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Reiki and My Sacred Mission

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Leah Welborn
Know Thyself, Heal Thyself
3 min readFeb 3, 2024

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Original artwork by the author

I’ve been in the Reiki groove for a while — and by that I mean I’ve been curious, and I’ve been guided. It’s as if everywhere I turned for a few months, I was seeing and hearing “REIKI.”

That was what motivated me to invite Susan Chiochi, founder of Colorado Reiki Academy, to be a guest on my podcast last year. I was quite literally being divinely led to reiki.

It took me a loooooooong time to recognize divine guidance and to follow it without question. I’m not a Christian, but Christians say, “Jesus take the wheel,” and that’s what I’m learning to do — only replace “Jesus” (who, though I believe to be equally divine as other ascended masters & was a very dedicated Jewish activist and Roman-hater, to be sure) with “Spirit Guides.”

Original artwork by the author, using Canva-generated AI. What’s with that wheel?

Last month I completed Reiki Level 1 training and I’m gobsmacked. My Spirit…

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Know Thyself, Heal Thyself
Know Thyself, Heal Thyself

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Leah Welborn
Leah Welborn

Written by Leah Welborn

Empower Your Magical Self with me. I'm the Mystic Autistic, a writer and spiritual baddie. LeahWelborn.net.

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