The Reiki Cafe 

Hello, love, light and laughter to all who read this and to everyone they know...I would appreciate your positive thoughts, prayer, Reiki, love and light to be sent my way during this time of major inner struggles. I am experiencing an incredible amount of emotional pain these days. I'm not taking any of it lying down this time, I have struggled with depression many times throughout my life...I feel 100 times stronger to deal with it this time around, however. I would appreciate all I mentioned above to be sent my way as I will be making some life altering decisions ( I guess we make those everyday...these ones just seem to be bigger than usual) Again, I send my own love and light to all who wish to receive it...passion

Dearest Passion,
* hugs you warmly, enveloping you in a violet light of protection and healing***

Remember that the past is the past and live every new moment as a child; with great wonder and awe. Leave the guilt behind you sweetie, its all done, and nothing from your past can qualify or disqualify you as the beautiful, sweet soul you are Now. Remember that guilt, fear, shame and anything unlike Divine love are simply self fear tools to hold us back from our true potential.
If you were teaching a child to do something, would you tell them that they were bad if they couldn't do it after 200 times, or would you continue to love and support, and tell them you can see their progress and to keep on trying??

Keep on trying honey, you are doing Great!!!!:}

Remember to clear yourself daily by asking that all lower level vibration be healed, cleansed and purified in the Light of Divine Love, or sent to the Light for healing and liberation. ( whichever sounds better for you)

Ask the angel Sandalphon to ground your energy. Close your eyes and feel your open and receptive crown being flooded with Your Presence.
Allow yourself to be present to the Moment at hand. Feel this peace. In this moment there is no past, no future, only now, live here sweetie, you are deserving of such things, and you are loved greatly.

Breathe in Light through every pore of your body. Say this in affirmation form by stating as you breathe in slowly, deeply, gently; "Divine Light within, through and around me." Continue with the breath for a few minutes ( Or longer) saying that statement.

Ask the angel Metatron to increase your Light quotent by 100%. Close your eyes and See the strands of Light flooding through your open Crown. Then become aware of the fact that Light is all around, within, and through you. As you breathe, once again affirm this truth. Pull in the Light into each chakra to clear it.

Focus the Light at your root chakra to heal and clear it.
Ask Spirit to please help you release what ever fears that are holding you.
Daily ask for healing by asking "Spirit, what is it that I am afraid to see, how can I heal this, I am ready to see my truth."
I worked extensively on my root chakra, almost exclusely for quite a while in the past year.

What I have found in books I have read is that through trauma, we tend to be a bit out of our bodies. When faced repeatedly with things we do not wish to expreience, feel, witness, we dull our senses by not really being here.
( become upper chakra dominate, great imaginations)

In doing this, we build up a program that can activate whenever anything stressful occurs in our lives.
It is like we begin to go into automatic every time something happens that might be unpleasant. We unfocus our intentions, so we don't sensate so much. So we are never really present to witness and be a full part of our lives because we have learned to hide in our past failures, shame, blame guilt issues, and projecting it all into the future that has not even been created yet.

I can sense you are willing to start to change and you are willing to start looking within. Know you are strong and you are fully capable to releasing & healing all this old hurt and fear from your life. You are worthy of your truth, and you are worthy of expressing your pain at the hurt you have lived through.
Learn its ok to do a lil screamin and crying therapy if you need to, I know its very liberating. * Smiles *

Learning to stand in our truths is a process that takes time to heal. Releasing all the ways we have kept ourselves in bondage takes time. But honey, you are worth all the time in the world to heal.
You are worthy and there is nothing that you cannot handle no matter what, because I know and you know, that you are Never alone. You are so loved and beloved in the spiritual realms. This is the time that your family in Light is coming to your aid and cheering you on to free yourself once and for all!
Go Girl, you can do it. :}}

Love and Light going out to you sweetie, and if there is anything I can do, if you would like to meet in the chat room, anything, let me know.
I'm here for you like everyone else.

Be at Peace,

Jahnavi

Namaste Passion,

Beautiful,and inspiring you are. Reiki has been sent your way and will continue . Blessings and thank you for extending your love and light to all...

Reiki blessings, love ,and light all around you,

Earthsmist

Thanks jahnavi for your loving words. They have already helped me more than you know. I would like to meet in the chat room as soon as there is a convenient time for both of us...I don't know what time zone you're in, it is 5:02 P.M. right now here in Idaho and the time at the top of the page is 8:00 P.M...if that helps..let me know what works for you...passion

Thank you earthsmist for the healing words and Reiki...passion

Blessed passion,

I cannot add to the wonderful love, care, and beauty of earthsmist and Susan. Please however take this one tiny thought and try it on if it seems to fit.

Do not run from the struggle or the pain. Do not fight it, seek to conquer it. Sit quietly with it, say, "Hello, pain. How are you today? Please tell me about the gift you are preparing me to receive."

All the universe sends is gifts. If we think otherwise it is because we are too bound to an expectation or belief in how love, beauty, truth, justice and healing *should show up."

After an incredible healing garden chat/attunement with Susan I found myself thinking that if we had a gratitude message board the Healing Request board would be unnecessary.

Ah, if we knew the power of gratitude, even when we cannot see expected or desired results, we would try to place it like a loving, living template over all aspects of our life. For me, it is always the dare to trust in a Glorious Holy Purpose, MOST ESPECIALLY, when my interpretation of unfolding reality does not seem to indicate its presence. Yet one truth shall indeed reign: Love's glorious manifestation penetrates and shines through all incidents, illnesses, happenings, exposing seeming dark, brokenness, struggle as illusions we can toss aside like outgrown clothes.

You do not need to believe any of this. Just know that I, and perhaps other blessed cafe members,hold it true for you.

Walk with full confidence into the holy space, no matter if it seem rending or evokes pain: know, indeed, that this healing recepticle and abode were prepared for you from ancient days, and that all creation rumbles, aches and hungers to bless, gift and celebrate you ~ just as you are, right now.

You are worthy.

Take that to the bank.
Take it deep within.
Let it make its home with you.

Please know, passion, I hold you and yours in kind intent.

Blessed be the One Who promises to never abandon, forsake or forget us ~ my wife, she of the congenital Lutheran variety and fond of words of grace, always tell me Creator, or one might also say, Holy Purpose/Intent is ALWAYS as close as our breath.

Breathe deeply, breathe free.

~gassho~, my friend

Secial blessings to Susan and Janice for your beautiful words and care ~ both of you give Light form, play and manifestation when the illusory dark tries to fool us into believing it's real. Not so.

b.

Blessings, love and light to you beau. It amazes me how perfectly these responses to my healing request "fit" me and have helped me tremendously just by reading them. P.S. what does gassho mean? passion

[forgive me cafe, if some of this was in earlier post]

passion,

I found the word 'gassho' at Vincent's Reiki Plain and Simple site which was suggested from a firekeeper post.

I was struck by one short sentence in his training section:

"Do Gassho." [before Reiki]

At the time, I did not know the word 'gassho' but thought it might be connected to earthsmist's, firekeeper's and other's /*\ symbols. A Internet search brought this Zen site quote:

"When the Buddha was enlightened, the first thing he said was: 'Wonder of wonders! All sentient beings have this same (enlightened) nature."

The story went on to tell how the Buddha returned to the monks after his bodhi-tree enlightenment. He had been seeking enlightenment with these men [why is it always men in these stories anyway? Go figure].

The monks were angry with him for he had not followed their strict fasting program ~ they thought his drinking goat's milk quite extravagant ... they were prepared to be rude,a nd judgmental, to chastise the Buddha.

But, when they saw the Buddha, immediatly their hands joined, almost of their own accord, tilted at about a 45-degree angle, in an act of bowing~honoring prostration: without planning, they HAD to physically find a way to celebrate the Divine expressed in Buddha. He was so beautiful that they also set aside the anger and began learning from him.

What this little story and Vince's admonition implied for me, is that when we bow to the Buddha, we, like the monks, actually bow to ourselves and all beings.

Passion, here is my journaling from post when I discovered this word [certinly more than you asked for, but the reason I end my posts with this word]:

"Since Reiki, I have begun a relationship with my self. When I read Vince's gassho sectiojn, chills went through my whole body. A gentle rain storm, with lightly rumbling thunder was in the background.I awakened at 4:45, feeling rested, having gone to bed a bit earlier. Thunderstorms always reminds me of "Black Elk Speaks" and the teacher's special relationship with thunder. On special times this thunder has visited me.

What chilled me during the reading on gassho was this:

Gassho is a reverent gesture. Our bodies, as those first inintiates, must find a way to celebrate/affirm/acknowledge our encounters with the divine.

But, what if gassho is more than a reverent gesture? Perhaps it is a metaphor for honoring self-regard. For working toward a consistent, moment-by-moment decision to move beyond the internal judge, to rest in the wonder we can access the divine within us with awareness, effort and sacred intent.

If I bow in reverance before the Buddha/Christ/Goddess within me, then all I touch will, as one poet put it, move in the dancing fever of love. If I live within the metaphor of this self-posture, self-love, self-honoring is guaranteed.

How, then, can I possibly re-commit to a path of self-harm? Gassho [interchangeable with Reiki] is an intentional commitment to a way of being in the world, a transforming filter through which we regard reality. If applied with
persistence and consistency, with appreciation, gratitude, respect, I believe it will *create/draw to us* an abundant reality. Even the darkest times will be part of the sacred path, and too holy.

I felt this in my Reiki I workshop - even the most horrid, awful past memories stirring up were blessed, beautiful, worthy: because they are part of me.

Why, does all I share and read and feel, not seem new. But as an ancient remembering, a return, [coming home again, *but* knowing it as if for the first time - T.S. Eliot,
"Four Quartets" (* emphasis mine)]

We find what we seek. Intention manifests awareness that the Highest Good is a constant.

Like the Tao, gassho seems most natural ~ *what is so* Vincent might say. Like the skies' gentle rain, the mother wolf giving suckle to her cubs. The seed dying, taking root, forming new life.

For me, so much of this is purging ourselves of the complex machinations that are at times the curse of consciousness.

So long sacred texts.
Goodbye oracular interpretations.
Let's just watch the birds, clouds, stars and
rivers.

Does the universe contain a higher wisdom than a kitten at play?

~

Everything starts with me. No one in the cafe, not firekeeper, nor Vincent, nor any Master whatsoever can give me self-honoring. Only I can do that. For me, that is the beauty of self-gassho.

The bipolar/addiction journey has been a long one for me. I have loathed, abused and judged myself; I have pounded my head with my fists and hated 'the carrion flesh' that bore my spirit for decades.

With Reiki and the support of the cafe, I no longer judge myself in any way but this: Do my words, actions advance harmony or support disharmony. And even in this question: I give me lots of growing space. LOL

Writing, even the best, is just folks lovingly marking their path for others to follow. Though blessed, sacred, holy and wondrous, the words are not the
experience. The experience is truly ineffable.

I bow before you, friend. /*gassho*\

Beau

thank-you beau...your words are very eloquent and powerful to me..I appreciate you as well...passion

Namaste Passion,
Many blessings to you on your journey. I know what it's like to battle with decisions and depression. I think it's wonderful that you're actively seeking the harmony that is all of ours. Just know that you're not alone even if you feel that way during a few low points. Reiki and prayers are on the way. Feel free to drop me a line if you need to.

Love, Light and Blessings,

Greetings,

I don't check this board as often as I used to, but your healing request got my attention. I don't know the details of your struggle, but I sincerely hope my not-so-distant Reiki (from across the border) will help in some small way to give you the courage you need at this difficult time.

Love and light,
Marc

Greetings,

I don't check this board as often as I used to, but your healing request got my attention. I don't know the details of your struggle, but I sincerely hope my not-so-distant Reiki (from across the border) will help in some small way to give you the courage you need at this difficult time.

Love and light,
Marc

Blessings Marc....your response is much appreciated by me...thanks for caring..passion