.654)
cookie cutter plan and timelines figured out and all of that. And yeah, I am trying to really just surrender it all to the universe, to God, to my higher self, to however you want to identify, source with, or, you know, the divine. So I think that is something that we...

should all kind of ponder like, and just surrendering and like going with the flow and things can really change at any time. So I think it's important to soak up and enjoy and find that joy and find that bliss in those moments where you can just be with yourself and be so happy and at peace. And maybe that feels really far off for you, but

Just lean into your heart and what you love and what you love to do. just, I like the idea of sitting and journaling of things that just bring you bliss or joy or euphoria or just like what have your happiest moments in your entire life been? Where have you been? Who have you been with? What have you been doing? And then think of little ways that you can recreate those moments.

and it doesn't have to be a big trip or something. think it can just be, sometimes it can be so little. Like maybe it's just buying yourself like a really nourishing meal or dessert or ice cream or whatever it is.

Maybe it's just taking time for yourself to connect with yourself. I think a lot of people probably don't do that. And I think it's really important to sit with yourself and listen and get clear. Yeah, and anyway, so I pulled a card before getting on that I thought might give us some guidance.

Meredith Jayme (21:28.226)
And the card that I pulled that I really like this message, it's called, Reassurance of the Golden Light. So I'll read a little bit about it. This golden light comes to you as a gift of grace and reassurance. It is an embrace from the universe, an expression of divine comfort and a sign of hope. When the golden light appears, it is a sign that everything in your life, even the most troubling matters is going to work out perfectly.

They're held in the graceful hand of the divine and will be resolved more swiftly and beautifully than you might expect. So that feels so relevant to surrendering and trusting. And yeah, even though you don't feel in control of what is happening, it is going to work out. That's a line from this description.

Meredith Jayme (22:21.486)
And it is reminding you that on the path, the struggle to continue with trust, patience, faith, and courage can seem almost overwhelming. However, the universe is with you, supporting, loving, and believing in you every step of the way. You are not alone. You are never forgotten. You are always loved and encouraged to take your journey. You're reminded that the universe is smiling upon you. There are times when you will call upon the golden light because you know that you are in need of that loving consciousness.

And it is appropriate that you do this. There are times, however, when you will just feel, sense, or know that the golden light is being given to you as a spiritual gift from the universe. Such as the case now, you're asked to feel, just feel peace, trust, know that everything is working out perfectly and you don't have to worry, even though you don't know why you should possibly feel that way. The golden light is wisdom and love. It knows, and sometimes that's all you need to know in order to be at peace.

So I mean, how perfect is this? I feel like the golden light is also reiki in a way. So I think that ties in so beautifully here. And then just the trust and the surrender and like, you don't have to worry. You don't have to know how things are working out, but just having trust and patience and faith and courage as you continue on your journey and whatever, whatever is perhaps.

coming up for you, that you're working through just leaning into that trust and knowing how loved you are and supported. Okay, and then there's a little invocation from this that I will read and this is from the Lightworker Oracle Handbook by Alana Fairchild. It's a very beautiful deck and the invocation is, I call upon the reassurance of the golden light.

the comfort of the divine spirit and the loving grace of the universe. Thank you for being with me now, for bringing me peace and reassurance even in my darkest moments. Thank you for sharing a special truth with me that you love and hold and cherish and assist me always. I love you. Thank you for loving me too. May the golden light heal all beings of fear and doubt, gently bestowing mercy, compassion and the loving reassurance of divine presence into the hearts of all.

Meredith Jayme (24:50.807)
Through divine grace and my own free will, so be it.

Meredith Jayme (24:57.568)
So beautiful.

I mean, this just feels very timely. And I also want to kind of close on just the idea of how heavy and dark some people are really saying the world is right now. I just came across something on threads and it was talking about how like you need to leave the United States for the next 10 years because of how bad things are going to get. And if you stay, you're

here for a mission to heal and do work. And it just felt so fear, like just driven. I mean, reading it just makes you feel scared. And I think it's important to, or just reading the news or any, you know, those notifications that pop up on our phones of like another thing, another thing, another thing. And I think again, like really leaning into this golden light and

not getting sucked into the darkness because in a way that's is intended to pull everyone into fear and just an inescapable uncertainty, dread, anxiety, and we're actually supposed to be at peace. We're supposed to be the light. We're supposed to be love. We're supposed to share that with the world and thinking of how we can actually do that and support one another.

our neighbors, our friends, our family, our community. So that is something that I am really sitting with and taking in and asking to be guided to ways that I can make a difference in health and heal and be there for people. Just having compassion for everyone and what everyone's going through. And I have so much compassion for you. I feel like we're all going through something. I...

Meredith Jayme (26:55.873)
I mean, something big just by being alive and living in this world right now. So I want to send love and light to all of you. And yeah, I'm here for love and light transmissions. Okay. Thank you so much for listening. I hope you enjoyed and I will see you soon. Thank you. Bye.