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Reiki and Running

Beth Hansen-Buth — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 02:50:52 +0000

Last night was Reiki Share night, and it was a wonderfully relaxing evening as always. One of my favorite things is having new people come in, and hearing their stories about how they came to Reiki. Sometimes it’s another Reiki Master who knocks on my door, and they always bring new insight on how they do their sessions. Sometimes it’s someone brand new to Reiki and it’s really exciting to share this wonderful healing modality with them and answer their questions as best I can.

It’s all about the path, and it can take you around the country or around the world as you search for deeper meaning in your life. I myself traveled around the Midwest as an artist, and even as far as Portland Oregon for the Faery World Festival once. Now that I’m firmly settled, I really enjoy listening peoples stories about where they’ve been, the people they met along the way, the the lessons that they learned. So last night I learned a little about Biodynamic Farming and Gardening which was a delightful surprise. It goes hand in hand with community supported agriculture a.k.a. CSA. From the website:

…biodynamic farming and gardening looks upon the soil and the farm as living organisms. It regards maintenance and furtherance of soil life as a basic necessity if the soil is to be preserved for generations, and it regards the farm as being true to its essential nature if it can be conceived of as a kind of individual entity in itself — a self-contained individuality. It begins with the ideal concept of the necessary self-containedness of the farm and works with furthering the life of the soil as a primary means by which a farm can become a kind of individuality that progresses and evolves.

Like Reiki it is a practice that is true to nature and maintains a healthy balance for a full and robust life. This is a really fascinating approach to farming and gardening, which includes an appreciation and reverence for the presence of life in all things.

Tonight I went for a run/walk as I am training towards a 5K run with my co-workers from my day job. It was good to get out into nature and challenge myself a little. While I passed the suburban lawns and gardens, I enjoyed the view of the efforts of both the humans skill at creating a beautiful garden, and the plants enthusiasm in growing extra tall and wide in this years summer weather. Spring came early in these parts, and the fullness of the plants certainly testifies to this. Including the weeds.

As I step up my training and my jogging bursts become longer and longer, I find myself up for the challenge. I give myself little pep-talks as I go, and inch my inch, yard by yard, block by block I progress. While I didn’t accomplish everything I had planned to do this evening, I feel very good about taking care of myself with exercise, and spending time outside.

Now I sit here in front of the computer and my calf muscles are tightening up, so I’m due for a good stretch before bedtime I think, and then a nice self-reiki session to get ready for a busy weekend.

This year's flowers

Beth Hansen-Buth — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:26:18 +0000

Much to my surprise we acheived a nice cluster of Irises in the front garden by the driveway this year. They are nearing the end of their bloom, but I was able to snap this photo today. I was surprised because we thought they were killed off due to neglect over the previous years when the house was a rental property. We didn’t see any of them last year. But I worked diligently on weeding and cleaning up the beds last fall and viola! Beautiful flowers this year.

It just goes to show that life will happen, and gloriously if given a little TLC. My career as a Reiki Master has been in fits and starts, with lag time in between, but maybe I’m working on my own personal weeding so that when the time is right I will bloom gloriously too. It’s just a thought. I didn’t plant the Irises, by the way. My husband’s mother did that. I never met her, but I’m glad I can care for the wonderful gardens she started, and creat new ones too.

There are peonies too:

Growing Garden

Beth Hansen-Buth — Thu, 21 May 2009 01:53:01 +0000

Well, I’m in the thick of the Front Yard Gardening project and I just got the most wonderful news! The flowers for my Red & White garden will arrive this week!!

Items Shipped:
1 WHITE CONEFLOWER
1 RED PENSTEMON
1 SELECT BLUE FESTUCA GRASS
1 DESMOND CARNATION
1 RED MAGIC ROSE
3 SNOWDRIFT ASTER
Delivery Estimate: 05/22/09 – 05/24/09

They’re a little earlier than I thought they’d be, but at least they’ll be ready to go as soon as I have the raised bed all prepared. Last weekend was spent digging up the 13 feet of lawn between the road and the cement walkway to the front door that was put in 50 years ago in anticipation of a sidewalk that never was.

The Reiki Artist Digs in

So I added some flagstone steps and mulch to fill it in. A much better welcome to Reiki clients when you come to the house is being prepared.

Filling in the flagstone path with mulch

The new walkway will lead you past the red & white flower garden to the front door. I’m so excited to see what will be coming this week, I can hardly wait! I hope the weather is good this weekend so we can get the raised garden all planted.

Since learning that my day job will be going away in six to nine months, I’ve been doing some soul searching on how I want to approach my Reiki business. I decided to bring everything in house and concentrate on making my home the healing center that I’ve been dreaming of since we moved in last year. I thought I’d have several years to work on both the house and the business before I would have to make any career changes. Now it looks like I may have the opportunity to move forward sooner than I planned.

It’s both exciting and a little terrifying, as I don’t have the savings or the client base to eliminate the day job today. But I will work with the Reiki, enjoy fixing up the house, and keep up my meditations and see where this path may lead.

World Labyrinth Day

Beth Hansen-Buth — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:39:43 +0000

This coming Saturday is World Labyrinth Day, and at 1:00 people around the world will begin walking their labyrinths. I will be at Eye of Horus for Psychic Saturday, to do Aura cleansing and mini-reiki sessions. When I’m not busy doing that, I think I will partake of the Eye of Horus Labyrinth and Garden and tune in to all the energies that will be going on around the world.

If it’s anything like last fall’s Psychic Saturday, though, I’ll have trouble getting away to do much of anything. They have planned a break for everybody this time, so that’s a very good thing!

Friday Night Reiki

Beth Hansen-Buth — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:28:29 +0000

Tonight I went in to the Friday Night Reiki Clinic at Eye of Horus Metaphysical and I took a turn on the Reiki Table. I actually could have really used a longer session, but Maggie had expressed a desire to get on the table and it was her show after all. There was one client there, and another student of Maggie’s who uses singing bowls to do energy work. I love music, and sound really adds a dimension to energy work like no other. Maybe that’s why I play soft music while I meditate and do reiki.

I also had a chance to check out the new wind chimes that they just got into the store, they sound absolutely fabulous and look beautiful too. I have personally fallen in love with the Emperor Gong. Maybe I’ll get something like that for my birthday this June…I will have to start dropping hints I think.