If you answered "Yes" to this you may be an empath!
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tremendously in releasing their emotional and subconsciously held
blockages!
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Coping As a Practitioner
Ramp Up Your Sessions, Feel Rejuvenated instead of Drained After Your Sessions, and Tune in More!
Throughout my journey as a Reiki Therapist and Empath, I've learned that
practicing reiki for me is uniquely different than most other
therapists. Many reiki therapists are able to simply act as a channel,
or vessel of reiki energy, without taking on too much emotional drain
and/or picking up or taking on the emotional energy and pain of others. For empaths, practicing reiki or massage can bring unique challenges.
Practicing reiki or massage as an empath can but extremely challenging and even uncomfortable at first, but provided that you understand your nature as an empath and have an understand and tools, your empathic gifts can give you an
edge, unique healing potential, and intuitive doorway into perceiving
the emotional and subconscious blockages of your client!
Many empaths not only do reiki(or massage), but do reiki
and what's
often considered 'shamanic healing', and many people also naturally
channel kundalini/earth energies in addition to reiki. A lot of practitioners do both reiki and shamanic healing and do not
even know it, often feeling drained after their session without knowing
why.
The term shamanic healing simply implies that the practitioner
'merges' fully with the energy of the client, often taking on much of the energetic baggage and pain of the client when they merge. A person not practiced in shamanic healing will run into a lot of discomfort, pain, and tension during or after their sessions, as they naturally take on much of their clients "stuff" upon merging, making the client benefit some, but the practitioner drained or overburdened with the energy they took on. If the shamanic healer/empath is skilled in releasing
with the client as they merge and/or even releasing it for the client after they take
it on, they won't suffer as much from the emotional and energetic drain that plagues many empathic healers.
Empaths are energy sponges, and have to release, breathe, channel, ground, and/or meditate often to charge up and function at their highest level. Part of their gift, and their challenge, is that they're able to take on, release, and ultimately transmute many of the painful, heavy, dark, or unhealthy energies of others. Empaths can also pick up energies, emotions, and other enegetic burdens in their environment.
Being empathic and merging is challenging, as you often can be
brought to tears or feel the pain of your client while working on them,
or you may feel tense, blocked up, or emotionally burdened because you took something on after
your session instead of exhaling and releasing fully
during your session to allow more healing energy in and accomplish greater results.
Keep in mind that this is an incredible gift and often
something that often just 'happens' naturally, and when used properly,
will give you more insight into how to not take harmful energies on, how to help your client release, how to more effectively tune into where
they are carrying trauma and/or blockages, in addition to allowing you
to accomplish greater mutual results! The more you release, and breathe/exhale with your client the more energy you can channel, the more they can receive, and the more you'll be able to tune in as the chakras become more clear, receptive, open, and full of high vibrational, spiritual healing energy and guidance.
Note: It's
much more effective to release
while merging as opposed to taking as much energy on as you're able and having to release much of it afterwards.
Whether you are a massage therapist, or practitioner who works
with channeled healing energy, you can benefit from these tools, and
will notice a tremendous difference if you are in fact 'merging', taking
on, and acting as a sponge as many empaths do naturally without even
knowing it.
Tools
Utilizing Continuous, Repetitive "Exhales", as a means to "Release"
If you are a sensitive empath you may feel discomfort while merging with
someone, especially while working on specific chakras or areas of the
body. This is simply a sign that you are picking up on a place in the
energy field/body that is carrying a heavy load of emotional pain,
trauma, etc, and needs to be unblocked. By continuing to run energy into
this area or chakra(or just doing exhales if you're a massage
therapist), and practicing continuous exhales, you can help the client
release and spare yourself from the pain of 'feeling' their stuff. If
you are clairsentient or clairvoyant, you may have visuals or other
things come through that can help you nurture the client, or give you
further insight into the trauma that needs to be released or how you can
better help them. As always, trust spirit and your intuition for the
appropriate action. When the discomfort subsides and you feel the chakra
or area open and clear, proceed to the next area, but remember to
"exhale out" any unhealthy chi or anything that you pick up before you
move to the next area, and especially after your session! By breathing
lightly into the nose and blowing out of the mouth slowly and
repetitively you can help yourself and the client release. You should be
breathing in very little, and exhaling a lot slowly through the lips,
in an repetitive rhythm until the area is clear as you channel healing
energy into it. As you practice you'll become more in-tune to picking up
blockages by what you feel in the hands, third eye, and through your
empathy(feeling of pain and discomfort), and will be also using your
exhales throughout the day to release any stray energy or unhealthy chi
that you pick up or accumulate.
Diaphragm Lock
Empaths are notorious for having issues with their solar plexus, as its where they often connect to tune in and sometimes even read clairsentiently. You don't want to take on the emotional client into your own emotional center and solar plexus. If you're overburdened by what you're feeling during your session and feel lots of discomfort and your exhales aren't working, you can practice diaphragm lock to help empower your 2nd and 3rd chakras and not let any into there. This lock helps keep you centered and protected as you work to channel energy and release blockages. This is a great defense mechanism if you don't feel comfortable fully merging. You can learn more about this lock in various yoga and qigong classes or sign up for a class with me! The basic technique entails pulling in your naval towards the spine. You can practice controlled breathing into the diaphragm but want to make sure you're forcing all of the air out by pulling the naval in as a means to release and not take on any stray or empathic energies.
Grounding
Grounding is important and necessary for any practitioner, as
you need a place to ground the reiki energy and expel unhealthy chi in
addition to providing you with a protective barrier while performing
your session. When you are properly grounded energy is brought down from
the crown chakra and into the earth to form a bubble or protection and
healing energy around you or 'aura', as the energy is grounded the
excess overflow should channel from the hands to facilitate healing for
your client.
Grounding tools:
-Work barefoot! Working while barefoot helps you connect deeper into the energies of the earth. Always keep your feet on the ground and intend to bring energy down into the earth while visualizing roots and 'feeling' your energetic connection with the earth.
-Use qigong and martial arts poses such as the 'horse stance' to build a strong connection with the earth and empower your lower dan tien, or "sea of chi". These poses will help you ground, channel more energy, and stay centered.
- Working with crystals and stones such as black/brown tourmaline, jet, hematite, and tiger iron are also effective at helping you ground and stay grounded.
Why grounding is important:
This protective aura that comes from grounding is extremely important
and helps to protect you and the client from negative influences, in
addition to helping provide an environment of light and love for your
spirit friends to come in and help with the healing. As you become more
in-tune with energy you will often feel them with you! Talk to your
spirit friends and higher power! Ask them to help you help the client to
relax, ask them and your higher power to bless your client with love,
and often you'll feel them respond that they hear you by feeling a
loving touch somewhere on your body, getting chills, sensations, etc! :)
Clients also often perceive spirits come in to help as well, especially
when the duration of the session is long and lots of energy is ran. As
you do more sessions it will become more common, and you will learn how
to help remove entities and other negative attachments that drain and/or
influence the client in ways that are not aligned with their highest
good. If you'd like to read more about this feel free to check out some
of my other posts or check out my journey page and the links below:
http://DustyMurray.net/journey
Kundalini & Empathy is common
If you're like me and you intuitively picked up on the kundalini/earth
energies first or while performing reiki or meditating, then you
especially will need to make sure you are also grounding energy as
kundalini energy comes up and reiki energy comes down. Even though you
are channeling both of these energies, you're energy still has to be
grounded(you still need a strong energy stream of energy going "down"
into the earth) and you need a place to release excess of unhealthy
energy besides your exhales while strengthening your aura. Energy needs a
place to flow and you can always release through the breath and
exhales, but you can become overwhelmed and creating something a closed
'box' of energy if not grounding excess energy into the earth and
bringing the reiki down, causing problems, and allowing yourself and the
client to be vulnerable in addition to taking on too much
emotional/subconscious energy or unhealthy chi that should be grounding
into the earth as reiki energy comes down to invigorate you and your
client. Kundalini is a powerful healing ally that can bring you an incredible stream of healing energy, but can be tricky to work with as you learn how to stay grounded properly.
Keeping the energy grounded is the absolute most important facet of
performing energy therapies, and will help you and the practitioner
benefit more, in addition to providing you with a strong healing aura
and ability to channel more reiki and earth energies. Focusing on the
feet and 'intending' to bring reiki energy down into the earth through
the feet and root chakra will help you stay grounded. I also use the
vacuum that's created through my exhales to push energy down into the
earth through my feet. As you exhale and release through the breath,
feel the energy being pushed into the earth as you exhale as well.
Exhales are also beneficial for 'aura sweeping' and entity removal. If you're like me you'll learn to mix shamanic healing with reiki, kundalini, breathing techniques, and qigong. The more techniques you integrate into your practice the more effective your sessions will be and the more you will also benefit! Learn more via my classes!
http://DustyMurray.net/dance
Kundalini Introduction - Great info!
Qigong healing
Qigong healing is often performed by building energy into the lower dan tien and sometimes spine and then channeling it to the client for use in your healing therapies. You can channel reiki and kundalini, while also pulling energy from the lower dan tien and root chakra. If you're not practiced in this I wouldn't recommend doing it as it can drain you if you're energy is low or your not familiar with your 'sea of chi' or naval chakra. As a beginner you want to bring reiki energy down and let the energy flow through you as a channel while building your own lower dan tien and overflowing. Don't force energy out as it will often deplete your own center or sea of chi. You can create amazing energy bursts by utilizing reiki, kundalini, and channeling from your lower dan tien. Practicing working with the sea of chi is fun and really neat, just make sure you're not depleting yourself and mostly acting as a channel of the reiki energy so you can benefit more. By integrating kundalini, reiki, and qigong you can charge your lower dan tien and enery meridians while also providing periodic bursts of energy if you choose without draining your own vital energy.
Before and After your Session
Make sure you clear yourself by bringing reiki energy down into the
earth, pushing out any unhealthy chi through exhales and grounding, and
also washing your hands and/or showering to cleanse your energy. Center your energy in your belly by bringing reiki energy there and practicing the horse stance.
Be sure to perform your exhales until you feel a sense of well-being, feel
recharged, and energized from your session. Performing reiki should be a
healing and clearing experience for your client, but also should be for
you! Make sure you are also clear before you start your session by
running reiki, grounding, centering, washing your hands/showering, and performing
your exhales!
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