I Am So Thankful Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Wednesday, October 13, 2010

You, my readers, make me proud.  I am just feeling so thankful.  Little I expect that I have quite a large readership.

First, forgive me for not checking my email from VOX's account.  After I migrated my blog here in Blogger on 4 September 2010, I thought that email address would no longer be active.  I have to create a new email address when I registered with Blogger.

If not for the personal messages from two forummers at Renovation Forum and one from Doggie Forum, I would probably still be in the dark.  To these people, my apologies for not checking my PM Box any earlier.

What I thought that had been done correctly isn't the way things come out.  Just after I migrated to Blogger, I posted a note to re-direct my blog here.  What I didn't realize, when VOX finally drew the curtain down, it re-directed my VOX url, http://reikisanctuary.vox.com to Typepad.

Typepad was my temporary site.  It was a site chosen by VOX Team to help bloggers migrate our data.

I don't quite like Typepad.  It is just personal.  I don't feel good blogging in a platform that has both the free and paid versions.  It gives me a sense of inflexibility and limited freedom when I am using the free version.  The mind will simply tell me that I could get much better things unless I start to pay for the full paid version.  To continue blogging using a free hosted platform serves me well.

Readership in October, 2010

Statistics

 I shall continue to pray for us to grow together.  I am respectful for those who enjoy visiting and reading my posts.  "Thank You" from the bottom of my heart.

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Way of The Winding Valley Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Friday, October 01, 2010

Geez, I just have to blog this. 

It is not the usual me to publish another writing after I have had just made one a day before.  I would always like to let my written thought to settle inside me for a little longer. 

For it to be internalized and for it to assimilate into a grandeur sense to my soul.  For it to be a learning process from a new psychological perspective.  Afterall, the effectiveness of learning is guided through primary factors of comprehension, retention and recollection.

It is not the usual me to share with the world of my inner emotion.  Especially, when I am too overwhelmed with sorrow.  And, particularly when I have no reasons to be in it. 

It is just not the usual me to bare my soul naked, yet feeling apprehensive.  There is always a time for everything, as I would often think.  Perhaps, I just have to redress that idea.  Perhaps, it is an ego thing that I have yet to admit.

It is not the usual me to reach out to the Universe when I am down in the ramp.  When emotions are just too much to handle; when my mind is being overpowered and cluelessly intensifying the experience.  I have made to think that I am still a human and still in the process of learning.

Admittedly, the complexity of emotions, feelings and thoughts is not an easy lesson that we can just learn and understand it immediately.  It is not something to happen and bring about instant increased consciousness.

I am sure there is a bigger meaning to my experience today. It is calling me to observe beyond my spirit. Beyond my emotions, my feelings, my thoughts. Because, underneath all of that that I am feeling, lies the quiet yet powerful and eternal energy of a learning process of it all. I have been put onto a plane that goes far beyond my spirit. I guess, in this realm, I am connecting with the Universal Energy that permeates all space and time for me to understand the moment, the now-ness of today.

Awww, I am such a crying baby!  Gosh, there is just too much going around my head.

Yes, I have been crying for good 15 minutes.  All my emotions and logics are twisted.  Little that I realize the importance of VOX and how much it means to me till I open up the site, www.vox.com earlier.  VOX is, and with years of taking it for granted, a personal thing that is actually close to me.

The VOX Banner

"The Tombstone"

Simple but yet it hits me badly.  I feel that it has a soul that can feel.  That, it is feeling sad too.  That, it feels inevitable to end.  That, it feels the emotions of all VOX's bloggers.

Tears just rolled when I read the line "Thank you for your love". It hurts me. It is like listening to the honest truth about your existence.

I want to make it personal.  It is a way to give VOX that respect that it deserves.  I am crying not because I have lost a personal thing.  I am crying not because, I feel, I have become the victim of circumstances.  My tears are about to live ahead with good memories of what, and of who, I have chosen to put my energy and soul into.  It is for a significant life that, hopefully, will drive me towards greater love.

It was just a casual visit as I just wanted to see if I would get some kind of an error message.  Curiosity is a form of an emotional reaction; we do get this feeling that we need to check on something that is personal because we actually care.  I am sure that my thought is not more of an attention but a personal emotion.  Definitely, there is more to VOX than I would want to think.  Than I would want to admit.

I thought, after a simple write-up to express my gratitude to it yesterday, I will be able to move on.  Afterall, I have started web-logging in Blogger.   I have made Blogger a new home.  I have started to like it.  I have started to ingrain myself that everything here is to happen for good reasons.

I have forgotten the very essence in the language of the Universe.  That everything, and not just us humans, is one big quantum energy.  We are connected to everyone and everything else in the Universe cohesively.  Through close interconnection, we become the voice for each other.  We are to learn together.  We are the encoders and the carriers of information to bring about higher consciousness.

The language of the Universe of the banner in VOX today and my emotions are about two waves in phase overlapping each other.  The sign is there and I just have to accept on this huge amount of energy and information.  It is about me to take stock to what I wrote yesterday and how far am I willing to take it to the next platform in my life.

It is also about my conviction.  I have shared, and always encouraging, to all my family members and friends to start web-logging.  This is one of the simplest way towards reaching out to abundance; about getting the Universe seriously to hear us through all our imprints of wants and desires in writing.  It is about bringing closer the time and space.  It is about opening the door for constructive interference through our thought and emotional vibrations.

With VOX closing, I believe that many of us have been made to think and re-evaluate our priority.  We are made to ponder over our mind whether our continuation to web-log is putting us on the right track to the road of our life ahead.  Are we going to move ahead toward a climatic 'heavenly' conclusion for a thing we used to believe?

Today, my emotion is leading me to another level for spiritual maturity.  It is, probably, a personal activism of an inner call of recognition for my life to actively reflect and demonstrate the truth of who I am.  The truth of my sacred individuality.  Perhaps, it is the language of the Universe made clear from the message of my dear friend who tried to instill the Universal language inside me weeks back.

I am thankful for the cry today.  These are the tears of a healing release and closeness of my body, my mind and my spirit.  It is about the journey of spiritual companionship at the end of life that begins now.

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The Tombstone Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Thursday, September 30, 2010

Certainly down the road, few weeks and months from today - even years, when I look back into Reiki Sanctuary (the blog), a nostalgia will  surely sweep into my memories.  Whenever it happens, I am thankful for it all. I want to admit, I have a beautiful life.

It will raise the intention to the reason why I first start a web-logged publishing in 2008.  It will remind me of all those random thoughts to let go when the blog platform ceases. It will remind me of a promise that should not be broken, when it is made. And what would leave me with next?

In a bigger wishful thinking, I should be glad that I have kept my conviction. That, I have kept the Universe with me all these while. That, I have managed thus far to keep my promises. To be, with the blessings of the Universe, of what and who I am. To start VOX, about two years ago, is definitely a rewarding step towards becoming a better me.

I have to take charge of my thought should I want to let the Universe to provide me. Yes, promises might be broken but they have to have valid reasons. Should I not want Universe to hurt me, then I should not hurt the Universe. I should have faith with my vows. With my promises. Words are energy; they are alive. When they are made, things around me will progress in a productive manner. It is just the Law of Attractions and Vibrations.

For me, nostalgic feeling by itself is a positive reinforcement.  It means that I am not missing something good and that I have been lucky enough to experience, to feel and to appreciate.

I am feeling rather sentimental today.  It is the last day for VOX existence.  From this date onward, as mentioned by Team VOX, the "blog will no longer be available".  Perhaps, what's left as from 1st October, when clicking to the site, will just be an empty page with an error message.

It is true that in life, there are always times which we have to go through where people have to leave and the feelings which have to fade.  Indeed, "VOX has been a fun place to explore, create and connect with friends".  I may probably lose some of them.

Time passes, events flow, feelings develop and, importantly, we grow.  However, it does not mean that my life - and yours, is worse than it has been before.  It does not mean that we have to forget who we have been, where we are from and what we have felt.

I would definitely be remembering VOX, the blogosphere that made me to evolve with my personality.  The joy that starts with showing-off the new home gradually develops into a playground for my mundane beliefs of spiritual guidance in life.  Of who I want to be; of what is the life I seek to have.  VOX provides that platform to raise my search for a meaningful earthly life.

VOX has taught me to bring substance into my essence.  And, to stay true to what I dearly committed.  I want my soul to sing songs of joy, of peace that accompanies me throughout the day and the depth for awareness of a simple life.  At the same time, for the atoms and molecules of Light to shine through my light being. 

VOX comes with a realization for space and time.  It awakens the dream within me.  I feel very connected, and usually feel that I am home, when I turn on to Reiki Sanctuary's page.  It has become a place of refuge, of connecting me with the Universe and a retreat to my soul.  It is a blog platform served as a factotum to who and everything I AM.

It is a platform where, in the words of Carl Jung, "the universal principle is even into the smallest particle, which therefore, correspond to the the whole".

I am so glad that the energy of blogging keeps me alive.  In many ways, my imagination (or perception or unconscious) always makes me to travel and pass the frontier.  It becomes the bridge between the physical person I am into the physcial universe senses and helping me to understand the perfect physical harmony existing between us.

I am glad, while with VOX, that I have touched some people.  I am soaking with all the good and the bad as a reflection from where I am to where I were before.  It is a feeling which will always remind me that I still have a soul and that my soul is still alive.

The whole organism about VOX is like doing meditation, with all the effects and benefits which could not be felt immediately but slowly.  It is a working habit for the same purpose.  This fact takes significance only in the moment I take conscience of it.  It is good spirituality.

VOX is a sacred space for me to be ever watchful of any emotions which invade into my mental space and to take steps to eliminate undesirable ones and to replace them with the desirable.  I am grateful for its existence.  For its presence that changes the vibrations of my mind.

I am thankful for the good, and the not so good, that comes with VOX.  That, it does heal my mind of any negativity which is affecting me.  VOX is a true physical platform that puts me back to be in touch with my higher mind.  And through it, to the universal mind.

VOX has led me to become consciously aware for all that is there for me in life.  With every posting, I am actually acknowledging the gift of life.  It is releasing a dynamic current of energy flow of the highest vibrations into the Univese.  In return, the flow returns back to me.

Today, I crave the grave with love and gratitude.  I just want to make it formal.  Because you have been the strength to further my faith.  Because you have been the light.

It is to serve me with greater purpose to keep web-logging.  For me to honor the source of my intention for something greater.  For my soul to be committed and for all faith, hope and love be amplified deep within me.  I have taken to write further and I shall not just abandon it because you are now gone.

"With Love", VOX!

You have made me to love the life I have and there is no other life I would rather live with. I am praying that there will be no other questions, in future, where I have to answer for losing this conviction.

You shall leave, with not any other better ways, for me attain what's missing or to eliminate what is un-necessary. This is where all the adventures take place. This is where I learn to step out of my comfort zone and to confront all my fears from expressing my feelings, my thoughts and my emotions.

I am counting my blessings and truly thankful for what you have given me.

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Imperfect Perfection Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Tuesday, September 21, 2010

The feeling is always good when we are in our comfort zone.  But not when we are forced out to a new ground.

For good two years, I grew to know VOX.  It was not easy in the beginning but I managed to explore the platform well.  I was able to organize all that I desired into my own style.  VOX was not a choice but a platform that I was introduced to.  Then, blogging amongst some friends was kinda the in-thing.  Each of us just wanted to have one and to own one with the idea that we will be blogging forever.  Few of them started off with VOX and I was, naturally, guided.  Somehow, I just liked it.  I like the simple layout and within weeks, I was able to blog and used the blogging tools.  And, on top of that, it was free hosted.

In 2008, blogging was new to me and it was certainly not practical to set up a self hosted platform.  I had tried to learn but failed.  Yes, back then, I had little drive to take up internet network challenges.  Perhaps, it coupled with the the idea that I had to pay for my own self hosted domain and to maintain it.

There were other blogging platforms.  Amongst others, there were Live Journal, Wordpress and Blogger - to name few.  VOX was easy to set up and it provided me the tools.  Blogging became fun as I was able to upload my photos and videos.  Reiki Sanctuary in VOX, afterall, was about my renovation process.  Like any proud house owner, I was too proud to show-off every bits of it.  I was happy to show photos and videos of the renovation.

I did consider Blogger but never got to it.   Afterall, I had become very comfortable with VOX.  I had learned a little bit more about HTML and was able to design my own widget sidebar.  Uploading media was easy and the best thing, VOX was able to host it into libraries.  I didn't have to rely on third party to host the media.

The past few days have made me a little frustrated here in Blogger.

Let's start with the positive.  There are new things that I like about it, like having Pages where I could publish static information on stand-alone pages that linked from my blog.  Adding widget sidebar is another impressive thing.  Blogger has Google Gadgets that is being integrated into the design template with an array of customization options for easy tweaking.

Pages in Blogger

Gadgets in Blogger

My writings in VOX was first exported to Typepad, which VOX Management has kindly made it easy for me.  With Blogger's easy import and export function, I was then able to export the entire blog here thereafter.  Guess, the good thing about a good blogging platform is the ever improving support.

Perhaps, I have been inside my comfort zone in VOX far too long.  With all its comfort, it had actually made me a lazy person.  Choosing Blogger requires me to expand before I can grow.

Perhaps, I am still new to Blogger and yet to get used to it.  But, as of now, I find it troublesome to sign-up to third party hosts to store my media library.  Guess, I am complaining as I have to do another extra thing.  Then, there is a limit to the upload and to store all my photos and videos with third party.

Life is, indeed, dangling on a myriad of learning curves.  Now that I am a Blogger, it opens another zone for me to enter.  It teaches me to learn and to strive while maintaining my faith to continue blogging for my own personal reasons and goals.

I can only pray for all things good to happen here.

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"Thank You", Vox! Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Friday, September 10, 2010

You may have your reasons to end this blog platform.  For all that's worth, I am grateful to have been part of you.  I am grateful for my growth thus far.  I am grateful for what life has given me through this blog, through all my writings. 

It is with you that I learn about blogging.  It is through you that I learn to expand my knowledge about networking.  That has given me the chance to narrow down the space between me and the Universe.

Life goes on.  I wish you all the best.  At least, that's the least I can do.  I enjoy my stay here.  It has been a place to fill all that I need.  I don't have to worry about sharing my photos, my videos and my music to all my friends and families - all under one platform.  You have been a place expanding my horizons and allowing me to make new friends.

And "Thank You" for making the migration easier.  Indeed, you do care.

Today, I am making the decision to move.  Where I will still continue to write, to share and to keep the close proximity of my life, and all my desires, with the Universe.  I am thankful to some friends who talked me into it; that I should not give up what I had started.

I have chosen to continue my writing in Blogger.  Afterall, blogging has become such a part of me, a part of my spiritual growth.  It is a part of Reiki Sanctuary and an essence towards bringing me the peace of mind.  

My new site is Reiki Sanctuary's New Site at Blogger

Thank You, Vox!

And many thanks to all those who read my blog.

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The Final Curtain Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Hmm, little that I expect that Vox will come to an end.  Early this month, Vox bloggers received a note that the social networking blog platform - which took off in 2006, will be shutting down at the end of September.

The news comes as a surprised and not in a good time, at least for me.  I have to make a decision and a quick one too.  Vox will cease to hold all contents till the end of September.  It will be, indeed, wasteful should I not keep the content (my thoughts) and not exporting it elsewhere.

I wonder at the twist of time.  Should I continue to write my thoughts?  Or should I just learn to quieten my mind and recourse its buzz elsewhere?

Reiki Sanctuary, the blog, started on 15 March, 2008.  Then, in its first entry, I wrote:

"Every end is a new beginning.  And this blog is about that - it is the end of an inert energy and to be proactive with my new environment.

I guess the time is right.  I want to express my feelings.  And it comes with the joy of setting up a new home and a farewell to a sanctuary that housed me for the last 20 years.  It shall be about moving on and letting go - and to celebrate the end and the new beginning.

It is said that CHANGE comes in 3 ways:

01.  From experience
02.  From learning and
03.  From crisis/catastrophe

In my case, and for the birth of this blog, it is definitely arises from an emotional crisis where I have to uproot from Hertford - and my friends called it the mountain of my hideout, to somewhere new.

I have always wanted to write a blog.  Often, my mind has so much things going on.  I always felt it would be good to calm it down by writing the thoughts - to imprint them so that I can reflect the values, mind mapping my path and let it serve as foundation where I should honour and embrace permanently into my life.

Day after day, year after year and they just passed.  And today, I am happy with the invigorating energy that has sparked into an explosion of joy.  I have a blog!

To my readers, and I do hope there'll be, a warmth welcome into my life. Hopefully, as i walk my life each day, we get to share and learn together."

I am a believer that one must be proactive and to honour his decision.  It is about conviction.  It is about committment.  It is about an energy that will form a bigger exchange.

Looking back, this blog has served its purpose.  Energetically, it has brought changes in my life.  I am grateful.

The Vox News

Vox is closing on September 30, 2010

Vox has been a fun place to explore, create and connect with your friends. But Vox is closing its doors on September 30, 2010.

What you need to know

    * As of September 2, Vox is no longer accepting new user registrations.  If you have an existing Vox account you can continue to sign in to manage your account and view posts from your neighborhood.

    * On Wednesday September 15th, you will no longer be able to create new posts on Vox or upload new photos or videos. You will still be able to sign in to view your blog and manage your account.

    * On Thursday September 30th, your blog will no longer be available at Vox.com, and you will no longer be able to sign in to Vox.


What's Next?

I have chosen to continue writing.  Problem is, I am not sure where to migrate yet.  Vox has been quite a place for me.  Its platform serves me well.  Though, there are limitations, it is capable to house media library.  WordPress, Bloggers and TypePad lack in this area but they are good at something else.

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