Italian born, Gaetano Vivo is one of Europe’s most experienced and sought-after Reiki Masters,
Q: Tell us about your personal journey.
A: I’ve been a Reiki Master for 25 years and have been kind of teaching and seeking and see people all over the world. I move between London and Naples and teach people from all over the world.
This journey started when I was in my mid- thirties and felt like something was really kind of bothering me and felt that the work that I was doing was not the right work for me and there was something missing; so I kind of went and tried all sorts of things. In London I used to go to a shop called the metaphysical center, it’s a shop like a healing center where people would come, sit, relax, read books. Through this I was introduced to Reiki. People would come, have lectures, they would read Tarot cards or do healing, and that is when I decided that possibly this was something that I would like to explore more.
In those days there were a lot of books available on Reiki, but I wanted to explore more so went in for a Reiki 1 level course. I loved it and decided that it was going to be my life from then on. I decided to dedicate my life to reiki. Ever since it’s been like an opening of my heart to give reiki to people to get them feeling better and to get them to really appreciate this amazing beautiful universal energy that we channel. I have taught over 6000 eople in 25 years. I teach Reiki 1 and 2 and also level 3 which is very important if you want to become a reiki master. Teaching is important to me but I am one of those few reiki masters in the world that doesn’t assign a reiki 3 just because you want to do so. I’m really disciplined and kind of authoritarian with my students. I believe that students really need to make Reiki their mission for life and be responsible. I see people do reiki 1,2 and 3 in one day or over the internet, but that is not how I want them to do it.
Nobody knows what really is reiki and if I have 6000 students that I have trained for reiki, I only have possibly 150 people that have taken my reiki 3 class because I’m really particular and teach reiki in 3 years so people really need to come and study with me. I call it 3 years of spiritual changing. I don’t call myself a reiki master, I feel like reiki teacher is much more like me.
Q: In a narrowed down world today most of our lives are restricted to gadgets, so how do you help people expand their awareness and lead a meaningful life if they come to you?
First, I will offer you a session and then I would see through my intuition what are the blockages you have in your chakras. So, I kind of read your aura and your chakras and if I feel that feel both are not working for you, I do sessions to unblock and align those chakras and get your aura balanced. Going forward, this is a journey because people just really want a solution and not just to relax; they want to get healed.
First, I will offer you a session and then I would see through my intuition what are the blockages you have in your chakras. So, I kind of read your aura and your chakras and if I feel that feel both are not working for you, I do sessions to unblock and align those chakras and get your aura balanced. Going forward, this is a journey because people just really want a solution and not just to relax; they want to get healed.
It’s like a step by step movement forward in your life and also about trying to accept things about yourself, forgive things about your past want to get healed. It’s like a step by step movement forward in your life and also about trying to accept things about yourself, forgive things about your past because you have to remember that now we live in the present. 2020 is an important year, it’s the start of a new decade and people are kind of experiencing an awakening and want to know more about spirituality and energy. It is very important for us, people who are working in this field, light workers as they call us, to facilitate this kind of awakening for people.
Q: How long would it take, or it is an ongoing journey?
A: it is an ongoing journey but not only with me; it is for them too! People come and get all sorts of healing, take workshops but also workshops to take, if instance I have client here and they come for 3-5 session because of course
during the life you get all sorts of upsetting and this and that and you need tuning up from time to time.
Q: Sometimes our past makes us into who we are, which are natural progressions of our life. But at times it is really necessary to cut ties with our past according to you?
Yes, I led a meditation that was called, ’the ties that still bind us’ can you imagine? Yes, it is very important to cut the ties and just be free. The more ties you cut the freer you are and much more at peace with yourself. You will be in the present and therefore in the future so therefore it is very important for you to cut ties that still bind from the past, meaning relationships, people that upset you.
You know how I work? Let’s take an example of X who I saw today. X is a beautiful human being with amazing energy but in her auras, there are some imprints that people have left because they are like thought forms you know? People think about something about you and even if it is very nice feelings or thoughts, they get trapped in your aura and therefore as you go forward and you progress, those feelings are actually becoming your feelings or your information but thy are other’s information and you do not need them. That is why we need to cut ties because they belong to other people. So, if we have a relationship that does not work, people that have given you some kind of judgmental feelings r have used prejudiced words towards you, those are feelings that always stay in your aura if you do not clear it. In some people the aura is very close to the body and that means that they are becoming that form! I always teach people to expand their aura in order for them not to have a clutter from other people but just have an amazing energy and have an expanded aura.
I also work with colours; for instance, most of people come wearing black because it’s fashionable, it makes you slimmer but I always say that black is not a very good color to wear because first of all there is no black chakra and there are no colours in your aura which are black. Black attracts energetic vampires so any time we feel down, and we feel like we are lethargic that actually is something that the vampires feed into. When I am giving a reiki session, I always like to wear either blue or white because I feel that when people come to see me, they need to feel calm, relaxed. It is very important that we work with the colours.
If I look at some people’s auras and I feel and see all the 7 colors of the rainbow and I do not see a color in the aura it means that person has got some problems according to the colour that I don’t see. For instance for a person who came to me for meditation, he wore all black all the time. I told him to wear yellow, yellow is the color of the solar plexus chakra which gives you energy from the sun, you are lucky here because you get the energy of the sun all the time. So, the energy of the solar plexus chakra is to do with all sorts of characteristics that the person might have like insomnia, depression and not feeling good about yourself and the rest of it… When I see somebody, I tell these things and tell the person to wear yellow as it will help you strengthen your chakra, get it energized and therefore your energy will expand even more. The person tried it and he was extremely happy with the changes. The more we work with colours, the more you actually release all sorts of energies and become the real you.
Q: Does a particular colour just attract you? Why does that happen?
The kind of colour that does not attract you is the kind you need! For instance, I’m a very airy-fairy kind of person and I do not like red. But do you know why? Because I’m not very grounded; I always live up in the air and red is some kind of colour that I would never wear. We have to work with all the 7 colours because we need to get energy all the time. I make a very strong effort to not to wear red because it doesn’t appeal to me but possibly have in my pocket a red jasper or some kind of red in my life and also kind of meditate in red. I’m not wearing it but can even visualize it.
I went to Stonehenge some time ago to lead a group there and one of my students took a picture of me there and suddenly while I was taking this picture beautiful red orbs appeared. So, it’s like when you are actually attuned into this energy you feel like the energy and universal energy kind of responding to you.
Q: Why are we all stressed these days? How do we heal from negativity disease?
We are subjective to other people’s vibration and so all of our auras are getting subjective. First of all, we all need to learn to protect ourselves all the time; to not to get other people’s vibration all the time. There is also a global worry about all sorts of things like the economy and the wars all over the places and also in England there is Brexit, uncertainty, insecurities and all that.
V: People like my parents went through all of that but did not seem so stresses. Why?
G: Because they come from a different generation where there was not so much information. First of all, they did not have too much expectations, so they were just living with the flow. Today we have too much expectations. People should not have expectations. I come from Europe to Dubai, I give treatments, but I never expect 50 treatments in 3 weeks; if it happens it happens. You just need to let go, let go and you’ll see how things will come to you because it is very important that people do not get any kind of expectations that I need to achieve this, I need to achieve that, I won’t get this, I won’t get that. No, you have to go with the flow, the more flowy you are with the energy inside your body and outside you, the much better a human being you become.
Q: Even disease is the reason of this? All sorts of diseases?
Yeah. I have written several books and there is a book called ‘Reiki is love’ that was published in 2003 in England and I have included many case studies of my clients. One particular one that I talked about all the time, was about this beautiful American woman I treated: tall, blonde, beautiful smile. She had a very abusive father, not sexually but verbally. The father would always tell her you are ugly, you will never get married, you will never get men, you will never get children and this and that… she became what the father wanted her to become, it manifested in her; she never got married, she never had any sexual intercourse with a man. She did not react to all that negativity and she was so afraid that she got ovarian cancer and died at the age of 39!
So, that’s what I’m saying; when we actually hear all this things from other people, it gets into our aura, first the body and then it gets into the chakras based on what kind of fears the person is projecting onto you; so it gets into the chakra into this phase and then into the body and that’s where the illness comes from. It’s all mental, if you do not clear your mind then everything will expand into you. If you do not flow with the energy, it damages you. Yes, her father was abusive but she really needed to clear that. You need to project it back to them; it is not my thought, that is your thought so it’s like, you think something about me but I’m not that person and therefore I will kind of send this feeling back to you because I do not want to have any of your projections within myself, in my aura and I need to expand and go forward.
Q: For instance, we do healing, but everyday morning when we switched on the TV or read a newspaper there so much negativity around us, now if we cannot constantly do healing how do we deal with this?
Why can’t you constantly do healing? You can learn to do healing on yourself. It’s not always possible of course! I teach people to heal themselves, but people come because they need stronger energy, because they are stressed out; they go through so much stuff and therefore they cannot heal themselves.
Many journalists come and interview me and say that I am a natural born healer, but I am not! I do not consider myself a healer; I am a channeler, the holy healer we have is God, it is the universe. I channel the energy of the universe. I channel this beautiful energy that comes through me; I’m a medium to help people get their energy. I also believe that I can give a thousand sessions to a person who is a non-believer but if she is not ready, she will not receive anything.
While I was living in America, I lived in Boulder, Colorado for 3 years and there was this journalist who came to interview me. When I received her she said that she did not believe in any of this but had come to do it as an assignment. She asked me if she could take notes during the session and I said of course, but that she was not going to be able tom relax. I gave her the treatment and I started with the head chakra and then I got to her heart chakra and as I was getting there she just let go of the pencil and the notepad and everything and she just slept all the way through the session and when she woke up she was weeping her eyes out and she looked completely a different person and she said this is amazing! She was like a little child because she had never received anything like that. And then she went and put an amazing article. So, with people one has to accompany them like with a child and just show them the beauty of healing.
Q: That’s what I read somewhere you have spoken about healing the inner child. Why the inner child and how? Do we all have an inner child?
Of course, we do! We all have an inner child. We did a meditation last time to heal the inner child and that inner child is that beautiful very pure essence of ourselves that we have inside ourselves but we forget about it because of the very busy life we lead; we forget about having this little beautiful innocent child inside our self which is flawless, it’s just like a beautiful pure essence of love and that’s actually where I take people to become that. That’s how you are born and that’s how you should live your life without any interruption or any interference from people and circumstances and the more you become like that the more beautiful you become; the world around you becomes beautiful.
I teach people how to handle these things, cut the ties that bind you to the past, try to do that, try to call upon the inner child within you. Your name, if you keep calling your name, most of the people I do the meditation with cry their eyes out because they never actually talked about having this little child inside themselves. In your heart that child sleeps, abandoned and completely forgotten by you because you are really busy with your daily life and you don’t even know that you have an inner child or that she’s there waiting to be recognized or even fed by you with love.
Q: What according to you is transparency in dealing with your relations? Being transparent? How do you address transparency?
There is a book that has come out in English which is called ‘The message is from the angels of transparency”. I was actually meditating one day in my reiki 3 class and all of the sudden this huge amazing group of angels appeared to me and they said we are the angels of transparency and they told me that I was going through some stuff in my life at that time about 15 or 18 years ago and they had come to heal my inner child. They said we all need to be as transparent as water. Transparency is all about the unveiling of our true intent, the nature of our hearts desire and the possible outcomes of our actions. Then deciding what is worth pursuing. Only when we have the full, untainted version of the human hearts before us can we execute discernment and make better choices for ourselves, our families and our communities at large.
Q: What is the Xantia healing?
Xantia is a very strong symbol of healing. It is this angel of transparency that heals the innerself because it is an initiation for the ‘opening of the heart’. It opens the angelic chakra and balances the heart chakra. It is a sumbol of 5 little squares: self, body, mind, soul, spirit. Self (centre of the universe) healed in body, mind, soul, and spirit. Things will improve once people have addressed these four elements. It is important for this to happen because Earth today is still changing, it is transforming and there is another Earth that awaits us, a land of peace, love, harmony, and brotherhood.
Gaetano has a natural ability to make you present and be drawn to his words. I went in for the session with a completely open mind, and I was totally willing to let myself go. I had been coughing a lot during the interview and as I lied down and the healing began, I stopped coughing and felt a peace and calm come over me. Gaetano’s warm hands on my head were soothing and I felt like curling up and going to sleep. He started coughing the way I was and later told me that he had taken that from me to himself. He explained that I had a lot of emotional blockages in my heart leading to the cough and the imbalance in the throat chakra. He told me things about myself that I hadn’t mentioned including various aches and pains and a sluggish metabolism among other things. He doesn’t just give healing energy it’s like a total body overhaul. My hands felt warm and all my limbs felt very heavy, but I was totally relaxed. Afterwards
I immediately felt light and taller, the feeling of anxiety had gone, and I felt much more relaxed.
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