Your answers may awaken your buried need for a healthy release:

Eating when your not hungry
Sleeping more than usual
Nonstop activity
Too much television or internet surfing
Obsessive thinking
Depression
Bodily symptons, ie., aches, pains fatigue, illness
Lack of motivation
Feeling stuck
Paralyzing fear
Consuming desire to control or change people or situations
Unhealthy habits or addictions

Practice effective release

There are five common denominators for effective release:

Acknowledge the resistance
Allow it to be
Intend to discharge it
Activate the release through words or action
Seek spiritual guidance for deep rooted issues

By: Lauren Larsen

Join us by using your intention to be included. If you wish to join us, be in a comfortable place at this time. State your intention to join in as you read this invitation. “I intend to be included in this session”. Close your eyes and take a few deep and cleansing breaths’. The healing energy will begin to flow to you.

This is not a telephone or internet session. All you need to do is just relax,  sit or lie down during the session. You can be anywhere and receive energy but it is best to be quiet and open during the session.

What is Reiki and How Does it Work?

Reiki is an ancient form of alternative healing. In recent years it has become a common phenomenon in the world of medicine, health care and relaxation.
People all over the world are now taking an interest in Reiki, a form of hands-on healing. Countless people of all different backgrounds and skills have taken some type of Reiki training.

Today it is very difficult to keep pace with life in the fast lane and this causes a lot of pressure. Corporations are worried about the health of their employees due to the high rate of absence in the office. Many days are taken off because of nervous tension due to stress. Employers are now interested in introducing relaxation techniques such as Reiki in the workplace. Reiki can often be the perfect solution to this problem.

How would we define Reiki? People are confused by the pronunciation of Reiki. It’s very simple; you can pronounce Reiki as Ray-Key. The meaning of Reiki is”Universal Energy”. In Chinese the letters Ki is referred to as Chi which actually means energy. Reiki is connected to the energies both inside of us as well as in the world around us.

The way Reiki works lies in the meaning of the word itself. It is based on working with and channeling energy. Some people consider Reiki a spiritual energy.

As Reiki practitioner’s we work with the energy that is all around us and connect this energy with your energy. This is a process of self healing and it brings a peaceful relaxation to the mind and body. It also keeps any energy source within a person free from any blockage. Whenever any energy flow is blocked, it causes some problem in your body. This energy blockage is usually related to worries and stress and manifests itself in physical problems. As Reiki practitioner’s we can feel this blockage and know how to send healing energy to clear out the blocks that keep the energy freely flowing.

Reiki is amazingly effective for emotional problems. Sometimes a person can’t express clearly how he feels but he knows something is really burdening his mind. Reiki works well for this type of problem. A few sessions of Reiki can help to unblock the throat and mind energy sources. Once it is cleared the person feels deeply relaxed and can express himself clearly. Physical problems are often related with the emotional problems inside a person’s psyche. The unblocking of these energy centers makes a person emotionally free. This in turn is beneficial in dealing with physical problems. Reiki can reach to the deepest recesses of the mind and helps maintain a proper balance between body and mind.

The impressive thing about Reiki is that it is completely harmless but still has great healing power. It is a great help in stress, panic attacks, depression, anxiety or nervousness. It works by re-balancing the energy within you and soothes your body and mind. Reiki is a holistic method of healing. Reiki practitioners ask their clients to try and find out underlying causes for the symptoms. Even a very small change in lifestyle may be all that is required to cure a patient’s problems.

Experiences during or after a distant Reiki treatment can vary for each person. Here are a few examples.
Feelings of peace, serenity, calmness and/or relaxation
Feeling energetic
Feeling lighter
Euphoria (happiness, laughing, and/or positive thinking)
Spiritual awareness
Release of suppressed/buried feelings, emotions, and/or blockages
Release of toxins that can trigger sweating and/or excessive thirst

Anything you experience is normal. Some people may not experience anything at all, this is also normal. It can mean that the Reiki healing energy is working on a different level of your body. Some people may start noticing a difference the next day, few days later, or even a week later. Some people are more sensitive than others but everybody receives the same healing benefit. As long as you accept and are open to the Reiki healing energy being sent to you, it will work!

Lauren Larsen is a holistic clarity consultant specializing in energy medicine, healing and spirituality. She offers private healing sessions and group programs that will assist you in becoming the “conscious observer” of your life by addressing your sense of identity, personal character, life goals, spiritual beliefs, and relationships. You will discover that true prosperity begins when you shift your mindset to become a “whole soul” total package. To register for this event sign in for newsletter or visit me on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/claritywithlaurenlarsen

Sheila Z is a holistic healer and a catalyst for wellness. A well respected author and International Inspirational Speaker. Sheila is an Energy healer and has a nationally accredited all day Intentional Wellness Experience addressing emotional clarity and unraveling thoughts and patterns that may be holding you from your highest vision. Sheila offers private healing sessions, Reiki sessions and monthly specials, visit my website at: http://www.openwisdominstitute.com

Everyone knows the proverb that money makes the world go around. Given how most of us feel about money, this may be only a slight exaggeration. The task of earning and managing money dominates many of our waking hours and our personal relationships are often affected by the intense emotion associated with it. Exploring money and how we relate to it, therefore, feels somewhat like bringing up an uncomfortable topic at a dinner party.

Why bother discussing it then?  Simply put, understanding the principles of money can help you manage your physical, mental and spiritual health.

Money is energy. Each dollar, nickel or penny in your pocket represents a unit of energy, specifically the energy you invested to earn it. You can use that unit of energy to get the things you want and need, things in which other people invested their energy to produce. This energetic nature of money is clearly evident in its development.

The money we earn can serve as an excellent barometer of our current energy conditions. The emotions we experience as we work are stored not just in our bodies, but also in the money we earn. The value of the money we possess infuses with the emotional energy experienced as we earn it. If we hate what we do for a living, our earnings stand for kind of sacrifice. Every paycheck seems diminished because the work never seems equal to the effort. In contrast, when we love what we do, the money takes on very little extra meaning.. it is just money.

Of course, whether earned in suffering or joy, that money does represent a certain value in society. The money we bring in and accumulate allows us to purchase goods and services. We may have positive or negative feelings about the amount of money we have stored, depending on the lifestyle we desire.  The more expensive our target lifestyle, the stronger our feelings about our monetary worth will be and the more intense our feelings if dissatisfaction will be if our earnings do not allow us to afford the lifestyle we desire.

However, we can learn to generate and accumulate money in a way that empowers us. The key is to have a clear and realistic purpose with regard to earning and saving money. Money, like Ki-energy, must circulate to remain healthy. It can be accumulated and stored to increase power. But it must be used or else it will stagnate. To use money does not mean to simply spend it, but rather to invest it. Investing some of your money towards the fulfillment of your life goals keeps it circulating and gathering value.

Ask yourself, “What is the purpose of earning money? Why do I need money?” Draw a clear relationship between money and how you plan to attain your specific goals. As you may have experienced, there are many times when the purpose of earning money is not clear to you as you thought. Money is not an extension of our identity. If we begin to equate our self-worth with our monetary worth, we create a false sense of self. The key is to realize that our true selves are far more powerful than any amount of status gained through money, and that money is simply an energetic tool to be used for the creation of a purposeful life.

Just as we can break the connection between our identity and our earnings by investing in the fulfillment of our life goals, we can dissipate the undercurrent of fear in our transactions by making sure our regular expenses do not exceed our regular income. This is commonly called budgeting. For a budget to reduce anxiety, it must not be designed out the same fear already connected to how you spend money. The start of this process is very simple, just pay at least as much attention to the energy half of your transactions as you do the monetary half.

You have already taken the first step; the awakening that money is energy. With this insight, practice paying attention to how you feel when you deal with money. Continue watching until you can see your behaviors, actions, and feelings around money. For the sake of your budget, write them down. Record how you actually spend your money and what you feel during each transaction. Then comes the hard part, accept. Without judgment, accept that this record of your expenses reflects your current spending habits and the emotional attachments related to them. Once you have completely exposed your relationship to how you spend your money, you can choose with confidence how you want to spend it going forward.

Ultimately the goal here of exploring money as energy is not just about improving our relationship with money; it is about empowering ourselves to create more fulfilling lives. The missing link between a renewed awareness of money’s energetic nature and living a more fulfilling life understands the source of the fears surrounding money. All of our fears around money are based on a simple, yet powerful belief, that the resources of the world are scarce, that there is not enough for everyone.

The catch is that it is hard to truly live in abundance with habits formed in scarcity. The tendency to hoard money rather than gather and circulate it is the biggest of these habits. Look again at your attitudes toward earning, saving and spending money and see if a belief in scarcity helps explain any anxiety you feel. The biggest paradox with the philosophy of a scarcity is that it is a self-fulfilling one. The fear of not having enough leads people to take more than they need and to hoard energy in all forms, which leads to the uneven distribution of wealth that plagues our world.

Once you remove this anxiety, and the related impulse to hoard, you can feel confident in using and consuming just enough. The moment you feel you or your family might go without, the urge to hoard arises immediately. Resist the urge and practice instead the techniques of money management based on the principles of energy. If you pay attention to your body and your soul, you will know when you have enough, in any given energy transaction. Living so that you use and consume only as much as you need to fulfill your commitments and life goals begins to create abundance.

As more and more of us subscribe to the belief in abundance, and manage our consumption accordingly, we will ensure that there is enough for everyone. As you master living in abundance, you will find that your capacity for peace, joy and fulfillment will expand.

By: Lauren Larsen

The following exercise is not to see how well you can track your thinking or feelings, but to give you the experience of being the conscious observer of yourself. Believe it or not, you are the thinker, not your thoughts or feelings.

Go to your sacred space. Plan to sit comfortably, undisturbed for 15 minutes and complete the following excerise:

• Take a few slow, deep breaths.
• Turn your attention to your thoughts. If you are dealing with an emotional issue, focus on that emotion.

Instead of getting caught up in your thoughts or feelings as you would usually do, watch them closely. For example, if you where a tennis player watching the ball or an artist painting a canvas. If you find your attention wandering, come back to the task at hand.

At first, your mind may seem like wall to wall thoughts or emotions, and you may have difficulty determining where one thought leaves off and the next one begins. You may also find that certain thoughts or emotions keep recurring like a popular song. For example, repetitive worries or your favorite images or fantasies. If you’re especially attentive, you may begin to notice that each thought or emotion has its own parts, including a beginning, middle and an end.

• At the end of the 15 minutes, stop and reflect on your experience.

Did you experience some “distance” from your thoughts or emotions? Or did you keep losing yourself in the thinking process?

As you begin to gain some perspective on your thoughts through the practice of meditation, you will find that they start losing the power they once had over you. You can have your thoughts and feelings, but they won’t have you.

What is the difference between thoughts and feeling?

Feelings occur as a set of recognizable sensations in your body. When you’re angry, for example, you may feel tension in your shoulders and jaw and experience a rush of energy in the back of your head. When you’re sad, by contrast, you may feel heaviness in your chest and heart. Through meditation, you can discover how to experience your feelings directly as sensations, separate from thoughts and stories that perpetuate them.

Thoughts are the images, memories, beliefs, judgments and reflections that float through your mind and often give rise to your feelings. If you follow the word “feel” with “like”, you’re probably voicing a thought or a belief, rather than a feeling. You can practice breaking strong feelings down into their component parts by asking, what are the thoughts and images in my mind that keep me feeling the way I do? What am I actually experiencing in my body right now, aside from my thoughts?

Thoughts not only generate feelings, they often masquerade as feelings, (so you won’t actually feel the ones you have) attempt to talk you out of your feelings, judge your feelings, or suppress them entirely. The more you can recognize your thoughts and feelings, the more clearly and consciously you can relate with and express your inner experience and hear your true self.

By: Lauren Larsen

Create a mental attitude that attracts prosperity by feeling wealthy in your mind. When you start feeling wealthy in all facets of life, your mind will accept more completely the reality that life has much to offer you and you deserve to have it all.

So, what is the most helpful mental mindset for attracting prosperity?  It is a conscious attitude of consistent positive expectancy.  It’s also a state of mind constantly open to new ideas, inspirations and intuition.

When I was in a high-level, six-figure executive position, I started paying attention to my mindset.  I noticed when I maintained an open, expectant, ready to receive mindset, what I put out returned to me in the form of even greater financial prosperity.

Certain core values help me truly feel prosperous.  Expanding beyond an attitude of positive expectancy, I also noticed I embrace the ability to see the best in others.  I’ve always been trustworthy and honest..    I often meet clients who have an attitude of positive expectancy on the surface.  But scratch that surface just a little and a great deal of fear, disappointment and negativity is revealed on the inside.  Does that describe you?

When you use conscious clarity and live in alignment with your true purpose – you can walk in your passion and truth.  Other people will notice your authenticity and be drawn to it.  As they’re attracted to who you are at depth, they’ll want to work with you creating financial prosperity.   Many people aren’t aware the word “wealth” comes from an ancient Welsh word, “weal” which comes from the old water wheels for milling grain.  It truly means to be in the flow.

I left my executive position to start my own business and now I feel even more abundant and prosperous because I’m excited about being of service to my clients.  I am living my authentic truth and prosperity is always around me.

Prosperity is also a state of soul.  When you meditate, you become filled with the presence of your higher mind.  This connection reinforces your mental mindset of positive expectancy.  Meditation will help you come to know your higher mind within.  You’ll produce a consistent positive attitude deep within, key to helping you achieve real prosperity.

Here are my steps to developing a mindset that attracts prosperity to you:

• Connect daily with your higher mind through meditation.
• Steer clear of people who speak about hard times.  Do your best to change the topic of conversation.
• Associate only with people who maintain a positive attitude about prosperity and money.
• Truly spiritual people believe having money is okay.  Affirm you live in a loving Universe that provides for all your needs.
• Frequent affluent places in your city.  Permeate your entire being with strong prosperity vibrations.
• Shop at the finest, most elegant stores. Try on expensive clothing even though you may not have the money.  Get used to elegance and opulence as a good thing.
• Don’t accept negative thoughts that reinforce lack or poverty in any way.
• When you pray don’t ask for money or cash flow.  Make your prayer an affirmation that your higher mind knows you have a need which must be fulfilled.
• Keep all channels open as to how prosperity may come to you. If you need something, it may not come by way of buying it with cash.  It’s possible for it to be bartered, traded, , or, even given to you.
• Keep active. Don’t sit waiting for your “good” to materialize.  Activity helps you stand a better chance to be in the flow of receiving when the time is right.
• Program your mind with prosperity affirmations. Build a strong foundation of belief in your own prosperity and your ability to attract more.
• When going through your bills, maintain an attitude of your higher mind working through you in infinite ways to take care of each payment.

It may take time to add each step into your life.  Or, you might make the shift in an instant.  As you shift, you’ll feel your prosperity level increasing inside.  When that happens you’ll become a powerful magnet manifesting real prosperity and abundance in all facets of your life.

By Lauren Larsen