So, here I am starting a new business. What am I thinking? Where do i start? I have been on a rollercoaster ride for about 18 months now. I have to admit it, I believe this has been a life long journey that brought me to this point, however the last 18 months are the ones that made me take notice. You see, it all started when my daughter, Shayla, made me do a health fair at work. I told her “I am fine I don’t have anything wrong with me!” I really didn’t think I did. I thank the Lord that she made me go. I found that my liver enzymes where elevated during that routine health fair. Not alarmingly bad butenough to make me take notice. I thought I would check them in a few months, after all we had some fun over the holidays and I had gained weight...again. This or that could have affected them....can you hear me saying this!
One day, 2 months later I was playing on the floor with my granddaughter and she said, “grandma why are your eyes yellow?” WHAT!!! I didn’t notice that, so I went to the bathroom and sure thing they where a little yellow. I scheduled a doctors appointment.
Now being good those couple of months, avoiding alcohol, trying to eat right, etc should have made them better not worse. I thought I was probably overreacting, but in the back of my mind I was thinking what was I exposed to at work? Being in the healthcare field and working where I do, it could be possible I was exposed to hepatitis, HIV, or even been over exposed to some of the chemicals or pharmacueticals I work with, or cancer or could it be stress..after all I was the director of the department. I went to the doctor appointment and we drew more blood, my enzymes had doubled- now I am alarmed. The doctor ran all kinds of test for all those big bad things that I could have been exposed too and they all came back negative, did some more radiography test, everything was normal looking. Ugh! The doctor said well, sometimes people just run high enzymes level and we don’t know why come back in 6 months we will do more lab work.
OH NO, he did not just tell me that! I don’t run high enzymes just because, I thought, ok new mission. I will self diagnosis!!! after all thats what all good nurses do, right! So after a few weeks of on ongoing research- that is exactly what I was finding in the literture. What is this? There has to be a reason- I was fine and now I’m not, although I felt fine, other than being tired, but that could be anything. What had changed. As I was exploring that question, I was on the computer and this webpage kept popping up on my screen and I would just close it, after all I did not ask to go to this busy little page. I really thought it was a phishing site and finally I got preturbed enought to take a look at it. It was a website that was talking about Reiki. I had heard of Reiki from an anesthesia student but really didn’t know what it was. So reading it I was being amused that it was about a theraputic healing energy modality.
Now I believe in GOD, but this sounds kinda weird, but I thought wonder if it can help me while I continue to research my liver problem. So I looked around for places in Nebraska, a few in Omaha and Lincoln, I thought ugh to far for me to go. But this webpage wouldn’t leave me alone and kept popping on my screen, finally I looked a little closer, this gal was coming to Kearney. I can handle that- go see Mindy and the grandkids, go to this class and maybe learn a thing or two. So I signed up with the intention it would be like a nursing seminar. You go, listen to some lectures, take a few notes, give an evaluation of the speakers and leave.
Nope, not at all what I was thinking. I arrived at the class, it was dead silence. I thought, what.. no one else signed up? Am I on the wrong day? Wrong time? I Pulled out my phone to check the email when I heard this voice “Hi, you must be Karen, I will be out in just a minute.” Then I could smell it, what is this smell? Pot? No..not that..(you know everyone knows that smell, haha!) Incense...yep thats what it is. How does she know my name? Am I the only one coming? I thought s**t what did I get myself into now! My mind said run, run, but my feet wouldn’t move, my heart even started to race a little and I am thinking this isn’t what I thought it was going to be. But because I stood there frozen, I decided to stay, after all I already paid for it and I am here to learn something new and if it’s that bad I won’t go back for day two. I rationalize so well!
What happened next, if someone would have told me about this Reiki thing without experiencing it, I would have laughed and called you crazy. This was not just a learn and leave class this was I am teaching you how to do it on yourself and then how to do it to others. Over the next two days, what happened was so uplifting and enriching I can’t even discribe it. I walked out like what just happened? It took me several weeks to get the courage to talk about Reiki. A couple co-workers knew I had went to the class but also didn’t really know what Reiki was all about. Then Mel, a co-worker, asked me about it and if I would give it to her. I was a little hesitant because, why would I be any good at giving this to anyone, afterall I am still working on myself to heal and Reiki works on so many levels how could I give it to anyone else. That is not what GOD had planned for me. I finally gave into the idea of doing just my co-workers, after all they have stress and anxieties about stuff too so why not share what I learned. So I set up a quite little area at work and I did it. Mel was so easy to work with because she knew I was still learning and I needed to hone in my skills, no judgement from anyone and after all she really won’t know if I screwed up or not right! So then a few more and few more co-workers wanted it done, they where so kind to let me learn on them and as I did I also got the benefit of the healing session. I started to let my family know about this new skill I learned, kinda feeling them out as to what they thought. To my surprise, they wanted it, so I started doing my kids, my sister and brother-n-law, my brother, my parents wow! Now my co-workers started visiting with patients about Reiki and what it could do for them, so every once in a while I give it to a patient.
After a few more months had went by, it was time again for our health fair, so almost a year to the date when I first found out my liver enzymes where elevated and 5 months since I started practicing Reiki. I was exited to see if Reiki actually did something for healing my liver, afterall I never felt bad before so I had no clue if they where normal or not. When we got the results a few days later, I was shocked, back to normal, WTF.
So over the next few months, I not only treated co-workers, family, and friends, I started to do there friends and there friends and patients at the hospital. Feeling the urge to learn more about Reiki, I went to Colorado and learned more from the same instructor in Kearney. After all these “Attunements” I am now a Master Reiki Practitioner.
Now what does that mean for me? It means I need to share how awesome Reiki is, so with that being said, I started to exchange services, a haircut for a Reiki session etc. Then I meet Angela, the owner of the salon where I would give my beautician her Reiki session,(yep we used the “waxing room” I never seen the inside of one of those before, didn’t realize they had a nice table in them!). I began giving Angela’s daughter Reiki and then her mom and then Angela herself. She was amazed what it did for her, so she asked if I would like to come on a more permanent basis. So I thought why not, this could possibly work and I would get to see Mindy and the kids more! Win Win for all right!
So I now offer sessions in Kearney and McCook. Olivia’s Salon at 2025 Central Ave, Kearney and in McCook it is mobile service- I come to you. My days vary and you can find my schedule on schedulicity under Essentially Balanced. If a day is blocked out just contact me via messenger and ask about a day/time. As of right now I am still working at the hospital and my days will vary for another month or two. I have four other girls working with me right now. Amy May out of Minden, Beth Reynolds-Lewis in Kearney, and daughters Shayla and Mindy do it as well and our schedules vary a bit until we can get up and running full-time.
We offer personal sessions, distant sessions(over the phone or computer), animal reiki, grid manifesting, meditation/self-awareness classes, Reiki classes levels 1-3, clearing of negative energies, crystal charging, and more.
If you want more information please feel free to contact me.
LOVE N LIGHT,
Karen
