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  • August 2008 Reflections
    August 2008 Reflections
    Last month I had some requests to turn off registration and allow comments to be added at the bottom of each article without logging in. I decided to offer this as an option. The drawback is that the blog has been receiving a lot more spam, but most of it is getting blocked, and I think that if it m...
  • How to Heal Using Colour and Music
    How to Heal Using Colour and Music
    I have noticed that opening up to colours and sounds can help a person unlock their inner creative and healing potential. On a conscious level we seldom consider the idea of colour and sound as elements that have a deeper resonance and power, sometimes we do not appreciate their essential nature. It...
  • Fast and Effective Healing Technique
    Fast and Effective Healing Technique
    Often it is difficult to find the time to learn about and to understand how to heal using our own inner power. However what I have noticed is that undertaking energetic-based healing does not take up more time than the right amount of time. It is just a matter of getting into the present moment rath...
  • Overcoming Creative Blocks and Finding New Inspiration
    Overcoming Creative Blocks and Finding New Inspiration
    Having a block in the flow of our creative energies can be frustrating and difficult to overcome when there is no explanation for where that creative potential went. Oftentimes we might experience a flow of ideas or concepts that we can use, and then that flow gets cut off and the ideas stop. How do...
  • Blogging: The Best Therapist
    Blogging: The Best Therapist
    In one of the studies done at AOL some time ago the results illustrated that almost 50% of people who blog about their experiences because it is therapeutic. 40% responded that their blog foremost helps them connect with their friends, and 28% responded that it helps improve their writing skills. I...
  • I Got 180 in Zazen on 2nd attempt
    I Got 180 in Zazen on 2nd attempt
    During the last 3 months we have been going to the shops at the end of each month to see whether the wii fit console was available. Each month the sales manager would explain that wii fit consoles are selling out 5 minutes after arrival at each order date. Pre-orders were also not being taken. Howev...
  • Is Quantum Touch better than Reiki?
    Is Quantum Touch better than Reiki?
    One of the several questions I was asking myself when I first learned about energetic healing is: which healing method is the best or easiest to learn? Learning energetic healing has a number of benefits that extend past just the healing experience itself. For effective healing to occur, a person mu...
  • Some Thoughts on Practicing Compassion
    Some Thoughts on Practicing Compassion
    Not too long ago I heard a story from someone who had an encounter with a Mormon, who was at the time going from door to door spreading information about the religion. This person was telling me that instead of turning him away she invited him inside her home. Most people in the same circumstance wo...
  • Strange Medical Symptoms and Alternative Explanations
    Strange Medical Symptoms and Alternative Explanations
    Even though modern medicine has gained a certain degree of trust when we are looking for an explanation for physical and mental symptoms, there are times when our medical system utterly disregards other possibilities for what we may be feeling or experiencing. This blind and almost arrogant approac...
  • Bringing Yourself Closer to Your Partner
    Bringing Yourself Closer to Your Partner
    The distance that we bring between ourselves and others is problematic when it forces us to focus on what is lacking in others rather than what is present and not seen. It is often that process of not seeing others in their true form that causes an inevitable sense of lacking to arise. If we lose t...