Day One Reiki

11/13/2023

Today's Celestial Message ❤️🌙

11/13/2023

Edit : Rational *

New Moon 🌙 - November 13th 2023

11/10/2023

10/01/2023

Happy October ❤️ New Month ❤️ New endings and new beginnings ❤️ Today is Day One ❤️

05/25/2023

It’s been a bit since my last post. I needed to take a step back from helping others so I could help myself. If you’ve taken my classes or have been one of my clients, I preach about “the great bright light within us all” and the importance of removing the things that block and dim that light. Your light is ALWAYS there within you. Remember this when everything around you seems dark. ❤️ it’s good to be back here shining my great bright light.

08/29/2022

I needed to hear this today. Maybe you do too?

Life begins at the edge of your comfort zone.
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When we confront the things that scare us - we take back our power. ⚡️
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It’s never easy - it’s not supposed to be easy - it’s supposed to be uncomfortable.
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But if you can hang in there a little bit, courage awakens. So sit with your pain, cry tears of anguish, scream at the top of your lungs, run away a few times (maybe we’ve been running away from our true nature a lot), but ultimately… take the step - you have to dip your toe in to see what you are truly afraid of.
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In the end, as Joseph Campbell wrote: the cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
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Maybe today is the day you do the difficult thing. I’m sending you love and strength.

08/18/2022

❤️do love and joy come from the same place? How do acceptance and control play a role in your ability to feel love and experience joy?

Letting go of control (or having it ripped away) helped me open to the love all around me. The late Zen teacher Charlotte Joko Beck said, 'Joy is whatever is happening, minus our opinion of it.'

"When I ended up in the hospital with kidney failure, weak and in pain, with tubes down my nose, I got into an hysterical laughing fit with my dear friend Ahmad," she continues. "I dropped my opinion about the situation, which I disliked, and found a moment of pure laughter, of joy, in the absurdity of it all. I think love and joy come from the same place — the ability to be with what is happening with an open heart and mind. So if joy is whatever is happening minus our opinion of it, maybe love is whatever is happening minus our attempt to control it.

"I realize now how much I resisted opening to what was happening to me, mostly because I didn’t want to feel the pain and fear or burden others with it," she reflects. "But in trying to control what was happening, I couldn’t be in any moment wholeheartedly. I couldn’t open to the joy and love that were already there, waiting to be received."

What are you releasing control of today?

08/07/2022

It’s a beautiful morning for a Sunday Meditation and SoundBath!

08/06/2022

The world gained a new Reiki 2 Practitioner today! Please join me in congratulating Lori Dowdy! Lori and I first met over a year ago when she booked her first Reiki session with me. Reiki had such a profound impact in her life that she decided to become a Reiki Practitioner! I am honored and blessed to have witnessed the transformative growth she’s made this past year and look forward to seeing the amazing things that are in her future.

08/04/2022

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08/02/2022

Our heaviest burdens are the ones that no one else can see. ❤️

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07/31/2022

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I have never believed that you must completely love yourself first before you can love another. I know many people who are hard on themselves, yet love their friends and family deeply and are loved in return — though they might have difficulty in receiving that love. But it’s hard to sustain love for others over the long haul until we have a sense of inner abundance and sufficiency.

When we experience inner impoverishment, love for another too easily becomes hunger: for reassurance, for acclaim, for affirmation of our worth. Feeling incomplete inside ourselves, we search for others to complete us. But the equation doesn’t work that way: we can’t gain from others what we’re unable to give ourselves.

It’s important to recognize that self-love is an unfolding process that gains strength over time, not a goal with a fixed end point. When we start to pay attention, we see that we’re challenged daily to act lovingly on our own behalf. Simple gestures of respect — care of the body, rest for the mind, and beauty for the soul in the form of music and art or nature — are all ways of showing ourselves love. Really, all of our actions — from how we respond when we can’t fit into our favorite jeans to the choice of foods we eat — can signify self-love or self-sabotage. So can the way we react when a stranger cuts us off in line, a friend does something hurtful, or we get an unwelcome medical diagnosis.

As Maya Angelou said in her book Letter to My Daughter, “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” I started meditation practice, as many do, with the need to turn around that tendency to feel reduced by life.

Still, it takes a special courage to challenge the rigid confines of our accustomed story. It’s not that easy to radically alter our views about where happiness comes from, or what brings us joy. But it’s eminently possible. We truly can reconfigure how we see ourselves and reclaim the love for ourselves that we’re innately capable of. That’s why I invite students to set out on this path in the spirit of adventure, instead of feeling that real love is a pass/fail exam that they’re scared to take.

Although love is often depicted as starry-eyed and sweet, love for the self is made of tougher stuff. It’s not a sappy form of denial. You still might feel rage, desire, and shame like everyone else in the world, but you can learn to hold these emotions in a context of wisdom.

Real love allows for failure and suffering. All of us have made real mistakes, and some of those mistakes were consequential, but you can find a way to relate to them with kindness. No matter what troubles have befallen you or what difficulties you have caused yourself or others, with love for yourself you can change, grow, make amends, and learn. Real love is not about letting yourself off the hook. Real love does not encourage you to ignore your problems or deny your mistakes and imperfections. You see them clearly and still opt to love.