As we move forward into a new year and new decade, many of us will spend some time creating New Year Resolutions, most of which will fall by the wayside as the year progresses. Or maybe that’s just me.
One of my goals this year is to start teaching Jikiden Reiki Classes, and I will begin by offering the first level training (Shoden) on February 8th and 9th. I’m telling you this now because you will need to register by January 16th in order for me to receive the manuals and certificates from Kyoto, Japan before class starts.
For those of you unfamiliar with Jikiden Reiki…
Read moreRemember folks, the end of the year is supposed to be filled with holiday cheer, not holiday jeer. Last year I noticed a lot of hostility and irritability in drivers around the holiday season especially around parking lots of malls and major shopping destinations. During a time when all of the major religious holidays are celebrating the light, I found darkness lashing out through snarling faces, violent hand gestures, and colorful language. (or was that just me? :)
This year I want do my part to align more with the light, and I want to share three actions I plan to implement to keep my spirit lifted (and hopefully lift others in the process)…
Read moreFor those of you that vacation regularly you already know the benefits, but for those of you that get stuck in whatever reasons you have to not take a vacation (“I can’t find the time.” “I don’t have the money.”) consider planning a vacation anyway. I had my share of excuses that prevented me from planning time off and leaving home, and once I took the first leap I found the importance of it and decided to make it an integral part of my life and my budget…
Read moreIn order to understand how Reiki can facilitate healing, it helps to understand some basics of how the human body works. For this month’s post, I’d like to walk you through a simplistic understanding of the autonomic nervous system.
The Autonomic Nervous System is composed of two sub-systems: the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system. You know more about these systems than you realize. You probably don’t recognize them because I’m using their more technical names.
The Sympathetic Nervous System is referred to…
Read moreHave you ever wanted to deny who you are? Have you taken the time to decide/discover/create who you are? You are the one you. You may have heard this before, but you are the one and only version of you that has ever existed and will have ever existed in the timeline of our existence. The snowflake/thumbprint/QR code that is you exists for only one reason: to exist. You simply get to enjoy (or suffer) through the very circumstances and choices that are unique to you. Those moments when you are by yourself watching the birds fly by/boats pass by/people walk by, are for you to soak in and enjoy. All the thoughts that race through your mind are for you to experience. No one else will have those moments, those exact flow of thoughts. You alone get to enjoy those.
Of course, you could choose to suffer through them. You can choose to view them in a negative connotation and add them to the other reasons to see life as suffering, a hardship, and a worthless story to endure, and that’s not a bad or a good thing. It just is. That may be the hardest thing to accept. The is of the is.
What is your story?
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