Elaine Grundy: looking for Urban Enlightenment

Lets Do Our Part!

For Our Future and Future Generations....
16 May 2009 2-8pm
Hortpark Singapore
33 Hyderabad Road (off Alexandra Road)
www.letsdoyourpart.com

A charity seminar on social and environmental consciousness, inspired by the words of President Obama: "This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands."

The tickets are now available at $39/- per participant. It is a small fee for a value packed seminar! If you're not able to make it on 16 May, you may choose to purchase the ticket as a form of donation and perhaps pass the ticket on to your friends/family. For those not in Singapore, you may also choose to participate in this event by Pledging To Go Meat Free on 16 May, please visit our pledge page: http://www.letsdoyourpart.com/pledge.php

100% of the net proceeds from the event will go to The River Kids Project, a charity that prevents child trafficking in Cambodia (www.riverkidsproject.org).

The panel of expert speakers have all volunteered their time and knowledge/wisdom to be part of this event, and they include:
- Betty L Khoo-Kingsley, author of Cancer Cured & Prevented Naturally
- Dr Sarah Mavrinac, award winning social entrepreneur, founder of aidha
- Clarence Tan, Vice-president of the Vegetarian Society
- Faizah Jamal, speaking on "Weaving the Web Of Life"
- Michael O'Brien from Australia, speaking on "Sustainable Investing & The Stock Market"
- Dale Edmonds, founder of RiverKids Project
- Toby Ouvry, speaking on "Caring For The Earth By Caring For Ourselves"
- Shamala Tan, founder of "Let's Do Our Part"
- Fun & Games

To purchase the ticket/s, send an email to info@platinumlightworker.com with your full name, address and number of tickets you wish to purchase. Or you may phone 65-67950805 or send an sms to 65-97364300 Or visit: http://tinyurl.com/cphybh to purchase the ticket online.

Date: 16 May Sat • Time: 2pm-8pm • Venue: HortPark Singapore Multipurpose Hall, 33 Hyderabad Road (off Alexandra Road) • Fee: S$39 per person
This charity seminar is truly an educational and life changing event that will help you to transform your life and your children's lives forever.

Power vs Force, Recallibrating Thoughts vs Controlling Them

I picked up the book "Power vs. Force" by David Hawkins, MD PhD, to read again a few weeks ago, and was blown away by the 'newness' of the information.  It was as if I had never read it before (this is the THIRD time I have read this book).  This revelation alone is prompting me to go back over my bookshelf and pull out other books I read over a decade ago to reread them too!

Of course it makes perfect sense that this book comes at me from a totally new direction, after all the book is all about the 'levels of consciousness', so it goes without saying that as I progress and grow, so my level of consciousness also changes and I have access to a totally new level of understanding.

At my last Reiki class we had a lively discussion around thoughts, the question was 'how do we control our thoughts'.  According to Hawkins and also new scientists such as Rupert Sheldrake (http://www.sheldrake.org/homepage.html) thoughts are actually always present in the universe - a bit like the entire internet and millions of mobile phone conversations are continuously drifting past and through our heads - the only difference between thoughts and mobile phone sound waves, is that we cannot consciously tune in to mobile phone sound waves.  However, the idea is the same.  Depending on what 'frequency' we are vibrating at, we will be able to tune in to different 'packets' of thoughts.  If you think of a time when you were joyful and happy and felt on top of the world, it would have been very difficult for you to have accessed an abundant number of depressing or morbid thoughts, same goes if you are feeling miserable and depressed - the higher and more joyful thought forms are out of your range.

The way to 'control your thoughts' is really to work on shifting your vibrational level so that happy thoughts automatically get accessed.  It is actually impossible to control your thoughts, because they are not technically yours.  However if you focus on feeling good and doing things that make you feel good, the appropriate thoughts will follow.  Try it next time you are feeling low, go and do something (anything) that raises your vibration (ie something that is good for you not reaching for the double chocolate muffin!), go for a walk barefoot, drink a veggie juice or herbal tea, do 5 mins of deep breathing and just watch your thoughts shift gear.

Hawkins' 'level of consciousness' chart is uncannily similar to Abrahams Hicks (speaker on the Law of Attraction) scale of Emotional Guidance Scale and as with Abrahams; Hawkins recommends focusing not on the top level, but on moving up the scale one step at a time.  For example, if you are near the bottom, and suffering from depression, deep rage or permanent frustration, trying to reach for total joy and bliss is not only unrealistic, but also mildly ridiculous (and your brain knows it).  So when in depression, try some anger instead.  At least anger has an action component to it which means your energy is beginning to move out of the soporific inertness of depression.  Any movement, even angry movement, is good at this point.

Of course once you get to the next level your focus is then to move to the next and the next so that very quickly you find yourself climbing out of the negative vibrations altogether and into the positive emotions and therefore the positive thoughts.

Can you do it the other way?  Can you focus on positive thinking and automatically shift your entire level upwards?  Well yes you can as many positive thinking philosophies and trainings attest.  This is because it is all linked, but you cannot reach from 'I hate my life what's the point of even trying' to 'I love my life and I live in joy' in a single bound.  Again it is a matter of reaching for a thought at the top end of your spectrum (perhaps 'I hate my life and I am need to change it') and from this top end of the spectrum you can then reach for the bottom end of the spectrum of the next level eg 'my life could be better, I need to do something about it'.

A double pronged approach is obviously the fastest for change to become permanent - watching your thoughts and reaching for a better one, and watching your emotions and shifting to a better one.  It does all take work, you need to be vigilant, disciplined and willing to do the work in order to see results.  Seems pretty obviously but amazing how many of us are still happier to blame it all on 'out there'.

That's just another low vibration belief! 

This video is long, but extremely interesting!  Its Sheldrake explaining his theories in person:

What is Kundalini Awakening?

From The Kundalini Experience, Lee Sannella MD

Since beginning to teach Kundalini Reiki I have had several questions regarding the awakening of the Kundalini, especially from those of you who enjoy surfing the net – there is a lot of ‘danger – beware’ information on the internet and some people are concerned that Kundalini Reiki will inadvertently awaken the kundalini with unpleasant results.  To demystify the experience, I have excerpts from Lee Sannella’s comprehensive book to help to identify some of the main factors in kundalini awakening, please read this book for a greater understanding on the energy and how it manifests.

Key to note however, is that Kundalini Reiki is NOT designed to awaken the kundalini which normally only happens after rigorous and prolonged meditation or other spiritual practice.  Kundalini Reiki does help us to harness the power of this energy but it does not facilitate its release up the spine and into enlightenment, unfortunately for us!  To awaken our ‘greatest potential’ we would need to do at least 1-2 hours of meditation a day for several years, and even then it is a curiously rare phenomenon.

The following symptoms are not designed to scare the living daylights out of you (though they might!) but more to assure those of you who get the normal detox headaches, tingling or aches and pains that you are far removed from the real symptoms of Kundalini awakening and are simply experiencing a regular detox.  If however you are experiencing many of the symptoms below – don’t worry, you are not going mad but you are on your journey towards bliss – yay!

Benefits of Kundalini Awakening:

The awakening of the kundalini is seen by many as the gateway to enlightenment and unification with the universe.  The reports of those who have experienced this phenomenon include being bathed in ‘bliss’, peace, ‘oneness with the universe’, ‘ecstasy’.

Swami Narayanananda, in his book The Primal Power in Man, describes the classical account of Kundalini arousal which is also mentioned in traditional scriptures of Hinduism (especially Yoga and Tantrism) but also reflect similarities in Taoism, Zen traditions, and Buddhism.

The opening of the senses:

Common symptoms in cases of Kundalini awakening –

1.      Sounds such as tones, music, hissing, roaring, thunder, drumming, cymbals.

2.      Visualizations including colours, light inside your head or body, hallucinations, outside luminescence of objects.

3.      Temperature, extremes of heat or cold that can be measured by thermometer.

4.      Sensations of tickling, vibrating, itching, crawling moving about in a patterned manner or pulsating and flowing.  Especially movement from the legs, pain in big toe, up the legs towards the back, neck, head and face in that order.

5.      Movement, spontaneous involuntary positioning (often in yogic poses) of limbs, fingers, whole body.  Crying out or grunting, yelling, screaming involuntarily.  Odd breathing patterns.

These symptoms are often experienced during meditation, quiet times, in bed or sitting quietly.

Often reports of pain, fear of madness or psychosis, fear of illness or death creates such resistance to the energy flow that the opening is impeded creating much more pain or lengthening the time to completion.  Completion can be as long as months or years. If the fear is stopping you from moving forwards, simply stop your meditative practices and the flow will abate by itself.  The flow is completed when the feeling of bliss resides almost solely in your crown.  Reports of instant healing of ailments, clarity and insight is common with such awakening.

Kundalini awakening as yet is a very rare phenomenon but we believe it is growing as more people open the path and more people recognize what it is and how to handle the flow.  Although it sounds extreme, kundalini awakening is the fast track to inner bliss and enlightenment, though it is not the only route.

Reiki has been likened as another route to enlightenment, albeit without all the nashing of teeth and drama queen excesses.  Kundalini Reiki is a fast track of sorts, as the healing is done more quickly and intensely, so definitely there is opportunity to work on your kundalini energy and heighten this experience when done in conjunction with other practices such as Kundalini Yoga, Osho meditation, or other spiritual traditions.

However, it bears remembering that Kundalini Reiki done with the intention of healing and wellness and for only the prescribed 5-15 minutes a day will NOT create the experiences described above!

Choose Freedom over Righteousness

Ever wonder why some people react to outside influences so differently to you? Ever wish you could just 'relax' and 'be yourself'? Do you sometimes even wonder who that 'yourself' is?

Over our lives we become indoctrinated with beliefs from birth - we listen to the opinions of others, we take on our parents worries and fears, we belief what they say when they say 'the world is not safe', 'money doesn't grow on trees', 'cake makes you fat'. We go to school and we believe what our teachers say when they say 'you need to work on your weaknesses', 'without hard work you will never amount to anything', 'you are bad at maths'. Then we listen to our friends, our peers, our bosses, the media, the government, our culture, our religion....and we wonder why we end up with no clue what we really believe, or how we really feel about things.

The great news is that, actually, we do know exactly how we feel about something. We have in our bodies an early warning system, and that's called 'stress'. When we align with beliefs and goals that are in flow with our being, we feel happy and centred. And when we misalign, we feel stressed. Simple.

This workshop is also very simple, we go through and dissect our beliefs, we dig and find out what our limiting beliefs are (be prepared for some surprises) and we learn an easy Four step process of enquiry (from Byron Katie) for eliminating them, one by one.

The morning is about discovery, uncovery (;)) and recovery. By the end of it you will feel more freedom, less stress, more control, less fear, more peace, less frustration, more centredness, less chaos, more happiness, less anger. Join us for an extreme make-over!

Who should come:
• Anyone who feels stressed, angry, frustrated, irritated or anxious!
• Anyone who wants to discover what is holding them back in life.
• Anyone who would like to feel true freedom.

Wednesday 27th May, 7.30-9.30pm, $30
booking@elainegrundy.com
282D River Valley Rd

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