A Step in the Right Direction

  (A few weeks ago, I decided I was going to learn to love Facebook and other social media.  Though I have had lots of help from friends and family,  I just can't seem to make it work for me or my business.  I needed to dig a little deeper to find the cause of my dis- ease. I began the process of changing a belief.  The work sheet is here.)

    Starting Small, step 3, defines where to work and the small steps to take. When I look over the Day 1 list, I see the word afraid four times in only 7 sentences.    This needs to be the first place to work.  Darn it! Learning something physical is always so much easier...  Maybe I'll approach me like a client who I am working with.  What would I recommend for someone else to begin with?

     My first thought is always reiki.  It's so easy, always at hand, and feels good while you do it.  So my list begins with- Send reiki to the relationship between myself and strangers.  I love sending reiki to relationships because then I don't have do define any further.  If I send it to my marriage, my husband and I communicate better.  What more could a girl ask for?
     Then I move on to the Nu|vision program.  Using name and date and place of birth, it creates an energetic hologram.  This is then run against over 30,000 conditions, causes and remedies.  The affirmations suggested are "The more I love, the more that love is returned to me." and "I know that the world is prosperous.  I notice prosperity all around me."  Interesting, not only did it catch my fear of people judging or being mean, the second affirmation deals with all of the negative information people put online.

      My third stop is Help One Another: An Anthology of the Teachings and Remedies of Hanna Kroeger.  The remedy I checked for is calendula tea, prescribed to treat ulcers and prevent muscle spasms, among other conditions.  This one is interesting.  I didn't even know I was afraid until I looked a few days ago, now all of these physical results.  It is a very clear example of our feelings creating physical symptoms.  I have had tight muscles and an uneasy stomach for years.

This photo is from Spiral Way Jin Shin Jyutsu, with gratitude.

     My final recommendation to help with fear is Jin Shin Jyutsu.  Part of the practice of Jin Shin Jyutsu is finger holds.  Each finger has a channel of energy that is related to a series of emotions.  Holding onto the finger restores the energetic pathway and begins to heal the emotions.  I first learned about the finger holds while teaching my oldest son to drive.  Since I have no depth perception, it was very hard to trust that he was not going to bang into "that pole right there!"  I asked my reiki master for help and this was her recommendation.  The index finger is related to fear and panic, that sounds just up my alley right now.
     Rather than do it all, step 3 is start small. I'll start with the reiki and finger hold.  These I can do at any time.   So I resolve to give 10 minutes of reiki a day to my relationship with strangers and do the index finger hold 3 times per day.  Tomorrow it is on to Step 4: Describe.

Step 1 Beginner's Mind
Step 2 Focus


(An interesting dowsing side note:  When I was dowsing Help One Another, the Hanna Kroeger compendium, and asked the three initial questions, I got some funny answers that may shed a bit of light on the troubles of learning to ask a question.
        The three questions I always begin with- May I? Can I? Should I?  When I asked May I?  The answer was a clear yes.  Can I? was a no.  My first thought was, what do you mean no.  Then I asked "Is the answer in this book?" the answer was no.  When I asked "Will it be beneficial for the post?" the answer was yes.   So I knew before I began that the remedies in Hanna's book were not my first step for the solution to this problem.)

Dowsing for Dipsticks: or 5 Affirmations for Using Your Pendulum

      Dowsing can be so difficult.  You get the pendulum (or sticks or other implements of destruction).  You buy the book (or check out a million books from interlibrary loan).  Let's just say I was a very slow learner. Should you want to embrace my pain, here is a bit about my journey in a January blog post.  Rereading it, I don't think I expressed how absolutely abysmal I was.
     We had a great reiki share today, and dowsing was one of our focuses.   When we talked for a while about problems and hiccups in learning to dowse, it turns out that most of us had similar problems.  First of all, when we feel uncomfortable with something, we usually find a way to make it go away.  Almost everyone kept losing their pendulum.  Most people also expressed difficulty in setting aside the ego (or desire to have the answer expected be correct).  
     This being said, remember the first questions to ask when you dowse:

•  "Can I?" (is this dowse-able?)
•  "May I?" (do I have permission?)
•  "Should I?" (is this in my and my subject's highest and best good?).  It's 

  So, in true Law of Attraction and Louise Hay fashion, we turned them into affirmations.  Here are 5 affirmations to help you become more confident in your dowsing.

• I can always find my pendulum
• I clearly get the correct answer, easily and quickly.
• I dowse myself truly.
• My ego steps aside when I dowse.
• I am connected to my Higher Power.

   Write them on the bag you keep your pendulum or crystals in.  Put them somewhere you notice daily.  Make dowsing a part of your life.  These affirmations can ease your passage.  I wish I had known everyone else struggled at the beginning.

A Little Help from my Friends

              It was time.  I couldn't put it off any longer.  Today was the day to write "the letter."  There was an aspect of my business lingering in limbo and it needed to be released.  First I wracked my brain, then I searched the web for templates.  Those first few attempts were unfortunate to say the least.  It was time to ask for help.  

              Wouldn't it be great to be able to hear guidance while confused?  Well, I'm not there yet.  Guidance during a reiki session or while teaching and counseling is easy.  When you don't have a horse in the race it is easy to be calm about the winner (and loser.)  Now, however, I was looking for a graceful exit strategy and was coming up with a whole lot of nothing.  Meditation wasn't happening so I went back to basics, dowsing basics that is.

               This is a picture of the opening page of Help One Another, an anthology of the teachings of Hanna Kroeger.  The pink post it notes remind me to slow down and open to grace while dowsing.  The first says "Open Pineal."  A little information in the pineal and how to open it are in this article on my website.  After opening the pineal gland,  the next note says "May I? Can I? Should I?"  These important questions must all be answered yes, to move on to the next step.  May I? asks if this is permissible.  For example, if I wanted to dowse one of my adult sons, I first need their permission.  A question without permission invades their privacy.  Can I? addresses the issue of am I able and is this knowable.  Should I?  Is this a question that it is good for me to ask and answer at this time?

              After preparation I turned to my angel cards.  I like these cards, not for the pictures or booklet that came with them, but rather for all the positive words.  They are quite useful for blessing houses, distance reiki and getting to the root of problems.  Here they are, the cards and my pendulum.  I prefer the Hanna Kroeger steel pendulum because it is light and fits easily in my pocket or purse, but I have even used my hoodie strings as a pendulum in the grocery store.  The weight doesn't seem to matter much.

               I'll break the deck into sections asking "Is the card with my answer in this stack?" over and over.  If a stack gets a no it is set to the side, if the answer is yes, fan the cards out and ask the pendulum to point to the card or cards that apply.

               For tonight's question, here was my answer.

             This is where intuition comes into play.  Really, Playfulness?  After quiet reflection I realized I was taking myself way too seriously, again.  Ten minutes later the letter was finished, proofread and printed.  I love great advice and who better to ask.

How to Use Pendulum

                I first learned to use a pendulum in 2008. It is impossible to be more precise because it literally took the entire year.  The darned thing just wouldn’t work for weeks, then only in fits and starts.  Looking back on it I waver between impressed with my persistence and embarrassed by the insanity.

                There are many methods to teach pendulum use and theories behind how it works.  This technique is from The Pendulum Book by Hanna Kroeger.  She has chapters about how and why the pendulum moves.  My purpose is to guide a beginner in its use.

                First, embrace beginners mind. This is an attitude of openness, eagerness, and lack of preconceptions when studying a subject.  A child first crawls, learns to stand then gradually moves on to walking and running.  When the baby falls on its soft diaper, sometimes he is frustrated, but often he laughs.  Think of beginners mind as a cushion to fall back on when you fall.

                A pendulum can be any weight on a string or chain.  Many people use crystals, Hanna began with her wedding ring. For our purposes, I’ll describe using my pendulum, see the picture above.  If you’d like to buy one, drop me an email.  They are $21.19 with tax, plus shipping.  Hold the ring at the top of the chain in your dominant (right hand if you are right- handed) hand between thumb, forefinger and middle finger.  Bring it over the middle finger of the non-dominant hand (left middle finger if you are right handed) and ask “Show me my yes.”  Whatever motion the pendulum makes is your yes.  There is not one universal yes and no.  Each person is unique.

                To discover your no, hold the pendulum over your non-dominant index finger and ask “Show me my no.”  Again, whatever motion the pendulum makes is your no.

                If the pendulum stays dead still, put it aside and stand with your feet apart.  Stretch your left arm to the north and your right arm to the south and stand this way a minute or two.  Hanna says that this will increase the magnetic forces flowing through you from north to south.  After you finish, brush down the body with your hands several times, from head to feet.  Now try your pendulum again.  Most importantly, be patient.  It will come.

                How to improve? Like everything else, practice.  Hanna recommends starting with organic and conventionally grown fruit or vegetable and ask the following questions. Hold the fruit or vegetable over your solar plexus and ask:

                “Does this fruit have a toxin in or on it?”

                “Can this toxin be neutralized or removed?”

                “If I soak the fruit in cider vinegar, will the toxin be removed?”

                “If I set the fruit on a Soma board for 10 minutes, will the toxin be neutralized?”

                Move on from there, play a bit, and develop your confidence.  Learning to use the pendulum can make your life so much easier.