00:00:01.190 OK. All right. We're started. Yeah. This is it. It's a go to that of the no concept podcast. Everyone's new favorite. Yeah. With Darcy and Katie. Oh yeah we nailed that Kate Kate. Oh God. Sorry what name. We should. Would should get this idea. What name would you like to go by. Because I've always called you Katie. I met you through my mother and she likes you Katie. And then recently we were in a social situation. And somebody called you Kate and it's like Kate like Oh cool.

00:00:31.690 And then I realized everyone was calling you Kate and now I'm not entirely sure what to call you. I don't even notice it. So my family has always I grew up Katie 100 percent. Katie and then I change my name on Facebook to Kate. So now I always know when someone has looked at my Facebook page but doesn't necessarily know me in person. Yeah because they'll call me Kate and like. I think it's a good litmus test. I think I think I think that's why I like you. I love people who really really know you.

00:01:00.880 But I think that it's it's blurred enough now that some people know me as Kate. Some people know me as both. It's all whatever. Anything but Kathy. Maybe it'll be a search like a secret signal win or podcasting. And if I call you Kate that means rabbit up this guest is horrible. How are you feeling. It's just like I'm still having a good time. OK OK OK. We can try listeners you've got an on the ground floor you now know my secret signals.

00:01:30.850 So I learned that your name is Kate slash Katie. Yeah. That's what you learn this week. Yeah. So let's start we new listeners. Hi. We'd like to start out with something we learned this week that has nothing to do with the topic we're discussing. Katie going to start us off. What did you learn this week. Mine was it was like a twitter thing but I don't have a Twitter I don't tweet.

00:01:54.250 Well actually I have a Twitter with three followers and I tweeted once four years ago and I'm sure you saw Darcy the thing where it's like the freckle on her wrist. Oh yeah I know. I have one on both and I don't have that many actually. But like in the center of your wrist and mine are a little bit more like I would say two thirds. But they're very symmetrical. Like much the same on both. And it's like one by itself. So that almost all women have a freckle in the center of the top of their wrist.

00:02:22.960 So I would say mine is exists. I would say it's two and a half like fingers below my true wrist. Yeah yeah yeah. Yes. Mind you there is like my wrist bone or whatever. And then it's a little bit beneath that. Us. Yeah. So and then of course like everything says there are dermatologists just say it's because it's exposed to the sun blah blah blah blah blah but it is still kind of weird I think. Huh. There it is. Yeah.

00:02:53.390 I. Also don't tweet. I do have a deactivated Twitter because I don't give jokes away for free. I mean who is giving material. That's silly. And you know I'm a writer by trade so I just don't like to put material out there unless there's a good reason. One thing I learned this week. So I have been reading a little bit about Maria Montessori and some Montessori education things you know because that's what one year olds need.

00:03:22.650 Anyway. But I've got this book about Montessori techniques for toddlers. But one thing it said is that toddlers will practice something until they've mastered it right. So if you like you know you see them repeatedly over and over and over again trying to put their shoe on their foot like they're just going to keep doing that until they get it. And then once they get it you'll never see them doing it again like like once they've mastered something they move on which is something we've seen with her. She she would learn sign language signs and she'd try and try and try and then she'd do it for about two minutes and then we'd never see it again.

00:03:53.500 And then she's like OK we'll communicate who've done differently. Yeah I'm done with my hat today. Did you notice it. Oh a girls support. Girl Scouts do support girls. I pick this up at Hello holiday which is a boutique in Omaha. They aren't a sponsor but I like them and it's it's for an organization called Omaha Girls Rock. And they do some cool stuff and you can buy their stuff online. So if you would like to sponsor Darcy's hat on this audio only podcast you can do that at no.

00:04:23.630 Concept pod at female dot com. I'm not a big hat wear so we'll just stick with Darcy. I love my hat. So we were at a shopping event with my sister in law. JORDAN Hi Jordan last week. And it was like a private shopping thing at a local boutique here. And she was really psyching herself up to be a happy person. And she wore the hat around the store the entire time we were shopping. And it looked so good it made as she was completely correct.

00:04:51.020 Everything she tried on was slightly elevated because of this hat like she'd take it off and she's like you'd never buy the sweater if you didn't have this hat on with it. But if I have a hat on I'm like Instagram good I'm like. And she's really committed to the hat and she's like I'm going to do it and then I do it. We get to the checkout and they're like well the band is sold separately you know. And the band was like what made actually. OK cool well how much is the band. And they're like oh like twelve dollars. And she was like oh that's the price I've been looking at for the hat. Oh I know. So she had this not only was it an extra twelve dollars tacked on then she had to like pay a real half price like that.

00:05:23.990 It just yeah. And she'd already sold herself on it the whole time. Where did she get the hat. She got the hat. Has she worn the hat. It was only like a week late night let us know if you wore the hat or like send it our way and it can be you can be a hat sponsor to be wearing the hat because I think I'm going to be clear about the hat sponsors. It doesn't even have to be like a branded hat like if you just give me a hat I'll wear it.

00:05:52.130 And on that note hats has nothing to do with our topic of the week but perfect. Yes buddy. Yeah. Well OK I got it. So your hat goes on your head and if you pull it down low it might cover your third eye. The third eye is no me. I really think you're gonna think we're gonna find out. So Katie what do you think.

00:06:22.630 Have you heard of a practice called Reiki. Yes. A good start. A strong start we have in fact heard of it. You read it. I might almost know how to spell it. I know the letters. We'll ask them. I think when you break it down it's like the king. I think Ray is a king sort of signifier and then energy. So it's like. So that's kind of like to me it's like you lay on this table and someone like rubs their hands in the air above you.

00:06:55.930 And it's basically like Phoebe in Friends or an aura. Like yeah but like a massage in the air where it cleans your energy do you think this is something that's readily available in central Nebraska. I know there is a place in Carnie. Because I've overheard at the salon where my mom gets her nails done which I mean I'll give them a free plug because they're great.

00:07:26.510 Maybe they're the guests. I don't know. So Olivia's in Carney. I know they do it because when I was sitting there with my mom I heard another stylist talking about the room where they had a Reiki person professional. I don't know the terminology really well. And she was describing it as a massage and the other person had to say it's it's it's Reiki you know and I was like Oh you do Reiki here.

00:07:50.390 So it just you know stuck out to me but my plug for Libya is would be that they have been so good they my mom has cancer and when she was going to lose her hair we were trying to figure out like if she gets a wig. Where are you going to wig what you like. Top of the line. You know what do you do. They are a local place where they will accept with donations so they have this whole back room just full of wigs. Oh wow. And those are kind of a nightmare of a vacuum.

00:08:20.200 Well I'm like I'm like not like very low have been shoved in a drawer. A lot of them are joke with you but I'm. So those are like I believe donated by other people. But on top of that they ordered in at their cost. The wig. So it was super affordable to get a nice week for my mom and then they will Restylane as often as you want for free. So she didn't take advantage of it because the wig wasn't her favorite. She could go in.

00:08:45.650 I mean every week and get this wig set because it's not real hair unless you spend a lot of money so you can't style it like you would your own hair. So at no cost they would do it 100 percent free. That's so great. So where are they at. Downtown. It's on Central. I don't know. It's called Olivia's. It's great. Google it. Everybody get this all right. And I didn't know they had somebody in house that did. Apparently they do Reiki. Yeah.

00:09:14.900 A Reiki practitioner practitioner or a healer. OK I guess it depends who you ask. Yeah I don't know. So what do you think is actually happening in the session. Like do you think there is an energy to your body that's able to be manipulated. Do you think it's placebo effect. What do you think these people are are feeling when they do this.

00:09:44.240 Why would anybody bother. That's a little tricky for me because I feel like there's a little like it would almost tread into an area I would maybe be afraid of. Like might the Catholic part of me would be like Yeah I was going to ask you. Going on now does your Sunday school alarm in the Beltway go a little yeah. Occasionally and I know that people will roll their eyes at this but occasionally that even happens like in yoga you know where I am like oh I'm just actually stretching.

00:10:15.570 You know I guess I don't know like I'm all for like re centering on yourself and thinking about it but I think a little bit sometimes that can kind of almost worry me and then and then I let it go and I don't care. And I do yield anyways. I mean I'm not I'm not. I'm like I don't do yoga because I'm Catholic. That's not what I'm saying. Just to be clear I'm fine with yoga. I don't do yoga because I'm not flexible. But I would do it. I have done yoga. I will do yoga again someday. Not today.

00:10:43.890 I learned about yoga's ability to let in demonic spirits at the same time I learned that Harry Potter was evil. Oh and Harry Potter always really good to see you and your guys a little tricky to me too because I think that there is almost a level of cultural appropriation there. And interesting. So I don't know. So then I feel like maybe those same kind of alarms go off for me for Reiki to where I'm like I'm assuming I have no idea.

00:11:12.930 But in my mind I would assume this comes from some sort of historical long practiced background of people that this was there. Yeah sure. You know and so as me is like a very Caucasian white girl from Nebraska I don't know you know. Now and then. So if I go to somebody that took a class on it here like is that totally I get that I don't know. Yeah no disrespect to that person that goes and does it either. But I just feel like that would kind of go off him I have a thing to think about. Yeah. Yeah.

00:11:43.760 OK. So we got sidetracked here. So I feel like I could believe that it's not all placebo effect. Sure. Kind of because of maybe my background in religion. Yeah because I feel like there are times that the right setting or whatever like you can feel a change you can feel something you know a presence it feels physical. Sure.

00:12:10.180 Or even in my limited experience with counselling like they've done some crazy things where she's like hold your arm out and do whatever this is all fake and it doesn't mean anything. And then I like Oh what what if it worked and then I like the girl that hasn't been able to sleep for three weeks goes home and sleeps for like 10 hours. Oh so there's something legitimate there. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't think that I would write it off at all. But I also think that like.

00:12:40.270 I could go into it and have my walls up and I would maybe not get anything out of it because I would be sitting there the whole time thinking like what's going on. I'm glad you brought up that faith element too because and this is something we can ask our guests a little bit more. There is a sect of people who believe that Reiki is actually tapping into some faith healing sort of principles. And I kind of want to ask them if there's a space where there's like Christian reiki healers.

00:13:08.950 I think in central Nebraska it's possibly these women might even be that I don't know but it's something I am curious about and what their feelings on that are right. Or if they think they're witches. You know I don't know. Yeah I don't know. It's I would I would have a similar thought I think that I looked into this more. OK. Well I think we've covered that you have any questions you wanna ask me about Reiki before we start. And again I've done minimal Internet.

00:13:38.980 Well I guess I like how far I mean is it. Is it they don't ever touch you right. Do they. They can. OK so some of my questions about Reiki involve. There's no sort of standardized practice. Right. So you're basically inheriting the practice from the person who taught you. Which is why today's guest is kind of interesting to me because she teaches Reiki to other people and then as I kind of understand it the spirit of Reiki that you're able to like used to help you to confer on people is passed to you from your teacher sort of.

00:14:15.070 So that's where it gets a little witchy to me. So is this something and maybe this is a question for her. Anyone can do. Like if you were interested in this. Yes you. It's not like this is totally out there but like a psychic. Like I have this gift like you can anyone can decide they're going to do it. I think there might be people who are more in tune to like pain and like sensitivity you know I mean sensitive to where energy blockages and things are I think.

00:14:41.920 But hypothetically yes everyone can do it because our guest her name is Amy teaches it at the Central Community College here and hold her. Oh wow there's an intro to Reiki class that you can teach. And this is how I found her was just through the course catalog last. Spring. Wow. Yeah. You didn't sign up to go. Well I was going to Yeah I was I was on the fence about I'm like you I kind of dance around the idea like you know how much do you want to mess with it how much you thing it's interesting I just wrote a screenplay that dealt with a little bit of these themes that has sort of the healer involved.

00:15:16.480 So I did a little bit of research that way and I thought about taking the class just as a research opportunity. But then when I finally got my nerve up it was like I'm going to do it. It was like the day the class had ended like it was like after the class was supposed to have happened. So not meant to be like it wasn't meant to be but here we are. Yeah. But governing about Reiki about we're starting to learn. So maybe I just didn't wanna pay the fee to bring out the bad podcast. Yeah. And I guess we'll just maybe we'll just leave it there and we'll have Amy talk through a process.

00:15:47.380 Sounds good. All right. Today's episode is sponsored by the 3 0 8 boutique in Holder Nebraska. They've got incredible stuff. I don't know how they do it but somehow they managed to be a local small town business and still have tons of variety. I never find myself wearing the same thing as anybody else in town. They supplied the wardrobe for a promo shoot they supply 75 percent of my everyday wardrobe and they supply hats with or without bands.

00:16:14.590 Check them out on West Avenue and hold bridge or online at the 3 0 8 boutique dot com. Follow them on Facebook or Instagram for sneak peeks and outfit ideas and keep a close eye out because they'll be opening their second location in Alcorn later this year so we are here in the beach basement studio with our guests. We didn't really do introductions. No. So do you guys when I do that I can start. So. My name is Amy Mae and I think I was first introduced to Reiki.

00:16:48.050 The the name of it in a class that I took through work for you a couple of years went by I went to my 20 year class reunion and one of my very good friends had decided to quit big moneymaking job and decided to go and be a Reiki practitioner. So I said What is it. And she said Oh you would love it. I think that you would just love it just give it a try. And so I didn't really know what it was but I knew that I wanted to give it a shot.

00:17:18.150 So I would just I just decided I would do a session with her. Was this a local high school where you go to school. Minton Oh yeah. So. So locally. Yeah. Interesting. Yes. So we grew up K through 12 together. And I trust her. She was in my wedding. So that was kind of the start of the journey. And I don't really remember how we decided that we would both go so you can introduce yourself next until that part of the story put me on the spot like trying to think okay let's see how does this all go.

00:17:47.230 So I'm Beth Reynolds Lewis and my Reiki journey started along quite a while ago. So when I turned 50 years old. I went back to school. To be a yoga instructor basically. And through that process of getting my yoga instructor the 200 hours there one of my fellow students was a Reiki master and she said I try this out come take this class.

00:18:17.290 So I went back to Omaha took the class for her and I always loved it used it a little bit on myself and my family. And after that I went back to my real job and behavioral health and was working that. And then Amy came along and came to one of my trainings. I also trained on compassion fatigue and resiliency for professionals who are and. Work with those who have had a lot of emotional trauma. Oh that's interesting.

00:18:45.610 Yeah it's a big thing we do it across the nation and my training partner and I do and so. Amy was in one of those. Classes and reiki came up and we talked about it and then she's like hey my friend Carson actually is a Reiki teacher. And do you think we can have her come to the region and provide Reiki to our staff. Would that be good for our staff. I said absolutely to our work site. So she came and provided that and just saw different staff and she came a couple of times and then she said You guys need to take my class.

00:19:18.740 Yes. And so then after we started going to class that's when we met Karen. Yeah. So I'm Karen Akerman and my journey with Reiki started with an studious student. So I was the director of surgery over in Lexington and I had heard the student talking about Reiki so I kind of heard about it but didn't really know what it was. And then. About six months later I cropped up with an illness with my liver and the doctors couldn't figure out what's going on.

00:19:53.230 And so one night I sat back and after doing many researches and going through many tests and the doctor saying sometimes people just run elevated liver enzymes we don't know why. Come back in six months and pay me another couple thousand dollars to run the test all over again. And it's like oh no you know nursing background I'm like I'm not happy with that answer so I started doing my own research and coming up with that very same answer that sometimes I don't understand why people run these elevated enzymes.

00:20:20.530 So I just push myself back away from my computer and I was like OK God where I go from here. And this page popped up on my computer and I just kind of pooh poohed it off because I thought it was spam. And so I just kept clicking it off clicking off only after about the sixth time. I kind of clicked on it and it was about Reiki. And I was like Oh. This must be this. Allison our student was talking about. So I started reading it and I started thinking well maybe this is something I could do.

00:20:47.110 It talks about stress reduction and relaxation and how it promotes healing and different things. Maybe that's something I could do until we figure out what's going on with my liver. So I started looking for a class here in Nebraska. And at first I was like not getting anything locally like any practitioners or anything coming up on a computer so anyway this Carson's web page kept popping back up on my thanks and I finally clicked on our classes and I'm like well Mulder's warning.

00:21:19.850 Sign in it. So. And then that's when I met these two Oh. So perfect timing. You know what I noticed you have a bit of a background in health care. Do you think that sort of. Influenced how you ended up getting involved with it. Do you think. When you deal with that. Is it because you had an active interest in it already or an actress in your views to caregiving.

00:21:46.740 I mean yes I would say for me definitely yes. And because of actually my education as I was a secondary science teacher and so I ended up working child protection safety and all these different jobs. And so I could not connect that piece about the mind and the body I could not get that figured out like why. And I know it makes sense and we've talked about it for.

00:22:18.630 Hundreds and hundreds of years trying to figure out like the anatomy and physiology of how self healing promotes and calms her. You're sympathetic and parasympathetic systems and how this actually works. Took me a long time. And so when I started my yoga practice it was like ying and yang it was like OK this this doesn't make sense to me because it's this way. But yet the science you know the science teacher primary is like.

00:22:48.620 Where do you get it. It's working for me. Yeah. I have a lot of emotional trauma from my work life not from my growing up year. And I knew I was in rough shape from that. From my experience in my work life. So then trying to figure out why is yoga helping this side of me do I mean it was just kind of back and forth and then it allowed me to meld those two together and to truly understand how it's a self healing practice. It really is calming down your nervous system and allowing for that to happen because we can't heal yours.

00:23:20.370 Your cells can't renew unless you're at the state of restorative rest and there's all this. There's tons and tons of research about it now. So you feel like even though you. Maybe question it in your mind it still worked. I've been working. I was surprised a little bit. I've had a little bit of those like crazy hippie things in counselling after a traumatic event. And the whole time like this isn't gonna work. This is crap and then I'm like it's but it's working.

00:23:50.460 So I definitely wasn't open minded about it and yet it still worked. Right yeah right. So you think Reiki is the same way. Absolutely. Is this one of those many components that you can do to make that work for a majority of people they're willing to try it to help calm down that nervousness. I mean physiologically it makes sense to me now. Can you guys kind of walk walk me through like I just came to you for a Reiki session. What would have it so I mean the first thing that we would do is talk about what you came in for.

00:24:23.600 So for instance the very first time that I went to our instructor Carson for a session I'd never had it. I didn't know anything about it. I didn't even research it. So I mean the first thing that she talked to me about was what what do you want to accomplish in the session. And so people will come for a lot of different reasons. They might come for some emotional healing or physical or maybe just stress reduction. But you know that it's relaxation. So we talk through the pieces of what would you like to see happen.

00:24:55.670 And then we really set the room and set the tone. So there are some steps that we do before you get in there like we might burn some sage to really clear that space of any negative energy we might just wring our little a little bell so that it just feels like nice and relaxed and then we have some relaxing music going and we might get some essential oils for you to have like that other sensation as well.

00:25:25.070 Burn some candles. It's very very zen in there. So you typically would and it doesn't have to be that you would lie on a massage table you're completely clothed. And in fact we usually will have people will cover up with a blanket just so that they can feel really comfortable and warm. And that's when I would start out with giving them a little pillow to rest their eyes and then they don't feel like they need to be engaged in the session at all because really it doesn't take anything on the part of the client.

00:25:59.810 It's really the practitioner that's doing the work. So the stuff that we are doing when we're doing a session is kind of hard to explain if you haven't been through a class to really understand the components of energy. But essentially we are. Looking and Feeling for inconsistencies in people's energy and how we can do that. We like to you a lot of us like to use a tool like a pendulum.

00:26:28.940 And so we were trained with a pendulum and the pendulum. Oh thank you Karen. The pendulum senses she brought a pendulum swing a. Listener. There's a pendulum. It's circling the one. She's gonna have a boy. No I don't know why I'm still on board.

00:26:55.110 So when we go through when we go through training we actually are learning what our yes and no would look like from our pendulum. So my pendulum might look different than your pendulum but it essentially senses your subconscious. OK. So something that I just heard about this week. This is fascinating. Your heart has five thousand times more energy than your brain. Five thousand.

00:27:25.380 So that's why you know you can get. They can sense it on you know all those the whatever readings are there they do everything at the doctor's office. OK. So and that's why they can sense the energy of your heart on an EKG reading interesting episode after class. So that's what phase in line is showing now. Oh absolutely. So when you look at a fetus the heart develops before the brain. So even.

00:27:53.580 And can you give our a lot more of that I give it that when somebody has a heart transplant. Right. And there's certain things that happen during that heart transplant that you can't change back to I mean because there is more information going from your heart to your brain than your brain to your heart. Wow. Which is why a lot of heart patients struggle after a five or a transplant. Yeah because they're sort of a central rhythm is disrupted. Right. Right. Well on that and that connection to the brain. Yeah. But disrupt it.

00:28:22.970 You can go yeah you can reconnect the wiring that you can't reconnect. The other piece right apart. Wow. Sure as shooting information to your brain. So if you have somebody that walks in the room say they walked down the stairs here and they're really pissed off. You know it. Right. And I can sense it. You can sense it. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure that out. They don't you have to say a word. Yeah. So your pendulum is just being guided by your intuition and your subconscious.

00:28:53.840 And then what happens is your subconscious the base of your brain is sending these audio motor responses these tiny little muscle twitches to your fingers and tells the pendulum which way to go. So my brain up here the thinking part doesn't really know right. Katie need some reiki for her throat chakra today. I'm not I can't tell you that but my pendulum may be able to tell me because my pendulum consents my energy. To your energy.

00:29:23.870 And so we use the pendulum throughout the session a lot. And then we use different techniques to move the energy and get it going in a different. Fashion than what it was already. So if it's stuck then I get it moving again and maybe you want to talk a little bit more about I feel like I'm. Taking one. This is the opposite of mansplaining is a roomful of women we keep passing them I ego like do you want to do what you want do.

00:29:53.470 How about you do it. I think the cool part about it too before you start is we don't even have to touch you. Right. Yeah. So the way this the way it works is you know you can stand by somebody and you can feel that chair and you aren't touching. So and we know that there's. Let me give you an example. We know that there's all this clinical studies done regarding this. Like you're like if someone's watching you you can kind of right now. Right. Yeah. When your kid brother goes I'm not touching you.

00:30:22.400 I'm not a man. So like if you look up heart math which is a biofeedback tool one of the research tools they use with that is they're wired up an infant that wired up the mom. Right. Why are temperature body heart rate all the stuff so Heart to Heart Math talks about the covalent between your heart rate and your breathing and it's a kind of a calming down a biofeedback tool so they where the mom and the infant the mom walks into the clinic. This is her second child.

00:30:51.830 She's got the infant in the care they're going in for shots right. So you know what shots are like you know. Yeah. All right. The mom does not touch the end but doesn't look at the infant doesn't speak to them. Her heart rate goes skyrocket. Her breathing changes her she's firing off neurons mind shifting just thinking about it about having been isolated and without touching or talking to the baby. Guess what the baby does. She's the man gets upset. Right. So we know that there's this energy exchange.

00:31:21.590 We know that. And so that's. Kind of what the Reiki session is about. Is this energy exchange. So this might take us on a slightly different hit it for just one second. Welcome back do you do something before we the client come in. How. How do you get your energy to the place where you can be healing. Is that a whole. There's a whole psych up process right. Care. OK. Here it is. Ladies and gentlemen it's Karen.

00:31:55.760 So yeah there is a whole step that we go through like Amy had said that we can clear the room at any stage energy and then we get grounded. So through this process of grounding then we can do a connection with our higher self to the higher. Being as far as I to call it the flow of energy charm.

00:32:18.320 And through that then that is how we can channel that through our tumor processes of going through rec classes then we can channel this energy through us to the person so it's not our direct energy that's affecting you because we're grounding and we're staying grounded. So during through that whole session so that we don't give you guys our energy. And that we're actually delivering this other energy to you. So I'm dying.

00:32:48.740 I you get away but I have to know because I don't like getting up just do it. You mentioned thought earlier right. So and then you talk about like a higher being. Right. And so Amy probably knows like I'm from a very Catholic family I'm a very Catholic upbringing. So like the very poor the impelling ones the like the word me like it makes me a little bit like what now. So I get can you channelling higher power. How many of that are how how do those relate to you.

00:33:16.370 I mean if it is this is a higher power you're talking about is that God. Is it something else. What do you know. Well we call it divine energy so whatever divine is to you. So whether it be God whether it be food whether it be Allah whatever specific religion you have this is like a nondenominational type of energy. I can tell you I come from a Catholic background as well moved over to a Lutheran church. So my husband was like Catholic. I live right now. Yeah yeah.

00:33:44.420 So you know he was all like I don't know what you're doing you need to stop saying this is like scaring me a little bit not really you know but it's a little bit like right now this because I said you know what I'm healing. So if it's something bad I wouldn't think that would be happening to you know it has probably brought me closer to God in that spiritual. World but still for you it is gone it is gone but you wouldn't have any problem like if a Buddhist came to you or ask you to do the same for them or you don't have the same belief.

00:34:19.040 Right. Right. And when I when I'm actually in a session. I will sometimes ask. The person that I'm giving Reiki to you know are you from a Christian background do you want me to call in divine whether it be God or Jesus Christ or you know who would who would you like me to call for you. And a lot of times I think you know Jesus and get him in here. You know when that guy was good at healing let's do it. I open up it's just this sensation.

00:34:50.420 Well I mean it's not like there's not crazy parts of all religions or you know there's a lot of things in Catholicism that people right either don't understand or even if they did understand it would be like No way. You know I on that. So I think even with prayer and different things there is a kind of in the zone right. Oneness fail and it's being in the zone with God. You know that and I think I think a lot of Christians know that feeling you could tap into what that feeling is and this is just staggering.

00:35:22.550 Right another way of access. I guess I must add this is totally rudimentary without knowing as much from you guys but it almost feels a little bit like I could describe it as like a prayer in some ways really. You know that you're there. It is very plain with or for me but in almost more of a physical right way. Right. So our teacher when we went through class Carson kept on going back to Reiki is love. It's pure and it's love. So whatever that means to you it might mean something different to you than what it does to me.

00:35:53.890 But it comes from a very pure space and a higher place. I mean it really does. And I think people get in. You know for me I grew up my mom was very. Very strict and Catholic and so we became a fiscal power. When my mom and dad got married we were all raised episcopate. I mean like serious Episcopalian I got sick at home. Guess what. The priest came and gave you communion at home and did oiling the whole bit. Right. So that's how I grew up.

00:36:22.220 So even when I went to yoga school there was kind of this barrier like I don't know if I'm okay with this. Sure. And so one of the the students the student who did the Reiki we also worked a lot of meditation I got I feel funky about this like Reiki meditation prayer I go I'm just not so sure about this. And she finally told me Beth that she has prayers prayer but meditation are what we do in Reiki is really settling down enough so you can listen for those answers really thinking about the divine really feeling the divine and allowing that energy to come in.

00:36:59.770 And I was like OK that makes sense. Well there's a lot of passages about specifically a quiet spirit too and that and I had a I was in a sermon one time where they said meditation is mentioned in the Bible more times than prayer is. And so it tells you a little bit about priority is maybe hit and then they all say don't drive more red flags with meditation. Oh really. So you know not at all. And some you've got red flags with yoga. I mean some people can't even get a job I love it some time and I go back and forth on it.

00:37:27.870 But if I said mindful movement to you right then it's then you know it's like we're all on our own spiritual paths. And so like you know we've gone back and said before it's gonna be unique for each person and each one of us practice differently even. And you know how we feel it is totally different than what you're even going to experience even though we're giving it to you. So it truly is its own uniqueness and it's meant to be for you and only you.

00:37:56.170 And it's supposed to be this process of you learning how this feels like how this feels and being able to take that home with you and then being able to do that when you need it do I mean. So once it's hard to relax and deeply be open to healing if you've never felt that you don't know what it feels like. And so once you know you start delivering Reiki to somebody they're like. Oh. Oh.

00:38:22.750 And it's something I truly believe it's in our genes to feel that way but we have lost sight over time. We have lost the ability to just calm down. I mean we really have everybody so busy and doing well and we have all these other aides that we think we need to. Oh yeah. Down. They sure do this. I'm I'm guilty of it this last year I've had all these new stresses so I finally am better now. But for the first six months I couldn't sleep without law and order on my phone.

00:38:53.080 One hundred percent of the time yes. To have that noise otherwise I couldn't calm myself down enough. So and I always tell my students when I'm teaching class that it's the American way to be busy and stressed all the time. And so how many people do you know that actually take time for quiet to actually have healing restful time in their day. Maybe once a month. I mean it just really doesn't happen. I just saw the World Health Organization categorized burnout as a diagnosable disease which I think is a lot of overlap.

00:39:25.780 You know I think we all there's just so much pressure to do so much all the time. Well I always have intentions of having that time every day. Yeah just for like you know reflection and yeah even with as loose of a schedule as I have it happens once a week. I mean you know just it's hard for some reason to commit to that and to do it really. And when you do it it pays off so much the whole day is so much better. You're more creative you're more mindful of what's going on around you you're more efficient at your work.

00:39:57.230 I mean all those pieces come into place. They feel like when people come into a Reiki session or when they decide to learn Reiki they're always amazed like oh this has really changed my life. This has changed how I think about things. And it does change things. I mean I feel like it does if people are open to it now is it does it work for everybody. Probably not. But people who are open to it and open to that experience and realizing it it will be different for every person.

00:40:26.230 So even if you and your best buddy you go in like we used to laugh when Carson was coming and we sign up for you know pay for Reiki sessions from her Amy's experience would be very much different than mine than what happened but it doesn't mean one was better than the other. It just means it was different. And sometimes the difference is right when you're on the table or right when you walk out the room sometimes it's a week later we'll have people tell us two weeks later they'll be like you know they'll call you back and be like this incredible thing just happen.

00:40:55.070 Most people will get off the table and be like I just feel so much lighter. Yes on a lighter side or my. That was definitely my experience. I've almost felt like there was a wedge inside of me like where you harbor all of your feelings in your heart or in your stomach or whatever. And the very first session I clearly remember that feeling of it's just a clear channel it feel. I literally felt like I lost weight. So I've had one energy healing session and I remember her saying in the middle of it that a creative mind is really helpful in the process and I know you said you felt it like a wedge.

00:41:30.380 I mean I would feel like a knot that we would untangle or you know in being able to visualize those things do you think that's sort of a big component of it. Or I mean that's what you're there for to help them figure out what's going on there. Yeah I will usually if we feel a stuck energy if it's a big enough walk we will ask the person if they can describe it to us. And a lot of times they'll be like now and then in like 10 seconds we'll be like Oh yeah. It feels like. It's.

00:41:56.660 Know but also the mind will be like also the anger that I've carried with me when I went to my counselor and it was after this assault she asked like it was like she knew it was in my chest and she asked me to describe it my first I was like It's not even there I don't know what you're talking about. And then Amelia I was like You know it's a whole bunch of knots and it's all right here. It's like I'm really tight and push and I'm probably at the same time all through here.

00:42:24.880 And then yeah immediately I was like Just kidding I know you're talking about that. I think we've forgotten that mind body connection. I mean we have totally stepped away from that. And and now people are starting to see Oh yeah. We need to go back to that. We need to explore that more we need to think about those things. So can you go back a little bit I guess maybe direct it back to you know I'm in your room and you've started to say do you use your pendulum.

00:42:55.540 I mean you like what happens though. Well so first we would ground like I said and then what we would do is basically you know you've already given us by being there permission to access your energy. So then we would get into your energy. I typically do it by standing at your feet and touching your feet. It's kind of more. Always a more less invasive than being right at your head and going whoo. Yeah. I just hit it with that third eye right. I get it.

00:43:25.600 You are up. And then we do what we call buoys and scan where we kind of feel like in the work field for an eight blocks that might be coming in that way or field or on your or a field walks like Lord of the Rings. Yeah yeah we're all orcs. Yeah you got it. Got it.

00:43:48.100 And then through that process then we remove some blocks that might be in there and then I get into the chakras and then yes I actually actually use my pendulum to check to see which way your choppers are supposed to be spinning and then I ask if they're all spinning that way. Get to No. So then I'll be like Okay show me. It's like individual is this one the way is three hours and Zabel chakra. How many guys are there. We deal with seven shock rows in the system.

00:44:15.880 Those are all the ones that are under physical body there are more than that but we don't go outside those and then once we go through the chakras then I actually start working on the body itself in the physical field and seeing if there's anything cut in there whether that be an energetic cord of some sort.

00:44:37.190 Whether it's a big block related to something either a trauma or motion whether it be physical mental or spiritual and go in there and then once I find that then we either ask if you can identify it and then if you can then we. Try remove it. So now some things are supposed to be moved and some things are not supposed to be moved in since some things you aren't ready did have ready to go to Amiens and that's okay as some sort aren't on a space where they're ready to let go of that.

00:45:08.270 You know maybe it's. A relationship that wasn't great and even though feeling hurt from that relationship they aren't at the point in time to let go of that right. And in you know what Karen's saying when you stand back and look at you're like oh my gosh this is totally true this make or whatever but you know look at some of the statistics behind it. We know that firefighters have the highest incidence of coronary heart disease. We know that certain helping professions have very high this very high that end.

00:45:38.110 And so when you look at that like we know there is a huge study done for the woman's heart and stroke foundation done by Dr. conformity and he had 14 hundred women in the study. If I remember correctly. They all going through a divorce. Half the group. Gone through the divorce healing had asked for friends you know said good. The other part of the group still angry not doing well hadn't asked for those supports the study was over 10 years for heart stroke foundation the side of the house that didn't ask for those supports don't ask for support and healing that kind of thing were 400 percent more likely to have a heart attack or stroke over those 10 years.

00:46:15.530 So you know you just go step back and go your mind and body are connected. I mean this makes sense. So when you hold. Energy which. Sometimes is negative when you hold that adrenaline and cortisol in your body it does physical damage. And so when people are talking about their physical emotional well-being it truly is one. I mean for one being. Yeah. And so when we give Reiki to people we're just asking them to be open to that.

00:46:44.070 Do I mean to invite healing in allowing us to help them enhance or healing fall into that. Well it is a self healing a lot earlier too right. I think it promotes self healing. Yeah. So we are doing the work we're healing here we're not healing anything. Yeah we're just moving it. Yeah. And that's that's pretty much our job is just to find it and move it out of the way so that your own body can take over. And start reducing those cortisol levels and reducing that stress and eventually your mind body will start connecting.

00:47:18.080 And I have found at least for me my experience was after about four months I was like This is no longer a priority for me. This is not. This is something I can move and get I'm willing to let go of this because it's not a priority for me anymore. And it's not for my highest and greatest good. So. I know that Alloway and it's it's so you know even as long as we've been doing it there's still issues that will come up from way back that I didn't even know I was having emotions about her.

00:47:48.240 And it will be like What is this. I can't move it. Yes. I mean I'm calling one of these guys isn't ready yet. I need to figure this out. So let's give it for a second. So Katie and I are talkers were open people nationally but. Here in central Nebraska. What would you say regionally the experience is for you when you tell people this is a thing you're interested. You must feel safe before you tell them because maybe not.

00:48:17.810 Maybe you tell anybody you know anybody who gives you an opening. I don't know Central Community College told everyone about me. Yeah. Right. Which is why you're here. Yeah. I just had a CCC. I think we talked about it earlier. Yeah. So I think I completely agree with you. There are people who want to hear about it and there are other people like Katie's first the first reaction that they go. Wait a minute. This sounds a bit too weird now which I am not going there. So you can sense that I'm going to be really honest.

00:48:48.050 I can tell you if someone wants to talk about it and I can tell you they don't. So if they don't want to talk about it I say it's an it's a form of Japanese healing that helps with you know reducing stress. That's basically what I tell them just that one sentence answer. That's a really good textbook way to. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because if I start talking about energy and about emotional healing and about moving all this stuff in your body and your chakras people either think that you're crazy or their eyes glaze over it's not worth it.

00:49:19.910 But there are those people who come to class and they say now what is this about. And tell me. And then we start that conversation and they're really open to and so afterwards do you feel rejuvenated from it when you're practicing or do you feel just like exhausted technology rejuvenating and amazing because we actually receive healing at the same time. OK. So like I said we're not giving our energy to you. We're channeling this energy. It's like a conduit.

00:49:48.060 It's just like just like a connection like in a life isn't when you say that's why I wondered because I like I picture like. We'll be Goldberg and go. OK. And it's like it's like graying hair going down your in your pipes. Some of it sticks to the edges you know. We've got messed up pipes. Well you feel good because that's what I.

00:50:18.630 Yeah I would think that you would walk away and just feel like you could look that on but you don't know. OK. It's it's the opposite. I would say perfect. I even like prefer not to do clients past like seven o'clock in the evening because you get your eye to eye and I. Now I've got all this energy time to play the. I want you to come out right here. I think I need to get my house clean.

00:50:47.680 You know what. So here's my personal one. I feel like. Everybody with lower back issues should start with you. You get a lot of better lower back. You get it. How do you find that it corresponds to any one particular thing or it's always just like you know get stress. Well I had I had a boss tell me one time that almost all lower back pain is financial. I was like maybe years. I don't get out anyway I don't know.

00:51:12.870 Well even in yoga teaching they will teach you that women hold their emotions in their hips and hips. Yeah. Which is interesting. So. I think there's actually been some research done regarding hip replacements. Oh wow allow emotional trauma. Oh wow. I think I can't. Quote it exactly but I think it's out there. But yeah that's an example. I mean I think people a lot of people have lower.

00:51:42.210 Back pain and then a bit interesting to do their emotional history to see where that is and where that's risen high almost mind a hundred percent. If I have back pain mine too except for one time it's been immediately after some sort of traumatic in my life and it's like the debilitating you can't go to work for three days you're dead and then it's gone. I like that I lost a job and I could barely I was yeah yeah immobile like I mean. Yes it was very directly could not get out of bed.

00:52:09.330 The idea took me like an hour when I finally got myself out of bed and then it hurts about us right back and I liked it up said I've done so but it was always so clear what brought it on. Yes. So that's just you're making that connection and then the next step is OK what do I do with this. Am I going to be able to do it myself. Do I need somebody to help me do it. That's the hard part to is not some at least for me not identifying the problem. But fixing it. Yeah. That's where I struggle. Jump to the fix right away. Right.

00:52:38.960 And so I think which in Western medicine is I go to the doctor rag a diagnosis and I don't have surgery I get it all right. Yeah whatever it is. You know and that's the way our world here works. And you know there's tons of research out there now about all these types of pains and like you said if you can associate it right away if you can figure out. What that connection is. Well I'm sure I will just let it go and healers not halfway out even. Yeah yeah.

00:53:06.740 So I kind of wish almost that there would be a step. You I mean you go to the doctor you like my backyard. I wish they'd send him to you before the MRI because you know I feel like so many people do those MRI eyes and then you get the idea that they backed it that in the first session I did with her. I'm like I'm pretty sure we moved quite a bit of energy. But obviously you have some in there still stuck and she had told me then that she'd been in an automobile accident and and then shortly after that she fell getting out of her car.

00:53:38.970 And so there was no promise to that one side so I could release one. She was willing to let go of one that day and then she came back a couple weeks later and we got the rest out of there and she's done since then. But the doctor was looking at doing it to live on. Yeah there's something Do you have recurring. Is it patients who. I mean how do you clients. What do you call them anyway. So that's it's a two parter. If a number of white collar people do they do. Is it someone that do you a regular client patient whatever it is.

00:54:08.960 Yeah. And what would you call that person if they existed. Well Karen I don't think that she really was able to describe earlier so I think that you should kind of finish up your elevated levels and how you got to where you are now and then you can talk about the levels your elevated blood levels because you I haven't really finished that whole thing. Yeah. So. So when I got that. My first round of labs that everything was elevated and we couldn't find anything.

00:54:40.620 So. After I'd done all the research and went Reiki class started doing my own healing. So she's doing Reiki on myself. Just myself at that point I wasn't even doing my family and it was probably about three weeks later I found it was like OK I need to share this with at least my daughters. So I started doing some reiki on them and I would still it was a daily practice for me because I'm like you know if you want to go full into this and you paid what you paid you're going to do this.

00:55:12.000 And surprisingly I'm like a diet I have stuck to it. It's not good. Right. Right. Yeah. So. So then for that four months afterwards I'm doing healing to myself. We had another health care at the hospital so I went got my blood drawn and it was all good. Yeah. So I don't know how that affected your job. So. I.

00:55:40.690 Thought that I was the director of surgery and if any I mean it's it's very stressful you're not only dealing with employees you're dealing with administration then you're dealing with surgeons and. Right. That. That in itself is just somebody should just totally do that. So a very stressful job. And at that time we had just opened a new department. So everything was changing in that department and the staff was totally not liking it because it was change.

00:56:08.790 And so as you can imagine I was working somewhere between 10 and 14 hours a day. And so just very stressful and as I was doing Reiki to myself then I just came to realize that this isn't I'm not supposed to do this. This is not what I'm supposed to be doing. So I walked in and I said. I think you need to find somebody I'm going to step down out of my position. Oh wow.

00:56:38.370 So this darkness but know I'm working there but I think I want to. Go against about the director job. So there were a little bit shocked and in rural facilities it's really hard to find people with those jobs. So luckily enough there had been a girl that had applied and so I was like maybe she'd like it. And so anyway all she end up taking the job and I became just a staffers and then it wasn't shortly after that that her and I just were not seeing eye to eye about some things which is not uncommon right now.

00:57:16.110 So you know I was like OK I'm just gonna get myself Reiki about all this and just let this go because it's not my department anymore I you know. I'm not. So I start trying to heal that relationship and one day she called me into her office because she wanted me to go or take the next day off. And it was like I just want to pick up the next day. Give it to somebody else too. And she's like No you take it off and I'm like No. We have inventory do hostages by themselves. There's only one there at the time.

00:57:45.840 And I said she'd asked me to come in and help her do inventory. And all of a sudden like I got this. God awful energy from her. And I told her I can't really explain it because I don't even really know what it was but it felt like tons of pins sticking me all over. Oh and I was like. I got get out this one. Wow. I've got to this route. There's something not right here and I'm like Abbie OFF-MIKE talk to you a little bit and I reached for the doorknob and she's like not nice.

00:58:15.390 All of a sudden I was just like I hear this stop and I cannot turn to look at her. And it wasn't her talking. I'm like. OK. And he's like and this voice was like. Quit. And I was like. I quit. I just was like. A duck. I go. I talked about my resignation handed to her called my husband I says quit my job. Oh wow.

00:58:43.810 And I said this is this is not what I'm supposed to be doing. This is supposed to be moving past this and heading into a different purpose right now. So I said I was going to go with it I'm going to get on that flow of energy and go with it and see what happens. So now Karen is taking on client rescue clients and we're teaching classes whenever we can schedule classes. But I call them clients. I try to find clients and sometimes I call patients just because I'm used to have a little that I could do.

00:59:12.860 Yeah right. You know you start in a nursing practice right. Yeah. Yeah. So when I quit there I went to work for cardio regional just PR in and there I'm pretty out and post up area and so I do work there during the morning hours and then I do break in afternoon and evenings so. Well what do you think listeners who are hearing about Reiki for the first time. How do you think they figure out if it could be beneficial to them.

00:59:44.040 Is there you know could they do it a check at home to say maybe there's something here what what would you recommend for someone who's maybe interested in this sort of taking the next step. I feel like if you're intrigued by it or think that you would be willing to be open minded about it it's worth a shot. And I think that if you're stressed that it's worth a shot. So it's never going hurt. Yeah that's my thing. It's not invasive it doesn't do anything to hurt you.

01:00:11.790 I mean the worst thing that could happen is you fall asleep on the table and not out of your session. But the great thing about it is is that it heals you. In this in the spots that you need to be healed. So I may not know that but if I give you a Reiki session then your body knows what to do with that. That healing energy your body is very wise with that healing energy and that's what makes it so amazing. OK. So if there is one thing you wanted our listeners to take away from sort of what we learned today.

01:00:42.460 Yeah. Yeah. Bullet point. So we. So now we feel like we could have some concept of what this is and share with others. Oh man that's it's the hardest thing to like. Make it succinct condensed for me. It's very I just I again go back to that whole point of you know if you have stress then you can look into this. This energy healing it might be for you.

01:01:14.370 Just just being open to it. Can mean a lot of different types of healing than what you've ever known before. Absolutely. Get over yourself. Well a guy doesn't have stress. I would like to meet that person. So my life has no sir I don't think. Yeah right. But we have one final question which is what is something you have no concept about that you would like to hear about in the future.

01:01:43.640 I really want to hear more about Ebola Star Wars and that intrigues me like who decided we should have this center how it got there in Nebraska in the middle of the night just as far like the least convenient location I know these patients to me I don't see you as always to the center of our nation so that it can root. Out of the university Nebraska because we said Hey let's go for that money those guys. Yeah. That's that's interesting.

01:02:13.590 Yeah. Yeah. OK that's a good one. So one thing I've always been fascinated about is really what royal plastic surgeons over amendment. Oh. I don't know anything about you actually. Yeah I know. Yeah I don't I've never even heard of them work with NASA but I work with with the j can they talk to us. Yeah yeah. Yeah. Oh so it's not like some people get to know what's the company and in Denver it's like Lockheed. Yeah it's already secret. It's contracts out here. So. Huh. I do. I mean anyway you know.

01:02:43.120 Yep harmonize. Thank you. That's a great leap huh. Yeah. A different forms of plastic that I know that it's kind of an assembly assembly type of distribution place where they create things for NASA. All right. So it was just a few weeks ago that I was with a guy right here in central Nebraska right. Yeah yeah. And there's they're very progressive I can interest Yeah. And they're growing on the ground. That was a place I had an idea that I was there for probably 30 years.

01:03:14.030 Wow. Royal plus 25 to 30 years. Why you go back to your home. That's a good one winner thing beating me guys. All right. All right. Well thank you ladies very much for joining us. I feel like I have a concept of Reiki so I just want to say thank you to our guests Amy Beth and Karen. Thank you for being so open with us and telling us a little more about your Reiki practice and experience.

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