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Greetings!
Welcome to the October issue of the Caring Palms newsletter. There hasn't been a lot going on now that most of the classes are over. This month we have a Reiki 1 class scheduled and some articles on energy for you.
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Holiday Specials
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Caring Palms will be starting its holiday specials some time in November. Watch for the November newsletter for details.
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Welcome to Fall
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Now that the kids are back in
school, the leaves are strting to fall (at least up north), and the temperatures have gotten cooler, it is time to do something for yourself. It is time to get some needed work and
relaxation. Caring Palms has many styles
of massage available for relaxation as well as working out any problems you may
have from the summer. We also have Reiki healing energy to help any problem you
might have.
This could also be a good
time to improve yourself by taking classes on a wide range of things from
meditation to Reiki to massage. Caring
Palms offers classes in energy and meditation.
We also offer classes for couples to learn to do massage on
themselves. (A complete list of classes
is available on the Reiki side of the website under Class Pricing.)
So whether you need
relaxation or want to improve yourself, Caring Palms is the place to look. Check out the website, or call us today.
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| Reiki Class Schedule |
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The following is a list of currently scheduled Reiki
Classes. Each class (unless otherwise marked) currently has a status of
'Scheduled'. This means that a date has been set, but no one has signed
up for it yet. Once a deposit has been received for a class, the status
will be 'Confirmed'. Any class marked as 'Closed' has basically filled up. (Note: In some cases, one may be able to enter a class marked 'Closed' with permission of the instructor.) The current schedule is as follows:
Reiki 1
October 10 (Saturday) 11am - 5pm Confirmed
November 14 (Saturday) 11am - 5pm January 9, 2010 (Saturday) 11am - 5pm - February 13 (Saturday) 11am - 5pm
- March 13 (Saturday) 11am - 5pm
- April 10 (Saturday) 11am - 5pm
- May 8 (Saturday) 11am - 5pm
- June 12 (Saturday) 11am - 5pm
Reiki 2
- January 30, 2010 (Saturday) 11am - 5pm
Reiki 3
- February 27, 2010 (Saturday) 11am - 5pm
Note: I promised to teach another Reiki 2 and Reiki 3 before the end of the year, but with the holidays coming up, there just is not enough room in the schedule.
All classes are open to anyone wanting to learn this unique
method of hands-on healing. The cost for each class is $100 no matter
what level of Reiki the class is for. A 50% deposit ($50) is required a
minimum of seven (7) days prior to the class date (or permission of the
instructor) to reserve a space in the class. Classes with no deposits
received by the deposit date will be canceled. All class statuses may be
viewed on the Reiki side of the web site under 'Class Scheduling and Schedule
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Hot Stone Massage
Hot Stone massage is a unique style
where heated rocks are moved over the body allowing the heat to sink
into the muscles. Although deep work is not usually done with Hot
Stone, the heat penetrates to make the muscles relax and feel better.
There are several types of Hot Stone
massage and like other massage styles, these change with each therapist
that does the work. Probably the most known style is called La Stone
which was based on the types of massage done by native American
Indians. They used hot and cold stones to create a relaxing
experience. Marie Hannigan took this information and created La Stone
from it as she was hurting her hands doing a lot of deep tissue work.
With the stone, it gave her a tool to go deeply with while the heat
penetrated and softened the muscles.
read more
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Have a safe and happy Halloween no matter what you celebrate.
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Some Thoughts on Energy
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I got a forwarding of an
e-mail that asked for help for someone. I get these now and then, and
send healing energy. What bothers me is that these people that are
sending them are missing the point. Many Reiki practitioners get requests
for healing of someone that is really bad off. Many Reiki boards have
lists of people that need healing. In each case, the practitioner is
asked to send healing to the person/people in need.
This is what this request
did. Then it made the same mistake that every one of them has made thus
far. It asked for those people that have had Reiki 2 to send distant
healing. At that point, they just limited the amount of healing that
their "person in need" could get.
I understand that because
Reiki 2 teaches distant healing, that most people think that only someone
trained in Reiki 2 or above can heal someone not present. Well, that is
only partially true. Only someone trained in Reiki 2 or above can send
Reiki healing over a distance. But anyone can send healing energy.
As I have said to many
before, anything can create energy. A thought creates energy. Good
thoughts create good energy, bad thoughts create negative energy.
So consider this... A
thought creates energy. A good thought creates good energy. A
thought about healing creates healing energy. A thought about healing
someone creates healing energy and sends it to that person. A healing
thought can take many forms. It can be thinking about someone getting
better. It can be just thinking happiness and health to them. It
can be as simple as saying a prayer for that person to get better. (Say a
prayer for me?)
I guess I've sounded off
enough. I just ask that if you are asking for healing for yourself or
someone else, please don't limit the healing you are asking for by requesting
Reiki 2 and above. Ask for any healing energies that anyone can
send.
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Taking the Long(?) Way
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Sometimes things seem to take the longest route possible to
reach their goal. But in the grand
scheme, that truly was the shortest route, and the way things were supposed to
go.
It was the day after Thanksgiving one year when I got a call
from a friend that is also a student. She was having a problem with a
dead woman, and needed some help. Now, before you start thinking that she
had just committed some dastardly crime, I need to explain that my friend is
very psychic. At times when she least expects it, her energies open up,
and things (energies) come in. Unlike John Edward, she does not like
talking with dead people. (Had a friend a few years back that would go to
cemeteries and have chats with the spirits there. Have another one now
that doesn't even like passing them.)
The lady who had passed wanted my friend's help to do
something, and wasn't going to leave her alone until she did. My friend
didn't know what to do. She didn't know how to help this lady. When
she reached the end of her rope, she called me, thinking that I might have some
advice, or suggestion to help her deal with her ethereal visitor.
As I listened, she told me that her visitor was driving her
crazy (almost like the scene from "Ghost"). Several things came to mind,
like dropping a set of shields over my friend. I have for a while now
been able to "reach" out and manipulate energies at great distances. I
knew I could shield her, but wasn't sure if I could do it well enough to keep a
spirit out.
I started asking questions and settled on "what does she
want?" My friend relayed that her visitor had died about six months
beforehand, and that her husband was in pain. Here it was Thanksgiving,
and he was alone, on a family holiday, a holiday that he spent with the woman
he loved. Her spirit was feeling his pain, and was desperate to get some
help for him. Sherry wasn't sure what help to give him. Obviously,
without astral phone numbers we couldn't call and offer a Reiki healing.
We didn't even know where he was. He could have been anywhere in the
country.
I got an idea, and tuned in on the energies, and got a fair
"vision" of the man. He had shields built up around him. These
shields were blocking everything. They were layers of pain, and
anguish. At that moment, I had a plan. I asked my friend to talk to
her visitor, and relay my message. I figured that I could reach out, and
pull the man's shields down. I figured I needed to do it in layers as he
wouldn't be able to handle it going all at once. I was thinking that if I
did that, his wife would be able to move in, and give love and comfort.
My friend told me that her visitor agreed, but warned to pull the shields down
slowly.
I reached out, and touched his shields. Then I started
taking them down, one or two layers at a time. I was sending calm the
whole time I was doing this. When I was ready to take down the final
layer, I told my friend to inform her "guest". She said that her guest
was ready. I took down the final layer of shielding around the man.
At that moment, my friend felt her visitor leave, and go be with her
husband. Sherry could feel his pain, and her love combine, then she
dropped the link between herself and the spirit.
I never cease to be amazed at how things may go a long way
around, but always seem to end up like they are supposed to. The spirit
went to my friend because it knew that she could either help, or get
help. My friend would not have come up with the solution I did, and I
really don't know if she could have done what I did, possibly not. At the
same time, I could not have talked with the spirit. So to do what was necessary, my friend needed
to call me, even though she didn't know what needed to be done. It took
the two of us with our own individual talents to help someone in pain.
But, that's how it's supposed to work, right?
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Psychic Muscles
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Everyone's body is comprised of muscles (I learned this in
anatomy and physiology classes). Everything we do requires moving
muscles, from running to lifting weights, to blinking to breathing. As we
move a part of our body, electrical impulses are sent along pathways through
the body to tell certain muscles to move. If we don't use some muscles
for a while, and then use them (such as walking five miles after not exercising
for six months) we feel pain as those muscles start to pull the load that they
have gotten unused to pulling. If we don't exercise our muscles at all,
they become very weak and begin to atrophy (weaken to the point that they can't
be used).
I could make a good example of your arm. Let's say
that with your right arm, you lift a 10-pound weight with ease. Now if
you take that arm, and put it in a sling for three months and do absolutely
nothing with it, it will weaken, and the muscle tissue in it will start to go
away. If you then try to lift a 10-pound weight, you probably won't be
able to. You may not even be able to move the arm at all.
We are all born with some degree of psychic ability.
This ability can come across as many things like intuition, seeing auras,
feeling energies. Not everyone has them to the extent that they can
predict the future or move objects with their mind (otherwise we'd have a lot
of broken items around the house every time some two year old threw a
tantrum). But none the less, we do have these muscles which give us
certain abilities. (I do have an internet friend in Connecticut that has the
ability to move things with her mind, at least when she gets angry. She
has tried to control it consciously, but can't seem to get it to work unless
she puts the strength of anger behind it. (Avoid anger, it leads to the dark
side of the force.)
Depending on how we play, on what we like, on how we are
taught, we either exercise these muscles, or we don't. If we use our
imagination a lot, we tend to use our muscles more. (This is the point that
I will mention how the TV generations have tended to use their imaginations
less because so much today is given to them. Those that read more, tend
to imagine more.)
It's that imagining that works the muscles of the
mind. The more we work those muscles, the stronger they become. As
a child, one friend used to sit in school and focus on various boys in the
class. She'd concentrate and focus on them to make them like her.
(Sorry, but the secret is out.) What she was doing was not necessarily
imagination. She was actually stretching her muscles. She was
focusing energy. Now, she may not have been moving energy (although I'd
be pretty sure she was), but she may just have been visualizing energy
moving. In this way, she may not have been moving her muscles, but she
was teaching them how she wanted them to move.
With children, we tell them to use their imaginations.
They 'pretend' that they see things moving around a person. When we grow
up (and I still haven't yet), we stop using words like imagine or
pretend. We start using words like visualize or see.
What my friend did was to 'see' energy moving, focusing, and
reaching an objective. We do very much the same thing when we do
shielding exercises. We visualize ourselves in a bubble of light.
When we astral project, we start by visualizing energy coming out of us.
(The book I read on AP mentioned that the movement of the energy may not
actually happen initially, but by visualizing we were training our muscles how
to move.)
When we start learning things in the ethereal realm, we
start exercising and training our muscles. When we do meditation we are
exercising. When someone learns Reiki, they start exercising, and in
exercising, they open themselves up to a larger world.
The more we 'exercise' the stronger we get. The
stronger we get, the more we find we can do, or notice, that we couldn't
before. The first time someone goes into meditation, it may not be easy,
but the more they do it, the easier it gets. The more someone practices
Reiki, the easier it gets. The beauty is that not only Reiki gets
easier. One finds that they can pick up things that they couldn't before,
like to know when the subject has had enough.
What now happens is that this thing we call intuition starts
working more, and better than before. It may come across as knowing what
someone is going to say, or knowing to move out of the way of an oncoming
car. It may show up as feeling emotions, or simply knowing to do, or not
to do something.
A side story dealing with intuition...
I was at a club meeting years ago
(all right, it was a meeting of a science fiction club), and one of the people
there had her son with her and he was playing with his small toys that were in
a box. What held the box together was a screw and wing nut. At one
point he was holding this screw up in the air over his face when he dropped
it. The screw went into his mouth, and lodged in his throat.
He started to choke and turn
blue. His mother started to panic. I had this vision of holding him
by his ankles and shaking him. Unfortunately, I was frozen by the
situation. The whole scene was flashing around me like slow motion. I was
too unsure of myself to think to do anything. I felt that I didn't know
anything and didn't have any right to even suggest any course of action.
What happened was that one of the
group started to do the Heimlich maneuver. This didn't seem to do
anything. The one member whose house it was, ran to get her Dad who had
been staying with her for a few days (he is a doctor). Another had picked
up the phone and had dialed 911. I was still sitting there feeling that I
didn't know enough to interfere in any of it. In the next few seconds,
something happened, and the child swallowed. The screw was free from his
throat, and now in his stomach. Everything was ok.
At this moment, the doctor came out
to look at the boy. He determined that the child was ok, and that the
mother was going to spend the next few days looking for the screw to make sure
it came out (the other end). When told what had been done, he said that
the best thing would have been to hold him upside down by his ankles and shake
him up and down to get the screw out.
Interesting. I had been shown
the proper means of solving the problem. Had I been confident in my
intuition (as well as myself), I could have done what was needed.
Now what does that story have to do with opening up and
flexing muscles? I had muscles that I wasn't using. They opened up
and told me something. I did not believe it. Since then, I have
learned to flex my muscles, and trust them. You have to have trust in
your muscles as well as have them work. If you pick up a 10-pound weight,
and don't trust yourself to do so, you could drop it on your head.
Here's one more thought to leave you with...
When you are a child, you used your imagination. How
much of it is imagination? Were those things hiding under your bed just
figments? Did you have an invisible friend? Was it something you
made up? I've been told otherwise. The jury is still open for
me. How about you?
Think about it. Visualize it happening. Imagine
a bit. I'm going to visualize whirled peas.
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You have Questions? Maybe we have answers.
Each month, we write articles on a variety of subjects. Is there something that you would like to see us write about? Do you have questions that you 'd like answered? Do you have questions on massage? On Reiki? On energy work in general? Submit your questions or requests to Brian@CaringPalms.com and we will try to see if we can answer them for you. | |
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