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Lots of interesting things today. My Louisianan tundra wolf is becoming a friend, good to talk to. He was a little strange at first, but then we got into a good conversation and exchanged pictures. He's actually quite cute, though self-deprecating. He thinks his hair is bad and tries to stick it down with water. I like it.
Joy came over today and we went to a Holistic Healing fair at Centerpoint. It was interesting. My mom was treated twice, but there were small lines by the time I got around to looking out and finding someone who'd do me. I eventually did.
It's called Reiki, and it was quite an experience. There was a prayer to repeat three times at the beginning, when I lay down on the massage table (he lost count and repeated it four times, but I didn't say anything about it...) and got two huge quartz crystals to hold. Then he sat at my feet with his hands on them for a while, and then my head, then my neck, then my right side, then my left... it took about an hour, but it felt wonderful. And I saw lovely random things behind my eyes, better than they've ever been. At first there were waves of deep, clear green, and I idly decided there should be some purple, too, and then the green started changing! It cycled through the colors, but as soon as it got to purple, it started dissipating. If I tried too hard to will it to be purple (I've never tried to change the color of my eyelid visions before),it turned an ugly olivey mustard and disappeared. So I relaxed. At one point, an acupuncture point in my foot arch, which had always hurt the most when I had acupuncture treatments, started to ache. It went away when I tried to relax more. I had slight shortness of breath as I always do when lying on my back (I know, it's weird). When it was over I was kind of shaky.
The theory of Reiki is similar to that of acupuncture, with the healing energy fields and such, and a healer can fix your energy field by using his or hers to channel in energy from the unlimited supply in the universe, just laying hands on you. Rei in Japanese means spirit, ki means life force energy. Together they can be read as "spirit-led life force energy". He said I had some blockages in my head, and left back, which was true. I'd had a headache earlier, and I have scoliosis (not much, but enough to knock my knees inward so I'm slightly pigeon-toed). He said I'm very right-brained, which is mostly true, and told me what the colors meant (green is healing, purple is spirituality). I've never been very spiritual, except for therianthropy. I find that interesting.
Joy came over today and we went to a Holistic Healing fair at Centerpoint. It was interesting. My mom was treated twice, but there were small lines by the time I got around to looking out and finding someone who'd do me. I eventually did.
It's called Reiki, and it was quite an experience. There was a prayer to repeat three times at the beginning, when I lay down on the massage table (he lost count and repeated it four times, but I didn't say anything about it...) and got two huge quartz crystals to hold. Then he sat at my feet with his hands on them for a while, and then my head, then my neck, then my right side, then my left... it took about an hour, but it felt wonderful. And I saw lovely random things behind my eyes, better than they've ever been. At first there were waves of deep, clear green, and I idly decided there should be some purple, too, and then the green started changing! It cycled through the colors, but as soon as it got to purple, it started dissipating. If I tried too hard to will it to be purple (I've never tried to change the color of my eyelid visions before),it turned an ugly olivey mustard and disappeared. So I relaxed. At one point, an acupuncture point in my foot arch, which had always hurt the most when I had acupuncture treatments, started to ache. It went away when I tried to relax more. I had slight shortness of breath as I always do when lying on my back (I know, it's weird). When it was over I was kind of shaky.
The theory of Reiki is similar to that of acupuncture, with the healing energy fields and such, and a healer can fix your energy field by using his or hers to channel in energy from the unlimited supply in the universe, just laying hands on you. Rei in Japanese means spirit, ki means life force energy. Together they can be read as "spirit-led life force energy". He said I had some blockages in my head, and left back, which was true. I'd had a headache earlier, and I have scoliosis (not much, but enough to knock my knees inward so I'm slightly pigeon-toed). He said I'm very right-brained, which is mostly true, and told me what the colors meant (green is healing, purple is spirituality). I've never been very spiritual, except for therianthropy. I find that interesting.