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.

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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.

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‘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.

Diana,

Thank you for the lovely transcript. I can relate to many things that you covered. I have one question that I think may pertain to one of the imageries. How can I protect myself against negativity from a couple of people that I know?

Sincerely,
Kathy Rohe

Hi Kathy,

One of my mentors taught me a very simple method for protection.  It is like performing a grounding technique, all in the intention.

Each time we feel we are being bombarded, we will intend (imagine) a door into a safe, brick, building.  Having previously meditated and created this safe place, we just step inside.  We create our world while others are operating outside of us.  They create their worlds while we operate outside of them.  We can choose to be bothered, hampered, frustrated, or we can protect ourselves from these feelings and possibly intentional, negative thrusts from others.

We can protect ourselves first thing in the morning each day, but must remember to make sure to allow positive energy in.  We don’t want to be living in a bubble.

Simple, yet powerful…really!

Love and gratitude,
Diana

I like this method in that it keeps us from protecting ourselves with actions and words that may not be the best representation of ourselves that we would like. We may tend to get angry as a method of protection when all we might need to do is step inside our safe place and ride out the storm.

I remember when I was first delving into crystals and gemstones information.  It was a huge subject to attempt.  Since the beginning, I’ve come to the conclusion that too much info is not needed.  Once one has the basics down, such as color and chakra matching, the rest comes in bits and pieces as you need to know it.

A really fun way to get started with crystals is to go to a shop and touch them.  Most of my friends ooo and ahhh over how this one feels or that one vibrates or the energy that one is calling to them with.  Yes, it all sounds ridiculous at first, but after a while it becomes easier to notice little tugs or tickles or sudden emotional switches when you pick up the next stone.

Scientifically there are different densities and, of course, mineral makeup, as well as precise frequencies produced by crystals.  For some sensitives, it is a matter of course to be able to feel these, even if only coming within range, not necessarily touching.

One stone that is a favorite of mine is the Kyanite.  It heats up quite noticeably when held for a short period and is known for cleansing the mind of negative thoughts and emotions, removing anger and frustration.  Some even agree that it helps raise one’s vibration and amplifies communication with Spirit.  On a more physical note, it is known to be a pain reliever and helps heal infections.

I had an ahha moment when I read that it was an aluminum silicate.  Aluminum is an excellent heat conductor.  If we heat an area of our body, we draw the blood to it and that naturally brings a concentration of antibodies which then stimulates the healing process.  Vascular headaches are from the constriction of blood vessels.  If the blood flow is increased, the headache dissipates.  There is nothing magical about that, all quite natural.

Quartz crystals are known for their high vibration, diamond crystals are used in many technological applications.  Remember the old diamond phonograph needles?  High technology for its time.  How about the Crystal Set or Crystal Radio?  Ever heard of those?  They don’t need batteries, running off the power of radio waves.  The detector was made of a piece of crystal.  And then the quartz movement watches!  Wowzer, they sure are accurate!  Why is that?

Well, click here for the larger version, but this is a brief part of the answer.  The property that makes it [quartz crystal] an electronic miracle is the fact that, when compressed or bent, it generates a charge or voltage on its surface. This is a fairly common phenomenon called the Piezoelectric effect. In the same way, if a voltage is applied, quartz will bend or change its shape very slightly.

Just a thought — this is a good example of how Old Wives Tales can be based on scientific truths.  Quartz crystals are perfect conductors/receivers.  Some energy workers use them to boost communication on higher levels.  While it may all be in their minds, how much truth might there be in the fact that our bodies are mostly water, which is a conductor, and holding a crystal may very well amplify that conductivity, allowing our thoughts to be shared with others?

By the way, this article’s subject matter came up because I was blessed with a charming polished amethyst at the Energy Works Circle we have at Hospice once a month.  Our leader, Marianne, picked stones and put them out with the candles we light.  We were gifted with whichever one we were led to.

Crystals, gemstones, and plain old rocks…for me!?

As an aside, I’m not all for the depletion of our earth’s body.  I think a found stone is just as worthy as a bought one and while it may not be a crystal or gemstone, we can name what we want to use it for.  Our mental powers are that fantastic.  Quite often, I use Ethereal Crystals during distance healing energy sessions.  I don’t go in intending to use them, but am led to when the time is right.

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One item is something Wolf calls, “The other now.”  I fell in love with that term instantly.  Can you guess what it is?  Where is it we can be present, but not here?  We can use all our senses and even determine what we, as well as others, are doing in this other now.  But, most often, we follow along and then wonder what it was all about later.  Dreaming!  Yep.

Prospero:

“We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.”

The Tempest, Act IV, scene I, William Shakespeare

Dreams, visions, prophecies, does anyone have a corner on that market?  Don’t think so.  I think most people are blessed with the ability to dream.  Not everyone does though.  I just found this great website called The Quantitative Study of Dreams, with some pretty in-depth FAQ’s about dreaming.   They are pretty darn sensible with their answers, even bludgeoning my whimsical ideals of dreaming into submission at some points.  However, I rise undaunted and stick to my guns on my beliefs regarding the positive information we can glean from our dream time.  Who knows from whence our dreams come?  Who knows for sure they are or are not passing on information from a higher source?  It may be that we are talking to ourselves; revealing our innermost thoughts, desires, fears; and encouraging ourselves onward through our lives.   I often wonder if we can control this “now” as much as we can the “other now” of dreams; pay a bit of heed to what we are dreaming and then lead ourselves toward success.

“A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.”  ~The Talmud

What fun it is to share our latest, wackiest dreams with the first person who will listen.  Perfectly natural.  Dream interpretation drifted in along with human awareness and has gone on since man began to speak, I am quite sure.  What better stories to share around the clan fire?  The clan mage, now known as my friend the psychic healer, would have the final say in interpretation, but we could all hedge our bets as to whether the dream would come true or not.  We may even have based our very survival on the interpretations, believing in the mage’s healing powers and accepting, come what may.

The other now. Isn’t it just the most wonderful term?  I love to sleep and to dream.

Demetrius:

“Are you sure
That we are awake? It seems to me
That yet we sleep, we dream.”

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act IV, scene I, William Shakespeare

Hamlet:

“To die, to sleep—
To sleep—perchance to dream. Ay, there’s the rub!
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause—there’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.”

Hamlet, Act III, Scene I, William Shakespeare

My, my, wasn’t he taken with sleeping and dreaming?  Here’s another.  John Keats.

WHAT is more gentle than a wind in summer?
What is more soothing than the pretty hummer
That stays one moment in an open flower,
And buzzes cheerily from bower to bower?
What is more tranquil than a musk-rose blowing
In a green island, far from all men’s knowing?
More healthful than the leafiness of dales?
More secret than a nest of nightingales?
More serene than Cordelia’s countenance?
More full of visions than a high romance?
What, but thee Sleep? Soft closer of our eyes!
Low murmurer of tender lullabies!
Light hoverer around our happy pillows!
Wreather of poppy buds, and weeping willows!
Silent entangler of a beauty’s tresses!
Most happy listener! when the morning blesses
Thee for enlivening all the cheerful eyes
That glance so brightly at the new sun-rise.

Sleep and Poetry, John Keats

Absolutely incredible and astounding metaphors; the number of ways he thought of describing the beauty of sleeping!  Maybe it’s my age that has allowed me to know how enticing this nightly ritual really is.  The lack of sufficient rest, the deprivation of dreaming, filtering, creating in our other state of consciousness can be most discombobulating.  I do crave that “Silent entangler”, “The other now”.  Thank you, William Shakespeare, John Keats, Wolf and Michelle Paver, for your thought inducing bibelots.  Now for “the other now”.  Off to slumber land.

It is a very simple task, one that we can complete in as little as a few minutes.  The most difficult part is setting the time and sticking to the routine.  As with all things learned, it takes some effort at first, but will quickly become a ritual you will not want to set aside or have interrupted.

In my case, nightly before bed has worked best.  Some enjoy a morning time spent in prayer and meditation and will find this writing fits in perfectly as another instrument to further their spiritual walk.  Whenever your choice of perfect time, make sure to keep your appointment.  System is paramount for a feeling of success and strengthening within ourselves.  It serves as a triggering as well as measuring mechanism, just like a physical exercise program does.  Our minds, like our bodies, will get used to the daily exercise; and will be better able to step into the pattern of meditation and writing more easily as we keep to the set format.

If that sounds boring, believe me, it’s not.  I have found that my inner botherings appear more effortlessly and possible modes of  alleviating them become obvious.  Some may say the words come from Spirit, others claim they are from our Higher Selves, Inner Selves or Souls; from ourselves at another level of understanding.  This sounds the most plausible to me, as I understand we are all part of a Higher Consciousness anyway.  We tap into a source of information and use the material gathered there to better examine our lives.

Ever heard of the Stream of Consciousness?

–adjective
of, pertaining to, or characterized by a manner of writing in which a character’s thoughts or perceptions are presented as occurring in random form, without regard for logical sequences, syntactic structure, distinctions between various levels of reality, or the like: a stream-of-consciousness novel; a stream-of-consciousness technique.

This is a writing tool used by some very well known authors, as a matter of fact; especially post-modern writers like: Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce who would write, focusing on the emotional and psychological progression of their characters, while maneuvering through time and place as best fit in with their development.

Basically, there may be no pre-planning or outlining, but instead, a fluidity and feel that comes from allowing the imagination, or psyche, or intuitive nature of the writer to take the reins without prejudice toward the possible outcome.  There is a natural flow that can be felt and an artistic breath of life that is given to this type of writing.

The same with Automatic Writing.  You will be giving your Inner Self permission to express what has been hidden.  At first it may seem that what is appearing is mere drivel, but give yourself time.  Perhaps there will be but one phrase that will have a ring of meaning to it.  My suggestion is that you don’t worry about punctuation or sentence structure.  I’ve found that in the reading, there is a subtle change in direction if we change where we thought the sentence began and ended.  Allow your hand to flow without pausing to think about what is being put on the paper.  Don’t stop, or analyze, or judge the product.  Think of it as finger painting.  The words are already there, you’re just arranging them, pushing the pen as you give your mind its independence.

As a method of creative outlet as well as an in-depth hunt for hidden mysteries within us, Automatic Writing can be taken lightly or as a profound way of connecting with God.  The feel of each session will be different.  Some days may be playful, some days may be highly emotional.  It all depends on what we need to hear and focus on.  Don’t belittle the silly moments, but take care not to allow those to take away from the attitude you approach your daily ritual with; a state of humbleness and gratitude will affect a deeply fulfilling experience.

A point I’d like to insert here is that you should make the writing experience as special as if you were giving a gift to one of the most important people in your life; ’cause you are.  Find a special way to make the time a treat.  Maybe you’d like to make a book by binding some paper together in a homemade method that speaks of you.  Maybe you’re the one who enjoys making a special purchase for yourself on occasion.  Find a perfect pen that makes you feel powerful or unique or in tune with the universe.  Maybe an extraordinary box you found at a garage sale will be the perfect place to keep this bit of you that you will be creating each day.

Welcome to another method of natural self healing.  Remember to keep your journal close at hand and give yourself a tiny push to get started with a new daily habit.  This could very well be the key you’ve been searching for.

I salute you as you walk your path and accept responsibility for your life. 

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