Reiki from the Farm™
Reiki from the Farm™
Choose YOU in the Year of the Horse
We welcome you into a New Year’s Reiki Share filled with grounded insight, collective intention-setting, and a deep dive into the spiritual energy of 2026.
Astrologically, 2026 is a turning point — a year ruled by freedom, courage, authenticity, and movement. In the Chinese zodiac, it is the Year of the Horse, a symbol of independence, adventure, and the inner power to reclaim your path. Together, we explore what these energies mean for your life, your healing, your soul purpose, and your relationships.
We talked about:
✨ What 2026 means astrologically
✨ The energetic themes of the Year of the Horse
✨ Where humanity — and each of us individually — are headed this year
✨ How to set intentions that actually stick
✨ The importance of showing up for ourselves
✨ Creating boundaries that serve our highest good
✨ Claiming our time and our lives back
I share about how I spent months putting my life on hold to get a house ready — and the powerful lessons that came from recognizing how often we put other people’s priorities ahead of our own.
Then, a beautiful Reiki meditation helps you step fully into 2026 with clarity, strength, and commitment to your own path.
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Pam Allen-LeBlanc is a scientist, businesswoman, and Licensed Reiki Master Teacher (LRMT) with the International Center for Reiki Training.
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Hi, and welcome to the Reiki from the Farm Podcast, brought to you by me, Pam Allen LeBla from Hidden Brook Farm. I am a scientist, a businesswoman, and a licensed Reiki master teacher with the International Center for Reiki training. Each week in this podcast, you'll be entertained as you learn about a wide variety of relevant Reiki topics helping you become a more knowledgeable and effective Reiki practitioner. We caution you though this podcast may also dramatically improve your life. And we are so happy that you're here. So good evening everyone on January 1st and some of the folks that are joining me here live today just let me know that we are just on the cusp of a full moon. And in fact, I'm going to see if I can get this out to folks on Saturday so that those who couldn't be with us here in person will have an opportunity to go through this podcast and do the exercises on the full moon. And we're actually going to make full use of that full moon energy. And my teacher always said that three days before and three days after the waxing and the waning of the full moon is pretty much the similar or the same energy. And we can see that with the waves the way that we get super high tides and stuff like that. And on the island where we spend some time. Those super moons or the super high tides are really a big thing because we do have the highest tides in the world. So Becky says it's 97% tonight, so beautiful full moon out there. I'm gonna have to go and have a look after after we're done here. But I'm so glad you could join me today and we're recording this live on January 1st. And for those of you who listen later January 3rd, you'll be in the same energy. Or even after that. But I'm so delighted you're here. Usually every Jan early in January, I like to hold a goal setting. Session for people, but this year I decided to amp it up a little or ramp it up a little. This is the year of the horse, and most of you know me. You know that's the horse is my animal. And so this is a big deal for me and especially given the year that I've had, and maybe some of you had a similar type of year. So we are going to be how, looking at how to choose you, how to choose yourself and put yourself, make yourself a priority this year because as many of us are empaths, many of us are caregivers, many of us are looking after the needs of other people on such a regular basis. And it's almost like our go-to setting. And we sometimes forget to. Put ourselves, make ourselves a priority. So before we go begin, I'd just like to let you all know about a really special project my daughter and I have coming up, and it's come together quite a bit. So I'd like to bring everybody up to speed about it. A couple of you were asking ahead of time and one of the things that's become very clear to me this year is that I'm to help people market their Reiki business. And we, my daughter and I put together some courses a while ago that we offered because people have said we'd love people that start their Reiki businesses have said we love. That book the Reiki business book. And now that we've got our businesses started, we could use a little bit of help marketing. So I'm going to be starting two mentoring programs in March of this year. And in fact, the dates are already chosen. And by the time this comes out I will have the dates and I will have a signup link in the newsletter. So if anybody wants to get registered, you can. And so it'll be two concurrent mentoring programs. And the reason that we're doing this is that there will be one program based on the Reiki business book for people who don't have a business yet, or who maybe have a business, but they don't have their website, they don't have anything, they, they're not really set up. They're not seeing clients yet. And so that, that mentoring course will be for people to just really get everything dialed in and tuned in and get started. The second mentoring program is going to be for people who already have a Reiki business. They have a website, and that's important. They're set up, but they want to grow that business. And in fact, it will probably be called grow Your Reiki business or Grow Your Spirit, grow Your Reiki Business, but it will work for any spiritual business. And I've had some people say, look, I, my business, I even though I do some Reiki, I lean more in this other area. That's fine. The, what we're going to be teaching is going to be just as applicable to that as well. And so that course, my daughter will help me teach. She's just finished her MBA, so she's a little more current with some of the technology and some of the things that are available to us than I am. And so I really like to have her her background and knowledge. And also she worked as a copywriter for a while. She works now as a project manager. And so the two of us are going to teach that course together. Both courses will be a six month course, and the cost of the course will be 555. US dollars. And there's a reason for the 555, and that is because 5, 5, 5 means huge positive changes are rocking through your world right now. And we want to tap into that frequency with both courses. And I will be also breaking it down into five payments of 1 1 1. And the reason for that is that 1, 1, 1, it for anybody who needs to break it down. For anybody who pays in full, there will be a bonus which I have an idea about, but it's it's still to be determined. So that will be in the newsletter. And, but for anybody who does need that broken down, it will be five monthly payments of 1, 1, 1, and 1, 1, 1 is you're manifesting what you're thinking about. Keep your thoughts positive. The way we're going to run the course is a little bit different than in the past. In the past we threw a lot at people and then we left you on your own to incorporate it, and some people were able to do that really well, but other people needed a little bit more structure. So this time around, we'll put a bit more structure around it in the sense that we are going to have a monthly, two hour meeting where we do some teaching and answer any questions. And we're also then going to. Have partway through a one hour office hours for anybody who wants to show up and ask additional questions, get any additional help or inspiration. And we're going to, we're going to do that over five months. And then we are going to give a bonus session at the end, which will be just around growth mindset and how to be open to abundance and that sort of thing. So I'm really excited about this. The first program for people who will just be starting their businesses or who don't have a business started yet, or who've started, but they really aren't seeing a lot of clients yet, that one. Will be based off of the Reiki business book and Oh, thank you Wanda. I've been giving this a lot of thought. I'm like, how do we really help people the most? Because my goal is to have more Reiki practitioners in the world and more Reiki master teachers. I think that the world really needs us right now. And so the more people we can get out there the better. The second course my daughter and I are going to be writing a book. It'll be the second book, which will be Grow Your Reiki Business and or something along those lines. The, we're still workshopping the title, but it's in that that genre. And what we're going to do is actually. So for the first course, people will read two chapters, and then, we'll, that's what we're going to be taking deeper in our course. And then with the second course, we're actually going to be writing the chapters and sending them to you, and then we'll be working with them and workshopping them a little bit. And so each month you will receive a new chapter and we're going to ask people to get enrolled by March 1st, so that will give you a bit of time to get through the chapters prior to the course beginning. The course actually is starting on March 18th I hope you can join us. I would love to have you join us. And that's one way that. My daughter and I can use our MBAs to just help you all navigate the ins and outs of a Reiki business. One of the reasons this is really important to me, you guys, is that I have an MBA and I was a business consultant for heaven's sakes and a very successful one. And before that, I was vice president of sales and marketing of a pr really significant company. We worked with a lot of big US national laboratories. We including like NASA and Oak Ridge National Labs and Princeton Plasma Physics Lab and Lawrence Livermore National Labs and Argonne National Labs and loads of places like that. So I was really, versed in business. I was really good at business, and yet even with that, it was very difficult for me to put business principles with Reiki to put them together. And I received a message when I wrote the Reiki business book. The energy said, if it was that hard for you to do that with all of your business background, imagine somebody who doesn't have that business background. And I thought, you know what that's right. That's my mission, is to try to help people cut through some of the mistakes that I made actually. And like having my own website, say under construction for two years and things like that, even though I can make websites for other people just fine. So that's something I'm really really excited about. And just a couple of other things you guys, and we'll dive in. January, I've got a Reiki level one and two and Reiki masterclass. The one and two is on a weekend. The masterclass is the 20th to the 22nd, the evenings through the week. The level one and two is January 17 and 18. Would just love to have you join us even if it's for review. And if you're reviewing a class you already studied with me, it's half price or half fee. We've got animal Reiki coming up the 24th and 25th on a weekend, and the master teacher. That following week over four evenings. I've got animal communication coming up January 31st and February 1st, over a weekend and animal communication level three, professional practitioner. Two evenings February 3rd and fourth, and there's healthcare Reiki February 7th and eighth. Online over the weekend. We also, February 19th to the 28th, have a trip to Kenya. We are going to be closing that very soon, but if you are listening and are thinking you'd really like to join us or getting a message to join us, then go ahead and reach out. Because right now there are still four spots available. But we will close that out. My husband and I just booked our flights on Boxing Day sale. I guess I, I think it was the 28th though. But we were able to get the Boxing Day sale for it. And we're really excited to to go to Africa and teach a few classes there and and visit so I'm just looking professional practitioner. Gina for animal communication is not if you have a business already, it's more I think I'm ready to do it as a business. Yeah. And so it just takes it to the next level. You can also do the professional practitioner if you don't want to have a business, if you simply want to move to the next level of your development with animal communication. But definitely if you do want to have a business, that's what I geared it toward the animal communication level three class. And Scott, you were with me in that when I got the message because I taught animal communication level one and two for over a decade before I got a tap on the shoulder during a class that that Scott was in, and that tap on the shoulder was like, okay this class is gonna develop a little bit further now. And so that's where the animal communication level three professional practitioner came from. So guys. Welcome, welcome to our first Reiki share of 2026. I just want to acknowledge all of you that are here with me in real time and everyone who joins later that our energy is just collectively, I think, forming this beautiful container for us all for the year. So I really appreciate that Scott put a comment that level three and master was fantastic. So thank you so much, Scott. I appreciate that. And so for everybody here, just so that we can all get the most out of this, let's just go ahead and bring our hands together for a moment and just invite the Reiki energy to begin flowing. And so as we come together today with an intention of creating wellness on the earth today, and wellness for ourselves and our families, and our communities, we take a moment to appreciate each and every person who's here. There's a synergy created with our energies when we come together, and each group is divinely ordered. So whether you're here in person or listening afterward, we are forming this beautiful, sacred container. To step forward into the year of the horse with, and each and every person that's here is just wishing the very best for each other person and that collective consciousness, it has power. And so just open your heart and receive the best wishes for you from everyone else that's here as you send your best wishes to them. We take a moment to set an intention today to release any energies that we no, no longer need, that are stagnant, that are no longer necessary, and to open our hearts, and our minds, and our bodies to receive the forward moving energy of this coming year, this year of the horse, and we move into yi's Reiki ideals just for today. Do not worry. Do not be angry. Be devoted to our work. Be filled with gratitude and be kind. Always kind. And as we activate Reiki, we just feel it already beginning to work with our intentions, working to prepare the way for us into a beautiful new year, and we invite the energy of effortlessness to join us just moving through the Reiki energy, moving into our bodies on our breath, so that everything that we come up with, everything we intend today can occur with very little effort on our part. We are so blessed to be of this lineage of light bringers creating wellness on the earth today. Aho and Namaste. Just place your hands comfortably on your body now, wherever you'd like to receive Reiki. And I'd just like to talk a little bit about 2026, the year, the horse. I don't know about some of you, but I had a tough year this year with an election loss, and then losing a couple of my dear horses. And so I acknowledge that there were some good and there was some bad, as there always is. And we're actually gonna dig into that a little bit. And so for those of you just joining us, if you can, there's a couple of things you're going to need as you listen to the podcast or the Reiki show this time. One is a scrap of paper that that you don't mind ripping up or tearing up or burning or flushing or whatever. The other is a journal for some of what we want to keep. And the third thing is your phone. So if you don't have those things, if you want to just take a moment and gather them, you can hit pause and pull those together. Those are gonna be handy this time around. So I wanted to talk a little bit about what this coming year means. And it, it's got a, it's got a lot to it. The themes of 2026, the year of the horse. Our reinvention, personal responsibility, collective direction, and breaking old systems. And I think that we're already seeing some of that breaking old systems happening. And it can be upsetting just because change is upsetting and yet if we stop bracing against it, and if we just allow, and that's the word that I'm gonna be using this year, is allow and not bracing and just allow, and I guess we talked about that a little bit at the solstice. I think that there are a lot of old systems that have served their purpose and it's time for them to leave. And just the same as there are. Energies and experiences that we have had that have served their purpose and it's time to let those go. And in this Chinese Zodiac, the year of the horse, the themes there are independence, courage, adventure. Sure. Reclaiming your voice and refusing to be held back. Now reclaiming your voice. I just want to let everybody know that is, has been coming in really strongly with healthcare Reiki. So much so that an actual symbol came in for the master level all around reclaiming your voice and being heard and being seen. And that's so very important when we teach animal Reiki at the master level. There's a lot of work around listening and. In it. And in addition to listening there, it has been showing up around being heard. And so it's just taking this a little bit further. But reclaiming your voice is a really big theme. Now for those of you who listen to the solstice you are aware that we are at the end of a nine year cycle. 2025 was a nine universal year. 2026 is a one universal year. And so we're entering into a brand new nine year cycle. So if you give a little bit of thought of nine years ago in 2000 and let's see. 17, I guess it was, or nine years before 20. 25 or 20, yeah. 2017. What were you doing? What was happening in your life? When I realized that I was a little shocked because actually in 2017 is when I was doing the work to get prepared to become a licensed teacher with the ICRT. And so this is wrapping up that, that cycle and we're moving into a new one. And so this has been a decade or an almost a decade long arc of awakening now where we're going in. 2026 is a big shift from external authority to internal authority. And for those of you I'm so excited about some of the podcast guests that I have lined up for this year. But one of the podcast guests, we haven't recorded this podcast yet, but we have it on the books and we will be recording it soon, is an interview with Colleen and Robin Benelli all about that theme, all about what that means as far as shifting from external authority to internal authority. This is huge. It's no longer looking outside yourself for permissions, for guidance. It's really a time to, to be looking within. And so this is part of the theme of what's happening right now and. And in fact, we can see that 2026 is about momentum, clarity, and choosing your own path. This energy of horses, if you think about it, it encourages movement, honesty, alignment, and self-leadership. And so this is really where we're going with this. And just to break it down, so we've got the year, let's even just look at the month of January and today I just I want to point this out because I did not, I didn't realize this until I was getting prepared for today that not only are we in this new era, this new nine year process of really renewed, matured responsible direction, 2025 was the Year of the Empowered Soul. And this is a wrap up of since 2016. And 2026 is about inception, initiation and awakened presence. But today, if you think about it, is the first day of the first month of a one universal year. So this is 1, 1, 1. This is a power day today. For those who could be here live, and so this is where we can set the foundations and intentions for our year ahead. This year ahead is all about listening or intuiting, trusting and acting. And and on the 3rd of January, Kyron will be moving direct. That's also the date of our full moon. And so that's where anything from our childhood family, ancestral ties and bonds, this is all coming to completion. And, Christmas and the holidays brings this out. A lot of times the fact we all have childhood, family and ancestral things. And I think it's really positive that this is wrapping up or that this is coming to completion right now. This is our first full moon of the year, which will help release what was, and that's where we're going. Next. Our soul is wide awake right now, urging us to follow our heart. Our light is amplified. The earth is the closest to the sun. At this time. And so there's a lot coming in. And I also just wanna point out that January 18th and 19th is the first new moon of 2026. So think about that and just think about what you want to bring in the new Moon. And that's we're gonna just set ourselves up from now until the New Moon. The work that we're doing right now because one of the things that's been clear is that 2026 is actually going to have a faster pace or a faster flow than 2025 did. And for some of you who are fear, feeling the overwhelm of what's happening right now and or whatever you might be saying, oh my God, a faster flow, but. Keep in mind that there's just, there's been a lot of us are being inundated with information and I just, I made a decision and some of you may have made the decision or might be considering it as well. I just said, you know what? I think I'm going to I'm taking a media break and just to get back to myself because I'm not interested in having the media dictate my thoughts or emotions anymore because that's been happening and I've been diving a little bit deeper into Stephen Pinker's work. He, I didn't realize he is a Harvard a Harvard educated scholar, I believe it is, and I think it's Harvard. I know he was at MIT as well, but I think he's at Harvard now. And, he wrote a book that I read ages ago, William Rand recommended it, called The Better Angels of Our Nature, and where he just talks about how the media is always gonna bring out the negative, because that's how it works. However, when you really look at things, and because we have so much more access to media now than we ever did we have this impression that, oh my gosh, things are worse than they've ever been. But in fact things are better than they've ever been. Poverty has gone down significantly. Child labor is not as. Prevalent, literacy rates are up. There are less people dying in war than at any time in our history. And so there a number of indicators that are actually showing really positive things. But if we really spend a lot of time focused on the media, we won't necessarily see that. I have been diving into Stephen Pinker's work a little bit more even and just made a decision. Yeah, I think I'll just take a little media cleanse and I'll choose what I spend my time on. And that's been very positive. So when in doing that I'm ready for a faster pace because. Allowing yourself to get caught in the news cycle is a little bit of an, of a false. It. It's it's creating an a feeling of a pace that is, that's not actually accurate. It's false. We also by the way have the aquarium telium in January 21st. And that's as we're moving into that more Aquarian way of living with less dog our view, the individual view is amplified. That's that inner authority that I was talking with you about. And then Pluto is actually in Aquarius until 2044. So there's really a lot a lot happening. And with all that's happening. One of the things I listened to Elizabeth Peru and she mentioned that darkness may rise when there's more light. And that was something I never thought of before because so often we move ahead and grow and and then we think, wait, why is this negative thing happening as I'm in this growth phase? And, but her comment, darkness may rise when there's more light. I thought That's so interesting. And her words, and I really want to repeat them because I think this is true. You can handle the shadows. So don't deny the dark. Recognize that as with this growth as we move forward, we can handle them. And she was talking about the fact that the energy is lifting. Fear-based events will still pull at us. But we have the ability to alchemize that fear into love. So go ahead and listen to your own path. This is an era of the awakened presence and the three words she talked about, and I agree with her completely for this coming year, are joy knowing and wisdom. And the word wisdom has been showing up through Reiki a lot this year. And so with that in mind I wanted to, just ask just mention a few other things actually. The first is that something that healthcare Reiki has made me aware of, and that is that there are three main centers of awareness. There's the mind, the body, and the emotions. And as I've become aware of this, something that I've noticed is that my mind and it probably makes sense because when we go to school and when we do all of these things, we spend a lot of time developing our mind and learning to work from our mind. But one of the things that I had that, that this has made me, that healthcare Reiki made me very aware of is, oh my gosh, my mind is guiding and leading every, all the time. It's even times when it would be much more appropriate for my body to lead, or my emotions to lead. My mind is still taking charge. And so I've become a little bit more aware, a little bit more discerning of, wait, who's, which of my centers of awareness is leading right now, and is that the best center to be leading? And so one thing that has then shown up for me is that Reiki I've been doing Reiki since 2009, I guess 2010. And so for the last 15 16 years, reiki has really helped me as an empath process those stagnant emotions that were causing health issues for me, and it really helped me process my own emotions. It really helped me process mentally. It really helped me do to grow and develop spiritually, but. I've come to realize that my body is lagging behind. And I realize that I'm often so engrossed in my work that I'm not spending enough time exercising necessarily. I'm not spending, I'm enough time making really good meals and just doing the things that your body needs to be healthy. And that's just become very glaringly obvious to me. And but one thing that I notice, I don't know if you guys notice this, but I'd love to hear from you. I noticed that each time that my energy. Shifts that I seem to do a major decluttering of my house. And I, some of you have heard me say that in class before that every class that I do I go to the class and I look around at my home and I'm just like, I have the best house. I love this house. And I literally go and all of the classes used to be in person. So sometimes I was flying across the country for a class and sometimes I was just driving at 20 or 30 minutes away. But whatever I was doing, I can remember on many of the times leaving for my class, looking around thinking, wow, I have the best home. And then coming home from a two or three day class or a week long class, whatever it might be. And looking at the same house that I just left and saying, wait a minute, where did all this clutter come from? And I think that what happens is that every time we raise our vibration we, we clear some inner clutter, some in, in and that's what we're going to be working on specifically this evening together. But every time we do raise our vibration, we clear that inner clutter and your outer world always resembles your inner world. And so as you clear that inner clutter, then you look at your outer world and go, wait, there's clutter. And you didn't even notice the clutter beforehand. And one of the things that I've got very clear about as I did my goals when I was getting ready for this, is that this is the year for me. This is the year of the body. This is the year that the body catches up to the mind and the spirit and the emotions. And my husband got me a little pop-up sauna for Christmas. And I just, I love saunas. And so what that made me do is just completely gut the absolutely useless gym that I had behind me because it was cluttered and it was not being used and it was filled with cobwebs for it, like literally filled with cobwebs for heaven's sakes. I'm not actually using that as a metaphor. There were cobwebs I had to sweep down in order to. And I gutted that room. I've got it completely renovated. I just got it set up today. And then I was looking at my office going, okay, there's clutter here and now that's the next room that I'm tackling. And before that I, I tackled my bedroom and if any of you feel that way, I always find, I know people talk about spring cleaning, but I actually find January 1st. This is the time when I want to clean. And there's actually there's actually a phenomena around January 1st, but there's also a phenomena around every Monday like that, that we, where we just, we can take a breath and we know yes, we're ready for a new beginning. And so last year I did I did a big January 1st cleaning, and this year I started it a little bit early with my closet. And it have, it's just kept going with painting and all of the things. So if any of you find yourselves caught in a similar mode, just I'd love to hear about it, but just know that's. Your outer world catching up with your inner world. I think that's that, that's what is happening there. I hope that you, I hope that you enjoy that. So with that in mind we are gonna go into a few, some intention setting and a few things like that. But before we do that, what I'd like us to think about is I'd really like us to as we say goodbye to 2025. Let's just really consider what was 2025 and I was watching a Mels. She had a really different approach to it, and I, so I'm gonna, I've modified it a little bit, but I'm gonna start there. And what she actually had us do is have a look at 2025 and really think of what were the low points of my year. And so I'm going to give us all a few minutes to grab, and this can go on your scrap piece of paper. Okay. What are the low points of your year? And some of them are gonna show up right away. And I thought this was an odd place to start, but as I tried the exercise myself, I realized it, it was effective. So I'd like you to just write down what some of your low points were this year on a scrap piece of paper. And you can also, you don't have, you can hold onto this because you might think of a few things in the next exercise. You can add to this as long as you want to. But just let's take a few moments now and think about what were the low points of 2025 for me. If you're still writing low points, that's okay. Keep going with that. For anybody who's finished, this is where your phone comes in. What I'd like you to do is if you have a cell phone, grab that and I'd like you to just open up your photos from the year and start scrolling through your photos and write down what were the high points of the year. And you might think of some high points right away. But the thing is, we forget. And when I did this, when I opened my phone and scrolled through, I was like, oh my gosh, I forgot that happened this year and there were so many things that I'd forgotten about. And so go ahead and open that phone and let's scroll through and we're gonna spend about five minutes here at least today. Just going through your photos and you can take, you can keep adding to this list as well, but just go through your photos and write down what the high points were of your year, and this one can go in your journal. So we're putting the low points on the scrap piece of paper. We're putting the high points in the journal. So if you still need a bit more time, continue with that and know that you can come back to this as well and keep going with it. Encourage you to do that. In fact, I encourage you to pick it up again tomorrow and have a look at it and keep going. But I also wanted to ask you, what did you learn this year? We're gonna spend just about two minutes there, just looking at what did this year teach me. And again, if you feel you need more time here or to come back to this section, you can, but now we're going to move to setting some intentions. Intentions are energetic agreements with ourselves, and I know that. Some people say, oh, I make New Year's resolutions and so on. But actually I find New Year's resolutions are really important. Even if you don't always accomplish everything, you start out to right away, you eventually will. Those intentions matter because they give us like a fresh collective field, a fresh timeline, a fresh outlook. And so I think they're really important. They've always been very important to me. So the first intentions are a little bit different, a little bit informal, and then we're gonna move to a bit more formal ones. I'd like you to make a list or put three things down. And in the first row is to make three rows. And in the first row is what are some things you're going to stop? The second row is what are some things you want to start? And the third row is what are some things that you want to continue that you're already doing and they're really working for you. And so you want to continue and we'll spend a few minutes, we'll spend four minutes here. And again, that's the things that you want to stop, things that you want to start, and things that you want to continue. I just do wanna share a couple of the things that I'm stopping in addition to procrastinating, which is probably on a few people's lists. One of the things that I said I'm not doing anymore is shame and blame and guilt. So that's just maybe a little something different to think about. But I was listening to Rebecca Campbell and she was talking about how shame, blame and guilt are tools of the patriarchy. And I just went, I think that's true that they are, and I think I'm done with that. I'm not gonna do those anymore. And so if I ever catch myself, which I do in shame, blame or guilt, I just say, no, that's right. We're not doing that anymore. So I, you ask Reiki and I let it go, so I release it. So just something to think about there. And the. Just to write down, what comes first to your mind and yeah. And if nothing comes it's all right to do automatic writing, but I expect each of you or not having too much difficulty finding a few things to write about. One of the things I wanted to mention was that when your inner world has growth and has that shakeup that makes you realize your outer world is cluttered. One of the tools that has been really helpful to me has been Marie Kondo. And just, and it's so funny I do just wanna share this really quickly with you. The FI was heading out to start the licensed teacher program with Colleen. And we were also starting working on the animal Reiki course together, myself and Colleen, Robin and Sue Strong and all the way out there, I kept seeing so many things show up in front of me about Marie Kondo and my husband and I had watched one of the Netflix programs that was out, and he didn't like it at all. It was the house that they went into was really messy. And my husband definitely is on the OCD spectrum. And he wasn't interested and couldn't watch it. And I wasn't. Totally inter, I don't watch a lot of TV anyway, and I wasn't totally interested in it, so I thought, yeah, I don't think that's for me. And yet the whole way out to Oregon, I remember leaving, going, this is, I've got such a beautiful house. I love my house. And I kept and thinking just how cute it was and how well organized it was. And I kept getting this Kaari and Marie Kondo and I thought, I don't need that. I don't know why this is showing up, but I've learned that when Reiki has something show up in my life like that that there's usually some me for it. So I, after about five or six times coming up in my field. Finally, I thought, okay, I'll go on Netflix and in the evenings after class I'll go ahead and watch a program each evening. I got completely hooked on it. Then on the way home, I bought her book on my Kindle and I read the whole thing overnight on the plane. I didn't even sleep hardly coming home. And when I walked into my house and went, oh my God, where did all this clutter come from? I knew I had a way to to let go of the clutter and it wasn't overnight the. The it did, it took me several months to complete, to go through it. But it was a really positive experience, and that's because it was a different way of decluttering. Instead of going in and finding the stuff that you didn't want anymore and feeling bad about it and getting rid of it, she actually says a prayer with your space. You sit and you say a prayer with your space, and you just ask for its help in showing you what it wants to look like and be like. And each item, as she declutters, she picks up each item and holds it to see, does it give her a spark of joy, a ting? And if you're not sure what that feels like, she encourages you to take your favorite. Piece of clothing, like the one that when you wear that you feel amazing and pick that up and hold that. And if it gives you a ting, if it like that, that will give you a ting. And that's what you're looking for, is that feeling like, I love this. And if it doesn't, then you thank it for, acknowledge that it served you well and you probably did love it like that at one point, and you thank it for its service and you let it, that, that item know that you're now liberating it in order to go and make someone else happy. And so this was just a wonderful way for me of decluttering. And it still is to this day. In fact, I'm gonna be tackling some bookshelves, which is hard for me. I love books. It used to be hard for me. It's less hard now. And, and I'll be tackling my office, but I just absolutely love doing things that way now. So hopefully that will be helpful to you as well. With our intention setting, again, you've got your stop start and continue, but now I'd like you to think about what intentions that you might have for yourself that are personal. So one, just one, and you can put more if you want, but just one personal intention. What is one intention that you have for yourself for the coming year? Once you have your personal intention, what's one professional intention? Now I'd like you to think about one relationship or relational intention. What's one relationship intention? If you have more than one, that's okay of any of these. And then finally, what's one healing or spiritual intention that you have? And so I want to just bring in another theme. That has been showing up for me and that I've noticed lately, and that is the importance of showing up for ourselves. I mentioned it earlier in our invocation, how often we as healers and as empaths and just people on our path, how often we abandon ourselves and make other people a priority. And so one thing I'm really going to ask you to pay attention to in the coming month is just recognizing how often do external priorities or someone else's priorities hijack yours. And I realized that was happening for me when we were working so hard to get that house ready for that lovely couple in Campobello. We were exhausted. It was, I wasn't able to put as much time and attention into my business as I wanted. And I basically disappeared from my own life in order to do this for them. And I think so many of us do that. When somebody needs you or needs something from you, we do that. We disappear from our own life. And so how do we set a boundary so that we can. Continue to show up for ourselves and continue to make our own priorities matter. And that's what we're going to be dipping into a little bit here. And in the end, they didn't take the house. And I know that it will work out better in the long run. But that really made me think about, you know what, I need to focus on my priorities and I need to not set them aside just because somebody else is, they told us they were in desperate in desperate shape and they really needed the house. And again, they were lovely people. But I thought, wow we all put our lives on hold to try to get that ready for them and then they didn't take it. And that really made me stop and think like, how many times have I done that? And that's one thing that I intend to stop doing is putting other people's priorities ahead of my own and not showing up for myself. And some of you might wanna add that to your stop list as well if you find that you do the same, because it is common. This is, this mirrors what so many as women, as mothers as men who are on that, who have that em, empathetic nature. This is what we do. And and so it's really, it can really happen a lot. So I'm just gonna invite you to consider a few more questions before we move into our meditation today. Thank you for your patience. This was like the purpose of it though, and I just wonder if I ask you, where am I not showing up for myself? What comes up for you? And I'm just gonna give you a few minutes here. I don't know about you, but my list is a little longer than I thought. Another question is, where do I give my time away? And that can be anything from social media to. Just something that can be draining for you. Where do I give my time away? And then the last question in this series is, where do I need boundaries? You don't have to decide how to have boundaries. Reiki can help us with everything that we're talking about. It's just where do I need boundaries? It's just getting that awareness. And so something I want to close with before we go into our meditation today is just around boundaries and owning your time ownership. We can look at boundaries. Sometimes we think about boundaries as control, but if that shows up for you boundaries can be more about love. And I think about as a parent, tough love, how sometimes it was important and even as a horse person, like sometimes it was important to be. To say, oh no, you don't like to have a real boundary is always important to have boundaries with the the horses and the children. But sometimes tough love was needed, where, but that's still love and, but boundaries. But we can have boundaries. Boundaries are a form of love and not control. And we can, if you, if that's something you struggle with. And empaths often struggle with boundaries. So that's why I'm spending a little more time on that.'Cause most of the people who work with me are empathic or empaths. But if you think of boundaries, not as something rigid. Instead, you can think, this is loving, this is, and you can invite Reiki to bring the love into creating the boundaries. So we again, when we said, where do I need boundaries? Just having that awareness, you can then ask Reiki to please help me set those boundaries. And then just notice what happens, because time is an energetic resource. And so that was the other question, where do I give my time away? I was a little surprised about my answers to that, you guys. I don't know about any of you. I've gotta think about a few things. And some of them are easy, no-brainers. But some of them I was like, huh, I didn't realize I was giving time away there. I have to think about that because there's things that I'm not doing that I want to do. And not giving that time away could allow that. So that's something you might want to consider as well. And so if instead of giving her time away, if we show up for ourselves this year in the year of the horse let's talk about how we could align our schedule with our values. And so I'd like you to think about one boundary you'd like to set for 2026, and you can just put a star beside that or whatever. I'd like you to also think about one commitment to self-care that you would like to make for 2026. And then I'd like you to think about one habit that is something that would be really positive for you. What's one habit that you'd like to create that's about your own devotion to yourself? Wow. I don't know about you guys, but. I did the first part of the exercises ahead, but I did not do the last part. I deliberately wanted to do them with you. And boy oh boy, is this ever bringing some clarity? I hope it's I hope it's bringing some clarity to you guys as well. So we're going to just go into a meditation today, and this is a specific meditation for the beginning of January to help us let go of the old year and bring in the new year. And one of the things I do want to encourage you to do after this exercise is complete, and again, you might want to go back and revisit some of the things, but when you look at that list that you wrote. On the scrap piece of paper, on the list about the low points of your year. After we're done, our meditation and after, you may want to add more to the low points, but you also don't need to after this, our evening together is complete, or our time together is complete. I'd like you to think about taking those low points and just letting them go. And that might mean burning them if that's safe where you are. It might mean tearing them in tiny pieces and letting them go in the trash or down the toilet. But we, the low points of 2025, I really want us to let them all go now and just retain the lessons from them, but to let those go. So go ahead now and. As we move into our meditation today, take a deep breath and just place your hands comfortably on your body, wherever they feel called to. You can bring in any symbols that you'd like and just invite Reiki to begin flowing through your entire body. And just feel yourself arriving fully into this moment in time, at the very beginning of a brand new year, a brand new cycle, a brand new chapter of your life, and just allow the newness to settle around you now and. Just bringing with it that excitement and just breathe into the space around your heart, noticing it expand and soften and open to possibility. And I invite you to imagine a river of light above you. This is the energy of 2026, the year of the horse. It's free and powerful. It's intuitive, and it's unstoppable. See this river of light just pouring down now, flowing around you and through you, and touching every part of your life with clarity and direction. Feel it empowering your intentions, energizing and invigorating the things that you want to start and continue at the same time that it washes away the things that you want to discontinue. You want to stop washing away those areas where you give your time away, where you're not showing up for yourself. Washing through those relationships that need boundaries. Feeling it energize you. And as this light just flows through, you now just say to yourself, I'm ready for the life that is ready for me. Let's say it three times together. I am ready for the life that is ready for me. I am ready for the life that is ready for me. And just feel the energy of this gathering at your heart. This beautiful, glowing globe of intention. This is where your 2026 really begins. Now, allow one of the intentions that you set to just begin bubbling up within you. The intention that wants to be named today, it might be something you already wrote down or it might be something new. It might be a word, a feeling, a direction, whatever it is, just trust it and as you hold it into your heart, breathe Reiki into it now. And on your next breath, feel a second presence arrive. This is the presence of you 2026, you, the you who shows up for herself himself, the you who keeps their promises, including and especially the promises to yourself. The you who rests when you need rest, the you who acts when your soul says to act. Let this version of yourself step forward now until they are directly in front of you. Feel the clarity, the boundaries, the devotion, the power. Now imagine stepping into him or her merging with the version of yourself who knows how to choose you without guilt, without apology, and without hesitation. Let Reiki seal this integration, feel it wrapping around, becoming you. Feel a new alignment forming in your body, the alignment to 2026. You feel it in your breath, in your mind, in your schedule, and in your life. And I invite you to consider repeating after me, either to yourself or out loud. In 2026, I show up for myself. I honor my time. I honor my energy. I honor my path, and I choose a life that is mine. And as you consider this, just feel Reiki pouring through you now, clearing out old obligations, dissolving pressure, softening, guilt, releasing it, feel it, strengthening your boundaries with love and illuminating your truth. And we're gonna rest here in this light for a few minutes together. Sometimes I ask for a word for the year, and if one comes to you, just take a note of it and just allow your truth to bubble up and make it self known. Let it settle. Let it become real. Whenever you feel ready to return, just place your hands on your heart, take a deep breath and slowly come back into the room entering 2026 as your true self. I want to take a moment to just thank you for spending time with me today. You can revisit this anytime, and I'd like to offer my blessings for the new year. May, 2026, the year of the horse. I feel like it's my year. May it be your best year ever. Thank you so much. Thank you for all the light and love that you are spreading in the world. I appreciate you. Namaste.