Posts

Posted on

Procrastination Might Be Divine Timing

You might be like me, in that you may have put off doing something you’ve always wanted to do for weeks, months or even years. It’s tough not to be hard on yourself for procrastinating, especially in a society that is all about instantaneousness and praise for being time-efficient. However, sometimes our lack of motivation to do something is because it actually isn’t the time to do it. Divine timing might be setting things up to happen later than we think it is “supposed to be”.

For example, I am a writer and have had stories floating around in my head for years that had spiritual themes and dealt with tough issues we as a people are still dealing with today. In the last 3 years, shows with similar, although different, themes and storylines to mine have become hugely successful. The market has proved that viewers are now READY for these types of stories. Whereas years ago, in 2004, when I came up with some stories, the public would have shunned them. This year, I had the motivation to write and have written and completed 5 screenplays and will likely have 7 done before the end of the year. With all the changes happening in Hollywood with the Me Too Movement and equal pay for women, I realized that honoring my stories and honoring me as a female writer couldn’t have happened at any other time with the level of recognition and respect currently happening.

Now, I’m not saying to just always assume a lack of motivation or not making the time to complete something is a sign from the Universe that now isn’t the time. You can better clarify if something is divine timing or procrastination in the following ways:

  • Meditate
    (This will help you to connect with the truth of your situation. Meditation opens you up to possibilities, as well.)
  • Get A Reading
    (Having objective feedback by someone who is neutral will help you to gauge your situation accurately.)
  • Ask For A Sign
    (Ask your angels, spirit guides and/or deceased loved ones for a physical sign of a yes if the time is NOW or a no that it will happen later. Be specific with your signs. Let your spiritual support team know what is a YES for you and what is a NO.)
  • Pay Attention To The Sign & Guidance.
    (You must be diligent. Keep an eye out for and your ears ready to hear the sign.)
  • Acceptance & Trust
    (Denial doesn’t help you, neither does Now, you are welcome to challenge a sign by changing your mind or doing more. I would say to ask, “How can I speed this up.” for ideas on how to make your dreams come true sooner.)
  • Is It That You Don’t Have Time Or Are You Misusing Time?
    (Evaluate your time management skills and any excuses you might be using to sabotage yourself. You might want to work with a life coach, counselor or therapist to help.)
  • Truth.
    (As yourself, is it really what you want? Sometimes procrastination is the unfoldment of no longer being in harmony with a dream.)
  • Address Fear
    (Is the lack of motivation connected to fear or something else? Fear of success? Fear of failing? Journaling can also help you get to the answer to this.)
  • Just Start
    (Sometimes we don’t know if we’re procrastinating or not. In cases like this, just start without having pressure to end things at a certain time or start small. For example, if you want to write a book, perhaps start by writing a blog post.)
  • Use Divination
    (Divinations, especially cards, are known for giving objective answers when used correctly. Consult whichever divinatory tool works for you.)
Posted on

How Does Reiki Work?

Reiki is from the Japanese words “Rei” meaning “universe” and “ki” which refers to the body’s life force or energy. This Japanese healing technique has gained recent popularity, but many newcomers to the art may still be asking the essential question, “Does Reiki work?” Here is Reiki explained.

How Does Reiki Work?

During Reiki readings, a trained healer transfers their positive energy to the recipient through receptive points in the body. Reiki energy healers target the seven major chakras as well as major organs and primary meridians, or energy centers, in the body. There are more than 20 areas of the body that a Reiki practitioner can work with. The Reiki healer will usually lay their hands over these points for a period of two to five minutes. 

The patient typically lies on a table and simply relaxes during the experience. Many fall into a trancelike state and experience lucid dreaming during Reiki sessions.

What Does Reiki Do?

Reiki provides an overstressed body with a source of energy. This healing practice works by replacing negative energy with a fresh source of positive power. You may want to consider trying Reiki if you’ve been experiencing high levels of stress, chronic pain, anxiousness, tension, or depression. A trained reiki energy healer will identify areas of tension and trouble and focus their energetic work on these points.

Does Reiki Really Work?

Patients who have used Reiki report a variety of positive results which may include improved sleep, lower stress levels, and a reduction in pain or symptoms of illness. While Reiki can’t cure diseases, it’s believed to strengthen the immune system and speed the body’s natural healing process.

If you’re experiencing headaches, stomach problems, chronic pain, depression, or simply feel run down, working with a Reiki healer may help. This ancient energy healing practice is refreshing and rejuvenating for many patients.

Posted on

What Are The Benefits Of Reiki

There are many benefits of Reiki therapy, making this a positive experience for nearly any type of patient. If you’ve heard about this energy therapy and you’re wondering just what Reiki sessions are good for, read on to find out.

What Is Reiki Good For?

There are several Reiki benefits and uses. It’s been used for the relief of:

  • Anxiety
  • Pain
  • Fatigue
  • Depression symptoms
  • Headaches
  • Nausea
  • Tension
  • Insomnia

While Reiki isn’t typically used as the sole treatment option for these conditions, it can assist and is particularly effective when combined with other therapies or medications. Reiki is designed to release energy blockages that can hinder other healing efforts. By adding Reiki to your self-care regimen, you can bring more positive, healing energy into your body.

What Can Reiki Heal?

There are many Reiki healing benefits that can help your body recover from injuries and illnesses. However, Reiki itself does not heal these conditions, nor does Reiki offer massage benefits due to how it is performed. Rather, it provides your body with the natural energy that it needs to heal itself. During a Reiki treatment, the practitioner doesn’t instruct the energy in what to do. The healer focuses primarily on supplying a flow of positive energy to the body with the belief that the body knows how to best direct that resource.

Other Benefits of Reiki

The effects of Reiki are positive whether you’re suffering from a particular condition or not. Many people schedule regular Reiki sessions to ensure that their chakras stay balanced and open. It may work as a preventive measure to stop the body from developing energy leaks. Reiki promotes a healthy balance between the body, spirit, and mind. When you have regular Reiki sessions, you may notice that you’re more aware of your body’s energy and can sense when you need to pay more attention to balancing and recharging.

Reiki healing is a powerful tool that you can try for both healing and ongoing balance and wellness.

Posted on

Using Reiki For Energy Healing

Reiki is an energy healing system that utilizes the fact that human bodies are made up of the same light and energy that flows throughout the universe and everything in it.  A Reiki practitioner acts as a conduit that connects the energy of the universe with the energy flowing through the individual seeking the treatment.  The energy flows through the practitioner and is focused at points along the body’s meridian to aid the energy flowing through the recipient’s aura and chakras down into the cells of the body to aid in balancing and raising the person’s vibration.

When a person’s energy is balanced and the vibration of the energy is high it aids in the body’s ability to heal itself.  When a person’s energy is low or blocked from flowing through the body it can starve the organs and cells from the energy needed to maintain a healthy state and can cause the body to fall into illness or disease.

In the recent past, Reiki was thought of as a pseudo science and new age technique.  Actually Reiki is an ancient technique but recently it has been studied by biophysicists and neuroscientists.  Studies are beginning to show what Reiki practitioners have known all along, that science backs up the theories that Reiki is based on.   Dr. Joe Dispenza explains that “cells communicate with each other by exchanging vital information transmitted on different frequencies of light.”  Reiki focuses energy to aid this transmission.

Another theory of how Reiki aids and heals people who receive treatments has to do with mental thought processes and how thoughts and feelings can create havoc in our physical bodies.  Science is beginning to take notice that negative thoughts can manifest into negative responses in the body.  Mental and emotional trauma a person experiences can negatively affect the physical health and wellbeing of the person.  Fitz-Albert Popp, PhD studied how “when cells do not emit enough organized and coherent electromagnetic energy that they can become unhealthy, leading organs to become unhealthy and unable to function properly which can lead to illness and disease.”

When a person receives a Reiki treatment the high vibration energy that flows through the person can focus on energy blocks formed from negative thoughts or emotional and mental trauma in order to aid in the healing process the body is capable of on its own.  When these blockages are released it can not only aid the physical healing of the body but can aid the person to deal with the emotional and mental trauma that caused the issues in the first place.

Reiki forms a bridge between the ancient understanding of how the universe works and the scientific techniques of the modern age to aid our bodies to heal themselves.

Posted on

The Universal Principles of Reiki

There are five Reiki precepts that have been handed down from Reiki master to student since Reiki was rediscovered by Dr. Mikao Usui in Kyoto, Japan in the last part of the 19th century. 

Just for today, I will not worry.

Just for today, I will not anger.

Show gratitude for everything.

Honor my parents, elders, and teachers.

Earn my living honestly.

These echo some of the ideals behind the twelve step programs in addiction recovery.  They are also related to the theories and practices of mindfulness that is so popular in therapy and self help.  Even though they are phrased differently, the meaning behind these can be seen in many of the religions in the world as ideals of how to live your life as well.

These underlying principles are universal because they are based on positive ideas of what makes up an emotionally, mentally and physically healthy person who is able to function in a healthy way with others in society.

Accepting where you are in life and living in a way that doesn’t hurt yourself or others is a key principle in healing from trauma. 

Gratitude is also being seen more and more as a key to being happy.

Reiki is best known for the energy work and healing done by Reiki practitioners, but in order to be able to do that work, these people must live at their highest vibration and it is through striving to live by these key Reiki precepts that they achieve that.

A recipient of Reiki treatments doesn’t have to know or understand these principles, nor does that person have to understand how Reiki works.  It is like going to a light switch and flipping it into the on position, you don’t have to understand the principles of electricity or how the currents work in order to benefit from the light that is turned on by the process.  The same is true with receiving a Reiki treatment.  The recipient can have their energy raised and benefit from it even if they don’t understand it or believe in it.

Reiki can be performed on people, animals, plants, food and just about anything you can think of.  It is a flow of energy from the universe into whatever the recipient is.  Because everything in the universe is made up of the same energy and light as we are.  Energy flows through the planets and stars around us in the sky as well as through the air above us, ground below us and water that makes up the majority of our planet.  We are all connected and Reiki utilizes that fact to help us heal ourselves and become the best version of ourselves we can be.

Reiki is practiced for the good of the practitioner and the recipient, but also for the good of the universe.  The more people living in a balanced state of energy, with their bodies, minds and emotions performing at the highest level, the better the world functions as a whole. 

Posted on

What is Reiki

Reiki is a form of energy manipulation that has many healing benefits when performed by a trained Reiki healer. Learn more about what Reiki can do for your spirit, mind, and body.

What Is Reiki Healing?

Reiki energy healing is an ancient Japanese art that involves the manipulation of energy. Some people ask “what is reiki massage,” but this implies a level of physical manipulation that isn’t used with this practice. Reiki is not a type of massage and involves only a light touch. Reiki may be combined with massage if a practitioner is trained in both arts, but they are not the same.

Reiki healing is used to relieve anxiety, insomnia, and depression symptoms. It’s believed to strengthen the body’s immune system and promote healing by removing energy blockages that hinder one’s health.

How Does Reiki Therapy Work?

Reiki therapy is usually performed with the patient lying flat on a massage table. The Reiki healer places their hands over important energy centers on the body. These correspond with the chakras, major organs, and energy meridians. The healer will usually work on each point for two to five minutes, with the whole session lasting 60-90 minutes. The practitioner will evaluate your energy and reported symptoms to determine which areas to focus on the most.

Different Reiki Practices

While Reiki is usually done in person, there are other ways that one can perform Reiki healing. Distance Reiki is performed by sending healing energy across time and space. This type of Reiki can be done whether you’re with the practitioner in person or not. You can also perform Reiki self-healing if you’re properly trained to do so. This allows you to manipulate your own energy.

Whether you’re suffering from uncomfortable symptoms or you simply want to enjoy better health and balance, Reiki is a powerful therapy that’s worth exploring.

Posted on

The Chakras

The universe is made up of various types of energy, and being a part of the universe, we are also made up of energy.  Energy flows through our bodies and affects everything from our mood to our physical health. 

The earth has certain areas of power where energy tends to gather, and ley lines that connect these power centers.  Our bodies also have energy centers which are connected by a network through which energy flows throughout our bodies, connecting our mind, soul, and body together.

We have many energy points in our bodies but there are seven major energy vortexes known as chakras.

Each chakra corresponds to areas of the physical body, but also affects our mental, emotional and spiritual portions of being as well.

Just as sound and light vibrate at different frequencies and can affect all forms of energy, so too our chakras vibrate at different frequencies and have visual correspondences because of it.

The seven major chakras start at the top of our head and go all the way to the base of our spine. 

The Crown Chakra is located at the center of the top of your skull.  It vibrates a bright white or deep purple.  It is associated with a connection to the universal energy and to spiritual matters.

The Third Eye Chakra is located in the middle of your forehead between your eyebrows but raised slightly above the brow ridge.  It is connected to your intuition and the ability to tap into the universal knowledge all around us.  It is the color of indigo.

The Throat Chakra is located in the center of your throat below your jaw.  It is associated with communication.  It is valuable not just with the art of speaking but also with listening to what others have to say.  It is seen as a turquoise or sky blue.

The Heart Chakra is found in the center of the sternum.  It is instrumental in experiencing compassion, love and hope. It is sometimes felt to be the seat of the soul.  It vibrates in a  deep green tint.

The Solar Plexus Chakra is located in the soft tissue midway between your rib cage and your navel.  It is the source of emotions, your sense of self, along with your will power.  It glows bright yellow.

The Sacral or Intestinal Chakra is just below the navel.  It is the seat of interpretation and vitality, and is the basis of your sense of security and connection with others. This is seen as a vibrant orange.

The Base or Root Chakra is located at the base of your spine spreading through your pelvic floor.  It is the source of creativity, sexuality, fear, anger, and survival instinct.  It vibrates an intense red color.

When your chakras are balanced and in harmony they allow the energy to flow freely, aiding your ability to maintain a healthy physical body, attune your mind, and allow your soul to vibrate at its highest level.

Posted on

How The Chakras Can Affect Your Health

crystal_healing_large

Your body has seven chakras that serve as vital energy centers. Aligned down the center of the body from the base of the spine to the top of the head, these chakra points keep energy flowing smoothly. If a chakra is blocked or misaligned, it can cause physical symptoms with the associated parts of the body.

Chakras and Health

Each chakra of the body is connected to particular parts. Problems with the chakra can manifest as pain or disease. Understanding the associations between chakras and organs of the body will help you identify where the problem is coming from if you’re feeling unwell.

Chakra Blockage Symptoms

The following symptoms will let you know which chakra you should work on clearing, aligning, and strengthening. 

  • Root Chakra: Backache, diarrhea or constipation, hypertension, hemorrhoids, kidney stones, knee pain, leg cramps, impotence, sciatica, skin problems
  • Sacral Chakra: Bladder problems, fibroids, fertility issues, hip pain, muscle spasms, vomiting
  • Solar Plexus Chakra: Fatigue, abdominal cramps, gallstones, vomiting, liver problems, stomach problems, ulcers, heartburn
  • Heart Chakra: Asthma and allergies, blood circulation, high blood pressure, heart disease, bronchitis, pneumonia, sleep problems, pain in the lower arms and hands, cough, shortness of breath
  • Throat Chakra: Colds, cough, ear infections, laryngitis, sore throat, mouth ulcers, pain in the upper arm, stiff neck, vomiting
  • Brow Chakra: Dizziness, headaches, migraines, vision problems, fatigue, scalp problems, hearing issues, fainting spells
  • Crown Chakra: Dizziness, headache, migraines, tremors, fatigue, nervous system disorders, weakened immune system

If you’re struggling with health issues, identifying the associated chakra may help you resolve some of your problems. Try working on the chakra in question by consuming foods that strengthen the chakra, carrying gemstones associated with the chakra, and meditating on this point in the body, envisioning a clear bright light emanating from the energy point.

Clearing your chakras, either alone or with a reiki practitioner, may finally yield the good health you’ve been after.

Posted on

How To Balance Your Chakras

Your chakras are the seven primary points of energy in the body. When they’re out of balance, your emotions, health, and mental well-being suffer. Learn how to balance your chakras on your own to keep these energy centers aligned.

How to Heal and Balance Your Chakras

Chakra balancing begins with meditation and visualization to identify chakras you’re having trouble with. These will appear to you as dark or cloudy. You may notice symptoms associated with the organs and body parts impacted by that chakra. Strengthen individual chakras by:

  • Consuming foods associated with that chakra. The root chakra likes root vegetables and proteins. The sacral chakra seeks sweet fruits, honey, and coconut. Feed the solar plexus dairy products, and give the heart chakra leafy greens. Your throat chakra wants liquids. Dark berries nourish the third eye chakra. The crown chakra benefits from fasting or detoxifying.
  • Using gemstones for the chakras. There are several gemstones associated with each chakra. You can try balancing your chakras by carrying gems associated with the chakra that’s out of balance. You can also balance all of your chakras by laying flat with a stone sitting on each of the chakras. Meditate on each chakra, drawing on the energy of its associated stone to clear it.
  • Listen to the right tunes. Each chakra is associated with a musical note. The root is C, sacral is D, solar plexus is E, heart is F, throat is G, third eye is A, and crown is B. Listen to music in that key as you meditate to correct imbalanced chakras.

Chakra Cleansing

If you’re not certain which chakra needs attention, practice general chakra cleansing. Walk barefoot in nature, envisioning energy flowing up through your feet and past each chakra, releasing it through your crown. Use deep breathing exercises and meditation, and envision all chakras as balanced and aligned.

The more you work with your chakras, the better you will become at identifying imbalances. Keeping your chakras healthy will help keep you healthy, too.

Posted on

What Are the Seven Chakras?

If you’ve researched yoga, meditation, or alternative medicine, you’ve likely heard about chakras. Chakras are vital energy centers in the body corresponding to aspects of your physical, mental, and emotional well-being. If you’re wondering just what chakras are in the human body, you’ll find a quick primer on the chakra system below.

What Are the Seven Chakras?

The seven chakras are located in a vertical line in your body, beginning at the base of the spine and continuing to the top of the head. The first chakra, or root chakra, is found at the tailbone and corresponds to base survival instincts. The sacral chakra in the lower abdomen is related to pleasure and sexual well-being. The solar plexus chakra in the stomach area pertains to confidence. 

Your heart chakra, found in the chest, is related to emotions such as love and joy. The throat chakra in your neck corresponds to communication. The third-eye chakra at your forehead is related to intuition and imagination, while the crown chakra at the top of the head connects you to the spiritual plane.

What Are Chakra Colors?

Each chakra has its own color:

  • Root: Red
  • Sacral: Orange
  • Solar Plexus: Yellow
  • Heart: Green
  • Throat: Blue
  • Third-Eye: Indigo
  • Crown: Violet

When your chakras are open, their colors are vibrant and clear. A blocked chakra may have a dark, muddy hue when envisioned in a meditative state.

What Happens When Your Chakras Are Balanced?

Balancing your chakras brings a deep sense of well-being. Healthy chakras that are open and balanced keep your emotions, thoughts, and physical body clear and balanced as well. An imbalance in one of your chakras can cause physical symptoms, negative emotions, and limited closed-off thought patterns.

Mindfully meditating on your chakras can help you clear and balance them. Practice seeing your chakras in your mind’s eye to become familiar with these vital energy centers.