Patricia Coleman The Hearts Journey

June 2011

Healing Attributes of Music

Artist Type Promotes
Bach All Clear Mind, Sparks Creativity, Helps Break Through
Beetoven Symphonies Therapeutic for Traumas, Emotional Upset, Anger
Chopin All Clears and Unblocks Lymphatic System & Glandular System
Flute Flute Head Clearing, Mind & Thought Process
Handel Water Music, Messiah Renewal of Spirit Inspiration, Healing, Joy, Creativity
Mozart Violin, Flute Healing the Heart, Clears Though
Rachmaninoff Piano No. 2, C Minor Good for Tired Muscles & Diseased Muscles
Schubert Ava Maria Beneficial for the Heart, Masculine/ Feminine Balance
Schubert All Therapeutic for Environmental, Disharmonies, Allergies
Strauss Waltzes Relieves Bachaches, Beneficial for Autistic Children & Alzheimer's Patients
Stravinsky Firebird Helps Build Red Build Cells
Wagner Ride of the Valkyries Releases Anger

INNERPEACE ;-)

Inner Peace is a condition that could possibly be affecting your home and workplace. You may be showing signs of it and quite possibly be passing it on to others.

You may have already caught this disease. Ask yourself do you have…

  1. A tendency to think spontaneously rather than from fears based on past experiences.
  2. An unmistakable ability to enjoy every moment.
  3. A loss of interest in judging self.
  4. A loss of interest in judging others.
  5. A loss of interest in conflict and control.
  6. A loss of interest in interpreting the actions of others.
  7. A loss of ability to worry. (This is a serious symptom!)
  8. Frequent, overwhelming episodes of appreciation and gratitude.
  9. Contented feeling of connectedness with others and nature.
  10. Frequent attacks of smiling through the eyes of the heart.
  11. Increasing susceptibility to feel love from others, as well as the uncontrollable urge to extend it.
  12. An increasing tendency to let things happen.

Warning: If you have all or most of the above symptoms, please by advised that your condition of inner peace may be so far advanced as to not be treatable. Congratulations!

Patricia Coleman

Easter 2007

Expressions of Gratitude in Chinese from a great Qigong Master -

My feel is that Gratitude is the highest vibration in this world of energy - Find a way to be grateful every day, every hour, and every moment - Then see for yourself how it can increase your Joy!

June 2006

Avoiding the Present

(short excerpt from weekend workshop ‘Pure Awareness & the Power of Knowing’ –enjoy!)

Over the next months the complete article will be available here

Part 1 - May

The fourth dynamic is avoiding being present. There are several ways in which we do this. This is a nice catch all-dynamic. It includes every possible way that we can think of, of avoiding being present. What do we get to do when we’re present? Feel. That’s right. That’s what’s there to do. What we experience when we are present is our senses are in contact with the object of experience even if that’s an emotional energy in us. That emotional energy in us is the object of experience sometimes. So, when this dynamic is present we tend to get lost to stories that we make up about our experiences. When we’re wrapped up in the story, then we’re to busy being up here to experience what’s there to be experienced in the moment. Make sense?

The experiences themselves, the avoiding the present, is the primary technique that we use to not feel. The ignoring our intuition and the being judgmental are versions of not being friendly. We can definitely look at that, that way. Present complete present. If your totally present to something how can you, judge it? You’re not separate from it. What happens when you’re present is you are one with whatever is there. There’s no judgment. There’s no lack of trusting your intuition. There’s no not feeling. That’s all there is to do in the present is feel. So often, we become so absorbed in it and then find that the stories that we begin to feel that they are real. We life inside of them. I’m sure you know people who are depressed. Depression is basically living inside of an emotionally charged story. That’s all it is. Same for anxious people. Depressed is when you’re wrapped up in stories about the past. Anxious is when your wrapped up in stories about the future. Very simple.

We make ourselves victims not of what happened to us but to the stories that we have become dedicated to about the events. See what I was starting to talk about earlier, there is a distinction between events and the stories we make up about them. What’s the distinction? The events are long gone. It’s the stories that persist. Where do those stories exist? No place else, except for maybe the charge in the body that holds them in place. The issues are in the tissues. I like that. So, this dynamic is based on the habit of avoiding being present. The illusion or fear that being present will be difficult or impossible. I can’t deal with it. Okay. Expressions of this dynamic.

Part 2 - June

Getting lost in the grip of emotions. Sometimes being so wrapped up in an emotional state like depression or anxiety or just being always angry or whatever, sometimes that’s an escape in itself from dealing with the real feelings that need to be felt. You know what I’m talking about? You’ve all observed people like that? Where they are just kind in it like somebody that’s constantly complaining, irritated, what are they doing? They are avoiding feeling something. It’s just sometimes we use being in the grip of emotions as a way of not being present to what really needs to be felt. It’s like there is a much more important or deeper issue that needs to be felt.

Getting absorbed in stories about the past and/or future. One of the forms this takes is projecting possible negative outcomes onto the future. We call that worrying. Right? Predicting possible negative outcomes on the future. Why would we do that? What’s the point? We’re trying to make some rudimental kind of way of controlling the future or being right.

It’s an avoidance of being present to the feelings that are present now. At the same time, it’s an attempt to also avoid the near future.

Getting lost to addictive behavior. We’ve already talked about. Having databases unresolved emotions. One of the thing that’s a basis of addictive behavior and one of the principle things that you’ll find when your working with this issue of avoiding the present, is that the reason the person is avoiding the present is because what’s about to be experienced for them in the present is the unresolved issues of the past. What’s being held inside is as you’ve seen all these things for unresolved energy. We’re holding onto them. Now if we settle down enough to be present to it, what would happen? Oh, my god. Either we don’t want to go there or I’ll just be involved in this story or involved in this emotion. I’ll just overeat over here so I don’t have to feel it or whatever the drug of choice happened to be, the behavior of choice happened to be that keeps us from being present.

If you’re just quiet, enough for long enough that thing is going to force itself to the surface to be healed. The body wants to purge it out of you. It’s unnatural to be holding onto that inner conflict. The body wants to be free of that. Given any opportunity the slightest moment to file some quietness and whoosh its going to come up. Just a little bit of being relaxed and whoosh its right there. If you have a huge database of painful unresolved experiences you can’t even afford to be quiet for a minute. They are going to be right there in your awareness and if you are operating out of the old operating system of, I can’t go there. I can’t feel that. I’m going to get overwhelmed. Then your going to do everything possible to avoid being present in this moment. This is very huge. This dynamic is huge. It is pervasive. It’s huge.

So, when you start allowing yourself to be present, we already talked about it what do you have to do? You get to feel what’s there but the most common thing that’s going to be there, its not some new event that’s causing some triggering of a new emotional overwhelm. It’s going to be mainly the baggage of the past that’s unresolved. The body wanting to be free of that. Wanting to have it be purged from you. What’s needed in order to purge it? Is awareness. That’s exactly right. It’s allowing yourself to gently and maybe gradually start deleting those database files. There are two ways do it. There’s the slow methodical way which is the feeling every one of them.

Then there’s the way you’re going to see in about half an hour, which is where we just put the whole thing in the recycle bin and hit delete. Very elegant, powerful way of speeding this process up expediently. Sounds nice. So in this particular case what we want to do is we want to recognize when this dynamic is absent. We feel I can experience emotions fully but without getting lost to them. Fully present to it but not lost to it such that we don’t feel whatever else is there to be felt. I live in the wonder and delight of uncertainty.

When you’re in the presence, you don’t know what’s going to happen. There’s no illusion of being in control. We are not in control folks. When you make the shift from the terror of uncertainty to the wonder and delight of uncertainty, your whole life gets transformed.

There is only one way to be able to do that and that is to be willing to be fully present to feel whatever comes up. Otherwise, you’re terrified of whatever might come up. I can stand in the wonder and delight of uncertainty is a major upgrade over standing in the terror of uncertainty. Standing in the terror of uncertainty is I don’t want to feel all those possible things that are going to come up. Were as standing in the wonder and delight of uncertainty is like wow, what’s next. Totally different.

All it takes is a full activation of the willingness to utilize your innate capacity to feel that you all ready have. Its just completely un-utilized. Deep habits of not utilizing it that’s all that is. That’s why we’re spending the whole day. The whole day on learning how to feel. That’s all this is about today. Just learning how to feel. Just learning how to access your capacity to feel. God what a gift we have this huge incredible computer. It can process anything. We actually have unbounded capacity to feel because we are the universe. The only limit is physical limitations of the hardware and those are pretty amazing. It’s mostly software problems that keep us from being able to feel.

Therefore, when this is absent I easily face and feel fully anything from the past that may come up in the present. This is the biggie. This is the one that mainly keeps people out of presents. Is the fear of having to feel those unresolved feelings from the past. Here’s what it looks like when you’re avoiding the present. Isn’t that a great graphic? It says going off into nowhere land. When this dynamic is absent, we feel I live completely in the present moment. So how do you avoid the present? Anybody.

So these are the kinds of questions that help in accessing the feeling. Do you feel like you are typically fully present living in the moment? Does it feel uncomfortable to stay present to the feelings that show up if you are really present and in the now? What do you do instead of staying present? Do you fantasize about the future? Do you think about the past often? Do you use some behavior to avoid feeling things when the feelings become uncomfortable? That’s exactly what we were just doing.

Part 3, December

Would you like to have a more effective way of dealing with discomfort so that you could more easily stay present? These are some of the kinds of questions that obviously we went much deeper then that in the questions we did with Amy. This is a good example of how occasionally you have to be a little persistent in digging around down there in the file directory pathways to find the bugs. The bug files. However, it is always going to be some form of not wanting to feel something. This is an unresolved feeling from the past. Very much in the past like from infancy. We’ll go more in detail how/where this one comes from. This fear of abandonment or being alone, it’s very, very pervasive almost universal fear that pretty much all of us have. It’s incredible when you start to come out of it. Absolutely incredible.

What it does to your sense of self-sufficiency and independence. Autonomy. Incredible. This becomes the foundation of truly successful and extraordinary relationships. When you don’t need them anymore, that’s when you really get to enjoy them. One of those wonderful dichotomies. Doesn’t mean you don’t enjoy them. You do far more then you ever did before. Before you were just ooh, I need it. The other person is over there going yuck. You know what it’s like when someone’s needy. It’s a taking, the energy is taking. Yuck. Nobody likes it. Kind of like you have a needy partner so you don’t want to be one either. Therefore, we are going to do the practice in pairs. Get our little ten-minute things in so we finish this up. We want to have the person who’s going to be the client is someone who indicates through their description of what is happening in their lives that they are avoiding the present.

Start the discussing by exploring the ways in which they are avoiding the present.

What are they doing to avoid the present? Which type of present avoidance techniques are they using? Use the questions back here to help bring the person in touch with the charge of feelings that they are avoiding by not being present. Guide them through feeling until they have felt it so thoroughly there is nothing left to feel. We’ll often be after resolving the energy of the feeling that they will more easily be able to easily see how they have been leaving the present to avoid the discomfort of those unresolved feelings. Is that clear to you now? Absolutely. Very good.

Point out to them that they can use this technique anytime to feel something fully and stay present. So anytime, you feel like you’re procrastinating or reaching for the food. All these different kind of things we’ve been talking about. In the moment when you begin to do that, that’s the moment to stop and check it out. What is this that I’m trying to avoid here? Very, very powerful thing to do. Now you have the technique for resolving and actually fully feeling that thing that you have been avoiding. Then no problem. Resolve it and then bring yourself back to the state of peace.

That’s totally fine. But this is your background of experience is such that you feel because there has been lots and lots of things you’ve had to feel that oh, I’ll just have to do this forever. However, you see that if you’re standing on the side of this of being afraid of feeling things then this is a problem. However, if your standing on the side of this which is bring it on, I’ll just feel whatever is there. Then its not that you have to be feeling to the core of the feeling of everything all the time it’s just that life is rich and full of flavor and experience and richness of feeling everything. What’s wrong with that? That’s called being alive. You see.

If you have to do for a while, feeling into the core of stuff, just to get the hang of hanging out in this place called feeling things, okay big deal. Why not invest that for a few hours, or days, or weeks, or even months, or even years if it liberates you from the total avoidance of life. Wouldn’t be worth it? Yeah. It’s kind of a no-brainer.

You have a Meta fear. The fear is oh my god I’m going to have to do this forever. Feel into that one, resolve that one. You’ll have no that’s not true it’s just a story you’re making up. It’s just a story. Doesn’t matter if it’s had some basis in it, you’ve been doing this all day. That’s why you’re here to learn how to do it. That’s why we are doing it all day. We are doing it all day so you can get good at it. Once you get good at it, it’s like shoo. When you get that good at it shoo, bring it on. No problem. You okay. Okay good.

So what we are going to do is we are going to break into the last group of pair practice and you want to follow basically this procedure. It’s exactly the same thing. This one is sometimes not necessarily as tricky as the one we did with Amy where we really had to dig it out. Whatever is appropriate. Each one of these is giving you another opportunity to see how you connect with these things that we’ve been avoiding.

The whole day is educating you, experientially in how to feel. I don’t know a greater gift I could give you then this today. Going to feel that fully. Wow. This is giving you yourself back. And living fully present to this now moment of our life.

November 2005

To live enjoying Pure Awareness in our life:

First recognize The Core Dynamic
This is the way of being that has resulted from our conditioning
This comes from a Feeling Level Decision
This is the decision that is made on a feeling level that has no words to it that becomes the basis of how we limit our experiences of life
This results in The Conditioned Response
This is the specific learned reactive behavior based on the Feeling Level Decision
Learning and Knowing the Distinction between
This is what is important - to intellectually understand in order to recognize the Conditioned Response and be able to use the appropriate Pure Awareness Technique 
What needs to be learned?
This is the combination of becoming aware of our previously unconscious conditioned responses and consciously choosing in that moment of awareness to cultivate a new way of being
What needs to be optimized?
This is the description of the capacity or skill that needs to be cultivated and mastered in order to fully live the new way of being
The Pure Awareness Technique
This is the specific Experiential Technique that is to be learned and used to dissolve the Conditioned Responses that create this Core Dynamic
The result is a life that is lived in the joy of Pure Awareness!
To learn and experience this way of being I am offering classes and sessions. Love Patricia

 

September 2005

The Old Man and Enlightenment

A young man had spent five arduous years searching for truth.  One day, as he walked up into the foothills of a great mountain range, he saw an old man approach from above, walking down the path, carrying a heavy sack on his back.  He sensed that this old man had been to the mountaintop; he had finally found one of the wise - one who could answer his hearts deepest questions. "Please sir," he asked.  "Tell me the true meaning of enlightenment." The old man smiled, and stopped.  Then, fixing his gaze on the youth, he slowly swung the heavy burden off his back, laid the sack down, and stood up straight. "Ah, I understand," the young man replied.  "But sir, what comes after enlightenment?" The old man took a deep breath, then swung the heavy sack over his shoulders and continued on his way. CONCLUSION:  A flash of enlightenment offers a preview of coming attractions, but when it fades, you will see more clearly what separates you from that state - your compulsive habits, outmoded beliefs, false associations, and other mental structures.  Just when our lives are starting to get better, we may feel like things are getting worse - because for the first time we see clearly what needs to be done.  After illumination difficulties continue to arise; what changes is your relationship to them.  You see more and resist less. You gain the capacity to turn your problems into lessons and your lessons into wisdom. 

July 2005

She looked at him and saw him smile in response. Yes he understood that what he said was funny. That was important in itself. It was good to be able to share such things with somebody else. The little jokes of life, the little absurdities.

They sat together for a few more minutes, finishing their drinks. Then Miss Makutsi rose to her feet and announced that she was going to the ladies room and would meet him back in the dance hall for the rest of the class.

She found a door labeled power room which bore an outline picture of a woman in a long flowing skirt. She went in and immediately regretted it.

“So! There you are, Grace Makutsi!” said the woman standing at the basin.

Miss Makutsi stopped, but the door had closed behind her and she could hardly pretend that she has come into the wrong room.

She looked at the woman at the basin, and the name came back to her. This was the woman she had seen in the dance class and her name was Violet Sephotho. She was one of the worst of the glamorous, empty headed set at the Botswana Secretarial College and here she was applying powder to her face in the aptly named Powder Room of the Presidents Hotel.

 ‘Violet,” said Miss Makutsi.  ”It is good to see you again.”

 Violet smiled, closed her powder compact and leant back against the edge of the basin. She had the air of one who was settling in for a long chat.

‘Yes, sure,’ she said. “I haven’t seen you for ages. Ages. Not since we finished the course.” She paused, looking Miss Makutsi up and down, as if appraising her dress. “You did well, didn’t you? At that college, I mean.”

The thrust of the comment was unambiguous. One might do well at college, but this was very different from the real world. And then there was the disdainful reference to that college, as if there were better secretarial colleges to be attended.

Miss Makutsi ignored the barb, “And you, Violet? What have been doing? Did you manage to find a job?”

The implication in this remark was that those who got barely fifty per cent in the final examinations might be expected to experience some difficultly in finding a job. This was not lost on Violet, whose eyes narrowed.

“Find a job?” she retorted. ”Miss, I had them lined up to give me a job!  I had so many offers that I could think of no way of choosing between them.  So you know what I did?  You want to know?”

Miss Makutsi nodded.  She wanted to be out of this room, and away from this person, but she realized that she had to remain.  She would have to stand up for herself is she were not to feel completely belittled by the encounter.

“I looked at the men who were offering jobs and the chose the best looking one,” she announced.  “I knew that was how they would choose their secretary, so I applied the same rule to them! Hah! 

Miss Makutsi said nothing.  She could comment on the stupidity of this, but then that would enable Violet to say something like, “Well that may be stupid in your eyes, but look at the jobs I got.”  So she said nothing, and held the other woman’s challenging glance. 

Violet lowered her eyes and inspected her brightly polished nails.  “Nice shoes,: she said.  “Those green shoes of your, I‘ve never seen anybody wear green shoes before.  It’s brave of you.  I would be frightened that people would laugh at me if I wore shoes like that.”

Miss Makutsi bit her lip.  What was wrong with green shoes?  And how dare this woman, this empty headed woman, pass comment on her taste in shoes?  She looked at Violet’s shoes, sleek black shoes with pointed toes and quite unsuitable for dancing.  The looked expensive – much more expensive than these shoes which Miss Makutsi had treated herself to and of which she felt so proud.

“But lets not talk about funny shoes,” Violet went on breezily.  “Lets talk about men.  Don’t you love talking about men?   That man through there.  Is that your uncle or something?”

Miss Makutsi closed her eyes and imagined for a moment that Mma Ramotswe (her teacher) was by her side.  What would Mma Ramotswe advise I such circumstances?  Could Mma Ramotswe provide the words to deal with this woman, or would she say, “No, do not allow yourself to be belittled by her.  Do not stoop to her level.  You are worth more than that silly girl.”  And Miss Makutsi saw Mma Ramotswe in her mind’s eye, and heard her too, and that is exactly what she said.

“The man you are dancing with is very handsome,” said Miss Makutsi, “You are lucky to have such a handsome man to dance with.  But then you are a very pretty lady, Mma and you deserve these handsome men.  It is quite right that way.”

Violet stared at her for a moment and the looked away.  Nothing more was said, and Miss Makutsi went about her business.

“Well done,” said Mma Ramotswe’ voice, “You did just the right thing there.  Just the right thing!”

“It is very hard,” replied Miss Makutsi. 

“It often is,” said Mma Ramotswe.

May 2005

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 cups of coffee.

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with an unanimous "yes." The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed.

"Now," said the professor as the laughter subsided, "I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things--God, your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions--and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car. The sand is everything else--the small stuff."

"If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued, "there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important to you.

"Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children! Take time to get medical checkups. Take your spouse out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal. Take care of the golf balls first--the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand."

One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented. The professor smiled. "I'm glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend."

Feel free to share this with those you care about. I JUST DID... Have a wonderful life!

April 2005

" Some thoughts from a Great Master to be remembered at this sacred transformational time -Easter."

People Are Often Unreasonable

Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Roman Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity
Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1979)

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.

mother teresa

March 2005

Why Write? Why Journal? Why is self expression through petition important?

Writing strengthens the immune system. Research conducted by James Pennebaker, people who wrote about upsetting experiences showed improvement in immune system function (James Pennebaker, Opening Up, NY 1990).

Writing encourages uninhibited expression. There's no censor. Anything goes.

Writing objectifies our experience, giving us space, allowing us to experience and develop healthy detachment.

Writing our experiences coaxes dark-dwelling monsters of our mind out into the light of reality allowing us to see their true nature.

Writing is a medicine that delivers a very powerful message to our cells. Whenever we speak our own truth, we infuse our body with the medicine of this truth. What could be more healing?

Writing generates personal power. Writing has strengthened my trust in my own sense of what is best for my healing.

Writing stimulates a mood of healing, and the written piece itself is the proof this mood has taken place and hold to power of further transformation.

Writing enables us to de-stress in a typically stressful situation.

Writing is a tool for integrating physical, emotional and spiritual healing.

Writing is a doorway into insight and personal introspection.

Writing clears the mind. The process of managing my time wisely includes managing my inner mental activity. I write my experience, clear my mind and move on.

Writing is free and can be done almost anywhere, at anytime by anyone.

Writing teaches us discrimination and non-judgment.

Writing quickly brings me back to my center and allows me to retain what was/is of value in my healing, and what is not.

Writing helps me feel my feeling fully, honouring and respecting those emotions, then allows me to quickly return back to my inner peace.

Writing frees my mind, my heart, my spirit.

Here is writing my best wishing to you!

Patricia

February 2005

Hi Patricia

I'm so happy we finally connected. I hope this gets through to you. I have looked at both your website and that of The Way of the Heart and I am impressed with the depth of the information and intrigued by the dynamics of the processes.

I am sure the questions do not fully embrace the scope of the Reiki application; however, I am attempting to find a starting point for people who may not be familiar with the therapy, or who may shy away from alternative therapies. If there is anything that you particularly wish to impart, or that you feel is important that I have overlooked, please feel free to include it.

Theresa

1. What is Reiki and how does it impact health conditions?

Rei (Ray) – Universal, Ki (Key) – Life Force Energy. Reiki is one of the more widely known forms of energy healing. Energy Healing involves direct application of Ki for the purpose of strengthening the client’s energy field, both internally and externally. This is accomplished by the Reiki practitioner laying his/her hands on the client and becoming a channel allowing the Reiki energy to flow through them to the client.

2. Are there conditions/ailments for which Reiki is particularly effective?

Reiki treatments are effective for any and all types of conditions and/or ailments from the chronic-physical to emotional. The only limit to Reiki’s healing potential appears to be due to the clients’ ability or willingness to let go of old habits or paradigms and allowing the Reiki healing to take place.

3. How quickly can a patient see improvement in their condition?

Most clients will notice a change in how they are feeling after the first Reiki session they participate in. A general feeling of physical and emotional wellbeing is what most clients feel after each session which lasts for an extended period of time. Older, more chronic ailments will naturally take longer for healing to take place because the energy holding the ailment in place will need more attention in order for a shift to take place. Once again, a lot of how quickly a client heals has to do with the attitude of the client. The "intention" of the client is always the control valve on how much and how quickly healing can and will take place.

4. Is there an optimum number of sessions required to see improvement and maintain it?

Some people may need just one treatment to shake loose stuck energy which allows healing to take place and others will need ongoing sessions in order to free themselves from the ailments and conditions that they are seeking help from.

5. Does a patient need to do periodic maintenance sessions?

Most clients see and feel the value in continuing periodic session in order to continue taking their own healing into ever deeper levels. We have clients who choose to come weekly, others biweekly, others monthly. Most clients who have ongoing Reiki treatments will at one point decide to empower themselves and take Level l Reiki which allows them to do treatments on themselves.

6. How long does a session take?

Each session takes approximately one hour to complete. Some time is taken before treatment to discuss with the client what it is they wish to accomplish and after the treatment to briefly discuss how the session went.

7. Does someone need to learn to practice Reiki themselves in order to maintain the benefits?

One does not need to learn how to practice Reiki in order to sustain and build the benefits of receiving Reiki treatments but learning Reiki is a low cost and effective way of building up and maintaining good health on all levels. It can also deepen the treatments with a practitioner.

8. Have you treated children and, if so, what ages?

I have worked on women from preconception all the way through their pregnancies. Plus children from age 5 up they know and are very receptive to the positive energies and also often will tell you when they have had as much as they need!

9. Can someone be too young for a Reiki session?

Is conception too young? J

10. Are there conditions for which Reiki would not be recommended, or for which it would not be effective?

I feel that Reiki works very well for any conditions. Reiki energy works very closely with the emotional body of the client and as the emotional body comes more into balance all types of healing on all levels can begin to take place.

11. Is there a type of person or personality for whom Reiki would not achieve any positive results?

Once again I would like to impress that all of Reiki healings take place in a time and manner that is directed by the intention of the client. If the clients intention or ability to allow healing to take place needs gentleness and an extended period to time then that is exactly what will take place. Conversely, if a client is open and willing to go deeply and has a desire to move quickly through their issues then they will move as quickly as their intentions will allow.

12. Alternatively, is there a personality type which achieves more positive results with Reiki?

All personality types, all age groups, all ethnic groups, all sentient beings and even animals will achieve benefits from the healing energy of Reiki treatments. Being the type of person who sees the one small blue patch in a grey sky as a wonderful opportunity for a beautiful day always helps in any situation but even the person who sees the one little fluffy cloud in the sky as a sign of biblical rains will achieve positive results with Reiki treatments and quite possibly enable them to see the world through a different set of eyes.

13. Have you ever encountered a person, or a specific condition, for which Reiki was unsuccessful?

See above! J not that I have come across although they suggest that with a broken bone that you wait until it is set properly before doing healing work.

14. Do you find that knowledge about Reiki, and acceptance of it as a viable health therapy, is growing in the general populace?

I think that as we see our Health Care System going through an upheaval people are realizing more and more that they cannot keep their trust in system that they may have depended on for decades. Reiki is a powerful tool that one can use as a preventative tool and in order to maintain ones health. More and more people are gaining the knowledge that continuing preventative self-care measures is a better and smarter method for maintaining good health rather than waiting for something to go wrong and then trying to fix it. The knowledge and acceptance of Reiki is constantly growing and where just a few years ago it was considered somewhat of a fringe modality it has become completely accepted much the same as what acupuncture went through in the last couple of decades.

15. How much does a Reiki session (or group of sessions) cost?

A session of Reiki will cost around $95-140.

16. Is Reiki covered under any health plans?

There are many different types of health plans and some are more open minded than others. Each person will have to check with their specific plan to see if they are covered. If you are not covered this may be a great chance to inquire why Reiki is not covered and search out a company with a more open minded attitude towards preventative health care.

Reiki is a safe, non invasive and gentle way of stimulating the clients own healing abilities into action. The sessions are carried out in a quiet, relaxing atmosphere with the client clothed and with a sheet or blanket covering them. The client does not "need" to "do" anything other than show up for their appointment and then just relax and most likely fall asleep while the treatment is taking place. The client can talk with the practitioner while treatment is taking place but most people find that they just quietly drift off into the energy of the Reiki treatment.

Having Reiki treatments done on you is a wonderful extremely relaxing way of promoting self healing but we at Inner Heart want everyone to learn how to use this tool themselves. Our Reiki Level l class attunes you to the healing energies of Reiki. This class covers two days after which you will be able to do Reiki treatments on yourself. Everyone who takes Reiki Level l gets attuned to the energy of Reiki. There is no passing or failing or "not getting it." Everyone who takes Reiki Level l gets their own bodies natural Reiki healing abilities "switched on" and once it has been turned on it will be switched on for the rest of your life. Like any muscle, the more you use your Reiki abilities the stronger it becomes. You can lay down your Reiki tool for years or even decades but if you decide to pick it up once again it is always there inside of you waiting to be called forth.

October 2004

Hi Everyone!

A beautiful thought from a qigong friend.

Much Love, Patricia

A water bearer in India had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full. For a full two years this went on daily, with the bearer delivering only one and a half pots full of water to his house. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments, perfect for which it was made. But, the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that he was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do.

After 2 years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the water bearer one day by the stream. "I am ashamed of myself, and I want to apologize to you. I have been able to deliver only half my load because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house. Because of my flaws, you have to do all of this work, and you don't get full value from your efforts". The bearer said to the pot, "Did you notice that there were flowers only on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side? That's because I have always known about your flaw, and I planted flower seeds on your side of the path. Every day as we walk back, you've watered them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house."

Moral: Each of us has our own unique flaws.

We're all cracked pots. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so interesting and rewarding. You've just got to take each person for what they are, and look for the good in them.

Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.

Remember to appreciate all the different people in your life!

Blessings to all my crackpot friends

August 2004

THE ANT AND THE CONTACT LENS

Here is story to help put things into perspective. I am the first one to admit that I am in need myself from time to time

A true story-Brenda was a young woman who was invited to go rock climbing. Although she was very scared, she went with her group to a tremendous granite cliff. In spite of her fear, she put on the gear, took a hold on the rope, and started up the face of that rock.

Well, she got to a ledge where she could take a breather. As she was hanging on there, the safety rope snapped against Brenda's eye and knocked out her contact lens.

Well, here she is, on a rock ledge, with hundreds of feet below her and hundreds of feet above her! . Of course, she looked and looked and looked, hoping it had landed on the ledge, but it just wasn't there.

Here she was, far from home, her sight now blurry. She was desperate and began to get upset, so she prayed to the God to help her to find it.

When she got to the top, a friend examined her eye and her clothing for the lens, but there was no contact lens to be found. She sat down, despondent, with the rest of the party, waiting for the rest of them to make it up the face of the cliff.

She looked out across range after range of mountains, thinking of that verse that says, "The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth." She thought, "God, You can see all these mountains. You know every stone and leaf, and You know exactly where my contact lens is. Please help me."

Finally, they walked down the trail to the bottom. At the bottom there was a new party of climbers just starting up the face of the cliff. One of them shouted out, "Hey, you guys! Anybody lose a contact lens?" Well, that would be startling enough, but you know why the climber saw it? An ant was moving slowly across the face of the rock, carrying it on it's back.

Brenda told me that her father is a cartoonist. When she told him the incredible story of the ant, the prayer, and the contact lens, he drew a picture of an ant lugging that contact lens with the words, "Lord, I don't know why You want me to carry this thing. I can't eat it, and it's awfully heavy. But if this is what You want me to do, I'll carry it for You."

I think it would probably do most of us good to occasionally say, "God, I don't know why you want me to carry this load. I can see no good in it and it's awfully heavy. But, if you want me to carry it, I will."

Trust that there is a Bigger picture.~

July 2004

Hello! I came across the following story, and thought it was sweet:

“Once upon a time, there was an island where all the feelings lived; happiness, sadness, knowledge, and all the others, including love.

One day, it was announced to all of the feelings that the island was going to sink to the bottom of the ocean. So all of the feelings prepared their boats to leave. Love was the only one that stayed. She wanted to preserve the island until the last possible moment. When the island was almost totally under water, love decided it was time to leave. She began looking for someone to ask for help.

Just then, Richness was passing by in a grand boat.

Love asked, “Richness, can I come with you on your boat?”

Richness answered, “I'm sorry, but there is a lot of silver and gold on my boat and there would be no room for you anywhere.”

Then Love decided to ask Vanity for help, who was passing in a beautiful vessel. Love cried out, “Vanity, help me please.”

“I can't help you,” Vanity said, "You are all wet, and will damage my beautiful boat.”

Next, Love saw Sadness passing by. Love said, “Sadness, please let me go with you.”

Sadness answered, “Love, I'm sorry, but, I just need to be alone now.”

Then, Love saw Happiness. Love cried out, “Happiness, please take me with you.”

But Happiness was so overjoyed, that he didn't hear Love calling to him.

Love began to cry. Then, she heard a voice saying, “Come Love, I will take you with me.” It was an old man. Love felt so blessed and overjoyed, that she forgot to ask the old man his name. When they arrived on land, the old man went on his way. Love realized how much she owed the old man.

Love then found Knowledge and asked, “Who was it that helped me?”

“It was Time,” Knowledge answered.

“But why did Time help me when no one else would?” Love asked.

Knowledge smiled and with deep wisdom and sincerity, answered, “Because only Time is capable of understanding how great Love is.”

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