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"Healing Touch: Sandy's Insights on Reiki and Cancer Care" · The Eye Believe Podcast

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  Hey, everybody,
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  welcome back to the podcast.
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  today
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  we have our guest, Sandy,
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  to talk about Reiki and healing
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  touch at Life Spark. So Sandy, welcome.
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  Thanks for joining us.
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  Thank you. I'm so excited to be here.
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  Can't wait to tell
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  people about life spark.
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  So can you just tell us
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  what's the most impactful thing
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  that you've heard so far at Life
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  Spark from the cancer
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  patients that you serve?
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  Well, we have people that come to us
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  that are just totally stressed.
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  I mean, everyone in our program
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  that receive sessions has cancer,
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  but they are stressed.
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  Of course they are.
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  And they come into our program stressed
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  and they leave after a session
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  totally relaxed.
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  And it's just remarkable.
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  It's really amazing.
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  I love was incredible.
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  So can you just tell us a little bit more
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  about maybe some of the cancer stories
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  that you've had from survivors
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  and just patients that you've served?
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  Yeah, there's there's one story
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  that that of Christine, she,
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  she had ovarian cancer
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  for the third time.
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  She, you know,
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  she'd been through it before.
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  She wasn't sure she wanted to.
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  Wasn't sure she wanted to continue.
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  She thought maybe God
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  was calling her home.
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  And, she started life spark sessions.
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  And she had this one session
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  where the next morning when she woke up,
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  it was like
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  something was different, and she.
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  She realized that she wanted to live.
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  And this was like a huge turning point
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  for her.
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  As a catalyst,
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  she started taking
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  better care of herself,
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  eating better, getting the support
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  she needed.
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  And she did live
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  for many years after that.
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  So that's just one of the many stories
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  that we have
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  in life spark about people
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  who just find that
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  our program is so helpful
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  for them to get through this
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  really challenging time.
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  All right, so Sandy, that's incredible.
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  And I'm so glad
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  that you shared that story.
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  And I can't wait to hear
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  a few more of a patient's stories
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  that I'm sure
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  we'll get to touch on later on.
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  can you just let's
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  let's kind of start at the beginning.
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  Can you define
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  what is Reiki and Healing Touch?
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  Why do people pursue
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  this as a form of stress management
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  and healing?
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  So Reiki and healing touch,
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  those are the two modalities
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  that we use in life.
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  Spark have a lot in common.
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  They're both normally
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  they're both done hands on.
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  Although after the pandemic
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  we've been doing
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  a lot of remote sessions.
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  but they're gentle wellness therapies.
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  They help with stress, depression, pain.
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  They help a person feel better,
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  you know, like, it helps with nausea.
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  It helps people sleep better.
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  they just feel better the more relaxed.
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  And they also help
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  with what's called homeostasis
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  or balance.
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  nurses have told us
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  that nurses who practice
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  these therapies, Reiki and Healing Touch,
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  have told us that,
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  for example, a patient,
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  if they have high blood pressure,
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  they will find that, the Reiki
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  or the healing touch
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  will lower their blood pressure
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  if they have low blood pressure
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  or raise it.
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  Same thing
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  for like all of those,
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  all of those vital signs, like if it's,
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  if it's their blood sugar
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  or if it's their respiration or,
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  you know, all those things,
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  whatever it is, it's out of balance.
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  It sort of brings it back into balance.
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  And so that's
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  basically how these therapies work.
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  They just bring the body back
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  into a place
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  where it can knows what to do,
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  and knows how to be in
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  balance and heal itself.
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  That's incredible.
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  So when we
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  talked before,
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  you mentioned a little bit of a study
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  that was done at,
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  I think it was truth's cancer center.
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  Do you want to tell us a little
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  about that study?
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  Yes, absolutely.
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  Has actually done aunt
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  and she is Cancer Center,
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  which is part of a UC health,
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  the university hospital.
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  and they actually put together
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  this study for us
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  because we offer sessions
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  at in their cancer center.
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  And so they had 35 patients that received
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  a survey before their first
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  before their session
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  and immediately
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  after a 20 minute session.
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  And the results showed
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  people reported
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  that their pain dropped by, on average,
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  a third, and their stress and anxiety
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  dropped on average by two thirds.
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  And so, of course,
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  this is all without
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  any drugs or medications.
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  this is one of the cool
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  things about our therapies
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  is that they're so helpful.
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  And, you know, without having to take
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  that doesn't mean you don't need drugs.
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  You may need drugs, but
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  but these are
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  these are non-drug solutions. Options.
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  so incredible.
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  So I know that Megan
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  and I and my co-host,
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  we are so excited
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  to talk about this with you,
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  because both of us are
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  personally invested in Reiki
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  and so, Megan,
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  do you want to tell us a little bit
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  about your personal journey with Reiki?
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  Yeah, absolutely.
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  I got started with it
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  because my sister was telling me
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  the amazing experience that she had.
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  And so I have a friend
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  who actually, has been doing Reiki
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  since she was 11.
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  Like,
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  I like, practicing it since she was 11.
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  And,
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  so I started, working with her,
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  and then I ended up taking my level one
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  to learn how to do it.
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  And so I can
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  I can do it to myself and it's
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  I mean,
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  I don't even know how to describe it.
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  It just it you feel.
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  Yeah.
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  Relaxed and just better, calmer,
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  more centered, more balanced.
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  Like I,
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  I love it
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  and I can't really quite describe why.
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  I think that's such a valid thing though.
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  And I when I've tried to explain
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  Reiki and I also do sound
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  healing at my Reiki sessions,
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  which is kind of a little bit of a twist.
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  so a sound bath basically, just like,
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  you know, introducing those balls
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  and that full body
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  vibration in addition to the Reiki
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  and the healing touch.
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  But I think
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  one of the coolest things for me
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  is that I have noticed
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  I'm super sensitive to how my body feels
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  when I am emotional, right?
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  So when I'm anxious, I get a stomachache.
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  And I have learned through doing Reiki.
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  If you're doing, lots of therapy over
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  lots of years,
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  that I am a sensitive person to,
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  like, kind of my gastrointestinal system
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  seems to go a little bit psycho
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  when I'm emotional.
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  So when my emotions are really stressed
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  or when I'm anxious about,
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  for example, scans coming
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  up, my stomach starts to hurt
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  and it's a very local spot.
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  But one of the other things that I loved
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  about my Reiki sessions
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  with the local gals that I go and see,
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  is that I,
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  you know, similar to you,
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  I can go into this
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  and sometimes I haven't even told her
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  what's been going on,
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  and she will ask me questions
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  and she'll be like, hey, so you know,
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  this area of your body
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  is talking like,
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  this is this is kind of the energy
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  we're feeling from you.
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  What's going on?
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  And then I'll tell her and she's like,
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  okay, that makes sense.
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  And so it's just been this kind of way
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  for me to get in tune personally
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  with how my body is feeling,
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  but also, what I've loved
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  with the sound healing
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  aspect of it, of adding
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  that in, is that
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  I feel like I can feel
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  kind of my, my feelings.
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  I feel the physical manifests
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  of my feelings in my body,
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  and I can feel it move
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  when I do the sound healing.
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  And so it's such a unique experience
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  and it literally just is energizing.
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  And also,
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  I feel like,
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  helps me a lot
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  with just handling the emotions
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  of a cancer diagnosis
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  that I get to deal with
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  on a personal level.
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  I think that's great.
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  And and, you know,
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  the things that you experienced
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  are very typical.
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  Lots of people will feel,
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  will feel heat or tingling or movement
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  in their bodies.
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  And then, of course,
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  some people don't feel anything
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  but that that doesn't mean
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  it hasn't been effective.
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  You know, sometimes I mean, I've had
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  so I've been practicing these therapies
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  for many, many years.
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  And, sometimes I've had sessions
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  where I didn't really feel
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  anything at the time.
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  But later
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  I noticed, oh my gosh,
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  I am so much calmer.
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  I feel so much better.
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  My headache is gone.
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  So it's it varies from person to person.
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  But I think you really,
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  you know, your
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  your experience is pretty typical.
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  Oh, and sometimes I think also there's
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  this emotional release, right.
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  Sometimes you can have like days later,
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  you know, like
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  I just remember a recent session
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  where I went in
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  and I had had kind of
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  an emotional thing happen
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  with, a fellow cancer patient
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  and just a friend.
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  And I went in feeling
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  kind of heavy
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  and weighed down by that, left
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  feeling so much better energized.
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  And then the next day
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  I was just crying all day long,
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  and it took me a couple minutes
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  to realize,
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  like, oh,
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  this is that emotional release
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  that I released everything yesterday.
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  And so it was
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  it was a good awareness moment.
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  Well,
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  and sometimes that happens in a session,
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  I mean, not not terribly often, but,
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  you know, it can,
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  you know,
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  someone will just have a release
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  right there
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  while they're receiving the session.
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  And that's great.
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  We always
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  we say those are just,
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  you know, tears of release.
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  Those are great. Yeah, yeah.
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  I, I joke, I cry a lot,
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  but I am so productive.
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  All right. It's great.
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  Meghan, do you want to
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  do you want to take over here
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  and chat with us,
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  chat with our audience about like, spark?
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  Yeah, absolutely.
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  Sandy,
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  can you tell us more about life spark.
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  When when did it start
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  and how did it come about?
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  So life's
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  work has been around for 19 years
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  and I can hardly believe it anyway.
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  yeah,
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  we started,
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  with a group of us
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  that were practicing, Reiki,
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  and then we added Healing Touch.
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  Now we actually
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  we started with healing touch
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  me, added Reiki,
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  because those are the two modalities
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  we have the most right here
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  in the, in the Denver market.
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  We, we serve that we started in,
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  you know, Denver up
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  along the Front Range,
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  you know, all the way up to Loveland.
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  And now we're Fort Collins,
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  a little bit down to Colorado Springs.
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  and we did this for many, many years.
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  And then of course, Covid happened and we
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  these were all hands on sessions.
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  These were all, you know,
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  where you go in,
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  you lie down on a massage table,
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  someone places their hands on your body,
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  moves their hands down
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  your body or up your body,
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  whichever modality it is.
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  And, you know, you just relax.
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  You're laying there. It's great.
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  But during the Covid,
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  of course, we had to change
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  because, you know,
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  we couldn't
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  do the hands on sessions anymore
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  to keep here for everybody safe.
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  And so we started doing remote sessions.
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  And of course,
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  as I mentioned,
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  I've been I've been practicing Reiki for
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  35,
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  35 years and healing Touch for 25 years.
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  And during that time
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  I have always done remote sessions.
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  It's just something that we learn
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  when we learn these therapies,
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  but we never use them in life.
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  Spark
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  because they're kind of hard to explain.
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  I didn't know
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  if people would be willing to try them,
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  but we had no choice.
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  So we switched
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  and we found out that, people actually
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  really like them.
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  They get great results from them.
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  and so now we have both
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  we have a remote program
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  and we have an in-person program,
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  and it's fantastic to have both.
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  but I also wanted to say that we,
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  have three,
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  three different things
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  that we do in life.
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  Spark.
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  well, I mean, we do the same thing,
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  Reiki and Healing Touch,
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  but three different programs.
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  The first one, of course,
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  is our in-person hands on program.
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  And this is for eight weeks
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  for 4 to 8 weeks,
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  where we give people a session
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  every week.
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  You're matched with one person,
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  the same person.
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  Every week
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  you show up and and it's eight weeks.
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  And sometimes it's longer than that.
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  If people have,
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  you know, like stage
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  four cancer or something.
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  but then we
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  also and
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  the second program
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  is the remote remote program
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  that I just told you about.
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  But the third program
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  is our hospital program.
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  We work out of five
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  hospitals up and down the Front Range.
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  That's amazing.
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  So awesome.
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  You're helping so many people.
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  So what? It
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  what if somebody wants to be a provider?
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  Are you looking for providers?
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  We are definitely looking for providers.
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  What's happened is
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  as as the word has gotten out
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  and people have learned about us,
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  we've actually developed
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  some waiting lists,
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  especially for our in-person sessions.
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  yeah, we are,
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  but but we need providers
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  even if they're not local.
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  so yes, to become a life
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  support provider,
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  you need to be trained in Reiki
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  and or healing touch.
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  You need to have taken
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  two levels of training.
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  So Reiki second degree
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  or healing touch level two.
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  and you need to have done 50 sessions.
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  So you've practiced them and you,
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  you know them and you're familiar and
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  and then we have an 18 hour
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  training program that you go through.
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  and then you become
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  a volunteer in life spark
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  and you can begin
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  working with the amazing cancer
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  patients that we work
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  with in our program.
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  Yeah, we have, we have
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  we have, at any given time,
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  we probably have
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  at least 50 people
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  that are giving sessions in our program.
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  So we have a lot of providers
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  and it's a great community.
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  It's it's fun and it's great.
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  And it's a really cool community
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  to belong to.
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  All right.
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  So Sandy, I'm
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  so excited to hear
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  from some of the patients themselves
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  that you have testimonials from.
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  So do you want to go ahead
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  and just read us 2
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  or 3 of the patients for sure.
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  I'd love to.
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  okay. So this one is from Jamie.
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  She's a breast cancer survivor.
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  It was such a wonderful feeling
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  to feel my nervous system
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  deeply relaxed
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  during the sessions
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  and after, like, truly, profoundly relax.
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  What a gift it is with all of the stress
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  of the cancer diagnosis.
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  Thank you
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  for offering this important service
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  to our community.
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  And then I've got another one.
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  this is from Robin,
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  who has metastatic cancer.
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  This program
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  initially lifted me out of depression
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  and despair.
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  As I have continued,
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  it has been instrumental in helping
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  with my stress
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  and anxiety and my pain as well.
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  And then this third one is from Herbert,
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  who has advanced sarcoma.
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  If I don't get my life
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  sparked treatment every week, I can tell
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  my spirit needs it,
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  my body needs it, my mind needs it.
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  Reiki has given me the will
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  to stay here, fight my disease, and live
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  so beautiful.
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  Megan, you were telling me about this
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  breast cancer survivor that you know
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  who has also done Reiki.
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  So do you want to just tell us a little
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  about that story as well?
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  Yeah.
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  One of my good friends,
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  she had a double mastectomy
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  and a reconstructive surgery
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  all in one surgery.
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  And so you can imagine
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  she was in quite a lot of pain.
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  And, another friend of mine
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  who did the Reiki level
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  one class with me,
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  we went over to her house
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  and we did Reiki with her,
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  and we were able to bring her pain level
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  down to a zero.
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  And we're just two little level ones.
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  We, you know, we're brand new at this,
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  and we were still able
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  to get her down to a zero.
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  And we did it a couple times.
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  We did it remote actually,
• 13:46
  which was kind of interesting
• 13:47
  to see if we could do it.
• 13:48
  And she said it didn't work.
• 13:50
  So that was really very cool.
• 13:53
  one thing
• 13:53
  that was really interesting to me
• 13:55
  was one day that we did it,
• 13:56
  we had gotten her pain level
• 13:57
  down to a zero,
• 13:58
  and her daughter came in
• 14:00
  and was, upset about something.
• 14:01
  And she said
• 14:02
  as soon as the stress hit her,
• 14:04
  all the pain came flooding back.
• 14:08
  So I just thought that was
• 14:09
  really interesting.
• 14:11
  So her daughter
• 14:12
  probably needed a session to.
• 14:14
  Yeah, I think so.
• 14:16
  So we did distance
• 14:17
  Reiki for the children. Right.
• 14:19
  Let's do distance
• 14:19
  Reiki on the children placed
• 14:22
  on the caregivers as well.
• 14:23
  oh my goodness.
• 14:24
  So this is so good.
• 14:25
  And I feel like there's going to be
• 14:26
  lots of questions that come in.
• 14:27
  So let's just kind of cover some of
• 14:28
  maybe the commonly asked questions around
• 14:31
  life spark, Reiki and healing touch.
• 14:33
  So one thing that came to mind for me
• 14:35
  is that, if we were going to try
• 14:36
  and explain
• 14:36
  this really succinctly to someone like
• 14:40
  it is, is touch, like you mentioned,
• 14:42
  healing touch,
• 14:43
  and I know that some people
• 14:44
  might be a little uncomfortable
• 14:45
  with like somebody touching them.
• 14:46
  So in a Reiki or healing
• 14:47
  touch session, is physically touching
• 14:49
  the person
• 14:50
  always necessary or like,
• 14:52
  is it always a part
• 14:53
  of an in-person session?
• 14:54
  How does that work?
• 14:56
  So I mean, that's a great question.
• 14:58
  I mean, yes, I mean yes and no.
• 15:00
  And it's kind of up to the person.
• 15:03
  I mean,
• 15:04
  you don't have to have touch
• 15:05
  because obviously it works remotely.
• 15:07
  So if you're if you're sensitive to touch
• 15:10
  or if you have a lot of pain,
• 15:11
  like, for example,
• 15:12
  if you have a port and you know, it's
• 15:13
  painful there or something,
• 15:15
  we don't have to touch that area
• 15:17
  or lots of times
• 15:18
  we will,
• 15:18
  you know, we'll sandwich an area
• 15:20
  or, you know,
• 15:20
  put our hands above and below.
• 15:22
  We do that a lot with breast cancer.
• 15:24
  or if you have a surgery site, same thing
• 15:26
  we can do.
• 15:26
  Hands off or hands on in life spark.
• 15:29
  We always we really prefer to do hands on
• 15:31
  if we're if it's an in-person session,
• 15:33
  just because we find that so many people
• 15:35
  don't get a lot of touch,
• 15:37
  you know, they get medical touch,
• 15:38
  which is fine.
• 15:39
  That's nothing wrong with that.
• 15:41
  But they don't necessarily
• 15:42
  get a lot of compassionate,
• 15:44
  what I would call loving touch, you know?
• 15:46
  So so we
• 15:46
  we really prefer to do hands on
• 15:49
  if we're in the
• 15:49
  same room with the person.
• 15:52
  I think that's such a
• 15:53
  beautiful, way to illustrate that.
• 15:55
  All right, so, Megan, I'm
• 15:55
  going to let you take the next question.
• 15:57
  All right.
• 15:58
  So the next question I have is
• 15:59
  if I wanted to try life's art,
• 16:01
  how long would I have to wait?
• 16:04
  So it depends.
• 16:05
  it depends on where you live
• 16:06
  and if you want in-person
• 16:07
  or remote sessions.
• 16:08
  So if you are,
• 16:09
  if you're looking for remote sessions,
• 16:11
  we usually match people
• 16:12
  within 2 to 3 weeks.
• 16:14
  we don't really have
• 16:14
  much of a waitlist there. There's that.
• 16:17
  It takes some time to get things set up
• 16:18
  and so forth.
• 16:19
  If you live in an area
• 16:20
  with a really high demand,
• 16:22
  like right now
• 16:23
  in the Denver, right in the Denver area,
• 16:25
  oh my gosh, it's many, many months.
• 16:26
  I'm almost kind of embarrassed to say it,
• 16:29
  but it's true,
• 16:30
  because we're working so hard
• 16:31
  to get that waiting list down.
• 16:33
  but if, for example,
• 16:34
  if you're in Loveland,
• 16:35
  you know, there's no waiting list.
• 16:36
  So it just depends on the
• 16:38
  the area that you live
• 16:39
  and what you're looking for.
• 16:41
  It can be anything from
• 16:42
  a few weeks to many months.
• 16:45
  So if life's work has a
• 16:46
  long wait and I want to get in
• 16:48
  with a local Reiki
• 16:49
  provider in my area,
• 16:50
  how would I find one?
• 16:52
  So okay, there's lots of ways.
• 16:54
  I mean, first of all, there's
• 16:55
  a couple of websites,
• 16:56
  Healing Beyond Borders and Healing
• 17:00
  Touch program.
• 17:01
  Those are two websites
• 17:02
  that both list practitioners
• 17:04
  that practice healing touch.
• 17:06
  I think they only list,
• 17:07
  certified practitioners.
• 17:09
  and but they have them
• 17:10
  all over the country
• 17:11
  so you can find somebody
• 17:13
  no matter where you live.
• 17:15
  and then, of course,
• 17:16
  you can also do
• 17:16
  remote sessions for Reiki.
• 17:18
  it's it's not as generalized.
• 17:20
  There's record, that's one one website,
• 17:23
  but there are lots of people
• 17:25
  that have their own individual websites.
• 17:26
  So you could just search on the internet
• 17:28
  for Reiki or Healing Touch.
• 17:30
  And then of course, I have
• 17:31
  I suggest,
• 17:33
  that,
• 17:33
  you know, that if you find someone
• 17:35
  you do
• 17:35
  look for their website
• 17:37
  and see what they say
• 17:38
  and see if it feels right,
• 17:40
  see if they're
• 17:41
  making extravagant promises
• 17:43
  or if they're, you know,
• 17:44
  being pretty realistic
• 17:44
  about what to expect.
• 17:45
  And just does it feel right to you?
• 17:47
  I mean, does it
• 17:48
  does it feel like you have
• 17:49
  a connection with them?
• 17:50
  Just use your instincts,
• 17:52
  your gut instincts about
• 17:54
  who's the right practitioner to
• 17:56
  be matched with.
• 17:59
  Definitely.
• 18:00
  That makes so much sense,
• 18:01
  and you'll know right away
• 18:02
  if the energy is fits
• 18:04
  or if it doesn't fit,
• 18:05
  you'll be able to tell.
• 18:06
  Yeah, absolutely.
• 18:08
  Yeah.
• 18:09
  Trust, trust your instincts.
• 18:12
  And I think it's really unique to like,
• 18:13
  I know in my experience
• 18:14
  and I'm sure this has been a little bit
• 18:15
  of Meghan's experience, too,
• 18:17
  that when you start
• 18:18
  looking for this kind of thing,
• 18:19
  it's almost kind of like the energy.
• 18:21
  I feel like the energy of the universe
• 18:22
  just kind of delivers.
• 18:24
  And so like when I started searching
• 18:26
  specifically for a Reiki
• 18:28
  sound healer, like a Reiki provider
• 18:30
  plus sound healer,
• 18:32
  it was like connection
• 18:33
  after connection after connection
• 18:35
  was able to point me
• 18:36
  in the right direction
• 18:37
  and link me up with the gal
• 18:38
  that I've been working with
• 18:38
  for over a year.
• 18:39
  So it's just amazing
• 18:40
  how the universe can deliver
• 18:41
  when you start looking
• 18:42
  and you're just aware
• 18:43
  of what you're looking for.
• 18:45
  Absolutely. That's great. Yeah.
• 18:50
  So, Megan,
• 18:51
  what if they want to be like you?
• 18:52
  What if they want to do
• 18:53
  Reiki to themselves
• 18:55
  instead of going to see a provider?
• 18:56
  How do you become a level one provider?
• 18:58
  And, Sandy, Megan,
• 18:59
  I think both of you
• 19:00
  could probably answer this.
• 19:02
  I'll let Sandy take it.
• 19:04
  Yeah.
• 19:05
  Well,
• 19:05
  so I, I think it's fantastic
• 19:08
  if people can learn, Reiki
• 19:09
  or Healing Touch for themselves.
• 19:10
  I mean, I give myself, energy work
• 19:13
  all the time.
• 19:14
  It's such an easy way
• 19:15
  to just keep myself calm
• 19:17
  and balanced and healthy.
• 19:18
  And, you know, it's
• 19:19
  it's not hard to learn.
• 19:21
  I mean it, you know, you have to
• 19:23
  you have to take classes and
• 19:24
  and you have to practice and use it.
• 19:27
  But why not learn it for yourself?
• 19:29
  Because then you have your hands
• 19:31
  that are just free.
• 19:32
  You know,
• 19:32
  you can use it any time you want.
• 19:34
  And and then you can also
• 19:36
  still get sessions from other people.
• 19:38
  I mean, I know
• 19:38
  lots of people that do that.
• 19:40
  They they learn it for themselves,
• 19:41
  but they also go.
• 19:42
  They receive life spark sessions or they
• 19:44
  go to somebody else.
• 19:46
  It's great.
• 19:48
  Highly recommend.
• 19:48
  It. So incredible.
• 19:50
  That's incredible. On my to do list.
• 19:52
  Yeah.
• 19:54
  One of my friends who took a level
• 19:56
  one with the one that I mentioned before,
• 19:57
  she actually does it on her dogs
• 19:59
  and her at home to her dogs down,
• 20:00
  and they love it,
• 20:02
  so you can even use it on your pets.
• 20:05
  You can also use it on your plants.
• 20:06
  Although I,
• 20:07
  I never get around to doing that.
• 20:08
  Unfortunately, my.
• 20:09
  I have a plan that's pet need.
• 20:12
  Okay. Yeah.
• 20:14
  Good to know.
• 20:15
  All right.
• 20:16
  So Sandy,
• 20:17
  what is the process
• 20:18
  if somebody is looking to try
• 20:19
  life spark resources.
• 20:20
  What's the process for
• 20:21
  if they want to go and try this.
• 20:24
  so just go to our website and,
• 20:26
  look under get in.
• 20:27
  I think it's get involved
• 20:28
  and there's a place,
• 20:29
  become a live spark provider
• 20:31
  and it
• 20:31
  just walks you through all the steps.
• 20:33
  You fill out an enrollment form.
• 20:35
  you know, I will
• 20:36
  I will call you and talk to you,
• 20:39
  which is one of my favorite things to do.
• 20:40
  I love talking to providers
• 20:42
  or prospective providers.
• 20:44
  and then, you you,
• 20:45
  participate in one of our trainings.
• 20:47
  We have a training coming up.
• 20:49
  There's one in July.
• 20:50
  There's one in November.
• 20:51
  We do like 3 or 4 a year, sometimes three
• 20:55
  a year.
• 20:55
  they sometimes they fill up.
• 20:57
  So you want to get on the list early?
• 21:00
  there is a cost for that, but
• 21:02
  most of that cost is refunded
• 21:04
  after you've delivered,
• 21:05
  12 sessions in life. Spark.
• 21:08
  so that that's it.
• 21:09
  I mean, it's it's not hard. It's,
• 21:12
  you just have to go through the steps
• 21:13
  and it's all on our website.
• 21:15
  life spark
• 21:18
  now.org life spark now that org.
• 21:21
  Okay, so if I am a patient
• 21:23
  and I want to sign up for a life
• 21:25
  spark session with a provider
• 21:26
  who does Reiki and Healing touch,
• 21:28
  how would I do that?
• 21:30
  So you just go to our website.
• 21:31
  it's pretty easy.
• 21:32
  it's right there.
• 21:33
  It's, you know, sign up for sessions,
• 21:35
  and you just fill out the form.
• 21:37
  It's pretty short.
• 21:38
  And then, within a few days, usually,
• 21:41
  our program director will call you
• 21:42
  and just get
• 21:43
  a little bit more information,
• 21:44
  and then we'll get you in the queue
• 21:46
  and get you set up to receive
• 21:48
  sessions is pretty easy.
• 21:50
  What can I expect?
• 21:51
  Like if I go to, say, a live session
• 21:53
  or a virtual session,
• 21:54
  what are some of the things
• 21:55
  that I should expect
• 21:56
  as far as sensations, feelings,
• 21:58
  kind of how I might go into this
• 21:59
  feeling versus when I come out.
• 22:02
  So if you
• 22:03
  come to a live spark session,
• 22:04
  if it's an in-person session,
• 22:05
  you'll go to a location.
• 22:07
  We all of our locations are are places
• 22:09
  that, people donate space to us.
• 22:11
  We are in churches, we are in spas.
• 22:14
  We are in massage
• 22:15
  studios, chiropractor offices.
• 22:18
  you'll show up, you'll, the practitioner
• 22:20
  or the provider will do a short
• 22:22
  intake interview
• 22:23
  with you to learn more about,
• 22:25
  you know, what your needs are
• 22:26
  and where you're at
• 22:27
  in your cancer journey.
• 22:29
  and then you'll you'll lie
• 22:30
  on a massage table, fully clothed.
• 22:34
  And the practitioner
• 22:35
  will gently place their hands
• 22:36
  on various places in your body.
• 22:39
  it usually takes
• 22:40
  a not quite an hour, about an hour.
• 22:42
  And then when you're done,
• 22:43
  they'll just say, hey,
• 22:43
  we're done, and you'll get up
• 22:45
  and they'll check in with you
• 22:46
  to see how you're doing.
• 22:47
  And then you
• 22:48
  then you're done until the next session.
• 22:50
  If it's a remote session, you will do it.
• 22:53
  you will sign up.
• 22:54
  the practitioner will contact you.
• 22:56
  You will connect by zoom
• 22:57
  so that you can see each other,
• 22:59
  so you can make the connection again.
• 23:01
  They will do a short intake interview
• 23:02
  with you
• 23:03
  to kind of
• 23:03
  find out what your needs are,
• 23:05
  what your where you're at
• 23:06
  in your cancer journey,
• 23:07
  and then they'll ask you
• 23:08
  to go and lie down and take your computer
• 23:10
  or your phone with you,
• 23:11
  because we play guided imagery
• 23:13
  during the sessions.
• 23:14
  And that's because it's
• 23:15
  first of all, guided
• 23:16
  imagery is fantastic.
• 23:17
  If you're not familiar with it.
• 23:19
  It's just like someone
• 23:20
  walking you through
• 23:21
  some guided, image images
• 23:23
  that you follow.
• 23:24
  but it gives you something
• 23:25
  positive to focus on.
• 23:27
  And, is really helpful.
• 23:28
  So you focus on that
• 23:30
  while the practitioner,
• 23:31
  the provider,
• 23:32
  the Life Spark Reiki,
• 23:33
  your healing touch provider,
• 23:34
  then does a full remote
• 23:36
  Reiki or Healing touch session for you.
• 23:39
  And then when you're done,
• 23:41
  they will check back in and say, hey,
• 23:43
  you know, we're done with our session,
• 23:44
  how are you doing?
• 23:45
  And they'll check in and then you're
• 23:47
  and then you're done
• 23:48
  until the next session.
• 23:51
  I think that's so beautifully stated.
• 23:53
  So Megan, I'm
• 23:55
  just going to put you on the spot here.
• 23:56
  and I am just curious
• 23:58
  if you were just
• 23:59
  maybe to,
• 24:00
  you know, give someone,
• 24:00
  an advertisement for, like,
• 24:02
  why do Reiki like, what's
• 24:03
  what's your biggest reason personally why
• 24:05
  someone should participate
• 24:06
  in a Reiki healing session
• 24:07
  or healing touch?
• 24:09
  Oh, that is putting me on the spot.
• 24:12
  I would say why not?
• 24:13
  Why not?
• 24:14
  What do you have to lose?
• 24:16
  you know,
• 24:16
  you've heard some good stories today
• 24:18
  about how it does work.
• 24:20
  personally, I feel it,
• 24:22
  I feel tingles,
• 24:23
  so I knew instantly
• 24:24
  it was working because I could feel it.
• 24:26
  And then I felt all the benefits later.
• 24:28
  So I think the biggest thing I would say
• 24:30
  is just try it.
• 24:31
  And, it can't do anything negative.
• 24:34
  There's no harm that can come from it.
• 24:35
  You have nothing to lose.
• 24:36
  And even if you don't feel the tingles
• 24:38
  and stuff, just be aware of your body
• 24:42
  and kind of see how you feel
• 24:43
  the next day or two,
• 24:44
  because not everyone does feel it.
• 24:46
  But for me,
• 24:46
  I think it was such an instant connection
• 24:48
  because I could feel it
• 24:50
  and I knew it was working.
• 24:51
  And so now when I do it, I mean, I
• 24:54
  if I'm talking about Reiki,
• 24:56
  my palms will start to tingle now
• 24:58
  because I've just become accustomed
• 25:00
  to that.
• 25:01
  But, yeah, I mean, you just you
• 25:03
  you sleep better, you're calmer,
• 25:05
  you feel centered.
• 25:05
  There's just a lot more
• 25:06
  of a peaceful feeling.
• 25:07
  And there's no negative side effects
• 25:10
  that can come from it.
• 25:11
  So why not try it?
• 25:12
  That's that's what I would say. Why not?
• 25:14
  Yeah, I love that.
• 25:18
  Go ahead Sandy.
• 25:19
  And I would say, that is a fantastic way
• 25:22
  to help you feel better without drugs.
• 25:25
  and again, sometimes,
• 25:27
  sometimes we need drugs.
• 25:28
  But but, you know,
• 25:29
  this is a wellness
• 25:31
  therapy that can help you
• 25:32
  with stress, depression, pain and,
• 25:35
  you know,
• 25:36
  you don't have the side effects of drugs.
• 25:37
  So it's fantastic
• 25:38
  because it supports your whole body,
• 25:40
  brings you back into balance, helps
• 25:42
  you feel better.
• 25:43
  And it's totally natural.
• 25:45
  Like Sandy said earlier,
• 25:46
  you can head to the resource.
• 25:48
  You can follow their website at
• 25:50
  GoodLife spark now.org.
• 25:53
  And again
• 25:54
  we'll link that in the show notes.
• 25:55
  And if you guys haven't been convinced
• 25:57
  already to just give this a shot
• 25:59
  or find a local provider in your area,
• 26:00
  learn to do this for yourself.
• 26:02
  This is such a unique way to,
• 26:04
  I think, like you said, to
• 26:05
  just have that whole body wellness,
• 26:06
  without the negative side effects
• 26:08
  that can come with medicines
• 26:09
  and things like that.
• 26:10
  So what do we have to lose?
• 26:10
  Right.
• 26:11
  Sandy, is there anything you want to
• 26:12
  end with before we close out?
• 26:15
  Well, I'm just so grateful
• 26:16
  that you, reached out
• 26:17
  to, offer this opportunity
• 26:19
  for us to talk about life
• 26:20
  spark on your show.
• 26:21
  I mean,
• 26:21
  I think that so many people benefit
• 26:23
  from what we do, and we just,
• 26:25
  you know, want to be able to extend
• 26:27
  the benefits to as many people as we can.
• 26:29
  It's great.
• 26:31
  It is absolutely wonderful.
• 26:32
  Sandy, thank you so much for being here.
• 26:33
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