Reiki with Mamta Blog

I have been wondering how to be with what is happening in the world at this time. Lots of questions are coming up for me at this time. What is my role in all this, if any? How to be with my wounds, pain and suffering so that I do not inflict pain and suffering on others. What role does compassion have in situations like this, if any. How can I not take what is not mine, how can I not give what is not mine to give! It is not easy, I am trying to stay present as best as is possible, somehow trusting that guidance for the way forward is available in the present moment.

I feel that just as we are in this Universe, the Universe is within each one of us too. Perhaps each one of us holds a piece of the Universe within our being. Maybe this is why self treating, self healing can help make a difference in the world. I do realise that it may sound unbelievable to many.

There are more questions than answers in me. In such moments, when life is bringing big issues our way, when it may feel really difficult to hold it together by oneself, I find it helpful to practise with the community. Somehow the sacred group energy created by each presence in the circle can make it easier to figure out the way forward. I was reminded of this by a Reiki student today who asked for a Reiki circle as she is struggling with what is going on currently in the middle east.

I would like to offer a space online to gather as a community and immerse ourselves in Reiki. Please bring the questions that are moving through you at this time. We will hold them in our heart together and stay open to receive the light that is coming through. The light is always there, but it is more visible in the darkness!

Date Tuesday October 31^st, 2023
Time: 7 pm GMT

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I found it helpful to listen to Carolyn Myss talk about living in the era of the unthinkable. Listening to her helped bring these thoughts together. She spoke about the power invested in each one of us. She reminded us of raising our consciousness to a level where we can learn to co exist, where we can learn to be with our wounds without wanting to inflict wounds on others.

I find poems very healing, especially in difficult moments. May you find some comfort in ‘The Peace of Wild Things’ By Wendell Berry:

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.
I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light.
For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

You can listen to the poem in Wendell Berry’s voice on The Peace of Wild Things | The On Being Project

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I have believed for a while that there is an opening for something significant to come through on birthdays. At a recent Reiki Share on a full moon, one of the Reiki students mentioned it was her birthday. I realised that it was also my brother-in-law’s birthday. Another person in the circle mentioned it was her sister’s birthday the day before. As you can imagine there was a lot of birthday energy in the circle

During the circle it dawned on me that it wasn’t just any full moon, it was full moon in Aries, the first sign of the zodiac. It was the beginning of a new lunar cycle, it felt like a cosmic birthday for all of us!

The next morning I woke up with gratitude in my heart – gratitude for simple things that I take for granted; like the bed, my home, for waking to a new day, the dawn – yes I woke up early! And then it dawned on me that Sun is the source of our power. Each morning, we have an opportunity to receive a boost of power from the Sun. Perhaps it is part of our life purpose to receive this power from the Sun consciously; to know that it is available unconditionally and abundantly; to trust this power is serving our own wellbeing and the wellbeing of all our loved ones. As Reiki precepts remind us, perhaps this is part of how we  - ‘Earn our living honestly’.

Today I cannot help wondering – what if we can welcome each dawn, each morning with gratitude – gratitude for the boost of solar power, the connection with the spark of creation, the opportunity to awaken to something new, to open our perception to see the blessings all around each one of us. As one of my meditation teacher Dr. Lorin Roche says in his book ‘Radiant Sutras’ –  “Instinctive Meditation can help open perception in a way that creates joy at being alive, at even the simplest things in life, and this deep appreciation tunes the body so it can produce soma, the intrinsic chemistry of delight” – what we know as the chemistry of endorphins.

My wish on this cosmic lunar birthday is for all of us to receive the solar power that is needed for the next annual cycle and feel empowered to use it with love for the highest good of all.

Deep gratitude for Reiki, Instinctive Meditation, Astrology, all my teachers, everything and everyone that has helped me reach this point in life and especially to the people present at the Reiki Share.

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Please join us for an online celebration of Reiki Master Rick Bockner’s 75th Birthday. We will be together in Reiki, share memories of our time with Rick and listen to some of his music.

Date: Friday September 15th, 2023
Time: 5 pm to 6:30 pm UK time, BST; 9 am PST; 6 pm CEST

Rick’s birthday is actually on the 19th, but he is having a triple bypass heart operation on the 18th of September. As you can imagine, there is a lot going on for Rick at this time. So I am inviting you on the 15th to help create a healing wave of love so that Rick goes for the operation on the 18th feeling loved and supported by the Reiki community.  Rick says that he will be able to join us on the 15th. Here is what he said when I proposed organising this celebration – ‘The online birthday party sounds wonderful. I will be there if I can. It is nice to know that you are all there with me. Much Love to all my friends there‘.

If he is not able to join us for some reason, he will have the recording of the celebration. I am hoping that he will be able to listen to it while recuperating and feel the love.

If you would like to support Rick, he has asked for distant Reiki, you can send him Reiki before the 18th or from the 19th September. Rick says – ‘I do not want Reiki on the 18th so as not to interfere with the anaesthetic. I have seen this happen, and it is not what I want. But after that- bring it on.‘

You can also support Rick financially by contributing to the Fundraiser set up by Rick’s daughter Amy. This is to support Rick through the three months that he would be unable to work. He will have a lot of medical and other extraordinary expenses. There are so many of us in the Reiki community who love Rick dearly, let’s get together and as Amy says – ‘let’s take the financial stress off Rick so that he can relax fully into healing’.

Rick sends us his heartfelt appreciation.

Please remember to register to receive the zoom link.

You can check the time of the event for your time zone here.

For those who may not know Rick – Rick Bockner is the 22nd Reiki Master initiated by Mrs Hawayo Takata. As well as being a Reiki Master, Rick is a well-known musician and recording artist. If you would like a flavour of Rick’s gift of storytelling and music, you can listen to the Radio Talk Show that Phyllis Lei Furumoto did with Rick. You will have to scroll down the page to find the episode of Nov 27, 2008 where Rick shares one of my favourite songs – Fragments of Perfection. The song is right at the end.

As the lyrics say – ‘Come sit by me and celebrate our fragment of perfection’.

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Have you heard of forest bathing? Have you ever wondered why its called forest bathing!

I was in Epping forest recently with my husband. As we walked I started noticing patterns on the tree trunks made by the sunlight filtering through the leaves.

I remembered the Japanese word Komorebi. A very rough translation could be ko – it can mean light it is also the kanji for a tree – 木. More can mean to leak out, filter or come through.  And bi,  日 is the kanji for day or sunlight. Bringing it all together, can help us arrive at the common rough translation of komorebi: “sunlight shining through the trees”.

After a while we sat on a fallen tree trunk for some rest and refreshment. We were surrounded by many trees. I could recognise holly, beech, oak and hornbeam.

With a gentle breeze, the patterns of light started to move. All of a sudden I could see light dancing on the tree trunks. There was no water around. But it felt as if I was in a deep pool of water, surrounded by ripples. The elements of light and air had come together to help create the feeling of being in water on Earth. In that moment I felt I could start to understand the term forest bathing, the Japanese practice Shin Rin Yoku. I felt that this ripple effect must be happening in my body too but I could not see it in myself. The trees were helping me to see it, they were showing it to me. It was easier to see it on the trees. I had not experienced the dance of light and shade like this before. It felt magical.

I wanted to share this numinous experience with the help of a Mary Oliver poem, and then I found two:

How I go to the wood

~ from “Praying,”

…Just pay attention, then patch
a few words together and don’t try
to make them elaborate, this isn’t
a contest but the doorway
into thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak.

My doorway into thanks for Reiki and the innumerable ways it has enriched my life. For inspiring deep appreciation of other Japanese practices like Forest bathing – also called Shin Rin Yoku; Zen brushwork, also called – Hitsuzendo.  I feel thankful for the Reiki principles – the spiritual teachings of Reiki, especially for ‘Show gratitude to every living thing’, inspiring a deep appreciation of nature. I feel thankful for all my teachers.

I feel thankful to my husband for accompanying me on walks and letting me dawdle and pray as if I was by myself. And finally here is a video of the light dancing and rippling through the trees.

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What is your first thought when you accidentally bump against something and hurt yourself?

Mine often is telling myself off for not paying attention, for not being careful or present, wishing it had not happened, wishing for the pain to go away and soon…

Today as I bumped against a door handle and felt pain, a thought flashed – what if my body wants me to bring attention to the inner intelligence to heal in this moment! It felt as if I was being given this invaluable gift of bringing attention to the inner intelligence of the body and I had been wishing the experience away! I felt grateful for being able to choose what I give attention to in such moments for I know that what I give attention to – grows.

If you have learnt Reiki already, the art of healing, next time you are giving yourself a Reiki treatment by simply letting your hands rest on your body, you could play with letting your attention rest on the intelligence of the body to heal itself.

If you would like to learn Reiki, you are welcome to contact me. I teach Reiki in-person, mainly in North London, Islington, Highbury. But I am happy to travel if you would like to invite me.

I learnt Reiki in 2001. I continue to be amazed by this practice. The simplicity of it and yet how powerful the benefits can be for oneself and our loved ones. At times, I still can’t believe how fortunate I am/we are to be blessed with Reiki.

Have you ever wondered why not all Holly leaves are spiky! I was delighted to learn from a conservation officer at a local nature reserve recently, that the spikes appear when the tree has been nibbled at.

I had an aha moment when I heard this! So the spikes develop for protection and are part of survival strategy. It felt good to learn something positive about spikes. This made me wonder about us, human beings, about when spikes show up in relationships. I felt if only I can remember in such moments that spikes developed for self protection, and hold both of us with compassion, life and relationships would be much easier.

I am also remembering the Holly Bach essence. Dr. Bach said that Holly is one of the most important remedy – ‘Holly protects us from everything that is not Universal Love’. Apparently Holly can give us strength to bear vexations of life with understanding and tolerance.

If you have a holly bush/tree nearby, do spend few moments near it and stay for a few breaths. Or you may have Holly bach flower essence. You can put two drops of the Holly essence in a bottle or glass of water and sip this water a few times during the day.

As Reiki students, we can also use our Reiki practice to help connect with the heart, placing hands on the heart and self treating, trusting Reiki can help us connect with the Source and Holly comes from the same Source. Reiki also connects us with Universal Love. I used second degree Reiki today for a treatment to heal and reconcile with the spikes in my being.

It is interesting to view this today through the lens of astrology, while the Sun is in the sign of Leo – the body part for the sign of Leo is the heart. And the date today is 8/8! Some people believe there is an energetic portal open on the 8^th day of the 8^th month that is healing for the heart. It is called Lionsgate portal.

Nature is indeed a wonderful teacher and healer. This healing is of course not limited just to this day, it can be done anytime.

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What is community? Why do we long for community? Why do we long to find our own tribe, to be with like-minded people where we feel we belong?

The community is not just outside us, it is inside us too. All the cells in our body constitute our inner community. This inner community is nourished by the air breathed out by all the green living things, created with the help of the Sun, moon, oceans and a whole lot more.

This inner community is a super-intelligent powerhouse of transformation. It transforms oxygen received through inhalation, to carbon-di-oxide. And releases it through exhalation to the community of all living things that need it.

To think this intelligence(technology) is built into all living things feels awe inspiring. This innate, natural intelligence is serving us all the time. One of the nicest things is that this intelligence keeps evolving and it helps us continue to evolve as living beings.

Today I feel grateful for this innate intelligence. I feel grateful to all living things that help me breathe and live. As I receive life, I give life. Simply through breathing, through being alive, ‘I Show gratitude to all living things’, I help perpetuate life.

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For a few years now, I have felt that receiving healing around one’s birthday can be especially powerful. I love Reiki. I like to receive a Reiki session regularly, more especially near my birthday.

I immersed myself in Reiki and Calligraphy for four days this year, just after my birthday. It was a birthday present for myself. Something has shifted for me to receive insights through brushing symbols.

Recently I have been treating some clients near their birthday.  I brushed this enzo, Zen circle, at the beginning of this year. Looking at it with a Reiki client recently helped shine some light of awareness on this insight. I feel that around a birthday, as the current cycle is ending, and a new one is beginning, there is an energetic opening. Through this opening we are being given help to prepare for the next year, the next journey around the Sun.

Through this opening, it seems easier to release what is ripe and ready to be let go off, with grace and ease, perhaps even effortlessly, just like a ripe fruit falling off the branch of a tree. As we release what is no longer needed, there is more space for the new that needs to come through.  Receiving a healing session near a birthday can be a symbolic Yes to the Universe – Yes I am ready to receive what needs to come through me, that is unique to me, and can only come through me. Perhaps each one of us is holding a unique piece of the jigsaw of life!

If this resonates with you, do find a practitioner near you to receive a healing session. Trust your instinct to guide you to the healing modality and practitioner that you need, and whether to go before and/or after your birthday. I am passionate about Reiki and would recommend Reiki.

If you are in or near London, you can contact me to book a Reiki treatment in-person. It is good to learn Reiki anytime. It may be even more deeply healing to learn Reiki near your birthday.

If you are not in or near London, it is possible to receive a remote Reiki treatment from me. I love being part of birthday healing.

Do some healing around your birthday. You may receive a wonderful cosmic gift!

Rick Bockner is the 22nd Reiki Master initiated by Mrs Hawayo Takata. My Reiki sister, Grainne Warner organises a Reiki 2 circle with Rick Bockner on the last Wednesday of each month at 9:00 PDT; 17:00 in the UK.

I have been joining these circles for a few months now and I would love to share some of my experience and invite you to join us. This is a wonderful opportunity to be in a Reiki circle with Rick, an elder and many Reiki students from all around the world.

Each circle begins with sending Reiki to everyone in the circle. Then Grainne invites us to include any people or situations that we would like to send Reiki to. After this Rick shares what he has been feeling into. Listening to his wisdom while being immersed in Reiki is deeply inspiring, healing and if I may use the word ‘magical’. Each month he manages to bring together what life has been bringing through from a higher perspective for all of us.

At a recent circle, with the arrival of spring, Rick shared his reflections on emergence. It was deeply insightful to listen to his wisdom about the process of what is emerging in nature and indeed in each one of us. One of the key messages I loved is that this energy of growth and emergence is not just limited to nature, it is available to each one of us. We can benefit from it by something simple like walking barefeet on Earth. The desires and longings held in our heart, gestating inside us, are waiting to emerge and we are being helped with the energy of emergence available at this time.

Love of Mother Earth is indeed unconditional for each one of us.

Rick also mentioned the word emergency that kept coming up for him with the theme of emergence and invited us to reflect on what it might mean. My initial thought was the crisis a caterpillar must experience as it breaks out of the chrysalis and emerges as a butterfly. Another person in the circle shared that the process of birth is also an emergence and emergency. In that moment I remembered I was born through an emergency caesarean, my mother nearly died giving birth to me. This realisation felt deeply healing about the process of emergence and emergency that has been part of my life story for nearly six decades!

All Reiki students are welcome to join these circles. They are free to attend and gifts of gratitude can be given to Rick via paypal at Grainne’s email address or gifts to Reiki Home via the website www.reikihome.org.

You can register at the Reiki Home website to receive the zoom link to the circle or email Grainne.

As well as being a Reiki Master, Rick is a well-known musician and recording artist. If you would like a flavour of Rick’s gift of storytelling and music, you can listen to the Radio Talk Show that Phyllis Lei Furumoto did with Rick. You will have to scroll down the page to find the episode of Nov 27, 2008 where Rick shares one of my favourite songs  – Fragments of Perfection. The song is right at the end.

All Reiki students are invited to start the New Year with four consecutive days of Reiki. I used to offer this in-person before the pandemic. Having experienced the benefit of practising Reiki virtually during the pandemic, I am feeling inspired to offer four-consecutive-days-Reiki virtually for the first time.

Four consecutive days of Reiki can be like MOT checkup for our whole being. The term MOT is used in the UK for annual checkup of vehicles to ensure they meet road safety and environmental standards. The care and attention we give to our vehicle, surely we need to give to our wellbeing as well.

As Reiki students, we practice Reiki everyday to maintain and enhance our wellbeing. We do not wait for an illness or a crisis to practice Reiki. Practising Reiki over four consecutive days, especially with a group, can not only help deepen our personal healing, it can also help strengthen and deepen our Reiki practice.

Whether you are good at self treating regularly, or struggling to; whether you are a level 1 Reiki student, or level 2 or a Reiki Master, this offering is for you. Please join us. Your presence is invaluable to help shape this experience for the group.

In each hour-long session, I will offer a brief meditation at the beginning. Then we will do the Reiki treatment for 30 minutes. Level 1 Reiki students can self-treat as you have learnt from your Reiki Master. Level 2 students and Masters can join in with the second degree Reiki treatment for the group. We will also share Reiki Principles. There will be 15-20 minutes at the end of the session each day, for sharing personal experience.

Date: Monday, January 9^th – Thursday, January 12^th 2023

Time: 7:30 pm GMT; 2030 CET; 1430 EST; 1130 PST

Duration: one hour each day

Cost: £24

Where: online

We will meet each day on Zoom at the same time. You will need to book to receive the zoom link.
Link for tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/four-consecutive-days-reiki-treatments-with-mamta-nanda-tickets-499436767817

You can contact Mamta on mamta@reikiwithmamta.com if you have any questions.

Please feel free to share this invitation with other Reiki students.

Snow is not just beautiful, it is transformational. It can help transform perspective. The first snow of the year in London arrived in the dark of night. Without any electric light, my garden seemed lit up in the dark.

The walk next day felt like walking in winter wonderland.

My imagination was having a field day. First I started seeing images in the snow resting on tree trunks.

Three creatures crawling!

A snow angel with a halo!

This seemed like a pair of wings left behind by a snow angel.

Is this a unicorn! It was fun seeing all these images. It made me smile and uplifted my spirit.

Best part of the walk was standing under this majestic oak with my hands on the tree trunk. Suddenly I found myself asking the tree to teach me how to go within at this time of the year and be in the world.

Then my eyes went to this circle of oak leaves. There seems an invitation into the mystery of the centre, the heart. Perhaps this is the work of a lifetime. The unravelling of the layers feels delightful though. This is my heartfelt wish for all of us – to be in our centre, journey deeper into our heart and delight in the journey.

I would love to hear about the gifts of the snow and the season that you are feeling. Please do share.

I am not a monarchist. So I was quite surprised by the sadness I felt at the Queen’s passing.

I started with marveling at the time chosen by the Queen’s soul to leave. On September 8^th,  the moon was in Aquarius, sign of the collective. Moon represents emotions. Her passing has affected the collective deeply. So many of us are grieving together at this time.

At a close friend’s mother’s funeral a few years ago, I was surprised by how much I cried, when I did not know her mother well. I only knew her through my friend. This experience helped me realise that being with the family and friends who were grieving together helped the grief within me to surface. My own parents had passed away the year before.

Whether we believe in Monarchy or not, the grief within is being touched by the grief in the collective.

Moon has such a powerful effect on the oceans. Our body is more than 80% water, the lunar energy is bound to affect us too. Especially when the moon moved to Pisces the next day, the sign of oceans and healing. It felt like a time when grief is being healed for many of us. As we start to emerge from the pandemic, there is more grief in the collective than usual.

There are many ways to be with grief. What I find helpful is acknowledging it and welcoming it. Grief seems to be a doorway to connect more deeply with the heart.

We had full moon in Pisces on September 10^th. Pisces is the last sign of the zodiac. The next full moon will be in Aries, the first sign of the zodiac. It seems like a new cycle is beginning. Let’s hope that this new cycle brings through a more heart-based living.

I could not understand the value of monarchy till now. Suddenly I can understand how the Queen touched people’s hearts and brought them together. Even in her passing, she continues to serve.

A neighbour invited me to her 70th birthday party recently. The invitation included a request to compose a poem and share it. I did not think I could do it for I had not written a poem for four or maybe five decades! Her words ‘bad poetry welcome’ gave me the courage to share what came through that morning. As a Gemini, it seems very helpful to understand this deeper layer to my impatience. So here is the poem:

On the way home from a short break
my husband asked me to wait with our heavy bags,
in the middle of busy Victoria station, to go buy a magazine.

I wasn’t happy to wait, I don’t like waiting!

I wanted to get home, my sanctuary
away from all the hustle and bustle,
forgetting my sanctuary was inside me
forgetting the memory of peace and stillness from the woods we had just walked
where the bees and butterflies reminded me how to make the daily busyness playful.

I wanted to get home, quickly
Grateful for the fast trains and planes

Is this how I have been living my life I wondered
Is this how I breathe – Quickly!

Not waiting for the breath to empty
before turning around to fill up again

Not waiting for the breath to come in fully
before turning around to empty again

Not waiting for inspiration to fill me up
for a poem to come through!

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Last few weeks have been rather eventful! On April 25^th a dog jumped on me. I lost my balance while trying to turn away from the dog. I fell and fractured the left wrist. Two days later I had surgery. I am recovering really well, thanks to NHS, Reiki, homeopathy, Bach flower essences, Meditation, Yoga….

Couple of weeks before this experience, I received an invitation from my Reiki grandmother, Krishni Borang, to visit her in Sweden. It felt like Spirit was calling me, so I booked the trip. Fortunately the arm is recovering well so I could go. It was magical to spend time with Krishni and the Bach flower essence trees she has planted in her garden. It was profoundly healing and helped deepen connection with my Reiki lineage.

I have been sending Reiki to heal and reconcile with the experience with the dog, honouring the very human response of fear and anger that I felt at the time. I felt something needed to heal in me about the way I relate with animals, perhaps the animal inside me, my animal power even! Through serendipity I found my way to a video about communication with animals the day after I returned from Sweden. When I heard Anna Breytenbach talk about how she communicates with animals through projecting thoughts and images of love and peace, I felt surely I can do this second degree Reiki practice.

While I was sending Reiki, the Principle – Show gratitude to all living things – surfaced in my consciousness. I felt that I can communicate like this with all living things, not just dogs, even virus and bacteria, the mould growing in the bathroom, the moths and spiders in my home, the slugs and snails in the garden, acknowledging the role they play in the life cycle, communicating with them to go live elsewhere so that I do not have to harm them, or use harsh chemicals that harm Mother Earth, so that we can co-exist in harmony. And most especially to people – especially the people I have hurt, intentionally or unintentionally. In that moment it felt as if communicating the thought of ‘I come in peace with love’, may be very helpful in situations I may be feeling anxious about, like being with large groups of people, or talking to some people, especially before a seemingly difficult conversation! I cannot help wondering if this may have helped me relax when I was feeling nervous/anxious. A lot of situations where I felt misunderstood, what I said or did seemed to be misinterpreted may have been avoided.

I have Sun in Gemini. Communication, learning to communicate is a big part of my life purpose.

The day before my birthday, I felt drawn to Bach essence trees while I was out for a walk. I was touching them, pausing for a few breaths under the tree, asking for a message/gift they might have for me. It was a hornbeam tree that had a wonderful birthday gift for me. Hornbeam is the remedy for procrastination, the Monday morning feeling, when it is not easy to get out of bed! The hornbeam tree seemed to remind me to greet and welcome each day with love and peace. I have been greeting each day with a question – what needs to awaken in me today? Thanks to the hornbeam tree, I feel as if I got another piece in the jigsaw of life.

Interestingly as I was saying goodbye to Krishni, I had asked her to remind me which was the hornbeam tree in her garden, as the hornbeam and beech tree leaves look quite similar. I cannot help marvelling at the mystery and magic of these experiences.

For the first time, the day before my birthday, it occurred to me to send Reiki to greet and welcome the new solar cycle with love and peace. After all the Sun returns to the same place in the zodiac on our birthday and heralds a new beginning! I am looking forward to the transformation this new way of being and communicating brings.

ps: The moss in the photograph above from the beautiful forest near Krishni’s home seemed like a wonderful reminder from nature to smile.

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I love astrology. I love how it can affirm what I am sensing intuitively.

The words Divine Magnificence surfaced in my consciousness a few days ago. I started paying attention to this part of my being with the awareness that this part is in each one of us, and what I give attention to grows. I know that the concept of Divinity within, comes from many spiritual and religious traditions. Having grown up in a Hindu family, familiar with the mantra Aham Brahmasmi, (Brahma, the creator is within me), this concept was not too difficult to relate to.

Despite this knowing, I was puzzled by these words. Having had self worth issues, I could not help wondering if I was veering towards the polar opposite end of this spectrum! A few days later, it dawned on me that this is the Neptune Jupiter conjunction in Pisces energy I am feeling.

Neptune rules Pisces. Neptune is related to Divine love, healing, oceans, poetry, mystical aspect of life. Jupiter is connected with expansion, miracles, blessings, magnificence really! Jupiter used to be the ruler of Pisces, before Neptune was discovered. So this conjunction in the sign of Pisces can be specially healing as both the rulers of Pisces are in their home sign and working harmoniously together. This energy in the water sign of Pisces holds the potential of melting what may have been blocking us and see life from a completely new perspective.

Pisces is the first house in my astrology chart. First house represents the sense of self. So Divine Magnificence started to make more sense.

Conjunction in astrology means, the two planets, Neptune and Jupiter appear to be very close to each other from the Earth’s perspective. This aspect is exact on April 12, 2022. But we would have been feeling this energy for a few weeks on either side of this date. This event happens about every 160 years. So, none of us will experience it again this lifetime!

Whether we follow astrology or not, each one of us will be feeling this Magnificent, Divine healing energy in some area of our life. Knowing which house is 23° Pisces in our astrology chart, can help us understand which area of our life this healing is focused on at this time. If you know the date, time and place of your birth you can look at your astrology birth chart for free at many astrology websites. I find this simple reference guide to the houses from Astrologer Yasmin Boland very helpful to understand what each house represents.

I am offering an online group session where I can guide you through this simple yet powerful exercise of figuring out which house is being affected. I will offer some guided meditation also. This simple knowledge can be amazingly supportive and empowering. I would love to share it with you. Knowing your astrology chart can help you understand which area of your life is being transformed in the forthcoming eclipse season starting on April 30th, and indeed each lunation, like the full moon on April 16th.

Date: Saturday April 16th
Time: 11 am BST, UK time to 12:30 pm.
Cost: Suggested contribution £20. You are welcome to pay what you can.

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PS: If you do not know the time/place of your birth, then you would need to consult an astrologer specializing in casting birth chart with these unknowns. This session will not be suitable for finding your astrology birth chart. You would be welcome to join us for the meditation with the knowing that the group energy can help each one of present in sacred group space.

This session will be based on Western Astrology.

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I learnt about Bach Flower essences from my Reiki Master Tripuri Dunne. In 2003 I did the Level 1 course in Bach International Educational program. This was followed by Level 2 course in 2005. This learning seems to have been percolating inside me over the years.

When Tripuri’s Reiki Master, Krishni Kajsa Borang moved back to Sweden around 2006, I heard about her garden where she planted most of the trees and bushes that the 38 Bach remedies are made from. I learnt from Krishni that simply being with these bushes and trees can help us receive the benefits of these remedies and heal.

This learning started awakening something in me last autumn. You can read about that experience in the post Healing Trees. The link is given below.

Dr Edward Bach, a physician and homeopath, created these remedies in 1930s. He believed that emotional wellbeing was the key to good health. Each one of the 38 essences relates to a specific emotion or feeling that one may experience from time to time. To this day, many of the flowers are still handpicked from Edward Bach’s original gardens in Oxfordshire, UK.

This spring, I am noticing Chestnut Buds. This remedy is for the feelings that arise from repeating the same mistakes! The positive potential of Chestnut Bud is insight – the knowledge and wisdom gained from one’s past experiences and learning from them. When I touch the chestnut buds, at the base they feel sticky. Interestingly their energetic imprint is in helping with becoming unstuck.

I am loving the fresh green of the leaves emerging from the buds. I am looking forward to the blossoms of the White Chestnut and Red Chestnut trees. White Chestnut can help find tranquility and peace within, when mind is over active and struggling with repetitive thoughts. Red Chestnut is for finding the peace within, through feelings of over concern for others. Sweet Chestnut can renew our hope and strength when feeling despair.

On my daily walk, I love pausing with these trees. Sometimes 30 seconds is all that may be needed, sometimes longer. I love awakening my senses, feasting on the beauty with sight. I enjoy touching the leaves, blossoms and the branches to feel the temperature and texture. I am discovering that many blossoms have a beautiful fragrance too.

Best of all, time permitting, I love to stay with the tree, leaning against the trunk, feeling the support with my back, listening to the sounds around, especially the bird song and give myself Reiki self-treatment for a while. After a few moments, the tree’s life force seems to start resonating with my own life force and sometimes I can feel a pulsation in my body. I trust that this resonance strengthens the life force for both living things – the tree and me.

There is so much we receive from the trees, there is so much we can learn from them. Let’s give them some attention and show our gratitude. Just as Reiki principles remind us – Show gratitude to every living thing.

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I struggle with separation. I don’t like saying goodbye. I prefer slipping away quietly. Separation seems to be associated with fear and pain. Perhaps this is why I was born through caesarean section. Or maybe this association of separation with fear and pain is due to how I was born. Today I cannot help wondering if fear of separation causes grief too!

This month I decided to leave a wonderful online community for women that I joined a year ago. In my last session with them yesterday, I did something new. I mustered up the courage to say goodbye at the end of a zoom call.  I was deeply moved by the love that I received during that session and afterwards too.

This love is helping transform the experience of separation for me from fear to joy. Instead of the fear of missing out, I can look forward to the space that is being created for the new that is waiting to come in. Today I am able to see the experience of being in a separate body with joy and welcome being in this realm of separation and limitation.

This joy of separation feels new. I wish that it would stay forever. But I know that like everything else, it is transient not permanent. In this moment, I feel deep gratitude for this transformational experience.

I feel grateful that I listened to the inner prompt and decided to join the community. I am deeply grateful for all that I received while I was there, especially for this parting gift. Thank you Erika for your courage to set up Your Right To Be to help women step out of the pattern of being too nice.

Coming up to Valentine’s day, when the collective consciousness is focused on love vibration, I would love to offer a group session to deepen our alignment with love, so that love can radiate in all our relationships. My wish is for us to deepen connection with the soul, our essence, which is love and is always present within us. In the sacred space that builds up each time we come together as a group, we are more likely to deepen our alignment with love.

This year, I am feeling inspired to share my spiritual toolkit with you. Tools that nourish me deeply, at all levels – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. In January I shared Soul Plan Reading. In February, for this session, I feel drawn to Soul Transformation Therapy. It is based on the same Soul Plan energies as Soul Plan Reading.

Soul Plan Reading invites transformation that can help us find our place in the world. Soul Transformation Therapy focusses on unifying the individual personality with the soul. Soul Transformation Therapy is usually offered on a one-to-one basis, but it lends itself beautifully to group session too.

Date:            Sunday February 13th, 2022
Time:           11 am to midday GMT
Cost:            This is my valentine’s gift for you – a love offering, it is free.
Location:     Online. If you are not already subscribed to my newsletter, you need to subscribe to receive the Zoom link.

All are welcome. You do not need to know your Soul Plan or anything about Soul Plan energies to be able to attend. You simply need to be open to deepening alignment with love, the essence of our Soul. The session will include guided meditation.

Any questions, or if you would like to find out about a one-to-one Soul Transformation Therapy session, please feel free to contact me. I look forward to hearing from you.

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I am loving witnessing the richness revealed in nature during the winter months. There is so much to see, so much beauty to touch the heart. Be it the dancing branches, the shapes and patterns that are visible when the branches are bare.

The new branches that appear after a branch is pruned, revealing the spirit of survival of the tree. The number of new branches that appear when the natural growth of a  branch is interrupted seems awesome.

I love how the sun light plays at different time of the day in nature. In different seasons it lights up different trees. Sometimes different aspects of the same trees are illuminated. Going for a walk in the same areas in my neighbourhood in the last two years, has helped me learn to notice different aspects of nature more deeply.

And how much beauty there is even when the plants are dormant, in the dead flower heads that birds love!

The braid like pattern revealed in the way ivy finds its path along the tree trunk is more visible in the winter months and seemed mesmerising. Perhaps hidden under the parasitic nature of ivy is the ability to receive. An ability that each one of us have, for it was needed from the beginning when we started to grow in our mother’s body. And the tree needs to experience the joy of unconditional giving in letting the ivy grow. I am in awe of all that is being revealed in nature every moment. There is so much richness, so much to learn from nature, especially in winter.

When it is cold, sometimes it seems easier to just hibernate. It is not always easy to muster the motivation to go out for a walk! I feel grateful for the daily Reiki practice, the Reiki precept ‘Show gratitude to every living thing‘ that helps me learn to appreciate nature more deeply, give it attention and want to spend time outdoors despite the cold weather.

I would love to know what richness you are noticing during the winter months. What touches your heart, what brings you joy? I would love to see nature through your eyes too. Each one of us sees things through the unique lens of our own perspective. When I share, it enriches me. Through our sharing, we can help enrich each other.