I have pondered long and hard about this and I have arrived at some interesting conclusions.
1) A blessing is something that is written upon something else.
Think of a piece of paper. The paper is nothing more than that until it is blessed with writing. It can make it a note, a story, or even a book.
2) A blessing writes a message onto the spirit.
There is a spiritual essence/energy that exists with everything. It's what the entire world is made of. In the book "Hostage to the Devil", Malachi Martin says that "spirit is the basis of all reality" it "would not only be boring without spirit; it would have no meaning whatsoever."
3) A blessing covers, but yet reveals.
Think of it as a gift. In my taking a reiki class, I was "attuned" but when you look at the sign language for "bless" you see that it's a combination of something being blown into and laid upon. This is basically (and from a very basic level conceptually) what happens during a reiki attunement.
4) It changes the nature of the thing being blessed.
When it comes to things like blessing food, it's been researched that blessing the food will change its qualities to something that is more beneficial than before. In some cases it changes the pH from acidity to alkaline
5) It never goes away.
If you are blessed with a child, that stays with you for your entire life. The bible even claims that a blessing can exists for generations.
leading to:
6) It gets passed on from parent to child.
If you are blessed with beautiful eyes or naturally curly hair, that gets passed on to your descendants.
I am going to consider the topic more, but I am sure that intent is a part of the whole idea of blessing, which in cases of ill-intent show that a curse works in much the same way. Just take the concepts and apply the negative to them
I am looking for what can take away a blessing. Currently I have not seen anything that does so and I am sure to be questioned as to why I would want that sort of thing to be done.
If a blessing is done as some kind of binding, then even with positive intent, the result may be unwarranted. This is concerting to me, as I perceive it should be my choice whether to receive a blessing or not.
To that I will consider it further.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
Reiki: A Frustrating Omen
I was preparing to travel to see my family back home in iowa, when I came across a peculiar piece of text while reading a book on paradoxes. The text was from matthew 13.
The passage from Matthew 13 reads:
53 When Jesus had finished these parables, he moved on from there.
54 Coming to his hometown, he began teaching the people in their synagogue, and they were amazed. "Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?" they asked.
55 "Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother's name Mary, and aren't his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas?
56 Aren't all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?"
57 And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, "Only in his hometown and in his own house is a prophet without honor."
58 And he did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith.
I was told this information in preparation for the kind of response I would be expecting from my family back in iowa.
You see, my family is what you would consider as fundamentalist. In some ways it's kind of a good thing, and in other ways it's kinda bad. The ways in which it is good is that they really have a good grasp on the various passages in the bible, but in other ways, it is like a more rigid approach to concepts. Instead of understanding the concepts and applying them today, a fundamentalist will instead prefer to hold on to the ideals of eras gone by.
I used to be that way, but I don't think that's what God's been pointing me towards in the last 7 or so years. (and possibly longer)
For me, learning reiki was a matter of me learning to utilize the gift that God bestowed upon me already and becoming better at it. (I was already able to do scanning and energy transfer well before the class, as it was natural) I totally believe that reiki is a gift that comes directly from God.
However, this past weekend, I don't think everyone was seeing it that way. I gave brief moments of energy to my older brother (as he was completely wiped of energy) and my sister (who wanted some help with her sinuses), but those were just short moments where I could just pass a bit of energy. It's nowhere near the hour that it usually takes me to "perform a treatment".
I tried explaining it to my other brother, and I had him hold his hand out. He said it's warm, but he didn't see it as healing or anything like that.
To me, it's a bit frustrating to see people who could obviously use some of the reiki energy, but they just don't seem interested or open to it. I think it's all the more frustrating when it's family.
The deal with reiki or the passage in matthew is that there is a paradox with people that need healing and their willingness to actually receive it. You can't heal with reiki if the person doesn't want to be healed. It's actually in the handbook. Not much you can do about it.
Just like the man who said he has no sin, there is someone who says that they don't need healed. Now, I don't know if I have a clue about what I am able to do or sense, but I am fairly sure I can feel people's pain and I can attest from what I have sensed that everyone could use healing.
I feel the numbness in their limbs, I feel the sharp pain in the lower back, I feel the tension in their neck and I feel their headaches behind their eyes. I sense the sadness, happiness, boredom and frustrations of the people around me.
And it frustrates me as well.
The passage from Matthew 13 reads:
53 When Jesus had finished these parables, he moved on from there.
54 Coming to his hometown, he began teaching the people in their synagogue, and they were amazed. "Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?" they asked.
55 "Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother's name Mary, and aren't his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas?
56 Aren't all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?"
57 And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, "Only in his hometown and in his own house is a prophet without honor."
58 And he did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith.
I was told this information in preparation for the kind of response I would be expecting from my family back in iowa.
You see, my family is what you would consider as fundamentalist. In some ways it's kind of a good thing, and in other ways it's kinda bad. The ways in which it is good is that they really have a good grasp on the various passages in the bible, but in other ways, it is like a more rigid approach to concepts. Instead of understanding the concepts and applying them today, a fundamentalist will instead prefer to hold on to the ideals of eras gone by.
I used to be that way, but I don't think that's what God's been pointing me towards in the last 7 or so years. (and possibly longer)
For me, learning reiki was a matter of me learning to utilize the gift that God bestowed upon me already and becoming better at it. (I was already able to do scanning and energy transfer well before the class, as it was natural) I totally believe that reiki is a gift that comes directly from God.
However, this past weekend, I don't think everyone was seeing it that way. I gave brief moments of energy to my older brother (as he was completely wiped of energy) and my sister (who wanted some help with her sinuses), but those were just short moments where I could just pass a bit of energy. It's nowhere near the hour that it usually takes me to "perform a treatment".
I tried explaining it to my other brother, and I had him hold his hand out. He said it's warm, but he didn't see it as healing or anything like that.
To me, it's a bit frustrating to see people who could obviously use some of the reiki energy, but they just don't seem interested or open to it. I think it's all the more frustrating when it's family.
The deal with reiki or the passage in matthew is that there is a paradox with people that need healing and their willingness to actually receive it. You can't heal with reiki if the person doesn't want to be healed. It's actually in the handbook. Not much you can do about it.
Just like the man who said he has no sin, there is someone who says that they don't need healed. Now, I don't know if I have a clue about what I am able to do or sense, but I am fairly sure I can feel people's pain and I can attest from what I have sensed that everyone could use healing.
I feel the numbness in their limbs, I feel the sharp pain in the lower back, I feel the tension in their neck and I feel their headaches behind their eyes. I sense the sadness, happiness, boredom and frustrations of the people around me.
And it frustrates me as well.
Friday, May 14, 2010
A vision from a reiki healing session. - Location found!
I had a vision during my reiki class in that I saw a forest next to a mountain. At the time I didn't know what the forest was or where it was located.
Well, I briefly meditated on the forest again and came up with the words "Mount Fugiyama". (took only seconds, before the name popped up)
It's literally an older name for mt fuji in japan (I actually didn't know that, but thanks to wikipedia, I do now.). There's a forest that runs along the base of the mountain called Aokigahara forest.
It is perhaps one of the forests in the world where people say it's definitely haunted.
I will need to think on the place further.
The place is known as one of the two most popular places for suicide. The other being the golden gate bridge in san francisco.
Well, I briefly meditated on the forest again and came up with the words "Mount Fugiyama". (took only seconds, before the name popped up)
It's literally an older name for mt fuji in japan (I actually didn't know that, but thanks to wikipedia, I do now.). There's a forest that runs along the base of the mountain called Aokigahara forest.
It is perhaps one of the forests in the world where people say it's definitely haunted.
I will need to think on the place further.
The place is known as one of the two most popular places for suicide. The other being the golden gate bridge in san francisco.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Reiki: What I learned... in only 1 week.
Yes, it's only been a week out from taking a reiki class, and I have learned a lot. Some of which I didn't expect.
Here's some of the more poignant facts:
1) Healing energy transfer requires you to place at least one foot flat on the ground.
I thought this was just amazing, as it literally turns off the energy being emitted from the hands for me. I don't have a decent or respectable setup at home (which would require a couple hundred dollars), so I have people lie down on the big ottoman and have people put their feet up on the couch. As I said, it's not respectable. Anyway, when I get to people's lower extremities, it becomes hard to get into the most comfortable position for both the healer and the client. So there were times where my feet wouldn't be square on the ground and basically no energy being emitted from my hands. Placing at least one foot flat on the ground makes a huge difference. As a result, I think the best approach is to go shoeless. (I could be wrong on this, but it's not like I get a lot of feedback.)
2) Healing energy is not just healing, it's power.
It certainly assisted greatly during my workouts. I've gone up drastically with the weights I am using, the recovery rate is much faster and my trainer is rather surprised. I will see how I do in week 2.
3) People really don't know much about reiki.
I kept getting the look from people that they're deer caught in headlights when it comes to what reiki is. Honestly, I don't blame them. There's a lot out there that people just don't know about. Maybe it's a priority thing. Which brings me to...
4) A lot of the problems people have can be solved with reiki.
I am sure the person that doubts stuff like reiki or think it's some kind of religious mumbo-jumbo would dismiss the idea based on their thoughts alone. That's really kind of sad, because that's exactly what reiki will help with. It's like those little addictions and little habits that are just bad for you and you can't figure out how to get rid of them are just eating away at you like a parasite and you don't even know it's there. It's because it makes you numb.
That's not it exactly, but I am just trying to give an example to relate to.
To point, the entire world is basically energy. Whether it is from the atoms within your body making it appear solid or the spaces inbetween where the energy just flows freely. Reiki is a directed energy given by the creator/God/whoever you attribute. It's a gift. It doesn't come from a healer, they just pass it along as if they are an antenna or a vessel. As long as the energy within the body flows correctly, the body is able to heal itself.
I've always considered that when it comes to any problem, the matter must be fixed. You can't just throw random solutions at a problem and expect them to work. Maybe sometimes they do, but usually they don't. You can't throw money at a financial problem until you resolve the source of the problem first. You can't heal a sick body unless you know what's wrong with it.
A quote:
Blaise Pascal – The Penses
"What is it then that this desire and this inability proclaim to us, but that there was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present? But these are all inadequate, because the infinite abyss can only be filled by an infinite and immutable object, that is to say, only by God Himself."
While a christian standpoint will say that the hole can only be fulfilled with faith and religion with christ, I sit here and know that even in that regard, there may still be something that faith alone did not fix.
The worst part of it all, is I didn't know that it was a problem or that it could be fixed.
Take drinking soda as an example. I used to need it pretty much on a daily basis. Anyway, I have pretty much kicked it. I still slip occasionally (once in a week, not too bad) in a restaurant, but I found that a problem was fixed during a reiki healing session (apparently my heart chakra was completely closed making me a perfect candidate for "what to do") and the next thing I know I am overall happier and I have very little cravings for stuff that's bad for me.
When you ask a reiki practitioner if something can be healed by reiki, the answer and pretty much a consistent one is "it couldn't hurt". That's pretty much what you should expect. At the very least, you are relaxed, at the most, you get a surprise in that something you thought was impossible to have healed ends up melting away. For me, it was a decade/15 year long pain and numbness in my leg.
And just like a doctor's oath, reiki will "do no harm".
5) Patience - For God is not finished with me yet.
To me, this whole thing with reiki is just another step on a process. I would say that I've personally have chosen the process, but instead I have chosen to follow where I am led on this process. Where that leads me from day to day, I don't know. I haven't lost the faith I have and I haven't changed my understanding of the universe or how it all works. However, I have learned some things along the way, and experience some of the more diverse selections life has to offer.
This whole thing is not over anytime soon, that's for sure.
Here's some of the more poignant facts:
1) Healing energy transfer requires you to place at least one foot flat on the ground.
I thought this was just amazing, as it literally turns off the energy being emitted from the hands for me. I don't have a decent or respectable setup at home (which would require a couple hundred dollars), so I have people lie down on the big ottoman and have people put their feet up on the couch. As I said, it's not respectable. Anyway, when I get to people's lower extremities, it becomes hard to get into the most comfortable position for both the healer and the client. So there were times where my feet wouldn't be square on the ground and basically no energy being emitted from my hands. Placing at least one foot flat on the ground makes a huge difference. As a result, I think the best approach is to go shoeless. (I could be wrong on this, but it's not like I get a lot of feedback.)
2) Healing energy is not just healing, it's power.
It certainly assisted greatly during my workouts. I've gone up drastically with the weights I am using, the recovery rate is much faster and my trainer is rather surprised. I will see how I do in week 2.
3) People really don't know much about reiki.
I kept getting the look from people that they're deer caught in headlights when it comes to what reiki is. Honestly, I don't blame them. There's a lot out there that people just don't know about. Maybe it's a priority thing. Which brings me to...
4) A lot of the problems people have can be solved with reiki.
I am sure the person that doubts stuff like reiki or think it's some kind of religious mumbo-jumbo would dismiss the idea based on their thoughts alone. That's really kind of sad, because that's exactly what reiki will help with. It's like those little addictions and little habits that are just bad for you and you can't figure out how to get rid of them are just eating away at you like a parasite and you don't even know it's there. It's because it makes you numb.
That's not it exactly, but I am just trying to give an example to relate to.
To point, the entire world is basically energy. Whether it is from the atoms within your body making it appear solid or the spaces inbetween where the energy just flows freely. Reiki is a directed energy given by the creator/God/whoever you attribute. It's a gift. It doesn't come from a healer, they just pass it along as if they are an antenna or a vessel. As long as the energy within the body flows correctly, the body is able to heal itself.
I've always considered that when it comes to any problem, the matter must be fixed. You can't just throw random solutions at a problem and expect them to work. Maybe sometimes they do, but usually they don't. You can't throw money at a financial problem until you resolve the source of the problem first. You can't heal a sick body unless you know what's wrong with it.
A quote:
Blaise Pascal – The Penses
"What is it then that this desire and this inability proclaim to us, but that there was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present? But these are all inadequate, because the infinite abyss can only be filled by an infinite and immutable object, that is to say, only by God Himself."
While a christian standpoint will say that the hole can only be fulfilled with faith and religion with christ, I sit here and know that even in that regard, there may still be something that faith alone did not fix.
The worst part of it all, is I didn't know that it was a problem or that it could be fixed.
Take drinking soda as an example. I used to need it pretty much on a daily basis. Anyway, I have pretty much kicked it. I still slip occasionally (once in a week, not too bad) in a restaurant, but I found that a problem was fixed during a reiki healing session (apparently my heart chakra was completely closed making me a perfect candidate for "what to do") and the next thing I know I am overall happier and I have very little cravings for stuff that's bad for me.
When you ask a reiki practitioner if something can be healed by reiki, the answer and pretty much a consistent one is "it couldn't hurt". That's pretty much what you should expect. At the very least, you are relaxed, at the most, you get a surprise in that something you thought was impossible to have healed ends up melting away. For me, it was a decade/15 year long pain and numbness in my leg.
And just like a doctor's oath, reiki will "do no harm".
5) Patience - For God is not finished with me yet.
To me, this whole thing with reiki is just another step on a process. I would say that I've personally have chosen the process, but instead I have chosen to follow where I am led on this process. Where that leads me from day to day, I don't know. I haven't lost the faith I have and I haven't changed my understanding of the universe or how it all works. However, I have learned some things along the way, and experience some of the more diverse selections life has to offer.
This whole thing is not over anytime soon, that's for sure.
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Another dream? - a rerajahan?!?
Disclaimer: This dream was a weird one. I don't expect to be able to explain any part of it nor do I understand the partial conclusion I have found at this time.
It was toward the end of a dream actually, in most of the dream I had this uncomfortable feeling of being watched. This manifest itself by rooms not fully lit. As I was walking in a hallway toward a room I was intending to go it, what I thought was my brother behind me made a move.
I know it wasn't my brother at that point, which I can explain. However, the move made was to come around me quickly from behind and kiss me. It was almost as if someone came up from behind you and gave you a really hard passionate kiss and then to their surprise they jump back and say "you're not my spouse!"
Anyway...
When that happened, a flurry of images flew into my head. So quickly and so numerously that I couldn't be able to account for a single one. It only took a second, but after that I was shown a rather peculiar image.
This image is best described as an animal's body with a human head on it. Behind the head is what could be described as one of the representations of a lotus flower. However it was one that was more square in appearance and design.
The word that entered my mind to describe the image was "Dragon". This is of course probably not what it actually was, but it gave me a clue to what it could be when I finally got on the computer this morning.
If you do an image search in google on "dragon" and "rerajahan", you will probably see the closest thing to what I saw. What you find looks more like a tiger with a human head, but again, it's the closest...
Closely tied to that is the concept of rerajahan. I didn't even know what that meant until I looked it up less than an hour ago, and in some ways I am still not totally convinced.
Regardless, rerajahan is some kind of balinese magic drawing. The purpose of such a drawing is to:
1. to get protection and magical power from the god that is drawn in the rerajahan for example the power to prevent rain
2. to purify the body and soul
3. to enhance the spiritual power of someone or something
4. to get a unique talent or power, for example ability to run fast or can not be seen
5. to get sympathy or admiration from other
6. to drive away pestilence, or bad luck
7. to protect the house compound, rice field, village or children
8. to prevent or negate physical or magical attack from the enemy
9. to harm or kill the enemy
Mind you some of those may not apply in this situation.
Anyway, the dream shocked me awake as in the upper right corner of my vision I see someone watching me. I have determined that when a person shows up in my vision like that, that they are 1) a spirit or non physical entity of some sort and 2) not really in my dreams, but choosing to show themselves there I've seen several instance of people looking at me in my dream state, so it's something that I have been analyzing. There has been an instance or two in coming out of a dream where I see a person that I think I see the person standing in the room. Albeit briefly.
So as I am coming out of the dream, I see sparkles, not a lot just a couple of sparkly lights right above me and the bed. They disappear quickly. I will state for the record, that I do not usually see sparkles in my vision.
Now, I don't subscribe to pretty much anything indian/hindu in nature. I personally don't have a great interest in it. As to why the imagery was the way it appeared, I really can't tell you. The only reason I think it's a rerajahan, is because of the brief internet search I did.
It's not perfect. It's a really sloppy research job, but it gives me a reference point from which I can compare against if I need it in the future. I don't expect to give this much more thought anytime soon.
The only questions that remain about the dream are:
1) who is the guy that gave me that image? I don't know him.
2) what was the point of the flurry of images?
3) why that image?
Any other question I can answer, I just can't explain it. Maybe that's the point? No, there's no lesson to be learned here. If anything it's a sign. But it's not a sign of warning. It's a sign to remind me of something. I have a fairly good memory, so if it's something I've forgot, I find it very unlikely. However, if it's something I will need at a later date, then I guess I get to carry it with me.
Until such time as its needed.
It was toward the end of a dream actually, in most of the dream I had this uncomfortable feeling of being watched. This manifest itself by rooms not fully lit. As I was walking in a hallway toward a room I was intending to go it, what I thought was my brother behind me made a move.
I know it wasn't my brother at that point, which I can explain. However, the move made was to come around me quickly from behind and kiss me. It was almost as if someone came up from behind you and gave you a really hard passionate kiss and then to their surprise they jump back and say "you're not my spouse!"
Anyway...
When that happened, a flurry of images flew into my head. So quickly and so numerously that I couldn't be able to account for a single one. It only took a second, but after that I was shown a rather peculiar image.
This image is best described as an animal's body with a human head on it. Behind the head is what could be described as one of the representations of a lotus flower. However it was one that was more square in appearance and design.
The word that entered my mind to describe the image was "Dragon". This is of course probably not what it actually was, but it gave me a clue to what it could be when I finally got on the computer this morning.
If you do an image search in google on "dragon" and "rerajahan", you will probably see the closest thing to what I saw. What you find looks more like a tiger with a human head, but again, it's the closest...
Closely tied to that is the concept of rerajahan. I didn't even know what that meant until I looked it up less than an hour ago, and in some ways I am still not totally convinced.
Regardless, rerajahan is some kind of balinese magic drawing. The purpose of such a drawing is to:
1. to get protection and magical power from the god that is drawn in the rerajahan for example the power to prevent rain
2. to purify the body and soul
3. to enhance the spiritual power of someone or something
4. to get a unique talent or power, for example ability to run fast or can not be seen
5. to get sympathy or admiration from other
6. to drive away pestilence, or bad luck
7. to protect the house compound, rice field, village or children
8. to prevent or negate physical or magical attack from the enemy
9. to harm or kill the enemy
Mind you some of those may not apply in this situation.
Anyway, the dream shocked me awake as in the upper right corner of my vision I see someone watching me. I have determined that when a person shows up in my vision like that, that they are 1) a spirit or non physical entity of some sort and 2) not really in my dreams, but choosing to show themselves there I've seen several instance of people looking at me in my dream state, so it's something that I have been analyzing. There has been an instance or two in coming out of a dream where I see a person that I think I see the person standing in the room. Albeit briefly.
So as I am coming out of the dream, I see sparkles, not a lot just a couple of sparkly lights right above me and the bed. They disappear quickly. I will state for the record, that I do not usually see sparkles in my vision.
Now, I don't subscribe to pretty much anything indian/hindu in nature. I personally don't have a great interest in it. As to why the imagery was the way it appeared, I really can't tell you. The only reason I think it's a rerajahan, is because of the brief internet search I did.
It's not perfect. It's a really sloppy research job, but it gives me a reference point from which I can compare against if I need it in the future. I don't expect to give this much more thought anytime soon.
The only questions that remain about the dream are:
1) who is the guy that gave me that image? I don't know him.
2) what was the point of the flurry of images?
3) why that image?
Any other question I can answer, I just can't explain it. Maybe that's the point? No, there's no lesson to be learned here. If anything it's a sign. But it's not a sign of warning. It's a sign to remind me of something. I have a fairly good memory, so if it's something I've forgot, I find it very unlikely. However, if it's something I will need at a later date, then I guess I get to carry it with me.
Until such time as its needed.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Reiki: My first tesimonial!
Okay, so I have only been doing reiki for ummm... 2 days.
In that time, I've did a session on my wife and my sister in law. Those went pretty well.
Now I have a coworker who has had some serious medical issues, and I got to see first hand earlier this year how severe they were.
So yesterday, I had a brief e-mail conversation and decided to forgo doing reiki in person first and doing a remote healing just to get the process going. Basically anything I could do to help, I wanted to do.
So today, I took some time during my lunch break and did another reiki send and this is what she said in reply:
"I can’t believe it, I am able to move my arm back more than I have in the last several months—I can’t move it back all the way, and it is painful when I put my arm behind my back—but I couldn’t even move it back that far since I hurt it. I’ll let you know tomorrow, how it did throughout the day!"
The comment really warms my heart.
I hope that I will find the time soon to drive up to the office so I can do a reiki session for her.
I asked if I could quote her and she said, "Sure—maybe I’ll be able to give you an even better quote as time goes by. Again, thanks!"
In that time, I've did a session on my wife and my sister in law. Those went pretty well.
Now I have a coworker who has had some serious medical issues, and I got to see first hand earlier this year how severe they were.
So yesterday, I had a brief e-mail conversation and decided to forgo doing reiki in person first and doing a remote healing just to get the process going. Basically anything I could do to help, I wanted to do.
So today, I took some time during my lunch break and did another reiki send and this is what she said in reply:
"I can’t believe it, I am able to move my arm back more than I have in the last several months—I can’t move it back all the way, and it is painful when I put my arm behind my back—but I couldn’t even move it back that far since I hurt it. I’ll let you know tomorrow, how it did throughout the day!"
The comment really warms my heart.
I hope that I will find the time soon to drive up to the office so I can do a reiki session for her.
I asked if I could quote her and she said, "Sure—maybe I’ll be able to give you an even better quote as time goes by. Again, thanks!"
Monday, May 3, 2010
Reiki: Start Healing
Rei-ki. By definition it means "conscious god energy".
I just took my first steps in learning about the proper techniques and allowing myself to allow this conscious energy to flow.
(I must learn as a child and see every situation as new.)
The whole thing behind this is that for a long time I have been trying to figure out why my hands are so warm. The phrase "cold hands/warm heart" was kind of an insult. It basically says to me, that I have no love to give or compassion. Basically, it makes me feel like I am some kind of megalomaniac dictator. Basically Hitler.
On a random web search I came across a story involving a princess Martha Louise of Norway, which said that her "unusually warm hands" were a result of her naturally being able to transmit reiki energy.
I have unusually warm hands. Well that was before the class, but I am getting ahead of myself.
So, in my usual fashion, I trust myself to the winds of fate. Literally. If the winds say to go here, I go here. If they say go there, I go there. I should note that I interchange "winds of fate" with "will of god". To me they're just words describing the same process. You can pretty much use whichever one suits you best, in my opinion.
It was after that where I had finally put down verbally what I was looking for in a job. I was working downtown and didn't like the commute. Being subject to those "winds", we found that new work opportunity very close to home.
A couple of years working there, "will" moved again, and the company relocated to wheeling. It would be a longer commute, if I worked in the office, but as fate willed, I found that working from home was immensely more efficient.
In that transition, new team members came on and in that late summer early fall, I had a rather unique conversation with one of my coworkers. The whole subject was about ghosts, as during the early summer me and my wife spent a very interesting two nights at the infamously haunted lemp mansion. (totally worth it, if you can respect the ghosts there) In that conversation, I learned about someone from bolingbrook (same town I am in) that does ghost hunting.
(Intrigued indeed!)
It was later in the fall around october and I thought I would be able to meet this person and talk at an octoberfest party. Well, they didn't really show, and I wasn't really comfortable there with all of the people I really didn't know. Mostly I felt like I do a lot of the time... I don't know if I totally belong.
So fast forward, I finally learn about the ghost hunter(cindi muntz) and find out that she's a reiki teacher.
To me, it's not just about learning reiki, it was to learn to do it right. I needed the pure stuff, basically as original as it can get. I didn't want to be muddied down by someone's idea of how it works for them or anything like that. So basically I needed to learn Usui reiki.
So, I figured the next time I saw a usui reiki class, that would be the one I would take. Guess whose class came up first.
Coincidence! No, not really. I gave up on coincidence long ago. There's really no such thing, unless you mean the word literally as akin to synchronicity.
So I signed up. I know I had the reiki energy flowing in me... well, kinda. But I wanted so badly to do it right. I had prepared myself well before hand.
I took the whole day before as a fast. I had water and some flavored water as the only things I had during the day. I had prepared a notebook and chose one of my favorite pens to write with. I even had a recorder in case I missed something. I was so ready to learn.
Except that the recorder was a major faux-paus! I was quite amiss. I felt like I have insulted my teacher and all of teachers before her. There is no apology that would express how I feel about this. It was a mistake on my part and in my eagerness, I took a wrong turn. *sigh* :(
The entire class was an enjoyable one. The whole reason it works is due to the fact that the body is literally energy. You think about the size of the molecules in an atom and realize that with as much space as in an atom, that it is what makes our bodies feel solid. Again, it's literally energy.
So you could apply science about the particle flow of energy or the wave formations of energy, but it really comes down to some simple concepts. Those being auras, chakras and meridians.
Meridians is basically what acupuncture works with. It's an interconnected system within the body. It's not really required to do reiki, but there were a couple of points that help people relax. We learned two of them.
And no I am not telling you the specifics. Attend a reiki class yourself!
Auras are basically the emission of energy from the body. I've been able to see this for a long time, but to me, it's a literal force field around the body. If you want to know what it feels like, find someone that you don't know that well and stand close to them... then closer... and even closer. That uncomfortable feeling is the other person's aura. Some people call it "personal space", but whatever you call it, it is an extension of yourself. You may not see it, but that doesn't mean that it's not there.
Finally Chakras. These are energy points along the brain/spinal cord path of the body. It starts at the top of the head and ends at the tip of your tail bone. I heard once that doctors that deal with MRI's know about these and have seen them on MRI scans, but I have heard the exact opposite too. Take faith on that one, I guess. As energy/spirit/soul/whatever you call it, moves through the body it does so via these junctures. A problem with these locations may and usually do translate literally to an illness or an emotional distress.
The whole point of reiki is to clear out the junk in the energy system and allow the natural power of healing from god to do its job properly. It can produce anything from a simple de-stress to a healing of a chronic injury. When it's done (properly), the "client" for lack of a better word, is left feeling great.
There's a bit of weirdness to it where symbols are used and while I won't go into that very much, I just want people to know that when those symbols were encoded on my soul (again for lack of a better word) that they have been speaking, reciting and singing their songs to me. These are "sacred", but in another way very personal. I suspect everyone in the class sees the symbols differently due to the experience.
Speaking of the encoding/attunement, when was the last time you meditated for an hour? Well, 45 minutes, and hour. Either way, I meditated for that long. It's not really prayer at that time, as it actually comes later. No, seriously. Prayer is important too. You can't really wind down by watching tv, although some people try. The real issue is that you have to wind down, and the best way I know is to meditate and let the chattering thoughts go away. They do eventually. It take a bit of work at first, but you'll find yourself one day just sitting in a chair outside, letting the world pass on by. And you'll be fine with that.
The main part of reiki to the everyday person is done by scanning and then healing touch. Even before I took the class, I scanned people. I was totally able to tell where a person had pain, because you could feel it in their auric energy field. It could be a thickness, a hole or even a bump.
At one point, I could even feel tendrils. This is unusual and is really not part of reiki, but when I felt tendrils, my thoughts were to pull them out. I don't even begin to even know what healing tradition that comes from. Maybe it doesn't exist? No, I could never be that.
So I learned how to scan properly. That doesn't mean I did it right the first couple of times, but hey! I am trying my best!
Next came the healing hands. I know I was doing this wrong, because I was trying to push energy through. Yeah, totally wrong. It's all a matter of hands on and letting it flow naturally. And when it's done, it shuts off. Totally shuts off on its own! That was really weird to me.
Anyway, I had my turn as the group did a healing on one person at a time. Apparently my heart chakra was blocked. I wasn't really sure, I was relaxed and turned into this "guinea pig" for the class. Anyway, it was opened.
For those that know anything about the heart chakra, you must realize I have been in a semi-emotional state since that point. There's probably something else that I need to work through in order to keep the block from closing again.
There was a time around a 8-9 years ago where I was on depression medication for pretty much no reason. I am not even sure I could say why.
Now because of the blockage and the result of the class, I can heal myself through healing others. It's something that I want to do.
I feel that the unusually warm hands that I have been given are a gift from which I can share. I can only hope that by sharing I can help others. I alone don't want to change the world for the better, but if I can play a part, then I want to help.
I think that's my new mantra: I just want to help.
My training went to level 2, and that is fine until the master training later this summer. It gives me ample opportunity to practice. And you can believe me, that I want to be good at it. I want to be insanely good, but there's only one problem.
I can guarantee nothing. I can't promise the perfect solution. All I can do is give you a gift of healing. It comes from god and that is all.
On a final note, after I got the "supercharge"/attunements, my hands are even warmer than before... and a touch sweaty.
How do you clean sweat off a keyboard?
I just took my first steps in learning about the proper techniques and allowing myself to allow this conscious energy to flow.
(I must learn as a child and see every situation as new.)
The whole thing behind this is that for a long time I have been trying to figure out why my hands are so warm. The phrase "cold hands/warm heart" was kind of an insult. It basically says to me, that I have no love to give or compassion. Basically, it makes me feel like I am some kind of megalomaniac dictator. Basically Hitler.
On a random web search I came across a story involving a princess Martha Louise of Norway, which said that her "unusually warm hands" were a result of her naturally being able to transmit reiki energy.
I have unusually warm hands. Well that was before the class, but I am getting ahead of myself.
So, in my usual fashion, I trust myself to the winds of fate. Literally. If the winds say to go here, I go here. If they say go there, I go there. I should note that I interchange "winds of fate" with "will of god". To me they're just words describing the same process. You can pretty much use whichever one suits you best, in my opinion.
It was after that where I had finally put down verbally what I was looking for in a job. I was working downtown and didn't like the commute. Being subject to those "winds", we found that new work opportunity very close to home.
A couple of years working there, "will" moved again, and the company relocated to wheeling. It would be a longer commute, if I worked in the office, but as fate willed, I found that working from home was immensely more efficient.
In that transition, new team members came on and in that late summer early fall, I had a rather unique conversation with one of my coworkers. The whole subject was about ghosts, as during the early summer me and my wife spent a very interesting two nights at the infamously haunted lemp mansion. (totally worth it, if you can respect the ghosts there) In that conversation, I learned about someone from bolingbrook (same town I am in) that does ghost hunting.
(Intrigued indeed!)
It was later in the fall around october and I thought I would be able to meet this person and talk at an octoberfest party. Well, they didn't really show, and I wasn't really comfortable there with all of the people I really didn't know. Mostly I felt like I do a lot of the time... I don't know if I totally belong.
So fast forward, I finally learn about the ghost hunter(cindi muntz) and find out that she's a reiki teacher.
To me, it's not just about learning reiki, it was to learn to do it right. I needed the pure stuff, basically as original as it can get. I didn't want to be muddied down by someone's idea of how it works for them or anything like that. So basically I needed to learn Usui reiki.
So, I figured the next time I saw a usui reiki class, that would be the one I would take. Guess whose class came up first.
Coincidence! No, not really. I gave up on coincidence long ago. There's really no such thing, unless you mean the word literally as akin to synchronicity.
So I signed up. I know I had the reiki energy flowing in me... well, kinda. But I wanted so badly to do it right. I had prepared myself well before hand.
I took the whole day before as a fast. I had water and some flavored water as the only things I had during the day. I had prepared a notebook and chose one of my favorite pens to write with. I even had a recorder in case I missed something. I was so ready to learn.
Except that the recorder was a major faux-paus! I was quite amiss. I felt like I have insulted my teacher and all of teachers before her. There is no apology that would express how I feel about this. It was a mistake on my part and in my eagerness, I took a wrong turn. *sigh* :(
The entire class was an enjoyable one. The whole reason it works is due to the fact that the body is literally energy. You think about the size of the molecules in an atom and realize that with as much space as in an atom, that it is what makes our bodies feel solid. Again, it's literally energy.
So you could apply science about the particle flow of energy or the wave formations of energy, but it really comes down to some simple concepts. Those being auras, chakras and meridians.
Meridians is basically what acupuncture works with. It's an interconnected system within the body. It's not really required to do reiki, but there were a couple of points that help people relax. We learned two of them.
And no I am not telling you the specifics. Attend a reiki class yourself!
Auras are basically the emission of energy from the body. I've been able to see this for a long time, but to me, it's a literal force field around the body. If you want to know what it feels like, find someone that you don't know that well and stand close to them... then closer... and even closer. That uncomfortable feeling is the other person's aura. Some people call it "personal space", but whatever you call it, it is an extension of yourself. You may not see it, but that doesn't mean that it's not there.
Finally Chakras. These are energy points along the brain/spinal cord path of the body. It starts at the top of the head and ends at the tip of your tail bone. I heard once that doctors that deal with MRI's know about these and have seen them on MRI scans, but I have heard the exact opposite too. Take faith on that one, I guess. As energy/spirit/soul/whatever you call it, moves through the body it does so via these junctures. A problem with these locations may and usually do translate literally to an illness or an emotional distress.
The whole point of reiki is to clear out the junk in the energy system and allow the natural power of healing from god to do its job properly. It can produce anything from a simple de-stress to a healing of a chronic injury. When it's done (properly), the "client" for lack of a better word, is left feeling great.
There's a bit of weirdness to it where symbols are used and while I won't go into that very much, I just want people to know that when those symbols were encoded on my soul (again for lack of a better word) that they have been speaking, reciting and singing their songs to me. These are "sacred", but in another way very personal. I suspect everyone in the class sees the symbols differently due to the experience.
Speaking of the encoding/attunement, when was the last time you meditated for an hour? Well, 45 minutes, and hour. Either way, I meditated for that long. It's not really prayer at that time, as it actually comes later. No, seriously. Prayer is important too. You can't really wind down by watching tv, although some people try. The real issue is that you have to wind down, and the best way I know is to meditate and let the chattering thoughts go away. They do eventually. It take a bit of work at first, but you'll find yourself one day just sitting in a chair outside, letting the world pass on by. And you'll be fine with that.
The main part of reiki to the everyday person is done by scanning and then healing touch. Even before I took the class, I scanned people. I was totally able to tell where a person had pain, because you could feel it in their auric energy field. It could be a thickness, a hole or even a bump.
At one point, I could even feel tendrils. This is unusual and is really not part of reiki, but when I felt tendrils, my thoughts were to pull them out. I don't even begin to even know what healing tradition that comes from. Maybe it doesn't exist? No, I could never be that.
So I learned how to scan properly. That doesn't mean I did it right the first couple of times, but hey! I am trying my best!
Next came the healing hands. I know I was doing this wrong, because I was trying to push energy through. Yeah, totally wrong. It's all a matter of hands on and letting it flow naturally. And when it's done, it shuts off. Totally shuts off on its own! That was really weird to me.
Anyway, I had my turn as the group did a healing on one person at a time. Apparently my heart chakra was blocked. I wasn't really sure, I was relaxed and turned into this "guinea pig" for the class. Anyway, it was opened.
For those that know anything about the heart chakra, you must realize I have been in a semi-emotional state since that point. There's probably something else that I need to work through in order to keep the block from closing again.
There was a time around a 8-9 years ago where I was on depression medication for pretty much no reason. I am not even sure I could say why.
Now because of the blockage and the result of the class, I can heal myself through healing others. It's something that I want to do.
I feel that the unusually warm hands that I have been given are a gift from which I can share. I can only hope that by sharing I can help others. I alone don't want to change the world for the better, but if I can play a part, then I want to help.
I think that's my new mantra: I just want to help.
My training went to level 2, and that is fine until the master training later this summer. It gives me ample opportunity to practice. And you can believe me, that I want to be good at it. I want to be insanely good, but there's only one problem.
I can guarantee nothing. I can't promise the perfect solution. All I can do is give you a gift of healing. It comes from god and that is all.
On a final note, after I got the "supercharge"/attunements, my hands are even warmer than before... and a touch sweaty.
How do you clean sweat off a keyboard?
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Spokeo.com don't know me.
Okay, so I find out that from people on facebook about this website called spokeo.com which not only uses all of the information that's collected about you, but it also displays it for everyone to see. (and for a fee, you can view some of the more sensitive information)
Well, you can opt-out, by clicking on the privacy tag...
But what got me, was how WRONG it is about me.
Let me explain some of them.
-Hobbies are sports, reading and photography.
If you're not laughing right now, you should be. I am totally not much about sports. Yes I like an occasional football game, but that's like saying I like a good burger. However, I like the burger more than the game.
Reading, while I do read, I am not what you would call a very heavy reader. For example, I read comic books. And then even at that, I don't really read them. Sometimes the pictures are okay.
And Photography. WHAT?!? Yeah, I am not into photography. I mean, WOW! Could it be more incorrect?
- Estimated Home Value $1M+
If they're saying my home is worth more than a million dollars, either I got screwed or someone is off by a decimal point or two.
- Plays Sports
More humor there as at 300 pounds, the only sport I am playing at is fishing, and that's not really a sport now is it?
- Loves Reading
Ummm, no. Not really.
- Reads about sports
No I don't.
- Reads about world news and politics
The only thing I read out of the sunday newspaper is the comic strips. Not that the tribune's strips are any good. Some days I even skip that section as well.
- Subscribes to magazines
I have no idea where they got that. I don't subscribe to my comic books (they're ordered month to month). And I actually don't read any magazines.
- Enjoys photography
Depending on the picture, everyone likes a good picture... but wait, you mean me taking them? Heh, no.
- Donates to causes and Donates to health causes
Oh, they really don't know me that well.
They also say that my house has no fireplace (yes it does), no central heating (yes it does) and no central air (you better believe it does).
Oh and 3 people live in the house. I can't figure that one out, as it says we have no children.
I got my chuckles and then deleted my entry. Seriously!
Well, you can opt-out, by clicking on the privacy tag...
But what got me, was how WRONG it is about me.
Let me explain some of them.
-Hobbies are sports, reading and photography.
If you're not laughing right now, you should be. I am totally not much about sports. Yes I like an occasional football game, but that's like saying I like a good burger. However, I like the burger more than the game.
Reading, while I do read, I am not what you would call a very heavy reader. For example, I read comic books. And then even at that, I don't really read them. Sometimes the pictures are okay.
And Photography. WHAT?!? Yeah, I am not into photography. I mean, WOW! Could it be more incorrect?
- Estimated Home Value $1M+
If they're saying my home is worth more than a million dollars, either I got screwed or someone is off by a decimal point or two.
- Plays Sports
More humor there as at 300 pounds, the only sport I am playing at is fishing, and that's not really a sport now is it?
- Loves Reading
Ummm, no. Not really.
- Reads about sports
No I don't.
- Reads about world news and politics
The only thing I read out of the sunday newspaper is the comic strips. Not that the tribune's strips are any good. Some days I even skip that section as well.
- Subscribes to magazines
I have no idea where they got that. I don't subscribe to my comic books (they're ordered month to month). And I actually don't read any magazines.
- Enjoys photography
Depending on the picture, everyone likes a good picture... but wait, you mean me taking them? Heh, no.
- Donates to causes and Donates to health causes
Oh, they really don't know me that well.
They also say that my house has no fireplace (yes it does), no central heating (yes it does) and no central air (you better believe it does).
Oh and 3 people live in the house. I can't figure that one out, as it says we have no children.
I got my chuckles and then deleted my entry. Seriously!
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