Domo arigato, Mr. Emoto

I think all of this intention stuff is starting to get to me. And I'm starting to feel like a crazy person. In the middle of my yoga class last night I found myself staring at my water bottle, trying to alter the molecules of my water to give me more energy. I mean, Mr. Emoto! Look at what you've done to me!

Did it work? Well yes, actually. I found my water to be particularly refreshing, colder than expected and I had a very strong class. But I'm now starting to feel almost as crazy as Madonna with her Kabbalah water. Silly Madonna, don't you know you can bless your own water for free?

But seriously - all this reading about reiki and intention... Where it all comes together for me is just in the message of the hidden powers of the mind to affect our surroundings in a measurable, concrete way. For me, this is evolution, is finally accepting that we CAN heal, affect the outcome of things, change the mood of those around us, diffuse conflict, and do thousands of other things simply by thinking it.

The first step, as with anything, is acceptance. Without that, people would never even try to do something like heal their child's belly ache by channeling healing energy into their solar plexus. But if you accept that we are capable of such things, it becomes almost impossible to stop doing it.

I'm starting to believe that we are blessed - all of us - with powers beyond our comprehension. I think we can affect change by changing our thought patterns, by "connecting to the source" as Wayne Dyer would say, or more accurately (see Lynne McTaggart's work) by plugging into The Field.

What is The Field, you ask?

A bit like finding there is such a thing as The Force in Star Wars. The Field tells the story of respected frontier scientists all over the globe who have produced extraordinary evidence to show that an energy field -The Zero Point Field - connects everything in the universe, and we ourselves are part of this vast dynamic cobweb of energy exchange.

(Click here to read more about it. Visit the link in my right-hand menu to buy it so you can go crazy with power too!)

I swear, this stuff changes you.

Oh and if you are interested in learning more about The Field - Lynne McTaggart is giving a seminar in Toronto later this month. Go here for more details.

Reiki Power!

My life has been a beautiful tapestry of synchronous moments - when particular turning-points have been dictated by the universe and not me. I recall specific moments - like the time my friend on the other side was anxious to talk to me. Signs for psychics everywhere. I would open the phonebook - on the page for psychic ads. The radio show that day would have a psychic guest.

Or more recently, I came across Reiki. I was reading about scientific studies on healing through the hands. They naturally mentioned Reiki. I did my daily blog and in looking for images, I stumbled across Reiki. Then I went to yoga that night. The instructor, out of a room full of people came over to me and touched my back during one of the resting positions. Later, I inquired about it, because it had so relaxed me, just that light light touch. She casually said "I put a little Reiki in it". This was, let me remind you, within 24 hours of all that other Reiki stuff. It was like, 'okay, universe, I get it'. The fact is, I was meant to get into Reiki at this time.

The more I looked into it, the more I thought about the wonderful things I could do if I knew Reiki. I would visit my friend with brain cancer and give him Reiki sessions. I would help my husband with his constant indigestion. I would even help myself with my heart chakra, which seems to be doing a spring cleaning of sorts these days.

So I started researching the how and wheres to becoming a Reiki healer. It turns out that you can't learn the Reiki, exactly. Instead, a Reiki master has to give you the energy force. I don't quite understand this, except that it seems that by the act of receiving this from a master, your system gets cleaned out, like a giant chakral colonic. And then you become a conduit for it - able to use it to heal yourself and others.

Kinda makes me want to don a cape and spandex - and shout "Reiki power!" into the sky.