Monthly Archives: July 2018

Reiki On!!

I found Reiki a gazillion years ago. Or it found me.  And it changed everything. There are lots of people who have experienced and  wrote about “dark nights of the soul”- these are real events in life that change us forever.   We are usually completely lost – don’t know what to do times in our lives, And we know real change is required, if we are to know any peace, health, happiness.  And at these times, we reach out.  That’s how it happened to me.

I’m not interested in talking about where I have been.  I really enjoy talking about where I am going. That being said, I will share a bit about Reiki and how I experience it..  I came back to Forida after one of “those” life-altering experiences. And I moved into a small town and thought ‘what am I doing here’?   I walked into a Reiki circle with Patricia Williams at a store called The Inspired Heart” and knew I came home.  I felt I had done this before.  And I stuck to it like glue.  and it stuck to me like glue.  and I have been delving into this Spiritual practice ever since.

I’ve taken Reiki lots with Patricia, and lots with other teachers like Pamela Miles, author of Reiki in Medicine.  She’s all about getting Reiki into conventional medicine which I had hoped to do in a big way.  That in itself is an uphilll battle so to speak as it is unusual for one to think that a “weird” Spiritual practice could help anyone in the midst of a condition that is robbing them of health and happiness.

But, it does.  The National Institutes of Health  NCCAM (the alternative therapy parts that they recognize), call Reiki a “biofield therapy”.  As you can read for yourself in NCCAM documents and other parts of this website, the NIH does  claim that patients currently involved in conventional medicine tolerate their protocols better, heal faster, require less medication, when engaging in regular practice of Reiki with a qualified practitioner.

Wow!

Let that sink in.

For me- it is a daily practice- I literally never leave home without it.  And have I seen miracles happen? Many.  I AM ONE, And I am pleased to say that everyone I “touch” with these high vibrational frequencies benefits from it too.  We all have the ability to heal- anything. The physical, the emotional, the Spiritual- it’s all intimately connected, and so are we.  And Reiki  is a wonderful, effective, and beautiful tool that we can use to accomplish our desires for a healthy, happy, vital life.

A big, heartfelt thank you to all of my teachers, and to Dr. Mikao Usui- Reiki On!

Much Love,
penny

 

Stillness

I  like the feeling of movement. I like to do, to accomplish things. It makes me feel useful, valid even. I used to be much more of a “doer” than I am now. Now, I am much more of a “be-er”, now that I have found the benefit of stillness.

It’s such a paradox that in stillness I find I receive much more valuable information and clarity than in my mindless doing. Paradox can be defined as “a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true”. Curious.

How can being still provide us with so much valuable information? Well, in stillness we are pretty much mindless. Empty. And we find ourselves in what is referred to as the “receiving mode.” We are not thinking thoughts, we are just mindlessly sitting. This takes some practice and discipline for sure. The idea is that we practice not controlling our thoughts as much as observing them and letting them pass through us until perhaps there is no thought at all- stillness.

Interestingly enough this is when clarity happens, brilliance even. A solution to a problem comes, or we get a really good idea, or become clear about something. Those aha! moments happen with more regularity. One of the many benefits of a regular meditation practice.

For me, it’s almost the same feeling I get out in nature, alone. My mind seems to let loose of all the gazillions of thoughts and worries and judgements and opinions I may have about things, and I just “BE.”

Alas, I can’t always be out in nature alone. There is stuff to do, obligations, responsibilities. So, I sit, every morning, and wait for stillness to happen. For inspiration. Then I can go do with more clarity, more confidence, and much less stress and anxiety as I am not running around allowing my mind to just go rampant often resulting in running into one obstacle after another.

~Stillness is truly a Blessing!~

Integrity As A Spiritual Practice

Integrity can be defined as “the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness”. Sounds a bit stuffy. I define it as having the habitual pattern of behavior that ALWAYS makes you do the right thing- no matter what. And, of course that varies widely depending on your priorities.

It reminds me of the saying that I was actually taught in elementary school- THEGOLDEN RULE: do unto others as you would have be done to you. (something like that). Doesn’t that saying just make you do the right thing? Doesn’t it smack of karma? Like if you don’t it will come back around and bite you in the proverbial butt.

But it’s more than that. It’s more than doing the right thing to stay out of trouble. It’s doing the right thing because it feels good to do the right thing. It not only feels good on your part, it feels good on the recipient’s part. You feel better, they feel better. You raise your vibration AND theirs. Isn’t that a win-win situation?

Let’s look at the other side. What if (maybe for once in your life) you didn’t do the right thing, and you know it. How did that make you feel? certainly it did not make you proud. And you probably have no idea the ripple effect of your behavior.

Why would one not do the right thing? My guess is there is some negative emotion involved. “I’m angry so I’m gonna throw that at you since you are the source of my anger” type response. Totally natural. Totally human. But truly we must own our own emotions- there might be a subject matter or a person involved but your emotional reaction belongs to you. My emotional reaction belongs to me no matter what or who instigated it.

Policing everything you think, everything you feel, and every single reaction you have is exhausting. I am not here to berate myself or anyone else, I am just hoping to steer things, particularly how we feel and how we respond to one another, to a more positive, loving note. It benefits us all. And what benefits you or me, benefits the next person, and the next interaction, and the snowball effect takes over. Then you get to witness everyone’s vibe going higher, people being nicer and more compassionate with each other.
And if this was everyone’s intention would not that serve to create a more bautiful world? Yeh, I think so.
~Much Love~