Helping Clients through Grief with Angelic Reiki

Angelic Reiki is one of the best therapies to relieve the symptoms of grief. Angelic Reiki carries the loving, nurturing energy of the angelic realm who I call in at the beginning of the session. The most suitable Archangels for the client’s needs then come in and give healing. This treatment helps clients to feel lighter and stronger and supports them in beginning to move forward.

I have worked with two clients recently who were experiencing the pain of bereavement. One lady, whose mum passed earlier this year, was having counselling but her body was manifesting symptoms of her grief - aches and pains, heavy weight on shoulders, stomach problems, constipation, irregular periods. She knew grief was affecting her body as she was previously healthy and knew that she needed to slow down. To add to her pain, she was carrying some guilt over her mum’s final few days.

 

An Angel of Joy came in first, encouraging me to open her heart chakra, clearing out the heavy emotion and bringing in the pink light of love. Archangel Michael brought in courage and strength and cut cords to her guilt. Raphael brought healing to her nervous system and abdomen. The client initially saw darkness, which then became lighter, moving through green, then to light. She saw a door opening and the light became brighter, showing her the healing light she was receiving from the spirit world. I was guided to focus on her feet to ground her and help her feel safe in her new reality. At the end she reported that her body felt lighter, there was no heaviness around her shoulders and her chest felt clearer.

 

Another client had been very low with grief following her dad’s passing three years previously. She’d had grief counselling but was still experiencing pain in the body and a continuous cough. During her treatment the client had a release of bottled up emotional pain. Archangel Phuel came in to cleanse the energy in her heart chakra and reconnect her with the flow of life. Archangel Michael brought strength and cleansed her aura. She also received physical healing and grounding. The client felt things being released from her and felt floaty at times. She felt lifted emotionally at the end of the session. During her second treatment she didn’t cough at all and again felt much lighter at the end. After two sessions she reported she was a lot better emotionally: she felt stronger and coped much better than usual on the anniversary of her dad’s death.

 

Sometimes in Angelic Reiki sessions a channelled message will come through for the client at the beginning of the healing session. One lady was told “With your great capacity to love comes great suffering when there is loss but if you knew how close the spirit world is around you, you would not grieve so much”.

 

Grief can also set in after a relationship break-up when we are grieving for the loss of our hopes and dreams for the future as well as the loss of the person in our life. Archangel Zadkiel came in to help one lady release her fears of her ex moving on to a new relationship; Archangel Raphael brought healing to past trauma held in her sacral chakra and Archangel Michael brought the strength to move forward. This client experienced a jumping sensation in her throat as blocks were cleared. She also had the realisation that she had hidden in the relationship and was now beginning to find herself. She felt things lifting and saw herself with a sense of freedom.

 

The angels say that sometimes you have to be prepared to release something in order for that thing to come back to you, if it is right, or to make way for something better to come in.

 

Angelic Reiki really can help lighten your energy, lift your worries and any heavy energy you’ve been carrying around, help you feel stronger emotionally and find the strength to move forwards again. Your passed loved ones and the angels never want you to feel stuck and alone and will bring all the support and healing they possibly can to get you through a difficult time.

Angelic Reiki can be taken in-person at my home in East Leake, south Notts or in Nottingham city centre, or can be taken as a distance session online via Zoom. Your session includes a 3 card angel card reading.

Helen Shortland

Angelic Reiki Master

HEALING: GETTING THE ISSUES OUT OF YOUR TISSUES

 

 

I’ve recently been reading a book about a clairvoyant’s view of the dying process (not as morbid as it sounds!) and an image of the last sight I had of my grandma, who died 5 years ago, popped into my mind. The image was of my nan sitting up in her hospital bed and me leaving the ward with the nagging feeling that it was the last time I would see her. At exactly the moment I thought of her I had a stab of pain in the left side of my upper back. Following this was the realisation that I’d been storing up all the guilt I’d felt about not being there for her at the end in my upper back (rear heart chakra). This was why I have an ongoing weakness in this area which causes me a lot of aches and pains. I had thought these pains were merely due to holding my arms out doing my therapy work but there was obviously more to it than that.

The late Louise L Hay has written a lot about the underlying mental/emotional causes of physical ailments and I think may even have coined the title phrase of this blog. I’ve also seen over my many years working as a therapist that the people with the most physical pain also have the most unresolved emotional pain. Healing of any kind (Reiki, spiritual healing, massage or other form of bodywork) aims to release this negative energy stored in the physical body. Only when it is released can real healing occur.

Over the last month I have given several Reiki treatments which show the healing that can occur when emotional pain is released. Details of three of them are given below:-

Reiki brings just the positive life changes the client needed!

This particular lady suffered with a lot of physical pain due to fibromyalgia and IBS but she booked a Reiki session to help her deal with the emotional pain and loss she was currently feeling. She was dealing with the grief of losing her mum two years before and was struggling to find purpose in her life and a sense of belonging. She was lonely as her health conditions meant she couldn’t work or get out much.

In addition to giving Reiki to all the painful areas in her physical body, I lifted a ‘heaviness’ off her heart chakra and did emotional releasing from the solar plexus and sacral chakras. The client actually felt the shift at her heart centre. We also released a lot of negative emotions stored in the lower back (rear sacral chakra), at which point she suddenly felt cold. This implies a shift has taken place on an emotional level.

All good stuff but it was what she reported to me the next day that made this session so remarkable. At a group meeting she attended after her Reiki session, she exchanged numbers with two ladies to meet for coffee/chat, she was invited to join a seated tai chi group and gong bath session she could manage physically and heard about various local coffee groups she could attend and meet new friends. She also noticed leaflets and posters for other groups she would like to try out in the future. She ended the day feeling much more optimistic than at the beginning.

So many coincidences and synchronistic events occurred following her treatment. I’m already convinced that the Universe brings us what we need rather than what we want and what this lady needed most of all for her healing was a whole new social life. When we tap into this universal energy source during Reiki, setting the intention and allowing it to heal us on all levels, we allow the Universe (or Spirit) to step in and guide our lives in the best possible direction. Her tummy was also blissfully calm after treatment!

 

Help for ME and Emotional Issues

This particular client suffers with ME and anxiety and had recently experienced the loss of an old friend. She had gone through two physically abusive relationships in the past, after which her health had “gone downhill”.

During treatment lots of energy flowed all around her head and rear third eye chakra where we store bad memories, fear, shock and negative perceptions. The client reported that she felt she could breathe again when I held the back of her head. An interesting experience occurred at her sacral chakra – the centre of our emotions and relationships with others. I had a strong intuition that I had to pull a cord out. This cord was to an ex who took away her personal power. When treating her left leg there was a sudden rush of energy up and down the leg like something had just been released. I sensed she had felt ‘disconnected’ from her legs before. A heavy sadness was released from her heart and sacral chakras.

After the treatment the client said that she often feels like she’s dragging her legs around “as if my legs aren’t really mine”. During treatment she also had thoughts and memories of the friend who had died. Afterwards she felt recharged, her abdomen felt nice and normal rather than weighed down and heavy and her whole body felt “as one”. When I saw this client again about 3 weeks later, she reported that she had felt better, with more energy, since I last saw her.

A powerful emotional release with Reiki

This lady had been feeling sad due to a relationship that wasn’t progressing as she had hoped. She had also suppressed her sadness following the ending of her previous relationship of 8 years.

During treatment a lot of energy flowed around her heart chakra, as well as the sacral chakra and a couple of physical areas. The client felt a shift in her chest during treatment, after which she could breathe a lot better. When this happens to such a noticeable degree that it affects breathing, it is a clear indication of the amount of tension caused by unresolved emotional pain stored in this area.

Her experiences that evening however were even more interesting. That night she slept for nearly 12 hours and the next day was very emotional, releasing all the tears that had been pent up for so long. She then found the courage to talk to her current boyfriend and they agreed it wasn’t a relationship with a future. In her words, something released at this point – she was no longer sad, either towards him or to her previous long term boyfriend. She really had released all the sadness and has emerged so much stronger.

 

Releasing emotional pain is, in many cases, the key to healing. So if you have been through an emotionally traumatic time or have long term health conditions which you feel may have an underlying emotional cause, please get in touch as a healing treatment may well benefit you too!

 

Notes:

1 hr Reiki treatment £33, half hr £18.

 

Helen Shortland is a Reiki Master Healer/Teacher, Meditation Teacher, Holistic Therapist and Tarot Consultant based at 15 Wheeler Gate in Nottingham city centre. Helen offers several healing treatments such as Reiki, Angelic Reiki, Faery Reiki, Angel Therapy, Fairy Blessing Guided Journey and Crystal Chakra Balancing; holistic therapies including Reflexology, Indian Head Massage, Hopi Ear Candles & Facials; as well as Usui Reiki and Faery Reiki training courses and tarot readings. She has been on the spiritual path for 18 years and has extensive knowledge of healing and the healing journey. For further information about her Reiki courses, therapies and workshops, please visit her website http://helenshortland.com or visit and ‘like’ her Facebook page Helen Shortland Holistics & Healing.