According to the Kundalini Yoga tradition the three most important nerve channels in the body are the Ida, Pingala, & Shushmana.
Ida nadi refers to the left sided dominant energy of the body guided by the right hemisphere of the brain. When we breathe through the left nostril we are breathing through the feminine lunar energy. This is the cleansing & eliminating energy carrying cooling, relaxing, lunar energy.
Pingala nadi refers to the right sided dominant energy of the body guided by the left hemisphere of the brain. When we breathe through the right nostril we are breathing through the masculine sun energy of the body. This is the energizing energy carrying warming, energizing, solar energy.
Shushmana nadi refers to the neutral energy running up the length of the spine all the way to the top of the head. It is the main channel that the kundalini rises. This channel is related to the ‘joyful mind’ or the most ‘gracious mind’.
Along these channels are the main subtle energy channels called ‘chakras’. From the tailbone to the top of the head and beyond. When these chakra centers are spinning appropriately we can be in a good state of balance.
When we practice breathing techniques to stimulate the channels, called pranayama, we are attempting to clear the pathways for energy to flow.
Pranayama is a breathing practice predominantly practiced through the nose. Although there are many practices that do use other forms of breathing, one of the reasons why Kundalini Pranayama uses nose breathing is to cleanse and clear these channels creating an effortless pathway through the Shushmana pathway of neutrality leading to the peaceful mind.
As we increase the oxygen to these channels we increase the oxygenation of the blood of the body working energetically and physiologically having a multilayer effect of health and healing on the body, mind, and spirit.
We are creating a triad of consciousness effectively helping us transform on many levels.
Each individual has its own unique experience and as such it is directed through the specific pranayama geared towards a specific effect as intended by the chosen meditation piece.
Kundalini yoga and meditation studied and performed for thousands of years, is nothing short of effective and timely in its ability to help heal the body and soul. For the yogi who chooses to integrate its practice regularly, the positive effects can be limitless and long lasting.
This week:
Experience the practice of Alternate Nostril breathing meant to promote a stimulating and cleansing effect to the two channels of the body: ida & pingala. Building a relationship between the channels and eventually coming into a balancing effect of the energy flow.
Clarify the subtle body through simple arm movements within this energetic auric layer as we listen to the chant of tantric ‘Har’. A prosperity meditation with breath and movement.
Receive the effects of long lasting shavasana always with the intention of reintegrating the body to a new vibration.
And finally complete the reintegration with a final meditation at your new level of consciousness before we depart.
It’s June. A time for change. Deep and profound change within happens only as we recognize the thoughts and beliefs that have been running our lives. This is AWAKENING.
As we tune in and tap into our higher awareness, the understanding of truth begins to unravel every pattern no longer serving our path.
Our path is joy.
As we enter the 6th month of 2024 let’s encourage each other to grow further into a state of inner awareness, ever expanding and enhancing the plush awakening happening at a global rate.
Begin to ask the questions such as, “who am I and why am I here?”
These fundamental questions always lead us back to truth which is how we all began and why we came here in the first place.
As summer grows, we have opportunity for expansion in profound ways.
Becoming Intuitive is a perfect summer program helping us become the truth of our inner awareness.
There are 28 days of self realization entries that can be listened by audio or read as a journal entry. Access these at any time and make them a part of your awakening process as we unravel into the certainty of our individual and collective purpose. Allow your intuition to be enhanced and Become Intuitive once more.
Here is the introduction to Week 2, where we become aware of the energy within us, driving our outer experiences. As we shift our energy our worlds shift to represent the energy within us.
It truly is a remarkable shift we can all continue to develop for the rest of our lives. It truly will enhance and revolutionize the way we look at life and the experiences happening around us. A true reflection of enlightenment.
If we seek to change the world we must first begin from within.
Enjoy… and if seeking guidance and self enhancement is a priority for you then download the program today and begin your 28 Day Journey.
Week 2 – Becoming Intuitive
This week we are highlighting inner development– We are asking ourselves the universal questions of “who am I, what are my core beliefs, what am I holding onto, and what am I willing to release?”
Intuitive living is about being aligned with our truth.
– Being aligned with our truth –
We cleanse the body of limiting thoughts and beliefs. We work the energy centers of the body, the chakras, and release everything unaligned with our truth. We become powerful. Our vibration elevates and we learn to co-create with the universe.
This week is about alignment. An intuitive remains in a state of high vibration. To remain here, we must question ourselves and be willing to become aligned with our truth. If there is anything unaligned it may affect our vibration.
Meaning, we need to know what we truly believe. This may not always be aligned with the truth of who we are. For example, if I continue to have financial difficulties no matter how I manage money I may have some hidden core beliefs about money, unconsciously self-sabotaging my abundance. I may have the best intentions but if I keep finding myself in debt there most likely is a hidden energy pattern needing to be addressed. There could be frequencies of lack, survivors’ guilt, or unworthiness living within and secretly sabotaging alignment with the abundance vibration. Maybe we have a belief that we can only make enough money to survive. Maybe we believe if we make too much money we won’t be accepted by our family. These beliefs may sound silly but if we have reoccurring difficulties, we may want to entertain this possibility. The frequency of lack or any number of limitations can live within our vibration. We don’t do this purposefully. Most of the time these are unconscious beliefs we have assumed from our families, friends, partners, coworkers, etc. If there is something that we want, and it is not showing up, we must be willing to ask ourselves what we are holding that is keeping us from opening to our heart’s desires.
This is one way to help us release what no longer works and become aligned with the truth of who we are as connected intuitive beings capable of everything.
The other issue may be what we ‘think’ we want is not in alignment with our highest purpose. Therefore, it will not show up. If it did show up, it would not serve our greatest purpose. We all came here for a high purpose. We are being asked to ‘show up’ and merge with our truth.
That means, everything that is not in alignment with this will not come to fruition or we will have to work extraordinarily hard to achieve what we ‘think’ we want. When we finally achieve our desire, we remain unsatisfied. As if we are a hungry ghost seeking food and never being fulfilled.
Becoming intuitive helps us discern our truth and be aligned with our highest purpose.
This week, we are aligning ourselves through consciously working each energy center of the body, otherwise known as chakras. These energy centers can be found in many traditions throughout history. They have become a common way to address energy dysfunctions within and around the body. In this work, we are addressing the patterns of beliefs associated with these areas and how we can resolve and release our own thoughts and ideas unaligned with our highest potential.
As an intuitive, we are seeking to be aligned with our truth. This helps us access and remain in a high vibrational state. Therefore, we can tune into our intuition easily.
Lower frequency thoughts and ideas can have an impact on our vibration. Seeking to forgive and release anything within our current field of awareness, our vibration, helps us become aligned with our desires and it will inspire us to move in directions more aligned with our truth.
Many of us continue to push hard at something when we are not getting the results we desire. When, most likely, we either need to pause and feel what is happening and why we keep hitting barriers. Then we can ask for help and work with Creator to co-create our highest potential.
When we are real, things really show up.
This is alignment with our truth.
To prepare yourself for the coming week, allow journal time every day. As we process and deeply work with our thoughts and ideas, we will need adequate time allowing ourselves to write down our ‘aha’ moments. These are ‘light bulb’ moments that help us uncover these lower frequencies that are living in our field.
Keeping your journal near you will help with this process. We never know when intuition will drop in. We have become proficient at accessing consciousness through our intuitive listening skills developed last week. Now it is time to trust in these and allow them to help us resolve and release what is no longer helping. If we have something we want to achieve in our life, there is nothing that is ‘keeping it’ from showing up and there is nothing that we must ‘get rid of’ to make it happen. We merely need to tune in, learn to ask for help, and forgive.
We know how to tune in from last weeks lessons. This week we are learning how to ask for assistance from Creator and forgive. Forgiveness is not about surrendering to anything you don’t want or accepting there is nothing you can do. Rather, forgiveness is acceptance that you can’t figure this out on your own and you need help. We surrender, ask for help, and forgive ourselves and others for anything related to what has been living within and around us.
Imagine yourself as a beautiful diamond that has been under pressure for a very long time within the rocks. To find the diamond we need help. We need to ask for assistance to chip away at what is covering up the beauty. We know the diamond is in there and we don’t know how to uncover it…this is surrender. We ask for help knowing that something greater is listening. We forgive ourselves and all the people places and things that have ever been associated with this issue because we have been carrying dirt and debris for a long time. We realize we can no longer carry this load… this is asking. We accept there is another way, we allow Creator to show us the path, and we tune into the synchronicities that begin to illuminate our path.
People will show up with the right tools to help us. Places will emerge we never new existed to guide us. Things will happen at just the right time.
Therefore, we must clear out the lower frequencies not serving our high vibration. As we do, the process becomes easier and easier. The guidance becomes more profound. We intuitively know and hear with elevated sensations.
Therefore, taking time to do these lessons this week is ultra-important. It will help the next 2 weeks become easier and put you on the path to elevated intuitive awareness at lightening speeds.
Remember to take time for yourself. Use your journal. And allow yourself this process.
For all professions…Professional executives, professional parents, professional students, professional trainers… be the power of ‘now’ and learn how to clear issues instantaneously advancing you to your goals and aspirations.
Reiki and intuitive healing for 75-90 minutes of guided healing for those that choose to just receive. Designed for introductory appointments into ‘the work’ or for those that need to truly just receive the energy. (please ask jennifer for guidance)
4. Healing Archangels Class- Friday, June 28 (See below)
5. Holy Fire III Level 1 & 2 Reiki Classes, June 29 & 30
Allow the subtle energy of Reiki, guided breathing through Meditation, and Ancestral Clearing peace and forgiveness guide through inner self healing. These sessions are personal and self paced. Learn to meditate and shift energy patterns within and around us helping to elevate and enhance our lives personally and professionally.
June 28, 6-9pm An experiential class. Learn to heart link with the archangels of the human energy field that can help us elevate and enhance our energetic system. The workshop will include information on each angel, meditation and experiential practice , and take home practices. Archangels Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, Uriel All materials are emailed to participants 24 hours in advance.
Usui Holy Fire III Reiki Levels 1 & 2 Weekend Classes
June 29 and/or 30, 8-3:30pm. The most recent energy of Reiki is advanced to include the Holy Fire III energy that is accessible to all. Learn how this beautiful practice can elevate your energy and help bring balance and a meditative quality to life. Level 1 & 2 can be taken together or separately. Please go to the link for more information. Feel free to contact Jennifer directly
Rise at dawn, pour myself either a cup of coffee or tea and sit to contemplate the day. I have been using this practice for years coupled with several other practices that I sprinkle in to keep things ‘interesting’.
I may pray, meditate, and visualize what it is that I would like to bring to the day based on the present moment experiences at hand. I have been using some form of this type of practice ever since I was little.
As a child, I would escape to the outdoors and be one with nature most of the day. It was not uncommon to spend countless hours roaming the neighborhoods, climbing trees, running through endless pathways of forest gardens, making mud pies, and singing songs that spoke light years of love through the heart.
I was joy.
I was in the present moment, and I became one with whatever was happening. It was impeccably similar and perfectly different every day.
Often, I would be alone.
Simply with no care in the world and just happy to just be me.
I had a history of a broken home and many disheveled upheavals that I had witnessed through adults in my life. And at that age, it made no difference. I just did my thing.
Remaining as a child in wonder.
Wonderinghow to fly, how to create forts, and how to make beautiful things. The sense of wonder within and all around.
This is what I was tuned into.
It was an experience of presence.
Of just being in the doingand doing in the being. It just was.
Lately, as I grow in my experiences, I have noticed a marvelous shift in society to get back to this sense of wonder. The wonder that we all possessed as children. The wonderof it all.
In lesson 6 – of my book (Transcending Limitations, Pegasus 2022) I speak about the importance of Wonder.
“We must wonder every day. We must take the time to turn every lower negative thought into a game of wonder. We must do as children do. Wonder in every moment and in every way. We can wonder about so many things. We can wonder about everything, every person, place and thing…
Many of us lost the capability to wonder in adulthood. We forgot what it feels like to wonder. When did this seriousness become us? We must return to the realm of wonder. If we are to transform our worlds into the New Earth, we must bring wonder back into it all. Wonder uses the imagination, it brings creativity, fun, joy, and expansion. It never judges or fills our lives with mental thoughts of limitation and ‘I can’t’. It always asks, ‘I wonder’ and follows it up with a wonderful imaginative question.”
When we use curiosity to wonder and allow expansion to happen, we begin to use a part of the imagination that is not available as we relive old experiences, traumas, or events.
If we stay in our mind trying to figure out the impossible, we begin to travel a very slippery slope of events that may or may not bring us the answers we seek.
When we allow ourselves to wonder we bring in a childlike sense and belief allowing creativity to flow through us and completely connected. Wonderbrings us into a state of presence as we marvel about momentary experiences.
Wondering creates a doorway to the other side where all possibilities exist and ready to take us to the highest answer we are seeking.
Wonder takes us from where we are to where we would like to be. Only needing to be in the sensation of the present moment experience to see the next step along our path.
As we wonder we can tap into another sense…our intuition. As we wonder we begin to align with intuition showing us the answers we seek.
Wonderbrings us to presence and presence brings us our intuitive knowing which is aligned with wonder.
In the present moment we never loose our way.
Wondering is a bridge to the other side.
It connects from where we are to where we already intuitively know we would like to be.
It keeps us out of the past and the future and drop us into the present moment knowing.
This holiday weekend, as you take a breath and allow yourself some time to just ‘be’.
I encourage you to be in the moment and wonder.Wonderabout life and marvel at the beauty all around you.
Be present in everything. In the moment you are doing be completely present in that. In the moment you are wondering be completely present in that.
In the moment you are in an experience, be in the experience.
Then sense and feel what it is to be completely in the present.
Completely in the space provided right before you as you experience that moment.
And then wonder about the wonderfulness of that.
Marvel through it all.
And this will naturally take you into the being. This is a meditation in and of itself.
As we get lost in the experience of the moment, we realize we never left our truth and in that very moment we know we were never disconnected…
it is always right here exactly where we are.
Wonderand marvel at it all… it will always take you exactly where you want to go. This is intuitive knowing living in present moment experiences through the wonder of life itself.
Have a beautiful weekend.
Blessings & More,
Jennifer
Join us for these events coming for the week and month:
For all professions…Professional executives, professional parents, professional students, professional trainers… experience the power of ‘now’ and learn how to clear issues instantaneously advancing you to your goals and aspirations.
Reiki and intuitive healing for 75-90 minutes of guided healing for those that choose to just receive. Designed for introductory appointments into ‘the work’ or for those that need to truly just receive the energy. (please ask jennifer for guidance)
4. Healing Archangels Class June 21 (See below)
5. Holy Fire III Level 1 & 2 Reiki Classes, June 29 & 30
online and in person
Meditation Mondays
7:00 PM – 8:15 PM
Experience meditations using breath patterns, visualizations, sound, and awareness to tune into and tap into a higher level of personal development. Designed for all types of learners.
Allow the subtle energy of Reiki, guided breathing through Meditation, and Ancestral Clearing peace and forgiveness guide through inner self healing. These sessions are personal and self paced. Learn to meditate and shift energy patterns within and around us helping to elevate and enhance our lives personally and professionally.
Archangels Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, Uriel
June 21, 6-9pm An experiential class. Learn to heart link with the archangels of the human energy field that can help us elevate and enhance our energetic system. The workshop will include information on each angel, meditation and experiential practice , and take home practices. Archangels Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, Uriel All materials are emailed to participants 24 hours in advance.
Holy Fire III Reiki Certificate Levels 1 & 2 Weekend
June 29 and/or 30, 8-3:30pm.
The most recent energy of Reiki is advanced to include the Holy Fire III energy that is accessible to all. Learn how this beautiful practice can elevate your energy and help bring balance and a meditative quality to life. Level 1 & 2 can be taken together or separately. Please go to the link for more information. Feel free to contact Jennifer directly.
Yesterday, I was driving back and forth to my son in Champaign, Illinois.
I was helping him unpack from moving into an apartment.
I was listening to music in my car, as I often do. The time in my car always seems to be solace time for me where I get to just ‘be’ and allow. As I was allowing, I began pondering our life together.
The relationship I have with my oldest is very special and different. He was born with a condition called spina bifida many years ago. Since that time, he has made huge contributions to his life and the world. He changed our lives for the better.
Ethan has always shown me how to make life better and how to be a better person. Since he uses arm crutches for short distances and a wheelchair for long distances, we always had to do life differently. Things were very different back when Ethan was born over 20 years ago. At a time when wheelchairs were not accepted, and the Americans with Disabilities act was barely emerging, we were frequently bombarded by issues related to people with disabilities.
A little history on the ADA… it was drafted and introduced to the House Senate in 1988. A broad bipartisan coalition of legislators supported the ADA while the bill was opposed by business interests (who argues the bill imposed costs on business) and conservative evangelicals (who opposed protection for individuals with HIV). HIV and other disabilities were also included in this bill. The final version was signed into law on July 26th of 1990 by President George H. W. Bush and was later amended and signed in 2008 with changes to be effective as of January 1, 2009. (compliments of Wikipedia)
As you can see, it has ONLY been in the last 15 years that we have seen the effects of this law activate in our society.
What does that mean?
It takes time for society to catch up with law. Even though in 2009 the law was effected it was still going to take many years for the world to catch up. At least the progress began.
Because Ethan was born at the time that all of this was just evolving, his entire childhood was built around showing people what COULD be done instead of what could not be done.
Life is about providing opportunity, not obstacles.
And that is what we did. This was not an easy task. We frequently ran into barriers. Everywhere we went, and everywhere we would go, raising a child with different abilities became a lesson in life for everyone involved. Everyone had to change their thinking in order to help this kid thrive. We all had to do things differently.
Daily, we had to find creative ways to make life happen in the best way possible.
We had no other choice but to live within the realm of inspiration.
There was no other way.
The only way to truly LIVE is to be in the allowing and the loving of life in the moment that life is hapening.
And as we shifted into living life in love and inspiration life responded by helping us do more and become more. And throughout the years we were always shown the way. The people, places and things ALWAYS showed up and so many opportunities presented themselves that we never thought possible before.
We had opportunities to travel across the country and the world to compete in adaptive sports, we had opportunities to funding and ways to compensate for his needs that seemed financially insurmountable just fall into our laps, and we had connections with doctors and hospitals at just the right timing to help Ethan in whatever endeavors needed to be handled according to where he was and what was happening. We were always lead, guided, and directed to all the right people places and things at exactly the right timing. It was as if the rockets of thoughts and ideas to solve any perceived problem always showed up at the same time.
Everything ALWAYS showed up. We never questioned what was happening and we just did it. Our intuitive knowing took us there. As ‘problems’ occurred, solutions happened.
Answer showed up in a way that just allowed everything to happen. This was at the heart of every miracle that ever occurred.
Through all of this I realized, in the center of our hearts, we already know the answer. Within our very being the answer arises.
I didn’t need anyone to tell me facts or prove to me that this is how it would happen or anything needed to happen. We were in our purpose and it just happened. There was no story.
It just happened.
We tuned into and taped into what we needed to do and the answers showed up;
immediately.
It just became.
Problems were not problems.
Problems were opportunities for answers.
It was that simple.
The solution always came in.
As soon as we needed to find a way to access a building a back door appeared. As soon as we needed the right therapists to show up to help Ethan get to the next level, the right person walked into his life. As soon as we wanted to find a way to get him involved in sports at a competitive level, the teams showed up. As soon as we needed a wheelchair, the funding happened. As soon as we needed a way for him to drive a car with only his hands, the accessibility experts happened. As soon as we saw that college was a possibility, the road to a degree happened. And on and on and on.
We ALWAYS decided that there was a way. We never dwelled on the limitation and always looked to the limitless. If we fell, we got up. If we were defeated, we remained enlightened.
If we didn’t feel good, we shifted to feeling better. We never stayed in the small and always looked for bigger and better. It was just how we did it.
Fast forward… what did we learn?
To live through our hearts. What else did we learn?
The miracle arises in the non questioning.
What else did we learn?
There are no limitations. This is how we Transcend Limitations.
The limitation is in the limitation itself. (That is the cosmic joke.)
We believed there was another way. And every time we succeeded, we wanted to do more and share more. So that is what we did. As we received, we gave. And you know what? It works.
We launched our desires and the universe always answered. We showed up, we sensed and felt, we sent out our truest and highest and biggest desires, and we never questioned the answers. The path always appeared, and we just walked the walk.
We asked, we felt, we trusted, we loved, and it happened.
And with that, we keep going.
Always knowing, always being, always growing. ONWARDS & UPWARDS we continue to grow.
Join me tonight and in the weeks ahead as we dream our desires into our existence.
As we inspire the greatest and the best in all of us, we become all that we are ever meant to become.
As we help each other renew and revitalize the life we were meant to live we all become more. We transcend all perceived limitations until they no longer exist. Here’s what to expect…
For all professions…Professional executives, professional parents, professional students, professional trainers… experience the power of ‘now’ and how to clear issues instantaneously advancing you to your goals and aspirations.
Reiki and intuitive healing for 75-90 minutes of guided healing for those that choose to just receive. Designed for introductory appointments into ‘the work’ or for those that need to truly just receive the energy. (please ask jennifer for guidance)
online and in person
Meditation Mondays – 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM
Experience meditations using breath patterns, visualizations, sound, and awareness to tune into and tap into a higher level of personal development. Designed for all types of learners.
It’s here. We have been here many times. Now, it is time to go to the next level. You are ready. In all space and time dimension it has already been done. This is what we have been leading you to. This internal/eternal knowing that it all comes to is the point of neutrality, where yin meets yang, where all that is becomes one that is, where nature nurtures and nurture natures, where no point begin and everything ends. This is the space. The vortex. The space between the words when all realities coincide at the same time. You have come to the point of liminal space. Right here and right now… it is time to shift to a new reality where nothing that has ever been ever existed or did it? That is the power of forgiveness and the understanding that as humanity learns to stay present the power that medusa held from looking at the past no longer has any grasp over reality and we understand the complete human which is the complete femininity of masculine and feminine all existing at the same time…this is the point where nothing and everything remains and once you are here nothing else exists except that point of no return which takes you everywhere and anywhere all at the same time. Where you go forward through one door and you don’t return or look back. Then there is only going forward and when you do, everything exists all at one time. When this happens everything gets taken care of and now you know the point of no return…. you made it… you are here… bask in the sunshine and freshness of this space and be the container that this vessel contains. It is all here right here and right now. Be here now. And in this is the point of know return. You are here… go forward and be in the point, the point of no return…. Rest here in the moment and know that as you continue to go through it all happens…. keep going forth… keep your eye on the prize…. you are here…. pass it along pass it along to the everything and nothing all at the same time. Let neutrality take over and create the new reality that is already here. It is. We are… and all is one. It is int the leaf falling from the sky. It is in the consciousness that resides in us all. It is the stillness that speaks to you from within. It is in this moment right here and right now. Breathe.
Breathe
Breathe into it.
Be in the moment of this moment and then be in the moment of the next… It is realy that simple.
All space and time do not exist and it is here where everything is possible.
Birth out into the new….birth into the beingness of the new you…birth into who you are. Birth into your divinity.
Now it is done. You are one with God.
Thank you God. Thank you God. Thank you.
Amen.
This came into today. This was the message I heard in one of my daily writings. It was a calling to me to go to the next level. If it calls to you I invite you to join me in the following events….
Upcoming events you’ll want to check out. Reach out to me with any questions:
The Sandwich Connection – Heartfully Manifest Your Soul’s Purpose and Your Spirit’s Joy. I often ask myself… “What is possible?” I am always wondering what ‘more’ can I do? Years ago I developed this program because I needed to shift my thinking into a state of cohesive consciousness in alignment with my soul and spirit.
What is soul? This is our reason for being here. Our soul comes in with a plan for our personal evolution. All of our experiences are a representation of this… AND we collectively decide who we are going to pair up with to help us on our journey. Sometimes this is not so much fun because we have a filter over what is truly happening. I did this for a really long time. Until one day, I got it… I woke up. Then there was no turning back.
Then I realized that my SPIRIT is always connected and that this connection to higher CONSCIOUSNESS wants me to ascend all of these soul lessons so that I could learn how to SOAR with Consciousness itself… which is truly who we are with our Spirit’s joy. NO MATTER WHAT. I say NO MATTER WHAT because I had enough ‘tragedy’ within my life and my ancestral lineage to make me ‘believe’ that I was just here to suffer through all of this. But when I became truly connected to my SPIRIT I realized that this was the ILLUSION that the collective BELIEVES. WHAT? Yes… we are here to shatter this collective illusion and become connected to the CONSCIOUSNESS that creates miracles. Anything less than this is simply NOT TRUTH. This is what the Sandwich Connection is ALL ABOUT.
In this class you receive all the basics of the most recent version of Usui/Holy Fire III Reiki 1 class. Taught exactly from the International Center for Reiki Training Manual. You receive all the placements for the energy upgrades, the understanding of reiki, what it means to be a practitioner, all the basic techniques, how to practice, and more. We spend a significant amount of time receiving and learning how to work with the energy.
Usui/Holy Fire III – Reiki 1 & 2 – Upgraded Certification Format
Sat, Mar 16, 2024 9:00 AM–6:30 PM
Reiki is a profound experience that can deeply change life in a very short time. Further knowledge of reiki is explored as well as deeper growth and alignment with the Holy Fire energy. 3 symbols are placed. The distant symbols as well as the symbols for mental/emotional balance and increased alignment are shared. We spend a significant portion of the class practicing and becoming refined in this new energy.
Receive the Holy Fire Energy and begin using this format immediately in your practices. People often ask me how I can help a room full of people receive reiki energy all at one time. My answer is that it is not me, it is the Holy Fire III reiki energy. In 2020 the shift began. The Holy Fire energy came in to help all people over distances great and small.
This class is ONLY for those who want to upgrade/review and HAVE TAKEN REIKI 1 and 2 previously.
Rays are universal energies accessible to all. Once aware of the possibilities held within each ray we may call upon them to help us with our daily endeavors. There are seven rays associated with ascended masters that also work together with certain angels. Be introduced to the energy and learn how these energies may help in life. Help move closer to your own association with each ray. Meditations and thoughtful introspection throughout the workshop.
Share, expand your knowledge, and practice reiki and energy healing. Winwood/IntuitLove hosts these reiki shares monthly to expand your skills. Reiki level 1 is required. Gassho, meditations, reiki upgrades and time to practice and enhance skills will fill the two hours.
Reiki is a relaxation and stress reduction technique scientifically studied and found to help decrease stress and elevate your sense of well being. Experience meditations weekly designed for all types of learners. If this is your first time experiencing reiki + meditation or if you have a seasoned practice it may help on several levels. No prior reiki or meditation experience is necessary. Bring a yoga mat, blanket, and journal to help enhance your experience.
May all the light descend upon Earth and may you connect with the Earth mother ascending light within us all. Through the light and love of the universe may your blessings abound.
As the quote above reminds us of who we really are, let our thoughts do the same. In any moment if a lingering thought comes in connected to anything less than the light of who you are as a conscious and creative being… I want you to ‘CANCEL’ this out. Just stop… don’t allow the power of that thought to enter your field of existence. You are a part of something bigger. The ‘I Am’ is more than an understanding… it is who you ARE.
I am only here as a reminder for that which you already know. Nothing I say is my wisdom… it’s part of something bigger… Consciousness or anotherwords ‘I Am.’ That is the point of this path. Once you are connected to your Spirit’s voice… you know that only listening to the lesser thought forms of the Soul lessons does not always work.
We are Spirit in a human body here to help our Soul evolve so that we do not keep learning the same lessons repeatedly. That’s the whole point… to evolve.
We do this indivdiually and collectively. When enough of us wake up to this process we ascend at a MUCH FASTER rate and connecting with this new collective as well as living our authentic Spirit becomes so FUN!
That means, ANYTHING that was inhibiting YOU or YOUR FAMILY or YOUR LINEAGE becomes null and void. We no longer live in the shadows of the past and our future becomes bright and clear.
There are multiple points in our lives that we are faced with certain uncertainties on purpose. They are a part of our spiritual evolution. This comes every 7-11 years, every moon cycle, and every season. The bigger ones hapen at the 7-11 year markers. The one’s in between are here to help us to ascend and carry us further along so that when we come upon the big shift we are prepared and ready to ascend through to the other side becoming the butterfly we were always meant to be.
It is really that simple. It’s just our PROGRAMING has made us feel like it is not ‘ok’ and we are not ‘ok’. That’s just wrong.
We are supposed to help each other ascend anything that is less than the truth and that is different for everyone.
For me… I had a pattern of ‘I can’t do it.’ This would play repeatedly over in my life and I would constantly reflect this back to myself in everything I did until one day Spirit really shoved it in my face and one of my teachers told me… ‘You are strong enough.’ I went…. OH MY GOODNESS… there it is again. So like a light switch, ‘I got it.’ & that changed everything. In an instant I was done being the lesser roles in my life and I finally felt like I could be me.
The shift was ALL ENCOMPASSING. It was as if EVERY CELL in my body decided that I was no longer going to live with the other programming and that I was done. There were many events that lead up to this happening… in society, in my life, in my lineage… and when I look back… this was the theme, cycle after cycle, season after season, year after year… until I came upon a 7 year marker and realized it THEN that this was the pattern.
So, what did I do? I shattered this pattern and went through to the other side. How? I used reiki & kundalini and energy healing with my ‘light force’ (code for angels, asecended masters, and guides) to help me through. I cried, I pouted, i raged (I’m sicilian & irish…making fun of myself) over wasted time, and did alot of CANCELING thought patterns and re-writing my internal dialogue through reiki & breath work through kundalini. It didn’t take long because I knew what I was doing.
I also followed my Sandwich Connection program and decided life was about what I am about to create and not what I am living in the past.
Then it shifted… and here I am.
I want to pass this along to you. SO EVERYTHING I DO is about passing along all this knowledge to you.
I have been studying metaphysics for over 22 years. Some of my teacers are
Katye Anna
Deborah Poneman
John Newton
Sonia Choquette
William Rand
& so many more.
I connect daily with SPIRIT and follow exactly what guidance tells me to do that day.
I have a routine that takes me to the next level. And I know that I am ALWAYS being lead, guided, and directed.
So now… I want to share with you what it is like to have so much FAITH in the unknown that you are either going to step off the cliff and out into the darkness knowing that you are going to find your footing onto the path before you or there will be nothing to take hold of and you will be taught how to fly.
I want to teach you how to fly.
In the next MONTH please take note of what is happening and come to a workshop, a reiki class, a meditation, a kundalini yoga class.
This week’s Inspirit reminder has to do with our ability to go where we have never gone before. Almost like we are treking out into the vastness of space, we can do the same as we look out into the ocean.
There is so much unexplored landscape of water and deep blue that the depths as to which we can only begin to even discover in this lifetime. Much like our lives. I know that I have only touched the surface as to what is possible.
Years ago, I chose to believe in miracles instead of believing in what I was told to be true. (Transcending Limitations, 2022) This began with my oldest son, Ethan. He was born with a ‘dis-ability’ that to even this day I have a hard time believing in whatever they tell us to be true about what it is they believe that he has. And this has worked. Never needing surgeries or corrections to his physicality in so many ways that could have been a part of his reality if we decided it was to be so. Instead we chose to believe differently.
I continue to always choose to think and live differently from the heart.
I was re-reading in another book that has been sitting on my shelf that speaks about re-awakening the child heart within us.
There is a quote in Carla Hannaford’s book “Awakening the Child Heart” that has to do with us as humans being magnificent manifestations of life force energy.
Carla says, “…Humans and all life forms are capable of utilizing the entire available information field of reciprocal space as the playground to come into being, bringing our dreams and intentions out of high energy patterns into lower energy patterns of matter we recognize as life. In other words, everyone can write and rewrite their own book of life, through the remarkable drive and malleability of the human spirit. Through empiracle science, it appears we can finally understand what the ancients have told us for millennia, that we all have equal opportunity to acces whatever reality we choose. In choosing coherence, sound, music, play, creativity, and loving from the heart, the opportunity to affect the collective consciousness in an expanded way, becomes manifest.”
WoW! I love this quote… it opens us up to all possibility and true coherance that as we open, expand, & become we really truly realize that the vastness and depth of the ocean is truly a reflection of who and what we are.
And if this is truly a reflection of what we are then what is it that we can not become? Nothing. And so we can be anything and everything all at the same time that opens us up to all possibiltity and quantumly we become that which we thinketh.
If so…then the reason why what we decided about Ethan worked so well, is because we decided it to be. That being said… what else can we decide to be? Practically anything.
Which takes us to the next level of understanding. The importance of resolving and releasing within ourselves what we want and what we dont want so that the world becomes a beautiful reflection of what it is we wish to create.
Recently, this past weekend I took a small group of people on a journey back to one of my favorite techniques. Ancestral clearing and forgiveness work. This work was pioneered by Howard Wills and taken further into popularity through John Newton. It is simple and magical work that uses forgiveness prayer to resolve and release conflicts from a physical, mental, and emotional level and opening us up to truly be able to choose where and what we would like our lives to be a reflection of going foward.
We do not remain in abandonment, suffering, victimization or any of the 100’s of maladies that can keep us where we are. It opens us up to all possibility and the ability to go foward and choose our spirit’s joy in life.
All the participants in the group class received the prayers and ancestral clearing work and felt the shifts happen, move, release and open them to their own inner ocean of possibility.
It was truly beautiful to watch.
We also shared at our monthy reiki share another grounding and clearing meditation that we will again be practicing this evening at our weekly reiki + meditation group.
My hope is that you continue to grow and expand and become more of your ocean so that we can learn from you and see your reflection that you would like to bring to the world.
Here are some offerings this week to help you in a way that may be perfect for you.
People who have given and/or received Reiki know, first hand, how energizing it feels and how one’s worries seem to melt away after a session. However, people who have not experienced, or even heard of Reiki may naturally be more skeptical, and may not want to venture into the unknown. What is really needed is scientific evidence showing exactly what Reiki can do to promote health and wellness. Fortunately, the Center for Reiki Research (CRR) has set up an easily accessible website (www.centerforreikiresearch.org) in order to promote people’s scientific awareness of Reiki. This site provides a list of evidence-based research published in peer-reviewed journals along with a critical summary of each study. The list is kept up to date and currently includes 33 studies. The summaries of the studies were produced by carefully analyzing the quality of each study in terms of experimental design, methodology, results, statistics, and conclusions, using a procedure developed by CRR named The Touchstone Process.
The following is a distillation of findings from the more robust of the studies (as scored ‘Very Good’ or ‘Excellent’ by The Touchstone Process in terms of the above criteria) that demonstrate positive physical effects of Reiki.
Probably the most commonly reported benefit of Reiki is that it reduces stress. One of the first places in the body that stress manifests itself is in the heart and circulation. Heart rate and blood pressure both increase during stress and these responses are caused by increased activity of sympathetic nerves in the heart. On the other hand, increased activity of the parasympathetic or vagal nerves causes the heart to relax. Studies have shown that Reiki can reduce the stress response of the heart in both humans and animals. Friedman et al (2010) found that when nurses gave Reiki to 12 patients recovering from acute coronary syndrome, a disease involving blockage of the coronary arteries, the vagal nerves became more active, indicating a relaxation effect, as reflected by changes in the heart rate variability. This was a good sign because medications that enhance vagal nerve activity, such as beta-adrenergic blockers, improve the outcomes of patients with this type of heart disease. So in this case Reiki was having a similar effect as a medicine that is a known effective therapy for heart disease. The increase in vagal nerve activity was statistically significant compared to the results from the groups of patients who listened to meditative music (13 patients) or just received standard care (12 patients). Unfortunately the study did not include a sham Reiki group, in which someone untrained in Reiki mimics the hand-positions of Reiki, and so we do not know whether just touching the patients, without giving Reiki, would have the same effect.
…there is preliminary scientific evidence that Reiki reduces stress, pain, depression and anxiety, and can help mild Alzheimer’s patients to overcome their cognitive impairment to some degree.
Studies of Reiki on animals provide particularly robust data because the animals are all kept under the same controlled conditions and so variations in diet and lifestyle that are present in human studies are eliminated. This means that the results are easier to interpret unambiguously. Baldwin and colleagues (2006, 2008) showed that Reiki, compared with sham Reiki, significantly reduced the physiological effects of stress in rats. In previous experiments, Wilson and Baldwin (1998) discovered that their research rats were stressed by the noisy environment in which they were housed and that the stress was manifesting in the body as shown by cellular damage. Baldwin wondered whether giving the rats Reiki would (i) reduce their stress and (ii) heal the damage, and so she designed experiments to test this hypothesis. In one study (Baldwin et al, 2008), a Reiki practitioner sat in front of each of three cages and sent Reiki to the pair of rats inside each cage for 15 minutes every day for five days. Reiki significantly decreased the mean heart rate of the stressed rats by 6% on average, and sham Reiki had no effect. Neither Reiki nor shamReiki reduced blood pressure. One reason that Reiki reduced heart rate but not blood pressure could be that blood pressure depends on multiple factors, including heart rate, force of contraction of the heart, and the degree of contraction or relaxation of the blood vessels, so Reiki would have to affect all these factors in order for blood pressure to be reduced. It is possible that longer sessions of Reiki may be required to achieve these changes.
In the other study, Baldwin et al (2006), showed that the rats stressed by their noisy environment also had damaged blood vessels in the mesentery, the sheet of tissue that holds the intestine together. The damaged regions in these tiny blood vessels were leaky to a large protein, albumin, in the blood. Normally, albumin is contained in these blood vessels and does not leak out into the tissue. This condition is necessary in order for the correct balance to be obtained between water in the blood and water in the tissue. It is not known exactly how stress causes damage to blood vessels but it is probably linked to activation of nerves in the intestine, leading to release of neurotransmitters that may stimulate immune cells to release toxins. When four rats were given Reiki for 15 minutes a day for three weeks most of the leaks disappeared. Four rats that received sham Reiki also showed some reduction in the number and size of vascular leaks but it was not statistically significant. The experiment was repeated on two other groups of rats and a similar result was obtained. These experiments show that Reiki can work on animals, even rats, to reduce their stress and to heal the cellular damage mediated by the stress.
Another frequently reported benefit of Reiki is that it reduces pain. Vitale and O’Connor (2006) showed that Reiki significantly improved preoperative relaxation and reduced postoperative pain in women undergoing hysterectomies. The 12 women in the Reiki group received a 30-minute treatment immediately before surgery and 24 hours and 48 hours post surgery. The 10 women in the control group received standard care only. There was no sham Reiki group. Data were collected using the State component of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and a visual analog scale for pain measurement. The Reiki group reported significantly less anxiety pre-surgery and significantly less pain 24 hours post-surgery than the control group. Interestingly, the time duration of the surgery was shorter on average for the Reiki group (59 minutes) than the control group (72 minutes).
Chronically ill patients often not only feel pain, but also get depressed. Dressin and Singg (1998) demonstrated a significant reduction in the pain, depression, and anxiety experienced by chronically ill patients with a range of medical conditions who received Reiki compared to sham Reiki (two sessions per week for five weeks). In these experiments there were 12 men and 18 women per group. The men experienced a significantly greater reduction in depression than the women. These beneficial effects were still seen three months after completion of the Reiki treatments. Shore (2004) showed that 30 people needing treatment for mild depression or stress, and who received hands-on Reiki or distance Reiki once a week for six weeks, experienced significant reduction of mild depression and stress and the beneficial effects lasted for at least one year following treatment. The measures used in this experiment were the Beck Depression Inventory, the Beck Hopelessness Scale, and the Perceived Stress Scale. The 15 patients in the sham distance Reiki group who were told they would receive distance Reiki but actually did not, reported no significant change in their depression or stress.
Finally, people who regularly use Reiki often find it helps them think more clearly and improves their problem-solving capabilities. Although no research has yet been published confirming these benefits in healthy people, Crawford et al (2006) demonstrated that four 30-minute Reiki treatments, once a week, significantly improved cognition skills in 12 elderly patients with mild Alzheimer disease or mild cognitive impairment compared to the 12 patients who received no treatment. The measures used in this study were the Annotated Mini-Mental State Examination and the Revised Memory and Behavior Problems Checklist. Once again, the study did not include a sham Reiki group, and so we do not know the role that touch and personal attention played in helping the patients regain some of their cognitive skills.
Overall, although the studies are small and some of them do not address the question of Reiki versus touch, there is preliminary scientific evidence that Reiki reduces stress, pain, depression and anxiety, and can help mild Alzheimer’s patients to overcome their cognitive impairment to some degree. To find out more about these studies, and others, you can visit the CRR website, www.centerforreikiresearch.org, or read our review, The Touchstone Process. An Ongoing Critical Review of Reiki in the Scientific Literature (Baldwin et al, 2010).
References
Baldwin, A.L. and G.E. Schwartz. 2006. Personal interaction with a Reiki practitioner decreases noise-induced microvascular damage in an animal model. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 12(1):15–22.
Baldwin, A.L., C. Wagers, and G.E. Schwartz. 2008. Reiki improves heart rate homeostasis in laboratory rats. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 14 (4):417 – 422.
Baldwin, A.L., A. Vitale, E. Brownell, J. Scicinski, M. Kearns,. and W. Rand. 2010. The Touchstone Process. An Ongoing Critical Review of Reiki in the Scientific Literature. Holistic Nursing Practice 24(5):260 – 276.
Crawford, S. E., V.W. Leaver, and S.D. Mahoney. 2006. Using Reiki to decrease memory and behavior problems in mild cognitive impairment and mild Alzhemier’s Disease. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 12(9):911 – 913.
Dressin, L.J. and S. Singg. 1998. Effects of Reiki on pain and selected affective and personality variables of chronically ill patients. Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine 9(1):53 – 82.
Friedman, R.S.C., M.M. Burg, P. Miles, F. Lee, and R. Lampert. 2010. Effects of Reiki on autonomic activity early after acute coronary syndrome. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 56:995 – 996.
Shore, A. G. 2004. Long term effects of energetic healing on symptoms of psychological depression and self-perceived stress. Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine 10(3):42 – 48.
Vitale, A.T. and P.C. O’Conner. 2006. The effect of Reiki on pain and anxiety in women with abdominal hysterectomies. Holistic Nursing Practice 20(6):263 – 272.
Wilson, L.M. and A.L. Baldwin. 1998. Effects of environmental stress on the architecture and permeability of the rat mesenteric microvasculature. Microcirculation 5(4):299–308.
Ann Linda Baldwin, PhD. Ann is a Research Professor of Physiology and Psychology at the University of Arizona and is Director of “Mind-Body-Science” (www.mind-body-science.com). She obtained her Bachelors degree in Physics from University of Bristol, UK, her Masters degree in Radiation Physics from University of London, UK and her PhD in Physiology from Imperial College, University of London. Her research focuses on the deleterious physiological effects of mental and emotional stress and how these outcomes may be minimized. She is currently exploring the efficacies of Reiki and of Biofeedback techniques in promoting sympatho-vagal balance, as indicated by analysis of heart rate variability, and thereby reducing the damaging effects of stress. She is also testing whether these techniques enhance mental, emotional and physical performance both in Parkinson’s patients and in otherwise healthy individuals.
This article appeared in the Fall 2011 issue of Reiki News Magazine.
If each individual could experience their unique purpose and strength coming from the heart, they would finally be able to trust in their own self discovery. If they were allowed to discover this on their own through countless ways of self acceptance, we would collectively shift the world. ~Trancending Limitations (Pegasus Publishers, 2022)
It starts from within… a sensation, an experience of something that wants to transcend something within you. It wants to be released to free us from our own perceived limits and go where you have yet to experience. And how do we just allow this to happen. Why do we struggle? Why does it seem like such a long road to get to where you know is possible which may be undefinable at the time and where you know you are supposed to be. We can not explain why or how or what this is and we can only feel it within the heart ourselves.
How do we do this? We allow intuition to guide us. We allow the heart’s knowing to take us there. It may seem messy or confusing at the times and this is completely normal. We just allow it to keep shifting and transforming us into something bigger and better than ever before. A part of us that is more focused, stronger, and in alignment with our true self.
We can be affected by so many things; the web of work relationships, family members, educational institutions, religious institutions, governments, & societal structures in general.
And when we take ourselves out of the web and begin from within the unraveling of what we have been tied to (literally and figuratively) happens before our very eyes. When this begins it is sometimes a bitter and sometimes a sweet process. New awarenesses drop in and we finally begin to elevate ourselves into a new level of existence that sees all these cohorts we have been intertiwined within from an eagle’s perspective. When this happens our world shifts at a dramatic pace and we simply just need to allow the process to take us there. We are shifting into something bigger and more profound than words can express. It is a feeling, a sensation that only comes from the heart.
It may seem scary at first… because it is a whole new world completely different than anything we have ever been invested in before. And we now TRUST. We TRUST in something bigger than ourselves taking us to the unification with our authentic self. In this process we become stronger physically, mentally, and emotionally. We become the true connectors of the light frquency that is capable of absolutely anything and everything.
This is when the miracle happens and we realise just how powerful we are by simply understanding ourselves. We see the effects of our actions and we see how we can either create or destroy. And within this rebirth we have a choice to do things the way we were intended; in unification with the truth of our own being. As we shall thinketh we shall become. This ripples out into the world. Once eneough of us realise this… and see the fruits of our actions we become ever more still. Realizing that in the stillness and pure being we are able to manifest anything before us and we become incredibly CONSCIOUS of our Oneness. In this connection we CONSCIOUSLY CHOOSE to create love and abundance for all because we know that through these simple actions we can collectively shift the world at an extremely fast rate creating the miraculous across the entire planet.
YOU ARE THIS POWERFUL….
I invite you to experience your heartful POWER beyond words in these upcoming events this weekend and next week.
Join me and the collecitve of ripple makers that are creating heart CONSCIOUSNESS right here ad right now.
In the spirit of sharing love and sharing life and as we enter into another week of shifting and shaping into our new worlds… here is something that hopes to inspire the best in all of us. Enjoy…
From My Book – Transcending Limitations- How to Start Where you are and Create Your New World – Available on Amazon Here
Children are marvelous creatures. They are innately curious, and they question everything. These are two of the most beautiful qualities to have which will remain a part of the New Earth as we continually shift over. We need to pay close attention to our children and follow their lead by their natural instincts which they embrace without fear or effort. If we could set our judgments aside and allow ourselves to observe the children to see how they play together, how they dance, how they sing, and how they innately move through life just being who they are, wherever they are, we would learn how to tune into our own joy again. Our joy lives with the children and they are Wayshowers of true faith and happiness accompanied by spirit-filled living.
Somewhere along the way, this joy became covered up. Limitation and fear set in over the years by the outside world, projecting onto us how we should talk, walk, dress, and live our lives according to our environments. Limitation kept us from our true innate internal connection that is immeasurable from anything outside in the world. Our true self is expanded and connected. Most of us have lost this and become the fear that is embedded in our world.
When we are in a state of fear, we feel contracted, insecure, alone, tight, unsure, restricted, limited, and afraid. We begin to think in statements of “I can’t do that”, “there’s no way”, “that’s impossible”, “they will never understand”, “I will never be able to make that work” and the list can go on and on. We awaken in the moment we notice this is happening. It is in the moment of noticing that we begin to question everything. In the moment ‘limitation’ arises from within is the moment when we must see what we are doing. The years of limitations that we have embraced as our own are coming to the surface and that is the moment we pause. That is when we stop everything we are doing, become aware of what is happening, and begin to awaken.
That is exactly what I had to do repeatedly as I faced a world that believed in limitations for a child with a ‘disability’. Every time we faced someone who wanted to define what Ethan could or could not do, I had to breathe into the moment, become aware of all the sensations that were happening within me, decide how I wanted it defined, and transform the energy into what I believed was possible. Over time, I trained myself to shift the energy patterns that were constantly being presented to us that were based on limitation and heartfully turn them into expanded states of awareness that joyfully responded with questioning that asked, “how can we turn this around and do this differently?” This metamorphosis took a deceivingly limited and confined situation and expanded into limitless potential based on what we heartfully desired for Ethan instead of what the world wanted for him. We became the masters of our reality.
In the moment negative thoughts or beliefs arise, and the limitation has appeared, we turn it around. Every limitation is answered with a ‘why not’ and every negative thought or belief is answered with a ‘canceling’ of that thought. We feel the negativity, we are aware that it is happening, and in that awareness, we shift into a new state of awareness without the limitation, simply by questioning ‘why not?’ We feel them, we name them, and then we allow them to go. Simply, it is allowing ourselves to feel the limitations of our mind, understand they are illusions of the past, accept they have been there for a long time hiding in the shadows, and we commit to questioning everything surrounding the limitation.
For example, Ethan, being diagnosed with a medical condition, has been told repeatedly there are certain things he will never be able to do mentally and physically in this current paradigm. With each limiting belief we peeled back the layers in this realm, decided we had a choice to question the current reality showing up and choose to accept what was happening or find another way.
At first, we had some very difficult life-threatening choices to make. We were told that if certain procedures were not done to save his life he would die. So, as parents in fear and wanting our child to survive we put our faith in the hands of the doctors, and he indeed did survive. Grateful as we were in the skills of the professionals, what we failed to see at the time is as we continually only trusted in the doctors, we failed to trust within ourselves. We gave up ourselves, though allowing a predicted outcome to prevail. Naturally, everything they determined would happen based on medical science, did. When he was born, his life was based on survival. We did the things we were told that needed to be done to survive. This was necessary, and it saved his life.
On the other hand, we were still limited by our own beliefs. You see, if Ethan did not come into this life with the condition that he did, he would have had a completely different birth and a completely different purpose. But he came in with this diagnosis on purpose. It was his purpose to do this, to be this so that we could see that there is always another way. His life has been a product of questioning everything. When they said he would not walk, we asked, “Why not?” We were told exactly ‘why not’ by doctors and other professionals, and we had a choice to make.Believe in the limitation or find another way. We found the other way.
When we were told he needed surgeries to correct and take care of limitations he would always have with his bowels and bladder and kidneys, we asked, “Why?” and they told us ‘why’, all the limitations of ‘why’. I asked the universe, “Why not?” and I was shown because it was what you believe. So, I questioned the belief and chose another way. Never having bowel, bladder, or kidney issues. Ever.
Finally, his shunt, (an instrument surgically implanted in a child to help pump cerebral spinal fluid throughout the body) we were told this would need multiple revisions his entire life and to expect multiple surgeries every year, not to mention a host of other issues related to cognitive functioning. So, what happened? You guessed it… We found another way. Ethan became an anomaly and the kid that was the ‘healthiest’ kid they had ever seen. It didn’t require magic or miraculous prayers reserved for the worthy few. What it took was the courage to question everything along with belief in the miraculous. We were convinced there had to be a better way. We were convinced we could not live our life like a textbook, and we had to do something else. We were convinced we would not become another statistic. We needed another way; their rules were too limiting, too unnatural, too constricting, and too separating from inspired living. The only way that felt better, sensed better, created amore fun and joyful way for us, for Ethan, for our life, was to question “WHY NOT?” and then find another way.
When you question everything, you question the very fabric within you, your family, your lineage, and your ancestors. You question all the thoughts and beliefs within your life that have ever made up your life, and when you do that, it forces you to go within. When you go within, you get to know what you genuinely believe and if you don’t like what you see you get to change it. Every perceived problem has an answer and in this reality, the problem no longer exists because we know that once we see the limitation, the answer already appears. It is that fast, so fast that soon the problems become nonexistent. Or if the ‘problem’ does persist we see it as an opportunity to find another way. When it happens enough, and we see the results of our paying attention we are taken to an entirely new level of understanding and then that new level becomes our floor of existence. It is here that we begin again.
Questioning everything begins with curiosity. It begins with a knowing that this can’t be right because I trust when it does not feel right. It is calling me to notice something is not lining up within myself. Once that happens, you begin opening doors to new ways of thinking which opens doors to new ways of being, which opens doors for all possibilities to drop in.
When you are aware of your own limitations, you have the power to free yourself from the limitation itself. It is here that you realize nothing is holding you back from anything. It was only there to help you see the truth. You are to move higher and higher and continually release boundaries for yourself by questioning everything. As you do this first for yourself it will naturally ripple out and extend to others around you. They will sense the shift and eventually be inspired to go above and beyond their own perceived ceilings to lift themselves to a new level where their ceiling is now their floor.
You are to keep going, raising yourself higher and higher so that eventually, ceilings don’t exist, and your limitless existence is all there is. That is what childlike questioning allows us to do. It asks, “Why not?” to everything with a curious, joyful, limitless expression that is open to all possibility. This is the true gift of a child. The purpose of a child is to help the adult see what they once believed for themselves.
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