For decades, I have passionately painted oil on canvas. I’ve mostly stayed in the conservative lines of following the rules.
Recently, I began to pursue the idea of painting differently, using looser strokes and having less detail and more vibrant color. It would be very different from the representative method I’d used. My confidence was low.
I told my art teacher that what I envisioned I could paint, I couldn’t seem to execute with my hands and brush strokes. She said that this was everyone’s problem.
I am a long-time spiritual student and past life and Spirit World Soul regressionist. I love delving into the depths of our being and discovering more about our true Selves as souls.
Beneath my passion as an artist, I have had a growing curiosity about my unique soul expression as an artist. Did I have one? Could I execute it in a painting? Following an academic approach to drawing and painting, the outcomes are predictable. I wondered what expressing my deepest, soul self would look like on canvas using oil paints. Would it be emotional? Simple with light colors? Free? Complex?
The answer seemed far in the distant future. After all, I’ve been painting, following the rules, learning and applying academic lessons for decades. I was sure that my soul had never appeared or, if it had, I’d missed it!
I have long held the belief that, just as each of us has a unique, unduplicatable way of being in the world, this was just a visible expression of a far greater expression of our deeper inner unique selves, which could become known to us through our soul, or Authentic Self.
I wondered if there was a way to bring this to the art canvas. My self-confidence was low.
Recently, I had an opportunity to take an intensive 4-day art class. As I lay in bed the night before, I wondered how my unique soul expression would paint the picture I had picked out to paint. I wished I could know but I didn’t have a clue as to what that would be or how to achieve it. My frustration and doubt ran high.
Before turning out the light, I read a fascinating article in the new Reiki News magazine. I learned that the author had sent Reiki to her future self. I had never thought of this and was intrigued! I thought, “Let Reiki show me my authentic divine, authentic Self through my art!”
Lying there, I immediately began sending Reiki Holy Fire to my future self for the next morning of art class. And I included all 4 days of the intensive classes. I trusted Reiki’s intelligence to guide me.
As I was sending Reiki to my future self, I felt that, in that moment lying in bed, I was also being shown my Authentic Self painting the picture. I could feel it, but without knowing how it was being done. It felt energetic.
As I felt the power, I knew that it was working.
Shortly after, I went off to sleep but I didn’t sleep soundly.
I repeatedly woke up during the night with the image that I was painting my picture with loose strokes. I could feel the weight and texture of the oil on my brush, as my hand glided across my large canvas with beautiful colors.
Each time I woke up from my twilight sleep, I felt my soul painting, incorporating my unique expression. Whatever that was, somehow, I now knew it. And not only was I experiencing my soul doing this, it felt very familiar and representative of my Authentic Self.
In this twilight sleep, I felt in alignment with my Higher Self, my soul. It was a euphoric feeling to experience the oil gliding over my canvas in this way. I loved the feeling. It felt real as though it was happening in real time, though I was in bed dozing in and out of sleep.
Whenever awake, I laid there in quiet elation as my soul was, somehow, still painting. I felt Reiki’s energy within me and showing me these things, causing me to feel them.
The next morning, I went to my art class.
As I picked up my brush to paint, I seemed to know exactly what to do. I even used a new underpainting method using large, loose strokes and wiping off some of the paint in the process. By this method, I discovered that I could create various nuances of light and dark values. It looked painterly, not academic. It had a dreamy effect. As I applied colors, I seemed to know how to do it and the process went fast and was easy. I felt confident, something I usually do not experience when painting. In fact, quite the opposite!
After a couple hours, my art teacher saw what I was doing and suggested I stand back from my painting to view it. She had never seen this method before, but she said that she liked it and encouraged me to keep doing it.
When I stood back from my panting for the first time, I realized that it represented my Higher Self, the true expression of who I am. It felt uniquely me. Through the painting, I felt a sense of alignment with myself and a sense of belonging to what I saw on the canvas. It was Reiki energy moving through me! This was how it came about. I had walked into my future!
I felt alive with Reiki moving through me, revealing something about myself I had never seen or known. I was deeply gratified. And I loved my painting!
It was fascinating to send Reiki to my future self without knowing what that would be like, ready to be surprised! And then to arrive to my future self and experience Reiki in it! It felt almost magical, but very real.
Intrigued by the idea of sending Reiki to my future self, I began doing this for members of my family. My 6th grandson would be going into 7th grade soon and Reiki would be with him guiding his way. My daughter would be stepping into a bigger role with her company, and I knew Reiki would also be with her in wonderful ways. My husband had a business idea coordinating with someone new and I could feel Reiki in their new relationship, determining their way with success and harmony.
I spent additional time sending Reiki into the future of our country and of other countries as well as to the future of migrants and to all people who were in crises so that they could meet up with their future self and have Reiki show them new openings and opportunities giving hope, guidance, and new, practical solutions.
I sent Reiki around the globe to war zones and to the soldiers and families involved. I could feel Reiki with them, guiding and protecting. I knew Reiki could also take care of the war and bring peace as well as present their future Self to them, whole and well.
In contemplating the idea of sending Reiki energy, I was aware, at another level, that Reiki is already everywhere present. From a multidimensional standpoint, the idea of time – past and future – is a human concept and not absolute. Reiki has the capacity to move through all dimensions because it is already everywhere at once.
Whether or not we are sending or invoking an intention for Reiki energy for a chosen time period, Reiki already knows where – and when – it is needed and guides itself accordingly once we invoke it. A witness is needed to set the intention and activate the Reiki energy.
The possibilities of sending Reiki into our future is unlimited with possibilities!
