Here I Am In Prayers .. Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Thursday, June 23, 2011

What part of youth do you not want to share with your own children?

It is not my usual style to write another entry so quickly after posted a post.  But, there is this voice that is asking for communication.  There is this strong feeling needing for connection, to bridge for higher purpose to provide for a passage.

This is a dedication, one that is written with so much love and prayers, to Ruth 'Roofie' Thompson.

I spent this morning sending lots of distant Reiki to Ruth.  Sitting down in my meditation to pray and to let my soul to teleport, and to communicate, with her.  May the god in me greets the god in Ruth for wellness, for peace and for spiritual and emotional wisdom.

It started with an email that I received earlier today.  It was about Ruth and an update about her conditions.  It was written from her daughter's partner and how the family is reacting to her latest situation.

Ruth is now undergoing medical treatment at Worcester Hospital in United Kingdom. 

Reading it through, I am filled with so much sadness.  My spirit crunches in one with hers.  I am filled with so much yearning, as though there is some unfinished story that needs to be told.  That needs to be shared.  That needs to be heard.   There is a longing feeling for a touch, for a hug.  There is just an enormous want for close comfort.  There is, as if, so much songs that are waiting to be sung.

Deep in my meditation, somehow i could not dismiss this particular song that kept playing in my head.  It was trying to tell me a situation, a story, an event.  For what the higher purpose and all the hidden messages that trailed in this song, I decided to honor it.






Yesterday When I Was Young,
Chy'i

Yesterday when I was young

The taste of life was sweet like rain upon my tongue

I teased at life as if it were a foolish game

The way an evening breeze may tease the candle flame

The thousand dreams I dreamed

The splendid things I planned

I always built to last on weak and shifting sand

I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day

And only now I see how the years ran away

Yesterday when I was young

There were so many songs that waited to be sung

So many wild pleasures lay in store for me

And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see

I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out

I never stopped to think what life was all about

And every conversation I can now recall

Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all

Yesterday the moon was blue

And every crazy day brought something new to do

And I used my magic age as if it were a wand

That never saw the waste and emptiness beyond

The game of love I played with arrogance and pride

And every flame I lit so quickly quickly died

The friends I made all seemed somehow drift away

And only I am left on stage to end the play

Yesterday when I was young

There were so many songs that waited to be sung

So many wild pleasures lay in store for me

And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see

I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out

I never stopped to think what life was all about

And every conversation I can now recall

Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all

There are so many songs in me that won't be sung

I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue

And the time has come for me to pay

For yesterday when I was young

I met Ruth in Pattaya, Thailand about two years ago.  It was in December 2009 where we had Christmas together.  I remembered her joy, despite so much perspiration, where she was spending time in the kitchen to prepare for the Christmas meals.  Ruth had never travelled far in Asia and she was starting to get used to Thailand's climate and weather.  She was such a bubbly person with full of life.

We sat down that evening to know each other better and I was glad that the connection took place. She shared with me a little bit about her, the past and the cancer.  Her cancer was in remission.  We didn't get to do much but it was enough for me to feel Ruth's spirit.

Ruth is a kind and loving British woman.  She wants to do more in life to help out with the unfortunate children in Thailand.  Her spirit, that came to me this morning during my meditation, is a pure big white butterfly.  Metaphorically, it just says so much about her, about her higher purpose and her vision.

For all that God has planned, this is my prayer for you, Ruth ...

"Find that strength within you, Ruth.  Find that peace that is within you, Ruth.  Never stop to believe that you are love and being loved.  You are a loving and caring person, a loving and caring daughter, a loving and caring sister, a loving and caring wife, a loving and caring mother and a loving and caring friend. 

Love has never stopped, Ruth.  We only need to know that it exists no matter where and when.  We just need to feel it even when it is untouchable.  Even when our mind fools it to be missing and out of reach.  Even when we dearly need to feel it.  

Words are not necessary, Ruth for the language of God is always silent  and heard only through our souls.  We are asked not to give up.  And, I am praying that you find that strength and not to give up too."

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Broaden The Mind, Broaden Thy World Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Actions, positive or negative, do not go unrewarded.


Admittedly, I am rather an old-fashioned guy.  Perhaps, a little traditional and conservative.  Worse, am I still living in the past?  Which - haha, as most of us would prefer to deny it and more so in my case here is rather, philosophically, contradicting.  Here I am, a person who would want to flow with time and with opportunities but, somehow, I am in a world of skepticism when it comes to wireless communication - The World of Wi-Fi.  But, I must acknowledge that wireless network is the way to go as we advance forward in the ever changing technology.

I always have this disturbing idea where wireless communication performs rather ineffectively.  Should the modem (or the router) is not strategically placed, internet access in any computer network around the house is affected and very possible that, say, surfing the net can be a pain in the ass.  Perhaps, I have had bad experience dealing with router, its configuration and the weak signals, reception and speed.  Then again, when it comes to technology, it is often said that 'technology is not the problem but it is an issue with the human'.

I just have to tell myself that I need to learn.  That I need to read, and find out, a little bit more.  That I need to overcome the fear.  Ironically, I used to tell some people not to be afraid of the computers and never to live a life not knowing what is Internet; it is here to serve us and not the other way round.  Technology has evolved but it has always changed not to complicate things.  It is supposed to make life, and lifestyle, easier.

Alan Watts wrote "Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the Universe."  I believe that I have to own a new paradigm of thought.  I have to think outside the box.  I have to focus on the good things, those that I clearly and dearly want, and not on what will fail.

Wireless communication offers mobility and convenience.  The devices literally dispense us with the need for wires.  In turn, it frees up space and eliminates clutter.  There is no need for re-wiring.  With no wires or cables to route, a wireless communication system is, inherently, more flexible than the traditional wired network.  When it comes to security and reliability, one just has to read a little more about authentication and encryption.

The one wasted thing that I lost, from the way I used to think, is the free OpenNet optic fibre installation.  Should I have taken up their offer to wire up last year, I will save some $200 for routing up Reiki Sanctuary into a technology highway.

Back then, the hesitation was on two things:

01.  I would prefer a wired network.

Going on this logic, we have to call our contractors to supervise the installation so as to hide the wires, through the false ceiling, all the way to the Study Room.  Definitely, it will involve more renovation works to open up the false ceiling (and more dusts) and additional unnecessary costs.

02.  I am not convinced with high and steady WiFi speed.

I will be disappointed should I pay for a higher subscription for higher download/upload speeds on fibre broadband but getting a weak wireless speed  that is equivalent and of negligible differentials to an ADSL wired network.

The Decision Today

The idea to go forward to migrate from ADSL to Opennet Optic fibre broadband is all about cost effectiveness.  It is a little fraction of cost difference compared with our existing ADSL bundled subscription, that includes with MIO TV (mainly for the soccer channels) and the unlimited digital home line.

OpenNet Installation

OpenNet Installation day.  On left of picture is where the Terminal Point (TP) is fixed.  We actually prefer for the TP to be inside the TV console but we were strongly advised by the contractors/installers not to do so.  The reason, as they specifically mentioned, optic fibre is best not be bent.

These efficient guys from OpenNet doing what were told.  To minimize cable exposure, we have no choice but to get a hole opened/drilled low and to lay the optic fibre cable to run under the TV Console.  It also means another visibility of electric trunks. *Sad*

Internet Service Provider Installation

The mess.  Salute to the Internet Service Provider's technician who wanted to clean up the mess after his successful installation, but we declined.

It is a brand new world

For few dollars more, there is a huge different with the optic fibre broadband internet speed vs an ADSL connection.  And here, I am comparing it between a wired ADSL and a fibre broadband wifi capabilities.

I learn that skepticism does not make me wiser.  Matter-of-fact, anything of negative thoughts retard any growths.  I am amazed with the wireless speed emitted from the optic fibre broadband modem, which my ISP claims can enhance WiFi coverage.  Though the technician informed that we could only get up to 70 mbps (on wireless) for download speed,  I am so thrilled at the results.

Speed using ADSL, based on WIRED 15 mbps subscription:

Using Speed test @ SG

Using Speed test @ dot.NET

Speed using optic Fibre Broadband, based on WIRELESS on 200 mbps subscription:

Using Speed test @ Sg

Using Speed test @ dot.NET

Hmm, what more can I ask?!  Though, I must say that the upload speed really surprises me.  In most speed tests, the upload speed is more than the download speed!  How I wish that it is the other way round.

It is always our misconception on certain matters in life that hinders our growth.  It is always our reluctance to shift the paradigm on our thinking that makes us not knowing about Universal potentials.  It is always our fear that negates to free our emotions.

Yes, I have become the change.  And so, is Reiki Sanctuary.

Reiki Sanctuary Internet Super Highway Set-up

Latest (September 13, 2012):

Reiki Sanctuary has done away with wi-fi.  For more, read HERE

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What A Wonderful, Wonderful ... Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Thursday, June 16, 2011

Today is manana.

Yup, it was a wonderful week last week.  The past several days had been really filled with blessings.  Yes! that much I would want to feel, that much I would want to acknowledge.  Yes, this much I make no bones about the layers of tranquility that each passing day had greeted me.  Though there were not much of activities and excitement nor that I had taken any vacations - they were just any other days, but my soul was inundated with joy of the extraordinaire.  I felt so much peaceful with myself and there was a greeting sense of life.

Words can hardly describe the blissful state of my mind that I was experiencing.  To some, they would probably pass a remark that I had gone kinda mad.  Kinda weird.  Kinda scary.  There would always be a value judgment related to all aspect of living and it would be of no difference with what I had in mind to share it here.  It is a natural one's first emotional judgement about such 'ab-normality' (if one is to choose along this thinking pattern) long before the capacity to rationally judge such an occurence to be related with the Law of the Universe.  That our soul evolves, and should always evolve with time.

Last week, somehow, I felt an elevation with the way I viewed things around me.  When someone was talking to me, I felt there was a three-dimensional personality of that individual.  There was the presence of his physical Being, his Ego and his Higher Self appearing simultaneously at the same time.  I could literally 'see' these three energies of him appearing separately.  To my surprise, as I engaged in the conversation, I could literally 'hear' my Being, my Ego and my Higher Self.

LUP works in progress, just outside Reiki Sanctuary

Then, there was a division of two worlds in and out of Reiki Sanctuary.  When I felt so much accomplished inside, there was a world of confusion outside.  The Lift Upgrading Project (LUP as HDB named it) had just started on my area.  Dust and noise were unbearable daily occurences with so much hacking and drilling works could start as early as eight in the morning.  For an OCD like me, this was a disruption and that I should even feel more so to spruce up Reiki Sanctuary.  But, it amazed me at how I could calmly accept it and letting the activities outside to be a non-weighty entity separated from my soul.

Interestingly, during a group outing to Singapore Flyer (gratitude to JH to arrange it), I saw this signage.  For unknown Universal nudge, I snapped it and today, it just makes sense.  Ironically, the 'Arrow' points upwards -- hmm, Elevated Journey begins?

Somehow, my mind went through a process of taking isolated ideas and consolidating them into a unified whole.  It was taking, and importantly accepting, little things that I knew and making a bigger picture out of them.  It was good just to observe the situations and not to be influenced internally and emotionally.  I was, in the metaphysical view of thoughts, went through a state of emotional integration.  It was, as though, all that I had known become a simple emotional evaluation about every aspects of life.

The week started with a decision that I had finally made.  It was not easy but it was greatly encouraged and motivated by a group of loving individuals.  I was overwhelmed by, and deeply grateful to, these few individuals who really radiated their true souls and shining bright.  Who deserved to be loved and to be highly respected.  I was deeply touched by their love.  I should count on my blessings. 

Last week, I decided to go through a minor surgery to remove a lipoma, a fatty tumor, on the elbow of my left hand.  I had been having it for the past ten years or so.  Started from just a small growth, it was about 5 by 5 cm when it was finally removed on 8th of June.  I knew it was non-cancerous as I had it examined before.  But, little that I knew, the growth was growing to such a big scale.

The MRI report showed that the growth was not from a nerve though it had grown so huge and pressing on the nerves below it.  This lab report eased my mind as I would not want to go through a surgery should it had been related to my nerves.  Obviously, I had my own reasons and these reasons may not sound logical and rational.  Another lab report came back, after the surgery, that the lipoma confirmed to be benign.

I had endured the pains on my left hand for months.  Sometimes it could be rather intensed from the shoulder area and all the way to my wrist.  Somehow, the lipoma had pressed on the nerves beneath it that it triggered pains to other parts of my body too.  The pain gravitated all the way to my lower back and the left leg. 

Perhaps, the changes - this emotional integration, that I had been going through had to do with the surgery.  It had to do with the letting go of my own resistance.  Of my silent fear.  Ironically, a day before the surgery, I had an interesting conversation with another friend.  It was as though the Universe had arranged it for me to receive some words of wisdom.  It was a scene that exemplify as a conversation with God.

This friend shared with me about her personal problems.  She was sharing with me about her life progress but she insisted it was more a regression.  It was interesting just to hear her that day.  For whatever she was sharing, she knew and cited the Law of Opposites.  She accepted that every out must have an in, every low swing must have a high swing, what rises must fall and what falls must rise.

That afternoon, our meeting reminded me of Neal Donald Walsch's book "Happier Than God".  In his book, he identified the five great Principles of Life:

01.  The Energy of Attraction, which gives us power

02. The Law of Opposites, which gives us opportunity

03.  The Gift of Wisdom, which gives us discernment

04.  The Joy of Wonder, which gives us imagination

05.  The Presence of Cycles, which gives us eternity.

What made it more real was when she actualized with what Neal wrote, "The Law of Opposites works in perfect harmony with the Energy of Attraction.  This principle states that no sooner will you call something into your reality than it's exact opposite will also appear, and always first".

That afternoon, I felt that I had been given a chance to engage with God's light which came through her.  For once, in many of my counselling sessions, I didn't have to do much but just listening.  At the end of the meeting, she made a remarkable remark that stayed with me - "Perhaps, I had been focussing so much on the mistakes, that I have been making, that I pushed away the bigger pictures of what I had been wanting to achieve".

That sentence somehow struck me.  It was, as though, she had been sent by God to give me a tight slap on my face to wake up.  It was a pure co-incidental moment since I had just made the decision to go through with the surgery.  Perhaps, it was the synchronicity of all these events that changed my soul vibrations.  I remembered waking up two hours later from the general anaesthesia, which was administered before the surgery, that there was something that had been released out of my soul, out of my body.  Something that did not belong to me and had set me free.  Though, I had a passing feeling where something was missing  but yet, for the bigger picture, I knew it was for good reasons.

I exercised on what my friend's wisdom again when my friends and I went for the PC show the other day.  Perhaps, the Universe had arranged it for me to experience my new lesson.  Perhaps, the Universe had wanted to see how much I had understood the process towards integration.  Afterall, words without exercising nor owning them  would just be words - plain useless.  The knowledge, when one felt could change life, must be integrated by fundamentals or, otherwise, it would not be useful.

It made a big difference.  It was said that the show would be crowded, and it was.  There were others who told me to avoid going since it was the last day of the show.  It was a Sunday.  The wisdom that I had wanted to learn brought a new height of understanding and clarity about reality.

When I told myself to focus on the bigger picture (of getting the things we wanted to get) and not on the crowd, my friends and I managed to get all the stuffs without hassles.  It actually surprised me when my friends and I were out of the Singtel booth with our purchases within fifteen minutes.  We managed to get other things without having to queue.  Importantly, amidst the huge crowd, we were served well and all our queries about the products that we wanted to get were addressed effectively at every booths.  We were out of the show within two hours.

Looking back, it was a lesson where many of us would, probably and likely, to go through life not capable to make emotional evaluations for our higher purpose.  Unconsciously, we allow this process to form in our subconscious level.  It becomes an automatic process where we equate good and bad to be life virtues without having an understanding to take isolated ideas and consolidating them into a bigger unified whole.  We all feel emotions.  We have all experienced them - Love, hate, fear, envy.  But we fail to allow our experiences to form a higher value, of higher fundamentals, to what we feel.  We fail to place a belief and the understanding for knowing how to integrate.

As I flipped open on the Book of Insight - A Guide for the Advanced Soul, this page came to reassure me:

"Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others, but by simply accepting them as they are.  True acceptance is always without demands and expectations."  

Gerald G Jampolsky on Love is Letting Go Of Fear

"The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.  Neither need you do anything but be yourself"
Lao-Tse

I have constantly believed that everything that is to happen, happens for VERY good reasons.  And, on this note, YES! I have indeed changed.  It may be uncomfortable to others, it may be taken and viewed wrongly by others. 

My dearest indigo friend, JH once said that I have become rather 'harsh' with my words and has constantly asked "Are you alright?" whenever we chat.  I believe that it has to do with my changing energetical vibrations that made him, unconsciously, feels that there is something wrong, when there are actually changes only for the very good reasons.  Without him realizing it, his Higher Self just wants to make sure that my soul is comfortable.   I have highest respect for him - a soul that is always full of love.

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Ownership Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Friday, June 03, 2011

Words carry weight. Consider their impact before you speak.


Words are energy.  When we speak or write them, when we use them to communicate with others, we use this vehicle of words to carry meaning to reach out to another person or to a group of people.  All of the words that we speak or write have life of their own.  They have unique energies and more often than not, terms that mean something to a person can mean something else and very different to those coming from a different perspective. 

Words carry weight; they contain energy that constantly vibrate and creating waves in the same way that a note of music creates waves.  Like musical notes, our words live in communities of other words and change in relation to the words that surround them.  The power in the right and positive words can contribute to our well being.  When we are conscious of the energy behind our words, we become capable of making beautiful music in the world.  If we are unconscious of the power of words, we run the risk of creating a noisy disturbance.

Words are telling in more ways than one.  Through their subtle vibrations, they influence us and all around us - be it when we are conscious or in our sleeping mode.  Words move in a subtle dynamic vibrational frequency, just as the energy of colors or the the waves out from a sound.  Every letter of the alphabet is of great significance.  When letters are strung together to form a specific sound or word, the word is charged and form as a conductor with a specific frequency.  This word will then influence us, first with its thought process into our sub-conscious mind, and result with how we think and act.

Basically, words influence how we will think, act and react.  Our life experiences go through, and will continue to go through, from the profound awareness of the power of words.  Words have massive energy that can change, and to some extreme the transormation of, our life.  Basically, when one understands the model of interpersonal communication through Neuro-Linguistic Programming, taking ownership for the right words can greatly help us in all areas of our life.  Be it for our career, relationship, health and overall well being.

This change, or transformation, largely depends on the state of our being, on how much we 'allow' the frequency to translate the consciousness of awareness.  The simplest of words can have an effect on the soul, our state of being.  Our mind filters thoughts and feelings through the framework of the vibrational frequencies that we hold about.  Literally, taking some examples here, it means that the feelings of contentment and fear are triggered by what we hear and perceive.

Just the other day, as I was watching the US TV Series 'The Celebrity Apprentice', I was very much awakened by the American stage actor and artist, Gary Busey who literally translated all the alphabets of a word into something even more meaningful.  His natural gift to decipher the appropriate translation for the acronym of alphabets of the words sets the insight for this article.  What he did to those words conveyed into me the appreciation between an inaction and action of words.  Here is some of his totally awesome piece of gifts at how he transformed each alphabet in a word into something more:

FORGIVE
- Find Ourselves Giving Each Other Incredible Energy
LIGHT 
 - Living in God's Heavenly Thoughts
TEAM 
- Together Everyone Achieves More
FAILING 
- Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth
NOW 
- No Other Way

I am marvel at how he handcrafted those words into encouragement.  I began to realize that my spirit was awakened by his uttering words that had the power to invigorate me and give me hope.

[Here, let me credit a little about Gary Busey.  Personally, I feel that he had been given a second chance, a re-awakening from his Near Death Experience, from a serious motorcycle accident in 1988.  Without wearing a helmet then, his skull was fractured and he suffered permanent brain damage.  He survived from the accident and, as far as I could see him on the show, living healthily today.  He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in 1978 for his role in movie, The Buddy Holly Story.  His clever acronym for LIGHT is total awesome.]

Sometime back, in the year 2009, I wrote "Wassup" [...]. There, I highlighted some basic jargons and ended the article with a hope that we could realize that "Words are cheap.  Don't let them be any cheaper.  Don't let them slip away not granting us with power of living".  In that blog, I also mentioned how our local slangs for words like 'Lor', 'Anything' and 'Whatever' can actually carry negative vibes.

We need to take responsibility for all the words that we speak and write.  We need to be more aware as and when we speak and write.  Importantly, we must take the ownership of the words we utter.  On this token, we need to realize on the power of our words in conveying our thoughts and emotions for they are a bundled information.

Words, as some might say, can sting.  But, words can also soothe us.  By supplying words of hope, for an example, in time of difficulty, they can motivate an individual to begin to sort out his/her life and learn to cope.  The words can give a person a feeling of his/her own significance in the lives of others, a very profound sense of meaning to impart.

It seems to me the power of words as they are conveyed, as in all our daily social interactions, should be stacked uppermost in our minds as we are verbalizing them.  Words provide the means for meaning on values in our souls and for the quality of our life; they convey emotion as well as information.  As much as words can soothe, they can destroy too.  The real power in words comes from the emotional response they invoke to the listeners.  We need to be carefully conveying not only the proper meaning but the proper tone appropriate for a subject or an occasion.

In my dealings with some people, I observe how words can destroy the harmony of their own souls.  Sadly, they dis-own so much of their words when they speak and taking no consideration on the impact as how these words could fall into their state of being.  We need to take ownership of what we say.  Example, when we verbalize, "Oh, I don't usually do this kind of thing" or "I want to take a break from doing (fill in the blank)", we must own it!   We must believe in what we say, in all those words that have shot out from our thought.  We cannot just say it and then do the opposite.

I have heard such things often.  And often enough, I have also witnessed how these individuals go through with their life trapped within their own ownership at their rattling words when they break the rules.  Simply, they go about their life being unhappy, depressed, confused and continuing onwards with struggles.  I witnessed arguments, quarrels and the misplacement of faith and trust.

I would like to interpret that the Universe is simply unable to balance between ethics and actions.  For the Universe to give what we want, we need to take ownership for our words and at the intent these words are to be carried out.  Ownership is about taking control and that we have to, consciously, commit as we speak them.  It is the basis for many other concepts that form the foundations of consquences.

Unconsciously, the baton we used in lieu of our words in our conversation, words will always retain their powers.  When we fully comprehend that words are energy, they have weights and powers, we should be alerted to bring in greater awareness not to use, and then to own, these words sparingly.  We need to own words to own our higher state of being.

Repetition is the mother of learning.  When one verbalizes words (that are being said over and over again), naturally, the Universe will just conspire.  It is the vibration and frequency on those words that link it to the universal conception.  Successful individuals are very much aware of this universal principle - 'words become them'.  This is the group of individuals that lives their lives empowering and own with them the positive words, and obeying and following strictly to what they say.

Like the musical notes that I mentioned earlier (para 2), the Universe vibrates at the words being said and sends out frequency to shape the form.    It is a simple theory of domino effect - waiting for one dominant word to act and effects another.  Watch our words, for they become actions.  Watch our actions, for they become habits.

Thing is, it is OK to make mistakes BUT it is not OK to make the mistake over and over again.

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