With Halloween so close, our thoughts have turned to the topic of goblins! And that made us think about the goblins in our Consciousness - those negative error thoughts that separate us from the Truth of who we are. We want to send those goblins on the run! But, we want to do it the right way, or we will just wind up creating more problems for ourselves.

This is where Google comes into play. Whenever we really need to research something, we turn to Google!

As an aside, did you know that Google is a play on the word “GOOGOL” which refers to the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google coined the word to illustrate their mission to organize the immense, seemingly infinite amount of information available on the web.

Google is our favorite search engine ~ but even with Google, you can only discover so much. Just imagine the infinite amount of Divine Ideas and Guidance we have at our disposal when we Google God!

Just for kicks, we did Google God, and landed 510,000,000 hits in just .09 seconds! And believe me, those hits were all over the place, from God’s homepage, to the official God FAQ (which we don’t recommend), to God’s Yellow Pages! But that is a drop in the bucket compared to what we get when we really Google God - through Meditation and Prayer. Instead of sitting at the computer, try sitting in the Silence, quieting your mind, and becoming open to receive the Divine abundance of ideas and guidance that are readily available.

And here’s the neat part. Once we identify our goblins, then Google God through mediation and prayer, we can live in a state of constant giggles! We can experience the pure delight of knowing that we are never alone, and nothing has any power over us. We can say with gusto: My consciousness is greater than any goblin my mind can imagine!

Research has now proven that complex humor (riddles, puns, funny stories) not only strengthens our immune system, it actually can improve memory and recalibrate our intuition! We can also approach problems with more flexibility, opening the channels to creative Divine ideas. We call it the Giggle State of Consciousness.

When we live in the Giggle State of Consciousness, we operate from a state of pure joy and gratitude. Here’s a great quote we discovered about gratitude, by Melody Beatty:

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, and confusion into clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”

Did you know that there is an actual meditation practice called Centered Silliness? Because the physical act of laughter is one of the few actions that involves the body, emotions, and soul, it helps us transcend physical and mental stresses. Research even proves that it will improve the immune system.

You can practice 3 stages to mindful laughter, each taking 5-20 minutes:

* Stretching like a cat and breathing deeply. Stretch the muscles in your face by yawning and making lots of funny faces.

* Pure laughter. Fall on the floor if you want, and keep laughing as long as you can. You may need to force it at first, but we encourage you to give it a try. Just laugh out loud!

Here are some funny stories to get you laughing:

We loved this announcement from a church bulletin: “Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person(s) you want remembered.”

Or this: Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM. Please use the back door. (That’ll really help build that esteem!)

And how about this slogan: The Associate Minister unveiled the church’s new tithing campaign slogan last week: “I Upped My Pledge - Up Yours.”?

A woman went to the Post Office to buy stamps for her Christmas cards. “What Denomination?” asked the clerk. “Oh, good heavens! Have we come to this?” responded the woman. “Just give me 50 Baptist and 50 Catholic ones.”

* And the final step: Sit in silence with your eyes closed, and become aware of your breath.

We believe Jesus had a wonderful sense of humor, and understood the power of joy. He used hyperbole, paradox, and exaggeration to make a point. In John 15:11, He said, “These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and [that] your joy might be full.”

Lowell Fillmore (Charles & Myrtle’s son) said, in his book, The Prayer Way to Health, Wealth, & Happiness: “Unity believes that when joy is put back into religion, there will be more religion in the world.” A friend of Lowell’s said that when they were young children, living at Unity Farm, young Lowell would take off his shoes and socks, and run barefoot in the winter snow-just out of exhilaration, out of the joy of being alive!

We’d like to end this week’s article with a poem we enjoy. But be aware: we added an additional verse to share a Unity perspective!

Sit on the Lid and Laugh (by Bertha Adams Backus)

Build for yourself a strong box
Fashion each part with care;
When it’s strong as your hand can make it
Put all your “goblins” there.
Hide there all thought of your failures,
Every real or imagined gaffe;
Lock all your heartaches within it
Then sit on the lid and laugh.

Tell no one else its contents
Never its secrets share,
When you’ve dropped in your care and worry
Keep them forever there;
Hide them from sight so completely
That the world will never dream half
Fasten the strong box securely
Then sit on the lid and laugh!

(Our added verse):

You have within you this strongbox
At Headquarters you’ll find it’s true -
Go there to empty your worries
Your problems, your fears - heartaches, too.
The goblins that seem to consume you
The burdens that tear you in half -
Can be Googled away in this strongbox ~
And you can sit on the lid and laugh!

So when the goblins come out to scare you away from your Divinity, just Google God by spending time in the Silence, with the assurance that you can live in a constant state of Divine Giggles and Joy, knowing that wherever you are, God is - and all is well!

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The nature of energies available for healing depends on what type of energies is summoned. Those sensitive to these energies will feel different types of energy differently. A general aspect of these healing energies is that a process called attunement is used to enable a person to receive these energies. Attunement involves use of ancient symbols and sounds on the various energy points on the body, particularly on the top of the head, throat and the palms. Drawing of these ancient symbols and recitation of specific mantras are sufficient to create a channel in the body through which these energies can flow. Once the attunement is complete, the person can immediately feel a surge of energy through his body. If you are even a bit skeptic about the existence of universal healing energies you should try a Reiki attunement. I have seen many staunch skeptics changing to devout believers after experiencing the attunement process.

These healing energies can be called upon to improve upon any situation one can expect to encounter in ones life. I have been using Reiki to increase my social skills, improve my finances, treat minor health problems and improving my relationships. However, Reiki has not only helped me tackle various situations in my life confidently which I consciously desired, it has brought many other blessings which I never wished for. For instance, it has boosted my immune system. Whenever I go for a routine medical examination, my white blood cell count is always the best a person can have, in the higher end of the normal healthy range. Since past many years I have suffered no fevers, no head-aches, no stomach upsets or bad colds and coughs. Before I stumbled upon Reiki, I was very prone to all sorts of illnesses. The point is that Reiki is a sort of one pill for all ills. Even if it is not used for any other purpose, the sense of well being, deep relaxation and bliss that is felt after a Reiki session should be motivating enough to try this gentle energy healing technique.

At this point of time many variations of Reiki are available that can be used to target various specific issues in ones life. For instance, Money Reiki for improving your financial life, Abundance Reiki for attracting all kind of abundance in life, Soul mate Reiki for attracting your soul mate are some of the modalities which work on specific aspects of life.

One last point that I will like to mention is that one should not approach energy healing for quickly fixing the problems associated with being alive. It is not reasonable to expect that the huge karmic load carried by the soul, during its innumerable reincarnations on the physical plane would vanish in a matter of few days. The time required to resolve a specific issue by Reiki or any other energy healing modality depends on the kind of past karmic impressions that need to be released from the energy body of a person. So for each person, the use of an energy healing technique for a specific purpose will yield different results in a given period of time. However, the issue will be healed completely if the healing is done regularly.

The author has been engaged in energy healing work for a number of years. A scientist by profession, she was initiated in to a number of spiritual healing techniques such as reiki, seichim and kundalinin reiki. Experiencing the effectiveness of many energy healing tools, she was inspired to start a company known as New Age Tools. You can visit her website http://www.newagetools.com to learn more about energy healing tools.

<P>The author has been engaged in energy healing work for a number of years. A scientist by profession, she was initiated in to a number of spiritual healing techniques such as reiki, seichim and kundalinin reiki. Experiencing the effectiveness of many energy healing tools, she was inspired to start a company known as New Age Tools. You can visit her website http://www.newagetools.com to learn more about energy healing tools.</P>

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In this video, Gary Spolansky and Steve Booke offer the viewer an opportunity to experience the benefits of a Reiki Healing. While the viewer watches, Gary will be sending Reiki from his hands while Steve projects Reiki through his music. This is an effective way to send Reiki around the world and help to promote greater peace and harmony across the planet, one person at a time. Please let us know if you’ve found this video helpful to you. www.myreikicenter.com

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Reiki is a form of energy healing that has become a popular complement to modern medicine as well as an alternative healing therapy used throughout the world. Although its roots can be traced back centuries, it developed in its modern form in Japan in the early twentieth century. And, it is from two Japanese words (rei and ki) that we get the word Reiki. Roughly translated, Reiki means “universal life energy”.

Practitioners of Reiki believe that there is a type of subtle energy that flows in and around everyone and everything in the universe. It is this universal life energy that a Reiki practitioner attempts to channel to the afflicted person during a healing session.

Reiki practitioners believe that all illnesses have non-physical components. The purpose of a Reiki healing session is to channel additional life energy, or ki, to the person who suffers from some type of physical or mental trauma. The additional energy clears blockages and establishes an increased, and more efficient, internal flow of energy within the person. As this occurs, true healing can begin.

The time needed for an individual healing session varies depending on the client and the particular problem addressed. However, Reiki therapists generally schedule their sessions for 45-60 minutes. The client remains fully clothed during a Reiki session. He or she may lie flat or sit upright. It is especially important that both the healer and the person who has sought out healing feel comfortable, peaceful, and serene during the healing session. Soft lighting and relaxing music are often used by Reiki practitioners to increase these feelings.

When the client is comfortable, the therapist places his or her hands lightly on, or slightly above, the person’s body. The hands of the healer are held palms down with fingers and thumbs extended. During the session, the Reiki therapist will move his or her hands to particular locations on the body, following a specific routine. There are 12-15 Reiki hand positions which correspond to energy centers. The healer will stop at each of these locations to transmit energy. The healer will pause at each location until the flow of energy seems to subside or stop. When the energy flow subsides, the therapist will move to another hand position, working from head to feet. It is important to note that a Reiki healer does not direct the energy in an active sense. The Reiki practitioner is merely a conduit. He or she simply adopts the intent to heal. The life energy itself is intelligent. It goes where it is needed.

A sensation of heat is often taken as an indication of Reiki energy flow. However, a wide range of personal perceptual experiences may be reported by both the healer and the recipient. Among other things, a tingling, coolness, warmth, or the sensation of colors may be experienced.

According to Reiki therapists, people typically leave a Reiki session feeling very relaxed and tranquil. However, recipients of Reiki therapy sometimes experience what therapists call a cleansing crisis. They may feel headachy, nauseous, dizzy, or weak. For Reiki practitioners, these symptoms are the result simply of the body getting rid of toxins and realigning itself to the flow of ki. Rest and increased fluid intake are often recommended to help the person cope with these symptoms.

Douglas Hardwick, Ph.D., has extensive interests in human development and holistic health issues. He contributes to a holistic health information hub: http://www.holisticwebworks.com

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A video introduction to the Seven Chakras as used in Reiki Healing. The Chakras represent key points between physical and the subtle aspect of a person.
States of mind influences the chakras, and therefore also the physical body. When the Chakras are purifed our consciousness can awaken to higher awareness and insights.
One aspect of Reiki Healing is involved with balancing the energies of each of the Chakras. You can find out more on the website: www.peaceful.reikisanctum.com
M Johnson

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I know they are both energy healing, but which is better? I’ve had reiki before and was pleased with the results. thanks.

Reiki is where you channel the UNIVERSAL Energy (positive Energy) and
Qi Gong is where you channel your OWN Energy.

In both techniques, the energy is used to balance your chakras and to give you a better physical, emotional, mental & spiritual health.

I don’t know which is better as both techniques - when used properly and on a daily basis - give excellent results.
I use both :
Reiki for meditation, relaxation and a healthier me;
Qi Gong before doing my daily exercices in order to be healthier too.
Both techniques relax and make you feel balanced and happy.

Hope this helps
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Reiki :you can have a Reiki treatment by a Reiki practioner or a Reiki Master or you can learn and become a Reiki Level 1 practioner after being attuned by a Reiki Master. Level 1 gives you the ability to treat yourself.
Qi-Gong asks for very slow movements and has to be taught by a Master or someone who knows how to practice Qi Gong correctly to ensure that you do it properly and progressively otherwise you may feel uncomfortable and sick.

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