The Recession and Reiki

When a box turtle is crossing the road and it hears a car coming, it reacts by drawing in its head and feet, contracting for protection. Evolution has kept turtles alive for hundreds of millions of years that way. What works as a natural defense isn’t much use, though, when a Yukon or Explorer is barreling toward you. There are times when contracting inward is the very worst thing you can do. That’s true now in the recession that economists see barreling toward us — the road noise has gotten alarmingly loud already. But as the economy contracts, we must resist our natural reflex to contract with it. Instead, we need to do the opposite. Expansion is the best way to survive any crisis.

The lesson should have sunk in after 9/11, when the whole country learned what it means to contract with fear, anxiety, suspicion, and distrust. We felt threatened by a vast, unseen enemy, which was magnified as large as fear itself.

·    Fear deprives people of choice.
·    Fear shrinks the world into isolated, defensive enclaves.
·    Fear spirals out of control.
·    Fear makes everyday life seem clouded over with danger.
·    Fear breeds chaos.
·    Fear creates blockage.
·    Fear manifest Dis-ease

A lot of people are approaching the economy that way, and not enough leaders are warning them that it’s the worst possible reaction.

To be happy in a recession means, first and foremost, making a choice and resisting all the threats that fear possesses.

Don’t obsess anxiously……{Click to read more}over what you could lose. Don’t reduce your world to a bank account or a 401k. Isn’t there an upside to losing some “consumer buying power”? To be honest, we went too far with consumerist mania. By any measure this is an inordinately rich country, and instead of mourning sagging profit margins, can’t we use the current slowdown to ask what makes for true personal happiness?

·    Relationships
·    Gratitude
·    Appreciation
·    Compassion
·    Mutual regard
·    Boundaries and Balance
·    Strong Social Connections
·    Love you can trust

I don’t know why it takes a crisis to bring out those fundamental human qualities. But it often does. We all realize that the next video game, the next new car, the next flat-screen TV means nothing compared to the rewards of relating to other people. Yet we live as if the opposite is true. The pursuit of happiness is blocked just as much by indulgent over-consumption as by an economic downturn.

Some may protest that expanding and becoming more human is all well and good if you have a job but totally unrealistic if your livelihood is threatened. I don’t think so. Whatever happens, the worst-off will be the ones who need more compassion, kindness, and relating to. They will need real coping skills, not a show of group pity.

There’s a lot more to say about how to be happy in a recession, but the main thing is to remind yourself that it’s possible. Refuse to contract just because the economy does. You have the tools to be happy in the worst of times.

Your thoughts create your reality….. “Change your thoughts and Change your life”, yes, that is true.  The Secret (law of attraction) teaches it well.

·    Fear creates fearful thoughts.

·    Your fearful thoughts create blockage in your life-force.

·    Blockages in your life-force create or manifest Dis-ease of all kind.

·    Dis-ease affects your life at every level.

Ask yourself;

“Do I want to make changes in the reality I live in?”

So how can Reiki help you?  Starting at the very roots of understanding the foundation of Reiki are your thoughts…..simply put, negative thoughts bring about blockage in your energy body and positive thoughts allow your energy to flow.

Learn and incorporate Reiki in your life for a healthy flow of energy and clear your mind.  Reiki will teach you how to shift blockage in your energy body, starting with shifting your thoughts; thoughts that are fear based, and you are on your way to a life that will no longer feel filtered through chaos. It is like removing a virus from your computer…. It allows systems to work properly, as they are intended.

Questions control what you focus on.

“What do you want?

Why?

What specific action will get you there?

Whether you like it or not, what you focus on, you’re going to experience.

Focus controls your life.

Questions control your focus.

If you can change your primary question, you could change your entire life!”

Quote by Jeanie MacDonald

It is an honor to share this space and community with you, to share experiences, knowledge and comments…. To come together in this time of change to support and educate each other… I look forward to taking your calls and answering your emails and comments. Namaste’ my friends!

Sharing with Love n Lite,
Kimberlee Cusumano
Reiki Master Teacher
1-800-553-0269

I would like to share this post with you-emailed to me by a good friend….Namaste’

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 Beers.
A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him.
When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls.
He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.
The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.
The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous ‘yes.’
The professor then produced two Beers from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed. ‘Now,’ said the professor as the laughter subsided, ‘I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life.
The golf balls are the important things—your family, your children, your health, your friends, and your faith in God—and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car. The sand is everything else—the small stuff.
‘If you put the sand into the jar first,’ he continued, ‘there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls.
The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important to you.
Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Spend time with your children. Spend time with your parents. Visit with grandparents. Take your spouse out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal.
Take care of the golf balls first—the things that really matter.
Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.
One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the Beer represented. The professor smiled and said, ‘I’m glad you asked.’ The Beer just shows you that no matter how full your life may seem, there’s always room for a couple of Beers with a friend.