Well hello there! It’s been awhile, hasn’t it? Sorry about that. I’ve had a bunch of thoughts running around in my head lately, but none of them would settle down long enough to become an actual post.
I’ve also been doing a lot of gardening – digging all the grass out of my front boulevard and trying to turn it into something pretty and low-maintenance. It’s a hellish amount of work, but it’s coming along and percolating more thoughts for more posts in the future. And you should see my biceps!!!
Anyway…
In part 1 of this ramble I mentioned that I played with the energy in someone’s shoulder and they started to see opportunities where none had been before. That someone was my lovely husband and the opportunities are all the things that needed to come together for him to be able to open a bakery. It’s something he’s been trying to do for nearly three years now and there was always something missing. He could find a space at a reasonable rent, but couldn’t find the ovens he needed. Or he had the ovens, but nowhere to put them. It was really frustrating. Painful at times.
But things have come together. He’s signed the lease on the bake space, has a line on the ovens, places lined up to sell to. And customers lined up drooling and waiting to buy – Alan makes really good bread.
So am I claiming that this all came about through the power of Reiki? Yes, totally, because it makes him roll his eyes every time I do and how fun is that???
Seriously, though. I can’t claim that it’s all down to the Reiki. Alan was doing his homework. He was looking and trying. I just find it really interesting that none of that was moving the dream forward and after a couple of treatments, Presto!
Before you write me off completely, let me tell you what I think might have happened.
Alan has a sore shoulder – an injury that keeps flaring up every time he does ‘this’. We haven’t figured out what ‘this’ is so that he can stop doing it, but an hour on the Reiki table and he feels better. At least until he does ‘this’ again…
Pain depletes our energy really really quickly. Injuries need to heal and that takes energy. Relieving the pain, even for just a little while frees up some of that energy, lets you be more alert, lets you see opportunity, lets you use your problem-solving skills.
Energy interconnects with everything. Is the connection that we can’t see. Is the reason making your shoulder feel better can help your dreams fall into your lap like a ripe plum.
So if your life isn’t moving ahead the way you’d like it to, maybe you could try taking care of the thing that seems inconsequential, but is constantly throbbing away in the background, hurting you and stealing away your energy.
I can’t wait to taste the bread.
It’s gonna be good!
Relieving pain lets you embrace uncertainty.
Let’s see if I can make sense of that: when we’re in pain, the act of holding, embracing hurts, so we reach out for the certain, the un-scary, the normal and non-threatening. We can’t reach out and embrace questions because the pain makes us cautious, holds us back.
Relieving pain allows us to embrace more freely again, to take the chances of embracing the uncertain and the possible. All pain, ultimately, is energy. Move the energy in a different way, release it into new paths, let it embrace new journeys, and oh my, but the possibilities.
Necessity isn’t the mother of invention — possibility is.
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That’s very kind of you to say, Barb.
Good luck with the bakery! I wish I could call in for the grand opening!
You know you’d be most welcome!
There is so much to grasp here. But, it’s also so simple. I agree with Douglass – it seems simple, yet complex, yet simple… my head is spinning.
My ankle has been sore and swollen for the last few weeks. Don’t know why – maybe an injury, not sure. I’ve had my FOCUS on this thing. I’ve avoided biking, spinning class, walking… all the things that make me feel good. This keeps me in a downward spiral.
I’m trying to look at the things I CAN do, instead of the things I CAN’T.
Yes, I believe that the bakery came about when the energy was released, focused. There are too many things we just don’t know about in this world. There is a thin veil between this world and the other. There are powerful energies that either send us soaring, or keep us anchored.
Wonderful news about the bakery! Yum! Wish I could be there for the Grand Opening. Congrats!
Thanks Patti! We’re going to have to figure out some kind of virtual Grand Opening and invite all our out of town friends!
I’ll gladly come to the grand opening and eat bread on behalf of all the out of town friends. I’ll wear something stretchy!
That’s what I love about you, Douglass – your generosity!
And my unerring fashion sense!
Oh, and my choice in friends…now that is unerring indeed!