This I Promise You .. Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Wednesday, September 03, 2008

With the fresh new look, Reiki Sanctuary is just so stunningly beautiful.  Clean.  Elegant.  Smooth.  Her colour brightens up our life every time we just look at it.  Every time we are surrounded by it.  Every time we touch it, we feel this static, this feeling where we could reach for the sky.

It is our choice colour.  A colourised aura of intense energy of calmness, serenity and tranquility.  It is how we like it.  It is how we manifest our life shall be.  It is how we want it to be.  It is, in the sea of many choices, we know that you are just the right one.  You are just a great joy to watch, to feel and such a peaceful palette of colour adorning Reiki Sanctuary with your purity.  It will be forever, it has to be forever.

We didn't have much hesitation when choosing the wall colour for Reiki Sanctuary.  Right from the very beginning, we are focussed to have a colour of purity and innocence - white.  We are set with our desires and the goal that we want to achieve.  It has to be a colour to fill with a deep sense of purpose.  A colour that will, in her subtle spiritual consciousness, signify for a clear mindset.  A wishful pool of values.  A thousand dreams fulfilled.  A courageous development.  A loving understanding.  One hope.

With her pure 'Frosted Dawn' palette, it will compliment all the furniture and furnishings in the house.  We just don't have to worry placing an item, anywhere in the house, and fear that it will clash with the wall colour.  That's the beauty of having a white - but, in our case a slightly off-white, wall.  You just make everything beautiful in your presence.  You just beautify and give life to all the things around you.  In some metaphysics, white is the colour of completion, of ultimate wisdom and of assimilation of all life lessons.

White, to some human eye, can also be blinding.  That's the beauty of it.  The colour is just full of purity, cleanliness and innocence.  In most cases, white is seen as a neutral background colour and other colours, even when used in smaller proportion, are the colours that convey the most meaning in a design.

Right from the beginning, back to the early Drawing Board's days with Chiauw, the goal is to have a plain white wall.  It is fixed in our mind.  In our heart.  We envisioned it would be a choice colour that will greatly reflect simplicity.  A colour that, somehow, makes a small area looks bigger, wider and spacious.  Guess, that's what we are seeking in our life too.  In the purity of the mind, and in the simpliciity of the soul, we want it to be filled with the vastness of hopes and faiths.  To let it expand in life abundance, wrapped in majestic values, yet simple and full of tranquility.

Now that we have found you, though it comes with an off-white texture, it still soothes our psyche and continually spreads loving vibrations in our hearts.  In all our loving awareness - in this wonderful journey, we want to remind ourselves to keep you the way you are.  To let you shine the way you are supposed to be.  To let you feel free yet wanted.  To let you filled with joy, with love and with peace.  To keep you warm and safe with our love.  To create a world where dreams are a part.  To remind us of the beauty of love, and of joy.  To respect, in your palette, a consciousness of crisp, pure, clean and fresh.  You are the colour of beginnings, as well as clear endings.

You will be the colour of our walls.  The balance to all things within.  You paint love all over our hearts.  And you brought out the colours of our life.  The shining softness of your colour just decorate our life.  And we just love you.

The painter painted our place last weekend applying the sealer to the whole house and mould guard to the entire house ceilings and kitchen area.  The walls were painted with ICI Dulux Light & Space "Frosted Dawn".  The second coating, or perhaps the third, will only be done before the hand-over of the place.

The Colour that we chose:

ICI Light n Space - Frosted Dawn

View of painted walls

Living Room / Dining / Kitchen

View of Living n Dining n Kitchen

Guest room

Painted Walls in Guest Room

Master Bedroom / Study Area

View of Master Bedroom n Study Area

The colour here in the picture does not do justification of the actual colour.  Hehe, guess, it has to do either the camera or the lighting that day.

Study Area

Wardrobe Section

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You Can Run But You Can't Hide Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Monday, September 01, 2008

The first thing we notice - and perhaps, all the residents and visitors waiting for the lift at the gound floor of our block, is the sign 'Camera In Operation'.  It is an unusual sight for HDB.  It does not make us uncomfortable.  Rather, the sign gives us a sense of security.  An assurance.  A peace of mind.  It is a good feeling that someone is watching.

Camera In Operation

That's how our mind usually works.  When we know that our actions are watched, or quietly scrutinized, we are compelled to act our best.  We become aware of our interactions.  Our intentions.  Our habitual mode switches and we tend to take control of our own behaviour.  We psyche ourselves 'to behave' and to be the person we want to be.  It is like, we tell ourselves, 'Hey, God is watching.  Better be good.  Better be truthful.  Better be honest'.  Or like a child with the presence of the parents, he or she just feels comforted.  There is a sense of being guided.  There is a direction to take.  There is hope.

Surely the sign is there for a reason.  We believe it is to deter students from the nearby secondary school from loitering around after their school hours.  To go home and back to their families.  Ah, but it could be more than just that.  It is probably not only meant for the students but for residents and visitors alike.  It is a sign for us to engage into something useful.  Something worthwhile.  For whatever it is, the sign surely makes anyone to be in awareness.  To take charge of the thinking mind.  To sensitize the presence of being.  It guards our behaviour.  It aims to enforce proper social etiquette and set us into a caring environment.

Indeed, the sign was the early subtle indicative message worthwhile of our decision to get Reiki Sanctuary.  It will constantly remind us that we cannot escape from the emptiness in our lives.  That we can run but we cannot hide.  How much we want to believe that we are worthwhile and valuable, yet our emptiness and meaninglessness cannot escape.

It is also a psychological reminder for us to stay truthful.  To be honest.  To do good, not only to ourselves, but to others.  It is a sign for life lesson.  That it reminds us to continually motivate ourselves, and exercise self-help, and move towards humanistic psychology to take control of our own life.

It is having such a device that provides us with a good perspective and insight into our life.  In awareness, it reveals our habits and identifying message of truth.  When we find our true self that we shall discover a meaningful human relationship.  It uncovers superficiality and, at the same time, deepens respect.  It will alleviate our distress by transforming a thing of great ugliness into a thing of beauty.  It is a sign for us to love and appreciate each other.  To live life with honesty, integrity, decency and morality.

The beauty in life is all about walking each day to enjoy.  To interact.  To give.  To love.  To be honest.  To be truthful.  To be what God wants us to be.  It is with gratitude that this sign is there - as we pass it everyday, it will be a constant reminder to live our life honestly.  Because, it pays.

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Because You Are Loved .. Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Sunday, August 31, 2008

To a friend - I have been thinking about you a lot after what we shared yesterday.  I just have to write this.  And it is written with lots of prayers for your well being.  For your realization.  You become what you think about and I just want you to live a happy life.

It was, indeed, a beautiful Saturday night.  Thank You, my friend.  Thank You for coming to meet us.  Thank You for sharing.  Thank You for allowing ourselves to be just us.  Thank You.

We knew it was not easy for you to hear us.  To hear what we have always wanted to tell you.  To tell you what we think.  To share with you how we truly feel.  The time had come.  Personally, I was happy it happened. 

We decided to take off our masks together.  To bear it all.  To share.  We let our vulnerabilities shown.  And, it was because we wanted to stay true to each other.  We wanted to let you know that you are loved.

The biggest lesson we learned, that night, was when we decided to pull off our masks.  In doing so, we take away all the masquerade of our smiles, our laughters, our appearances and letting our true self to emerge.  It is sad that we have let our masks become a part of our everyday existence.  Unconsciously, we wear them at all our meetings.  We may want to deny it.  We then develop relationship with our masks and they hide our true identity.  And as time passed, our true identity become harder and harder to take off.  We become so good at hiding our problems and convince ourselves that there isn't one.

We have always loved you.  When things were shared that night, it was not about hate.  It was not about your soul.  It was not about your lack off.  It was not about walking on eggshell around you.  It was not about judgement.  It was not about we feel 'right'.  We just wanted to reach out to you.  We just wanted to walk with you, side by side.

We wanted you to own and recognize your anger problem in your life.  We want you to be aware of it.  It is about self realization.  It is about self justification.  Do know, my friend, that anger is not always a wrong response but handling anger rightly requires careful look at what it actually is and how it works.  Anger is about your strong feeling of irritation and displeasure.  The anger that has become your emotional readiness to defend and retaliate.  An anger that has internalized and produced you into a negative life form.

You have lived your life allowing anger to be an important component to affect your healthy living.  You let anger become a cloudy issue and let it manifested with severe problems.  Indeed, you have such a beautiful soul, my friend.  A soul that cries out for peace.  For love.  You have a mind that can think.  You have a mind that can be rational. 

It often saddens us to see you react with anger.  With respect, and as love flows amongst us, we just feel that you often deceive yourself into thinking that you are defending the truth and the right.  Anger has turned you into defending yourselves.  Your anger has led you to many mood swings and to many verbal jabs.  It has made you to live a life of misery.  It has weakened your health.  It has destroyed your hopes.  It has become your best company.

We understand your past.  We understand your unresolved life.  Your hurtful experiences.  Your unfulfilled expectations.  Your feeling misunderstood and unappreciated.  That night was about you to identify the sources without blaming and to take full responsiblity for all your thoughts and actions.  We want you to gain freedom.  To live true to your loving heart.

We know that you can do it.  We know because you are, without your anger, a loving friend.  We know that you care.  We know that you love us too. 

All said, and shared, is because we love you too.  We have never stopped, my friend.

For now, our prayers are with you.  We ask for your forgiveness if we hurt you.  The thing is, we do not want to let the sun go down losing this friendship.

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