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Reiki Is Always a Miracle!

May 4, 2021 By pgarry

I am always amazed that more folks do not know about Reiki hands-on healing.  It is a simple and profound technique, re-discovered in Japan in the early 20th century.  My belief is that Reiki is what everyone could do for themselves and each other through 200,000 years of human history, until the patriarchy arrived only 8,000 years ago.

Now that more of us understand our own power, and have been Attuned to Reiki, it is becoming much better known.  Just google it – you will be amazed at all the info out there.  And also on my website.  Plus there are tons of excellent books – just pick one.

The least people get from being treated with Reiki is feeling calmer and very relaxed, followed by a good night’s sleep.  It’s easy to get a headache to let go – usually within a very few minutes.  Most of our chronic diseases will improve fairly quickly, for at least a few days.  Longer term work is required to get them to moderate for longer periods of time.  And sometimes, we get the miracle.  Where a dis-ease just vanishes after a Reiki session.

We are all body, mind, and spirit.  When we fix one part, every part is fixed.  Whatever you are struggling with, what ever lesson is presenting itself to learn, it can be ameliorated.  Just contact your nearest Reiki healer for a session.

p.s.  I love to do Reiki for folks, includind distant Reiki for folk out of town, and I love to teach folks how to do Reiki for themselves and others.

 

 

Filed Under: Health and Healing

Changing Your Mind for Better Health

August 8, 2016 By pgarry

In a conversation with a friend of mine last week, I realized she had the conventional belief system about health, and that therefore her health probably would not rise to be better than her expectations. She would need several different kinds of medicines and treatments to maintain a reasonable level of health, and the whole medical establishment to provide those treatments. There are some changes she can make for herself, but mainly, in her belief, her health depends on others.

She knows, for instance, that knees and hips wear out and have to be replaced. She knows that genetics is extremely determinant in what diseases we get, who we are and what we can do. She pretty much feels, with most of the country, that without the medical system, we all would be sick much of the time. And as we age, we can expect to be sicker.

I am just not able to be there. My belief is that my health largely depends on my choices and behaviors, not those of others. And I don’t actually believe in the benevolence of the medical system. It exists to serve itself – to employ folks who feel a need to be useful to others, to work hard at research into more and more arcane possibilities, to pat people on the head and say – ‘If you do this we can save you’ or, later, ‘I am sorry, there is nothing more we can do, and here is what you are facing.’

And, largely, when life has been spent eating American food while couch potatoing, the only thing that can be done is to make a radical change at that end – what we eat, what we talk about, how we move, what we think, how we provide love and nourishment to our bodies and minds. Often too late to make those moves, but they can make the end better.

In my belief / experience system, I find that eating low on the food chain, and the cleanest food possible, is the best medicine. Moving around – yoga, walking, running, standing while working – not only brings joy / mood elevation – but keeps the body happy and limber as well. My medicine is vitamins, especially the Bs and C, herbs, spices like turmeric. I consult Prescription for Nutritional Healing and Heal Your Body for ideas and possibilities, and then pay attention when my intuition nudges me one way or another.

But mainly and importantly, I look at the out-of-balance symptom my body is presenting, and walk meditatively with it, asking what it is trying to tell / teach me, what lesson is there for me to learn. I don’t argue with that symptom, or try to ignore it (usually) – I accept it, pay attention to it, learn more about it, and what various resources tell me about it – including google and perhaps wiki.

I am careful not to adopt it, name it as part of my self-definition, make it a permanent part of myself. I visualize my life totally without whatever the symptom, and smile at those images. I love myself in any case, and appreciate my body – its strength, its beauty – and affirm those qualities. My self-care includes putting myself first on my priority list, giving myself treats and presents, making myself happy – often by helping and giving to others, of course, because there is such joy in that.

Health is much more in our hands than we often believe. Trusting ourselves, staying calm and peaceful, using medical and spiritual resources as needed, moving along step by step, we can get better and stay better. And always have more fun!

Filed Under: Health and Healing, Reflections

The Travails of My Oldest Son, Danny

August 7, 2016 By pgarry

The Travails of My Oldest Son Danny

On Mother?s Day, May 8, 2016, son Danny called me from his car, as he and his wife were driving to downtown DC to a concert by the Danish group, Lukas Graham. Danny?s wife, Donna, had won the tickets, and they were to have their pictures taken with the band before the concert. We talked most of the way through the drive, then while driving around the venue to get the lay of the land and see the size of the crowd, and then through the process of finding a parking place. A fun conversation, with Dan saying at the end, as always ? ByeI Love You, running it all together.

The next Sunday morning, the 15th, I woke at 6 a m with a dream in my head that I titled Trekking in Nepal ? to get to safety. A very strange dream ? Many, many people walking into the mountains in Nepal. Men, women and children walking along trails, carrying nothing. Nepali volunteers at the trailheads, giving people a meal before they start. Then walking ? some of the trail is good, some is treacherous. Mostly green, beautiful ? but we are walking away from something not good. If you are not up and moving early, you can miss the meal. I am walking with a group of people I know. That night, I set out a glass to catch a liquid / the dew? It rains overnight. The glass has caught the brown liquid, but the rain has diluted and overflowed the glass. And I slept too late and missed the food.

I was totally puzzled, had no sense at all of the meaning. But Nepal is a wonderful home place for me, and I have missed it since my only trip there years ago.

My friend Ed Kluska, an astrologer who also teaches meditation, had announced a Theta heart meditation class for 1:30 to 2:15 p m that afternoon. At just about 1 pm, I decided to give myself a welcome break and attend. I left there, feeling very much in the flow of the Universe, stopping at Clifton Natural Foods on the way home.

And just about the time I walked back into my condo here in Cincinnati, a young woman in Washington, D. C. ran her car into my beautiful son Danny on his motorcycle, not paying any attention on that beautiful and clear and dry Sunday afternoon, and not seeing him at all.

Danny had a great state of the art helmet, and thus no brain injury. Plus the wreck was half a block from a fire station, so EMTs were on the scene in minutes, and Prince Georges Hospital was very close. Danny was unconscious, with a smashed pelvis, nearly destroyed left leg, and major road rash ? which is what the damage is called when skin slides over the road at a high rate of speed. Lots of other smaller injuries showed up over time ? a lacerated bladder, and kidney stress among them.

Danny had major surgeries on Monday, for the pelvis and for the left leg, which had a number of breaks. We family members here in Cincinnati heard about the wreck on Monday morning. By Tuesday evening, we ? me, my ex and our two other sons – were flying to DC. At that point, Danny was in a medically induced coma.

We spent the next seven days mostly in the waiting room of the Intensive Care Unit of Prince Georges Hospital in Hyattsville, Maryland. Danny?s medically induced coma ended on Wednesday or Thursday. But not his own personal coma, which continues. Though on Tuesday, May 31, he opened his eyes briefly, responding to his brother-in-law and his father. We were rejoicing. Then nothing more. Friday June 3, he had what hopefully will be the last surgery on his left leg. Today, Sunday, June 5, he had his eyes open and appeared to track people in the room. So we may be on the road to recovery at last.

His physical body has and is healing fast. It is amazing, though, how that fades from importance, awful as his injuries were, with this continuing coma. Most days, there has been no step forward. Now for the last several days, there has been a small step forward, and then a retreat back into the coma.

Hopefully, this week, the path to healing will solidify, so that we can see our Danny returning.

Filed Under: Health and Healing, Reflections

One Particular Homeopathic Remedy

March 23, 2016 By pgarry

I love homeopathy – have for maybe 20 years. It is a branch of medicine which believes that like cures like (using, for instance, a bee stinger to make a remedy for bee stings, or a hot stinging sensation), and that the smallest possible dose is probably the best. ‘In other words, a treatment should be similar to the ailment, or to substances which may aggravate the symptoms in large doses. This concept is similar to that which is manipulated in influenza vaccinations in Western medicine in which a small amount of the influenza virus is injected into the body to build resistance in the immune system. Most homeopathic cures require small, diluted doses, and only one remedy is meant to be used at a time for various ailments.’ Homeopathic pellets are incredibly tiny. There are not side effects with homeopathy. To most scientists, there is nothing in a homeopathic remedy that could even be effective or produce side effect.

I was at Whole Foods last week, looking for a couple of remedies I like to keep on hand, and another one entirely bumped into me. So, of course, me being me, I trusted that and brought it home. And just googled it. It’s called phosphoricum acidum – which means an acid made using phosphorus. (Homeopathy brings with it a whole new language, and new concepts.)

Here is one description of what it works on – ‘a homeopathic medicine ideal for curing poor concentration due to overwork’. Here’s another – ‘Phosphoric acid has several uses outside of the realm of homeopathy as well. In the past, it has been used as a digestive stimulant. It may help reduce elevated calcium levels in potential cancer patients, fight against hair loss and diabetes, prevent digestive tract-related dehydration, and provide relief in children suffering from growing pains.’

And another –
‘Phosphoric acid may help alleviate lethargy and listlessness.
Phosphoricum acidum is used as a homeopathic treatment for people suffering great emotional distress.
Those suffering from grief may benefit from phosphoricum acidum.
Phosphoricum acidum is sometimes used to treat apathy.
Phosphoric acid is sometimes used in homeopathy to combat mental and physical exhaustion.
A homeopathic practitioner may recommend phosphoricum acidum to help the grief associated with loss of a loved one.
Homeopaths may recommend phosphoricum acidum to cure mental and physical exhaustion.
Phosphoric acid may be used to fight against hair loss and diabetes.’

And more – ‘The substance known in the scientific world as phosphoric acid is known in the world of homeopathic medicine as phosphoricum acidum. This man-manipulated mineral is used in small doses as a home herbal remedy to treat emotional ailments resulting from stress and exhaustion, such as apathy, listlessness, grief, and others. It is used for certain physical ailments as well, and is an important ingredient in various manufacturing industries.’

‘Phosphoricum acidum is extracted from phosphorous. In nature, phosphorous is found as apatite, a crystal-like substance found in certain types of rocks. When sulfuric acid and calcium phosphate are combined, phosphoric acid is produced.’

‘Of the many ailments phosphoricum acidum is meant to cure in homeopathic medicine, many result from stress. Mental and physical exhaustion, apathy, grief, insomnia coupled with fatigue, lethargy, and listlessness are all treated with phosphoric acid. It is believed that the initial tell-tale symptoms of these ailments include appetite loss, a thirst for sweet or fruity tasting beverages, difficulty focusing, forgetfulness, and cold sweats.’

I have been pushing very hard this year, since I am retiring at the end of the year, and want to leave everything in good order when I do. And there have been several stresses, plus lots going on at one time in all the different parts of my fairly complex life. It’s all good and fun, but sometimes pushes that 24/7 boundary which our world (and my body) runs on.

So there is enough in these various descriptions for me to thank The Universe for helping that little tube get noticed by me. I’ll let you know how it goes. Homeopathy usually works amazingly fast.

Filed Under: Health and Healing, Reflections, Spirituality

More on Mickie and Her Planet Leaving

January 18, 2016 By pgarry

Over this long weekend, wherein I am faced with lots of boxes and bags to unload from my recent move after 23-1/2 years in the same place (and having acquired thousands of books), I retreated to read all of Mickie’s writing that I possess, to whit: Journey Madly – Poems and Tattletales by Mickie Singer, a chapbook from 1998; and The Mystery That Binds Me Still, a 238-page book from 2005.

Lots of stuff in there I didn’t know or hadn’t remembered – like the fact that she had actually finished college and gone on to get a Master’s degree in education.

At one level the book – of which I think a newer version was published in England, perhaps with a different title – is a description of living with a variety of mental illnesses by the person who is in the process of living with those illnesses. Powerful on that level, and perhaps should be required reading for therapists, case workers, physicians, nurses.

Also just plain excellent writing, good and tight descriptions of her birth family, her various important relationships – the beginnings, middles and disintegrations. And to me a heart-breaking description of the triumph of the left brain by strength of will over the holistic right brain – and the damage and pain that caused Mickie for almost her entire life. She lays out clearly the path whereby at every juncture she overrode her intuition and made the logical, left brained, societally designated choice.

Most of what I knew about and from her showed me a different picture – she loved fairies and pixies, and indeed dressed and sang and played like one. She was the very picture of positive thinking, embodying the law of attraction. The interior though was full of self criticism, self doubt, no belief in herself. Her dad Mack – whom she says she adores and adored, which is not what I remember – evidently played at believing in fairies, and claimed to have 9 gods on his shoulders. His other behaviors, though, left her prey to her mother’s extensive emotional and verbal abuse, her brothers’ additional abuse, and was undercut by her father living as though intuition does not exist, though he tells his baby daughter all about them. Cognitive dissonance clearly ensued.

After Mack’s death, in Mickie’s mid-30’s, she describes poltergeist activity in the house, and says she knows it’s her father, and then proceeds to get fearful and hysterical about this phenomenon, which lasted a long time. She also infected her son with this fear. Why wasn’t she able just to talk to her dad about it, laugh about it, ask her dad to tone it down, or just put him to work finding more income for her single motherhood life? Interesting – and weird – to me that she could talk about spirituality, but seemed to be totally unable to believe it and act on it. Particularly when all the left brained activities you are involved in are making your miserable, I would certainly be tempted to take a step toward working a different way.

There are so many examples of her recognizing a good path, and then deciding it didn’t make logical sense, and taking another self destructive step.

Journey Madly is altogether different, totally charming, fun and energizing. I wish she had stuck with that script, and just faked it til she made it. So much pain in one small body. And, of course, she knew, as we all will, so much more two minutes after she left the planet. If only she had just turned the opposite direction with so many of her decisions, and trusted her beautiful inner self.

Filed Under: Health and Healing, Reflections, Spirituality

Musings on Medicines and Medicare #3

February 8, 2015 By pgarry

Back to planning my next steps….

I think I’ve just written my basic manifesto, in the previous post. Likely the system would think I should write the appeal letter – except that I can’t really check off any of the boxes that are my only choices.

I could also call Humana and / or Medicare. The problem would be to get past the gatekeepers. Talking to someone from Idaha or India about this, who has no authority and no knowledge might just annoy us both. I may do that, just to search beyond the gatekeepers.

But I already made an effort at that when I was signing up for this Humana plan – that’s where I got the 30 cents info. There seems to be a heavy lid on the customer service reps, who are very nice, but have no real information, though they did seem able to hear and understand my questions, and felt I was being reasonable.

I certainly don’t want to go to my Republican Congressional Representatives – they will be eager to find evidence that Medicare is awful, dreadful and very, very bad.

So I woke up this morning thinking that I probably know some folks in Senator Sherrod Brown’s office, or failing that, I certainly know a lot of folk who know him, who could get me to the right person in his office. Since all the federal agencies have as their top priority responding to Congressional reqests, Sherrod’s right person can take my request to the correct location.

This is not a ‘religious’ exemption, per se. Just my personal understandings, knowledge and beliefs. And the fact that I will not take one of their $1,300 pills, or $100,000 treatments.

I know from the work that I do with friends and neighbors that we can unravel an illness, work toward understanding and releasing it, and start becoming well again. It is not difficult, or scary, or expensive. It requires some body, mind and spirit adjustments on the part of the heal-ee, all of which result in a better life and better energy. And it takes way less time than those trips to the doctor and the hospital.

Filed Under: Health and Healing, Reflections

Musings on Medicines and Medicare #2

February 8, 2015 By pgarry

So now I am considering my next steps. First a letter explaining my long term status as a conscientious objector to drugs, since somewhere in the early 80s. It was certainly permanent by the time I became a Reiki healer in 1987 – First Degree in the spring, Second Degree in the fall, and Reiki Master Teacher 10 years later.

To me, drugs have such potent and very often awful side effects. and there are lower level, more natural products that will heal more quickly, more easily, more cheaply. For every kind of illness. And, of course, my work and my own experience have taught me about the strength of the mind/body/spirit connection.

For instance, with my dizziness last week, and the remedies I used, none of which have side effects or disturbed my body’s efforts to heal itself.

A year or so ago, I considered what I would do if diagnosed with cancer, or any other life threatening malady. I would simply step up what I do now. I would ask friends to come and do Reiki, perhaps every day. I would go to an organic and likely totally raw diet, including wheat grass juice. I would use my friend Carolyn’s affirmation when she cured herself of a brain tumor, changing just one word. Carolyn said, each morning, looking in her bathroom mirror – ‘The God who made the sun come up this morning can take this away just like that!’ And she snapped her fingers. I would say Universe, maybe Goddess, maybe Spirit.

I rely on miracles every day, and I know what the Universe is capable of. I also, of course, am ready to leave this beautiful planet when it is time, in peace and joy, and walk Home.

Nothing to fear, which I also know, since I talk to folk on the other side. They are all busy and happy, by the way, and they’ll be glad to talk to you and help whenever you ask. I’m talking about your grandparents, for instance, or friends who’ve already made the journey.

Filed Under: Health and Healing, Reflections

Musings on Medicines and Medicare #1

February 8, 2015 By pgarry

So I’ve been on Medicare – the first time I’d had health care in 30 years – for about 10 years now. When I signed up for Social Security, that was part of the package. Actually, only Part A – since that was totally free.

Part B covered doctors, I think – at any rate, it was going to cost $100 a month, and I knew I wouldn’t go to a doctor. A few years ago, I realized a burden could possibly land on my kids, so I signed up for Part B. I never signed up for Part D, which is the prescription part of health care – I just simply am unable to believe in that kind of medicine, and won’t use drugs, though I will use what alternative folk call remedies – supplements, minerals, homeopathy.

A couple of years ago, after being bombarded with insurance companies all of October and November, I realized that many of these companies were offering some dental and vision care – one cleaning a year, new glasses. And started to sign up, until being told by Anthem that I would have to pay a penalty monthly for not having had prescription coverage all those years. And they would not estimate how much. So I canceled it. Then last year, I talked to Humana, and signed up, after being told it was about 30 cents a month.

Turns out it is over $34 a month, a penalty for not using drugs, which I won’t use anyway. And the only way to appeal is to prove that actually I did have prescription coverage somewhere.

When my wrist broke during a fall in 2013, I walked into the Mercy facility talking about white willow bark, Rescue Remedy, and the fact that I didn’t use standard medicine.

So they never even offered me a pain pill, and didn’t write a prescription. I’m thinking a good term for how I feel about regular medicine is that I’m a conscientious objector.

Filed Under: Health and Healing, Reflections

Reading While Sick

February 4, 2015 By pgarry

So yesterday I woke up dizzy and sinusy, feeling sick, in pain and just out of it. So I gave up early, canceling my breakfast meeting, and crawled back into bed to be miserable.

I was taking Sinusalia, my favorite health food store sinus remedy (sometimes CVS carries it and my flu favorite Oscillococcinum), and alternating that every couple of times with Thuja, a remedy from the homeopathic part of a natural foods and remedies store that works easily for me. I also took Emergen-C, a terrific bubbly drink with a thousand mg of C and lots of B – stress vitamins.

I was also doing Reiki on myself, both directly and distance. I knew it was going to be okay at some point and just wanted it to speed up. And I double-checked Louise Hay’s Heal Your Body, so I’d have a sense of why I was sick this particular way. Which is always helpful, but thinking was not easy in that state.

I did sleep most of the morning, but by afternoon, sleep was not going to do it. As luck – or Spirit – or my intuition would have it, I had been at a book swap on Saturday, and picked up 3 Charlaine Harris volumes – 2 Sookie Stackhouse vampire stories, and one from a series of hers I hadn’t read, featuring Harper Connelly, who speaks to dead bodies. I couldn’t believe I was doing that, because I know how addictive they are. But they were perfect to read yesterday, when my brain would not be quiet, but I couldn’t really think.

Harper is not psychic, except for talking to the dead – which seems a bit odd to me, since I am psychic – but I took Harper at her word. I got through that entire book – very satisfying – Charlaine has maybe the greatest fantasy imagination on the planet at the moment. The pace is great, but sometime I’d like her to slow down a bit.

This one was titled Grave Secret, and is a mystery with so many threads – that all get pulled together very skillfully – that a flow chart is almost needed to keep track. Quite fun.

And then I went on to read half of a Sookie Stackhouse – I’ll report on that when I finish.

p.s. Thanks to son Brian for bringing over excellent hot soup during his busy day!

Filed Under: Health and Healing, Reviews: Books, Plays, Events, Etc., Spirituality

Making Gypsy Soup – while waiting on a task to be ready for completion

January 25, 2015 By pgarry

I have had a terrific weekend – of course, I always do, since I always do what brings me joy! : >

But my stated goal for the weekend had been to finish outlining for my webguy exactly how I wanted my website updated. Yesterday, I had a massage early on, bought a cute new mouse for my computer, stopped at Cafe DeSales for breakfast and to do some Reiki on my friend Jai.

Came home intending to start on the website, and then distracted myself with a Valentine’s jigsaw puzzle – 1,000 pieces of cupcakes, candy, mousse, cookies, etc, etc, etc. And forgot I had scheduled a client for 1 p m – so was a bit surprised when she walked in. After that, I actually organized the web stuff into piles, and recycled lots of ancient pieces of paper from that pile.

Got up this morning with a real readiness to make gypsy soup, one of my personal all-time favorites, from The Moosewood Cookbook by Molly Katzen. If you ever ate at Myra’s Dionysus,that’s the cookbook Myra used most, and gypsy was often on the menu. It takes a while, and lots of ingredients – and is so rich and warming. Plus I made two big pots, so it will last a bit.

A friend of mine called and asked me to work on his son’s knee, the puzzle was still calling, as was the laundry, I organized some paperwork for one of my sons – and thought about the website.

I’m intending that I will wake up totally energized, with my brain having sorted out all the website details, and that I’ll get it done before I leave for the office in the morning.

Of course, I’ll have to read Paul Krugman in the New York Times first, since it’s Monday. It’s a great life!

Filed Under: Health and Healing, Reflections

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