Meditation & Prayer

I’m often asked How Does Meditation work?                      

What is the best practice and How will it help me?

Meditation is the progressive quietening of the mind which can take you to your Divine Source, to a higher intelligence, to the all knowing universal wisdom.

Why do it?

On the first level it helps most people to manage their stress levels. And with regular practice of at least once a day for 20 to 30 minutes you will benefit from the biological effects such as lowering high blood pressure, increasing and maintaining a healthy immune system, improving your overall mental and emotional well-being.

The next level is for those seeking much more than physical and emotional well-being.

Once you have managed maintaining your physical health and you continue practising meditation at least once a day it then opens the door to your spirit, the field of infinite possibilities, connects you to your soul, to God the creator, to your source, to your creativity, opening you up to kindness, love, peace compassion and joy.

Meditation is part of every tradition in the world.

There are many various meditations practices, including concentrating on your breathing, mantra meditations, etc, but meditation has nothing to do with any beliefs or ideology. Meditation is a simple mental technique allowing the spirit to speak to you but it speaks through silence and comes to you through intuition, enthusiasm & inspiration, (inspiration is being in spirit) being in touch with God.

What is The Difference Between Prayer & Meditation?            

Prayer is speaking to God.

One of the Most powerful things you can do is Pray, you don’t need to be a religious person to pray.

Besides praying for yourself its very powerful to pray for others, even for people you don’t know whose in pain and for so many suffering around the world. When you hear about or see someone in pain you can send them love from your heart and that is a form of healing. I usually imagine a beautiful white or golden light reaching out from my heart centre that reaches the person or situation and enveloping them with this healing and loving light.

To Summarise How To start meditation                           

If you have health, stress problems start with the intent to improve your physical well-being, then you can evolve to connecting to your higher conciousness.

If you are going to do any goal/desire setting visualization exercises do them before or after each meditation as your meditation practice requires your mind to go quite, releasing all thoughts.

20/ 30 minutes twice a day is very good or just 30 minutes a day is good.

You can meditate anywhere though best first thing in the morning, mid day if possible or before you sleep.

Sitting upright is best.

Start with noticing your breathing in through the noise and out through the noise.

Say a mantra mentally as you breath in and again as you breath out (optional) other wise just focus on the breath going in & out until your mind goes still, if thoughts distract you go back to focusing on your breath and to repeating your mantra, then let your mind be still.

Soothing music can also can used while meditating.

Don’t manipulate the breath it will flow naturally.

Benefits of Mediation 

Brain waves change when meditating, blood flows to brain increases profound changes to your hormones.

Some Scientists and Spiritual teachers are coming together showing the positive results to the brain as in ECG scans showing the brain waves have heighten activation while in meditation.

While meditating brainwaves appear to rewire themselves influencing positive new habits, increasing the capacity for happiness & joy.

Lifting your consciousnesses and leaving you feeling restfully alert.

Long term effects of meditation creates good habits replacing negative ones, you no longer want to violate the goodness that you receive through meditating. Improving eating habits, relationships and in some people any addictions they have stop as meditating nurtures the whole body so you are less likely to abuse your body or mind.

There is an endless list of other health benefits to meditating but I’ve intentionally listed some key areas that most people are asking me about which is to reduce stress, resolve/end relationship problems, give spiritual guidance and some are seeking ways to help support them towards enlightenment. Becoming an enlightened being is a process of being positively aligned to all things in your life and being aware when you are misaligned and adjusting your focus of attention to better thoughts. So no matter what challenges you have, you are able to connect to your higher conciousness in finding solutions and living a life with the least resistance to achieving all that’s good, in harmony and joy.

Why Use Mantra’s 

Mantra’s can be used to support your meditation but not necessary.

Mantra is a Sanskrit word, literally meaning, (man) mind, (tra) instrument of the mind)

There are many mantra’s that you can use, its a personal choice and normally one that is given to you by a Guru/Master

But you can select one that you have a connection with if you like.

Om or (Amen) are some of the mantra’s I like chanting silently in my mind.

In Christianity Jesus was known to repeat, I am, many times. And is used often used in mediations.

A mantra has a code and is a vibration so while chanting activates neuron pathways in the brain opening you up to a higher consciousnesses of  evolving and opportunities. 

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Training Your Mind To Not Waste Life Force Energy In Thinking Millions Of Thoughts, Instead, Pick An Affirmation Or Mantra Sound And Stay With It While Meditating Or When You Just Need To Lift Your Vibration. 

The purest and ultimate goal in spiritual practice is to fully realize one’s complete union and identification with God, the Source of all, the true Self. We must leave the limited self behind and follow the master and his teachings in a return to God.

Meditation requires a leap in faith because we must dare to die to our limited but known self, before we truly experience and unite with God, the True Self; which we cannot realize through the rational thinking mind. We must become simple, clear, still and empty so that we can be filled with Everything, the infinite love, compassion and wisdom of God, within our own hearts, our own being.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reiki Balances Left Brain & Right Brain Thinking

Left Brain, Right Brain – Which Side Are You On?

The left and right hemispheres of your brain process information in different ways. We tend to process information using our dominant side. The learning, thinking and overall well-being of a person is enhanced when both sides of the brain participate in a balanced manner. This means strengthening your less dominate hemisphere of the brain. As you will see from the diagram a list of processing styles is listed which are characteristically used by your right or left brain hemisphere.

Interestingly most of my clients who come for Reiki healing are functioning primarily through their left brain and often report feelings of disharmony, disconnection within themselves and their relationships. Other complaints include communication and relationship problems besides the disruption of their general well-being.

My clients don’t really concern themselves in understanding how or why they function mostly from the left brain, they’re just comforted by the soothing energy healing and the positive after effects on their mind, body & soul. The feed back from clients who are primarily left brained explain that after the Reiki healing they feel more receptive and connected to everything around them, a feeling of joy as they sense their heart opening to their true feelings again. And often they report sudden intuitive awareness on how to handle challenges in their relationships, jobs or with money rather than being afraid to face them.

As the heart opens it will always lead you intuitively to the best outcome whether it’s physical, emotional or a mental challenge.

Energy healing can be a catalyst to improve your life style and improve your relationship with yourself and others.

Why are so many people primarily left brained?

We know that what children are taught at home and schools influence and shape their minds into their adulthood. And schools only really focus on facts, numbers, accuracy, results and targets. The pupil is taught to use their left brain hemisphere which is connected with all things logical & analytical and is associated with doubt, fear, anger & all negative thinking. The right brain hemisphere is more visual, subjective, creative, and processes intuitively and holistically but in general its left brain functioning that schools support and favour.

Through keeping a record of clients healing sessions and following up I’ve seen great leaps in achieving a more balanced, left & right brain functioning by seeing positive results in changing negative thinking habits and better handling of life’s challenges in health, relationships, work & money.

“There is a battle with left brain logic & right brain subjective thinking, yet the energy healing is as real as the electricity that powers our homes. Energy is all around us but because we cannot see it does not mean it does not exist, it’s like the air we breathe”

My Angel Experience

It was Sunday 4^th September 2005 and as I slept that evening I had both my hands across my heart area as I often fall asleep while giving self healing since I was attuned to Reiki healing in 2004. I always enjoy falling asleep to this warm healing energy surging through my heart and expanding out to the whole of my body.

This particular evening after falling restfully asleep I suddenly woke up and  noticed in the corner of my bed room a male figure standing and looking straight ahead.

He looked like an ancient wise man, he wasn’t tall and he was wearing a simple dark coloured rope. I had a good side view of him so I could see his strong features, straight noise, dark eyes, slim olive coloured face with a tidy beard and dark shoulder length hair.

As I continued looking in awe I noticed his hands were placed across his heart in the exact same self healing position as mine! I consciously closed my eyes and reopened them immediately in case I was dreaming, he was still there for a good seven seconds and then he just disappeared. My first instincts were he looked like some of the images depicted by artists as Jesus.

The next morning I remember thinking how blessed I was to have had such a deeply spiritual experience and wrote it down in my journal. Eight years on and I can still see that exact clear image in my mind. I didn’t realise until recently the figure I saw was in fact my guardian Angel.

I suppose you could say I was spiritually naive! But I instinctively knew that the Reiki healing energy had evoked a powerful divine manifestation in showing me approval of my progression with self healing.  Intuitively I felt the presence of my guardian Angel was encouraging me in continuing with my own self-healing and that giving healing to others would play an important role in my life.

It’s taken me eight years to fully explore a deeper connection with the spiritual experience I had that evening. I believe it was triggered by a another separate powerful spiritual experience I had recently, after which I had a strong feeling that I should meditate and connect telepathically with my guardian Angel.

I will write in more detail about the other spiritual experience that lead to my telepathic connection with my Angel another time.

But what I will say for now is that this recent divine experience connected me profoundly to source energy and the angelic realm instigated communication with my guardian Angel to be the right time.

I meditated and it wasn’t long before connection was made with my guardian Angel.

I started by just simply asking the question in my mind.

“Please confirm if you are my Guardian Angel appearing In the year 2005 with hands across heart in healing ”?

The communication I received.

“Yes, and we have been waiting for your communication with us!”

I was also given my guardian Angels name and our communication has become deeper & more regular.

At one point I asked a question in my mind and impatiently after a few seconds I asked the same question verbally.

I then heard.

“We can hear you telepathically” 

It was as if to say, You don’t need to repeat the question verbally as we will hear you anyway!

When I asked the question, “Is it ok for me to discuss my guardian Angel communication with others”?

The communication I received.

“It is advised to avoid talking about your communications with us as it can cause interference in the process. There will be a time once all things are established that you can speak freely as you will be doing”

Of course I will take the advice given until the right time to speak & write more openly about the communication I receive and how it’s evolving and helping.

But what I will share with you for now is the question I asked about my guardian Angels image. As I always imagined if I saw my guardian Angel that it would be like a goddess with wings maybe! I never expected the image I saw, An ancient wise healing man.

The communication I received. 

“We know you connect to Jesus & as you are a healer we will represent & present ourselves in the image you most connect with.

I am light in essence. I am assigned by God & your work is part of the reason I am here to guide you”

We are extensions of source energy and non-physical energy (Angels & Guides)   Source energy can project visually in many forms and communication can vary from seeing, hearing or both.

Having spoken to other people who have also had Angel experiences, they explain that Angels appear in a visual translation that you will understand, so if you have no connection to religion then its unlikely you will see a religious figure but you might see something else that you connect to, it could be an Angel with or without wings, or it could be a native American Indian guide. Some people see their guides & Angels as sparkling lights. So it doesn’t matter what your belief system is as long as you have a desire to connect with non-physical energy.

It’s given a whole new meaning to the saying, “Once the student is ready the teacher will appear”

Or 

“Once the student is ready the Guardian Angels will appear”! 

Poem – In Remembrance

 Healing & Loss of A Grandmother

 I lay my hands softly & gently on my daughter’s grandmother

It started with great hope as she looked up at me from her bed

Her bright sparkly eyes were full of life

As I look at her I see a strong woman, full of wisdom,

Like Mother Goddess she kept  her extended family together through all the ups & downs

She had hoped to recover, to move again without pain.

To live & travel just as she did for many years,

Oh how sweet life is even at the most painful moments,

I smile & tell her to enjoy the healing

Starting from her head down to her feet,

Another Healing session ends, she looks serene, relaxed & begins to light up,

A little perkier, as though she was never really that ill

Sitting up she drinks & even eats a little

Sadly temporary, short-lived, as her body is overtaken by disease

But surprises doctors exceeding deadline for surviving,

How cold, how clinical & how wrong they were!

She hangs on to dear life,

Not accepting her body has given up on her,

Not accepting she’s slowly dying,

 Loved so much by family & all who knew her,

Friends & distant acquaintances come from near & far,

Week in, week out, people keep coming like paying homage to a great survivor

Initially crying & praying she recovers

But soon, their cries to God to release her,

She defied doctors by living 18 months not 6!

Strong willed she lived long as possible for her family & dear friends,

She left this world with lots of love & passed over with family prayers resonating in her ear,

She’s remembered for her specialness, her devotion to her family & friends,

Her love for life, her humour & excited laughter, her sparkly eyes & luminous skin,

Her loving reassurance & generosity, her home cooking & open house,

She’s remembered for the loving bond that’s made her grandchildren for ever humbled,

Fortunate are those who have Grandparents like this

Her legacy eternal, Lives on…