Let’s face it folks, we live in a chaotic world and in our haste we look for easy answer. We let big business and big brother decide what we want, what we need and how much we can put up with. We’ve allowed air we breathe, foods we eat and things we do to poison us and like pigs going to slaughter we do nothing about it, except perhaps complain.

Instead of working to bring in this new and golden age, many of us are sitting around waiting for it to show up. There are some who believe that if we pray hard enough, hope deeply enough or say enough affirmations that things will somehow magically change without any effort on our part.

There are others who believe that it can only be achieved after a major calamity falls upon earth recreating balance in imbalanced world in which we live. That it is only through workings of karma that a profound shift can ever be achieved.

So how can we create this better world? The first step is it needs to become our number one priority. We must decide it is of utmost importance to us and let money, greed and personal gain take a back seat. It necessitates a change in consciousness from “what do I want” to “what do WE need”. Until there is a dramatic transformation in hearts and minds of man, goal of a new world, while a nice thought is unachievable.

Unfortunately, many of us have chosen to stand on sidelines and wait for tide of personal and planetary changes to occur around us. However, it is not until we stand as a unified whole and demand that change take place that anything will happen at all.

Is it going to be hard? Damn right it’s going to be hard. Tom Hanks in movie A League of Their Own stated: “If it was easy, everyone would do it. The hard…is what makes it great”. Remember change doesn’t happen by hope or by prayer alone, it requires action. So take a stand, make a decision, let your voice be heard, your greatness shine. Don’t let karma rear its ugly head. Just say no to potted meat and choose to bring in future you desire.

Five days later at a Reiki Share, some more shock came up for me. It was a fourteen year old memory this time - my next door neighbour had hung herself and her husband came around to ask us to see if she was dead. Two sets of memories from fourteen and eighteen years ago, all filed away and stored in my body as I had held onto them.

I am very self-aware, continually working on myself and watching for signs, feeling feelings as they come up for me so that I can acknowledge them, embrace (accept) them and then let them go. However, previous to becoming a Reiki Master and taking part in P'taah workshops as well as reading P'taah books, I had never heard of any of these concepts.

Fortunately, there are now many self help books and people like myself who wish to teach and inform. As a physiotherapist, I realise how many people come with pain and that there is an emotional component to problem.

When something or someone angers you, or strong feelings come in any situation, stop for a second and do following: Allow yourself to feel feeling, acknowledge (accept) it, then examine it asking yourself question 'why, what is going on?' Be honest with yourself about this, you will find feelings will go, then you will release them before they settle again in your cellular memory. Like as not, similar situations will repeat themselves for you to examine them and feel feelings and have opportunity to 'clear' them. This will be no coincidence, universe is just working to help you. Why? So we can 'feel feelings', learn by experiences and, in turn, learn more about ourselves, and discern world about us. In this way, we will not store emotions as baggage in our cells.

Robina Hearle www.rosecottagefloweressences.co.uk