Go With The Flow Into The Higher Dimensions

Yesterday was like yoga class--it was as it a series of 'forms' was being presented to me in my day. Some of the 'forms' were easier to go through than others. And I discovered something new both mentally and spiritually: the more I 'let go' the further Spirit could 'push' me to 'make connections' with 'gentle hints' about how to go through my 'day'.

Morning was fascinating. I made sausage patties for my son. It is his favorite. I have changed from making the whole pound and sharing it, to making half and taking a little to be 'polite', to making half a package and not having any at all myself. This has been about two months. Instead I have my green drink and smoothie, and depending on his mood, he either drinks some of the smoothie I offer him, or not.

As I was cooking the sausage, I found myself thinking, I wish he didn't eat all of this.  There were four small patties. I ended up serving him two.

He didn't like it! 'These are too thin!' but he only ate those and didn't ask for more. This boy can eat a pound of sausage if I let him--he loves it that much.

It is happening. His tastes are changing. Just like with me. As the Vibration goes 'UP', the favorite foods of the past start to lose their 'appeal'. It is very gentle. It is almost imperceptible. But it is there. For the lunch, Turkey meat is 'out', by his choice, and 'bean and cheese burrito' is 'in'.

Next, I went to work with a friend of mine in the Urology room for the day. I smiled at how on the scheduling program they color coded the Urology Service as yellow.

What was even more odd was that the first two patients have had surgery with me doing anesthesia for them before. These were frequent-flyer patients, not just for the surgery but for the Reiki too.

As I gave Reiki during the cases, I had a wonderful sense of Archangel Michael. He was extra polite, extra kind, and extra helpful. He was like, 'you do this part here and I will do this part there and you don't have to close the aura--I will take care of it.' I appreciated it very much, his being such a Team Player. Very capable, confident, and sure in both of our skills. I enjoyed it.

As mom worsened, and I took texts and calls which I normally do not do during a case, my friend understood. She also was a sounding board on the medical decisions that we were making for mom. When mom's blood  pressure began to drop, a colleague just happened to finish early, so I could be excused from the O.R. and go to the E.R. and I.C.U. to be with her.

The radio as I first got into the car at that point was kind of freaking me out. The first song was 'Yellow' by Coldplay. The next was 'Sweater Weather'. I was wearing a yellow sweater--what are the odds of that???

The other number sequence I started to see, a LOT, on the road--on license plates, trucks, and other freeway things, was 444. This is the number of the angels.

As I was annoyed I missed the exit to go to the natural food store to pick up some late lunch/early dinner, I sensed Spirit saying, 'chill'.  Then an idea popped into my head--go to mom and dad's health food store on the way--it is on the same street as the hospital, just miles down the road.

It had changed management about a year ago. I was a little apprehensive as I walked in. It lasted about thirty seconds. Right near the front was a giant RAW section! I thought, cool! I bought a few things. But the magic was when I came across the RAW spices where you can buy in bulk. You see, as I read Cherie Soria in Raw Food For Dummies, I am learning that high-end RAW is slight of hand. The textures and flavors are designed to mimic the 'real thing', for example, a 'taco' would have a lettuce leaf 'shell', mushroom 'meat' and nut 'cheese' or 'sauce' to go with the traditional toppings. It looks 'different' but the taste is 'close'. I stuck my nose into many a bottle of spices, quickly and delightedly learning as I went through the ones that were a mystery to me. Marshmallow smells very bitter and green. Oat straw smells like a barn. Dulse smells, well, hard to describe. And there was one that started with an m that smells like thyme that I liked the best. Spirulina is crazy expensive! For a few minutes I forgot about mom and the ICU and work and just played. 

When I was ready, I paid and ate in the back end of the car. It is a station wagon. I was going to bring the food to eat and the hospital and I thought, all this raw stuff I just bought--which isn't cheap--is going to pass the upper temperature limit easily here in the car in the sun! So I relaxed and ate there, having my own Raw Tailgate Party and making Vitamin D in the sunshine at the same time. I had Raw Falafels, which were heavy but close in flavor was close enough to the real thing: Back To Life brand Raw Vegan Cuisine www.backtolifelivingfoods.com The tahini was the best part! Then for dessert--this really was good!--Rawkin Raw Cool Chlorella-Mint Choc truffles! www.rawenergyandlife.com Apparently Alicia Silverstone and I have something in common--we both love the truffles!

At the hospital, I got there just in time to meet the intensivist who is also boarded in Infectious Disease. Mom was looking better. And her nurse was the same from last time--she was good.  My sister was there, and to make conversation, I asked her, mom, and the nurse what they thought about 'cleanses' and 'fasts'. The consensus was that it's something people do to 'lose weight', for example, before a big vacation, there is a 'juice cleanse' to allow more freedom of food choices while ON vacation, and then perhaps after a lot of drinking, another 'cleanse' to 'let go of the toxins from the system' after. (When I 'figure out' the whole 'cleanse' thing, I will write you a blog post about it. For now, it is still 'on the drawing board'.)

So it's like the Catholic church in the Renaissance, where you can sin as much as you like, but then through large donations find 'absolution' to cover for it?  They nodded and said, 'Yes!'. The ICU nurse was very knowledgeable, as was my sister, who has been pescatarian for many years.

After they left, and I sat with mom, soaking in her 'mom-ness' and enjoying that energy, the i.v. pump caught my attention the way Spirit sometimes lets me know to pay attention. The number on the display was 444. As I watched, it flipped to 444.4! And I knew I was not alone and being guided.

When I was ready to go, I said goodbye, and arrived in the garage just moments before my son and his dad pulled up. What perfect timing! they said, with surprise at the coincidence.

Coincidence? Or shifting from one 'yoga pose' to 'another' in Here and Now with Divine Timing?

I'll let you be the judge of that.


Namaste,
I thank you for all of the prayers, love and Light --and Reiki--being sent to us as mom recovers,

Reiki Doc

Lightwork in the O.R.: a Case Study

As I was setting up for my first case, I got word that the patient fainted during insertion of the i.v. EKG's were taken, and I needed to look at them.

I had seen that one before, clinically. Someone had brady'd down to heart rate of thirty before their plastic surgery, and passed out. I was horrified, but my surgeon had seen it before. I had to wake her up before I could put her to sleep!

I had on my 'Reiki game face' as I opened the drape on the bay in pre-op holding that had my first patient and their loved one. I had to be 'on', 'positive', and 'empathetic', dispelling all fear and instantly establishing trust. It was 'make it or break it'.

"What's with this i.v. thing?" I smiled and asked the patient. He looked horrified, as if I was going to cancel the surgery. I laughed and said, "Guess what? I do that when they draw my blood too! My entire family laughed at me when I said I wanted to be a doctor, because I faint when they draw blood. You are okay. We are wired differently and we go vasovagal and we faint. Everything is going to be okay."

What next caught my eye, after shaking hands with both the patient and his girlfriend, was the beautiful crystal on her necklace. A greyish brown, with swirls, it was a point about one inch wide and three inches long. I asked if I could touch it? I admired it, and told her it 'felt good'. She said it was Labradorite, for protection.

I laughed and shared what I had around MY neck. "I wear amethyst, see? And this is my Om (it has diamonds on it)--it is all sparkly, like me!'

"Is that a Canadian Maple Leaf you have on your lanyard?" the patient asked, incredulously, reaching up to take a look at it.

"Why, yes it is! I am half French Canadian!"

"I am from Toronto!"

Score: Reiki Doc 1, Patient happy!

Anesthesia, technically, was uneventful. It was a short case, and everything went well.

Reiki-wise, this was one of the most unusual cases in my career. I gave Reiki, lots of Reiki, way more than usual. It was like water in a desert. It just kept going in. The solar plexus, or yellow chakra, sucked it in. So I gave it. I felt the spirit of this individual wanting to heal, very much so, and I allowed the energy to 'connect' to him in the process.  I gave Diksha, balanced chakras, and gave Reiki complete with symbols while pretending to fix the Bair hugger warming blanket and do anesthesia-related activities. (I can do anesthesia and teach, I can do anesthesia and tell jokes with the surgeon; anesthesia is a lot like driving a car, yes?) I actually was guided to attune him to Reiki 1, as I do sometimes, smiling inwardly with my guides at the thought he is going to wake up psychic!

I went afterwards to talk to the girlfriend. I assured her everything had gone right, and that her boyfriend was safe in recovery room 'sleeping it off'. I wanted to talk to her about the energy work I had done, but it was in the lobby, with others nearby, and I wasn't sure if my insights would be welcome.

"You are so cute! There is something about your energy..." she said.

I took that as a go. I shared with her my findings on the Intraoperative Reiki. They were spot-on. (She had just graduated from a local Energy Healing program, and had her Tarot Bible with her things!)
Her surprised relief from being able to share her perceptions about her boyfriend gave me joy as a healer--when everything 'works right' it is a beautiful thing to watch. I was doing way more than giving anesthesia at this point. I was being a doctor, a specialist in Energy Medicine, at this time.

She asked me for my contact information, exchanged hers, and asked me to find out what his past life trauma was, and fix it.

I had no read on it at the moment. But in the middle of my NEXT case, I 'got it'. I texted her immediately--confidential to her--what the trauma was, that it was actually from THIS life, and how best to manage it from an energy healing perspective.

Here is her text back (she gave me full permission to share 'our story'):

Thank you sooo much doctor. That explains a lot! Its probably why he and I are close same thing happened to me in a past life. I went on your blog, I am so grateful I met you. When you have your reiki class please let me know the dates. I asked God to send me a spiritual teacher yesterday and I met you today. With love and light, C

Impression: Intraoperative Reiki is a powerful tool. It helps to establish rapport. It helps to address the underlying conditions, both on an energetic level and a deeper soul level, that result in the manifestation of physical disease. It is non-toxic, safe, and does not need to be documented or charted or even discussed with the patient at the time it is given. People come to us for healing, in the hospital. It would be remiss to leave something clearly in need of treatment, untreated, when we have the ability to treat it at the same time that other work is being done. Anesthesiologists and CRNA's are the perfect providers for this purpose because we are at the head of the bed in surgery, and our anesthesia weakens the aura in the first place. Why not take the opportunity to shore it up and strengthen the aura at the time patients are most vulnerable?

This treatment itself took about seven minutes. Talking in pre-op and the lobby took about ten minutes total. For seventeen minutes, that is about one unit of anesthesia billable time, which is not much 'work' but yields much benefit for humankind! Intraoperative reiki, like all reiki, strengthens and heals the energetic system of the healer while it is given to the client. It is a total win-win for all parties involved.

Namaste,

Reiki Doc