Personal development

Awe and Wonder with Reiki

Learning about how experiencing awe and wonder can be a doorway to our wellbeing, I remembered a phrase I heard many years ago about Reiki from Rick Bockner, another one of the 22 Reiki Masters initiated by Mrs Hawayo Takata about Reiki – ‘Experience the wonder and wonder about the experience’. Practising Reiki for over 22 years now, I have been experiencing many many benefits. Today I realise that my ability to experience awe and wonder was also being honed over the years. I have been looking for awe and wonder in the external. It is indeed easier to connect with awe and wonder in nature. But awe and wonder is all around us, in simple everyday life, in our body. It is easy to experience and wonder with Reiki, through the simple act of placing Reiki hands on the body.

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Grounding, Centering and Presence – 1

I have been contemplating grounding while healing from an injury to the right shoulder when I slipped on some wet autumn leaves last month. I have found it helpful to realise since this experience that I tend to leave the body and lose my centre when I feel hurt, or when I am leap frogging from one thing to another! Do you know what takes you away from your centre?

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Waiting!

A neighbour invited me to her 70th birthday party recently. The invitation included a request to compose a poem and

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Joy of separation!

I struggle with separation. I don’t like saying goodbye. I prefer slipping away quietly. Separation seems to be associated with fear and pain. Perhaps this is why I was born through caesarean section. Or maybe this association of separation with fear and pain is due to how I was born. Today I cannot help wondering if fear of separation causes grief too! ….

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Completion and Endings

Coming up to the end of the year 2021, I keep sensing something about endings and completion. In my meditation this morning, this unfinished cardigan showed up. For the first time I could feel compassion for myself, for not being able to complete it yet….

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