Holistic Healing – Crystal Therapy

Most people who want to use crystals have a particular purpose in mind. Although some families of minerals are more likely to yield the desired result, not all specimens from the same family have similar properties, whether physical (such as fluorescence) or metaphysical (such as healing). Additionally, not everyone reacts the same way when exposed to a crystal.

How to Find the Right Healing Stone

First, let us examine what is the most important criterion when selecting a crystal: vibrational match to your purpose. Everything around us vibrates at a particular frequency. This frequency is related to the movement of the atoms of our physical world, and it changes overtime. Even during the course of a day, your own vibrational frequency will vary. As you feel happy, successful and fulfilled, your vibrational frequency is quite high. But when you do your taxes, worry about work, or get into a fight with a loved one, your frequency goes down.

Increasing Your Vibrational Frequency

When you seek the help of a crystal, you are enlisting a powerful ally to “raise” your vibrational frequency. No matter what the crystal is used for, its desired effect is always an increase in your vibrational frequency. We often crave certain crystals because we have a great “vibrational match” with them. This vibrational match means that proximity to this crystal raises our vibrational frequency, thus making us feel “good.”

Selecting a crystal for a particular purpose is a great way to help yourself without having to devote much energy to it. The proximity of the crystal is constantly affecting your own frequency, guiding you upward toward your goal. Similarly, a crystal that does not have a good match is constantly draining you by lowering your vibrational frequency. Hence, selecting the right crystal is of crucial importance.

There are many books that describe crystals and their usage, yet most of them disagree on exact properties. This makes perfect sense if you consider that different crystals of the same family have different properties, and also that people will react to them differently. But this does make the selection of the right crystal more challenging, if you don’t know how to proceed.

Crystal Selection Process

Here is a simple process to identify which crystal will work best for your specific goal.

1. Clearly identify your purpose
2. Look for a few crystal varieties that seem to support your goal (in a book, online, from a professional, etc.).
3. Pick a specific specimen that offers vibrational match to your frequency.

That last part is best accomplished by holding the crystal in your hand or thinking about holding it (if you’re buying online for example) and state your purpose: “I want to lose weight.” Always state the purpose in an affirmative sentence (so don’t say: “I want to stop feeling angry”). Affirmative sentences allow the flow of energy (which is what you want), while negative sentences trigger resistances. Close your eyes while you state your purpose so you can focus inward.

If you are more in-tuned with your emotions, look for a good feeling (light, tingly, happy, smiling, good memories come to mind, laughing are all good). If you are more in-tuned with your body, you can use muscle testing: balance yourself upright and let your body “hover” and let it fall in the direction it wants. If you fall forward, it means you have a good match. If you fall backwards, you don’t. There are many different ways to use muscle testing for this purpose, this is an easy one.

Opening Up to Your Crystals

Once you have found the crystal, make a conscious decision to let yourself be open to its influence. In order to interact with the physical world, we often need to shut down our receptivity to outside influences. That can lead to a generalized shutdown where all influences are blocked. You might find yourself inadvertently fighting the crystal’s influence.

One last thing you can do to facilitate the influence process is to place your crystal close to a small water fountain. Do not place them in the water, as the mineral deposits might damage them. But anywhere near the fountain will do. This allows the very powerful chi of the water to propagate the vibrational frequency of the crystal throughout your house or office.

What is Smudging?

Smudging is the ritual of burning plant resins and herbs in a shell or a clay bowl while intentions and prayers are called forth. For centuries, Native American and Indigenous cultures have practiced smudging rituals to clear away negative energy, to invite in peace and harmony for individuals or environments. The smoke from the herbs and the plant resins are fanned using a feather or a hand and directed like a spiritual cleansing bath surrounding the person or the space.

The purpose of this cleansing ritual is to clear away anxieties, sadness, impurities, dark thoughts or unwanted energies that may have attached themselves to a space or an individual.

Smudging is most often performed before or as part of a ceremony to clear the environment and the people from certain thoughts or feelings that will not serve the highest good in themselves. For this reason, it is important to set a clear intention while smudging.

As the smudging ceremony is practiced, the smoke rises and so do the prayers to mother earth, father sky, to the sun and the moon, to the plants, the animals and the water. The burning of the sacred plants- sage, cedar, sweetgrass and palo santo- to name a few, support the connection to the sacred realms between the earth and spirit. Through this connect to spirit the smoke bath lifts negative feelings and energy and creates an opening for prayers and intentions to be heard, therefore bringing positive intention into practice.

What Plant Medicines are Used for Smudging?

Here are a few of the Plant Medicines used for Smudging and the symbolic meaning behind them:

Sage

Sage offers clarity, vision, strength and wisdom; it is known as a medicine for Women.

Sage is used traditionally in Native North American, First Nations and Indigenous cultures to represent the life force and maternal lineage of women. Sage can be gathered and bundled to dry in a stick or a smudge stick can be purchased already dried.

Cedar

Cedar is used to heighten positive energy, to uplift feelings and evoke positive emotions.

Cedar holds the medicine to purify and return balance.

Cedar can also be used as a healing tea as it is very high in Vitamin C. It can be bundled, dried, and burned for purification and to heighten the connection to the spiritual realms.

Sweetgrass

Sweetgrass is braided, dried and then burned as a cleansing ritual. As the smoke from smudging rises it is believed that our prayers too will rise up to the world of spirit to be seen, heard, and to be remembered. Sweetgrass symbolizes kindness- as this plant only bends when walked upon and never breaks – may we too remember that if injustices are done upon us may we hold kindness in our hearts and not react with hostility.

Sweetgrass is known as the hair of Mother Earth.

Tobacco

Tobacco is a sacred medicine plant to all North American Indigenous Cultures. Tobacco is believed to be a gateway or a bridge between the Earth and Spirit realms. 

Tobacco can be used as a way to thank Mother Earth or the Creator for the abundance and beauty we receive every day.

Palo Santo

Palo Santo is a mystical tree that grows on the coast of South America and it means “Holy Wood” in Spanish. It’s scent is known to raise the vibration in preparation for meditation, creative endeavors and ceremony.

Copal

Copal is a natural tree resin and comes from the Buresa tree family in Southern Mexico. Since ancient times, Copal incense has been considered sacred to the Mayan and Aztec people. Using copal to smudge before meditation and ceremony can assist in strengthening peace of mind while removing energy blockages from the body.

Any of these plant medicines – along with any others that you feel called to burn – can be placed in a shell, a clay bowl or the open fire. Take the time to witness the smoke purifying and rising, allow the smell of the herbs and incense to bring you into a place of pure presence. As you call forth your prayers, visions, or intentions stay curious, open and full of heart as you engage in your smudging ceremony.

MINDFULNESS & DISABILITY

What is mindfulness?

Mindfulness, a meditative practice focusing on attention and awareness training, has been shown to have positive effects on mental and physical wellbeing. A recent review of studies has also shown that mindfulness meditation helps people with intellectual disabilities and autism spectrum disorder reduce their mental and physical problems.

Mindfulness teaches how to be aware of what is happening to us in the present, both physically (such as breathing) and mentally (such as emotion).

Mindfulness has been gaining momentum in the public eye over the last 10 years or so. It has been described as both a practice and a way of being, with many saying it has improved their own quality of life.

Recently, mindfulness has become a tool for helping those with mental health issues, with the advent of both mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT).

But how exactly can mindfulness be applied in the lives of people with disabilities, and what benefits does mindfulness have for them?

Mental health issues are often linked to a variety of factors, such as socioeconomic status, health, pain, mobility, trauma and isolation, all of which are common challenges for those who have disabilities.

It is, therefore, no wonder that people with disabilities often have mental health issues as well. However, this is where mindfulness comes in.

Challenging behaviour is the most prevalent problem faced by people with these disabilities. It includes aggressive, self-injurious, destructive and disruptive behaviour.

Challenging behaviour is a major threat to the education of children with these conditions. It is also a major reason leading them to criminal pathways.

Mindfulness is a style of thinking that helps people manage their thoughts and feelings. Mindfulness is becoming more and more commonplace, whether that is in either the home or the workplace, as more people realise its potential as a tool to help.

One study found that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy was effective at helping treat depression not only in the short term, but the long term as well.

Often, many people with disabilities will carry a lot of stress and frustration around how a disability can affect their lives, without necessarily having the tools to deal with these feelings.

Many people with disabilities experience loss, which then leads to further loss. For example, your sense of purpose may be impacted, or there is sometimes a decrease in self-esteem. But by using mindfulness, visualisation and breathing techniques, people with disabilities can learn to process these feelings in a healthier way.

Mindfulness can be used to tackle feelings of sadness, anger and guilt in healthy ways. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for example, can change the way that you think about life events through the use of meditation.

REASONS TO MEDITATE

It’s More Than Just a Stress Reducer

The reasons we meditate are as varied as the many ways there are to meditate. In the West, most people are drawn to meditation to quiet the internal chatter of the brain and to reduce stress. Meditation is, indeed, a very effective stress reducer, but its benefits – sometimes mysteriously hidden – are far more bountiful. 

1. Because It’s Good for Our Bodies

Scientists gathering data on meditation have found that a consistent practice not only boosts the mind, but it also bolsters the body. Studies bear out that meditation can help reverse heart disease, reduce pain, and support the immune system, better enabling it to fight disease.

The mind-body connection between stress and disease is abundantly apparent as science is finding that meditation can lower production of the stress hormone cortisol. This means meditators are better able to adapt to stress in their lives and its common physiologic responses, which can include:

• Heart disease
• Osteoporosis
• Sleep problems
• Digestive problems
• Depression
• Obesity
• Memory impairment
• Skin conditions

2. Because It’s Good for Our Relationships

Paradoxically, while meditation helps us tune in and turn inward to our true essence, it also helps us detach from our own egos to connect with others in more meaningful ways. Couples counselors have found when they assign their clients meditation, the couples become less angry, more self-reflective, and more loving.

When we become aware of – and honor – our interconnection with other beings, we are able to recast our perspectives, see our worries in a different light, and embrace gratitude, which is the heart’s memory.

3. Because It Can Change Our Lives

In a world rife with never-ending fast fixes, crash diets, and get-rich-quick schemes, it’s nice to know there is a proven practice that really can change your life (or at least bring about dramatic effects) in just a little time each day.

Yogis and doctors both agree: meditating – even just a few minutes of deep breathing – relaxes the brain, reduces anxiety, and decreases depression. When we feel as though we can’t afford the time to meditate, the truth is we can’t afford not to.

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“Just for today, be grateful,” is one of the Five Reiki Ideals. It is important for Reiki practitioners to notice and to spread thoughts of gratitude each day, because as each of us lives in his or her grateful heart, we not only create light within ourselves, but we also become a powerful collective consciousness for light.

Gratitude is a vibration of Divine Light. Everything in the physical universe shares gratitude as a part of its life force. When we live in gratitude, we are in the flow of creation, and we create a band of light that collects the gratitude we express and becomes a prevailing thought form of peace and thanksgiving encircling the Earth.

 

I do not always know what to do about the darkness in the world, but I do know that the light always illuminates the dark, and that the greatest power I have personally to effect change in the world, is to add light to the light.

 

And so I:

“Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say that I am a dreamer, but I am not the only one. I hope some day you will join us and the world will live as one.” John Lennon, Imagine.

Reiki is a source of Divine Light. When we activate Reiki, we become a portal for the Divine Light to enter into the density of this world. The Usui Master symbol literally means, “treasure house of the Great Beaming Light,” and “Great Being of the Universe, shine on me.”  Reiki sends the vibration of Divine Light to the Earth through us, and the more we use it, the more Divine Light there is on the planet.

Being human and living life on Earth can be hard, and it is sometimes challenging to be in gratitude. Therefore, we need specific tools that help. Gratitude is a practice. The more attention and focus we give it, the easier it is to be grateful.

 

It actually can be developed as a skill. Reiki offers many tools that can help us focus on our blessings each day. I asked my Reiki guides for ways to express gratitude, and they gave me the Reiki Gratitude Ceremony and the Reiki Gratitude Treatment as two powerful Reiki tools.

The Reiki Gratitude Ceremony creates an entrance point for the presence of Divine Light. People gather together to pray and claim their intentions. The power of the prayers and intentions is increased when a circle of Reiki light unites the people who are gathered. Reiki amplifies the light and invites the divine presence to join the circle.

A Reiki Gratitude Treatment can help to heal negative thought patterns and assist in the discovery of the grateful heart even in the midst of turmoil. It can empower us and make it easier to perceive and choose gratitude, wisdom, and love each day. Reiki can heal the places where we are blocked and ungrateful.

When we think about our gifts and blessings and say thank you, our hearts open and our minds are positive, inspired, and receptive. When we are grateful, it is easier to have a creative mind, which makes it easier to manifest our goals and dreams.

When we think about all that is not good enough in our lives, we can spiral into negative circling thoughts. Mind chatter, negativity, blame, and criticism rob us of a full and happy life. “Mind garbage” distracts us; we cannot hear our inner guidance, and there is no room for inspired ideas. We can become depleted, stressed, and anxious, and feel as if we do not control our own lives.

Usually it is a matter of training our minds to think about our blessings, but we have to make a deliberate choice to notice them. This can be a full time job at first, but as we develop positive mental habits, it becomes easier and easier. Reiki and gratitude are powerful tools that can instantly change our thoughts the moment we focus on our blessings.
A grateful heart is one of the quickest ways to heal mind chatter, negative thought, and unwanted perceptions. Jan Engels Smith, writes in Becoming Yourself, the Journey from Head to Heart:

“Be directive in what you create in your life. If you are directive, you are utilizing your gift of choice your sacred free will to choose the personal thoughts and beliefs that will manifest in your life. When you realize the power of your thoughts, and start to monitor them, you have taken the first step toward creating change for yourself.”

REIKI- What is it?

Reiki, or ‘Universal Life Energy’, is the spiritual healing energy of the universe. It is metaphysical by nature, and esoteric with respect to normal human cognizance. The Japanese word ‘Reiki’ can be broken down into two parts – ‘Rei’, meaning universal, or omnipresent, and, ‘Ki’, meaning life energy. Thus Reiki literally means Universal Life Energy.

This system of healing was founded and revived in the early 1900s. History has it that Krishna, Gautam Buddha, Jesus Christ and many saints have used the power of healing with their hands. But neither was this recorded anywhere, nor was it in practice anymore.  Dr.Mikao Usui received divine enlightenment for the same through an austere meditation atop a very sacred mountain in Japan, and established the Usui System of Natural Healing or Usui Shiki Ryoho. Under this system, a Reiki practitioner channelizes healing ‘Reiki’ energy into an individual from his/her palms, with or without touch.

Reiki  is guided by the higher intellect, that is, the divine, and brings relief from any kind of adverse condition(s) that goes against the welfare and wellbeing of an individual, a couple, or a group entity. In bringing relief, Reiki not only heals the painful symptoms, but also heals the root cause(s) of the problem. Such problem could have manifested at the physical level, causing disease, discomfort, pain and dysfunction in the body; at the mental level, causing imbalances that surface as depression, paranoia, phobia, obsession, and any other mental disorder; at the emotional level, causing emotional imbalances, outbursts, and other emotional crises; or at the spiritual level which is the deepest of the four levels of human perception.

As such, disharmony at this level usually links back to trauma experienced as a fetus, as an infant, as a child, or even in a previous birth wherein the being has carried forward memories of its past life experience(s) into the present life. Sometimes, a harrowing incident even at a more matured stage in life could have impacted deep enough to cause an imbalance at the spiritual level!

No matter what the problem, its depth or complexity, Reiki works out a unique healing solution that takes care of the energy block, the imbalance, the disease or any other abnormality, as well as all peripheral issues that might have branched from them. Thus, Reiki is a natural holistic energy medicine, safe and gentle for everyone in need of healing, re-energizing and rejuvenation. Being ‘life’ energy itself, it has no adverse effect on life forms and heals… irrespective of the age, gender, physical, mental and emotional conditions. With no complicated techniques, no painful procedures, instruments or equipments tied to it, Reiki is one of the easiest, simplest and most flexible of alternative energy medicine modalities. And since it does not interfere with therapies, procedures and medications, Reiki can safely be taken along with all ongoing treatments. Moreover, Reiki healing helps reduce negative side effects of other treatments and medications.

Reiki  healing significantly enhances and expedites the process of recovery, and boosts the body’s immune system. Regular Reiki healing helps cure pain and ailments we suffer from in daily life, reducing both the duration and the intensity, and protecting against many more!

Spiritual development and a stronger intuition are the other benefits of Reiki healing that come along naturally as one progresses along thisi path.

Reiki  can be learned from a Reiki guru titled Reiki Master Teacher. The Reiki Master is equipped with very powerful spiritual symbols that act as the gateway to the sacred healing energies existing at very high frequencies. At a Reiki class, the Reiki Master Teacher ‘attunes’ the student to the special Reiki frequencies. This enables the student to access the higher healing energies with a mental affirmation. After attunement, the student becomes a Reiki Channel, and can channelize Reiki to heal the self and others. An attunement stays active for life and does not wear away with time.

Under the Usui System of Natural Healing, or Usui Shiki Ryoho (in Japanese), the practitioner’s power and ability to heal increase progressively through three levels, namely, Reiki First which is meant for beginners, Reiki Second Degree which is meant for those who have practiced as First Degree Channels for over two months, and Reiki Third Degree or Master Teacher Degree which is meant for Reiki Channels who have practiced at the Second Degree level for over two years and wish to take up Reiki teaching as their way of life.

Learning Reiki  takes a dedicated two-day course, and stays good for a lifetime. Following the Reiki course, regular practice is necessary to enjoy the healing benefits of Reiki. EVERYONE HAS THE CAPACITY TO CHANNEL THE UNIVERSAL LIFE ENERGY!

At the risk of repeating – Reiki is the same life energy that animates every cell in the body. Whenever this life energy falls below the healthy level within the physical, mental, emotional or karmic energy of a living being, it goes through suffering. This happens when negative energy gets accumulated from external sources, or, gets generated from within as a result of negative thoughts, words or actions, and blocks the circulation of positive/life energy. What Reiki healing does is that it infuses fresh flow of life energy which either dissipates the negative energy block, or dissolves it into the positive energy field which is much stronger than the negative energy field, thereby restoring the steady circulation of life energy, raising the energy up to the healthy level. Reiki healing thus recharges the recipient with health, harmony and completeness at all levels of consciousness, and in all aspects of life.

On my Reiki journey so far, I have had incredibly amazing experiences healing both people who were near me, and those who were miles away from me in a far away continent. Reiki transcends time and distance; at the metaphysical level, factors of time and distance do not exist!

There are countless amazing stories of Reiki healings that could seem miracles, yet Reiki manifests such healings all the time, spontaneously! …And I am sure that every dedicated Reiki practitioners all over the world has experienced the Reiki blessing!

I am Cheryl-Anne Kannemeyer, Reiki Master Teacher and Healing Channel. Reiki is my way of life. I have been fortunate enough to channel healing to the suffering, to relieve diverse problems in life. I have witnessed healing at greater depths than I could have imagined! Through the past twelve years of my practice Reiki has amazed me with not only the way it heals ailments, obstacles, disorders and relationships, but also the way it connects individuals, bringing them together for the purpose of healing -at every instance re-establishing, rejuvenating and restoring harmony, health and happiness within as well as all around the recipient and the healing channel!

With love, light and Reiki!

Reiki – Distance healing

How Does Distant Healing Work?

Distant Healing often helps clients to lead healthier and more productive lives by resolving recent or chronic conditions. For example, remote healing may facilitate a reduction in pain from injury or surgery; ease childbirth for both mother and infant; and improve detoxification or clearing of chemicals, medications, X-rays, and MRI’s. Other common conditions for which distant healing may be helpful include: physical release of stress, tension, recent or old traumas to bones, muscles, nerves, tendons, and more.

CLINICAL EVIDENCE that Distant Healing works:
An article written by three renowned researchers details a double-blind randomized controlled study that reveals clinical evidence about the effects of distant healing. The purpose of the trial was to study the effects of distant healing performed by a professional Japanese healer on chronic pain. Read the article

Can I “feel” my Distant Healing During my Session?
Your ability to perceive or feel energy does not deter the effects of distant healing. Highly-sensitive clients will simply be more aware of the healing as it happens. Others may simply feel relaxed, or notice improvements over time.

How are Distant Healing Services Offered at The Way To Balance?

Distant healing at The Way to Balance is scheduled the same as for in-person sessions. For each distant healing session, Cheryl-Anne is  totally focused on the client, behind closed doors, for each hour-long distant healing session.

Typically, Cheryl-Anne will briefly converse with the client at the beginning and end of the session to establish goals and provide feedback. Telephone access during the session is not required, however. Telephone contact varies according to each client’s personal needs and health or emotional condition. For example, clients undergoing medical treatments during the time of the session are being assisted with Remote Healing techniques, and are thus not on the telephone with the therapist.

Who uses Distant Healing services?

Local clients tend to utilize distant healing when they are too ill to travel, or during inclement weather, or while undergoing and recovering from medical treatments or surgeries in a hospital, such as cancer radiation/chemo, hip knee replacement, heart surgery, etc. Coma, stroke, nursing home patients may all benefit from distance healing or remote healing sessions.

To schedule Distant Healing Sessions, please email ca.kannemeyer@gmail.com

 

 

Questions and Answers about Healing Energy Work

Q. What is the difference between Reiki and RYSE?
A. Reiki is very PEACEFUL, RYSE is very TRANSFORMING! (Which is NOT to say RYSE isn’t peaceful or Reiki isn’t transforming!)? Reiki is hands-on healing; RYSE is done with a clear quartz crystal, off the body, working on the energy field. In Reiki I have music in the background; RYSE is a CD with words (with music behind them), telling your energy system what to do to become clear and aligned. RYSE is a SERIES of five private sessions, which are progressive…. leading up to an initiation to your Blueprint” (Highest Healed Self). Both Reiki and RYSE are very helpful for eliminating stress, increasing peace, helping with certain medical conditions, and before and after surgery to quicken the healing process and release the trauma inside the body and energy field.

Q. Can you tell me what’s wrong with a person’s chakras?
A. It’s better for you when I explain how your inner work and self care can help your system stay aligned after your energy clearing. I like to affirm your progress, what the healing session did for you, and how you can continue to maintain your alignment. Sometimes I’m very direct, however, about what your system might be “screaming” for, such as a change in diet, fresh air and exercise, or a commitment to free up your perceptions or limiting beliefs. Everyone always leaves the session at their next possible level of healing and alignment. There is never an “end point!”

Q. Are you psychic?
A. Well, everyone is! It’s a matter of degree. I use intuition in my healing work to continually sense and assess what the energy system and body are wanting so I can move energies in an optimal way. I use all senses …seeing, feeling, hearing and knowing to access information. I also perceive and work with past trauma and inner child work. I do this by sensing the health of the inner child working multi-dimensionally with her to help bring her back to that magical child state. I also use my intuition with my oracle card readings, which occur after most healing sessions or as a separate offering. The oracle cards seem to bring about clarity, encouragement and confirmation based on what the client is looking for in the way of healing.

Q. Are you a medium?
A. Sometimes I see people who live in heaven, usually before, during or after a healing session or during a card reading. Sometimes they just show up, sometimes I tune in willfully and see someone. There is usually a reason they show up… like to let the loved know they are okay and to send love.

Q. Can bad karma be released?
A. Karma is simply “cause and effect.” We receive “lessons” from our works that may be unkind in some minor or major way. Karma is a great teacher. There are various ways karma is released. Karma exists in the cellular memories held in the physical body and in the energy system. When we energetically purify and raise our vibration by receiving healing work, or have a continuing spiritual practice like meditation and yoga, we release karma. In other words, karmic release happens through our soul work and is also brought to us through divine grace. That’s why letting go and forgiving and working with detachment and accessing our higher virtues is true spiritual work. This work crosses dimensions and can go all the way back to help heal our ancestry….and all the way into our future to pave the way for the return of “good” karma. Our “good” acts produced through our thoughts, feelings, beliefs and actions create “good” karma…so it also works both ways!

Q. How many healing sessions are usually necessary?
A. My usual response to this question is that you will feel a difference immediately, and even more within 48 hours because it takes 48 hours to fully integrate your healing. You energy system will “climb” for a time. If you never receive another session, you may notice old patterns returning. If you keep up sessions regularly, to whatever degree feels “right” to you, your system begins to take on a permanent “re-wiring” so you can maintain an easy access to your peace, joy and balance. There is not an end point to our evolution. Energy healing supports and quickens your evolution to your highest healed Self. We can often tell when we feel “off” and it’s time for a session. Those who have energy healing on a regular basis have an easier time maintaining steady balance.

 

Getting to grips with Meditation

In the space which thought creates around itself, there is no love. This space divides man from man, and in it is all the becoming, the battle of life, the agony and fear. Meditation is the ending of this space, the ending of the me.

Then relationship has quite a different meaning, for in that space which is not made by thought, the other does not exist, for you do not exist. Meditation then is not the pursuit of some vision, however sanctified by tradition. Rather it is the endless space where thought cannot enter.

To us, the little space made by thought around itself, which is the me, is extremely important, for this is all the mind knows, identifying itself with everything that is in that space. And the fear of not being is born in that space.

But in meditation, when this is understood, the mind can enter into a dimension of space where action is inaction. We do not know what love is, for in the space made by thought around itself as the me, love is the conflict of the me and the not-me. This conflict, this torture, is not love. Thought is the very denial of love, and it cannot enter into that space where the me is not. In that space is the benediction which man seeks and cannot find. He seeks it within the frontiers of thought, and thought destroys the ecstasy of this benediction.

Meditation is one of the most extraordinary things, and if you do not know what it is you are like the blind man in a world of bright colour, shadows and moving light. It is not an intellectual affair, but when the heart enters into the mind, the mind has quite a different quality: it is really, then, limitless, not only in its capacity to think, to act efficiently, but also in its sense of living in a vast space where you are part of everything.

Meditation is the movement of love. It isn’t the love of the one or of the many. It is like water that anyone can drink out of any jar, whether golden or earthenware: it is inexhaustible.

And a peculiar thing takes place which no drug or self-hypnosis can bring about: it is as though the mind enters into itself, beginning at the surface and penetrating ever more deeply, until depth and height have lost their meaning and every form of measurement ceases. In this state there is complete peace not contentment which has come about through gratification but a peace that has order, beauty and intensity. It can all be destroyed, as you can destroy a flower, and yet because of its very vulnerability it is indestructible. This meditation cannot be learned from another. You must begin without knowing anything about it, and move from innocence to innocence.

The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly. But if you are concerned only with making order, then that very order will bring about its own limitation and the mind will be its prisoner. In all this movement you must somehow begin from the other end, from the other shore, and not always be concerned with this shore or how to cross the river. You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim. And the beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.

Chi Energy – The Road to Happiness

The road to happiness is the road of free flowing chi energy (life force energy) that moves through you without negative energy blockage. This is vital to life, health, peace, balance, joy and vigor.

The free flow of chi energy without negative energy blockages is critical to health and happiness. The free flow of chi energy prevents disease by building up your energy body, immune system and resistance. It corrects brain chemistry and purifies body and blood. It is life force energy that can even change your brain chemistry and DNA to fight off and prevent mental and physical illness.

Chi energy (high vibration energy) dissolves negative energy blockages (caused by low vibration, negative energy). These blockages are the primary cause of mental and physical illness. By purifying the energy body, chi energy enters the bloodstream. It then purifies the body and the blood and nourishes the bodily organs. Negative energy blockages constitute stored emotional pain (anger, fear, etc. from past traumas and stress) that must be flushed out, dissolved and released in order to be healthy and happy. In addition, in order to be healthy and happy, you must build up your power, energy and happiness from the inside – by filling your mind, heart and energy body with peace, high vibration, positive energy and love.

Chi energy (life force energy) is available in abundance in the spiritual dimension (like oxygen in the physical dimension). It is positive energy. It is high vibration energy. It is the energy of life, visualized as white light. You must be able to easily and automatically tap into the spiritual dimension (the source of chi energy) through your energy body (aura, chakras, meridians and soul) and then process and distribute this life force energy freely without negative energy blockage. The chi energy will enter your bloodstream and your bodily organs and purify you. This energy will improve your health and happiness as it works to cleanse and heal your energy body and physical body at the same time.

The road to happiness requires you to re-program your beliefs from negative to positive, from narrow and rigid to open and fluid. In this way, your beliefs will not cause negative thoughts, which hold you back and cause stress and friction. You flush out and let go of negative beliefs you have about yourself. You flush out and let go of painful memories of your own mistakes and sins.

You connect with spirit. You elevate your soul over your ego in governance of self. You fully integrate your higher self and inner child into your personality (loving, happy, peaceful, and holy, fun loving and filled with wonder). You love again. You relax. As you connect with spirit, you become more fluid, open, peaceful, happy, positive, optimistic, loving and flexible. Over time, you will feel a lot of love in your heart. This is the feeling of spirit and chi energy. We call this ongoing feeling the “flow of love.” This will get so much stress out of your life. In the end stress is the primary cause of disease and unhappiness. Peace of mind and peace of spirit are critical aspects of happiness. Peace and happiness come from living in the flow of love. The flow of love will bring you a feeling of completeness and harmony that leads to peace and happiness.

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