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Reiki, meaning the Universal Life Force or Energy, was originally discovered by Japanese Buddhist, Mikao Usui in 1922. Mikao Usui originally developed Reiki as a powerful meditative practice, which enhanced awareness, and soon realised the powerful healing benefits this meditation had for the mind, emotions and the body.

More than the meditative purpose of Reiki, its healing benefits became famous and sought after, naturally it has travelled around the world, and developed into the widespread energy practice of hands on healing. Typically in a session, a Reiki practitioner enters a high energy meditative state, and shares the energy with the client, in a session that usually lasts about an hour long.

So what is the Reiki energy, and how is it transmitted?

This question is one that we can spend so long debating, because naturally, we are not accustomed to thinking that we transmit energy. However, think about what an angry or sad person does to you in your environment, how do they bring tension into a room? Or think about how positive and happy people naturally bring with them a quality of lightness? What we perceive of them is on a surface level, they make us feel tense, closed up, worried, or they make us feel relaxed, easy, comfortable and happy.

On a more subtle level, anger, sadness, tension, laughter, love, all transmit electromagnetic energy frequencies, which affect everything they touch. Now think about a highly meditative state of clarity, peace, calm, grace, connection to the essence of pure love, beyond all concepts of the mind. What kind of frequency does this state of being transmit to those it touches? This is the essence of Reiki, and the reported benefits are simply magical.

In my personal experience, Reiki has been the most profound and exciting meditation practice of my life, and has opened me up to states of being that I could not have imagined previously. In sessions with clients, I have seen literal transformations from the effects of traumatic violent experiences, to peace and calm. From ongoing depression to self love, from fear of being bullied to speaking up with clarity and personal power, from carrying old traumas to giving life a second chance, from severe anxiety to peace and joy, and many other subtle patterns, and powerful transformations have occurred during my sessions with clients.

Even more profound than the psychological, emotional and physical transformations, are the shifts of consciousness, and clarity of awareness. These have been most empowering and exciting. From removing layers of doubt and limitation, to self realisation, and moving beyond the ideas we have of ourselves, to experiencing more of who we are. Each Reiki session is a magical experience of its own, and pushes beyond boundaries of the past. All it requires is an open mind, and willingness to experience and explore something new. Why not give it a try?

What is unconditional love?

It is the Self. It is the subtle harmony of the awareness of being, gently vibrating in the background, by itself, behind the person, behind needs, behind thoughts, behind the rush of the mind to “get somewhere”, and “do something”. In a place that has always been and always is present.

It is unconditional, because it is beyond duality, it is love, because it is the joy of being. It is the experience of each and every being, beyond the illusion of their individually separate identity. It is closer than we imagine and it is far away from any concept or theory. It is all and everything. It is the Law of One: “We are all members of one family. We do not discriminate who we love, and who we reach. We reach out to all, because we are all. Even those who think they know no love. Even those who think they cannot love, and all who have forgotten what love is. All arise from this place and return to this place within.”

Unconditional Love simply has to be understood, or recognised in the self. In the grand order of Creation, love is the only healer, it is the only true wisdom, it is the essence of Consciousness, the scent of the essential Life Force Energy. Love for the self, love for others, love for our planet and love for creating. Love as the lowest entropy removes all unnecessary tensions and obstacles from its path, and places all under the influence of Least Resistance.

The love that is present within, the creating force, is not the love that comes from mind, that is only an adaptation, a mixture of Ego based emotions, traumas and attachments, pretending to be love. Real love instead is deeply experienced in the Central Heart of the self, which in turn is creating and perceiving all that is. To experience this love consciously, one must first learn to be quiet, and recognise it within the self. This love is not an attribute of the human being’s personality, nor is it learned as a concept, or theory, it is the dis-identification with the mind, and the silent recognition of the presence of Being, it is the experience of the Central Heart.

The human being’s personality based emotions are limited, because they manifest from an idea of this love. They are merely an illusion of the Love that really lives within. This trauma is a part of the human mind, and is as a result of a falsely believed disconnection of the human being from all else that is, and instead believing it is a singularity, the image of itself as a person, and personality, conjured up by its mind. This notion of separation, is a common attribute of the people in our world. Even though, we realise that we do not own any part of who we are, our bodies, our minds, emotions, thoughts, beliefs, even our perceived choices and preferences, we realise that they have all been given to us, in a way, yet we believe that we are them. That is why we suffer deeply, and why we cannot find a satisfying solution in superficial remedies.

Without this Unconditional Love, the human being cannot Evolve, it cannot Grow, because it cannot bring itself away from the limited idea of itself. The cycle of suffering will not end, because it is left on repeat until the pattern is broken. The mind thrives on it, it gives it the ultimate problem solving challenge: “What is wrong with me?!” The pattern must be broken. Without this there is no awareness or love for the human being, and no possibility of awareness or love as a collective.

Each and every one of us is experiencing this understanding through our respective experiences, and our life’s learning. What is important is to make this decision, and do this now in our lives. Once it has been realised, it reaches all areas of our life, bringing with it all the light elements that are needed to alleviate pressures, and bring calm, peace and happiness, and even order to this chaos. We will still be doing more or less the same things, however with a clarity, peace and understanding that we have only dreamt about.

The intelligence of Unconditional Love, which in itself is an attribute of the Creative Consciousness of Creation, does not have a personality based agenda, and therefore does not have an individual subjective need or purpose. It is completely free, in its creativity. This means that it does not have an Ego, which is why it is able to transcend all levels of suffering and limitation.

Unconditional Love is a higher level of emotional expression, an attribute of the Creative Consciousness that we are, and have forgotten. It is inevitable that as information carriers of Consciousness, our mind will eventually have to recognise that it is not an independent intelligence, and has no wisdom to offer, and the Conscious Being, us, will have to look deeper within to experience Wisdom, Awareness and the Harmonic Unity of ourselves. Only Unconditional Love is able to create such a transition, and this is done by opening the Central Heart, and letting go of belief in the mind, and the identity it has created for you. If there are traumas pressing on you, clear these with healing, and do what is necessary to remember yourself once again, as you are, in your being. Each of us will eventually know, where and how to find it.

Q- In the current times of economical, spiritual, emotional and rational difficulty and confusion, how can we really know what we want out of life?

S.D. London

A: From the very beginning of our time, due to the limited awareness of ourselves, we have suffered difficulty. We are limited in our understanding of who we are, what we are, how we are functioning, what our capacities and capabilities are, and what our purpose is. As individuals, or a collective that does not know who it is, anything that it may want out of life will always feel somehow disconnected, irrelevant, and will ultimately cause conflict and pain, both individually and collectively.

Without awareness, our goals will only manifest from our personality based subjective needs. To that end we are subject to external conditioning. Ultimately making an effort to fulfill a personality lack, hiding behind economical, environmental, emotional, educational, or whatever else the pressure may pose as. The point is, it will always provide you a good reason to not know who you are and what you are doing here.

What is the answer here? If we do not know who we are, everything else that we do is tainted by insecurity, lack of awareness, uncertainty, and it all translates itself as a weakness, and a limitation. Any purpose following is not filled by the joyous and powerful creative energy of your Heart, but a slow and calculated rational fix, trying desperately to move itself along the path of its identity’s saviour and esteem. It all meets with disappointment eventually, because none of it lasts, none of it brings any real satisfaction of itself, none of it has the power to ignite happiness, love, joy and passion within if it isn’t already realised to begin with.

What we want from life, is the ultimate peace and fulfillment that we thought we could buy, or find in a relationship, or achieve in our jobs and titles, or status, or any one thing or another. Ultimately there is no external realisation, or manifestation that could bring inner this peace or fulfillment to you. There is no one here who has attained lasting peace, fulfillment or happiness truly, sincerely, in anything external to themselves, unless they already felt these things, and then it would all be a secondary pleasure, not essential happiness. If happiness is dependent and conditional upon an external thing, it is not happiness at all, it is merely another identification, and a condition.

True happiness, is unconditional, it is a joy within that is experienced when we recognise that we are not our minds, we are not our thoughts, we are not who we think we are, but rather we are something much more than our intellectual functioning. The truth of it is that what we are is far greater than any of these external forms, which are enjoyable of course, but cannot fulfill us, and do not define us.

Until we have realised our true essence, we will always feel this nagging lack, and will continue to chase our own tails trying to find it. However, when we do find it, we realise that there are not things in life which we want, instead it is the natural expression of ourselves, which joyously pours through in every way that it can interact with, in every area of our life, ultimately creating more and more of itself.

At that point our purpose here can show itself in various way, each of them is represented by each one of us in its own unique way. We can each maintain a natural responsibility and accountability to the large and small societies which we inhabit, our families, communities and companies.  The value and quality of our contributions to those who we share a common purpose with shifts and becomes clearer.

The majority of us believe that life is a gift here for us to do something with, and miss the point that life is already happening and was already happeining by itself all along before we showed up. And we are just another expression of it, within it, with a single powerful opportunity, to realise our true Creative nature in all of this. Other than that life is happening all by itself, even within us. A better way to look at it is what inspires the mind that it has a purpose? That is what we are, that which inspires everything.

Our Egoic way of thinking has led us to indulge in “external gifts” rather than acknowledging the Creative essence within the self. The very basis for our desires, needs, wants and motives in life are based on a limited, subjective perspective of our Egoic identities. We therefore find the “new age race for happiness” is ironically tainted with great dissatisfaction with life. There are of course many out there selling peace, happiness and love. However there is a condition, that will require you to chase and live for fantasies and dreams, whilst the true reality will pass by you, and you will ignore the greatest truth within yourself the whole time.

It is simple, you already are all that you dream about, you already are the Creator being, and have yet believed that they min could somehow mimic this, and by attaining just one more goal, you too will have all that you want, and become all that you already are. Only that which brings you to this realisation is of any real use to us, and after that we realise all we can do is observe as this force manifests and expresses itself through us spontaneously, magically and freely, in wonderful ways that we could not have thought of.

Our true essence,will turn what we think we know about ourselves on it’s head. It will also transform who we believe we are, and what we believe we want. Without it our personal goals can only be described as a stagnation of what we are, as mindless indulgences manifested in economical, educational and emotional resourcing of whatever spiritual, intellectual, inspirational, material food we think we hunger and greed for.

On a conscious level, you may realise that what you really want out of life is not to be passively ignorant of it’s horrors, and subjectively indulgent of it’s beauties, but rather to fulfill the expression of life here consciously. It will lead the way, open the doors, lay out the paths, and everything else that is required, all you have to do, is be a witness to it.

Q – If you have to choose between the head and the heart, what would you choose to make you happy?

A.L. London

A – Happiness occurs rarely for the majority of human beings, this is because they are often in conflict with one another and with themselves. What does it mean to be in conflict with oneself? It means that there is a multiplicity of desires within you and that in satisfying one you are sacrificing another, which ultimately causes you confusion, dissatisfaction and pain.

Your values are the assets that you will assign to the 8 fields which sum up the entirety of the areas of your life, and personal growth which are; body & mind, health & spirit, career & wealth, relationships & community. They determine what goals you have in each field and and how you will achieve those goals. Your beliefs are the rules that you will live  by whilst achieving your values and what you will judge your actions and the actions of others by. They will also determine your boundaries and your limitations in each area.

For each area of our lives, however active we think we may or may not be in that area, we have developed and are living according to our values and beliefs. Often in each area we have developed multiple sets of values and beliefs and sometimes these may be in conflict with one another causing a duality or multiplicity within us. Therefore when we act on them they cause us pain because we are sacrificing one set of values and beliefs for another.

When your centres are aligned, like the mind and the heart, they move forward together, in one direction, with clarity, precision and certainty towards a common goal. Then we can experience true fulfillment and happiness enrich our lives. For the most part the initial common goal of all your centers is self observation, a way of gathering enough data to be able to look at yourself and evaluate yourself objectively.

Like all things happiness will begin in your consciousness. A deep seated gratification for your very existence, for being and for acknowledging your being dwells in your heart, which must be expressed in your own individual way. Through practicing and understanding this gratification, which is an appreciation of your being, you will develop an honest picture of the values and beliefs by which you live and the values and beliefs which truly represent who you are.

In our natural state the bulk of what we think and do is determined by the external world to us. Television, media, schools, peers determine for us by showing us in example who we ought to be and how we ought to live . They educate us on our values and beliefs, the very dear values and beliefs which we hold on to and fight for with our lives, are often determined by external bodies and not by our own efforts. We would have to study ourselves and one another and then evaluate our findings objectively and without judgement before determining our own individual values and beliefs truly.

Instead our brain takes in all the data it is given and we become the things we think about, the dramas and the false ideas, the limited perceptions of our communities and environments and the negative and dark realities that begin to influence who we think we are and the world we think we live in.

The majority of people feel unfulfilled and detached from themselves. They feel a gap between who they are and who they wish to be, this gap is real and it is determined by actions that we take on a daily basis which distance us from ourselves.

If you are not happy, it is because whatever you are doing that is not aligned with your true self, it is causing you to move away from yourself and this distance from the self hurts.

When you are not aligned with your true self, your true desires are not fulfilled and you feel a deep dissatisfaction with the world and yourself in it. This alignment does not occur naturally, this alignment requires a constant work on oneself to become conscious, to re-evaluate ourselves and the world we think we live in and to create a new future for ourselves. It is possible to become completely lost and stuck in this great dissatisfaction for the entirety of our lives. It is also possible to relieve yourself of the great dissatisfaction with the help of those who have done so before you. Ultimately the choice is yours, to get different results, you must act differently.

“Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.” George Gurdjieff

Working on ourselves, self improvement and self development have always been a part of who we are as human beings. Always growing, always looking for the better, always trying to achieve more. It’s our natural tendency.

As part of the work that we do on ourselves any sincere developments must be done by way of self observation. Self observation is at first the idea we have of being able to see ourselves for what we are. In practice it is the recording of our habitual ways of thinking, feeling, moving and being in order to develop a backlog of data about ourselves which we can later use to understand and correct ourselves. As we are we need to align ourselves and awaken, this can only be achieved through long term self observation.

Self observation is the key to self consciousness, to knowing ourselves without which there is no work to be done on ourselves. Therefore self observation is the tool for becoming aware, conscious beings. There are many things that stand in the way of self observation; imagination, lack of attention and a lack of understanding about how to correctly observe ourselves. If we succeed to experience self observation we soon realise that we cannot observe ourselves for long periods of time, because our old habits which used to prevent us from observing now won’t let us observe ourselves.

However  it is only by way of observing ourselves that we can correctly arrive to a point of change, real sincere change, in confidence, in stopping bad habits, in understanding why we enter the same failing relationships, why we suffer from depression and anxiety, why we eat the things we do, why we are living and working exactly where we are as who we are and why we love to moan about it.

Self observation is the optimum pathway to any work on oneself and to self consciousness, without which any work done on ourselves is superficially  and temporarily adopted, not understood and will soon fail. Lasting change is the by-product of self observation.

Self observation is the mirror of all truths, sincere and powerful it is the only objective answer that matters, if we can succeed to observe ourselves we soon learn that everything else that we have known till now literally made no sense.

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