For the last 1.5 I've had a repetitive stress injury on my hands, shoulders and arms, which has prevented me from being fully functional. It has prevented me from working with my hands and made it difficult to work in a lab, on the computer, or to cook and do stuff around the house as much as I want/need to. Acupuncture, as always, came to rescue at first and was effective to a large degree, but not enough to do as much as a normal healthy person. I should say my housemates have been extremely supportive and understanding about housework and hosting duties.
Recently, I was interpreting for an old Russian woman who was a reiki practitioner, and I thought I've got nothing to lose if I try this. She waived her hands around me during our first session and explained to me that the human energy system is something that was left out of medical textbooks, but is just as important the cardiovascular, resporatory, nervous or any other system. I'm a believer in alternative medicine, so I kept coming. During out subsequent visits she kept working in redistributing my bioenergy and also did some manual chiropractic adjustments. I only saw her 3 times and I was feeling so much better! I could actually do dishes and work on the computer for periods of time. I even went bowling, and even though may arm was sore afterwards, I fully recovered by the next day. I was recently doing some temp office work, and by the 4th day, my wrists and arms were killing me. I went back to her, and I felt better immediately, and I'm still going to see her. She says I need to keep going a little longer to make a full recovery, and this is just fine with me.
This physical handicap has been preventing me from doing the kind of work I was trained to do, which is to work in a lab, or anything else other than medical interpreting, which is what I resorted to for scraping a living for the last 1.5years. Now that this is slowly being lifted and interpreting work is becoming more and more scarce, I'm faced with needing to look for real work. I'm still not used to not having to think about my limitations, and while I'm still not sure I should work in a lab again, but I need to figure what I want to do "when I grow up." I would love to be able to heal people the way she does, but this requires some abilities that one is born with, meaning being able to sense other people's energies, as well actual training in reiki. Acupuncture is something that has interested me since my first injury 4 years ago, as it helped me when nothing else did. It's amazing what reiki and acupuncture can do when Western medicine can't! I meet so many people that I think she could help if she had her own practice, the options for older people really suck these days, with harsh drugs that often make them worse.
This requires some prereqs on my part and 2-3 years for a Master's Degree in Acupuncture at an expensive private university in Seattle. And afterwards, the ability to pull off a private practice. And a whole lot of courage and belief in myself, which I'm still working up to.
Really all of us here at Moishe House Seattle are at a similar crossroads professionally and personally. The future is in our hands, and we'll see what we make of it...
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