Jing (essence) is what makes living beings unique and distinct from inorganic things.  In the present moment, absent from the past or future you can connect with your Jing.     Sitting on the dock on a quiet lake is not the only place to connect with your Jing and find your solutions. Right Now, experience one of Roberta R. Barnes' original guided meditatons when you read down on the page, and click on the relaxing lake park scene. it will be an experience like no other.

Life comes with challenges in all forms, the soultions to which most often are not what you think.  Meditation is not thinking, tuning-out the outside chatter, and most importantly  tuning-in to your inner self. Meditation also, as published in the Journal of Neuroscience has more potent pain-relieving effects on the brain than morphine or other such pain-relieving drugs.  Combine with Japanese style of Reiki and you have an amazing key to maintaining your well-being. In that present peaceful moment beneath your thoughts your analytical mind quietly reorganizes, and your creativity is unleashed.

 

LEARNING MEDITATION, LISTENING to GUIDED MEDITATIONS, or EXPERIENCING GUIDED MEDITATION Journeys into Your Past for discovery & healing can make welcomed positive changes in your life.

 Nestled in the trees in Windsor Maine is the Natural Healing & Learning Center, which Roberta Barnes opened in 2002.  There you can learn various methods for easily shifting into the peaceful stillness beneath your thoughts, as well as Gendai Reiki-Ho and Komyo Reiki Kai (Japanese styels of Usui Reiki Ryoho that came directly from Japan).  Roberta practices all that she teaches, and knows many different way that different people in hushing their logical thinking. One method she shares is something her father taught her when she was just a little girl. 

  To register for classes or for more information on which class is best for you Contact Roberta Barnes via Email or Call 207-445-5671  

 

Scroll down,  and read more about MEDITATION -- GUIDED MEDITATIVE JOURNEYS INTO YOUR PAST -- CONNECTING WITH NATURE ENERGY 

 Learning to connect to your inner self/soul/heart connects you with your unlimited potential.

 

You are invited to relax and listen to the  original guided meditation below by Roberta R.  Barnes with the perfect visuals provided by by ICE Worldwide.  

    

You are invited to Contact Roberta Barnes with any comments you would like to share about any of her guided meditations.  You are also invited to leave comments about your experience during and following any of her guided meditations on any of the pages on her meditations guided Blog  www.meditations.com.

 Taking those few minutes to re-gather your  energy in the quietude of meditation can make a dramatic difference in your life. Refreshment and rejuvenation are two of the benefits you gain through meditation and guided meditations.  

  Feeling calmer in your daily life results in feeling good, finding solutions, and living each present moment fully in the way best for you.  Meditation and Gendai Reiki-ho or Komyo Reiki Kai are ways to bring that calmness into your life.    

Through Gendai Reiki-Ho Komyo Reiki Kai and daily meditation you can uncover the True Universal You and connect with your authentic talent/skill. 

Meditation helps with fatigue, depression, anxiety and those other things falling in the stress building category.

 As Gandhi said, "There is more to life than increasing its speed,." and when you take pauses to assimilate and connect with your inner self you could be amazed at the treasures you uncover.

  Meditation also helps you to be aware of those tiny things in life that can often be overlooked, but can add beauty and smiles to your present moments that makes up your life.

While some imaginations have created distorted stories in Usui Reiki Ryoho, your imagination is a helpful tool in the second guided meditation on the CD Finding Your solutions.In the second guided meditation on the CD Finding Your
Solutions you are guided through nature that is safe and you enjoy to a place in nature you have never been before. Creating that place requires imagination, which you were born with.

Using your imagination for a place in nature that is safe and you enjoy, connects you with higher and finer energies. Imagination,
like meditation, is not bound by time, space, or our physical environment. When you imagine that safe place in nature, you have never been before you do it with a sense of joy and excitement. This puts you in an even deep state of relaxation, and attracts to you more benefits.

 

  Meditation helps you to strengthen your awareness so that you can find the practices that bring your cells back into balance and surrounded with harmony , which often allows you to avoid illness

   Daily meditation is not a task or a chore, but a wonderful way to calm your mind. Ask any Buddhist monk how inner peace brings happiness.                                                                   

 "Mind precedes all things; mind is their chief, mind is their maker.
If one speaks or does a deed with a mind that is pure within,
happiness then follows along like a never departing shadow.
~ Dhammapada 1"

  In today's fast paced world you might feel that you are too busy to listen to that voice within you that can create masters in the arts and the Einsteins of the world.  In that peacefull stillness you can connect with your inner joy created by the little moments in everyday life that is too often overshadowed by all today's technology. 

 Roberta’s belief that problems cannot be solved when you focus on the problem was confirmed by reading Patch Hunter Adams' book and statements within the Patch Adams movie.  It was confirmed again as Hiroshi Doi explained to do your best, let go and allow the universe to take care of the rest.  

From Roberta's belief, she created the guided meditation to find your solution.  In the meditation you are guided into the Alpha state, are guided through nature that is safe and pleasing to you and then after stating the solution you are searching for you are guided to a place where nature unfolds the solution.  There are no exploding fireworks, but simply you have an 'aha' moment or a seed is planted deep within your layers of consciousness that allows the solution to be visible to you at a later time.

 On Roberta Barnes' CD Finding Your Solutions . . . 

   Program One guides you how to use your breath as a mantra. Focusing on what comes naturally to you releases your need to think, which facilitates intuitive attunement.  

 Program Two guides you deeper into relaxation as you visualize the beauty of nature and then embrace the solution right for you at that time.  This $15.95 CD moves from a luxury to being a necessity on those days when life around you is so focused your challenge that you cannot see past it to see your solution.     

  CLICK HERE  Now and order your CD "Finding Your Solutions".  The  Guided meditations on this relaxation CD take you into that altered state of mind away from the outside chatter where you can connect with your inner/higher self,  in only 18 mins,or less, with the option to stay longer.  

 

 One of the guided meditations that Roberta often gives to students and clients in person, guides them to fully embrace the joyful times they have experienced. 

Exercises in the Shinpiden level of Gendai ReikiHo allow you to connect with your inner-self/your soul in such a deep way that with your awareness focused on Reiki the negative karma melts and is released fro your whole self. 

When you Tune-in to the stillness, Turn-on to tranquility,  and Drop-out of stressful thought patterns -- amazing positive things happen in your life.

 

Being grounded yet feeling high, is not only something that people began talking about in the 1960s, but somehting that can happen in meditation as well as Japanese styles of Usui Reiki Ryoho. 

 When you are grounded you can feel attached to the balanced purifying energy of the earth, and your response to a bad situation is constructve and not destructive. Roberta Barnes guides students in the various ways to slip into that serence place where you are grounded yet feeling so light that you might described yourself as levitating.  

 Instead of reaching for a drink or pill to help with life's overwhelming problems, try getting into the habit of daily meditation. Listening to the guided meditations on the CD "Finding Your Solutions" is an easy way to do daily meditations.  The more you listen, the more you get into the habit of relaxing to look beyond those problems that can block your path forward iin life.

 

Meditation is the place between the 'must do' and 'must have' thoughts. It is a serene place filled with  positive potential.  Your positive potential is beyond what others see or think they see in you. Your postive potential is the True Universal you, which is a combination of those positive skills and talents that can lay dormant an entire lifetime.  Uncovering the True Universal You leads to happiness and health that has the beauty of longevity.  Gendai Reiki-ho, introduces various meditations in each level to help you to connect with the True Universal You. 

The awareness without ego learned in Gendai ReikiHo comes from your inner-self.  You can connect with inner-self/higher-self/soul through meditation.  Meditation is not difficult even though some structured forms require determination and self-discipline.  Theeasy forms that  Roberta Barnes teaches, can be blend into your life without having to restructure your life around meditation.  In various parts of the world meditation has been a way of life for well over 5,000 years, and in this century it becoming more and more wide spread.

For any mental or physical crisis it is best to immediately seek out the care of a licensed  medical professional , but for maintaining homeostasis of mind, body, and spirit, Meditation, Japanese styles of Usui Reiki such as Gendai Reiki-ho, Komyo Reiki, and those plants referred to ashealing herbs take center stage.

   Meditation, guided meditative journeys, and connecting with Nature/Earth's energy, (another form of universal energy) like Gendai ReikiHo and Komyo Reiki Kai, allow you the wonderful freedom to uncover the true of authentic you.  And so Roberta calls what she teaches, Free Style Meditation

  

The spiritual practices of natural health often meet and overlap the scientific world, as they both focus on forms of energy that come from one source.  Albert Einstein said, "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.  We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift”.  As you study Meditation, and Japanese styles of Usui Reiki you can discover your intuitive mind.

 

Meditation is consciously slowing your brain waves and allowing yourself to enter that stillness, which is a wonderfully safe peaceful place between your thoughts. Roberta Barnes teaches easy ways to shift your focus away from your thoughts.

 

     

 

  

 

Because it is good for your mind and body.

 In meditation you hush the outside chatter, go beneath all those thousands of thoughts racing through your mind and safely slid into the peaceful stillness. In that stillness you can look beyond those little nagging problems in life to see your solutions. Meditation is is a time for you, when the left side of your brain can reorganize and the right side revitalizes as both sides work together in the way best for you. 

Some people spend most of their lives looking outward for that the source of happiness, peace, and fulfillment. When you open up and look inward you may be amazed at the sources of happiness you see.  Meditation, like Gendai Reiki-ho, allows you to explore your true/essential nature, and restore the memory of the wholeness in your life.

Meditation and guided meditation are time when you can connect with your positive inner mind, body, and spirit without any interference.  Meditation helps you learn to focus, boosts your creativity and efficiency. One of the guided meditations on the CD Finding Your Solutions, guides you to relax in the safe secure place beaneath your thoughts, so that you can see your solutions in life.

Guided Meditation is more than stress management after "one of those days" when problems block all solutions.  It is, like Japanese styles of Usui Reiki Ryoho, a way to unlock the hidden powers within you. New research published in the Journal of Neuroscience April 6 edition, also indicates that meditation has more potent pain-relieving effects on the brain than morphine or other pain-relieving drugs that reduce pain by 25 percent.  Imagine the well-being you experience when you weave meditation and Japanese Usui Reiki into each of your present moments thatcompile your life.   

 

Until you set up a daily meditation routine, there are some times when it is difficult to go into the stillness beneath your thoughts.  At those times listening to a guided meditation is perfect. Setting aside fifteen to eighteen minutes to be guided into that stillness that is totally yours, or to a  place you have never before journeyed, where you can find answers, is a gift you give yourself and others.

Following the stillness of meditation your thoughts become clearer, your ideas more vibrant, and the calmness of meditation stays with you.  

 In that stillness all of life's little nagging problems simply go away. From the science world, authors Thibodeau & Patton tell us, “the altered state of consciousness known as meditation leads to decreased sympathetic activity and a group of changes opposite to those of the fight-or-flight response”.  In meditation you are in an altered state of consciouness that feels so nice, that you look forward to your daily meditations.    CLICK HERE TO ORDER "FINDING YOUR SOLUTIONS" 

  

 

Sometines when you pause and open up, you not only see the simple beauty in life, but it comes to you.

 

Looking at Meditation from the scientific logical side, it enables your nervous system to function at its best, producing healthy ‘feel good’ chemicals such as Serotonin and Endorphins, which counteract the constant barrage of toxins in your system brought on by stress and anxiety in your hectic life. 

 

Meditation is not about forcing your mind to be quiet, and becoming frustrated when an unwanted thought pushes its way in.  Meditation takes you in that space between your ever-churning thoughts where conflicts and other stresses do not exist. In this relaxed state, if a thought wanders in you can easily give it a hug and send it on its way.  

 

 The short lines of the Usui Reiki Gokai and a quote from Van Gogh both reflect the tranquility found in meditation. Both suggest that in the peaceful darkness there is light with a beauty that only the uncluttered mind can see.  Being in that peaceful positive place helps to maintain longevity, as well as attracting more of what is positive to you.  

 

 Awareness comes from your inner self, but the fast pace of daily chatter can drown out your inner voice.  When you quiet the chatter and look inward you may be amazed at the positive strength you find.

 

 Meditation is not difficult even though some structured forms require memorization, extra determination, and discipline.  Easy forms such as Roberta teachs can easily flow into your life style, helping to smooth out those sharp edges in life.

 

With daily meditation, letting go and opening to the positive can become as natural as breathing.  The practice meditations Roberta Barnes gives in class help to establish your daily meditation routine. 

 

 In meditation, as in Gendai Reiki-ho and Komyo Reiki, you learn to bench your thinking/logical mind or as Roberta  constantly  says in both her Reiki and Meditatin classes "stop thinking without falling asleep". . While you are reading this, how many other thoughts are racing through your mind?  Check out the scheduled classes or send an Email to Contact Roberta Barnes for more information. 

 

  Many articles have been written about heart centers, core energy centers, etc. You are an energy being within a form comprised of atoms vibrating at a rate which gives you human form.  When you calm the atoms that form thoughts, you are able to reach your inner self, or ture universal you that is filled with unlimited potential.

 

  Gendai Reiki-ho and guided meditations can regrogram, or rewrite the old worn out tapes playing in your mind that no longer serve your goals that are now in your life. The reprogramming through meditation has similarities to the reprogramming in the Okuden level of Gendai Reiki-ho.  Robereta Barnes teaches sffirmations in the Shoden level of Gendai Reiki-ho and Komyo Reiki,  Affirmations are powerful tools when enhanced by universal energy, and received in the Alpha level you go into during guided meditations. 

  The quote, "A problem cannot exist unless the solution for it exists at the same time",  is good to remember when your challenge is blocking your view of the solution.  Those times when you are so foucsed on your problem that you have no energy left to find its solution, listening to the guided meditaiton Find Your Solution is the perfect thing to do. Roberta Barnes' guided mentation CD, "Finding Your Solutions" helps you to relax and look beyond your problem. 

 

Research continues to show how beneficial meditation can be to your life.

From the Washington Times – Aug 14, 2003--A new study shows people who underwent meditation training produced more antibodies to a flu vaccine than people who did not meditate. Those who took part in the meditation study also showed signs of increased activity in areas of the brain related to positive emotion, as compared to people who did not meditate.

CBS News – Aug 27, 2003 -- Peoplewho meditate these days come from all walks of life and aren’t necessarily weird New Agers or pretentious actors. Students, lawyers, West Point cadets, athletes, prisoners, and government officials all meditate. It’s supposed to help depression, control pain, increase longevity, slow down cancers, invigorate the immune system, and significantly reduce blood pressure. Time magazine recently reported that “meditation can sometimes be used to replace Viagra.”

Time Magazine – Aug 4, 2003--Not only do studies show that meditation is boosting their immune system, but brain scans suggest that it may be rewiring their brains to reduce stress. It’s recommended by more and more physicians as a way to prevent, slow or at least control the pain of chronic diseases like heart conditions, AIDS, cancer and infertility.

    CLICK HERE TO ORDER the CD "FINDING YOUR SOLUTIONS", and be guided on the path into your garden where you can find your answers.   

 

 

Meditation reflects the essence of Gendai Reiki-ho and Komyo Reiki in that in the highest dimensions anger and worry do not exist, thus allowing the positive to manifest. 

 

 If you would like to know more about the Meditation, Gendai Reiki-Ho and Komyo Reiki classes Roberta R. Barnes teaches please go to calendar/contact me page or call 207-445-5671. 

 

Take a break in this Now/present moment, and allow your eyelids to gently fall over your eyes. And then . . .

 Relax all the muscles in your body, still your mind, and focus on an event.  Do not force, but simply allow.  Opening up and allowing are two of the things Roberta Barnes teaches in both meditation and Japanese Usui Reiki.  The guided meditations Roberta gives can be considered mindfulness meditation as you mind is focused on the sound of your breath, and the safe natural beauty of nature. 

When you go into the stillness more than your five standard senses are functioning. When students ask Roberta to explain how she sees the energy field that surrounds each life form, her first reaction is to say simply relax and look. Because these fields, commonly called auras, are not often thought of as part of each life form many people are not aware that they are recognizing another’s aura with one or more of their senses. Through meditation you gain a new awareness that allows you to see many things.

 

Join one of Roberta Barnes' mediation classes or purchase her CD "Finding Your Solutions", to experience that calm relaxing place where problems do not hide solutions.  

 

The guided meditations on "Finding Your Solutions" make hushing outside chatter easy.  The first guided meditation guides you into relaxation at a depth that is comfortable for you, by listening to    your breath, your life force.  The second  guided meditation guides you into deep relaxation with the gentle sounds of nature in the backgound, and then continues to take you to a place where you can see the solution that is best for you at   that time.CLICK HERE  to order your copy of the guided meditation CD "FINDING YOUR SOLUTIONS"; learn how to use your breath as a mantra to easily go deep into relaxation and then watch petals of the flower, you choose, unfold to expose the solution.

  You may also enjoy reading the Guided Meditation Insight to Your Soul  BLOG . 

 

 

 

Guided journeys into your past are n exciting journey of discovery, as well as heailng in many cases. Your eyes or a meidcal docotrs can tell you that a wound has healed, but they cannot ell you if your cells are holding painful memories.  

Guided meditative journeys, like Gendai Reiki-ho  are safe gentle ways to both dciscover the authentic you and allow your cells to release painful memories in the way best for you at that time. 

 Sometimes simply being guided into the Alpha state and then through the relaxing beauty of nature can release what has been holding you back from moving forward in the best way for you. 

The side to guided meditative journeys that is sometimes overlooked, is the side that fits perfectly with the universal law of attraction. You most likely will have remembered the flame that burned your finger. On the other hand, the flame that brightened up a dark room might have been forgotten. While pushing aside those curtains to reveal why you react in the ways you do, you could find forgotten warm smiles. Once you have exposed those smiles you can find life seems a lot lighter. Bringing back your positive feelings is like lighting a candle that pushes back the darkness. The more positive you have in your life, the more positive you will attract to your life. .

 A guided meditative journey can help you to discover the reason why you become easily upset over something that the logical side of your brain says should not upset you.  Knowing why could give such relief that any upset connected to such things is simply brushed away. 

 If conflicts, contradictions and negative conditioning have not been unearthed and brushed away then the stage has not been cleared for the new promising performance to take place. Through the eyes of a child some events can be very traumatic and while you might not remember the event, your cells can hold the trauma.  On a guided journey into your past your can view that event through your adult perspective, and you might even connect opposite emotions to the event before releasing.  

You probably have heard about sweeping dirt under the carpet.  Have you ever started to clean out a hall closet, but instead pushed those cluttering things even further back in the closet?   You can also sweep under the rug or push to the back of the closet in your own brain’s networking.  "Out of sight out of mind” only works in theory.  Think of pushing your cat to the back of your closet and imagine the mess you would find if you left the door closed for too long a time. Carl Jung's quote, “The cat neglected becomes the unconscious tiger”  fits with this thought train.

 The unconscious tiger is anything that is a monster to you.  The bad thing is that your reaction caused by that monster can come from something you see, hear, smell, taste, or even touch.  But once your monster is out of the closet, your reactions are history and you are back to acting instead of reacting. Tigers or monsters can easily be createdthrough no fault of anyone.  In classes Roberta Barnes often tells of actual events that have happened to her where unknowingly a monster created from a serious auto accident caused mental upsets after most of the physical cells had healed.

 

The flip side to that tiger is that sometimes we forget about that adorable that is fine without you, but you are missing a valuable part of yourself without the cat. Meditation and Gendai Reiki-Ho join together in helping you to uncover those positive talents that bring happiness.  

Symbols have always been a part of our culture, and anyone can easily create a symbol to represent anything.  Symbols can remind you of the positive in life, or they can represent the dark side of life.  Those representing the negative, if left in the closet, can turn into monsters.  Sometimes those monsters in our closets are so illusive that we do not even know they are hijacking our attempts to manifest abundance in our lives. 

 

 Once the monsters have been brought out into the light and been tossed away, the hijacking ends. Roberta has had various clients say, “Wow I just feel so much lighter now”.  You cannot change the past, but you can change the way you think about the past, and release any monsters in your closets.

Guided meditative journeys are safe, in the respect that you are the observer only.  As the observer what was once seen as a tiger can now appear as a harmless bunny.  Sometimes the way in which you view a situation is more harmful to you then the actual situation.  Roberta Barnes' article "The Past Cannot be Changed, but Today Can" shows how powerful reprogramming your way of hinking can be. How you see things today is important, as one Zen saying portrays, “Now it’s all you have”.

 

People sometimes combine a guided meditation journey into the past of their current life or a past life with a Reiki healing session, which can be a powerful healing tool. Roberta Barnes also offers a mini Reiki session with a guided meditative journey.  If you like more information please send an Email to contact Roberta Barnes or call 207-445-5671.

 CLICK HERE TO ORDER THE CD "FINDING YOUR SOLUTIONS".  

  

  

Connecting with nature is something you do every day whether you realize it or not. Connecting with earth's energy, another form of universal energy, you have probably done many times.

When  you consciously connect with nature, you can as the saying goes "feel the earth move under your feet", and raise your awareness of life. Take off you shoes or rest the palms of your hands onto the earth, and allow yourself to feel the earth's rhythm.  While Usui Reiki, and meditation  help you find health and happiness, you can find warm smiles by simply  looking out your window."

 

Nature sometimes shows us things that require us to think from our heart.  This white dove above on the walkway to Natural Healing & Learning Center, flew past Roberta's window to land in her driveway one day just to remind her of the beauty that peace brings. 

In one section of the guided meditations on the CD "Finding Your Solutions" Roberta asks you to visualize a certain number of white doves. This white dove that flew past her window that afternoon when she was looking for answers, while doing open eyed meditation,  to her represented how important peace is all areas of life.  the manner in which this dove appeared and then disappeared is one of those memories Roberta will alwasy hold onto.

The words mindfulness and nen (which Roberta Barnes explains in Gendai Reiki-ho Okuden classes) come to mind in her Raising Your Vibration or Connecting With Nature workshops.                                                            Being neslted in nature Natural Healing & Learning Cetner is the perfect plce to blend  Earth's energy with the form of Universal energy used in Usui Reiki Ryoho.

The Natural Healing & Learning Center in Windsor Maine is only a short distance from the town office and Hussey's General Store, the country store with the well known sign out front. Nevertheless, it is surrounded by nature in it's blend of peace, beauty, healing energy, and life. Nature has a form of universal energy that like Usui Reiki cannot be controlled, but like Usui Reiki it can help to raise your vibration on those dark days once you have learned to open up. 

Various exercises in Gendai Reiki-Ho help you to open up to nature's or the earth's form of energy.  

You can view currently scheduled classes and workshops on the calendar page. 

Standing near water crashing over falls, or watching the ocean’s surf crash against the rocky shore are a few of the times when it is hard to ignore earth’s energy. Even so, once you learn how to be in present moment appreciating all life has to offer, you can discover that in your own backyard there are many forms of energy that are hard to ignore. In Raising Your Vibrations workshop Roberta guides you to gather your energy stuck in yesterday and bring in to enhance today.

One of the things you may notice after receiveing a Reiki empowerment (attunement) is your sudden awarensss of the beauty of nature. Regardless of where you are, you always have a connection to the earth and its form of energy.  Just as you have have an energy field around you so do all other forms of life, including plants.  When was the last time you looked up at the clouds and allowed yourself to be captivated by their form and delicate beauty, or said a silent thank-you for the warning they gave to you? When did you look into a field or your own back yard and see  The Elder One?

These photographs have an interesting story behind them. One day in her yard Roberta saw this butterfly in the grass. Reiki being a part of her, allows her to feel inharmonic vibrations put out by any life form; moving closer to the butterfly she felt inharmonic vibrations.  She put my hand down, palm up so that Reiki could flow to the butterfly.  The butterfly climbed onto her hand, and stayed abrobing Reiki flowing from Roberta.  The photographs came about after Roberta put her hand close to a sunflower, and when the butterfly climbed onto the sunflower she asked it to wait until she went in the house to get her camera. From the time she put my hand down in the grass close to the butterfly, she was offering a flat palm through which Reiki was flowing and the actions of the butterfly were the decision of the butterfly. 

Roberta returned to find to her delight that the butterfly haad done as she asked and waited for her. She put my hand close to the sunflower, the butterfly climbed onto open palm, and photographs were taken. When Roberta put her hand back near the sunflower,  the butterfly climbed onto the flower and then flew off.

Roberta  Barnes took the time to allow Reiki to flow into the butterfly, and in return the butterfly gave her the gift of allowing photographs to be taken.  Her lawn was not mowed that day, but it was a day made perfect by an unplanned connection with nature.  If you go looking for trained butterflies at Natural  Healing & Learning Center you will be disappointed.  However, that is the third  butterfly that has crawled onto the palm of her hand, probably because receiving Usui Reiki feels so nice.

Your own backyard is a world of mystery and beauty, if you allow yourself to open up and experience the momnet being in anture.   If Reiki is flowing through you who knows what beautiful part of nature might be drawn to you.  Have you ever wondered who dug those tunnels that open into you corner garden?  Nature offers the opportunity for you to be knowledgeable of science, to be creative in hundreds of ways, to be spiritual, to refine your senses, and to nourish your imagination while finding happiness.

Nature offers many smiles and laughs that you can receive through any of your functioning senses. Those smiles and laughs can cancel out much of the negative in life.  This is a photo of a baby raccoon that gave Roberta warm smiles by deciding her back porch was a great place to play.

 Baby raccoons almost always bring smiles, but they are not always available.  The form of universal energy that flows with styles of Usui Reiki is unconditional love and harmony, which can bring smiles when baby raccoons are not around.  During a Reiki Healing Session universal enrgy flows to bring balance and harmony to those areas where negative may be lodged and is preventing you from smiling. 

If you have completed any level in Usui Reiki then you know how the three symbols Mikao Usui created for those people that required a visual to represent energy were influenced by the energies of the earth, moon, and sun. All life on this planet exists through some connection with the life giving sun and this is one of the things that Mikao Usui based his spiritual practice upon after connecting with universal energy.  Japanese styles of Usui Reiki and nature complement each other.  While Reiki is recharging your exhausted ATP molecules, nature can be recharging your spirit if you allow it to do so. Nature is both forgiving and teaching. 

 

 Everything you put into your body and surround yourself with traveled some path to you from the earth. Being omnivores, we obtain energy to maintain the physical body directly from plants, the produces, or other animals. 

 

  As you look outside your window at nature you can see how the earth has established a perfect balance in nature; the flury of energy in the sunlight and the harmony of moon light in the velvety darkness. The spiritual practice of any style honoring Usui Reiki Ryoho is reflective of nature in that is brings balance and surrounds with harmony.

Have you ever thought how your life depends upon nature?  Do not your awakening, day's production hours, winding down, and then sleep resemble the four seasons? 

We do not trap sunlight the way plants do, but have you ever felt “a bit off” during that time of the year when the hours of daylight are fewer then night or, on some cloudy days?  Like plants we also require water.  When was the last time you felt better after taking a shower?  When the weather is right, swimming can be revitalizing, and so can walking in the rain.  The next time when the weather is warm and there is a gentle rainstorm just sit down,  and allow the water to wash away your worries.

Nature speaks to us in a very basic spiritual way.  A better understanding of this comes from reading Roberta Barnes' article, “Life . . . It's Beautiful” first published in the Amherst Daily News in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada.

 

The life giving sun, the calm of the moon, and the wonderment of plant and wildlife that is around you are easier to see once you have studied and practiced Gendai Reiki-ho, Komyo Reiki, and meditation.  While trips to parks and wildlife refuges might not fit in your schedule today,  if you know how to allow yourself to see/feel the wonderment of nature you can enjoy its timeless beauty every day.

Think of the enchantment of a calf that stands such a short time after birth. Remember the soaring Seagull in Richard Bach’s book “Jonathan Livington Seagull”.  Think of any wildlife you have seen from your home or car window that has taken you away from life’s down side for even just a few minutes.  

Currently living in Maine, Roberta Barnes is lucky to have deer and their fawns, and turkey and their chicks sometimes playfully sprint across her lawn. On the Reiki healing Sessions page is a photograph Roberta took of a deer and young fawn still with its spots, who gave her some wonderful smiles one morning.

Life is beautiful if you take the time to push aside those dark thunderhead clouds and see the promise of sunshine.  None of Gendai Reiki-ho, Komyo Reiki, healing with herbs, meditation, or connecting with nature fall under the 1-2-3 and its done heading, but they all are fall under the heading, “bringing balance and harmony into your life heals mind/body/spirit and touches all around you in a positive way”. 

 In one of Dr. Wayne Dyer’s books he says, “You can’t hurt another person without hurting yourself, nor can you help another person without helping yourself.”   This is one of those beliefs that is like the cell that fits perfectly into the receptor to anyone having learned Usui Reiki Ryoho.  This is also one of those beliefs that does not only pertain to humans. 

When you look at any ecosystem you see how any endangered piece, endangers the whole.  Remember, such tales as Little Red Ridinghood are only fiction, and wolves are a beautiful part of nature needed to keep that wondrous beauty in balance for our grandchildren to enjoy.

     As Roberta R. Barnes wrote over thirty years ago, “Stop and think, is there anything more precious than life in any form?"

 

 

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