One thousand treatments!

Posted on 21 February 201921 February 2019 by andy

I like counting. As long as you don’t get too obsessed with a number and what it might mean, it’s a useful part of observation to be able to ask: how am I doing?

It’s part of the reason why I send follow-up emails to clients, and gently ask new clients: have you had reiki before? If so, when? If we observe our experiences, we can learn: how did a reiki treatment help me? How did it play out over the days that followed the treatment? How often should I come for a treatment?

I’ve been keeping records for myself since starting to give reiki treatments to clients professionally. It tells me how busy I’ve been and describes the always ebbing and flowing of activity.

This week, I have hit 1,000 reiki treatments! This makes me feel good. It’s a useful figure to mention to my clients, as I know many want the reassurance that I have experience and have seen a lot of people. I also think that with 1,000 treatments, the reiki room has some pretty good energy!

And it does feel significant. I’ve met clients from all over the world and all over Australia, of different backgrounds and ages, doing varied work or studies or neither, and who come for many, many reasons, some of them similar, and at times, for a reason that is completely unique to them. And as I mentioned in my last blog, boy, am I grateful. To have the privilege to be able to give so many treatments and to help many people at times of need, and to introduce them to reiki and their inner fire. It’s been wonderful. Happy 1,000 treatments to me!

Discover the gifts and benefits of a session of Japanese reiki therapy, healing energy from an experienced practitioner. Visit my website or Facebook page for more information and SMS, email, call me or book online if you’d like to make an appointment. Since 2011, I’ve given 1,000 reiki treatments.

Clients come to relieve stress, anxiety and for many other issues, or to just give reiki a try to see what it does for them. Folks come from all over Sydney and elsewhere to see me. While it’s easiest to get to me from the CBD, Darlinghurst, Paddington, Kings Cross, Redfern and Potts Point, I’m pretty easy to get to from anywhere in Sydney.

Don’t live in regret

Posted on 14 February 201912 February 2019 by andy

The most common reasons that clients come for reiki is to seek relief from stress or anxiety, or from a stressful or anxious situation. So mental health is something that I’ve come to think about a lot, and I always advise clients that a reiki treatment might help bring relief or bring some motivation for change, but for longstanding issues, reiki will only be a part of the set of choices you make to feel better about your life.

Regret is an interesting issue, and a number of clients do arrive, asking how to let go of old hurts and old wounds and how to move on from bad situations they’ve been in. Often, the situation will be in the past, but they feel that they are still having problems moving forward. So, these seems to be forms of regret.

So, I’d like to recommend this article:

6 steps to turn regret into self-improvement

It’s written by a clinical psychologist, and appears in the New York Times.

What I particularly like about the article is that it seems to practical. They are all practical steps that are within our capability to do. It just requires some commitment to do them.

And they make sense to me: do some reflection about the cause of the regret, and how you cope with regret. Use some practical techniques to change the narrative of the incident, or to coach yourself through it with empathy. More advice is to take action. If you have thoughts that are harming you that you keep repeating or returning to, she recommends interrupting them. I wouldn’t have imagined putting your face in ice-cold water as a solution, but it sounds like it works! She also recommends to take action so that you are not regretting a situation.

It seems to me to be sensible and practical advice. I learned from it.

Ten reasons that I’m reiki-grateful

Posted on 12 February 201915 June 2019 by andy

I’m grateful that:

I get to help clients and bring them comfort in times that they need it. It feels good to be able to do this.
I get to introduce clients to the energy that is always flowing through us but we don’t take much notice of or have the opportunity to notice our energy, our inner being, our higher self.
Clients trust in me and tell me sometimes some really difficult stuff they’re going through.
I can provide some helpful guidance to some clients, outside of reiki, just because I’ve been around the block a few times.
My reiki practice is so busy and constant that it’s become part of my work, occupation and vocation; I’m not sure I ever envisioned this happening!
As treatments are not me giving or doing a treatment on a client, but creating a space for healing to happen, I get to experience healing, quiet and meditation with every treatment. It’s made an enormous difference in my life.

I’m grateful:

To my teacher, Frans Stiene for guiding me in my practice with grace, skill and humour.
To my brother for introducing me to reiki and sending me on my journey.
To my clients, for coming for treatments and supporting my practice and taking the time to leave reviews and let me know how they’re going after treatments.
To my husband, for letting me use our spare bedroom as the Reiki Room for Reiki Surry Hills (and to share the space for me to run my practice from our apartment)

For all these reasons and more, I’m grateful! Or perhaps that’s reiki-grateful.

Almost famous: Reiki Surry Hills

Posted on 6 February 20199 February 2019 by andy

Here is what I think is a fabulous video from January 2017:

I’ve thought for the last year that they (I won’t mention the name in case they’ve got alerts!) would delete the video but it’s still up so I might as well share it more officially with you.

You see, I got a call before the video, where they said they do neighbourhood guides, and that Reiki Surry Hills would be a nice sort of service or business to fit into it, as it’s a bit different.

So, I had this super-professional and beautiful woman drop by, Rachel Billsborough, with a very excellent camera guy, and they filmed this video (which was later edited).

Afterwards, they asked me to rent it from them for promotional purposes. I can completely see how this would work for some businesses. Videos can apparently be a really effective marketing tool, which gets way more attention than a static image or set of words. I didn’t have to arrange this or script it. It really was amazing to be given the opportunity to use this video to promote Reiki Surry Hills.

The problem though is that I don’t really have such a big business. It’s part-time work, which I fit in with my other professional work, as an editor of reports and documents, and I don’t charge a ton of money (like some places…) for the treatments. Plus, I’m getting as many clients these days as I want. So it didn’t make sense to invest money into using this video to promote my business, when I’m happy with how it’s going, and my Google Business profile, Bookwell appointment system, word-of-mouth, and repeat clients are keeping me as busy as I’d like to be.

Still, it’s a great video, isn’t it?