My heart weighs heavily with all of the pain in the world right now. I can’t bring myself to write about an uplifting story or teachable moment from my life at this time. All I want to iterate is to maintain your spiritual practice. Groups of people meditating together can cause changes in society at large as stated by a study from the Maharishi University of Management.
“For the period 2007-2010, when there was a sufficiently large group, statistical analysis found a significant decrease in both the national homicide rate and urban violent crime rate compared to trends during the baseline period of 2002-2006.”
For the benefit of your self, your community, your country, and your world, please keep up your meditation and/or prayer practice. You can do it on your own or join a group. I am going live every morning at 8am if you want to join in with me or perhaps you have another group you are a part of already. Just please, keep it up. The world needs it right now…
Read moreIn the first few weeks of shelter-in-place I was feeling very accomplished. I was getting many chores and jobs around the house completed, and I was thinking that this quarantine was the best thing that could have happened. And then it started to take a turn.
My momentum started to slow as the weather turned to non stop rain putting a damper on making progress on any outside projects as well as curbing the daily walks around the block with my son so he could run around and burn off some energy. I felt confined in the house and unable to get anything accomplished.
I was falling into a depression, and I felt I could do nothing about it…
Read moreI pray that you are all doing well in the midst of this global health crisis. Until the stay-at-home order is lifted I will not be offering any in-person Reiki sessions, and classes are on hold until they can be rescheduled.
I have moved the Monday night Reiki Healing Circle to the Kukan Reiki Kai Facebook page, and I go LIVE from 7:30-8:30pm leading a guided meditation and a self-Reiki session.
I have also been leading a brief meditation every morning at 8am also on Facebook Live that you can join (with your kids as well) or you can watch the recording anytime on the Kukan Reiki Kai Facebook page.
Read moreOn my path of becoming my best self (a work in progress), I find that the times when I can recognize that an event or comment has triggered me with an emotional reaction that does not match the energy level of the event or comment are the best opportunities to go within and heal something about my self. Of course I don’t always recognize it in the moment, however when I do see that something is awry, I know I need to make time to process what is going on in my inner world.
Making the time to do this inner work is crucial in personal development. If I let these opportunities pass I leave myself vulnerable to more emotional upsets in the future which might cause me to say or do something that may hurt someone else. I would prefer to not act irresponsibly and mindless like that, and that’s why I choose to use the following inquiry…
Read moreHave you ever heard of the Morning Pages? If so, have you tried them out? How did they work for you?
If you haven’t heard of the Morning Pages, allow me to explain. It is a free-form thought flow journaling exercise prescribed by Julia Cameron in her book The Artist’s Way. Within the first 30 minutes of waking, you are to get out a notebook and write three pages (with paper and pen) of anything that comes to mind, and you don’t stop until you fill all three pages.
This is not a timed exercise. This is a process, and it is one that gave me great results. You can think of it as another form of meditation where…
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