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Working With Reiki – Day Nineteen

Self study Saturday is here again. This is a going to be a challenging post. Mostly because I’m going to say some things that certain people may not be ready to hear. Having said that, I will also say, that if you are someone who is not ready to be open to the possibility that what you have been sold as religion, may not be God’s truth, then please be respectful of those who choose to listen.

First of all, part of our Saturday self study, is dedicated to learning about Reiki. Reiki is a form of energy healing. Remember in prior posts we discussed energy, and how it can neither be created or destroyed? It can only be transformed. Reiki is the healing modality that assists in that transformation of energy to heal. The video below provides a good overview of what Reiki is.

Please notice the Bible verse at the beginning of the video.

I have experienced the healing offered through Reiki. I have experienced healing of migraine and low back pain through this modality. It can be an amazing experience. It has been far too long since my last treatment. I look forward to working with Emmie.

Continuing on. In the video Brice posted today, she talks with Steph and Emmie about the healing practice of Reiki. They also discuss the brainwashing that has taken place over the centuries. Specifically the mind control perpetrated by the Church. I’m going to let you view the video below to hear the conversation. Please don’t be too quick to discount what they say. There is a lot of truth in their conversation.

There are many things going on in the world today, evil things, that are a result of the Churches. In the months to come, much could be revealed. Things that may shock the world. So, please don’t judge your neighbor for their view point. Reserve your opinion, do your research and open your mind to the truth.

We are all on a journey to know our selves. We are all trying to figure out how to make the world a better place. We can’t do that if we’re casting stones at each other. Let us open our minds and our hearts. So that we can all discern the truth. Let’s share information and dedicate ourselves to raising the vibration of the earth, knowing that we are one people.

Divided we fall. We’ve tried that. It’s time to come together and rid the world of the wolves in sheep’s clothing.

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Day Eighteen – Betrayal

Many things were discussed in the daily video. We learned about the breath and how it’s connected to our neurological system. Brice discussed pranayama breathing and the OM meditation. She reminded us that our past experiences shape our future reality by connecting the emotion related to the past experience with present experience. We automatically react to the present situation based on the emotion felt in the past. This is our subconscious reacting to protect us from something that isn’t real. Our thoughts are not real.

We react to situations based on a past events that don’t exist. If we can learn to catch these reactions before they happen, we can “live in the moment”, so to speak.

Over the last few days, we addressed a few intense topics. Today we looked at one of those situations. Betrayal.

We’ve all probably been betrayed at one time or another. This is another tough topic. It’s my opinion that betrayal is an emotional form of abuse. Some may think this an extreme view, but if the betrayal cause a deep enough wound, it can be traumatizing. And it can take years to get over. And that could only happen if healing took place. Some people never get past the trauma of betrayal. I went through such traumatic betrayal a couple years ago. Betrayal Trauma is very real.

I’ve had five years to work through such trauma. Forgiveness isn’t easy but it’s necessary. Not for the betrayer, but for those who were betrayed. When we forgive others, we open up our heart to a form of love that isn’t limited by betrayal, anger or any other negative emotion. Forgiveness offers us peace and new beginnings. It allows us to cut the ties that anchored us in our grief. And allows us to experience joy again.

Forgiveness doesn’t often come easy. We must go through a period of mourning, sit with our pain, and process the betrayal before we can let go. But let go we must. So we can live again. It is my experience that forgiveness allows our hearts to expand, so we can love more deeply. So we can see the world through a new set of eyes and enjoy the world for what it could be.

Again, today we were given the gift of learning and healing through this Shadow Work Challenge. I am thankful for those who share this journey with me. And am loving the healing I see.

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Spiritual Vibration – Day Seventeen

Today is a good day to focus on learning more about our spiritual vibration. Yesterday was quite intense. We worked through many things. We wrote letters to our childhood self to facilitate the healing of old wounds. Today we take a deep breath as that energy settles and shifts.

We’ve been working this challenge long enough now to know what is meant by spiritual vibration. I equate it to the energy pulsing through the body as we become more familiar with our inner knowing. Or Gnosis. Where have we seen that word before? Yes, the Gnostic texts, that’s right. The spiritual texts of not only the early Christians, but further back in history to the ancient mystery schools.

We can focus on our spiritual vibration by studying those texts, by exercising, and by meditating and spending time asking ourselves the tough questions.

Many of these questions come from from so deep we weren’t aware they existed. Until we started this work.

We keep coming back to exercise. That’s because the body is the expression of the soul. The soul is meant to ascend. The soul can’t ascend until the body can handle the spiritual vibration that causes that shift. The way to make the body strong, is to exercise.

Our bodies must be able to hold that high frequency vibration in order to ascend. Think of the body as the casing on an electric wire. The casing of wire holds in the electric current that passes along the wire. If the casing isn’t thick enough or strong enough it could burn. The electricity will get too hot, and the casing melts, releasing the current into the air. Our bodies resemble that casing. It holds in the energy that we manifest. Whether it be positive or negative, the body holds that energy. The higher the vibration of that energy the stronger the body must be. We must work to make our bodies capable of holding that high vibration which will allow us to ascend.

There is so much to learn about our bodies. Much has been kept from us on purpose. It is now time for us to play catch up. We have a lot to learn in a short time.

I’m thankful for this challenge and all those who who facilitate and participate. Everyone is contributing to this journey. As Brice says, we are all walking each other home.

We’re in good company.

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Childhood Trauma – Day Sixteen

Many of us have survived some form of childhood trauma. This topic is never an easy one to discuss. But today as we continue our journey through the Shadow Work Challenge, we come up against what is a heavy topic.

I haven’t been looking forward to this particular day in the challenge. It makes sense that Brice waited until after the halfway mark to address this topic. Some participants may already have dealt with some of this energy as it has shifted in the body. While others are still waiting for the bomb to drop. There are those of us who have been working through this trauma for many years. Even we are struggling to move past some things that are just not ready to leave the body.

There are people who might be surprised to learn they suffered any form of childhood trauma. Mostly because the trauma remained from another lifetime. Yes, I’m talking about reincarnation. It’s okay if you’re not on this band wagon. When the dust settles and the truth is revealed, you will probably change your mind.

We are all healing the little things. While others are dealing with major shifts in energy to heal the body and the mind. These individual shifts, these ah ha moments we have, may seem small in comparison to what is going on on the world stage. But as we are learning, the micro affects the macro. For every little shift we cause, its causing a greater shift in the world.

So, as we continue to heal ourselves, we are contributing to the greater good of the cosmos. No change is too small. No effort made is to little. Because when we all come together, those little shifts will cause great waves. We are the tsunami. We are the wind that will clear out the storm and bring light back into the world.

I end my day again, with my journal and a good book. I reflect on all I’ve accomplished in the last 16 days and I turn out the light.

Thankful for this Shadow Work Challenge.

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Finding Courage – Day Fifteen

So, we’re at the half way point of the Shadow Work Challenge. We began today as we did the first day with Marnie Alton’s Barre exercise. By now I’ve become accustom to waking early and beginning my day with my new friends.

Today is Tuesday. And true to the Challenge we learned something new today. If you’re familiar with the Hindu faith, you will already know Tuesday is Hanuman’s Day. Brice brings up Hanuman today, who is the Hindu warrior monkey god. He represents courage. The story goes like this.

Rama (who represents God) marries Sita, (represents the soul) his true love. Ravana the demon king (our ego) who can’t be slayed kidnaps Sita. Rama searches tirelessly for Sita. Until he meets and hires Hanuman (represents courage) to find an rescue Sita. It’s a beautiful story. Brice gives a brief over view of the tale below. One much better than my brief synopsis.

We are all fighting an inner war. Our ego against our soul. The only way we will win this war is if we find the courage to fight our demons. The story of Ramayana is one story that represent this struggle. Another is the Bhagavad Gita. Where Arjuna is the warrior who must find his courage.

We are writing our story by working through this challenge. We must find and conquer our demons so we can ascend and move into the light. It is the struggle we face along the way that serves as our work, our karma. In the video below, Brice recaps the day, helping us put into perspective the work that lay ahead.

So, we end the day as we have done for each day of the challenge. My journal has become my constant companion and confidant. I write that nightly entry, read for a while, then turn out the lights for the night.

I don’t think I’ve mentioned yet, the effects of the nightly ritual of lights out by 10pm. My sleep is a better quality and I wake more rested. That alone is worth joining the challenge.

I know we’re half way through, but you could still join the challenge, you’d only finish fifteen days later that most of us. There are those who have joined later and are finishing a bit later. It doesn’t matter. We all get there when we are meant to arrive.

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Day Fourteen – The Ego Death

The ego is a funny thing. It can be a trickster. While we need our ego to survive, I’m learning that it needs to put in its place more often than not.

There are many times in our life when our ego serves us. Protects us for danger. But in this spiritual awakening the ego can be a hindrance to our growth. It does serve a purpose, but I’m learning that the purpose is only to provide friction so we can free ourselves from the “mind talk”.

When we realize that our ego is our false sense of self, it becomes easier to recognize when it is sneaking in to sabotage your efforts. We need to learn to put our ego in its place. We need to remember it should not be in control. The ego is mortal, the soul is eternal. The ego provides a false sense of knowing.

We started this shadow work challenge so we could become acquainted with our true self. Our soul self. Our body is the expression of the soul. If the ego can manipulate the mind to thinking it is real, then our bodies will never realize their true potential.

We can only realize that potential by working through our Karma, doing our work. That’s all karma is, the work we agreed to do, the experiences we agreed to live so we could know ourselves, our soul self. We learn that the fear instilled in us, is only a means to keep us stuck.

The elite learned that hundreds, no, thousands of years ago. I believe they created religion to control us and keep us from knowing the truth. The ego has helped them to accomplish their goal. We through discipline and hard work will undo their programming and take back the world.

If we discipline our selves to do the work we can undo all the programming we’ve been subjected to. Brice reminds us, in her video, where the word discipline derives from. Yeshua taught his followers how to live so they could ascend. His followers were called disciples. His followers disciplined themselves to do the work.

When we do the work we will experience a lot of “stuff”. Emotions like sadness, depression, anxiety and loneliness will come up. We will feel pain in our bodies. Headaches could be part of that pain. These manifestations will confirm that we’re moving in the right direction. I’ve been experiencing some of the physical pain. I’m sure there will be more to come.

This is our dark night of the soul. These are the manifestations that release us from that darkness and bring us into the light.

This challenge is working wonders for so many people right now. I hope you will consider joining us as we awaken the world to the possibilities of enlightening.

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Magic, Mysore, Moving Energy – Day Thirteen

Today is day thirteen.

In the overview video, Brice talks to us today about the energy in our body. She asks us to go within and feel where in our body that energy might be stuck. She discusses the idea that when we realize our energy is stagnant, we can make a connection to our emotions and where we are physically in our life.

Have you ever noticed that when you get mad, noting goes right. You fall in to a cascade of emotions that lead you down a road that escalates that emotion of anger and frustration.

In the video below, Brice talks about how we can move that energy through exercise. When we “get physical” we not only create more energy in our body, but that energy acts as a conduit for those emotions to clear out. Look at it this way. When you have a clogged drain nothing will pass through it. Or whatever does pass, does so at a trickle. Slowing down the flow. When you clean out those drains, the water immediately flows through without any resistance.

The energy in our bodies is not so different from the clogged drain. If we sit idle, don’t move our bodies, then the energy doesn’t flow. When we begin the practice of exercise, that energy starts to move through the body. But because that energy has been stagnant in the body for so long, we have created blocks that need to be flushed out. Similar to flushing out the clogged drain.

As the energy begins to move it may bring up emotions that have been part of that stagnant energy. When that energy presents as anger we can help it move through the body by doing rigorous exercise. Brice gives us the option of kickboxing as a means to create this flow.

This flow will bring pain, stiffness and frustration. All of which are part of the process necessary to awaken the the body to manifest a spiritual awakening. This I am learning through this challenge.

Again the day closes with my journal, some intensive reading and lights out at 10pm.

Things are getting intense. In a good way. I hope you will look at this challenge as an opportunity to grow, spiritually (not religiously).

You can join the challenge at any time. It’s never to late toe heal and grow.

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Day Twelve – Shadow Work and Global Energy

I’ve talked about energy in many past posts. Today as we review day twelve we will learn more about the global energy that affects all of us. So much has been going on in the world in the last few year. Many people are watching the storm unfold, while others are not aware of what is going on. That aside we will focus on how that energy affects us without realizing it.

There are many ways to look at our energy. Brice reviews the Doshas today, showing us how they not only affect our moods, but how our bodies process food. I’m a Vata, Pita. I sometimes forget to eat. I have energy stores that keep me going from the start of a project until I finish. My frame is small and my limbs are slender.

When we look at the food according to the Doshas we see how we should eat the foods opposite the Dosha we identify with. Brice explains this better in the video below.

Today is our day of rest. A day to reflect on the week. At least as far as exercise goes. Today we researched the chakra system. We have 7 chakras within our body. They run from the root chakra to the crown chakra. The video below is a short explanation of each chakra, where in the body they are located and their function.

Brice provides a link to a 60 minute chakra meditation within the Shadow Work Challenge should you decide to join the challenge. Today we meditate and read. Learning about our chakra system and how it functions.

Finally, we finish our day with our journal, a quiet evening then to be by ten pm. Another day down. Eighteen days remaining in the challenge. And a lifetime to continue the shadow work.

You can still join. It’s never to late to grow and learn.

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Day Eleven – The Window Of Truth – Illusion

Continuing on. I’ve made it to day eleven.

Pain is coming up for many of us. Shoulders, knees, hips, elbows, any place in the body. Many of those who have taken on this challenge are saying the pain is very real. We are all working to figure out what that pain means. We’re digging deep to find the source of that pain.

One of the things Brice asked us to do yesterday was to connect with someone we lost touch with. Apparently, some participants contacted people they had previously eliminated from their life. Those people who were toxic to them. I didn’t think to do that. I’m glad I didn’t.

However, once the conversation began, it made me realize that even though I didn’t contact someone toxic, there was someone that fit the description, who in recent years I had cut ties with, so I could heal from such toxicity. It also made me realize that I hadn’t completely cut that tie.

It’s amazing how the universe works. For the last two and a half years I’ve been working to free myself from such a relationship. While I’m not going to share any information about that relationship, I will say that it was a long lasting one that left me broken and brought me to a place that I never thought I would see. Today as Brice spoke about toxic relationships, I realized I still had some unfinished business of which to address.

When I say it’s amazing how the universe works, I’m speaking of how time and space prepares a path that allows us to find the strength to work through anything. I will admit it wasn’t me who set the ball in motion, that would finally close the door to this relationship.

But I’m glad the ball is rolling. It is a scary thing, to confront years of toxicity after having such a peaceful reprieve. But I know the peace will be short lived if I don’t follow through with closing the door. I have found some solace in knowing that I am strong, and have truth on my side. I know that I can finally close the the door that will free me from that which has plagued me for 20 years.

So, we move on, learning from our decisions. We address the pain and heal. The healing will bring with it a peace and joy that will lift us all to our ascension. Where we will finally release the pain we chose to live through.

On day eleven we continue our journey. Journal, meditation, exercise, and continued lessons that bring knowledge and understanding while showing us how strong and compassionate we can be to ourselves. This challenge is teaching us all lessons we didn’t know we needed to learn.

I hope you will look at this opportunity and begin. It’s never to late to grow.

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Staying Power – Day Ten

We’re at day ten. a third of the way through the challenge…

Not that I’m counting.

Today we did the kickboxing. Yes, I did kickboxing instead of the Barre. Maybe just to prove a point. I still don’t feel a connection. Maybe it’s because I’m a lover not a fighter. It didn’t bring up any emotions for me. Again, I will revisit the kickboxing on occasion to see what happens.

I haven’t talked much about meditation. But that too has been part of our daily routine. Get up at five am, exercise, take a cold shower, then meditate. Or listen to the sound bowl healing. I know some people have been triggered by the OM meditation. I find it soothing. The sound bowl healing is peaceful too. Maybe there is something wrong with me. You can listen to the video which I placed below.

In today’s video, Brice went into a little more detail about how our emotions can trigger our food choices. We’ve been eating our last meal before 7pm. And we don;t snack after 7pm. This allows our digestive system to rest for at least 12 hours before breakfast. It’s amazing how much energy I wake up with when I have that twelve hour break. It makes it easier to exercise too.

I’m also surprised at how easy it has been to adjust to the meal/snack rule.

We continue with the journal, the meditating, and exercise. Today we were to reach out to someone we know and like that we lost touch with. Just a short text. It felt good to connect to a childhood friend who I haven’t seen in years.

We are drinking our 64 ounces of and finish our day with a hot bath before bed. No electronics one hour before bed. That means 9pm. Lights out at 10pm.

That in itself is a challenge.