Dear Anita,

Thank you for all the kind comments you have made about me and your appreciation.  You have given so much over the years to people who have posted using your own wisdom and experiences to draw upon and now you have been able to receive someone else’s wisdom in return.  The right person at the right time has appeared.  As much as I might have given to you, I have also received back.  Most people don’t ask the challenging questions that you have asked and your questioning has given me the opportunity to re-read material that has already been integrated into me but is not often in my conscious mind.

I have just referred to my Course Lessons and came across a paragraph on how the balance is maintained between oxygen and carbon dioxide (I knew it was there somewhere).  “The ultimate factor in controlling respiration is chemical, and dependent upon a critical level of blood alkalinity being maintained.  As soon as the presence of acid, resulting from a build up of carbon dioxide in the body, threatens the alkaline reserve of blood, there is stimulation of the respiratory center in the Medulla Oblongata (upper part of the spinal cord) which sends out nerve impulses to the respiratory muscles, and inhalation occurs, followed by exhalation and expulsion of carbon dioxide.”

If only we could all learn to let go and let our bodies do the amazing job for which they were designed and which we all take so much for granted and don’t even think about very often.

I also came across this text from my favorite secret mentor, William Lee Rand, which is relevant to what we discussed somewhere.  “In the 1920’s and 1930’s, a distinguished researcher at Yale University School of Medicine, Harold Saxon Burr, suggested that diseases could be detected in the energy field of the body before physical symptoms appear.  Moreover, Burr was convinced that diseases could be prevented by altering the energy field.

These concepts were ahead of their time, but are now being confirmed in medical research laboratories around the world.  Scientists are using SQUID instruments to map the ways diseases alter biomagnetic fields around the body.  Others are applying pulsating magnetic fields to stimulate healing.  Again, sensitive individuals have been describing these phenomena for a long time but there was no logical explanation of how it could happen.”

SQUID stands for Superconducting Quantum Interference Device.

I hope the breathing exercises will bring you a more peaceful existence.

Kylin has been very quiet so I don’t know if she’s been reading these posts but if she is I would like to send her a note of appreciation for her post which has facilitated these discussions and reassure her that sometimes, even if she is not aware of it, she might just be saying the right things.

I will look for any future discussions on my new topic.

Take care.

Peggy

Hi Kylin,

Welcome back.  If you are considering having one or more Reiki treatments, please bear in mind that you, the client, just have to sit or lay back and allow Reiki to happen.  There is no manipulation of the body, just the placement of hands and energy flow.  The word “Reiki” is actually two words in Japanese “Rei” meaning universal and “Ki” meaning energy.  The healer should just assist the energy to flow in its natural manner.  It isn’t necessary for you to fully understand the concept for it to work.

If any more questions arise, please feel free to ask them.

Peggy

Hi Kylin,

I can relate to your fear of making mistakes as I can inwardly cringe if I’ve omitted to do something which then leads to criticism either by myself or others.  I, too, can spend hours on an email trying to get the wording exactly right.  It is not “mortifying” to omit some information.  This is like saying that you want to die.  It’s a complete over-reaction and if it takes months for the other person to reply, then it wasn’t that important in the first place.  The more stressed you are, the more mistakes you are likely to make.  However, “new” mistakes are an opportunity to learn.

The things that you are describing come from being in a stressed state.  Lack of sleep, worrying, mind going blank, shivers, trembling voice.  Wondering what you might have done wrong and worrying what you might do wrong in the future are two areas that you could delete from your internal dialogue.  One way you are focusing on the past and you cannot change the things that you did and the other way you are focusing on the future which is unknown.

Both stress consultancy and reiki are therapies that are designed to help you relax.  As a stress consultant, I would talk to you so that I could establish how you came to be in this stressed state.  The treatments, by which I mean the tools that I would give you to use, would be breathing techniques, visualization, guided meditation aimed at muscle relaxation and a ‘reprogramming’ of the mind whilst you were in a receptive state, similar to hypnosis.

There are lots of guided meditations on the market which would help you in this way.  Perhaps you could begin by obtaining   one which is designed to help you sleep better.

In Reiki there is a principle which says “Just for today do not worry”.  This is aimed at the student of Reiki who is also just as likely to fall foul of emotional disturbance etc. as anyone else.  Can Reiki change your thoughts?  This is an interesting question which I think Anita also asked.  We all have to take responsibility for ourselves and our thoughts can only be changed in as much as we want them to.  When we realize that certain thoughts might be damaging to us, we might then be willing to release them i.e. not have them any more.

Reiki works on the subtle energy levels and can help heal wounds, internal and external.  Some people tell me that I “took their pain away”.  If I take someone’s pain away, felt as physical pain, this would then lead me to believe that their emotional pain (feeling) had been reduced or removed and then their thought might be “I am no longer in pain”.  This would then go on to lift their spirits.  (Mind, body, spirit, emotions).  Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explore this with you.

If you weren’t stressed before you took this job and you are now, then that would be an indication that you need to change.

Whilst your posts are specific to you, I would prefer that you stay with this link.

Peggy