Writer's Block!

I was so stressed I wanted to eat lots of this: SPAM Musubi!

Today has had some very strange energy for me. I wanted to sleep for much of the day. I didn't want to do anything. And lo and behold, this is the first time I didn't want to write!

This 3G bites. There is no WiFi here. If I had known, I would have brought MiFi. Only the iPad has 3G connectivity, and as you saw by the end of Mermaid Hair, it only fits so much! That is why there also are no pictures.

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Part of my 'legacy' from childhood is not being able to process strong emotions in real time. Sometimes I under-react or over-react too.

Today was one of the worst days ever as a parent. The kid is so into buying stuff as I looked into a waterproof camera at Target (yes, they have one here in Kapolei), he demanded a two-hundred dollar camera for himself!it was like, NO! All day long at every store, and yet when I want to go Genki Sushi I get resistance on that too.

We went to new store, Down To Earth. It is different. It is vegetarian! And the pill and remedy section was BIGGER than the produce section, I am not kidding! The remedies were all mixed together by 'complaint' or 'organ system' if you allow me to speak a little doctor-ese. I had a terrible time finding vitamin B-12. If you go vegan and don't take B-12 supplement daily soon you will feel like, well, awful and run-down. I was missing it after one week of vacation...

I liked the store a lot. Here is something awesome, the new 'dirty baker's dozen' produce for 2013. Blueberries are safe now, but summer squash and kale have been added to the list. Here is the link: http://www.downtoearth.org/environment/organic-farming/foods-to-always-eat-organic-new-2013-“dirty-dozen”-list

I laugh. My 'baby daddy' had a tattoo with his sign, Pisces, a picture of earth, and the letters D T E under it. It was on one arm at the shoulder. The other arm had the family name and crest. On the back was an unfinished work, a Merlin. My son's father was sectioned for term breech with rupture of membranes...an old wives' tale says that breech babies are born 'with the sight' or psychic gift. There was enough of that to start a relationship, that's for certain! I hadn't thought about it in years, those tattoos...and about those three letters D T E?

It stands for down to earth.  LOL.

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Tonight, at that first line, I 'processed my emotion' that had been mulling around:I felt disrespect by my kid asking and asking when I say no, and for not respecting me. I was drained from all the conflict. I said this has to stop, I don't have the energy. When I say no I will say no one time. If this continues, your dad AND your martial art teachers are going to be notified. He also knows now and agrees not to ask for anything over fifty dollars, period. I took care to leave him with a sense of my believing he can do better, and confidence he will.

I sense he was glad I spoke up. He shared how at school kids tease him, and call him spoiled. He notices how other people look at him at the store when I say NO but he keeps asking. He can tell they think he is a spoiled brat and it hurts. He blames my mother for getting him hooked on cola (she used to 'sneak it because it made him so happy' against my wishes). He has a food addiction and it is getting worse...he craves the unhealthiest of foods, and the Vitamix to get him to drink greens he won't eat failed too. He only takes orange juice, banana, and one other fruit in a smoothie, and some days won't even drink that. All the nursing, all the organic everything seems to have been in vain. But at least today, at breakfast, he ate vegetarian by his own free will.

When it comes right down to it, it is just us in this family, and lately it has not been pleasant. I had sort of consciously, sort of unconsciously, been looking for a 'new dad' to keep both of us in line. The healthier alternative is what happened tonight: I respected my Divine Feminine, reached deep into my Balanced Divine Masculine, and brought it out into the open, this 'energy imbalance' in our relationship that was getting uncomfortable. It feels 'balanced' now. I don't think it would be wise to expect anyone to 'fix' what is 'ours' in the first place,too.

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Today I saw butterflies three times. There is also a pink art one over my bed.

In Native American lore, the Butterfly represents completion of a wish, desire, or goal. It means all of the work has come to fruition. It is time to enjoy the achievement and results.

I will.

I guess that is something to write about?

Big Smile!

Namaste,

Reiki Doc

Raw Vegan?

Raw vegan? Raw vegan on a budget? What does that have to do with me?, I thought when I was asked to go to a lecture today at a local vegan/raw restaurant.

I seriously wondered whether or not I should go. I pulled out the old pendulum. Helicopter swing. Unequivocal 'YES'. So I went.

I pondered what to wear? I have been to psychic development class, been an undergraduate at Cal, spent last Halloween at Uncle Robert's End of Road in Pahoe...and never thought twice about 'fitting in'. Fortunately, I guessed right, and blended in.

The room was packed. I wasn't hungry when I left home, and on the road I realized perhaps I should have eaten lunch. There was food available. (if you ever go to a restaurant like this, recall the movement 'Slow Food'. It takes a while to get your order, but it's worth it. I found myself kind of looking to make sure I wasn't forgotten with my order. Don't worry. The food will come.)

I settled in next to two women I had never met at a table. I was surprised by how welcoming they were--offered me to share their tea and their dessert. I am not sure if it is the Raw Vegan or the Meetup that made everyone so friendly, but I enjoyed it, being welcomed to the event.

Now I was in my element--learning! I flipped through the packet. I always look ahead. I get bored listening to a speaker. So I read up. There were some important facts. I will give you a link to the speaker later. I also bought the book, and will give you a link to that too.

A big part about being on a budget is eating with the seasons.  I laughed inside, because as a starving student at the college of chemistry in Berkeley, paying my way through school, I learned that one quick. I even found how to cook Brussels Sprouts which I hated at home, because they were the only thing I could afford back then. Mom majorly overcooked them. When they just turn emerald green they aren't that bad.

I also smiled because the charts of 'what is in season' are in my blood. My godfather and grandfather was a worker in the orchards back in Sicily. Sicilians are known for their simple food made from fresh, natural ingredients.

Then my doctor's eyes caught something that totally focused my attention: the speaker, a middle-aged african american woman, was in shape. By her height and build, and age, a patient in my O.R. would weight two hundred fifty pounds. She didn't. She was large, but trim. And healthy. Her skin had a glow. And her energy! It caught the Reiki Doc perception's attention too: sparkly, clean, and clear balanced energy system. Whatever she was doing was working right for her.

So what IS a Raw Vegan diet? It's not what you think. She says she is 'lazy', and here is a typical day for her:

• breakfast = smoothie, for example, two apples, five leaves of collard greens, a handful of raisins
• morning snack = ground nuts and dried fruit mixture
• lunch = a salad with some 'excitement'--nuts, color, flavor, texture
• afternoon snack = a couple of pieces of fresh fruit
• dinner = microgreens and other things mixed in, and maybe something 'sweet' for dessert
• tea = all day long, warm and enjoyable, herb tea

Apparently there are three levels of complexity for the raw vegan:

• simple = knife, cutting board, blender food preparation ('less than ten minutes' per the speaker)
• moderate = juicer, high end blender (kitchen aid has replacement parts), dehydrator use
• complex = restaurant chef type recipes that might take several days to prepare

What the gist of it is planning ahead, having an almost empty fridge (nutrients 'decay' somewhat with time, so it is better to 'buy what you will eat' and stick to that), staying 'on budget', and using the money that you save making memories that are worthwhile to you. This speaker is from Pennsylvania, and is growing microgreens in her kitchen! She has a garden to supplement what she buys too. Elegant solutions in a society where food is a big business--kind of like 'going of the grid'--I really like it!

I sensed myself 'loosening the shackles' as she spoke of less 'stuff' in the cupboards, less 'impulse buys' at the grocery store (a mean of sixty percent of all purchases at the grocery store are 'impulse buys'--and I think there is a proven behavioral scientific reason behind that, to make a profit), and 'eating what you like'--one woman realized she didn't enjoy peppers and onions and they kept going bad so she stopped buying them.

If you want to increase your Vibration, Raw Vegan might be a next step after getting rid of toxins (artificial sweeteners, high fructose corn syrup, trans fats) in your diet and going 'happy and local' with organic. 

Caution: if your are immunosuppresed, or immunocompromised (take methotrexate, immuran, prograf or cell cept, have certain kinds of cancer like leukemia, or taking chemotherapy or radiation, possibly even on proton pump inhibitors for GERD/acid reflux because you have no acid in your stomach to kill any 'bugs') STOP!

Make sure you find yourself a smart Integrative Medicine doctor or oncologist. Be open and honest with them about what you want to do every step of the way. You have a lot to lose by being misinformed by whoever is wanting you to eat like this. Food can be a poison even to someone who is healthy, for example, mayonnaise-based salad that has been left in the sun. Make sure you take the time to learn safe handling techniques to prepare your food. Make sure you know who grows it. Make sure the choices you make are safe for you. It isn't an 'either-or' in this case. Your life is on the line. Do it right, and soon your health benefits will follow.

I saw the kitchen, just a glimpse at the restaurant while I was there the other day--there are big refrigerators and people wearing surgical caps and polyethylene gloves while making the food. An expert in food science, a chef, designed the entire operation. You don't want to get sick trying to be healthy. Just a little legwork in advance will do.

Am I going to try it? I don't know. But I am glad I went. I met some nice people and it was fun.

Here is the link to the home page of the speaker. February 4 is Online Boot Camp--very supported! http://rawfoodsonabudget.com/

Namaste,

Reiki Doc

Aura 101

You are a star! Did you know it? You are a creature of light, housed in a physical body.

You higher self, or Consciousness,  is  connected to your body by a silver cord of  light.

As your Consciousness levels increase, you will inhabit your body completely, and everything you are or do shall emit Light from your heart and every inch of your body. You can't help it, for it is who you ARE, and everything about it is Blessed!

I have the ability to see that light in others. Only when they are asleep in my O.R. It is always coming in. It looks like a great big column of whilte/clear/bright energy that is about six inches thick. It flows in through the head. I feel it, and I can hear it. There is a very quiet, holy sound to it, kind of like a Gregorian Chant. It is Source. I know it and I feel it. Sometimes it is the brightest on the unlucky ones, the ones with cancer that is advanced, or the people who are living in the streets. Does this mean they are angels? I can't say. I think everyone is an angel, living in a Human Body, actually. Except most of us don't know this yet.

When I scan the patient, energetically, I can pick up the flow of energy through the body. It gets stuck from certain emotions, and different levels of emotions tend to associate with a chakra in the energetic body. This imbalance tends to link itself to the physical manifestation of disease. Medicine of the future is going to be based on this type of scanning, and correct it. Very much like we do the CT scan of the entire body on a 'wellness check' or 'screen' to pick up early sources of disease, and intervene much earlier than we did centuries ago. It seems barbaric, doesn't it, the medicine that was before anesthesia and aseptic technique, such as on the battlefield in the Civil War? One day, all that we do today with modern medicine, will seem just as archaic. Yesterday I thought, how awful it seems to put animals through torture to come up with the treatments that we have for us today! How sad! How good if it was not necessary to do that to our fellow animal brothers and sisters any more.

In Reiki, we work with the Light of Universal Energy from Source. It is non-toxic, there are no side effects, and it is free. (A Reiki worker needs to support themself, so there is an energy imbalance from the gift, and compensation is due. Dr. Usui discovered this after working for free for seven years on the Japanese equivalent of Skid Row. After some time, he began to recognize people on the street he once had cured. It didn't 'stick' because healing has to be an energy exchange. For my work, I am being paid for my anesthesia services, and there isn't a box to check for Intraoperative Reiki on my billing slip just yet! ) Reiki is a different kind of Light, one I can't see but can feel. When it is begun, it flows down through the head and out through the heart center, third eye, and hands to the client or the patient. There is a sensation to this flow. You can tell when Reiki is 'ON' and Reiki is 'OFF' in a treatment. The benefit of Reiki Energy work is that it is non-depleting to the Healer. It actually gives a treatment to the worker at the same time the patient is being healed. It feels nice, and helps keep you in balance.

I used to fly off the handle at the slightest of things. I was very emotional, often taking things the wrong way, being hurt or feeling offended in my interactions with others. Reiki helped to conquer that. My heart somehow got open, and I am steady in my Earth experience. Which is good.

Your energetic body has a protective shell around it. This is your aura. There are three layers, one next to the skin, one a little thicker out, and the last on the outside. They look white, soft, and shimmery, kind of like a ghost. This is what protects you, it is like the function of skin to your physical body.

A healthy aura protects you from negative influences and harm. Eating right, getting plenty of rest, exercise, sex, and fun are ways to keep it strong. Meditation really helps, too. That is why you experience 'good vibration' from somebody, or 'bad vibration/neediness' within ten seconds of interacting with another. It is the auras that touch, and information is passed to you about the person almost at once. People who have been abused, both physically, sexually, and emotionally, get very good at reading what the experts say 'body language' in order to process danger early and take necessary steps to lessen it in advance. I think that processing happens on the energetic level, and the INTENT of the attacker is picked up through the auric system faster than everything else. You know that feeling when someone is watching you, and you turn your head to check? Or that foreboding you experience before a dangerous situation presents? Those are all commonplace energetic functions that we don't think about because they are so common to life.

Anger, and loud noises, weaken the aura. Wrap yourself in white light if you are going to be faced with either for protection in advance.

Namaste,

Reiki Doc

Enucleation

Yesterday I had two energetic patterns in my patients that were worth talking about with you today.

The first was missing an eye.  One socket looked just like the one above, but covered with a thin layer of skin on all the area inside the hole. We were there today to fix something totally different.  

Learn! Learn! I got from the patient as they slept.

Here was the chakra pattern from the bottom up:

red-barely functioning

orange-functioning backwards/depressed

yellow-strong but not healthy (imposed will to balance out the others)

heart centers-barely functioning

throat-barely functioning

brow-barely functioning

crown-very quiet.

As I went over the energetic system, I asked myself, what could have happened to put this patient's survival at risk by seeing something so awful, knowing something that was spiritual and wrong?

Most people, even ones with Dark Entities and Negative Entities, are connected to Source pretty good. It just 'trickles down' funny. Not this one.

As I wondered, I realized what it must have been. A religious figure must have been hurting others, perhaps in a sexual way, and to survive this patient kept quiet. This would match. And this would explain loss of an eye that receives due to melanoma on the eyelid. And cancer of the thyroid gland.

Not talking about what is seen. In for this patient, it was a serious problem, metaphysically. Everyone is different. It is all with perception. But what one perceives as 'wrong' and does nothing about it, even to survive, can have lasting consequences.

As I worked, I thought, 'it's wake up time!'. And 'you don't have to feel like that any more'. Because I heard. The story has been communicated. Just on a different sense. Old patterns are hard to break.  But after my experience with Three Blind Mice, I noticed that Spirit was trying to show me a lesson. Three Blind Mice was the other eye. Didn't know what was coming, and was sweet. This patient saw everything.

The next was very young, younger than me, for an operation for people in their seventies. Diverticulosis is largely a preventable disease. When there are too much processed foods, and not enough fruits and vegetables. The surgeons said it. It was sad to see someone lose their sigmoid colon due to poor life choices. I thought I would share that with you.

I also made the surgeons laugh. One is very apologetic, sorry it took so long, yada yada yada. I smiled and from the heart said, 'We fixed this patient. It was worth it. Remember on Saturday Night Live many years ago, the saying, 'I've got DI VER TIC U LOSIS!'? Well this patient now can't say that any more!' And the surgeons laughed and laughed in spite of themselves. Healing goes all around in the OR when I am present.

Again, the energetic pattern was not horrible. Just imbalanced. And I thought to myself as I was working in there, 'Hello! Time to WAKE UP! Another Soul to be ready to Ascend!' I wonder if they notice a difference right away, or if it eases up on them.

For me, in my operation I had when I was twenty-five, when I woke up I heard two messages: leave your ex, and leave your place of work. I followed the advice as soon as I could. And guess what? That makes me Reiki Doc!

Namaste,

Reiki Doc