Reiki Saved My Life. Fifteen Years Later, My Understanding of Healing Had Expanded.
The Story Behind High Frequency Healing™ and Why I Created a Different Kind of Healing Mentorship
Fifteen years ago, Reiki saved my life.
I'm not being dramatic when I say that.
I was in a very deep, dark place in my life. My vibration was incredibly low, and I had reached a point where I didn't know where else to turn.
And then I found my Reiki Master.
That decision changed the trajectory of my life in ways I couldn't have imagined.
Reiki introduced me to energy healing, but more importantly, it introduced me to an entirely different way of experiencing myself and the world around me.
Over the next 15 years, I immersed myself in this work. I became a Reiki Master and went on to teach Reiki Level 1, Level 2, and Master training to thousands of students.
And I loved it.
I loved watching students discover their own capacity for healing and witnessing the shifts that happened when someone began looking at themselves and their experiences differently.
But about a year ago, something happened that changed everything.
The Day I Realized My Understanding of Healing Had Expanded
I was standing in front of a classroom of Reiki students, answering questions as I had done hundreds of times before.
Except this time, something clicked.
As I listened to myself answering their questions, I suddenly realized something.
I wasn't just teaching Reiki anymore.
The way I was explaining energy, the way I understood healing, and the techniques I was using in my private sessions had evolved into something much bigger.
And it wasn't because Reiki had stopped being valuable to me. Quite the opposite. Reiki was the foundation that made everything else possible.
Over those 15 years, my work with the Akashic Records, sound, vibration, consciousness, and the nervous system had completely transformed how I approached healing.
I realized I had developed a framework that brought all these discoveries together in a way that was uniquely my own.
And in that moment, I knew it was time to share it.
That framework became High Frequency Healing™.
What Is High Frequency Healing™?
High Frequency Healing™ is a five-step energy healing methodology I developed through more than 15 years of working with energy, consciousness, the nervous system, sound, and the relationship between our beliefs and our experiences.
But before I explain the five steps, I want to share a few discoveries that fundamentally changed how I understand healing.
Because High Frequency Healing™ didn't come from sitting down one day and deciding to invent another healing modality. It came from years of noticing patterns, asking questions, and realizing there was so much more to explore.
The Akashic Records Changed Everything
One of the biggest turning points in my work came when I was formally trained in the Akashic Records.
After completing my training, I set a goal for myself: give 100 Akashic Record readings.
And as I worked through those readings, I started noticing something fascinating.
The same themes kept showing up. Different people, different lives, different circumstances, but underneath their individual stories, I was recognizing many of the same patterns.
Those experiences eventually inspired me to write my book, Cracked Open, where I explore what I learned from those readings.
But perhaps the greatest gift the Akashic Records gave me was something I call the Broader-Eternal Perspective.
Imagine being able to look at your life from a perspective that is completely neutral, unconditionally loving, compassionate, and infinitely wise. A perspective that doesn't judge you for what you've experienced, the choices you've made, or the person you've become.
It simply sees the bigger picture.
Once I began experiencing life through that perspective, I couldn't unsee it. And it completely changed how I approached healing.
Instead of asking, "What's wrong with this person, and how do we fix it?" I began asking a different question.
What if this person isn't broken at all?
What if healing is less about fixing ourselves and more about reconnecting with who we really are?
That philosophy became one of the foundations of High Frequency Healing™ and helped shape the signature frequency of my method, called Xanjai.
Why I Started Using Tuning Forks and Drumming
Another significant shift came through my work with sound and vibration.
I began exploring how our bodies respond to experiences, particularly the ones we continue carrying long after they've happened.
I believe suffering can become embedded in how we experience ourselves physically, emotionally, and energetically. And I began questioning whether understanding an experience intellectually was always enough.
Because you can understand exactly why something happened, recognize the lesson, and still find yourself responding to life through the same old patterns.
I began using weighted tuning forks and drumming to work with what I call energetic expressions of suffering.
The intention isn't to erase an experience, shame it, or pretend it never happened. It's to create an opportunity for what has been held within the body to come to the surface, so it can be experienced, processed, and integrated differently.
I call this dislodging suffering through resonance.
But I also realized something important.
Creating movement is only part of the process. We also need to create safety.
Because if someone doesn't feel safe enough to receive a different experience, simply bringing something to the surface isn't necessarily helpful.
That understanding became another foundational piece of High Frequency Healing™.
I Also Started Looking at the Energy Centers Differently
Most people who have explored energy healing are familiar with the seven chakras.
But I often remind my students that chakras are simply one way of interpreting something much bigger: energy.
Traditional Chinese medicine explores meridians and Qi. Taoist practices describe the dantian. Yogic traditions use chakras and prana. Different frameworks, all offering ways to understand our energetic experience.
Through my work, I began noticing specific patterns in how our energy centers seemed to relate to what people were experiencing in their lives.
Rather than describing an energy center as open or closed, I look at what I call energy leakage.
Within High Frequency Healing™, energy leakage represents an area where our current beliefs, perceptions, or experiences may not be aligned with the expanded version of ourselves.
For example, I connect the solar plexus with celebration and receiving. Someone might be incredibly successful but unable to enjoy anything they've accomplished because they're constantly moving on to the next thing.
Or consider the heart chakra, which I connect to a process called Illumination.
Illumination is about recognizing the natural gifts we came into this world with and allowing those gifts to shine through us into the world. I believe that when we contribute from that place, we don't just help others. We expand and heal ourselves in the process.
Rather than viewing energy leakage as something wrong with a person, I see it as information. An invitation to explore where their next opportunity for expansion might be.
The Five-Step High Frequency Healing™ Method
Over time, these discoveries became a complete five-step framework. Each step has a specific purpose, and together they create the experience I now teach to High Frequency Healing™ practitioners.
Step 1: Charge Cells
We begin with the Healy device, using individualized frequency and microcurrent applications as part of the energetic preparation for the session.
Step 2: Create Receptivity
Through guided induction, we invite the mind and body into a calmer, more receptive state before moving into the deeper work.
Step 3: Dislodge Suffering Through Resonance
Using weighted tuning forks and drum washes, we work with areas where the person may be experiencing energetic expressions of suffering.
Step 4: Assuage With Xanjai
We introduce the signature frequency of High Frequency Healing™, using specific hand positions and practitioner presence to invite greater safety, coherence, and receptivity.
Step 5: The High Frequency Healing™ Transmissions
Finally, we offer three transmissions connected to what I call the Three Human Myths, inviting the person to reconnect with aspects of themselves that may have become obscured through their experiences and beliefs.
These five steps are intentionally sequenced.
We prepare. We create receptivity. We work with suffering. We invite safety and coherence. And then we offer the opportunity for integration and expansion.
What Is Xanjai?
Xanjai (pronounced Zan-Jay) is the signature frequency of High Frequency Healing™. The word means to soothe or to assuage.
Its origins go back to my years of working with prayer, meditation, and the Akashic Records.
Over time, I began recognizing a particular energetic experience connected to the Broader-Eternal Perspective I mentioned earlier. Compassionate, neutral, loving, and expansive.
Eventually, I gave that energetic experience a name: Xanjai.
Now, here's something important about how I view Xanjai.
I don't believe Xanjai is the source of healing, any more than I believe Reiki or any other healing modality is the source.
Instead, I view these modalities as what I call permission slips.
A permission slip is simply something that helps us give ourselves permission to access an experience or possibility that may already be available to us.
Have you ever experienced something that helped you finally believe you could do something you previously thought was impossible?
The experience didn't necessarily give you a new ability. It helped you access something that was already within you.
That's how I think about healing modalities.
Different methods offer different pathways, and people resonate with them based on their beliefs, experiences, and readiness.
Xanjai is the unique energetic pathway within High Frequency Healing™.
During the mentorship, practitioners receive a specialized Xanjai Transmission and learn how to work with this signature frequency through specific hand positions.
But they aren't learning to become the source of someone else's healing.
They're learning to become the bridge.
And that distinction is central to everything I teach.
The Three Human Myths and the High Frequency Healing™ Transmissions
The final step of High Frequency Healing™ involves three transmissions, each connected to a belief I've observed repeatedly throughout my work.
I call them the Three Human Myths.
The first is "I am alone and unsupported."
The second is "I am separate from others."
And the third is "I am incomplete and must strive to become whole."
Think about how much of our human experience is shaped by those three beliefs.
How often do we feel unsupported? How often do we experience separation? And how much of our lives do we spend trying to become someone we think we're supposed to be?
Within High Frequency Healing™, the transmissions are invitations to experience something beyond those familiar beliefs.
They're not about me giving someone something they don't have. They're about creating an energetic bridge between that person and their Higher Self, offering an opportunity to reconnect with something that may already be available to them.
I've written an entire blog about the third transmission, called the Upgrade Transmission, and what I personally experience when I offer it.
You can read it here: The Upgrade Transmission: Rebooting Into the Highest Version of Yourself.
And while these transmissions are an important part of the method, I want to be clear about something.
The person offering the transmission is not the healer. At least, not in the way we've traditionally been taught to think about healing.
I believe that to heal is to raise our vibration. And a healer, in my eyes, is someone who becomes a bridge or a catalyst, creating the opportunity for another person to raise their own vibration.
That belief is also why I created a very different kind of practitioner training.
Why I Created a Mentorship Instead of Another Certification
After 15 years of teaching thousands of students, I know how to teach a certification. I've taught plenty of them.
And there's absolutely a place for learning a new modality, adding a technique to your toolbox, or spending a day expanding your knowledge. We offer exceptional trainings like that at SHINE.
But I wanted High Frequency Healing™ to be different.
Because there's something I've come to believe very strongly through my own experience.
The work you do with others can only go as deep as the person you're willing to become yourself.
You can learn every hand position, memorize every technique, and understand every concept intellectually. But what happens when you leave the classroom? How do you respond when life challenges you? What do you believe about yourself? And are you actually living what you're teaching?
These are the questions I wanted to explore, not just to develop better practitioners, but because I believe this is where the greatest transformation happens.
So instead of creating a traditional certification, I created something much more personal.
High Frequency Healing™: Mentorship for High Frequency Living.
Learn the Method. Become the Bridge. Live Differently.
Identity. Understanding. Embodiment.
Those three words describe the journey we take together, and the order matters.
This Is Not a Traditional Certification
I intentionally limit each mentorship to 6–8 participants because I want to know who's sitting in the room, what they're exploring, and what they're discovering about themselves.
You're not simply receiving a manual and learning a technique. You're spending three immersive days with me, exploring the methodology I've developed through 15 years of personal work, teaching, creating transformational experiences, building a thriving business, and working with thousands of people.
And the work doesn't end when we leave the room. There's integration, reflection, and personal exploration between our sessions.
This is the premium version of my work, designed for people ready to invest in themselves mentally, emotionally, energetically, and financially.
And Yes, You Can Become Certified
For those who want to bring High Frequency Healing™ into their own communities, there's an optional pathway to becoming a Designated High Frequency Healing™ Practitioner.
After completing the mentorship, you'll complete the required practice sessions and documentation, followed by a private mentoring session with me. This pathway is included in your mentorship investment, but certification is entirely optional.
Whether you're here to become a practitioner or to experience a profound shift in your own life, the mentorship begins with you.
Two Ways to Experience the High Frequency Healing™ Mentorship
One of my bigger visions for High Frequency Healing™ is to see practitioners bringing this work into communities well beyond Northeast Ohio.
So I've created two ways to experience the mentorship in person at SHINE.
The Three-Day Long-Immersion
Traveling from out of town? Spend three consecutive days immersed in the High Frequency Healing™ Method, personal transformation, and hands-on practice. Come to Kent, Ohio, spend 3-days with me, and bring the method back to your own community.
The Three-Month Mentorship
For those who prefer more time between sessions, I also offer the mentorship across three separate months, with integration work and opportunities to apply what you're learning between our time together.
Both options take you through the same journey of Identity, Understanding, and Embodiment. The difference is simply how you prefer to experience it.
Fifteen Years Later, I'm Still Expanding
Sometimes I think about the version of me who walked into that first Reiki session 15 years ago.
She had no idea where that decision would lead. She certainly didn't know she'd eventually teach thousands of students, open an education center, write books, or develop her own healing methodology.
She was simply looking for a way out of a very dark place.
And I will always be grateful that Reiki was there when I needed it.
But one of the greatest lessons those 15 years have taught me is that expansion isn't something we finish. It's something we live.
I don't believe we ever reach a point where we're done growing, discovering, or becoming.
And I certainly don't believe I've reached that point myself.
xo,
Cortney
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