As everything is beginning to open up, I'm finding myself being called to focus more on my home life. That being said the live Reiki Healing Circles on my Facebook page is changing to a biweekly event as opposed to every week.
Read moreReiki: Created or Rediscovered?
The thing with this question is that it depends on what you’ve been taught by your Reiki Teacher, and what that teacher has been taught by their Reiki Teacher and so on.
For those practitioners that have been adventurous enough to study with other Reiki Teachers and/or read any of the Reiki books out there, there is still a chance that they are going to get the same story that has been told since the 1970’s…
Read moreApril (and May 1) Happenings
Earth Day Meditation, Recent Interview, and Upcoming Numerology Class
Read moreNew Healing Room Open!
March is the month to Spring Forward, and it's time to unveil the new healing room. It's not far from the old one. It's in my backyard, and I'm excited to begin offering in-person Reiki sessions again in the new space…
Read moreUpcoming Appearance with Karen Rontowski and Online Numerology Workshop This Month
Happy February Everyone! Wow, we have one month of 2021 in the books already. I guess it’s time to get back in the game, and I’ll start with a couple Numerology themed events…
Read moreWe Made It To 2021. Now What?
Ok, so we are in 2021, but let’s first take a look at the numerology of the year to gain a little understanding of what we are heading into.
This year is a 5 year, and 5 is the energy of change, variety, and freedom. Freedom from…
Read morePutting 2020 to Bed
Enjoy your Holidays this month safely, and use the themes of these holidays to turn on the light within you as we end 2020 and begin moving into 2021.
Read moreReiki Healing Summit 2020
For the last several years Reiki Rays has hosted an online Reiki Healing Summit, and this year the summit begins this weekend on November 7th. I always find it nice to hear other experienced Reiki Teachers and Practitioners talking about their experiences and stories, and I wanted to make you aware of this event in case you are interested.
The event is free, and you can read the invitation from Reiki Rays below. For a small fee you can upgrade for a lifetime access to the interviews, downloadable mp3’s and transcripts, as well as bonus interviews and meditations. You can check out the lifetime access pass here.
Read moreA Little Something For Everyone
When putting together my monthly newsletters I look for fun facts and special days for each month to share as a quote or to put on the calendar. I stumbled upon a site that had special days for all of October that were so random that I thought I would share them with you. There seems to be a day for everyone this month.
Read moreHealing Power of Nature
Last month I took a trip to Pennsylvania to visit family, and I thoroughly enjoyed driving through the lush green mountains and exploring the state parks tucked within them. There’s nothing like communing with nature to lift your spirits.
Have you ever heard of the practice of shinrin yoku or “forest bathing”?
Read moreWaka Waka Waka
No, I'm not impersonating Fozzy Bear. Waka is a form of Japanese poetry in a 5-7-5-7-7 meter. More popular is the haiku which is 5-7-5, but I found out about waka through Reiki. During Mikao Usui's lifetime the Meiji Emperor ruled over Japan and was also a notable waka poet. Usui sensei used the Meiji Emperor's poems as a part of his Reiki Association meetings. Some of them have been translated and you can find them in the appendix of the book The Spirit of Reiki (Lubeck, Petter, Rand).
Here are a few examples:
Cycles of Rest and Unrest
Take care of yourself during these times. I was reminded this past month of how off kilter I get when I don’t get enough sleep. I get very irritable when I am sleep deprived, and I first shared that story after my son was born (here). I don’t always notice it as soon as I would like to, but recognizing it and making adjustments is more important than how fast I notice it. Shortly after I allowed myself one more hour of sleep in the morning my temperament started to shift. It was then I started seeing connections back to 9 years ago.
In 2011 after receiving my Reiki Advanced Practitioner attunements I fell into a bit of a depression, and upon reflecting on my life path at that point I started to consider changing careers. And in changing careers my entire life would change. That was a very emotional two year period in my life making that adjustment.
Here we are in 2020 and my life as I had built it over the last 9 years has been placed on hold, and that has been quite challenging to process especially when having no certainty on when, if ever, I can go back to doing the work I was doing and in what capacity it will be available…
Read moreWe Need Meditation and Prayers More Than Ever
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 moreGetting Through The Quarantine Slump
In 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 moreOnline Reiki Healing Circles and Meditations
I 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 moreInner Work to Refine and Define Your Self
On 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 moreThe Morning Pages
Have 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…
Read moreNew Year, New Class Offering
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 more'Tis The Season... To Rise Above Holiday Traffic Woes
Remember 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 moreCreating Vacations Despite FOMO
For 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…
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