Little Things To Remind Me Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Tuesday, February 05, 2013

God, Thank You For Providing Me Your Hands To Walk Me Through


There are times that I doubt about my gift.  Sometimes, I feel that I have gone a little insane, a little egoistical.  But, time and time again, there will be little messages (and they mean a great deal to me) that I will receive to remind me that I am still a normal person.  It is, such little message, that makes me to realize how much God loves me.  How much He cares and takes care of my desire to live my life.

I often desire to live a fulfilling peaceful life.  A life that not only can keep me to breathe the air of serenity, the air of tranquility but, above all, I want a peaceful life that is constantly connected with the Universe.  A life that can bridge Heaven and Earth.  A life that connects every being.  A life that is simply understood and it embodies the energy of love.  The energy of everything possible and everything positive.  I want to live a life that makes me to be fully aware and fully conscious with the language of the Universe.

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Understand The Language Of The Universe Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Tuesday, November 20, 2012

God, Your Love Encompasses Without Words.




Very often, when we are to meet a foreigner with a different language, the only way that we get to understand each other is through a sound language.  We sound the language that we know and with the help of our hands' gestures, somehow, communication is established.  While it is still so much a chicken and duck situation, we do get to cross over to interpret for a common language.  We are able to make conversation.  Though very likely, there is also a high chance where we are lost in translation.

The Language of the Universe, though mystical, is highly adaptable but it takes our interpreting requirement significantly.  When I used to have a house pet, I experienced that the Language of the Universe did not put a stop in conveying messages.  There was no boundary to communicate between us. All that I had to do was to make the sound of the English language and My Dear Ruby, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel pretty well responded.

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The Last Lap Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Monday, November 28, 2011

Do you get dressed out of the laundry basket?


I am happy, well at this stage of the year, that I have met my goal.  Well, you see, sometime last year I was chatting with my dearest indigo friend, JH that I would want to write as much as four entries a month.  I shared with him the reasons why I wanted to do so.  Why these writings were important to me and be a part of the Universe.  I told him that it would be my voice to reach out, to be heard and alas, to get what I would (always) be looking for.

It is not about sharing my thoughts on earth.  It is not about teaching another human nor to motivate him/her.  It is not about feeding my ego.  It is not about nourishing and creating my hunger greed nor providing an enrichment to my insatiable appetite.

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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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The Thailand Story - Part Three Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Friday, May 06, 2011

Avoid passing your pain on to others. Transmute it through spiritual alchemy.

I have often mentioned about the Language of the Universe.  It is no different today.  And, for those who think and strongly feel that my writing will bore you to sleep, I strongly suggest that you should not read further.  Avoid passing the pain to yourself.  Learn to love yourself by just doing that.  Still, I am thankful that you have read this far.

Indeed, the Language of the Universe is a unique language but oblivious to many.  This language is an empowerment yet subtle.  I believe Paulo Coelho in his novel, 'The Alchemist' has made its meaning simpler:

"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.  Never stop dreaming.  Not everyone can see his dreams come true in the same way.  Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
 
The world's greatest lie:  At a certain point in our lives we lose control of what's happening to us and our lives become controlled by fate.  When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything because it's all written there.  If you can concentrate on the present, you'll be a happy man.  The secret is here in the present.  If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it.  And if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.  Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.  Everything has been written by the same hand.  All things are one".

How everything that happens in our daily life is filled and carries a purposeful message to guide our onward journey.  How much the varieties of dissent there are to it, we cannot ignore nor disapprove those signs that have appeared right infront of us.  We have attracted the events to take place and to happen (consciously or subconsciously), and in honouring the Law of Attractions and Vibrations, we cannot just simply ignore nor disapprove any of these events resulted from the actions.  It just will not make any logical and rational sense to dismiss the trails of actions and reactions.  We need to take charge of our thinking mind and hold responsibilities for those thoughts and all those calculated words that have been, voluntarily or otherwise, translated into actions.

I asked for guidance before writing this article.  I wanted to pen thoughtful reflection to continue with the Thailand story.  Afterall, I had taken so much pictures from the trip that I would want them to be shared.  For the Universe to feel my joy, my appreciation and gratitude.  Afterall, the trip was filled with people who had played meaningful part in my life, in small or big way.  Afterall, it was a country that I had often praised to have effect in raising my consciousness and that I truly enjoyed visiting.

I wanted to write so it could bring me peace.  To help me to bridge my inner sanity.  And guess what?, the first thing that guided me was this little fortune taken from the widget (left side of block), "Think I am harsh? I am easier on others than I am on myself".  The next message "Avoid passing your pain on to others.  Transmute it through spiritual alchemy" made it easier for me to understand.

Looking back at the recent events on our Thailand trip, it was a tale that had universal language to the flow of life.  It was something that we should not just let them pass but to let our thinking mind reflect on the significance of the whole event.  Afterall, life lessons would transform the way we lived.  These lessons will shape our destiny, and importantly, they created the quality to which we often craved for.  Where we wanted life forces to work for us and not against.  Where we wanted peace of the mind to be the order of the day.

At the last minute before our departure, a dear friend who had always helped us with the  hotel arrangement wrote that he was unable to provide this time round.  He was, without our knowledge, 'caught' in the act.  Little had we known about his little inconveniences and the hassles he had to go through with the red tapes.  Little had we known that he had gone, out of his love for us, the extra mile.  What was important to him was to let us have a comfortable trip, to stay in a top hotel and enjoyed the majestic ambience yet we didn't have to pay so much for it.

Dusit Thani Bangkok, without the help of our dear friend, was too expensive for us.  We were not willing to pay the non-discounted rate and declined to stay there.  Yes, it was the price that cannot fit with our selfish whim.  It was a price that reflected in our inadequacy.

To this dear friend, Sorn - we can only hope that you do know our deep heartfelt gratitude.  We recognize your deeds and there is nothing that we can do, nor all our words, to replace your graciousness.  Your sincerity.  Your true soul.

So, for the very first time, we were left to find our own accomodation.  By now, we had become very accustomed with the comforts and conveniences around Dusit Thani.  Right where it was, there were the underground Subway and the mass transit Skytrain.  Moving around Bangkok from here was easy.  Just outside the hotel, there was the infamous Patpong and the long stretch of night markets.  We didn't have to go through change of train lines to our favourite May Massage and the Chatuchak Weekend Market.

There were many hotels available in Bangkok.  When one could easiy choose to find one, we had quite a problem to locate a good-enough hotel in the beginning.  Dusit Thani had transformed us into such a fussy little brat.  We should be ashamed of ourselves.

Perhaps, this recent event seeks us to rethink on our holiday plans.  It sets a crucial shift in our life and how we are to perceive the whole setup.  One that is called to bring peace to our souls.  One that is asked to see things in a different perspective.  Perhaps, it is about detachment where I should just bask the beauty from outside and not to get so involved internally.  I have to learn to avoid passing my pains, my expectations, on to others.  I have to transmute it through a spiritual alchemy.

If there is one lesson that I need to learn from here, I am still lost.  It is such an irony.  In The Conspiracy (read Here) I wrote:

"Our stream of consciousness evolves in this cycle in a wheel and is repeated over and over again.  That this cycle will just keep repeating in our life until we have truly understood the situation and why it has happened again and again.  The entire process of change from one state to the next, for the better, requires a state of awareness and acceptance.  It is then followed with the bare attention to own and let go, without allowing the events to interfere with the presence.  It is, at this stage, that we allow the cause of events to lead to a renewed and reformed consciousness."

We managed to find two comfortable hotels in the end.  It was not as convenient as Dusit Thani but good enough to make our stay in Thailand comfortable.  I believe it is another phase of adjustment where we have to get used to them.  All Man deserve a chance.  All God's creations have a place in each of our lives.  This shall be that state of awareness and acceptance.  It has come to a point in our lives that we have to own and to let go without allowing the events to interfere with the Presence.  What is important when we are honouring the situation is when we are to give love to it and, when we look back, our hearts are filled with gratitude.

Where we stayed in Thailand:

First Leg - Adelphi Grande Sukhumvit 

The Lobby and Reception Area

Impressive!

It is actually a Service Apartment

Nice! See Mum, there's a Washing/Dryer Machine and even a bigger fridge!

and I love this BIG toilet!

The small dining corner but still cool

The nearest BTS (Skytrain) is Phrom Phong which is about 5 minutes walk.  Just where the BTS is, there is a huge shopping mall, Emporium which houses big brand names like Hermes, Louis Vutton, Guess and more.

The lane leading out to BTS along Sukhumvit Road

Second Leg - A dear friend's place in Jomtien, Pattaya

The comfortable house

The Balcony, 2nd Floor.  This is the place where we will have our dinner.  This is the smoking area.  This is the place where we will spend long hours just to chat away ..

The stairs (left) leading to the 'Upper Deck' where we stayed

The Living Area

Third Leg - FuramaXclusive Sathorn

Not the best choice but we went ahead to book this hotel because of its proximity to Dusit Thani Bangkok.  We felt it would be convenient for our dear friend to join us in the evening after he finished his work.

(Pictures taken from iPhone)

The Exterior

The king sized bed, rather comfortable!

Gosh! look at that towel!!!!!! Kudos to housekeeping!

Internet is bad in this hotel

The comfort of a mini kitchen.  Not all rooms in this hotel will have this section.

So, we did learn something.  We were able to know what we liked, and disliked, in the end.  We learned about taking choices and how these choices must bring in the peace within us.  Perhaps, without comprising.

At the end of the day, we need to take charge of our livelihood.  We cannot depend solely on others.  While we need to recognize others for their strength, and weakness, we need to respect their choices too.  And respect shall always begin with respecting ourselves first.

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The Thailand Story - Part Two Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Thursday, April 28, 2011

Life's a riddle.  Shine a bright light on your blind spot.

I am startled, but not so much a surprise, at the following events that take place almost everytime I am back from Thailand.  Call it an irony or just pure co-incidental happening but it surely brings about something to think.  Something to ponder about and to create a state of mindfulness.  Of what I have become.  Of what opportunities to come.  How little things, particularly some gadgets in Reiki Sanctuary, can just go bonkus.  How when these things were perfectly fine, and working well, just before my departure?

Just the other day, the Universe showed not one but twice, on her subtle language to jolt my understanding.  To let me to S.I.T. (Sit, Inhale and Think), probably asking me to take notice and to become aware of impending directed conscious energy ahead.  It calls for observation. 

I measure life events, every synchronicity of events, to be a purposeful guide to life.  I live, and want to live, my life to be so much in Celestine Prophecy.  In the flow towards revolutionize our wisdom, I must set my sights high, the higher the better.  I must expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now.  I need to realize that nothing is too good.  That I must allow absolutely nothing to hamper or hold me up in any way.

Two days after coming back from Thailand, one of our PC had problem.  And, four days after coming back from Thailand, our iMac - which was only five months old, had problem.  Out of the ordinary, these machines acted strangely.  Both were unable to boot up.  Both gave a blank screen with beeping sounds when switched on.  Both had Random-access Memory (RAM) issues.

Random-access Memory, as described in Wiki, is a form of computer data storage.  It takes the form of integrated circuits that allow stored data to be accessed in any order in a constant time, regardless of its physical location and whether it is related to the previous piece of data.  RAM is often associated with volatile types of memory where its stored information is lost if the power is removed.

RAM is considered 'random access' because we can access any memory cell directly if we know the row and column that intersect at that cell.  Basically, it is just like turning on the tap to let the water flow into a bucket.  This bucket needs to have a memory controller to refresh once it is filled.

Perhaps, the lesson here is about letting go.  Perhaps, it is about to embrace what Thailand is all about, the Universal connections thus far for me, and to experience it in a different path of totality.  Perhaps, it is suggesting a new wholeness and entirety of what the windings and turnings in a road that we face each day and that these events cannot be ignored or avoided.  Just as in the case of the RAM, it is probably guiding a conscious energy to flush out the old memories and to take in what is ahead with new perspective.

One's memory can have an impact to one's peace.  A thing is complete when we can let it be.  Disillusionment with ourselves must precede enlightenment.  We just need to learn our lessons quickly and move on.  Peace is said to be found when we stop searching for it.  We cannot stop the circles in the surface of water nor how can we try to wash water.  As long and so long we are to be pre-occupied to find it that we shall fail to live.  We are who we are and I am not you and you are not me.

Perhaps, Reiki Sanctuary has become too much Thai when she is designed not to be.  She has her own flavour, mind, spirit, body and the soul and needs to be mindful of her own consciousness.  It is about living in the right here and now.  It is about appreciating what is around in the present.

I have become rather fixated with shopping in Thailand.  It is about filling up spaces to enhance Reiki Sanctuary that probably she is now choked.  Physical beauty has its limit.  One can just do so much to sustain it and it has to fade away some day, like it or hate it.  I have to just let it pass and build on new inspirations.  Perhaps, her memory storage has enough of enough for the time.

As done in my previous trip, I went on another rampage with shopping this time around again.  I have become very accustomed to JJ Mall shopping complex (after much recce at MBK Center) and, as usual, it is a fun filled day just browsing at Thai handicrafts, arts and paintings, antiques, home decor and more.  Conveniently located just next to the Handicraft section of the big Chatuchak Weekend Market district, the whole area has become one vast place to take pleasure.

JJ Mall Shopping Complex (far left) and the Handicraft Section, Chatuchak Weekend Market (right)

But somehow, shopping this time had its own thread-and-thrum.  There were occasions that I had to think hard.  There were occsaions where the good and the bad, the virtues and the vices had to be addressed.  There was a totality where one cannot just pushed the limits any further.  There was the point, or line, beyond which something else cannot or may not proceed.  The RAM choked and so was, probably, Reiki Sanctuary.

The Shopping:

The Meditation

The Flowers

The REIKI Life-Forces

The Thinking Man and Mother-and-Child

The Dining Table Accessories

The Flying "Huat" Ornaments

The Bamboo Chime

.. and where they are all housed in Reiki Sanctuary:

at the Balcony

at the TV Area, Living Room

at Dining Area, with new carpet laid, Dining Room

at Guest Toilet

at Living area, with new laid carpet, Living Room

Perhaps, just as written by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in The Tantra Vision (Volume 1):

Just look next time you are having some trip and riding a problem - just watch.  Just stand aside and look at the problem.  Is it really there?  Or have you created it?

Look deeply into it, and you will suddenly see it is not increasing.  It is decreasing; it is becoming smaller and smaller.

The more you put your energy into observation, the smaller it becomes.  And a moment comes when suddenly it is not there .. you will have a good laugh.

It was good while it lasted, indeed.


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The People That We Meet Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Saturday, February 12, 2011

Just as any life experiences that will change us and so do the people that we meet.  Subconsciously, we assimilate from these people and sometimes we become like them.  As it is, life is an intertwined myriad of matters.  We pick things up through all our senses.   Through all that we see, we hear, we say and we act become us.  Our mind derives perception through these senses.  Having perception means that we have the ability to attain understanding and awareness or consciousness.

Life

We must be ready to receive life experiences openly and without fear.  It is a beautiful world when we can view the world with our divine eyes.  When we are able to make connection with our body and mind, the earth, the people, the plants and animals  as sacred and with respect.  Such an approach to life would result in us the chance to grow emotionally as well as spiritually.

The people that we meet provide us with lessons.  They put smiles on our face, joy and peace in our heart.  They count for our blessings.  However, this does not mean having to agree with them on every little issues.  In fact, we get influenced with most of their actions, their reactions, their feelings, their  thoughts.  And so are their behaviours and attitudes.  It can be of positive influences.  It can be of negative influences.

More often than not, our admiration for the people that we meet tends to come about as a result of the values these people espouse and their views on life.  Although we have no intention of becoming a clone for their image, or a copycat, we can still take aspects of another person's beliefs and values and incorporate them into our own.

Interactive

It is just the mechanics of human ecology.  We just need each other.  We need to integrate and to allow our consciousness into action.  To allow us to experience on a journey into awakening.  It is not a mere co-incidence for people to become interactive.  The Universe has it made in who we meet every day.  And what purpose that meeting has on one or both people, in relevance to each one's individual lives.


We come across people and situations that cause us to behave in certain ways.  It is probably a subtle quest for us to be a part to become inclusive.  To some group of individuals, knowing more people gives them a sense of belonging.  A sense of being accepted.  A sense of community.  A sense of one-ness.  A sense of quantifiable pursuit.  Indirectly, it forms a psychological development.

In line with psychologist Carl Jung, the world we live in today creates a wonderful opportunity of an increasing interconnectedness.  He brought the meaningful relation of gravitational effect where all events are inter-related.  That this unified effect is being viewed as synchronicity.

Personally, I feel blessed to have met, and known, people from all walks of life.  From every walk of life.  Of different skin colors.  Of any ages.  Of any faith.  Who, for one reason or another, had crossed my path and made an impact on my life.

I am thankful.  I may not have the right word and I really do not know what to say except that I am so thankful for the people that I have met.  I am thankful for the guidance.  I am thankful for their sharing and trust.  Each leaving behind a valuable lesson and insight.  I am thankful for all the spaces and faces and wide-ranging social graces.  I am thankful for the never ending life lessons.

I am a believer that we meet the people we are supposed to when the time is just right.  There is always the voice of God in another individual for me to listen and to bring me into time consciousness of that moment.   The path that crosses between us fills gap of dynamic free will which should offer for infinite possibilities.  For growth.  For the soul to dance into a higher state of consciousness trance.

However, it would be interesting if we are to recognize the difference between a need and a want.  There is always a valid reason when we meet, or reunite, with certain people that cross our path.  Coincidental events in our lives are evident that our lives seem to follow some kind of pattern.  James Redfield in his book, 'Celestine Prophecy', shares the insight on synchronicity as a meaningful direction to our life paths.

In Celestine Prophecy, everything happens for a reason and there are no accidents.  We have to take charge of these mysterious coincidences to bring us towards a particular destiny.  It should be a path that will help us to make life simpler.  It should be a choice to raise our vibrational energy.

I often remind myself to look into the light when such opportunity arises.  I need to realize that.  I need to understand that all the day to day occurences that I am experiencing happen for a reason.  For a good reason.    As much as I welcome and appreciate Carl Jung's coincidental events in my life, the ownership still lies with me.  I should take responsibility of this choice only when such synchronicity falls within my sacred geometry.

I have a choice of putting many eggs in a basket.  Question is, do I want to go on collecting more eggs to fill in a basket that is already full?  Or, should I be wise to utilize all of those collected eggs to fill me up first before succumbing to further greed.  To, perhaps, further my ego?  I should recognize my limitations first.  I should be aware of my needs and wants.  I should remember there is only 24 hours a day, there is a time to work, to play and to rest.  I should finish those stock of eggs before I could motivate myself further.

There is no need, for me, to justify a quantity over quality.  One good friend can be huge phenomenon over the tenths of other superficial friends.  Success, joy and peace are a personal sacred geometry that needs to be experienced by myself.  It should be personal.  It should be sacred.  If I can't find tranquility within myself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.  Personally, what is ever important is to achieve for a sacred quality of life where wellness brings about spirit connection to my body, mind, home and my immediate environment.

There are no accidents in life.  All that we experience is by design.  We are the captain that attract thoughts, and eventually into things, to our physical world.  We are where we are in life today because of what we believe and what we have acted on.  Our thoughts and actions control our lives.  We may not be able to change the world but, more importantly, we should affect the world on a more personal basis through the people we touch and the people who touch us.

The people whom we met recently, or possibly been reunited with, should lead us to a higher meaning.  We should look for the bigger picture and to think outside the box and not at the actual experience.  We should always be looking for our inner path.  Not all synchronicity of events are positive.  Not all meetings will raise our vibrations.  When we take personal responsibility and making the right choices, everything in life will improve.

We attract and manifest to meet people, and events, as reflections of our own inner desires.  Events happen to wake us up to a hidden meaning of life.  Thing is, we need to realize what is going on within to manifest, attract to us, something positive outside of ourselves.  We need to look at the underlying facts when such synchronicity occurs and to be sure why we attracted such events into our life.

As soon as I realize this, I shall begin expecting miracles that will reveal my true mission in life.  I just have to stay true to my life mission and do the inner work necessary to allow me to get out of my own way.

We should always be aware of our communication.  We communicate by presenting a model to others and of others to us.  When we can be a positive model, it then becomes contagious and produces positive changes.  The opposite holds true too, when we present negative role models, others begin to copy that role model and create our own problems by devolving.

We should know what is our true self and thereafter stay true to our own convictions.  However, this requires great awareness and strength of character as we often find ourselves increasingly faced with others who have made different choices.  This reminds me of a story told by a dearest friend, that seems funny but worthy of attention.  The story goes ..

Mary, a 70 years old lady, had a near death experience.  When her body was floating, she had a conversation with God.

Mary  :  Dear God, please give me another chance to live.  I have many things that I would want to do and change.  Please give me a chance, God.

God :  What is there that you want to fulfill?

Mary  :  For one, I would want to tell people how beautiful You are and all that is here.  I would want to share with them Your existence.  I want to make peace with myself, with the people I love and care.  My husband, my family.

God  :  How long do you need, Mary?

Mary :  It would be nice if you can give me another 20 years, God.  I believe I would be able to change and motivate people then.

God :  I will grant you 20 years.

Mary : But God, will I still have a place in Heaven in 20 years' time?

God :  Yes, Mary.  I will remember you as how you speak to me today.

Ten years after her near-death experience, Mary felt that her physical outlook had failed her despite her robust emotional and spiritual strengths.  There were more wrinkles on her face.  Her breasts were sagging badly.  She had gained alot more weight.

She was still doing what she had promised God.  She instilled and motivated people to lead a positive and peaceful life.  She was happy with what she was doing.  But somehow she felt that she should be looking youthful should she want to reach out to the younger generation.  Her friends are encouraging her to do cosmetic surgery.

Mary listened to her friends.  Afterall, she felt that change was good.  She admitted herself to the hospital and got her surgeon to perform miracles to her entire body.  Her wrinkles were gone, her breasts were made firm and she had a successful lipo suction done.  Mary had become a totally new person, twenty years younger.
 
Her friends celebrated the transformation.  Mary was happy.  On the way to the restaurant where they were supposed to celebrate, Mary had a bad accident.  Her car collided and Mary died on the spot.

When Mary met God, she asked, 'God, why did you do that? Why did you take away the remaining ten years where I had planned to continue my good works?".  And God replied, "But Mary, I could not recognize you.  I told you that I will remember you as how we spoke that day."

We are what we are.  We should present ourselves without trying to appear differently.  We should recognize our path, our inner path and walk in it with joy and peace.  We should bring  awareness to our higher self of our own capacity and strength.  Of our own limitations and shortcomings.  We should honour and defend our own opinions and ideas.  Knowing who we are, of our true self at our higher consciousness.

The people whom we meet, or reunite, can be a mystical event.  At the same moment, the synchronicity events only seem unusual because they seem to defy our routine understanding of cause and effect and sequential, forward moving time.  Synchronicity involves both physical and psychological components.  There is the event and then there is the interpretation of the event.

Synchronicity requires our inner knowing.  It depends on how much we tend to read into the event and the degree to which this meaning is believed and understood.  Sometimes, the synchronicity is not obvious to everyone universally.  But for someone who is looking for a meaningful interpretation will likely be able to reflect on their emotional state.

Our soul is always multi tasking to create new experiences.  When we spend that extra time to observe and watch how we move through ife, we will understand the language of the universe.  The language where synchronicity and all co-incidences takes place to become an event is just a way to get all the answers to our life questions.  It is up to each of us to ferret out the message when it presents itself.

I believe, at the end of the day, it is all a game of remembrance, created by the synchronistic movements of consciousness.  Our sense of purpose will be satisfied by the thrill of being able to influence our own evolution.

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The Celebration Of Life - Part Five Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Sunday, October 31, 2010

Living With Tibetan Geomancy

"All my needs are taken care of
as I follow My Higher Path"


Over the last ten years, I have lived my life with Tibetan Geomancy.  Not into a detailed Tibetan astrology per se but with the basic philosphy and a styled spiritual practice of geomancy which supposedly to bring harmony and peace.  Reiki Sanctuary was bought and renovated according to it.  Hertford, our previous sanctuary, was re-aligned subsequently (after I got to know about Tibetan Geomancy) to fit into the nine Tibetan bagua. 

No, I am not much a feng shui believer.  I avoid, with respect, Chinese Feng Shui but not Tibetan Geomancy.  It is just me that I want to live a life free from anything superstitious.  To me, and perhaps it is due to my limited knowledge on the subject, Chinese Feng Shui is all about an audit of beliefs as to where and how things should be positioned to create the flow of balance and harmony. 

To me, there are just too many certain rules to abide and there are restrictions surround Chinese Feng Shui.  Perhaps, it is my confusion on the directions and representations of the five elements of water, wood, metal, earth and fire.  A wrong placement and combination of any of these five elements, as claimed, result in destructive and deconstructive environment.

However, whether it is Chinese Feng Shui or Tibetan Geomancy, the purpose is about creating an optimal balance to improve our health, wealth, love and good fortune.  It is about tapping into the invisible energies, or Chi, and invigorate them to manifest and radiate and regaining control over our lives.  When we attain the ideal energy, the balance and harmony to our life will unify.

I believe every house is a good house.  It is what we place inside, with love and treated with care, that will change the vibrations.  Every corners of the house possess a force of good energies or an indwelling nature spirit.  From this point of view, these corners carry certain vibrations that make each location a power place.

Tibetan Geomancy, unlike Chinese Feng Shui, is not so much with where and how things are positioned.  It does not ascertain on the specifications of the five elements, though it is interconnected.  In Tibetan Geomancy, it emphasizes on how we show our respect to every corners and how a location is treated.  The Tibetans believe there is some kind of force or energy connected to the way things have come together in any location, of the house, to make it what it is.

This ideology is something that I can closely connect.  There is some subtle, and perhaps indescribable energy, that makes a particular location (or area) "beautiful"; a place where we can just sense of a power or presence.

All things that happen in life can be reduced down to nine categories or life situations.  They are:

01.  Abundance

02.  Reputation

03.  Love

04.  Family

05.  Health

06.  Children

07.  Knowledge

08.  Career

09.  Compassion

All nine categories can be mapped in our home, and are each called a bagua grid.  These grids reveal how the different areas are connected to specific aspects of our life.  Understand each grid brings great revelation.  For the last ten years, I have observed the co-relations of these grids and how it affects the house dwellers.  Our lives and the house we occupy are inseparable.

My faith, and my teaching, with Tibetan Geomancy is plain simple - it is what we keep in each grid that will bring greater ease and harmony to that aspect of our life.  As mentioned earlier, Tibetan Geomancy is about how we show respect to every corners and how a location is treated.  Storing out and out junk in a specific grid can have a more serious effect.  A junk room in the abundance area, for example, can create financial problems in our life.

The Universe has conspired; giving us the good tidings of Tibetan Geomancy can fetch far reaching physical, mental, emotional and spiritual effects in our lives.  It is also a call to discipline ourselves to keep our house clean, neat and tidy away from clutters.  It is about creating that sacred space so that the Law of Vacuum could just fill it in tandem with every aspects of life.

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October is a month of celebration - The celebration of our life.

It is a month where we want to give our gratitude to Reiki Sanctuary. Without her, life makes no sense. With her, life is not miserable nor empty. It accomplishes the most basic level for our soul to find peace on earth. It is her existence that we are here to find purpose.

When the Universe created Reiki Sanctuary, it gives our soul the purpose-driven life. It should be a sanctuary to simplify decisions, to increase satisfaction and most importantly, it should be a place for us to prepare for eternity. Here is where we should learn about life lessons. Here is the place that shall provide for purpose, for meaning and for greater significance.

Reiki Sanctuary comes with the love of the Universe to us. We have to acknowledge that. We have to put our hearts to love for her. We have to recognize the purpose, and to live with greater hopes.

Thank You, Reiki Sanctuary.

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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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