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Reiki One-Liner^SM

On July 30, 2008 I started a new service in the microblogging world by sending out this one-liner about Reiki:

Reiki is living with wisdom & compassion.

Since then Reiki One-Liner^SM has gone out to Twitter and Plurk everyday between Monday and Friday, with breaks of a few days since its inception.

Read the first 50.

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Read third 50.

Here, presented in alphabetical order rather than the order they went out are 50 more Reiki One-Liners:

1. At the core of anxiety, Reiki is abiding calm.
2. At the core of fear, Reiki is solid knowing of self.
3. At the core of illness, Reiki is a bottomless resource.
4. At the core of pain, Reiki is the presence of love.
5. At the core of sadness, Reiki is unending joy and comfort.
6. Reiki activates the dormant divinity in your cells.
7. Reiki beckons the soul.
8. Reiki busts hardened habits and beliefs, opening many new possibilities.
9. Reiki declutters mind space, personal/work space and heart space.
10. Reiki deepens meaning.
11. Reiki deepens your consciousness.
12. Reiki deepens your heart.
13. Reiki deepens your humanity.
14. Reiki deepens your relationships.
15. Reiki expands the accuracy of your intuition and your trust in it.
16. Reiki expands the heart past personal dramas.
17. Reiki expands the mind to perceive more than the five senses tell it.
18. Reiki expands your horizon.
19. Reiki expands your orientation from personality to soul.
20. Reiki gives Heart when life seems heartless.
21. Reiki helps you know who you are before personality and possessions.
22. Reiki increases the soul’s magnetic power.
23. Reiki is a celestial waterfall.
24. Reiki is a cool spring in the heat of trials.
25. Reiki is a nonphysical umbilical cord between you and the great Mother universe.
26. Reiki is a series of stepping-stones across the pond of life.
27. Reiki is Heart solace.
28. Reiki is spring rain on your weary soul mind body.
29. Reiki is springtime renewal all year round.
30. Reiki is tête–à–tête with your soul.
31. Reiki is the light of the Heart on the pathway of life.
32. Reiki is the Universe saying “pssst!”
33. Reiki is the Universe’s 411.
34. Reiki is the Universe’s 911.
35. Reiki is the way of the Heart through the pathway of life.
36. Reiki opens a Heart-based relation with all.
37. Reiki opens you to your soul.
38. Reiki replaces neurosis with bliss.
39. Reiki restores your original codes.
40. Reiki restores your original power.
41. Reiki returns you to the divine self-worth of your origin.
42. Reiki reveals what your name is before you take birth.
43. Reiki takes you from particle to wave and back to particle at a different location.
44. Reiki warms the soul.
45. There’s a truth before and after your lifespan. Reiki will reveal it to you.
46. With Reiki the Earth finds succor.
47. With Reiki there are no losers.
48. With Reiki there is refuge.
49. With Reiki you can be like a multi-armed deity.
50. With Reiki you can converse with Life.

A quick post to continue my series on the Level 3 Kundalini Reiki healings.

I am so amazed at the nuances and differences between the various Level 3 healings. In each one I find different tones, feelings, colors, visuals and vibrations. I look forward to each experience.

Trauma of Birth Reiki healing came with a good deal of misgivings. I'm 46 years old by god, how can I feel something so long ago? But I endeavored on.

One point of similarity with many other of the healings - this one started with an energy surge up my right side, especially my hand. These surges are no longer disturbing like they were when I first encountered them.

The energy found it's way to my Solar Plexus and there it stayed and did it's work. I felt as if there was almost a hole in that area - penetrating from front to back.

Not painful, but somewhat inhibiting of my normal meditative breathing process. Fancy pants way of saying that I was a bit short of breath.

No visuals. A bit of warmth in my feet.

Energy concluded it's work with a final left side surge.

I came away feeling energized, recharged and very happy. Euphoric almost.

I like Trauma of Birth Reiki!

Played Loren DiGiorgi music (@DarkPiano on Twitter) during session. Beautiful stuff!

Healing duration 8 minutes. (approx.)

Blessings my friends,

Frank

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Please read my personal musical journey before the reviews of these magical CDs, for it puts it all into context.

I’ve always been a music head. I was living in London with my parents when Help! by The Beatles was released. I was five and it was probably the first album I had. The single, “Get off of My Cloud” by the Rolling Stones topped the charts the same year.

The predominant music in my house was Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour, Astrud Gilberto, some Italian crooners, Jazz and Latin music, with some pop of the era like Petula Clark.

There was also the classics, mostly Russians like Rachmaninov, completely over the top and engaging. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos were a favorite.

Later I did the whole Jimi Hendrix, Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, Supertramp, The Police, Talking Heads and many others in no-particular-order-thing.

Then it was Blues and Jazz for the longest time. Forever. Very serious and utterly devoted. I dreamt of studying the Blues curriculum offered in some Southern university, and having front row seats to Miles.

Monk and Mingus were gods, Coltrane an elder. The list is looong. Very long.

I’ve omitted a lot of names from the other genres too. You get the point.

I’m not a musician. I played guitar and the sax for a while, could read rudimentary music. Then I forgot it all. Later, Paramahansa Yogananda channeled himself down my arms and taught me how to play his songs to the Divine on the harmonium.

I was instantly able to read basic music again and found my singing voice. This was unique because as an actor for twenty years, I’d never sung. In fact, I’d been told I was tone deaf. What a lark!

I became enraptured with devotional chanting and lead three hour sessions every Friday, as well as at many other gatherings. The chanting and untrained voice talent have continued. I’ve forgotten how to play the harmonium or read music, unless I pick it up again.

Finally I became a fan of healing, world and devotional music. More than a fan, this kind of music has become a practice, because it teaches.

The reviews below have emerged from the astounding people I’m meeting on Twitter. I’m not a musician but have an affinity to it, and as a Soul Whisperer^SM can recognize substance. This is music that grabbed me instantly and transported me to imaginal realms of deep connection and beauty.

Beloved by Ashana

When Ashana friended me on Twitter and I listened to “Opening to Love” on her MySpace page, I couldn’t stop listening and had an instant recognition. Within the first few chords my chest changed and love was present immediately. It’s from Ashana’s latest album, Beloved.

These songs are musical experiences of the Divine, harmonies to the Divine, and an undeniable example of artist as vessel.

Ashana breathes and gives life to alchemy and classic frosted crystal singing bowls. She also sings and composes. On Beloved, Thomas Barquee is co-writer on all but one track; producer, arranger, and on keyboards, bass and vocals. The other instrumentation includes cello, guitars, tablas and percussion.

Let’s be clear though, this is ethereal music and the arrangements make use of these instruments in unique ways.

Barquee’s arrangements and production values are richly sensitive and provide a container for this music that wouldn’t be readily available in other hands.

Before going into any other details, and fully acknowledging her special touch with crystal bowls, let me mention that Ashana’s voice is…purity personified. It has a singular clarity and a layered presence.

The Tracks

One of my favorite aspects of Beloved is that it honors world traditions. For instance the first track You are My Breath includes the Sufi invocation, La’illaha il’Allah, meaning “There is nothing other than You, O God. You alone are God!” This is really the title track of the album as it’s a serenade to the Beloved.

I’ve been a fan of The Aramaic Lord’s Prayer for some time now, in various translations that are so radically powerful, compared to the version in the regular translations of the Bible. Here, Ashana actually sings a version by Dr. Neil Douglas-Klotz in Aramaic. Listen once and you’ll understand why I’m so moved by this music. Clocking at 10:10 minutes, it can easily be put on prepetual repeat.

O Birther! Father- Mother of the Cosmos
Focus your light within us – make it useful.
Create your reign of unity now-
through our fiery hearts and willing hands
Help us love beyond our ideals
and sprout acts of compassion for all creatures.
Animate the earth within us: we then
feel the Wisdom underneath supporting all.
Untangle the knots within
so that we can mend our hearts’ simple ties to each other.
Don’t let surface things delude us,
But free us from what holds us back from our true purpose.
Out of you, the astonishing fire,
Returning light and sound to the cosmos.
Amen.

Dona Nobis Pacem means “Give us peace” from the Roman Catholic mass. This track highlights Ashana’s voice. It’s also impressive in how the guitar is played to sound like an instrument from the Renaissance. In fact, throughout the whole album the juxtaposition of all the instruments is surprising. It really makes me smile for instance to hear tablas accentuating this very Latin chant.

Opening to Love comes from a depth of heart the world needs so much. Ashana actually wrote it for a deceased friend, but as is the universal theme of this album, and as she says on her website: “I dedicate this piece to his spirit, which is of course, the spirit of everlasting, unconditional love that is the essence of who we are.”

Only You in My Heart has no notes about it. It doesn’t need explanation. You refers to…you know by now.

Deep Peace is a traditional Gaelic blessing that I happen to email to my students as my wish for them after completing Level I Reiki. This version has 10 and 12 inch Aqua Gold crystal singing bowls as drones in an arrangement which gently rocks you side to side in peace, literally.

Deep peace to you.
Deep peace to you.
Deep peace of the running wave to you.
Deep peace of the flowing air to you.
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you.
Deep peace of the shining stars to you.
Deep peace of the gentle night to you.
Moon and stars pour their healing light on you.
Deep peace to you.

Here’s what Ashana says about Alleluia – Wahe Guru: “Alleluia” is a word used in both Jewish and Christian traditions to express praise, joy and thanks to the Divine. Wahe Guru! is the primary mantra of the Sikh religion, and means “Wonderful Lord!” Yogi Bhajan, who brought Kundalini Yoga and Sikhism to the West, translated it even more deliciously as “Indescribable Ecstasy!”

Beloved is a complete work and substantial achievement. I’m very enamored of way the cello is a constant presence and highlighted beautifully in several parts. There are rich, sustained basses and other drones, eloquent guitar, embellishing keyboards, and bemusing tablas.

Then it’s all tied together by the presence of the Divine that fills you from the speakers or headphones.

Now go buy it! >> Beloved

Cello Circles by Kalyan and Sambodhi Prem

I was having a conversation on Twitter with someone about my love for the cello when Sambodhi Prem friended me and introduced me to this collaborative album. Entirely composed and performed by Sambodhi and Kalyan, and produced by Sambodhi, Cello Circles also instantly stopped me to listen and opened my heart. Then my mind opened too!

Kalyan is a classically trained cellist, and can also be heard here as a multi instrumentalist on dilubra, recorders, kena flute, Japanese kyotaku flute and fretless bass.

Sambodhi is on acoustic and electric guitars, bass and sound modules.

Seven years in organically coming together, this is richly evocative music. Textured, layered and endless; when a track or the CD finishes there’s a palpable resonance in the room and in the listener.

It’s remarkable that this music is driven by improvisation. When it’s of this quality, mastery is the only word that comes to mind. Living on separate continents, Sambodhi and Kalyan meet in the circle of creativity, and add sheer beauty to the world.

In the literature Sambodhi supplied me, he says, “I love the cello because it’s able to express great depths of sadness and is equally able to reach the heights of joy…” I agree, and cello is just so warm to me and brings a fullness of heart.

I’m partial to the fretless bass too, and the slide trombone. I think I just like instruments that don’t show you where your fingers go. It adds a dimension of actually feeling where the notes are.

The Hindu dilubra is plucked on Leaving Space, and bowed on Spring Water. The Japanese kyotaku is heard on This Moment. Kalyan’s cello is faultless and elevates this instrument. He plays it with a passionate authority, and the sound it yields is full and liquid.

To break down Cello Circles to its individual tracks would be a disservice. This album is a continuous journey, aesthetic and exquisite. There are moments of quiet reflection and surges of celebration.

This music is without genre. There are subtle hints of contemporary jazz, orchestral music, studio sounds, meditative music, tributes to nature sounds, and other soundscapes.

While the compositions are built around the cello, what’s built around it has its own value and voice. Sambodhi shines on his guitars. There’s a delicacy to his fret work that’s unmatched, and the ease of spaciousness that comes from stillness. It’s obvious that he put in countless hours in his studio too, flowering the acoustics this music lives in; a labor of love.

The cover art by Sandipa is also gorgeous, appropriately titled “Harmony in Lily Flat Major.” In fact, Sambodhi has quite a few creatives around him and his website is well worth a visit.

What else can I say about Cello Circles? I can’t stop listening to it! Every time I think I’m ready for another mood, this album provides it. To go out to the edge of the known like this is courageous and true artistry.

Now go buy it! >> Cello Circles

In my continued practice of the Level 3 Kundalini Reiki healings, I have been working on Crystalline and DNA Reiki lately.

DNA Reiki is designed to strengthen the ability to heal DNA strands that makeup our “blue print.” Results should be noticeable after the first 3 weeks of Reiki.

Ole Gabrielsen wrote the manual on Kundalini Reiki. In it he describes Crystalline Reiki:

“Over all of the body we have small deposits of certain crystals. These are exit points for the traumas we have experienced through life. A crystal forms to hold the memory of the pain and the feelings of that trauma.”

Crystalline Reiki dissolves these crystals and heals the trauma within our body.

I self healed through intention of each of these healings. I must say, the two were completely different in feel.

DNA Reiki was very clinical in feel. As the energy flowed, the sensation was one of being in a very sterile, clean, shiny setting. I had an bothersome metallic taste in my mouth. I felt like I had just entered the doctor or dentist office.

Here’s the deal though. These feelings felt natural. They felt like they belonged with this type of Reiki. My Spirit Doctor was assuredly doing her work on my DNA. I was/am thankful.

Crystalline Reiki was almost completely the opposite. It had a very warm, subtle and fluid feel. I slowly ran my hands from my head to my feet. I stopped when I felt something.

For me, the “felt something” was tingling in my hands – especially my left. The greatest amount of tingling came over my Heart and Solar Plexus chakras.

The tingling ran all the way up my arm to my elbow. The sensation was as if the hair on my arm was standing up. It wasn’t, but it sure did feel like it. It tickled!

If you haven’t yet noticed – there are Reiki healings for many of the things we deal with as “spirits having a human body experience.” The reach of Reiki is extensive as a wonderful form of healing. I am truly thankful.

I LOVE REIKI!

You should try it!

Just sayin’…

Love and Light,

Frank

As an added feature for our viewers we are going to aim to make ToReiki a one-stop-Reiki place. It might take a bit of time but we are going to work to get feeds auto-placed into the ToReiki feed so that all of our sister Reiki blogs will be spread to our users as well! If you have any Reiki blogs to recommend make sure you send them to dave@toreiki.com!

Practice makes perfect.

That is so very true, especially in the healing arts like Reiki. You wouldn’t want a doctor that didn’t go through a residency, you shouldn’t want a Reiki Practitioner that doesn’t practice healing.

That’s been my Modus operandi throughout this week. As RuthAnn has been working to put together our new Website, I’ve been taking each of my Master Level Kundalini Reiki healings and slowly working through them.

Here are the Healings:

• Diamond Reiki
• Crystalline Reiki
• DNA Reiki
• Trauma of Birth Reiki
• Location Reiki
• Past Life Reiki
• Balance Reiki

For today, I want to relay my experience with Past Life Reiki and Location Reiki.

I have never been as relaxed, yet expectant with any other healing as I was with Past Life Reiki. A definite calm came over me the instant I started the healing session and lasted throughout. In fact it last for hours afterward.

Three sessions are required for Past Life Reiki to be effective and complete. During this session, I had an overwhelming sense of “Being prepared” for the sessions to come. Stay tuned!

Just as there are karmic bands/ties between people, there is also a band or tie that we humans have with places and the Earth in general. Ever felt “tied” to a certain place? That’s what a Location Reiki healing deals with. It heals any negative bond we may have with a specific place or the entire earth.

In the late 80’s, I lived and worked in Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge, Tennesse. While I absolutely love the area and feel a strong karmic bond with the area, I had some issues in my life while there. Negative issues that still cause me some pain.

Enter Location Reiki healing for Frank! Here are my notes from the experience:

Felt like a warm blanket had been put around me. Very much like I feel from an Energy Hug. Energy very subtle in hands. Left foot warm. Light in minds eye very bright.Felt very much like something had been cleaned up in my life having to do with Gatlinburg.

Practice, practice, practice.

I’ll let you know how the other healings go!

All the good stuff,

Frank

P.S. The new All About The Reiki website is still under construction so watch where you step when you visit!

 

Recently I’ve been receiving a lot of questions from extreme beginners. A lot of them relating to the best way to actually get started with Reiki. Where to begin… so to speak. So I thought I’d jot down a few things here for those wishing to to get you off on the right foot with Reiki but really have no idea where or how to begin.

To get started you might also want to take a look at my post on The Top 10 Things to Consider when Choosing a Reiki Teacher for some specific advice relating to getting a teacher… although finding a good teacher is not the only consideration for beginners. There are many different types of Reiki, many different types of classes, and many different types of teachers… and not all of them are created equally. So before even considering a teacher, you need to know something about Reiki.

For beginners, I would recommend a basic Reiki class. Either Western Style or Traditional Reiki are fine for getting started and names like Usui Reiki, Reiki Ryoho, Usui Shiki Ryoho, Gendai Reiki, Komyo Reiki are all basic Reiki classes that are the type of thing you want to start with. Styles of Reiki such as Karuna Reiki, Lightarian Reiki, Angelic Reiki, Dolphin Reiki, Violet Flame Reiki, Kundalini Reiki, etc. are all Reiki variations, and you steer away from them until you have reached a certain comfort level with basic Reiki.

You also need to make a decision between a distance attunement and training and face to face. I’d venture to say that 95% of the distance Reiki classes out there are shams with a few exceptions. Contact me directly if you’d like my opinion on a distance class or teacher. Most of these Reiki ‘Masters’ offer no support, really have no idea how to actually send a distance attunement and/or are just in it for the money. In there defense I have to say that its not their fault, they learned this way and consider their learning valid. It may very well be… but in most cases I have my doubts. In any event I would go for a local teacher and a live class if at all possible and leave the distance classes for those that are really desperate to find a teacher.

So deciding live or distance, which style you want and which teacher are the first three steps that you should not rush into. Take your time and find the right class and the right teacher and you’ll be quite happy you did in the long run.

A few other things you might wish to consider are reading a good Reiki book (I recommend William Rand’s Reiki: The Healing Touch for getting a good introduction) joining a few online Reiki forums, and browsing some Reiki Websites for some unique and interesting viewpoints. A very good idea would be to start keeping a Reiki Journal even before you get started to keep track of and help you notice changes along the Reiki Path… again, further on down the line you’ll be quite happy that you did.

Of course you are free to contact me with any questions or concerns you may have and I’ll be more than happy to help you get started. I am not teaching distance classes at the moment but I’d be quite willing to support you any way I can.

Best of luck with your Reiki practice… again, don’t rush into it… you only get one chance to start off on the right foot.

For further explanation or discussion, your thoughts are most welcome and highly encouraged, please feel free to comment below!!!

At long last Reiki – What It All Be Like is moving out from under the WhatItAllBeLike umbrella to a home of its own. <insert SOUND OF APPLAUSE here> By the time the move is complete nothing important will (hopefully) have changed.. all the posts, pages and comments will be transferred and you will even be automatically redirected to the new site should you decide to continue typing in reiki.whatitallbelike.com to get there (here?). For those of you looking for a sneak peak you can check things out as they are underway at TotalReikiMastery.Com and please do send me comments, suggestions, recommendations, etc. on how the site can be better. The old page format was just too restrictive and the title was (admittedly) a bit odd.

In addition to sporting a sleek new look, the new site will have a bunch of new bells and whistles that should satisfy even the most discriminating Reiki palate. So take a look at it… give it a good testing and let me know if you find something that needs changed.

For further explanation or discussion, your thoughts are most welcome and highly encouraged, please feel free to comment below!!!