Top Three Tips for Distance Healers

While assisting an advanced Reiki healer today, she described how she has been woken up the past few evenings with the sense that she is meant to send healing energy. With great dedication,  she has been getting up in the night to meditate and send energy - and not sure of the recipient. She also spoke with me about the type of clients she has been assisting lately, including a woman transiting from this life. 

A light bulb (a.k.a. Guidance speaking to me) went off, realizing that two things were happening for her that are very common for Lightworkers who do distance healing. The first is the need to set clear boundaries and 'rules' for sending before doing so. The second, involves having an incomplete disconnection from the assistance being sent or delivered once she was done.

Both are related to boundaries and the need to be crystal clear in having parameters for your work. Here are three things to consider when you distance heal:

1) What are your 'Rules' for distance practice? Rules are hard-fast parameters that are important to you and let your Guidance system know what is optional for you while being a conduit. 

For the woman previously mentioned, she now sets the rule that when sending or giving a treatment, she will not receive or hold any of the energy or challenges of the person with whom she is assisting. Every issue has a field of energy that Reiki shields you from - but not thoroughly. For a sensitive person tuning in to another, it is easy to absorb some of their physical or emotional experience, even with the shield that Reiki provides for us.  

One of my steadfast rules is that the person is fully open and ready to receive upon my engaging with them - either when distance healing or upon arrival to my office. It is a waste of my time and energy to battle a  person's resistance to opening to receive - I let my Guides (and the person's that I'm assisting) deal with it before I send by distance or for an in-person session. 

2) Clearing your field after a session.  My specialty is working with the healing and expansion of advanced lightworkers. In nearly each session, I find that the person I'm assisting still has chords connecting them to someone they have assisted. We are loving, compassionate people and in the process of our work, deep connections are made with others.Most of these connections end when the session is over, but sometimes they remain. 

So, how do you clear your energy after assisting? Use a few different approaches - such as surrounding yourself in golden light, asking your Guides to clear your field, cleansing any crystals you are wearing, asking Archangel Michael to cut chords you may have with others or putting the Reiki symbols in your energy field with the intention that they are little cleaning machines. If you use others, please add them as a comment to this blog.

I have a selenite rod that I sweep around my entire body after a session. The intention is important - that neither I nor my environment holds onto any energies that do not belong to me. 

3) Close the door to a session when complete. I use this technique whenever I have a lingering energy from a session ten minutes after it is completed. I visualize or think of a door. Mine is usually red with a old fashioned skeleton key in a keyhole. I then put this door between myself and the assistance I gave and lock it with the key. When doing this I ask the Guides to lock in the healing energy for the person or situation and I feel my energy lighten immediately. 

~ Love and Light, Kathy

Update on my practice:

Thank-you for all the support upon moving my the base of my practice to Kanata. Upcoming classes are posted at www.ReikiOttawa.com, as well as info on my new book 'Core of Self'. My specialty is therapeutic and light expansion work with Lightworkers. Let me know if I can assist either in person or by Skype!

You need a strong core of self for soul expansion. Info at www.ReikiOttawa.com