Thank you to all of the Reiki Share participants for your donations to the "Pay It Forward" program at Healing Journey Options (HJO). With your gifts and my matching funds, HJO provided over $1000 worth of Reiki services to individuals in need of financial assistance to continue on their healing journeys in 2013!
Assessment
The start of a new year is a wonderful time for asking questions:
- what do you want to see more of in your life?
- are you taking time for optimal self-care?
- what is not working in your life?
- is there need for healing and/or release (or forgiveness of yourself or others) in your life so you can move forward?
- do you have a new goal(s) or an unfinished project to energize for this year?
This process of review can get you started moving forward with purpose for 2014! Radical self-care is so important - you are "investing" in yourself so you can continue being of service to those around you. Please contact me if a Reiki session or class may help you in this process. I am honored to work with you on your sacred journey through life!
Chakra Class
Many of you have requested an Exploring the Chakra class - it is here! Please join me the weekend of Feb 1 & 2, 2014 - see below for more details.
Transformative Healing
I find Reiki healing to be a heart-centered, compassionate path. Recently, I heard a statistic that caught my attention - if 70% or greater of our focus, energy or attention is in a life generating, authentic state, that transformative healing can take place in our lives (Alane Dougherty, PhD).
A life generating state is one where your focus is on unconditional love for self and others, light, grace, gratitude and forgiveness for self and others. Some call this state meditation, contemplative prayer or a heart-centered practice like Reiki.
During the times when less than love and light fill your thoughts (stress, anger, hatred, jealously, worry, woes...), the key is to compassionately hold yourself as you would hold a best friend, or perhaps to invite the Divine, in whatever form is most nurturing for you, to hold you and your chaotic feelings and thoughts.
Through holding these chaotic feelings in the loving-kindness of your heart, you can actually unlock or release what is locked in the neuro-network of your body and "rewire" your usual response. This takes patient, compassionate love and forgiveness for yourself and others and is a process of holding these "nudgings" in love & light whenever they surface.
Website
I am continuing to work with my webmaster Matt on transferring my website to WordPress, to allow easier navigation, expand offerings, and give me the flexibility to start blogging. The goal is still to have this "published" in January - why do these things take more time than I anticipate? ;-) I will let you know when the redesigned HealingJourneyOptions.com is ready for visitors!
Remember, we can be the change, love and light this world needs...peace & healing start within...and spreads from one person to another!
Reiki Blessings,
Robin
Healing Journey Options