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Episode #88 Kim Cardiel Earley's Healing Journey: From Air Force Brat to Kundalini Reiki Grandmaster – Embracing Sobriety, Spiritual Practices, and Love-Focused Healing
How does one transform from an Air Force brat and aspiring entertainer to a powerful Kundalini Reiki Grandmaster? Join us as we sit down with Kim Cardiel Earley and hear about her remarkable journey of overcoming postpartum depression, battling substance addiction, and finding profound healing through Reiki. Kim's candid storytelling will take you through her darkest days and show you how Reiki became the light that guided her path to sobriety and self-discovery.
We dive into the essence of what makes a true Reiki practitioner, discussing the importance of humility, intention, and managing one's ego in spiritual practices. Kim shares deeply personal reflections on her growth journey, emphasizing the need to relinquish what no longer serves your higher purpose. She also offers invaluable advice on what to look for in a Reiki practitioner and how to begin your journey in this transformative field.
In an inspiring exploration of Kim's multifaceted path as tThe Hapa Healer, we uncover her unique approach to Reiki, including the use of crystals and pendulums for distance healing. We also touch on the crucial balance between Western medicine and holistic practices, highlighting the importance of both in achieving optimal health. As we conclude, Kim sends a powerful message about maintaining a vibration of love and the true essence of Reiki—sharing love and healing energy, especially during global crises and personal challenges. Don’t miss this enlightening episode that promises to empower and inspire your healing journey.
Kim Cardiel Earley, a Kundalini Reiki Grand Master practitioner and Akashic Records reader, transformed her life after a challenging journey through postpartum depression and years of buried trauma. Embracing an alcohol-free lifestyle, she found solace in Reiki, catalyzing a profound shift. Kim's path led her to become a skilled podcaster, motivational speaker, and intuitive energy reader, utilizing tarot and Oracle cards. Her own shadow work and healing journey evolved into a mission to support others on their paths, using her experiences and intuition to hold space for healing and transformation
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Speaker 2:This is Ready Set Reiki, a podcast about Reiki, the universal energy life force, From the curious beginner to the seasoned master teacher, welcoming all systems, all lineages and all levels. Reiki is a journey and not a destination, and on this Ready Set Reiki journey, we refer to ourselves as guides rather than hosts, as we too are traveling, supporting and learning on this Reiki journey as well. And with that said, I'm your first guide, tracy Seawright.
Speaker 3:And I am your second guide, Millie Pampina.
Speaker 2:And today we have a wonderful guest from where I used to live in the Murrysville area in Pennsylvania, and that is Kim Cardell Early Now. I have a lot of information on her, so she is a Kundalini Reiki Grandmaster, practitioner, an Akashic Record Reader, a skilled podcaster, motivational speaker, intuitive energy healer, and she utilizes the Oracle Cards, her own shadow work and healing journey, involved into a mission of support for others on their path, using her experience and intuition to hold space for healing and transformation. Welcome, kim, to Ready Set Reiki.
Speaker 4:Hi, how are you? Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2:So our first question. I gave our listeners a little taste of who you are, so tell us about yourself.
Speaker 4:Okay, well, I am a 46-year-old mother of three. I have a 21-year-old stepson. I got two bio kids that are seven, my son and my daughter's about to be six at the end of December. They're 16 months apart. I did get married later in life. I got married at 37 and I have my kids at 39 and 40, which I love to tell women listen, do not let age, you know, hold you back from doing things that is not you know. Don't keep going.
Speaker 4:I'm ethnic wise, because people always ask I'm half Mexican, half Korean. So that you know, I did choose some interesting experiences in this life to go through, and I was also an Air Force brat. So I was born in California, moved to South Korea when I was 10 months old, lived there till I was about four and a half, then lived in Great Falls, Montana, till I was about 11, came to Pittsburgh for one year in sixth grade, DC for middle school. For seventh, eighth grade, back to Pittsburgh for high school, Then I went to Penn State, then I went to New York, LA, New York, LA, trying to be a famous star, whether it was singing or acting or doing standup comedy. My whole life has been um, as an entertainer. So yeah, Wonderful, yeah. And then, oh and then I ended up back in Pittsburgh because my mom invested in a business here that went completely sideways came back here, met my husband that's when I got married and then left LA to, yeah, be a mom and a wife and completely shifted gears. Wonderful.
Speaker 2:Wonderful Love that. So tell our listeners when did Reiki come into your life with all this moving?
Speaker 4:After a huge mental breakdown. So when I got married and had kids after my daughter, I had suffered postpartum depression, but when I had been such a strong, fierce, independent woman for so long, I was in denial about that. I had both of my parents there helping me. I thought I'm just tired because I'm 40. I have two kids that are 16 months apart. And then it got to a point where I wasn't brushing my hair. My dad was like you know, kim, you, you got to brush your hair and I, I could feel that I was off. You know, I had alcohol. I was when I was acting and singing, I was bartending, so I was drinking a lot, had a complete lifestyle that was not working for me, had addictions to, you know, to some hard stuff, got all that cleared up. So I thought. Then I got married. So when I was pregnant and nursing, obviously I wasn't drinking. Well, two months after I said okay, I have a problem. That was about October. My daughter was about 10 months old.
Speaker 4:At the end of January of 2019, I took a shot of vodka because I was on this gluten-free diet and they were like drink gluten-free alcohol. So most people would go get a dress when they lost weight. But I decided I'd treat myself with some vodka. And that just flew open Pandora's box because I hadn't had hard liquor in about four years, four and a half years, something like that. Three years. I'm not good with years, I'm not good with time, so three-dimensional, but anyway, from the time I got pregnant with the first one until the second one was about a year old, and then in about three months, by May 5th, I was a complete wreck and I was in rehab by May 8th. Went to rehab, got completely sober, still sober Four and a half years later. I love to say that 5-5-19 is my sober date.
Speaker 4:One of my friends from California was like I'm in the spiritual group. You should really look at it. I think you would love it, cause we always talked woo, woo past lives. You know Capricorn, this and all that. So I joined and there was a Reiki healer on there and I was like, and I had saw that John Hopkins and Columbia university were hospital, we're starting to get Reiki healers and I was like, what's this Reiki? That's how it first came into my field. And then I met an actual Reiki healer and I was like let me get some Reiki. What's this about Right Cause. I told her I go, I can't seem to get rid of the pot, like everything else I'm good with, but you know there's some with this marijuana and I'm like maybe Reiki will help me with this.
Speaker 4:So she went through and the things that she told me this cord attached to my father on my root chakra, my sacral chakra. She saw the abortion that I had when I was like in my 20s. She saw it attached to my sister actually, and I was like no, that was actually me, but just all these things. And I'm like and it was, I had gotten tarot card readings. This blew my mind. She pulled stuff out of me that I had tucked down deep inside and was like no, I've dealt with that. But I hadn't dealt with that. So it made me go so much deeper than just the surface stuff.
Speaker 4:And then I started sending everybody to her my mom, my employees, everybody. And then she said that she was going to start attuning people she's and I was like I'm in. I was, I believe, one of her first students. I was like I'm in, like Flynn, where do I sign up? So she, I went, got my, went all the way to my master level and it was so interesting to me because people that I have you know that finished the same time as me. I didn't use it, utilize it, and she told me you're, you're attuned, you can do this, and that's all I needed to hear. And then I just did tons of Reiki. I was working my full-time job, still being, I mean, like two, three nights, two, three sessions, like three nights a week, until I just I just kept doing it and just kept doing it and I was like this is amazing, this is like magic, this is like where has this been my whole life, you know? So that's how.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Wow, what an amazing journey. Yeah, and congratulations on your sobriety. Well done, yeah. So you have been on a journey for sure. So what is a common misperception about the work that you do?
Speaker 4:That it's not of God, of Jesus, that it's you know, dark spiritual stuff. I just I don't get that. Like I am so closer to Jesus now than I have ever been in my whole life, like I literally talk to Jesus. When I got my grand Reiki master attunement, my mentor was like all right, just close your eyes, go to your heart space, and I'm going to do the rest. And I literally saw Jesus and I mean there's a whole story, but he like rolled his eyes at me. I mean I joke with Jesus all right.
Speaker 4:Like that cool. And out of my attunement. The first thing that my mentor said was okay, jesus and Mary are right next to you. And I was like I don't know, because they both showed up and that's exactly who I saw. And I was like, how do you? We didn't even talk the whole time, you know, right? So that misconception that there's so much love and light in this space, it's like it's blinding you, right?
Speaker 2:right, right, and it would be nice for people to see that they can't look beyond. Oh, it's Japanese.
Speaker 4:It must be this yes, like it's not, it's energy. And I tell people I go, it's metaphysics, it's call it science if it's gonna make you feel better. You know what I mean like I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 4:but it science, if it's going to make you feel better. You know what I mean. Like I don't know what to tell you. But it's energy, it exists. It has nothing to do with God, but it does have to do with Jesus and Buddha and all of these bodhisattvas who came down to teach us love, and we just are not getting the message. It's not our ego. Our egos are like no, no, no, no, no Right.
Speaker 2:I often color it for people. It's a God of your own understanding. You can make it your own. So, as you're going doing your work, your wonderful work, what do you think the biggest challenges in this industry is facing today? Ego?
Speaker 4:I think that's with everything and I think it's ego. You know, and I tell everybody watch who you work with, period. I mean, not every priest or preacher is walking their talk. So when people say like, oh, you know, because I'm sure you've gotten hacked, I have so many fake profiles and people use my profile and message people oh, I felt your energy and dah, dah, dah and they're like, but they knew things about me and I had to explain friends of mine. I was like I can pull cards on anyone and tell me exactly where your energy is lying and then hook line and sinker right. You got to use your discernment and I feel like one and and I just feel like this isn't even now.
Speaker 4:It's just been through time why people who work with energy get a bad reputation. And it's because of ego. You know, people want to be like, you know, and it's one of the things that I put myself in check always. I'm like you better put your ego. I do not ever step into someone's space without permission. I don't ever give them my two cents. Their grandma could be sitting right next to me telling me to tell them something and I'm like, no, ma'am, they didn't ask me, right? Oh, so I just feel like ego always is just such a son of a gun. You know Her ego because people you know and I have I'm a Leo rising, so I get it. You know I get it.
Speaker 4:I get it. I want to be seen, you know I get it. But I always say I'm very mindful of what is my intention. Why am I doing this?
Speaker 2:You know yeah that's the vehicle that drives this. Too many uh students I've trained they're like well, I don't feel it in my hands, I'm not seeing this, I'm not seeing what she's seeing or he's seeing, but you're in your own experience.
Speaker 4:That's why it's spiritual your own experience when you're ready you might not be ready For sure, you know, and it's sometimes the energy is too much, so it's like you have to make sure your vibration is ready to receive. Yeah, and that's why and I say that to myself too Look, I'm looking at myself when I say that- Sure, sure, sure.
Speaker 2:So what is something that you wish your younger self knew about this profession?
Speaker 4:When I read this question, oh, I sat with it because my first response was nothing. I don't want to go back and tell my younger self because she had to go through that darkness or she would not have understood this energy now. I wouldn't have appreciated it, I would not, I would have taken it for granted. I, you know, as an Akashic Records reader, I have flat people, dream about whatever. I have flashbacks of former lives. You know what I mean, and they'll happen when I'm awake, not when I'm sleeping. So you know, I'm very aware of things that I've done in my past and I even made a joke, a tick tock about it. I was like man. I know there was one life where I just turned everybody into frogs.
Speaker 4:You're a frog, and you're a frog and you're like the anger, and I did not use it to help others, I used it to hurt. I used it to take their deep, dark, deepest, darkest, deepest secrets and use that to hurt them. I did not use it for for good things. So that question, really, it really made me reflect. So, thank you, because I was thinking about that and I was like, would I want her to know? And I was like no, because I truly believe everything happens also when it's supposed to happen.
Speaker 2:So yeah, so, yeah, you have to go through the fire.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah. So my answer would be I think I'm going to let her stay in the dark with that.
Speaker 2:And then when you go through this process and it is a process, it is a journey Things happen. You got to let go of some things and some people that you thought were friends and had your back. You see, okay, and that's all clearing for your highest good.
Speaker 4:I tell people that, like when your vibrations go higher, of course people around you are going to change. Your vibrations just don't match, you know. And when you feel like your world is falling apart, it's not. That's your guide saying listen, sister, you're not doing what you're supposed to do, so we're going to clean it up for you. Now you got to rebuild, you know, like it's never. I don't say bad, I don't say good like it's never.
Speaker 4:I don't say bad, I don't say good. It's life, it's experience, and I love what you said too. I tell people I was like the second you hear me say I've yield, I've got it all figured out. Come listen to me, Please know. I've either been completely taken over by aliens or my ego got back in the driver's seat. So I that is not my higher self talking, because that's it doesn't end Right.
Speaker 2:There's.
Speaker 4:No, there, there's no life you could come back down. There's more, there's more.
Speaker 2:That's why it's that journey, not a destination. Yeah, going along on the journey. So you, yeah, you shared a little bit about that first practitioner that began with you on your journey.
Speaker 4:But what are some of the qualities that you look for in a Reiki practitioner when it's time for you to get your tune up? Your Reiki tune up? Oh my God. Awesome question, because when I saw that too, like as a Reiki practitioner, I go every three months to get myself cleared from another Reiki practitioner, because I'm doing a lot of Reiki, you know, and not only that, but to support other Reiki practitioners, you know, keep that energy going. And then so I look for the people who the vibration like are they walking the talk? And you know, and I hate to say but yeah, I am being a little judgy, you know, I'm not going to sit here and lie and I I'm, I'm feeling their vibration, you know.
Speaker 4:For, to put it in a in a better word, I have left groups. I had two mentors when I first started and I love these women and I was on their groups and their groups are great. So I'm not even going to mention that's not even the point. But they got a little catty with another woman. I don't know what it was for. I didn't, I didn't care to ask or investigate, I just simply left the group. I saw that I didn't like that vibration and instead of asking why, what's going on, I was like, oh well, okay, I'm just gonna dip out, you know, and before Reikiiki that wouldn't have happened. What's going on? Why are you going? Why are you guys fighting? What's what? What, what's going on? I didn't even need to put my two cents and call them out on their stuff, I just simply left.
Speaker 4:So I look to see like, is this person real? You know, I tell people too, like when I say I might not be your healer, I curse like a sailor, I am loud, I am obnoxious. Some people look at me because I've had a past with drugs and alcohol and I say that I talked to dead people. They're like, well, yeah, because she, and I'm like I don't even that doesn't even bother me, and I'm like I know what I do is real. So you thinking that of me, that's just your doubt in yourself, like you just don't believe in magic. So that's why you don't believe that I have magic. But I know I got magic. You know, I tell people that, but I'm, they might.
Speaker 4:There's another healer. I work with Lori and I'm going to say her name because I love her, but she's so soft and I'm like, maybe when I'm 70, I'll be, you know, because I do aspire to be soft, but that's just not me. You know, I'm loud, I'm proud. So that's why I tell people you might not want to work with me. I'm not going to be sunshine and roses. I'll be like, listen, girl, get it together. But yeah. So I look for people who are they walking their talk, that's all you know. Because not everybody does and again, no judgment. If they're not, I just I'm. I don't want to receive energy from that. So I'm like, you know, let me go, Let me go see another healer. But thankfully a lot.
Speaker 4:So, right, right, I call you ladies for my next clear.
Speaker 2:Right, right, and I mean our nervous system feels that energy before our mind does. So you can feel that you can be around someone and be like Okay, yeah, this isn't for me, or this one is for me. Yes, that's wonderful, wonderful. So the next question is what advice do you have someone who is just starting in this profession? What advice?
Speaker 4:do you have someone who is just starting in this profession? Do not judge yourself. Don't judge yourself when you're in this space, truly clear your mind, you know, relax your body and, just like, release your ego Because, like you said with your students, I don't see this, I don't see that, I don't feel that that's your ego, so don't judge it. Just do what you were taught Work through the chakras. You know, like I said, when I first started, I, oh and this is the thing I tell people too if you're trying to do and there's different kinds of Reiki, right, I've had people who don't read intuitively experience one of my, you know Reiki and reset events or something like that, and they're like she's not doing that. She didn't do Reiki. I don't know what she did, but it wasn't Reiki and I go, it was Reiki and it's intuitive, because I'll tell them personal things, you know, and I do tell them. I'll hold back if it's too personal, but don't judge yourself because, oh, work with strangers. When I first started, I did all strangers because you know why your ego can't exist there. You don't know these people, do you know what I mean? I got blessed because I became a tune in May of 2020.
Speaker 4:What happened in May of 2020? The whole world shut down. Everybody was freaking the F out. So here comes all the Reiki healers and I was like boom, who wants some free Reiki? That's why and everybody was like me, me, me, me, me. So then, by November, I was like, oh, my intuition, just boom. So be patient with yourself, because your ego wants it. Your higher self knows that it's already there. I promise you, we are all intuitive. We are all intuitive. Not one of us came down more special than the other. It's who opens the gift, right? Sometimes you might not choose to open. It's a gift. You might not choose to open it. Also, exercise it. Exercise your third eye. It's not about being psychic. It's about trusting yourself using discernment. So just let your ego go. Don't judge and do lots of Reiki on strangers, right. Wonderful, when you trust me, when you hear things and see things and then you're asking them and they validate it. You know that's when you learn to trust also yourself and don't go run the show.
Speaker 2:Right. And what's interesting is for those who told you on your path that you're not doing Reiki right because you are intuitive. If you look back in the history, dr Azui was intuitive and spiritual. That is the foundation, and there is information that has come out through the Gakkai that was just confirmed, that when he was doing this, he was not using the symbols. That was the Gakkai and Madame Takata. So he was doing this intuitively, he was doing this spiritually, he was letting his hands guide it. So in a sense, you were doing it as homage to him.
Speaker 4:So Can I tell you a secret too, and I don't know if a lot of people know this, but I got attuned to Kundalini Reiki before Yasui. I don't have symbols ever. Okay, yeah, I wasn't trained to, and that's crazy, if I would have lived. One of the things that those two women said was that anybody who does and I totally forgot about that. So you mentioned that.
Speaker 4:Um, they said if you're not attuned to a suey first and you don't use the symbols, then you're not truly a reiki healer. What was the first time time I heard that? I was like interesting, because I've been doing Reiki for months. And how did I know that that girl's stepdad yelled at her mom? How did I know that that guy is aggressive because of this and that happened? How have I been getting all of these messages for the last six months? And they've all been correct. And I didn't use the symbols, so I so essentially, they were also saying that I was not a valid Reiki healer because I wasn't a Tintu Sui and I ended up taking it after. So I did get. I am attuned to it now, but because I started without using them, I don't use them.
Speaker 2:I still don't. Yeah, and there's some healers that don't. Again, that is your energetic toolbox. Yeah, you use it as you need it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so that's why I said I've. I gotta be honest with you. I've never used the symbols in a session. Yeah yeah, I wasn't told that I needed to, so and that's what I said.
Speaker 2:That's what makes you the intuitive yes.
Speaker 4:That's why I was like yeah, so, and that's what I said, that's what makes you the intuitive yes, that's why I was like yeah, I didn't have a choice.
Speaker 2:But when you look back, azui didn't have, he didn't use that power ensemble and that's information that was just announced at the Sedona retreat for the International Center of Reiki with William Rand. There's a gentleman who is publishing a book of Reiki with William Rand. There's a gentleman who is publishing a book he got the notes, someone's grandfather who was a student and he kind of translated the Japanese and it was in there and it was Madame Takada who got the master symbol in 1975. Azui passed in 1926.
Speaker 2:And when you look at the main teachers from Azui when he passed, you know Dr Hitoshi, he was a doctor in the army, so his was this healing system, so he had hand placements. So when someone came into his clinic, say if you had bronchitis, they would open up the manual, their little guide, and it would show you where the hand placements were. So that was not intuitive at all. And then that Chakada, that was systematic hand placements were. So that was not intuitive at all. And then that Takata, that was systematic hand placements, three to five minutes. So the true intuitive was Azui. Right, not that Hitoshi or Takata, I don't know, could use the intuitive, but that Biosyn scanning, it's the same thing, it's that intuitive.
Speaker 4:That's what I mean. I feel like, like Reiki, there's so many different modalities and, again, ego for someone to be like that's wrong, that's right, that doesn't work. Because you weren't into a suey Well, I'm not saying you're wrong. But what I'm saying is that's not my perspective, because I don't ever use the symbols and I've been right out here you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:That's why it's your own journey, your own path. You're doing it intuitively with that, so there's no wrong way to do it. It's your intent. What is your intention for the client? What do you want to call in? And that's just a little extra tool to bring in to the session if you feel needed.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I 1000%. I tell that to the card readers in life everything. What is your intention? Why do you? Want to talk so bad. Why do you need that car? Why are you doing that? What's your intention behind that? Right, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, intention, it's belief and focus. Those are the three to bring in. Yeah, all right, so what other modalities do you offer? Tell us everything you offer.
Speaker 4:So I do the Reiki. I do a distance and in person, but when I do the Reiki I tell people I do open up their Akashic records, you know. So I let them know in this session I might pull something up from a past life that's affecting you now, you know. And then also Tarot and Oracle, which I do love I joke because I call that my side gig because my main thing is Reiki, right, but because of the intuition that's what has made like the Tarot and Oracle, like so, so fun to do and I really do love doing all that. And then also the Akashic record. So if you want to know where your soul originated from are you Arcturian, are you Palladian? I can find out. What are your karmic overlays, what? What did you bring in from other lifetimes? You know, in the next month or so I'm also going to be doing the Akashic wheel, which is almost like a hypnosis, where we go back and it'll all be recorded and I'm just going to guide you through.
Speaker 4:And you talk about past lives and I've had some incredible things going through it myself. You know, I found out, you know a past life, for my dad was my younger brother, but this was in the 70s and I was born in 77. So you think it's a past life where actually time is not linear, right? You're living out some other lives right now. You know like when I'm having a bad day, I swear to you I'll look up and I'll be like hello, alternate universe, kim. I hope you're having a better day than this universe, kim, today. I know my soul's out there doing, living another life in another dimension and I really hope you're having a better day.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 4:Well, all all the woo woo, I love bringing all of it, so Akashic, reiki, tarot card readings. And then I do have weekly clients that I meet with who are, who want to learn how to meditate, who aren't getting there, who are just really stressful, not know, and just need that weekly. I'm not a therapist, I am an energy worker. Do you know what I mean? So I'm very clear about that. Like, when we talk, I'm not you know you, you have to figure it out. I'm just going to give you some information and yeah, and so I help clients weekly with that also. So that's been when they walk away, cause I tell people I'm like if you, if you need me for a really long time, I'm not doing well, what we do. We don't want people to stay with us long. You know what I mean. We want them to find their own magic and that self-love so that they can be like no, you know what, I'm a badass. I got it.
Speaker 2:Always growing and evolving. Yes, yeah, so, all right so with growing and evolving.
Speaker 4:Do you have any books that you recommend? Seed of the Soul, because it really does explain past lives. You know what I mean Many lives, many masters, because the author of Many Lives, many Masters for the people who really are having a hard time making that shift. This guy was a psychologist and his books are taught as textbooks to psychology majors at Penn State. Okay, so this is a teacher. He's not, you know, a religious person and he talks about how he hypnotizes woman into her former lifetimes and how it was affecting her life. So I love that book because I really think it helps people kind of explain why we have past lives and reincarnation and how it's all tied together and how it affects us in our current lives. So yeah, that wonderful, mainly wonderful.
Speaker 2:So where can we find you? How do we catch?
Speaker 4:with you All over social media. So I because most of my life was, you know, entertainment you might be on an email list and you might get an email from me every year or so not my forte, but if you can find me on TikTok and Instagram, I'm the Hapa H-A-P-A healer, because Hapa in Hawaii that's what they call. The mixed Asian kids there who are like and I know Hawaiians called me out yet but they say that's supposed to be for the mixed Hawaiian but everybody thinks I'm Hawaiian anyway. But yeah, so I go by the Hapa healer and then Eloma Healing is my healing business and that's the Facebook page and then also my website where you can find me to book sessions and I do lots of like private tarot parties, which are fun, and events. So if you go to my Facebook page I'll post and my Instagram that's where I'll post all the events that I'm at, because I'll be at a winery tomorrow and IUP and all kinds of places all over Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2:Wonderful, wonderful. Well, that ends our part of the journey. So thank you so much, kim. I'm going to pass you over to my magnificent co-guide, millie Pampino, who has some social media questions for you.
Speaker 3:So thank you, and I've got to say, kim Tracy, I was sorry to see that end. I was just enjoying it so much myself. So thank you so much for Kim, being so honest and straightforward about your journey, the fact that you're still on that journey and you know what you've accomplished in your life, and again, congratulations on your sobriety. I understand that that's very challenging and I've always admired everybody, everybody, everybody who's ever had to you know, work through that and work with it, family members and you know loved ones and friends alike. So thank you, and thank you for choosing.
Speaker 4:I won't take a break, that's not going to help anyone. I don't pretend that my days are all perfect and I'm sunshine and rainbows and that I don't have my anger moments and that I don't yell and scream. Of course I still do. Do I do it as much as I did? No, and I'm gonna give myself credit for that.
Speaker 3:Yeah well, when you're still human, and we're all still human, and I say you know, once you accept the reality of needing to heal and wanting to, you know, accept the process of healing, then you got to take your blessings and graces forward to others who are also in need. And thank you You're, you're a perfect example of that. So I appreciate it. We have some very interesting questions for you. Honestly, this is the first time I've actually seen, in all of our experiences in our journey, tracy and I, this particular question and it says what should I think about during my Reiki treatment? I think about during my Reiki treatment. I really love that because I'd love to hear what a grandmaster would bring to that.
Speaker 4:So with my sessions I don't speak. During the actual session, whether it's in person or online, I like to completely go into the higher dimensions, talk to their higher selves, to their guides, talk to whatever ascended masters show up. So I don't like to speak because then that brings me back down to the third dimension. So what I tell people? I give them an exercise about picturing a crystalline tube as they're breathing, to just connect themselves to that light, to mother earth and father sky. And again, like what I say, even as a practitioner let your ego go, just lie down.
Speaker 4:And because I don't speak, I will play music and I tell them just let your thoughts flow, don't judge. Whatever you think it, you're supposed to think that. And then I asked them after the session what, what came up, you know? And they'll be like my grandma came through or da-da-da, or some people will be like I just couldn't relax. So that takes time, but I would say just let it, don't over. It's hard to say don't think about it, but whatever just comes like don't think about anything, just let whatever is going to come, come.
Speaker 3:So, um, um, I can't wait to get on your table myself, so, um, being as you are in the Pittsburgh regional area. So, yes, yeah, I love to meet people locally. So I have heard that Reiki can be sent to others at a distance. How does that work? That's a good question.
Speaker 4:That's a fair question yeah.
Speaker 4:And that's a great question for me Because, like I said, during COVID all of my first clients other than my husband were all distant. I didn't do any in-person Reiki other than my husband you know what I mean and I had to like beg him to let me do it. I'm like, please, let me do this thing to you, and he was like no. So with distance, it's all energy. So what I do in particular, I have like my table is right here, let me see if I can kind of put it down.
Speaker 4:So I got my little table here and I actually the way I work is I set up crystals for each chakra, so the throat chakra, the crown chakra, and then I use these. These are my believers. This is how I measure. I hold it over the chakra and, depending on the way it spins, I'll know it's underactive, overactive, if it's balanced. And then what I do is I'll put my hands over each chakra and then that's when I get my intuitive messages. So when it's in person, what I do is just put my hands over that chakra, but when it's distance, I'll put it over the crystal that's representing each chakra.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and you called your pendulum your believers believers, yes, my believers. That's a beautiful piece I.
Speaker 4:Oh, I got a whole, a whole collection, and then this is, and then, depending also on which chakra needs the most work, you know what I mean? I, I'll, I'll like. So there's that's not even, that's not even half of them. So I have them all because they're on their charging plates. Right now I have charging plates that I put them on to clear them after session. So you know, if somebody needs some deep throat chakra clearing, we do that If they need to work on their root chakra. This one is really good for the root chakra. So, and then I kept them all lined up.
Speaker 3:Thank you for sharing, because so many people have that question as well. As you know, how do I set up, what do I put on my altar, what do I do with these things, and it's I always tell people. It's very intuitive. You know what brings you, you know. You know all the churches, and the Catholic church especially because, as I was very involved for many, many, many years still involved in the church, you know I called them, we called them sacramentals. You know whatever brought you to that state that you, you know, were in that. You know mindfulness of the moment and receiving. That's how you have to organize yourself and you know what you might do it different every time. Yes, oh yeah.
Speaker 4:Changed the way. When I first started, it had to be completely dark. I had to have three, three candles lit. I had to have my incense. I mean I had this whole. Now I'm like, all right, we got to, I got three sessions tonight and not that I rushed through it. Do my incense? I mean I had this whole. Now I'm like, all right, we got to, I got three sessions tonight and not that I rushed through it. Do you know what I mean? Because I trust myself now more too. You know what I mean. So if I don't skip a step, I'm like, oh my God, it didn't work. It's like you said, tracy, intention to you know it's what's my intention. I'm just, I'm here to do love and light. So that's why I say I took wrong and right out of my vocabulary, cause that's ego. Who am I to say that's wrong? How do I know? Did, like people say I don't use the symbols? That's not Reiki. Who said it's been working for three and a half years? You can't tell me I'm wrong. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:I've been doing it this way, so I don't when I see somebody doing something that I don't, I'm like, oh interesting, like you said, growing you oh, show me how you did that. Oh, that's pretty cool. Okay, yeah, it resonates with you. I know that I, um, I really enjoy changing things up. I'll go to. I go to Tracy's classes, you know. I go to the class, I get the certification, then she's teaching and I go to her, the same class with her, because I love to see her approach with it and she's in a very different environment than I'm at in. You know, being out in El Paso and I'm here in Pittsburgh and I just, if I like, I incorporate, if I don't completely understand, I go to class again.
Speaker 3:You, it just, you know, you just kind of roll with what brings you to that point and I love it, I love it. Yeah, yeah, some days I'm running around with sage and other days I'm running around spray bottle. I a lot of it, a lot of it highly depends on availability and everybody's getting the same intention, the same fearing the same, the same process. It's just like you accomplished different manner that day. So you know, but I want to make sure everybody is getting, um, what they need and some days I'm just here spraying the Reiki rascals and telling them start running around the house and doing your thing, because they're both attuned. So I love it. So, and again, I really enjoyed this last question quite a bit and I think I don't know that this will be a challenge for someone to answer, but it's how can I use Reiki to help in a global crisis? So what would be your thoughts on that?
Speaker 4:That's exactly what happened to me during the pandemic. Right, you want to talk about ego, one of the mistakes that I made because I had just been through rehab and hell. I had hit my one-year sobriety at the point that the world was shutting down. I was not in a space to go backwards into fear. I was like F that noise. I was like screw that noise, because I could not live in fear. So my spiritual ego was like why are you scared? Why are?
Speaker 4:you people were dying and I was like you're freaking out, Calm, dying. And I was like you're freaking out, calm down. I was not being empathetic to people who were scared because of where I was sitting at at that one year mark of being sober. I just was not in a vibration of fear. So it helped me see my ego. But Reiki helped me. Okay, what can I do to help the ones that are scared? So it completely shifted my perspective and it was in an ego check. My guides were like wow, so you really just did all that work and came to that healing. And now you're going to be a bitch about it, Like why don't you use it to help other people?
Speaker 4:Kind of shifted to where you shifted and you telling them not to be scared was like how people kept telling you to just not drink. Just don't drink, Kim, Just think about your kids before you like think about that. And it really was like, oh, oh, my God, you're right. Okay, so when there's fear and you can see fear in others and you are sitting in a vibration of love, you can see fear in others and you are sitting in a vibration of love, Send that love out to others. You know, what I learned through my grand Reiki master, Tumen, is don't feel sorry for people, right? That's the vibration that, oh my God, I feel so sorry for them. Oh my God, they're so sick. That's the vibration you're sending them, okay? So when there's a pandemic or there's a lot of fear going around, the best thing you can do is number one keep yourself in a safe space. Keep yourself in a vibration of love. Make sure you don't let fear come into your heart so that you can use that Cause Reiki is love. I say Reiki is is love. You know, use that energy and just send love. I'm sending peace and love and you know less anxiety and calm and send that energy out to others.
Speaker 4:When you see somebody who's just lost a husband or a family member or a parent or a child God forbid, like you know and they're sitting in that space of just so much loss and devastation, Don't be like I'm so sorry, but I can't even imagine what it's like. Send Reiki, which is send them love. You're going to heal. Your loved one is in such a good space, You're going to grow from this, you are going to be so strong, and these are things that don't say this to them right, Because they don't want to hear this right now. So the best thing that you can do is send them that love.
Speaker 4:Don't send them vibrations of I feel sorry. Don't send them pity. Send them love. Oh, you're going to be, you're going to come out of this and be so strong, oh, my goodness, Like there's going to be love around you, and just see and send to them like the beauty that's going to come from them. I feel like that's the best thing that you can do for people is with Reiki, just send love, good thoughts, you know. Cover them in protection, send them strength, you know things like that.
Speaker 3:You could see I'm taking that very well here. I'm getting emotional. So thank you, I do. I do really appreciate those words and with that that's you know. That's the last question I have from the social media. Do you have anything else you'd like to bring into the conversation?
Speaker 4:You know, you ladies are amazing guides because the questions like were so like full circle and everything. Yeah, I just, you know, of course, with like Reiki, we could talk here all day, every day, like let's talk about the chakras, but yeah, just that. Um, without Reiki and I gotta be honest and I'm, and I, and I'm speaking to anybody who is really, you know, chronic depression, alcoholism, um, you know, any kind of thing like that I do have to say try Reiki, just give it a. You know, be open-minded about it, open up your heart and try it.
Speaker 4:Because, as much as AA and rehab helped me start my journey, I am 1000% telling you I would not still be sober if it were not for Reiki. If I would not have brought Reiki into my life and I would have just continued to go to AA and I would have just continued to go to these meetings, I promise you I would not be sober right now. I still had anger. I still had still have anger Correct that, kim. I still have resentments, I still have trauma. I still have things that I'm working through that will cause me to want to drink.
Speaker 4:So, without Reiki, without that conscious, the open consciousness, the awareness, the awakeness that I have because, oh, which you said too, millie, about you know, in AA, first you have to admit there's a problem. You first have to admit I am an alcoholic. So with spiritual healing, you first have to admit I, I, I, I need some spiritual healing. This it's me. I'm the problem. It's me I love. I don't even, I'm not a Taylor Swift fan, but I love that song, I sing that line every time. I'm like it's me, I'm the problem, it's me, you know, and it truly is so. For those of you who have tried, like I've had therapists since I was 21. I just had my last therapist who put me on my cuckoo drugs. You know, let me not say that, guys, I'm so sorry because there are people who are on Zoloft. It was beneficial to me, I was put on Zoloft, but again it didn't do anything because there was too much. There was too much that that little pill could not fix you know what I mean.
Speaker 4:I had to dig deeper. So the Reiki, truly and honestly, that is what has kept me sober. That is what has pulled out the weeds that kept coming up every year and would not let my flowers bloom because the weeds just kept taking over. So I was watering and I was throwing fertilizer, trying to do all these things, but what I didn't do was pull the weeds. I did not pull the weeds out. Reiki got me to pull the weeds out. Reiki has kept me sober, it has kept me accountable, it has put my ego in check. It has saved my marriage, because there have been times where I thought my husband was the problem. But it was me. I'm the problem, it's me. So you, you know, just Reiki has truly saved my life. It changed my life. It's what I do now. I thought I was gonna be stuck at my mom's hair store for the rest of my life, but such a beautiful space and if you've never tried it and you've been curious, do it.
Speaker 3:This is your sign to not hesitate no, I, I, I love, I loved your reference to Zoloft, because I use Zoloft, but I used I look like the rainbow when I would start in the morning and my, my, uh, long time, you know support in medical medicine management. My therapist, he loves it because you know I was, you know, I, I'm a little older. I knew better than to just say, ah, this is it. So, with the combination of Reiki and all the other other modalities of meeting beautiful souls like Tracy and people who have been there and done that and, you know, just had to reach out or to, you know, heal inwardly, I honestly find that I'm in the same position.
Speaker 3:I'm not the person I was five years ago. I'm, you know, in fact, sometimes to the point where my kids will say, mom, just say something, and I'm like, no, no, you're adults, Take it, you know, go with it, see it, see around the corner. I, you know, and I, just, I, just I, just I laugh because you know, little by little, I'm getting to that point where I'm, you know, I'm going to be free of all those and just dependent on you know what I'm doing internally and and it just helps so much. So thank you again for sharing all this. I can't. I am going to be the one that downloads and downloads and downloads and plays your place, this, this interview, several times, keeping yourself you're genuine, you're honest and, honestly, more people need a smack in the in the forehead than they really need the pat on the back. Sometimes it really it just has to hit you right here, and if it doesn't hit you right here, then you got to wait till it hits you right there.
Speaker 4:So many of us that don't wake up and that's why we have more than one life. You know, it's, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, don't. And that's why I said that I was like let me correct myself, because there's no shame in having to take those things like please, you know, and I say I'd be lying if I didn't enjoy the benefits of western medicine. Still, if I'm, if my arm is cut and bleeding, you damn straight, I'm going to ER. I'm not gonna sit there trying to reiki that like I need a cast, I need some stitches, like help me out, you know, like let's not be ignorant, you know.
Speaker 3:so, yeah, god, no shame, no shame yeah, I always say thank you, god for pharmacies and doctors, hospitals, because you can't. If I, if honestly, if I had a cut and I could reiki it and watch it close up and the scar go away, I'd be right there. But the truth of the matter is, as practitioners and this is where why we like love to ask that question what's the misperception, what are the perceptions about what you do? Because people just think that. You know we don't advocate Western medicine. That's absolutely. You know. If you need Western medicine, you need to get Western medicine. You know you need that help, you need that. That. You know. Step to you know your body isn't healing the way it needs to be healing. That's why. That's why, in my opinion, god put God, put those, those other healers on earth, because they really, you know this is in addition to this is going to help get you there. This is, you know, what we want you to take to help yourself, but we can't heal you.
Speaker 4:Those are all signals this is. You know your crown chakra needs some help. You know your chest pains. Your heart needs some help. My kidney stones, my sacral needed some help. It still does. You know what I mean. That's why I got orange and red hair.
Speaker 3:Now we're working on those lower chakras, trying to balance them out.
Speaker 4:I wonder what my gray and blonde are and, due to the misconception, I stopped calling myself a healer. I'm not a Reiki healer, I'm a Reiki practitioner. All right, let's get that straight, because I am not here to heal you. I don't see you as broken. I see you going through your life experiences because that's what you chose to go through. You signed that contract. I didn't. I'm not here to heal you. I'm going to give you some intuitive information coming from your guides. This is what they're saying let's, let's work through that. You know what you do. I can't shift you and I've told my mom that I've been watching my mom get sicker and sicker and sicker the last five years and I'm like you, telling you to move. I heal you, you, you, you're, you're, your mind, your words, your actions, your. I can't change any of that. So I'm a practitioner of Reiki. I am not a healer. I'm not here to heal you. I can't, you know so yeah, agreed, agreed.
Speaker 3:Thank you so much. Thank you. Well, I I I could probably sit here all day. I know I can sit and listen to Tracy and Tracy's one of the few people I really enjoy all the time talking to about these types of things. And because we live we both live in a very no judgment zone, you know, we talk about various things and then we always come up with a. You know, some people just is the way the universe is and we move on to the next, usually our kids.
Speaker 4:That is the hardest part of being a human, my human. The hardest part is is being a mom. I said it yesterday. I had a little bit of a breakdown. I said to my mom I go, why do we choose this? Why do we choose to be parents? I know they're healing so much of my inner child within me. But, man, watching them go through emotions and then trying to discern, and that's why I've told people too, I'm intuitive, but when it comes to my kids, I don't see nothing. I don't know who's telling the truth. I don't know who's lying. I don't. And I'm getting better. I am getting better.
Speaker 3:But yeah, because your heart chakra it's your kids. Like I think that's the universe, challenging your ego. So it's, you know, it just is. I've had, I've had people tell me oh, I, I was, you know, I worked with people. I worked with children all my entire career. I know kids. I said, really, I'm going to ship mine right over you, you give, you give me a feedback, because I don't you know ego, because you can't.
Speaker 4:how can you know every child? That's the thing that people may you know. Okay, You've been around a lot of kids, I don't know. It's like everybody's different, so you can't box them, you know.
Speaker 3:Well, kim, thank you so much. I really, really appreciated your time today. I'm kind of going to look see Reiki Rascal's ready to go here, so he's so we're. You know, as every as we close every session, I like to give people this, this bit of of my tagline, which is to see beauty in everything is a choice. Please choose wisely. And thank you again. Thank you, tracy, and I will turn this back over to my co-guide, tracy Seawright.
Speaker 2:Thank you, kim, for joining us for this Ready Set Reiki interview Very enjoyable. Learned a lot from it, so thank you for sharing your journey with us.
Speaker 4:Thank you so much for having me truly Thank you, wonderful.
Speaker 2:So our listeners, you can find us online. If you have questions for any of our guests, check us out at wwwreadysetreikicom. We have all kinds of events coming up and we have a new platform, feather Sister Wellness, that is launching that. You can find all of our trainings, all of our sessions, classes. We're offering yoga, reiki, meditations. It's going to be facilitators of the healing arts, so check that out. So I am your other co-guide, tracy Seawright, and this has been Ready Set Reiki you.