As you think about your childhood bedroom, what is the first thing that comes to mind?
Did you spend ages deciding on what colour to paint your wall or did you leave your walls white, a blank canvas to cover gradually? Sticking up photographs, postcards, or quotes that have helped you get through a difficult period in your life—all these details are ways for us to build our own world around us. We surround ourselves with things we believe to be important, and if anyone were to come and visit this small world we’ve created, just by looking around they could probably determine our likes, interests and habits.
Our bedrooms are safe spaces
The place where we can be ourselves without fear or judgement, but those four walls we have designed and shaped throughout our lives can also hinder us. We may become too comfortable residing there, using it as our comfort zone and thus refusing to fully leave when we need to. Our world can also be easily cluttered or even destroyed by the behaviours and habits we’ve picked up from others. You may remember a time in your life when your interactions with the outside world have caused you to take apart the world you live in and to construct it again but in an unhealthy way. Your interests may have been deemed ‘uncool’ to others, or you may have felt you had to move away from your original, core self in order to fit in.
Becoming stuck within our worlds also means that when we do venture out, it can only come as a temporary relief. Frequenting beaches and parks can then become a refuge, but one that is needed or used in the wrong way. Reverting to negative or harmful thinking is all too easy when you re-enter your built-up world.
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It is apt, then, that in your first week of Celtic Reiki discovery, you venture into Romanknowes.
Its cobbled streets are instantly familiar. You can make connections between this ancient world and the modern world you have left. As you travel through the streets, you’ll notice how the bricks and stones of the town have swamped the natural world. The beauty and wisdom of the rowan tree has been lost, and it is here that you must set up camp and rediscover the connection between that great old tree and your inner self. With each twist and turn, imagine taking away the bricks that have formed Romanknowes, and in turn, the bricks that you have built up in that bedroom of yours. Pick off the paint on your walls and the habits that have stayed with you throughout your life. How easy is it to pick up a paint brush and choose a different colour?
To fully appreciate the Celtic realms, you need to turn your attention inwards and question your own Oneness.
Who are you away from that bedroom and the buildings of Romanknowes? In order to reconnect with the Earth and each other you may be asked to think deeper and, in more depth, than you ever have before, to enable yourself to calibrate to a Reiki perspective. Rediscovering your Oneness with the Earth will take time, and it is not a process that you can complete in a single day. Romanknowes, therefore, is more than just an environmental metaphor or a story about a rowan tree being lost. It is up to you to discover its secrets and to look past the walls.
