"Do not wait for perfection
to be the continuous way
in which you live
before you celebrate.
Whenever there is a crack
in the shell of illusion, give a party.
When you catch the sun
streaming through the clouds,
buy yourself a dozen roses.
Whenever you feel
like waltzing down the street,
let nothing stop you.

Is joy the dance?  Is that all there is?

Yes.
To get to that joy,
one must recognize in oneself
and in others
that the suffering is not the person.
Joy is.
A miracle is waiting for you -
not to create it, but to remember it.

You are not a beggar at the table of life.
You are the honored guest."
From Emmanuel's Book III -What is an Angel Doing Here? 

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I was having a moment of feeling forlorn.  That's probably too dramatic a word.  

It was a moment of 'following my thoughts and slipping into doubt about myself..."

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I know - one of the 'teachings' is to allow things to be as they are....

But I like feeling happy and light.  Of course I prefer that!
And now, many times I can choose, can change how I'm feeling....

I'm not suggesting that you avoid your feelings.  At times it is very necessary and important to allow yourself to feel the painful emotions and learn how to be a compassionate presence for yourself. Other times, one can choose joy ipo doubt and self bullying.  

So I pulled the book off my shelf, opened to a page and started reading the words that I copied for you above.   

It made me smile, lightened my heart, brought the sunshine back and  

totally changed my vibration .  So I'm sharing some of this sparkle with you.

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Think outside the pillbox.  
If you are struggling with anxiety, depression, monkey mind, chronic illness, or roller coaster emotions and feel like you can't move forward

or need help with some difficult emotions or inability
to forgive yourself or another and move on...
Reiki Can Help.

  Let's talk -
Please click on my email to schedule a
FREE 30 minute Discovery Consultation  
hedymiri@gmail.com 

Big Heart Hugs & Reiki Blessings
Miri
Self-Compassion and Sacred Transformation Coach
Usui/Holy Fire Reiki Master Teacher ~ Medical Reiki Master
http://www.OpportunitiesForTransformation.com
301-788-4525     hedymiri@gmail.com  

 Want to talk?  Feeling stuck?
Please contact me for your Free Discovery Consultation

Happy Valentine's Day 

2 weeks ago I created this very short video and titled it - 

Caring For Your Tender Heart  

How perfect to have saved it till today.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIQ_xEYxVic

In it I share how Reiki has helped me and so many others care for our tender hearts,
ultimately allowing us to
let go of the fear and anxiety of being and expressing our true self...

and re-discover the strength and courage
to share our softness and our vulnerability and our beautiful tender hearts. 

Reiki is EASY to learn and everyone can! 

Usui/Holy Fire ll Reiki One Class

Reiki is a holistic treatment that 

cleanses and rebalances our energies and our chakras,
quiets the active busy mind, and calms our emotions.

After this one day class you will be a

Certified Reiki Level One Practitioner

 able to give Reiki to yourself, your children, other family, friends, and pets too.

Reiki treatments strengthen your connection with Spirit, Source...

and fill you back up with all the energies that have been depleted
through the stresses of daily living.

 Reiki One Class

When:  Sunday, February 19, 10-6pm

Where: Ballantyne

Cost:  $222

Additional practice time 2 weeks after class

Reiki supports you in taking your power and your energies back from everyone you have given them to ... your parents, siblings, spouses, friends, bosses...  
At the time you didn't have a choice.  Now you do and Reiki can help you.

Isn't this enough of a reason for you to take this class!  

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If you are interested in Reiki 2 or Master Class please contact me.

** Please click here to email me and get started ** 
hedymiri@gmail.com 

Big Heart Hugs & Reiki Blessings
Miri

The Reiki Class listing below is part of a blog titled

'If you're still stuck - it's not for lack of trying'  

The Blog is just below the Class List. I hope you'll take a few minutes to read the blog and learn
why I love Reiki and teach it as a
Sacred Tool for Transforming Your Energies and everyone else’s.

Reiki will Change your Vibration and Connect You
with a Higher Level of Consciousness. 

All my Reiki Classes are offered in the Usui/Holy Fire ll Tradition 

Level One - Sunday, Feb. 19,   10-6pm   $222
You will be a Certified Reiki Practitioner and be able to give Reiki to yourself, your children, others and animals too.  Learn to balance Chakras with Reiki.

Level Two - Sunday, March 19,   10-6pm  $333

Learn sacred symbols and sounds for Level 2,  advanced  treatment methods, and Distance Healing with Reiki.
Learn about and activate your Sacred Twelve 5^th Dimensional Chakras.

Advanced Reiki Training and Reiki Master Teacher
Saturday, February 25,  Saturday, March 4  and  Sunday, March 5,   10-6pm   $1025.
This Master Teacher Class will change you and everything in your life.
You will receive all the teachings, healing techniques, and symbols for Usui/Holy Fire II Reiki Master and experience multiple meditations/pre-ignitions/ignitions connecting you to Higher Levels of Consciousness.  After this 3 day class, you will be able to teach all levels of Reiki and have all the resources you need to teach.  

Please click here to email and register for a Reiki Class. 

hedymiri@gmail.com

MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE CLASSES are here
www.OpportunitiesForTransformation.com/Events

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'If you're still stuck - it's not for lack of trying' 

Breathe into these words. I wrote them on a post-it years ago, and just found it. Can't remember who said it but it really resonated with me... because I was one of those humans who believed that 'working hard' would get me what I was longing for. If something wasn't working - just work harder.  I guess if I'm honest, there are still a few parts of me that do believe I have to work hard, and continue to do so... :-) 

It's been a slow and seemingly long process of unraveling and releasing the pattern... and I had to, because in my heart I know this belief about working hard, trying harder in order to move forward and get unstuck, or even to get what I want... is simply a Belief System - B.S.

Work hard if you like.  But don't do it because you think it is 'required' to make your dreams come true.

Your dreams are inspired.  The root of the word inspired is 'enspire' - means of spirit... placed in you by Spirit, your Soul...  not from your ego... from your Soul.

And the Universal Law is that what is designed by your Soul for you, must come to you.  

Most of us have been living in alignment with our egos, and there is a call now to move into Soul and Spirit Alignment.  

My job for my life now,  is to keep my vibrations as high as I can.  For me, the easiest path to this is living with the thoughts, attitudes and Feelings of Gratitude and Joy,  especially - FEELINGS. 

For me, this is NOT just a mindset.  I'm an emotionally sensitive being, like you.  So changing my thoughts was not sufficient... Trust me, I tried all those affirmations.  Didn't work because I had to get to all those other parts of me that weren't buying the words... 

This meant recognizing, acknowledging, allowing, healing, releasing and transforming everything that didn't allow me to live in Gratitude, Joy, Trust, Feeling Worthy and in Sacred Expectation for My Good.

If you've been with me for a while, you know my BIG thing is
Self-Acceptance, Self-Kindness, Self-Compassion.  

I had NONE of these. I never felt I was enough (which translates into not feeling worthy either)...  or if one thing was okay about me, there was always a voice pointing out something else that was not right...

I saw that I was always 'working hard' to prove myself to some 'phantom ghosts' or voices in my head...

And as I'm sure many of you understand - you never get there. I didnt understand any of this until one day... It all began to unravel and the puzzle pieces of my life began to rearrange...
If you're curious you can read more about me on my website http://www.OpportunitiesForTransformation.com/aboutMiri


As I look back I see that ONE OF THE KEY pieces to helping my transformation, was understanding the energetics of transformation. Hmmm that feels to complicated...  so to simplify:

It was more about respecting the fact that we are vibration and energy AND the easiest way to transform my life was to change my vibration...

There are many different practices that support changing our vibration, including: Reiki, Healing Touch, Sound, Music, Movement, Yoga, Breathwork, Tai Chi, Chanting, Massage, Nature...

I love and incorporate so many of these into my life.
I became passionate about REIKI,  because for me -
Reiki easily connects me with Spirit. Source, I AM that I AM.  

When you are more and more strongly connected with Source Energy, The Love of God,  the vibrations of your I AM Presence -
your vibrations change and then everything MUST change...  
YOU GET UNSTUCK - and you begin to live your life from your Spirit, instead of your fear based, programmed, reacting ego.  Egos are not bad.  It's just in their design is to keep us limited and stuck.  

Ah, remember the first sentence -
'If you're still stuck - it's not for lack of trying.'   

INSTEAD, you can choose to commit to doing something different that will change your energies big time.

Reiki will do this for you! 

Taking a REIKI CLASS will give you easy simple processes (I don't do complicated or lengthy) that strengthen your connection with Higher Consciousness.  That's where it all changes - 

Thank you Albert Einstein:  'We cannot change a problem at the level it was created.  We must go to a different level to find the solution."

In other words, an issue or situation that you are struggling with was created at a particular level of consciousness, vibration... and you have to go to a higher level of consciousness to truly effect a change.

The fastest way to transform your life from feeling stuck
to Feeling Alive, Excited and Free - is to change your vibration by going to a different, higher level of Consciousness. 

Reiki will Change your Vibration and Connect You
with a Higher Level of Consciousness. 

All my Reiki Classes are offered in the Usui/Holy Fire ll Tradition 

Level One - Sunday, Feb. 19,   10-6pm   $222
You will be a Certified Reiki Practitioner and be able to give Reiki to yourself, your children, others and animals too.  Learn to balance Chakras with Reiki.

Level Two - Sunday, March 19,   10-6pm  $333

Learn sacred symbols and sounds for Level 2,  advanced  treatment methods, and Distance Healing with Reiki.
Learn about and activate your Sacred Twelve 5^th Dimensional Chakras.

Advanced Reiki Training and Reiki Master Teacher
Saturday, February 25,  Saturday, March 4  and  Sunday, March 5,   10-6pm   $1025.
This Master Teacher Class will change you and everything in your life.
You will receive all the teachings, healing techniques, and symbols for Usui/Holy Fire II Reiki Master and experience multiple meditations/pre-ignitions/ignitions connecting you to Higher Levels of Consciousness.  After this 3 day class, you will be able to teach all levels of Reiki and have all the resources you need to teach.  

Please click here to email and register for a Reiki Class. 

hedymiri@gmail.com

MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE CLASSES are here
www.OpportunitiesForTransformation.com/Events

Thank you for joining me on this Sacred Journey of
Transformation back into the Heart of Peace and Love

It's been really topsy turvy, especially  these past few days.  I find myself even more sensitive... quickly going from feeling overwhelmed and sad to a few hours later, after precious time with friends, feeling like I am dancing around like a butterfly.  I've been Up and Down, High and Low.

Something that is good to learn to do is TO OBSERVE, to become The Observer... to pull back a little and to separate from the intense emotions... WATCH what's unfolding as if it was a movie on the screen.

Pause, gently push back and breathe deeply.  Watch your chest rise and fall.  Imagine the breath travelling through your body down into your feet. You will soon find this practice very soothing, calming and rebalancing.

It's been quite uncomfortable and chaotic for a while now...
And since the elections, regardless of who you voted for, it is even more important to have the tools that help you find peace and balance, help you return to your core of peace more easily and faster and help clear your chaotic energies. For many of us this IS the call of the hour - 

Finding, maintaining, returning to, holding Peace - Being Peace

We are being disassembled in many ways, and made new again. And it's not easy on our psyche or our physical body.

Our bodies are not 'cooperating or behaving' either. We find ourselves frequently exhausted. So many have gotten sick and recovery is a slower than usual process.

Fear, anxiety are showing themselves more and more for some of us.  We're scared, distressed and nervous.

What to do -
^ Get out in nature - and really pay attention and cherish her gifts.

^Get into the habit of pausing and breathing easily and deeply a few times each hour.  Okay - maybe let's start with pausing to consciously breathe every few hours :-)

^ Be patient and gentle with yourself - like you would with a young child who has had a rough day.  You wouldn't bully that child, would you?  So please don't be so short and unkind with yourself.

^ Slow everything down.  Become mindful and become acquainted with all of your senses... and your body, noticing how everything looks and feels.

I'm always in my head, thinking about something other than what is happening in the present moment.

This is just a habit and neuroscience says we can change our habits.  We just have to commit and practice doing things differently. *Don't get angry with yourself and your habits.  Habits are innocent...  Just choose to do something different.

^ It's lovely when I pause, slow down and become mindful of my body, my body parts and how well they work... and how I'm feeling...  ah, peace... 

^ Smile.

^Spend time with uplifting friends.

^ Make a conscious choice to DO THE THINGS THAT BRING YOU JOY.

^ We are not who we tell ourselves we are.  I love hearing when we say - "Oh, I couldn't do that or I could never say that.  That's not me."   Really?

Our True Self is not who we name ourselves to be - our gender, age, profession, education, habits, patterns, emotions, tendencies...

We have a persona, an ego that is a constellation of patterns, conditionings, beliefs, habits, feelings, preferences, histories and stories ...

Truth - We are Spirit having a human experience.     

Our human self looks for peace, love, safety, satisfaction, purpose, joy.  

Our Spirit, Our Soul, Higher Self ALREADY IS all of these qualities naturally.
It doesn't have to learn them or earn them.

So then we simply have to access what our Spirit already has... ALREADY IS

The easiest way to stay steady in these chaotic times,
to be able to live in and return to Peace, Compassion, Courage, Joy, Abundance, Trust, Kindness
is to connect
with the energies of Our Spirit, Our Soul, Our Higher Self.

These are its natural attributes.  Your Spirit, Higher Self IS Peace, Unconditional Love, Compassion, Courage, Trust, Kindness, Wisdom.

Your Spirit is waiting to connect with you.

One of the easiest ways to connect with your Spirit
is with Reiki.

Please enjoy this video I made for you 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_90uFk4G-SI&t=3s

Come take a Reiki Class - Come Have a Reiki Treatment

My reiki classes are listed here  
www.OpportunitiesForTransformation.com/events

 After Reiki Level One you will be connected
to these energies of Unconditional Love
 and you will be able to give yourself Reiki AND give Reiki to your child, another and pets. 

 Please email me to book a session or to sign up for a Reiki Class:
hedymiri@gmail.com

HeartHugs,
Miri