Alfred Cove Healing

21/08/2023

14/05/2023

In Reiki there are the 5 Precepts, which are the root of what has become The System of Reiki.
We start off with Kyo dake wa - for today only. Once I got my head around that it became so helpful, for today only.

Kyo dake wa
Ika run a

For today only
Do not anger

Tadao Yamaguchi writes 'anger rises from many places and even when it seems justified there are often egoistic motives involved at a deeper level.'

So I find myself driving to our local shopping centre and often going to the same car park, the shop I want to get to is closer at that end. So when I come across drivers going the wrong way when the arrows are clearly marked in the other direction or entering the undercover car park with half the entrance blocked and a large red sign DO NOT ENTER, they still go in. Yes, I get very angry and find myself not only shouting but swearing, and yes I do need to find another place to park and just walk the extra distance and let go of the ego.

11/05/2023

Asu Yoriwa
Haruna tsumanuto
Shimeshi nu ni
Kino mo kyo mo
Yuki wa furi tsutsu

Tomorrow I was
going to the spring meadows
to pick the young greens.
It snowed all day yesterday
and snowed all day today.

Akahito

10/05/2023

Haru no nu ni
Sumire tsumi ni to
Koshi ware zo
Nu wo natsukashimi
Hito yo nenikeru

When I went out
In the spring meadows
To gather violets,
I enjoyed myself
So much that I stayed all night

Akahito

08/05/2023

Japanese Poetry

Tago no ura yu
Uchi idete mireba
Mashiro ni zo
Fuji no takane ni
Yuki wa furikeru

I passed by the beach
at Tago and saw
the snow falling, pure white,
high on the peak of Fuji

Yamabe No Akahito

27/03/2023

Reiki Meditation

Seishin Toitsu

Seishin - spirit, mind, soul, intention
Toitsu - to unite, unify (to make one)

Seishin Toitsu meditation takes the breath through a specific pattern in the body
- this is a single point meditation
- focus is on the hands and the hara
- sit in seiza, eyes gazing at the floor
- release all tension from the body
- hands in gassho
- focus your mind on the hara
- on the in breath begin to bring the energy into your hands and feel it moving along your arms, down through your body and into your hara
- on the out breath visualize energy moving from the hara back up through the body and then out through the arms and finally the hands
- continue breathing in and out moving the ki from your hands through the torso down to the hara and back again
- to simplify the action - place your intent at your hands as you breathe in and then immediately focus on the hara
- build on time in which the technique is practiced eg start with 5 mins and build up to 1 hour

12/03/2023

Reiki Meditation
Joshin Kokyu Ho

Joshin - focusing the mind
Kokyu - breath, respiration
Ho - method

A single pointed meditation
- sit in seiza, eyes gazing at the floor
- release all tension from the body
- bring the mental focus to the body
- allow the hands to rise in gassho
- place hands on your knees, palms facing upwards
- with each in breath, visualise a bright energy going in to the hara
- link the visual with the breath and the mind
- feel the bright energy, the breath and the mind expanding through your body
- on the out breath, expand the bright energy, the breath and the mind out of the body, through your skin, out into infinity

Continue breathing in through the nose, down to the hara and expanding the ki out through the body on the out breath for anywhere from 5 mins for up to an hour.
If you feel dizzy, finish the technique.
When finished bring your hands into gassho.

24/02/2023

Something that works is using energy. From ancient times, people in the East have developed spiritual, medical, and martial art traditions based on the flow of universal energy as the life force called chi, qi, or ki.
-The Light That Shines Through Infinity by Dainin Katagiri

22/02/2023

Originally we are completely vastness. In the vastness of the universe, there is no dichotomy, no discrimination; there is perfect peace and harmony. Philosophically speaking, this is called emptiness. Sometimes vastness is personalized, and it's called Buddha. If you experience that emptiness, it is called buddha-nature. Plainly speaking, it is universal consciousness.
-The Light That Shines Through Infinity by Dainin Katagiri

22/02/2023

When we put a name on that energy, it is called Buddha, buddha-nature, or real self. We use different terms, but each one means the same original energy of the whole world, the boundless and compassionate energy of being, which is constantly coming up from deep on the ground like spring water.
-The Light That Shines Through Infinity by Dainin Katagiri

20/02/2023

Every day, all you have to do is stand up in emptiness, open your heart, and act the lively energy of your life. Then you are ready to act based on wisdom.
-The Light That Shines Through Infinity by Dainin Katagiri

20/02/2023

Your real self is a kind of energy. It is the original energy, which is constantly arising at the very incipient moment. At the very incipient moment, there is no "I." There is nothing to call "I" because there is no perception of "I." There is no "who." There is nothing to call "who" because you realize there is no existence to attach to as your own. At that time you are simultaneously this very moment itself, extending into every inch of the universe.
-The Light That Shines Through Infinity by Dainin Katagiri