I will be offering the Reiki Level One Workshop in Norfolk, VA, in August or September. The date will be selected by responses from those interested. This is a one-day workshop (8:30-3:30). If you are interested, please read the information below completely and email me before Tuesday, 6/19. I will reply to all emails on 6/20.
WHAT IS REIKI?
Reiki (pronounced RAY- key) is a natural Japanese healing art that helps balance and activate one’s physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies. It reduces stress and fatigue and serves in preventative health maintenance and as a transformation tool for spiritual growth. It activates what is innate within ourselves and returns us to wholeness. Reiki has been especially effective in helping heal trauma from abuse and addictions.
Reiki focuses on the flow of the “universal life force energy” through one’s hands to balance the body, mind, and spirit. Reiki treats the whole person including body, emotions, mind, and spirit and creates many beneficial effects including relaxation and feelings of peace, security, and well-being. As part of the curriculum, the student learns how to give a Reiki session on others as well as self and also receives a Reiki attunement by me as Reiki Master Teacher. This is an amazing stress-reduction technique to learn and administer.
I teach Reiki (Levels 1, 2, 3 and Teacher Training) as well as Mind/Body Energy Medicine in Japan as well as in the U.S. and will be teaching these programs in Japan again this year (June 28 to July 18)–my 10th visit.
Please notice the suggested dates for the program in the U.S. (we will select one date). If you are sincerely interested in committing to the program, please send me an email indicating that and also tell me which dates you CANNOT do among those listed. I am hoping with our flexibility to come up with a date that works for all. (While preference can be indicated, I am really looking for dates you absolutely CANNOT do so we can find one we can do.) See dates below.
WHAT: REIKI Level 1 Workshop
TIME: 8:30-3:30 one day
DATE: We will select ONE DATE from these dates (RESPOND to Cynthia with any that you CANNOT DO):
Monday, August 6 Wednesday, August 15 Monday, August 20 Wednesday, September 12
The group is limited to 10 participants.
PROGRAM NOTES
The program will involve an entire day of learning the history of Reiki, studying energy work and learning the Reiki techniques, as well as receiving a personal energy attunement from Cynthia. Participants will receive a Reiki I Certification. The program includes a $20 book, as well as lunch and beverages.
ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Cynthia Bischoff
Cynthia Bischoff is a Reiki Master Teacher who teaches in the U.S. as well as in Japan. She is trained in the Usui Shiki Ryoho traditional Reiki method. In terms of lineage, she holds a position of being “third from Master Takata” who westernized Reiki in the U.S.
Cynthia holds a Ph.D. in Metaphysics and is a certified hypnotherapist who has advanced certifications in varied alternative therapies: Breathwork, Acupressure, Bio-Energy, Shamanic Studies, and Medical Intuition.
Highly intuitive, Cynthia has been a life coach and trainer since 1980 and is the developer of the popular Heartliving programs.
Once the date has been decided and participants selected, a registration form will be sent. Cost of this training program is $188 ($100 deposit now and $88 on class day) or $178 now paid in full ($10 savings).
Email Cynthia at heartliving@cox.net to express interest.
I hope to have the pleasure of working with you. Many blessings!
People often ask me how they can become a (fill in blank—teacher, healer, coach, artist, etc.), something they’ve perhaps always desired.
Whatever it is you desire to do, begin doing it NOW. Don’t keep thinking about HOW to make it happen logically. Your focused energy will propel it.
In fact, LOGIC is DEATH to the miracle maker in you! So stop trying to make it happen through logic.
So, for example, if you want to teach,
Look into every way in which you can teach now officially or unofficially (lend a hand, explain how someone can improve a process, etc.)
Then RESEARCH all the options that are out there for teaching as a career—how to become a certified teacher (e.g., Teacher Switcher program at ODU), but also ways to volunteer your time to teach and help.
What I have found is that if you HOLD YOUR INTENTION CLEARLY and remain TRUE to your desire, the Universe will assist you in MANIFESTING your intent.
Create a focused mission statement and repeat it. For 10 years, I repeated the mantra: “I desire to teach and help others internationally.”
I never once thought that this would be NOT be possible, although I didn’t understand HOW it could happen. I did NOT get caught up in the logic of it–the “how’s.”
Five years ago, I was asked out-of-the-blue to assist a person in going to Japan and giving a lecture on healing (my work in U.S.). I paid money to go to Japan, lost income while there, but KNEW I needed to do this because it FELT right.
I knew in my heart this was an opportunity that MATCHED my intention, so I TRUSTED.
I will be going to Japan again in June 2012 to teach, counsel, and perform healing sessions—my 10th visit!
The bottom line is that you have to BELIEVE.
Higher Powers will assist you if you hold a noble intention. If you make that intention involve HELPING OTHERS, the Universe will become your loving partner. Of that I am clear.” –Cynthia Bischoff
I am so excited to be a guest blogger this week on MBA Bride, a website designed to help brides-to-be plan their weddings in a business-savvy way.
Living through the heart is important at all stages of your life, especially during your engagement. See my five tips on how to stay positive while planning your wedding!
Communicating effectively whether at work or at home can improve your relationships and resolve all types of issues.
Being able to listen attentively through effective body language and eye contact is essential. It is likewise helpful to refer to the other person’s actions rather than to their sense of person. For example, if you use “I” statements rather than “you” statements, you are generally more effective. “I feel concerned. . .” is better than “You are doing that wrong.”
Here are some tips for more effective communication:
1. Listen carefully to what others say and refrain from thinking of your own response instead of listening.
2. Seek to resolve problems without being too emotional in your exchange.
3. Write down how you feel if you are emotionally charged and leave it aside for a few hours. Come back to it and re-evaluate your tone before sending any email or letter out.
4. Put yourself in the other person’s shoes in order to better understand the opposing viewpoint.
5. Be able to lighten up and even laugh at yourself in order to lessen tension.
6. Time your exchanges right. Don’t expect a person to listen when he/she is walking out the door.
7. Say you are sorry if you are: Being able to take responsibility for your errors will actually relieve your own stress.
8. Be kind not only to others, but also to yourself. Celebrate your communication successes!
Dreams present you with images and feelings. When you dream, you are often finding answers and solutions to the problems that exist in your waking life. Tapping into and understanding this source of wisdom can enhance your understanding of your life issues.
A dream symbol is an image from the unconscious that is important for you to understand in the present. Symbols can have personal associations, and exploring these associations can help you to understand the dream’s message. It is helpful, though, to understand general objective associations of the dream symbol since it may be revealing.
For example, if you dreamed about a blue horse, you may first remember upon waking that your grandmother had a blue horse figurine that sat on her dresser when you were a child. Yet upon looking further into a dream book, you would see that “horse” reflects “travel, power, and freedom.” The color “blue” may be associated with the throat in energy medicine and may symbolize “speaking your truth.” So why did you dream of a blue horse? Perhaps your grandmother herself is significant to you in her role in your childhood, yet it may reflect a need for you to look at your authentic self–your connection to travel, power, freedom, and truth in your life.
Dream symbols and themes are common among people, and even though each dream may have unique meaning for the dreamer, here are a few “simple” dream meanings based on general dream dictionary ideas:
Teeth (losing teeth or falling out): Loose teeth may relate to changes that are coming and this is considered a common theme in adolescence.
House: The house usually symbolizes the psychological or emotional self. What is the condition of the house in the dream?
Being chased: This may mean that you are being pursued by an aspect of yourself–maybe one that another part of you is avoiding.
Attic: Usually symbolizes your mind or thinking.
Bath: Taking a bath in a dream or attempting to do so may indicate a need for “inner cleansing.”
Vehicle: (What type of vehicle—bicycle, car, airplane?) A vehicle reflects our passage or journey through life. What is our method of transportation? The vehicle may indicate the “speed” of the journey.
Fences: Dreams of fences is said to indicate “boundary” issues: either a need for better boundaries or too much rigidity.
Death: Your own death in a dream reflects new beginnings!
Many religions in the world recognize angels as high spiritual beings. In certain faiths, it is believed that everyone has a guardian angel who guides, protects, and loves each of us.
The belief that God sends a spirit to watch over each of us was common in Ancient Greek philosophy and was alluded to by Plato. Passages in the Bible likewise support the concept of the angels who watch over us.
The following is a well known traditional Catholic prayer to one’s guardian angel:
Angel of God, my guardian dear
to whom God’s love commits me here.
Ever this day/night be at my side
to light, to guard, to rule and guide.
Amen.
Other beautiful quotes about angels inspire us:
Be an angel to someone else whenever you can, as a way of thanking God for the help your angel has given you. -Quoted in The Angels’ Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman
The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly. -G.K. Chesterton
Angels have no philosophy but love. -Terri Guillemets
Pay attention to your dreams – God’s angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep. -Quoted in The Angels’ Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman
The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God. -Meister Eckhart
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ~-Luciano de Crescenzo
All God’s angels come to us disguised. -James Russell Lowell
Know that you are divinely protected. Remind yourself how safe you are. -Cynthia Bischoff
Greetings, Hearts!
