Meredith Kendall's Blog, page 73
April 4, 2013
Insomnia... zzz?
Much discussion of insomnia at Reiki practice session tonight.
Our first Reiki practice session. It's open to the public- mostly intended for our local clients and Reiki students. There were 8 of us tonight. Someone asked about insomnia.
People offered solutions, including: increase activity during the day, journal before bed, and listen to music. No one suggested Ambien, melatonin, or chamomile tea. Self-Reiki, of course.
One Reiki master offered this suggestion: a mix of Sufi breathing and visualization with self-Reiki. He said he starts with self-Reiki at the crown chakra, inhales and exhales through his mouth, and visualizes Earth. He breathes 8 times. He moves his hands down through the chakras, breathing and visualizing fire, water, and air.
He guided us through it and I nearly fell asleep.
zzz
Our first Reiki practice session. It's open to the public- mostly intended for our local clients and Reiki students. There were 8 of us tonight. Someone asked about insomnia.
People offered solutions, including: increase activity during the day, journal before bed, and listen to music. No one suggested Ambien, melatonin, or chamomile tea. Self-Reiki, of course.
One Reiki master offered this suggestion: a mix of Sufi breathing and visualization with self-Reiki. He said he starts with self-Reiki at the crown chakra, inhales and exhales through his mouth, and visualizes Earth. He breathes 8 times. He moves his hands down through the chakras, breathing and visualizing fire, water, and air.
He guided us through it and I nearly fell asleep.
zzz
March 30, 2013
Roy G. Biv
Chakras are a rainbow of colour, a symphony of sound, a Holi festival.
March 29, 2013
Burning through:
stuff I don't need.
Changing patterns, concepts of who I am, and ways of being.
Transmuting past into present, and who knows - perhaps a future.
Changing patterns, concepts of who I am, and ways of being.
Transmuting past into present, and who knows - perhaps a future.
Burning through
stuff I don't need.
Changing patterns, concepts of who I am, and ways of being.
Transmuting past into present, and who knows - perhaps a future.
Changing patterns, concepts of who I am, and ways of being.
Transmuting past into present, and who knows - perhaps a future.
War & Peace
War is so yesterday. Peace so today.
sideways
Not quite upside down, life is sideways.
Bedroom ceiling is falling down; carpenter came. Pretty sure he'll be back.
Bed got a hole, slowly deflated. Dashed out to get a new one; it smells like plastic.
Can't stand the smell.
Have vacated bedroom. I open the window occasionally - to release the plastic gas.
There's a word I can't spell: occasionally. Thank goodness for spellcheck.
Evidently can't spell spellcheck either.
Been sleeping on futon in living room. Well there's an uncomfortable cot.
Hard, uneven, and lumpy.
Cleared bedroom of all detritus in preparation for team of carpenters.
Therefore items in odd places: statue in kitchen, baskets of trinkets in office, and work laundry in BR closet. Very un-Feng-Shui.
Am adapting to living sideways.
Bedroom ceiling is falling down; carpenter came. Pretty sure he'll be back.
Bed got a hole, slowly deflated. Dashed out to get a new one; it smells like plastic.
Can't stand the smell.
Have vacated bedroom. I open the window occasionally - to release the plastic gas.
There's a word I can't spell: occasionally. Thank goodness for spellcheck.
Evidently can't spell spellcheck either.
Been sleeping on futon in living room. Well there's an uncomfortable cot.
Hard, uneven, and lumpy.
Cleared bedroom of all detritus in preparation for team of carpenters.
Therefore items in odd places: statue in kitchen, baskets of trinkets in office, and work laundry in BR closet. Very un-Feng-Shui.
Am adapting to living sideways.
beeping of a fake ATM
Student put his bank card in the fake ATM on the Rehab Unit and the fake ATM started to beep. And wouldn't stop.
Who knew a fake ATM would beep?
Student had to go report to maintenance crew, and request assistance.
Student said, "I guess I'll be one of your stories now."
Who knew a fake ATM would beep?
Student had to go report to maintenance crew, and request assistance.
Student said, "I guess I'll be one of your stories now."
student
put his bank card in the fake ATM on the Rehab Unit and the fake ATM started to beep. And wouldn't stop.
Who knew a fake ATM would beep?
Student had to go report to maintenance crew, and request a fix.
Student said, "I guess I'll be one of your stories now."
Who knew a fake ATM would beep?
Student had to go report to maintenance crew, and request a fix.
Student said, "I guess I'll be one of your stories now."
Kirtan, March 2013
The drum rhythms went down into the foundation of the house, came up through the floor, and entered through my bones. The guitar wrapped around my head and then down around my body like crazy vines. The voices knocked through my sternum and went straight into my heart.
I sat in the back, in the dark, and did asanas. It made sense to do yoga poses, shifting with beat and breath. It got me moving too, so I did more than bob my head. I swayed a little. Once I even raised my arms up over my head and waved them around, welcoming and releasing energy.
Some people danced; some sat perfectly still. Children shook rattles and threw themselves into couches and parents. Drum rhythms circulated around the house and reverberated into the night air, shook the neighborhood, and radiated out to the stars.
I sat in the back, in the dark, and did asanas. It made sense to do yoga poses, shifting with beat and breath. It got me moving too, so I did more than bob my head. I swayed a little. Once I even raised my arms up over my head and waved them around, welcoming and releasing energy.
Some people danced; some sat perfectly still. Children shook rattles and threw themselves into couches and parents. Drum rhythms circulated around the house and reverberated into the night air, shook the neighborhood, and radiated out to the stars.
hot flashes as kundalini fire
"... the hot flashes of menopause are so much more than what most doctors believe or know. I suddenly knew that they were a very potent way that middle-aged women were able to transmute enormous amounts of previously accumulated lower emotional energies within themselves. Hot flashes are kundalini fire that helps repeatedly burn away and transmute a lot of the earlier residual girlfriend, lover, wife, and mommy energies that need to be transmuted at that stage so the woman can continue growing and evolving beyond her earlier identities, abilities, and consciousness."
Denise Le Fay. 2010, p. 286. A lightworker's mission. BookLocker.
Denise Le Fay. 2010, p. 286. A lightworker's mission. BookLocker.
