Unlocking Holistic Health: Yan Weng’s Journey from 9/11 Survivor to Reiki Master

Welcome to another insightful episode of the ANEW Body Insight Podcast, hosted by Dr. Supatra Tovar and Chantal Donnelly. We are thrilled to have Yan Weng, a certified Reiki Master and yoga instructor, joining us at City Club Los Angeles.  Yan's journey from China to becoming a wellness expert is inspiring and transformative.

Introduction to Yan Weng Yan Weng, with 20 years of experience in qigong and meditation, empowers professionals through transformative Reiki self-care practices. With a background in finance, Yan offers holistic tools for rapid stress relief and inner empowerment. Through her Reiki courses, workshops, and the online Five Minute Stress Buster Kit, Yan helps individuals access their inner power and achieve success amidst life's challenges.

At 14, Yan discovered a rapidly growing lump on her chest, leading to biopsies and surgery. This challenging period taught her the importance of a healthy body and mind, planting the seeds for her future dedication to holistic health practices.

Yan recounts her experience during the 9/11 attacks while working at the World Trade Center. She describes the chaos and fear of that day, and how her practice of qigong helped her stay calm and make clear decisions amidst the disaster. This experience reinforced her belief in the power of holistic practices to maintain mental and physical well-being in times of crisis.

Yan's journey into Reiki began after a scooter accident that left her with severe neck and shoulder pain. A friend's recommendation led her to a Reiki session that dramatically reduced her pain and inspired her to pursue Reiki training. Yan explains that Reiki is a holistic technique that reduces stress and enhances relaxation by restoring balance to the entire system. Unlike qigong, which requires years of practice to master, Reiki uses the universal life force energy to promote healing.

Yan's approach to Reiki involves both hands-on and remote healing techniques. She explains that Reiki practitioners channel universal life force energy rather than using their own energy, which allows them to heal others without depleting their own energy. This method has profound benefits for both the practitioner and the recipient, promoting a sense of deep relaxation and well-being.

Yan shares a story about a student who was able to calm her agitation and gain a new perspective on a stressful situation through Reiki practice. This example highlights how Reiki can help individuals manage stress and improve their mental clarity, making it a valuable tool for busy professionals.

Yan’s passion for teaching Reiki led her to offer workshops and classes, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. She trained her family to boost their immune systems and started offering online Reiki courses to help others find balance and strength during challenging times. 

Connect with Yan Weng: For more information about Yan Weng and her Reiki practices, visit masterngrowrich.com. You can also follow her on Instagram at @weng_yan_ling

Thank you for joining us on this journey to wellness. Remember, the insights and advice shared on the ANEW Body Insight Podcast are for educational and informational purposes only and do not constitute medical advice. Always consult with a healthcare professional before making any changes to your health routine. To learn more about the podcast and stay updated on new episodes, visit ANEW Body Insight Podcast at anew-insight.com. To watch this episode on YouTube, visit @my.anew.insight. Follow us on social media at @my.anew.insight on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Threads for more updates and insights. Thank you for tuning in! Stay connected with us for more empowering stories and expert guidance. Until next time, stay well and keep evolving with ANEW Body Insight!

Transcript

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Welcome to the ANEW Body Insight podcast,

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empowering and inspiring your journey to optimal health.

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Hosted by Dr. Supatra Tovar, clinical psychologist,

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registered dietitian, fitness expert and author of Deprogram Diet Culture:

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Rethink Your Relationship with Food, Heal Your Mind, and Live a Diet-Free

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Life, and Chantal Donnelly, physical therapist and author of Settled:

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How to Find Calm in a Stress Inducing World.

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Here at City Club Los Angeles, we follow our guests’ journey to optimal

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health, providing you with the keys to unlock your own wellness path.

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Tune in and evolve with us.

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Hello and welcome to the ANEW Body

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Insight podcast at City Club Los Angeles.

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I am Dr. Supatra Tovar.

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And I am Chantal Donnelly.

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We are very excited to have Reiki

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Master Yan Weng here with us today.

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Thank you so much for inviting me.

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I'm excited to be here.

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I'm going to read a little bit about Yan and then we'll get into our questions.

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Yan Weng, a certified Reiki Master and yoga instructor

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with 20 years of experience in qigong and meditation, is dedicated to empowering

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professionals through transformative Reiki self-care practices.

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With a background in the high stress finance sector.

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Yan understands the demands professionals face and offers holistic tools

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for rapid stress relief and inner empowerment.

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Through her Reiki courses, workshops, and the online five Minute Stress Buster Kit.

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Yan helps individuals access their inner power

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and achieve success amidst life's challenges.

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Yan holds master certifications in the USUI System of Natural Healing

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and Holy Fire three Karuna Reiki.

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Featured in publications like Shout Out LA and Voyage LA,

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she volunteers at Grace Reiki Clinic providing

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Reiki sessions to staff at local hospitals in Los Angeles.

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Yan also serves on nonprofit boards focused on

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health, wellness, community, and economic development.

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Thank you so much for being here.

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We're so excited.

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So what we really love on this podcast, Yan,

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is to find out people's story, mostly their story

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about how they got into the wellness world. Was there—

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We like to go way back, right?

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So childhood? Yes.

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Was there anything in your childhood that

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ignited your desire to go on this wellness journey that you've been on? Yes.

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Thank you so much for the kind introduction. 

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And, yes.

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by looking back,

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I have many, many experiences,

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but also facing quite a lot of challenges in life and struggles.

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But I just very blessed to have those experiences.

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When I came here at the 12 years old,

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from China to the US,

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shortly two years after I lived here.

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When I went to the doctor's appointment,

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she told me that there was a,

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lump growing rapidly on my left chest.

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And I was 14 at the time,

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and going to doctors appointments and biopsies became part of my life.

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And sometimes waiting in the doctor's office and waiting for the results.

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It was nerve wracking.

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Eventually, after the biopsies

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and all that, the doctor mentioned

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to recommend actually a surgery

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because the the lump is growing too fast in order

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to prevent it from turning into a cancer to breast cancer.

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They decided to remove the tumor.

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So at that time, I was very scared

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and I didn't want to have cancer.

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So my mom and I, we among the family, decided to have to have

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the surgery.

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And I remember right after the surgery, even the simplest

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task of putting my clothes on felt like a challenge.

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I was just feeling the pain and all of that.

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And at that moment I realized that

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without a healthy body and mind,

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nothing can be done successfully on a sustaining level.

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Especially I was I was hiding my emotions like my anxiety, my fear.

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I just feel like I have to be tough.

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So I was hiding a lot of those emotions.

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But looking back, I knew those emotions were

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also not very good for me in the long term.

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And I was I'm very blessed that during my adult life

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that I was able to learn qigong, yoga, and later on with Reiki,

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and it completely changed my

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life because before, when I was younger,

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I was feeling useless and hopeless during those times.

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And then because of this

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holistic practices, I don't feel that way anymore.

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And actually it gave me

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that juice, you know, to really sustain me.

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And so I can really like ride the waves.

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And even though, like, lots of things might be happening because life is like

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three struggles right, ourselves, others and the environment or the circumstances.

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So but I'm just very blessed to have that, and I want to share that with the people

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who also wanted to have that amazing life and that juice that can,

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you know, keep us going for the long term with success and with meaning.

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Well, you certainly are full of juice, I would call that empowerment as well.

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You radiate energy.

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And I think that that comes from this practice.

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And it's amazing too, that it came from a darker place.

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But you turn that dark place into something light and something beautiful.

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You were, telling me earlier that you were at Ground Zero.

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We want to talk about stress.

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We'll talk about ground zero.

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Tell us about that day and what you did to heal yourself and how you did it.

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Yes. Thank you for that.

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I was in the seven World Trade Center,

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the tower that collapsed during the noontime that day.

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I went to the office a little bit earlier than usual

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after the vote, because it's a beautiful Tuesday morning.

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And, so I was getting settle

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and everything, doing some of my work, but all the sudden

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I heard this loud rumbling noise, and I.

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And then my coffee, the coffee on my table was like, shaking violently.

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I was like, what's going on?

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So I looked up

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and then I just saw like a whole bunch of debris,

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like all the shards, like glasses and broken metals

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and flying towards from the building across to our window.

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And one some of my colleagues were, were like,

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they went to the window and say like, what's going on?

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And then one of the colleague actually was like yelling out.

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Oh my gosh, there were airplanes coming at us.

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How could the pilot miss such a big building?

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So that was like, how how could that happen?

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And then in the meantime, I was like, I warn my colleagues just don't

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get too close to the window because all this debris is coming at us.

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And at any time it could break in and shatter to our faces and all that.

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So we decided no one was telling us what to do,

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but we know it won't last too long.

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So we just decided to to kind of charted our way

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away from the window and then get out of that building.

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and then,

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shortly after we got out of the building

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waiting to be called to go back because we thought it was an accident.

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And then we heard the second explosion.

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And I knew by that time

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it was not an accident.

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so I was just running away from the buildings to the north

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to to away from the falling debris and all of that,

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and ran for my life.

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so after the

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escaping from the scene,

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we were like my coworker, we bump into each other.

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So we said, let's go to the hospital to donate blood.

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And then when we went to the hospital, the,

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nurses turn us away because there was no survivors.

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And it was a tragic day because over thousands of people,

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innocent people had died.

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And, and I was hurting very much in my heart.

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However, the

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one difference from years ago when I was younger

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and now is because I already started the qigong practice,

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and I knew even during the whole chaotic

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situation, I was able to stay calm in trying to figure out what's the best way

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making decisions to to stay away from the danger,

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and also with the uncertainty and the lockdown in, Manhattan.

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So we could not even like there's no phone.

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The phone was all like disrupted and all that.

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So every day I just keep like practicing qigong,

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which is a combination of breathing,

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gentle movement and visualization and meditation technique

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that I do every day because that helped me to be grounded.

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And when emotions come, I know that I

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this time I'm not hiding all these emotions

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of fear and anxiety, but how to really process this

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in a healthy way so it doesn't get stuck inside me.

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Because we know that whenever undigested emotions stuck.

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It comes out in our physical body because the our body has five parts, right?

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The physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and also the psychic aspect.

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Any one of these aspects is impacted

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is going to be coming through to our body.

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So with the practice and I just knew like

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I just feel so much calmer and easier to digest all the emotions

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and also I see that strength

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coming out of that is because the New Yorkers and all the friends

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and people all around the globe is coming together,

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giving us a hand or prayers

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and everything that they could do so we can build back

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whatever has been lost with resilience and with the strength and with the love.

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So from that point on, and my guiding

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principle is to living my life with love and not fear,

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with hope and not despair,

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and with understanding and not judgment.

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Ooh I have goosebumps!

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I was just going to say the same thing.

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That is beautiful!

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Yes, I got shivers when you were telling the whole story and

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and just it sounded like you were that person in the room who remained calm

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from everything that you had been through and all of your practices.

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And that's what it takes.

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It takes one person in the room to help everybody else

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settle a little bit and remain calm.

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It's amazing.

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You've been through a lot, and I apparently you've been through even more.

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I hear that there was an accident that led you to the Reiki practice.

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Can you tell us a little bit about what happened?

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What what was this event that that led you to learning Reiki? Yes.

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And, that is because, right before like, few years,

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I mean, about a year before the Covid, I was just

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scooting around with my daughter and my husband around the neighborhood,

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and there was this concrete,

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that has a, a crack on it.

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And I was flying so fast, and the scooter hit the concrete,

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and then I was flying out of the scooter

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onto the concrete pavement on the sidewalk.

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So I said, oh my God, I'm going to break my wrist.

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Well, that was the thinking part.

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I said, no, I'm not going to break it.

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So instead of landing my wrists onto the pavement,

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I landed my chest and my shoulder onto the concrete.

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So after that I was like on a frog position for a while.

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Something's going to land.

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Luckily, I was like I knew yoga, but even that took a while.

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So but after that I felt oh my gosh, I got strained because luckily

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I didn’t break my wrist, but my neck and my shoulder was all strain

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and so I couldn't even, like, turn my head without feeling the pain

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like it was just right all around so I had to like whomever talked to me.

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I was like a robot for a while.

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And then just right after that, during that weekend,

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I got the phone call from

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my one of my friends, which is like, Chantal knows about her.

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And she was I, I said like, oh, I had this accident.

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And she said, I have a Reiki session coming up

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if you want to come and check it out.

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I said, can it reduce my pain?

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And she said, yes. So I said, okay, I'm coming.

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Yeah.

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So, and it was amazing because, she's didn't even touch me.

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So it was a group session and she, but I and just,

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she was just kind of standing behind me and then I but I felt that heat

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kind of coming behind me and all around.

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And then after the session,

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I was able to turn my head without much pain.

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So that's why I was so surprised.

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I was like, where was I about Reiki? Right?

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So I was so inspired.

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I tell her, like,

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whenever you have the training I am in, I want to learn this technique

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because knowing yoga and qigong,

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I know how powerful this Reiki too is.

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through the years that I practice, qigong for 20 year and and yoga for 15.

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And then I was just like, wow, that's amazing.

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So the rest is history.

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I got certified in like train and certified for level one, level two,

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and then later on advanced into Reiki master levels.

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Yeah.

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And I was just like, this is something that

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felt like there is always a sign.

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So even, an accident is kind of,

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like a disguise into a blessing.

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I felt like that's how I felt.

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And then after that, that's when I said, I need to spread

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these two to as many people as possible.

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Because I learn

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Reiki is not only reducing pain and stress.

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It has so much to offer beyond those two.

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Yeah.

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So can you help our listeners understand a little bit more about Reiki?

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I'm not sure that everyone is going to know exactly what that is.

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Yes, sure. I'm happy to do that.

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Reiki is composed of two Japanese, words.

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Rei means the universal intelligence and ki means the.

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The like in science is called a bio field.

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But you might hear about, qi like qigong.

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So that same as the ki, that life force and also prana as well

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in the yogic Sanskrit terms, that is also, connected with life force.

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So what it means in a gist is that we

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as human beings can access this Reiki, which is the universal intelligent life

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force for our own healing,

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because it is not just working on one specific part

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like, oh, you have this problem, let me fix this problem.

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No, it is more of a holistic balancing way.

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It knows how to like in terms of how to kind of heal you,

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but the way they need it to because it's very intelligent.

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So in a gist is a technique, is a holistic technique

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that reduces stress and enhances relaxation

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while it restoring our entire system to balance

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and promoting well-being that way.

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How does a Reiki master do that without laying hands on someone?

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What is the process exactly?

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Yes, it is quite unique in a way with Reiki.

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But we know because I learned, qigong for 20 years and

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I know it can be possible to do it too,

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but it needs a lot of years of experience.

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And also they have to activate their

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 own energy or the prana to do to heal the other person,

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which is very different than Reiki because Reiki,

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we are not using our own life force to heal the other people.

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Yep. Basically what it is is that we are just activating the universal life

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force, which is always there, but we just never taught how to do it.

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So it's very easy, very simple.

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Once it's activated, the life force goes to combine with your own.

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Because we all have healing system.

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We know that because when we sleep, when we are in a very nice,

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digest and relaxed mode, we are healing ourselves.

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But many times because we are so busy

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we didn’t allow ourselves to do the healing.

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So the life force, the Reiki is basically to utilize that universal life

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force, combining with our own life force so we can be healed through that.

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And so you just send the energy that you’re captivating

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Is just act up.

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Yeah.

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So it's mainly just activated through the life force

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through this training obviously involved for that level

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one is usually hovering around or with like a light touch.

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Obviously everyone is fully clothed even with that receive the receiver.

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However, if we are trained and certified level two,

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then we have, techniques and symbols that we can do remotely.

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So not even in the same room.

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It can be outside, or it can be in New York or in Paris,

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through that activation, through that, technique that we have been.

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I've done qigong and I have

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felt the energy, but you're saying that's a it's a little different.

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It's not my energy.

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It's energy from the universe that you're feeling coming through you.

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With the Reiki. That is what.

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So we are not using our own energy to do that.

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My qigong.

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So separately, my qigong master is well-known qigong,

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master and a doctor, both Eastern and Western doctor.

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And from what I've been hearing from him and also people who know him for a long

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time, is that when he heal people,

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he had to emit his own energy

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to the other person, either in this room or remotely,

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but because he's a grandmaster, once he finished

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healing others, he would have to come back and do that

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qigong practice himself so he can regain all the life force.

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So he didn’t feel spent.

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Yeah, so that is that qigong way.

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But with Reiki, it's not like that.

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We are just calling an activating the Lifeforce Universal.

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Yeah. And then it's going through. In fact,

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when one gives Reiki to others, the person.

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That is giving is also benefiting because all these are part of it.

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And it's almost like that is working wonderfully

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with the receiver and the giver at the same time.

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That is beautiful. Yes, that is beautiful.

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You work in

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finance as well and that is very stressful.

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So how do you—that’s different than Reiki.

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Very different.

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How do you use meditation, qigong

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and Reiki to help you manage your stress?

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I do it every day.

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I think that's the only way we can really ground ourself

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because even like I'm a professional mom

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working in the finance sector for like 20 years, it is stressful,

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but many other sectors too, and especially nowadays

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with so many negative news that is bombarding

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like so much going on,

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our mind is never stopped worrying.

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Because if it's not the inflation and then it's like the bombing over there

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or whatever.

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So every time when we are exposed to all this negative news

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externally, sometimes it's all store internally.

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And if we don't do anything about it, then it's not going to good.

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Not going to be helping us in the long run.

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That's why I do all this practices daily, so I don't stop on that.

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However, today I wanted to focus on Reiki

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because Reiki is easily learned

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like qigong and yoga.

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You have to take time to learn the skills.

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That is the difference.

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But with Reiki we have some hand positions and placement systems and all that.

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But the main difference is this empowers

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through from the Reiki master to the to the student

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to an attunement process.

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So the attunement is an empowerment process that once is attuned.

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The student kind of able to access to the Reiki lifeforce,

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which is the universal intelligent lifeforce.

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Yeah.

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So that is the difference.

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So and then that's why I'm so excited to share that, because

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we are so busy, right, all the professionals, so busy,

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we don't ever have time.

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And how do we focus on our self?

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Because we know that if we are sick, if we are all stressed out,

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eventually it's going to throw out all the balance that we have

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and we won't be able to care about our other people

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or doing the work that we love to do if we are not well ourselves.

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So just give you a very quick example.

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Last week I, I was, training a Reiki level one student

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and she just came into the class very agitated.

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And she was telling us that because, her

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one of her clients just walked away

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from a high value contract without good reason,

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and she was relying on that to make things happen with other areas.

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So she was very, very agitated.

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And then I said, okay, let's just kind of observe this.

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Yeah. Talk it out.

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And and then let's do some

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after talking out of this and acknowledging

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this is not an ideal situation because I'm relying on that.

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I was trusting this person, but somehow it fell through.

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I know that I got agitated because of I care about that.

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I care about the project. Right?

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So after all this acknowledgment and all that, so we started like, okay,

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go with the Reiki hand position.

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So she she put her hands.

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We have various hand positions for the treatment of our entire being.

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And she put her hand onto her heart center for a few minutes.

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And then afterwards she put her hands onto her abdomen for a few minutes.

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That was already.

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She already got attunement the weekend before.

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So all

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this she's activating. So?

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So she's just doing that.

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And after 20 minutes she's smiling and making cracking up some jokes.

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I was like, oh, okay, that's good.

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And then at the end of the one hour

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training, like just for, you know, for, what we've been just doing because

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we just wanted to really do the practice and then so they can feel it right away.

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And she was like, oh my gosh, Yan, my perspective, completely shifted.

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After this session, I need to go to dinner.

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But I am just so happy that I, I did this session and I am just like

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so relieved from all these things that I was worried about before.

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And she could probably think clearly to solve the problem at that point, right?

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Because when we're agitated, when we're in fight-flight, you can't think clearly.

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You're offline up there.

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So that's great. Yes.

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So and and she was just very happy about that.

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And yeah.

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And she actually just did this weekend she did a Reiki session for her friend.

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And she had so many discoveries.

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So I said I need to hear about them all.

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Yeah.

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So this is one example.

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But many other students who took the level one training at the end, before

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and after, they always share that calm, relaxed,

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deeply relaxed, very peaceful.

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And all these are the words that come out from every time

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that they do the practice.

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After the practice. Yes.

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You were mentioning your students.

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Can you tell us a little bit more about your Reiki courses and workshops?

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Yes, I

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it's very interesting, how the Reiki workshops and classes came about.

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It's just, during the Covid, I had,

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various things like coming around and all that.

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But one of the situation I faced that is that my daughter contracted Covid.

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She's seven years old and contracted Covid

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at the height of it in December 2020,

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and obviously we want to be isolating and quarantine her.

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So I decided to teach the Reiki level one course to my daughter

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and to my husband so we can boost our immune system

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so we don't have to be afraid of the of the Covid 19.

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And then because of that, like they got very like

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vitalize and I felt like, oh my gosh, this is the time

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that I should share this with others because it is so important

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to have that grounding, but also to boost our immune system.

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And that's when I started to offer

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the Reiki workshops and classes online,

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besides from the Reiki Healing session, because after the level two,

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we are able to do it remotely, which is a blessing.

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That is wonderful.

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Well, we'll certainly, you know, ask you about that in the next episode,

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how to get into these workshops.

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but right now we're going to take a little break.

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Yeah, we will come back and tune in for the next half of this

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very thought provoking interview with Reiki Master Yan Weng.

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