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Archived issues of this newsletter are available for viewing at http://www.reikione.com/cgi-bin/news.cgi . Traveling south today, my husband and I drove through gently rolling hills and trees touched with the colors of red, gold, orange, and green. Scattered on the ground and swirling in the air were these same colors as the leaves danced on the gentle Indian Summer breeze. I imagine sometimes this is what Reiki is like, if we could see it. Swirling color, sparkling and dancing, moving in rhythm with the Universe. When I teach, I discuss with my students the process of channeling the energy . . . the need to step aside, become the silent observer, and just let the energy flow. Like the leaves moving on the wind with no help from us, so does Reiki come through without our assistance. All that's required is the desire to share this beautiful gift . . . the Universe does the rest. Comments or thoughts? Would you like to be a guest columnist? Email Teri at teri@reikione.com. Elena: Wanted to share--when asked what reiki is, I always reply as my friend replied to me--It's the Force! I can't imagine a better way to get the essential Reiki across to another person. Not everyone knows about chakras, ley lines, meridians or energy work, but hundred of millions of people respond to the memory of Yoda's beautiful and moving speech to Luke Skywalker about the essence of the Force and what it means. George Lucas was on to something...and I do believe he prepared people for what is coming with his lovely story. Edward & Christine: My wife and I are both Reiki Master's and I just wanted to make a observation. Even before i knew what I was doing was still helping people with love from my heart through each person I have ever worked on. If its symbols,stones,prayers,toning,butterflies, The bottom line is that energy work is our connection with THE CREATOR THROUGH THE LOVE IN OUR HEART transferred to the person animal or item we are working on. I know of many of my past lives and this is great to have a reference point. In the now of energies as long as it is LOVE based its absolutely in line with god. If the master's that are teaching in solely the symbolic method of Reiki disagree with me I am truly sorry. I cheer from the highest peak of Kilimanjaro for the energy work that is going on. I have seen great miracles and Love the work my wife and I are doing........Three more words of the healing agent. GOD IS LOVE Elena, on an earlier Discussion: relax Karen! Why do you assume what comes into your head does more harm then good? Are the voices instructing you to kill puppies? No? Then you are okay! Reiki just came into Usui's head, and that turned out okay! When I was attuned, a symbol came to me that really seems to help me with Distance Reiki--and that was before I was level 11...so hey, that is what intuition is for! What you are doing for the Earth, she appreciates, and I wouldn't put it past her to be whispering suggestions in your ear. Listen, and she speaks. Lynn: reading about Linda, please let her know i found a doctor in new york for a relative of mine, a gift from God, i firmly believe was to research illnesses & help find doc's that truly 'control' the disease or ailment so one can live a normal life i do not pretend to be a doctor or play the role of one..i am the researcher..ok, enough of that. if linda is interested, a relative of mine had pcr levels in the millions & his sgot/sgpt levels, which are the enzyme levels that affect the liver the higher Comments? Suggestions? Complaints? They don't have to be about the newsletter, just about Reiki or other healing topics. Be heard! Send them in! teri@reikione.com Tina: I'm so glad I happened upon your newsletter, in what has been a time of great change for me. I am a third-level Reiki practitioner, (although as yet I don't teach, or have a far-flung practice, I'm just a fledgling). My reiki master was Royane McFarlen of Vancouver, BC, in Canada, a truly beautiful lady who defies age and definitions. Reiki has brought me a peace of soul and a great sense of the "rightness" of my feelings, beliefs and intuitions over the years. At last I had a Have an experience you'd like to share or comments on an experience posted here? Email it to me: teri@reikione.com. Now Available! ReikiOne Reiki Manuals in a set - purchase the complete set and receive a 20% discount. Visit ReikiOne Press at http://www.reikione.com/pubs.htm for more information. If you'd like to share your teaching methods or ideas on Reiki, please send them in! teri@reikione.com. not haiku, but a poem from Heather, who shares "I wrote this in August after the husband of one of my Reiki students kept on asking "yes, but what will Reiki do for ME?!" (I'm sure you've heard that one too.) Hope you enjoy it." The Light that is Reiki Send in your Reiki Haiku today! The formula is simple - 5 syllables in line 1, 7 syllables in line 2, and 5 syllables in line 3. That's it, 3 little lines, 5-7-5. teri@reikione.com. This column features a different question each week for your musing, opinion, and response. Comments received will be published in the next issue. Last week's question came from Landy: What I would love to know is I did a Reiki 1 course and I enjoyed it tremendously. I did Reiki 1 everyday for at least 45min- 1 hour for about 6 months. I then continued to do the Reiki 2. After doing the Reiki 2 I did not feel the same intensity as I did when I was in tuned at my first Reiki class. So I stopped doing Reiki completely and started going back to my other life which is drinking, smoking, etc. I would love to start doing it again, but I do not feel that drive that I used to have, to do this. Please let me know if anyone went through this stage at all. I know we are all different, but I still would like some guidance or I would like to know is it just me and my lack of dedication? Now when I do Reiki I do not feel the tingly feeling and the heat and the coldness that I use to and it makes me feel sad that it is lost. Please can you help? White Dove: Reiki is a part of you, it has always been there and always will be, it is our life force energy and we would be dead without it. What an attunement does is open us to ease in accessing the energy and having the energy flow through us. After the attunement and with consistent use, the intensity can wear off, causing a fear that it is not working or that we have lost it somehow. What happened is that you become accustomed to working with flow of energy, it becomes part of you and is familiar. This is actually a positive sign. It does not have to be intense or strongly noticed to be helpful. What makes it work is your openness to be a channel for the loving energy. Pat: I too delighted in my Reiki 1 and practised every day, feeling the tingles, heat etc. When I did my Reiki 2 I felt - as you did - that the energy wasn't as strong. However, I carried on, practised with the symbols, used my Reiki every day in every way I could and now I firmly believe that the energy is stronger but feels different to the earlier level. For instance I now feel the energy from a small point in the centre of my palms rather than the whole hand and it is very much more concentrated. I think after the second degree attunement the changed level of the energy needs time for us to absorb it and balance ourselves again. So, you can't lose your Reiki, and if you go back to practising and using it, I'm sure you will feel the same way about it as you did before your Reiki 2. Hope this helps? JoAnn: Landy, I have a couple of questions rather than answers, did you and/or had you been giving yourself daily treatments, even for 5 min. and did you attend any Reiki shares/Circles where you could exchange with like minded souls. Just curious. Next week's question comes from Adam: A discussion on using the guidance of spirit guides, angels, ascended masters etc, in different peoples healings? Send your comments to teri@reikione.com with "Discussion" in the subject line. Have a question you'd like to ask our readers? Send it in! teri@reikione.com. If you miss answering a question from a past issue, please feel free to still send in your comments, please just reference the question you're replying to. by Linda White Dove Acknowledge your feelings about world events. It is normal to have strong reactions to what is happening in our world. It is neither healthy nor spiritual to repress/deny parts of yourself. This is what leads to war in the first place. ------------------------------------------------------------ Please send your ideas/experiences/thoughts/pitfalls on starting and maintaining a Reiki practice to teri@reikione.com. Read a good book or heard some good music, healing-wise? Write a review and I'll include it in the newsletter. Email your review to teri@reikione.com. from Jeri: I've been asked to do another radio interview about reiki and medicine. This one is with Linda Mackenzie for her show Creative Health and Spirit. It can be heard via the internet on Friday, November 14 at 7 PM Pacific time at http://www.healthylife.net . (ed. note: Jeri's website is www.TapestryOfHealing.com and she's written a great book on her experience combining Reiki and western medicine). from Violet Angel: I moderate the Healing Circle at this Spiritual Chatsite...I'd love to extend the invitation to anyone interested. (coupon is below). Where can you find Moderated Spiritual Chat? Guest Speakers and Events? Daily Hosted Chat Topics in Druidism, Christianity, Paganism, Astrology, Healing, Dream Work, Shamanism, Wicca, General Chat, Personal Philosophies and much more? GroveChat is such a place! Enjoy a free month long trial membership Teri: New at ReikiOne! Reiki Jewelry! Visit http://www.reikione.com/shop.htm to check it out. Would you like your site featured here? Just send me the URL and a brief description - teri@reikione.com. In honor of Halloween :o] An old man and woman were married for years even though they hated each other. When they had a confrontation, screams and yelling could be heard deep into the night. A constant statement was heard by the neighbors who feared the man the most. "When I die I will dig my way up and out of the grave to come back and haunt you for the rest of your life!" They believed he practiced black magic and was responsible for missing cats and dogs, and strange sounds at all hours. He was feared and enjoyed the respect it garnished. He died abruptly under strange circumstances and the funeral had a closed casket. After the burial, the wife went straight to the local bar and began to party as if there was no tomorrow. The gaiety of her actions were becoming extreme while her neighbors approached in a group to ask these questions: "Are you not afraid? Concerned? Worried? that this man who practiced black magic and stated when he died he would dig his way up and out of the grave to come back and haunt you for the rest of your life?" The wife put down her drink and said..."Let the old fart dig. I had him buried upside down." If this newsletter has been passed to on to you and you'd like to subscribe, please visit http://www.reikione.com/subscribe.htm. Please do not reply to this email. Advertisers are solely responsible for ad contents. Any listing in this newsletter does not imply an endorsement. 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Volume 3 Issue 28
Sunday, November 2, 2003
ISSN 1534-1747
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IN THIS ISSUE
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Reflection by Teri Moore, RMT & editor
Reader's Corner
Reiki Experience
Teaching Reiki
Reiki Haiku
Up for Discussion
Growing your Reiki Practice
Music/Book Review
Links of Interest
Just for Fun
Submission Guidelines
Copyrights, Disclaimers, Subscription Info
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~~Reflection~~ Teri Moore, editor & RMT
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~~Reader's Corner~~
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reason for what I had already believed in since childhood. Instinctive healings of my children, and synchronicities happenings that I had always taken for granted, fell into place. At present I am living in New Zealand, a place that resonates with spiritual power. I am continuing to learn and grow, and love to hear about what others are doing in the Reiki world.
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~~Reiki Haiku~~
With Reiki I the gates are sprung ~
The entrance to Light and Love.
The channel's cleared and energy
Comes flooding from above.
A thorough spring-clean then ensues
For Body, Mind and Soul.
Release the old, bring in the new ~
A very different role.
The days pass by, the Light shines more,
The magic starts to grow
And find its way with shimmering hues
Till life and chi just flow.
Then one day on your path you see
A bridge emerge quite clearly
To urge a deeper knowledge of
The Reiki you love dearly.
You cross that bridge to Reiki II ~
Okuden as it's known
And delve down deep inside your psyche
To thoughts and ways your own.
You pledge to conquer fear itself
In every shape and form.
To transform all your doubts and lacks
Till love becomes the norm.
As Lightworker you now begin
To work both day and night.
And all the time you're loved and held
Protected by the Light.
With passing years your Spirit soars
With ever more compassion.
The Light within you grows and grows
And Reiki is your Passion.
Again a bridge appears to you,
This time of purest white.
To take you on to Shinpiden
The Secret of the Light.
And here you find your deepest truth
The truth of who you are
Great Love and Light and Peace are you ~
A Wondrous Reiki Star.
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10 Ways To Embody Peace On Earth
Once you have acknowledged your feelings, notice where you experience them in your body. Take some time for yourself to relax into the feelings, witnessing them from a space of unconditional love. Once way to know what this feels like is to think of a young child or an animal companion. Then “transfer” your response to the emotions you are witnessing and just be. You may notice an immediate shift or it may take consistent practice. The key is to just love and observe.
Practice forgiveness. The acceptance of your own feelings opens the door to a more expansive perspective. It is the fear based need to control that has people wreak havoc on the planet and each other. People are not good or bad. We are all afraid and we all have our own responses to the fear. Forgiveness means clearing the way to respond from your own power instead of from someone else’s fear.
Discover your own way to respond to world events. We are all connected and so everything that you do no matter how seemingly insignificant or unusual makes a difference. There are as many ways to respond as there are people. You may choose responses such as letter writing or demonstrating or you may choose to try the activities in this article, witnessing world events with unconditional love, etc. The format is not as important as your intent.
Do not victimize yourself. It is easy to feel powerless and to respond from feelings of victimization, fear and anger. This only manifests more victim mentality. Notice without judgment all the situations in which you feel victimized and powerless. The activity in #2 of this article can be used to address this. Remember that we are all one and as you resolve the victim feelings you are creating space for others to do likewise.
Develop an awareness of true power. Power is a collective experience. We are all connected and therefore our choices impact the whole of creation. This makes us all very powerful co-creators! Our power is responsibility. Responsibility is the ability to respond. It is not about blame. Responsibility can be misunderstood and used in fear as a way to stay stuck or as a way to use our power more lovingly, productively and with greater ease.
Focus on the positive. Express gratitude for what is beautiful, peaceful, effective, growthful, and healing. Acknowledge people who make a difference in the world and in your life. There is so much to be joyful about! Feed this! Feel it in your body. Send it lots of love, offer it to the connectedness so it can nurture us all.
Develop your innocence, openness, sense of wonder and trust. To be jaded, resentful and over-protective is to restrict your life force energy making it difficult to access the sustenance that comes from our connection with each other. Our power is in our connectedness.
Do what you can at your own pace. Nobody is evaluating your worth based on how much you offer or how quickly. If they are, it is coming from fear anyway. Everyone is different. Take the time to nourish and replenish. Wearing yourself out- ignoring your inner peace not only depletes your resources to offer others, but since it is self victimization it detracts from the planetary peace you are striving to create. Self sacrifice is victimization of yourself and others.
If you find this article helpful, pass it on to others. I believe our shift of power from fear-based-false-power (based on feeling powerless) to that of true power (based on connectedness) is the natural result of embodying peace. Fear cannot exist in a climate that does not recognize it. Additionally as each of us embodies peace this also impacts our leaders since we are all connected. Together we are making a difference!
Linda White Dove, M. Ed. is a healing facilitator, instructor and writer with a focus on personal fulfillment as a path of peace. For information on distance instruction, healing sessions and other offerings: http://www.lindawhitedove.com and http://www.energymedicinecabinet.com
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