Hi my name is Alan, and I am a Reiki Master / Teacher.
I live in the heart of Lancashire, England with the love of my life, and three mischievous rescue cats.
However, it wasn’t always like that. I was a troubled kid.
When I was young and lived with my parents I would often “feel things” in the house that frightened me.
I would be scared to go into various parts of the house as they “felt scary”, and sometimes I would even see things fleeting past my peripheral vision.
Outside of the home I would feel sad and inexplicably unsettled in certain situations, such as school or in groups of people.
When I tried to explain these feelings to the adults it was dismissed as being an “over active imagination”.
Time passed, and as a teenager I was told by a doctor I had clinical depression and there were tablets that could help me.
This seemed to somehow explain the way I felt.
The medication made me feel worse, and sometimes suicidal, I was told I would get used to it, but I didn’t. And so I started to medicate my self!
At first it was drinking with my friends, which soon became having a drink and a joint.
It wasn’t long before it was out of control…except for the first time in a long time, I felt like I was in control.
After many years of this lifestyle it got to a point where I was living as a functioning Alcoholic, and taking some class “A” drugs just to be sure.
The lifestyle and my mental health were now intolerable, and I felt like I couldn’t go on.
Recognizing something had to change I stopped taking drugs, which was a horrible white knuckle ride of total abstinence, only with a lot more alcohol to help me through.
Eventually, after about a year or so I stopped with the drink, only this time I decided to go to a support group ( AA ) which helped me a lot.
I will always be grateful to them for the help and support they offered me.
My problem now was ME… and the dysfunctional relationship I was in, a relationship which I now found extremely damaging and damaged.
After a long time of trying to make things work the relationship finally broke down and I moved out.
Straight back to my Mothers house where it all began.
As I lay there in bed wondering what the future held for me, I decided to take my sister up on her offer of a Reiki session.
That Reiki session was the catalyst for me to start my ongoing relationship with Reiki.
I completed my Reiki One in 2010, and continued and did my Reiki Two in 2012, and finally this year 2021 I completed my Reiki Master / Teacher.
It was during the course of this Reiki journey that I discovered so much about myself, such as being “an empath” and actually feeling other peoples emotions and energies, and the dense emotional activity left in places.
This began to explain a lot of the experiences I had as a child, and now I had the Reiki tools I could begin to heal all the hurt and build a new, stronger life. A life based on choices rather than reactions, a life of feeling healthy and free.
Don’t get me wrong I still have days where my mind plays tricks on me and tells me I am not worthy…but now I know it’s lying and there is a future, and I just may be able to help someone else.
And so I use Reiki in all aspects of my life today. I use it to charge my food and water with positive energies. I use it to bless and consecrate my living space. I use it to help heal myself and those I love.
It works for me, and has changed my life beyond what I thought possible.
I truly hope it can do the same for you.
Cheers
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