Health food stores are popping up like mushrooms after rain online and offline, thriving on people’s single-minded obsession with food. What began as useful awareness that what you put in your body affects the state of your body (and mind!) has turned into an almost religious fervour pursued by those of us seeking to heal … Read more
1- First condition to recovery: have a life purpose and meaning that is compelling enough for you to want to be well. Have a “Why” before the “How”. Everything else depends on having this condition met. 2- You are in charge of your health decisions, and nobody else is (assuming that you’re over 18 and … Read more
Relationships weigh heaviest as factor in health and well-being, much more than diet, arguably exercise, and drugs. I’ve felt at my worst when living or working in emotionally toxic environments, and at my best when being part of a supportive community. Lack of care and support, given and received, is a poison. It causes body … Read more
1- Choose transaction partners who love what they do, and are both happy and passionate about their work. This includes the cook who makes your food, your kids’ school teachers, your dentist, your car mechanic and your airplane pilot. 2 – Choose transaction partners with a sense of humour. Outsource if humour is scarce in … Read more
The Origins of Reiki Mikao Usui was a Japanese Buddhist monk in search for enlightenment. The ultimate scope of Buddhist practice, as is the ultimate scope of spiritual practices, is transcendence, meaning going beyond the sole identification with a separate self, and thus ending the suffering related to separation and a contracted identity. Happiness is … Read more
I was a new Reiki practitioner when I stepped into a small neighbourhood fruit and veggies store. The salesman was sitting on a chair, his head buried between his hands, a worried elderly woman running back and forth with water and pain killers, trying to help him. The man was in his thirties, and couldn’t … Read more
A Reiki Alpha Bitch post If your fur baby suffers with anxiety, her distress very likely causes you distress. And you’d like to help, and you’ve tried everything. The problem is, your own distress goes right back at Pup and distresses him again. Dogs are highly empathic creatures, and very much tuned in our embodied … Read more
Fighting Opression by Being Neither Opressor Nor Opressed It starts with the Self. It takes Healing. It takes Practice. It takes Power and Love. I am broken, but not defeated. There has been generational, inherited trauma, as the child of Holocaust survivors. There has been childhood trauma: Mother lost at first to mental illness, then … Read more
The Hebrew language is interesting to explore. Words are based on a root, a number of consonants; add vowels, prefixes and suffixes to the root, and you get verbs, nouns, adjectives and attributes all related to the same root. For example, take the word “Shalom” – Peace, which has its root Shin, Lamed, Mem. Let’s … Read more
Reading the Signs of Well-Being Taking the scenic road to well-being means that I use therapies and practices which take time, some of which are short-term, and some of which are long-term; some methods bring immediate results, while other methods work like a snowball effect, with noticeable changes occurring much later in time. Some methods … Read more
