Reiki Star Meditation

Reiki Star Meditation:

1. Easily cleanse the meditation space you are in by picturing a Reiki cleansing tornado/cylinder moving gently around the room. It is sucking in all of the negativity and is leaving nothing but love and light behind. Next make a power symbol over every side of the room. Make an extra one on every window and door.
2. Light a candle and sit or lay down in the space you are going to meditate in. If you like music be sure to put something soft and relaxing on.
3. Do you have more people that you would like to send Reiki to than you have the time to do?
4. Picture that each one of these people is a beautiful star in the night sky before you. The sky is lit up by their beautiful majestic white light.
5. Make a power symbol before the night sky and beam Reiki to the beautiful night sky filled with stars for 10-20 minutes. During this time notice how much brighter each star is getting as Reiki is being beamed to it. Each one begins to look shimmery and pure. Reiki is cleansing, healing, and protecting each star.
6. When you feel called to do so end the session with one large grounding symbol before the night sky. Open your eyes and give thanks.

---Stay Blessed

The Chakras Of Planet Earth

The chakras of the earth are perfectly aligned with our own. As she awakens, so do we. In the same way we have energy bubbling up from the lowest chakra, called Mooladhara in Sanskrit, or simply the root chakra in each of us which is striving to reach the crown, so that all of humanity can become “enlightened” – so too, the earth herself is participating in this process of awakening.

Though these vortexes of energy have changed over time, depending on planetary cycles, they are generally understood to be in the following places and correspond to our awakening based on the energy they help to refine:

1st Chakra – the Root or Mooladhara Chakra
Mt. Shasta in California (Some also believe this vortex is 5th chakra of the planet.)
The energy of Mt. Shasta is considered primal and base. This is where the universal life force accumulates before it becomes life – and is representative of the geysers which rush to the surface with energy the same way that kundalini energy is thought to rush to the crown to enliven the pineal gland – where all-seeing spiritual vision thus ensues.

2nd Chakra – the Sexual Chakra or Swadhistana
Lake Titicaca Peru/Bolivia
The Plumed Serpent – found in many South American myths, it is representative of the kundalini energy rising to the sexual chakra of the planet. Also called the rainbow serpent, this center has some of the most ley crossroads or ley lines on the planet, second only to Bali. It is where our primal energy starts to ‘birth’ itself, quite literally into form. Some say that it is through this chakra that the earth overcomes entropy.

3rd Chakra – the Manipura or the Solar Plexus Chakra 
Uluru, otherwise known as Ayers rock in Australia along with Kata Tjuta
This huge, monolithic rock is in the Northern Territory of Australia. This is where dreamtime legends arise from the Aboriginal peoples. Anangu life revolves around the Tjukurpa (sometimes wrongly referred to as the Dreamtime). To the Aboriginal people, this is the ancestral period of when the world was being formed. Kata Tjuta is considered Uluru’s sister rock formation. In us, the solar plexus is where we digest emotion – on the planet, it is where we will one day realize a legend told by the Aborigines from the ‘umbilical chord’ of the planet.

4th Chakra – the Heart Chakra, also called Anahata       
Glastonbury, Somerset and Shaftesbury, Dorset
This is the home of the holy grail. It is perhaps also our greatest contribution to ourselves and our fellow sentient beings on this planet – to open our hearts to heal the earth and allow her to embody her rightful place as a peaceful, loving satellite in space. Interestingly, this is an area known for high levels of crop-circle sightings which exhibit magnetic abnormalities.

5th Chakra – the Throat or Vissuddha Chakra    
Great Pyramids near Mt. Sanai and Mt. Olives in the Middle East
This is the one chakra that does not exist at a ley line. It is the exact center of the earth’s land mass as it currently is configured. Modern day turmoil in the Middle East is considered to be “the cries of the mother” or the voice of the planet calling for help.

6th Chakra – the Pineal Gland or Third Eye Chakra       
This chakra can shift – it is called the Aeon activation Center. Now it is considered to be in Western Europe, but will likely move over the next several thousand years.
This chakra is the one that opens portals and allows extra-dimensional energy to enter this world. Just like our pineal gland allows us to recognize other dimensions and realities, so too does the 6th chakra of the earth.

7th Chakra – the Crown Chakra or Sahasrara, the Thousand Petaled Lotus, the Highest Energy Center    
Mt. Kailas in the Himalayas in Tibet, also known as the “Roof of the World”
The highly developed consciousness of Tibetan people, as evidenced through the Dalai Lama’s teachings, is indicative of the energy that resides at the crown chakra of the planet. Just as our own crown connects our will with Divine will, so does Mt. Kailas connect the planet with her spiritual destiny.

----Stay Blessed

Yoga - The Science of Healthy Living

What is Yoga?
 
Yoga means union. Etymologically, it is connected to the English word, yoke. Yoga means union with God, or, union of the little, ego-self with the divine Self, the infinite Spirit.
Most people in the West, and also many in India, confuse yoga with Hatha Yoga, the system of bodily postures. But yoga is primarily a spiritual discipline.
Not that there’s anything wrong with practicing Hatha Yoga. The body is a part of our human nature, and must be kept fit so it doesn’t obstruct our spiritual efforts. However, those who are focused on self-realization do not necessarily have to practice it as much or at all.
Hatha Yoga is the physical branch of Raja Yoga, the true science of yoga. Raja Yoga is a system of meditation techniques that help to harmonize human consciousness with the divine consciousness.
Yoga is an art as well as a science. It is a science, because it offers practical methods for controlling body and mind, thereby making deep meditation possible. And it is an art, for unless it is practiced intuitively and sensitively it will yield only superficial results.
Yoga is not a system of beliefs. It takes into account the influence on each other of body and mind, and brings them into mutual harmony. So often, for instance, the mind cannot concentrate simply because of tension or illness in the body, which prevent the energy from flowing to the brain. So often, too, the energy in the body is weakened because the will is dispirited, or paralyzed by harmful emotions.
Yoga works primarily with the energy in the body, through the science of pranayama, or energy-control. Prana means also ‘breath.’ Yoga teaches how, through breath-control, to still the mind and attain higher states of awareness.
The higher teachings of yoga take one beyond techniques, and show the yogi, or yoga practitioner, how to direct his energy in such a way as not only to harmonize human with divine consciousness, but to merge his consciousness in the Infinite.
The ordinary person’s energy is locked in his body. The lack of availability of that energy to his will prevents him from loving the Lord one-pointedly with any of the three other aspects of his nature: heart, mind, or soul. Only when the energy can be withdrawn from the body and directed upward in deep meditation is true inner communion possible.
Yoga is a very ancient science; it is thousands of years old. The perceptions derived from its practice form the backbone of the greatness of India, which for centuries has been legendary. The truths espoused in the yoga teachings, however, are not limited to India, nor to those who consciously practice yoga techniques. Many saints of other religions also have discovered aspects of the spiritual path that are intrinsic to the teachings of yoga.

Health Benefits of Yoga :

We must understand what we can gain out of this wonderful practice At the physical level, yoga and its cleansing practices have proven to be extremely effective for various disorders.More importantly, yoga is extremely effective in:

• Increasing Flexibility – yoga has positions that act upon the various joints of the body including those joints that are never really on the ‘radar screen’ let alone exercised.
• Increasing lubrication of the joints, ligaments and tendons – likewise, the well-researched yoga positions exercise the different tendons and ligaments of the body.
  Surprisingly it has been found that the body which may have been quite rigid starts experiencing a remarkable flexibility in even those parts which have not been consciously work upon. Why? It is here that the remarkable research behind yoga positions proves its mettle. Seemingly unrelated “non strenuous” yoga positions act upon certain parts of the body in an interrelated manner. When done together, they work in harmony to create a situation where flexibility is attained relatively easily.
• Massaging of all organs in the body– Yoga is perhaps the only form of activity which massages all the internal glands and organs of the body in a thorough manner, including those – such as the prostate - that hardly get externally stimulated during our entire lifetime. Yoga acts in a wholesome manner on the various body parts. This stimulation and massage of the organs in turn benefits us by keeping away disease and providing a forewarning at the first possible instance of a likely onset of disease or disorder.
• Complete Detoxification – By gently stretching muscles and joints as well as massaging the various organs, yoga ensures the optimum blood supply to various parts of the body. This helps in the flushing out of toxins from every nook and cranny as well as providing nourishment up to the last point. This leads to benefits such as delayed ageing, energy and a remarkable zest for life.
• Excellent toning of the muscles – Muscles that have become flaccid, weak or slothy are stimulated repeatedly to shed excess flab and flaccidity. 

 

But these enormous physical benefits are just a “side effect” of this powerful practice. What yoga does is harmonize the mind with the body and this results in real quantum benefits. It is now an open secret that the will of the mind has enabled people to achieve extraordinary physical feats, which proves beyond doubtthe mind and body connection. Yoga through meditation works remarkably to achieve this harmony and helps the mind work in sync with the body. How often do we find that we are unable to perform our activities properly and in a satisfying manner because of the confusions and conflicts in our mind weigh down heavily upon us? Moreover, stress which in reality is the #1 killer affecting all parts of our physical, endocrinal and emotional systems can be corrected through the wonderful yoga practice of meditation.
In fact yoga = meditation, because both work together in achieving the common goal of unity of mind, body and spirit – a state of eternal bliss.
The meditative practices through yoga help in achieving an emotional balance through detachment. What it means is that meditation creates conditions, where you are not affected by the happenings around you. This in turn creates a remarkable calmness and a positive outlook, which also has tremendous benefits on the physical health of the body.
These are just some of the tangible benefits that can be achieved through yoga.
Having seen this, it is educative to note why the ancient yogis performed yoga and the interdependence of yoga and meditation. The ultimate goal of the yogis was “self realization” or “enlightenment”, a concept, which perhaps is quite esoteric to you and me.
But what is interesting is that for this they had to meditate for extensive spells of time – days,weeks and much more. This required tremendous physical fitness, energy and the capacity to subsist on next to nothing. Yoga positions or asanas provided them the fullest fitness with the least metabolism or stress and meditation in turn provided them the strength and will to perform these asanas effectively – a virtuous cycle of cause and effect. This mutually symbiotic relationship helped them in their path.

---Stay Blessed

Reiki And Compassion

Those of us in the Reiki community are used to giving our attention to sufferers, through hands-on, hands-over, and distant healing. When we meet for Reiki shares, when we do Reiki hands-on healing sessions, when we give Reiki healing to people in hospitals, hospices, nursing homes, animal shelters, and the like, we give our attention to the sufferers.
This isn’t easy, it’s agonizing, especially if you’re an empath like me who feels the recipient’s every pain and emotion. No, I of course don’t take on the person’s physical pain as shamans do, thanks be to Usui Founder. Yes, I do feel their psychic pain, I do understand the agonies they suffer, I understand them in my own flesh even if I never take them on. I weep for them as they weep. I pray that my Reiki hands, my Reiki intent, and the help of the Teachers, Usui Founder, Hayashi Sensei, Takata Sensei, and the Holy Ghost who gave Reiki its name, Ghost Energy, will guide and help me.
Being an empath has its issues, but being a rational, logical, thinking human being means that you’re not blind to those who want to crucify you for their own advancement. These are the ones who want to make you use your energy to boost theirs for their own dark and corrupt ends. The ones who blame all their problems on everyone else, assuming no personal responsibility whatever for their personal failures and setbacks: It’s always somebody else’s fault, never theirs. Poor, poor, pitiful me!
This pathetic whining horrifies me, and yet it’s something all of us in the Reiki community will someday face, from our family, our friends, our students, our critics. Why didn’t you help ME, solve all MY problems?! Why should I ever have to take control of my own life? Why aren’t you doing it for me?
The psychic vampires who cling on like this are the monsters in the closet of Reiki and all other spiritual practices. For every Reiki practitioner or teacher who manages to evade one of these people, it seems as if a thousand spring up in their place. Yes, these people are mentally ill and deserve compassion, as someone who’d been mauled in a car crash or house fire deserves compassion. Yes, they need healing. But yes, too, it’s so hard to reach out to them when you see the horrific selfishness, self-centeredness, and self-absorption that are their drivers.
This, ultimately, is the challenge of those of us who follow the Reiki Way and try to use its power to heal. It’s difficult, as Simone Weil notes, to minister to a repellent, self-absorbed person, whose entire life revolves around nothing but him- or herself. But if they have come to us—if they have taken the first step on the road to healing—it is up to us to guide them on the path. By doing so, we can practice compassion even as we help them understand what compassion is.

---Stay Blessed---

Reiki And Forgiveness

What does it mean to forgive? What’s the purpose? Why should we forgive?
Since I started practicing Reiki, I have seen many people forgive themselves and others.Reiki can assist in clearing the energies of anger and resentment, and help people to forgive in a gentle and loving way.
Forgiveness is never about the other person. It is always about us. It is about letting go of the feelings that have been holding us back, weighing us down, and keeping us stuck. It does not condone what the other person did. It does not mean that what happened was okay. It just means that we are choosing to let go of it so we can move on in our lives.
Think of someone who makes you very angry, a person who has caused you pain. The first thing you need to do is have the intent to forgive. Then, start letting yourself feel your feelings, whether they be anger, guilt or sorrow. Give yourself permission to go into the feelings. Realize the intensity. If tears come up, let yourself cry.
Then, when you are calmer, feel the positive aspects that have come out of the painful experience. How did this experience serve you? Are you stronger, more compassionate, more loving to yourself and others?
Every experience serves us in some way. It furthers our growth and expansion - that is why we created it. As you can realize the benefits that you derived out of the painful experience, you see its value and start letting go. You start the process of forgiveness.
It is important also to practice forgiveness toward yourself. As you forgive others, then it will open the way for self-forgiveness. We are each on our own path and we make our choices based on our knowledge at that time. We learn and grow from our vast array of experiences. As you forgive yourself, you make room for new opportunities to come to you. You feel lighter and more in touch with your own sense of peace, love and joy.
So, as you begin this process of forgiveness, be kind and patient with yourself. You know you have forgiven when you think about that same person and the anger is gone, the emotion is gone. You may still have the memories, but without the emotions.
Practice forgiveness in every area of your life. It is truly a blessing and the rewards are innumerable. 

---Stay Blessed---

Reiki and Shamanic Healing

In my training as an Energy Healer,I was taught to feel the Universal life force energy that runs through all things. I learned how to commune with the spirits of the trees and plants, to ask if they were what I needed to harvest. The life force that flowed through the plant/animal/mineral world was respected and honored. Working with Reiki I have seen humans, plants, and animals revived by Reiki. I believe this is natural since Reiki works directly with the life force that flows through all things.
Not only does Reiki fit in well with the Native American belief system, it can be used in or in conjunction with all of the Shamanic healing practices. There are many healing modalities in the Shamanic path. I mention a few of those which I use to show how I have incorporated the use of Reiki with them.
Herbal remedies are commonly used to balance the physical body and to restore health. Many of the herbs I use must now be purchased so I can not possibly know the attitude and thoughts of the person that harvested the plants. These thought forms can have a significant effect on the healing ability of the herb. If the plant was picked while the person was feeling angry or depressed, that energy will still be attached to the plant and will have a detrimental effect on the action of the herb. To ensure that the energy is positive and coming from a sacred space, I reiki the plants before using them. I also reiki any food before putting it into my body.
An extraction is a method of removing evil spirits or destructive patterns of behavior from an individual. Much like psychic surgery the issue is removed through ritual and given to the earth, the spirit world or the Light to be transmuted. After such a procedure there is a virtual void within the person which needs to be filled with positive energy to facilitate growth and health. This is where I like to use Reiki to fill this area with vibrant loving life force energy.
A soul retrieval is where the Shaman trance journeys through the Void to retrieve soul aspects which the individual has lost. I believe this is the same as what is termed disassociation in psychology. The Shaman finds these missing parts, negotiates for their return and replaces them in the individual. The individual is then responsible for integrating these aspects, seeing what that aspect can teach them and what they will need to do to retain each part. Reiking the individual before the ritual allows them to be more open and centered in the receiving of their soul part. Reiki afterwards facilitates the integration process.
The middle world is one name for the non-ordinary reality that is this world but without the constraints of time and space. Shamans travel through this world as part of their work and Eastern doctrine calls this Astral traveling. Much healing can be done in this manner as the Shaman trance journeys to any location in the present, past or future. For years before I had ever heard of Reiki, my power animals or guides would instruct me to perform a "laying on of hands" for healing in the middle world. Now, with Reiki I use it more often than not and with phenomenal results. Shamanic journeying facilitates the remote healing of Reiki and Reiki further empowers Shamanic journeying.
Shamanic healing and Reiki have existed for thousands of years. Coming from inner wisdom and based on human needs, they are a natural complement to each other. As we open our minds to the possibilities of our greater nature, we discover the unity that exists within all healing techniques.

---Stay Blessed---

5 Steps to Increase Self Empowerment

Self-empowerment is the process of taking charge of your life by lifting yourself from victimhood. Once you have achieved this process, your life will dramatically change for the better, because you will begin to live in your realities instead of living in other people’s realities.
To increase self-empowerment, you will need to take responsibility for your actions and seek knowledge of empowerment, so that you can lift yourself from victimhood. Once you have achieved this process, your life will dramatically change for the better, because you will have more control of your reality. As a result, people will not be able to take advantage of you anymore since they will be unable to blindfold you from the truth. Your confidence will also change to a level you never knew existed and many of your fears will be reduced.


1) Understand who you are: Most of us have forgotten who we truly are. We do not understand that we are spiritual beings with infinite potential. Instead, we believe we are physical beings with limited potential. If we were only physical beings, we would not be able to observe ourselves and have the imaginations that we have. The human brain cannot tell the difference between what it sees and what it remembers. In other words, it works similar to a computer and has very little consciousness, just enough to exist. Think of the brain as a medium that connects us to higher levels of consciousness. Even though our brains work like a computer, we all know that there is more to us because we can observe ourselves. This brings up the question, who or what is the observer? The answer to this question is the Soul/Spirit.Once you understand who you truly are, many of your fears will be reduced and you increase the power within you.   

2) Learn to forgive: Forgiveness allows your body to heal itself, because it releases energy blockages that are caused by traumas. Traumas are great fear motivators that can trap you in victimhood.

3) Do not be afraid of the truth: It is important to seek the truth because it will set you free from victimhood. The truth may not always be easy since it can threaten your so-called normal realities and beliefs. Quantum physicists found out that our brains can process more than 400 billion bits of information per second. Out of those 400 billion bits of information, we are only aware of about 2,000 of them. To put it in mathematical terms, our conscious awareness of the total reality is less than 1 percent. This means that most of reality is happening within our subconscious minds; therefore, we know very little about reality.

4) Trust your intuition: Your intuition is the knowing feeling that you have near the pit of your stomach, but is not limited to that area. People usually refer to it as the gut feeling. The more you learn to trust and use your intuition, the more confident you will become. Your intuition will also help you get on the right path, which will make you feel like your life is going somewhere instead of in circles. 

5) Do not be a victim: When you allow yourself to become a victim, you lose physical, emotional, mental and spiritual power. Being in this state of victimhood prevents you from understanding who you are which decreases self-empowerment. 

6) Personal responsibility: Being responsible for your thoughts and actions are very important for increasing self-empowerment. When you become more responsible, you are basically telling your soul and the Universe that you are ready to explore the unknown. This exploration of the unknown will help increase your understanding of the Universe. The more knowledge and wisdom you have, the more you increase that power within you.

---Stay Blessed---