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Conquering those unexpected dead-ends
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Roberta Barnes
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When unexpected dead ends appear in front of us sometimes we cannot see the exit. Focusing on the present with balance and harmony can help us find those exits that can lead us to a better place in all areas of our life. |
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How many times have you said or heard someone else say, I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time? Those wrong places leading to dead ends while most commonly thought of as physical can also be mental. Our minds can easily wander into the wrong place as our thoughts leave the now to think of what we could be or what happened yesterday.
Listening to a person introduce himself as a survivor my mind wandered to thinking of things I could say I had survived. While my thoughts wandered in the wrong place, my now was happening without my participation. The words of the man in front of me might have given me a smile or lifted my day, week, or month, if I had stopped thinking and listened. Slipping from now and wandering in the maze of the past can steal important parts of our lives. As the Zen saying goes, Now, its all you have.
Memories and being able to keep those we love in our hearts are gifts of evolution. Evolution also gave us a nudge to not look behind us by our heads not being able to do a hundred and eighty degree turn. Think of everything you would miss when walking forward if you were only looking where you had been. If your mind is immersed in thoughts of yesterday or tomorrow how can you see the good that is now, or the exit from those wrong places.
Not too long ago I found myself facing dead ends in the most unlikely of places. I had planned to allow myself just enough time to do errands and then arrive at an appointment exactly on time. That day my errands went faster then I had planned, and all traffic lights were green. Only a few blocks from the location of my appointment I realized I would be sitting in the waiting room a minimum of an hour and a half. Close by was a discount store where time could be better spent. So with plan "A" having a glitch I quickly formed plan "B".
Plan B had me smiling as I backed out of my parking spot after finding a needed item at a nice low price. Focusing on my appointment I drove down the isle obviously connecting to the exit. That isle was a dead end, so I backed up and drove down another isle. That isle also was a dead end, so I tried another isle. Again, I came to a dead end. I could see the road I needed to be driving on taunting me over the parked cars. My thoughts were consumed by what might happen at my appointment. To my right I saw what looked like the way I had entered the lot and drove in that direction. As I neared the lots entrance the sign, Do not enter and incoming traffic showed me yet another dead end. I was stuck in a parking lot with the minutes slipping away as I drove forward and then backed up. How many times does that happen in all areas of daily life?
I put my car in park, and began laughing at being stuck in a parking lot. My laughter cleared my mind and I thought wait a minute I have been stuck in dead end jobs and an abusive marriage, but I found the exits. I relaxed and scanned the parking lot. I still could see no visible escape, but an SUV was moving forward and I had a fifty fifty chance that it was leaving the parking lot. Following the SUV I was soon at the traffic light on the road that had been taunting me, and I silently sent thank you to the SUV driver.
While I still laugh at being stuck in a parking lot, not all dead ends are amusing. The evening I received the shocking phone call informing me of the thousands of dollars I was now in debt because another person had used my Social Security number I entered a vicious maze of dead ends. Luckily for me I had completed my first Reiki master/teacher level and I knew how to relax in the now allowing me to scan for an exit. Identity theft was less common at that time and law enforcement being of little help made the exit much harder to find. The divorce that followed stretching my credit to the limit and my attorney not keeping confidential what I said to him were more dead ends. The hours of study I had put into Reiki exercises and techniques was my light showing me the exit that lead to a better place.
One winter night before I had studied Reiki I stood bruised and bleeding in front of a second story window. The man behind me was telling me if I did not do such and such he would throw me threw it, without opening it. Such a thing brings all ones focus to now, but without the balance and harmony of Reiki panic and pain had me seeing only dead ends.
Quick thinking in the now can uncover a helping hand, but the helping hand is easier to recognize when balance and harmony is brought into the situation. Standing in front of that window, and having the financial rug pulled out from under me are simply two examples of unexpected dead ends. Reiki does not provide an inflatable exit, but it does provide helpful tools in finding the exit. The system Mikao Usui created and named Reiki Ryoho is not a belief system or a religion, but is a spiritual practice that brings balance and surrounds all it touches with harmony. When the mind, body, and spirit are in balance and surrounded with harmony they heal in the way that is best for each individual at that junction in time.
I know many women whose lives have not included the challenges others and I have experienced. Being with these women makes happiness bubble up inside me as I enjoy the positive in and around each of them. At the same time, each person has obstacles in her or his path and the worst that has ever happened to that person is the worst for him or her. The worst triggers worry. Side effects of worry include stress, and dead ends. The backbone of Reiki contains the concept to be without anger and worry. If you do not have time for the hours spent in studying Reiki, a session will put you in a now that is void of lifes worries and that promotes and speeds healing at all levels. Deaths, illnesses, changing jobs, traumas of all kinds, and relationships ending can be helped by the healing tranquility that happens during a Reiki session.
Reiki is like lighting a candle to push back the darkness now. Sometimes lighting that candle can be simply allowing you to be in the now and see that SUV heading for the exit. When you reach that exit, you can breathe easily knowing the wrong place is behind you.
I have completed the Shihan (master/teacher) level in both Japanese styles of Reiki and Western styles of Reiki. While I have put years into Reiki study and my journey will never stop, many of my students find that the first level of Reiki gives her or him all that is needed to smooth out the rough edges in their life. I have clients that find what s/he needs in one or more Reiki healing sessions. Universal energy like nature is forgiving, teaching, and healing; all that is needed is a qualified person to allow Reiki to flow to you or help you to connect. If you would like to read more about Reiki, please visit the pages of information at my website http://www.naturalhealinglearning.com.
Article Source: http://www.elrincondelantropologo.com/
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| About the Author |
Roberta R. Barnes Gendai Reikiho & Komyo Reiki Shihan(master/teacher) and Herbalist Consultant. I teach and practice Reiki in my healing room nestled in nature and will travel to where a class had been organized. I almost offer raising you awareness in all areas of daily life by connecting with nature.
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