I have been using essential oils on and off for about 20 years I think. Y'all know I'm a science nerd, so using medicine in its natural form is really cool to me. Everything we have, everything we make, everything we see comes from nature. I mean, think about it. If you get aspirin for a headache, it is made from willow bark. Plastics are a petroleum based product.
I try to make, or learn how to make, as much stuff as I can around the house. Soap, lotion, wine, beer, alcohol for fuel, furniture, you get the idea, so the essential oils play a big part in our lives. I am just trying to keep us in touch with Mother Earth.
So, I stop by a chiropractors office who has a big sign out front saying "Clinical Herbalist". I'm thinking maybe I can make some oil things for them or learn something about herbs. She turns out to be a very smart young woman. She has a degree in biology and studied with 2 different clinical herbalist before opening her practice. We talked for a long while. One thing she said which I thought was interesting was "Using essential oil for prevention is like cracking a pecan with a sledge hammer." She's right too.
People are overusing essential oils today, what with all the MLM companies sending people out with the goal to sell as much oil as they can, and buy as much as they can. It can cause liver damage and more, it's that plain and simple. Essential oils are incredibly concentrated. An example is peppermint oil. There is as much peppermint essential oil in 1 drop as you would get out of 28 cups of peppermint tea.
The other thing she said was she needed someone that used energy healing. I never have gotten into that kind of thing so I was clueless as to what she was talking about. She mentioned tuning forks, crystals and a few other things but said Reiki would be the easiest to use here in the south. Basically because of the bible belt and people thinking the other things were devil worship or something. With Reiki a person can include Christianity because of the laying on of hands and something Paul said about "learn to heal thyself" or something to that effect.
So I get on the internet and start the google. Yeah, I do the google. I spent days on end learning about different forms of energy healing, modalities they call them. Who is "they"? All the experts on Youtube is "they". Some are not so expert.
Well now I am currently a level 1 practitioner of Reiki and an ordained minister. The minster thing is basically due to my belief in the freedom of religion and believing what I believe and not what someone tells me to believe. There are so many people that think the only right religion is theirs, only because that is what they have been told since they were born.
NOTE TO SELF - go into the science behind energy medicine and the frequency of essential oils and so on.
UPDATE TO POST - I am now a certified USUI SHIKI RYOHO Master/Teacher. I hope I can show more people how to use Reiki on a daily basis to help make their life better. It has definitely changed mine for the better! Thank you Jacqueline J Garner for the training and guidance.
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