I'm going to explain my own journey into Reiki. Just to give you some context, because there's a very important lesson that lies within this story is that working with energy, expect nothing. Because sometimes people have to get worse before they get better. And let me explain by giving you a real experience of what happened to me when I first went on this path. Now, I've been very skeptical towards Reiki for most of my life. I'd been mentioned a couple of times, to me, this universal lifeforce energy that can help anyone that anyone can use.

I thought, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. Why aren't they training nurses in this? Why were we doing Tell us about right. Okay, if it was that good, surely everyone would be using it. So I didn't believe it. I was cynical.

And it was only because I watched people go through the dyeing process with cancer. I'd seen people that go on chemo radiotherapy. Now chemo and radiotherapy only works for about 3% of the population for the rest, they lose their sense of taste, they lose their hair. And that can be terrible for some people. But their whole life, their quality of life disintegrates, they get ill, it just is a horrible, horrible experience. And when my granddad got diagnosed with cancer, and he decided he was going to go down that route of chemo and radiotherapy, I thought, there's got to be another way there has to be something out there.

So it's only this place of complete hopelessness that even opened my mind enough to let a crack of light in to even entertain that this stuff might work. I can't tell you how cynical I was. So I went along to this course. And it was a two day course Reiki one on the Saturday, Reiki two on the Sunday. And there were people out there telling me you should leave six months. So there should be a gap in between.

There's a lot of people with a lot of opinions around anything energetic. That is a huge minefield. Anyone out there, everyone's got a different opinion. And a lot of people are conflicting. So you have to find your own way. This video, you'll find my way.

It's not necessarily the right way. But it is my way and it's based on my experiences. So I did this Reiki course I went in on the first day, and I had this guy tell me he wasn't just a Reiki Master and he was a psychic surgeon. I was like, Well, what psychic surgery? And he explains that to me and right then at that point, I thought I'm here with an absolute lunatic. Now bear in mind that I grew up within the grounds of a psychiatric hospital for the first 17 years of my life.

This guy seems more lunatic than anyone I've met in that environment. So why was cynical? And I spent the first two hours asking him so many questions that I got banned from asking questions after two hours, because he said, we'll never get through the content. If you don't just let us get on with it. So I was even angrier now. I sat there.

We were in this tiny cramped room doing energy expansion exercises that I couldn't even expand my arms to the feet because there were people sat on either side of me really close. We were into locking arms. I was extremely cynical. I almost go into the second day. I did go in for the second day. I met some good people there.

But I still didn't resonate with the teacher. And at the end of the course, he told us right now go and work on yourself. Do energy, work on yourself. For the next three weeks and don't drink, and I was working in nurses home, I was working in a hospital living in the nurses type. We used to drink quite often. And for me the idea that I needed healing, I was exercising six times a week I was physically fit.

It was the people in the hospital that needed the energy not me. Little did I know at the time, so I decided I was going to do nothing to do with energy again. And I paid 250 pounds for this course. And I paid five pounds each day to get better 260 pounds. And I did the course on the Saturday and Sunday on the Monday. A letter came through from a company that I had nothing to do with for 12 months.

They said Mr. Shaw, we just checked our records and we found that you overpaid us by sadly 260 pounds. They help even with my cynical mindset. I thought this is a really spooky coincidence. And on the back of it, I decided to start working with energy. So I did what I was told every day is to put my hands in the different positions and work down my body, working on each of my energy centers that I was doing for about an hour a night for three weeks. And after about three weeks, I started to get this dull ache in my chest right in my heart area.

Now, I was working in a coronary care Ward at the time, so I knew it wasn't enjoying it. And each time I worked with this healing energy, this pain got worse. Until I felt emotional, I felt I was on the brink of tears all of the time. There was some heavy duty stuff coming up for me, and I had to cancel all my shifts. Because I wasn't comfortable. I didn't know what was going on.

But I didn't know Every time I use this healing energy, I got more pain in my chest. And after three days, I suddenly I was working with the energy. And I just had this epiphany, this experience. And it was a bit like some of the people that we've resuscitated and brought back. Some people would talk about this experience of their life flashing before them. And I thought, how does your life flash before you in just a few seconds?

And then it happened to me. And in that moment, I realized that wow, I was physically fit that spiritually, emotionally, and mentally, I was in terrible shape. Your family we were very dysfunctional. We never hugged each other. We never used the word love. We didn't communicate with each other outside of very superficial ways.

And I realized if I died in that moment, I'd have died and no one would have known what I thought about them. So I went to my mom all excited. And I said, Mom, Mom, I know we've had our differences. But I just want you to know that I really love you. Despite that, she said, either, what drugs are you taking? She couldn't comprehend that I would be using The L Word without drugs to help me along that path.

But we got through that we had a hug, and I noticed the pain started to lessen in my heart. So I did exactly the same with my dad. I said, Dad, Dad, I know we've had our differences. I just want you to know that I still love you. He says, Son what you take in now you want a class size? That's it.

I've just been working with Reiki. He said, raking in the garden. said No Dad, it's energy work. So we had a hug and the pain got less. I spent three days a bit Like Scrooge on Christmas morning, go around telling all my friends for a break for a white hat. And each time I did it, the pain got less and less and less.

Now for me, I needed a lot of energy so I could get worse before I got better. So that was my journey. And it's made me understand that when you work with energy, and you work with the right intention, and you go to help people, not everyone will get the results that they think that they're looking for. So it's incredibly important when you're doing this, to set your intention that it only does good to just let go with the results. But we'll go into that more detail in later in the course. This is just my experience for you, to show you that energy work can be very up and down.