Just a Little Bit of Forgotten Reiki Magic
I am writing this for you today on a laptop that two days ago was dead, bereft of life, an ex computer.
The previous night I had as usual closed it down, shut its lid and thought no more about it. I had owned my laptop for the last four years and it had served me well, quickly waking up when I asked it and uncomplainingly working away as I went about my life on the sunny island of Menorca. Not a day would pass when its key board, feeling the touch of my hand, would eagerly spring to life.
Then three day ago things happened, life changed. I went to switch on as usual and nothing happened, zilch, there were no twinkling little lights to tell me the day had started. My trusty old laptop refused to respond. It had stopped working!
Now I am not very computer savvy but I know enough to know that things looked bad, bad as in terminal. It was not that it refused to boot up, it was worse than that, it refused to do anything at all. The power light would come on. Fine! But nothing else would happen. It was as if my old friend had just gone to sleep and peacefully slipped away.
I tried everything I knew. I took the battery out and put it back in. I switched the power on and off. Nothing! Eventually when all this failed, I took it on a trip into town to the man who knows. It was Saturday but he was kind enough to take off the back, take out the RAM and test it. He prodded and poked and tested some more.
“Your computer… it’s a finished! It’s the mother board. New computer is needed. This one is not worth the work to fix. It’s too old!”
This was tragic in the extreme.
Now all jokes aside this was very bad news for me. I needed the computer to be working and I needed it immediately. For a start my airline tickets were deep inside it (I was flying back to the UK in five days time). It was also my life line to family and my work and as it was just after Christmas, funds were not in abundance or to put it bluntly, I was brassic.
Remarkably though, I was not as distraught as I would normally have been in a situation of such gravity. It could be worse. (1) Mr. Barclaycard would just have to do his thing. (2)It was just after the holiday and the sales would surely be on, and (3) we were flying back to the UK where computers seemed to be a little cheaper than here and better still would communicate with me in English. The only thing that was a real problem and I could not see how it could be sorted, was some work I had just finished and was needed before I left the Island. Not to mention all the data I was going to back up sometime soon.
The rest of that day we spent texting and phoning trying to sort out what would normally have taken minutes to email. In between times I tried pushing that button again and again in the vain hope that something different might happen. Insanity!
At last I remembered and did something that I have been telling people to do for years; use Reiki. At every workshop I hold I tell my students; “if it’s broken try Reiki on it. After all it can’t hurt and you have nothing to lose. Just give it a go. Lay your hands on, ask for the Reiki to flow and let what will be, be.”
So that evening I gave my laptop Reiki. I gave it Reiki as I watched the telly and when I wasn’t. I held onto that laptop for a long time. When I got tired of holding it Anne took over. You certainly could feel things happening, energy flowing and it seemed to get very hot. Then just before we went to bed we laid the laptop on the dining room table, opened its lid, and with bated breath and a trembling finger I depressed the start button once more. And… do you know what happened? Absolutely nothing, nothing at all! All that trying, all that holding and nothing had changed, not a blink, not a flash. It was just as dead as it was before. I depressed the button again, held it until the little power light flickered out and then without even closing the lid but muttering bugger, bugger , bugger, I went off to bed.
Next morning I awoke as usual and pottered down to make a pot of tea. Passing my laptop, abandoned on the table, I whispered “come on old girl” and without much hope pressed its On button and yesterday hadn’t happen! Lights flashed, screen flashed it’s do I know you message and before I knew it I was reading my emails, backing up what I should have backed up ages ago and printing out the work I should have printed out when I had finished it. And it has been working ever since.
I have taken the last couple of days as a wake-up call and when I am back in the UK I will look into buying a new something or the other. But for the present all is as it was.
So, if like me, you forget that Reiki works on all things and in all ways - things are just energy, after all - remember and use it.
One other thing I always tell folk and what I had forgotten to do myself is just offer it up and trust. Let the universe sort things out in its own time, give it the space. It’s when we try to push things along, trying to make them work when and in the way we want, that they don’t happen and we get disappointed.
So….Do it….Trust it ….Accept it… and then be grateful and say thanks.
Miracles can and do happen, all the time. Enjoy them!
