With Christina Galvez
Christina Galvez is a Reiki master and a shamanic healer who has been serving her clients for the last 15 years using her own Reiki modality sessions. According to her, her journey to spiritual awakening came at a point of trying to wedge herself into belonging.
She wanted to be happy having a corporate job, a vista suiteview looking over a very nice downtown but that didn’t work out for her becauseno matter what she did,she couldn’t find that happiness she was looking for.
She needed something bigger and that washer happiness. Even though she never foundher place in the world, she just kept trying. She decided to work on her personal developmentwhich she realized was more than just having a curated personality.
To make her dream come true, Christina decided to go back to school but to her disadvantage, that ideawasn’t the answer to her problems.According to her, many people just like her dip their toes in the water and are either skeptical of the spiritual awakening journey or they just don’t know about some of the other thingsconnected to it.
After going to a couple of seminars and retreats and doing some meditations, Christina realized that all these couldn’t still work for her. She then thought about what she had loved about her previous jobwhich according to her, was talking to people.It’s from there that she decided to go back to school and take her coaching course.
It was during that time that she started having multiple awakenings. However, a tragic incident occurred in herlife after viewing photos of her best friend who had been tortured and murdered.She had a lot of trauma and she was not sure whether to go to a psychologist or a psychiatrist or a shaman.
However, since she was already on her holistic healing journey, she decided to go the shamanic route. Of course in her early life, she had had her inclination togo the shamanic drumming direction but since she had been raised in a Catholic family, it wasn’t possible.
She was nownaturally drawn to spiritual healing even though there were tragic incidents that happened towards its realization. She had always been aligned to it and at some point, she did her meditation just like a hobby.
She was now able to find herself and what she was aligned to despite her several futile attempts to fit in. She finally felt lucky to be doing what she was aligned to. According to Christina, when you work hard to pursueyour alignment, doors start opening for you.
Her journey with Reiki
When Christina began the journey to her healing and self-realization, Reiki becameone of her favorite modalitiesbecause it was something she would do consistently for 21 days. After doing everything she thought was right to find her happiness, she decided that she needed balancing.
“I was in Las Vegas but at the time they didn’t have chakra balancing. However, there was a counselorthere giving Reiki treatments and I was like what is this Reiki thing? I was like well I’m going to tryit and so Iwent to the internetbreaking this Reiki down andI was like oh my goodness it’s so quacky,” says Christina.
She calledthe Reikicounselor and was able to book her first session.She loved everything about it. She didn’t have to talk about anything or know what was wrong with her. She just felt like she got this amazing insight that she wouldn’t have gotten otherwise.
For her 21-day Reiki sessions, she learned that it’s good to show yourself some love and care which to her, were just soothing words she had never heard of before. She was also happy to havea Reiki master with whom she could sit and share all her problems.
According to Christina, if you are inclined to work on yourself or participate in the unfolding of your own spiritual or personal development then it’s important to try a lot of modalities.Whenshe was on her journey to see what resonated with heror what didn’t, she realized that not all modalities were for everyone.
But she realized that the best modality is Reiki because it’s easy to do and even share with your friends or family members. Whether you want to call in a higher power or life force, it works because you are not using your energy; it’s coming through youand it heals without depleting you.
Whether there’s science behind Reikior not, Christina was able to experience all the benefits and knew that it works. When she became a Reiki master and a life coach,she also trained people on how and why they should do it for themselves.
Through Reiki, you have to start to answer the call whereby you undergoyourawakeningand experience that vastness without knowing your identities or titles. Healing is not about teaching: It’s about showing up and doing it by yourself.
AlthoughChristina finally started her own Reiki teaching sessions, she remained skeptical since she never knew what she would tell her clients dueto a lot of frauds and charlatans that have been exposed in the healing and spiritual communities. However, she was confident to learn that there are hospitals that are now using it with nurses and doctors getting trained in it.
Science vs. Spirituality
According to Christina, science married spirituality a long time ago but science cannot describe the phenomenon and that’s why everybody has a story behind creation and science.
Many people thinkthat it’s one or the other but according to trusted professionals, the truth is that they can complement each other nicely without the need for you to stop whatever treatment you’re on or stop seeing your doctor.
You can still do a 21-day process for anybody who wants to have a self-soothing experience or even a self-healing experience. But when learning from a Reiki master, Christina recommends that you use your intuition because people sometimes fall into the hands of unscrupulous or quackery trainers. You therefore need to do your research on people and read their social media.
Although you can get your Reiki classes online and for free, there are a lot of benefits to takingyour physical classes. For example, you will be able to learn the history and do all the exercises in person since you cannot learn how to swim or read or even learn how to ride a bike online.
You are not going to learn Reikifor free on YouTube. You have to do it on yourself when you have somebody passing it down to you. Again, you have to learn to trust the process as it gets passed down because you need to have human interaction.
Christina has been teaching Reiki for over a year and she finds it fun because every time she teaches her class, she also learns something differentwhich is beneficial to her. She would not only read the book again but also be able to explain it. Teaching Reiki keeps her in good practice and accountable so that she does not get lazy.
Although other healers learn and only stay with one modality, Reiki has kept Christina active and according to her, she wants to keep going both for herself and others. She feels that she hashad her energetic giftthroughReikiand she’s now heading inthe right direction of trusting herself.
She’s now able to feel everything that’s happening to her and so when people walk in for her sessions, they don’t have to talk about what she should do because she can feel everything that is going on with them.
But in her teachings, Christina realizes that it’s a huge challenge to work with some of her clients who do not have hope in themselves or who are not getting any results from taking their anxiety or depression medication. Such people believe that life is biological and not spiritual and so they just can’t get anyone to sit down with them in their situations.
In her classes, she gets people coming in as their last resort because many people are conditioned to believe that they first have to go to an authority figure like a therapist or a doctor who probably knows better than they do.
Nonetheless, people are awakening to the aspect of spirituality whereby they feel they should find somebody who can help them. There has been a lot of polarization whereby many people won’t go to a doctor for anything because, to them, western medicine doesn’t work on things like depression and anxiety which normally come hand in hand.
According to Christina, Reiki is a simple practice that can helpyou with so many things. When she first started, she was quite skeptical about whether people would believe everything to be real or right. She had to go back and remember how much it had helped her and through that, she was able to realize that it didn’t matter what people would think.
Reiki helps people fit in. When Christina found her safe place within herself and didn’t need any more validation when it comes to anything, she just kept going down the path until she became the path for others.
Being from a large family, Christina developed a kind of personalityin which she wasextraordinarily interested in other people’s conditions. For instance, she found it natural to understand everybody’s position like why people are the way they are or why things happen the way they do. At a young age, she already knew that psychology would be the best for her.
Although that neverhappened, shechose to study thephilosophies around psychology whereby she learned that there are different types of therapies. She was then able to use that knowledge together with her intuitive processing to understand that people do have depression but, how then can you keep the depression off of you?
She believes that it’s not always obvious to people that whatever they’re doing has something to do with how they feel or what they’re thinking has a lot to do with their emotional states. Therefore, if people want to work with her and not just do the spiritual bypass thenshe’s totally up for it.
According to her, many people go for their healing sessions because of various reasons. It could be because of what you are doing,eating, thinking, watching, or experiencing or it could just be about your unconsciousness whereby you don’t want to go back to that nine-to-five job again but you don’t know what else to do.
Pursuing your life purpose
A lot of depression occurs when peoplearen’t pursuing their purposes in lifeand on many occasions, they failto notice it becausethey arewaiting to be told that there’s something wrong with them.
From her own experience, a lot of her clients that come are trying to do something that’s not fitting them and are trying to play it safe or they just keep doing a job they hate or they are surrounded by people they don’t like but still have them in their lives.
To change something inside of you, you first have to change what is outside of you. Moreover, you have to know what that change needs to be before you can work onit. In her healing journey, Christina has observed that trauma has become a common problem among people who come for her healing sessions.
But according to her, trauma is not a disease; it’s a condition of something that happened to you in childhood at a time when you just couldn’t deal with it. When we’re kids, we just internalize things and start to feel like we’re bad, unloved, wrong, small or that badthings could happen.
According to Christina, when she had her first shamanic sitting, it was a beautiful experience because she had been doing a lot of sitting in her heart, mind and consciousness for a while just letting things be and then allowing herself to get back into her normal state.It was beautiful and kind and gentle and through that, she was able to process a lot of things.
Her love for neuroscience and its impact on her journey
With the emergence of COVID-19, Christina had to use various avenues to reach to her clients. For example, she decided touse new technology to present her work in front of a camera. Unfortunately, that didn’t work for herand for once, she felt like her brain was shutting down. However, through working on herself, sherealized that all she neededwas just to feel safe and be confident.
She had to take a medical neurobiology course just to prove to herself that she wasn’t stupid. It’s from there that she developed her love for neurobiology since she had always been interested in the neuroscience behind it. She started putting a modality together that might help other people too.
But as she was doing it,she just tapped into some genius zones. She would wake up in the middle of the night or early in the morning flooded with a lot of information on how to do this for other people as she was doing it on herself and soshe decided to put everything together.
According to her, shesearched online and realized that nobody had taken neuroscience as a spiritual modality and so she decided to trademark itas her own since it came from her deep painful experience; in a state where she couldn’t even remember her name.
Many things can cause problems like diseases in our lives. Things like unprocessed emotions or traumas can result in chronic diseases. In her case study as a healer, Christina has however learned that a lot of chronic diseases are tied to something that happened and we are not able to getto the core of whatever happened.
We’re not able to treat the core wound and that isgoing to be there for a long time. Through her healing, she realized that a lot ofthings shehad forgotten about long even before her healing journeyjust came up.
Therefore, the idea behind her neuroscience modality was to be able to freeze out the memories which are taking up your energy and help you free yourself. She has since created a master class to help other people understand what they’re going to getinvolved in.
According to her, the first step is for you to dream up what and why you want to heal or what’s your goal because as humans, we’re all in different stages of our lives. She wants to make it accessible to anybodywho wants to do anything with their lives and get everything that is keeping them from achieving it.
Christina believes that when yougo into a session, you feel good but if you don’t understand what the genesis of your problems are then you are just going to keep doing it.She has put up a master class for people who are inclined to work on themselves, who have dreams and who like the process.
You can reach out to Christina through her website at www.christina.galvez.com or keep
in touch with her through her Instagram and YouTube @christinagalvez.