The Reiki Lifestyle Podcast

What happens when you follow your spiritual guidance and things unfold differently than you expected? Or you keep asking for clarity, and the answer still hasn't come?
Join Robyn Benelli, with Danni Smith, for a conversation about staying connected to your spiritual guidance through uncertainty, impatience, changing plans, and everyday life. Robyn shares personal experiences with waiting for answers, questioning expectations, and learning to recognize guidance in her own way.
Explore how Reiki can support you where you are, how to recognize when you're waiting for someone else's approval, and how to bring your spiritual practice into a busy day. Give yourself room to ask questions, notice what you receive, and take your next step.
Watch the Companion Reiki Journey: Guided Reiki Journey: Staying Connected to Your Spiritual Guidance: https://youtu.be/2ajz9lN1EJ0
Key Insights:
Let Reiki Meet You Where You Are: Bring your frustration, uncertainty, and expectations into your practice. Ask about one part of a situation at a time and give yourself room to listen.
Give Your Questions Time: Some answers become clear through experience and reflection. Robyn shares how one spiritual question stayed with her for four years before she recognized its answer.
Allow Your Understanding to Change: Your energy, responsibilities, resources, and relationships can affect your next step. Revisit what you know now and ask what to continue, adjust, or pause.
Notice When You're Waiting for Approval: Seeking another message or more preparation can become a way of postponing a decision. Explore the feelings underneath that hesitation and consider what action you're ready to take.
Recognize Your Own Way of Receiving: Guidance may come through thoughts, feelings, images, or practical work such as creating an outline. Recording your impressions helps you notice your own patterns and build confidence over time.
People Also Ask (FAQ)
Why does my spiritual guidance sometimes feel unclear?
The way you experience guidance can change with your circumstances and the time you have for your practice. Robyn suggests asking about one part of your situation, noticing subtle impressions, and allowing questions to remain open while you continue listening.
What can I do when I've followed my guidance but nothing seems to be happening?
Bring your impatience into your Reiki practice and review what has changed in your life. Consider your energy, responsibilities, and resources, then ask what you can continue, adjust, or pause. Some understanding develops over time.
How do I trust my guidance when the outcome is different than I expected?
Give yourself room to acknowledge your emotional response and revisit your expectations. Reflect on what you have learned, what remains unresolved, and how your current understanding can inform your next choice.
How can I recognize spiritual guidance if I don't see images?
Notice the thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, or ideas that come forward during your practice and daily life. Robyn shares that her own guidance often comes through practical activities, including outlines and presentations. Keeping a record can help you recognize how you receive information.
How can I stay connected to my spiritual practice when life is busy?
Take brief moments to invite Reiki into your day and notice what comes forward. Record impressions in phone notes or a voice memo when it's safe and convenient. Let your practice fit the season of life you're in.
Connect with Robyn and Colleen
Website: https://reikilifestyle.com
Podcast: https://reikilifestyle.com/podcast/
Community: Join our next Distance Reiki Share: https://reikilifestyle.com/reiki-share/
Free webinar Nov 17th: https://reikilifestyle.com/free-webinar-how-to-receive-and-trust-your-spiritual-guidance/ 
**DISCLAIMER** This episode is not a substitute for seeking professional medical care but is offered for relaxation and stress reduction, which support the body's natural healing capabilities. Reiki is a complement to and never a replacement for professional medical care. Colleen and Robyn are not licensed professional health care providers and urge you to always seek out the appropriate physical and mental help professional health care providers may offer. Results vary by individual.

Join Danni Smith for a guided Reiki journey to stay connected to your spiritual guidance as life unfolds. Bring forward a decision, a change, or a question you've been carrying, and give yourself time to listen.
Cross the Bridge of Light to the River of Peace, where you can receive Reiki for impatience, uncertainty, disappointment, and expectations about your path. Then enter the Hall of Wisdom to connect with your enlightened Spirit Guides and explore what needs your attention now. Through whole-body listening, consider what you're learning, what feels clearer, and whether your next step involves continuing, adjusting, pausing, or completing something already begun.
Key Insights
Compassion for Your Experience: Bring your hopes, effort, disappointment, and uncertainty to the River of Peace. Allow yourself to receive care for what you've been carrying.
Your Natural Way of Receiving: Thoughts, images, sensations, impressions, and quiet awareness all have a place in this journey. Give yourself time to notice how guidance comes forward for you.
Guidance as Life Unfolds: Return to the situation you brought into the journey and ask what you're learning and what needs attention now. Allow your understanding to develop alongside your questions.
Practical Next Steps: Consider whether to continue, adjust, pause, or complete a step. Include preparation, timing, resources, and the people and animals affected by your choices.
 
People Also Ask (FAQ)
What can I bring into this Reiki journey?
Bring a decision, a change, a new practice, or an area of life that has your attention. Include your hopes, feelings, and questions about how to continue working with your spiritual guidance.
How can I work with impatience or uncertainty during the journey?
At the River of Peace, you're invited to give Reiki to those feelings and receive compassion for your experience. Allow time to rest, listen, and consider what feels clearer in the present moment.
What is whole-body listening in a Reiki journey?
Whole-body listening involves noticing your thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations, including what you experience in your head, heart, or gut. Danni also invites quiet receiving alongside words, images, and impressions.
How can I bring the experience into everyday life?
Consider what needs your attention and what action fits your current circumstances. Give your chosen practice a place in your routine, and continue bringing your experiences and developing questions into Reiki and your relationship with your Spirit Guides.
Connect with Robyn and Colleen
Website: https://reikilifestyle.com
Podcast: https://reikilifestyle.com/podcast/
Community: Join our next Distance Reiki Share: https://reikilifestyle.com/reiki-share/
 Free webinar Nov 17th: https://reikilifestyle.com/free-webinar-how-to-receive-and-trust-your-spiritual-guidance/

True emergency preparedness extends far beyond storing food and water to include the inner resilience of a regulated nervous system. In this episode, Colleen and Robyn Benelli welcome Padraig Ansbro to explore how a grounded Reiki practice serves as an essential tool during unexpected crises. Discover how centering your energy can slow down time, help you make clear decisions, and allow you to become a pillar of calm for your community.
Sign up for our free webinar: How to Receive and Trust Your Spiritual Guidance
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
●      Discover how to use your Reiki practice as an internal emergency tool to slow down the timeline and interrupt the stress response.
●      Explore practical steps for building a comprehensive emergency plan, including reliable communication devices and essential supplies.
●      Learn how to form supportive connections with your neighbors and local community teams to weather natural disasters together.
●      Master essential safety precautions for managing household resources, including power generators, carbon monoxide detectors, and first aid kits.
●      Explore how to send distance Reiki to support individuals and first responders navigating high-stress situations.
Mentioned in this Episode:
●      Oregon Emergency Management (OEM)
●      Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)
●      The Returning Veterans Project (RVP)
●      Sandy and the Rarey by Padraig Ansbro
●      Home Depot five-gallon bucket emergency sanitation method
Connect with Padraig Ansbro
●      Website: https://TheMojoMoment.com
●      YouTube: The Mojo Moment
●      Returning Veterans Project: https://returningveterans.org
●      Location: Oregon | Remote sessions available (modality dependent)
Connect with Colleen & Robyn
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**DISCLAIMER** This episode is not a substitute for seeking professional medical care but is offered for relaxation and stress reduction, which support the body's natural healing capabilities. Reiki is a complement to and never a replacement for professional medical care. Colleen and Robyn are not licensed professional health care providers and urge you to always seek out the appropriate physical and mental help professional health care providers may offer. Results vary by individual.

Join Danni Smith for this Reiki journey to bring forward an insight, question, or next step, asking for your attention and learning to blend spiritual guidance into your everyday life. Through Reiki, whole-body listening, and connection with your Spirit Guides, you receive the time needed to consider what this guidance means and how you choose to respond.
Sign up for our free webinar:  How to Receive and Trust Your Spiritual Guidance
Key Insights
Whole-Body Listening: Guidance is not just a mental exercise; true discernment requires listening through your head, heart, and gut, allowing your thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations to contribute.
Releasing the Fear of Mistakes: At the River of Peace, you can release the pressure to please others, the fear of making mistakes, and the desire for absolute certainty, clearing the path for authentic choice.
Honoring Practical Needs: Hesitation often points to valid practical needs rather than a lack of faith. Acknowledging when you require rest, information, preparation, or support helps anchor your spiritual insights into reality.
Maintaining Inner Authority: As you welcome enlightened guidance from Spirit Guides and teachers, you remain fully present with your own inner authority, soul, and freedom to choose your actions.
 
People Also Ask (FAQ):
How do I know if a next step is truly guided? A true next step aligns with your inner truth and values, and it integrates smoothly with your present circumstances, resources, and responsibilities rather than forcing an unrealistic outcome.
What should I do if I feel hesitant about a spiritual insight? Hesitation often highlights a practical need for rest, preparation, or support. Give Reiki to your hesitation at the River of Peace to clarify what needs attention before you act.
How can automatic writing help me process spiritual guidance? Automatic writing allows you to place pen to paper and record your impressions without evaluation, helping you bridge the gap between inner wisdom and practical weekly action.
Connect with Robyn and Colleen
Website: https://reikilifestyle.com
Podcast: https://reikilifestyle.com/podcast/
Community: Join our next Distance Reiki Share: https://reikilifestyle.com/reiki-share/

Discover how to identify, acknowledge, and deeply trust your unique spiritual guidance through Reiki practice. Join Colleen and Robyn Benelli as they explore how to shift from outside authorities to your own inner truth to trust your own guidance, your way. How to connect with your spirit guides, develop your relationship with them, and follow the guidance you receive. Use your own discernment and trust yourself. 
Sign up for our free webinar:  How to Receive and Trust Your Spiritual Guidance
Key Insights:
Microdosing Reiki: Activating Reiki on the fly during a busy day shifts your frequency instantly, allowing you to stay connected to your higher consciousness anywhere.
The Power of Acknowledgment: Recognizing even the smallest intuitive hits builds your confidence and helps quiet the analytical mind that questions whether you are making things up.
Inner Authority: True spiritual evolution moves you away from relying on external intermediaries and anchors you firmly in your own inner truth and authority.
Discernment Through Love: True spiritual guidance from enlightened realms always aligns with love rather than fear, providing a clear compass for your next steps.
 
People Also Ask (FAQ)
How do I know if my spiritual guidance is real? Spiritual guidance can be discerned by evaluating whether the underlying thought leads toward love or fear, helping you separate genuine intuition from anxiety.
What is microdosing Reiki? Microdosing Reiki is the practice of taking a brief moment during a busy day to breathe in the light and activate the higher consciousness of Reiki within yourself.
How do I connect with my spirit guides in Reiki? You can connect with your guides by establishing an intentional space, such as sitting in a circle with them, viewing them as collaborative partners in your daily human experience.
Connect with Robyn and Colleen
Website: https://reikilifestyle.com
Podcast: https://reikilifestyle.com/podcast/
Community: Join our next Distance Reiki Share: https://reikilifestyle.com/reiki-share/
**DISCLAIMER** This episode is not a substitute for seeking professional medical care but is offered for relaxation and stress reduction, which support the body's natural healing capabilities. Reiki is a complement to and never a replacement for professional medical care. Colleen and Robyn are not licensed professional health care providers and urge you to always seek out the appropriate physical and mental help professional health care providers may offer. Results vary by individual.