IN and YO are concepts of duality in Japanese energy and Reiki study. They are similar to the more familiar Chinese concepts of YANG and YIN – which we see as something having a feminine or masculine nature or attributes. In Japanese understanding of duality however, everything has both. IN and YO are two sides of the same coin, more like inner and outer or right and left. We often want to believe they are two different “things” when in truth there is one orginal energy. Electricity is electricity. It has both a positive and negative charge, but the two together are electricity. There is only one energy. Similarly there is IN and YO to everything. Light and dark, hot and cold are two examples of common dualities found in nature. Let’s look at the Reiki Precepts to see how this understanding works in them.
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Archive for Reiki Healing
We all carry grief.
At some time. At some point. We suffer loss. Loss of Identity and Self. Loss of Hope. Loss of Love. Loss of Relationship. Loss of Expectations. Loss of Health. Loss of Work. Loss of Meaning. Loss of Vision. Loss of Life. Loss. Loss of whatever it is we thought we had, or we had and did not know until it was gone, or loss of what we felt we deserved and did not get.
We all carry grief. It is the gentle accompaniment to life we have learned to live with, and ignore, almost every day. We carry the little losses as they build up an unknown momentum until a big wave of one comes along and we are washed away with all that grief.
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It occurs to me, with all the birth healing that I do, that I have not shared my story, my learning, my wisdoms with you here on birth, life, and celebration.
When I work with someone in birth healing, the first place I go back to is their own birth
Whatever is remembered and whatever comes to light as we work together is where we begin. All birth healing begins with our own births. We must go back to our own entry point to be able to guide our new ones to theirs. Like it or not, we are intimately involved with the ushering in of new life – a powerful and sacred journey of arrival. As you can see from my own story below, birth healing can be done years after giving birth, but how wonderful to offer it as a gift to yourself, your newborn and your lives together from the start.
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How my 12th Grandchild helped Heal my Sleep…
At now 70 years of age, I talk about healing a lot. This post is on Sleep Healing. I have written about setting healthy sleep patterns and habits before. This is a different look at healing the personal sources of sleep issues. Each of us is unique, our life experiences are unique, and our healings are unique and individual. No one size fits all!
The journey we are on here on this planet is pretty amazing. The lesson being taught me on a deeper level right now is about asking. When I truly ask, I am always blessed with a healing response. I don’t mean this religiously. It is a Spiritual Principle I am learning and will explain further on. Recently, responses have been very clear and quite close in to my asking. My latest ask has been about my sleep. As my Shamanic learning continues I am empowered and connected in new ways through journeying. There are openings, communications and travelings back and forth in the spirit world that are – I’m going to repeat myself – amazing – and always healing!
So on to sleep…
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When working with me, some clients stay for a healing journey, some dip into the waters once or several times and are satisfied, and some are unsettled in their response to Reiki treatment and healing work – the temperature of change is not quite right for them at this time. I welcome all, whether for a one-time swim through the pools we find during Reiki and healing sessions together or for a longer journey into the light and shadows of self-healing. Yet the question is often raised and discussed in healing circles:
Why don’t we all run toward this wonderful thing called healing and dive right in? What makes us hesitate?
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The Life Changing Gift you Give Yourself
It’s no wonder attitude and gratitude rhyme – that embedded in the word gratitude is the essence of the word attitude. They are inexorably intertwined in nature and that intertwining is essential to our happiness and survival.
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Invoking a Good Night’s Sleep and a little Reiki Rest
Reiki trained or not, a good night’s sleep is not far away with a few tips and helps around the subject of sleep.
Of first importance is recognizing and acknowledging how incredibly vital and important sleep is to our well-being, mentally, physically and emotionally. One of the first signs and results of any illness is sleep disturbance (lack of sleep) or the need to sleep more than usual. Our sleeping state indicates our waking state; improving one improves the other. If we look at how we sleep we will get a different understanding of who we are in waking time.
Do not take sleep for granted.
We all tend to think, on some level, that sleep is a naturally occurring thing and that we will go to sleep at night because that is what humans do. If we hang in there long enough, the body will give up and sleep for us. If it doesn’t, we take or try something to help us sleep.
Improper sleep may be a medical condition that needs good attending to. Imbalances in hormones, vitamin deficiencies and sleep apnea are a few of the physical culprits robbing us of rest. A sleep analysis or a visit to a good functional practitioner or holistic provider may assist in giving our bodies the physical capability to sleep well. Trauma and PTSD are sleep destroyers and will need professional help to move through towards a healing night’s rest. We take our daymares to bed with us where they live in our sleeping and dreams. Again, our sleep is showing us our waking state.
Taking our sleeping seriously and working with sleep patterns to bring balanced rest with all its healing power is an important responsibility we have to ourselves. Sleep doesn’t just happen, we make it. It is the result of our living. The patterns we weave in the day run clearly in our sleep.
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There has been a lot of conversation in the healing community lately around awareness and active participation in matters of race, justice, and equality. The concern at hand is that many in the healing arts and alternative fields tend regard themselves as too spiritual to be involved with these issues. They are above around and through it all because, after all, it is all about oneness and that is what we all are. The dodge is to be a good, neutral, open and welcoming to all individual and divest oneself of any further responsibility. After all, the healing arts are not political. They are not social justice venues. They are personal healing venues.
A pleasant Reiki treatment studio
Congratulations on deciding to try a Reiki session. It is tempting to breathe a sigh of relief once you have made the decision and then reach out for a practitioner from a reputable listing and “give them a try.” Helpful friends may even refer you to someone they know. While a good place to start, a referral is not the end of your search.
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There is confusion about Reiki and the Chakras
Due to Reiki’s “release” into Western culture upon the death of Mrs. Takata just as the New Age was taking off, Reiki has become associated with the Chakra System, an Indian energy concept of the human body. However, Reiki ‘s roots and origins are Japanese, Read More→
