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One night, without distraction,
I dreamed a vivid dream:
I saw a large and beautiful drum
Filling the world with golden light
And glowing like the sun,
Beaming brightly to all places,
It was seen from all directions
- Zopa Rinpoche
Prayers for World Peace
I sometimes forget
that I was created for Joy.
My mind is too busy.
My Heart is too heavy
for me to remember
that I have been
called to dance
the Sacred dance of life.
I was created to smile
to Love
to be lifted up
And to lift others up.
O’ Sacred One
Untangle my feet
from all that ensnares.
Free my soul.
That we might
Dance
and that our dancing
might be contagious.
- Hafiz
If there’s one thing that we can’t seem to have enough of in a home, it’s space. And if you’re working with a smaller space, it’s important to keep the energy flowing freely throughout your home. We all want rooms filled with soothing colors and simple, streamlined furnishings, but did you know that there are little mistakes that could be preventing positive energy from circulating throughout your space? While you can’t alter the square footage of your home, you can certainly improve the natural flow of energy with a few simple changes.
We reached out to experts from Vancouver, BC, to Little Rock, AR, to share their best advice to bring positive energy into your space - both physically and mentally. From the front door to the bedroom, here’s what they had to say to help you instantly improve the energy in your small space.
1) Refresh your front door
The front door is where we entice auspicious energy into our homes, and in Feng Shui, this is the front door of a house. Energy goes where the eye does, so it's worth the endeavor to make the entrance as inviting as possible. Three easy upgrades you can make to your front entrance include:
Replacing any burned-out lights with brighter wattage.
Wiping down the door and its hardware.
Buying a new doormat or shaking out the one you currently use.
You can also incorporate healthy plants or bright flowers along the front path or porch to elevate beauty and suggest good health. -Simple Shui
2) Encourage the flow of positive energy with a vibrantly colored front door
Homes are reflections of their occupants. If any part of the home is neglected or has negative energy, it’s reflected in the lives of the occupants. In Feng Shui, one of the first places to analyze in your home is the front door. A strong and vibrant-colored front door welcomes positive energy throughout your home. When chi can flow easily into your home, this brings the energy of abundance and ease. -Darcy Blaine
3) Add a small wreath to your doorknob to enhance the energy in your home
If you're looking to enhance the energy in your home, you can manifest high vibrations by creating a small wreath for your doorknob. Use a muslin bag, and put into it a tablespoon of salt, black tourmaline to protect from negative visitors, three new copper pennies for good spirits and vibrations in and around your home, and then add rose quartz for loving vibrations. Tie this in a knot, and string it on the doorknob. -SaQred Space Solutions
4) Place red electrical tape underneath your front doormat
One of my favorite tips for generating wealth within the home is to place red electrical tape underneath your front doormat. Make sure the arrow on top faces inwards, and lay coins with the heads up facing outwards. This will allow abundance into your home. Another way I like to clear stagnant energy from a room is by clapping around its perimeter walls while visualizing light entering every corner. This clears away any negativity that may be lingering inside each nook or cranny of your dwelling space without leaving behind bad vibes. -The Sweetest Little Lif
5) Keep your entryway clear of clutter
The main entrance of a home is not just a means of entering the house; it's also considered a 'gateway that leads to victory and abundance in life.' The entrance functions as an entry point for the Qi, or energy, to flow. Having a clean and inviting entrance that lets in a lot of light from the outside is an assured path to success. -Tanya's Feng Shui
6) Display art in your entryway that features open spaces and warm colors
Even a small entryway can become welcoming and spacious if you add a picture of nature with warm colors that also features open spaces, such as an ocean, lake, or meadow. The effect will be even stronger if you place a mirror to reflect the nature in the picture or real nature in the window. Be sure to place the mirror on a sidewall and not across the entry door. -Natalia Kaylin
7) Invite positive energy into your space by enhancing the air quality
Part of cleaning, clearing, and decluttering small areas is air quality. We often forget to address and enhance the quality of our air, which is important for good energy in a space. Some easy to use remedies are high-quality essential oils in a diffuser (such as lemon), or air-purifying plants, like a snake plant which does well in small areas and is easy to care for. -Gina Nicole
8) Keep spaces separate
Small spaces can feel chaotic when asked to multi-task, so carve out a workspace with an area rug or even painter's tape on the table. If piles feel overwhelming, flip them upside down to work from the bottom up. -The Intuitive Interior
9) Add objects that carry strong, meaningful vibes after clearing the space
Before you really can establish "good energy" in a space, especially a new home, it's vital to clear and cleanse the previous owner's energy and vibrations. You can do this by using smoke cleansing with various herbs or a Smokeless Smudge if you are fire alarm cautious. Once you've cleared the energy of a room, it's time to add objects like crystals, family heirlooms, and energy-packed images that carry a strong, meaningful vibe. Even if you dedicate a small table or portion of a shelf with these types of objects, you'll feel a difference. This will hold space for good energy to remain and linger. Clear quartz is like the Swiss Army Knife of stones. It can do anything and everything you'd like it to and is an excellent crystal for energetic minimalists living in cozy situations. -Sage & Salt
10) Keep living areas light and airy
In Feng Shui, light is Yang energy, the energy of life, and nothing is more important for good Feng Shui than fresh air and natural sunlight. So open up those windows and curtains to let the light flow into the heart of your home. -The Feng Shui Lab
11) Cultivate positive energy in your home by engaging your senses
Decorate your space with bright, uplifting colors. Diffuse essential oils to gently enhance the scent of your home while boosting your health and wellbeing. Have comfy pillows and blankets nearby in your favorite places to relax. Play peaceful music and add live plants to help bring life and harmony into your home. -Fate into Destiny Wellness Center
12) Cleanse small spaces with an energy clearing ritual
Energy has a way of becoming stagnant in small areas. New Moon and Full Moon phase is a great time to do an energy clearing ritual to renew the energy with sage, palo santo, or incense. Start from outside the house, and go clockwise throughout the entire house. Pay special attention to smaller spaces like closets and unused parts of the home and finish at the right side of the front door. -Momentum Feng Shui
13) Display a natural crystal in high traffic areas of your home (such as the entryway or living room) to radiate positive energy and clear stagnant energy
Studies show that crystals like clear quartz or amethyst have a stable molecular structure, which is one reason that they are thought to bring positive, calming energy. Even if you're skeptical about the metaphysical properties, they add a natural flair to your home and can serve as great visual reminders to pause and find presence in your daily life. -Intertwined by Bella
14) Designate areas for hand towels
If you've ever had to use a wet bath towel hanging over the shower curtain rod at someone else's house, it can be a little uncomfortable. Adding a designated hand towel to your bathrooms can take the guesswork out of which towel to use. It also makes your guests feel more comfortable, and your bathroom looks and feels more inviting. I suggest a small countertop towel stand or matching wall mounts to create a positive flow of energy at every experience in your home. -Fir Flower Feng Shui Consulting
15) Aim to enhance the natural light in bedrooms
Light is very important for making a small space feel larger and for the Feng Shui of a room. Natural light in the morning helps to awaken your body naturally, and a darkened room at night signals your body that it's time to settle down and reset. Strategically placing a mirror to enhance any natural light that peaks through and choose full-spectrum light bulbs that mimic natural light. -Feng Shui Joan's Way
16) Keep the decorations in your bedroom to a minimum to maximize the stillness of your mind
Busy patterns and strong colors can subconsciously lead to stress and impede peaceful bedrest, especially in a small bedroom. Choose plain textures and soothing colors of the Earth element of Feng Shui to increase the Yin factor. -SO Feng Shui Design
17) Position mirrors away from the bed
Without proper sleep, your health and ability for optimum performance go down. Be sure you’re not facing a mirror when you are sleeping and that your device is set on airplane mode. Following this tip will allow you to have a proper sleep so that you wake up refreshed and be at the top of your game. -Life’s Simple Pleasures
18) Support headboards with a wall instead of a window
Sleeping is considered a yin energy (passive and quiet) activity. Thus, the bed headboard should ideally be supported by a wall and not onto a window. The outer window is often accompanied by movement from personnel or traffic which is considered yang energy activity. In order to have good sleep quality, we should avoid mixing activities of these two energies together. Avoid locating your bed under an overhead beam. The edge of the beam would cause the energy to exert an uncomfortable downward pressure on the sleeper during the night. Thus, prolonged exposure might affect the sleep quality. -MHS Classical Feng Shui
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Playing a crystal bowl attuned to the healing frequencies of the heart ♥️
The developing science of the human Biofield provides a scientific foundation for the regulation of the autonomic nervous system through energy-based modalities. By studying this field in depth, science has arrived at an improved understanding of the concept of Energy Medicine.
As per author and scientist Dr. Richard Gerber, the human body is not the sum of its individual components, there is a life force that ‘animates.’ Once this force leaves the body, as in after death, the body organs slowly deteriorate. This has lead to modern studies of vibrational science and theory illustrating that human beings are a network of complex energy fields that coalesce and merge with physical systems. Energy medicine uses specialized frequencies to positively affect the energetic fields that are out of balance due to diseased states.
These subtle energies are the foundation of our ethereal body, also known as the subtle body, sprit body or dream body. This science goes beyond the normal and common anatomy maps that we learn in allopathic medical training. The ethereal body includes maps of charka systems and meridians of energy flow. The lines of energy that science has mapped are called Nadis in Ayurvedic Medicine and Qi energy lines in acupuncture.
Put into everyday terms, You are a living energy field. Your body is composed of energy-producing particles, each of which is perpetual in motion. So like everything and everyone else in the entire universe, you are vibrating and creating energy. The field of vibrational medicine, also known as energy medicine, seeks to use the vibrational energy generated by the body to optimize your health.
Vibrations are a rhythm. Examples of rhythms that happen within the body are the heartbeat, the craniosacral wave, breathing and respiration, and circadian rhythms. These are rhythms we can see, feel, and measure. There are much smaller vibrations happening within your body as well. Inside each one of your cells there are molecules that vibrate at characteristic rates.
These vibrations create electromagnetic waves. Researchers have found that vibrations and the electromagnetic energy associated with them affect changes in your cells, which then effects how your body functions. Different molecules vibrate at different rates, and those rates accelerate or slow down if conditions around the molecule change. One example of this is how different temperatures change the speed of a molecule’s vibration.
For example, anxious thoughts trigger the release of stress hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol that cause your heart rate to accelerate. The sound vibration of music, likewise, affects thoughts, emotions, and body systems. Vibrational science experts show that our behavior and thoughts can also alter much smaller rhythms. It is possible to accelerate or slow down the vibrations that occur at the cellular level by changing our thoughts, behaviors, and surroundings. Changing these vibrations creates a ripple affect, thus affecting our mental state, and physical health.
Vibrational medicine fits into the connection between the mind and the body. Trained practitioners of vibrational medicine and/or energy medicine help affect change to the body’s vibrations by facilitating the movement of the energy in the body to create homeostasis. Thus improving your overall health and wellbeing. Typically used with other conventional medical treatments, these therapies have been used in medical settings for decades now.
These vibrations happening within the body at a molecular level may seem tiny, but actually they are of seismic proportions and have an enormous impact on your health. The field of energy medicine is growing and it is an honor for me to be a certified and licensed practitioner of energy work, helping to show the world how we can break down barriers when we merge science and spirituality together.
If you want to enrich your life and understanding of the ways energy and vibration influence your health let’s connect. I offer professional energy work and intuitive bodywork treatments. I am also a board certified continuing education provider teaching traditional Usui Reiki levels I, II, and III.
In the vibration of love,
Darcy
Reiki for animals is a gentle, non-invasive energy healing technique that all animals benefit from. This healing process supports your pet’s overall health and well-being by bringing balance to the autonomic portion of the nervous system. This healing process is a complementary therapy that works quite well in conjunction with veterinary care and other allopathic or holistic animal therapies.
If your beloved pet is suffering with pain or chronic disease, Reiki helps to reduce pain, supports the body’s natural healing process, and helps support your pet’s end of life transition. Furthermore, Reiki helps address any behavioral issues or challenges you pet is experiencing. Animals are highly sensitive creatures and respond very well to Reiki treatments.
Some additional benefits of Reiki treatments for animals include:
Calms nervousness and anxiety
Reduces stress
Relieves pain
Heals emotional trauma such as PTSD, abuse, neglect, and loss
Promotes healing from illness
Faster recovery times from surgery
Supports a healthy immune system
Support during times of transition such as adding new pets or family members to the home
What to expect during your pet’s Reiki treatment:
Prior to your pet’s first treatment you will complete a health intake form with detailed information about your pet. Include any concerns, health conditions, emotional conditions, or behavioral issues. You will be present with your pet for the session. The average session lasts 30-60 minutes depending on what is being addressed in the session. As I work with your pet, they will receive Reiki healing energy. This technique helps to process and unwind stuck energy in the body. Your pet will experience an energetic release throughout the session and in the days immediately following the session as part of the healing process. Pet guardians need to be mindful of this process by ensuring your pet has ample down time after their session and access to plenty of water.
This is one of my favorite prayers for living a heartfelt, soulful life. It comes from the Dalai Lama and is well known in Eastern philosophy. At this time many of us are feeling affected by the trauma and negativity we are seeing in the world. We have a choice to give in to the fear and gloom or to stay in the higher vibrations of brotherly/sisterly love, benevolence, and understanding.
This prayer is an excellent reminder of why each of us are here walking this beautiful Earth, and how we can embody our purpose here in this lifetime, regardless of what is going on in the world around us.
~H.H. The XIV Dalai Lama
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
—T.S. Eliot
From this vantage point turmoil appears to be increasing in every sphere we can imagine and on a global scale; political, social, economical, religious, and healthcare. We are witnessing events we never fathomed before now and processing the collective grief and trauma.
My hope for our world is that each of us will remember our Divine nature and begin to turn things around for the betterment of all beings, and in ways that create peace especially for those whose lives have been marginalized for so long.
As T.S. Eliot points out in his ode to the nature of time, each and every turning has a center. The poem refers to the past and future gathering in the still point of the present moment. At the center of any movement, there is stillness around which everything revolves. In this stillness is the dance, inertia, and momentum that allows all movement to take place. Nature shows us this clearly when we look at the eye of a hurricane or the center of a galaxy.
A center point that moves isn’t stable. Think of the wheel on a bike or a revolving door. Without a stable center, the bike wheel falls off and the door will not move. Just as T.S. Eliot said, we don’t call this fixity. It is not stiff or immobile. This is a place of still, stable, dancing strength.
Turn off your phone, computer, TV, and any other source of potential distraction. Notice how you are sitting and bring stillness to reside wherever there is tension and unease. Allow that your thinking has the potential to be still, even if it doesn’t feel that way now.
When the body has this quality of stillness, so does the mind. When the mind has this quality of stillness, so does the body.
From this place of stillness, we can reach out into the spinning world and do what needs to be done. From there, in the midst of a spiraling life, you can see the options that you have for what they are and choose how to proceed. When you leave your center and start to feel off kilter, return to that place of stillness in your own self by noticing where your body and mind could use less effort.
Reiki helps us feel more balanced regardless of what is happening around us and in our lives. Some examples include:
Having a diagnosed medical condition and wanting to feel better while supporting your health care
Not sleeping well at night and perhaps feeling sluggish during the day or adding unwanted pounds
Wanting to feel more engaged with your life and the things you were once passionate about
Seeking support from isolation and hopelessness
Wanting to enhance and develop your inner spiritual connection on your own terms
Reiki is a spiritual healing practice that helps your mind and body find balance. Balance is what allows the nervous system to shift gears from merely coping, to profound healing. In medical terms this balance is called homeostasis. When balance is restored the body’s self-healing mechanisms function at optimal levels. By encouraging balance, Reiki helps in any situation, even when it is not the only help you need.
Reiki is unique in that you can either receive a Reiki Treatment or learn Reiki practice from a certified Reiki Master Teacher. Once you have completed the Reiki Level 1 class I offer, you will be able to move yourself toward balance with the touch of your hand.
Balance can feel differently at different times and in different situations. If you are feeling sluggish you will feel more energized. If you are anxious you will feel more at peace. If you are in distress you will feel comfort.
Instead of feeling overwhelmed, you will feel a renewed sense of clarity and purpose. You will experience physical changes associated with deep relaxation such as a lower heart rate, ease with breathing, and decreased muscle tension. During a Reiki treatment many of my clients say they reach a deep state of relaxation they are unable to duplicate on their own. The first session usually brings subtle improvements, and the benefits increase with repeated sessions.
Reiki is safe and cannot interfere negatively with any medical care you are seeking. A Reiki Treatment is considered an adjunct, complementary therapy that supports all forms of medical care including; allopathic medicine, homeopathic medicine, eastern medicine, and mental health therapies. In fact, I have given Reiki treatments to many clients going into or coming out of surgery. I have also given Reiki treatments to clients going through the process of chemotherapy infusions, and to clients who are in treatment for mental health.
When you are taking medically necessary prescriptions Reiki can help you. Again, Reiki is completely safe and the improvements you experience over time may in fact lead you to taking less medication under the supervision and guidance of your physician. I have treated clients who have reported their physicians weaning them off or completely taking them off of various medications over the course of our Reiki treatments. These types of lasting changes happen over the course of many Reiki treatments.
Since 2010, I have been practicing Reiki and providing Reiki treatments. In 2011, I traveled to Peru and Bolivia to apprentice with the indigenous healers of the Andes region. In 2012, I expanded my education to include Kinesiology and Anatomy and became a licensed massage therapist. Now I am expanding my education further to become a certified Craniosacral Therapist and have traveled to Europe to study this healing modality. Other previous education includes an undergrad degree in Business Management and Psychology from Indiana Wesleyan University.
During my training and travels, and while treating clients and teaching classes, I have worked with people from all walks of life and from a variety of different backgrounds. I have worked with people of all ages from children to end of life, and all levels of health. I have worked with beloved pets who aren’t feeling well or who are transitioning. Some of my clients are healthy and happy, and are wise enough to know what they need to do to stay that way. Others want to develop themselves spiritually and discover a deeper meaning in life. Also, many clients have sought Reiki treatments or classes realizing that balancing their system and providing homeostasis can help them cope better with a wide range of ailments or health conditions, including:
Cancer
Heart disease
Anxiety
Depression
Chronic pain
Infertility
Nervous-system disorders
ADD/ADHD
Autism
Developmental delays
Chron’s disease
Irritable bowl syndrome
Brain injury
Emotional illness
Fatigue syndromes
End of life care & bereavement
Regardless of the challenges you face Reiki can help you, and Reiki can help you face your challenges more effectively with poise, ease, and grace.
When you receive a Reiki treatment, you will lie fully clothed on a treatment table while the Reiki practitioner places hands both lightly on and/or just above different areas of your body.
You can also learn Reiki self-treatment and offer Reiki treatment informally to friends, family, and pets in my Reiki level 1 class which includes 14 hours of in person training with me.
While Reiki is safe and has no medical contraindications, you should be aware that there are no standards for Reiki training or treatment, and there is an enormous diversity among professionals in terms of practice style, training, and experience. The extent of the diversity among Reiki professionals can be very confusing for the general public. Many professionals do not even agree with what the term Reiki refers to.
I encourage you to select your Reiki teacher and professional very carefully. You want to work with someone who is not only qualified, but who is a good and comfortable fit for you. Read through any prospective practitioner’s website carefully and ask questions. Any respectable Reiki professional will appreciate that you are making a careful choice, so don’t be shy in your pursuit of information.
I am a traditional Reiki Master and Teacher and I teach Reiki as the simple, accessible, and doable practice that it was when brought from Japan to the USA in the 1930s.
Reiki practice = unfolding like the lotus
