Here is my basic energy meditation that I do using the Earth’s own energy…call it Chi, Pranic Energy, Ki, Magic, by whatever name it’s still the same and it still works.

Go to a quiet place where you will not be disturbed and can sit comfortably in a chair with your feet touching the ground. [...]]]> Energy Renewal

Here is my basic energy meditation that I do using the Earth’s own energy…call it Chi, Pranic Energy, Ki, Magic, by whatever name it’s still the same and it still works.

Go to a quiet place where you will not be disturbed and can sit comfortably in a chair with your feet touching the ground. Have a glass or bottle of water nearby. Begin by closing your eyes and breathing slowly and deeply, expanding your rib-cage and your belly for six breaths. Notice how this feels by focusing on the expansion and contraction of your ribs. Relax and breath normally. Now bring your focus up between and behind your eyebrows, this is your Ajna Chakra or Third Eye and will help you with visualizing the rest of the meditation. Keep your eyes closed and picture a ball of white light in the center of your body, imagine it growing and expanding filling your body and creating a glow to about two feet from your body all around. At the outer edge imagine that a light blue electric light starts to form, like a forcefield it is protecting you and your space from any distractions.

Now feel the weight of your body where you are sitting, and imagine your chair as a tree stump, with roots reaching deep into the earth. Focus on your contact to the stump, and imagine that the white light flows freely from you to the stump and back again. Notice any sensations you may feel as you connect and ground yourself to Mother Earth. Move your feet back and forth, and wiggle your toes while touching the floor. Imagine your feet have sent shoots down deep into the heart of Mother Earth as energy begins to flow effortlessly like water into your Energy Body. Picture the energy as a warm, golden-green color or loving pink color, whichever you are more comfortable with. Still your feet as they continue to drink and focus on the rising warmth as earth energy fills your legs, knees, hips, torso, arms, hands, neck and finally your head where it flows out the top, down your body, and back to the earth through the trunk of your tree-chair to the center of the Earth to be transformed into clear clean energy again. Allow it to flow at it’s own pace, and imagine as it does so it’s cleaning away all your doubts & fears, anger & frustration, and any negative speck or blocked idea that keeps you from pure love and joy. As Earth Energy cleans out a space, it fills it with love, peace, and contentment. Focus on how this makes you feel.

When you are ready, open your eyes and drink your glass of water. Know that the water came from the earth and is nourishing your Energy Body which just had a good workout! As you continue your day, you can renew your connection to the earth by imagining a vine reaching from the base of your spine to the center of the earth. Like an anchor it keeps connected to Mother Earth and you can make it as large or small in your imagination as you think it should be. Use it any time you need to eliminate any negative or unpleasant emotions or energies throughout the day.

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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 [...]]]> 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.

I wanted to buy my copy of the book, [...]]]> Tonight I had a wonderful time at the book release party for “Masks of the Muse: Building a relationship with the Goddess of the West” by Veronica Cummer. The author is a friend of mine, so I wanted to be sure to show up for this one.

I wanted to buy my copy of the book, but when I arrived at the store, another friend of mine snagged the last copy of the book  that they had on hand. But, since I know the author, I’ll get my own copy later and have her sign it some other time. I also wanted to be sure to blog about it so I had my husband come with camera in hand so I had some visual record of the event to share as well. There were all kinds of interesting people there, and after a while little groups broke off and conversations went just about everywhere.

That's me with my new short hair! People are deep in conversation behind me, everyone was having a good time.

Tomorrow I’ll be back at the store to do my regular reiki sessions, and I’ll order a copy of the book then. It really looks like a wonderful one, right up my alley:

Through four faces, four masks of the Muse, this book explores different aspects of inspiration, creativity, and magick. Aphrodite, Cerridwen, Ariadne, and the Lady of the Lake await, each to teach us of the Arts and what we are capable of at our very best.

By the poetry, prayer, invocation, and ritual contained within we can come to know the Muse and so know ourselves and the gifts we all have within us that demand recognition and expression. The path of the Muse may not always be an easy or a safe one, but anything worth having is worth paying the price for. Who is the Muse? Who are we?

This book is a journey, one that we must dare to take and dare to take hold of what is revealed.. As we must return to the well of memory, the depths of the ocean, and the currents below the earth, there to claim what was ours all along.

Now that’s a book that I can really get into! So much of my personal meditations lately have been very revealing. I’ve been exploring healing in different ways, and have learned a great deal about myself in the process. I don’t call this blog “the adventures of a reiki practioner” for nothing.

Life is such an adventure that I never really know what’s around the corner. For me, part of the excitement of living is spending time with people and sharing in their lives in a meaningful way. Blogging online is great, but being with people in person is much, much, better. I guess I just really like a hands on approach!