Ten silly things to do (with Reiki) before you die

• Go and find a tree, a big old tree. Throw your arms around it

and give it a Reiki hug. Feel it. Don’t care who sees you. Smile

at them and get them to try too.

• Go into Starbucks, or the like, and order the biggest coffee they

do. Have all the bits on it, extra cream and sprinkles. Cup it in

your hands and give it Reiki. Then enjoy it. Don’t feel guilty,

and don’t be sick!

• Go out and buy a big bunch of happy flowers, yellow ones,

sunflowers are good. Then give them to the prettiest girl/handsomest

guy you can find. Don’t feel old. Don’t get arrested!

• Go and take your kids (the older the better) to the beach. Roll

your jeans up to mid-calf and paddle. Lay on the beach, make

Sand Angels and admire the clouds. Do embarrass your kids,

because they’re worth it. Don’t ask for help to get up!

• Go fill in the next five items yourself; they are your silly things

to do after all. Write the list right now, then go out and do them.

Don’t procrastinate! Then let us know what they are ...Please

• Lastly, if you have done all of the above, go and make another

list and then another. If you keep making lists you probably

won’t die anyway. At least, not in the hearts and minds of your

friends, loved ones and your doctor - and that’s enough for me!

Have fun. If you can feel happy then a little bit of everything

else is happy too and you have just lit another candle.

Thank you

Yesterday in my email I received a slide show of Arial photographs from around the world. I was scrolling through, enjoying the lovely images, when I came across one that looked vaguely familiar. It was of a white, burned out shell of a building with a small tower, on top of which were skeleton ribs of the dome roof. The photo was so good that you could see that the ground around it had been cleared and cared for. This was a building that had been left like this for a reason.

From deep within me came a sorrow and as I read the caption this sorrow rose up in an overwhelming tide and I sat there sobbing as I read The
Epicentre Hiroshima.

This one image for some reason touched me. I recognised it from photos of the devastation after the dropping of the atomic bomb but had never seen a photo of it in the present role...

After the sobbing stopped I started checking for other sites on Hiroshima. I found images of the dead, the stats, the lists of the numbers killed. I saw pictures of the totally indiscriminate devastation. Sorrow was replaced with anger and judgement. How could anyone do such a thing? Then I read the postings on the web sites. Small minded idiots, I thought. All the time I was angry, I was judging. How could people not see the total hideousness of this action? Just because terrible things had been done by the Japanese during the war was it right to use this to justify killing on such a large scale? It would be like giving me the right to kill someone's children because their father had killed mine. By now I was off on one. I had used the feeling of sorrow and changed it, it was easier to vent all my frustrations and fears, rather than face the suffering, the suffering that mankind can inflict on his fellow man. Easier than facing the fact that I was part of the species and as such could not escape involvement.

Then I stopped and thought about what I was doing. How I was fuelling the negativity, judging, adding not one positive action, learning nothing. Sometimes the veneer of our civilisation proves a little thin but without it where are we?

So that is why I need your help - not for me but to pour back a little positive energy into this world; to tip the balance just a little. I know that you are already doing this but I need you to do just a little bit more for me. Go and look at a tree, smile at a stranger or buy yourself an extra large, special coffee. If you do this I will not be hurting quite so much.

If, like me, you feel it helps, send out a little of what you do to Hiroshima, to those who suffered and to those who are still suffering - on all sides.

Thanks

How controlled are we?

This morning I awoke earlier than I had hoped and was trying to make up my mind if I could hang on a little longer before I had to get up for a pee, when I had a thought.

Now this might be a little more information than you need at present but it is surprising how often it is that you get interesting and thought provoking ideas during that time when your brain is not fully in gear.

Well, be that as it may, the idea I had and which then kept my attention until the needs of my body demanded my action, was this: I have been going on for ages now that even our most dearly held beliefs have been planted in us and are not there by nature. Often they are left over from some out dated belief system or need, or have been given us by those who have wished to control and use us. Now some of these ideas are good to have, especially if we want to live amongst others, and some are not. They limit us and often cause us distress. But these gut feelings, as we call them, come from somewhere and we can suffer living our lives in their shadows. Now I am not saying sling them out willy nilly, but just to have a look at them? Re-evaluate them and see them for what they are. After all, who told us it was wrong to kill? (I believe this, with my whole heart, to be so.) Anyone for steak?

Well this was nothing new in my thinking, but, what was new for me and I repeat, for me, was how far back should I go with this we are programmed idea… Certainly the three meals a day is programming… Marriages and families? Good and bad?... Right and wrong?... Yes I think these are all good subjects for a long hard look… Love? That's a gritty one…. Life after death? Most certainly, but where did that come from? I don't mean it ain't true, but!! … And then I thought, what about life and death? Well, we have been told that's what happens and it does, doesn't it? Maybe this now is death and when we end this death we… what? Live?

We can take so much for granted and in so doing does it happen and is it therefore true? Dreaming butterflies and all that.

Maybe we live because we are taught that we do and die for the same reason!

Time for breakfast!!! So what? I like breakfast!

This Might Help.

Once you understand love you can see as you should, and you know all there is to know.

But whilst here, it is the journey that matters. If, at the end, there

is nothing, then it doesn’t matter anyway, but the journey will have

been fun. If there happens to be something more, then that’s where

we should be and all is fine. Understanding where our thoughts and

ideas spring from will help us to free ourselves from them; free us

from the fear of this unknown. If there is a guide for living in this

world, it should be to pass through leaving nothing in our wake except

love. We should tread gently and with awareness. We should

recognise ourselves in all living creatures, and in ourselves the wonder

of all creation.

And so Namaste..

from Reiki in times of Crisis

The Best Bread Ever

There are few things better for the soul than making bread. One of them is eating it.

This recipe is for flat breads, but makes a great Pizza base and even works well in tins. Can't remember who I pinched it from but thank you.

Flat Breads

Ingredients;

500 g plain flour

150 ml water (blood heat)

28 g dried yeast

70 ml olive oil

1 tsp sugar

1 tsp salt

1 small tub yoghurt

Dissolve sugar in the water.

¨ Sprinkle yeast into sugar and water mix.

¨ Leave until frothy on top (about 5-10 minutes)

¨ Mix flour and salt together.

¨ Add all wet ingredients.

¨ Mix well and knead until dough is soft and elastic - you might need to

add a little more flour during the kneading process.

¨ Pop into big-ish bowl and cover with damp cloth to rise until dough

doubles in size.

¨ When well risen divide into 8 equal bits and roll out to rough “pitta

sized” pieces, about 0.5 cms thick.

¨ Cook, in hot pan (very lightly oiled), on each side until

done.

¨ EAT! Best enjoyed warm.

¨ YOU WILL LOVE THEM!

The Reiki Principles and the Sticky Slope

If you know the Usui story, you will know that Dr. Usui found out, through bitter experience, that it was not enough to cure the physical body to regain true health; you had to go to the root cause. After all, if you have a head ache every morning, after drinking 10 pints of beer the previous evening, taking a handful of Asprin each morning might make the headache go away. But do you know what will be there the following morning? You have to get to the cause for lasting health.The trouble is, the seeming magnitude of most things defeats us before we start.

"I am going to exercise every day and lose weight"! After day one we look at every day and the pounds we have to loose and it is just all too much. The gradient is too steep, every day is too long and four stones is too many biscuits! So we give up.

Dr. Usui recognised this and so he starts each of his principles with the words "Just for today" - a do-able amount . For me and biscuits, today is too long so "Just for now"- this once, I will only have one. I can manage this, and this now is followed by another now, and then another and before I know it I have managed a "Just for today" and then a... "Just for this week" and then.......

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Three Most Important Words

There are three words that are probably the most important that you can know and they are… No, not I love you, those are the three words that cause more trouble than any other. The three words are, I don’t know. Once you utter these words you open up the doors of understanding. Say I know and you cut off that understanding at the point of utterance. Try it for yourself in a small way, next time someone asks you if you know this or that, swallow your pride and say no. It is amazing how helpful people can be and sometimes, seeing something with someone else’s eyes helps you realize you were wrong. Mind you, it has never happened to me, though!!!!!

It is really amazing how little we know. In my book I go into this in some depth for I feel that one of the causes of conflict is lack of understanding and this lack comes about when we say I know …So maybe I should have said, Two most important words.