Looking Back and Moving Forward with Reiki

Tonight I was reading an article written by Mari Hall and her experience of using Reiki in her life. Daily it seems that we hear of others who are experiencing emotional, physical, mental and spiritual distress. There are many alternative and complimentary modalities that can assist when times are rough.

Tonight on the news they showed a young mother of two children who was diagnosed with colon cancer that had spread to other organs. Her doctors did not give her much hope. She asked about complimentary treatments and found that Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Hospital located in Seattle has a program that does include complimentary treatments to her regular Western medicine regime. They offer yoga, massage, exercise, nutritional counseling and I bet various energy healing techniques. This woman has reported since she has been doing the complimentary practices, the tumors are shrinking and her lungs are now clear.

Here is Mari's story........

Looking Back and Moving Forward with Reiki

by Mari Hall

This is an excerpt from the complete article that appears in the Spring edition of the Reiki News Magazine.

I recently took a few days to reflect on the events of 2007 as well as how my life was before and has been after Reiki. Have you also had thoughts like that or found yourself saying, “Before Reiki I was…, and after Reiki I am…?”

Before Reiki I thought the world was harsh and hard to live in. I had decided it was not safe to show emotions, certainly that love would hurt, and the people in your life would never be there for you. I lived life closed, depressed and isolated. I was an outsider looking in at life and watching other people. I knew it was not safe to participate in life because you could not trust anyone…after all with my track record my mind was firmly made up.

I had few close friends in school and spent much of my time in my room painting or writing in my journal. By the time I was 37 I had two failed marriages and had spent enough time spent in the hospital with various illnesses to know things just did not come easy and that I did not deserve any better. I was told by my doctors that by the time I was forty, I would be totally paralyzed and in a wheelchair.

In 1980, I participated in a Reiki course and started to give myself Reiki. The paralysis in my body disappeared, but most importantly, I felt that I had touched my soul and awakened from a long sleep. I experienced a return to harmony on all levels and a deep peace.

Continuing to use Reiki as a means for inner harmony, I began taking self-development courses to heal my past. This helped me to forgive and move on. Reiki was my constant companion through that period. It still is. Since that first day with Reiki so many opportunities have been given to me, chances to say yes instead of no to life. Life has not always been rosy and all my problems did not cease to exist after Reiki. In fact it seems at some level that the heat was turned up. Reiki continues to help bring things up to heal physically and emotionally. I have been challenged to live my life in the present moment, to be true to myself, honest, and fearless. Fear-less meaning that I have come to realize that what I fear most I bring to myself. Reiki helped me change my belief structure. Feeling the way I did before Reiki became uncomfortable. Fearing shut down my energy; Faith, which is the opposite, opens me up, frees the soul and fans the flame of love in my heart.

Reiki was the beginning of my spiritual journey. There was a time when I thought I had taken that first class only to learn some Reiki techniques that might help heal me, but what actually happened was that Reiki supported me on my return to wholeness of body, mind and spirit. Every step I take with Reiki confirms the truth of this. It is a never-ending process of discovering myself, and indeed, a spiritual journey unlike anything I could ever have imagined. I have heard Grace defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. At times I did not even realize that parts of me were not balanced until they were harmonized and I felt different… certainly more alive and filled with grace.

I know without a doubt that if I had not taken that first step with Reiki my life would be very different today. I see parallel lives: on one side “without Reiki” there is a lonely woman in a wheelchair all dried up with no life in her; on the other, “with Reiki”…me as I am. And the two are vastly different. Before Reiki, I would never have quit my job and flown to Europe, much less found myself teaching with the passion of an awakened heart in the UK and throughout Europe. I had been lit from the inside. I now cared not only for myself, I but could see how connected I was to others and how interconnected we all are. I saw and experienced a bigger picture that was beautiful. . . . . .

Virtual Therapy for the Soul

Has Anyone Told You?

A beautiful movie to remind us that our piece of the puzzle completes the whole. Thank you for BEING that piece!

Inspiring Quote "My Name Is I Am"

I AM

I was regretting the past

and fearing the future.

Suddenly my Lord was speaking:

"My name is I AM"

He paused.

I waited. He continued,

"When you live in the past

with its mistakes and regrets,

it is hard.

I am not there.

My name is not I WAS.

When you live in the future,

with its problems and fears,

it is hard. I am not there.

My name is not I WILL BE.

When you live in this moment

it is not hard.

I am here,

My name is I AM."

Helen Mallicoat

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Today I found myself singing this song, and then about an hour later I heard it on the radio with a new version. Looks like our program has got an upgrade! Thought you might enjoy this rendition of, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."

Munay-Ki (The Hero's Journey)

Open up to your luminous light!

Munay-Ki
The Hero's Journey
Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D.

The Munay-Ki are the nine great rites of initiation of the medicine way. The word munay means “I love you” or “BE AS THOU ART.” The Munay-Ki are the nine gates that heal us and transform our human energy field into that of homo luminous.The prophecies of the ancient Americas speak about a new human appearing on the planet – one who lives free of fear and resides in his or her transcendent nature. The Munay-Ki are the codes for the new human. They are delivered in the form of energetic transmissions. The ninth rite, the “Creator Rite” was transmitted for the first time in the summer of 2006 at the Holy Mountains in the Andes. The nine initiations of the Munay-Ki have only been available until recently to the high wisdom keepers of the Americas.

To watch the short video's presented by Dr. Villoldo, click here.

Crescent Moon Alert

April 4, 2008: The date was March 8th, less than a month ago. In a remote corner of Kansas, the sun was going down and the deepening twilight beckoned to photographer Doug Zubenel driving through the countryside. Something photogenic, he knew, was about to happen.

He turned his car onto an unfamiliar dirt road and proceeded into the sunset. "The brilliant sun did not allow me to see the cement railings on a bridge over a small creek. The next thing I knew, I had totaled my car!" Zubenel emerged from the wreckage, phoned 911, and while he was waiting for the tow truck to arrive, took the picture:

"It was a beautiful 1-day old crescent moon," says Zubenel. "It looked a lot better than my car!"
This perilous scene is about to repeat itself—three times.

To continue with the story read here.

The Spontaneous Healing of Belief with Gregg Braden

Gregg Braden on video discussing information from his newest book, "The Spontaneous Healing of Belief." Worth watching and sharing.

Spring Cleaning - The Lightworker's Way

Oh, what a beautiful day we awoke to this morning. It is actually sunny and warm in the Pacific Northwest! Mt. Rainier is glistening with snow, daffodils are in full bloom, and I decided to do some serious Lightwork today. Armed and dangerous with my advanced taser can, look out world your getting a thorough cleanse!