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DAVID EDWARDS REIKI TEACHER AND PRACTITIONER

Whether you see or you don’t, whether you believe or you do not, there is a Universe that trusts us and the eyes of truth are always watching you.

Reiki Sapphire Reiki Healing

In Southbridge MA

Phone: 1-508-909-6338

I have been told several times over the years by different psychic mediums that in a previous life long ago I was a Monk with a little bit of attitude and rebellion against organised religion. This was caused, they say, by some of the more infamous acts of violence against mankind…er personkind. Then my own daughter was accused of witchcraft and was taken away by the church’s equally infamous inquisition. She was killed and I spent the rest of my life in painful confusion and confliction against the church’s teachings.

Perhaps the following is reason why I feel this way or perhaps not.

From an early age I found myself in different homes for orphaned children. Part of their teachings was to send me off to church every Sunday with view of making me a good God fearing person with the end result in my being confirmed by the bishop. Quite often my times in the church were spent looking and listening to the other parishioners. How they knelt in prayer but instead of reciting the prayer, they would chat silently about any juicy gossip that they had heard or what they were having for dinner. The priest would be spouting his hell fire and brimstone (this was the 1950’s) and I had great difficulty in refraining myself from jumping up and shouting to him and all that were there, that the words emanating to the congregation were nothing short of lies and deceit.

I didn’t understand why I felt so strongly against his preaching. I just knew he was wrong.

Then I joined the Sunday afternoon sessions with another priest who took classes of kids to teach them about Gods ways. I would be enthralled at some of the stories of Jesus and then suddenly question the priest when I believed he was getting it all wrong. I did not know how I knew, I just did, and it was with passion. Twice I got sent out of the room to sit alone to `contemplate` my rebellious and disruptive nature. Finally, after a few weeks of this, he came to the children’s home and informed the matron that I was no longer welcome to attend. If I could not sit quietly and embrace all his words without question, then the matron should find another church for me to go to. At the grand age of nine years, I had been expelled and excommunicated for asking questions. I had asked him immediately after being informed I was banned from his church what made him truly believe all his teachings. I so much wanted to believe and was terribly confused why I could not accept if it even if it did not feel right. He told me that God talks through his words plus the words of the Bible. I asked him how he knew it was God talking to him. It was a genuine heartfelt question. That question got me a total ban plus I had to do all the other kids duties within the household for three months.

In the years to come I would understand that there is nothing more dangerous than a man who claimed that God talks through him.

When I was eleven years old, I found myself living in a home run by Catholic priests. It is a long story of brutality by them. The most horrifying events however took place at night. I was in a sleeping room along with several other boys. Sometimes two of the priests would enter the room and take a boy out. The following day that same boy would cry most of the time but refuses to tell me why. He was in obvious pain.

I used to lie in my bed at night praying to whoever or whatever would listen to me. Please don’t let them take me.

The next 50 years embraced me with living with and seeing the atrocities of apartheid in South Africa, to living with the beautiful gentle people of the Aborigine tribe in Australia.

Okay, back to Reiki for me and why.

Back living in the UK

I attended a course for Reiki 1 for nothing more than curiosity. So what appealed to me? Well, for a start, it is not a religion...that’s good! I was told by the Reiki teacher that practicing Reiki did not mean I had to believe in it….yep another smartie point. It is up to each individual to accept or not. Reiki still worked regardless of belief or the lack of one.

I did not find anything profoundly rewarding during the weekend course. Some students did feel a Spiritual awakening during the attunements or at least, they felt they did.

After the Reiki 1 weekend, we were all told that it would be good for us to try it out on a friend.

Sitting with other students learning about Reiki is one thing. Actually asking a friend to practice on them is quite another. I had convinced myself that, although an interesting weekend, I would look for something else to fill my leisure time. A few days later I was telling a friend about the course and was surprised when she offered herself as my first victim. Unable to walk far because of a damaged hip for the last three years, where better to start? Through most of the hour and a half I was self conscious of everything I was doing. Thoughts of “This is a load of crap, what am I doing?” entered my mind many times. At the end of the session I was pleased to make an excuse to leave. A couple of days later, she called and sounded excited as she told me that for the first time in years, she found she could walk painlessly the mile to work she normally had to drive. Could I give her another session? For a brief moment, the right side of my brain won out over my logical left side. But only for a moment. Left brain quickly rejected any thought of `magic medicine` and was happy to accept the co-incidence factor. Thank goodness for logic. I was nearly sucked in…..nearly.

Then I started to notice other anomalies within me. Crying over a sad movie. Being more sensitive to other’s pain and sorrows. Domestic animals would come and brush their bodies on my legs (without cocking their leg) I started `seeing` dark areas in different parts of peoples bodies and when asked if they had a medical problem with that area received a confirmation.

I started a Reiki practitioner workshop at a local crystal store. Nothing big, just two or three clients a month that I could fit into my regular job hours.

The interesting thing for me was not that it appeared to make the client better, but at what they felt or heard or saw during the treatment. Some would see vibrant colours. Even though I was always alone with the client, sometimes they would hear other voices in the room and would ask after the session who I was talking to. One guy came for a treatment after his wife constantly nagged him to try Reiki. He worked for himself as a builder and had hurt his leg some months before and it had not healed, despite medical treatments. His business was starting to go down hill and money was starting to become a serious issue. He was a very down to earth guy. You know the sort, if you can’t eat it, drink it or sleep with it, it `aint worth bothering yourself with.

During the hour with him, I kept being drawn to his heart area and away from the problem leg. So in the end I just stayed around the heart. After the session, he was very quiet before finally asking me who the doctor was. He told me he clearly saw a guy with a white coat on with a stethoscope around his neck. He said that the `doctor` looked straight at him and smiled. I told him that we were alone the whole time. A few days later his wife called and told me that he had returned to work and was feeling much better. Asking her if he mentioned the `doctor` she replied that he had and with great reluctance he had told her that his mother also had stood next to the bed and smiled at him.

What I did not know is that his mother had died two months back. He was devoted to her and was devastated to lose her. His health had started to deteriorate and even minor injuries were taking 3 times as long to heal. She told me that since he saw his mother during the session, his whole attitude to life was again becoming positive.

I was starting to believe that Reiki does not always work in the way I think it should….Mmmm interesting!