Power & Grace

I was given these two words during a breath-work session I had a few weeks ago. They described me or at least the exalted form I could be. Power & Grace. Power I felt I understood quite well, and I thought Grace too, but as soon as I started thinking about the word I realise perhaps I didn't. Was I graceful, a gracious host, did I say grace before a meal or did I have the good grace to be polite. Lots of differing definitions. 

Then this morning I was reading Anatomy of the Spirit by Caroline Myss and the word Grace came up. She said " Emily had the Grace to recognize guidance" 

It got me thinking again, what is Grace and what does it look like.? I think it looks assured, at peace, generous, accepting, non judgmental and open to all things possible. It doesn't compete for attention, is happy in it's skin, aware of it's own divinity and not black nor white, nor right or wrong.

I think it is a state of bliss and evident in small moments during our lives, moments where, pain, anger, resentment and frustrations disappear. A new baby, the joy of pure love or the state we sometimes get to during meditation. 

But what about the line from the book? " had the grace to recognize guidance" 

What is it to be able to recognize guidance? and how can we do it? You have to get away from your ego and say, I don't know everything and it's ok to let someone else make the decision. I don't need to know why or how. It is both the easiest and the most difficult of tasks to achieve.

Let us all try to have the grace today not just to recognize guidance but to be in that blissful place that Grace brings.

L&G

Adam

New Year, New Hours, New You.

Welcome to the new year, the school year at least.
This year I'm sorting my studio hours into these following days.


Tues: 10am till 8pm
Thurs: & Fri:  9.30am till 2pm
Sat Morning:  9am till 2pm

I hope that the Tues evenings and Sat mornings will allow more people
to come along and experience the remarkable life changing reiki.


Remember in the search for a life change.
You aren't creating a New You, 
You are revealing the True You.


Adam 
L&G

Be gentle with your critics...or send them a nano prayer.

As all of us have I have often reacted badly to my critics. Now I try and resist the temptation to criticize back and I try and remember this truth. The harshest critics of others are doubly hard on themselves and for them... that's not a happy or nice space to live in. That internal thought of, "could be better" , "never really good enough" leads to much negativity in our vibration. And a harshness with others "flaws".
That negative vibration eventually comes to earth so to speak in our physical self as illness and disease.
So next time you're told that something you've done is not right and that you should have done this or that. Before you explode.... listen to the words, accept the stuff that works, leave the garbage at the door and have a kind thought for your critic. Send a nano prayer for them to be more accepting of all that is them.
None of us is perfect, we are all on our own journey and that journey picks up speed the more accepting we become of the imperfections, of the world, other people and ultimately of ourselves.
Everything truly is ok!

Adam
L&G

The opposite of control is trust

When I arrived at Reiki the car that got me there was  called control, or a lack of it. My daughter had been born 8 months before and I felt completely out of control, the sessions I had with Erica Bagshaw, (my Reiki teacher),. So when I received my first attunement the singular thought in my head was Control that was my focus, my reason for this learning and then in a flash I realized that what I actually needed was the opposite of control. I needed Trust. Of course it didn't come in a flash of enlightenment that took me to the word trust, but a slow process of trying to understand my attachment to control. And to understand what was so uncomfortable about being out of control. Control, says I'm responsible and I don't trust the natural course of the world. Gee that's a big call. It took me a long time to even get my head around the possibility of giving up control. It went to why I felt a need to control, old beliefs, and patterns from others about being responsible etc etc. The process of giving up control and learning to trust gave me lots of peace. I knew I had to learn more.
I believe that we try to control because of fear. That fear drives us to believe that we must be all over it, we have to make sure it happens and if we don't it just won't happen.
My process involved replacing the fear with that 5 letter word, Trust, everything will be ok. Now that doesn't mean being slack and not caring, but it does mean that do what you do and it will be ok.
My daughter, the driver of the control car that took me to my first reiki has been one of my greatest tests.
There is a huge sense of responsibility about being a parent, but we must strive to trust the process more and worry less. The more strident that I grasp onto a thing that I need done the more strident her opposition, as I loosen my grasp the task ahead is still achieved and my head doesn't hurt as much. And her teeth still get brushed.
So just for today, do this, Don't Worry, try to allow life to happen without you controlling it, try trust  for a change and trust that all will be ok.
Love and Abundance
Adam

An Article that might be of interest about Reiki use.

Hi all,

I came across this article and found it interesting, (you might too), in the use of reiki with cancer patients.

L&G
Adam

PhillyBurbs.com: Â Alternative ways to treat mind, body

5 precepts of Usui Reiki

Just for today...

do not anger
do not worry
be devoted to your work
be kind to others
and be filled with gratitude

Every day, for just a few minutes 

I sit in a quiet place and go through

these 5 precepts. And then during the 

day with varied success I try to live 

by them, just for that day.

These were written by Mikao Usui,

Reiki's founder.

L&G

Adam

Welcome to the Soulshine Reiki Blog

Hi and welcome to SoulshineReiki blog. Just wanted to let everyone know why they should come along and try some reiki. I know it's not the first thing that most people think of when they want to relax. 

Reiki is ...relaxing, energizing, non invasive, peaceful, healing, clearing, recharging, balancing, uplifting, meditative, gentle, fully clothed, quiet, restful, complementary, and is great for sore backs, pains, stress, tiredness, worries, anxieties, new mums, new dads, mums to be, sports injuries, blokes, pre surgery, post surgery, a little you time, trauma, well being, nurturing, or just if you’re a bit fed up… and it just works.

I look forward to chatting with you more directly now that this blog is up and running. 

Catch up with all the website stuff at www.soulshinereiki.com.au 

L&G 

Adam