Things That Have Happened

Already this month, there have been some interesting happenings. I did my first outcall in years. My client needed major energy work and asked if I could come out. To make the pot sweeter, she told me she had a massage table there. (What? I don’t need to lug a table out? Done deal.) 

Not long after that, I did my first reading in a while. The client came to the house, met the dogs, and then we settled down to work. It went differently, but went well. She was taking notes, and I’m glad she was as she was able to leave me with a couple things that spirit had passed on to her. 

One was the picture below with the candle. The article, Cycles, came from some of those notes as they are meant for everyone. I was thrown a little that when spirit started dictating the article (after the reading), it was more poetry than article. 

The other poem, Gifts, was dictated directly during the reading, and my client thankfully put it down. 

Reiki 4 Graduates

Congratulations to these two Reiki masters who took a step further to learn how to add crystals to their Reiki practice. Due to not having enough students for the hotel, the class was done at the house (as you can tell by the pictures on the walls). Both enjoyed learning about Crystal Grids, Crystal Rites of Passage, crystal properties, and then combining that in a full one-hour unguided Reiki session. It was a great day with lots of great energies.

More Reiki (and other) Classes Coming

The next scheduled Reiki classes are in August. While they are open to everyone, they were scheduled for massage therapists looking to get last minute continuing education. Currently, the Reiki 1 class has 3 people signed up leaving 5 openings. The Reiki 2 class is currently empty. If you are interested in taking these classes, sign up as soon as possible. If I don’t get enough to hold it at the hotel, I will have to cancel it with them a week before the class date.

I am also looking at having a Reiki 1 in September, a Reiki 2 in October, and a Reiki 3 in November. When I get these approved by the hotel, they will be posted here and on the website.

I am also looking at another Reiki 4, probably in January.

I am also looking at offering a White Light class in February. This may be a one-time occurrence, or it may be offered again. I am not sure at this point.

Gifts

by Spirit with Brian Dean

The Sun warms the Earth,

it gives Light, it gives warmth,

it gives Hope.

Hope gives us Joy;

Joy gives us Positivity;

Positivity gives us a great Outlook on Life.

This great Outlook gives us Possibilities;

Possibilities that are endless,

to do Good, to be Strong,

to help Oneself; to Help Others;

to help Growth;

to See the Growth;

to see the energy released as growth happens;

to see the cycle start again.

Decluttering

by Brian Dean

Surviving and thinking amidst the garbage can be a hard thing to do. While we may not be hoarders in our physical world, we are hoarders when it comes to our minds. We store information that we no longer need. We keep bringing up memories and either feeling sad about how we handles them or figuring better was to have handled them. Yes, we’re cluttered.

Having a cluttered mind is like standing in a room full of garbage, and not knowing which way to turn. If we go this way, we step on this. If we go that way, we step on that. Basically it’s time to sort things in their proper places, and throw out what we no longer need.

Meditation is a good method of doing this. You go into a meditative state and create images for what you want to do. The best one for this seems to be opening the closet door and taking out all the shoe boxes (which are loaded with memories, not shoes). 

The next step is to start looking at each one, deciding what you want to keep or not. If it no longer serves you, throw it away. With each one you get rid of, a small record will remain, and you can remember that it happened, but the big bulky experience (and the space it takes up) will be gone. Now move on to the next memory and ask the same question. If it is something you need in its entirety, put it back in the closet ina place you can find it.

I have taken people through similar meditations when they are dealing with traumas form past experiences. In these cases, past experiences are making themselves known, and affecting how one responds in certain situations. 

A good example of this is the story of scaring a child. A very young child sees a white rat. As he reaches out to pet the rat, someone bangs two pots together behind him and scares him. So now this child is afraid of white rats. But as the child grows, that memory embeds itself and affects his reactions to things. He is not afraid of white cats, dogs, Santa Claus, basically anything white and furry.

The meditation goes through and strips the emotions from each memory so they become nothing more than a fact. With no emotion attached to it, it does not pull on one to react in a certain way. 

If one is looking for a quick, short term solution, there is a method of centering. It helps us focus on one thing for the little bit ahead. Let’s be real, we multi-task, we think of many things at once, we have loose thoughts. This is a way of bringing all those loose thoughts to your center which allows you to focus on one thing.

Stand up and close your eyes. With your hands at your sides, start by thinking of extending your energies out of your fingers. Then move your arms away from your sides in a sweeping motion until they come together above your head. In doing this motion, you are gathering all your loose thoughts together. Next bring your hands down to your center (about where your naval is) and just park those loose thought there. This clears your mind enough to focus on the task at hand.

So, how cluttered are you? And what are you going to do to start clearing some space?

Cycles

by Spirit with Brian Dean

We all move through cycles. 

We come, we go.

We start, we stop, then we start again.

We see beginnings and endings,

Attempts and completions,

Wishes and fulfillment,

Life and death.

A seed is planted.

It is fertilized, given water,

Warmth from the sun.

Eventually, it sprouts out of the ground,

Grows into a plant.

That plant eventually bears fruit. 

The fruit is picked

As it is prepared, the seeds are saved, dried, set aside.

Eventually these seeds are planted, and we start again. 

The cycle repeats. 

This is life.

On the Homefront

by Brian Dean

As many know, we have been doing a lot of work on the backyard. Well, we finally finished all our backyard projects. This is one picture of our oasis.