If you’ve been following my blog, many of you know, that in numerology 2017 is a year one. This means it’s the beginning of a nine year cycle in your life. As 2016 came to a close I wrote a lot about looking back on the previous nine years (2007-2016) and reflecting on what burdens, wounds and patterns you wanted to release so you could start the new year fresh and open (see my blog, Prepare to birth the next evolution of your life’s work in 2017)
When this new year started I was excited about teaching my workshops and guiding participants to embrace their gifts and share their Soul’s medicine with others. In short, I was ready to help my students and clients move forward in their life’s work. However, I soon understood that as a year one, 2017 is all about setting a strong foundation.
A strong foundation is whole and integrated. This means that any outdated patterns and beliefs around work, creativity and power have to be brought to the light for healing. For example, issues around setting healthy boundaries, unhealthy patterns with money, or fear of showing your creative work to others. And because your Soul wants you to evolve, to go to the next level in this new nine year cycle, it is triggering these past wounds so you can look at them and release them.
This means that often before you can move forward, you have to go back. This going back is not about going backwards, but about integrating the challenges you faced in the past nine years (or longer) so they can become valuable wisdom. This, in turn, expands your Soul’s medicine. This is a form of Divine Alchemy where you transform those painful moments into precious gems of wisdom and compassion.
If you don’t take the time to do this focused journey into your past, your Soul will keep triggering those same wounds, not because your Soul wants you to suffer, but because your Soul wants you to heal. Your Soul knows that your wounds, when lovingly integrated, become part of your Soul’s medicine, a medicine that no one else has. And a medicine that is sorely needed in the world.
Going through this process myself, and guiding others through it, I’ve realized that it’s usually not enough to merely think back on the nine year cycle that just ended. That is helpful, of course, but the true transformation and integration happens when you take this process to a deeper level.
In my next blog, part 2 of this one, I will describe the process I follow to guide others through this journey. This process includes taking an inner journey, reflective writing, ritual, and infusing it all with the healing energy of unconditional love. Although you can do this process alone it can be more powerful when done in a group. This is especially so when Reiki energy healing is included.
Part of my evolution as a spiritual teacher is to incorporate Reiki in a deeper way into my workshops and talks. I received this guidance last year through my prayer and meditation practice. As I sat in meditation I kept seeing images of myself doing Reiki attunements on participants on my workshops. After you receive a Reiki attunement you are able to channel Reiki energy to yourself and others.
I’ve done hundreds of attunements in the past years in my Reiki training and with my private clients. But up to this point I had never included them as part of workshops and talks. For some reason I was hesitant to do this. I wondered if people were ready. And mostly I wondered if I was ready.
So I took note of this guidance but I didn’t follow it last year. I had to go through more layers of self-healing before I felt ready. Then 2017 began and I finally felt ready. Already twice this year I have included Reiki attunements in my workshops and it has been so rewarding. I know that Spirit is guiding me to share this with as many people as possible because it will deepen their ability to heal their challenges and turn them into wisdom. With this beautiful wisdom people will be able to answer their inner calling in a more profound way and bring peace and joy to the world.
Blessings and love,
Lisa
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