October 2008 Same Sun, Same Water

When I teach the children's class of Reiki, I often begin with explaining about energy and ways we help one another. It is like looking at a rainbow with its many colors. Each color with the brilliance it holds, shining a bright yellow that only Yellow can do. Or Green, or blue, etc. Reiki has often been associated with a very deep purple, though some have stated that Reiki has no color since it is of all colors. Both are true, I believe.

But here we are, learning and seeing these wonderful colored bands of light. When combined they create a rainbow. Without the combination, they are simply colored bands by themselves across the sky. Here is a simple explanation of a rainbow. Each typical rain drop is rounded allowing for light to enter the drop and as light enters in, it bends with the shape of the rain drop. Colored bands of light bend at different degrees. Violet bends the most and red the least. Because they bend at different degrees, when the sun is shining behind the observer and we are at just the right angle from below, we see the light layer in bands of color, producing the red to violet effect we call a rainbow.

When translated to energy work, I explain that we are going to learn about one of the colors today called Reiki. It is a simple way to engage children and their parents into understanding that there are many ways of doing things, like there are many colors in a rainbow, and for today we are going to focus on one of them. At the last Reiki Share, Reiki practitioners all agreed that while we understand we come with different perspectives and have different expertise, when we gather, it is a way of really delving into that color of Reiki for a bit. A way to dive into the energy all the way, be with it, swim in it, drink it up. It is wonderful. It does not take away from what they already know. If fact, it has a tendency to confirm for them their connection to whatever they call their higher source. It allows them the confidence to know that yes, you can do many things and it all works together.

Not only do I love teaching Reiki and working with it, but I also employ other modalities in my work. What I find as I am working is whatever helps the most at the time, whatever assists the healing, THAT is what is needed in that moment. My students know I use the vocabulary of modalities or snippets of things I have learned along the way because it facilitates the intuition, the growth, the opening of awareness, and the blessings of living more fully.

I happen to love working with the energetic side of mental, emotional, physical, spiritual issues. Does that mean that physical changes are not necessary? On the contrary, they are needed often. If I know my body does not like a food, it does not make sense to continue to eat it. Using tools from several angles/perspectives may provide enough information for the person to begin to feel the difference and make a difference.

To me, any tool that facilitates healing is a tool worth using or having. That does not mean I have to know or have every tool. What it does mean is knowing when a tool might benefit someone, you give them the name of the practitioners, the modality, the book, etc. It is allowing one to take a look at the whole rainbow and suggest a bit of green or orange when appropriate. Bring in what is needed at the time.

Cranial Sacral uses a term called the Inner Physician. Practitioners learn to connect to the divine doctoral authority of THAT body; no one else will have the innate knowledge that Inner being will have. It is a wonderful way to connect to the person beyond the personality and ego. It is a wonderful way to use vocabulary of what I feel I have connected to on an Intuitive level, this just gives it a name. It is kind of like using two colors at once: Reiki and cranial sacral.

But ultimately, when you look at the colored bands that make up this gorgeous rainbow, what are all those individual bands made of? They are all made out of the same sun and the same water. Thus, the source of all beneficial healing modalities are ultimately the same as well. Same sun, same water, same source of energy. What I call it and what you call it may differ, but it is the same. Purple and violet are different and yet the same.

My personal spiritual goal is to learn about each color in the rainbow and move from seeing them as individually colored bands to seeing the edges soften and blend becoming one. I personally am moving to soften, to blend the tools I know and have available. To bring them together, allowing myself to experience the gentle flow from one color to another with magnificent ease and to feel each vignette as natural as the rainbow's true, pure organic place of Oneness in beauty.

Did you know you have to be at a certain angle in order to see the bending of the light in a rainbow? That means that changing the angle can change the rainbow as I see it. It means that the person next to me can be at a different angle degree and see, in essence, a different rainbow! BUT, still, same sun, same water.

So my friends, if you are comfortable in hanging out in one color for a while, that is wonderful! Learn about it, love it, Be it. When you are ready, begin to blend in with the color next to you, add to who you are, soften a bit at the edges, let a little of yourself go forward and accept a little of what is ahead to come to you.

Use whatever modality creates healing. Giving up is not healing, surrendering the light of who you are is not healing; allowing a change by participating in the bending of light is healing, letting go of resistance, one color blending with another gains more when it gives a little. And be patient with yourself. Not everyone needs to know all the colors of the rainbow to understand or view the beauty of life. You just need a willingness to look up.

~Bright Star

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