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I'm trying to practice every night, to learn to better sense the subtleties of Chios energy, and intuit the information present in the aura. I can't see the auric layers yet, beyond the very first etherial one, and don't think I'm getting color information yet. I keep trying to check in from time to time to see if I get more, without straining or giving myself a headache. And, I am getting better at the visual exercises in the auric learning web pages. I can't do 5 minutes yet, but my focus time is improving. Once a person reaches 5 minutes, auric sight is supposed to increase dramatically. I am in touch with two Chios practitioners, one person who is learning along with me, with my same teacher, and the other graduated from the program, but she is "tactile" as I am. We're going to send each other Chios by distance in the next few days, at appointed times, for practice, and for us to give each other feedback. It's a good learning experience for both sides. Tonight is my turn - I'm sending energy at 10:40 p.m. I receive at 9:30 p.m. on Sunday, and send to the other person at 10 p.m. Sunday night. She will reciprocate one night next week. I've started working on the questions and practice exercises in the Chios Level 2 Workbook as well, and when it's finished I'll be ready for my level 3 attunement. I guess it will be in the next week or week and a half maybe. I'm knocking on as many doors as I can to find opportunities to do Reiki and energy healing, whether treatments or training. So far, it's a lot of waiting for responses. I hope the responses come. And, I tried a little exercise yesterday - spoon-bending. Yes, spoon bending. Sounds like a party trick, but after reading the directions on the rather rudely named website www.fork-you.com , I decided to grab a spoon and give it a try. Now I have a spoon that's bent over double. It was empowering, actually, and I think that if I practiced a little I would be able to ruin our whole set of cutlery, so I'd better stop until I find some cheap set to play with. It was a similar feeling to channeling the energy for healing to channel energy for bending a spoon in half. I liked the way the spoon began to feel softer as I visualized the energy flowing into it. I have the spoon in my coat pocket and decided not to show my family. It looks a little irresponsible to have mangled a perfectly good teaspoon. Hmm. Still, check out their website. If you didn't think it was possible, you might change your mind.Peace.
Okay. I've decided to follow my teacher and Reiki friends' advice and stop trying so hard. I'm also going to stop trying not to try. I'm just going to follow my intuition, whatever it is telling me or not telling me, and practice.I did a Chios healing on my mom on Sunday, and she gave me great feedback. She is very sensitive to energy, and I attempted to use techniques for removing blockages and sealing tears in her aura. I didn't see things, but I felt different sensations in my hands than I do with Reiki, and I think I may be detecting subtle differences, which are giving me information about what needs to be treated. It's subtle - very subtle. But, it is there. My mom felt like icy cold water was running down her when I was scanning her aura, and it made her break out in goosebumps! When I put my hands directly on her, they were very warm, and it helped her warm up. Strange! My Chios teacher referred me to another person who took Chios from her and is also "tactile" as I am (from Reiki). She told me that the cold sensation could mean that I was channeling a blue color energy, and next time I should intend the energy to be a warmer red or orange color. I hadn't intentionally been thinking of a color, but it could've happened that way.I also did a distance Reiki sending last night, and I also called the Chios energy in the middle of it, and used some Chios techniques for removing blockages in my recipient's aura, and sending some color into his chakras, to charge them. I think it was a good sending. I should be getting some feedback this morning at some point.I'm open to trying this more, so if anyone wants to request distance Reiki, with a little Chios thrown in, let me know! I'm pretty available, and would like the opportunity to practice working with the energy.I'm feeling more positive about Chios than I was in my last post.Peace.
This weekend, I've had some nice time to myself to work on studying and practicing learning Chios Healing. I have to say that I'm finding it much harder than Reiki. Reiki came naturally to me, and it doesn't require any special exercises or abilities. (Maybe that's why it came naturally to me- ha ha ha). I was attuned, and I could immediately feel the difference, channel energy, and benefit from doing self-treatments and sending Reiki. This is especially true for me in terms of Reiki level two. The night I was attuned to Reiki two, I sent a distance Reiki treatment for the first time, and I could feel it working. My Reiki intuitive sense has been developing naturally, through practice, and the people who request Reiki of me feel and benefit from the energy I send them. About 98% of the people I've sent distance Reiki to have felt it when I sent it, and have reported how much better they feel. I've been confident enough and grateful enough for the ability to do this to become a volunteer with the Distance Healing Network. I continued and took the Reiki Master Teacher level course. And, I started this blog out of being inspired by the way Reiki has changed my life for the better.Chios Healing is different. I feel like I am missing something I should have. Maybe I'm not a visual person by nature. Maybe that is required, or else a person has to work to develop it. I'm the type of person who has to work, I guess. Because being attuned didn't bring about the same changes in me that Reiki did. This isn't automatic, or it seems, a natural method for me. I'm doing brain and eye "workouts" to try to develop the ability to see auras and visual impurities in the aura. I'm doing yoga breathing and looking at optical illusions to try to develop my "intuitive sense" that I seem to have in my hands but not in my eyes or mind's eye. I am supposed to, according to the Chios level 2 manual, be able to look at a person, and get an intuitive sense of where their energy field is in need of adjusting due to leaks, tears, blockages, or low energy. I am not there. I'm trying too hard, I can't hear my intuition, I can't feel any information getting through. Even my hands, my greatest Reiki tools, are not performing well for me with Chios. When I use them, I can sense the location of the chakras, and get a sense of their activity. This is helpful for me to feel if one is less active (blocked maybe) than the others. But when I call the Chios, and use the symbols (another visualizing/internalizing procedure), I'm not sure about the feel of the energy in or leaving my hands. And the people I've been practicing on - my husband and oldest daughter, have reported that they feel "a little warm" but not much else. This feels for me like I'm a couch potato trying to work my body into shape to model bikinis. Can you sense my frustration? I was under the impression that since I'm comfortable with channeling energy with Reiki, that learning a different energy healing modality would be a natural extension of my energy healing technique, and be...well, easier to learn. I'm not a person who quits if something is hard. I guess I'm just surprised that Chios Healing is so hard for me, even after being attuned. I'm feeling pretty thick, actually, like a brick, and I'm sure that feeling isn't helping me open up either. I'm probably blocking my own learning, which is also frustrating. I thought that if I got my active mind out of the way, that my intuitive sense would be able to do this. But it isn't "just happening" like Reiki did for me. Okay, enough whining. I guess I have to do the exercises and start from scratch, as if I'm someone who has never worked with Universal Life Energy before. My teacher is trying to help me. She pointed me to websites for helping a person develop auric sight, and I am working the exercises diligently. She also emailed me more exercises, such as the yoga breathing ones, to help me get my right brain more open to hearing intuitive messages. She has sent me extra color attunements, which I felt happening, but I'm still stuck here like a person with no experience whatsoever. Wow what a rant I'm letting loose.Advice for how to do this better is welcome.Peace.
I'm making progress! Thanks to the exercises from the websites posted in yesterday's entry, I am able to see a colored auric outline around a brightly colored object. I saw the yellow outline around a blue gift bag, and the lime green outline around a bright red object that was an art project painted by my daughter last year. I'm going to grab a bunch of brightly colored toys and play around some more in a little while.Also, last night I think I started to see a faint greenish tint to my own auric outline in the bathroom mirror. (By the way, green is good - not a sickly color. Green is the color of a healer, and the color of the heart chakra - representing empathy and feelings of love.) The concentration techniques and exercises in those two websites really helped me to focus in just the right way, and it's really neat! I am more confident that this energetic sight will continue to develop, through my practice and intent.And I need to add, that I stand corrected. Objects DO have auras!! So if you've read my post from January, The Aura of a Chair where I was disappointed because I saw the faint aura outline of a chair, and had been under the impression that if I saw an inanimate object's aura, it wasn't a real aura because only living things have auras. I'm wrong. Everything has an aura. Living things have living auras, though, which change, grow, and are connected to the living thing's energy system, and are affected by emotional, spiritual and physical experiences. Sometimes it's good to be wrong, because it means I was right, even though I didn't believe it then.
Soon I'll be looking to send distance Chios Healing. Stay tuned for the announcement, and then please contact me if you're willing to help me practice and receive a free distance Chios Healing session!Peace.
Chios level 1 was a fine introduction to channeling energy, and because of my experience with Reiki, it was very comfortable for me. I completed the workbook and practice exercises, and was really ready for more of the heart of studying Chios.Today, my Chios teacher attuned me to Chios level 2. The manual for this level is quite extensive, and the exercises, practices and meditations as well as the attunement itself, are all designed to help the practitioner develop visual sensitivity to color energy. Because I'm so accustomed to feeling the energy by changes in the sensations in my hands, it is a challenge. My teacher provided two websites with practice exercises for developing the ability to see aura colors, and the exercises seem progressive, and doable, with well-written descriptions. Here are the links, for anyone interested: http://www.astraldynamics.com/tutorials/?BoardID=9&BulletinID=259 and http://thiaoouba.com/aura_eye_exercise.htm . Now I feel that I have lots to do and learn! I've embarked on the next phase of my journey of energy healing discovery and practice. Anyone with insight (oops pun not intended!) or experience in developing this visual acuity to energy, I'd love to hear from you.Meanwhile, I'm still open to sending Reiki to those who request it, without a fee. In a couple weeks, I will be looking for opportunities to send distance Chios Healing treatments, and so at that point please feel free to request Chios sessions if you'd like to try that modality.When I complete my Chios Master level training, I may be switching to a different format for accepting distance energy healing requests, but I plan to take one request per night for distance Reiki/Chios sessions for free. Once my schedule fills up for those appointments, I'll charge $20 per half-hour sessions for times scheduled during the day or at other times. But for now, I'm still a grasshopper.Peace.
My Chios 1 Attunement last night was very enlightening. I sat, relaxed, with palms facing up as I was told. I experienced some swirling colors behind my closed eyes, and energetic sensations around my head. It lasted about 6 minutes, and then my teacher called me on the phone to tell me that she had made a good connection. She was able to intuit information about my chakra colors, and she told me that my dominant chakra was yellow, the solar plexus chakra, which indicates that I'm a natural healer - it's my path in life. I suddenly felt emotional when she told me that, as if my gut was confirming her words. I don't often get emotionally overwhelmed, and so it was significant for me. She stayed on the phone with me answering all of my questions, and was very forthcoming and pleasant. I've read the Chios 1 manual twice, and am working my way through the workbook. Level 1 is very similar to Reiki in the way the energy is called into the hands, and channeled through hand positions to the recipient. For the curious, the manuals are all available for free on the Chios Healing website: www.chioshealing.com .Although my client cancelled because she was too tired, and didn't want to miss the experience of receiving Reiki by falling asleep, I sent distance Reiki instead to a good friend who regularly sends me Reiki. I can't say that I specifically felt more color awareness yet, although when I tried, I could see more blue around my hands than I used to. I felt strong tingles when sending also, and that is always very powerful.Today I called the energy often, as the workbook instructed me. I also tried to visualize my aura in the bathroom, and felt that I could see the outline bigger than I had before, and a little easier. So, I'm encouraged, and I will keep working on it. I think bigger developments will come when I get to the second and third levels, but I like it so far. I am going to do a full Reiki/Chios healing session on my 8-year old tonight. She agreed to my offer, and it will undoubtedly set her up for a good start to her state testing in school which starts tomorrow.Peace.
I've sought out and selected a certified Chios Healing teacher. She will be giving me the first attunement tonight, and will be my guide on my journey to learn Chios Healing and incorporate it into my Reiki practice. I'm excited about opening my mind to this new way to intuit energy, and increasing my capacity for working with ULF (Universal Life Force energy). My attunement and study will be remote, via distance. Most Chios healing attunements are done this way, as Chios Healing teachers are few and far between. More information is available on the Chios Healing website at www.chioshealing.com . My teacher will be Constance Dohan at www.thelightways.com . I felt a good connection with her when we emailed and spoke on the phone. She's also in my home state, though a couple of hours away, but chances of meeting her personally are much better than if she were across the country. The Chios course will take about six weeks to complete. I have signed up for the whole shebang - all three levels in sequence, and at the end, I should have Master Teacher level certification and be able to attune and teach Chios Healing to others. I'll continue to journal here about my learning, growth and experiences along the way. I'm also sending my second "professional" distance Reiki treatment tonight. The first was a success, so much so that the recipient asked for more. In fact, she said that she went into last week's session not believing that she would feel anything at all, and was astounded by the bubble of relaxing and soothing energy she felt surrounding her during my sending. It was very gratifying to hear that, and also that she wanted to schedule another session. She also has been speaking to her friends and coworkers about Reiki, and how great it was. I'm pretty happy with the idea of going professional, and hope things continue in this direction. I feel strong and qualified, and the feedback I receive is very encouraging.Love & Light.
