Beginning the Path to Mastery

The most common experience I hear about lately is from spiritual adventurers grappling with the realization they are healers but having no idea what that means or where to start.

Being new to the healing journey can be rather intimidating as there are so many classes and opportunities. Sometimes it can seem like you are the only one who has not found your passion or niche; and as you are searching it can feel like you are the awkward new kid on the block.

That was my first experience with Reiki.  My Reiki Master, Oda, an Israeli woman living in the rainforest of South East Asia led us in meditation several times a day for 20 minutes.  As our first
session of meditation came to a close and we
went around the circle discussing our experience everyone seemed to have gone very deep and
had amazing insights to share.  All I thought the
entire time, much to the amusement of the class, was “when is she going to make it stop!”  Now it is pretty common to hear my husband as he enters my meditation space ask, “When are you going to stop?”  Being honest, I never though that day would come.

I have come a long way since that quiet day in the rainy mountains of Northern Thailand, but I still remember how it can feel to be at the beginning of the journey with no idea how to get where I want to be. 

Reiki is an incredible tool to use at this juncture.  A hands on healing modality, it allows us to connect with the divine source of all energy and become a channel.  Gently, as this healing energy flows through us blocks, negative energies, traumas and illnesses are healed and we learn to heal others and ourselves. 

By teaching us how to connect deeper within we are freed to connect deeper with all of humanity and one day we wake up rejoicing at who we are becoming.

"The journey of a thousand miles has always begun with a single step," as Lao Tzu timelessly taught; I invite you to bring reiki along with you on this journey.

Love and Blessings,

 Christine

This article is written with much emotion after attending an Adoptive Parent Support Group held by Family Services of Metro Orlando last night.  I am shamefully reminded of Faith, what it is and how little of it I have been allowing in my life.  


There are a few areas where I sincerely trust that a greater wisdom guides my family and myself, yet I am struggling in other areas.

We have recently transitioned from homeschooling to unschooling; I trust that my child’s natural curiosity for life will lead him to educational brilliance.

In my practice, I rarely prepare prior to classes, as I know I will be guided by a power greater than myself.  Time spent with students is electric with energy and truth and yet I have been faithless in other areas.  

I have been seeing how my deep fear (a fear I believe we all share) of death, and rejection by God has led me to attempt to control others around me.  I have been trying to teach the ‘right way’ instead of showing others that they are the right way.  

When I sit and meditate on this, as I am now, I see how I am touching upon my fear that I am just not good enough, and so I must change you, so you become good enough.  Perhaps together our little goodness will result in mercy being shown upon me.  (Honest I do not know where this insanity comes from).

As school has started and many mothers are discussing their children’s education I am saddened that we send our perfect angels to school.  We are dissatisfied with the food, social situations, hour-long car lines, and the curriculum.  Yet I hear again and again the lack of faith that we have in ourselves to rise to the occasion and be able to discern what our children need.  It takes only a little faith to ensure that everything they need will arrive at their feet.

As students from all over the United States contact me about their desire to become a healer they are expressing the belief that they are missing something, the right book, youth, time, the best teacher for them.

We lack faith.


We seem to all believe that through God all things are possible and yet do not have the faith that this will be a reality in our own lives.

“For you all things are possible, but you don’t understand I … (enter excuse here)”.

Send me a message, relieve yourself of the burden of your faithlessness in just one area of your life and I will respond with one more area in which I will release one more false God of fear to you.

So, in closing I release my fear of not be a loving enough mother, and so inspire my children to rise above their own fears.  

I claim my faith that God is always talking to me, always.

Blessings,
Christine

We are no longer able to deny the transition that our planet, our bodies, and our spirits are in.  Change is all around us, sweeping our lives in different directions.  Our plans have been shredded and swept away. 

Sudden surrender is the gift of this time; we are learning to let go in the middle of our plan.  There is a spiritual maturity that is necessary to know when self-initiated plans have begun to lead our lives.  This is when we just need to let go, drop it, and move into inspiration.

The longer we stay the course, the farther off kilter we travel. 

I have been struggling with surrendering my plans with our new daughter, a two-year old little girl who has joined our family through adoption, and I have prepared myself well for this.  I understand attachment issues, grief, and her developmental stage.  I do not, however, understand her or her unique needs and strengths.

Integrating her smoothly is going fantastic, however, often I am following the “rules” I have made far too strictly and it becomes stressful, for all of us.  Instead of discipline feeling like a coming together it starts to feel bad and bedtime becomes a game of control.  I stop listening to what she needs in the moment.  

It is not difficult to begin listening to source, most of us move into alignment when we are beginning a new project, but we soon go off course with our own ideas.  Surrendering to inspiration means trusting what it is we are told to do, even if it breaks the pattern.  There is no specific way anything must get done, following a pattern can be powerful as the intention for success was part of its creation, but the path of inspiration is individual.  Allow God to honor your individuality and make a way just for you.  

There is so much magnificence in the journey of life.  We miss it when we try to make a pattern.  Imagine if the ocean were trying to get every wave, perfect, just like the last.
It would miss the uniqueness of each wave; miss the sensations of the fish within it.  

It is time to break our pattern, to allow the ocean to guide us, time to stop trying to be a perfect wave and enjoy our uniqueness and be of service to others.  A single ocean wave tosses life ashore and brings it back to the water.  It erases footprints and reflects light.

As I surrender to what our daughter needs in the moment, I can enjoy her light; her wave and she can enjoy mine.

We each have our own unique experience to explore.  This can only be done in the vibration of the time we are in.  Surrender to the new way.

In life really only one thing is certain, transition.  We transition from babies to toddlers, elementary school to middle school, dependency to self-sufficiency.

The day literally turns into night as the earth spins and we must adapt to the darkness, as this is a time of rest.
Sometimes things must be taken from us in order to force us to rest, regroup and transform.

This week our family has been offered the greatest of blessings as transition was forced upon us.  My husband was laid-off.
The first response he had was “finally”.

He has started a new business delivering fresh organic juices and knew that although his job as a geologist provided us with a generous income and benefits as well as travel opportunities he needed to let it go in order to move forward. 

We were prepared emotionally, knowing this would come and yet nothing prepared us for the feeling of freedom we are experiencing.  Transition is incredibly freeing if we are just willing to allow ourselves to relax as the universe leads us in the direction of our desires. 

Friends and family respond with compassion and sympathy and we have found ourselves reassuring them we really are thrilled.

As we allow transition to have its time and way with us, our creativity begins to flow; greater joy is experienced and life flows through us.

I see transition as an eddy pool in a fast moving stream.  It may seem as though we are going backwards, however, we are right there in the middle where we belong.

As we mature and deepen in our spiritual journey we find ourselves “letting go of the oars and flowing down-stream” as the teaching of Abraham-Hicks puts it.

Once we have allowed ourselves to flow the water gets a little rougher and we learn to be tossed about in the water joyfully.  It is this gentle playful tossing we come to enjoy and every moment becomes rich; whether we are floating gently through life or feeling caught up upon the shore or rapidly swirling through in different directions.

Life is exciting and it is the times of transition that are most thrilling.  Let us think of our most exciting times, weddings, graduations and travel.  It is the thought of coming change that thrills us; it is stepping outside of the every day where we know our limitations can be exceeded that our joy is unleashed. 

Just as in kindergarten, none of us have it mastered when we are thrust into summer, a time of rest before we begin a new phase.

~ Christine

 

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