We were lucky to catch up with Maria Paula Vargas recently and have shared our conversation below.

Maria Paula, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. We’d love to hear about how you went about setting up your own practice and if you have any advice for professionals who might be considering starting their own?

Since I was little I felt a total affinity with animals and I was always surrounded by them. My parents were amazed to see how the animals calmed down and behaved differently when I was around. Likewise, my schoolmates looked to me for help with their problems and comfort. For me it was always natural to listen to people and help them. It is like a calling beyond what I could explain with words.

Like everything in life, everything happens with perfect synchronicity. When I was 22 years old, devastated by the breakup of a relationship, my grandparents recommended a reikist to me. Being Mormons, it was wonderful that they trusted that energy therapy would help me feel better. Not only did I feel better, but for the first time in my life I could go inward, putting in order and understanding who I really was, through observing my inner cosmos with a love beyond words. they can explain. Reiki, being a Japanese energy healing technique, allows you to go inward and absorb this universal qui or chi energy by vibrating your body at a very high frequency, healing your body, your mind and getting in touch with who you really are. A spiritual Being. We’ve just forgotten it.

After practicing for more than a year with my Reiki teacher Helena Quintana, I started working with the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare that protects vulnerable children in my country. It was difficult at first not to be affected by so much pain and suffering that she saw. It took me a long time to emotionally detach myself from what I saw and understand that only by being there, with them in love, with my hands placed on their little bodies, the work was done alone.

I think that at first, the more I practiced, I was fascinated because I could see colors, auras in the people to whom I did Reiki and I began to study a lot about crystals, stones, astrology and astronomy and I added a lot of information to my Reiki practice. Now I know that less is more and that in reality, for me, concentration, intention and the Reiki technique is more than enough to achieve the desired results. The rest is of great help but I feel that if you manage to maintain humility and stay more relaxed, you can help much more to heal others. You vibrate higher when your mind is in sync with the infinite love that we are.

Reiki, as well as acupuncture, meditation and grounding are wonderful techniques for self-healing. Trust your intuition, the instructions on what to do at the time of practice will become clearer and more precise. It’s a matter of staying in tune and trusting. Stay humble even if you start to feel and see things out of this world.
If your mission is to help others recover their inner power to heal, you must keep yourself as energetically unoccupied as you can without as much information to make it easier to connect. Trust.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I offer therapies or reiki and meditation sessions to people who are on their way to leaving their physical body, such as in nursing homes where I accompany them and help them prepare for their departure, to people with serious illnesses such as cancer, to sick children and their parents, and to all people who feel they need help and support to resolve an ailment. For example, women who want to get pregnant and have not yet achieved it.

I believe I was born with a talent, a mission to help others awaken their own inner power to heal. My work is not an effort, likewise the people who have come to me looking for help are people who are looking for me, not me for them. In 20 years I have never denied anyone my sessions. I have done it for everyone and it is something that has developed on its own effortlessly in a truly wonderful way.

I feel honored to see these people regain their strength and balance.

These therapies are closer to a theme of leaving behind the old story that you told yourself and that you believed that you did not have the power to heal yourself mentally and physically or that you are going to die and disappear! It’s a journey inward to remember who you are! through the wonderful power of entering into deep meditation where you connect with your Higher Self and find the answers for yourself. Your body accumulates energies that no longer serve you in meridians (as acupuncture calls it) and generates physical and emotional illnesses. These therapies are like taking a truck off your back! Your body feels lighter and lighter. It is there in that state of love, when the energy flows and the miracle occurs. I only accompany you in the process but the power comes from you.
I teach you how to connect with yourself so that you no longer need me and you can do it on your own. That’s the goal!

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

Being an extremely mental and literary restless person, after more than 20 years practicing Reiki, I continue learning to unlearn everything I have learned to understand that less is more and that the truth and the solutions to heal are simpler than we imagine. The more you remove mental weight, the more you will remember who you are and recover your joy and your power to heal at all levels. You will start to feel peace.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://instagram.com/maria_reikiandes
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mar%C3%ADa-paula-vargas-63427267

Image Credits
The main photo was taken by: Jenny Ruiz. www.jennyruiz.com