Yesterday, I was at Border’s with my daughters and two of their friends.  They were hanging out, reading Manga and discussing Anime.  This is a tedious subject for me.  The constant filtering of which ones they should not be into is a bother.  But, the girls are being fairly mature about that and seem to be self-censuring to a good degree.

It was a particularly difficult morning because of issues with another of our children and I did a few circles in the center of the aisle near the girls before being led to a table of books where a baby book with cute, knitted caps on adorable babies was calling to me.  I’ve been knitting and crocheting lately, and hats are my thing.  (As an aside here, this is a very good therapy for me.  I find that the idea of learning something new, actually getting to finish a project, and then sharing that accomplishment with people is quite fulfilling.  My girls and I never miss the hour or two we spend once a week with the knitting club.)  Right next to this book was “The Power of Positive Thinking” by Norman Vincent Peale.  One of those books one hears of many times in life and puts off picking up.  I opened it a little ways into the pages and found myself reading about sitting in the woods, listening to nature in order to learn how to “hear” God.  I love doing this meditatively anyway, but to have stumbled on the reminder that learning to let go and let God is a good prescription for finding the right answer or path was more than a coincidence, or “co-inky-dink,”  as we say around our house.  So, I continued reading over Norman’s vignettes of different people’s stories of tension and hurry and their having life-changing results by simply stopping in their tracks and breathing a bit.

One story was about a man who insisted on doing everything himself.  He was a business owner and could trust no one to do a good job, or so he thought.  His doctor told him to do this and that for relaxation and then to visit the cemetery for a short time each week.  The man wanted to know why and was told that he would come to realize that each one of those people had died and the world had not actually ended when they did.  The business owner went on to be quite successful by delegating and learning to let go of his perfecting tendency.

The reason that put me here today was that I wanted to share a healing-energy success story with you.  When I work in the evenings on Long Distance Energy sessions, I pray and meditate and connect with the person I have an appointment with.  This is basically the same as Norm’s advice above.  (I am not being rude in addressing him so.  I feel a comfortableness in what he shared with me yesterday and I want to pass on that feel of camaraderie to you as well.)  If I relax and bring my mind back to the subject at hand whenever I feel adrift, a calmness pervades and a deep state comes where images and words and ideas are shared with me for the person I’m working with.  There are many repeat clients who have become friends.  It would be difficult not to become friends when such an intimate connecting goes on.  The following is a portion of a response from a recent session.  This person has had pain in her right side for her entire life and no one has been able to determine why.  I am filled with gratitude to have been used for this person’s highest good and to hear positive results.

… I have to tell you I was going through my day and enjoying class and … the instructor told me I had a glow and looked like I was happy. I realized at that moment the pain in my right side is gone!!  I knew since our session I have felt lighter and happier. But I didn’t put it together.  The pain didn’t leave all at once it just eased off and left. Now my right arm is better but still hurting now and then. But nothing like before the session. …

I find it exhilarating to know it is okay for us to see and enjoy the light side and to feel good even though we may be bearing burdens of darkness at the same time.  It is a matter of letting go and letting God/the Universe help.

Wikimedia Commons Credit cemetery:  Doris Antony

Sue has won a free Long Distance Healing Energy session as well as the promised meditation CD.  Sue is already a client and I appreciate seeing her here.  Thanks for your participation and I hope you enjoy visiting the site.

I am all set for a future contest, by the way, and even found a place to generate random integers in order to pick winners.  Spread the word to your friends and let me know of your interest.

Lots of Love and Gratitude, 

A random drawing will be made of one person from the names of those who contact me between now and 1-11-11. That’s January 11, 2011!

A healing meditation cd shipped free will also be included.

The winner will be announced shortly thereafter and we will make an appointment for a session.

You may send email, use the contact page, or simply leave a comment.  Include your name and preferred way of being contacted should you win.  (I will not post your name and contact information.)

One entry per person, one person per entry, please.

The following are two recent messages from the EFT portion of Long Distance Healing Energy Sessions.  They were meant to be very personal for the clients I was working with, but I chose them because, in my opinion, they are messages we can all benefit from.

“I deeply and profoundly love and accept myself.  (I repeated this phrase until our connection was strong and the session moved along.)  I am grateful for all that my life is.  I am grateful for each breath of fresh air, for each swallow of clean water, for each beat of my heart, and for each step I take.  I am grateful to be filled with God’s love, peace, joy, hope, happiness, energy, health and healing.  These gifts fill me to overflowing.  I am happy to share them and I’m grateful for the people who receive them from me.  I am grateful and show this by returning love to the universe.  I watch as each ripple of love leaves my body, growing larger and larger until they become one with the universe in it’s infinity.  I deeply and profoundly love and accept myself and understand that, by concentrating on fullness, sharing, and gratitude, I turn myself into a magnet for all good things.”

“I deeply and profoundly love and accept myself.  I allow myself to be open to the light and positive energy of the universe.  I am capable of using my intuition and I am not afraid.  I can feel the energy and can tell when it is positive and true.  I am made in the image of God and create my life, past, present, and future.  I am free and unburdened.  I share easily with others and feel the positive connection created by doing so.  I lend love and stability to the common consciousness we all share.  I know I am part of the whole.  I enjoy this feeling, this knowledge, and wrap it carefully, storing it in my heart.  Every beat of my heart reminds me of my worth and abilities.  I deeply and profoundly love and accept myself.”

Please let me know if I can help or assist you in your spiritual walk.  Long Distance sessions are just as intimate, personal, and fulfilling as in-person sessions.

Flickr Creative Commons photo credit Steve Corey

I’ve also been curious about beading, especially making charms to help when working on specific energy imbalances. By curious, I mean I’ve been spending hours wandering the web finding info on what to string the beads on, who has really nifty designs already, what can I expect out of attempting to market them… A couple of years ago, my sister made the most gorgeous book marks from Chakra stones. She used a few embellishments such as Swarovski crystals. Takes time and effort and materials and space and the desire and then clients who might be interested in them.

You know when I am able to do any projects? The kids go to bed at 9pm and I move into the energy sessions which are then done, around midnight. That’s when I’ve been knitting (while I am watching a couple of shows on Hulu). I hit the hay somewhere between 1am and 3am, usually well after 2am. Up at 8am to rest on the couch until about 9:30am when school and running begins. I won’t even go into weekend schedules.

I was working with a client yesterday and found the images being given to me had to do with knitting.  My sister-in-law just gave me a book called, “Zen and the Art of Knitting” and I haven’t gotten to reading it yet, can you imagine?  BUT, I really want to and will shortly.  It came to me that Zen-and-the-art-of means learning about life through the method.  I will present my meandering thoughts on this in a following post.

I am noticing how the pictures and paragraphs above seem haphazard and disjointed, but I’ve decided not to change anything.  Plain old tired and looking for the elusive nap.

Now turn all those around.  I’m clear thinking, easy going, in control, strong, and calm.  That’s better.

These are what I truly am after all and that is why it bothers me so when the opposite words seem to apply.  They just aren’t me and feeling that maybe they do apply makes me feel even more yukko.

How many of us believe we are the awful emotions that emerge when we are stewing in our own crock?  My sister once told me that she appreciated being out and around people because they allowed her to be the real her.  I’ve always liked that thought.  The person we are when we are sharing our best with others is who we really want to be, who we are meant to be, and who we really, really are.

The negative attributes are merely the lack of the positive attributes.

Clear thinking – lack of clear thinking (confused)
Easy going – lack of easy going (irritated)
In control – not in control (bothered)
Strong – not strong (struggling)
Calm – not calm (anxious)

I may not have gotten all the opposites just right, but I think you can get my drift.  We are all some form of the positive attribute and function at some degree on the scale of each.  We would like to function at 100 %, of course, at least I would, but it gets just too darn hard to find the energy to do so.  Then we may feel that the lack of the attribute is the true way we are.

If we can find just the right way of filling our energy cup so that we have plenty to be at the top of our game, we will be quite pleased with ourselves.  What is a good way of accomplishing this?  One term that we know and use is prayer.  Prayer seems to have become more associated with a begging or wishing-for mind set, as if it is out of our hands, while others terms are more proactive or action-ary.   I know these terms are becoming more globally known — clearing, protecting, grounding, meditating…

Find your way of filling your energy cup each day, or even multiple times a day if you live in a difficult environment.  The first one I jump on is deep breathing and drawing energy up through my feet into my body and allowing it to flow out of my chest/heart area.  This works very well.  Remember when Mom used to say, “Count to ten?” – Basically the right way to go.  There is another quick fix/fill-up as well.

Emotional Freedom Technique – EFT tapping is a great method.  While you tap on acupressure points, you are opening your energy meridians.  Too, after having done it to the point of habit, you know this tapping to preempt a feeling of calmness, so it acts as your trigger.  If someone else does the tapping for you, you feel loved and energized from this exchange.  EFT is very powerful.

Aspiring to be the best us we can be is not such a struggle if we learn a few little ways of bumping our energy, filling ourselves with love, and allowing greater possibilities of success.

Fotki photo credit: Glamurka

‘For where there are two or three gathered together — to my name, there am I in the midst of them.’  Matthew 18:20  Young’s Literal Translation

That isn’t to say we should manipulate the energy into doing exactly what we want if it isn’t for our highest benefit.  I believe in remaining humble, grateful, and open to what is best for me.  If I need money to pay bills or the doctor and to buy food, I need to find out why I don’t have enough and work on applying energy to that area of my life.  That is, “I need help being a good employee,” or, “I need help with my self-confidence while I’m self-employed.”  I need to focus on what I can do and do with my best intentions.

This will bring the abundance we hope for.

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Hello,
Do you give Money Reiki Healings?
Thanks

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Hello,

I give Distance energy sessions that use elements from Reiki as well as other modalities. This is a session where you receive energy from the universe and I am acting as a booster of sorts by allowing additional energy to flow through me to you. This benefits you in whatever way the energy sees is best for you, whatever way your Higher Self/Spirit knows is best for you.

I will not/cannot manipulate the energy into doing anything that is not for your highest good.

If you were to ask for assistance with financial issues, I could focus on sending healing energy to whatever it is that is blocking your ability to support yourself. Then I will let you know if any images come to me that might suggest answers or bring up things you may not be aware of.

Please let me know if I can help.

Love and gratitude,
Diana

A client and new friend, thank you Crystal, has sent this video link to me and I was pleasantly surprised that she would think of me in this regard. We have not discussed music before now.

The pentatonic scale is a scale of five tones used in African, Far Eastern, and Native American music.  A thought just flew in…humming sounds, the om’s and hu’s used for meditation, actually massages the thymus and thyroid glands. This is relaxing. I wonder what role the pentatonic scale plays in the notes that we each choose for our healing humming?  There’s a power in the stride between them and a fulfillment in the feel of five notes.

Isn’t it amazing – the grace we receive when it is most needed? Something as simple as a melody raises our spirits and relieves our souls; allowing us to feel love and comfort; bringing us closer to creator God who is truly within us.

We find books and DVD’s and Audio Books at the library for free!  We love listening to the Audio Books during meals and even while we do crafts.

Then the library has other activities going on too.  We are taking advantage of the Knitting Club/Class…for free…and the Signing class…for free…and we will be looking into the Activity times one of the branches has twice a month.

There are also one time programs that are put on.  We want to attend the “Be Kind to Animals” program.
I just made a cute pair of slippers after having learned to knit again.  They are called “Pocket Book Slippers”.  Here’s a photo and the url for you to get the pattern from if you happen to like knitting.  These are very easy and look just like a little pocketbook when you’re done sewing up the two sides.  The size is perfect for my short stubby foot and then stretches out to fit my girls’ long size 9 1/2 feet too without stretching too far and looking ugly.

I had the needles and the worsted already and they cooked up really fast!  The main site I found them at is called Knitting Pattern Central.

My oldest boys are off larping this weekend.  They are having a major battle over in Orlando and we may go see it on Sunday – free except for the gas.  They made their own chain mail by slicing 1″ pvc pipes into 1/8″ rings and then cutting a slit into each so they loop together.  The chest plates are made by cutting 50 gallon blue barrels into about 3″ x 4″ rectangles, rounding, drilling 8 holes in each and then lacing them together.  Yep, long process, but it’s the real thing as in how chain mail has always been made, just not out of plastic.  What a great experience for them.  No photos yet.

Middle son is learning the woodworking trade this summer spending days with his father.

The dogs are happy as can be inside in the air conditioning, as am I, I’ll tell ya.  We had a few days of overcast and rain, which was quite pleasant, but we’re back in the 90′s with high humidity (70+%) after the rains.

I’ve been having a grand time doing Distance Sessions.  It is a most fulfilling acitivity for me, especially as clients share back with me about the readings I provide along with the energy.  I am just as happily surprised as they are and love the positive feedback that results.

All that’s left for me to do is GET SOME EXERCISE!  Right?  Right.  right.

So what to do about clearing the clutter?

Boosts of energy from others’ channeling are always of benefit and get things going faster, but the work basically lies within us.  Attunement was an empowering time for me.  In my opinion, attunement helps individuals see more clearly where their paths lie and aids with their decision making processes.

Meditation is another way to work with energy.  This brings a marvelous balancing into our lives.  Most often, guided meditations will have to do with clearing our energy by being somewhere and doing something and then returning to the present.  This gives us a little break from the daily grind and, after freshening our energy, returns us in a much better frame of mind.

I wrote a guided meditation that is listed under the Free Gifts tab.

As a Reiki Master, I am blessed to be able to assist with teaching the Reiki classes for Hospice volunteers and staff.  I handle different parts of the class; the Chakra teaching portion, the practice session, half of the attunements, and the meditation at the end of the class.  “One with the Universe” is one of the meditations I use.  I love writing meditations and enjoy painting a picture of peace and tranquility within my own mind.  It is fulfilling to know that others appreciate hearing me read them as well.

(I think it’s about time I start creating some mp3′s to post on Curative Energy.  I just have to find a decent microphone.)

Grounding is a stupendous energy moving/de-cluttering technique as well.  Some will cook/eat, garden, exercise, or help others to keep their feet on the ground.  Grounding relaxes us in the long run, helps us feel good about ourselves, and jumpstarts our creative juices.  If we aren’t feeling creative, it’s difficult to want to “spring clean” anything…Our homes, our spiritual insides, or our cars.

So, what does the inside of your car look like?  Time for a little inner space cleaning as well?

A side note regarding attunements brought to mind by a dear client:

I don’t recommend multiple attunements for anything more than an artist’s changing the technique she is working with…I’m an oil painter, I do water colors, I sculpt clay, I weld… The energy is the same even though the way energy workers use it differs.  Any additional attunements would basically say that you are now able to change techniques and to tell others what that technique is.  I know this sounds less than spiritual, but I think people get way too wound up in labeling energy work.  It is a gift from God; each of us is an individual in who we are as well as in how we communicate God’s loving energy.