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This week’s episode with Chiquita Davis is all things ENERGY! Chiquita is a dynamic reiki master who practices the healing art of hands on reiki. She not only provides the reiki for a wide cross section of clients, she conducts classes to teach others to do so. Reiki is an ancient healing art which is a Japanese technique for relaxation and stress reduction that promotes healing. Energy work is often overlooked in our culture but can be a powerful adjunct to any healing journey. This episode is for anyone wanting to learn more about what reiki is and how it can be applied to your life!
EPISODE TAKEAWAYS (what you’ll learn):
How Chiquita always knew she was very intuitive and as a young woman, she studied various forms of healing
When Chiquita received reiki through a friend, she just knew it was her calling
Reiki as Universally guided God consciousness life force energy!
How reiki taps into our energetic fields/auras
How getting out of fight or flight and into a relaxed energy state is a foundation of reiki
You cannot heal if you are in a fight or flight state
How reiki creates a space for healing
How we tend to discount and devalue relaxation in our culture yet it’s so necessary
The need for regeneration wee have as human beings with physical, emotional and mental bodies
What energy feels like to Chiquita when she is giving reiki to her clients
The stuckness of our emotions and how reiki helps us release suppressed emotions
How you can protect your energy in stressful life situations
About the Guest: (bio, personal links, resource links)
Chiquita Davis, Reiki Master Teacher 2nd Degree. Chiquita is a 2nd Degree Reiki Master Teacher + Practitioner. And part owner of Awaken Your Spirit + Embrace Your Journey Healing Center in Oak Park for 11 years. Chiquita uses Reiki to help stimulate a change in consciousness and the energy field to ignite the body's innate self healing abilities. Through her own healing journey, she's personally experienced the profound healing that transpires with Reiki. She facilitates individual Reiki sessions and provides Reiki practitioner training + certification. Her compassionate, focused and humanistic approach offers each client an intimate and personalized experience.
Learn more:
Instagram: @embraceyourjourneyreiki
Email: eyjonharrison@gmail.com
About the Host:
Maureen Spielman is the Founder of Mystical Sisterhood, a podcast dedicated to bringing more joy, healing and expansion to the world. She is a seasoned life coach who supports individuals through one-on-one coaching, groups and workshops. Connect with Maureen:
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Maureen Spielman:Okay, welcome back to mystical sisterhood. This is your host,
Maureen Spielman:Maureen Spielman. Today, I'm really excited because I'm here
Maureen Spielman:with my Reiki practitioner, a phrase that I probably at one
Maureen Spielman:time never knew I'd say, Chiquita Davis. So welcome
Maureen Spielman:Chiquita. Chiquita is a second degree Reiki master teacher and
Maureen Spielman:practitioner. She is part owner of awaken your spirit and
Maureen Spielman:embrace your journey Healing Center in Oak Park, Illinois for
Maureen Spielman:the last 11 years. She uses Reiki and I'm going to let her
Maureen Spielman:go all into this, but to help stimulate a change in
Maureen Spielman:consciousness and the energy field to ignite the body's
Maureen Spielman:innate self healing abilities. I want to say thank you so much
Maureen Spielman:for being here. And just let the audience know, I never had done
Maureen Spielman:Reiki I had heard of it. And it was when I was diagnosed with
Maureen Spielman:breast cancer, that they the doctors had said, Okay, we
Maureen Spielman:recommend chemotherapy. And I was searching for alternative
Maureen Spielman:ways that I could possibly sort of alleviate the side effects of
Maureen Spielman:what I was going through. And friend recommended you Chiquita.
Maureen Spielman:And so I came down to your studio. And just as soon as I
Maureen Spielman:entered the space, it was such a warm and welcoming space. And I
Maureen Spielman:always love that you have a chalkboard out with like, what I
Maureen Spielman:was thinking is a message of unconditional love. That's how I
Maureen Spielman:register it, just, you know, in the window of your studio, and
Maureen Spielman:then just walking in, to learn about Reiki to experience the
Maureen Spielman:energy healing. So for me, I've always done this experientially,
Maureen Spielman:and you know, we've had nice conversations. But I think a lot
Maureen Spielman:of people out there don't really know about Reiki. And they might
Maureen Spielman:be beginning to know about this healing art. But I want to kind
Maureen Spielman:of go in today to all things Reiki, and just, you know,
Maureen Spielman:welcome you here to share your story and the work you do,
Maureen Spielman:because I think it's so valuable to put out into the world. So
Maureen Spielman:welcome. Well, thank
Chiquita Davis:you so much. Thank you, Maureen. I really
Chiquita Davis:appreciate it. I'm truly honored to be a part of this and honored
Chiquita Davis:to be able to share, you know my story and what Reiki is with
Chiquita Davis:everyone, everyone who listens, because it is a very beautiful,
Chiquita Davis:loving, compassionate, conscious energy that this just helps to
Chiquita Davis:ignite that. Change and focus in your energy.
Maureen Spielman:Yeah, I love I love it. And I think that we'll
Maureen Spielman:get into sort of, you know, this idea that everything's made of
Maureen Spielman:energy, and then we learn it through this art. And but just
Maureen Spielman:you know, in the welcome for you. I was wondering if you
Maureen Spielman:always knew as a kid that you might have some healing
Maureen Spielman:abilities. Maybe not specifically in this area, or
Maureen Spielman:when did this come to you? I I love hearing people's story. And
Maureen Spielman:sometimes I feel like oh, yeah, it was something I felt like
Maureen Spielman:when I was very young. And then other people I talked to say
Maureen Spielman:like, Well, I had an inkling, but then when I was this age and
Maureen Spielman:I went to this workshop, I just had an aha moment. So how did
Maureen Spielman:you come about Reiki?
Chiquita Davis:Well, I've always been fairly intuitive, so
Chiquita Davis:fairly able to sense energies. And you know, just kind of feel
Chiquita Davis:just feel when Things are have change in the air. So and that's
Chiquita Davis:been since I was a child. But I came to Reiki when I was, I was
Chiquita Davis:managing property. And I was also doing life coaching. And I
Chiquita Davis:felt like there was a piece that was missing. And I didn't know
Chiquita Davis:what that missing piece was, until I met my business partner.
Chiquita Davis:And she was a Reiki practitioner, or she is a Reiki
Chiquita Davis:practitioner. And she gave me a Reiki session. And that was it.
Chiquita Davis:That was that was that Aha, that was that missing piece. And for
Chiquita Davis:me, the missing piece was really feeling that connection to
Chiquita Davis:spirit, and feeling that unconditional love. So for me,
Chiquita Davis:Reiki, was the first time I ever truly felt connected to a higher
Chiquita Davis:power connected to God, and also unconditionally loved. And
Chiquita Davis:really interconnected. Like there was more than just me, and
Chiquita Davis:there's more than just my emotions, and there's more than
Chiquita Davis:just what I am experiencing. Yeah, I can connect. Yeah. And
Chiquita Davis:connect with that, and interact with that. And so it was, and I
Chiquita Davis:started to really understand spirituality a lot more. It
Chiquita Davis:really ignited. For me, it ignited that, that change in my
Chiquita Davis:consciousness to connect with my spirituality. And I turn Yeah,
Chiquita Davis:go ahead.
Maureen Spielman:Well, I was just gonna say it sounds like
Maureen Spielman:it's an unspoken language, but it was, I keep on kind of
Maureen Spielman:queueing into or leaning into the fact that there's, I always
Maureen Spielman:used to think like, the language was were English, French,
Maureen Spielman:Spanish, you know. And then there's like this idea of
Maureen Spielman:language being so much more. And this is sort of like the
Maureen Spielman:language of energy, which felt like it was almost like your you
Maureen Spielman:were born with it. Like it was sort of like your birthright,
Maureen Spielman:you came with it. And it wasn't until like you knew when you
Maureen Spielman:were a kid, that you were an energetic, you just felt that
Maureen Spielman:like the energetic being and connection. And then, like later
Maureen Spielman:on down the road in that Reiki session, it, it woke you up to
Maureen Spielman:it all
Chiquita Davis:clicked, it all clicked and I had tried other
Chiquita Davis:things, to develop that connection, other religions and
Chiquita Davis:different types of spiritual practices. But it wasn't until I
Chiquita Davis:received a Reiki session that I I just was immersed in that
Chiquita Davis:loving, unconditional feeling. And from there, that's all it
Chiquita Davis:took for me to want to learn Reiki. And the interesting part
Chiquita Davis:about when I look back on my journey, is that I didn't even
Chiquita Davis:ask questions. Other than Where did you learn it? And then I
Chiquita Davis:went along and signed up. That was it. I didn't look it up
Chiquita Davis:online. I didn't look it up on YouTube to see a sample session.
Chiquita Davis:I didn't look up any of that. I just went full steam ahead, as
Chiquita Davis:if something else was calling me and encouraging me to do this.
Chiquita Davis:Ever since then, yeah. And so now for eight years, I've been
Chiquita Davis:practicing Reiki and teaching Reiki and initiating and
Chiquita Davis:attuning others to become Reiki practitioners, so that they can
Chiquita Davis:use this beautiful energy as well to improve their life.
Maureen Spielman:Yeah, it sounds like you were meant to do
Maureen Spielman:it. And that's been my experience with you. And I
Maureen Spielman:imagine that when you really find that thing that you are
Maureen Spielman:here for, that you can do it with such ease and grace, like
Maureen Spielman:you don't need to look up all the other information, you just
Maureen Spielman:need to learn the craft.
Chiquita Davis:Correct? Absolutely. And I really do feel
Chiquita Davis:like this is my calling this is this is how I am called to serve
Chiquita Davis:and to be of service. And this is a part of that
Chiquita Davis:interconnectedness of life and me, you know, receiving these
Chiquita Davis:beautiful blessings or miracles or just you know, changes in my
Chiquita Davis:life and I want to be able to share that with others and
Chiquita Davis:really support others through Reiki. And the great thing about
Chiquita Davis:Reiki that really attracted me to it after I learned what it
Chiquita Davis:was It is that it's simple. It's not a doctrine that I have to
Chiquita Davis:follow. It's just a very simple practice that I can use as a
Chiquita Davis:spiritual practice or as a healing modality. modality.
Maureen Spielman:Okay. And that being said, Chiquita what, you
Maureen Spielman:know, for our for our listeners who have not experienced it yet
Maureen Spielman:or don't really know. I mean, what is Reiki? How do you define
Maureen Spielman:what is
Chiquita Davis:it? So excited? So very simple. Reiki is a
Chiquita Davis:Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that
Chiquita Davis:promotes healing.
Maureen Spielman:Okay, that's it. All right. That's it. And
Maureen Spielman:they just yeah, this forward.
Chiquita Davis:It's Yes, it's that simple. And the Reiki that
Chiquita Davis:I practice is called Usui Shiki. Real hope, Reiki and that Reiki
Chiquita Davis:was taught by Macau Usili. And so I'm a part of that, that
Chiquita Davis:lineage through the Reiki attunement process. And that is
Chiquita Davis:the Reiki that I teach. Okay.
Maureen Spielman:Okay. So when someone comes in for a Reiki
Maureen Spielman:session, what, what can they expect?
Chiquita Davis:Okay, so let me just talk a little bit more
Chiquita Davis:about just explain a little bit more about Reiki. Okay. So
Chiquita Davis:that's the definition a technique for stress reduction
Chiquita Davis:and relaxation. The word Reiki means in a simple form,
Chiquita Davis:universal, universally guided God consciousness, life force
Chiquita Davis:energy. Okay, so this is energy that is coming from source, God,
Chiquita Davis:the Creator, whatever you want to call it. So this is coming
Chiquita Davis:from that pure, loving neutral space. And so when what Reiki
Chiquita Davis:does, is through laying on hands, so gentle and light
Chiquita Davis:touch, I the Reiki sends in a vibration, of peace, of love,
Chiquita Davis:and it's a high vibration. And it seeks to raise the vibration
Chiquita Davis:of whatever it encounters the weather with, whether it's a
Chiquita Davis:person, whether it's a situation, what have you, it
Chiquita Davis:Reiki is seeking to raise it to its highest and best vibration.
Maureen Spielman:Okay. So I have a question there. And that
Maureen Spielman:is all right. Can you speak to how how you describe us as
Maureen Spielman:energy bodies are enter energetic beings and, you know,
Maureen Spielman:our bodies and even at that cellular cellular level?
Chiquita Davis:Oh, yeah. Okay. So Reiki Reiki works on all
Chiquita Davis:those levels, okay, so we are energy first. And we all have a
Chiquita Davis:bio field, or energetic field, or, or an aura it, those are all
Chiquita Davis:the same thing. Okay. And so everything starts off is energy,
Chiquita Davis:and then it moves into matter. And so that is the way Reiki is
Chiquita Davis:able to help because it affects the energy, and then it also
Chiquita Davis:affects the physical. So it affects the matter, though it
Chiquita Davis:comes in, and it raises the vibration of the energetic body,
Chiquita Davis:the physical body, the emotional body. And everything else that
Chiquita Davis:we know and don't know. Yeah, so it works. It works on all those
Chiquita Davis:levels. So when people come in, they lay on the table, they're
Chiquita Davis:nice and cozy. And I just come in and do light touch throughout
Chiquita Davis:the body. And that's starting to begin the process of relaxation,
Chiquita Davis:okay, so it starts to relax the nervous system. And when we when
Chiquita Davis:our physical bodies begin to relax, so when we move out of a
Chiquita Davis:fight or flight, then we are able to process things better in
Chiquita Davis:our own bodies, our physical body is is able to start to
Chiquita Davis:regenerate, relax, rejuvenate, and ignite the own personal the
Chiquita Davis:own healing ability, the innate healing ability, because when
Chiquita Davis:we're in fight or flight, and our adrenals are going we're not
Chiquita Davis:able to really be Your highest and best self, were not able to
Chiquita Davis:really be present and interact in a in a way that is helpful.
Chiquita Davis:And stress free. Yeah, they did the great thing about oh, go
Chiquita Davis:ahead.
Maureen Spielman:Well, I was just gonna say you certainly
Maureen Spielman:can't really heal if you're in fight or flight.
Chiquita Davis:That's right. And that's where the healing
Chiquita Davis:part of Reiki comes from. So Reiki is creating, helping to
Chiquita Davis:create the space for healing. So it's not coming in and being
Chiquita Davis:like this miraculous, like, you know, it can't it can't make the
Chiquita Davis:arm grow back if we cut the arm off. But what it can do is
Chiquita Davis:create optimal conditions for healing.
Maureen Spielman:Yeah, yeah. And okay, so if I'm following,
Maureen Spielman:and it's my experience, too, but just to say, again, that it is
Maureen Spielman:that kind of, when I've experienced Reiki with you, it's
Maureen Spielman:coming into this environment. So it seems to me that you
Maureen Spielman:specifically designed even the outer environment for when the
Maureen Spielman:client steps into the space, as very, I use that word warm, you
Maureen Spielman:know, the warmth of it, and welcoming, welcoming, so right
Maureen Spielman:when you go into your studio, I clients going to register that
Maureen Spielman:and then going into the room where you perform and it's just
Maureen Spielman:always that that warmth, so that speaks to that relate relaxation
Maureen Spielman:you're talking to so it's almost like even the experience before
Maureen Spielman:you're on the Reiki table is escorting you into the
Maureen Spielman:relaxation and healing state. So those are kind of things that I
Maureen Spielman:feel like are unbeknownst to the person walking in. But yeah,
Maureen Spielman:they're gonna be so beneficial.
Chiquita Davis:Yes, and I'm so happy to hear that, because I
Chiquita Davis:actually use Reiki to achieve that feeling. So I use Reiki on
Chiquita Davis:the space. So I Reiki use Reiki on the door. I use Reiki on the
Chiquita Davis:Reiki on the sign Reiki on the table. We Reiki the space to
Chiquita Davis:really lift and raise the vibratory level in and around
Chiquita Davis:this, the studio.
Maureen Spielman:I was, yeah, so no, go ahead. And Reiki
Chiquita Davis:is also Reiki is also driven by your intention.
Chiquita Davis:And so I do hold the intention that when someone enters into
Chiquita Davis:the space, they feel comforted. They feel relaxed. It the
Chiquita Davis:relaxation process begins. And I think a lot of times, especially
Chiquita Davis:in our society, we discount the we devalue relaxation, and think
Chiquita Davis:that it's a luxury. But that's why I like to treat Reiki as a
Chiquita Davis:very simple, simple practice. Because when we're able to be
Chiquita Davis:relaxed, we function better. We don't function when we are in a
Chiquita Davis:heightened state of worry, a heightened state of fear. No,
Chiquita Davis:and we're not able to move forward. Yeah. And
Maureen Spielman:to your point of relaxation, it just makes me
Maureen Spielman:think about, okay, we might admit, or acknowledge that sleep
Maureen Spielman:is restorative to us, but sometimes in our culture are
Maureen Spielman:busy doing culture, just sitting on the couch and relaxing. That
Maureen Spielman:was when we were little, you know, we were told we were lazy.
Maureen Spielman:And so knowing what you're saying is that just by being in
Maureen Spielman:relaxing state, it's a gift to yourself, you're not lazy. It's,
Maureen Spielman:you know, those are those kinds of things where we have to
Maureen Spielman:override the kind of voices of our childhood to say, No, this
Maureen Spielman:is like, what if we actually said are sitting downtimes were
Maureen Spielman:healed are healing your body, which we all know is beneficial
Maureen Spielman:for culture as a whole. We've got it we have a lot of illness,
Maureen Spielman:we have a lot of stress, you know, autoimmune, different
Maureen Spielman:diseases. And so what could be more important?
Chiquita Davis:Absolutely. Absolutely. It's important
Chiquita Davis:because, you know, we need to regenerate. Yeah, I mean, I
Chiquita Davis:think that goes into using, you know, using the mind as just a
Chiquita Davis:tool and listening to your heart. That's another thing that
Chiquita Davis:Reiki helps you do. Because when you're less stress, you can get
Chiquita Davis:out of the mind and get out of the hurry disease, and you can
Chiquita Davis:drop into your heart, then you can start listening to your
Chiquita Davis:body. You can start listening to what you need and honoring that.
Chiquita Davis:And it's not really difficult. It's really just about okay, you
Chiquita Davis:know, I'm in a space where I recognize I am Tired, I
Chiquita Davis:recognize that I need to rest. Okay, I'm gonna take some time
Chiquita Davis:I'm gonna rest whether it's 30 minutes, whether it's one hour.
Chiquita Davis:And then you know you're able to there we go function better go
Chiquita Davis:to the world, say to endure a high amount of stress.
Maureen Spielman:No, no, which is so clear.
Chiquita Davis:So so as you get Reiki, okay, so just as we have
Chiquita Davis:a muscle memory, we have an energetic memory, meaning our
Chiquita Davis:energy is always going to want to revert to its net, its normal
Chiquita Davis:state that it's been in, okay, going back to how it's been. So
Chiquita Davis:if you've been, you know, always on the go, go go, then you're,
Chiquita Davis:that's how your Energy wants to be. So with Reiki, it helps to
Chiquita Davis:retrain your energy. After a few sessions, your response to
Chiquita Davis:different to outside stressors becomes different. And so that's
Chiquita Davis:how it starts to change your energetic memory. So then you it
Chiquita Davis:says, okay, you don't have to go into fight or flight. We can
Chiquita Davis:handle this. We can process this. It takes you out of the,
Chiquita Davis:again, the fight or flight and helps you to observe. And
Chiquita Davis:sometimes we just need to step back. And we need to observe
Chiquita Davis:rather than act or react.
Maureen Spielman:Yes, absolutely. And I feel like when
Maureen Spielman:I've walked out of sessions, like with the guard to what you
Maureen Spielman:were saying about bringing, you know, it's almost from the
Maureen Spielman:headspace to the heart space. I yeah, I always feel that I'm
Maureen Spielman:more my tuned into my intuitive self. And that's the heart
Maureen Spielman:space. I think that you're helping shift people into. Yeah,
Maureen Spielman:yeah, dude. Yeah. Is there anything you have to say about
Maureen Spielman:that?
Chiquita Davis:No, exactly what what I'm working to do?
Chiquita Davis:Absolutely. Like, that's why okay, I do. So that's why it's
Chiquita Davis:important that from the moment you walk in, that you under that
Chiquita Davis:you feel comforted and supported. Yeah. And that you
Chiquita Davis:feel that this is there is unconditional love, you are
Chiquita Davis:perfect, just as you are. And you deserve to be supported. And
Chiquita Davis:that's what I'm here to do. I'm here to help you have a shift.
Chiquita Davis:And after you continuously get Reiki, what happens is, this is
Chiquita Davis:my this is what I get most excited about seeing in people
Chiquita Davis:is a shift in consciousness. So the shift in consciousness, take
Chiquita Davis:them out of their headspace, like you said, and into the
Chiquita Davis:heart space, and into a more observer role and understanding
Chiquita Davis:and yet more observant, less reactive. And also that looks
Chiquita Davis:like the clients doing other things to help support their
Chiquita Davis:Yeah, give them feeling good. That's when the shift in
Chiquita Davis:consciousness comes. So it becomes when they become active
Chiquita Davis:and active participant in creating what they want to
Chiquita Davis:create. Yeah, I hear you the whether that's, you know,
Chiquita Davis:whether whether that's less anxiety, whether that's, you
Chiquita Davis:know, more focus, whether that's being present. That's what Reiki
Chiquita Davis:can help you do and instead of reacting like you normally
Chiquita Davis:would, you are in, you're able to then look at things and
Chiquita Davis:decide and choose. Make a choice on how you respond and how you
Chiquita Davis:interact.
Maureen Spielman:Yeah, it's hugely beneficial to begin to
Maureen Spielman:become the observer or the witness or of your of yourself.
Maureen Spielman:Instead of just being in that headspace all the time. I
Maureen Spielman:appreciate that and kind of how the Reiki sessions can build
Maureen Spielman:upon each other. And sometimes, you know, it's not, it's not
Maureen Spielman:always measurable as we knew to measure things, but it's a it's
Maureen Spielman:a quality of feeling like that changes over the course of time.
Maureen Spielman:That's how it's felt to me more and I love the space you're
Maureen Spielman:creating because the word safety and trust come to me and that's
Maureen Spielman:such a huge thing to be able to embrace and receiving?
Chiquita Davis:Absolutely. Because your energy field is a
Chiquita Davis:sacred space. I don't take that lightly. You know, I really
Chiquita Davis:honor your energy. Because our energy, it's like the it has
Chiquita Davis:everything about us. It's like the book of you. It's an ever
Chiquita Davis:changing and ever creating novel about about you, for lack of a
Chiquita Davis:better analogy that I have at the time. But it's every
Chiquita Davis:experience, every thought, every word. It's all energy. It all
Chiquita Davis:has a vibration. Yes, so it's creating.
Maureen Spielman:Hmm, I have I have more questions about that.
Maureen Spielman:And I want to remark to before I forget is that there's so many
Maureen Spielman:things I want to ask you. But I came in to see you. My most
Maureen Spielman:recent appointment after my dad died. And you spent most of the
Maureen Spielman:time on my upper body, and what felt like that and then I
Maureen Spielman:remember leaving the session and just chatting with you and
Maureen Spielman:commenting about that or inquiring and you said, Well, of
Maureen Spielman:course Maureen, that's your heart space and you just lost
Maureen Spielman:your father. So my question around that is, that was so
Maureen Spielman:fascinating to me, because I was going through a lot of grief.
Maureen Spielman:But when you are doing the Reiki practice practicing on a person,
Maureen Spielman:you have your hands lightly over their body. What does that feel
Maureen Spielman:like? What does it feel like when you get to a black? Can you
Maureen Spielman:actually feel an energetic black or what are the different kinds
Maureen Spielman:of vibrations or sensations?
Chiquita Davis:Oh, okay, this is I like this question. Well, I
Chiquita Davis:feel pulsating. Sometimes I feel okay, so pulsating. I feel
Chiquita Davis:sometimes a magnetic pole. I feel so if it's a block, okay,
Chiquita Davis:or an area of stagnation, and the what that means is that's a
Chiquita Davis:chi. Okay, the Chi Chi is the lifeforce energy that keeps us
Chiquita Davis:all alive. No tea, no alive, okay? Is it feels just like
Chiquita Davis:stuck. So think of if you're just touching an inanimate
Chiquita Davis:object of book a brick, and you just put your hand on top of it.
Chiquita Davis:It's not, you don't really feel any type of movement or any even
Chiquita Davis:connection, okay, because we're all chi and we interact with
Chiquita Davis:each other's cheat. Okay, so even without being a Reiki
Chiquita Davis:practitioner, you will be able to feel the difference. If you
Chiquita Davis:put your hand like on a person, and then put your hand on a
Chiquita Davis:brick, okay, you will be able to tell the difference between
Chiquita Davis:something with chi and with that, so anywho so a lot of
Chiquita Davis:times it feels as if it's just kind of like a inanimate object
Chiquita Davis:there that I'm that I'm sending Reiki to, because then I can
Chiquita Davis:feel. So I feel more of the Reiki coming back to my hand,
Chiquita Davis:instead of the areas soaking up, so then it just takes time. It
Chiquita Davis:takes time and then through intention. Through changing my
Chiquita Davis:intention that I'm thinking about, or using Reiki symbols,
Chiquita Davis:I'm able to change the vibration that the Reiki is emitting, and
Chiquita Davis:to, to, to assist with releasing that block. But with you, it
Chiquita Davis:wasn't it's not necessarily always a block. Sometimes it's,
Chiquita Davis:I like to just think of it as like turbulence, okay, or
Chiquita Davis:imbalance, but specifically it can energy can be stagnant, it
Chiquita Davis:can be overactive, it can be, it can be a block, it can be
Chiquita Davis:choppy, and I'm sure there's a myriad of other things that
Chiquita Davis:maybe I'm not aware of, or conditions that I'm not able to
Chiquita Davis:explain. So anywho so with you, it felt as if there's a there's
Chiquita Davis:when someone dies, there's sometimes like an emptiness and
Chiquita Davis:a heart. There's an emptiness in that place. There's a there's a
Chiquita Davis:grief, a feeling of grief. And so what I've worked to do is
Chiquita Davis:fill you up with love. So that's why I work harder at that area.
Chiquita Davis:And or that's why I was focusing on that area to really fill that
Chiquita Davis:area up with love. So then you're not feeling like this.
Chiquita Davis:This you know, just empty feeling. This feeling like
Chiquita Davis:something's missing, because you can feel that connection when
Chiquita Davis:their energy does leave the earth plane. You Hmm, yeah. And
Chiquita Davis:what I've noticed in an energetic pattern, when someone
Chiquita Davis:close to us passes, we tend to like retreat a little bit out of
Chiquita Davis:our body. So our energetic body, or our energetic body just
Chiquita Davis:shifts a little bit. And it's almost like, the best way for me
Chiquita Davis:to describe it is like a head in the clouds, kind of feeling kind
Chiquita Davis:of kind of energy, like your head, that's why it is, you
Chiquita Davis:might not be able to get it together, or, you know, every
Chiquita Davis:was think of things that are normal, everyday things, it kind
Chiquita Davis:of just knocks you out of your body a little bit.
Maureen Spielman:Okay, that's it. Yeah, I've never heard that.
Maureen Spielman:That's fascinating. And thank you for sharing it. Yeah, that
Maureen Spielman:process is, and that's just,
Chiquita Davis:that's what I learned through my practice, and
Chiquita Davis:working on people who are grieving is they're shifted out
Chiquita Davis:of their body just a little bit. And that energy strands in
Chiquita Davis:connection to the person is weakened, because they're
Chiquita Davis:grieving. But you're still connected to that energy. So
Chiquita Davis:that's why I'm filling you up with love. So that, you know,
Chiquita Davis:you feel that connection is not fading, it's probably going to
Chiquita Davis:get stronger.
Maureen Spielman:It's so pretty to because then, for someone to
Maureen Spielman:understand that and you know, kind of know that reason as to
Maureen Spielman:why they feel the way that they do, it feels like it's also a
Maureen Spielman:call when you're going through something like that for more
Maureen Spielman:self care. Because if your energy has sort of left you,
Maureen Spielman:you, you just sit and re nourish and replenish is really
Maureen Spielman:important.
Chiquita Davis:Absolutely. And Reiki helps you get to that
Chiquita Davis:place. So it helps to bring you back into your body, so that you
Chiquita Davis:can now be integrated and think of things to help you. But
Chiquita Davis:sometimes we just can't, because of that energetic piece that
Chiquita Davis:just endured that piece that's like missing. Yeah, you can't
Chiquita Davis:put your finger on, it's not tangible.
Maureen Spielman:Now, and you can't really can't really
Maureen Spielman:manipulate it, you just got to be with it and work through it.
Maureen Spielman:It reminds me of, I wanted you to talk about our emotions as
Maureen Spielman:energy or energy, emotions as energy in motion. And the thing
Maureen Spielman:that I've been wanting to read more about and understand is in
Maureen Spielman:Reiki would be important for this. I never really realized
Maureen Spielman:that all the experiences of my life that especially things that
Maureen Spielman:I suppressed and to kind of didn't deal with reside within
Maureen Spielman:the cells of my body. Is that right?
Chiquita Davis:Yes, absolutely. Absolutely.
Maureen Spielman:Yeah, why and why? Having that pattern, which
Maureen Spielman:is a lot of people, because we were raised in the generations,
Maureen Spielman:we were by people who were doing the best they could. But if I,
Maureen Spielman:that's where, you know, there's nutrition for health, there's
Maureen Spielman:movement for health, health, but for me, now, I want to make sure
Maureen Spielman:that I'm moving my emotions. So talk about that.
Chiquita Davis:So our emotions are also energy. And when we
Chiquita Davis:don't move through the emotions, they can get stuck. And they can
Chiquita Davis:be trapped in our energy field in our physical body. And that's
Chiquita Davis:how this is manifest. And certain different types of
Chiquita Davis:emotions have certain densities to them. Okay, so let's see,
Chiquita Davis:like, your envy. Let's talk about things like this envy,
Chiquita Davis:okay, jealousy, those are also emotions. Those are heavy,
Chiquita Davis:heavier, denser, then something like grieving or sorrow. Okay,
Chiquita Davis:you win. Okay, and but how can grief and sorrow become heavy,
Chiquita Davis:when you don't address it, when you don't acknowledge it, it
Chiquita Davis:finds a place to hang out. So whether you address those
Chiquita Davis:emotions, or even beliefs, that that aren't serving you or
Chiquita Davis:aren't in alignment or aren't congruent to how you really want
Chiquita Davis:to live your life, they're gonna find somewhere to sit. Spear is
Chiquita Davis:going to find a place to live. And it manifests in your
Chiquita Davis:physical body, because it all starts starts out at energy. So
Chiquita Davis:those emotions are energy Yeah. And they're going to, and
Chiquita Davis:they're going to settle somewhere. And they're going to
Chiquita Davis:create this ease. imbalance, whether it's in the mentally,
Chiquita Davis:emotionally, spiritually. Okay? And a lot of emotions are stuck
Chiquita Davis:in our bodies. And I always encourage breathing, breathing,
Chiquita Davis:breathing, oh, my students are probably sick of me saying,
Chiquita Davis:breathe, breathe, breathe, okay, then I come up to them. And I
Chiquita Davis:put my hand on their belly and I say, make your belly big, and
Chiquita Davis:make it small, because we start to relax the nervous system,
Chiquita Davis:then we're relaxing our muscles. And so those emotions, that
Chiquita Davis:might in pockets of emotions that are stuck in our bodies are
Chiquita Davis:able to start to dissipate, dissolve, and move out. Okay?
Maureen Spielman:I have a question about that. Okay, so
Maureen Spielman:let's take something that's not super serious malady. But
Maureen Spielman:something like your body talking to you. And it's showing up as
Maureen Spielman:lower back pain. Are there ways even I could because you do
Maureen Spielman:Reiki, but you're a healer within that. So I had said to
Maureen Spielman:someone close to me recently, who is experiencing a bot, like
Maureen Spielman:a body pain like this? You know? Did you ask it what it has to
Maureen Spielman:tell you? And that just comes to mind when you're because with
Maureen Spielman:the breath, it made me think of it with the breath. Because I've
Maureen Spielman:done some breath work recently. That was I'm just gonna say more
Maureen Spielman:intense. And the way that it felt to me, because it left me
Maureen Spielman:in a pile of tears, in a good way, is that the breathing helps
Maureen Spielman:dislodge the energy that was stuck. And I can't I can't say
Maureen Spielman:like, Oh, that was this memory from this time or this that
Maureen Spielman:needed to be healed? I have no idea. I just know what I
Maureen Spielman:experienced. But you know, in terms of even self healing
Maureen Spielman:applications that can help us understand what's going on in
Maureen Spielman:our bodies. You know, are there some things like that? Like, how
Maureen Spielman:can we understand what that breath is doing? For us? It's it
Maureen Spielman:because when we're taking when we're taking, like mindful
Maureen Spielman:deeper breaths, you know, are we are we kind of moving energy?
Chiquita Davis:Yeah, yeah. Because the breath is also
Chiquita Davis:energy. So the more you breathe, the deeper you breathe, the
Chiquita Davis:different techniques you use, is accessing different parts of
Chiquita Davis:your body in different parts of your energy field. It's taking
Chiquita Davis:energy, that breath energy to those areas, and exactly like
Chiquita Davis:you said, dislodging those emotions, or sometimes it just
Chiquita Davis:dissolved them.
Maureen Spielman:Okay. Yeah, it's
Chiquita Davis:the great part about Reiki is it really helps
Chiquita Davis:to dissolve them sometimes without needing to have a
Chiquita Davis:cathartic experience. But having more a bit of a just a release,
Chiquita Davis:you know, it not like you said, it does, you didn't have a
Chiquita Davis:thought about you know, it's from this experience or what
Chiquita Davis:have you. But because sometimes it's an accumulation, and it's
Chiquita Davis:stuck in the body. And so think about even when you if people
Chiquita Davis:get massage, getting massage, and they hit a plate, and you
Chiquita Davis:just start weeping or crying. Just because that's the stuff
Chiquita Davis:energy.
Maureen Spielman:Yeah, I'm laughing because me recently,
Maureen Spielman:and this guy was he was a he was getting very intense. Like, I
Maureen Spielman:don't know what they call it sports massage or something. But
Maureen Spielman:he hid somewhere in my hip. And I was like, get away from that.
Maureen Spielman:I don't think I was ready to process that. And something was
Maureen Spielman:trying to come up.
Chiquita Davis:Yeah, yeah. And it's so it can be so
Chiquita Davis:overwhelming that you're just like, Wait a minute. Now. I
Chiquita Davis:didn't expect this to occur. But But yeah, like I said, it
Chiquita Davis:resided somewhere because you never got it out of your energy.
Chiquita Davis:And then it turned into matter. It turned into something that
Chiquita Davis:was stuck in the physical.
Maureen Spielman:And so based on people's physiology, or even
Maureen Spielman:life experiences, kind of depends on where these things
Maureen Spielman:settle.
Chiquita Davis:Absolutely. Okay. Different. Yeah. And we
Chiquita Davis:all have different energetic conditions, just like we've had
Chiquita Davis:different experiences in life. But there's, you know, the first
Chiquita Davis:so our first three chakras, so the base, the sacral and the
Chiquita Davis:solar plexus. Those are more connected to Our Earth, body,
Chiquita Davis:Star Earth experience. That is why there's the saying of, you
Chiquita Davis:know, drop getting people into the heart. Because the base is,
Chiquita Davis:you know, safety, security, the sacral is survival. The solar
Chiquita Davis:plexus is desire, how we process the world. So this is all
Chiquita Davis:physical stuff, physical living here stuff. So getting you into
Chiquita Davis:your heart starts to connect you with the outer world as well. So
Chiquita Davis:what is the outer world, the unseen energy that you are? And
Chiquita Davis:that is all around you? Right? Yeah. And it gets you connected
Chiquita Davis:with your intuition. Yeah, and into your heart, because that's
Chiquita Davis:where the true nature of who we are resides is in our heart.
Chiquita Davis:That's why there's the saying, your your heart's desire,
Chiquita Davis:because your heart carries the true nature of who you are.
Maureen Spielman:That's so beautiful. I'm glad you brought
Maureen Spielman:up chakras. Yeah. Before I was thinking about our talk, I meant
Maureen Spielman:to talk about that. I feel like that could be a whole nother
Maureen Spielman:podcast.
Chiquita Davis:Yeah. But yeah, that totally could be a whole
Chiquita Davis:nother but but you know, the chakras are a great system. But
Chiquita Davis:we don't need to get deep into that. No, I
Maureen Spielman:love having the copy. Yeah. So because it's
Maureen Spielman:like, for me, the when I talk about this, and when I hear it,
Maureen Spielman:even the Reiki and the energy talk today, it's perfect. I was
Maureen Spielman:gonna say, a friend of mine, who she definitely is a healer. We
Maureen Spielman:were at a friend's house. And my friend's dog was very sick and
Maureen Spielman:of life. And my healer friend went up and rubbed her hands
Maureen Spielman:together and perform some Reiki on the animal. And I thought
Maureen Spielman:that was really pretty. And then I was kind of playing with that
Maureen Spielman:with my son and our dog when she had a hurt leg. And I rubbed my
Maureen Spielman:hands together, and she was sleeping. And it's kind of like,
Maureen Spielman:I'm wondering, after I tell you this, you know, are there sort
Maureen Spielman:of like ways that we can do subtle Reiki on ourselves, even
Maureen Spielman:but I remember, my dog was completely asleep. And I created
Maureen Spielman:energy between my hands. And I was gently gliding them on top
Maureen Spielman:of her body, not touching her. And she started to twitch, and
Maureen Spielman:she started to move. And my son and I looked at each other,
Maureen Spielman:like, what, what is she doing? But clearly, she felt the energy
Maureen Spielman:above her. And it was kind of funny, because she didn't she
Maureen Spielman:she kind of, she didn't nip at me. But she kind of got up and
Maureen Spielman:looked at me like, What are you doing?
Chiquita Davis:Wow, this is so fascinating. And congratulations
Chiquita Davis:to you for connecting with that energy, the energy around you,
Chiquita Davis:you will connect and you're bringing in a love energy, your
Chiquita Davis:intention was love, your intention was to heal, and to
Chiquita Davis:help her and absolutely, we can all do that. We can all do some
Chiquita Davis:form of energy work. But I think it takes really recognizing that
Chiquita Davis:we are energy bodies, and then the dog animals are so sensitive
Chiquita Davis:to energy, okay. And a lot of people say, Well, why are dogs
Chiquita Davis:so sensitive to energy? Well, because they can't talk. You
Chiquita Davis:know, they that's the level that they're constantly dwelling on
Chiquita Davis:is a genic instinctual level, but you know, it really it's
Chiquita Davis:funny, but we don't think of it like, no, like no navigating the
Chiquita Davis:energy of everything to to live because they cannot communicate
Chiquita Davis:with us. They can't speak to us. They don't have spoken language.
Chiquita Davis:So they are constantly they're looking yes, they're looking at
Chiquita Davis:our behaviors. They're looking at our patterns, but they're
Chiquita Davis:also navigating the energy. So that's how so animals are very
Chiquita Davis:sensitive. Yeah, that that is actually a normal personal
Chiquita Davis:experience. Normal reaction from a dog first, first time
Chiquita Davis:receiving Reiki.
Maureen Spielman:Oh, that's so cool. Yes. Oh, wow. Well, I know
Maureen Spielman:that we're wrapping up our conversation. One question that
Maureen Spielman:just came to me out of the blue was how can people protect their
Maureen Spielman:energy? You know, I feel like I know a lot of people who will
Maureen Spielman:say, Oh, I have to go to this event and I know that it's going
Maureen Spielman:to pull from my energy or you know what I mean? They feel like
Maureen Spielman:it's an energy drain. And how can I protect my energy?
Chiquita Davis:Okay, so the first thing is knowing that you
Chiquita Davis:are powerful, and you don't have to succumb to those energies,
Chiquita Davis:okay? And calling in, whatever whoever your divine guides are,
Chiquita Davis:whoever your higher power is, and ask for assistance and
Chiquita Davis:surrounding yourself in white light. regulate your breath. I
Chiquita Davis:always say, because it helps keep you in alignment, so that
Chiquita Davis:you're less reactive. And you're less susceptible to those
Chiquita Davis:energies. Because we are an organic body. We're an organic
Chiquita Davis:material. We're porous, but we're porous to them energies as
Chiquita Davis:well. So yeah, so So in the more so it's not just one time, okay,
Chiquita Davis:because we didn't get it took a long time for us to get this
Chiquita Davis:way. So it takes a long time to it takes constantly practicing
Chiquita Davis:and surrounding yourself and white light for it to get
Chiquita Davis:stronger, stronger, stronger and stronger. You are less. Yeah,
Chiquita Davis:yeah. And just to address one thing that you we were talking
Chiquita Davis:about, about the emotion, different types of emotions, or
Chiquita Davis:worries, do settle in different areas of the body. Okay. And so
Chiquita Davis:a lot of earthly worries, and cause concerns and stressors
Chiquita Davis:tend to settle in the lower parts of the body. I mean, also,
Chiquita Davis:other parts of the body, don't get me wrong, but like, it
Chiquita Davis:settles in the lower parts because of the safety security.
Chiquita Davis:And those first three energy centers being so connected to
Chiquita Davis:the wire. Okay, so you worried about your safety, security, it
Chiquita Davis:could be you know, your finances or socio economic or what have
Chiquita Davis:you that you might have some back pain?
Maureen Spielman:Okay. Mm hmm. Good to know, and everyone
Maureen Spielman:should have like a pocket chart they carry around.
Chiquita Davis:Okay, actually, actually, Doreen Virtue, she has
Chiquita Davis:a book. I forgot the name of it. But she has, she created a
Chiquita Davis:chart. And it has the different aches, pains, diseases or
Chiquita Davis:ailments. And it will tell you, like what mental or emotional
Chiquita Davis:condition could have created that. And then she gives you a
Chiquita Davis:mantra to say, to help change the energy surrounding that.
Chiquita Davis:Yeah. And then she does have a pocket guide. And I think you
Chiquita Davis:may have seen the book before. You probably seen it around. I
Chiquita Davis:forgot the name of it. But anyways, she does have that. And
Chiquita Davis:it's fairly accurate.
Maureen Spielman:Yeah, yeah. And the thing is, the, I'm
Maureen Spielman:thinking of is how, you know, however, things manifest in our
Maureen Spielman:body, and in relationships to emotions that we may have just
Maureen Spielman:stored, we, it's like, we've all done it, right? Because there,
Maureen Spielman:we're just responding or reacting to life. And then
Maureen Spielman:whatever. However, we were conditioned, and this is just,
Maureen Spielman:it's a principle of an energetic body. And there's no right or
Maureen Spielman:wrong to it. And we're all, you know, we're all in many ways
Maureen Spielman:susceptible or open to the DIS ease in a way, because we
Maureen Spielman:haven't learned how to move our energy effectively. And so just
Maureen Spielman:I try to look at everything is like there's no, there's no
Maureen Spielman:right or wrong to it. It's just, it just is and just to have a
Maureen Spielman:tool.
Chiquita Davis:Absolutely. Absolutely. Because you were all
Chiquita Davis:going to experience we all experienced the ebb and the flow
Chiquita Davis:of life. Yes. Okay. The good that and the neutral. And
Chiquita Davis:everything surrounding you know, with that, so, yeah.
Maureen Spielman:Oh, so good. You could see I told you, we
Maureen Spielman:could talk forever, and, and I'm gonna circle it, circle it
Maureen Spielman:around to our ending here. I know you also do Reiki training.
Maureen Spielman:So obviously, people know where you're located, but where can
Maureen Spielman:they find you? And if you want to share about the Reiki
Maureen Spielman:training you do any other like any other kinds of workshops
Maureen Spielman:that you? Yeah,
Chiquita Davis:yes, anybody can learn Reiki I teach Reiki every
Chiquita Davis:single day. I enjoy it. I teach Reiki one on one. You can find
Chiquita Davis:me at awaken and embrace the.com You can also find me follow me
Chiquita Davis:on Instagram at embrace your journey. Reiki and My email is
Chiquita Davis:Ey J on harrison@gmail.com. And anybody can sign up for Reiki
Chiquita Davis:and become a Reiki practitioner is held in three classes. So and
Chiquita Davis:we meet one on one. So it's a really intimate and
Chiquita Davis:individualized connection. And you are able to ask all the
Chiquita Davis:questions and we practice, practice, practice. Reiki,
Chiquita Davis:that's the most important part.
Maureen Spielman:Oh, it's so exciting. I might be a future
Maureen Spielman:student of yours. But today, it was spectacular. I have to do a
Maureen Spielman:deep bow down and just so much gratitude, and thanks for being
Maureen Spielman:here.
Chiquita Davis:Thank you. Yeah.
Maureen Spielman:Okay. Thanks to our listeners. I hope you
Maureen Spielman:learned so much about Reiki and just all chiquitos gifts today,
Maureen Spielman:and I'll see you next time. Thanks for listening to this
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