Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
Dear all,
I must just take a moment out of what is currently quite a busy life to tell you about the Journey Intensive weekend I FINALLY went on a couple of weeks ago.
Brandon Bayes was a leading alternative health practitioner and travelled with Anthony Robbins around the world giving lectures on health and vitality. She then found herself one day with a tumor the size of a basketball growing in her stomach. She was shocked as she believed herself to be a very healthy person. She had heard about an area of study being done by Deepak Chopra who asked the question, ‘if our cells rejuvenate fully in the body every year, then why does disease continue?’. Brandon came to believe that cells held memory and she set about trying to release the memories held by the cells of her tumor to allow her body to become healthy again.
After about 6 weeks I think it was, she had successfully reduced the size of the tumour and went on to clear it fully, gaining a clean bill of health from the doctor. This, of course supported her belief in cellular memory and she wanted to bring this knowledge to as many people as possible. What she then created was a simple process which she called ‘The Journey’. This process is now used around the world and her book ‘The Journey’ has been translated into many languages. The South African government have adopted the process in hospitals for trauma patients as it has significantly reduced their after-care time. Also, in South Africa it has been adopted in schools where it is changing the lives of many children who have suffered great emotional and physical hardships.
Having experienced the process now a number of times using the CDs on my own, with a trained practitioner and recently at the Journey Intensive I am feeling that it is a great gift to us. Finally, in a very simple way we are able to clear our sub-conscious of past memories and emotions which are holding us back from our True nature as human beings. I have felt for many years now that we are all living in these bodies at such a low capacity of who we really ARE. And as I clear my own self and continue a regular practice of meditation and processing at this time, the awareness and revelations are coming thick and fast. What I truly know as a radiant being, which because of the stored repressed emotions I was holding onto surfaced only very rarely, are now surging forward and becoming more of a driving force in my life than the old ways, the patterns and the ever present FEAR.
Its all so simple, the hard part is getting enough strength to listen to your heart in the first place and decide to do it. That FEAR is so strong, but once you face it you find that emotion is the key to finding your true self. You are no longer afraid of emotion but begin to learn how to deal with it when it comes up. Be in it, immerse yourself in it and in the middle you will find what lies beneath it and if you continue you will eventually face your fear and experience what is on the other side. Can you guess? There are so many words to describe it; love, bliss, light, radiance, space, silence, knowing, Truth, contentment, spirit, god, source, grace…
So, if you feel your heart pulling you there…DO IT NOW, take action as the feeling may not last and you may find yourself falling back into old ways of putting it off, suppressing it, sweeping it under the carpet, keeping busy, working hard, drinking, taking drugs, smoking… Oh we have so many and so many around us are supported by our society.
www.thejourney.com
The Radiant Being in me sees the Radiant Being in you…
Namaste
Rebecca
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Can you be busy, yet maintain stillness and peace within?
This is the current question I am looking at. Since a couple of weeks ago I have begun to work more and have three projects on the go at the moment together with being a mum and still trying to get our house finished.
The answer that has come to me is that in order to experience a sense of peace, we must begin with the body. If there is discord and stress in the body this will be manifest in the mind and emotions and ultimately the energetic body. If we have Reiki and harmonise our energy this will not have a lasting effect unless we cultivate a regular physical and energetic practice.
How many times have we heard that to meditate every day is a good thing, but still many of us are not doing this. I have found that rather than sit still to meditate, being physical in meditation is much easier and at the same time helps the blood to flow and the endorphines charge, enhancing my mental state at the same time. So I am running and in the running or in any repetitive action, much as a chant would do I am finding my stillness. After running, I am practicing ashtanga yoga to calm the body and the heart. The key to this is continuity, not hours pounding the street because my mind is telling me to do it, but rather a daily check in with myself and a practice based on how I feel and what is a good thing for me at that time.
From this it came to me that it is not the activity we are doing, but rather how we do it. This holds true with all things. We may be running because we want to run away or we may run because today the body feels strong and wants to strengthen itself?
What are you doing and how are you doing it? We so often want to change our jobs, our lives, our relationships but maybe looking at how we do what is now present in our lives will be more effective and lead us to find that external change begins within.
If you would like to explore the way you are in your life and begin to make changes, contact me about my latest workshop:
Reiki for Life
Using Reiki to enhance your daily life by exploring what you do and why you do it.
Friday 24 October, 2008 - 9.45 - 2.15. Cost: £45
REIKI WORKSHOPS
REIKI I - Friday 10 October
REIKI II - Friday 3 October
REIKI MASTER - Friday 14 November
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Hi,
I’m over here in Cognac, France with my family and 5 year old daughter escaping the english rain and thought I’d share my recollections of the first retreat I organised which was held here at my parent’s house near Cognac.
It was early days in my Reiki practice and I had decided, living in London that what most of the clients I was meeting needed was to get out of the madness of the City and go somewhere totally quiet and peaceful, so I chose this house which is just that. Set amongst sunflower fields and with about 6 other houses in the hamlet, this place is totally silent and has a big starry sky at night. It was an amazing retreat and everyone took away a transformation of their own, including the practitioners. I am still in contact with some who came and my thoughts are turning to retreats again.
My sister is living in Marrakech and her Riad guest house will be open in October where I will be holding a Reiki and Ashtanga Yoga retreat early next year in January or February. Up-date to come when we have finalised the details. Retreats are a fantastic way of speeding up and enhancing your journey as it is often the routine of life which keeps us held in old patterns of behaviour and stops us from really moving on. I take every opportunity I can to either change my routine or get away just for a change of scenery no matter where that might be.
Other forms of retreat are also interesting. A friend of mine has just done the 10 day silent Vipassana retreat. This is held in Hereford in the UK but she attended in Barcelona. Its a rigorous practice which starts at 4 am and includes total silence and meditation throughout the day. She said that initially you just sit and watch the madness of thoughts become crazier and crazier until finally they stop and you do experience a sense of peace. At this time, the Vipassana facilitators then teach you the specific Vipassana meditation which she said takes you deeper into your psyche and older more held back thoughts begin to arise. Vipassana means ‘to see things as they really are’ and the aim of the process is to irradicate all mental impurities for the person to acheive the highest state of happiness. Although my friend said the schedule was gruelling at times, she felt totally alive and buzzing when she left. I think it depends how much personal work you’ve done when you go but she said that most people there have literally walked off the street and never really meditated before which I find highly admirable! Check out the website at www.dhamma.org
I’m interested in a Raw food retreat as I’ve recently turned to a 90% Raw diet. Its totally amazing and I’ll share all with you another day. Check out www.totalrawfood.com
Please get in touch if you’re interested in going on retreat as I’d like to hear your feelings about why and what you’d hope to gain from a retreat so I can fine tune the experience.
Love to you all,
Rebecca
WORKSHOPS
REIKI I
Thursday 11 September
REIKI II
Friday 12 September
REIKI MASTER
October - date tbc
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Dear all,
Having just completed a two day Reiki Master course on a one-to-one basis, I wanted to let you know the transformative time I have just spent with someone so committed to the Truth and to exploring all aspects of herself and her place in the Universe that the depth of the course was truly wonderful.
The Reiki Master attunement can be so deep and powerful and can literally shift awareness in that instant. I truly believe that the person who came on Monday is not the person who left on Tuesday. What are amazing are the facial changes that occur over any Reiki attunement course. People’s eyes are wider as if they really are seeing more, the skin is clearer and the personality is calmer. Often people close to those having just been attuned comment on the changes they see and feel, its also interesting to watch the reaction of pets after an attunement. After this Reiki Master course, the dog wanted to be close to the newly attuned Reiki practitioner and would not leave her side all night, enjoying soaking up the clean, clear energy of love emanating from her.
I wanted to write about this as I too received my Master attunement again at the end of the course as a way for the practitioner to practice the giving of attunements. This idea of re-attunement is one often not discussed by Reiki Masters in the West but in the tradition of Japanese Reiki it has often been referred to as an important part of the Reiki journey. A pracitioner would be attuned every time they saw their Master which at that time was fairly regularly.
I felt quite ill this morning and felt that my 21-day cleansing cycle was kicking in but instead of rushing about and not listening I was in quite a connected space and spent the day resting and taking herbs. I feel great now and very peaceful. I just did my weekly look at finances which usually stresses me out and I had a total feeling of detachment from it. It seems to be the emotional attachment to things which cause the rollercoaster or as the buddhists call it, the cycle of suffering. I’m happy when I have money and unhappy when there seems to be a shortfall and around and around the cycle goes. So, today the little figures on the paper were just that and I did what I had to do by moving them all around and I have to say what a relief, its done now and the feeling of peace remains. My own re-attunement feels quite deep and has been another shift of increased awareness for me.
So, as we continue to peel the layers of the onion, with each layer revealing more to us about our Truth, the use of the re-attunement can be a useful tool. Many people come to me at the Reiki II stage and ask to be re-attuned in preparation for the Masters but it can be used at any time by any level.
If you’d like to explore this with me or feel ready for the next level, please get in touch by email: reiki@rebeccahutley.com
In Peace
Rebecca
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Well,
What an interesting time the human race seems to be facing right now. As the destruction of our beautiful planet intensifies I see the instability of our existence finally being reflected in the day to day lives of people. Initially, it was natural disasters abroad and the odd flood in England and now the same energy is hitting people through money, finance and property as the UK finds itself in a sudden down turn. Will we be shown with full force the ridiculous nature of our current ways as the most intelligent race populating the earth?
It has certainly made me sit up and check everything I am doing and how I live my life and quite frankly its not good enough. But, here we are sitting in a house with a big mortgage and very little room to move. So, Reiki has shown me many things but there are many more for me to learn as I sit in a web of my own making.
I think the feeling from it all is that life does not suddenly become wonderful with Reiki but starts you on a journey towards simplicity and peace where you can watch the changes in the world around you and yet remain centred and calm. Towards the end of the journey we may find ourselves in a very different lifestyle but we must be ready, and so the challenges we face today are there to allow us to grow and learn in preparation for greater shifts as we move forwards.
The amazing thing is that our race has already created the technology to save itself from destruction, but in order for this to happen we must be conscious enough to use it to change the way we live.
So, the energies intensify… Are you ready?
Love to you all
Rebecca x
WORKSHOPS:
Reiki I workshop - Thursday 26 June
Reiki II workshop - Monday 30 June & Tuesday 1 July
Reiki Masters - Monday 7 & Tuesday 8 July
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Hi,
Just thought I’d share with you my latest revelations! I was tiling the floor of our house which we have now decided to sell and move to Spain. Not a sudden decision, we were always going to do it but the change in market prices etc. has pushed us to move sooner. So, we’re on a mad one to finish doing up the house and put it on the market.
So, as I’m on my knees scrubbing the glue off the sides of the tiles, not very happy about it as these are now tiles for someone else’s kitchen, it came to me!
The confusion I’ve always felt in my life about what to do and where to do it and how to earn money blah blah blah, has in fact never been my confusion, just that handed to me by society and all those exisiting within its control. The answer is, ‘Find something you love doing, and then find a way of doing it how you want to’. So, that’s it, simple. Obviously, the finding the way to do it part will create its own hurdles as it will probably include making money etc. but otherwise, what on earth else is there to do here on this wonderful planet, except of course scuttle around like a mad mouse chasing its tail like most other people. We also have a lifetime to find a way to do it, so it shouldn’t be too difficult.
Wow, I felt excited but also sick at the same time. What have I been doing for 34 years? A worrying thought, basically I’ve been chasing my tail. The constraints on my own happiness have only come from my own thought patterns inherited by my society. To do what you love doing, no, that is impossible, life must be hard and maybe when you get to 65 you can sit down and stop chasing your tail.
Well, I don’t think so somehow!
So, that’s it, tail chasing over. I’m off to Spain to ride my own horses.
See you soon.
Love you all
Rebecca x
WORKSHOPS:
Reiki I workshop on Thursday 22 May
REIKI II workshop on Thursday 29 May
Please contact me at reiki@rebeccahutley to book a place on either of these workshops.
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Dear all,
Well, Spring has brought great change to us here!
With news of Ray’s high blood pressure we both decided to go on a diet. Simple, I thought until I started to experience massive emotional meltdowns and crying, depression and lethargy. I thought it was a bit severe and then I realised I had inadvertantly given up refined sugar. I did a search on the internet and learnt the horrors of processed sugar and the massive withdrawal effects on your nervous system, immune system and emotional and energetic bodies. Within this turmoil though I was drawn to eating massive green salads and it seemed that my body was becoming more connected to what it really needed.
This is my third week and I am only just starting to feel more energised. Not enough to start running again but enough to get through the day and feel like doing something in the evening. I am feeling much clearer in my head and am starting to feel that the energy is really pure. I am now looking into the Raw diet and would like to run the London Marathon next year on this pure energy.
Within the last three weeks, I started to meditate nightly and pour Reiki into my heart. This has been extremely powerful and massive shifts are starting to occur in our life plans. Changes are happening and we are being clearly directed in a way I had not thought would come for a long time. I think the physical cleansing is removing blockages in all other aspects of my being.
I am sharing this story with you as I think it demonstrates the link between mind, body, emotions and energy. They are inextricably intertwined and if you work on any one of them, major changes are released within you on all levels. Who would have thought giving up biscuits would mean such a shift in life direction! The smallest diversion from the Truth, a small amount of sugar which fools the body into thinking it is being given nutritional energy for example, can cloud the connection to our bodies, which turns us ever so slightly from the whole Truth of our being.
So, be aware of yourself and all of your actions, listen to the universe and the signs around you and embrace them as I know this will lead you closer to your deepest Truth.
With Love
Rebecca
WORKSHOPS:
Reiki I workshop on Thursday 22 May
REIKI II workshop on Thursday 29 May
Please contact me at reiki@rebeccahutley to book a place on either of these workshops.
Sunday, February 24th, 2008
Hi,
Finally after 12 years of teaching Reiki and the dream of having a space dedicated to Reiki, this is becoming a realisation.
As I put the finishing touches to my room in Worthing, I’ve had a sudden rush of enquiries and bookings. The natural order of things is telling me to hurry up and get the space ready because its about time!
So, I look forward to meeting you here and working with you soon.
With Love
Rebecca
Sunday, February 24th, 2008
Come and join a group of like-minded people starting their Reiki journey with a Reiki I course and begin to experience your true nature.
Thursday 3rd April
10-3
81 Church Road,
Worthing
BN13 1HE
Contact me for more details: reiki@rebeccahutley.com
Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Hi,
With the winter sun setting in front of me and the nights drawing in I realise it has been a long time since I wrote my last newsletter…
It has been an intense period of shift and change for me and usually when that occurs my involvement in the giving of Reiki reduces.
I have had a few clients and as always they came to show something to me, just as the Reiki we shared showed them something about themselves and their place in the grand design of the universe.
I’d like to share with you my recent experience of the amazing gift of healing used with a strong intuition and the benefits of conventional medecine. With a visit to hospital coming up, I undertook a whole phase of therapies to prepare and heal before an operation which I felt I needed to have. It was very tempting to believe that I could heal myself but I listened to my intuition which was strongly telling me that now was not the time for that experience and that I should have the operation as soon as possible but prepare well for it. I knew without a doubt that I could affect the outcome of an exploratory surgery where the cause of my dis-ease was yet unknown and would be until the surgeon entered my body. However, I also knew that I needed to explore my inner-self deeply to find the cause of this dis-ease and work to heal it. I had three weeks.
My experience lead me to use Reflexology for my body, Hypnotherapy for my mind and I undertook ‘The Journey’ which allowed old emotions to be released and my spirit to soar again. All of these were relevant but it is ‘The Journey’ I would like to talk about today.
You may already have heard about it. It is a process designed and put together by a lady called Brandon Bayes who healed herself from a large tumor with a similar process. She has since refined it and made it available to the world through her book and workshops. See www.thejourney.com. It is a process which takes you into your sub-conscious and looks for the root of issues which are affecting you today. What I love about the process is that it is a whole process which at the end is completed and closed for you to enter your life once again in the Conscious realm. It does not uncover past emotions and leave you open. Once found, emotions which had been stored and never allowed to be expressed are released. But this is not the end, the jewel in the process is that all those involved at the time are available for forgiveness and in most cases the release of emotion allows such forgiveness. It is this which can take you to a place of absolute truth, to the heart of spirit, to Source. What an amazing process, it takes into account all elements of your being and allows you to access your own direct link with Universal Truth!
I was able to come through my experience with a heightened sense of my place on the Earth and the truth of my existence more deeply felt. And to do this, I used both Alternative Therapies and Conventional medecine.
I feel that this was a great lesson for me and everyone in the Alternative Therapy field because as it turned out the decision to have the operation straight away was a major factor in affecting the outcome and this I knew. The universe is all things, there is no right or wrong, only the deepest truth that you feel inside. All things are relevant and the way to find your path at any given time is to be still and feel the truth in your heart.
May your choices be true for you…
In Love
Rebecca