Reiki and Oneness

I’ve been asked three times this week: how does Reiki fit in with Oneness? Over the years I have been giving reiki and teaching reiki to others, I have noticed that reiki energy has a certain quality: I see it as a purple energy, very dynamic and warm. It is a pulsing force that cuts away at negativity and heals on many levels. It’s similar to Archangel Michael energy and Shiva energy. It is a powerful, creative force. Angelic energy can sometimes feel like a soft pinky-gold light, more feminine and nurturing, like Archangel Gabrielle energy or Lakshmi energy - sweet and lovely.

I have also experienced an all encompassing white healing light and Mother Mary blue energy as well as many other energies of different qualities. For me, there is no good or bad, I think of them like colours of the rainbow, whatever you need or are drawn to at that time or whatever wants to come through will appear. The reiki is just one of those colours or energies but they all come from the same source, the clear, no colour at all - where light is refracted, the diamond or the prism. We call it Oneness, the Divine, Grace, the All That Is, God, because our tiny brains can’t even fathom the vastness of this pure light.

The oneness deeksha blessing brings a different quality.  It has a permanent affect on the brain and it goes deeper, in a shorter time and the initiations do not take as long as reiki. We needed to learn reiki to prepare us for accepting and using this new oneness energy that has been coming through from the Universe for a few years now, but will reach a climax over 2011 through 2012.

Other kinds of spiritual practice (such as Kundalini yoga, praying, meditation) will prepare you to open up to this energy, not just reiki, which is why many people are being drawn to learn about higher energies at this time. The oneness movement use many yogic based techniques of meditation and chanting as well as hands on blessing (deeksha) to help to open up to the energy.

It’s not about healing but on the way to spiritual development you will find your relationships improving, your youthful radiance returning and a general joy for life increases. A greater sense of compassion and connectedness comes about through meeting like-minded people and helping each other through to oneness. We can release the need to compete as ‘practitioners’ or ‘therapists’ and be more authentic within ourselves. I will continue to teach reiki and give reiki treatments as long as people want them, but for me, the Oneness has given me the deeper connection to the Divine that I have been looking for - and I am just beginning!

The New Age & 2012

2012 is not just a date but signals the turning point in many ancient calendars including the Mayan and the ancient Indian. We are already seeing the end of the old, unsustainable ways of working and living, the old economic and political structures are collapsing. The environmental impact of our industrial way of living is already causing chaos around the world and there are many dire predictions for 2012 and beyond. We in the Western world have been so far removed from the ancient ways of working with the seasons and the earth since the industrial revolution – we really believe we can harness time and space and the earth itself to work for us forever, stretching forward forever in one long timeline.

The ancient Indian scriptures (the Vedas) explain a more cyclical view of civilisation. There are 4 ‘yugas’ or ages which take roughly 26,000 years to make a full cycle. We have been at the mercy of a selfish, money orientated mindset for about 5000 years – the ‘Kali Yuga’ the most destructive of the 4 cycles.  But from now until 2012 there will be this great unravelling of the old ways, giving way to a new way of living, more compassionate, cooperative ways of working and living – a Golden Age which will be fully realised in Golden Cities around the globe – The Awakening.

We can make a difference by using spiritual techniques including meditation, yoga and deeksha. Many people are feeling guided to join more groups and join together to visualise and manifest a better world. There are many spiritual teachers and gurus from all over the world coming together and experiencing a new higher energy, direct from the Divine, more powerful than ever before, to help more and more people to awaken. This is a pivotal point in the history of humanity and won’t come round again for another 26,000 years. Get involved.

Every Thursday evening there’s a Oneness Deeksha & meditation group in Brighton for more details contact Rifa

A Way for Forgiveness

I’m reading Zero Limits by Joe Vitale and Ihaleakala Hew Len, based on the Hawaiian system of forgiveness. The idea is to take 100% responsibility for your feelings and anything that comes into your sphere - anything you perceive as someone else’s problem - is actually your problem, your issue that you need to work on. And the simplest easiest way to work on it, (the book refers to as ‘cleaning’) is to say “I’m sorry… Please forgive me…I’m sorry…Thank you!” over and over in your mind. You don’t have to say it out loud, just in your brain.

The mind can’t be angry or upset if it’s thinking: I love you!

This system teaches that the next step after learning how to manifest, is to let go. To surrender to a greater power and allow miracles to happen. The next step is Awakening. Going with the flow. Not planning, just enjoying every single moment, right now.

Here’s a powerful ancient Hawaiian healing prayer: Divine Creator, Father, Mother, Son as One. If I, my family, relatives or ancestors have offended you, your family, relatives or ancestors in thoughts, words, deeds or actions, from the beginning of our creation to the present, we ask your forgiveness. Let this cleanse, purify, release, cut all the negative memories, blocks, energies and vibrations and transmute these unwanted energies into pure light! And it is done.

One Love, One Heart, One Goal, One Mission

I have recently become a Oneness Blessing giver, a technique which is the next step for all of us who have already experienced atunements, initiations, healing or other spiritual processes.

Receiving Oneness Blessings will help you on the next stage of your spiritual development - helping humanity through the global changes from now until March 2012.

If you would like to receive a Oneness Blessing, please give me a call or email me to arrange a suitable time to meet.
It only takes a few minutes, so I am only asking for a donation (of any kind).

I am going to India in June to become a Oneness Trainer, after I get back I will be able to train anyone to become a Oneness Blessing Giver. Oneness Trainers will no longer exist after March 2012, when their work will be completed.

If you believe in your heart the world needs your help to raise its vibration and to help heal others during these global changes, I’d love to hear from you and give you as many blessings as you want.

For more information: read Awakening to Oneness or take a look at the Oneness University website.

If you have any questions or want to meet me for a chat and see what a blessing feels like, please let me know.

7.30PM THURSDAY 15 JULY 2010 - talk
at West Hill Hall, Compton Avenue, Brighton BN1 3PS
2012 EXPLAINED - WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD FOR HUMANITY?

We are entering an unprecedented period in human history which offers a unique possibility for a rapid evolution in consciousness. It is our vision in Oneness to actively and consciously participate in these transformative energies and to take full advantage of the opportunity that is being offered. 2012 is not a date, but rather a very specific phenomena that humanity is called to take part in.

Mike Grenville of the UK ONENESS ORGANISATION will give a talk and a short meditation. Open to the public.

Open to the Goddess

It’s been an emotional month. I took part in two workshops, the first run by Pam Carruthers over the Spring Equinox in London. A very supportive group, we found ourselves healing and sharing deep ancestral patterns of guilt, loneliness and betrayal. Many of us were from immigrant families (Eastern Europe, Ireland, West Indies), displaced peoples searching for truth and justice, but we didn’t even realise these were the blocks we needed to transform in order to break the patterns in ourselves and ultimately for future generations in our own families.

The week after the workshop, I had a follow-up session with Pam and she handed me a leaflet about a women-only retreat in Wales: Open to the Goddess. The workshop was the next week! I really needed to get out into nature and I trusted the divine guidance and of course there was one place left on the course, just for me.

Pele the Hawaiian Volcano goddess

After a seven hour train journey, arriving at dusk to the 16th century farmhouse, with the mist rolling down from the hills, it felt like stepping into a different world. A warm welcome from our host Anne Ziman put us at ease and we spent the first evening choosing at random our Goddess archetype. I was ‘Pele’ a fiery Hawaiian volcano goddess, which seemed strangely appropriate (other Goddesses picked from the Greek, Indian, Celtic, Eastern European, Japanese and Chinese traditions).

Over the weekend, we dressed-up and role-played in the secret gardens, with its beautiful streams and ponds. We made camp fires and told stories under the stars. We cried and laughed, walked like princesses, cackled like witches and danced as goddesses. There is something profoundly powerful about the Goddess - the strength of women coming together to celebrate being female, using nature, ritual, music and other shamanic traditions to heal and to have fun. It took about a week to come down from the festivities and I know there is more to come.

March is Pisces month

From Neil Spencer in the Guardian.

★ PISCES 20 February-20 March

Make yours the loudest cheer on New Year’s Eve when you bid farewell to two years that, for all their fine achievements, are unlikely to have been your easiest. Meanwhile, 2010 comes roaring in on a wave of excitement.

Saturn in opposition (from late ‘07 to late ‘09) invariably signals the need to handle property issues and to work incessantly while the dullards in charge take you for granted, even though you’re the one with the cutting-edge ideas. Don’t fret, you still are.

Saturn hasn’t quite gone away – the ringed planet slips back between April and July to ensure you have professional alliances in place and your lovely home in order, a process that applies chiefly to birthdays from 16 to 18 March. For now, however, you’re off the hook.

Moreover, on 18 January Jupiter, Pisces’s ruler, arrives in your skies to supercharge the opening five months of the year. Where Saturn is constriction, Jupiter is expansion, handing you a free ticket to distant shores or introducing you to a helpful big shot (this is the planet of presidents). By tradition, a Jupiter transit is “lucky”, a “get out of jail free” card, though what it calls for is a spirit of optimism and self-belief rather than expecting pennies from heaven. You can review 1986 and 1998, previous Jupiter years, for comparison.

2010 is different, however. The giant planet zips through Pisces at top speed before heading into Aries’s patch of the cosmos, meaning the summer may feel like a flat spot. Keep faith: in September Jupiter returns for the rest of the year – indeed this could be a pivotal month, bringing unforeseen work offers or a surprise love affair as Jupiter meets the other planet dominating your skies, Uranus.

Uranian themes, strong in Piscean lives for the past six years, emphasise independence, the future, dramatic change. Add this year’s Jovian largesse and you have a recipe for personal revolution, at least a chance to overhaul your image, reinvent your professional act, or walk out on a glum spouse for an affair with a glamorous quantum physicist or guerrilla gardener.

You have, in short, to put faith in your high ideals, canny antennae and creativity. This year you’re the fish with the brightest ideas in the think tank. February is sweet, but the new Moon of 15 March (dazzling date for a birthday!) is the real start of your year, after which it’s a mad, exhibitionist dash to summer. From mid-September you have lift-off again, with autumn a high spot for romance, especially for long-distance love affairs. With Jupiter in residence you can fly clear through to January 2011.

Dispatches – Kids Don’t Count

A Dispatches TV documentary ‘Kids Don’t Count’ about the lack of basic Maths skills in primary schools really hit a nerve with me. Most shocking were the findings that many primary school teachers have trouble with basic Maths themselves and also the methods of teaching are sometimes inadequate. This means that kids simply don’t understand what division or multiplication or fractions etc. mean in the real world. They just see symbols.

Traditional maths teaching (pre 1970’s) used to involve chanting the times tables for example - drumming into the heads of young minds the basic principles of maths. I know that even now I lack some basic skills in Maths and I can trace this back to being told to ‘go away and learn your times tables’ over the summer holidays - before the final year of primary school. I never did. This meant that I was a step behind in secondary school but no-one really thought it was a problem because I was ahead of the game in all my other subjects. Judging by the TV programme and talking to teachers I know, I am not alone in ‘hating Maths’ at school and never really addressing the problem - you only need a Grade C in Maths GCSE to be able to teach.

It also seems that if you are bright and literate, you can kind of get away with little Maths, we all use spreadsheets and calculators these days anyway. But when it comes to working out percentages, splitting the bill at a restaurant or maybe even working out your credit card bill or mortgage rate… maybe this is one of the reasons people get into financial problems or just don’t ask the right questions. Knowledge is power after all.

If you need help with Maths, the BBC skills wise website is very useful… also ties in with adult literacy, my pet hate is people using words out of context so try the Free rice quiz for words and meanings. There’s also a quiz on the Channel 4 site to test your Maths knowledge but it’s probably best not to try this if your confidence with numbers is already low.

Try this sum with people in your office - 1/2 ÷ 1/4 = ? You may be surprised at the answers. (answer is 2 by the way : 2 x 1/4 = 1/2)

10 top ways to manifest your goals

Happy New Year! 2010 is going to be a lot better for all of us - some very exciting developments are just around the corner. I was asked for some advice on keeping resolutions - so here are my Top 10 ways to manifest a more positive and fulfilling year. All of these methods are tried and tested, I’ve been working with these techniques for years and they can work for anyone. I also recommend the Artist’s Way and Creating Money if you want to do more manifesting work. Also Doreen Virtue’s recent newsletter about her struggles and triumphs studying as a single mum with 2 small kids, is an inspiring read especially for those of us thinking of returning to study.

10 top ways to manifest your goals by Rifa Bhunnoo

1. List key things you want with as much detail as possible. Use a pen and paper: writing by hand is more powerful energetically than using a computer. Use headings such as Career, Spiritual Development, Travel, Health, Relationships, Possessions, Home, though not necessarily all of these or in this order! Add your own headings and then list as much under each heading.

2. Refine your list regularly. Add to it, and visualize it by cutting out pics from magazines or images from the internet. Travel brochures are good for this! e.g. if you want to travel to India, stick a pic of the Taj Mahal on your list. I use notebooks to help me keep all my ideas and thoughts together.

3. Have fun and keep positive. Don’t hold on to your lists with any kind of worry or frustration if your goals aren’t manifested quickly enough. It’s when you let go and forget about the detail that they manifest at the right time. Refining your lists helps you see the patterns in your life, and will explain why things might not be working out exactly how you want to.

4. Surrender to the process. Sometimes you’ll get what you wished for but it might not be in the exact form you wished for. It might be a small step towards something even bigger and better. The Universe is bringing you everything you need at the right time, delays mean you may not be quite ready for the big time yet.

5. Say thank you to the Universe when you receive each and every thing you feel grateful for. This helps bring even more good things into your life.

6. Feel rich. It’s not just material things that make you feel abundant, but also time with good friends and family, ideas and inspiration for creative endeavors, resources for travel or study, opportunities for personal or spiritual development. What is the ‘quality’ or ‘essence’ that you want from your goals? A feeling of richness and abundance can come in small but meaningful ways.

7. Ask for signs to check you are on the right track. Acknowledge the signs pointing you in the right direction: ‘chance’ encounters, significant names, unexpected gifts, in logos, pictures in magazines, on posters, on the TV. Don’t worry if you think you’ve missed an opportunity, another chance will come along shortly!

8. Don’t be afraid of naysayers and sceptics. All kinds of people use manifesting techniques and various forms of goal-setting such as business people, sports coaches, spiritual gurus. Positive thinking is a psychological and spiritual truth. Writing a list of your goals helps you focus, it doesn’t harm anyone and you are not losing anything from doing it. If you don’t try it- then you don’t gain anything either. We all know what happens if you go to the supermarket without a list! Focusing on a positive plan for your life, reviewing and refining it regularly can only be a worthwhile exercise.

9. Ask for help and guidance from the Universe, God, Angels, Ascended Masters anything or anyone that resonates with you. Asking a teacher, guru or guide, your reiki master or receiving an angel card reading can be beneficial too. You don’t have to do this spiritual work on your own. Be generous with your compliments and encourage others with kind words and free smiles.

10. Take every opportunity and invitation. Find time for yourself, release any guilt, put yourself first and create some adventure in your life. Find your own passion, talents and abundance. Stop apologising, stop waiting for approval, validation or permission. Move forward and you’ll bring everyone else with you effortlessly.

Earth Chakras and 2012

Diana Cooper is a British author of many books about Angels and she recently spoke in London about her new book 2012 and Beyond. I recommend this book as it gives useful meditations as well as predictions about the economic, social and environmental changes that are on the way. It’s not a ‘doom and gloom’ book, but aimed at anyone interested in helping to send positive energy around the world. Lightworkers, healers, Reiki masters and anyone who wants to help, can send love to the 12 Earth Chakras - the energy centres of the world.

According to Diana, the 12 Earth Chakras are:

1. London, UK - Earth Star
2. Gobi Desert, China - Base Chakra
3. Honolulu, Hawaii - Sacral Chakra
4. Fiji, Pacific Ocean - Navel Chakra
5. Whole of South Africa - Solar Plexus
6. Glastonbury, UK - Heart Chakra and Guatemala is the Cosmic Heart
7. Luxor, Egypt - Throat Chakra
8. Bamyan Valley, Afghanistan - Third Eye
9. Machu Picchu, Peru
10. The Himalayas, Tibet - Causal Chakra
11. Agra, India - Soul Star
12. The Arctic - Stellar Gateway

The Olympic Games in 2012 will bring plenty of positive energy, enthusiasm and excitement to London - raising the vibration of the city to radiate around the world. In 2010 the World Cup is in South Africa, also uniting people from around the globe, focusing on the solar plexus of the world.

Places which have been affected by war hold negative energy in the very earth, that needs to be purified. There will be a 20 year transition period and it will be 2032 before we are able to globally shift into a new way of working and living. Nothing happens by chance, we will all be in the right place when the purifying of the earth takes place. This will be through natural disasters such as flooding, to purify areas that have negative energy due to past events. We will see new technological advances that help the good of all, and we will all work more from our own heart centres instead of from ego.

Canada, New Zealand and the Scottish Highlands are some of the purest places on earth. We can recharge our energy by visiting these places or  any of the ancient sacred sites. I sometimes visit sacred places ‘by accident’, for example on a recent roadtrip from San Francisco to Portland, we stopped for lunch at Mount Shasta. I’d never heard of this sweet little town, with it’s stunning backdrop of snowy mountains. When I read in Diana’s book that Mount Shasta is the Archangel Gabriel’s spiritual retreat, I knew I was divinely guided.

The Cosmic moments are times for celebration! so put these dates in your diary to have a big party with your friends, family and community… 11.11am, 11 Nov 2011 and 11.11am, 21 Dec 2012.

The Artist’s Way – unlock your creativity

I recommend The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron to my reiki students as she has helped millions to unlock their creativity, usually in surprising and unexpected ways. It’s laid out as a 12 week course with each chapter ending in a number of exercises. These exercises are not necessarily about ‘writing’ or any particular art form. They are designed to help you lead a richer, more interesting life. They also help you overcome the negativity that may be stopping you from trying new things.

The most important ‘tools’ are ‘The Morning Pages’ and ‘the Artist Date’. I like both these concepts. Each morning you splurge onto the page, 3 full pages of all the rants, rubbish and repetition in your life and then stop. Don’t re-read or worry if someone will find the pages. Keep them in a safe place and get on with your day. After a few weeks, your world feels lighter and you let go of some of the unwanted baggage, leaving you clearer to be more creative.

The Artist Date is all about having fun! On your own, you plan a special treat for yourself, experimenting with something new. It could be a visit to the zoo, a museum, a gallery. It could be a riding lesson or a one-off dance class. It could just be allowing yourself to browse in a bookshop or art shop. This stuff sounds simple, but when did you last push yourself to go and try something new, something you’ve always wanted to have a go at? ON YOUR OWN!?

I’ve done the Artist’s Way three times. The first time it led me to learn Reiki. This is because of the spiritual aspect to the book. Everyone of us has the potential to be creative: whether it’s through the outfits we wear, how we experiment with making food,  or with our poems, songs or paintings. The second time I read the book, I started painting, years after being told by my art teacher I wasn’t good enough. I did a few different  art courses at Phoenix, the City College and at Sussex Uni.  I now use my artwork to decorate my walls at home, on my website and in all my manuals.

The third time I read the Artist’s Way, I started learning the sitar, with a local teacher and later took a course in London with a world-class sitar player, Purbayan Chatterjee. It gave me a wonderful sense of achievement to take part in the final concert and did wonders for my confidence. Learning an instrument helps you to understand music better, to hear more clearly and also helps you to think with more clarity.

Julia Cameron has taught the Artist Way for 25 years but this weekend was the first time she has ever run a workshop in the UK. It was incredible for a group of creative people to do the intense exercises together and then to share the results. Strangers giving each other positive feedback and encouragement is incredibly powerful. The most personal details of what was holding them back - their worries, their fears and their resentments - were challenged and transformed into positive plans and inspiring ideas.

I have already begun to feel the effects of the workshop, just a few days after the event, I am experimenting with new art forms and moving into a new phase of learning. Throughout the weekend, Julia was asked by the audience: … is this right? should I..? could I..? am I allowed..?? And her answer was always: “I teach Adults.”

Sometimes we should just DO instead of worrying if it’s RIGHT. What’s wrong with giving yourself permission to make a mess or to be a bit wrong and to make up your own rules? Maybe, just maybe, a little gem comes out of all the mess and makes you smile.