Earth Changes 2011: Japan and Us

Many of my students have been sending healing to the nation of Japan this week after its recent earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear accident. The Tuesday before the earthquake, in our Reiki Practice group, many of us were scanning the earth for healing need and found that Japan really was hurting, four days before the actual incident.

What is happening on our planet these days? Is it random or planned? Why?

I believe that what is happening is the earth's attempt to release built up tension, some of which comes from human beings. We collectively seem to be exhibiting more anger, tension, fear, and sadness than at many other times in human history. Some of us are feeling these things, but neglect to let them out, thus letting them build to a tension that releases into the environment. My cousin Suzanne believes that to create peace we need to be peace within ourselves. From a Reiki perspective, letting the anger, fear and worry release, working hard and being kind to each other is the way towards peace. Where have I released these emotions today?

What I find to be true for myself is that the outer world definitely reflects the inner world. When I notice people being particularly self-centered, I must go within to see where that is operating within me. When I feel anger towards others, I must look at what I feel anger towards within myself. Today, I notice that I must continue to pay attention to others, that a smile to another opens their heart, that seemingly small acts of kindness make others and me feel better, that we are not powerless to change the energy on this planet.

Today, I send this peace to the Japanese people, to our atmosphere, to the people on the west coast of the US who are in a panic about the radiation. All of us are interdependent, all of us are one.

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.

Second blizzard of February 2010

It's February 10, 2010, two feet of snow are in development in Maryland with about 18 inches on the ground so far. Yesterday, my Dad called me from Minnesota to tease, "is this the guy who moved South to avoid the snow?"

I have several pictures on my cellphone, but am not particularly technical, so for this posting you probably won't see them. Suffice it to say that our beagles, Lucy and Toby, aren't tall enough to walk through it without jumping up, and they are 13" and 15" respectively.

Steve is listening to Scarecrow and Mrs. King on his computer; our wi-fi network, newly-installed the day before the storm, is working fine...

One of my clients called me today looking for a remote session. Reiki and other methods have this available to help people with or without a telephone intermediary. I am thinking seriously about doing more remotes, or distant reiki, as they are usually called, to keep my practice thriving when clients can't get out. If the weather is indeed changing as Healing Angel Michael talked about in my last post, it may be time for Reiki Masters to develop better ways of teaching and healing distantly, with a quality training technology that lets people be interactive at a distance as well as hands-on.

Steve and I have not done much towards our move to Colorado in the past couple of months. So, spirit brings Colorado snows to us. Looking at the snow, I am thinking I will need to get more comfortable with my Yin energy, the energy of receiving, listening, meditating, being quiet and attracting. Living in the Washington, DC metro area for so long (26 years at last count), I have gotten very good at being "productive". I put the word in quotes because I refer to the action of being active, rather than necessarily being effective. If you are doing activity that is what is important in this area, even if the activity doesn't seem to do much for you. People here work till they drop and then they collapse into zombies watching television or taking sleep meds to quiet their minds for five hours to try to fill up a bit before doing it all again.

I am changing my pattern now. I am regularly meditating, asking spirit to show me, rather than telling spirit to direct me. I am working towards a pattern of health, rather than recreating a pattern of chronic illness as so many of my clients have. I am looking at causes that may go back to many past lifetimes where I died from lung ailments. In this lifetime, when my own lungs seem to be very tight, that is the very time I need to look at my life.

I don't know if this entry is very inspirational or just the ramblings of someone caught in the snow. Either way, it feels really good to sit in a comfortable chair, hearing the roar of the wind outside with a warm beagle lying next to me with her head on my leg. Right now, we have power, we have had eggs in the basket for breakfast and Earl Grey tea, we are safe, warm and loved. Right now is the most important time for us to live. Right now is the eternal time in which all life really happens.

Healing Angel Michael Speaks on Earth Changes

What follows is a channeling of Michael, one of the Archangels. Michael works as one of the team of Healing Angels in the Integrated Energy Therapy (R) healing system, also known as IET, practiced and taught at the Reiki Center of Greater Washington. In the IET system, Michael works on points on the human body that related to a release of fear and imprinting of safety. For more information about IET, please click on the link above.

Thank you, David, for your kind introduction. As you sit tonight watching the extensive snowfall in your area of Rockville, Maryland, it is difficult to believe that your planet is in the process of a great warming. This great warming is causing movements of the climate to different zones, as evidenced by what you term natural disasters of different types happening outside of where they "usually" do.

Examples:

• The Haitian earthquake where one had not previously been known.
• Reduction in temperatures in the temperate zones of the United States and Europe.
• Desertification moving southward on the African continent.
• Magnification of storms in all seasons.
• Droughts developing in zones where water had been previously abundant.

What we would like all of you to remember is that there is no cause for fear in these developments. It is just important to be aware that change is to be expected and to adjust oneself to it, rather than trying to keep it from happening.

A helpful question to ask oneself might be: "what is this development to teach me?" Please note that there is teaching in all of these developments, allowing humans to make necessary changes. The necessary changes will help humans to move forward down the path to their development, a place where the Earth will be more like the Heaven known in your religious teachings.

Do not fear. Live, love, be grateful, learn. This is the world that you live in. You are never alone...