Technique for living a Peace filled life

I have been the anxiety king for most of my life.  This short process has helped remove anxiety and fill my life with peace and joy.

Positive thinking short version:

When you feel anxiety regarding anything, it is basically a fear of some future event not turning out as you would like.  The what if’s.

Solution: be grateful for what you have now and only think about what you want.

Here is how:  the grateful part is easy. Be thankful for where you are now.  Find the silver lining, the lessons learned, the fact you are still alive, for friends, basics of life, etc.  Ya ok, this can be harder than it sounds.  No, it is sometimes really hard, but it is a necessary step.  You can never get what you want until you are thankful for what you have.  It is a universal law, a fact of life, just like gravity.

What you want?  Exactly!  What do you want?  What does it look like, feel like, taste like, sound like.  Envision what you want like it is a picture or video with full color and sound, see what you see, hear what you hear, and feel what you feel.  How does that picture or video make you feel?  Absorb that feeling into your body, wrap up in it.

Now when any thought that is contrary to that image, video , feeling, etc comes to you, say “STOP” out loud or to yourself and instantly think of the picture or play the video.  Get inside that picture, video and/or feeling and see it, feel it, hear it.  Take a deep breath, breath it into your soul.  That is what you want, claim it! You deserve it.  It is yours. 

Feel better?

Repeat as necessary.

In the beginning, the process may take a few minutes.  After some practice, this process will be quick.

This process can be done for every area of your life where there is fear, depression, conflict, anything.

Let me know how this technique has worked for you.

Reiki at San Luis Obispo Veteran Stand Down 2013

By Art the Reiki Guy - Light Heart Reiki

Reiki was offered at the San Luis Obispo Veterans Stand Down this last Sunday by local Reiki practitioners and myself.  Its focus was to help the homeless and unemployed veterans however all veterans were welcome. The event lasted for 24 hours starting at 4pm Saturday ending at 4pm on Sunday.  Sunday was the day for providers to set up booths and help all participating veterans.  Light Heart Reiki had a booth for the event to introduce Reiki and energy healing to all interested veterans.  I had with me 2 Reiki practitioners all day and 3 others for a couple of hours in the morning.  Since we were told some 50 plus veterans were sleeping over and would be out and about first thing, I thought the morning was going to be the busiest. This was not the case.  Morning was very slow.  We gave Reiki to 4 veterans from 9 am to noon.   Then one of the organizers of the event decided to try Reiki.  He said he needed some stress relief.  He was so impressed with how Reiki helped his stress that  he told his staff and participating veterans. Next, He was escorting individuals to our booth.  The word was out and inhibitions be gone.  We got busy and it didn't let up. 

At the end of the day we were the last booth to fold up due to the continuing flow of recipients.  We served 22 people in all.  Each person received about 15 to 20 minutes of Reiki in a chair.  The entire process from the intro to Reiki and how it works, the receiving of Reiki, then the orientation back to present time with Q & A took about 30 min per person. Some of the recipients needed to heal by telling their story.  We would send "hands off" Reiki as they talked, then with their permission, begin the session. Most of our recipients had never heard of Reiki or energy healing and so this was completely new to them.  Introducing Reiki to those that have given so much of their lives to protecting our way of life and to reconnect them with their Source (Universal Life Energy -God) was an awesome experience.

Watching a person accepting Reiki for the first time, to see their progression from skeptic to acceptance is simply sublime. At first their hands were closed in their lap, open to healing but cautious. Slowly the hands begin to relax and open.  The facial expression softens and by the end of the session, the hands are open to receive God's healing with a beaming face.  Time and time again we witnessed that progression.  Several of the recipients would just sit after the Reiki sessions, eyes closed, hands open, face beaming with joy, soaking it all in, not wanting the experience to end.  How do you describe to another the feeling we all received being a part of reconnecting another to their Source.  A few words come to mind: Magical, Blissful, Exhilarating, Sublime Humble.  It is all of these and more.  Sending that much Reiki, being connected to source and watching Reiki work in so many lives gave all the practitioners a deep feeling of bliss that lasted for several days

There are so many people in this world starving to connect to Source through energy healing, and meditation. They want to connect or reconnect to God but they do not know the way. Several expressed the desire to practice meditation but didn't know how.  I helped them get started with meditation and offered some quick tips. The day's event inspired me to put together a short class on meditation to offer to veterans and others hungry to connect to Source.

Thank you my Lord for this awesome day, to be a conduit of Your Love and Healing Light and I am looking forward to being a part of any event where I can help people reconnect and heal.

Art the Reiki Guy