Building on a thought Liane shared this morning

[Guest guest]

I watched the video on Post Secret that Liane posted this

morning and read her words: "I personally have one of those books, and I wanted to

share with you all how we are so similar in our Humanity, in our dreams, our

expectations. I hope you all enjoy this

as I did. Sometimes it helps to know that we are not alone when we feel sad,

powerless and unworthy. Nothing that is

Human is unknown to us." This brought to

mind an experience I had this past weekend that I wanted to share with you.

I spent last weekend at a

wonderful Retreat up on Skyline

Drive in the mountains of Virginia hosted by my Reiki lineage: Reiki

Jen Kei Do. (Yes, Stefanie, I promise I will get the pictures posted eventually.) One of the participants,

Heidi, started us off with a ritual she had learned from a Shamanic Retreat she

had participated in. She passed out

cards and instructed us to write something that we would like to improve about

ourselves. Each card was headed with a

prayer. She put them in a basket, mixed

them up, and passed them back around. We

sat in a circle and each one of us read the prayer to ask for help in

overcoming what we saw as our own individual failing. We then passed the cards back around the

circle, adding our energy to each prayer and posted them together. As we held hands, we discussed what our

reactions were as we heard the different prayers and each of us had the same

thought: I could have written that one,

I should have put that down, I wish I had thought of that…..

Heidi went on to explain that she

had always been afraid of participating in groups like this because she thought

that she didn't really belong: she had all these issues, problems and fears that nobody else did. Then she participated in this Prayer Circle and

she realized that while our life experiences are vastly different, the emotions

we experience are common to us all.

Think about it. Hurt, jealousy,

envy. Joy, pride, compassion. Fear. Love. When you peel away the superficial

differences, we are all the same inside.

It was a very moving ritual and it really drove the point home how much

each of us is connected to each other.

None of us are alone. We just think we are at times. We are family.

We are One.

There is one other thing I would

like to share. Later in the weekend, I

was able to share Reiki with Heidi. When

I asked her if there was anything in particular she wanted my intention focused

on, she quietly shared with me that she had a lump in her right breast. Please place her in your prayers and send her

clarity, energy and love for her healing.

Heidi Dorsey, 37, Gasburg

VA. She will be with the surgeon this upcoming

Monday.

Much Metta,

Chris