| TRUST
Dear Friends
Trust Reiki, Shift Happens. Shift Happens, Trust Reiki.
As always, be sure you begin with deep breaths.... a relaxing
of your neck and shoulders.... an awareness of your breathing....
a letting go of your busy mind. Settle into your chair or position
more comfortably.
Make sure your body will be supported during the time period
you have allotted for yourself.
If your mind wanders, or if you feel tension in any corner of
your body, bring your attention to that place and breathe into
it. You can place your Reiki hands on that area. In your awareness,
give thanks for this tension, and allow it to do what it needs
to do for you.
Honoring whatever your body is trying to say to you is important
and timely.
Our bodies are all we have to keep us upright and to walk around
in during our lives on this earth plane at this time. For the
native peoples, it is often called our human overcoat. Embodied
in each cell of our bodies is the memory of this lifetime and
of those that have come before. Honor the teacher of your body.
Allow it to bring to the surface of your awareness any food that
it would like you to feed it, any drink it would like you to offer.
Honor its wisdom in creating tension when you have forgotten to
stretch, when it aches from too much activity, its resiliency
when you were young, its settling as you grow
older.
With a vision of the wonder at the complexity of your bodily
processes which are done without your control every second of
your life, place your hands across your face and begin to stroke
it as if you were your own lover. Continue to acknowledge the
back of your head, your ears, your brows, eyes, nose, and mouth,
your chin and all around your neck. Let your hands stay if your
feel Reiki is necessary, as you continue stroking across your
shoulders, your chest, each arm and elbow and forearm, and hand
and fingers. Continue down your abdomen, the tops of your legs,
first one knee, a calf, a heel, and instep, and toes, and then
the other.
Is there a place that feels more needy than another? Make a promise
to Reiki it for the next week. What foods or drink surfaced as
needs your body wants fulfilled? Make a promise to prepare these
for yourself this next week? Was there a place that elicited anger,
or sorrow, or frustration, or some other identifiable feeling?
Make a pledge to acknowledge these places with your Reiki hands.
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Be sure to take a deep breath as you return to the reality of
your surroundings. Be sure to drink plenty of water and trust
the inner messages you may have received from this session.
This act of appreciation and mindfulness can be repeated several
times during the week.
Writing your experience can help you become more intimately aware
of what your body has to teach you.
Many times we search for Teachers, or Mentors, or Healers to
bring us enlightenment or direction or healing and they are ourselves.
WE are right under our own noses
Tantay (Peace)
Earlene
Extra Practice: ENHANCED ATTENTION
(If you like raisins, that is! You might try it, even if you
don't particularly care for raisins.)
Take one raisin. Let it lay in the palm of your hand. Roll it
gently across your open palm and pretend you are an alien who
has come to our planet for the first time. You are hungry and
you don't know what to feed yourself. You are trying to get courage
to place this in your mouth, but first you are trying to decide
if it is edible.
Describe it to yourself. How does it look? What does it feel
like in the palm of your hand? How does it feel between your fingers?
Does it smell? If you like it, does it leave a flavor on your
tongue?
Place it on the end of your tongue for a full minute before pulling
it into your mouth. Is it light or heavy? What does your mouth
do when this possible food is so tantalizingly close?
Pull it into your mouth. Roll it between your tongue and the
roof of your mouth. Is there a flavor? Wait a full minutes before
placing it slightly between your front teeth and nibble or bite
the edge of the raisin.
At this point, describe the burst of flavor that is pervading
your mouth.
Note any level of satisfaction you may have achieved by concentrating
totally on this one small bit of food. You have fed your body
something enhanced by attention.
Have a good week.
Tantay (peace)
Earlene
Blessings
We must count our blessings and honor our fathers and mothers,
and our teachers and neighbors and honor our food by making no
waste and show gratitude for all this also.
This week’s meditation practice is about attitude.We hear
often about this attitude of gratitude, but how often have we
faced the other side of this cheery philosophy.It is in naming
the darkness of our own minds, that we can often perceive the
reality of our core beliefs.When we bring such things to light,
in other words, touch them with our minds, we can see them for
what they really are and they can lose their power over our actions
and us.Often then, the fear or shame we have held around an issue
or experience can be loosened and chunks of our negative attitudes
can brighten.
At any time during this experience for you, if there is any sense
of tension, numbness, despair, use these as flags waving an alert
to have you bring your Reiki hands to the area of your own need.When
we treat ourselves with Reiki, all that is not Reiki will leave.
Now, choose one person either in your immediate experience or
in your lifetime whom you have not liked.Picture their face or
whatever of their essence comes to you and set it to the side
of your mind.
Be sure to begin with deep breaths.... a relaxing of your neck
and shoulders.... an awareness of your breathing.... a letting
go of your busy mind.Settle into your chair or position more comfortably.
Make sure your body will be supported during the time period you
have allotted for yourself.
Bring this person to your mind’s eye and allow them to
seem as if they are in a deep sleep, in a non-threatening, passive
position.This is your opportunity.While you are releasing each
of several deep breaths, tell them the reasons why you do not
like them.Are they stubborn about some issue of disagreement?Do
they tease you or taunt you or make fun of you?What is it they
do to make them so irritating to you?Make a mental list and pick
the top four that hold the highest level of irritation for you.Then
sit quietly, knowing you have spoken the deepest of your innermost
thoughts and feelings regarding this person in your life.
As you settle, be sure to note any tension in your body and place
your Reiki hands there.
Allow this face of this person or their essence to become blank
in front of you.And replace it with your own face at sleep, peaceful,
non-responsive.Now, in the same manner you spoke to the person
who has irritated you so much, repeat those four top reasons to
your essence.Notice if there is any one of them which brings up
for you some memory, some feeling, some chill, as if it were a
truth you have healed or noticed about yourself.Do not spend too
much time on this.First impressions are the truest
Continue with your even breathing, giving yourself Reiki on any
area of tension.
Replace your face with the original person.If there was no resonance
with any of their traits, allow yourself to thank them for being
a challenge in your life and wish them well.Make sure there are
no chords of any substance that connects you with them in this
space of imagination.If there was some moment of resonance or
awareness between you, thank them for bringing this realization
to you.Again, make sure there are no chords of darkness between
you.
Remember to breathe and when you are ready, bring your awareness
back into your present surroundings.Writing is a good practice
with which to lay an account of your new understandings or of
your experience.
Have a good week.
Tantay (peace)
Earlene
Extra Practice: ATTITUDE
On any special sheet of writing paper, write the darker aspects
you may have perceived of yourself.If it is possible to have a
fire in a fireplace inside or outside, wrap these perceptions
of yourself around a stick.When the fire is at its highest, place
the stick as close to the center of it and in your spoken voice,
asks the fire to transform these aspects of yourself into light.
If you are unable to have an open fire, provide for yourself
a large ashtray or a charcoal grill, where you can burn this paper.
After it has become ash, take it to some space of earth at the
base of a plant (indoor or outdoor) or anywhere that is available,
and bury it.In your spoken voice, offer the ashes of your transformed
aspects to the earth as food for her future.
Have a good week.
Tantay (peace)
Earlene
Counting Blessings. Showing Gratitude. Connecting
with All That Is.
As we become more open to the energy that is within the practice
of Reiki, the Usui System of Natural Healing, we can feel it more
and more in our own bodies and minds.We can feel we are opening
more and more as clearer channels of this energy, which we all
know as Reiki, for others.
Counting our blessings and showing gratitude are things we can
actively do to occupy our minds positively.How can we honor our
spirits that are intrinsically at one with all things?How can
we know our connection?Here is an exercise for this third week.You
may want to tape it so you can play it back while sitting in a
meditative or relaxed position.
Settle into your chair or position more comfortably. Make sure
your body will be supported during the time period you have allotted
for yourself.Begin with deep breaths until you feel full of breath,
then trust that your body will take the exact breath it needs
to sustain you... Bend your head from side to side, stretching
your neck ... Lift your shoulders to your ears, then let them
fall.... become aware of your breath in. let go of your busy mind.
Picture behind your eyes your favorite tree.This can be a tree
from your childhood or one that stands near your home or your
work or one in a picture book that makes you stop and look at
it.Let that favorite tree stand at the top of a hill that you
are now going to begin to climb.
Feel the warm sun on your shoulders and the playful breeze that
brings you just enough cooling to your face and bare arms.Feel
the muscles of your legs as they grow stronger with each step
over a boulder here, a log there.No matter how steep you have
made this hill, you know that you are going to successfully climb
it and that you are going to be breathing evenly and regularly
throughout the climb.You are precisely as physically fit, as you
need to be for getting to the top of this hill.You feel fully
comfortable with your body.You are aware of every birdcall you
hear, the sound of a raven wings as they push through the air.After
you reach the top of the hill you turn to see your accomplishment
and you feel strong and healthy.
Then you turn and watch your tree, branches gently waving in
the breeze that cools you and choose either to climb into its
branches or sit at its base, grateful for the shade it provides.
As you settle closer to your favorite tree, you have again a
sense of your breathing and as your attention settles on your
breath, you feel your tree breathing too. You know it is giving
forth oxygen so that you might bring it in to your body to live.
You sense the fact that you are, on your out-breath, giving out
carbon dioxide.You feel your tree gratefully take this substance
in because it needs this to make oxygen.As you understand this
ancient rhythm.... the cycle of life ... you are aware of breathing
with your tree ... and.... no matter what else you do in this
lifetime, just your breathing makes you an integral part of the
web of life.
Breathe the tree and let the tree breathe you.
Let yourself stay in the place of perfect balance until your
awareness begins to hear the birds calling, the wind playing in
the leaves, coolness on your skin, and bring your attention to
the way your hands are folded in your lap or on the armrests of
your chair.Take a deep breath and allow yourself to feel what
ever is supporting your body and gradually become aware of your
surroundings.
It is in these moments of sharing in the breath of life, that
the spirit essence that is you can touch the spirit essence of
all that is. Coming close to the sensation of the lack of separation
can offer hope and trust in that which is beyond our mental and
physical comprehension.It is in this place where our spirits reside.
Meditation - Extra Practice
After your first session with this meditation, remember the tree
which you chose as your favorite and which you placed at the top
of your imaginary hill.What kind of tree was it?Can you bring
it in to focus?Can you draw it?Take a picture of it?Do you recognize
it?Does it have a name?
If the picture is in shadow, let yourself repeat the meditation
so as to be able to bring it more into focus, or just begin drawing
what it is you thought you saw.Your hand may make a more definite
description than your mind’s eye.If you can’t draw
it, perhaps you can describe it with words or find a picture of
it in a magazine.Making a collage can also help you see the contours
and get a sense of what you might be feeling.If you are not a
writer, perhaps you have a friend with whom to dialogue these
issues
Are you a massive, strong oak, standing alone on the hillside?Is
there any squirrels happily chattering in your branches and birds
nesting?Are your limbs weakening from carrying this load?Or are
you so rooted in supporting these precious animals that you can’t
feel your connection with the wind and the clouds?What are the
positives of your being?What are the negatives?
As you gather information regarding your favorite tree this will
also give you insight into why things are working, or not working,
in your life.It could also describe the nature of your relationships
or your career experience.It can show you in a graphic process
how you view the way you connect between the earth plane, where
we all do our work, and the spiritual plane, where we reach for
our guidance. Bringing to light the beauty and the reality of
this tree can give you.
Thank you for honoring all that you are by participating in this
exercise.Allow yourself to touch this place again throughout this
week.
Tantay (Peace)
Earlene
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