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Have you ever felt a connection with someone and you are not completely sure why?

I’m talking on a deeper level here. Not just a surface “hey I like that person kind of deal. Maybe we can call it a spiritual connection.

Meeting My Wife RuthAnn

From the moment I met my wife, RuthAnn, I have been blessed to have this spiritual connection. I “sensed” her when we were apart. I often knew what she was going to say or do before it occurred and vice versa. It is the deepest connection I have ever had with any human being and it grows the longer we are together.

My Mentors

I’ve also had connections with my Mentors over the years. Barbara, my Native American mentor. Joe, my mindset and marketing mentor and Alice my Reiki Master/Teacher mentor. At times I “feel” their influence whether they are with me or not.

All of these are connections that I can explain. The have either loved me or taught me – or both. I understand the reason for my feelings of connectedness with them and i am thankful.

Unsure Connection

But I come back to my original question: have you ever felt a deep connection with someone and you are not sure why?

Freaky? Not really. Intuitive? Yep!

A few weeks ago I met Laurel Bleadon-Maffei (@angellaurel) on Twitter. Just a “follow/follow back” kind of situation.

As usual, I checked out her Bio and website. I was amazed at the beauty of her site: Illuminating Souls and immediately tweeted about it. The site and Laurel have been in my consciousness a lot lately as i am presently reading and learning about angels and Angel Therapy in my healing practice.

Beyond any of this – I have felt a spiritual connection with Laurel that I simply cannot explain.

Truth is:

Intuitively I know a simple truth: I have no need to explain the connection. It just is.

I am thankful.

Blessings to you Laurel - and to each of you.

Love and Light,

Frank

P.S. Do you have someone you feel a deep connection with? I’d like to hear about it in the comments!

People often ask me how I got here, how I became a passionate Reiki teacher. Here's the story, and links to a number of posts written at the time of the events I've described here. Please enjoy.

When I was a kid, I wanted to feel special. Doesn’t everyone want to feel special, endowed with something that stands out, a reason for being here? I used to read lots of books about characters with psychic powers or special abilities, and wish I was like that. But, I wasn’t.


I grew up with a liberal Jewish upbringing. I attended Hebrew School, became Bat Mitzvah and continued attending religious school through High School. I remember wishing for some feeling that what I was doing had a purpose. I wanted to feel a connection with God or at least something outside myself during services, prayers, or any time at all. I never did.


I didn’t dislike being Jewish. I felt, and still feel, connected with a People, culture, history, land, language, religion and traditions. I even went on after college to study Judaism further and received a Master’s degree in Jewish Studies. But through all of this study and search, something remained elusive: a spiritual connection. I wanted something I could feel and be sure about. I was fascinated by, skeptical of, and a little envious of those who had "spiritual confidence" - utter faith and belief. For me, experience was the only way I was going to get to that point. The experience wasn't there for me.


I felt the most frustration during formal worship services. There are group and individual prayers, standing, sitting, singing and reading in Hebrew. I knew them all, but nothing gave me the feeling I craved. I was seeking a certainty of something more, something beyond this existence. I would leave services feeling frustrated. I wondered why I had come, what others were getting out of the experience. I think I drove my husband kinda nuts with asking him what he got out of the experience. His answers didn't help me. He wasn't struggling the same way as I was.


When I was pregnant with my youngest child, a parent at my kids’ school asked me if I’d like to learn Reiki. I had no idea what that was. She explained that Reiki is an energy healing technique that could be helpful for reducing pregnancy discomforts. She had my attention, and I figured, “Why not?” I came to her house, where she taught me Usui Reiki level 1, and gave me my first attunement.


I was underwhelmed, but faithfully did my Reiki self healings throughout my pregnancy, and sometimes gave my infant daughter Reiki after she was born. When she was a year and a half old, I asked that same parent if there was more to Reiki than what I had learned. She said absolutely and asked if I would like to learn level 2. I agreed.


My level 2 Reiki attunement changed everything. As soon as my teacher attuned me to level 2, my hands began to tingle. When I deliberately thought “Reiki,” my hands tingled and warmed in response. When I put them on or above myself or someone else, the resulting sense of relaxation, warmth and peace were undeniable. My teacher taught me distance healing as well. Here was the defining moment of my spiritual awakening.


This was what I had been searching for as long as I could remember: a tangible response to spiritual energy. Learning Reiki created my spiritual connection. I began offering distance healing weekly to two friends, and their physical and emotional health improvements were amazing. One of my friends had a deep fear of medical procedures, and a health issue that was terrifying her. The Reiki healings helped her release this over time, and she became calmer. It turned out she didn't need the procedure she was expecting, as the issue had healed. The other friend was having physical therapy, and over the course of time, she experienced great improvements and didn't need to continue the therapy. I was amazed, delighted, and felt completely inspired. My friends were too, and both of them went on to learn Reiki for themselves.


This was more than a physical-spiritual connection now, this was the magic power I desired in my youth; a purpose for my existence. I had been transformed from a mere mortal to someone with healing power. Three months later, I became a Reiki Master Teacher.


I knew that if I could learn to do this, anyone could. It became my mission to teach others what’s right inside us all. I find great joy, satisfaction and validation in seeing others find their spiritual connection as I did, and knowing that they go on to pass this knowledge to others.


Every day, I receive emails from my students telling me how amazed they are at the way Reiki has improved their lives. Many of them go on to teach others, join the Distance Healing Network, and share this amazing energy with their family, friends, and those who need it. This keeps me going, reminds me daily of the power and reality of this connection to energy, and the immense power that everyone has within if they care to find it. It has become my purpose to help people discover this, and I've never felt so fulfilled, motivated, and grateful.


Love and gratitude to everyone who has been a part of this journey so far, and all who will join me yet.
Peace.

In a recent discussion on a popular medical board it was stated that "all disease is due to mis-communication of messages between and within cells." This really got me to thinking, and if doctors are discussing such things (as they apparently are, since this was a forum for doctors), then perhaps there really is some hope for a union between medical science and Reiki (not that Reiki has ever had a problem with it, mind you).

If my presuppositions are correct, and all dis-ease is a result of energetic blocks creating imbalances in the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual energy fields, than this fits this theory like a glove. "mis-communication of messages between and within cells", while obviously aimed at the physical mechanisms, can easily be applied to the other areas as well (although we might have to wait for medical professionals to admit that one).

Okay, so if "all disease is due to mis-communication of messages between and within cells." this means that somewhere along the line, communication is being blocked or distorted. Reiki, in its most basic sense is designed to break through energy blocks and clear the channels so that energy can flow smoothly and unhindered.

I have long held that lack of decent communication skills is one of the biggest problems facing mankind today and if Reiki can offer some assistance to that end, that would surely make it a most valuable addition to any repertoire. As I find out more about this I will certainly keep you all posted…

 For further explanation or discussion, your thoughts are most welcome and highly encouraged, please feel free to comment below!!!

 

Do you feel it?

There is a “shift” happening.

For too long we have lived by the “just the facts ma’am” mentality. Granted knowledge gained through the scientific method has benefited each of us. I’d never deny that.

But have we benefited from the knowledge of the mind at a detriment to the knowledge of personal intuition? I think we have.

And there is a shift happening. You can feel it if you take the time to be sensitive to the flow of the world in which we live. Have you picked up a newspaper or magazine lately? The shift is even now being recognized by the scientific community.

Spirit – define it how you want – but spirit is leading the shift. I have felt the energy of this shift more during this Summer Solstice than at any other time recently.

Spirit directs intuition. Intuition is found within each of us. Some may be more sensitive or conscious of intuition, but it is available to all.

Truth: When your intuition is developed, it is a powerful force. It provides guidance, direction, knowledge and fulfillment. It does every bit of the work and provides many of the same benefits for our daily lives as found in the scientific inquiry.

Do you feel it?

Let’s talk about it,

Frank

P.S. I’ve spent a good deal of time recently working with intuition development. If you are interested in developing intuition in your life – send me an email:

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