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healing of karmic illusions

I’ve visited Mexico City many times in my life and each time I would watch in wonder as people would process towards the Basilica de Guadalupe on their knees. At that time I did not understand why these people would suffer so much so that suffering would end, but ultimately their faith would help pave the way for change in their lives. They believed they would be helped if they paid a price. As I grow in the Reiki healing modality, I begin to understand that one’s frame of mind has everything to do with one’s ability to heal.

If we are so engrossed in our own discomforts and can not see past our infirmities, we struggle with moving beyond what is keeping us from health, but when we can see a clear path to health we often travel the path much faster and with little, if any complications.

What brought this up? I read an article today where someone was in the hospital and saw an event which concluded with negative results. The person witnessed someone else experiencing severe pain. A passing nurse offered Reiki to help ease the pain. The nurse claimed she was a Reiki master and so the person experiencing the pain agreed.  The “master” placed a hand above the person’s head and one behind her back while concentrating with her eyes closed. After a few moments she made motions like she was pulling something out of the person’s body and throwing it away. The nurse repeated the motion several times with her hands in different positions. The whole process took 5 to 6 minutes. The nurse stopped when she was paged to a patient’s room. The person receiving the treatment never noticed the nurse left because her pain was overwhelming. The person’s response was, “I just need my morphine.” The writer of the article then goes on to say they suspected the person was addicted to the morphine. The writer also stated that Reiki was “bullshit” because of that one experience.  If that was my only experience with Reiki, I might say the very same thing.

There are of course several things going on in this example, the first of which is that the alleged Reiki master should have known better than to offer Reiki to someone in acute distress. Reiki is NEVER a substitute for real medical emergency care and should only be offered when the person is not in critical need. Reiki is not a crutch, it is a tool to help a person grow towards health and wellness; not some quick fix. A real Reiki master would know that, especially given that the alleged master in this case was also a nurse.

You were my favorite drug

Second, the person experiencing the pain was under the influence of a highly addictive narcotic which just happens to also cloud the mind. If I see someone in excruciating pain, the first thing I’m going to ask is did they take something for the pain. We would have gotten to the fact this person was using harsh pain killers in which case the alleged master should have again recommended immediate emergency care and NOT Reiki.

All this brings us to the third thing: what was the person’s intention? If all they wanted was their morphine then the alleged master asserted their own dominance and control over the situation by not asking for the person’s intent. Reiki practitioners are not supposed to be ego driven miracle workers. We are supposed to be people who help others walk their own paths of health and wellness.

This brings us to the third thing: what was the person’s intention? If all they wanted was their morphine then the alleged master asserted their own dominance and control over the situation by not asking for the person’s intent. Reiki practitioners are not supposed to be ego driven miracle workers. We are supposed to be people who help others walk their own paths of health and wellness. The practitioner was passing by and inserted themselves in a situation that could have proven disastrous.

The person experiencing the pain may have been going through withdrawals from the narcotic, there is just no way of knowing, and an alleged master broke with ethical practice to help where they may not have been wanted, but more to the point, the person on the morphine may not have been in any frame of mind for healing. A drug addict only wants the next fix, not the solution. Because of the actions of one alleged master, one person has a negative opinion of this wonderful healing modality.

Healing must first begin with a person wanting to be healed. All the best medicine in the world will never be enough if a person does not actually want to be healed. There are people who thrive on illness because it provides them attention. They will never reach full health because their minds will continue creating one illness after another.  Care must be given to empower a person to want to heal, then and only then can true healing begin.

Healing must begin with the willingness to heal.  When a person wants to heal, they will find the right path and avenue to achieve that end result.

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We all live in our own bubbles

Imagine for a moment you are walking down the street and can actually create the world in which you live.

This past week we had a client who continually said they didn’t want to be around negative or incompetent people, and she kept saying that over and over again, and then it hit me: the reason she was surrounded by those types of people is because she was continually focusing on that type of energy.  She was subconsciously drawing in the negative energy she was trying to keep out because her focus was on the negative, not the positive. When we brought this to her attention she looked like someone had slapped her in the face.

We sometimes become so focused on what we don’t want in this life that we forget to focus on what it is we DO want.  When become mired in the difficulties we never see that the path actually deviates around the problems.   Then we sit on our pity-pots crying the world is unfair and that we are incapable of positive things in our lives.

The world is exactly what we make it.  When we see only the strife and hardships,  then we are really focusing in on that type of energy and draw it towards ourselves, allowing it to feed upon our fears, and upon our own negativity.  When we are able to look beyond the mess in front of us to the possibility of hope and joy, then we allow for the opportunity for growth and new life.

When negative stuff happens, learn from it.  Take something positive away with you when you leave the negative behind.  Find a lesson worth learning and turn the page to a new chapter.

What do you want in this lifetime? Set a goal.  Now go get it and stop focusing on why you can not achieve your goal.  Focus instead on the goal and think of it as already achieved.

As you begin to focus on the positive in life, so too will you reflect that positivity to others.  When you show a positive and loving light, so too will you attract that positivity to your own life.

Go forth and reflect.

What do I want to do when I grow up?

I remember being asked the all important question every child faces on an almost daily basis, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”  I quickly became frustrated with that question because it seemed no one wanted to get to know who I was, they only wanted to know what I wanted to become.  As a child, I couldn’t care less what I would become so I would often announce my career choice based on what ever happened to impact me that day.  Seldom, if ever, did any of those announcements carry with it the weight of “WHO” I was to become, only what I wanted to do with my life.

I also remember one particular day when I looked up at my father and said with all my might and the largest smile I could muster, “I want to be a good and wise man when I grow up.” I was quickly admonished for not thinking about what to do with my life, but I kept that lofty goal in my heart where it would remain safe and sound till I could once again look upon its innocent wisdom.  In the past few months I have often sat alone with myself in quiet contemplation thinking back to that day when I boldly stated who I wanted to be, rather than what I wanted to be.  Little did I know that one day would have such a lasting and permanent effect on my being.

“WHAT” we want to do with our lives changes greatly from time to time throughout our lives, but “WHO” we want to be should be the foundation of our entire way of life, and not just something to which we aspire, but actually something practiced and honed which will, in the long run, give us that personal sense of accomplishment and value.

Well, I’ve long sense grown and still find myself constantly evolving and growing, and I still ask myself the questions, “What do I want to do?”, and “Is this all there is?”  I find very little solace in empty answers.  But when I change my question to “Who do I want to become” suddenly the doors open wide and the limits disappear.

We are a people who constantly reinvent ourselves, but we are also on a evolutionary road.  We have the opportunity to become greater than the sum of our parts and grow into the type of being we wish to be, rather than focus on our life’s career path.

Let’s face facts, the career choice will always be an issue.  Do I work here, or there?  Do I change jobs?  Do I become a doctor, or take a different career path?  Do I go back to school and do something else with my life?  These are all questions we face throughout our lives.

Our internal personal growth, however, should remain fairly constant and maintain a singular focus on our internal being.  It may vary from time to time, but “WHO” we are should seldom, if ever change.  Sitting with ourselves and truly examining our core help us to grow in ways we may never have allowed ourselves to contemplate.

For you parents, it is nice to have children who can support themselves and do well in the world, but is that all there is?  Is that all you want for your child?  Try asking the truly difficult question and see what happens.  Instead of the usual, ask “WHO do you want to become?”

My answer is: Me. If your answer is that you want to be like someone else, then perhaps sit in silence with yourself and try to discover why you would rather be someone other than yourself.

Peace to all.

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Just for this moment, just for this one brief period of time, sit alone with yourself and allow for the perception of craziness by talking to yourself.  Yes I know that is a vision often reserved for those individuals who have been pushing their lives down the streets in little steel caged buggies often called shopping carts, but allow yourself this one indulgence.  Believe you me, they who talk to themselves openly are the lucky ones.  They have not a care in the world and are free to “be” as they please and often without limitations imposed by society.

Let us take a few moment from our busy lives to examine a form of private meditation which allows an individual to come to a greater awareness of themselves through open communication with all parts of individual identity.  I have found great comfort in silence and often sit with myself in personal examination and discovery.  It is through this sitting in silence with the self that we grow beyond our current limitations.

To begin, just relax, focus on your own breathing, and from time to time  silently ask yourself this question: “Who is aware?” In the silence of the response, you will begin to feel your own consciousness rise up from the very core of your being. Instead of asking “Who is aware,” you can instead repeat your own name silently to yourself over and over, trying to determine what your name really means.  Of course what ends up happening is not so much discovering what your “name” means, but what you mean to yourself.

By observing yourself observing yourself, you enter an infinite progression or mental loop, until there is no difference between you the observer, and you the person doing the observation, or between you and your own consciousness.  That intimate core awareness is a big part of your true identity, your true self.

Out of the intense focusing of your own being on yourself, something wondrous begins to unfold; your individuality begins to fade away and you begin to realize the vastness to which you are eternally connected.

Through this type of meditation, you will begin to realize that the loss of the ego-dominated personality is not an extinction of the self, but is instead the only true purity of life and just the beginning of a wondrous and awesome exploration of all that exists.

Sit in silence with yourself and being your own discovery of being-ness.

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the path

I sometimes reflect on a song by Michael Card and John Michael Talbot called “One Faith”.  It’s a great song.  I like it.  It gets my toes to wiggling, and my foot to tapping, but sometimes I sit with a very specific line from the chorus, “There is one faith, one hope, and one baptism, one God and father of all.”  No matter who you are, where you are from, or what you believe, there is something in that sentence which binds us all to one another.

One Faith
We share a common bond that we exist together with the understanding that first and foremost, we exist. We have faith we exist not because we think we exist, but because we are aware enough to realize we do exist. We have individual thoughts, and we are not all the same.  It is our common bond which unites all people everywhere.

We are not talking belief here, we are talking true acceptance of a thing which we know exists because we experience it in the fullness in which it exists.  It is corporeal and others share in its reality.

One Hope
Let’s be honest in that one thing we can all agree upon is that we all have a hope of some sort, whether that hope is of something tangible or intangible, or secret or common knowledge.  Our hope is for something which personally affects us in some way even if the affect is that we are happy our hope has been fulfilled.  Our hopes may not be for the same thing, but we do hope.

One Baptism
Yes, even those who are not religious have One, and only one baptism: birth.  We are all born.  We have all come into existence.  Our existence takes on a ceremonial significance through our emergence into this world through our births, and with us comes the water of life which sustained us through our growth in the womb.  We enter the world soaking wet from head to toes and our life is in itself a celebration.

One God
Despite its name, there exists only one unifying force of the Universe.  It has gone by many names throughout the history of this world and to be honest, it really doesn’t matter how many different names there are; what matters is only that it exists regardless of its function or name.  This force exists through, with, and in all things everywhere in the known and unknown.  It’s up to each of us to decide for ourselves how we celebrate that unifying force.

One Father
I could go the easy route and say that yes, we each have a male parent because scientifically we each have male and female parts which have combined to create cellular division in the womb.

I could also go the other easy route and say that the One God, or the one unifying force of all creation is God the Father as represented by the Holy Bible, and exists as the Only God who shepherds us and takes care of us like a father with His children.

Instead I think I’m going to take a different tack.  There is another definition of Father which is a singular person who guides (1913 Webster).  There is a guiding force throughout the universe, call it what you will, which helps us on our individual paths of life.  Sometimes the One Father is the biological father in our lives.  Sometimes the Father is the Deity in which we place our faith and trust.  Sometimes the One Father is that nagging feeling in the back of our minds that we left the iron on, or the stove, or something else which just seems amiss and out of the ordinary.  What ever you choose to call it, it is that one guiding force which helps move us along our paths in life.

We exists as single entities of this world interconnected through the Divine or through the common existence we share upon this earth.  We are here and there are those around us with whom we share our being.  We are diverse.  We have our own ways of doing things which sometimes coincides with the ways others do things, but we ARE, first and foremost.

Once we allow ourselves to open to the One-ness which exists in all things, then we can finally open ourselves to the possibility of existing together as One in BEING!  Though we may have many different skin types, colors, and patterns, we are still one LIVING force.

Period.

Ruminating is fun when you really think about it. 

K

Illustration of vibrations.

In previous posts we have discussed how we are simply beings of energy vibrating at specific frequencies.  There is no mumbo-jumbo about that concept, it’s easy enough to explain, and easy enough to understand, not to mention its scientifically measurable; body heat being one of the most obvious results. but let’s examine this concept just a little further and delve into the mysterious world of the human thought.  If we are energy, and the world around us is energy, and we all vibrate at specific frequencies, then what do you think is thought is going to be?

Thought is energy, but in another form.  Scientists have been able to monitor brainwave activity for quite some time through EEG machines and most recently through CAT scans and MRI‘s, so we already know the brain has the capacity to produce it’s own vibrations and energy patterns.  It controls our bodily functions and sends electrical impulses to our muscles which allow us to walk and talk.  The brain has even been known to control computers, remotely control televisions (through special electronic interpreting devices) as well as biofeedback devices.  I know this is all rather simple, but we aren’t here for a biology lecture, we’re just taking a moment to refresh our minds on the rudimentary concepts of the brain as an energy producer.

Why then is it a stretch for some people to recognize that the thoughts we manifest in our minds can and do leave our brains and bodies and travel through space to their intended destinations?  After all, energy is mass in motion (remember e=mc²?)

So here we are.  Thoughts can leave the mind and travel.  (I know it was such a circuitous route getting here, but…)

Think about this for a moment.  If you send out a loving thought to a loved one, what do you think the possible reaction might be from that loved one?  Chances are they are going to feel loved or something similar.  But what happens if you send out hateful or destructive thoughts to someone; it probably will not be pleasant.  Are the results either way going to be instant?  Chances are they will not be instant, but they can, and often do have lingering consequences, both positive and negative, for both the producer of the thoughts and the person at whom the thoughts are directed.  The negative repercussions of negative thoughts is continued feelings of  anger with the possibility of escalation, and for the positive thoughts, continued  feelings of peace and tranquility with the possibility of reciprocity.

A person may be able to mask their true feelings and thoughts from other people, but they can never, and I do mean never mask their true feelings or intentions from themselves and so one way or another, their thoughts will eventually make themselves manifest in the oddest of ways; but that’s another topic for another day.

Now, imagine for a moment that you are sending a barrage of thoughts to a person or group of people.  Someone else begins thinking along the same lines as you and starts sending the same thoughts.  Then more people join in and do the same thing.  Soon you have hundreds of people thinking the same thoughts directed at the same person, or group of people.  Can you honestly say those thoughts won’t have some sort of reaction or impact.  What if those thoughts are negatively charge, or in other words, are hateful and wish only negative things.  The results?  I’m afraid to even think of what the consequences could be to such destructiveness and divisiveness, and I truly feel sorry for the person at the other end of those thoughts; not the receiver, but the sender.  Their life must be so totally miserable for them to wish harm on another person.  The receiver can and will recover, but the sender…  …theirs is a truly horrific world of violence and hatred.

Likewise the person who sends loving and compassionate thoughts lives in exactly the same type of world and are able to see the delicate boundaries between health and dis-ease.

Regardless of the how and why, the end result of sending thoughts to another can be something either pleasant or destructive for both the sender and receiver.  If we establish a positive way of thinking within ourselves, we can overcome any obstacle no matter the size, but if we maintain a negative vision of ourselves and/or the world around us, then we perpetuate, and even set ourselves up for continued negativity.  What would you rather have in your lives?

And let’s be clear here, thinking negative thoughts for a positive goal or action is still a negative thought no matter how you cloud the subject.  As I said, you might be able to fool those around you, but you can never fool yourself.  A negative thought is a negative though no matter the intention behind the negative thought.

So, think positively about your life and your life situations and continue your growth.  You’ll be glad you did!

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Coins and banknotes

There is a lot of discussion over what is fair pricing and what constitutes highway robbery.  “Time is money“, and “there is value to service” are just a few of the things which in my opinion keep people from reaching their full potential, but there is some truth in what is being said.  They key is figuring out what is too much and what is enough.

I am a full time Reiki practitioner and while I do not live high off the hog, I am not hurting either.  I do not gouge my clients because there is simply no need to do so.  When I taught in a college, I received about $30.00 an hour, as a Reiki practitioner I make anywhere between $45.00 and $65.00 depending on the situation, and for teaching, I make about the same, but I teach multiple students at once to help keep costs down for the students.

But the question has come up, how does one find value in a thing, and does one have to charge the same amount as others charge?  Does one have to charge at all?  Is there a value for a thing other than financial?  And should monetary gain be one’s only motivation, or even THE motivation in anything we do?

Sure, I have to pay my electric bill, my mortgage, and buy groceries, but do I have to go out and gouge people, and is gouging here, the same as gouging somewhere else in the country?

There are bound to be varying pay schedules everywhere.  There are going to be those who charge very high amounts and those who won’t charge anything.   The point is that we each have different ways of doing things.

There are also going to be those who do things purely for monetary means and their rates will be purposefully inflate.  In the realm of healing though, one has to wonder what type of healing they are going to provide; the cheapest so they get a higher return, or good quality healing commiserate with their fees?

If I put this into a different perspective, I’m only charging what I charge because the Reiki community has told me, and everyone else, that if I charge a low rate, I must not be any good, or must not give my full attention to the session. How sad is it, that I can not even choose my own rates because a community forces such exclusivity?

I think I rather like the idea of empowering others to take responsibility for their own health, and so I’m going to charge fairly.  I do not believe I should price gouge just because everyone else does, or just because Massage Therapists the same amount.  Folks, Massage Therapists do a whole lot more than I do during a session!!!!  What they do is physically exhausting!  What I do should never make me tired because I am not supposed to use my own energy, but instead use the Reiki energy available to all people!!!

Besides…  isn’t price gouging illegal and unethical?   $30.00 to about $70.00 seems fair to me.  More than that and people seem to be taking advantage of others and situations!  I think I’m going to reexamine my price structure, and drop my prices considerably.

Our industry should not be about the prestige, or the money!  It’s about the healing we help others realize!

Maybe it’s time for standardization in the Reiki community.  Maybe it’s time for licensure and enforcing Ethical standards!  It truly is time to get rid of ego and politics and return to the healing aspect of our work!

When ego goes, Reiki flows!

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Beam of electrons moving in a circle

The conservation of energy is one of the fundamental principles of physics.  In essence it states, that energy cannot be created or destroyed with one exception, nuclear reactions where mass (something physical) is turned into pure energy, and even that has only been seen in the center of stars and in nuclear reactors (and science fiction programs like the “transporter” in “Star Trek“.)  This makes the law read: energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be transformed from one state to another.  But then the law is stating physical matter is energy, but in another form.

In fact, in physics and chemistry, matter exhibits both wave-like and particle-like properties, the so-called wave–particle duality which allows for mass, or physicality to be energy, just not in a particular form we are used to.  We are used to the idea of energy beams like bolts of lightening, or as in plasma globes, but even movement is a form of energy.  For our purposes here, we need a common ground, so for the moment let’s agree that all things are made up of energy particles, electrons, neutrons, quarks, and so on which define us all as different forms of energy.  You are energy and your atoms, protons, and so on have coalesced to make you, mine to make me, and so on and so forth so that all we see, feel, hear, taste, and smell become differing aspects of energy.

I’m sure there are others who can explain it better than I, and there will be those with differing opinions, but the fact remains, we are all made up of energy which will one day transform into something else once our bodies have ceased functioning.  It sounds cold and analytical, but let’s see this all the way through before we start putting on our jackets or reaching for our security blankets.

Souls

But what happens to us?  I don’t mean the physical body, I mean our personalities, our individualities, that which makes each of us unique.  Is there more to us than our physicality that survives and moves on to another form of existence?  Scientists can map our brains and watch how the brain interprets different stimuli, and even the creation of memories.

The human brain is perhaps the most complex of organs, boasting between 50-100 billion nerve cells or neurons that constantly interact with each other. These neurons ‘carry’ messages through electrochemical processes; meaning, chemicals in our body (charged sodium, potassium and chloride ions) move in and out of these cells and establish an electrical current.  Together, these processes make up everything we do, think, feel emotionally, and even our personalities.  Our brain is such a complex structure with so much going on all at once.  Not only do our brains think, remember, and adjust, but it also controls our entire bodily functions; all at the same time.

As was already mentioned scientists have, for a long time now, been able to monitor brainwave patterns and responses to various stimuli.  They are able to map feelings, thoughts, memories, and everything else we can dream up (literally and figuratively.)  All of this however, does nothing to explain what happens to us when we die.  We all know our bodies will decay, but is there more than just our bodies?  Is there more to our being than our physical existence?

An Accelerator event

If we were only our physical existence, then we would be different beings every 7 or so years as our  atoms in our bodies are almost entirely replaced every seven years. Apart from a few aspects of the neurological system, the physical components of the body are continuously being regenerated.  Do you have complete personality changes every 7 years?  Do you become an entirely different person that no one ever knew before?  No, but more than that  practically and legally speaking, we know this is not true. Our entire legal system is based on the concept that we do not change our persona and that our identity remains fixed over time.  If you were merely a physical presence, then legally you couldn’t be held accountable for a crime you committed in the past. There have been science fiction movies where defendants have claimed they didn’t do it because they were not the same person they were physically and the person who committed that crime had in fact disappeared a long time ago.  No reasonable judge would or could ever accept such a defense.  There must be something non-physical which accounts for the constant in our lives.

We are speaking here of the soul, the permanent identity of the individual, the most basic common denominator.  Our souls are able to connect to everything around us, seen and unseen.  It is a cohesive force which binds our person-hood to our physical bodies.  In Energywork, we refer to this force, this constant as the Universal Life Force Energy, or simply the ULF, and we further believe that this force permeates everything and everyone around us.  While there is no empirical proof of the existence of a soul, there are studies which have found that people remember personal details of their past which can lead to discovery of documents, items, or even entire family trees.  Studies have also been conducted on what is now known as a phantom wave which show up during some brain scans, but so far, scientists are unable to identify the wave.

So if the possibility exists that we are more than the sum of our physicality and that we may in fact have a soul, where do we go when we die?

On the rare occasions where I have been in the presence of someone who has died, I have personally noticed the difference in there being.  One moment they, the person who is transforming, is there and then the next, it is literally an empty vessel.

There is one simple and astounding fact about death: we have no proof, empirical or otherwise, which suggests we simply cease existing.  There is no proof to the contrary either, but the point is that death is limitless.  If indeed we have souls which are connected to the great Universal Life Force, then I for one like the idea that I return to a state of pure existence, unencumbered by dogmatic rules and regulations where I am free to express my individuality and can share my existence with other souls, or energy-beings.  But let’s be perfectly clear here, no one has ever died, then sat down with Larry King, or Jay Leno to discuss what being dead is like.

I personally like the concept that we return to the Universal Life Force and we incorporate our experience with the other ‘souls’ who have gone before us, and will come after us.  But here is something else to think about with regards to the soul: if we are made up of energy (as discussed above), then we have always existed, just not in this form, and so too have our souls.  What have we been doing all this time before our existence on this world?  Where has our soul been, and what about all the other living energies out there?  Perhaps the truth of the matter is that we are everything!  At some point we are the trees, the grass, the animals and birds, the water and everything around us and we experience them on life at a time.  Yes, I think I like that thought!

There are so many different dimensions in our own universe and we are incapable of exploring what is beyond our universe.  For all we know there are millions of universes, just as there are millions of galaxies.  Our science is incomplete and has no way of explaining what it can not examine.  Our scientific laws are based on limitations and fear, but one thing remains: there is a cohesive force in this Universe which binds us together as individuals sharing life together.

As difficult as this is going to be to hear, it must be said.  Death is immaterial.  I say this because we are going to die whether we like it or not.  Our time on this world will come to an end and there is not thing one any of us can do to avoid the great change.  Rather than focus on what we are beyond this life, or where we go when we die, focus instead on who you are in this life, how you are as a person to others around you, and having a great time in the here and now.

Death should be a brain fart: you know it’s going to happen, and it could be silent and pass easily, or it could be loud and explosive.  Either way, enjoy what you have now before you get to that point!  You are in the here and now!  Be who you are to the best of your ability and have fun in the process!  You never know if you will be that blade of grass that gets shat upon in your next existence.

Peace to All,
K

The End of the Day

At the end of the day, we are all the same.
At the end of the day, we are all different.
At the end of the day, we are everything.
At the end of the day, we are nothing.

At the end of the day, we are…

There is seldom, if ever, a true example of individual-ness, and independence is only an allusion created by those who wish to control and manipulate.  We are all bound, and unbound, inexplicably to one another and to everything around us.  We exist together in a sea of ideas and perceptions built up by millions of years of cellular memories, and destroyed by those who seek to force control over everything, and nothing.

At the end of the day, we perceive that which we can not comprehend, and ignore that which we fully understand at the depths of our cores.

At the end of the day, we return to a natural state of …

being.

(The following is copyrighted by Kenneth J. Nelan and may not be reproduced without written permission of the author. To obtain permission, please visit http://www.sacredwandering.com/contact.html)

Tibetan names of god

(To be read with a very open mind.)

It was the middle of the night when this particular call came.  I had more or less given up on the concept of meditating everyday at the same time for the same amount of time.  Either I am just not as disciplined as others or I am not programmed that way.  I’ve found that for me personally I am more or less called to the need to meditate.  It can be at any time, night or day, and when it comes, I find time to still myself as soon as possible.

That particular night I had been tossing and turning, trying to still my mind enough to slip into the sweet ecstasy of sleep and letting go of the world around me so I could be refreshed the next morning with no knowledge what-so-ever of the mental events of the night.  That one particular night, sleep simply was not an option.

As I lumbered out of bed still lost in the fog of sleep, “It” suddenly hit me, not the cedar chest at the end of the bed, but the need to go into my own thoughts and my own mind to find what was making me restless.  I was experiencing a call to meditation.

As I began searching for the seed which had suddenly sprouted in my mind, I began seeing a tree, with exposed roots as if it was hanging in mid air, floating in front of me, beckoning me.  As I approached I noticed there was a pool of water several feet beneath the roots of the tree, and above it was another pool of water.  I have come to understand that to me, water is an expression of life as is a tree, so the thought running through my mind was, “hmm… life giving life to life.”

As my meditation was coming to an end, I heard a voice as clear and sound as if someone was standing right next to me.  It stated without pause or hesitation, “I am the creator of all, but I was created by all that has ever been, or will ever be.”  My eyes flew open and the meditation ended.  It was unusual for me to hear a voice during a meditation and was rather unnerving.   I tried to convincing myself I fell asleep and it was all just a dream.  But as I do with most of my discovery meditations I wrote it all down for later processing.

The next day I couldn’t get the thought out of my mind.  I couldn’t stop thinking.  Perhaps I’d been too focused on my work and needed a break, or maybe I was just having an energy-worker crisis and needed to lay off being a practitioner for a while.  No matter what I thought though, that one phrase kept nagging at me, but I just couldn’t get over the paradox of life giving life to life.  In my mind there had to be a beginning and an end.

At one point I came to a sort of understanding of my meditation.  I thought that since it is a paradox, it had to be true, but how can such a thing be true.  I seemed to be fighting the concept that God could be something which was itself created.  “Whoa! Where did that come from?”, I thought. Up until that very moment, I had not equated the quote with the God, but suddenly it was there; the carrot at the end of the stick leading the horse to water.  Everything created that which creates everything.  It’s so simple and so perfect that I just couldn’t get over the fact that it was true.

out of time

This seemingly contradictory thought had a purpose which struck at the very core of my being.  How do we know for a fact God exists?  We can never truly know a thing despite what many “faithful” people claim.  There is simply no way to know, however, we take on faith, or we trust that a supernatural being exists and created everything we know.  What this meditation was doing for me was connecting another dot I hadn’t thought of before.  What if the God concept was the very same thing as the energy concept?  What if there was no difference between the Universal Light Force (Energy) and God?  Scientifically we know energy can neither be created nor destroyed.  We know we are all bound together with everything in our known Universe and that there is a force which permeates everything around us and connects us one to another with our surroundings and all of existence.

Since I am unwilling to give up my belief in the Divine, then it stands to reason, for me anyway, that the very energy I work with day in and day out IS the Divine in which I believe since it has existed, and continues to exist beyond time, and without limit.

When I work with energy through Reiki, Intuitive Energywork, Thought Work, or any of the other myriads of methodologies and modalities, I am in essence working with the Divine: I am touching the Divinity of being within each and every one of my clients.  When seen in that light or from that perspective then each and every interaction with my clients becomes a sacred event where trust and fellowship are shared without exchanging a single word, and where creation and healing are experienced with every breath.

Who is to say whether or not we each experience the Divine presence through our clients?  Perhaps that is the very lesson we are on this earth to learn: to experience the Divinity of individual being through those around us, and to see we are all equal, and as such, equally capable of carrying the Divinity of being within ourselves.

The next time you reach out to your client for Massage, Energywork, or other Bodywork, realize you are communing with a created, and creator being.

May The Light Of All Shine With Each Of You!

K