Relieving Anxiety and Aligning with Your Purpose

Published in the Fall 2022 issue of Reiki News Magazine.

Before the pandemic brought the world to a standstill, I had been barely keeping myself afloat while it felt like I was being dragged down by alcohol, social anxiety, and depression. It wasn’t until the world became still that I realized I could finally breathe, and I came to the conclusion that I had been living my life in a state of constant stress and fear. For a few years before we were all forced to acknowledge the way we had become so out of touch with our world, I had been focusing my healing journey on crystal energy work. Creating various grids to help boost my focus and concentration, have more peaceful sleep, or to just feel more grounded in life which was very important to me at the time being a touring musician with social anxiety. I was guided in what some would say to be a random way to begin my journey with reiki, but what most spiritual folk would say, the universe was finally bringing me into alignment. I didn’t know much about reiki and its practice and even though I had been doing various types of energy work by that point in my life, I was still a bit skeptical of all the different claims there was about how reiki can change your life, but I was willing to give it a shot.

I learned the traditional Usui Ryoho method and tried to treat myself daily, but I initially had a hard time in the beginning sticking to a steady routine. When I would give myself a treatment, I noticed a drastic shift in my emotional and energetic levels, suddenly I was napping less, thinking more positively and had a much healthier outlook on what I experienced throughout my day not to mention my desire to drink was basically non-existent. Steadily as the days progressed and I continued daily self-reiki, I found as many ways as possible to incorporate reiki into my daily life I became more and more of a die-hard believer in the power it carries. I sent reiki to my electronics, my transportation, my clothes, activated reiki wherever I was walking, whenever I was out in public, and especially when I was performing or talking with the crowd.

Eager for more knowledge, instruction, findings, uses, and opinions from other reiki practitioners and masters around my area, I found a local Usui/Holy Fire® Reiki master that I could learn from. The power and healing of Holy Fire® brought my skills to a whole new level, helping me to be more consistent in my daily practice, releasing me from the anxiety medications I had been taking, and began to bring my manifestations into reality. Simply being free of the anxiety and depression that had me locked up in my room not leaving my bed for days at a time was amazing enough, but when my job search started to become fruitful in ways that I had never imagined it really drove the point home that reiki can do some wonderous things that help bring you into alignment with your soul’s purpose. I also learned a variety of reiki techniques which included Quantum Reiki that helped provide another huge energetic shift bringing another incredibly powerful energy to my fingertips and gave me a whole new world of possibilities when it came to healing and I started to have a strong urge to share the knowledge and healing with others.

For years I always thought that I would be a professional musician, touring the world playing my music but the personal cost that came along with the job was something I couldn’t pay any longer. I realized that throughout my life, the one thing that fulfilled me the most was helping my friends and family through difficult times in their life, finding ways for them to heal and overcome life’s difficulties while still finding the light in every situation. I knew that I had to find a way to bring that into my focus and that realization helped me to create a plan of action, to get myself in a place financially where I can start my own business, skillfully apply various healing techniques to help my clients achieve the most out of their lives, happiness, and health.

On top of giving reiki to myself every night before I fell asleep, I began to write down my goals on pieces of paper and carried them with me throughout the day, giving reiki to them whenever I had a moment. My first objective was to find a good paying job just to get myself to a steady financial place, not necessarily something that was my ideal job choice. Before I started this exercise, I hadn’t received any calls back from jobs I had been applying for but about three days of giving reiki to that goal I got call after call come in offering me an interview, but the most important call came from the very job I had been hoping to hear back from, about two hours after I had submitted the application. I was shocked with how kismet it felt to me within my energy field, it was apparent reiki had everything to do with it. The funny thing is, without reiki, the job I ended up getting would have left me drained of energy and lacking any fulfillment or purpose, yet with reiki I was able to deal with the public (in sales no less!) without any anxiety, energy drain, or that classic case of severe introverted shift outside of work hours. I noticed that I was still smiling even after experiences with unsatisfactory customers, and we all know how difficult that can be at times.

So as soon as the new position was locked in, and I had a steady source of money flowing and I began to get specific with my job goal. Now I had time to wait for the perfect opportunity to come my way without causing any more stress on myself, so I wrote out a new goal, a job where I would feel fulfilled and not stuck having to perform one technique or another but open to all the different healing aspects I had been learning about while I worked towards my Ph.D. specializing in Holistic Life Counseling through the University of Sedona. I wanted my focus of healing to be on providing reiki to my clients, but I had realized by that point in my practice that most people have no idea what reiki is or what it does.

I started to brainstorm ideas as to how I could bring reiki healing into more people’s lives who would otherwise never get exposed to the practice and the only thing that came to me in the moment was to combine it with massage therapy. However, the current state of my financial burden wouldn’t be able to take on something of that magnitude and if I did try to go for it, I wouldn’t be able to finish the licensing in time for my current business launch schedule which was very important to me. So, instead I put the idea out of my mind as it seemed to be a little too far out of reach for my current plan of action, to which I was very dedicated. So, I kept my intentions positive and allowed myself to be open to the next big idea that I could focus my efforts towards.

I noticed that my level of reiki power increased exponentially since the start of my practice and that it began to seep into areas of my life that I wasn’t consciously focusing on or had even given up on. One day during my continued search for the perfect job I stumbled across a massage therapy scholarship that made everything possible to me that I had hoped to bring to my business. This opportunity fit my timeline, financial budget, and business goals while also happening in that perfectly aligned reiki way and after three days I was signed up and ready to begin a new chapter that would eventually help me to spread the knowledge and healing of reiki energy to more people.

Reiki has put me on track with my goals, helped me to overcome my anxiety, heal from my past traumas, and get in touch with my inner self and intuition. The impact it has already had on my life, goals, and accomplishments has allowed me to release the things that aren’t in alignment with myself even if it seems like something I want. The truth of reiki speaks volumes if you give it a voice in your life and remember that reiki brings that which serves your highest good. No matter how far you’ve come, there is always something else to learn, evolve, and master! So, make sure you celebrate your accomplishments along the way and know that reiki will be there to support you no matter where your life journey takes you.

Heather Newman | The Healer’s Truth

August 31, 2022