Mind Matters

5 REIKI PRINCIPALS Just for today, I will not worry. Just for today, I will not be angry. Just for today, I will be grateful. Just for today, I will do my work honestly. Just for today, I will be kind to everything. #Reiki is a spiritual healing art with its roots in Japanese origin. The word Reiki comes from the Japanese word (Rei) which means “Universal Life” and (Ki) which means “Energy”. Reiki is not affiliated with any particular religion or religious practice. It is not massage nor is it based on belief or suggestion. It is a subtle and effective form of energy work using spiritually guided life force energy. Reiki is the life energy that flows through all living things. Reiki Practitioners understand that everyone has the ability to connect with their own healing energy and use it to strengthen energy in themselves and help others. It is believed that a person’s “ki” or energy should be strong and free-flowing. When this is true a person’s body and mind is in a positive state ...

Morning Affirmations To Start Your Day Our thoughts play a big and important role in our overall success and happiness, it’s important to find ways to improve our mindset. Affirmations are a powerful way to improve your mindset on a daily basis and research have shown that they can increase our feelings of As Dr. David Schechter, author of Think Away Your Pain and The Mindbody Workbook explains: “Just as we do daily physical exercise to get stronger, affirmations can be thoughts of as exercise for our mind/brain.”   Positive self-talk is a research-backed method of rising to the upper echelons of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs: self-esteem and self-actualization. Social scientist Claude Steele was the first to propose the theory of self-affirmation, where if people can feel relatively positive about themselves in one arena, they can better tolerate a threat to their self-integrity in another. More recently, MRI evidence suggests neural pathways are increased when people pr...