We are meeting in today’s meditation for the well-being of all life and in our reiki send. Please bring your creativity tools to session, so that they and you reap the benefits from the flow of our reiki.
Also bring pen and paper, so that you can grade yourself in the areas that make up the building blocks of well-being
– health upkeep of body and mind
– satisfaction with place (home and region) and familiarity with your region
– satisfaction with your close relationships and with your wider network
– red tape upkeep
– progress with creative projects
– satisfaction with your income, job and service
Grading is for your eyes only, so that you can be fully transparent, acknowledge what alarms and bothers you, register if you have any solutions before you ask anyone else, carry down what is in your way and plan your next adventure.
When you don’t have to defend or justify yourself or hide from yourself, energy is freed up and put to good use. Also, you will be surprised at how much wisdom is available to you in the here and now – from within and from subtle forces. That wisdom does not come with a hammer, to shame, argue with you or compare you to someone else, it’s there to assist you and show you the way of how something can work for you.
Last week, I was stunned what I pulled out of my washing machine: those were clothes I imagined myself wearing a while ago, or to be more accurate, even as a young adult. Unfortunately, back then, I couldn’t conceive that clothes could be that “important” that I’d want to think about them deeply, or give them a spot on a vision board; yet, I was chronically insecure about what I wore. At times, I felt I nailed it, at other times, I felt not quite myself. I sensed that what I was broadcasting about me through my outfits was not exactly expressing who I was. That wasn’t all superficial: I had a hunch that there was a way to feel unencumbered and appropriate, I just didn’t know what to do with it. Those words translated into my wardrobe only when I began asking myself: what does unencumbered and appropriate mean to me?
The irony is, in the last 5 years, I hardly shopped. I kept what I already wore, I repaired what I couldn’t part with, and I got rid of the rest. I made a shopping list about items I need, in the shape, colour and functionality I prefer, and since I haven’t found 70% of what is on my list, I decided to purchase it only when I spot it. By narrowing down the selection, I noticed a “red thread” in my wardrobe, and I ruled that every new acquisition had to match it, compliment or emphasize it.
This was so interesting to me that I applied the principle to other purchases and even to garden design: in other words, that which is objectively in use and has a strong mood-boosting effect on the owner should be the central theme of a pantry, a garden, a wardrobe, a personal library, a workshop shed, a desk and, why not, every room you walk, sit or sleep in.
What is key about it is to identify it, to remove distractions and to leave space for what is missing. That requires releasing anxiety about it and being fine with wanting something that may take a while to find.
On a related topic, I’m helping a friend move this weekend. The wrap-up starts this afternoon. We bartered our services, because I too need at least one person in the late year to assist me with moving furniture around. Her efficiency with cleaning boosts my morale, while my grouping approach (“demands meticulous care”, “can be dealt with later”, “to be shed”) will keep the move within the budget, on time, and as seamless as possible.
I’m on the way to her. So let me share this invitation to our Earth Send before I get there.
Warm-Up
Run the Inner Smile through your body… until it rests on your lips again… and you can offer it to your surroundings.
Send your thanks to everyone who contributes to your daily life directly and indirectly and thanks to whose services you experience well-being, a bit of ease, comforts and relief of worries, tension and stress.
Send your thanks to everyone who restores your faith in humanity. While plenty of the opposite examples dominate our media, in our real lives and for our real lives to work, daily acts of many who don’t get the spotlight or credit make sure that we survive and make our contribution.
The awareness of less visible helpers and less visible participants in your well-being can wake you up to who you should be featuring in your gratitude lists and who you could appreciate more.
Requests For Healing
can be directed to me, with as little or as much info you want the group to know. Please be ready to provide feedback on your condition and progress. (It’s only in exceptional cases that I let the group send healing for the same issue over a long period of time. Passively absorbing the flow of universal life energy won’t harm anyone; but practitioners need signs that we’re not pouring into lost causes and targets whose goal is not what they claim it is, but are motivated – often through blindspots, though sometimes deliberately, too – by the need to be right. That is, that their fears, scarcity thinking, maladaptive withdrawal from doing their part or lack of vision “need to” assert themselves over the good-will, warm interest, generosity and time of our practitioners. Obviously, I’ve made mistakes at letting that go on before, and I’m not signing up for it again.)
Our personal healing lists may have remained long, but our group healing list has been short and sweet for some time. I’m aware that reiki spent on us who participate on Fridays is amazingly well spent. In the course of the last 7+ years, we ourselves had a lot going on. There are chapters in everyone’s evolution when it makes sense to apply the universal life energy to what we’re building, growing, putting in order, and genuinely excited about. Even if that is just as little (?) as shrinking the influence of terrible events in our past on how we operate in the now and steering toward a more aligned way of life.
From my own observations and also from personal experience, I can confirm that the willingness to suffer is both a strength — tenacity — and a weakness — putting up with situations that in all likelihood weren’t yours to burden yourself with.
I’ve witnessed enough people pretend that significant damage didn’t occur, that they were above it all, and I listened to enough summaries where life experiences were framed as some deficit of a therapeutic method they had discovered recently; and I observed that those methods showed results for a while, while the core issue remained unadressed.
The core issue was driving their new decisions, still, and not long after, they found themselves in similar cycles again, if on a new level or in a different sphere.
I applaud everyone’s will to try again, and people’s courage and ingenuity are what I want to see more of! But transforming behavioural patterns takes repetition — we can’t bypass grief, shock, integration, the consciousness of what our part in the havoc was, and claiming habits that will truly heal us — and that good ol’ journey of trial and error. If healing was super simple, most people would get over with it in a few months, or a few hours. This is why our Friday sessions should make us the main recipients of the group’s reiki.
I too have been working on stuff I couldn’t stand anymore instead of clutching to the narrative that “I’m not good ‘at that‘!” I found out that even modest progress will tell a new story. For example, “This is a skill that can be learned”. Imperfections are milestones to mastery (like it or not). Minor improvements are more satisfying than staying stuck in harsh self-verdicts or utter avoidance: it’s good to start fresh, tune out the noise, not do it for a reward, but learn for the sake of learning. In that process, I noticed what I need in order to learn: some of those elements are so basic that they may not need mentioning, others are unique to me, and all this time when I was telling myself “I’m not good ‘at that‘”, neither the basic nor the unique elements were in place.
Having a bit more self-awareness now, I expect that the “next learning” might be smoother. I don’t need to specialize in every routine or every detail to live with the sense that I’m doing my best — and, how I used to go about some aspects of my life was not that at all. I didn’t shut down my discontent, I knew I had to make time for it! In the background, there were other things with an expiration date that I needed to take care of, too. In regards to the manifestation process, I’m glad that I took the route of elimination and fixing what I couldn’t accept anymore.
In this spirit, I invite you draw attention to what makes you feel uneasy, undeserving, a poor learner, not good enough, “a disaster”, to strong opinions about what you could aim for before you even tried, or, alternatively, why you dissociate and repeatedly have lapses of judgement. Once you begin working on one thing, a lot of seemingly unrelated topics will reach your awareness and reveal that all of it is connected somehow and that undealt-with upsets bleed into other things that will disturb you, too.
Honesty while you quiz yourself about the building blocks of well-being will jog your mind to solutions. So keep pen and paper with you. Write down what you want to remember. Become curious about it! Because it’s so private, there is no need to hold back. If you cry a bit, that’s a sign that you’re touching something that has to do with you.
Now I had a few reiki students who mistook their anger (let’s say, hurt ego) for guidance. Their results were tragic events, some sudden, some predictable due to their attitudes. So that’s not what I’m talking about here: much of our anger is unbalancing, moves us away from mindfulness and belongs to a personality aspect that hasn’t fully matured yet. Thich Nhat Hanh’s advice to cradle and soothe anger like a little child is helpful here. Uncontained anger is no medicine. It’s important to distinguish your true topics from any dormant desires to throw tantrums and get desires met this way.
However, regret, pain and the wish to correct yourself are motivators to give more room to. In fact, those can be more potent than a bucket list of must-sees and must-haves. Robust contentment, authentic vitality and heart-centredness are your harvest – if you respect what is going on inside you. Please don’t diminish it, and push it away.
Reiki goes out in several sessions to your heart’s desire and you.
Seasonal Highlights
The Leonids are progressing to their peak on Monday to Wednesday. Wishing upon the shooting stars has been a fun tradition in almost all cultures, and all I can ask for is that you wish for your blossoming at least once.
In gassho, I humbly receive.
13 November 2026
