Your Practitioner will ask you to give some idea about your problem (the detail is not necesary). Reiki can be channelled through the Aura so strictly speaking there is no need for the Practitioner to touch you. However, it can usually assist in the attunement process if she/he places the hands lightly on your shoulders. Many patients prefer to be touched lightly on other parts of the body i.e. arms/back/feet/ankles and hands. Your Pratitioner will ask you for your preference. Visitors' Questions during August 2002
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The following are Hai's and other spirits' responses to miscellaneous questions recently posed by visitors to this web site or by personal visitors to our home. If you would like to ask a general question please complete the Question Form
A recent postal question prompted a follow on discussion regarding the
possibility of achieving a calm and peaceful state of mind:
Q:
Is it possible do you think for all thoughts to cease to exist and the
human mind to be peaceful. Is that possible for a human being to achieve?
Hai:
But you need your thoughts, you need your mind, as you know. But it is a
matter of keeping them in balance like a three horse chariot. We must allow the
middle horse, the wise horse, the balanced horse to hold the day, to run the race and
pull the others in it's track. If we can achieve balance in our thoughts, balance in the
mind; this is what is needed, this is what is needed. But we need our thoughts, we
need our mind. For we are living in the ephemeral world and even in the spiritual
world we need thoughts. Thoughts are our power, are our means of communication, are
our connectivity.
Q:
Do you think the human mind spends too much time going over the same
points again and again and again?
Hai:
It is like you walk along the street and you step on some chewing gum
that some kind soul has deposited there on the pavement and you cannot get rid of it.
You feel it under your feet, you feel something under your feet. You scrape and you
shake. You move your feet around, but it will not go, for it is stuck to your foot.
It a bit like that with thoughts, the negative thoughts which people have. For they
become obsessed with a particular thought, especially perhaps with a 'what if'
thought. A "what if this?"; a "what if that?", "what if I had dome that?". These
thoughts are very sticky. But this is not helpful, not helpful. It is best to examine
these thoughts then put them to one side, for there will be no end to them. You could
become so obsessed with one of these thoughts that 20 years later it would still be
rattling around your head.
Q: I knew someone who was like that.
Hai: Well is this not great pain? Is this not great torment? It is like as if we say to ourselves: "Oh what an awful day that was! The sky was thick with dark clouds which threatened rain and threw rain on us all. What an awful day that was!". And their friends says to them: "Ah, yes indeed, it was, but that was one day many months ago and here we are sitting in the glorious sunshine of the blue sky". But you see my point? You can become so fixed on that one bad day, that awful day, that you loose, you miss the Now, the glorious Now.
Q:
If people did have more controled minds would it add to the peace on the
earth? Would we be more peaceful?
Hai:
It would be more peaceful if people could have calmer minds. But reality
is people come to this earth to learn things. If everyone could have calm still minds
when they came there perhaps would be no need for them to come. It is by living the
life of this world that they learn such things, hopefully. And therefore we must live
our life, we must learn from our life. We should not be too
worried about our
mistakes. For if we were to make no mistakes what would be the point of being here?
We are put here, we are sent here, to be refined in the furnace, into glorious
precious metals. But what would be the point of putting pure gold into the furnace?
To what purpose would this have? None, yes? And so with us also. We must make our
mistakes. We must have forgiveness for our mistakes. We must accept our mistakes. For
we came here to make our mistakes, to learn through those mistakes and to grow
through those mistakes. Therefore, we should also not be too quick to point the
finger: "Ah look what he did"; "Look what she did". For we hope they are learning
through their mistakes and we also through our mistakes, which perhaps we are not so
quick to see, to recognise. I have made you all quiet.
Q:
I was just thinking about the quiet beautiful mind.
Hai:
Quiet mind reflect the beauty of all around it like limpid clear pool of water, unruffled by the interaction of the scene.
Hai: Ah well, you know, while we are in the earth body we have many needs, we have many needs. And to the extent that earthly goods, earthly manufacturings, help to ease our life in earth body, there is no harm in this. And indeed there may be much good in this. So there is no problem with this. But the problem is when people become too attached to the earthly imaginations, too attached to earthly things, too attached to material conditions and material artefacts. This can cause problems. People loose perspective, people loose balance. People then fail perhaps sometimes to develop the spiritual aspect of their life because their minds are focused on the material to the exclusion of the spiritual.
Q: Do you think this comes about through normal human reasoning or through poor education?
Hai:
You may foster, you may create conditions in your society which
present, which create these circumstances, these situations where people are more
likely to become attached to things or less likely to become attached to things. Your
society, your culture, brings about these problems sometimes. Therefore it is more
than just the individual. The individual is one fish in the sea if you like, and if
you find that the sea becomes contaminated then the fish, the poor little fish, will
become contaminated. The sea is pure, the fish may be pure also. But it is not the
whole story, because we have our free will also. Therefore it is both a matter for
the individual, but also a matter for society, culture.
The person then related a story about someone whose expensive car had been
vandalised. It had caused the owner a good deal of distress.
Hai:
Well, you know, we become sometimes too attached to our possessions, too
attached to our outer manifestations. For sometimes we see our possessions as an
outer manifestation of our own inner selves and this is great error. We identify
ourselves with our possessions sometimes and if this possession is attacked, is
damaged, we feel it is an assault upon our own identity. But our own identity is
inviolable. Our own identity is secure within, unless we allow it to be assailed from
without. But if we associate it too closely with those things we possess then we make
it vunerable, for we then put ourselves in a position where damage, where harm to the
outer manifestation, the property, the thing, the material good, becomes a matter of
great concern. For it has an immediate impact upon our own sense of security, our own
sense of worth. Therefore, to associate ourselves with our possessions to any
great extent is great error. For these things are transient. These things are
passing, are changeable and there is no security in them. Therefore we should not put
our trust in them. We should not place our identity with them. We should not place
our future with them.
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