By
Valerie J. Mann
President
Mann and Mann Grant Solutions
700 Grason Lane
Fruitland, MD 21826

 

©Soulfulness With Reiki

The practice of Reiki has enabled me to feel greater depths of gratitude, peace, love, and joy.  These feelings come when I am giving a Reiki treatment, teaching a Reiki class, giving a seminar on Reiki, or talking with traditional health-care providers in order to convince them to integrate alternative therapies into their practice.

 

To me, this gratitude is a feeling of overwhelming happiness at finding universal life force energy and knowing that it is available to me and everyone else.  It has fulfilled a longing that I have felt throughout most of my life to have an abundant source of energy and love to nurture me.  After talking with many people in the course of my practice, I have found that this feeling is very commonplace.  It has touched me deeply that many of the people who have sought out my assistance feel so tense, anxious, alone, and afraid.  My assessment is that many of these people wish to be protected from the negativity of the world and from those who support it.  More importantly, there is a deep longing to turn this situation around and let joy and peace be dominant. 

 

When I first began to see how this energy worked, I felt extremely grateful.  It was a deep comfort to my heart.  Just knowing that I am not alone and never will be, and that this energy will always help me has filled me with a sense of relief so profound that it is hard to describe.

 

The sense of peace that I have developed comes from having the utmost faith in this universal life force energy.  I see it work with great positive results time and time again, proving itself to be an immutable universal law.  Having this sense of confidence and trust in the universe allows me to go about my daily tasks with a sense of serenity and a feeling that everything will really be all right.  This sense of peace is with me not only during the times when I am practicing Reiki, but during all of my daily activities.  To me, Reiki is a way of life. 

 

I have studied many other therapies and great religious traditions, many of which are based upon the existence of this universal life force energy. This has strengthened the soulfulness I feel with Reiki.  In addition, a number of authors, such as Gregg Braden and Dr. Bruce Lipton, are letting people know about the scientific experiments which are verifying the existence of this energy.  All of this has come together to increase my faith and thus my peace.

 

The life force energy channeled in Reiki is available to help everyone.  It is the essence of life.  Since we all are imbued with this essence, we are all brothers and sisters, working with the same energy. Reiki thus shows us that we are much more alike than we are different.  In every person that I teach and treat, I see a reflection of myself.  I see the same hurts, fears, disappointments, joy and love.  The implications of this are enormous.  If we are all one, there is no need to fight wars, commit crimes against one another, or be unkind or selfish. If we act in this fashion, we are being unkind to ourselves.

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In Ellicott City

The move to Ellicott City Maryland has gone splendidly.  I have been extremely busy these days which is a good thing. 

This has really been a good test for my Reiki skills this last year.  There have been a lot of issues, and challenges.  It truly taught me the meaning of what Usui's first princple was, "Just for today, do not worry."  It is very easy to get caught up into the what if's when life is throwing things at you, usually with more than one issue at a time.  It is then the rubber meets the road, and everything that you learn from Reiki comes into play.  I have been very blessed to learn this modality as well as to have taught it.  It has been a life saver on more than one occasion.

I have always said that faith and fear are two sides of the same coin.  If we have faith to fear the unknown, then we have faith to have faith.  The difference is in where we put our intent and energy.  Negative energy pulls us down, it evaporates hope, it makes body, soul and spirit ill.  If we turn that around and use the same faith that says something terrible is going to happen, and say something positive will happen instead, that is where we will see a true difference in outcome. 

I remember talking with someone about this not too long ago, and they simply did not believe that intent had anything to do with outcome.  Then they thought well, why not try.  They tried and yes intent did make a difference.  While it may seem strange or foreign to us to say something when our emotions are screaming otherwise, I have found that if you put faith first, eventually emotions follow.  It just seems to be the law of the universe!

Concerning Reiki for the Dying

This email was just sent to me, and it is so impressive I had to share this with the permission of the author (Names omitted for privacy).

I am a Reiki Master Teacher, my Spiritual Lineage is 7 Removed. I do Reiki at the "_______"(name omited as per the Author to respect privacy). It has been one of the most incrediable journeys that I walk with these very courageous patients.
My Mom passed in May, and I felt I needed to help make her transition easier as it was difficult for her. So I went on the web and found you and about the Chakra between the third eye and crown..and did that for my mom with Reiki for her breathing as she had been chain stoking..within minutes she had a normal pattern of breathing again and continued until she passed. My Mom and I had often spoke about her angels and how they would be there to greet her..I know for her she was afraid to die as she felt she would have to answer for things she had done to others in her lifetime. I have this lens that fits over the camera that comes from England, it shows Auras..what it captured with my Mom was a white tunnel around her..it is the most amazing pictures..I then knew the realm was with her.
Last week I was asked by a Mom to see her 38yr old son who was actively dying in the hospital..when I arrived he was moaning, fidgeting and his breathing was erratic. Again as I did for my Mom, put my hands between the Crown and 3rd eye chakra. Within minutes he was at ease..I asked if it was okay to share with him what I saw...his mom said yes. I saw his angels around him just waiting for when he was ready and they would wait for as long as he needed..he opened his eyes and said "amazing" his mom asked him what, he said he saw them, she said your angels, he nodded yes and had a very faint smile. His mom stated to me "look how at peace he is now then before you came in"...And so I left knowing that he would be having an easier transition. All my life I have been connected to people who have passed as I give messages. And I see a lot of things, I believe it is because I had my own near death experience when I was a child.