Two years ago, I studied for my Reiki Master certification but I had no idea what I was going to do with it. I was just called to it just as I had been called to learn as much about yoga as I could by taking a teacher training certification. It was the universe’s way to get me back on my life path through tangible things I can see and are socially acceptable. This was important to me that I did not look to be crazy. Of course, this is still questionable. HA! To make sure, I also studied for my certification as a certified Therapeutic Art Coach. My creativity goes hand-in-hand with my gifts. Being creative is also part of my gifts.
A year and a half ago, I had an idea to open a healing room. I wanted it to be a place where I could practice reiki and share this amazing energy work with others. Drawing in yin and restorative yoga, which are also more healing modalities of yoga than traditional yoga for exercise. While yoga has been westernized in to a form of exercise….that is not the purpose of yoga. Yoga is the movement that helps get the wiggles out of the body so you can get quiet. Quiet to meditate. It helps tame the busy brain!
Like so many other things that have taken me down a path of enlightenment, meditation on the reiki table of a friend showed me signs and symbols that I recognized, but was unsure of. Learning more about energy work and following the bread crumbs laid out before me, this seemed to be the next logical step. I worked with an online course and with a gal in Greensboro to get some hands on understanding. I also worked with my Reiki Master/Massage Therapist to understand it even more.
In September 2023, The Healing Room opened it’s doors to many wonderful patrons. As my practice grew, so did my energetic gifts. I found myself feeling unseen guests. Some I recognized by their energetic imprint and others were there as support. Being an energy worker is wild. As I have become tuned to the energetics of things, I find myself having conversations with those I can’t see, but can only feel their presence. This includes friends deceased parents, my grandparents, and some of their friends. It’s wild because they have their own signatures for me. Its really something I believe happens to many of us, but we are so enraptured in our earthly realms, we don’t notice. We only find ourselves missing them and those thoughts creep in. I truly believe if we acknowledged them and their presence, we would create an all new relationship with them.
This really isn’t new to me. I remember the first time I meditated to meet my guides in my 20s. I was in Jane’s office. I had grown to love a guided meditation. We had done these plenty at workshops with Barry’s silky-smooth voice guiding us to a sacred space as followers of Christ. During this meditation with Jane, I laid down on the white sofa in her office. I can still see her office in my mind. It was a safe space for me. A brown skinned man in all white linen came into my mind’s eye and handed me a wicker, treasure-chest-shaped, box. It was a gift, but little did I know then…it was full of MY gifts. At the time, it felt like a parting gift from a game show. Like, thanks for coming to see me. Take this box. I realize now, at the time I never “opened” it to see what was inside.
Today, I find myself stepping onto another stone on my path. I have had an increase in “visitors” who I either know….or I don’t know, but someone on my reiki table or a person in my Tuesday night circle, does know. The thing is, they are on the other side. They are no longer living.
This is where you might think I have lost my mind. Trust me, I question it all the time, but my sanity is in tact. My gifts are pushing through so that I may help others with healing. My friends who’ve known me most of my life are used to the messages that have come in from their family members. At least those friends I have trusted enough to tell what’s come through.
So, as I step into this new phase of my spiritual growth, I am adding some additional healing to my work. Though I have always known I was intuitive and would provide this to those in The Healing Room, I never thought I would offer to give a reading to anyone. Yet, here I am, offering those to my reiki clients at the end of our session. I usually just ask if they are interested in what came through. They either are or they aren’t. If I think the visit is important I will ask a few inquisitive questions. Otherwise, I leave it alone and document it for my own data.
One particular note of any kind of reading is this, and I paraphrase from The Rolling Stones:
You don’t always get what you want. You get what you need.
The Healing Room’s location in Moving Room Coaching closed in June. Moving Room wanted to downsize and thus, we did, too. You can reach out to me for a reiki appointment through email at laurie@lauriemendenhall.com
I am also currently doing practice readings because honestly, it feels like a box of chocolates….I never know what I’m going to get. If you are interested in being on my practice list, please email me at laurie@lauriemendenhall.com with Guinea Pig in the subject line.
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