As we have gone along, my wife and I have fallen in love with some things that have either really helped our healing or really helped people we have come into contact with. If you have a recommendation that you think other Reiki Blogger readers would benefit from please send it through.

If you have not been following what has been happening over at Paulo’s blog, I recommend heading over there and checking it out. He is slowly but surely putting up all his great books, for free reading. Awesome!

Sometimes, when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade.

pfffffffft.

Sometimes, we should just be damn proud for ourselves that we SURVIVED.

When it comes to practice do what is easy. And you will find the answer (how to practice more..)

Because, if you do what is hard, you wont do any at all.

Thanks for sticking around and reading Reiki Blogger, this year. We hope you have found something helpful or interesting and maybe even both!

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas. May it be filled with kindness and tolerance. And, as always, healing.

Donyo & Tupten

Some things just make you feel good.

Courage?

Insecurity?

Cynicism?

Doubt?

Fun?

Kindness?

Leadership?

What are the feelings of your life? Because feelings preceed thought. But, thought perpetuates feelings.

And, your first thought, which produces the feeling, is based on what you “know” (your beliefs/values). Who is leading who, you or your thoughts. Concentration produces self awareness.

And self awareness is the foundation of freedom.

What do you do to keep your energy “on song” day in and day out?

I do not know about you, but when people ask me how I have been, all I can really think to answer, honestly, is “up and down”. I would love to play along with the surface level niceties of life, and just pretend that things have been fantastic all the time. But, it is just not realistic.

Don’t get me wrong. I am pretty lucky, as far as it goes. I have a nice life. And, I actually spend a lot of the time feeling pretty darn grateful about it.

I just think that we are confronted on a daily basis with quite a lot of negativity, and energy competition, that it is pretty well impossible to stay even all the time.

I would love to be the one that sits here and tells you with a straight face that all you will ever need is Reiki. And, that actually could be true, if we were the kinds of reiki people like Hayashi or Usui, or maybe even William Lee Rand. But, for people like you and me, just Reiki and nothing else, is probably not enough.

I am not talking about anything fancy (although at the end of the post I would like to share with you an ayurvedic secret), I am interested in what little things you do to keep yourself on track each day.

Obviously, being reiki people we are at an advantage and keeping a strong connection to reiki is one of the biggest things we can do.

What else, though. What have you found is good?

My wife, Donyo, for example, spends a couple of hours each day outside on our property, gardening and getting her hands dirty in the soil. Which is great for our little kids, and for me (who works from home, and appreciates the space and quiet).. and she says it keeps her literally grounded.

What do you do, to keep yourself balanced?

Something I do, is to check in during the day with my teachers, in some way. I look up a website, read a page from a book, or just glance over at a picture on the altar, and I try to do it every hour. It helps me remember which way my inner compass points (or could be pointing).

The little ayurvedic secret that I would love to share, helps me almost more than anything else, combined. It is a simple herb, called Brahmi.

Some of the things it is said to do:

# Improves short and long-term memory, may help to increase intelligence
# Reduces depression, promotes longevity, and decreases senility
# Treats the symptoms associated with ADHD

I cannot vouch for ADHD, (or the senility for that matter) but, I can tell you that the memory and intelligence stuff is 100% accurate. It is brilliant stuff. I first saw it on a late night infomercial here in Australia (I know, very credible..) which was basically just a story about this Aussie rugby player that had suffered a brain injury, as a result of which he had significant memory and concentration issues. Long story short the Brahmi worked miracles with him, and I was impressed enough to pull out the credit card a give it a try.

This stuff is awesome. Give it 4 weeks to really work. (Although, the first time I started taking it I noticed a huge change after about 3 days..) And you will be amazed.

If you have any little tips or tricks that you could share with other Reiki Blogger readers, I would love to hear them.