On 16 March the Swiss authorities declared a state of emergency. On the 22nd, I should have given a presentation in France on the subject of “reconciliation”. Instead of that I made 7 concise videos. Continue reading “Reconciliation is personal. Always.”
In the times of Corona … many of our seminars are cancelled. Please take note.
A must watch for light amusement:
“As a doctor I tell people all the time, don’t smoke, don’t eat cheeseburgers and so on. But if we really want one, we will do it because we deem the risk-reward proposition as good enough for us.” Continue reading “Risk-Reward and Solidarity in the time of Corona”
Today is supposed to be the last real summer day. Yesterday was the penultimate :), and I enjoyed it fully reading on the balcony. I love to read, but sometimes I find it overwhelmingly difficult to find something out of the large selection. That’s why I have a system: I get 3 books from the library, alphabetically. So I discovered some things that I probably wouldn’t have bought otherwise. Continue reading “From summer to autumn into the future”
For some months now we have known that Phyllis Lei Furumoto is facing the end of her life. On March 31st she passed away. May she rest in peace. Continue reading “A luminary has passed away.”
What does man think with? With the brain, of course – what a question! Well, maybe not quite.
Continue reading “The trend is towards the second brain”
This may sound like an exaggeration. Not for parents who have experienced sudden infant death. And what about energy remnants in hotel or hospital beds? Continue reading “Can used mattresses be lethal?”
It’s Sunday morning, a good week before Christmas. A wonderful peace prevails. Continue reading “Treasure hunt on the balcony”
Again and again it amazes me to see how children deal with Reiki. As a matter of course and at the same time full of curiosity. Continue reading “Children and Reiki”
Dear readers and friends,
I just watched a segment of RTalk first thing this morning. It is called ‘Passion’ with Eri and Fokke, both Reiki Masters, she Japanese, he Dutch. And both do and live calligraphy with great enthusiasm.
They describe a state they each experience when practicing their art form. A state of being, a state that could perhaps also be called Tao. Only, “if you can describe Tao, it is no longer Tao”.
I know this being very well, know this state when painting. I even titled a painting “The void”, a void that is not only empty but also very full of consciousness or unconsciousness. Does that make any sense at all?
I am also an Ikebana master, and during the process of becoming an Ikebana, exactly this state arises, where simply nothing else matters, where the path is the goal. But it is also very moving to see the result of this process of creation in the form of a “flower arrangement”.
What does this have in common with Reiki? For me, a lot, because we can also experience this absolutely sacred and healing state during self-treatment. When everything around stands still, or disappears as if in a fog. Our being needs this state on all levels, especially in these very demanding times.
I wish us all this inner stillness. If not always, then more and more often?
A luminous Christmas season and an enriching, happy new year,
Namaste.
Mischa
PS: when I was making my Advent wreath I was exactly in this “middle”, that’s how you can also call the silence.
Tao: Mischa quotes the first sentence of the Tao te ching, one of the most important writings of mankind from the 4th century before Christ, which deals with Yin and Yang and their interaction.
Ikebana: the Japanese art of flower arranging. Ikebana literally means ‘living flower’.
