William H. Ross
I come to Reiki at a point
in my life when I feel as if a change is necessary. For many years I have floundered my way
through life seemingly lost. I grew up
with many health issues for asthma and joint issues to panic attacks and
unexplained seizures. At the age of 7 I
was diagnosed with epilepsy only because the doctors could not figure out what
was causing my seizures. I think I had a
sense back then that it was connected to anxiety issues, and I knew where the
anxiety was coming from. Abused and sexually
assaulted in childhood I was a very quiet, anxious person, and most of the time
a loner of sorts.
I say “of sorts” because I
truly was never alone. From a very early
age, well before the onset of the seizure activity, I could sense things in the
world that others could not. Many times
I was frightened by what I sensed and saw.
Since childhood I have been gifted with the ability to see and
communicate with spirits, with the dead.
It was always an uncomfortable gift that at times has seemed like a
curse. I learned early on that it was a
subject that you don’t bring up around family and friends. They tend to look at you as if you are
crazy. I knew I wasn’t, but when you are
told enough times that you are you start to wonder, especially when you are a
young child.
It didn’t help initially
that I was brought up in the church. The
subject of spirits and spirit communication and of sensing the unseen is a
taboo subject in the mainstream American church setting. I felt I had nowhere to turn. I even attempted to speak with my minister on
the subject and was actually accused of being some sort of anti-Christ, thus I
was soured toward the Christian religion at an early age. Still I tried to fit in as best I could,
ignoring my gifts, even believing they were only my imagination.
In my early 20s I found
Wicca, a beautiful nature religion which seemed to accept me and my gifts, at
least for a time. And this is where I
first heard about Reiki, an energy healing technique developed my Mikao
Usui. I was of course intrigued. I had long known that I wanted to find a way
to serve and heal the spirit of mankind that had so long rejected me and my
gifts. I didn’t understand why at the
time, but somehow I just knew that I was meant to be a healer and to even heal
myself having experienced a healing from a group of strangers who had become my
friends, and this healing I was told was in fact Reiki. I felt wonderful afterward. I had been in a wheelchair for a short few
months prior to this healing and afterward, I could walk. I knew this was a gift and I wanted to be a
part of it. But as often happens in life
obstacles come into our path and change the course even if only for a short
time.
In my mid 30s I began to
question things again, and question my faith.
I began to remember the pain of my past, of being molested, of being
judged and harassed. During that time
period I walked away from the Wiccan path that I had so loved believing as
others had told me that it had somehow come from the devil and that I would
burn for it. I didn’t realize until
recently that this is a falsehood and that it is just another way of reaching
out to the same divine spirit, but I digress.
During the interim between the times I left Wicca and came back to it,
even returning to my former church for a short time, I have experienced extreme
bouts of anxiety and panic attacks. I
have struggled with bouts of depression and even suicidal thoughts. I’ve been on medication for the last 3 years
and in therapy until 6 months ago after which I came to the realization that I
was who I was and I believe what I believed and returned to Celtic Wicca and
Druidism. In it I have found the love
and understanding I was seeking and through it I realized it was time to get
back to where my path had been leading me all along and I began to heal leaving
my anxieties and panic attacks and seizures and hurts and pains behind me, and
I will not look back.
I went in search of a course
in Reiki so that I could help to heal others.
I prayed to the Divine Mother to aid me in my search and almost
immediately I found Reiki Blessings Academy during a Google search. I had looked at other sites and other
schools, but this one just seemed to draw me to it, and then I found Dharmadevi’s
page on Facebook and felt a kindred spirit with her and at that moment I knew
this was the right place for me.
My goals are simple:
1.
To learn and grow
in my spirituality and faith
2.
To provide
spiritual guidance and counseling through The Universal Light
3.
To heal myself
and to heal others
4.
To teach others
to use this gift which is free to all
5.
To help others to
know they are never alone and that spirit is always there for them
6.
To become a
holistic health practitioner
7.
To open my own
business called “Reaching Beyond the Light: Reiki and Natural Healing” where I
can heal and teach as well as sell my own line of herbal health products,
lotions, tinctures, tea blends, and candles which I love to make and also helps
to uplift my spirit. (The name came to me in a vision.)
8.
To continue on my
journey toward true enlightenment and to help others to find it as well
These are my goals, and I
know I can achieve them with Reiki and with spirit as my guide.
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