An excerpt from my healing sessions with a local Reiki-healer and spiritual guide. We begin with a Reiki session and then I do a guided meditation with her. We see where it will take us each time.

I assess her energy field and her energy is calm and peaceful. I noticed that she is working with the throat chakra and heart chakra. These two chakras are opening like a lotus that has the most beautiful flower.

I then see a Tibetan monk in my vision and this Tibetan monk starts to show me a bowl. He makes this sounds with these bowls and he says Pauline is going to listen to various sounds like this that will resonate with her body. She will notice that when she does this, her cells, her energy, is activated so to speak, and she will have more energy to do what she wants to do. And then in my vision he shows me a parade with masks, dragons, etc. This parade releases negativity and I hear the Tibetan monk saying,” Pauline is going to gain her strength through laughter and she will start to focus on things (movies, theater) that make her laugh. This will have a big influence in her life for laughter is one of the best medicines against feeling down, hard on oneself, or just blah.

This Tibetan monk asked me to step into a temple like building, shoes are outside by the door. In the Temple I noticed drawings in red almost like the drawings of tigers/lions perhaps and also Buddha drawings. He points out the tiger drawing and he says the tiger drawing is Pauline’s strength, strength to bring forth the energy to present herself to others that are in a similar condition but do not have the coping skills to see the direction of energy that they are dealing with. When we accept the reality of our journey we can focus on ways to stabilize ourselves within the needs of our own perception. We then open ourselves to new avenues, new doors opening, and still being able to accept the new changes that are coming in.

The Tibetan monk asked me to sit down and he opens a book. I ask, “Is it a story?” and he says, “Yes the story is for Pauline”.

The story goes like this:  It was cold outside and one tiny bird who has lost a few feathers during flight from a strong branch sat lonely in the corner of a beautiful garden. The wind was blowing and somehow this bird had lost strength to fly where she needed to fly. The few feathers that she had lost somehow did not give her enough strength to fly to the other end of the garden. Tears rolled out of her eyes and as she sat there huddled underneath a blueberry bush, a tiny grasshopper hopped past this bird. The grasshopper noticed the bird and politely asked, “Are you cold this morning?” And the bird replied, ” I lost a few feathers during a storm and a big branch came falling down and I lost a few more feathers.”  The grasshopper showed compassion and asked the bird, “Has this limited your capability to fly?”  “It has,” said the bird, “I tried and I tried but somehow I do not have enough strength to make it to the other side of the garden.” “Is that so?” said the grasshopper to the bird. Then something very special happened. Suddenly the garden was filled with butterflies and the sun started to shine. The butterflies flew around the tiny bird and kept singing, “Your strength does not lie on the outside, your strength lies within. You are not your own body, you are an energy form that is able to fly anywhere you want. Do not limit yourself by accepting that you cannot fly, but embrace yourself for the gifts that are awaiting you. For these gifts are part of your inner strength.”  This tiny bird learned to sing her highest tone and was embraced through the strength that lies within. She became the bird of passion, compassion, and most of all she became the bird that glowed from the inside to the outside.

Did she get to the other side of the garden? Of course she did, she was able to find the tools to go anywhere she wanted to go. She was not limited through the mind of her own creation, she was encouraged by her inner strength and the strengths she was able to give to herself.

The Tibetan monk said read this story to Pauline and tell her that she has given herself a gift of compassion and this compassion is for herself and others that come and are on her path.