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Love the kindness and humour of this professor talking about personality.
First time at a spiritualist church?!
Eek. I'm about to walk across town to visit a spiritualist church for the first time. Nervous! I feel quit sure I'm going though. I have no idea what to expect. I'm hoping I can sneak in at the back and just watch what happens. It's a demonstration of mediumship tonight. Better go before I end up arriving late!
It's beginning! My first yoga retreat! And it's enough to really underline law of attraction thinking because I won the holiday through a competition in April! The first yoga session begins this evening - I've got butterflies! It's a while since I've done a class. *Exciting! *
This article really gave me one of those ah ha moments. There's a lot of pressure on creating a career out of your passion - but what about simply following your curiosity and listening to it when it whispers to you...
What was the Reiki 2 attunement like? Feeling sensations outside the body.
Four weeks ago I had a reiki 2 attunement. When I think back to it now I find myself conflicted - I didn’t think it would be that much of a big deal and yet now.. Well there’s no going back!
The attunement was unexpected. I had heard stories from reiki practitioners at the reiki share that reiki 2 had been the big one for them - that they’d started seeing colours or vortices or had had significant life changes. I don’t know what I expected from it for myself but I don’t think it was much. I wanted almost to have the bona fide qualification if you like to perhaps volunteer in a medical setting. I suppose in retrospect having had experiences in the reiki 1 attunements I might have anticipated the same, but I didn’t.
When it was time for the attunement I sat quietly with my eyes closed. The reiki master came round the front of me and I peeked and could see his shoes. Then he went round the back and it was the strangest thing - I felt as if someone.. How can I explain it? If you imagine a drain pipe about 25cms in diameter, hanging vertically about 1.5ft above my head as I sat there. The experience was of suddenly felling the sensation of someone moving their hands upwards on the outside of the tube stretching it upwards.
It’s really hard to put into words because it was a sensation - like someone you care about gently running their hand down your arm. And that’s what was ODD. Because it felt like part of my body. And I didn’t feel it coming out from my head (no, that would’ve been potty enough), it was above my head. A tunnel being stretched upwards like elastic. I mean you just don’t feel sensations that aren’t in or through your body but that’s what happened, clear as the day, so I guess you can?!
He came round the front and he seemed to be moving his hands over my own open palms and near my face and at that time I felt a pressure pressing down on the thighs of my legs. Then it was over and I just sat with my eyes closed, resting.
We did some distance reiki and a reiki swap. I was sort of disappointed - no colours, no changes, if anything I didn’t feel the reiki as strongly. Maybe it was arrogance - I thought, well maybe it was because I’d done so much reiki, maybe it wasn’t going to effect me that much. But it turns out, perhaps it was just warming up…
Could turmeric really boost your health? - I'm not sure I could eat a teaspoon of turmeric a day but amazing that real tangible results were found!
I'm about to have a reiki 2 attunement...
So today is Reiki 2. It's been over a decade since I first had my reiki 1 attunement. Whether it was just coincidence or not, shortly afterwards I left my well-paid city job and re-committed to a life of learning about healing. Within about 6 months I was learning hypnosis, the emotional freedom technique, neurolinguistic programming and coaching. Is it reiki which keeps calling me back to the healing path or did that yearning to learn call me to reiki? About 8 weeks or so ago I went on a reiki 1 course again. My first reiki 1 had almost been a clandestine affair - an afternoon with my yoga instructor in a small flat in a London highrise. And I hadn't even realised I was being 'attuned' - I thought I was going for healing. Without a certificate, I felt ineligible to bring reiki into formal surroundings like hospitals and health centres and besides, I had never taken reiki 2. I hadn't realised it was anything more really until several reiki sharers all said it had had a huge impact. One lady had said she started seeing colours, another that she saw vortices of energy especially near water. I felt concerned - did I want to see that? Surely you'd start to doubt your sanity? I didn't write about my last reiki training - reiki 1. It felt like a 'should' and it felt like it would take ages to capture. It probably would've. Even the highlights seem like they need too much explanation. What I did notice is that I hadn't expected any change from reiki 1. I sat diligently with my eyes closed in the first attunement, creaking a secret eye open to see what the 'attuners' were actually doing. I felt sort of silly - like that book, the emperor's new clothes. And then afterwards as Torsten, the course host, ran through more information, I saw what looked like an aura. Now I want to be clear, I have no clear idea what an aura should look like and if that's what I was seeing it was both amazing and disappointing. There were no bright colours - no bands of green or blue or pink. There was just an inch or less of glaring light around things - well people mainly. But at the time, it caught me so unawares. I was watching Torsten and listening when all of a sudden I was aware of this contrast - this brightness. When I tried to look at it, to scrutinise it, I couldn't see it. When I returned to listening to Torsten or staring blankly, it was there. I started thinking 'oh my god! Is that an aura?!' and I wanted to shout it out. I had a desperate urge to break into what he was saying and say 'oh my god, I think I can see an aura!' but I sat on my hands, metaphorically, and tried to listen. Over and over I challenged myself as to whether it was because of the white wall behind, the light conditions, the tiredness maybe? I didn't think this was it, surely. Then to my surprise, Torsten said we were going to do an exercise - to see if we could see an aura! Then it felt constructed - I wasn't sure - was I or wasn't I? It really looked like a sort of blurness around him. I think had I not just had the spontaneous experience I'd had, I would have felt coerced. I went to an 'aura sensing workshop' with great enthusiasm at a festival years ago and felt a right numptie. Here I was, sat with strangers in a tent, listening to a hippy chap tell us we could see it if we tried and I thought it was a load of nonsense. In fact I felt embarrassed, having dragged a friend along. But now something was different - noone had told me I could see it - I'd had to try and understand what I was seeing. There were to be three more attunements across the course, each feeling relaxing and underwhelming, followed by a change. After the second or third attunement, again I was listening and my hands were lying in my lap. Suddenly they surged with heat; not just on the palm side as I'd been aware of in reiki, but on the top side too. When there was a moment, I had to say to the lady sitting next to me, to have her feel the heat in my hands, to check it was real. She shrugged - after the attunement, her hands were hot too. The reiki itself seemed very deep to offer and very relaxing to receive. The lady I gave reiki to said she experienced sensations - I don't remember what they were but they were significant to her. And then we had one last attunement and the two days were over. On my way home, I met up with my sister. She was really tired - living life hard. We happened to be in a coffee place within a whole foods store as it had been near to the station and offered decaf tea. It seemed pretty secluded so I asked her if she wanted to try reiki. It was the deepest reiki sensation I had had. I wanted to continue giving reiki round her head for longer but I grew embarrassed - she'd been sitting still long enough I thought. Afterwards, she was slow to get going again as if emerging from a deep sleep. I was secretly delighted she'd experienced it and that I had really felt something but I tried to not show it. "Was there a flash of light when we were doing that? Like a bus passing the window?" she asked. I hadn't noticed anything. And now it's reiki 2. I've just seen the signs the course host sent to us before - the reiki symbols. I thought I'd never memorise the third one but then I saw what looked like a stick man in it and suddenly it seemed easy peasy. I don't know what the next two days will be like. I'm not expecting a big change for me in many ways - I'm quite feet on the ground and I'm not sure how I'd feel about seeing colours or vortices - but I receive a certificate at the end which might allow me to take reiki further and I'm keeping an open mind.
Depression: A revolution in treatment? - It's exciting to see this hitting the headlines. When I studied Psycho-neuroimmunology (PNI) (it's a whole field of fascinating information about how the immune system and your brain 'talk' to each other), there was so much evidence for a reciprocal relationship between our brains/minds and our bodies in health. I read a groundbreaking research paper on this in 2003 and yet the idea of 'mind-body' or 'whole system' health still seemed a unique concept in medicine. In medicine, there still seems to be this simplistic idea of departmentalising the body - that you treat the GI tract or the heart in isolation. Each part of the body has its own specialists and its own ward. When I first worked with someone with an allergy using NLP and hypnosis and their allergy ceased, I couldn't believe it. A lady allergic to lillies who, after an hour of treatment, went with me to the flower shop and smelt lillies with no ill effect. I had to pinch myself. It was true - you could effect or change the immune system via the brain/mind after all?! It wasn't 100% successful though for the next three people I tried - for one person, their hayfever cleared completely and they were over the moon.. but just for one year. The next year they messaged to say after a whole clear summer after treatment they were now experiencing it back again. A second person's hayfever also stopped for almost two years but then the sneezing crept back in. And a third person's cat allergy significantly improved but didn't go completely. But the fact it could be changed, seems incredible in itself and this article on the mind-body impact of inflammation linked to depression shows again how very 'one system' we are.
Reiki level 1
I'm on my way today to a reiki level 1 course. I had my first attunement back in 2005-2007 sometime by the teacher of a kundalini yoga class I was going to. But I never received an official certificate and last year I started to have the recurring thought I should 'retrain'. Last October (?) I came across this reiki school online and the teacher intrigued me. He had just been to Japan to follow in the footsteps of Mikao Usui, the originator of reiki. The more I read about the course, the more I felt I had to train there. And though it's taken longer than I had thought to bring it to reality, here I am, on my way on the two hour trip to the course. There will be 4 attunements over 2 days and lots of theory and practice too. Having run a reiki share for over two years, I'm surprised I still wonder if I'll get it 'right'. In angelic reiki you can place your hands on a non-chakra point, with the idea the energy will flow from there. But Usui reiki involves a process of moving your hands from chakra point to chakra point - it will be good to recall and use these again. There is a level 2 course of two days beyond this which I'd like to do. And beyond that you can go through a process to become a practitioner on the national complementary therapies register here. That's pretty involved with evidence of over 100 hours of sessions. For today, I am approaching the course with curiosity and calm and I'm feeling really glad to be doing it. Worth the early start!
Reiki share and a lesson in letting go
I've been listening to Esther Hicks/Abraham quite a lot recently, usually en route to somewhere. Today I heard about believing in hard work, struggle and efforting to make things happen. I still notice myself attracted to that idea of stress somehow being a noble thing, even though it's uncomfortable and doesn't bring out your best. Tonight was another group Reiki Share and not long into it, I received the insight I was trying hard with the reiki too. I was challenged to let go of having any effect at all. "What if they don't feel anything from me though?" I worried. "What if there's no heat or any sensation for them at all?!". And even though I know that reiki is through you, not by you, I felt a bit of doubt. But there was more reassurance to let go. To the extent that I imagined leaving my body right there and slipping over to get a biscuit from the side. I imagined myself popping out for a breath of fresh air or taking a seat. It felt naughty, funny. And then boy did I start to experience the reiki. And as I played with letting go and taking all pressure off myself, it happened more and more. Heat, a slight dizziness, a slight sway, a readjustment - I offered the person love but I stopped evaluating what their experience might be. At the end, my last offering was as a pair. Afterwards, the recipient was aghast - "it was so strong, on my back! Even when your hands moved, I could feel it". People rarely feed back and I had to laugh. I had experienced the intensity myself but couldn't put it down to done kind of skill. It had instead been because I chose to lighten up and step back. Maybe I'm learning :)
In this Esther Hicks audio she talks of "the research phase of her life being over". And this is a powerful idea. Rather than look in detail at the options, anticipate what could happen and respond to those possibilities (with fear, excitement, doubt, hope etc), she is clear on what she wants to happen and expects that. When you step into that, how different would life be? If you knew without a shadow of a doubt that the best vision you have for yourself and your life was definitely unfolding, and you were excited right now about that, how different would you act? I've seen this recently with a friend who has resigned from her job to move to France. She is still working her notice period but her whole demeanour has changed. She laughs more, is light-hearted, isn't phased by things that would have ordinarily chewed her up at work. If you ask her how she is, she'll tell you she's brilliant and about her new house in France and the garden her dog will play in. She used to tell you about her health conditions and whether she was feeling better or worn down by those. I'm some regards, nothing has changed here in this moment - same job, same body, same environment. But her focus is now on where she's going and what's unfolding. Can we do that on an ordinary day? Can I feel that excitement today about all the things that I've put in my vortex? Isn't that the call of law of Attraction? I'm going to try to live it for today.
Brain training for dementia? Dr Daniel Amen explains (TEDx)
"Career satisfaction doesn't come from what you do. It comes from who you get to be when you're doing it" Laura Berman Fortay
She wrote about it and it happened. The house with the wrap around porch, the nearby water and the big windows. Exactly as she described. I've had the same experience with a job that came about and writing about my husband before he appeared on the scene (by name?!). This resonated with me. But also the ending of her video is interesting. She says she's leaving in a few days because unfortunately her relationship didn't work out. And I think this shows the ongoing nature of manifesting. Tony Robbins re-energises his dreams every single day. Moments where we are so aligned we put into motion a dream are so palpable when they come true. We remember when we created it. That moment in time. But holding the energy is a constant activity. Reminding ourselves that today in this moment now we can choose to lift our energy. That's maybe the work. But there's definitely something in this manifesting. Last weekend, I started to dream up a luxury holiday. I entered a few competitions. But now I would do well to put more energy into how it feels. What have been your experiences?
Just about to try acupuncture for the first time
In front of me are six beds. It's an acupuncture drop in clinic and after almost 2 hours talking myself into it, I'm committed. Unlike any other therapy, I've struggled to come here because I'm squeamish of needles. But having seen the impact of EFT (tapping) and being curious for some time, it was time to come.
The element of service: Gabby Bernstein How much of what you do is driven by service? When I think about what people must be going through in cities ruined by war, or how it must feel to have to flee as a refugee, I feel really concerned and worried there may be more I can do. Or more, what can I give to help? My time? My money? What's sustainable? What would make a difference? This element of being part of something bigger is coming to me a lot recently. Last week I ran a group for independent practitioners and coaches and it was surprising. The focus went to each individual and how they could achieve their own business success. It seemed to miss something important - that maybe together we could have achieved something much greater for others, if we chose to embark on THAT path. The time could've been spent looking outwards to impact, rather than inwards to personal ambitions but it didn't naturally go there. Gabby's video above mentions the energy of service and although an old one, it's interesting to hear.