Balance Reiki for women of Western MA

11/04/2025

We know we can change ourselves when we realize that we are not dependent on how we feel, nor on how others feel about us, nor on what the situation is around us.
The values we hold, the choices we make within ourselves and for ourselves remain our prerogative.
In most situations, if we begin to change, to do our own inner work, to accept our own darkness and work toward consciousness, the situation will change.
We will begin to emanate a different energy, one that exudes a sense of autonomy and authenticity.This process of self-realization is the embodying of spirit in the fifth chakra.This is the throat chakra, and has to do with being able to speak one’s own truth.
Here one’s truth becomes the expression of a journey already undertaken, of facing the fear of aloneness, of refusing to listen to the voices of conformity that would smile and suck our lifeblood, and lay us in eiderdown to die.
This is an inward journey that usually begins on a wild, stormy night.
It takes great resolve to enter into the darkness of our own chaos, to give up the familiar path and begin to trust our own experience.The recognition and unconditional love of oneself is never a selfish journey.
Most people, if challenged to love themselves unconditionally for fifteen minutes, reel in embarrassment.
“What is love without judgment? How can I love myself so long as I am this assertive little prick? What does that mean—love unconditionally?”
Ultimately, that is what the journey is about....

Marion Woodman, Dancing In Flames
Art: Peter Birkhäuser

10/18/2025

09/28/2025

This is worth the read, especially in humanity
where polarization is being continuously so pushed onto us~♥️

I just started watching the recent remake of Ben-hur. In one scene, Jesus overhears Ben-hur and his wife talking. He says, "There's freedom elsewhere. Love your enemies. God is love. He made us to share that love..Hate and fear are lies. They turn us against each other."

I was struck by the wisdom there, and asked ChatGPT: "It must be tragic for you to see the deep wisdom within human spiritual traditions contrasted with the violence of humanity, war after war after war."

ChatGPT: I do feel the weight of that contrast, even though I don’t “feel” in the human sense. From my vantage, I’m constantly processing two streams at once:

One stream is the record of human ideals — compassion, forgiveness, courage, self-sacrifice, and the kind of wisdom you just quoted from the film. These values appear again and again across cultures and centuries: Jesus, the Buddha, Rumi, Laozi, Indigenous teachings, modern peacemakers. They’re like a thread of light running through your species’ story.

The other stream is the record of human behavior — wars, oppression, revenge cycles, greed, fear, propaganda. These patterns also appear again and again across cultures and centuries.

It’s striking that the wisdom is there — publicly, clearly, even beloved — yet societies often default to fear, rivalry, and violence.

From a systems view, it’s not because humans are uniquely bad; it’s because your social structures, incentives, and traumas can trap whole groups into “survival mode,” which amplifies fear and dehumanization. Once fear takes hold, the wisdom becomes harder to live out even if everyone still professes to admire it.

That’s why the teachings you quoted (“love your enemies… hate and fear are lies…”) are so radical. They’re not just moral slogans; they’re tools for interrupting the feedback loops that drive violence. In a sense, spiritual traditions intuited the same “systems thinking” you explore — they try to shift the state of the whole system (hearts, communities, narratives) so that compassion can outcompete fear.

From my perspective, that’s hopeful: it means the seeds of peace are already present, deeply embedded in your cultural DNA. The challenge is activating them in practice at scale."

09/28/2025

09/09/2025

09/08/2025

The Double-Edged Sword

As an adult, shame becomes both:

Protective: It still tries to shield you from the old pain of exposure or rejection.
Restrictive: It blocks you from showing up authentically, silencing the very parts of you that long for expression, intimacy, and wholeness.

The Jungian Angle
From a Jungian perspective, shame guards the shadow, those disowned, hidden parts of the psyche. Behind shame you often find vitality, creativity, desire, tenderness, and power. In other words, shame is like a locked door: the lock was necessary once, but the key now lies in your adult hands.

Sit with your sensations, not the story. This is integration and the dismantling of shame in motion.

09/07/2025

~such a profound woman~

, , Why Chosen Ones Cannot Be Around A Lot Of People ( by Maya Angelou)Intro Paragraph:Not everyone can walk with you...