Greetings Dear Friends,
The Eminent Reiki™ Council (TERC) and The Reiki Masters are excited to announce a change to TERC. We would like to welcome Mary Katherine Frizzell as a TERC member starting January, 2012. Mary Katherine lives and practices her healing arts in Delaware. She is a gifted healer and we welcome her talents, experience and energy to TERC.
At the same time, we want to thank Maria Bonett for her dedication and guidance as a Member of TERC in 2011. Maria will continue to be an Eminent Reiki™ Master Teacher / Healer and host Eminent Reiki™ circles in the Fort Collins, CO area. We will miss her unique perspective and humor on the council!
Please feel free to forward this announcement to your friends, clients and colleagues.
May you expand your Reiki energy and your light during 2012 and beyond.
Namaste,
WE ARE,
The Eminent Reiki™ Council
Mary Katherine Frizzell
267-968-6442
sevenrayshealer@comcast.net
Martha Moore
720-304-3700
marthamoore@att.net
Lori Rock
904-829-5344
LARock.Namaste@comcast.net
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Evolutionary Reiki Evolves!! Welcome Eminent Reiki™.
Dear Ones, Here is a letter from Marsha Hankins explaining the changes from Evolutionary Reiki ™ to Eminent Reiki™. We hope you will all know the joy and energy of Eminent Reiki™. We will post more information over the next couple of months. Leave a comment or email me if you have questions, now!! Namaste.
I AM Lori
Dear Reiki Students and Teachers –
It is with great excitement and Divine Pride in our many accomplishments as Reiki practitioners that The Reiki Masters of the Ascended Realms and I announce several exciting changes to our version of Reiki.
As you all know, The Masters had chosen the name Evolutionary Reiki in the information They channeled to Kris to signify the need for the understanding in the western world that Reiki, like everything else in the universe, was intended to evolve, that the original way Reiki was taught here in the West was not the be all and end all of Reiki.
Now that it is time for the next big evolution in Reiki as we know it, the Masters are announcing the following:
1) The name Evolutionary Reiki™ has been changed from Evolutionary Reiki ™ to Eminent Reiki™. The name Eminent Reiki™ was chosen by The Masters for this process to signify the importance and the stature of the new energy included in both the attunements and the healing process.
2) Not only does Eminent Reiki™ use both male and female energy in healing, as did Evolutionary Reiki, it contains a new blended male and female energy to bring the male and female into a higher state of Oneness. This energy is new to the planet and has been incorporated into the Eminent Reiki™ process and attunements.
3) In addition to this new blended male/female component, new symbols have evolved and more symbols specific to the new higher energies on the planet will become part of Eminent Reiki™ in the future.
4) More information on repeating classes, getting the new attunements and new information will come later.
5) At the request of The Reiki Masters of the Ascended Realms, the name Evolutionary Reiki is passing on to a wonderful, loving Reiki Master Teacher/Healer, Bill Stevens, who had also been guided to the name Evolutionary Reiki several years ago. We wish him well and send him love as he continues to carry forward the name Evolutionary Reiki with his great skill and dedication.
In 2008 Kris was shown a vision from The Masters of the creation of a council of Reiki teachers who would assume the leadership role for Evolutionary Reiki™ so that she could step down and pass the process on to the next generation of Reiki Master Teachers. Kris and I were most excited about this vision.
With evolution to Eminent Reiki™ The Masters have decided it is also time for the evolution of our structure to include this new council. Together, the Masters and I announce to you the creation of The Eminent Reiki™ Council.
The first Eminent Reiki™ Council consists of Martha Moore, Lori Rock and Maria Bonett. The Council will be taking over the channeling, organization, implementation and decision making responsibilities in alignment with the Guidance from The Reiki Masters and the principles of 5D Community. I will stay on as an advisor to the group as they get their feet on the ground and step into their new roles. All trademarks and copyrights that we transferred to me after Kris’ transition have been transferred to The Eminent Reiki™ Council for safe keeping.
We, the Reiki Masters, Kris and I, are most grateful to all of you for your hard work and dedication to mastering the Evolutionary Reiki™ process. We look forward to many wonderful changes to come in the years ahead as we raise our frequencies and prepare to become even greater Masters of the healing arts.
With great love…
Namaste. And…
MAY YOU FEEL THE LOVE OF THE GOD/GODDESS WITHIN YOU ALWAYS.
I AM,
Marsha
I AM Lori
Dear Reiki Students and Teachers –
It is with great excitement and Divine Pride in our many accomplishments as Reiki practitioners that The Reiki Masters of the Ascended Realms and I announce several exciting changes to our version of Reiki.
As you all know, The Masters had chosen the name Evolutionary Reiki in the information They channeled to Kris to signify the need for the understanding in the western world that Reiki, like everything else in the universe, was intended to evolve, that the original way Reiki was taught here in the West was not the be all and end all of Reiki.
Now that it is time for the next big evolution in Reiki as we know it, the Masters are announcing the following:
1) The name Evolutionary Reiki™ has been changed from Evolutionary Reiki ™ to Eminent Reiki™. The name Eminent Reiki™ was chosen by The Masters for this process to signify the importance and the stature of the new energy included in both the attunements and the healing process.
2) Not only does Eminent Reiki™ use both male and female energy in healing, as did Evolutionary Reiki, it contains a new blended male and female energy to bring the male and female into a higher state of Oneness. This energy is new to the planet and has been incorporated into the Eminent Reiki™ process and attunements.
3) In addition to this new blended male/female component, new symbols have evolved and more symbols specific to the new higher energies on the planet will become part of Eminent Reiki™ in the future.
4) More information on repeating classes, getting the new attunements and new information will come later.
5) At the request of The Reiki Masters of the Ascended Realms, the name Evolutionary Reiki is passing on to a wonderful, loving Reiki Master Teacher/Healer, Bill Stevens, who had also been guided to the name Evolutionary Reiki several years ago. We wish him well and send him love as he continues to carry forward the name Evolutionary Reiki with his great skill and dedication.
In 2008 Kris was shown a vision from The Masters of the creation of a council of Reiki teachers who would assume the leadership role for Evolutionary Reiki™ so that she could step down and pass the process on to the next generation of Reiki Master Teachers. Kris and I were most excited about this vision.
With evolution to Eminent Reiki™ The Masters have decided it is also time for the evolution of our structure to include this new council. Together, the Masters and I announce to you the creation of The Eminent Reiki™ Council.
The first Eminent Reiki™ Council consists of Martha Moore, Lori Rock and Maria Bonett. The Council will be taking over the channeling, organization, implementation and decision making responsibilities in alignment with the Guidance from The Reiki Masters and the principles of 5D Community. I will stay on as an advisor to the group as they get their feet on the ground and step into their new roles. All trademarks and copyrights that we transferred to me after Kris’ transition have been transferred to The Eminent Reiki™ Council for safe keeping.
We, the Reiki Masters, Kris and I, are most grateful to all of you for your hard work and dedication to mastering the Evolutionary Reiki™ process. We look forward to many wonderful changes to come in the years ahead as we raise our frequencies and prepare to become even greater Masters of the healing arts.
With great love…
Namaste. And…
MAY YOU FEEL THE LOVE OF THE GOD/GODDESS WITHIN YOU ALWAYS.
I AM,
Marsha
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
What are you doing on 10/10/10?
Hi All,
What are you doing on 10 / 10 / 10?
Check out this website for the www.350.org regarding the organization to raise awareness for our CO2 emissions and the goal to reduce it to 350 parts per million. (We currently sit at 388 ppm.) You can type in your zip code at http://www.350.org/map to see if there is an organized event in your area on 10/10/10 for the global work party.
If there is, consider going…and either car pool, take public transport or bike! Grab a friend or two!
If there isn’t, consider doing your own thing…1) caulk around your windows and doors to get ready for winter, 2) plant a tree or herbs in pots, 3) unplug your “vampire” electronics at night, etc.
AND – for all the energy workers and like minded folks out there: 1) Set your intentions to help increase the ability for ALL…common people / government workers / business owners / politicians, etc. to awaken to the Stewardship we have for Mother Earth and for the Guardianship she has for us. 2) Ask for the multiplication 10 fold of the efforts of 10/10/10 so that real and permanent healing will manifest here on Mother Earth.
If you have other ideas…please add those to your comments when you forward this to your friends and family!!
And May We ALL Feel the Love of Mother Earth, Within Us Always!!
Namaste.
I AM
LORI
Larock.namaste@comcast.net
What are you doing on 10 / 10 / 10?
Check out this website for the www.350.org regarding the organization to raise awareness for our CO2 emissions and the goal to reduce it to 350 parts per million. (We currently sit at 388 ppm.) You can type in your zip code at http://www.350.org/map to see if there is an organized event in your area on 10/10/10 for the global work party.
If there is, consider going…and either car pool, take public transport or bike! Grab a friend or two!
If there isn’t, consider doing your own thing…1) caulk around your windows and doors to get ready for winter, 2) plant a tree or herbs in pots, 3) unplug your “vampire” electronics at night, etc.
AND – for all the energy workers and like minded folks out there: 1) Set your intentions to help increase the ability for ALL…common people / government workers / business owners / politicians, etc. to awaken to the Stewardship we have for Mother Earth and for the Guardianship she has for us. 2) Ask for the multiplication 10 fold of the efforts of 10/10/10 so that real and permanent healing will manifest here on Mother Earth.
If you have other ideas…please add those to your comments when you forward this to your friends and family!!
And May We ALL Feel the Love of Mother Earth, Within Us Always!!
Namaste.
I AM
LORI
Larock.namaste@comcast.net
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Am I My Brother's Keeper; Subtitled: I am on a break!
Taking a break from soul searching, I was internet surfing and saw an article stating that a NYC medic had been shot over the weekend. The killing appears to have been over a disputed parking situation, but the headline made you wonder if the killing was revenge for when the medic had supposedly failed to help a pregnant restaurant employee who was having an asthma attack last December from which she ultimately died. Some accounts of the December situation state that the medic and his partner, allegedly, didn’t help the woman because they were on their break. Others say the medics didn’t realize how serious the situation was and simply called dispatch prior to leaving the scene. There is an ongoing investigation to determine the veracity of these statements. The reason for this blog entry is to point out the mirror and to truly inquire: how often do we ask ourselves Cain’s big question: “Am I my brother’s keeper” and how often is our response, “I am on my break.”
Don’t get me wrong. I am a huge proponent of self responsibility. I believe it is a universal law that we all must heed. And the universe, in its infinite wisdom and infinite time, allows us plenty of lessons on how and why we need to be more responsible for ourselves. But self responsibility does not leave out the possibility for compassion for others.
Obviously, in the Genesis Bible verse, Cain is asking his question because he doesn’t want to admit that he had anything to do with Abel’s disappearance. So – again, the same mirror applies…how often do we have a hand in creating the situation we see, (maybe not quite so completely as Cain’s), but we are avoiding taking any responsibility for the situation. “I am on my break.”
Do we look at the Gulf Oil Spill and think it is only BP’s fault? Do we give a thought to the oil workers and the Gulf coast residents who are affected by lack of work and not see our shared responsibility in their plight? Would we feel differently if we lived on the coast or had family who lived on the coast? “Oh, I would help more if I had family on the coast.” Would we feel more compassion is our immediate family members were affected?
Perhaps we are asking the wrong question. The question isn’t “Am I my brother’s keeper?” The question is “Am I my brother?” The solution to every challenge would be much different if instead of “I will help because it is my family,” or “I will help because it was a natural disaster,” we say, “I will help because I am one with my brother.”
It is hard for many of us to imagine that we might ever be in a situation where we will need help from our brother. Or maybe I should say…until about 2 years ago, it was hard for many of us to imagine we might need help from another, from the government, from a bailout. Now, more people not only imagine, but offer thanks daily for the help they have received. And yes, we as individuals, as a society and as global inhabitants need to step into fully understanding self responsibility and self reliability. However, the same question can offer us the solution to self responsibility, too. “Am I my brother?”
If I am the person who appears down trodden at a given moment and someone else is acting as though they are one with me, my subsequent actions will reflect my gratitude, love and desire to pull for the common good.
Divisiveness never leads to compassion or responsibility. It leads to more entrenched and extreme ideas and actions. Remembering that I am part and parcel of Mother Earth will lead me to the correct solution for me, for my brother and for ALL.
OK – Break’s over!
Don’t get me wrong. I am a huge proponent of self responsibility. I believe it is a universal law that we all must heed. And the universe, in its infinite wisdom and infinite time, allows us plenty of lessons on how and why we need to be more responsible for ourselves. But self responsibility does not leave out the possibility for compassion for others.
Obviously, in the Genesis Bible verse, Cain is asking his question because he doesn’t want to admit that he had anything to do with Abel’s disappearance. So – again, the same mirror applies…how often do we have a hand in creating the situation we see, (maybe not quite so completely as Cain’s), but we are avoiding taking any responsibility for the situation. “I am on my break.”
Do we look at the Gulf Oil Spill and think it is only BP’s fault? Do we give a thought to the oil workers and the Gulf coast residents who are affected by lack of work and not see our shared responsibility in their plight? Would we feel differently if we lived on the coast or had family who lived on the coast? “Oh, I would help more if I had family on the coast.” Would we feel more compassion is our immediate family members were affected?
Perhaps we are asking the wrong question. The question isn’t “Am I my brother’s keeper?” The question is “Am I my brother?” The solution to every challenge would be much different if instead of “I will help because it is my family,” or “I will help because it was a natural disaster,” we say, “I will help because I am one with my brother.”
It is hard for many of us to imagine that we might ever be in a situation where we will need help from our brother. Or maybe I should say…until about 2 years ago, it was hard for many of us to imagine we might need help from another, from the government, from a bailout. Now, more people not only imagine, but offer thanks daily for the help they have received. And yes, we as individuals, as a society and as global inhabitants need to step into fully understanding self responsibility and self reliability. However, the same question can offer us the solution to self responsibility, too. “Am I my brother?”
If I am the person who appears down trodden at a given moment and someone else is acting as though they are one with me, my subsequent actions will reflect my gratitude, love and desire to pull for the common good.
Divisiveness never leads to compassion or responsibility. It leads to more entrenched and extreme ideas and actions. Remembering that I am part and parcel of Mother Earth will lead me to the correct solution for me, for my brother and for ALL.
OK – Break’s over!
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Sunrise: Does the sun re-create itself daily?
Like many light workers, I deal daily with the concept of “creating a new me”. Does this mean that the old me needing fixing or that the old me is something less than Divine? The answer may lie in how I look at the situation. What filters do I use to look at myself?
Take the rising sun. As it breaks over the horizon, the most common perspective is that it is creating itself new every day. But, we all know that if we spoke to a friend 12 longitude lines away from us, she could attest to the sun being the same sun in the sky during her day, being perfect and eternal for her needs at simply an earlier time on the clock. Does the sun really create itself new everyday or do we just perceive this eternal ball of energy as different based on the filters through which we view it?
Some of these filters could be clouds in the sky, volcano smoke or human pollution. Some of the filters could be our own personal lens such as ignoring the sun or putting up shades until it is convenient for us to acknowledge the power of the sun on our own timeframe. And finally, maybe our filter is the perceived absence of the sun when really he is just kissing the other side of the earth.
Let’s not discount the beauty, splendor and hope that comes with each new dawn, but we must realize that we are simply allowing the divinity and the perfection of the sun (that has always been there and always will be) shine in our lives. We are abandoning the filters that mar what we know to be eternal. Thus, with ourselves, we simply need to quash the filters and let the Love and the Light naturally occurring to shine through. And if we manage to forget our light and re-apply the old filters to ourselves during the day, we can take solace in knowing that Scarlett is right; “tomorrow is another day”.
Take the rising sun. As it breaks over the horizon, the most common perspective is that it is creating itself new every day. But, we all know that if we spoke to a friend 12 longitude lines away from us, she could attest to the sun being the same sun in the sky during her day, being perfect and eternal for her needs at simply an earlier time on the clock. Does the sun really create itself new everyday or do we just perceive this eternal ball of energy as different based on the filters through which we view it?
Some of these filters could be clouds in the sky, volcano smoke or human pollution. Some of the filters could be our own personal lens such as ignoring the sun or putting up shades until it is convenient for us to acknowledge the power of the sun on our own timeframe. And finally, maybe our filter is the perceived absence of the sun when really he is just kissing the other side of the earth.
Let’s not discount the beauty, splendor and hope that comes with each new dawn, but we must realize that we are simply allowing the divinity and the perfection of the sun (that has always been there and always will be) shine in our lives. We are abandoning the filters that mar what we know to be eternal. Thus, with ourselves, we simply need to quash the filters and let the Love and the Light naturally occurring to shine through. And if we manage to forget our light and re-apply the old filters to ourselves during the day, we can take solace in knowing that Scarlett is right; “tomorrow is another day”.
Monday, April 12, 2010
IRS Day. Statute of Limitations OR the “get out of a jail free” card.
If you are like most Americans, this Thursday (April 15th) will be your Federal Individual Tax Return deadline. For the majority of individuals in America, April 15th looms large over our heads like the sword of Damocles, bringing abject fear to some or just mild frustration to others. Regardless which camp you are in, you are usually glad to see April 16.
Today, I don’t want to talk about how we should feel about April 15, 2010 with respect to our 2009 Tax filing, but instead how we should feel about April 15, 2010 with respect to our 2006 Tax filing. And the word that comes to mind is ABSOLUTION.
For the vast majority of us who filed our 2006 Federal Income Tax Return by April 15, 2007, this Thursday, will be the end of the statute of limitations for the items in that return. How exciting is that?! (Let’s not get so far down the rabbit hole that we discuss the oddities like carry-overs, or in the case of fraud, etc. We will stick to the most relevant stuff!) The end of the statute of limitations means if we goofed, we don’t have to worry about the IRS coming back to refigure our taxes for 2006 and prior. Collective sigh of relief!
If the Federal Government, the IRS no less, is willing to only look back three years into our financial business…why do we carry around so much of our personal failings, personal grudges and negative-group-think many years, many life times into the future? What is the statute of ABSOLUTION on our perceived failings? Three years? Thirty years? Never?
The caveat for the three year statute of limitations to work with our taxes is that you must actually file your tax return. If you have never filed the return, the three year time limit doesn’t start…so it never ends.
This really is no different for our personal issues. If we don’t look at the issue and start the process to forgive ourselves, to change our energy or our focus, then the festering never has a chance to heal. Even if your initial attempt to heal / change / forgive yourself isn’t perfect, think of it as your “first offer”. You can always update or “amend” it as new information comes in.
I can beat myself up about wrong doings as much as the next human, but I am going to set my intentions to no longer flagellate myself for more than three years!! I know, I know, we shouldn’t even let it go that long, especially if we have learned from the lesson. But, if nothing else seems to work in order to forgive ourselves, let us at least be as compassionate with ourselves as the IRS is.
Today, I don’t want to talk about how we should feel about April 15, 2010 with respect to our 2009 Tax filing, but instead how we should feel about April 15, 2010 with respect to our 2006 Tax filing. And the word that comes to mind is ABSOLUTION.
For the vast majority of us who filed our 2006 Federal Income Tax Return by April 15, 2007, this Thursday, will be the end of the statute of limitations for the items in that return. How exciting is that?! (Let’s not get so far down the rabbit hole that we discuss the oddities like carry-overs, or in the case of fraud, etc. We will stick to the most relevant stuff!) The end of the statute of limitations means if we goofed, we don’t have to worry about the IRS coming back to refigure our taxes for 2006 and prior. Collective sigh of relief!
If the Federal Government, the IRS no less, is willing to only look back three years into our financial business…why do we carry around so much of our personal failings, personal grudges and negative-group-think many years, many life times into the future? What is the statute of ABSOLUTION on our perceived failings? Three years? Thirty years? Never?
The caveat for the three year statute of limitations to work with our taxes is that you must actually file your tax return. If you have never filed the return, the three year time limit doesn’t start…so it never ends.
This really is no different for our personal issues. If we don’t look at the issue and start the process to forgive ourselves, to change our energy or our focus, then the festering never has a chance to heal. Even if your initial attempt to heal / change / forgive yourself isn’t perfect, think of it as your “first offer”. You can always update or “amend” it as new information comes in.
I can beat myself up about wrong doings as much as the next human, but I am going to set my intentions to no longer flagellate myself for more than three years!! I know, I know, we shouldn’t even let it go that long, especially if we have learned from the lesson. But, if nothing else seems to work in order to forgive ourselves, let us at least be as compassionate with ourselves as the IRS is.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Aligning Our Decisions with Inner Wisdom
Changes. Lately, we have heard a lot about change in our political and financial systems and whether we have seen any real change on these fronts. Well, regardless of our country as a whole, many of us have seen plenty of changes in our lives. This is especially true for my husband and me. 2010 will be a big year of change for us. Our youngest child graduates from high school in June, Pat retires after 29 years in the Navy on July 1, and hopefully both girls will be safely ensconced in their Florida colleges by August. We will have no outside pressures to dictate that we live in Northern Virginia. (One could argue that there never was any outside force telling us where to live, what with free will and all that…but that is the topic for another time.)
Trying to make all the decisions about where to live, what to do, whether to travel and trying to make these decisions consciously, without over powering the other person, was the main focus of our Columbus Day weekend trip to Luray, VA. Nestled in the beautiful fall foliage of the Blue Ridge Mountains, we set out to try to determine our next steps.
Being a project manger in Corporate America, I jump started the weekend by making several lists of questions that I knew we were going to need to answer. I categorized them by topic: Finances, Job Issues for Pat, Job Issues for me, etc. But the first question that needed to be answered, in my estimation, was whether it was in the highest good for both of us to live in NOVA after our lease is up in May 2010. I believe that we needed to think about / meditate / pray / arm wrestle with this question before any of the other questions are considered. It is hard to plan possible vacations, retirement parties, college orientation visits, if we haven’t decided if our furniture will be in storage, in another state or to re-up the lease.
When I explained this to Pat, he agreed with the approach and said it was like a decision tree, that wonderful logical tool of every project manager.
While I like the usefulness of a decision tree, the limitation of the tool is that you usually need to know all the options up front in order to follow the logic of the binary paths. I believe we need to give up the binary approach of a well managed project decision tree and instead look at the decisions we have to make in life more like a well aligned spinal column.
I want to line up the Cervical 1 vertebra, the atlas, with the base of the skull, as perfectly as possible before worrying about the alignment of the C2 (question number two). And I want to get the C2 – C7 aligned way before I worry about the Thoracic spine, the lumbar region and definitely before I even consider the sacrum. I am not saying that I want to ignore the health of the lower back. All the other questions need to be answered and possibly aligning these questions may take more time than answering the first question. For instance, scheduling a moving truck in the summer in the Washington DC area will take some pre-planning and I have already “pre-investigated” a cruise to Alaska, but as real or as fun as thinking about those potential options are…until the C1 is aligned with the bottom of the skull, the date we leave for glacier bay really doesn’t matter.
Obviously, the tricky part here is how to align an individual vertebra with the vertebra above it. We all have different ways of seeking the inner wisdom: meditation, fishing at a quite pond, jogging, dancing, sitting near the Potomac watching the planes land at Reagan National, seeking a counselor or simply being still without music, TV or other people to influence the wisdom we know, but frequently deny, is within us.
Interestingly, once you have aligned each question in proper order, there maybe a whole host of different answers more joyful than just the binary answers you thought about in your two dimensional decision tree. That is the true freedom of using alignment with inner wisdom to make decisions instead of the “if / then/ else” statements.
I encourage you to still the mind, seek the heart, and I know you won’t fail. OK – maybe you will fail…but the effort won’t be for nothing. As Friedrich Nietzsche said: On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Focus on your alignment with your wisdom. Know once you have the C1, C2 and C3 aligned continue to align the rest of the vertebrae and the pain anticipated in the lumbar region, will go away, magically. I will remind myself this and to lift with my legs, when I am unpacking all those boxes!!
Trying to make all the decisions about where to live, what to do, whether to travel and trying to make these decisions consciously, without over powering the other person, was the main focus of our Columbus Day weekend trip to Luray, VA. Nestled in the beautiful fall foliage of the Blue Ridge Mountains, we set out to try to determine our next steps.
Being a project manger in Corporate America, I jump started the weekend by making several lists of questions that I knew we were going to need to answer. I categorized them by topic: Finances, Job Issues for Pat, Job Issues for me, etc. But the first question that needed to be answered, in my estimation, was whether it was in the highest good for both of us to live in NOVA after our lease is up in May 2010. I believe that we needed to think about / meditate / pray / arm wrestle with this question before any of the other questions are considered. It is hard to plan possible vacations, retirement parties, college orientation visits, if we haven’t decided if our furniture will be in storage, in another state or to re-up the lease.
When I explained this to Pat, he agreed with the approach and said it was like a decision tree, that wonderful logical tool of every project manager.
While I like the usefulness of a decision tree, the limitation of the tool is that you usually need to know all the options up front in order to follow the logic of the binary paths. I believe we need to give up the binary approach of a well managed project decision tree and instead look at the decisions we have to make in life more like a well aligned spinal column.
I want to line up the Cervical 1 vertebra, the atlas, with the base of the skull, as perfectly as possible before worrying about the alignment of the C2 (question number two). And I want to get the C2 – C7 aligned way before I worry about the Thoracic spine, the lumbar region and definitely before I even consider the sacrum. I am not saying that I want to ignore the health of the lower back. All the other questions need to be answered and possibly aligning these questions may take more time than answering the first question. For instance, scheduling a moving truck in the summer in the Washington DC area will take some pre-planning and I have already “pre-investigated” a cruise to Alaska, but as real or as fun as thinking about those potential options are…until the C1 is aligned with the bottom of the skull, the date we leave for glacier bay really doesn’t matter.
Obviously, the tricky part here is how to align an individual vertebra with the vertebra above it. We all have different ways of seeking the inner wisdom: meditation, fishing at a quite pond, jogging, dancing, sitting near the Potomac watching the planes land at Reagan National, seeking a counselor or simply being still without music, TV or other people to influence the wisdom we know, but frequently deny, is within us.
Interestingly, once you have aligned each question in proper order, there maybe a whole host of different answers more joyful than just the binary answers you thought about in your two dimensional decision tree. That is the true freedom of using alignment with inner wisdom to make decisions instead of the “if / then/ else” statements.
I encourage you to still the mind, seek the heart, and I know you won’t fail. OK – maybe you will fail…but the effort won’t be for nothing. As Friedrich Nietzsche said: On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Focus on your alignment with your wisdom. Know once you have the C1, C2 and C3 aligned continue to align the rest of the vertebrae and the pain anticipated in the lumbar region, will go away, magically. I will remind myself this and to lift with my legs, when I am unpacking all those boxes!!
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