ROBERT'S STORY

Since I was a teenager I have been interested in the esoteric, an interest I am sure grew from the stories my father told me about the ways of the world. Over the years, even though life got in the way, this interest never left me. I self-studied tarot cards and numerology and I enjoyed giving readings for friends and family. Although I never took it seriously, friends and family members would often return after 3 to 6 months for another reading.

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Fast forward to my late 40’s, my then girlfriend, who is now my wife, suggested that we take a Reiki healing course, so we did. I remembering finding it really interesting and loving the concepts of being able to make a difference to other people’s lives, however reality set in, although I knew I did not love what I was doing at work, it was a good job in construction, which paid well and I didn’t feel confident that I would ever be able to make the transition, healing was for other people not me was what I thought then.

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It wasn’t until around 12 years later, now married, and finding myself in a career rut and needing a new direction, my wife suggested I attend a Clairvision meditation retreat, she had read about the organisation and the courses they offered years ago, and was on her bucket list of things she wanted to do, although she had never got around to attending. It sounded really interesting and I love to travel, Clairvision hold retreats all around the world, and once I started looking into it and realised that there was an upcoming two week retreat in Sedona, a place I had always wanted to visit, it felt right, so I signed up.

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The retreat was one of the best things I have ever done, you know the saying nothing happens before the right time and it was the right time for me. It was synchronicity playing out at its best everything lined up. The course was brilliant, however if had known exactly what it would involve, I am not sure I would have attended. I was over 60 and thought that I had everything under control, I had made my peace with my past, I had forgiven and those I thought needed to be forgiven.

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During the course arrival introduction we were given a breakdown of the course and I was shocked to learn that we were expected to open up to complete strangers, I am just not the type of person who willingly spills their guts to a total stranger. I went to bed that first night in disbelief and I knew that if I had known beforehand what I had been told at the introduction I would never have signed up, let alone travel half way around the world and commit to a two week course in the middle of nowhere. I eventually pulled myself together and realised that now I was here I might as well grab the bull by the horns and commit wholeheartedly to process.

It turned out that those two weeks were one of the most intense emotional weeks of my life each session revealing hidden emotions that I had suppressed. I went right back to my childhood and uncovered lots of issues that I had pigeonholed and forgotten which were still affecting me as an adult.

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We addressed each emotional issue through a particular exercise and the peace I felt within was just unbelievable. During the retreat, we were recommended to limit contact with our family and friends if possible, however after two days on this roller coaster of emotions I felt that I had to call my wife, and the first thing she said was that I sounded different, I asked her how?

She explained, I sounded different in a good way that I sounded as though I was at peace with myself. I described to her what the course was about and she said ‘it’s a good thing that you didn’t know that you had to open up to strangers otherwise you wouldn’t have gone,’ we both had a good laugh.

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Before I knew it we were at the end of the course, the two weeks, had initially seemed like such a long time, but they had just flown by, I had a sense of peace I hadn’t felt before, my heart was open and spiritually I was beginning to awaken, I had changed.  I realised that I wanted to help other people but how I would do that and in what way, that was the next question. After discussing various ideas of how I could do this with my wife, the idea of ‘Reiki healing’ resurfaced.

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Again it seemed that everything was aligned, I came across the Reiki Academy London and a wonderful teacher and Reiki Master in the UK called Torsten Lange and the rest is history, my spiritual journey continued and my journey as a Reiki healer/therapist began. I just want to add it may seem that there were a lot coincidence in play here but I don’t believe in coincidences it was all meant to be. I was guided by a higher force to the path which I was always meant to be on.

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Today, after 3 years I am pleased to say that I have made the transition, I completed my training in Reiki healing, Kinesiology and Spiritual Clearing and I am now a Reiki Master, with my own practise called Serenity Healing which is a space I have created to deliver Reiki through in person and distance healing sessions, changing my client lives and also my own one Reiki session at a time.