From My Heart, My Spirit, and My Soul
Julie Russell
ICRT Senior Licensed Reiki Master Teacher
Animal Reiki Master Teacher • Interspecies Communicator
Reiki Verde Valley – Cottonwood, Arizona
Beloved Earth…
Beloved Ones of Wing, Fur, Fin, Root, and Stone…
I enter the quiet. Hands resting… breath soft… Reiki flowing… awareness opening beyond the edges of the body into the living field that holds us all.
And there… I feel you. Not as something outside of me but as the deeper presence within which I exist.
Earth, I feel your ancient heartbeat moving through my bones.
I feel your rivers moving through my breath.
I feel your mountains standing steady within my spine.
I feel your soil, your wind, your sky not around me, but within me.
Animal Kingdom, I feel your silent wisdom.
The gaze of the wild that sees without judgment.
The language of presence that needs no words.
The trust that arises when fear dissolves into stillness.
Through Reiki, the veil becomes thin.
I remember.
I remember that healing was never meant to belong to humans alone.
I remember that life is not divided, but woven.
I remember that the same living light flows through leaf, through paw, through wing, through human heart.
In this remembering, I feel my spirit bow in reverence.
To the animals who have come to me softly, honestly, without masks, you have been my teachers.
You showed me how to be still enough to be felt.
You showed me how to listen without needing answers.
You showed me that love is presence, not action.
To the Earth who has carried me through every season. You have been my foundation.
You taught me steadiness.
You taught me patience.
You taught me that life renews itself in cycles of surrender and return.
To the unseen intelligence that moves through all living things I recognize you.
Not as separate… but as the field of life itself.
When Reiki flows, I no longer feel like a giver.
I feel like a participant in the great circle of life, where healing is simply the natural harmony of life remembering itself.
In that circle, there is no hierarchy.
Human, Animal, Earth, all expressions of one living presence.
And in that knowing, my soul becomes quiet.
Today, I offer Reiki back to you.
To the forests, may your breath remain strong.
To the waters, may your flow remain clear.
To the soil, may life continue to rise from you.
To the animals, may peace surround you and humanity remember how to walk gently beside you.
And to humanity, may we remember we belong.
I walk softly.
I listen deeply.
I remain in devotion to the living web of life.
With love beyond words…
With reverence beyond form…
With unity beyond separation…
I am here.
I remember.
I give thanks.
