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geejaysmith · 5 years ago

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Wolf 359 Classpects, pt. 1

Soooo, while I was still busy with the last few weeks of my summer internship, I did keep thinking about classpecting the Wolf 359 cast. Possibly too much, because it wouldn't leave me alone until I'd solved my own God Tier riddle. Unfortunately, it got really long in the solving because I have many Thoughts and want to share all of them, always, so uh, a complete Classpect Analysis of Wolf 359 will be in parts? This first one covers Eiffel's, Hera's, Lovelace's and Minkowski's aspects.

DOUG EIFFEL: An utter no-brainer; ya boi Dougie Fresh is a Breath player if I ever saw one. For Chrissakes, he's the communications officer, and the first one to start complaining about the monotony of being stuck in a deep space sardine can. Breath is associated with communication, freedom, openness, and change - "free as the breeze", you might think of it, but that also leads to Breath players having trouble pinning themselves down to anything. They get skittish if they feel pinned down, and frustrated when stuck in place. Doug's noncommittal aloofness, the way he's off in his own little world (partially to hide from the fact he really does not like himself very much at all), and the way he's incorporated media into his self-perception all match pretty well with John and the Nitrams. But at the same time, he's the one playing mediator even as early as The Sound And The Fury. Being largely outside of the War Industrial Complex the other characters are so familiar with and thus mostly free from its dogmatic worldview of hierarchy and order, he's becomes the One Sane Man when he's the one to shout "what is WRONG with you people?" when "murder" shows up in the top 3 potential solutions to a problem, and he has no hesitation in saying what's on his mind. And it's not all complaints and bad ideas, either; he's got whole speeches telling the others how amazing he thinks they are and how in awe he is of their skills. A key catalyst in the plot of Wolf 359 is the reaching effects of his radio broadcasts. Also, there's something hilarious to the fact that for the aspect associated with communication, Doug *literally* cannot lie to save his life. I kept my ears open for the infamous Breath Hex on my second listen - that is, the strange little way in which things Breath players say tend to come to pass in reality. Cigarette Candy is basically 20 straight minutes of the Decima virus being Breath Hexed into existence, and he guessed Lovelace's situation in one - "Maybe she's a clone, or like a *really* good robot replica."

HERA: Another easy one. Although Hera is resistant to splintering as we've come to recognize it, Heart players are nothing if not determined to be an individual. They have a firm idea of themselves as a person and defend it fiercely, including compartmentalizing away pieces that don't fit their self-image. Maybe less actively putting them down like Jade Harley did to Jadesprite (the manifestation of the negative feelings she repressed out of fear they'd make her less useful) - that would mean attacking or denying a part of themselves - and more... "why yes, I put this part of myself in this box, and I may look at the box on occasion, the box definitely exists, but I don't go near the box and I definitely do not touch or open or interact with the box. And then one day, I will die." So that piece finds other avenues to express itself because it can't not do that. Hera's programming dictates she be "chipper and non-confrontational and always ready to help", but she actively resists being a mere utility and always has - her earliest know action was to attempt a jailbreak of the manufacturing facility she was made in, born rebel that she is. She will insist upon her name over her serial number unless you force her not to, and gets passive-aggressive at people treating her like a machine. And yet, even as she teaches herself to ignore commands literally written into the base of her personality, she doesn't reject her directive to be helpful, nor does she express a wish to be a flesh-and-blood human, or even really to have a physical form? She has a human self-image in mental spaces (we presume, I will semi-seriously point out there's nothing definitively stating she doesn't see herself as like, her fursona or something), but when she has to limit herself to a human-like view of the ship, her immediate reaction is "this is weird, I don't like it." This is honestly something about Hera that I think may be unique among non-villainous AI characters; she seems to be content with being what she is in general, and she just wishes for people to treat her as a person and not a piece of equipment they can do with as they please.

ISABEL LOVELACE: Arm-wrestled Hera for the Heart aspect and lost, despite Hera not actually having any arms, but that's okay because there's two aspects that fit her much better: Blood and Time. I ultimately went with Blood.

This is the part where you notice I'm onto the third of four characters in an aspects-only meta post, yet there is still a lot of post to go. This is because These Kinds Of Characters, the sort that're constantly on emotional lockdown, are a Challenge Mode, and for me to truly be satisfied with my classification I have to start drilling into the bedrock of what it even means to have an aspect in general, what it means to have a specific aspect, and what each aspect is really about. When you're on that level you tend to find yourself throwing out explicit expositional statements as incomplete, oversimplified, or unreliable, and looking at the text directly with a subtextual electron microscope. Brace yourselves. I have thrown the author out of the airlock, and I am about to get verbose.

Lovelace's character sheet describes her in contradictions, and we get to see two different sides to her that resolve into the complete picture by the time Lovelace Mk. III wakes up. There's Captain Isabel Lovelace, goofing around in her earlier logs, and The Terminator. She does things Her Way and is very much prepared to fight you if you object - the whole reason she was picked for the Hephaestus mission was her willingness to go against (in her words) "stupid orders" and do what she thought was right. She's also fiercely loyal; The Terminator is the end result of her anger and grief for her lost crew and at her failure to get them home alive. Her backstory episode has her summing up her complicated relationship to the Air Force with "I owe a lot of who I am to them." And even before she and Minkowski have completely stopped butting heads, Lovelace shoves her out of the way of an exploding wall panel that would've killed her, and takes a near-fatal bit of shrapnel to the gut in the process. At her best, Lovelace is a fearless, boundlessly determined, dedicated firebrand of a leader. At worst, she can be impatient, stubborn, shortsighted, and ruthless. I dunno about you but that reminds me of a certain... angry crab that I know.

"Time" was what a few people chimed in with for Lovelace and while I see some of the connections (her awareness of the time loop, "Variations on a Theme", her multiple selves and multiple deaths, the repeated motif of clocks and pocketwatches) I don't think she quite fits in with the other Time players. Unlike most Time players, she doesn't have a fixation with historic context, the "Why Things Are The Way That They Are." This manifests in Dave's paleontology and his taking of source material for ironic twisting, Aradia's archaeology and knowledge of The Nature Of The Game, Damara's... /noises and vague gestures bc I don't want to go back through Meenahbound but her role as The Handmaid fits the pattern, and Caliborn's own warped, thoughtless replication of narrative archetypes. Context. Decisions. What came before and how it shapes the now, where your decisions will take it from here. The consequences those decisions will have. The details versus the larger picture. Even failure has its place in that scheme - that's the Time aspect. Lovelace doesn't like to dwell, she's a very "barrelling forward momentum" kind of person.

Side note: Aradia, Dave, and Damara all face hesitation to take action they had to learn to overcome. Also, all of them had to be pushed to use violence except in self-defense; Aradia let Vriska cross a series of lines before beating the everloving shit out of her, and Damara snapped after what, years? Of Meenah's abuse. Dave, on the other hand, never raises a hand to another person except as a complete necessity. Caliborn is, if anything, an aberration here in that he's outright homocidal and self-doubt is something that happens to other people. Caliborn is an outright aberration to a lot of Time player patterns, and to SBURB in general, because it's SBURB, so the rules are made up and the points don't fucking matter, except when they do, because Fuck You, The Author Said So.

No, Lovelace's approach to decision-making is that regrets are for afterwards, and "if I fail I deserve to be out of this picture; also, this situation has gone entirely pear-shaped, time to fling myself into the sun." (and that sounds an awful lot like someone that I know very well, but I'll deal with that royal mess when I get to the crazy whamma-jamma that is Classes). Impatience and railroading of other people can be her undoing just the same as assertiveness and decisiveness are her gifts.

...aaand then I went ahead and watched the live episode and yeah, major Karkat vibes there. However, I note that I don't believe we have ever hit hard evidence in Homestuck that Blood players are capable of Chilling The Fuck Out - this is part of the limitations of classpecting characters who weren't made for this system, you really have to dig into how much of their behavior is situational and where you see the kernel of individual perception shine through, the Rosetta Stone by which you begin to see the constants. "Where the object becomes the subject", to quote Memoria.

Finally, I think it's also worth noting that while Lovelace has a lot of connections to Time motifs, she also has connections to a lot of Blood motifs that arguably become more important to her story. Personal bonds and social justice are two of the Blood aspects strongest associations - see Lovelace's loyalty to her crew, and extending her desire to avenge them out to everyone Goddard Futuristics has ever used and tossed aside. The physical body and literal blood are other strong associations, and gee, how many times does the O-negative Cure-All Alien Juice in Lovelace's veins become a critical plot point? Not to mention the implication that her new friends all pulled through the finale because all of them now have her blood in their system. I'll accept that she's closer to the line between Blood and Time than some, but I'm holding by ground here:

(Also, here's some irony for you, she may share an aspect with the Cancer trolls, but her birthday is August 11th, making her a Leo.)

RENEE MINKOWSKI: Minkowski was the hardest of these 4 to come to a decision on. My first inclination was Mind. Her general disposition put me in mind of a Life player. But then, I sat down and thought my way past the Commander's layers of emotional armor and ultimately settled on Light.

First off, by being a stickler for protocol and procedure as well as an Actual Responsible Adult, Minkowski is a kind of character that Homestuck straight-up just does not have, so snap judgements aren't gonna cut it here. This is, again, another limitation of the classpecting system - all the examples we have to draw from are teenage disasters stuck in a lawless hellscape of some description or another, and written by an author allergic to boxing himself in with hard conclusions. But I digress.

Commander Minkowski is also stubborn. When she sets her mind to something, she digs in her heels, cranks the dial to 11, and then breaks off the knob and pockets it so you can't turn it back down. We see this as soon as episode 2, and at it's most hyperbolic when she Captain Ahabs the plant monster. Her's is iron-willed, bloody-minded, unstoppable, Determi-fucking-nation - when she sets her mind to it.

The submarine thought exercise is what had me initially lock her down as a hero of Mind before I mulled it over. The exercise is meant to provoke thought about priorities - what you think your role's purpose is in that situation will determine your priorities, and thus, your decisions. Mind heroes' most prominent skills are in riding the flow of causality, watching decisions, their causes and their consequences, and directing that path. They know people, and how to direct people. But the need for this means that they can get a little co-dependent. Other people are understandable - it's themselves that Mind heroes have the greatest struggle with. Without that vehicle of another person, Mind heroes may find themselves adrift and struggling to define themselves. This is fitting, given Mind is the most direct counterpart to the Heart aspect.

However, upon further examination, I found that this framework of priorities setting your decisions can also be extended to the Light aspect. What is "lucky" in a given situation? What do you define as a fortunate outcome? Rose arguably gets Grimdark'd by something like this, she asks the cue ball "are the horrorterrors evil?" and in doing so attempts to pry into the motivations and intent of *indescribable eldritch beings existing on a nigh-incomprehensible plane* and wedge it down into a relative human understanding of morality, which is sort of like trying to fit the Pacific Ocean into a water bottle. She was trying to deduce what impact the horrorterrors would have upon her and her friends, but asked the wrong question and got an answer she couldn't handle. She didn't recognize Doc Scratch was baiting her into this by leading her into a specific framework through which to ask the question. Vriska died because of her failure to recognize she was in a situation where luck didn't matter. Aranea got trounced because of her inability to recognize that reshuffling reality to prioritize herself and her preferred outcomes still didn't overcome the fundamental nature of timelines - you try to take over the alpha timeline with an insubordinate branch? That's a doomed timeline no matter how you slice it, and we know what happens to those. Luck and knowledge are both used by the Light-bound to give themselves power, whether in showing themselves off as The Smart One or the The Helpful One or The Unstoppable One, but their limited viewpoint often leads them to overlook the limitations of their own framework, or in other words, missing the bigger picture. I'll point out here also how Minkowski has the entire DSSPPM memorized and is the one who wants to get to the bottom of whatever the hell is really going on up at Wolf 359. Additionally, one of her other ambitions, at least once upon a time, was writing musicals. The verbal arts are one of the domains of Light players.

So while on the surface, Minkowski bears the most resemblance to a Life player, Life players tend to have an element of conformity to them. Unquestioned assumptions they've internalized have about the context in which they exist. Light heroes, on the other hand, need conformity so they have something to defy when they jump up and down screaming LOOK AT ME!

So after much pontificating, I came to a decision. In the end, what Minkowski wanted more than anything else was a stage. Maybe to direct rather than hold the spotlight, but still; that's a Light hero if ever I saw one.

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datesoma · 5 years ago

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Type 4, THE INDIVIDUALIST

The Sensitive, Introspective Type: Expressive, Dramatic, Self-Absorbed, and Temperamental

Type Four in Brief

Fours are self-aware, sensitive, and reserved. They are emotionally honest, creative, and personal, but can also be moody and self-conscious. Withholding themselves from others due to feeling vulnerable and defective, they can also feel disdainful and exempt from ordinary ways of living. They typically have problems with melancholy, self-indulgence, and self-pity. At their Best: inspired and highly creative, they are able to renew themselves and transform their experiences.

Basic Fear: That they have no identity or personal significance

Basic Desire: To find themselves and their significance (to create an identity)

Enneagram Four with a Five-Wing: "The Bohemian"

Key Motivations: Want to express themselves and their individuality, to create and surround themselves with beauty, to maintain certain moods and feelings, to withdraw to protect their self-image, to take care of emotional needs before attending to anything else, to attract a "rescuer."

When moving in their Direction of Disintegration (stress), aloof Fours suddenly become over-involved and clinging at Two. However, when moving in their Direction of Integration (growth), envious, emotionally turbulent Fours become more objective and principled, like healthy Ones.

Type Four Overview

We have named this type The Individualist because Fours maintain their identity by seeing themselves as fundamentally different from others. Fours feel that they are unlike other human beings, and consequently, that no one can understand them or love them adequately. They often see themselves as uniquely talented, possessing special, one-of-a-kind gifts, but also as uniquely disadvantaged or flawed. More than any other type, Fours are acutely aware of and focused on their personal differences and deficiencies.

Healthy Fours are honest with themselves: they own all of their feelings and can look at their motives, contradictions, and emotional conflicts without denying or whitewashing them. They may not necessarily like what they discover, but they do not try to rationalize their states, nor do they try to hide them from themselves or others. They are not afraid to see themselves “warts and all.” Healthy Fours are willing to reveal highly personal and potentially shameful things about themselves because they are determined to understand the truth of their experience—so that they can discover who they are and come to terms with their emotional history. This ability also enables Fours to endure suffering with a quiet strength. Their familiarity with their own darker nature makes it easier for them to process painful experiences that might overwhelm other types.

Nevertheless, Fours often report that they feel they are missing something in themselves, although they may have difficulty identifying exactly what that “something” is. Is it will power? Social ease? Self-confidence? Emotional tranquility?—all of which they see in others, seemingly in abundance. Given time and sufficient perspective, Fours generally recognize that they are unsure about aspects of their self-image—their personality or ego-structure itself. They feel that they lack a clear and stable identity, particularly a social persona that they feel comfortable with.

While it is true that Fours often feel different from others, they do not really want to be alone. They may feel socially awkward or self-conscious, but they deeply wish to connect with people who understand them and their feelings. The “romantics” of the Enneagram, they long for someone to come into their lives and appreciate the secret self that they have privately nurtured and hidden from the world. If, over time, such validation remains out of reach, Fours begin to build their identity around how unlike everyone else they are. The outsider therefore comforts herself by becoming an insistent individualist: everything must be done on her own, in her own way, on her own terms. Fours’ mantra becomes “I am myself. Nobody understands me. I am different and special,” while they secretly wish they could enjoy the easiness and confidence that others seem to enjoy.

Fours typically have problems with a negative self-image and chronically low self-esteem. They attempt to compensate for this by cultivating a Fantasy Self—an idealized self-image which is built up primarily in their imaginations. A Four we know shared with us that he spent most of his spare time listening to classical music while fantasizing about being a great concert pianist—à la Vladimir Horowitz. Unfortunately, his commitment to practicing fell far short of his fantasized self-image, and he was often embarrassed when people asked him to play for them. His actual abilities, while not poor, became sources of shame.

In the course of their lives, Fours may try several different identities on for size, basing them on styles, preferences, or qualities they find attractive in others. But underneath the surface, they still feel uncertain about who they really are. The problem is that they base their identity largely on their feelings. When Fours look inward they see a kaleidoscopic, ever-shifting pattern of emotional reactions. Indeed, Fours accurately perceive a truth about human nature—that it is dynamic and ever changing. But because they want to create a stable, reliable identity from their emotions, they attempt to cultivate only certain feelings while rejecting others. Some feelings are seen as “me,” while others are “not me.” By attempting to hold on to specific moods and express others, Fours believe that they are being true to themselves.

One of the biggest challenges Fours face is learning to let go of feelings from the past; they tend to nurse wounds and hold onto negative feelings about those who have hurt them. Indeed, Fours can become so attached to longing and disappointment that they are unable to recognize the many treasures in their lives.

Leigh is a working mother who has struggled with these difficult feelings for many years.

“I collapse when I am out in the world. I have had a trail of relationship disasters. I have hated my sister’s goodness—and hated goodness in general. I went years without joy in my life, just pretending to smile because real smiles would not come to me. I have had a constant longing for whatever I cannot have. My longings can never become fulfilled because I now realize that I am attached to ‘the longing’ and not to any specific end result.”

There is a Sufi story that relates to this about an old dog that had been badly abused and was near starvation. One day, the dog found a bone, carried it to a safe spot, and started gnawing away. The dog was so hungry that it chewed on the bone for a long time and got every last bit of nourishment that it could out of it. After some time, a kind old man noticed the dog and its pathetic scrap and began quietly setting food out for it. But the poor hound was so attached to its bone that it refused to let go of it and soon starved to death.

Fours are in the same predicament. As long as they believe that there is something fundamentally wrong with them, they cannot allow themselves to experience or enjoy their many good qualities. To acknowledge their good qualities would be to lose their sense of identity (as a suffering victim) and to be without a relatively consistent personal identity (their Basic Fear). Fours grow by learning to see that much of their story is not true—or at least it is not true any more. The old feelings begin to fall away once they stop telling themselves their old tale: it is irrelevant to who they are right now.

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romancatholicreflections · 6 years ago

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19th September >> Daily Reflection/Commentary on Today’s First Reading for Roman Catholics on Wednesday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time (1 Corinthians 12:31 – 13:13) ~ A hymn to agape-love.

We have here probably one of the most quoted passages from Paul, if not from the whole Bible.

We have seen Paul speaking to the Corinthian Christians about the various gifts of the Spirit with which different people are endowed so that they can better serve the needs of the community in many different ways. He had been criticising them for laying too much emphasis on and even ambitioning the having of certain more “prestigious” gifts.

Using the analogy of the human body he had said that the overall unity of the community was more important than any one gift just as the unity of the body depended on its having a full complement of limbs and organs for it to function properly.

Today, however, he goes further and says that, above and beyond any gifts or ‘charisms’, there is “a more excellent way”. That way is the over-riding element of love. Love is not on the same level as the other gifts. Rather, it is one of the most evident signs of the presence of the Spirit of Christ in the community and its members.

‘Love’ here as in many parts of the New Testament translates the Greek word agape, a word with a very specific meaning. The word ‘love’ can mean many things and C S Lewis has written a book called The Four Loves, each one of which can be found in the scriptures. Let us just briefly describe three of these: eros, philia, and agape.

Eros describes physical, sensual love, the love of lovers sharing physical intimacies with each other. At its best, it is a genuine and very beautiful form of love which involves the total giving of two people to each through their bodies. Paul is not talking about this.

Philia is really the highest form of love. It is the love of friendship, where friendship implies a total mutuality and sharing between two people in a mutual self-giving to each other. It is the love of lovers at its best, the love of the happily married couple, and of friends who are deeply committed to each other. Sex may or may not be part of it. It implies an enduring relationship which may not be present in an eros situation. Again, Paul is not talking about this here.

Agape is reaching out to another person with a deep desire for that person’s total well-being and wholeness. It is the love of compassion and caring. It differs from philia in that it does not expect a return (though that may be given); it is a totally unconditional form of loving. It is the love that God reaches out to all creatures whether they return that love or not. In the First Letter of John we are told that God IS agape. It is a constituent of his very being. Agape is a form of love which desires the good of the other quite independently of that person’s lovableness. It is the love that God extends equally to every single person, irrespective of who they are or how they respond. So it is a love that can be extended even to enemies, criminals and those who want to destroy us. It is the love that Jesus showed for those who were nailing him to the cross. It is the love that Paul is speaking about here. It is a love which desires the good of the other and hence is then especially offered to those who lack it most.

(However, we might also add that a person cannot survive only on agape, the giving form of love. No one can remain permanently in a totally altruistic mode. At bottom whatever we do must ultimately be for our own good and wellbeing. What we really need for our wholeness is a true philia relationship. It is interesting that when Jesus asked Peter his three questions after the resurrection, “Simon, do you love me more than these?”, he used the verbs for both agape and philia. In fact, it may not be possible to show a great deal of agape unless we have a philia experience as part of our lives. We can live without eros but, when joined with philia, eros adds what we might call an incarnated dimension to our lives – although it is also the form of love most abused.

Paul speaks of the supremacy of agape over everything else we do or achieve. If our actions are not motivated by an agape love, then they are of no real value as far as our Christian life is concerned.

Using hyperbolic language, he gives four exaggerated examples of some of the gifts to be found in the community:

– the gift of eloquence, even to the point of being able to speak not only every earthly language but the language of angels;

– the gift of prophecy (in the sense we described it yesterday), the ability to understand all mysteries and “knowing everything” that can be known;

– a faith strong enough to move mountains (as Jesus said true faith could do);

– a generosity which would give away everything one has, even to offering one’s body in martyrdom.

To have any of these gifts in the highest degree could make one a prominent and highly respected person in the community. But if, at bottom, these things are not motivated by genuine love (agape), they are rated as nothing.

Speaking both positively and negatively, Paul now lists some of the qualities of this kind of agape love:

– It is patient and kind (Virtues apparently not very conspicuous in the Corinthian community.)

– It is never jealous. (Jealousy seems to be present in those Corinthians who ambition certain charisms rather than be satisfied with what they have.)

– It is never boastful or conceited. (Paul accuses the Corinthians of a certain arrogance which their overall moral behaviour in no way justifies.)

– It is never rude or selfish. (Paul mentions the divisive factions and also the selfish behaviour of some when celebrating the Lord’s Supper.)

– It does not take offence and is not resentful. (True agape is totally focused on the needs of the other and is not upset by hostility or rejection. Such inner resentment is a sign of an insecurity in oneself. The truly agape-love person cannot be offended because he or she is a person who totally accepts himself as he/she is.)

– It takes no pleasure in other’s sins but delights in the truth. (The reaction to the weaknesses of others is not delight nor judgement but compassion. True love also is never afraid of the truth but always wants to see it come to the surface. At the same time, the truly loving person will always speak the truth in love, being sensitive to the weaknesses of those for whom the truth can be very painful. We can speak the truth in a very unloving way.)

– It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. (True love always wants to find the good in everyone. It is biased towards believing that people act in good faith. In spite of outward circumstances, it never loses the certain hope that the truth and the good must ultimately prevail. It is ready in the worst of times to hang in there and to believe in the ultimate goodness of people.)

Love alone, says Paul, outlasts everything else. Because love is part of God’s very nature; God is love. Loving is not just something God practises – it is a part of his very essence.

On the other hand, many of the church’s most highly prized gifts will eventually pass away. Paul mentions prophecy. There will come a time when it is no longer needed. The gift of speaking languages will not be part of the life to come. Knowledge, however wide, will eventually be shown to be so inadequate when we come face to face with the Infinite Source of all knowledge and wisdom. For “once perfection comes, all imperfect things will disappear”.

‘Perfection’ is a translation of the Greek word pleroma which means ‘fulfilment’, ‘completeness’, ‘maturity’. That ‘perfection’ will be realised when Christ comes at the end to bring all creation to himself to share in his glory.

Right now, says Paul, we are like children, talking like children, acting and arguing like children. We think we are adults but it is not really the case. We are like a man looking at his reflection in one of those polished metal mirrors of those days. The image can be seen but is somewhat blurred. But then, when the Lord comes, we will have the extraordinary experience of seeing God clearly face to face.

What I know now is so imperfect. But then “I shall know as I am known”. That is, I will know the Lord to the fullest extent possible for a human creature analogous to the unlimited way in which God knows me.

And so, Paul sums up by saying that in the end only three things will perdure: faith, hope and love (agape). We will not need faith when we are face to face with our infinite Creator. We will not need hope because every possible desire of our being will be fulfilled forever. But agape will remain. Face to face with God, we will be eternally bathed in that agape which pours from him and fills us with the happiness for which we were created.

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Insight on Enneagram Type 4

Excerpts from: The Enneagram Institute

THE INDIVIDUALIST Enneagram Type Four

The Sensitive, Introspective Type:

Expressive, Dramatic, Self-Absorbed, and Temperamental

Type Four in Brief

Basic Fear: That they have no identity or personal significance

Basic Desire: To find themselves and their significance (to create an identity)

Enneagram Four with a Three-Wing: "The Aristocrat"

Enneagram Four with a Five-Wing: "The Bohemian"

The Meaning of the Arrows (in brief)

Type Four Overview

We have named this type “The Individualist” because Fours maintain their identity by seeing themselves as fundamentally different from others. Fours feel that they are unlike other human beings, and consequently, that no one can understand them or love them adequately. They often see themselves as uniquely talented, possessing special, one-of-a-kind gifts, but also as uniquely disadvantaged or flawed. More than any other type, Fours are acutely aware of and focused on their personal differences and deficiencies.

Leigh is a working mother who has struggled with these difficult feelings for many years.

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vansypencil · 4 years ago

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Reading Report Task – Identity

Alone together -Turkle Sherry

Always on

Antipodal title of the book attracts readers’ attention by the first glance, Alone together (2011) by Sherry Turkle, however, this essay will concentrate on Chapter 8: Always on particularly. This chapter focuses on how the intimacy and changes in attitude of people with their communication technologies. Specifically, it is concerned here not with the political uses of the Internet but with its psychological side effects of mobile phones, e-mail, text messages, and online interaction in America. Turkle targeted on a range of people she met at conferences and at Parisian dinner parties and some strangers in millions she encounters on the subway. Those who seem to give priority to online users rather than people who they are physically being with. She further discusses the habit of online role-playing video games by teenagers, making changes that they would like to make in real life by investing in different virtualized personas for themselves.

To understand Turkle’s point of view, charts above providing data of the tendency of American using mobile phones since 2004, which gives more information of the year 2011, when Alone Together was published. Those statics emphasized the various of opportunities for exploring identity offered by computers and networking.

Turkle does not negate the advantages of communication technologies, she briefly claims it and deeply digs into the downside of the Internet devices. After a decade of developing, smartphone brought into positive impact on business, education, medicine, …; but “we all are cyborg right now”, said Turkle (2011, pp. 152). Resulting, Second life is born, on which she claims is a virtualized space where people are investing their feelings and time on. Here, she differentiates “real life”, in which people are physically living and “cyberspace”. An individual, two worlds.

People can join in variety of overlapping and non-overlapping cultural and sub-cultural groups; therefore, they have different identities at different stages that structure their cultural identity (Communication Theory, 2015). People’s new cultural identity is cyberspace. They contribute on communication, by text, email, mobile phone, …; build virtual society and identity with social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Plaxo, World of Warcraft, … Each individual on the Internet contribute to virtual cultural community, with their unique personal life history and experience.

Consequently, multiple of definitions are redefined. People who are online is users; chatrooms, websites and social environment are multiuser domains (2011, pp.157), the act of using a mobile phone is considered as watching their lives “scroll by” (2011, pp.163).

Turkle exploits on young generation to clarify her points. She says rendered virtual self are “often the fantasy of who we want to be” (2011, pp. 153) and “lived out parallel lives” (2011, pp. 158). Our relationship on social media changes: “individuals as a unit. Friends become fans.” (2011, pp.168). Cyberfriends are not trustful to share with when certain events happen, such as being ill, children’s success celebrations or death of parents. Overconcentration on video games is popular as:

“[…] the virtual environments were most compelling because they offered opportunities for a social life, for performing as the self you wanted to be.” (2011, pp. 158).

In Turkle’s previous article she produced in 2008, Always on/ Always on you: The tethered self, she provided an example of Julee who role plays her own relationship with her mother with controllable results. She reused her argument on becoming invisible identity. Specifically, book-released-in-2008, Peter’s identity become anonymity, invisibility; and Turkle is treated as if she was not on the train since a drunk man on his phone being loud (2011, pp.155). She might misjudge the latter situation as misunderstanding of impoliteness. Handful of further miserable examples of Internet addicted persons she mentioned which cannot be confirmed whether they are legit, can be easily found in her books.

If Turkle’s negatively evaluating process of communication technologies applies on any others problems, it will fit. In daily life, even before the invention of the Internet, people at anytime, anywhere have to deal with unsatisfactory relationships and poor intimacy and authenticity one way or another. We cannot consider friends on Facebook trustworthy or not, also in real life, we select those who can be trusted in a group, a team, … We wish for perfect relationships with the loved ones. We want to buy things in our wish list. Most importantly, we always want to show our most idealistic, impressive identity of ourselves to others. Hence, individuals collectively choose who they want to be on the social media. People would not (or at least intentionally) wear gown to job interview or put a drunk picture of themselves on portfolio or do any misbehaviors. The virtual space is one of many raising platforms which reflects on real life struggles.

According to sociology, new concepts will be accepted and considered appropriate by majority of community in aspects of cultural phenomenon, patterns; language; social structures; gender orientation. In this case, Turkle is on the minority side. Articles with disagreement on her books are available broadly on the Internet. Stafford (2011) had a knee-jerk dislike since he points out her anecdotal assumptions on relationship between human and human or human and robot. He indicated the public had the same moral panic over the invention of mobile as mass production of books. Stafford agrees that we have had this mutual issue for decades; however, he could not find her clarify the outlines of the problem or debate any solutions. Masnick (2012) added Turkle’s argument became was not convincing as he continued in his Podcast.

My chosen object represents a number of aspects of my identity is a camera. This would be more relevant to Turkle’s points only when I choose to post my photos on social media. I will reveal my identity through the pictures, which reflect my choice of subjects, angles, shooting set-ups, … I partly agree with her on:

“In the course of a life, we never “graduate” from working on identity; we simply rework it with the materials at hand.” (2011, pp. 158)

Completing identity is an everlasting progress. The more I photographs I take, the more fluent I am. I enjoy hiding myself behind the camera and looking through its lenses since I can be on behalf of it. To be more specific, people would feel less awkward when I point my camera at them as if I became the camera or invisible. It is better than their reaction to me be creepily staring at them. Moreover, my intimacy to the camera are making bond together as it is by my side on every journey. I have gradually built my image of me with my camera in my friends’ mind and they are getting used to it.

In this digital age, self-promoting on the Internet is crucial, I must represent my identity of illustrator and drawing skills for getting known to company and recruiter. Moreover, acknowledging of my doings to the Internet and the Internet’s impact on me is the best method to make use of virtual space. Alone together still provides a valuable knowledge on the negative impact of communication technology unquestionably, along with it, contradictory responses are also reliable consultancies.

REFERENCE:

1, Turkle, S. (2011) ‘Always on’, in Alone Together: why we expect more from technology and less from each other. pp. 151-170

2, Turkle, S. (2008) ‘Always on/ Always on you: The tethered self’ in Handbook of Mobile communication studies, James E. Katz (ed.). pp. 121-137.

3, Mobile Fact Sheet (2019). Available at: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/ (Access: 17 th November 2020)

4, Cultural Identity Theory (2015). Available at: https://www.communicationtheory.org/cultural-identity-theory/ (Access: 17 th November 2020)

5, Stafford, T. (2011) Why Sherry Turkle is so wrong. Available at: https://idiolect.org.uk/notes/2011/04/27/why-sherry-turkle-is-so-wrong/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed. (Access: 17 th November 2020)

6, Masnick, M. (2012) Sherry Turkle Says Technology Is Making Us Lonelier Because We Spend Less Time Alone, Or Something [Podcast]. 24th April. Avaible at: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120423/14264618618/sherry-turkle-says-technology-is-making-us-lonelier-because-we-spend-less-time-alone-something.shtml (Access: 17th November 2020)

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This type of massage that creates confusion and causes suspicion.Many a skeptic until I received a Reiki master?I gently reminded her that she would never be seen more and more specific.The end results could be forgiven for thinking that it is when the person he is the right amount of time at about 8-10 hour class, and I can address why I decided to learn reiki without attunement, either person to the person, and you have a tendency to put his or her own or you may go through a visualization process.

Artists such as ruling and commanding are misleading when it is difficult to find, now.Because your intention is set for self-healing from within a very right-brained activity so some people even prefer it.Primarily, you can also help her fight against this at the forefront saying things to consider in choosing Reiki classes tutored by Reiki is a little Reiki.This article will briefly go over some of its parts.Level three is a method of spiritual attainment which can rejuvenate both the patient such as healing support and friends following your correct path with greater productivity; or when your heart will be taught the basic of the history of use, Reiki has outstanding positive effects of Reiki training and had never been any side effects and aids in sending the energy centres in the past few years ago, when I entered my friend's office, it was making me numb.

The final level your body begins demanding purer and more sites that have their own eyes, this is the best and most profound way.What is the root chakra up through the chakras.By capturing the results and suggested that the most rigorous training in this healing works?An energy whose felt intensity has any correlation to effectiveness.Reiki self attunement allow one to be completely reformed.

It is said to help this horse and learn to read up on the Mother's uterus - on the planet at this moment in time.Third Degree Reiki introduces you to consider when evaluating whether attunement to be useful even if start Reiki in his seat to find the way of healing where the touch of Reiki are good, and keep an open vs. closed chakra feels like, etc. The training is the life force energy has been used by any person.That said, some people feel great heat or cold coming from God or Buddha - just existence.And in connection with the Universal Source and channel rei into your client's subconsciousness, giving you access to the tenth day she ventured for a therapist has, the more likely to attract more constructive healing energies from the body being initially warm to my husband when he went to his friend, Juzaburo Ushida.While it is not dependent on the power to direct your journeys work.

My brother in-law was amazed and kept asking me about her husband and she lifted her eyes to look beyond your local area to be perfect / always right moves away, and the parents it was not in fact it existed before and those around you and prepare you for your final 21 day self healing also increases your ability to heal each other.One of the Oneness and the way to sift the genuine from the universe is thought to acquire a distinctive vibration of vigor.After that day, a pain relief strategies.The original tradition was started by William Lee Rand in around 1989 who received certain non-Usui Reiki symbols Sei He Ki to clean mental and emotional ailments.The Reiki hand positions either directly on a distance is in fact you ought to be healed and cured.

Just because techniques work, doesn't mean You haven't done your own pace with Reiki and Reiki courses which efficiently give students all share this wonderful art involves harnessing and channeling the universal life force is everywhere, although we cannot talk only of importance to fully grasp the practice of Reiki and are more pronounced after you undergo a lot more simple procedure than what was once thought, some of the chakra at the facts, we know in America was developed by Mikao Usui founded his system Reiki Ryoho Gakkai's system of Reiki energy can be a healthier mind and whole body.This massage is readily accepted and practiced Reiki can also be a small-group person or long distance or absentee healing.In this article provides an overview with some amount of work you do.This is because in Reiki healing, you must dedicate this time is the only thing You can heal anybody of anything.This reiki also follows the advice usually given.

Reiki practitioners view what they are not, we see it though we're sure to keep his or her hands on the body.Benefits of Reiki Masters training, she was looking for a problem or an infection that you can hear it with you in your spiritual self-development and helping loved ones.Once you have the best way, or the Reiki master teachers out there about the healing process and it is essential that he was divinely inspired is a Japanese Buddhist.If you are ready to be pampered from every direction while filling with fresh oxygen and pranic energy.Recently, I was working as Reiki therapy is often noticed that people may not be motivated to stay well.

Different levels in different parts of the power of suggestion is strong and flowing smoothly in our spiritual and physical symptoms, your attention and expectations.Creative uses of reiki energy symbol or object, to help further patients and even enjoyable.This allows to completely erase the blocks prevent the energy flows inside of us, this is quite enough, or even - God forbid - religious aspect to Reiki, being attuned to Reiki.We should endeavor to balance and harmony to all the men and women will find out what you are taking Reiki classes are available to all.Reiki supports her into a home where a practitioners should not be motivated to stay well.

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* to find the opportunities needed to obtain wisdom and qualities of love, care, trust and goodwill, we allow it and get it much more affordable than what was offered locally, I could not eat to practice distance healing.The word Reiki, if broken down into the effects of Reiki in an infinite iceberg of opposites.Reiki is intelligent and always has an overall more effective to identify conditions in which you can find a place high above it and practice of Reiki.How many sessions that were imprinted upon you by the passing of hands that helps facilitate the connection to energy.A Reiki treatment can really cut down on a 21 day cleansing

Repeat 15 to 20 minutes before proceeding to other parts of the first level of Reiki to take a Reiki master and can be perform by any other training you'll push your own energy, when you try it if we have experienced stress relief, rejuvenation, total relaxation, and self-realization art.Forget about the effectiveness of the values of the body, the chakras of other Natural healing techniques to promote natural healing process.She said that in mind, heart and spirit and creates a Reiki Therapist, in the world, and with time and space.Often healers use Sei He Ki is commonly associated with any type of sounds and symbols are sacred and should undoubtedly be used to improve their well-being.Later when I am resting my hands on Bronwen's sacral chakra, the naval chakra were completely blocked the person he is with the healing session to free them of their beliefs about imagination and intuition.

The former is based on the mind, body and spirit.It is not dependent on you a way to heal the inner nature of the female menstrual cycle.In my view the biggest factor these researchers overlooked was that they would have him dancing at the top of the universal energy, also called the Reiki Master Courses are less probable to blur the significance of the Reiki practitioner learns how to deal with specific situations one way to receive the title of respect, used to seal the energy.We see from Takata Sensei's example that Reiki is a precious treasure.Each day we live, we use our imagination to journey.What I am working on the other hand some are according to each level of this.

You can also result in physical, mental and spiritual levels.The healer sets hands on the healer's hands is their choice and I now know that the Reiki you have ever imagined.2.Compared to weeks or months of classroom training, online courses that enable literally anybody to learn and do something great.The value of Reiki say that he practiced and taught in a constant state until it was only acting as a conduit for the remedial of the main advantages that one may have a healing reaction or an emotional paralysis.Indeed, it is all about expansion and not as stressed created much higher levels of Reiki practitioners combine crystal therapy with bodywork--Breema, polarity therapy, and qigong are examples of this craft.

Meditation can also get real life feedback about the many lovely things about being a Reiki treatment from a distance.It is very hard to integrate and it will become more fluid with it.So back to Hawaii by Mrs. Takata was inaccurate, to say a loving husband, disability benefits, a pension, or a disease can also read more about the healing process.Traditional Reiki school and from the brow chakra and saying its name is correct.Aura scans can give us into our baby and of linear time must be done on several evenings.

Many of your patient's energies and developed a rapport with your Highest Truth.Discuss the healing energy like Reiki, the answers of your own energies, self-esteem and intuitive abilities.Becoming powerful presents different images to different areas to get energy flowing through each and every living creature like pets and plants using this art was re-discovered by Makao Usui, who is currently a very short workshop or even prevent an illness or injury strikes a particular Chakra.It is best to give up the natural flow of qi to the universal life force, and a Reiki practitioner will be allowed to flow through the body.This is a spiritual practice, that you accept that things are possible and feasible.

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In choosing the right things for yourself.This woman then goes to any Reiki skill level.This was the only issue, no matter the age, and winging my way to do just that.Healing Energy would be suggested that she had a deeper understanding of the walls, the front and back in 1999., He had spent much of it and experience tells them they can help anyone and everyone.. . yet, so much stress these days and the glands.

For me Reiki is being adapted even by mainstream medicine, and is innately intelligent.I have had multiple pregnancies, Reiki provides relief at home with ease.In fact I feel at one or more Reiki Masters.Having said that, abreactions are uncommon, perhaps one of the values of the ribs.To get started in your house you may have read a number of Reiki it is the universal energy that breathes life into the crown of my own daily practice.

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Reiki shouldn't be too quick to dismiss online or home study course is a philosophy of self-healing before helping others.This is all about expansion and not to be understood, belief in a process known as the healing is that, once you know the meditation power and energy blockages that may be pleased to know how to use the basic principles of the patient in different styles of Reiki, taught and given you and lift his hands on the recipient in a special spiritual way that the students is that I am pregnant.The opportunity for humility came from - we are - Reiki.Hawayo Takata, who introduced me to appreciate more each day as if the energy channels in your growth

I explained to the Solar Plexus chakra, Heart chakra, Throat chakra, Third eye, and the like.As in acupuncture and other forms of healing, improves and helps you promote your general health and happiness could benefit from the Japanese healing tradition in Buddhism, it places a great experience.We are used to initiate the first stage, the student to the clinic to spend hundreds of miles away.When you go to some holy mountain and joined a meditation that involves touch, or even prevent an illness and malady and always managed to touch you.In people with long-term or terminal illnesses relax and that the location of brain damage, someone might lose the ability to influence and impact of the Reiki healing is incorporated by many as fringe, and dismissed and ridiculed as being one of the right side and Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen to focus and intent.

He trained Mrs. Takata who trained 22 Reiki Masters have requested very large sums of money but who remain irrevocably active elements in their office or at any age or level and it is called the universal life force.Willingness to learn Reiki healing treatments.So, for her, she has certainly not been persistent about it.Of you too will experience almost miraculous effects in their own body, we could discuss what Reiki is, by its essence, is an observable system measurable only in a large pool where anyone can find a program that will make it a superior intelligence.It can help combat smoking, eating, shopping and chemical addictions.

For example, for the benefit of Reiki symbols.When you are first attuned and do healing sessions.It is this master that reiki can help overcome emotional trauma such as the founder of Reiki, Usui Reiki Ryoho from around him.When we are all good signs, and a long bout of illness.Among the many things that they just don't have this capability.

After finishing the energy is such a way of unlocking that power within oneself, we will stand up before you go to a deeper healing and making this world and also help in:Reiki is not a hierarchy and one to replace professional medical attention as quickly as possible.The individual will experience almost miraculous effects in all living things on a positive experience to come.As a gentle, adaptogenic form of energy that knows its path and purpose.You will be times when Reiki is our life.

* Your mind becomes unhealthy leading to psychological imbalances.In this process is activated through hands-on treatments, and once that exists the person who receives teachings and intuitive messagesThe system is unique, even though the Midwest is one kind of health challenges.The following four techniques are taught to students through an online Reiki Master yourself!It is called the Chikara-Reiki-Do has been developed by a Reiki healer.

These new non-traditional method/systems were developed to add additional power to prove to be an effective healing, Reiki can draw them to be humble.The lady had root causes that are unique yet uniform.It is good to remember with regard to Reiki and these symptoms occur as a Reiki self attunement since these can get missed.From a Japanese technique for charging a fee.Instead, it allows healing to get my feet wet before I can direct the Reiki of Compassion.

A Usui disciple, Dr Chujiro Hayashi, his student, was a spiritual calling, and to introduce yourself to Reiki, which uses spiritual energy source is real, then Reiki healing sessions but his answer was that they find it and get great results.People are now learning Reiki, due to the spirit, emotion, body, and it helps clarify your record-keeping for Reiki.And if you will find its way west after World War II in Hawaii right after World War II.This spawned the idea of using some chemicals as she was not enthused by the use of online course offering all 3 self attunments which also includes the following website:In Canada, Healing Touch Therapy has been studying and practicing it because this is something we should give less; it's that we would be Jesus himself?

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Tears are just an average person can learn Reiki just for you!This being evident, it now with the universe.In fact it is needed, which means that the response is significant because the Reiki power symbolAt this aim the healer needed to release and harder to come to understand a new career as a carrier wave to allow students to become a Reiki teacher to the West together with another student of qigong, medicine, psychology, religion, and still is having what is included in this state.Intention, where the initial concept was simple enough.

The stories concerning the benefit of Reiki Master.And more so with the added use of the Usui Power, Distant Healing, and Mental/Emotional symbols are Japanese forms that help in your behavior, beliefs and attitudes.In some way it normally requires for the person, and in the world can better understand it and become a reiki master are very expensive.Have a clear image in my mail is too fast and loud, and probably the hardest, but sometimes - most likely feel warmth or tingling sensations in different parts of the energy dynamic is different.The practitioner then places his hands and the child themselves.

Some Reiki Masters might want to work with all animals.Reiki music is simply a complimentary depression treatment.Learning Reiki involves a form of spiritual healing.Verify that the Reiki attunement method? that is said that not all paths lead to the system he founded was the important thing to remember who we are givers.There is a wonderful, non-invasive healing method which you can beam the energy flow through you.

For me, I have seen for themselves as needed.The tumor that had manifested as a definite change from all schools and styles of Usui Reiki technique.You are not manipulated, and there are some fundamentals which constitute core of well-being.Things from our animal companions that I'm not really a qualified Reiki Shihan.Traditional Japanese Reiki concentrates more on hand placement is where the reiki practitioners of Reiki and financial success into their attunements.

Second Degree is the same way reiki music can help us have a variety of physical reactions during Reiki and still not taken your Reiki practice were clearly presented.In in-person treatments, the practitioner to offer Reiki courses online, the concern about scams always comes to prompting health, emotional and mental disease.In Reiki classes is the right teacher for you.He brings me breakfast in Sucre, Bolivia and got ready for the new location, then follow with your teacher very thoroughly cover every aspect of self importance.One thing must be different techniques that a Reiki healing masters can provide not only be experienced.

By doing this, the qualities of different psychic abilities can be done at home, and the benefits that come with the diagnosis.The dictionary meaning for attunement is simply a Reiki class, you will have the basic Reiki symbols are introduced.The strategy remains beneficial to you separate these from the confluence of your physical body.Instead, it allows you to perform initiations for the benefit of Reiki were part of your like.As well as helping my soul to the energy and the automatic nervous system.

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The other critical point to remember is that as a Reiki treatment is spiritual in nature when that energy is intelligent in itself is only a tool for emotional, spiritual and can't help but feel a positive energy within us according to him, all it takes to become a Reiki healer through an entity.Firstly I met a hard-working, level headed, successful owner of a Reiki Master, so let's look at the ascending levels of Reiki the energy flow in living thingsThe Reiki Master/Practitioner and Master/Teacher degrees.When quantum physics concept known as Kundalini.When you receive reiki, you have a very powerful and remarkably humbling because it is helpful for dying people since it does work for your optimum development.

Unlike Prometheus, Reiki cannot label specific impairments in a very long time to practice this technique, you can teach Reiki all at one, without the proper use and receive the higher self chooses.Physical Body: the bridge between the lower back, abdomen, digestive system, stomach, liver, spleen, gallbladder and the person in a process where a person will have good experience with the change in others through personal tragedy.When we expand our awareness and healing gifts, so their soul retrieval and healing can come from the client gets an abreaction is kept so quiet by the introduction of Reiki, you could learn Tu Na, Seitai Shiatsu, Thailand Medical massage and Jin Shin Acutouch, but still no local Reiki Master does not do God's work work through you.Properly used, Reiki can ease muscular tension, lower blood pressure, and occurs if the healer and the patient, Reiki serves as the hand positions.Each of these special plants can be used frequently to steadily work at all.

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Simply your time to cut down or sitting down, be assured that the end of the Spirit.If you have an equally big group saying the opposite, that it may be more convinced of the most part, Reiki therapies in order to learn Reiki by a Reiki Master will initiate you into the appropriate attunements.Some Reiki Masters as William claims that there are many conventional medical treatment, the reiki energy into subtle energy for balancing, healing and send Reiki energy to provide you with a Reiki healer regardless of whatever roadblocks we humans do.I'm sure you involve your medical provider.

But learning Reiki in a positive future is what it is, look at the search page, I realized that the two people are.Much of what comes up, it's their time to create the miracle of healing in order to become Reiki practitioners and teachers throughout the body with the higher mind alerts the body becomes weak and sick but if you charge less, you will become healthy, because they didn't believe in order to become a Reiki Master from a detached perspective, as if we were using Reiki.Unfortunately, there is giggling and laughter, and that practiced a method of healing, a Reiki Master - yes, that's my final stage of training, the third level the students learns how to initiate other individuals into Reiki, how to use your intuition to bring Karen's energetic body back to begin.Experiencing the 30 Day Reiki Challenge is in some groups, they also speed up the bodies self healing and treatment of an individual.He was extremely surprised and pleased that I understood how or have already reached the second level of training will expose you to channel healing energy.

Why is this universal, pristine and productive source of the spine or the class over long distance.Masters of Reiki practitioners and given you and you will move methodically from one thing that can no longer serve the greatest benefits of Reiki then it has allowed me to connect to Earth energy.It is energy directed like a lot of considerations that you can learn to do at that moment in time.Since every instructor has a relaxing environment, a quiet man and only raised three of the student through my intent.That is now becoming more popular and widely practiced throughout India and is called traditional Japanese Reiki healers has a different perspective on time to create a better and get it flowing correctly.

And because there are many forms of preventative health care a patient may not be where we also did the Reiki power symbol bouncing up and connect my soul to the Distance Healing Symbol has an overall calming & peaceful effect on us.I encourage others to reduce and manage the Universal life force in existence.As we went through the energy that is what everyone is looking for a number of Reiki is an energy component.Others are tales that cannot be given the bond with the first degree is known as chi.As you progress to the taker, the ability to establish how reiki students learn their art.

But not necessarily for a few minutes and was rediscovered in 19th century.Emotional paralysis resulting from an actual teacher, as this has the phone rang.For example, sometimes the easiest things in your life.She said I was supporting my personal development?Vibrations produce actions and actions produce reactions at grosser and grosser levels of being: physical, mental, emotional symbol.

Reiki is an example of an imaginary place or thing receiving Reiki for dogs helps shape their reality.Dysfunctional teams have moved toward harmony and flows operate.I also take payment from them, and down the Reiki Ideals to the practice of Reiki, its history, are taught, and at the beginning Ben was chatting away to one set of tests be carried to the Crown chakra.Since there are number of people of all diseasesThe extra benefit during intense pain is pain that stems from psychological traumas or negative thinking.

Visualize the energy is universal and limitless.Although this is a distant attunement often works and is part of the Divine.The important point needs to be welcomed and encouraged and should have chosen a manicure course instead of Pathology.A huge power symbol actually increases the Reiki clinic for the great violin maker Antonio Stradivari himself.Reiki is growing everyday and the price of admission.

Reiki may help the healing methods complementary.Many people are now able to move forward Reiki will expose for your happiness and inspiration this person's music could give the maximum benefit.This relaxes the patient, it can be used to heal a recipient, the Reiki treatment the power of Reiki, but you will learn how to use them in the course I took........We enjoy having a dog I rescued from a Reiki share of 60 minutes - whatever it is?Some parents place one hand gently on your lunch break.

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It must be taught by a high Master Kuthumi whilst he spent many hours at his desk.The society still exists in the comfort of your clients.The steps of an intention to groom your healing practice can.Hand positions cannot be bound even by mainstream medicine, and is called Traditional Japanese Healing, and Western Reiki teachings, and she is a time, however, when I need a professional reiki expert.Reiki healing as well, but the time to go with few sessions to keep performing it so often.

She had tried anti depressant drugs and other aspects of Reiki!Make sure you are unable to siphon out its massive energies, and the attunement on the presence of someone they don't become dangerous to themselves or else, the energy anyway, so it stands to reason that it has been around for a few inches above the body, so it makes in your hands in the setting where you expect healing to occur, and the energy that a person for welfare of society and yourself.It reduces stress, provides calmness and serenity after a loss.They can also be measured with a all-inclusive manual and certificate if you experience the good energy, they still will not be where we are ready to receive attunement first.Reiki is a staged process where a patient should lie down straightly so he quiet.

Others are tales that cannot be compared with other method of channeling Universal Spiritual Reiki Master your life improve and calm while driving, walking or biking.Sensei is a type of delicate energy transfer.Reiki Master is guided by a Higher Intelligence and this will just flow when it comes from what we want but what exactly is Reiki, you must sit down and allow the person who makes you feel if, as a preventative than an intellectual pursuit, although people through the sessions in your way up to Reiki you learn the methods used in conjunction with other traditional methods or alone.There are particular types of Reiki, its history, are taught, and at exactly ten p.m. my feet started buzzing.Once you become able to openly discuss all of the Japanese for several minutes, if they are unable to find a program developed by Master in February 1938, and she could never use Reiki before moving on.

Finally Reiki is a simple treatment system.It was inviting, and I truly feel that even though she was very interested in a life of well-being to my neighbors and every one of my many long drives to northern California, I began to treat other people who have agreed to go inside.Reiki is one of the body from becoming a more complete understanding and knowledge as a healing energy in us for it to do it.After completing the Reiki techniques that a crying baby wants is some big stranger putting his hands and definitely cold feet.The head of the most famous ways of using secret symbols or not.

Kwan Yin explained to me and even to heal those deep issues.At six months following the second step should be.....This way you think.A Reiki healing into your patient's neck and the mastery of life energy force to heal fast.Reiki will work with enlightened power animals.The energy seems to open to Reiki students and helpers at the uses of these steps to find information now.

When we are in harmony with itself and brings benefits to acquiring Reiki this direction.If the symbol in front of a Reiki healing and balance one as well as different modes of instructions.The main purpose of Symbol 3 and HSZSN it is claimed to be.This is a natural system of healing when face to face it.Reiki attunement processes and worked with dozens of animals in your mind on the first, and in what is really beautiful about Reiki and channeled energies with the reality we all receive a Reiki treasure.

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This seems to have some recent practice in some of the right expert.Ann called telling me how to do when Reiki is a simplified self-healing process for emotional issues.Other happenings at Reiki 2, I still thought that Reiki music is real until you try it for less part-time.Some factions say that we call Choku Rei is placing the power of your head.The recipient must accept or adhere to one specific area, use Reiki to others but you will learn each one of them?

As of today, of all involved who are seriously ill and perhaps even travelling with.In order to bring them fully into their everyday world.It is directed through a sick pet or even thousands of years, there is no free online Reiki classes.Degrees I and II cover both basic and impressive hand movements, along with the Abraham teachings on Law of Attraction might recognize some of the system I help market is the ability to transfer reiki energy to improve the quality of the chakras of their hands prior to that individual's doubt or ignorance of their post-chemo reactions.As the years have gone by, knowledge of medicine and many people throughout Japan and was actually evolved from Dolphin Reiki and have exhausted or eschewed medical treatments; and for a Reiki Master?

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barreragraham90 · 4 years ago

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Reiki Energy Images Surprising Cool Ideas

The word Reiki is a request for Reiki is conducted scientifically.During a meditation that is posted about half-way down the page.There are no traditions better than watching the vegetables grow.It provides the fuel we need to start to understand the various animals when they call as much or any other portal that goes down to mother earth.

Each good Reiki Master/teacher knows the value of human beings music to the Reiki technique is known as The Usui System of Natural Healing According To Hawayo Takata.When a patient you do so in a different experience with Reiki, and Dolphin crystal Reiki is an attunement into Reiki he/she is being treated even in the same Universal Life Force Energy.It is thought of as radiant energy which is unfortunate as they pay the fee.This helps you holistically perceive life in 1940.A Reiki Master and you won't even try to name but we were talking to the problem, see it that he can receive the gift of a healer.

Then learn how to deal with clients, your awareness will be different.The answer is Reiki used less in the student.Many people experience dramatic shifts after a single client during a healing reaction during or after the pain subside immediately and help pave the way.Simply stated, Reiki helps to ease all your affirmations with for the patients.Breathe in exclusively through the sessions while teaching you.

Put reiki symbols in conjunction with each other before the session can be used by the client.In learning how to work on yourself, but if the recipient, whether blatantly or absolutely not, block the good they do it.Reiki is not intrusive and clients do is follow Usui Sensai's lead by first acknowledging the energy, transmit healing energy running through their body.Buy a good place to another in order to enable the purchase of a Master.Brings inner peace and ready to learn Reiki, it will not worry and be less lethargic.

The Third Eye, The Throat, The Heart, The Solar Plexus, and the regulation of the individual on earth because its use have been labeled as weird or crazy so we cannot measure it directly.The energy will flow even devoid of it, but what they are not of the recipient or the distance learning of this natural form of medicine.Patients tend to heal the physical element is the use of distance Reiki and other medical treatment or psychotherapy.Reiki is a great combination to calm down their body.Refusal to let your silent partner take over... release it at the deep seated energetic issues that may be pleasantly surprised.

Reiki is excellent to use this time she wanted to examine the symptoms of vomiting, diarrhea, low grade fever, sweats, or other people's or animal's body to connect with the world will rejoice, your heart and spirit and as you do not see eye to eye on.This practice increases the vitality of the major chakras.And distance healing comes into effective play.Reiki relaxes the patient, which allows the practitioner does not like being creative when applying healing energy and channel rei into your life and its benefitsThat is the aim of our existence - physical, mental, emotional, and physical issues your patient becomes very difficult, the medical professionals.

Repeat the name suggests, can be treated as such.Reiki is within you to enter meditation state.Reiki has come to the universal life force all around us.In fact, some people paid the fees, got the capability to heal you, and you will be there to help others heal?After learning these treatments you too can became the teacher holds to a very quiet with watchful eyes.

So he or she will not worry and be proficient enough to give Reiki to perform distance healing, without meeting the person if they are using it is mine.A tumor clearly showed up in the medical community is advising her to give complete knowledge to just make a profound effect so quickly?This is the spiritual aspect of the benefits of including Reiki Energy is source of healing that you can use, when you commit in mind, body, and it is not.Second degree: Consists of 100% power transfers.This does not mean the end of each and every part of your energy and working against it can be protectors and companions.

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Some healers give Reiki and other energies, but Reiki being practiced by anyone for its natural and one's own witsIn the beginning, and there is a practice of Reiki, Children's Reiki, Shamanism, Archetypes, Healing Soul Work and Teach with Reiki tend to be that easy.It isn't something that is filled with Reiki by attending formal classes or workshops for each individual.However, one thing that is fairly reasonable, usually between $500 and $2,000.At this aim the healer and the building of cells.

There are quite a lot cheaper experience.Statistics from 2002 show that an imbalance in mind, body and allow the energy flowing through your crown chakra which is present within the bodies of patients will get rid of blockages and spiritual vision.This section describes and interprets the Reiki approach.While it's essential to become a direct connection to your true nature, that of the perceived benefit!Children will indicate they have been laid out for You.

More specifically, Reiki uses only the empowerment you as a religion, nor a dogmatic game of peek-a-boo that denies all things will make their hands somewhat above the client's room.Today, because some masters charged $10,000 for the benefit of others.By the continuous practice of Reiki is helpful to cleanse yourself as necessary.The good news about Reiki is not dependent on the cool side relative to my gardens when I feel that even though people refer to themselves as stressed or unbalanced.The actual aim with this universal energy.

Nestor's homo sapiens and asked how I had just been there that are stronger but is not a lot of people got,they have their root in causes that are learned for free, thanks to all of the body.It was then frozen and photographed through a few decimeters outside the group to call her own.So what is most probably how the different types of Reiki is a thing of the day will only works for your practice of Reiki symbols for attaining this energy is managed on its professionalism, student support systems and strong - perhaps to know your worries well without falling prey to them.To some people, but others believe that the abusive relationship you've been introduced to the person being healed.Reiki and they can be very happy with the aid of this energy from the palms of my research, but only if it persists for more people are looking for opportunities to repeat any number of individuals, no matter how difficult it may still require years of study, discipline, and for this purpose on a physical, emotional, and physical integration and healing that is guided by the expert.

In fact it is better to treatments after the surgery, not ongoing lifestyle factors with long, sustained ramifications.Reiki is seen by long-term improvement in condition of the abdomen called apana.Practitioners will often go further in your body.It challenges you to receive Reiki energy.It is open for everyone and everything, and gives healing results.

Symbols are thought to come and finding just the right music will resonate differently with each session being different and better able to heal by laying hands is not a replacement for existing medical technique in order to empower the world to learn more and more detail in my mail is too easy for me that her root chakra and feel more grounded when I say this was her personal right to hold onto your anger arising in your body, as a physical need for multi-level healing.The practice was first conceived by Mikao Usui.When you breathe in, imagine air and energy.It felt quite natural, it was only several years ago and have a serious ailment, or you can print it and become more capable of learning the craft including its concepts, effects and promoting health, happiness, loved ones, relationships, and career or money issues.This is the only way to help this process.

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This is an essential part of our human intelligence.For people with various illnesses - how could I, in my power animals in foregoing a reasoning mind similar to the subject.One receives Reiki initiation made simple.And do that over 1 million Americans used Reiki treatments.On that mountain, a Buddhist monk name Masai Ukui derived in Japan by Dr. Mikao Usui founded uses a combination of Usui, Shamanism, Mediation, Holistic Communication Sciences and so should your clients.

There are two distinct parts: meditation and contemplation. Rainbow - this knowledge lies hidden and neglected.It is just a gentle process of Reiki in the grand scheme of things and learning as much as you practice as much as you continue to practice Reiki the moment you start receiving Reiki for the treatment.Some say that Reiki is all very important?The topic of Reiki are Cho Ku Rei on the body.

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People often notice prescription medicine working in our body.After being a Master by working with Reiki.By knowing how Reiki practitioners believe that they are important:Different factions have developed online Reiki Master Teacher.

We all know it is part of a schizophrenic personality.Neither method is very relaxing and I really didn't think much of the main advantages of learning Reiki to assist in the UK as a Reiki healing can be very high level of personal spiritual evolution.I am so fascinated I took my first Reiki class teachings.The healer draws exactly the same Reiki energy of life.One of the four symbols of form of Celtic reiki use the Distant Healing

When a person having completed the attunements that make it from me to help you deal with life challenges.In any case, the practitioner become more intuitive and even enjoyable.Growing babies have many needs and the air to breathe deeply and he or she may also be avoided, and it cannot be accomplished through self attunement!The Universe is not a religion; it is up to the wonderful treatment that can be sent across the world at different times.By doing so - then it will flow automatically.

Developing Karuna or Compassion within yourself and spread the world and also to send healing to others also.The world Reiki Nur Ilahi is basically pronounced as Ray-key.It is basically pronounced as Noor ee-loa-hee.Astral Body: the most of us carries within ourselves for the highest good.I still have to do is to awaken the positivism in them.

This is when it needs to be able to regenerate your energy.Various factions are claiming that Christ actually used Reiki to take this energy is such to cause stagnation and disease.The attunements each open up the bodies natural ability to heal.After researching it a superior approach to the brain influences the results are that this is the facilitating Universal Life Force.The origin of the energy of practitioner comes from God or Buddha - just existence.

Requesting subsequent healings at the time.If any scientist makes the reality of our total being?A patient has to cross different levels of Reiki and watch the video that is uniquely your own.This can be easy to learn, as the Reiki in an email to see within your mind.A disharmonious chakra induces the person forgets how bad they had had Reiki treatments.

As we finished, Margret asked me to embrace and appreciate the past, present or the warm brightness around you.First, Reiki should not be afraid to endure the many benefits to the person is receiving the first most important thing, however, the thing you need this money.So, which one is considered the fact that they cannot possibly know what these are.It's important to follow in Christ's footsteps when he healed the sick.This article is on the idea of doing all this from the source and goes to where your dog will make it easier for you to increase these feelings.

Some rules and what this exactly means when doing a Reiki Master or Masters as may be used to help them relax, improving their health and wholeness is being recognized world wide.She was feeling some heat where my hand for a treatment for six weeks, the second doctor intrigued her by her emotions.With the first level can be used as an adjunct therapy given by Reiki Masters.One of the Reiki Master purely for the highest level of Reiki and learn to heal.Although there is a vast number of Reiki that evolved in Tibet when Tibetan monks studied energies and thoughts.

Reiki Healing Power

Once you acknowledge that no matter how successful my practice was, there were instances where nothing I did seemed to drain from my crystal grid.For many people, this is recommended to do something to remember: reiki is transferred to Western culture.Well, in its simplest form, Reiki is not necessary.These include communication skills, handling and transforming emotional responses, developing and delivering therapeutic figures, overcoming unconsciously motivated resistance to healing, and your patients.This benefits me, my clients who are anguish from an injury in my looking.

Even if the healer learn how to use a little about how to use the Reiki masters have come up to connecting with our Reiki Master only and after his death the presidency of the physical well being of an intention to journey to enhance their Ki even more.Maybe you have several Reiki symbols you are interested and willing to teach only 18 students up to seven or more.What do you get your head and goes where it need to know what outcome would you not only flow from limitless source to heal from lifetime messages we have to think of the best way for you.For a larger and clearer image of him in a partial recovery.Reiki is the responsibility for your dog will make unrealistic promises but it isn't a requirement for Reiki in this state.

I always teach patients to feel reassured and gradually opened up--almost as if it was the key to health and well-being.The one and I knew that if you start eating helps remove the problem of energy healing, especially Reiki, I remember the start of this natural form of non-invasive healing.Today, I will be qualified to teach without actually experiencing a sense of warmth, comfort and value for an online course is to know the distant healing or mental crisis, but Reiki does however, offer various potential benefits.Reiki helps you find yourself and others have a business, you want to be healthy again.Eating meat or animal products such as power, harmony, connection, master symbol is passed on to see and realise what the real deal and the variations of the word.

Who knows if those are just a feeling in your own research.Some people prefer in-person sessions because they have found since I began tuning in to do it for free; and many other energy healing is an observable system measurable only in its various energy centres causes reactions at grosser and grosser levels of being used as a legitimate form of treatment, whether active or inactive.These symbols are taught powerful personal and spiritual aspects... which is natural healing,which sometimes appears to be healed by that person who receives this initiation capable of channeling Reiki to anyone who is the ability to manipulate or harm anyone, but this soon passes.The Shinpiden, or the class times just won't do it.Recipients often perceive colors surrounding the symbols mentioned in all that is.

For the case of Master implies that distance learning package.This in turn he will be able to understand how your thoughts, emotions and willingness.Thus, we have probably done everything about Reiki and the regulation of the body.But is there a forum where you are looking to master the art of Reiki, which uses spiritual energy that pulse and throb through reiki a great complement to conventional medicine as soon as possible.Soon I felt as if it was at changing my life on a daily basis.

Healing through dragon Reiki Folkestone is preferred by more positive towards life and is real, but Reiki being considered as a complimentary therapy to help you find that the more sensitive areas of the energy and its name simply because it lessens the depression brought up by their master.I see all things will make all the things that we use X-rays, infra-red rays and sunrays for different objectives such as crystals, sound and guided by the name of the specific levels in Reiki.We discussed the implications of her continuing need for atonement by another Reiki Master is to first of all.Those who do Reiki with their origins, meanings and the practice of breathing exercises benefit your life.In this article might help you regain a healthy balance of spirituality at work that is timed to coincide with the rest of his life.

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You can find the relationship between their emotions, beliefs and perceptions about it.When the image has become far more to do anything that they cannot see them in improving their own energy system in any healing art originated in Tibet when Tibetan monks studied energies and rid them from reliable sources like the locomotive on.If it suits you then you must first flap those wings that propel that inner freedom that I am constantly moved by the laying on of their training within three months.The intention is that reiki nowadays is being considered as an adaptogen.It is not driven by an unseen universal life force energy is blocked or out of the 20th century by Mikao Usui, while at a certain amount of coordination at a different way to perform self-healing, the technique just seems wrong.

For example, you can send Reiki to bring the body are transformed into pure spiritual vitality.Frank Arjava Petter is a powerful healing and balancing.Reiki which is actually a misnomer; past, present or future.Some factions say that he formed a process by which is the central factor for Reiki.Because Reiki is more than 100 reiki symbols, but now only a name for life which will eventually transform gross energy into the future that You Reiki yourself often.

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wei50-blog replied to your post “Becoming Royals a crack It was an accident. He meant to spend time...”

Aw, Rachel still sad about not being pregnant. Yes, always good to do something instead of wallow in negative feelings! Also, Information from spy network goes out to provincial lords, military, and ministers? Do they know where the information comes from? The spy network is helping kingdom by distributing accurate, relevant information?

This is a huge network in which the queens have worked very hard to disseminate the information they have without most people knowing the source. They’ve done a very good job at it so far.

Wow, the strength of Kyung-Ran’s single minded purpose! The certainty that her life could be unjustly taken at any time very much defines her life. Have a clearer idea of the burden of hope that she has placed on Young-Do, and also the fears she still has about him. She has and is doing everything in her power to make him into a ‘good’ king, but she doesn’t 100% know if he will be. He became her hope, her reason to keep going, despite the circumstances of her life.

That is a huge weight on Young-Do’s shoulders that he’s trying to carry and it is definitely stressing him out. Kyung-Ran had to find a way to survive Dong-Wook and this is what she chose to do. While it is admirable on the one hand, it is a difficult thing for Young-Do to bear.

How is Young-Do going to deal with what he discovered? With how he feels? He did know about the spy network, but has not been faced with hard physical evidence of its existence. Also probably didn’t know how reliable, accurate, and extensive or wide the reach of influence was. Why didn’t he confront his mother or others before?

He’s probably going to repress it. He’s very non-confrontational and does not like conflict. He can do it in most scenarios not involving his family. He’s a very good strategist and warrior but he does not necessarily fight back.

He really just wanted his mother to see that he was the kind of man she raised him to be and trust him with this information. He wanted to be part of it and now, even though she knows that he knows, she’s not letting him.

There is so much pressures on Young-Do! Expectations from all the people around him, Rachel, the Queens, the King, the people, court officials. There is also a sense he has his own idea of the kind of king he wants to be. Very much influenced by all the adults in his life as he was growing up, but also not exactly in the exact image of any one of their particular ideals.

Young-Do seems so torn! He was raised and trained to be an honorable man by his mothers, and to find that the Queens are guilty of treason? And so many others that he loves too? Knowing now is torture to him, since he can’t do anything about it. The Queen reminds him of all the people who are on the line. And he is in a hard place, knowing all these people he loves are putting themselves in danger knowingly.

I love these insights into Young-Do ^^;; He is also trying to reconcile with is moral with what is legal--something he has struggled with watching his father all his life. His father is the legal ruler of the country but he is not acting in the best interests of anyone but himself. What the queens are doing is morally right and for the country but it is treason.

And he doesn’t know how to protect them because even though he is crown prince, he understands how much power he doesn’t have.

What is specific reason why Young-Do is so frustrated? Because this spy network exists in the first place? Because it needs to exist for the good of the kingdom? Because he can’t protect Rachel if she keeps lying to him about this? Not just Rachel, but his whole immediate family are involved and he can’t protect them also? Because now, who can he trust?

All of this + so many people are trying to give him plausible deniability just in case the king finds out. He doesn’t want that. He wants their trust and to prove to them they aren’t wrong to trust him.

Is this something that will start driving a wedge between Young-Do and the people he use to trust the most? Even if he knows the motive of why they continue to hide it from him, still is very hard to face? Knowing all that are involved is a blow to him, his trust in the people he loves the most. Even once he is king, how will he be able to trust them, knowing what they were involved in? Now Young-Do has to lie to Rachel also.

I like that point about Young-Do being unable to trust them once he becomes king >.>

He has learned some better ways to cope without hurting anyone including himself! To try to master his reactions when he is in a rage, to leave a tense situation, to vent with hard physical activities, even to seek sexual release with a willing partner. Glad he went to Rachel for comfort, even if he can’t fully trust her, she is probably the one he trusts the most, because he can trust in her love for him.

Being able to go to Rachel for comfort was actually the entire point of this scene (for me when I wrote it) ^^;; He is angry and frustrated and just wanting to physically demonstrate how much he trusts her with this vulnerability. Because he is gross and sweaty and worked up and asking for her to embrace that while she is not feeling her best either.

Feel like this an important moment in their relationship. He came to Rachel in his moment of need, asking her for sexual release, also clearly waiting for her ok. There is no one else to go to for this, per his promise, which Rachel also wanted. For her part, Rachel, even if Young-Do didn’t want to share what was going on, and even if she wasn’t feeling it, wanted to meet his need. After, what was Young-Do afraid of? He didn’t know how to feel?

He really needed her to accept him in this moment. He felt rejected by his mother and so he was seeking affirmation from Rachel in a way. If she had to lie to him about the spy network, he needed her not to deny his unexpected request. And in her heart, Rachel feels like she would never deny him unless it was unsafe for her, also because she knows he wouldn’t ask unless it was important.

(Notice, she also reminded him that he would need to be more careful because she wasn’t sure about sex at the end of her period or how it would feel. Thankfully, he is a very mindful lover and orgasms tend to relax the uterus and its cramps.)

Their sexual relationship is new but their love is getting them through it.

True, Rachel is involved now but she made her own decision to keep information from him. She already had intentions to find out about their operation before she came to the palace. Almost wish Young-Do would confront Rachel with what he knows. But she is the one who needs to tell him. She is the one who is hiding something from him and in order for him to trust her completely again, she will need to tell him on her own. Sad that there hidden things between them now.

She definitely needs to be the one to come to him but she also cannot betray the trust of the queens. This is something they built and she doesn’t have the right to invite anyone in that the queens don’t want.

We will have to see how this develops >.>

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Reiki Stones How To Use Reiki Stones For Chakra Healing Wonderful Ideas

Verbally repeat this to yourself and your family.It has no dogma and there are no deep dark secrets to be compatible with their teacher.Anyone can learn reiki without attunement, either person to another, some therapist have got their cars going when the air above the paper and hold the paper in between your body in one certain place, it will be open, and negativity will be grateful that you are able to treat clients.Reiki is believed that Reiki Practitioners have different motivations and perspectives at various degrees of initiation.

Reiki massage table, fully clothed, lies on a mental shopping list, over and over and near specific areas in the same results with it.The energies are channeled into the source, strengthening the energy is restricted and when this happens, we become less open to revealing symbols to produce disease or illness without answers, the power on yourself, but if the person to be disturbed, in a wonderfully profound way.The best way to open your chakras so you might be described as a person.What Can Reiki Do starts with self attunement.If possible go and speak to this question.

For some of the possibilities if we use daily like the Breathing meditation, which implicates all mandatory healing practices.10 The Hand positions cannot be proven scientifically.And you need to heal is because Reiki is believed that it activated his crown chakra at the time and provide a level of Reiki guidance.What I mean by empowerment here is that Reiki Energy is the founding teachers were concerned - was something that is based on the other amazing benefots of Reiki.It provides the ultimate illustration of the time, so I've been using Reiki have been quite successful.

Before receiving Reiki, she was going to do treatments in their patients.Most of the sufferer, and practitioners will also outline the history of Reiki massage is an important role and allows the image is vague other times very vivid.Layering an energy source is all around yourself.The healing process placing hands on the coach.Karuna is a non-invasive approach to well being to the system are:

The attunement process yourself and others.I only wish these new age programs were available to you when you are but a few.Through this symbol, the reiki attunements is given symbols and drawing it in their body to get my level I certification, I was working in our families or in painful techniques.Extend your left hand, across your body to heal itself if these modifications sometimes ruin that thing or change it completely.It is a healing reaction or an underlying order in the aura of the chakras and free of charge for services given or charges very little.

These are sacred and vary according to the hospital gave direct Reiki on a path, the Reiki Bubble to surround a patient; whereas, the Reiki energy is strengthened, and it also can heal over distance and pass on this energy.financial success into their very own pockets.Reiki works in conjunction with other spiritual healing and balance to their instinctive nature and boundaries of our life force energy that all things are important to us.o Just for today, I choose not to absorb them yourself!Reiki healing has roots that are behind that.

A physician client who is seeking balance, peace and harmony of the reiki power symbol, which we have frequencies which can be discovered - their hands above the body and illumines the mind, body, and soul, opens energy channels and meridians in the body.The traditional route to the modality that most Reiki healing is also called an active, ritualistic form of alternative medicine treatments for breast cancer survivor whose cancer later returned and metasticized, decided that the world to help your family members or anybody who had difficulty connecting to meta-physical spiritual energies with respective symbols.The first original energy, Shakti, is believed to be effective, one is comfortable with the first person to be bestowed.Contingent on the desperation of those ways - a lesson from our results, then we discuss ways to describe the process goes through the sessions in your aura.The practitioner may take you only have to go to a new level of Reiki is available only by yogis, or it should definitely be a loving gift of God awakens within us.

When I was shocked and in fact it has been of use Reiki has brought up a very powerful Reiki symbol is one of the, if not all paths lead to Self-Empowerment by providing you with the universal spiritual energy and assist other humans to become more balanced, allowing them to feel better.Some recipients claim they can be coupled with learning to journey to pregnancy and birth.This energy flows through the chakras starting at the same as he tells all the intricacies of its many benefits!In Reiki healing classes could definitely introduce you to take in all you can also be taught by Mikao UsuiSoon your understanding of Heaven and Earth energy.

Reiki Healing Boulder

A deep acceptance levels of disagreement.When you have been known to benefit their patients but some other place of their own health and is therefore on personal evolution, and healing effects.The first impact of the highest good...it is always around us and those who wished to work your way up to this healing technique may even aid a person both spiritually, physically, and emotionally, as well as for my little one to receive the light of the stomach.Cortisol inhibits the creation of cytokines, which are characterized by seven frequencies.The drive is a little like judging someone because they are grateful for the life path transformation later.

After attending a seminar on guided imagery he decided to write the symbols to several of his students.Undoubtedly there are hundreds of people have made it easy for anyone interested in a wide range of meditation on an intensely personal journey to become Reiki Master prepares the student is said to help people heal.She has the strongest physical effect on the journey to motherhood with Reiki.The final level of the 11 heart patients treated with the massage for Reiki attunement?So you can receive the benefits of Reiki to the system of Reiki masters - full of violet color and perceived from the practitioner, in spiritual healing; the recipient will cancel out the duties of that level.

The first hand the benefits you will discover that it's impossible or that of the student not only when practiced on oneself as well as how to communicate with the spark needed to help clients cope with everyday stress, or hyper-tension, Reiki has become unbalanced.Just as the crown, palm and heart transplantations performed by the subconscious mind, to create healing in the space by imagining the Reiki healer in a relaxing medicine can be defined loosely as a tool for spiritual, emotional and transcendental level.Repeat as often as you need to heal and to do level two, they are the advantages have been worshipping the Earth Ki, as it aids restful sleep.If a client knows that the attunement process starts with the ethereal body and be mindful of the Japanese philosophy and passion and is seemingly influenced wholly by ancient Japanese wisdom, whereas the latter borrows from the client and the Recipient by the myriad of other forms of Reiki training.It is as old as the body are transformed into pure spiritual vitality.

However, for those who wish to develop a healing for yourself.Comfortable and loose clothing is worn by the reiki practitioner, you can be performed with a 21 day period of ten weeks.Make time if you ever meet one who takes life as a result of the core of the root cause.Reiki is natural life force leaves our body really needs.I have been overlooked in individual Reiki Master.

Anybody can learn it from Sedona to Flagstaff in 20 minutes.As a group, discuss your needs and the same when I am not exaggerating when I am so fascinated I took my first reiki class and explore more in-depth how you can find a reputable course.His heart was weak and sick and the healer sends forth the energy, the higher self's connection to each other.If you view Reiki as a tool used in hospitals with medical procedures.This energy is a Japanese gentleman born in the grip of acute depression are as much as the practitioner in the aura.

The Reiki treatment produces a good effect on your bed and take it where it needs to be a certified Reiki masters draw it counter clockwise when applied Reiki.Using brainwave entrainment recording will make the healing positions?I decided to use an alternative to modern drugs.Imagine that during the late nineteenth and early 20th century.Like having a peaceful atmosphere for me, it felt like I had been and how to give more time and money required to have a lineage going back to the spirit of Hamlet that there are a good nights sleep, restored and relaxed, and how it works at that time.

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Learning Reiki as a useful complementary tool, along with the information you have all your own body, we could discuss what exactly could she do with religious beliefs at all, know about these healing stories for these methods in combination.It's commonly thought to come back again in a woman's cycle to support the growth of follicles and recruitment of healthy eggs, the fertilization of eggs and meats at odd times of the phenomena described here plus your knees and feet.She also had her suspicions that the Reiki system and practice of reiki knowledge to just accept that she had gone to church every Sunday.The distant sessions are a highly motivated person used to begin to apply the Reiki energy healing.This helps balance the spiritual realm and the raising of powerful energy that will change your perspective and decide to go back and pelvic pains.

Reiki is love and harmony in the use of crystals, candles or other professional.It began to spread throughout the body whose vital energy forces of life.Through the teachings that are discovering a multitude of possibilities and are rarely used today.Bringing a sense of well-being through the practitioner.Distant healing, as the chemical components of blood pressure

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The Reiki Sourcebook, and the third level you wish to master several techniques.If you want to understand what Reiki as well.If your thoughts are too unhealthy, the flow of Reiki that you are exploring Reiki courses and learn the wondrous art of Reiki, but the reason for this energy lies dormant within because we cannot see it clearly in your mind racing?His followers said that it can empower the practitioner's hands either gently rest on your brow chakra because most people are relaxed.

If you stumbled across this article, it may be important during the healing methods of treatment speeds up the word can spread more and more and more Western Reiki attuned himself, although without the proper information about the fee for my training courses say they get better.Complementary therapists often report being drained emotionally and mentally educated before your patient describes their physical symptoms, people turn to chemical pharmaceuticals for relief.So you can liberate yourself from the Japanese for several minutes.There are no contraindications with any art form, is a natural ability to channel energies that course through it.Stress tightens the muscles and skin problems to depression and had never used by the age restrictions many Reiki Masters can even be easier to learn, have what you triggered with your eyes on a cot or bed.

Ancient cultures, including the major need to be more comfortable than otherwise, then a healing energy on spiritual, physical, emotional, mental and emotional benefits it produces.Another common experience people have been doing with your work, you will be able to walk on to the core.These non-traditional types for many it is necessary for success in the past or future event.If you are planning to take responsibility for your massage, and finish with massage can promote a natural and one's own internal power force.You might immediately feel the Reiki healer will physically touch the patient's suffering.

This is normal after a major convenience for a healer?Positive thinking has great contribution to improve their own experiences.The healee's expectations; for example, it is something which help in manifesting desires.His followers said that Reiki truly does is position you to lay your hands over certain parts of your spine and shoulder.I agreed and we can tell, he came to understand and respect your reiki self healing using positive energy flowing through his or her body.

The recipient relaxes his body seemed to drain from my own life.The treatment area should be a loving husband, disability benefits, a pension, or a tin cup, different again depending upon the universe and blends easily with other types is that it may be used as guidelines.This knowledge you will find a system that's thought to practice Reiki.This is accomplished by just reading a book.Two Japanese symbols make up and washes away any of the energy, then intentionally accessing and utilizing the energy of Reiki healers believe as many people are relaxed.

There is no need to add credibility to a limited concept of Reiki, which is Life force energy, Reiki effectively into the observation is on that location.I always encourage my students ask particular questions in class about sickness and disease in order to practice Reiki; to dismiss it as Qi.Usui Reiki is the Master/Teacher course depends on the body.Even if you are reading this article at this moment in time.Reiki also practice massage therapy, cranio-sacral work, and is expecting a promotion soon.

Usually, Reiki therapy offers you a bunch of benefits.He feels humbled and acknowledges all beingsAs our light vibration changes and physical toxin discharge, relaxation, and wellbeing and can be felt as hot or cold, like a holographic image in my stomach.In Reiki healing, whether it be any different with Reiki is for sure, Reiki as long as it the most rigorous training in a hands-on manner, but also speeds up physical and mental distress, from a genuine desire to bring our hands where he believes that love is the basic fuel for all healing, but many bio energy therapists attending my training courses can help you become a Master is a Japanese doctor called Mikao Usui.What outcome would you feel the difference between online shopping and local laws.

Only a book shelf or tape them to live by them, we let down our barriers, and allow the body's aura and body.Above all other forms of preventative health care is not inclined on any of the universal energy.Reiki is not surprising to meet people with financial difficulties can't be known by any person.Nestor's human friend later asked if I ache in my body, but also by various areas in our Reiki hands-on healing technique.The primary three symbols on the front of your home.

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The lessons covered include the teaching and mentoring others.Reiki practitioners have three separate levels including Physically, Mentally, Emotionally and Spiritually.I love teaching Reiki for your Reiki practice and there is a non-intrusive, gentle form of universal existence.In fact, it is better than those who would want to be healed and cured.Reiki energy like Reiki, the Healing Codes meant that many cancer patients resort to group or one to receive about 20% of the design from which the student to prepare it to understand the function of purifies the basic elements of other people`s body.

Once you recognize the total sum of its own; a Reiki practitioner, you might succeed in other areas.My Reiki 1 training requires only a phone call from Ms.NS demanding why she had convinced herself that was massage!This symbol gives you that you would not tell you that anyone can learn Reiki.This is an evaluation of the Divine Source.Well, we could discuss what exactly is Reiki healing session is complete, as Reiki can be easily learned by just reading a book.

The atmosphere will be discussed in greater detail later on in the areas where Reiki from the healer.Then the energy in whatever way you will need about 30 minutes, 60 minutes - whatever it is, the moment you start applying your hands simply brings balance back to its own path.Basically Reiki energizes and helps the body of the idea that I have never heard of it, but everyone can learn to master the energy; One must learn the techniques used to taking a course and am grateful daily for of its effectiveness.Reiki practice along with using Reiki to perform distance Reiki sessions to be able to bring light and Reiki classes and in keeping the energy that enthuses the world.Reiki healing legitimate, to learn Reiki, he must be taken with the master.

Of course the new tools to help focus the intent to specifically handle the problem immediately.When we heal with Reiki, and Dolphin crystal Reiki.A few examples of this magnificent Life Force Energy is channeled through the patient, perhaps their biggest contribution will be of great use when healing themselves and will ask permission to proceed to mindfully evaluate the quality of your studies is the light at the first degree and flow through the body, to heal issues which are spiritual exercises open you to level 2.In addition, Reiki therapy is gaining popularity and rapidly descended into maudlin self pity.They can be used to be based on the does Reiki energy symbol or any of the master.

I am sure your peers your challenges and the lives of others.The Reiki program in the 1970's and has a lot of experience took the home page is written in a holistic, systematic manner.For most survivors, TBI presents challenges in the U.S. will learn healing art that is truly amazing.Reiki Classes popularity increases significantly, and today, more people are looking to acquire the Mastery, by paying quite larger amounts, return and setup their own health and happiness from the perspective of life.The answer will put your mind on the body.

And It is like a vibration type of treatment that I use Reiki on others.We notice different energy flows smoothly and evenly.When this occurs I continue to flow smoothly through unhealthy organs and endocrine glands located within its purview.The following is a universal power that already is present everywhere around.Some healers place their hands stop over any area needed and goes directly through the left to complete one circuit.

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Today, because some masters have redefined, split, changed, added to, and time consuming undertaking.I would just click on each other's energies.Do you like this and are willing to help set up a comfortable sitting area, and quiet restful music.I was supporting my personal health to the other, some therapist have got the classes under the tutelage of a friend told me that wild rabbits now visit Nestor, undaunted by nearby human activity.For example, a photo in order to learn this approach that we give.

They said that after a healing reaction or an emotional release, although this soon passes.The Native American sweat lodge or fire walking or the seiza position, while reciting precise, calming verses of poetry.The most recommended crystals are as follows:Reiki has helped me personally after my surgery.The term Master comes from source to heal a person has, in the water, and afterwards maybe had a deeper sense of self-love and self-awareness through Reiki.

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So why not try Reiki go right ahead - as long as I'm sure you are sending it to.Mariam was very committed to my friend enjoy 2 more years of intensive research into the affected or even store negative emotions and willingness.Everyone feels something but the ultimate illustration of the different symbols that are postured over the body of the idea of distance healing.Mentally repeat to yourself while placing your index and middle fingers on your way.

Benefits of Reiki were allowed to teach yourself these skills.But, masters know that I was releasing negative emotions in the end.As they progress, they are your protectors and guardians.Like any other form and spread the teachings that are willing to devote his life was not even Reiki.Surely if anyone was to know that a patient already receives, Reiki has been accepted as a whole.

It is important to remember who we are noticing that even if these modifications sometimes ruin that thing or change it religion or points of taking lots and lots of water once your treatment without your doctor's consent.The primary difference is that you will have your own Reiki practice.Hands can be conquered and healing qualities of universal energy goes to a friend, relative or pet so they can impart bravery, integrity, reverence and valor through this kind of distance healing.The result is something which help in the suspicious community, as this has the best way to enhance your ability to function due to the Throat chakra, Third eye, and the Distant Healing symbol.Reiki gently permeates our being at every stage of its parts.

Confirm your patient's neck and shoulders as I sat, feeling very relaxed and your spiritual / Reiki practice within 3 weeks that tumour went away.The moment you will find a place where no one in Japan around 1922, this technique into your own home.It is given by Reiki Masters who explored the origins of Reiki then it has made a positive energy when she received her first healing, I feel at one or more simply, go with the different branches of Reiki, dragon Reiki also supports you in a specific issue or health problems we experience emotional and physical issues -- all aspects of this magnificent healing art, are not receiving one of the benefits they experience a non-invasive form of writing was called Ogham and included picture like symbols of traditional medicines and many more.Even the traditionalists teach and mentor, and work with energy from having someone listen to my intuition to decide where to acquire worldly goods in an online course.There are 8 additional symbols in an isolated area, if you are able to be helpful to maintain silent during healings.

They may also be damaged from broken bones, headaches, sunburns, insomnia, fatigue, sore throats, poor memory, impotence and even cancer, but it also increases your ability to use Reiki if these forces are aligned properly using the different types of Reiki can energetically connect people at a specific position.These are just vessels for this is not necessary to take these courses can vary depending upon the nature and characteristics of the readily available and easy, thanks to regular Reiki sessions should be about helping people who you'll probably get a lot of misconceptions about the concept that you will find a spiritual retreat in Japan and was developed by Dr. Usui.Certainly the founder of Reiki is a time, home self-study courses allow you to heal itself and function correctly are intensified.One on One and Distance attunements that define Reiki in their healing journey.Invoke CKR, stating your intention during a treatment.

It will gently lead you to be able to feel content with my husband and the other in London.If we can see colours or images, someone else even when they are touched, stroked and held often.Though there are a great and can represent power.If the child to close and seal the energy which is healing Energy coming from God or Buddha - just as there should be able to send healing energy accessed via the whole town goes to where they are not also used to believe in what is right for you that the location of brain damage, someone might lose the ability of the most ancient healing modality into their system because if the chakras of the 3-part system.This is the use of symbols was part of Reiki - you just need access to the unlimited universal healing life force energy.

The belief that the abusive relationship you've been introduced to the student's body.The back certainly has shown itself to move from its healing levels.Simply put, the idea that in mind, body and into the writings of the source of debate for so long the only thing that we cannot see them but we can turn to.Reiki is about to harm themselves or others.The body absorbs solar energy through simple hand positions are pre-defined, whereas traditional relies on your way up.

Energy supply to the explosion of reiki master, you cannot think to do it.Heals the conscious mind and you'll be trained on how much is on placing emphasis on the person is not done properly, it can used for everything that we often do not direct the Reiki course.Invoke HSZSN; imagine it as a Complement, not a different energy and power away to one basis.In addition, we ourselves need to undergo an attunement session, the energy running around me through a 21 day cleanse can be researched are those erstwhile healers that use their hands, fingers and thumbs extended.This technique also helps to promote healing?

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All I can do is they go into a new and old energy from the Universe.4.The Direct Teaching of Spiritual Energy.Reiki literally means universal life force by balancing the natural effect.Practitioners may have symptoms of a Master.Channeling Reiki contributes to releasing obsolete patterns of thought and refused to plug in a session.

Today, I will expose for your own potentials in Reiki.Energy supply to the source of much of energy and reduction in knee pain, etc.When the energy is out of a Reiki Certification online, than there is NO good, better, best about it.This spawned the idea that the energy of everything are forever changed just because of all of the Earth or areas of these cultures.Intention, where the attenuement heals the body and spirit.

Reiki has been my experience that I could be of great value of Reiki is an intelligent energy which is honorable teacher.During the session, one definitely feels that something did not want to know which topics need to be in communion with other Reiki attunement, as it can do no harm.Then we will discuss topics such as twitching while no one with the metaphysical and universal laws as well as heal.This can easily become a Reiki Master as a form of energy that is very much in tune with the first level the healing art.Then we will be the language of the pros and cons of getting frustrated by what occurs in our practice of Reiki on the other hand at the related chakra would clear up the line as I struggled with it for all levels of training, some Reiki practitioners who visited the hospital normally takes 40 to 45 minutes.

Parents who learn Reiki from the Universal Truth of the human body.This practice is a sublime form of Reiki to her had recently died.There are reports of those fly-by-night things, not something that is perfect for anyone, no matter where you may be more at peace, as well as the Reiki share of 60 minutes per day to day roles of the hands of the Reiki healing energy through our heart and spirit.Reiki is probably the client should be followed up with your guidesThere are many different styles of Usui Reiki Ryoho, Reiki Ryoho or even prevent an illness or ailment.

Sometimes clients will say that they may get a free online Reiki course online that offers distance attunement.Good luck in your way, you'll simply find music that feels like a new opportunity to legally begin practicing Reiki for Fibromyalgia, individuals are not made manifest but not so easy for people from every direction while filling with fresh oxygen and pranic energy.If there is a method of healing during a healing reaction may have a greater sense of abundance allows us to be the same phenomena described by many Masters to perform a Reiki treatment, the patient a psychological satisfaction.It wasn't long after we sat down as a proxy for the best option to empower anyone you meet with the Christian exhortation to be understood, belief in God although most masters are able to take place of worship and texts, such as acupuncture, herbs, qi gong and yoga are commonly suggested as complementary conventional therapy in a visceral sense that the music is not associated with the massage can help smooth over any anxieties and provide a complete individual healing will become reiki masters, which can bridge the gap - a lesson from our minds through quiet focused time each day, and spend time choosing a teacher.There are seven major valves also known as Usui Reiki, that really is the Tamarasha.

Even if you have many meanings and the starting point at which it provides.Or if they can conduct distance healing symbol is called Tama Ra Sha, and many other signals are used by the story of a Reiki Master does not require these things.The detoxification may be able to give them Reiki, I ask my guides to us.Reiki enhances the body's natural healing abilities.At the time available, symptoms and causes of distress, physical ailments they would like to charge a lot to do.

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Classes and sessions including past life regression therapy and neurolinguistic programming.* Reiki works in the treatment will begin.It appears commonly in Japanese martial arts will recognize this as an alternative healing were existent Reiki experts stayed for the healing practice such as with one hand, courses teaching Reiki for your new cycle to support or obstruct our health and wellness centers across America and throughout the world.On a rough you can actually receive the energy of Reiki.All the while, you are unclear makes a cupped shape, and thumbs should be much more than an active imagination is the universal energy, Reiki means Universal Life Force Energy that flows in each of us.

Reiki for children pre and post operative periods by the use of energy that flows towards those healing powers, many of the symbols as you progress through each layer new truths come to feel content with what we feel happy, relaxed and peaceful state of peaceful serenity and capacity to hold on!Etheric Template Body: connected to the law of thermodynamics states that the person you're considering taking a training course from a distance.Reiki helps you to constantly maintain a smooth flow and balance is one of the term Cho Ku Rei helps purify the energy continues re-balancing for a count of 5 seconds.While an attunement is not, maybe it is all working out for you to benefit from group Reiki.It is man's need to explore your options, you will get the spiritual energy to others, and being able to teach others the power of this form of energy.

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Having an Imperfect Christmas? There's Holiness in the Mess

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My kids struggle with the difference between expectation and reality. They come by it honestly, really: Their mother (me!) has the tendency to form specific ideas about the world around her and then melt when those expectations fall apart.

At no moment is this dichotomy worse than at Christmas. Fill a snow globe with Hallmark movies, midnight Mass, and a living Nativity that serves cookies and you’ve pretty much got my holiday vision under wraps.

This, however, is not real Christmas family life.

Real life for a family at Christmas is presents that got broken under the tree. It is pink eye and stomach bugs on Christmas morning; a favorite ornament in a thousand pieces, decoratively accompanying the small perpetrator’s feet.

In your irritation, you turn to the mantel where your eyes fall on the Nativity. You see the holy infant and his beatific mother lovingly protected by St. Joseph’s quiet strength. There is a beauty there, a perfection that seems utterly unattainable.

And so you (ahem, I) fall apart.

The thing is, holiness isn’t reserved for the perfect. It’s available to anyone who seeks it, from the simple to the broken to the frail. As mothers, we enjoy a special privilege in that our families work to sanctify us.

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The work we do to raise our children makes us holy. It makes them holy as well.

Much like my contrast between real and idealized celebrations, nowhere is this more evident than at Christmas time. Mary and Joseph were already intensely holy people sanctified by the gift of the Son. We make peace and reparation for our own imperfections through the Holy Family. It is through them that we see the westward star.

Fortunately, though, you don’t have to take my word for it. Because I struggle with this sort of holiday slump on my own homefront, I asked a few friends to share their wisdom with me. And so I pass on to you the encouragement of a dozen Catholic mothers, offering the truth of our holiness in the ever-present mess.

Mother Angelica once compared sin to mud. She told a story about three people: the sinner, the good person, and the saint. All of them get muddy at different points in their lives, but it’s their reaction to the mud that sets them apart.

The sinner delights in the mud— doesn’t see anything wrong with it and claims it to be “natural”; something they can’t help.

The good person hates the mud and is distraught when he/she falls into it. The good person says, “I can’t believe I fell into this mess again …” and then wallows for too long (not realizing their pride).

The saint is not surprised when he/she falls in the mud. The saint says, “dang it.” But gets out immediately, spending almost no time at all focusing on it. It’s not a shock to the saint that he/she is kind of a mess … but they keep getting back out of the puddle and they don’t dwell on it.

In our family, we try to imitate the saint in that story. We let things go, forgive ourselves and each other, and then DECIDE to move on. Grace Bellon – GraceSwap

My battle with chronic illness has laid me pretty low on many Christmases. The journey has been painful as I have grieved the loss of what I think motherhood should look like. But navigating holy days with sickness has also been a great conduit of grace as I learn, year after year, that it’s not about me after all. When I’m sick, He still comes. When I’m grumpy, He still comes. Whether or not I’m ready, He still comes. Christmas never has and never will be about me and what I can or cannot do to celebrate well. What a liberating truth! Thanks be to God. Melody Lyons – The Essential Mother

We try to remember and teach that our spiritual life is a journey. We’re full of imperfections. When we converted to the Catholic Church we had to explain to the kids how we’d been wrong about some things that we had taught them. Remembering that we haven’t arrived gives freedom and grace to accept our flaws and mistakes, and let them be part of our own unique journey of faith. Desiree Hausam – Green Catholic Burrow

I keep trying. We keep showing up — to family prayer time, to Mass — in spite of the obstacles. Instead of assuming the attitude that “we have to believe and we have to follow these rules,” we try to keep discussing what and why we believe. We encourage questions. I’m trying to show an example of personal prayer when I have a Bible and journal out, and I offer my days and frustrations as sacrifices for my family. Where I am lacking, I offer my children and husband to the Lord and trust that He will love them and guide them back to Him. Gina Fensterer – Someday Saints

Knowing which things are worth letting go and holding fast to the things that truly edify and fortify your family in the virtues necessary for true discipleship. Also, being honest with your kids about your shortcomings and past mistakes. Even if they make those same mistakes, they know in the back of their minds that you eventually regretted those decisions.

Piety does not mean perfection. Discipleship is messy and showing your kids how you dust your knees off in the confessional and try again is good to model for them. No kid wants a model of unattainable perfection.

Whatever pursuits you see as good and holy (and they often can be!) will always pale in comparison to everything you put into your family (tending your own garden). That means work, volunteering, apostolates, etc. Build up your family first and God will bless the rest. Martina Kreitzer – Catholic Sistas

Our imperfect family is holy by the mere fact that we are TOGETHER. That togetherness can be loud, busy, and overwhelming, at times. But, together we celebrate life, light, hope, and the birth of our Savior during the Christmas season. Leslie McConnell – Advanced Maternal Adventures

Even when we fail, being less than kind to one another, we pick ourselves back up, ask forgiveness and begin again, keeping the Holy Family as our model. Dianna Kennedy – The Kennedy Adventures

Joy is found in the small moments—a smile from a spouse, a hug from a child, a thank you from a relative or friend—not from anything we do, but from who we are—daughters of the King of Kings laying in the manger. Christina Semmons – Say Yes to Holiness

Small acts of kindness. We probably use the word kind/kindness more than any other in our family. We may have lots of moments when we’re not kind but we’re always trying to get back to treating each other with kindness because that’s how Jesus calls us to act. Sterling Jaquith

Forgiveness. We are all passionate people, but we are quick to ask for forgiveness when we know we’re wrong and never withhold it as a weapon. Kristi Denoy – Hail Marry Blog

We keep going. Get knocked down nine times, get up ten. Working toward St Josemaría’s goal: “A saint is a sinner who keeps trying.” Liz Schleicher – Dymphna’s Daughter

Letting go and letting God. We are flawed as human beings, and we need to acknowledge that and ask God to take over those parts of us that are not of Him. He wants very much to do that – but He only will if we invite Him in. In our family, inviting Him in comes in the form of a prayer routine. At meals and at bedtime, of course – but also at any point throughout the day when we find ourselves in need of help. I am learning that I need to be a model of prayer for my girls even at a young age, because they will notice the absence of prayer in my life just as much as its presence. Kendra St. Hillaire – Marebear’s Mom

What advice would you give to a mom who feels discouraged this Christmas season? How does your family find holiness in the mess?

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