“Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.” Vernon Howard
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“All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.“ Lao Tzu
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📷 One autumn day in Osaka, November 2018
This is a THANK YOU note. 💖📝 As a healer (to be more accurate: as a channel of God’s healing) I still find myself wondering if it’s worthwhile to continue doing what I do and whether or not I’m good enough for this. Some days are tough and lonely. However, most days are purposeful and fulfilling because of you.
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I have big dreams for you that I wish to turn into reality as I continue to evolve. Because of you, I find the idea of one day creating a healing sanctuary surrounded by trees a dream worth pursuing. I imagine us surrounded by the wisdom of trees as we heal, do yoga, meditate, and sip tea.
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Cheesy but true: you being on this space means so much. I’m grateful that you read what I post, I’m grateful that you show up for my classes and talks, I’m grateful that you reach out to me for healing and guidance. I’m grateful for your confidence in me. Your support is restorative and empowering. My life as a healer hasn’t always been easy, but I‘m grounded by the knowledge that it’s always worthwhile to navigate this path because of you. So... THANK YOU. See you soon. Thanks for being here, thanks for showing up, thanks for keeping me on this path. 🧚♀️
“Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary. A houseboat in Kashmir, a view down Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, a gray gothic farmhouse two stories high at the end of a red dog road in the Allegheny Mountains, a cabin on the shore of a blue lake in spruce and fir country, a greasy alley near the Hoboken waterfront, or even, possibly, for those of a less demanding sensibility, the world to be seen from a comfortable apartment high in the tender, velvety smog of Manhattan, Chicago, Paris, Tokyo, Rio or Rome — there’s no limit to the human capacity for the homing sentiment. Theologians, sky pilots, astronauts have even felt the appeal of home calling to them from up above, in the cold black outback of interstellar space.” Edward Abbey
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📷 Julian Winslow on Flickr
I recently worked with wonderful women who were carrying burdensome energies they’ve caught from other people. Some were of envy, jealousy, and insecurity. The senders of negative energies, it seemed to me, weren’t even fully aware of their effects on others. In one case, a dense energy cloak manifested in the aura of the recipient. As for my other client, blockages on the receiving side of her body appeared, thus affecting the flow of abundance in her life.
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Whenever I see these energies in my clients, I am reminded of how important it is to cultivate and nourish my own inner life by working on my own shortcomings. Our lives are bound by a continuous thread of energy. When we think loving and kind thoughts, we empower love and kindness. When we think good thoughts and direct them to others, we are essentially sending them goodness. Same goes if we were to think negatively of them.
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Confidence, self-worth, kindness, and love have potent protective capacities. In other words: when we cultivate our holistic well-being by nourishing our mind, body, and spirit, we become less vulnerable to dense energies.
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Ill thoughts and feelings benefit no one. When we heal ourselves, we become kinder and more loving. When we are loving and kind, more people experience love and kindness. The thread of energy that binds us becomes supercharged with goodness that flows to infinity and beyond. This benefits you, me, and the rest of our interwoven lives.
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📷Masaki Nakayama
