Knowing When to Move (and when not to)

Some time ago, in a Reiki Master class, I did a channeling of Mikao Usui, the founder of the Usui Reiki Ryoho. In the channeling, he described 6 levels of assessment from beginning Reiki practitioner at level 6 to Spiritual Master at level 1. He described himself as a level 2.

Level 1 was to know how to handle the world, to know how to make life changes when the world is changing.

I have been trying to know what to do as my life and practice continue to change. I feel a strong pull to Colorado, but also a pull (perhaps the pull of inertia) to stay where I am. And it continues to snow...and snow...and snow. Perhaps it is preparing me for a snowier place OR perhaps DC is becoming that place.

I feel like movement has been happening inspite of me. I'm not sure what to make of it. The movement is happening internally, constantly, effortlessly. When I focus on the negative, I'm exhausted, when I don't, I'm invigorated. It's like a self-adjusting robot that moves and assesses with each decision it makes.

I'm going into a shamanic place this week as I prepare materials for a Crystal Healing class coming up this weekend. That always takes me to a mystical region where everything is laden with meaning, even when my partner Steve says he wants summer peas for dinner; I start thinking about the summer, the harvest, sun, nature, and bliss.

I guess it's been that kind of day.

Medicine Wheel Healing Workshop - August 2, 2009

Last Sunday, I taught a workshop in Medicine Wheel healing which I shared with Terry Tindall, a student of several years who has taken most of the classes I have offered at RCGW.

The Medicine Wheel is a tool used by Native Americans that uses the four directions to track the movement of time through the stages of our lives, the months of our years, and the animal, plant and crystal guides we can use to help us on this journey.

There is now a beautiful medicine wheel that Terry and I built at the center, sharing its powerful energies with the new/old space on Glasgow Drive. I will be keeping it up until the next new moon on the 20th of August. Please come by and see it at any of the events this month on:

• August 12, Reiki I-II Practice Group
• August 19, Reiki Student Clinic

Or at any sessions between now and the 20th.