Not sure where to put this one, but here goes...

I have a co-worker that just seems to be out to get me. Oddly enough, we used to be pretty good friends. We worked together in the consulting division of our company and she got a job opportunity a few years ago in the tax division. Eventually she got me into the group too and it seemed like a good deal at the time. However, we went from being peers to her eventually managing me, and that's where the trouble started.

I know that power can go to people's heads and change them. I just have never witnessed a change that profound in someone, and then had that antagonism directed at me. My day job is stressful enough as it is but she seems intent on making it even harder for me to function, and I don't know why. I actually report to a different manager now, but am still dealing with this constant stress from her. If I could quit my job, I would, but I have a family to support and the job market in my field is not exactly hopping.

I try to do the Reiki spiritual protection work I was taught, and I have a friend of mine who can communicate with angels who advised me to call upon Archangel Michael frequently because she said I would need additional spiritual protection. I feel like I need something more. I'm so stressed out and feel constantly drained. It's been very hard to focus on my job the way I need to because of all this too.

I know I need to get out of this job environment, have known it for some time. Other opportunties have not opened up yet because of the economy. I have my Reiki business, which is a blessing, but I do not make enough to live on that, along with my husband's salary.

Does anyone have suggestions of additional spiritual protection work I can do?

Jeepers, this sounds like a real though time for you, . i'll answer partly form my own view, and partly from practical advice you'd probably be more in tune with, .

Dragonfly wrote:
I try to do the Reiki spiritual protection work I was taught, and I have a friend of mine who can communicate with angels who advised me to call upon Archangel Michael frequently because she said I would need additional spiritual protection. I feel like I need something more. I'm so stressed out and feel constantly drained. It's been very hard to focus on my job the way I need to because of all this too.

Ok, . I really know where you're coming from. And before i go on, even folks from Reiki4All may remember my own lengthy accounts of 'demonic possession' i posted. SO i'm only purely going from personal experience with this.

If a person feels they need protection, as in - the multitude of things available, then in my own experience, their reality will show itself in such a way as it will reinforce that. It's actually fear. We're afraid of something, and seek protection. Maybe not one thing, we look for & more. This feeds our fear, and in many ways, confidence about ourselves. Again, this is my own expereince.

For me, it culminated in what i thought was demonic possesion. Two psychics, one a professional, both friends from Reiki4All, both agreed independately that this was so.

They weren't telling lies. It was true for them. They expected to see that, so they did. They told me, then everything that happened was down to possession. Looking at it now, the events could easily be said to be something else.

Freinds privately advised me of other ways to look at it. One woman in particular, kept saying she doesn't use protection in Reiki. I couldn't understand this. My reality was we'd be assailed daily be forces unseen if we didn't use something. I decided to test this. Although i'd just come through (what i thought) a terrible ordeal, i knew she meant what she said. So i stopped using all forms of protection. And taught that way also. That's about 18 months or 2 years ago now maybe. I neve3r have a problem.

This is because, there's a constant field of 'Reiki' around me at all times. What i done was recoqnise that, and i'm aware of it. Nothing can, and nothing does, penetrate that. Takata sensei said as much also.

I understand this person may be acting in not nice ways, but you feeling you are under attack is stressing you at work, maybe playing on your mind at home, and generally affecting your life. What is it some say bout fear? It's not real, it's imagined. I'm not there watching what's going on, but it's quite possible, that if you feel you're under attack, absolutely anything that happens may be viewed as such, and this makes things look worse. Possibly, uneccessarily. .

Folks like David Wilcox expound this belief also. If, we feel we are under attack form another, and feel fear, etc, we may actually be inadvertently be feeding theri energy. David is a better mind than me on this, i'm just repeating his stuff.

Dragonfly wrote:
Does anyone have suggestions of additional spiritual protection work I can do?

here's the practical stuff anyhow, .

Crystals. dunno if you're into them, hehe. Even this s0 called 'puritan' has quite a few around him even now (though not for protection), hehe. Get some:-

Quartz
Turquoise
Lapis lazuli
Black onyx
Amethyst
Jade
A medicine pouch .

All these are good for protection, course, you mightn't be able to carry them about at work? I would've carried Black Onyx about. Amethyst is good also. Cleanse them in salt water, or leave out overnight in moonlight. Reiki them also before you but them back into pouch would be good!

This is a Quantum touch technique. It'll raise your energy if you're feeling drained. From below your feet, in the ground, when you breathe in, imagine 'energy' coming up through your feet, in small circular motion. Whilst continuing to inhale, visualise the energy reaching your head, to coincide with your full in-breath. Now on the outbreath, visualise the energy going down your head, into your shoulders, and to the tips of your hands, to coincide with the full out-breath. repeat this a few times as needed. Do it calmly, and mindfully, so you won't get dizzy. If you did get dizzy, just stop. The energy is always visualised in circular motion. it seems ot move bttter this way.

Another thing to think about. I watched a dvd a few nights ago. A researcher had discovered that the feeling of gratitude is the most potent force in existence. He found it could actually reconstruct bad DNA. I can't remember the terms. Gratitude is very close to us within Reiki anyhow. I havn't tired this on any situation, but maybe changing your internal reaction from fear/apprehension/anxiety toward this person, to gratitude, perhaps this might workk a miracle.

Anyhow, please keep us informed, .

Take care
Wayne

Thanks Wayne, all very helpful!

Folks like David Wilcox expound this belief also. If, we feel we are under attack form another, and feel fear, etc, we may actually be inadvertently be feeding theri energy. David is a better mind than me on this, i'm just repeating his stuff.

I do agree that we often inadertently feed other people's energy if we feel we are under attack or feel fear because of them. It's just an easy thing to let go of. Sometimes not fighting back is the best medicine but sometimes people are so aggressive because they fear YOU that the only thing you can do (besides pray and trust in the Reiki energy that surrounds you, which I try to do)is to limit involvement wherever possible. Some people are just that toxic.

Sounds like as your talking through this the answers are surfacing.

To add to what Milarepa has expressed, I would suggest that you start
your day as soon as you wake up with an image of someone /thing that
makes you smile. During your workday bring that image forth when you
feel the need to get out of your job environment. If I remember you
like to do visualizations this would be a perfect opportunity to create
or change your environment through visuals. Changing your self talk
would also help.

Thank you both!

I was able to at least temporarily resolve my immediate situation, with the help of my manager yesterday (and lots of prayer, and Reiki!) One of the things I did on a call that I had with this co-worker was remain emotionally neutral during a discussion where she was trying to assert the upper hand, and it clearly threw her off-balance. She had no choice but to conduct the rest of the call in a more subdued and cooperative manner. I felt more empowered because I had prayed and gave myself Reiki right before the call. I don't know that this will solve the issue completely, because she is who she is, but I do feel better knowing that Reiki is within me and surrounds me. I just have to keep reminding myself of that.

Great! This looks like a real positive development, and it's really verification in a way of what folks like David wilcox say, imo. I'm so pleased for you, and dare i say it, i get the feeling (and hope) that this new expereince will snowball. Totally changing the reality of the whole thing.

Fantastic news!

thanks for the update, ,
wayne

I was able to at least temporarily resolve my immediate situation, with the help of my manager yesterday (and lots of prayer, and Reiki!) One of the things I did on a call that I had with this co-worker was remain emotionally neutral during a discussion where she was trying to assert the upper hand, and it clearly threw her off-balance.

GO DRAGON!!

Sounds like this woman has some real insecurities and feels extremely threatened by you.

Sometimes the best way to address people like this is to confront them outright and ask them why they are acting the way they are towards you..
But this is easy for me to say cos I am quite a confrontational kinda gal.

and Hellooooo Wayne, I finally made it here!!

OMG! About bleeding time you made it here Sharon! Warm Welcome.

BTW, after sharon & I debating on Reiki4all bout protection (she said it wasn't needed, i stubbornly argued it was), i decided to see what she was talking bout.

Two years later, i still havn't used protection (still got only two kids, hehe!), and i'm pefectly fine!

Many thanks,
Wayne

hehe..perhaps we should call you Jaffa...

and it's been two years!!??!!

Shakti ~ Rising wrote:hehe..perhaps we should call you Jaffa...

and it's been two years!!??!!

yeah, think it's two years since i've used protection in Reiki, hehe. Just wanna be clear here!

Think it was from my 'demonic possession' tale on Reiki4all. you'd simply came out and said you never use protection in Reiki, that everything you need you get from God/divinity (whatever term you used).

I thought, 'what the heck, how can that be?'. So tried it out. I'm still alive now, and no 'dark forces' have gave me the cold or anything, hehe.

glad to hear it! and I remember than looooooooooong drawn out thread!! ahahahaha

yeah, it's not like me to do long posts on forums, is it?

I'm slightly more concise now. not much though!

that topic turned into a nightmare itself. Folks in public & private questioning the validity of my expereince, or, my perception of it. It really helped me in my perosnal journey.

Aye!! tis good to have a light shone in the places we don't care to look... it's good to have questioning minds that keep you on your toes...it helps to keep it real..

I read a great quote by Mother Meera about people who question and have doubts...I can't remember how it went but basically she was saying it's healthy to have doubts because it keeps you honest.

I'm married to the most practical and spiritually skeptical man on the planet, it used to drive me mad with frustration but now I see the balance created between us both..he helps keep me honest and I help him explore other possibilities and expand his perceptions a little.... but he would never admit that ahahahah