I woke up coughing and wheezing at 1:27am last Tuesday morning. I’d been in a deep sleep and could not recall any particular dreams or reason to awaken with such a severe asthma episode. My regular rescue inhaler helped but not for long. After a couple of days, I had to start using a maintenance inhaler. I hadn’t been out of the house on Monday so I couldn’t understand what had happened to set off the deep wheeze and breathing struggles. I did have my suspicions which were verified yesterday after a transformative reiki healing session.

Minutes after the asthma attack, I wondered if I, indeed, was feeling the effects of the collective grief in the country. Psychic empaths can be affected greatly by collective and universal emotions. We know already from Traditional Chinese Medicine that grief can settle in and disturb the lungs. This correlation has been evident throughout my life. I’ve experienced a variety of lung issues–severe chest colds, bronchitis, bronchial asthma, walking pneumonia, and pneumonia. I cannot connect the dots with all of these illnesses due to vague recollections, but I can confirm the connection between some of them to unhappiness and sadness during these episodes. With this event, however, I knew it wasn’t my grief alone. When I woke up coughing and wheezing and struggling to breathe, I knew that I was feeling the suffering of many.

I also knew I needed a reiki healing immediately. At first, I was going to look for recommendations on our local community social media page, but that didn’t feel right either. I needed to trust my psychic intuition and find a healer on my own. I googled reiki healers in the area and noticed one I hadn’t heard of before. Turns out she moved to the area in April and was only a couple of miles away. I made the appt and took care of myself the best way I could by cutting out watching any news programs. I also stopped reading social media pages.

I suppose like many people, the last couple of weeks has been a bit of a blur while also navigating the stark reality of frightening choices. Waves of anger and shock roll through me. I want to be present in my life. I want to enjoy life and help others. But it’s so hard now not to be sad and worried, frightened and angry. What does one do with all of these emotions? I decided not to overanalyze every emotion. I let them in and wait to see how they sit or leap up or fall to the ground. I embrace my emotions, then I give them permission to leave. I have faith in my angels and guides to nudge me when I need to be aware and to speak to me when I need to hear their messages. After several days of modern meds and only a slight improvement in my breathing and wheezing, I had decided to help myself and to heal myself to the best of my ability. The reiki session allowed space for me to shed some tears about the feelings of helplessness, the fears, the heartbreak. And then I relaxed into the warm cushioned table and let myself be healed. Last night, I didn’t need the maintenance inhaler, and I didn’t need it this morning either. The attack on my breathing left soon after it arrived, and I take pride in knowing that I facilitated this recovery with the help of an experienced healer.

In all honesty, I’ve had a harrowing experience when I prayed for healing when it didn’t arrive immediately upon my request. During the pandemic when I couldn’t utilize reiki healers for additional help, I had a serious case of walking pneumonia and only had telephone communication with the dr. After two different antibiotics, endless nebulizer treatments, many prayers, tears, and pleas, I recovered after almost four months. I had felt then that my prayers weren’t answered, yet the pneumonia didn’t worsen, and I avoided going into the hospital. A few years earlier, I’d had an especially frightening episode when a grey veil covered the bottom half of my vision in my left eye. It lingered for a while then seemed to have vanished. I was terrified because I’d scheduled a trip to Ireland six weeks later. My research revealed that it sounded like a retinal detachment and the recovery time is about 8 weeks when patients aren’t allowed to fly. I was panic stricken. My husband drove me an hour and a half away during which I utilized my chakra healing meditation. I envisioned myself holding a squeegee and fixing any tears in my retina. The Dr examined me for forty-five minutes until he was satisfied there were no tears. What I described sounded exactly like a retina tear and he was taken aback, but didn’t mock me, when I told him I’d meditated and attempted to fix it myself. I’ve never been and am not embarrassed by my abilities to prophesize and heal. I was so grateful that I had the divine help to get better.

Thus, when it came time to have absolute faith in reiki healing, I surrendered ego and fear of failure, and let myself be soothed, healed, cared for, comforted, and find some semblance of peace. There’s no doubt that these emotions that can make us ill will arise again. After going on social media this afternoon, my chest began to tighten again. The message for me is clear: Stay off of social media unless there’s something you really need to find out or share.

Ultimately, it’s up to us to decide how we are going to live and thrive. With the help of kind and wise empaths, we can ignite our own empathic abilities and be guided to choose the best paths for ourselves. Humility and boldness should exist simultaneously, and both can guide us during tumultuous times. These harrowing days ahead will test us beyond our imaginations. Honestly, I haven’t meditated on what’s ahead for our country because I’m not ready to look yet. I know that other empaths are feeling similarly. We’ve taken a psychic beating when our hope and bright vision of the future was seemingly demolished. I have hope that I will survive and thrive and continue to help others when I can. My ability to address this serious health issue reminds me that I can take care of myself with the help of good people with good hearts and good intentions.

I encourage anyone who is struggling physically or emotionally to utilize online meditation sites for a variety of comforting and empowering exercises in self-care and healing. I recommend qualified reiki and polarity healers to help us release the emotions that hold us back and keep us down. We truly do hold the tools within ourselves to help ourselves heal, grow, and thrive. There are many good people who can help us understand ourselves better, our empathic gifts, and our ability to enact the changes we need to survive and value life. Mr. Rogers always said, “Look for the helpers.” Now, more than ever, our strength and fortitude lie in this simple task.

Take care of yourselves and each other. Namaste