What is Reiki?Written by Pamir Kiciman
The question is an intellectual one. Our conditioning always looks for quantifiable evidence. Yet given nature of Reiki and priorities as well as capabilities of today's science this evidence is scarce. Another type of evidence, however, is emerging and establishing itself. This is testimony of human experience, echoed down ages, which is boldly changing our thinking and being. Fundamental ideas about health and well-being are being transformed as a direct result of reigning mechanistic model of reality. This model, of which allopathic medicine is one segment, views health as absence of disease in body and mind; a static state that limits definition of health. Health is a dynamic state involving our whole being. By missing forest for trees, our healthcare system has exacerbated our psychophysical challenges, which are formidable in this increasingly complex and toxic world. Enter Reiki. A healing system that is humanity's heritage, and has worked in same way through ages; balancing of our individual life force through contact with universal life force. Science has been unable or perhaps unwilling to measure this pervasive energy, but we experience it every moment and everywhere. Every physiological function, all of nature, and even mind is alive because of subtle life force. Reiki is a simple treatment that restores homeostasis to body; equilibrium to mind; and fulfillment to soul. It is applied with hands in a certain sequence, without pressure or manipulation. No special skill or complicated technique is required. The practitioner is attuned by a qualified teacher and so becomes a conduit for universal life force. The recipient draws needed energy without effort. To be able to enliven all of creation, universal energy has to be intelligent. Since it permeates body, body also has innate intelligence, and cells contain individual life force. When universal and individual resonate during a Reiki session, there is a reorganization leading to optimal health on all levels.
| | Addiction to ThinkingWritten by Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
The following article is offered for free use in your ezine, print publication or on your web site, so long as author resource box at end is included. Notification of publication would be appreciated.Title: Addiction to Thinking Author: Margaret Paul, Ph.D. E-mail: mailto:margaret@innerbonding.com Copyright: © 2003 by Margaret Paul Web Address: http://www.innerbonding.com Word Count: 789 Category: Emotional Healing, Addicitons ADDICTION TO THINKING By Margaret Paul, Ph.D. Randall sought my help because he was stuck being miserable and had no idea how to get out of his misery. In his life he had experienced moments of great joy and sense of oneness with all of life, but those moments were infrequent. He wanted more of those moments but had no idea how to bring them about. Randall is an extremely intelligent man, but in some ways he was using his own intelligence against himself. The problem was that when Randall did have those brief moments of true connection, he immediately went into his mind to try to figure out how it happened. The moment he went into his mind, he lost connection that he so desperately desired. The reason Randall went into his mind was that, as much as he wanted joy of deep spiritual connection, he wanted something even more than that - control over that connection. Randall’s ego wounded self believed that he could control connection with Spirit with his intellect - if only he could figure it out then he could control it. The last thing Randall wanted to do, which is what is necessary to connect with Spirit, is to surrender his thinking. Randall was deeply addicted to thinking as a way to not feel his inner experience. Thinking was his way of controlling his painful feelings, such as his aloneness, loneliness, and helplessness over others and over his spiritual connection. Many us of are addicted to thinking. We believe if we can just figure things out we can control others and outcome of things. We want to control how people feel about us and treat us by saying just right thing - so we have to think about it over and over to discover right thing to say. This is called "ruminating." Ruminating is obsessively thinking about something over and over in hopes of finally coming up with "right" answer, right thing to say, right way to be to have control over others and outcome of things. Ruminating is also a way to have control over our own painful feelings, which is what addictions are all about.
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