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	REIKI NEWS AND VIEWS - May issue
	REIKI GENERATOR - by Maz Williams
	REIKI IN THE WORK PLACE - by Maz Williams
	RAISING MY HANDS TO ENGAGE WITH LOVING ENERGY
	AFFIRMATIONS IN PRACTICE - A personal account
	INTENTION IS THE INVENTION OF YOUR DAY! - By Annie
	Healing Waves of Reiki
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	REIKI BLESSINS TO YOU ALL....
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REIKI NEWS AND VIEWS - May issue

Welcome, everyone, to the latest edition of Reiki News and Views. 

HOORAY for the sunny weather! 

Isn't it wonderful to see the sunshine, a wonderful bright light feeding us with revitalzing and healing energy. 

The warmth and bright shining light of the sun have lifted the mood of many, I don't know about you, but I just can't help smiling! 

Smiling is good medicine for everyone.  By smiling we radiate our own special light and warmth, bringing joy to those around us.  Go on, try it ,have the intention of radiating your joy.

For me, coming out of winter is like opening the door to a secret party where all the lights are off, no-one knows what to expect.

Spring arrives and the lights go on, SUPRISE! everything comes alive.

Summer is the party in full swing, a time of celebration.

Sunshine and Summer celebrates life on earth, everything springs in to action all around us, awakening our senses and making us feel alive. There’s activity all about, colours shine out and opportunity and growth are everywhere.

Take time to celebrate life on earth while the party's in full flow, walk in nature feeling Universal energy all around you, inhale the life giving air,  feel joy, warmth and healing taking place.  It's a celebration of life, a celebration of you too. 

REIKI GENERATOR - by Maz Williams

I hold reiki in my hand,
It spreads from here
Throughout the land.
It touches me,
It touches you.
Inside, outside
Bouncing through.

When you bounce it
Back to me,
It grows ten times
As you shall see.
The waves of reiki
Fill the world,
Insight, in our sight
Ascending earth.

By Maz Willams

www.starmountain.co.uk
www.spiritandwellbeing.co.uk

REIKI IN THE WORK PLACE - by Maz Williams

I was standing in the toilet at work ( it's the only quiet space! ), doing the usual reiki breathing and generating to start the day:

Feeling the energy like a ball of Qi between my hands,
Feeling the souls of my feet become more balanced and grounded on the floor.

When this poem came forward, whispered there and then complete. I've used it every day since and it seems to have a solid quality about it.
It wants to be heard, the sounds vibrating through my throat as I hushly whisper the words. This gives it extra strength and gives me a stronger sense of grounding.

I feel the reiki vibes expanding out into the room, the building, the street and beyond. For me this gives an added sense of healing the history of this place and the earth memories held in it.

This particular land has had a long history as an isolation hospital for small-pox, built some time before 1890. Few buildings remain but the earth remembers. I get a sense it may be asking to co-create a new space, lighter than the last. Reiki generated words, sounding out reiki intention, moves the energy on, like a breeze.

Maz
www.starmountain.co.uk
www.spiritandwellbeing.co.uk
 

RAISING MY HANDS TO ENGAGE WITH LOVING ENERGY

Every day I raise my hands with the intention of connecting with Reiki and filling my heart with it. It's a great experience and I've found it beneficial in balancing the energy in both my left and right hands.

Firstly, ground and centre yourself.
Sit quietly with your hands in prayer position.  Still yourself and say the Reiki principles.

Move your hands out in front of you, palms up, elbows slightly bent, shoulder width apart and at heart level.

Focus on your breathing for a moment.

Imagine drawing The Power symbol into the centre of each palm, repeat the mantra three times. 

The symbols move up each arm and into your heart. Breathe in as you do this, feeling the love, light and healing energy being drawn into you. Continue to do this with each symbol taking as long as you like over each.

If you’re not attuned to the symbols, imagine a ball of Reiki energy forming in each palm, see this being drawn into each arm and into your heart.

Once you’ve completed this part of the exercise focus on opening up to the energy of Reiki in your hands.

Make sure your fingers and thumbs do not touch each other, spread them out comfortably.

Starting at the base of your left hand thumb, focus on energy moving upwards from the base, to the tip. Continue with each of your fingers, do the same with your right hand, starting with your little finger. Take as much time as you like.

Each time you start to focus on a digit say to yourself either silently or out loud:

“I raise my hands to the light.  I embrace Reiki/Universal energy into my heart; I heal from within and shine forth love.”

Concentrate on each finger and take your time. Feel the energy and meditate on it.

Once you’ve finished give yourself a Reiki healing treatment alternatively you can have the intention that you will disperse this loving energy throughout the day, to the environment, work colleagues, friends, plants or whatever you’re drawn to.

It's important to do this exercise every day to feel the full benefits.  It's a great way to meditate if you find emptying your mind difficult as it gives you a focus.   

Annie.

www.spiritandwellbeing.co.uk

www.reikinewsandviews.blogspot.com 

AFFIRMATIONS IN PRACTICE - A personal account

My reiki and healing practices weren't flourishing and developing as I'd imagined. I couldn't seem to understand what I was doing different to others, but somehow I was not attracting people to me for healing.

However I was aware I had a hang up about receiving money for sessions.

In fact at every opportunity I would back track away from offers of donation, payment of any kind, even though I wanted to move closer to a life devoted to healing work and needed to pay my bills.

Many times I tried to set goals with myself about receiving payment and I constantly let myself down, it was going to take more than me to work this out.

In January I attended a workshop on abundance in life. Through guided meditations we removing the karmic past life blocks that add obstacles to our journey. It was fascinating to see things from a completely different viewpoint in another lifetime.
This powerful experience, reveals attitudes and beliefs holding me back from the full flow of good things, whether that be an open heart, compassion, empathy, generosity, reiki healing, wealth, love, health, happiness, spiritual growth AND the healthy exchange of energy that in our society is often in the currency of money.

Not that I was starving and deprived of love and happiness, but I was aware that to reach my vision of the future my relationship with money had to change.

Among many other wonderful things, this workshop moved me to use affirmation more fearlessly in my life. To take myself more seriously as someone who channels reiki light when people ask for healing, who wants to tell the local community about it, and to create the adundance of time , energy and honesty about myself to do this.

Overnight the blocks had gone, and I had a creative spur to make something to remind me about abundance. This came about as a postive affirmation purse " Money Flows Easily Into My Life ".
I had the intention to put reiki into the cotton, the felt, the zips and the bits that created this piece. I created a space and time of soft music and humming sewing machine, of incense and reiki vibes, and wittled away at the small piece of fabric. The intention was reiki, so the purpose of the purse needed to be thought out too.

I decided to use my purse for reiki and healing session payments.
Strangely empty, it appeared not to work, but once I'd made a commitment to myself, and started it off by placing money and the all important reiki healing inside, it was indeed a place where abundance grew. The energy was moving, and I was moving too, this time closer to my vision.

Purses have became part of my healing crafts, I started making them for friends and selling them at spirit fairs.

Strange how an old block, once overcome can lead to a new skill. But they do say ( I'm not exactly sure who ) that hidden talents are found in the shadows within us.

Maz Williams

www.spiritandwellbeing.co.uk

www.starmountain.co.uk

INTENTION IS THE INVENTION OF YOUR DAY! - By Annie

Having worked with energy, you've probably heard people talking about working with 'INTENTION'.

Our thoughts and feelings, our expectations are all seeds of intention.

Day to day, moment to moment, our thoughts are usually random and disjointed. By themselves, thoughts just come and go. 

We all go through processes in life that we find difficult, or days when nothing seems to go right. These are the times when we start to focus on particular thoughts, beliefs and feelings that are usually negative and destructive.  If we continuously think the same negative thoughts they build up like a great big monster slime sandwich, each unpleasant thought equates to an unpleasant and unhealthy filling that you put into it and eventually it’s going to make you ill. Constantly thinking unpleasant and unhelpful thoughts can make you ill too.

If you fill your sandwich with healthy options and things that are nutritious and good for you, it provides a state of good health and wellbeing. In the same way positive and pleasant thoughts create a healthy mind, body and spirit.

Intention provides organisation for our random, disjointed thoughts, providing a beneficial and positive framework that benefits our existence and all our experiences.

Intention means holding a mindful awareness of the way that you live ~ conscious living in action.

Your thoughts, feelings and emotions are important in the process of intention, they must match what you intend. To align your feelings and emotions with your intentions it’s helpful to use visualisation which incorporates all of the senses, making the intention clearer and more powerful.

Visualisation can help make the process of living with intention a wonderful, creative journey that’s fun and rewarding.

How do you make an intention?

1. Ask yourself what you want to intend and create a clear picture of it in your mind.
2. Keep things simple
3. Use positive energy, love, joy and happiness to infuse your intentions
4. Imagine, in full detail, the event or situation happening just as you want it
5. Remember your thoughts and feelings need to reflect your intentions
6. Use affirmations and visualisation to strengthen and reinforce your intentions
7. Be positive and up beat about what your intending, believe in it knowing that it will occur

Belief in what you intend is the equivalent of having faith in yourself and the way energy works. You are showing an understanding and awareness that you are more than you appear to be, that you are predominantly energy and this can be used to produce ‘good’.

By following the Reiki path you are getting to know different aspects of the nature of energy and its true potential. You not only live in and side by side Universal energy, you are energy and you channel energy.

Exercise: Just for today notice your intentions.

When you wake up in the morning, before you get out of bed ask yourself
WHAT DO I INTEND FOR TODAY?

Don’t get mad at yourself if you forget, just go with the flow and see what you can manage.

Remember: Intention inspires what you experience every day. You have a choice to see things differently, to act differently, to live conciously.  Fill your world with colour and joyous, excited expectation. Remember to give gratitude and to feel blessed that you are so much more than you think you are.

Make an inventory of your expectations. What do you expect to happen today, tomorrow, or in the future?

Choose and infuse your intentions with love, light, joy and healing. See yourself and others happy, successful, and peaceful.

When channelling Reiki:
It’s important to remember when you’re channelling Reiki, that you hold the intention that ‘Reiki flows for the highest and greatest good’ of the person that you are working with, remember it goes where it’s needed and is guided by powers much greater than us, we cannot interfere with the destiny of others.

You can however, intend that whoever you work with feels relaxed and calm in your presence and that the room where you work is filled with joy, light and happiness ~ see the room filled with light, see yourself and people in it smiling, laughing, talking, being happy and relaxed

Intend that wherever you go you reflect light and healing:
Visualise yourself entering places that you’ll be visiting during the day and reflecting out positive energy and light to those around you, see people being friendly, laughing, giving you positive opportunities and getting on well with you. Know that they enjoy your company.

To improve a business venture:
Hold the intention that your venture is successful, visualise people being attracted to it, finding it’s exactly what they’re looking for, sense and feel their delight at the service you provide, see them going away and telling others about it, hear your phone ringing many times with people enquiring and booking appointments, visualise your diary as full as you require it to be, see and feel the success.

• Use Reiki in all that you do:
  
• Imagine light, colour, sparkles, glitter and reiki symbols all around the image you create ~ get excited about it, you have creative license!
• Always see everyone involved as experiencing joy, happiness, optimum health and wellbeing.
• Imagine Reiki penetrating and surrounding all situations.
• Reinforce your intentions by combining it with meditation, write positive statements of intent in a journal, make affirmations to put up on your wall, fridge, desk etc,
• Laminate pictures that symbolise what you intend and carry them in your wallet
• Use Reiki as often as possible to send to all these situations, visualisations and images.
• Write affirmations to match your intentions, then draw one or more symbols and sandwich them with your affirmation, alternatively hold the affirmation in your hand and intend for Reiki to strengthen your resolve.
• Use the Power Symbol as this is the key to bringing power to our intetions
• Use the distant healing symbol to strengthen whatever you intend, send it to the past so that you learn from it and grow, to the present so that you’re guided to take the right course of action and to the future for success.
• Use a clear quartz crystal and after cleansing and energising it with Reiki, programme it to send energy to your intention

Experiment and enjoy the process!

Annie.

www.spiritandwellbeing.co.uk

www.reikinewsandviews.blogspot.com

Healing Waves of Reiki

Some of you will know ‘reiki Paul’.  Paul has hosted a number of reiki shares at his home in Cornworthy and shared Reiki light with many. Unfortunately Paul has been in hospital for some time, due to a freak motorbike accident in which he received multiple injuries.

This message goes out to all of you to ask if you could please send Reiki to Paul to aid his recovery and to his family, to give them strength.


Reiki Waves to you Paul and Mary Lou xxx

Websites you might be interested in:

http://reikidigest.blogspot.com/

http://www.secretchanges.com/

http://paulocoelhoblog.com/

http://www.reikinewsandviews.blogspot.com/

www.myreikispace.com/

REIKI BLESSINS TO YOU ALL....

Have a wonderful summer and remember to make time to enjoy yourself and celebrate life.

Write out an invitation as if you were writing it out to your best friend, invite them for a Reiki treatment.

This is YOUR invitation to a Reiki treatment ~ YOU are invited to Relax, Refresh and Revitalise.

Put on some beautiful, calming music.  Light some incense and let it fill the air.   Let your whole energy system be revived.

It's so much fun to conciously and continuously explore how you can give healing to yourself and to experience how Reiki works on your own mind, body and spirit.  Think how much more present and healthy it makes you feel. More importantly, if you treat yourself daily you will be happier and more fulfilled in your healing work. 

Go on give yourself a treat, make time for yourself, celebrate Universal energy!!

Reiki blessings to you all.
  

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