Learn to Meditate and Experience Guided Meditation Journeys into Your Past at Natural Healing Learning Center in Windsor Maine.  To schedule your session, or for more information click on contact me Or call 207-445-5671.        You now hearing a sample of  the guiding meditations on the CD "Finding Your Solutions"     Having first been introduced to meditation as a little girl by her father, it was natural for Roberta Barnes to complete the highest teacher's level in first Western and then Japanese styles of Usui Reiki. She also teaches meditation and gives guiden meditations  in both her Reiki and meditation classes.  In her meditation classes she introduces you to several ways of going into meditaon so that you can connect with the unlimited potential  within you.

CLICK HERE NOW TO ORDER  "FINDING YOUR SOLUTIONS"    This CD contains 2 easy-to-use guided meditation that relax your mind at a depth right for you, and allow you to uncover answers.  Program 1 guides you to go deep into relaxation while listening to your breath.  Roberta created program 2 to help when so are so focused on your problem that the solution is illusive.  When you have no energy left to see your solution a guided meditation moves from a luxury to necessity.  This CD is $15.95.

       

          JOURNEYS INTO YOUR PAST – NATURE/EARTH'S ENERGY  -  MEDITATION      (Click on Journeys or Nature to go directly to that section or scoll down to Why Meditate)

 

Your life is the gift that you choose it to be.  Being guided to go within helps you find the truth for you in your heart, just as Gendai Reiki-Ho helps you to uncover the True Universal You.

People are often too busy to listen to that voice within that can create masters in the arts and the Einsteins of the world.  Roberta Barnes will show you various ways to slip into that serence place. Each person is unique, so Roberta introduces students to various methods so he or she can decide what feels best.  

Going into the silence between the 'must do' and 'must have' thoughts, is that serene place filled with your positive potential.

Awareness without ego comes from your inner-self, which can be reached through meditation.  Meditation is not difficult even though some structured forms require study, determination and self-discipline.  Easy forms such as Roberta Barnes teaches blend into your life, and help smooth out those sharp edges.  Unlike Usui Reiki Ryoho, you do not have to be connected by a qualified teacher, but like Reiki, practice is necessary.

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, Gendai Reiki-ho, Komyo Reiki, and those plants referred to as herbs take center stage.

The Natural Healing & Learning Center is nestled quietly among the trees allowing you to have a healing session, experience a guided meditation, and learn either meditation or Reiki in a relaxing atmosphere filled with positive energy. 

Meditation, guided meditative journeys, and connecting with the Earth's energy, (another form of universal energy) like Gendai ReikiHo and Komyo Reiki, allow you the wonderful freedom to uncover  

Your Ture universal-self is not who your friends, relatives, teachers, or bosses say you should be, or who they  think you are.  Your True Universal-Self is a combination of those positive skills and talents that can lay dormant an entire lifetime.  Uncovering Your True Universal-Self leads to happiness and health that has the beauty of longevity.

Before I explain how I teach meditation and tell you about  guided meditation and more,  I would like to share some quotes with you.

 Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung -- "Your vision will become clear when you can look into your own heart.  Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakens."

 Zen practices --”Nature has a perfect sense of composition, a naturalness that always seems to reflect a perfect sense of order.”

  Theophrastus Bombastus von Hoheheim, popularly known as Paracelsus, said, “The earth moulds man's (human beings) shape, and the heaven endows this shape with the light of nature.”

Hiroshi Doi, one of my Reiki Shihans (Master/Teachers) said, “Every time when you sit quietly and join your hands to pray and chant morning and evening, you can develop a pure and sound mind, and there is just an essence in making the most of that for your daily life.”

The practice of naturally healing using universal energies often meets and overlaps 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 Gendai Reiki-ho, Komyo Reiki, and meditation you can discover your intuitive mind.

Meditation is consciously slowing your brain waves and allowing yourself to enter that stillness, which is a wonderfully peaceful place between your thoughts.  

 As you scroll down you will find the link to my Blue Bird guided meditation  that is now on YouTube, and a link to purchase my CD "Finding Your Solutions".  These like the other guided meditations I that I give have helped others easily reach that place of peaceful beauty that can hush that chatter in your mind that may be blocking some wonderful creative thoughts.

 During the Blue Bird  meditation, and the Finding Your Solutions meditation on CD, you will hear me talking about your mind being a  blackboard.  Using the blackboard to quiet the mind is a technique my father taught me when I was just a little girl.  He taught me this so I could find a relaxing peaceful place free of the negative.  This is one of the ways I teach to clear thoughts from your mind.

 

Because it is a time for “me”, or more precisely time to connect with that inner part of your mind, body, and spirit.  It helps you to focus and boosts your creativity, your efficiency and helps you to see solutions.

Your thoughts become clearer, your ideas more vibrant, and there is a calmness that stays with you. 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”. 

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. As one of Roberta's clients said, "It fieels almost like you have had a few drinks of the really good stuff".

Meditation is not about forcing your mind to be quiet, and becoming frustrated when an unwanted thought pushes its way in.  Meditation takes you into that stillness 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 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 I teach 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, like Gendai Reiki-ho and Komyo Reiki, you learn to bench your thinking/logical mind or as Roberta  constantly  says in both Reiki and meditatin classes "stop thinking without falling asleep".  Check out the scheduled classes or contact me for more information. 

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  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.

While in the alpha, or lowered states achieved in meditation, affirmations have a greater impact on your life. Thoughts/messages received in the alpha, theta, or delta levels return to you later in your daily awake Beta level.   What your subconscious receives at any state stays unless reprogrammed.  Reprogramming is one of the things Roberta Barnes teach in Okuden level of Gendi Reiki-Ho.

 Gendai Reiki-ho and guided meditations can regrogram, or rewrite the old worn out tapes playing in your mind that no longer serve the goals you have set in your life. The reprogramming through meditation has similarities to the reprogramming in the Okuden level of Gendai Reiki-ho.  Robereta teaches sffirmations in the Shoden level of Gendai Reiki-ho and Komyo Reiki, which become powerful tools when both enhanced with universal energy and received in the Alpha level, as you go into in 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, going into the altered relaxed state achieved when listening to a guided meditaiton is the perfect thing to do. Roberta Barnes' guided mentation CD, "Finding Your Solutions" helps you to relax and alter your state of mind so that you can look beyond your problem. 

The CD "Finding Your Solutions" contains 2 programs.  Program 1 opens with the primal sounds of the ocean's waves and then I guide you on how to go into relaxation at a depth that is comfortable for you, by listening to your breath, your life force.  In program 2 with the gentle sounds of nature in the backgound I guide you into deep relaxation on a journey to a place you have never been before, where you can see the solution that is best for you at that time.

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You can also listen to my blue bird guided meditation by visiting YouTube 

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 -- People who 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.

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 positive strength you can find. Meditation, like Gendai Reiki-ho,  allows you to explore your true/essential nature, restoring the memory of the wholeness in your life.

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.  Like in the Japanese styles of Usui Reiki that Roberta teachs, you are guided to bench your thinking/logical mind or as she says "stop thinking without falling asleep". While you are reading this, how many other thoughts are racing through your mind?

If you would like to know more about the styles of meditation or  the Gendai Reiki-ho and Komyo Reiki  Roberta Barnes  teachs please go to calendar/contact me page or call 207-445-5671.   Most commonly, Roberta's meditation and Reiki classes are held in her healing studio nestled in a wild life habitat in Windsor Maine, USA.  However, Roberta Barnes also teaches in other areas, so please contact her if you have a group of people in your area that would like to study Japanese style Usui Reiki with her.

 Take a break in this Now/present moment, ans allow your eyelids to gently close over your eyes. Relax all muscles in your body, still your mind, and focus on an event.  If you find it difficult to take a break, replay the sample above and go closer and closer to the event allowing visual, sound, smell or touch to come into your mind. Do not force, but simply allow.   Opening up and allowing are two of the things Roberta Barnes teaches in both meditation and Reiki.

When you go into the stillness netween your thoughts 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 a part of each life form many people in their awake state are not aware that they are recognizing another’s aura with one or more of their senses. In 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.  As with Reiki she make no promises, but gives you guidelines to uncovering what will make your life the best for you.

These journeys into your past as the observer can be an important tool in healing.  While damaged physical cells can in most cases heal they hold painful memories until relieved in some manner.  Licensed medical professionals have various techniques for this relief; guided meditative journeys and Gendai Reiki-ho do as well.

Traumatic events in your childhood can look entirely different when seen through your adult perspective. All traumas look differently when you are the observer without the strain of emotions. A guided meditative journey can  help you to discover the reason why in this time in your life you are easily upset over something that the logical side of your brain says should not upset you. 

In Gendai Reiki-ho one of the things Roberta Barnes teaches is to let go of any expectations of what will happen when Reiki flows. To let go of, or detach from, is important in many areas of life, especially if it is an event surrounded with negative feelings. You may have written your goals and affirmations, done visualization and listened to tapes but still have not seen anything manifest.  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.

Have you ever started to clean out a hall closet, but instead pushed those cluttering things even further back in the closet?  Sometimes we do the same thing with our brain’s networking. Pushing things into the back of the closet brings to mind the trite saying “out of sight out of mind”.  Unfortunately, that only works in theory.  In the following quote, Carl Jung points out what can happen to those things in the back of the closet. “The cat neglected becomes the unconscious tiger.”   The unconscious tiger can become your own personal monster. Sometimes encountering a sight, sound, smell, taste, or even touch can make you feel an unpleasant by-product of that monster.

Tigers or monsters can easily be created through no fault of anyone.  In classes Roberta Barnes often tells of actual events that have happened to her where unknowingly a monster grew from a serious auto accidnet which caused extensive damage to her physical cells.

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 things 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”.

There is another side to these journeys that is sometimes overlooked. This 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 might find forgotten warm smiles. Once you have exposed those smiles you can create you own symbol to help lighten up any dark time in your life.  Bringing back positive feelings is like lighting a candle in that it pushes back the darkness. The more positive you have in your life, the more positive you will attract to your life. 

People ask Roberta to give them journeys into their past for different reasons.  Healing, balancing and awakening the positive. Another reason is for discovery.  If you believe past lives are possible, then it can be fun to go back and see how you lived in another time and place.  When you come back from a guided meditative journey you remember everything, so what you see in your past becomes a part of you today.  It is possible that events from past lives can have an effect on your reactions today.  It is also possible that traveling to a past life can bring forward a skill or by accident uncover a talent that can be helpful in your current life.

People sometimes combine one of these journeys with a Reiki healing session, which can be a very powerful healing tool. Roberta has also, at the student’s request, added these journeys to Meditation classes and private Reiki classes.  She also offer a mini Reiki session with the guided journey into your past. 

 If you like more information please contact me.

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The white dove above is on the walkway to Natural Healing & Learning Center

        Connecting with nature is connecting with earth's energy, another form of universal energy.  As you connect with nature, and as the trite line goes "feel the earth move under your feet", you 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 energy.

"While Reiki, and meditation can help you find happiness looking within, you can also find happiness looking out your window."

       In the guided meditations on the CD "Finding Your Solutions" Roberta asks you to visualize a certain number of white doves.  White doves have a special meaning to her; one afternoon when she was looking out her kitchen window and connecting with nature energy to help her with a challenge a white dover flew down in front of the window she was looking out. What followed made her realize that peace was the key to balancing the challange.

       The words mindfulness and nen (which Roberta Barnes explains in one Gendai Reiki-ho Okuden class) come to mind in connection with the guided Nature Walks that she offers during the warmer months of the year.  Natural Healing & Learning Cetner is nestled in nature so in both her Meditation and Reiki classes there is a connection with nature.  Various exercies in Gendai Reiki-Ho bring in the Earth's energy to blend with Universal energy.

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. 

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?

The Natural Healing & Learning Center is only a short distance from the town office and a large country store, but standing surrounded by nature you can be in the moment of being in a safe woodland sanctuary.  Nature has a force that cannot be controlled, but it also has wonderful positive energies that can absorbed, once you have learned to open up.  Both Reiki and meditation can help you to do open up and absorb.  Check out Roberta Barnes' currently scheduled classes at the calendar page. 

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 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 though any of your functioning senses. Those smiles and laughs can cancel out much of the negative in life.  During a Reiki Healing Session Roberta Barnes often tell a client how areas in their shoulders, knees or solar plexus are asking for positive energy to balance the negative lodged there. 

Reiki can recharge your exhausted ATP molecules, and nature can recharge your spirit if you allow it to do so. 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.

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 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”.

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

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