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….
Completion and Endings Read Post »
Feeling low seems to be part of natural rhythm of life. Rhythm of heartbeat is contraction and expansion. Rhythm of birth is also contraction and expansion. So is the rhythm of breath.
To me, depression seems to happen when we get stuck in feeling low phase and cannot move out of it easily. Having support of someone who is kind, not scared, and is willing to accompany me during such times can be amazing. But it may not be always available. What can I do myself, how can I help myself – is a question I love to contemplate…
Feeling low or depressed! Read Post »
Pisces is a water sign associated with healing and oceans. It is the last sign of the Zodiac. At this time, it feels as if what has been accumulating within us, over a long time, is surfacing from the depths of our being to be healed….
Healing and Full Moon in Pisces Read Post »
Talking to a very good student last week helped me realise that a reminder is needed of the three pillars of Reiki treatment practice for Reiki students –
Self treatment to be done regularly, everyday if possible;
Giving Reiki treatments to other people, as and when possible.
Receiving Reiki treatments from other people, as and when needed.
All three are needed to receive the full complement of Reiki healing. Learning Reiki does not mean that we do not need to receive Reiki treatments from other people. Reiki is an Eastern tradition where it is received regularly to maintain wellbeing. It is best not to wait till one is unwell because a lot more healing is needed to restore wellbeing than to maintain it.
Receiving Reiki treatments Read Post »
At this time of so much uncertainty it is not easy to know how to be – what to do, when; whether to go out or to stay at home; what to say to people who are grieiving ….
With so many people dying, and so quickly too, it is particularly hard for the families and friends who are left behind, who have not had the time to prepare for their loved ones leaving. It is not always easy to know how to be with them, how to support them, how to hold the space for them…
There is plenty of very good advice available already about how to take care of ourselves, how to protect ourselves against the corona virus. Yet there is so much fear in the collective consciousness at this time. I have been reflecting on what else is needed to take care of ourselves and our loved ones.
I feel that in addition to taking care of our physical body and our external environment, we need to take care of our inner being as well. Somehow the inner and the outer working together can bring about an exponential synergy.
Virus and inner being Read Post »
