New Year 2022

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Happy New Year!

We hope it will be a happy one, just as we have hoped every year since time immemorial. New Year’s celebrations are always filled with high hopes.

I write “time immemorial,” but we’ve only been celebrating the “new year” since Babylonian times, about 4,000 years ago. To us, as tiny humans, that seems like time immemorial, but you could ask the dinosaurs from millions of years ago and I don’t think they’d have much to say about the new year. But, I digress.

Back to our celebrations. Do you have some new year’s resolutions to mark this one-year journey around the sun? Read more books? Walk in nature on a regular basis? Reach out to friends and family more often?

As we clink our glasses, our celebratory cocktail has a touch of bitters in it, doesn’t it? It reminds us of all that was regretted, lost, or mourned in the past year.

The Virus And 2022

Will 2022 be the year that COVID begins to fade away? Everyone hopes so. When will the day come that the virus no longer dominates our news, activities and movement? It does cause one to pause and wonder whether we should be jet-setting all over the planet, after all.

Perhaps we were never designed for that. Could it be that taking the slow-boat is a more natural way to move on this planet? Maybe a slower, more natural rhythm is what is ingrained in our DNA in spite of the billionaires who leap into space shuttles, claiming that they’re “forever changed” from it, and who tout the benefits of travel to Mars. Why would we entrust our development to them?

At The Portal Of Time

Time. We measure it, count it, divide it, and add it up. Sometimes we have too much, other times, too little. We cling to the past, or fret about the future. We think we know what time is. As if it were tangible.

In fact, time mostly exists in our minds, entangled in our thoughts.

There’s nothing wrong with the acknowledgment of the changing seasons and picking out dates that we celebrate on our man-made calendars. On the New Year, we celebrate a point that we call “last year” and rejoice at a point that we call “next year.” We might want to keep in our awareness that it’s all just one big flow of energy.

We’re always standing at a portal of time. In every minute we stand in the center of the present moment of consciousness and yet, the weight of our human lives often dims this realization.

Still, we sense it. We feel it. We almost see it. Just out of view, at the corner of our sight, it reminds us to look closer. Perhaps this year we will. This year, we won’t just stand in the gateway, we’ll step through to the other side.

Wherever You Go

Wherever you go, there you are. You start to realize that more deeply with each passing year.

In this manner, we share the world of the spider – wherever we go, we spin our own web. Whether our web is humble or glittering with jewels, it’s still created with our fantasies, illusions and deceptions.

Sure, we might change some different ornaments on our web depending on our location. A French croissant, a German beer, an American hamburger (webs are, after all, all about catching food), but it is still a web of our own making with all the sticky traps of the unawakened mind.

Changing the decorations on our web will not change the web itself. Once we recognize this self-made construction surrounding us, it helps us to break free. Our awareness expands and we become more clear about our reactions and conditioning. We still have a web, we need one to live, but it no longer defines us, limits us. It’s only a part of being on this planet, not the core of who we are.

Students of The Radiance Technique® (TRT®) can apply TRT® hands-on especially with Front Positions #1 and #3 as well as Head Position #3 for support with greater insight and awareness.

New Year Wish

This last year, Radiant Nursing didn’t publish many blog posts. Words seemed limiting, inadequate. However, words help us to communicate, so we’ll talk a bit more in the year to come.

For now, as we usher in 2022, a heartfelt wish is captured in this illustration by Pamela Zagarenski.

“My wish for you... a holiday, a winter, a year, a life full of joy & peace.”
— Pamela Zagarenski

Let’s also add, may it be a year full of good health – with healing on all levels.

Happy New Year 2022.

Flowers At Home

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Flowers To Brighten Our Days

During the pandemic that started in 2020, we have spent a lot of time in our homes. When I lived in San Francisco, there were flower shops near my workplace, so fairly often, I would bring a small bouquet home to decorate my apartment.

As the years passed, I did this less and less. It seemed to be money better-spent elsewhere and, at the time, it simply seemed a bit extravagant.

Fast forward to the pandemic of COVID-19. Staying home as much as we did, having a vase of flowers in the house was a way to bring a bit of nature inside and to brighten up the space with a pop of color.

Flowers From The Supermarket

Where I live now, I don’t have the dedicated little flower shops of an urban environment. My flowers come from the local supermarket. However, these little flower faces have proven to be just as sweet. They provide an uplifting spot of color, a breath of a living vibration that graces the center of the table.

And I’ve found that I don’t have to spend a lot of money for a small bouquet to decorate our room.

Flowers From A Neighbor

One day, a neighbor stopped by and gave us a bouquet of dahlias. These had come from a specialized grower of dahlias. The song of these gorgeous, full blossoms filled the room with their vibrant melody. The variety of the flowers made for a rich harmony of colors and shapes.

Dahlias, with all their variations, are a magical flower changing shape and color with abandon. They are also the “city flower” of Seattle.

Flowers To Mark Our Journey

All of the flowers that have filled our home have their own song to sing. Sometimes they match the feel of the season or they mark the various celebrations passing by on our calendars. Colors of autumn, Christmas themes, a celebration of hearts, a way to bring warm colors inside our homes during dark, winter nights.

Flowers Bring Nature Inside Our Homes

We decorate our homes with flowers even while remembering that the greatest of nature is outside. Of course, we know this. Yet, to have a tiny bit of nature, albeit in cut flowers, inside our room has the vibration of nature. It calls to us, reminds us of the life-force at the center of these colorful little beings. The sap rises in the stems and suffuses the petals with its energy, its life force. We are reminded of our own pulsing “sap” in our veins, carrying life to all the cells of our bodies. We are a part of nature.

For students of The Radiance Technique® (TRT®), we can connect to the marvels of nature with our Radiant Touch®. By using our TRT® hands-on, holding the flowers, lightly touching their petals when we greet them in the morning, we connect with the essence of nature. “Hello,” we say in our hearts as we add more water to their vase, “thank you for being here with me. Thank you for your existence.”

Even in the toughest of times, we say thank you. We lift our eyes to the sky and whisper our gratitude for this day, for these flowers, for our lives… even while we stay at home.

Big Tech Censorship

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Censorship

Houston, we have a problem.

First off: this is not a political blog. As soon as you open your mouth about one side of the political landscape, you alienate the other half of the population who disagrees with it.

Along that same vein, this is not a political blog post. I am not here to debate who is right or wrong or who won the election, no matter my personal feelings about it.

This post is about censorship and Big Tech. Censorship is being exerted by Big Tech right now and it’s deeply troubling and alarming.

Big Tech

Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey along with the others at Google, Amazon and Apple are in the power game of a lifetime, of several lifetimes actually. Let's be clear, they are not enlightened. I don’t want another person running my life. And even if they were enlightened, I would still not want them running my life. Nor would an enlightened person want to do so!

These unawakened and unenlightened people actually think they can tell us what to think and what to do.

I did not elect, vote for, ask for, nor do I desire Big Tech to decide who or what I can hear or see. We have ego-driven people deciding what is “fact-checked” and then forcing it down our throats. And they know nothing about what is real, about the deeper dimensions, about the Whole.

Learning From History

This type of censorship cannot sustain itself. Communist Russia and Europe could not be sustained. But unfortunately, millions of people were murdered by Stalin along the way. And no, that is not hyperbole, it was literally millions. I don’t have any illusion that I couldn’t be swept up as one of them.

What will happen when it is deemed that people cannot work with energy techniques? When meditation is banned? What makes anyone think that couldn’t happen? We are a hairbreadth away from losing everything and becoming a totalitarian country.

Censorship, suppression and repression do not work. Thoughts and ideas need to bubble up and be exposed to the light of day. They need to be examined and criticized in the full noonday sun and if not honorable, they will eventually fade and lose strength.

No Safe Haven

If we think we’re safe because we’re running with the "in" crowd, because we agree with them, or because we’re mindlessly shuffling along, sure that no one will notice us, we need to carefully clean off our glasses. We need a clearer perspective.

If we think it’s okay to censor The President of the United States because we "don’t like him" – we need to grow up. Not meaning to sound harsh, but honestly, living life only driven by likes and dislikes is a childish approach.

If we expand our awareness to hold simultaneously both our likes and dislikes, we have a greater chance of seeing with expanded vision and wholeness. An even more advanced level is the ability to hold two opposing ideas at the same time. Are you ready to take the leap?

With Or Without Tech

People of my age grew up and lived the majority of their lives without social media and even without the internet. We did just fine. Sure, the internet brought excellent advantages like online banking (along with the disadvantage of identity theft) and the movement and transfer of documents. I’m old enough to remember when sending a fax was an event and in the legal field the debate was, does the signature on a fax have the same validity as a real ink-on-paper signature?

Having the internet to stay in touch with our loved ones during a pandemic, or at any time for that matter, is a blessing. Ordering online is such a convenience. Being able to gather information swiftly, without needing to “go to the library” is a delight.

However, I fall-on-my-knees in gratitude that I did not grow up with social media.

Teen years, and even the 20s, are difficult enough without having it dominated with "likes" and on-line bullying. If I were raising children today, I would not want them on any of the social platforms. Only text messaging to coordinate times to pick them up after class, for example. Fat chance that would be successful, but one can dream.

So, do we remove all technology from our lives? That seems like throwing out the baby with the bath water as they say. Our lives have technology deeply embedded in it now. It would be nearly impossible to eliminate technology in our modern society which is a strange statement when you think about it too much.

Perhaps we do step back from some of the social media. At a minimum, we need to hold Big Tech’s feet to the fire and demand benevolence. We need fewer monopolies. We need other options.

What To Do?

So, what can we do? Here's the difficult part: I don’t know. It’s why I hesitated to write this post. Why present a problem if you don’t have a solution?

However, to start the healing process, we have to have awareness of what is happening. Seeing it is step number one. Students of TRT® can direct energy to a situation to support an alignment in Wholeness for all that is taking place. We can direct energy to clarity – first, within ourselves.

We can hold the process in our hearts, expand our understanding and yes, our universal love for all that is.

In the end, we may not understand everything at the mental level. But, we know that these present-day energies are out of balance and need re-alignment.

Stay aware, stay awake. Keep your lamp filled with oil so that your light may shine brightly.

Namasté.

Happy New Year 2021

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Out With 2020

Wow. It has been a year. A year of challenge for everyone.

The pandemic burst into our lives, marched into all our dwelling places and made itself at home, settling into every room of the house, as if it would never leave.

Loss Moved In

There was a great deal of loss. Loss of friends, family, and animals. Loss of homes, jobs, and income. While we struggled under the weight of the pandemic, any type of loss seemed even more intense, heart-aching, harder to bear.

There was a loss of vacation travel. On a more somber side, there was a loss of travel to see loved ones, family and friends. We missed holidays. birthdays, births or deaths. We felt the loss of being close together, a hand shake, a kiss on the cheek, a long hug.

We are picking ourselves up now. Everyone holds out hope for an end in sight. Perhaps the vaccines along with community exposure will lift enough of us into a sort of herd immunity.

Silver Lining For Other Creatures

While we lived in lock-down, the planet breathed a sign of relief while it had a break from our incessant activity and pounding on the Earth. In nature reserves, birds were able to relax and have the security to build nests, lay eggs and hatch their young. People were not trampling on their nesting grounds.

It makes one wonder if we couldn’t allow our national parks and nature reserves to have a month or two each year without any of us stomping through them.

Less air pollution was markedly visible above the cities worldwide. Water quality improved. In Venice alone, the lack of cruise ships promoted cleaner water. Noise pollution decreased. While not everything was perfect, poaching increased during the pandemic, we could perhaps look at what was beneficial and see how we could mimic that in normal conditions.

Students Of TRT®

We had a post about Meditation In A Pandemic and touched on how The Radiance Technique® (TRT®) supports us through these challenging times.

When lockdowns become less and our activities ramp up, we may find that we have less time for a complete hands-on session. Then, certain hands-on positions are helpful. For example, if we are experiencing worry, hands-on in Head Position #2 and Front Position #3 is supportive to help us release our fears.

As we experience sorrow, we may find that hands-on in Front Position #1 and even a combination of Front Position #1 and Front Position of #3 can help to ease the pain and heartache. Another position is Back Position #4, to get in touch with our survival and our natural reaction to “hold on” to everything. We can release our grip on outer materialism and touch into living light.

For those who have studied The Second Degree of TRT®, you are able to direct universal energy to those you have lost, whether recently or long ago. In such a strong environment of loss, past wounds of loss can open again and become tender.

Directing TRT® to those you’ve lost, you are connecting to their inner light and that is forever. Directing energy supports both of you. It’s never just about directing energy outwardly. You are always a participant, an observer, a vital exchange of radiant energy expressed. As you give, you also receive universal energy.

A Blessing for The New Year

Let’s welcome a blessing for the new year. What is a blessing? The dictionary defines it as:

– the act or words of a person who blesses:
– a special favor, mercy or benefit:
– a favor or gift bestowed by God, the invoking of
God’s favor upon a person:
– praise devotion, worship, grace said before a meal:
– approval or good wishes.

Another fun fact regarding the definition of the word blessing – whenever animals gather in groups, they are identified with a collective noun, like a pride of lions, a gaggle of geese, or a swarm of bees.

If you should ever stumble upon a group of unicorns, they are formally named… a blessing of unicorns.

As we say goodbye to 2020, we offer this blessing – a poem by John O’Donahue. Beannacht is the Gaelic word for blessing and currach is the word for boat.

Beannacht, by John O’Donahue

On the day when
the weight deadens
on your shoulders
and you stumble,
may the clay dance
to balance you.

And when your eyes
freeze behind
the grey window
and the ghost of loss
gets in to you,
may a flock of colours,
indigo, red, green,
and azure blue
come to awaken in you
a meadow of delight.

When the canvas frays
in the currach of thought
and a stain of ocean
blackens beneath you,
may there come across the waters
a path of yellow moonlight
to bring you safely home.

May the nourishment of the earth be yours,
may the clarity of light be yours,
may the fluency of the ocean be yours,
may the protection of the ancestors be yours.
And so may a slow
wind work these words
of love around you,
an invisible cloak
to mind your life.


Be sure to take a few moments to listen to Mr. O’Donahue recite his poem. His voice and accent capture the wild, sea-whispering Celtic wind.

In With 2021

As we enter 2021, we lift our eyes to this new cycle and we’re filled with hope that this year will be softer and kinder. We invoke a well-known blessing of our own:

May the longtime Sun shine upon you and guide your way home.

Radiant Nursing wishes you and yours a new year filled with healing and love. Stay safe. Stay healthy.

Happy New Year!

Our Great Ocean Blue

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World Oceans Day

Each year, on June 8, we celebrate our planet’s oceans. It’s a day to call attention to this vast resource and the importance of restoring and keeping its ecosystem healthy.

Here’s a quote from the World Oceans Day website:

“A healthy world ocean is critical to our survival. Every year, World Oceans Day provides a unique opportunity to honor, help protect, and conserve our world’s shared ocean.

The ocean is important because it:
Generates most of the oxygen we breathe
Helps feed us
Regulates our climate
Cleans the water we drink
Offers a pharmacopoeia of medicines
Provides limitless inspiration !”

World Oceans Day started out with encouragement from Canada in 1992. This country is acutely aware of the our oceans as it has three different oceans on its borders, a feat no other country can mimic. For example, while England is entirely surrounded by an ocean, that ocean is essentially the same one.

In 2008, the United Nations officially recognized World Oceans Day. Today, it’s an opportunity to celebrate our oceans and to learn how we can protect our natural resource.

Our Wide Oceans

Over 96% of all of Earth’s water exists in the oceans. If we expand our awareness, we see that even our oceans are in flux and constant change. It’s just that we’re so tiny and our perspective so limited, we don’t perceive it. This quote from USGS reveals that our oceans are, indeed, in flux over wide expanses of time.

“Of course, nothing involving the water cycle is really permanent, even the amount of water in the oceans. Over the “short term” of hundreds of years the oceans’ volumes don’t change much. But the amount of water in the oceans does change over the long term. During the last Ice Age, sea levels were lower, which allowed humans to cross over to North America from Asia at the (now underwater) Bering Strait.

During colder climatic periods more ice caps and glaciers form, and enough of the global water supply accumulates as ice to lessen the amounts in other parts of the water cycle. The reverse is true during warm periods. During the last ice age glaciers covered almost one-third of Earth’s land mass, with the result being that the oceans were about 400 feet (122 meters) lower than today. During the last global “warm spell,” about 125,000 years ago, the seas were about 18 feet (5.5. meters) higher than they are now. About three million years ago the oceans could have been up to 165 feet (50 meters) higher.”
— USGS

We don’t how many different species call the ocean their home. Currently, scientists know of around 226,000 ocean species. 

It could be that more than 90% of the ocean’s species are still undiscovered. Some scientists estimate that there are anywhere between a few hundred thousand to a few million more to be discovered. Well, that’s quite a range!


The Beginning Of Our Oceans

You have to go back in time, far, far, back in time to find the origins of our oceans. In fact, you’ve got to start with alien origins. Our oceans fell from the sky, but not as rain.

We truly all are star-dust.

Those little molecules of two hydrogen and one oxygen atoms that make up water were floating in a planetary nebula into which our Sun was born. The water molecules came together by chance on carbon and silicon dust grains. Our precious water fell to earth in frozen lumps from space. (Just as a reference, the rings around Saturn are composed of dust and ice.) Our planet was also pummeled by comets and asteroids that were rich in alien water.

Planet Earth is the original Goldilocks story. In relation to the Sun, we’re in the perfect place to maintain our oceans.

Unlike Venus which is too close to the Sun. The solar radiation tears apart the water oxygen and hydrogen molecules. Hydrogen slips off into space. Goodbye, water.

And unlike Mars which is too far from the Sun. There isn’t enough solar radiation to keep water moving. All the water there turned into runaway glaciers.

We’ve got just the right balance to maintain our oceans. Not too hot, not too cold.

To read more about the watery space journey of our oceans to Earth, please click on this link: Alien Origins of Earth’s Oceans.

Connect To Our Oceans

Students of The Radiance Technique® (TRT®), can focus on the ocean in their meditations and reflect on our deep connection to salt water, all the way down to our own bodies which are filled with saline water.

Students of The Second Degree of The Radiance Technique® can direct energy to Earth’s oceans. You can also take the time to direct to specific oceanic mammals and creatures – there are many to choose from. How about starfish, seahorses, whales, deep ocean creatures that don’t see the light because they live so far down in the ocean’s depths?

All of our oceanic animals could benefit from our loving support.

Celebrate Our Oceans

On World Oceans Day, we remind everyone of the major role the oceans have in everyday life. They are the lungs of our planet, providing most of the oxygen we breathe. 

June 8 is a day to celebrate together the beauty, the wealth and the promise of the ocean. And to remind ourselves to care for the oceans, every day, throughout the year.

Brave and Beautiful Bees

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World Bee Day

World Bee Day arrives with fanfare on May 20, but of course, we know that EVERY DAY is world bee day. These little pollinators are our life blood. Bees provide our daily bread as they seed pollen throughout the plant world and our crops.

“Why a World Bee Day?

By observing World Bee Day each year, we can raise awareness on the essential role bees and other pollinators play in keeping people and the planet healthy, and on the many challenges they face today.”

Bees In History

Thousands of years ago, the Egyptians gave honor to our bees. Bee drawings are found on obelisks and in hieroglyphic representations. Pots decorated with a bee and filled with honey were found in the tombs of the pharaohs.

If you have an Instagram account, you can connect with Ben’s Bees, a delightful beekeeper in Australia. He loves to share all things bees: honey, history and fun facts. in this photo, he talks about bees in Egypt and how they were revered.

An Egyptian writing describes how working bees fall from the tears of the Sun God Ra. Well, that sounds about right, doesn’t it?

The Bee Shortage Is Real

My parents lived in Washington State and their home had a large lot where they had raspberry vines and apple trees. One summer they told me that they didn’t have any apples or raspberries, because there were not enough bees to pollinate the flowers. I was horrified and couldn’t believe this was really happening. My heart was crushed.

I suggested getting a beekeeper to place a hive or two on their property, but they were in their 80s and sadly, the process had already started for them to move to a smaller place. Their house was sold and they moved away. I still wonder what happened to their wonderful raspberry vines and apple trees. The beautiful apple pies and homemade raspberry jam that my parents carefully crafted are cherished memories of delicious family-shared treats.

Help Our Bees

One thing we can do is support local beekeepers. Buy local honey. Yes, it costs more, but you also know you are getting pure honey and not honey laced with corn syrup that’s been imported.

It’s been said that eating honey from your local environment helps provide positive exposure to local pollens and can help to lessen hay fever allergies. We’re not sure how much of that is scientifically true, but it’s a lovely idea.

If you have a backyard, plant some bee-friendly plants. You can also do this on a balcony with potted plants. Eliminate or decrease the amount of pesticides or herbicides that you use. Consider having a wildlife-friendly backyard.

For students who have studied The Second Degree of The Radiance Technique®, you have the opportunity to direct energy to bees and beekeepers. Help support the inner fabric of the world of bees and help build their strength and immunity to adverse conditions.

We can also direct energy to the decisions made by humanity to use fewer pesticides and herbicides that threaten our insect world.

Students of both The First and Second Degree of TRT® can apply TRT® hands-on during a meditation with the bees and expand their awareness of how they contribute to the life cycle. Expanding your love for bees is beneficial for all. Spend extra time in Front Position #1 for your meditation.

“Today, bees, pollinators, and many other insects are declining in abundance. World Bee Day provides an opportunity for all of us – whether we work for governments, organizations or civil society or are concerned citizens – to promote actions that will protect and enhance pollinators and their habitats, improve their abundance and diversity, and support the sustainable development of beekeeping.”

As we celebrate our bees every day, we hold in our hearts that there will be a great planetary awakening that recognizes and protects our precious bees.

Love live our Bees!

Meditation In A Pandemic

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COVID-19 CoronaVirus

A virus from China has been unleashed across the world. People are getting sick and some are dying. Everyone living on this planet is aware of this. Draconian measures have been taken to try to contain it and mitigate the impact.

This is a focused post for our students of The Radiance Technique® (TRT®), Authentic Reiki® as a support for their meditations during this time of a pandemic.

Through the inner plane science of TRT® – expanded universal energy is focused in your hands and you then have Radiant Touch® – allowing you access to universal, transcendental energy. This post will focus on use of Radiant Touch® in the application of TRT® hands-on as a supportive process.

Many people find themselves sequestered at home, unable to work. We often complain about having to go to work, but suddenly when faced with not being able to work along with the lack of a paycheck, we actually wish we could get back to work.

It’s a time of uncertainty, stress and even deep-seated fear. There are ways to help yourself through this difficult time. With TRT® hands-on, we are able to access universal energy to help bring balance to our body, thoughts and feelings.

TRT® hands-on is a vital part of all degrees of The Radiance Technique®, so these suggestions apply to students of both The First Degree and The Second Degree of TRT®.

A Center Point Within

Many of us are being told by our local and federal governments to stay-at-home and to shelter in place. With extra time at home, it’s a good opportunity for a full TRT® hands-on session, from top to bottom.

An entire session promotes balance throughout your whole body-mind-spirit continuum. Commit to an entire TRT® hands-on session each day. You will connect to a flowering radiant energy that responds to your own needs. Over time, take notice of how it’s manifesting in your daily life. Perhaps a better perspective? More patience? Calmer? Clarity of thought?

It will be your own experiment and experience, unfolding naturally for you. There’s no need to force anything. Simply relax into your TRT® hands-on session.

Include a positive affirmation with your hands-on session if you’d like. One powerful affirmation is: “I am whole, I am well, I am free.” This is from the book The ‘Reiki’ Factor in The Radiance Technique® by Dr. Barbara Ray. She shares this positive affirmation with us in Chapter 15 that starts on page 112. This book is available for your immediate reference from Amazon as an eBook.

Fear In The Community

During the virus outbreak, fear pulsates through the awareness of people. We might be afraid for ourselves, or fearful for a beloved family member who is at high-risk. That fear connects to our survival and a fear of death. We’re reminded of our mortality.

Fear is contagious. You might find yourself wondering if you do indeed, need large quantities of toilet paper, when just the day before you were quite sure you didn't.

To help balance yourself, spend extra time with Back Position Number 4. This center, the root chakra or sacral center, connects us to our survival. Let yourself become aware of the emotions swirling around the planet and know that not all of them are yours.

The root center connects us to Mother Earth as well. If you have the ability to spend a moment on a balcony or in a backyard or park, inhale the air and know that the Earth is holding you even in difficult times.

This center also connects us to our immortality in spirit. Allow yourself extra time of 10 or 15 minutes of TRT® hands-on in this center. Relax into your connection in the light of spirit, your connection to the cosmos.

You can remind yourself of this universal spark while doing your hands-on with the words from Carl Sagan, “We are all star stuff.”

Loss of Control

Trying to fight an invisible virus can bring up feelings of helplessness. We experience a loss of control.

We can’t go where we want, do what we wish to do, or even provide for our families as we normally would. Many people experience emotions of imbalance, feeling powerless. Be aware of how you are connected to all these feelings shared by your neighbors and fellow citizens. All of us are a part of the vast body of humanity.

To help balance those emotions, spend extra time in Front Position Number 3. You could also do a combination of one hand in Front Position Number 2 and one hand in Front Position Number 3. This allows you to work with your solar plexus, a power center, and balance your own sense of radiant power and well-being. This is a great position to use while binge-watching any of your favorite shows. You can do both at the same time!

Spend extra time in Back Position Number 3. This helps to balance your adrenals, your natural fight-or-flight response and it helps to release pent-up stress.

Far Apart, Yet Close Within

In this time of “social distancing,” we may be feeling lonely or sad that we can’t be with loved ones. Being separated from those we love might bring up feelings of loss, even unrelated to the current situation. Maybe this situation emphasizes the loss of family members.

Spend extra time in Front Position Number 1. Here, you can meet your loved ones in the heart and know that we are connected, always, even when we’re physically apart. When you talk with someone on FaceTime or Skype, or on the phone, place one hand in your heart center while talking and listening. It helps to deepen the connection and lets you focus on the energy behind the words. Our hearts sing to one another across time and space. “Listen, listen, listen to my heart song….”

Remember, we will get through this. And we’ll get through it together.