Reiki 4 Peaceful Heart

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Please,
remember this. ~*♥

"There is something I want to tell you,
Something I want you not to forget.

When you think of your life as an open field
or an empty field, or something has occurred in your life,
a great transition of some sort, even great turmoil
that makes you feel as though this field once
filled and alive has burnt to the very ground.

Please remember that new seed is faithful.
It comes on the wind whether you want it to or not.
And, it roots most deeply in the places that are
the most empty.
Don’t forget that."

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D., "The Faithful Gardener" ~*♥

Rumi told us that the wound is the place where the light can enter.
Khalil Gibran told us that out of suffering emerges the strongest souls, that the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Marcus Aurelius told us that the impediment to action advances action, that what stands in the way becomes the way.
Napoleon Hill told us that every adversity, every failure, and every heartache carries with it the seeds of an equal or greater benefit.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross told us that the most beautiful people we have known are those “who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.
These writers have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.”
That “beautiful people do not just happen.”

When Joseph Campbell outlined the hero’s journey for us, the premise was that at the moment of the deepest and most unmoving difficulty, the protagonist recognized that it was they who must change. That which seemed to derail the path was the pinnacle moment at which the true path was actually revealed.

In each case, the epiphany is that the presence of the challenge is the initiator. If we are lucky, our lives will continue to grow as we are presented with new paths, and various obstacles among them. To heal is not to arrive at a place where we are absolved of that difficulty, but where we no longer interpret the presence of it as our finality, our ending. Rather, we come to see it is as yet another beginning in support of the continual unfolding of all we will one day know ourselves to be.

In a world where most of us die before we are dead, where most of us hyper-fixate on what we cannot control and leave to ruins everything that we can, where most of us fear our humanness and our vulnerability — I hope you find the courage to try. I hope you will come to see that just maybe, beneath the journey you fear to take is the life you had been waiting for, all along.~
~ Brianna Wiest
(Original post on Sacred Dreams FB page)

To all of our U.S. Vietnam Veterans ~
Thank you!

Dear Brave Souls: Few realize the blessed poet Rumi was a tormented refugee.

[As was the Holy Family, Blessed Maria fleeing in the night through the cold desert, just having given birth-- fleeing to escape the massacre of the innocents--

[all boy babies under two years old slaughtered by the mad king who feared a dear child had already been born who would topple him-- the new child would do so with kindness, regard, bridging and love...

[instead of the king's filthy and evil ways of ranting, insulting, trying to invade, attempting to force souls away from their true paths called by Greater, who threatened the spirit and soul lives of others through arrogance and vile judgements on other's lives, judgements belonging only to Source without source.]

Rumi the gentle Poet, in early life was also an Inocente who witnessed Death at every doorway... and his tortures and empty stomach and torn feet from traveling at night over deadly ground, ought never be erased from his lyric words...

Rumi is to me one of the dearest of the Patron Saints of Refugees everywhere.... for we cannot keep exact count of souls suffering so in our exact time: Rohingya, Karon, Kurds, Afghanistanis, Iranians, Iraquis, Uyghurs, Tigray, Australian souls of aboriginal hopes after DECADES of dashed hopes, still strong in determination, truly strong.

--Like Rumi, we are with the inocentes: the people who lost everything: their kin, their health, their peace, their art, their security in food, animals, flowers, shelter, livelihood.

Rumi, who was born Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī in 1207 — on what is now the border of Tajikistan and Afghanistan. When a child, his father led his family to flee the bloody lootings, rapings and massacres of the Mongol invasions.

Rumi and his dear inocentes family fled for days through forests where birds still sang, through dry land where trickles of water still sparkled --and where Death was in the eyes of so many.

Rumi and his family trekked and hid and sheltered through what is now Iran, Iraq and Syria, before they found refuge in the outlying communities of Konya in modern-day Turkey.

Bedraggled, beaten, starving, Blessed Rumi rose up, not with insult, not with revenge, not with opprobrium, not with hatred, not with scorn, not with screed, not with self-designed ad hominem attacks against others, not with insane rantings.

As here in the following poem/prayer, in acknowledging Greater, Rumi rose up in immaculate love and peace with integrity.

Rumi bridged, I believe, to Blessed Martin Luther King --who had as one of Martin's irrevocable premises — how to EFFECTIVELY progress against hatred and deadly exclusion: that one MUST daily —if not every minute — self-purify from egotistical outrage, personal resentment, projection of faults, hatred and desire to split the world into more shatters by ineffective sloganeering and declaring oneself arbiter of all others.

Ive been in touch with some at the Haig re cease fires in Ukraine and Gaza and several other wholesale bloodshed sites, including Venezuela. I'll update as I have more information.

[One of the most effective actions I've seen in all the many harms to inocentes going on, is one brave man lodging a formal complaint to the war crimes oversight group at the UN. Brave, Brave soul.]

May all be healed, may peace come this second, starting with our own peaceful hearts --our broken hearts sewn together to hold the middle --so that not all is torn asunder by those who do not study, who do not follow the ways of peace building.

It is easy to be enraged, but takes FAR more muscle of Spirit and Soul to be engaged

--Within one's own reach--

As said before here, ally with groups of aid and bridging and feeding and sheltering, already embedded however and wherever your better angels call you ...

Here is the instructive Love from Rumi to your hearts, dear souls. Thank you to my friend Coleman for his translation to the English.

I’ll Meet You There” (Rumi)

“Out beyond ideas
of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.

When the soul lies down
in that grass, the world
is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language,
even the phrase “each other”
doesn’t make any sense.” -Rumi


Pick up a stone that fits inside your hand.
Feel the weight of it. Feel its touch.

For ninety-one weeks,
in words and words and words,
I’ve been trying to figure something out.
I’ve been trying to help.
I’ve been trying to solve problems,
provide answers, offer support
and understand. And there’s something wonderful in all of that.
But there is also quiet.
A breath.
Pick up a stone. Any stone. Feel it. Sometimes that is my doorway to the field.

I don’t find healing there,
but I do find a pattern
larger than all my hurts.
I find something like peace and strength.
I find being.
There is quiet.
A breath.

Out beyond ideas
of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field.

I’ll meet you there.

No lack of love,
dr e
- raised in her war refugees, immigrant and deportee families.

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The answer is always love.
Always!

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When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.
I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light.
For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

~ Wendell Berry 💚

The Peace of Wild Things

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Don't give up... you're never too old.

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Say these words out loud and then close your eyes and feel them.

"You are goodness and mercy and compassion and understanding. You are peace and joy and light. You are forgiveness and patience, strength and courage, a helper in time of need, a comforter in time of sorrow, a healer in time of injury, a teacher in times of confusion. You are the deepest wisdom and the highest truth; the greatest peace and the grandest love. You are these things. And in moments of your life you have known yourself as these things. Choose now to know yourself as these things always." -Neale Donald Walsch

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

~ Abraham Heschel 💚

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Your inner child knows wonder and connection.
That wonder, that connection is still within you.
It may have been marred or blocked or pushed into a hidden dimension, but it is still in you.

It is still accessible via your willingness to embrace the innocence beyond all the pain. It may take time, but the growth along the way is deeply nourishing.

Never give up. You are worth it.

Blessings 🐾🌿✨
(c) O. Nightsky
(Art: Unknown as yet)

To those missing loved ones tonight… Maybe the loss is recent and your grief runs deep, or maybe it’s been a very long time and what’s left is a lingering sense of melancholy. But either way, there’s an empty space in your heart that can’t quite be filled no matter how long it’s been or how many other wonderful people are in your life to love and who are loving you back. As you remember someone special tonight, may you feel their eternal presence with you and in your heart forever. ❤️ www.beginwithyes.com

Our daughters need us not to be perfect.
They need us to be messy, raw, and real,
admitting our mistakes and apologizing for them,
pink in the cheeks with embarrassment, and feeling our feelings with tears in the corners of our eyes.

They need to hear us discussing our struggles with them. They weren’t there to witness them all, so they may think we never had any.

But let’s tell them what we overcame, so no shame exists between us, and they’ll feel comfortable revealing their authentic selves, too.

We want our daughters to view mistakes as an opportunity to learn and grow, not a failure.

Because gosh, we should be tired of hearing about girls uncomfortable in their skin, poking, prodding, and tugging at their stomachs when they don’t live up to their own expectations, looking in the mirror and feeling not enough.

So no, we shouldn't want girls who smile pretty, don’t take risks, and keep themselves small stuck in a perfectionist mind.

We should want our girls strong, resilient, and BRAVE.

Girls who go after challenges just like our boys who are always encouraged to play rough, climb high, and reach for the stars.

So our daughters need us not to be perfect,
so, they, too, can reach for the stars for themselves, and each and every woman after them to become the brave and imperfect humans, they were meant to become.

- Danielle Sherman-Lazar

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I can’t tell you how many patients I have seen who seem to be doing everything right such as eating the right foods, taking the right supplements, and moving, yet, they can’t seem to get better. ⁣⁣
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As a college student, I became passionate about meditation and Buddhism, and I used what I learned to deepen my connection to myself and strengthen my spirit. And then I entered medical school and residency, and real life got in the way, and I let go of the daily practices that kept me grounded.⁣⁣
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I became very sick, and not just physically; I became spiritually bankrupt too. ⁣
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Chances are the same thing has happened to you at one time or another. ⁣⁣
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The good news is that there are simple ways to get back in touch with your authentic self, that childlike part of you, that spark:⁣⁣
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1) Take time every day to check in with yourself. How are you feeling? Are you spending time doing things you want to do, or things you feel obligated to do? Do you feel fulfilled? This seemingly basic step is vital for identifying what brings you joy, where your passions lie, and how you can get more of them in your life. ⁣⁣
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2) Journaling is a great way to talk to yourself on paper, it allows you to have an uninhibited discussion with yourself, oftentimes leading to an “aha” moment that was hiding under the surface all along. Studies have shown that journaling focused on gratitude can even reduce inflammation and improve mental wellbeing.⁣⁣
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3) It’s completely okay to realize your current path is not making you happy and change directions—give yourself permission! ⁣⁣
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4) Clear the clutter. A more organized and simplified space will help you focus on more meaningful and non-material aspects of life, helping your spirit shine brighter. ⁣⁣
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5) Meditate. This has been an essential step in rekindling my spirit and regaining the spiritual vitality that I had, at one point, lost.

A healer does not heal you. A healer is someone who holds space for you while you awaken your inner healer, so that you may heal yourself.

~ Maryam Hasnaa 💚

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To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others, you need to accept yourself.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh 💚

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