Movin' on up . . .

Well, sideways, maybe. My new blog reiki4writers is moving to its own domain name. Please stop by and take a look around. I've started a series on the chakras. Please leave me a comment, if you like.

Just so's you know

Lesi and I have become Young Living distributors. Although they are known best for remarkable therapeutic grade essential oils, they also manufacture health supplements, skin care products and a host of other items. You can check them out on their website. If you want to order, you'll need a distributor number. Ours is 1100505.

From time to time we'll post info about YL products we think you can use. We're just learning about the benefits of aromatherapy ourselves, we can learn together. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to comment here or e-mail us at our new addy reiki.sisters@yahoo.com.

Here's one of their latest commercials for Sleep Essence.

Love, love, love . . .

Love is a force like gravity or electricity. It is used to heal anything. All have the ability to use it, but not the capacity. It is a potential for all, but beliefs decide when and if someone can use their soul power. The soul creates the body it inhabits. It is extremely powerful and not limited to time and space. It is godlike in a smaller sphere, your higher self. Souls can operate on many levels and in many dimensions. The body also has power but only operates at this time in the third dimension. When the soul operates through the body then "miracles" occur. One can increase the probability of miracles by consciously allowing and encouraging Soul power. The body must be trained to handle this type of energy or it will cease to function. This is best done using several increments over an extended period of time. It becomes a discipline as many ancient societies have found, and established. Yogis, monks of many religions, including Christianity, have found this to be so.

There are also other ways such as reiki to assist one in becoming consciously the higher self while incarnated. With each attunement and each use of the reiki energy the practitioner is able to hold and manipulate more Love. Ths not only changes the consciousness but the physical body in ways that doctors are not able to detect at this time. Humans are moving to an evolution where all will be able to handle more Light and Love. This is the ascension looked at from a different angle. This energy is doing incredible things at this time on our planet. Love is pouring in and the planet and everything on it is changing. Enjoy this time of birth. We are going through labor and it is expected but no one knows what the outcome will be. We have prepared for eons for this time. Enjoy it. Wallow in it. Love it. Do not fear it.

It's amazing what you find hanging out on your own blog

For a while now, I've had a reiki news widget on the sidebar. I actually looked at it today and found this great article on ten things you should consider when picking a reiki master with whom to study. The article begins thusly:

With the number of teachers, trainings, and institutions teaching Reiki, interested apprentices are at a loss as to where and who to enroll under in order to receive the Reiki attunements necessary to practice the art. It is also quite hard to find which Reiki institutions and Reiki masters are truly qualified in initiating new learners. For students, finding the right master is crucial. They've got to find that person who has the energy to bring them exactly what they need and expect from Reiki.

If you're looking for a Reiki Master and are willing to enroll in a Reiki school, here are the things that you have to know before enlisting:

I would disagree that the symbols are the most important aspect of reiki training, but aside from that, it's pretty darn good reading. Find the rest of the article here.

Palin Pall

I can't believe it's been so long since I've posted. I must do better. I've been so busy with attunements and classes that I haven't had time. In the meantime, here's a sane viewpoint on the coming election taken from Deepak Chopra's blog. Enjoy!


"Obama and the Palin Effect"

Sometimes politics has the uncanny effect of mirroring the national psyche even when nobody intended to do that. This is perfectly illustrated by the rousing effect that Gov. Sarah Palin had on the Republican convention in Minneapolis this week. On the surface, she outdoes former Vice President Dan Quayle as an unlikely choice, given her negligent parochial expertise in the complex affairs of governing. Her state of Alaska has less than 700,000 residents, which reduces the job of governor to the scale of running one-tenth of New York City . By comparison, Rudy Giuliani is a towering international figure. Palin's pluck has been admired, and her forthrightness, but her real appeal goes deeper.

She is the reverse of Barack Obama, in essence his shadow, deriding his idealism and exhorting people to obey their worst impulses . In psychological terms the shadow is that part of the psyche that hides out of sight, countering our aspirations, virtue, and vision with qualities we are ashamed to face: anger, fear, revenge, violence, selfishness, and suspicion of "the other." For millions of Americans, Obama triggers those feelings, but they don't want to express them. He is calling for us to reach for our higher selves, and frankly, that stirs up hidden reactions of an unsavory kind. (Just to be perfectly clear, I am not making a verbal play out of the fact that Sen. Obama is black. The shadow is a metaphor widely in use before his arrival on the scene.) I recognize that psychological analysis of politics is usuallynot welcome by the public, but I believe such a perspective can behelpful here to understand Palin's message. In her acceptance speechGov. Palin sent a rousing call to those who want to celebrate theirresistance to change and a higher vision.

Look at what she stands for:
--Small town values -- a denial of America 's global role, a return to petty, small-minded parochialism.
--Ignorance of world affairs -- a repudiation of the need to repair America 's image abroad.
--Family values -- a code for walling out anybody who makes a claim for
social justice. Such strangers, being outside the family, don't need to be heeded.
--Rigid stands on guns and abortion -- a scornful repudiation that these issues can be negotiated with those who disagree.
--Patriotism -- the usual fallback in a failed war.
--"Reform" -- an italicized term, since in addition to cleaning out corruption and excessive spending, one also throws out anyone who doesn't fit your ideology.

Palin reinforces the overall message of the reactionary right, which has been in play since 1980, that social justice is liberal-radical, that minorities and immigrants, being different from "us" pure American types, can be ignored, that progressivism takes too much effort and globalism is a foreign threat. The radical right marches under the banners of "I'm all right, Jack," and "Why change? Everything's OK as
it is." The irony, of course, is that Gov. Palin is a woman and a reactionary at the same time. She can add mom to apple pie on her resume, while blithely reversing forty years of feminist progress. The irony is superficial; there are millions of women who stand on the side of conservatism, however obviously they are voting against their own
good. The Republicans have won multiple national elections by raising shadow issues based on fear, rejection, hostility to change, and narrow-mindedness.

Obama's call for higher ideals in politics can't be seen in a vacuum. The shadow is real; it was bound to respond. Not just conservatives possess a shadow -- we all do. So what comes next is a contest between the two forces of progress and inertia. Will the shadow win again, or has its furtive appeal become exhausted? No one can predict. The best thing about Gov. Palin is that she brought this conflict to light,
which makes the upcoming debate honest. It would be a shame to elect another Reagan, whose smiling persona was a stalking horse for the reactionary forces that have brought us to the demoralized state we are in. We deserve to see what we are getting, without disguise.

'Nuff said!

Hot fun in the summertime

Just so you know, Elyse and I are both busy learning, writing and in general preparing for fall to arrive. I stumbled upon this fun reiki game and thought it might be perfect for summer fun. Although it claims to be a search game, it's really more like Reiki hangman. Hope you enjoy it. To play, go here.

Do we take ourselves too seriously?

There's been a lot of talk on one of the lists I'm on about Kathie Lee Gifford and some horribly offensive thing she said on TV. Okay, actually I only read one post before I dashed off to Youtube to see what the heck was going on. Honestly, I was expecting something reallty bad considering that Gifford isn't opposed to putting her foot in her mouth on occassion. Here's a clip of what she said:



That's it? Dirty, nasty pagans? To me, that's the equivalent of being called a doodyhead in the playground. Should it have been said? No. Does it merit working ourselves into a frenzy? In my opinion, no. Ssometimes you've got to consider the source.

Here's what bugged me--the third choice was pagans believED that, as if all the pagans that ever were are extinct--or that whatever they believed had been proven to be wrong. That's more bothersome to me than anybody's big mough since you assume the producers are supposed to be dealing with facts not commentary.