Aventure I

REIKI AN ADVENTURE

Reiki, you might have heard about it and read about it or may be this is a totally new concept for you. There was a time when this concept was new for me too. It was 1998; I just had a bad relationship for 2 years. I was sad depressed and lonely. I wanted to sit in a room all day long listening to some sad weeping songs and pour my heart out crying. One of my friend mentioned that she was going to learn reiki from one of her cousins, and wanted to know if I wanted to join with her. Well I was not up to it, that day, so to speak and went to my room crying some more. The next morning I woke up early, nothing really on my agenda that month. I just thought to myself that why should I cry and weep and be sad for a person who probably does not care that I cry or doesn’t even know that I am crying. If no one can hear you why cry or get hurt? I thought.

I freshened up and got ready to see if my friend still stands with her offer about reiki, not even knowing what it was, I thought to myself it can be more harmful than my ex boyfriend. So I went to her, she was glad to know that I would join her in the reiki seminar. We went together and some 2 more people from our apartment building joined us. While we were going I had heaps of questions going though my mind.' what is reiki? What does it do? Why did my boyfriend treat me like that? May be it is my fault. May be it isn’t. Whatever way I wanted to start a new life and forget about him, so in order to do that I shall forgive that him forever, be happy and become happy'.

We reached there about 8a.m. yeah it was too early for me. We went to this apartment with white walls on four sides. their was 6 bedding facing parallel to the door and one bedding laying perpendicular to the others. All in white cotton sheet, with one pillow each covered with white clean pillow cases. There were inscents, candle, flower and pictures of some gods and a man in a red robe. You can almost smell the freshness in the air. My worries, queries and emotions about my life seemed to have vanished away. I just had one thought that i will like to learn reiki and give my full concentration to learn it. So now I was ready for my reiki adventure.

There were two more students who joined us in that seminar. We all got comfortable grabbing one bed each with pillows to support our keen arms. The teacher then introduced himself Dr. Arvind Sonawane' and then asked each one of us to introduce ourselves. I always loved the introduction part, may be I had two more sentences to say about myself than others, oh well, it was not like I was going to meet them everyday except my friend of course. After introduction, we were asked to fill up some forms. Doing that was not particularly my idea of the day; I rather talk out loud more. Every one handed their forms.

Then, my guru, Dr. Arvind Sonawane started with describing the word reiki for us. He said 'Rei- as in universe and Ki as in life force energy.' He showed us the photo of thr founder of reiki Dr. Mikao Usui and explained that we all have the ability to improve our lives by becoming a channel or source so to speak with the universe. He explained how human beings when they are young below 5 years of age have this profound ability to forgive and forget. Infants that age have no jealously, no possessive issues, no cruelty and no anger. But as we grew up we tend to become jealous, leave our kindness at home in a closet drawer that we never intend to open. By doing so we close ourselves from being loved and ever being kind. In other words, we close the doors not only to our thinking but to our souls and as a result our top four chakras are blocked and we live unhappily ever after.

It is so true I think, for a second think about it, think about your sacred text for an example, every religion, in every text, in every grail, they tell us to be kind, they want us to be understanding and they want us to be good to each other. We read these books, (well some of us do, some of us don’t) and because of our close minds we can’t think past our choices. We cannot be open to the idea of getting rid of our differences; we cannot get past the looks of a person. We judge them, we comment on them, we lie to them, we are cruel to them and then we say that we do not belief in differences. Think about it if we cannot as human begins be true to ourselves how can we be true to each other? The eyes that we have to open is ours, our souls.

Getting back on the reiki seminar day, we were then attuned and taught the reiki ways. Then came along a meditation called golden ball meditation. Well to be honest I cried again, more so wept. But got through it with help of reiki shakti and my guru. I learnt the correct hand positioning for reiki. When I first started reiki on myself I felt that my palms were warmer and like a magnetic wave passing from it. It was an amazing experience, nothing compared to what was in store for me that year, because of reiki shakti.

Got my first degree of reiki in dec 1998 and my second degree on jan 1999. I did reiki every day making it a part of me. I started a reiki project to find my self a better match. By feb 1999 I got one proposal, well in 4 days more precisely. Some bus driver who would take over my dads business and live with us after we got married. Not my dream man I said to my dad. That day I remembered that I had written a letter to god about what I want in my man. I found it and without even reading it and updating it I started a to give reiki on it. I was not ready to settle with a man who cannot even support himself let alone his family. By march I got three proposals, all of these guys settled in their lives and all far away from Bombay (now called Mumbai).


It became over whelming for me. I did some more reiki to ask for guidance and whom to pick. It became clear to me that be, I should open the project written so many year ago, by me and see what I have. Well the project said, “ I want a man who has my dad’s tummy, education more than my brother, and whose last name has to start with CH” to explain this you should know where I come from. My dad had a tummy which was my comfort pillow, when I used to sleep with my parents when i was a kid, in dark nights keeping my hand on his tummy would give me a sense of security. My brother is a computer engineer, wow right. And my last name used to be CHOPRA and I loved the way I signed my name with the letters ‘ch’ did not want to change it more than it need to be.

Long story short, I am now happily married to a man, whose belly is like my dad’s (may be a little more), he is a computer and a mechanical engineer and our last name is CHUGH. Funny, but true. But it might have happened that, I might have been not so happily married to a Banke Bihari Chamanlal, with education of the university of stupidity. It is said that if it is not in your destiny you will and cannot get it. Well I had to marry a man with the three things I asked for, but with the help of reiki shakti and my kind guru dr. Arvind Sonawane, I did get my destiny in a very positive way.

Hope every one of you who has chosen to have reiki as a part of your lives, will have a great future and have a positive and happy destiny.

JAI REIKI