Enlightening Life Radio Show with Jennifer Hoffman REPLAY from Wed. June 11, 2014 + Q&A: Why Am I Supporting My Family? + June 4, 2014 Enlightening Life Radio Show

Enlightening Life Radio Show with Jennifer Hoffman REPLAY from Wed. June 11, 2014  + Q&A: Why Am I Supporting My Family? +  June 4, 2014 Enlightening Life Radio Show

It's  Wednesday, time for the Enlightening Life Radio Show on Blog Talk Radio. Tonight's guest is Amber Nightingale, of http://wwww.reikibyamber.com , who will talk about how energy heals.  We begin at 8PM US CDT, click here for the show page and to join us live. Or you can also listen to the archives if you miss the live show.

Enlightening Life Radio Show with Jennifer Hoffman REPLAY June 11, 2014
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/jennifer-hoffman/2014/06/12/enlightening-life-with-jennifer-hoffman-guest-amber-nightingalereadings-more

Whew, there is some heavy energy shifting right now. And I saw that we have X+ class solar flares that are 'off the charts'. I think they're going to have to add another level to account for this intensity if we have any more of these. If you have been feeling more than usual levels of emotion and anxiety, it is part of the energy that is engulfing us now and it's quite intense. I have noticed that I have been very tired with insomnia, so I have trouble sleeping, which is rare for me. I have also lost my appetite and eat very little, as well as have been needing to be grounded in my own energy lately, another aspect of the level and intensity of clearing that we are undergoing. It's hard to find any type of balance in times like this, so do the best you can. I'll be holding another New Earth Energy call in a few days, watch your email for that announcement.

This intense energy is bringing up another issue for many, regarding obligations and commitments that are becoming burdensome, limiting, and questionable. Why is it happening now? Because karmic cycles, soul contracts, karmic obligations and attempts at atonement are all coming up for review and release. Review as to their relevance and the true nature of these obligations and release, in light of the creation of new life intentions. That is the topic of today's Q&A message:

Q&A: Why Am I Supporting My Family?
http://enlighteninglife.com/qa-providing-everyone-family-financial-support/?inf_contact_key=00358f98d03b40fb580e357bf4d289800109e6735a64dc95ed61c7ced521895c

"Dear Jennifer: I am struggling to meet the financial obligations I have taken on for my family. Recently, I bought a duplex to share with my daughter and her children, and paid most of the mortgage. Then I moved out and let my ex-husband and son move in, and I help them with their payments. As I now have less income, I cannot afford to support their living expenses and pay my own. I told my daughter I would have to sell the duplex and I am broken hearted. What is wrong with me that I have this overwhelming need to provide all of them with housing? Am I overcompensating for the parents who never provided for me? I can no longer live this way, emotionally or financially, but I also don’t know if I can live with the guilt if I cannot help them in this way.

Jennifer’s Answer: This is a tough situation and I hope that you can see the karma you have with the members of your family. At some point you have promised to take care of and provide for them, from a deep soul wound in which you once held yourself responsible for their care and either could not or would not do it. Since we carry these over into future lifetimes, you are now faced with two choices, continue to support them or let them support themselves. Neither choice is bad or wrong, it is simply a matter of acting from a point of forgiveness and detachment, or from fear and guilt.

Since our parents and family create the pathway for the fulfillment of our karma, your parents’ lack of support simply reminded you of this soul lesson and let you experience what it felt like to be on the receiving end of that situation. You had two choices, to continue to feel guilty or to heal from this pain and free yourself of these obligations. Until now, you have chosen the path of guilt but, as you are realizing, it is a heavy burden for you to bear, financially and emotionally, and you have to make a choice. Because you want to release this burden you feel that you are being backed into a corner and it’s breaking your heart because you are afraid of what will happen to them if you do not support them.

You have also, within the scope of this soul contract, taken responsibility for what they do with their lives, and whether they succeed in living a happy, productive, and fulfilling life or not. You think that if you do not support them, that something bad will happen to them. But you do not have any control over the outcomes they create and, in spite of your help, they will make the most powerful choices that they are capable of. One of their obligations in this karmic cycle is to learn to take care of themselves but they are not going to do that until you let go of the obligations you are trying to fulfill. It’s a destructive cycle that is going to get harder before it gets easier because in order for it to end you have to let go.

The people in our lives, who are members of our soul group and who share karma with us, have to hold the energetic space for us to heal the karma. So your daughter and the others who you are providing for have no choice but to let you support them, until you decide you no longer want to do that. Letting go of this responsibility does not mean that you reject them. Instead, you can do it by acknowledging that they are and can be more powerful in their lives, then letting them do that by no longer seeing them as powerless. And you have to also forgive yourself for whatever you think you have done, in this lifetime and in others, to hurt them in any way.

Soul contracts and karmic cycles are complicated, with strong emotional energy, and their healing and release always require that we let go of a belief that we are responsible for someone else’s misery and pain. While we could be in one way, in another, everyone creates their own reality and is responsible for their own life. As soon as you set yourself free you allow them to be free of this cycle and all of you can move on into more joyful, fulfilling, guilt- and fear-free living.

If you want to read more about karmic cycles and soul contracts, I discuss it at length in my book Ascending into Miracles — the Path of Spiritual Mastery, which you can get on amazon.com by clicking here."
http://www.amazon.com/Ascending-into-Miracles-Spiritual-Mastery/dp/0982194935/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1402530170&sr=8-1&keywords=Jennifer+Hoffman

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Enlightening Life Radio Show with Jennifer Hoffman REPLAY from Wed. June 4, 2014
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/jennifer-hoffman/2014/06/05/enlightening-life-with-jennifer-hoffman-readings-more

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OM TIMES: 7 Ways to Bring Reiki Into Your Life By Andrew Pacholyk MS L.Ac

OM TIMES: 7 Ways to Bring Reiki Into Your Life
By Andrew Pacholyk MS L.Ac

Reiki is described as a holistic therapy, which brings about healing on a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual level. The belief is that the energy will flow through the practitioner’s hands whenever the hands are placed on, or held near a potential recipient. Some teachings stress the importance of the practitioner’s intention or presence in this process, while others claim that the energy is drawn by the recipient’s need to activate or enhance the natural healing processes. (I believe both are true). Furthermore, the belief is that the energy is “intelligent”, meaning that the Reiki knows where to heal, even if a practitioner’s hands are not present in the specific area. This is Universal attention.

Learning to work with Reiki gives you the ability to connect with an inexhaustible source of energy, which can be used to induce a healing effect. Anyone can gain access to this energy by means of an attunement process carried out by a Reiki Master. (I personally believe that anyone can gain access to this energy, because it is Universal. No one holds control or a patent to energy).

Consider these suggestions for bringing reiki energy into your life:

Just for today

1. Life unfolds in the present. But so often, we let the present slip away, allowing time to rush past unobserved and unseized, and squandering the precious seconds of our lives as we worry about the future and ruminate about what’s past. “We’re living in a world that contributes in a major way to mental fragmentation, disintegration, distraction, decoherence,” says Buddhist scholar B. Alan Wallace. We’re always doing something, and we allow little time to practice stillness and calm. When we are at work, we fantasize about being on vacation; on vacation, we worry about the work piling up on our desks. We dwell on intrusive memories of the past or fret about what may or may not happen in the future. We don’t appreciate the living present because our “monkey minds,” as Buddhists call them, vault from thought to thought like monkeys swinging from tree to tree.

2. Most of us don’t undertake our thoughts in awareness. Rather, our thoughts control us. “Ordinary thoughts course through our mind like a deafening waterfall,” writes Jon Kabat-Zinn, the biomedical scientist who introduced meditation into mainstream medicine. In order to feel more in control of our minds and our lives, to find the sense of balance that eludes us, we need to step out of this current, to pause, and, as Kabat-Zinn puts it, to “rest in stillness – to stop doing and focus on just being.”

3. We need to live more in the moment. Living in the moment, also called mindfulness, is a state of active, open, intentional attention on the present. When you become mindful, you realize that you are not your thoughts; you become an observer of your thoughts from moment to moment without judging them. Mindfulness involves being with your thoughts as they are, neither grasping at them nor pushing them away. Instead of letting your life go by without living it, you awaken to experience.

4. Cultivating a nonjudgmental awareness of the present bestows a host of benefits. Mindfulness reduces stress, boosts immune functioning, reduces chronic pain, lowers blood pressure, and helps patients cope with cancer. By alleviating stress, spending a few minutes a day actively focusing on living in the moment reduces the risk of heart disease.

5. Mindful people are happier, more exuberant, more empathetic, and more secure. They have higher self-esteem and are more accepting of their own weaknesses. Anchoring awareness in the here and now reduces the kinds of impulsivity and reactivity that underlie depression, binge eating, and attention problems. Mindful people can hear negative feedback without feeling threatened. They fight less with their romantic partners and are more accommodating and less defensive. As a result, mindful couples have more satisfying relationships.

6. Mindfulness is at the root of Buddhism, Taoism, and many Native American traditions, not to mention yoga. It’s why Thoreau went to Walden Pond; it’s what Emerson and Whitman wrote about in their essays and poems. “Everyone agrees it’s important to live in the moment, but the problem is how,” says Ellen Langer, a psychologist at Harvard and author of Mindfulness. “When people are not in the moment, they’re not there to know that they’re not there.” Overriding the distraction reflex and awakening to the present takes intentionality and practice.

7. Living in the moment involves a profound paradox: You can’t pursue it for its benefits. That’s because the expectation of reward launches a future oriented mindset, which subverts the entire process. Instead, you just have to trust that the rewards will come. There are many paths to mindfulness and at the core of each is a paradox. Ironically, letting go of what you want is the only way to get it.

For more information about Andrew Pacholyk MS L.Ac and Therapies for healing mind, body, spirit visit http://www.peacefulmind.com/reiki.htm

References:

Benor, D.J. (2002) Spiritual Healing: scientific validation of a healing revolution. Professional Supplement. Vision Publications, Southfield MI.

Pacholyk, A (2012) Crystal Ascension Reiki: Combining the Power of Crystals and Reiki Energy Together

Oschman, J.L. (2000) Energy Medicine: the scientific basis. Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh.

Wallace, Allan, The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind

Kabat-Zinn, Jon, The Mindfulness Revolution: Leading Psychologists, Scientists, Artists, and Meditatiion Teachers on the Power of Mindfulness in Daily Life (A Shambhala Sun Book)

McTaggart, L. (2002) The Field: the quest for the secret force of the universe. Harper Collins Publishers, New York.

Langer, Ellen, Mindfulness (A Merloyd Lawrence Book) by -Da Capo Press-