If I had to pinpoint a beginning when I realised my life would take on the spiritual slant, I would have to say it was when I felt drawn to call an old school friend that I had only seen once I think since we had both left aged 16.  We weren't super-close but had gone out for a few nights out together in the latter years of school and had a few sleepovers.  At the pinpointed time I think I must have been around 20 and it was one evening in the little house I shared with my brother but who worked at that time, I just went from not having to having her phone number in my head and it wasn't long before I was calling.  As I had been spending my time with her in the nineties, people tended to remember a fair few phone numbers at this time  This would seem totally miraculous to my nearly 16-year-old who I don't think knows even their own number.

So I called, her mother answered and remembered me.  She told me that my friend was currently in Australia somewhere learning to be a reiki master.  She said she happened to be about to speak to her in a pre-arranged call so she would pass on the message that I had asked to speak to her and would give her my number.  To my surprise, within an hour I answered the phone to my old school friend, albeit with a slight delay and a bit of a crackle.  I can't remember if she told me much about reiki in that call or what we spoke about at all actually, just that she had sold her fairly flash car and gone off to Australia on this mission.

Over the next couple of years, I did an Indian Head Massage qualification with her and learned reiki.  Doing lots of reiki on each other plus our friends meant me getting to experience messages coming through thick and fast and I started the process of interpreting them.  She also gave me lots of tips and I took the ones that resonated with me the most and read the books she recommended.