By Palak Bhatt, Reiki Master | Mindfulness Coach | Founder of Midas Touch
Spirituality Isn’t Soft. It Is Fierce, and It Will Change You
I have been practicing Reiki since I was fourteen. That is not a flex. It is a confession.
People often imagine spirituality as soft light, scented candles, and peaceful smiles. And yes, sometimes it is exactly that. But more often, it is messy. It is uncomfortable. It is standing in the middle of your own emotional storm with your eyes wide open and your hands trembling and deciding not to run.
People come to me expecting calm. But real healing does not come from calm. It comes from courage. The kind that asks you to sit with what you have spent years avoiding. The moment I first felt Reiki energy move through my hands, I did not feel bliss. I felt intensity. Heat. Old emotions I did not have words for at fourteen. And a strange knowing that something had cracked open inside me.
That crack has never really closed.
Because here is the truth. Spirituality is not about escaping life. It is about meeting life fully. Even the parts that hurt.
Meditation showed me just how loud my mind was. Not just noise, but loops of fear, judgment, and self doubt. Breathwork taught me that I had been holding tension in my body since childhood. And Reiki made me face parts of myself I wanted to pretend did not exist. My anger. My grief. My need to control everything.
I thought spirituality would make me nicer. What it actually made me was real.
It made me tell the truth.
It made me leave relationships that did not honor me.
It made me face my family wounds.
It made me stop shrinking.
And yes, eventually, it also gave me peace. But not before it demanded everything that was not truly mine to be burned away.
If you are just beginning, whether through yoga, meditation, prayer, or simply questioning what it all means, I offer you this. Do not expect it to be comfortable. Expect it to be alive. Let it stretch you. Let it shake you. Let it change you.
You do not need to become anyone else. You do not need to wear white or chant in Sanskrit or know what your chakras are doing.
You just need to be willing to feel. To listen. To stay with yourself when it gets uncomfortable.
That is the fierce part. That is the part that transforms you.
I write this from the heart of Nairobi, a city that pulses with motion and noise and ambition. Here, it is easy to forget the stillness. But it is also here, in the middle of matatus and meetings and the rush to be seen, that we most need this fierceness. Not to escape life. But to live it deeper.
Spirituality will not save you from life. It will return you to it. Raw, awake, and more yourself than you have ever been.
And yes, it will change you.
Fiercely.
Beautifully.
Forever.
Love & Light
Palak Bhatt
Mindfulness Coach & Reiki Master
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