Would you like to support my voluntary work?

I have always remembered my Reiki master saying one time that when she became a master it was like she became a Cosmic Civil Servant, because Reiki would send her here there and everywhere, not the quiet life she had planned for herself!

In recent years I have been feeling much the same. I have always had an interest in Reiki as a public practice, by which I mean giving Reiki treatments to someone outside the immediate circle of family and friends. This has led to involvement with The Reiki Association, to attend Public Practice conferences in the USA and Australia as well as organising one here in the UK. I have also represented both The Reiki Association and Reiki Alliance on the Reiki Regulatory Working Group and the Reiki Council it evolved into.  I also do some other voluntary work for the Reiki Alliance, sending out certificates and books to UK members.

I have now also been appointed to the Reiki Profession Specific Board for the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council, while also serving on The Reiki Association Council. Not what I would have expected or chosen, however as a Cosmic Civil Servant I see there was never really a choice!

This has all meant an increasing amount of voluntary work (although with the Reiki Association Council we are working on ensuring that more responsibility is held by the community so council has less to do) and therefore less time to offer treatments and classes to earn a living.

I love to do this work; I enjoy sharing my experience and the skills I have gained over the years. I enjoy feeling I am participating in moving the practice of Reiki forwards. I enjoy what I learn for my own practice from the relationships and negotiations with other people.

What I struggle with, however, is balancing the work that will bring me some income with the work that is my gift. Bills still need to be paid, shoes wear out and we need to eat, so money needs to come in somehow! I have found myself worrying about whether I should be doing so much voluntary work that doesn’t earn me any money. And yet this seems to be what the Universe intends for me. So I have been puzzled about what to do.

When I was pondering this dilemma in meditation recently the idea of asking for support was given to me. Simply to offer others the opportunity to support the voluntary work I do by making a donation.

So I offer you the opportunity, if you feel moved to do so, to support my voluntary work for the Reiki community by making a donation to me. In making this donation you would be investing in the future of Reiki as a public practice and also the Reiki community that it represented by The Reiki Association.

If I were to receive support this way it would enable me to feel more relaxed about doing the voluntary work. I would not need to keep thinking about getting a job at Tesco to make ends meet!

Your donation would also be energetic support and you can be assured that I would be grateful for any amount, no matter how small.

If you have Reiki 2 you can also support me by sending me Reiki if you would prefer. Either way you would be investing your spirit in supporting a Reiki master who is doing their best to see Reiki available to as many people who need it, to see Reiki well respected and valued and to see improving connection between Reiki people. This will ripple out to the wider Reiki community and in turn come back to you!

Thank you.