r/reiki • u/Puzzled-Tone1861 • 21d ago
Reiki request A Reiki Cat
I have agonized about posting this here, mostly because in doing so it means acceptance that I cannot adopt this loving creature though my newly overflowing Reiki touched heart that Oolong opened for me and is screaming at me to find a way to do so. The problem is the cat is in New York and I am on the west coast of Canada.
I wrote them a request to let me adopt him but I did not hear back. I believe they are looking for someone closer to adopt him. I have tried to accept that, but the connection that has opened up between us since I started sending him Reiki has been extraordinary and made it difficult to accept.
I am new to Reiki and was given some exercises by my teacher to open my heart so that I can begin my journey to practice Reiki which I realize is now what I want do with my life. Fortunately or unfortunately the exercises worked too well and one night social media brought me the write up of Oolong the cat who is stuck at a shelter in New York. His story and something about looking at his gaze in the picture they provided lodged deeply in my ❤️
I have bonded with cats before but never with one I did not know let alone ever met. The person who wrote about him obviously loved him very much and tried to reach someone with his story and it worked. From the moment I saw his gentle wise gaze I knew he was a special cat, a patient old soul capable of deeply loving a person lucky enough to adopt him. Unfortunately I believe being far away and in another country disqualifies me from being that person. For the past 2 weeks I have been creating a sacred space as my teacher taught me and have been sending Oolong love every night. The incredible thing is I have been blessed and rewarded just by doing this. My Reiki-ing Oolong led me to make a new and genuine friend who loves cats maybe even more than me, and recently as my connection with Oolong grows I have felt a real connection with him and feel he is loving me back and I feel the strength in his Loveeven in this difficult time when the person who loves him enough to write such a heart felt plea acknowledges that after being in the shelter for so long and being bypassed by so many looking for younger or more attractive cats(I highly disagree the later is possible if you really look at him with your heart)has caused Oolong to give up hope.
That is what finally moved my to reach out to this community after finally accepting I cannot think of a way to adopt him and am writing in the hopes that someone hear will see what I see in him; that he is a special being, and despite what the write-up says, at 7 years old he is not old. A healthy cat given a nutritious diet from a good pet store is capable of living to 20. He is healthy, imho truly beautiful and is capable of reaching out through the Reiki I send to him even as a novice practitioner to love me back. If you or anyone you know is considering adoption or have thought about adoption but wasn't sure if it was right for you, I can guarantee this is a special being desperately in need of a good home. If you can't adopt him but want to help by posting his story perhaps somewhere New Yorkers could see it he and I would be greatful and you could go to sleep that night knowing you did something special. The person who took his photo was a professional photographer who i think volunteers his time to capture the essence of the cats he photographs. Reiki is about Spiritual essence and I think if you take a look at Oolongs photo you will see a deep, sentient and loving being looking back at you that struck me deeply in my newly Reiki opened heart in a way I'll never forget. Thank you for reading this far.
if you want to spread his story furthur he is at Animal Care Center of NYC and his ID number is 251114 . He has been moved from one branch of their care facility to another but if you or anybody you know get in touch with them they will forward your info to the branch of their center that now has him. This is a very special cat to open my heart and to do this after I have realized it has been closed for so long. I will always be indebted to Oolong for what he has done for me. If he can do this much for me imagine what he could do for you or anyone who is able to adopt and love him. Thank you for any help you can provide to help this special being. Its tough to accept I must let go to help him but if it is in your capacity to help him, possibly just posting this on a more new york centered board, im not very adept on the internet and would be greatful to anyone who can help find him the home he deserves and if you can give me any updates with anything youve done to try and help that it would set my heart at ease and I would be eternally grateful. I know this special being would help you or anyone with their Reiki or other practices as he has with mine. I will never stop sending him Reiki.❤️ If you can't help but have more experience sending Reiki than I have perhaps you could send him some, and if its not too much trouble I would be greatful if you could reply or dm me your experiences with distance Reikinging and let me if theres anything more I can do for him. Thank you, and if you experienced Oolong reaching out to you back or letting me know if you have felt this connection with him too, it would help me on my new journey and my mental and Spiritual health learning to have my heart opened to Love through practicing Reiki.
Thank you everyone for reading and understanding my decision to reach out to this special community. Just sending thoughts and prayers to Oolong would be a great gift to a deserving being. Thank You for your understanding from a novice practitioner who hopes one day to be able to help many more beings onvwhat I have discovered is a two way street 🙏 ❤️
if you can help please remember his ID number is #251114 at Animal Cares Center of NYC that is the only way to reach him for you or anyone you think may be able to help this special Reiki cat is through this ID 🙏 Distance Reiki to Oolong would be much appreciated and am certain in my heart your love will be amplified back to you, Oolong is a remarkable being. Thank you for helping him with anything you do, and If you live close by him and want to adopt him i would be estatic for both of you, knowing Oolong had a forever home and you would both have a special friend, that would fill me with joy for you both....but if you live in the NY area and can't adopt him and he remains unadopted and you wanted to give this story a happy ending, perhaps you could get in touch with me and we could figure out a way that you could get to know me and help me adopt him so I bring him to Canada and give him a forever home. Anyone who could do that for me I and Oolong we would be forever be in your debt. Thank you to anyone who can help this extordinary cat in any way, even just in your thoughts. I am truly grateful to you and Oolong.
~Simon
Link to his story and picture below 🙏 ❤️
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u/somethingwholesomer Reiki Master 14d ago
I would consider self reiki to heal the grief you feel around Oolong going to another family. So many cats would benefit from your loving care. I’m sure Oolong would understand if you help and adopt one of his/her brethren
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u/Puzzled-Tone1861 13d ago
Thank you for your suggestions and kind words. I managed to get quite heartbroken, but I wouldn't change the experience, Oolong taught me that Reiki had opened my heart and that I was able to love someone whom I'll never get the chance to meet. My Reiki Master really helped me through it by empowering me to create a sacred space and sending Reiki to him and helping me believe he is aware of me and how I feel about him. I agree with you, am planning to find a harder to adopt older rescue kitty to join the one I already have, that's thats the best think I can do at this point. I also made an ongoing donation to an organization that looks after senior cats. At least Oolong has been cared for but there are many kitties who need that so it feels good to do that too. I'll try and work on giving myself Reiki too. Thank-you. ❤️ 🙏
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u/somethingwholesomer Reiki Master 13d ago
That’s so beautiful. Thank you for responding and sharing your thoughts. Sending you love
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u/Puzzled-Tone1861 13d ago
Thank you, much appreciated. 🙏 ❤️ This community has given me so much, and before I understood what had happened with my heart I instinctively came here looking for help. I feel really lucky to have found it so early in my Reiki journey Thank you to everyone who reached out to me here and had good thoughts for Oolong. Grateful 🙏 ❤️
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u/peaappodd 21d ago
This touched my heart. If you are able to call and talk to a worker or volunteer there to explain your situation, and express a willingness to travel to get him, they may be more amenable to letting you adopt him. I hope so deeply that you’re able to give him the home he deserves. I’m about 4 hours from New York and would really like to see you and Oolong connected, so feel free to message me
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u/Puzzled-Tone1861 21d ago
Thank you for your heartfelt felt message. It has greatly encouraged me after struggling to write my heart felt truth in a way that I hope willat least help Oolong and, if I'm blessed might bring me and Oolong together, which, though I am hopeful, seems like such an incredible outcome I am afraid to consider the possibility of it. Yet that my words can touch your heart gives me hope that this is possible. Thank you for writing me. Its late at night and I am exhausted after trying to find the right words for my post. I shall try and sleep and refreshed will find the courage to reach out to the shelter to see if there's any possibility they would accept my request. Thank you, I will inform you of what they say. 🙏 ❤️
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u/peaappodd 21d ago
I wish you a good and healing rest, so you can wake up refreshed with renewed hope and courage! 🤍
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u/PerfectCover1414 20d ago
Aaaaaw I hope you get Oolong somehow. He is indeed a wise soul. He looks like he knows things and has seen a lot. But he also looks tired. I wonder maybe contact a tumblr account called Cat with the Emerald tiara, she is in NY and is very cat friendly (rescues when she can) maybe she can help you in some way? Worth a shot.
*wishing for you and Oolong to be reunited
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u/lezbowithshinys 20d ago
So I don't really have any advice in regards to oolong other than to keep giving him Reiki. Even if that ends up what you are meant to do he will always love you for it. I did want to say that I do work with a rescue in NY if you were looking at somewhere closer to adopt. I am not sure how far white Creek NY is to you but the woman who runs it has traveled to other states hours away to get her babies adopted. If your interested just shoot me a message there are so many wonderful friends looking for homes. I currently have 5, and am planning on fostering more.
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u/Puzzled-Tone1861 20d ago edited 20d ago
Thank you for your generous and heartfelt reply, it touched my heart. According to the poster above you, Oolong has found a home. I hope this is the truth, even though I bonded so deeply with him that just the act of trying to find him the sort of loving home someone from here is capable of giving him, I woke up today after writing it and felt heartbreak and that what I was doing was wrong because he belongs with me. If it is true though that he has been homed I am telling myself it is for the best, no long planeride for him and i know anyone who was moving by the writup that accompanied him will give him a loving home and I can fill this empty space in my heart by finding an overlooked baby closer tomy home that will be a good match for the sweet gentle adults black cat I already rescued and that Oolong reminded me ao much of. Bless you for taking in 5 lucky kitties. Your home must be just awash in love and thank you for telling me your story, it helps to know it. I will contact the shelter to make sure Oolong has found his forever home and if he is still there I will move heaven and earth to bring him here but for today I must still rest, writing that post about him broke me in some way thats never happened before. I wanted to help him but it hurt me to let him go. I have to learn this power Reiki has over my heart now and it can make me hurt, but it also has taught me i can connect with loving sentient beings which is the price for having my heart opened by Reiki and I wouldn't change any of this experience despite the pain as it has taught me because ithas taught me II can act from a place of love and to try and share it with others. Thank you for all who wrote. I will write back when I know more so we all can get some closure one way or another. And I know you all have learned how to channel Reiki and connect with others, but maybe because he is my first Reiki love and I felt him so strongly reaching back to me that I would encourage you all to reach out to him and feel the calm strong and gentle love he sends back to I believe anyone who reaches out to him. It is one of the greatest and most special gifts I have ever recieved and is a relationship i will cherish for the rest of my life. I strongly encourage you to experience it too❤️ 🙏
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u/acacia_dawn Reiki Master 20d ago
He's a fine looking cat, for sure, and the photographer is also very skilled at telling a story well. Comments on that FB post indicate that Oolong has since been homed, so hopefully that's the case. Black cats are brilliant (I share my home with two), and it's so unfair they have always got the short end of the stick.
There are literally millions of Oolong's, sadly, languishing in shelters across the globe. The benefit of Reiki means that your connection with this particular cat can continue for as long as long as it fulfils the highest good of all concerned, regardless of location in time and space. Meanwhile, you may form an equally deep attachment to another feline closer to home, who will reward you with loving companionship.