Happy Saturday!

                   Here is a little gift for your Saturday from the site  http://icanhascheezburger.com/.  On this site, black cats are called basement cats; all of them have slight hint of ruthlessness.  After the uber-mom week I've had, this lovely black mamma cat feels just right.

Body Language

                Have you ever wondered what we did before the internet?   I was browsing the web today, looking for an affirmation to help a client.  I did find what we were looking for, but also, so much more.  On one of the pages a quote caught my eye:

“Realistically, when our body refuses to do what we want it to, metaphysically, it is not actually broken. It is doing its job. One of its functions is to carry messages from the higher energetic planes to us. It is then up to us to interpret these messages and take action.”

- Lawrence Michail  (click here for the entire article)

It is such a challenge when it feels like our bodies are rebelling.  The mind says "I could just do that run last week or I have this strange pain in my liver."  When this happens rather than complaining (or for me, after bemoaning my fate for a while), it is important to look for the cause.  For example, when I start dropping things, I’m worrying about my son in college.  Sending my energy away leaves less energy here to move properly through space.

Think about the sinking feeling in your stomach when you know you should not do something.  If the feeling is ignored, it grows. Sometimes it even grows to major physical manifestations.   We have such a hard time when it feels like our bodies are betraying us.  Really, all the body is doing is providing feedback.  I’m working on being grateful for the experience.  Let me know what you think, click on the pencil to leave a comment.

The Gift of Love

Today was one of those days.  To do list the length of my forearm, woke up motivated as all get out, but the day was well and fully hijacked by one of my boys.  He had needs that only I could help him with.

What a great gift for the two of us.  It is good to remember that there are things and people who we would give everything up for (and especially good to remember it without have a major crisis to change your world view).  It is also good to realize that there are people in this world who would give up anything for us.

Most times we go through life feeling a bit like the people in this picture.  There are so many of us, we can get lost in the crowd.  My beloved piece of this party is standing in the red shorts on the left.   Though part of the crowd, he has hopes and dreams, good days and bad days.  On those days where it feels like everything is falling apart, other people in the crowd reach out to support.

It reminds me of a movie I saw years ago.  Unfortunately, I can’t find it on the web. It was about a man who had been an extra in loads of movies.  For each film, he had a still photo of the crowd scene with a big red circle and arrow to himself.  Above the arrow, it said “Me.”  Though it feels egotistical, truly, the center of our universe is always “Me.”  There is no other way to see things than through the filter of our own existence. What is special is when those who step into our existence to make it better.

It happens all of the time.  I am so blessed to have those to love and be loved by.  So often we think we are all alone, no one cares.  It is so important to ask for help and let ourselves be served sometimes.  We all touch one another and are honored to serve.

See the Energy All Around Us

                This is it.  I’ve finally joined the 21^st century and have a smart phone.  Is it a camera? Is it a phone?  All of the above.  Having a camera always on the ready.  I’m getting the opportunity to experience something a friend showed me years ago.  Photography allows us to see the unseen.

                Here is a photo of the Cloud Gate (aka the Bean) sculpture in Chicago.  The vivid pink orb on the left was a welcome surprise.  In the last 3 years I have seen similar things in others photos.  Since November I have been seeing them with my naked eyes.  What makes this so great is that it is not a talent I have always had.  It is one that I have learned.

                I began to practice a few years ago.  My teacher, JoAnn, said anyone could learn to see energy.  I began by finding a high energy place to observe. My house is cleared and filled with reiki daily.  So I decided to go to the back yard and look at it.  On a sunny summer day energy just radiates off the house and the sky.  At first it looked like black dots winking in and out.  After about a year, they started to look like lines.  (Interesting side note: as I wrote this in my head while driving south on I-65, I tried to see the energy all around, I couldn’t see a thing.  Since being able to see energy is so new to me, I wondered if the ability had gone. Turns out, in this area, there was just very little to see.  We were driving through factory farms, both vegetable (corn and soybeans) and meat.  Though the fields looked verdant, the buildup of chemicals and animal waste poisoned the area.  As we reached an area of mixed small farms and open land, there was plenty of energy to see again. Thank Goodness!)

                This fall I learned a process called “creating” using the BioGenesis tools.  After the first class, the Course of Eternal Light, one of the things I chose to create was to be able to see the unseen.  I poured energy into it for several weeks.  One day I saw a brilliant blue circle or orb wink in and out in front of my husband.  Of course, I thought I was crazy and ignored it.  A few moments later it flashed even brighter.  When I dowsed for answers, it turned out to be his guardian angel. 

                As time has passed, I see angels more frequently.  The neat thing is, there does not seem to be any message attached.  They have no agenda.  They are just here to be with us and periodically remind me that they would be glad to help.  I am beginning to see the energy in reiki sessions, coming from my students hands and sometimes flowing through the client’s body. Again, so far it is not useful, just way cool.  Can’t wait to see what the future brings.

                Any tips, tricks or stories to add? Just click on the word comments to share with us.

Sitting Forward Bends

Well Friends,
      Here it is my first YouTube video.  Last week I received some very sage advice, "better good than nothing at all."  So, I have stopped trying for perfect and will accept good enough.  This video is about how to use a strap to safely deepen your forward bends.

Rapt in Awe

            Welcome to the new home of the Peaceful Spirit blog.  To reference earlier posts until August 1st, 2012, go to  http://nkyreiki.tumblr.com/, after this go to nkyreiki.com.
             I love to start my Monday off with a quote.  This week I am torn between the ridiculous and the sublime.  I was leaning towards Sunday's fortune cookie, but instead chose the sublime.  Here is a little number from Einstein himself.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.  It is the source of all true art and all science.  He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.- Albert Einstein

The Pace of Progress

Lately I’ve been feeling like  Dianna Ross in the song “You Can’t Hurry Love.”

You just have to wait,
You gotta trust, give it time,
No matter how long it takes;
But how many heartaches must I stand…
             So if you replace love in the song with growth  (yeah, now it doesn’t have the same meter), I am right there with her, and I think many others are as well.  How many times have you heard yourself say, “Why is this happening to me?” or “How many times do I have to clear this same issue?”  What about, “I would rather die than go on dealing with this?”  You know you are pretty worn out when you get to that one! As we journey through the year, you must remember that things are getting intense here on planet earth.  When it comes to energy and the polarity in which we live, the thermostat keeps rising so what are we to do about it?  Often we are growing and changing, but we lack the internal measuring stick that makes progress visible.

                When the kids were little we began making marks on their bedroom wall, a line at their height with a date beside.  It remains a wonderful reminder of how they grew.  Sometimes there is barely a quarter inch between marks, other times it is several inches.  I need to keep reminding myself, I am no different.  Sometimes the body is just taking on nourishment to support and other times we grow so quickly there are growth pains.  Both states are perfectly fine.

  As I talked about yesterday in “Ask the Right Question,” one of the issues that I have been working on is serving a larger variety of clients and accepting money with grace.  An interesting follow up comes from my mom.  She is the most service oriented person that I know.  When she retired we all expected her to move to some Third World country and maybe we would see her once a year.  It had always seemed strange that she taught at one of the wealthiest schools in the city.  When I told her about my big revelation, she said, of course the poorest of the poor (emotionally and socially) can be among the rich, why do you think I stayed where I did.

                After I made this realization, several new clients have booked and others who have small businesses which also try to be affordable have expressed concerns about the same issue.  Seems like it is going around.  Two years from now I will not remember this growth and again feel like my progress is stalled if I don’t find ways to note my life.  A blog is one way, but there are many others.  My favorite is a file called “The Way Things Were.”  In it I keep the little notes of people who have asked me to pray for them, the statements I sent reiki to through my reiki grid, the changes that I asked for through the BioGenesis Amplifier and Translator. I started keeping this file about four years ago.   There are many interesting things in there and I get a sense of progress by reviewing it periodically.  For example, some of the earliest were about my oldest learning to drive and now he is a better driver than I. 

                Over and over I see there really is progress.  This helps me find the place of gratitude to ensure more growth and change.  My desire is for that gratitude to fill your life.  Namaste.