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Taxes with a Glad Heart

Taxes get a bad name. We complain, revile, resist, and try to escape or minimize them. Our legislatures argue about who should pay more or less, and how to divide up what they collect. What’s your fair share? Well, let’s … Continue reading

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Precept #2: Anger

The second Reiki Precept or Affirmation is: Just for today, I will not get angry. Anger is something that I have thought about a lot.  My first inclination was to change the wording of this precept to reflect a Truth … Continue reading

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Precept #1: Worry

Recently I took the Reiki I Training with Jonna Rae Bartges, a Third Degree Reiki Master and a psychic, who teaches with joy and bad puns and calls herself The Happy Medium (she says “I see dead people so you don’t … Continue reading

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The Amusement Park

Have fun!  Detach from your definitions of what you “should” be and how life “should” unfold, and how other people “should” act, and how they “should” treat you.  Once you detach from your expectations of others, your perfectionism, your deadly … Continue reading

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Tears and the Now

Emotional tears are a release of tension that has built up in the body.  It is as if our emotions are spilling over, and in the process, washing us clean. Did you know that the chemistry of tears changes with … Continue reading

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How do you let go of the suffering of others?

So I asked him, “How do you let it go… the suffering you see when you visit people all the time?” He said that he recognizes the inevitability of all of it.  “To everything, there is a season…” including a … Continue reading

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