John of God

I have been to John of God 3 times and one of the many things that happened to me was my entire being was filled with incredible peace. Upon return to America one year I began writing 4 Volumes of Healing Aphorisms. I would wake up in the middle of the night or at dawn and sometimes write for hours. Words would spill out of me as though they were coming from another realm.

This is a great time to reflect on aspects of my life which are miraculous and being with John of God ranks high on my list. The day he incorporated  St. Ignatius was by far the most significant experience of divine love that I have ever experienced. Even today, I invoke the grace of St. Ignatius and sit during Casa-times in Abadiania, Brazil. I know there are  hundred of deities in the universe supporting me and everyone else. All we have to do, is call out.

Here is one of my favorite aphorisms from 2005.

Locked and Loaded

God is locked and loaded with love.
He squeezes the trigger and shots ring out into the universe.
He laughs himself silly,
Knowing he'll never run out of bullets.
I bravely stand up and say,
"Me, Me. Hey fella, shoot this way.
I'm ready to play your game!"

Reiki is flowing my way through my healing team and numerous times throughout each day, I pause, as I feel
that I have just been shot again with those love bullets.

A Health Challenge for Hira-- Waiting on the "What"

I have been wanting to update my Reiki blog for some time but did not realize it would be with my own health challenge. Recently, I have noticed a change in my right nipple. It has been dry and flaky  but then overnight it changed to being covered in crusty material. I was surprised to notice this and started to clean it up only to see a deeper level of excoriation. "This doesn't look good", I said to myself.

I looked at Google Images, for conditions of the nipple and immediately saw images that are identical to my situation. I take a photo of my nipple and send it off to my twin Jean Ferris. She agrees, this doesn't look good. I am not a great admirer of Allopathic Medicine, but the one thing they do well, is make a diagnosis. Since I am retired US Army, I have Tri-Care for Life, VA and Medicare to support me allopathically, I headed to Madigan Army Medical Center near my home in Tacoma Wa. I have had some difficulty in navigating their system with several mix-ups already, but hope to have a diagnosis by the end of this month. At this point, we need to rule out cancer and perhaps specifically, Paget's carcinoma of the nipple---and ?breast. My breast, on palpation by several health care providers, doesn't reveal any masses.

While my blog is about Reiki, my treatment approaches are multifaceted and for the upcoming months I will be sharing what my treatment plan comprises and sharing with you the steps of my journey. Jean and I have already initiated my 2nd Degree Reiki Healing Circle sending me distant treatments for my physical and mental-emotional bodies.

Playing the waiting game for a diagnosis, might be frightening for some people, but it is giving me time to plan a very comprehensive treatment module for myself that I have already activated. I am fortunate to have many healing tools at my disposal and can face my future with clarity and and balanced action. I don't dwell or worry myself with the "what-ifs", I just focus on the "what", with a multifaceted approach that is full of universal love.

I am thanking all my fellow supporters and my team members for being a part of my journey and together we will learn that love heals all of our broken parts.

Reiki and Navigational Waypoints

8 December 2011
Wow, time has flown since I have written anything on my blog. Its not that Reiki has been silent in my life, by any means,  it is active, alive and I am doing well.

Artwork by Marsha Matta

This summer I moved my small boat, Shatoosh, an Albin 25, from the Columbia River in Oregon to Tacoma, Washington a distance of over 450 miles. We crossed the dangerous Columbia River Sand Bar and headed north along the coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean. This section of water can be really rough and stormy. Prior to leaving, my twin and Reiki Master Jean Ferris and I laid out the charts on a table with all the different legs of the trip and treated each one with Reiki.

We could feel some rough water in some sections but after treating it with Reiki, the energy flowed nicely as we moved our fingers over the charts. As I approached departure day, many storms had been brewing, but the scheduled departure was met with calm seas, a full rainbow, whales passed our bow and dolphins jumped out of the water to greet us.

We met with similar events along each leg and while storms were seen all around us, we were always in the center with calm seas and no wind. My trip became a beautiful event each day and I arrived at my home port safe and sound.

When we practice Reiki we become a part of the still center, the calm eye of the storm, while chaos and confusion prevails all around us, we remain still and then can perform our best action. This is what Reiki teaches us.

Phyllis Furumoto Interviews Hira

Phyllis writes about our recent interview on Service on her Reiki Radio Talk Show scheduled for April 21, 2011. http://www.reikitalkshow.com/

"This interview is packed with great stories of service. Hira was generous in her sharing of the times in her life that were pivotal in her awareness of service. She starts with the story of how she decided to join the army and "knew" this was the next thing for her to do. She knew it in her heart. And goes on with the stories of her time in Viet Nam and then in the Siddha Yoga Ashram in India. Her two themes are "non-doing" and "doing with all your heart." Inspiring and thought provoking. You may want more of her stories!"
 
Go to her Reiki blog, http://reikireid.blogspot.com.

Anapra, Mexico April 2011

The morning sky is bright blue and cloud free. I drive up the El Paso, Texas valley to the Sisters of Charity casa in a small nook of New Mexico. After loading up the car, Sister Janet takes the helm of the dusty Subaru, Sister Carol rides shotgun, and Tracey and I have the back seat. Tracey is a new member of the team and desires to live in community and offers her service to the mission of the Sisters of Charity. She speaks fluent Spanish, is young, bright and full of enthusiasm.She is also writing the newsletter, Desert Blooms, which tells beautiful stories of the clinic activities.

There is no traffic jam at the Santa Teresa, New Mexico Port of Entry, so we whiz down the back road to Anapra, Mexico. We enter the clinic and I find it is sparkling clean with newly mopped floors, the mats and tables have clean sheets on them and I find my old friend, Isidra cleaning the window sills. She lost her 26 year son last year and has had trouble adjusting. I have sent her distant Reiki treatments from my home in Washington. She greets me, kisses me and thanks me. She takes me over to show me her new grand daughter who is 3 months old. She is doing well and is adorable, so I sit down and hold her to give her a Reiki treatment.

The children start arriving and within minutes the clinic is filled with Mothers, Grandmothers, brothers and sisters. The big bathtub with jacuzzi jets is filled and the children get cleaned and exercised in the warm water. Clean clothes are put on and Reiki treatments begin. Their little bodies soak up the energy while some are being fed. Everyone seems to know the dance and everything works like a well oiled machine. What makes this place so special is all the love that is present. From the Sisters to the Mothers, to the Children and back around again to the Sisters. Of course, the main engine in this machine is God's love, blessing and supporting all who enter.

I see new babies and new mothers. One mother, has given birth to her 3rd son who has an undiagnosed syndrome. She has previously lost 2 sons to this disease. This new baby had some additional complications at birth, so in addition to this other condition, he has cerebral palsy. All her daughters are normal. As I am treating the tiny 2 month old boy, Milagro, a lovely little girl wants to climb into my lap and watch as we treat her brother. I show her how to put her hands on him.

This little guy has some fluid building in head and may need a shunt place to drain off the cerebral spinal fluid. There is also, a question of Down Syndrome. As I place my hands on his chest he grabbed my hand and placed it on his head, which was very hot. He had the sweetest energy about him. His mother looks very young, but had a 7 year old son with her.

Also, new to the clinic is a refrigerator and a stove. This new addition has been added since the clinic now has hired 2 of the young mothers to prepare lunch for everyone. They are good cooks and lunch was yummie. I had brought along dozens of cookies for dessert and everyone gobbled them up, mucho pronto.

He is clean, treated, and fed. So now he naps while everyone else eats lunch.

Renna is progressing so well. Now able to stand against the wall to walk sideways. Her legs are weak, she feeds herself, and demonstrates how she could place a straw into a small hole on her juice box. She waves, claps her hands, gives out lots of kisses and can say about 6 words...in spanish...of course..

Someone donated their large collection of Cabbage Patch Dolls to the clinic. So these cutey-pies each got a new doll today. As they left, I had to kiss each girl and they told me the dolls' names and then they wanted me to kiss each doll. This was easy to do, as they are all so adorable; the girls and their dolls.

I enjoyed my day; it was wondeful to get to do Reiki on so many children, see new babies, note progress on others, see how the mothers are doing, and give thanks that these Sisters of Charity are able to do this unbelievable task of taking care of all these children and mothers. God Bless them all.

More Thoughts on Reiki and Service

Phyllis Furumoto has stirred my "service pot" and I am filled with many thoughts and experiences of my time serving mankind. We have shared several emails, so I want to reflect on my thoughts. During contemplation, the topic may seem small at first, but sandwiched between having a quiet mind and performing Reiki on the process, the topic takes on a new life, a larger life, so we can really begin to see the enormity of the topic.

Such has been my process lately of contemplating the non-doership that Reiki offers its students. Rarely does one have this experience in life to be totally free when performing an action. We are taught as small children to senior citizens that we must be in control, in charge, in order to make anything happen and happen right.This is ingrained into our cellular makeup. So, with our egos and minds charging forth into daily activity, both of who are screaming "me", "me", "me", it seems impossible to stop, shift and make a complete turn-a-bout and surrender to the divine source. But, that is what we have to do, in order to serve, selflessly.

I continue to revel in the importance of non-doership with Reiki. I don't think the beginning Reiki student really understands the importance of this gift. This gift comes from mystical initiation to the student and within minutes they have experienced  non-doership. They may not call it that, but they realize something unique has happened, and over time they will know to call it non-doership. No where in our global upbringing are we trained or given the experience of non-doership. No where, is there a clearer experience, than with Reiki.

The key then, is to transfer the non-doership principle into all walks of our life. This is the aspect where we have to offer our actions to God or the Source. While Reiki is effortless after initiation, we have to make a conscious effort to offer our actions to God in all other avenues of our life. Our minds and egos really rebel and it is not easy. I remember while in India, I began saying every morning before meditation, "God, this is no longer my day, it is your day. I will offer this day to you and will do what you want me to do."  Surrendering to the higher being; asking for grace to descend into me to guide and bless me, trusting in his divine wisdom. I am being seen by the divine, I am being supported by the divine and I will act from the space of the divine. This is a giant leap, expanding every aspect of our lives into non-doership. This is what I mean, by allowing the topic to expand into the fullness of the divine. Allowing ourselves to be swept away with the currents of divine love and then to share that love with all we do and all we serve.

Reiki and Service

Phyllis Furumoto recently interviewed Sister Carol Wirtz, a Nun from the Order of the Sisters of Charity, on her Radio Talk Show, Reiki, Balancing Form and Essence. Sister Carol, lives outside of El Paso, Texas in a small community of other nuns who administer several charitable missions in the surrounding area. Dedicated to a life of service, Sister Carol is able to weave Reiki into their mission rather easily and speaks about  how serving the poor, the less fortunate becomes a motivating factor in her life.

When one serves God, one serves from the heart and not the mind. When the mind drops into the effulgence of the heart, then service becomes selfless. God moves in and takes over, conducting a bigger plan that is freeing to all involved. It becomes a two way street, the giver and the receiver are equal players, each receiving love from the divine source. Both are fed and nurtured by the divine source.

Reiki, in all its wonderment, is so simple. Reiki immediately removes the do-er, for the first time in our lives, we know we are not doing Reiki. Reiki is doing us, the source is providing Universal energy to bring balance to all living things, their systems, glands and organs. To quote Helen Haberly, my Reiki Master, "you can't do Reiki wrong, you can't do Reiki right, because you are not doing it." Reiki gifts us non do-ership. We, along with our egos, step aside and let this benevolent energy do its work. We can't make it better, we can't make it less, we can't change it, and all that is asked of us, is to sit with it and become the witness. Reiki becomes the Grand Master. It teaches us every time we reach out with our empty hands and place them on ourselves and others.

In contemplating service in my lifetime, which has taken many forms, serving in the military for my country, serving my Guru, Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, serving the poor and infirmed, and serving myself, I have learned many lessons. The first question in contemplation arises, is how well do I serve myself? If I can't serve myself, how then, can I effectively serve others. When I offer service, what is my intention? Am I serving out of a wounded place within myself, causing me to let pity orchestrate my service or have I healed that wounded place within me, therefore allowing me to have compassion orchestrate my mission for the suffering masses? Do I stand from the pulpit of duality or do I see everyone as one? Is my ego orchestrating the mission or am I able to serve with compassion and out of love? Can I step aside and let the universal energy do the work?


I always refer to Mother Theresa's reply, when asked many years ago, about how she could bear to take care of the poor, the infirmed masses of her mission? Her reply, profound and simple," I only take care of one. I feed Jesus, I bathe Jesus, I clothe Jesus." She only sees one, and that is her beloved. She treats everyone as though they were Jesus. When we serve with that one-pointedness, then we are free, free from duality, free from all that binds us. Serving with single vision that is non-dual in nature.

With Reiki we can pull our chair up to the treatment table and sit back and relax. God steps in and ministers the treatment. When we draw our sacred symbols into the air, someone out there is listening and seeing and immediately answers our call. The treatment starts. There are no treatment hours on God's master board. Call anytime, night or day, God says, we are always open and ready to serve humanity.

Remember to call  God, step aside from your intention, always be in your heart, so that you can serve selflessly...