If you'd been paid for your efforts - the money earned doing something that you're clearly dedicated to, and that you clearly have the 'spare' time to devote to, could have been used to set up some kind of business of your own - in your 'spare' time (currently your 'spare' time and efforts are being donated to others) - a creative techie-type project, perhaps.
Doesn't the prospect of having free-rein to indulge and develop your creative technological (or whatever) ideas appeal to you at all?
There's no dictation from HP's admin that myself or Paul have to be here, or check things every day even, it's entirely what suits us. Because I aim to meet the needs of the moment; being present, rather than being distracted with past and future and the discursive mind, I tend to get things done and have time to do loads of other things I choose to do, including writing my own techie programs to do things, or researching my family tree (and before you say that's living in the past, I see it differently, as it's about meeting the need for our family to understand it's roots and background and what has made us what we are today), or walking, or reading, or gardening on the allotment etc. etc. As for 'setting up business', that is not a primary need. I do give treatments to those who ask/seek them from me, but I have no need to go out there and drum up business for myself. My reiki practice and other skills are used for understanding the Self (as some people would put it... growing spiritually) which is what something like Reiki was initially intended for. It's a western thing (certainly in recent years) to get qualified in such therapies, mainly to turn it into business and make money from it, yet I know I can pick out numerous local practitioners from around me and question them about the true concepts and meaning behind what they practice and they would not have any real deep understanding. This is just like the walk the talk message... it's all fine and good them using their skills to help others, but do they use their skills to help and grow themselves? Do they really know what it is they are doing, and are they really continuing their study (Just for today work diligently, as the reiki principle tells us) to walk the talk and live what they teach, preach and use? That's their choice though, not mine. I choose to live it as much as possible.
All Love and Reiki Hugs
The reiki principles are about integrity - and you cannot be integrated if you are not living authentically.
Trust me 'walking the talk' of the reiki ;principles is not easy. No-one who is not being authentic could really hope to live by them. Trying ti live by them is a voyage of self discovery - and that is surely where being authentic starts. If you don't know who you are you cannot be authentic i.
The reiki principles mentioned here, i.e. be free of anger and worry, work diligently and be kind are directions. Integrity, I feel, is more about applying held values, behaving according to these beliefs. Do these reiki principles take on board the person's own beliefs, e.g. on issues not covered under the principles and apply directions on these? That would be more representative of authenticity, i.e. walking the talk.
I agree that knowing who you are is a necessary first step, involving forming values/belief systems on which to then model behaviour on.
Thanks for the reply, Giles. 🙂
As it's mainly yourself and Paul that appear (obviously I'm not privy to what goes on behind the scenes) to do the majority of the moderating, I had wondered if either or both of you had been left manning the fort, whilst Mike (hello Mike, if you're reading this) was off 'sipping cocktails on the beach'.
Yes, I know it gets said a lot around here that everyone has a choice, and are solely responsible for their own actions (and the all the rest of it) - but there are so many people taken advantage of because they're willing to work - voluntarily work - for praise, approval. acceptance - or hero/heroine worship, to stay relevant to this thread. It really pi**es me off to see it happening. Especially, if a culture of being entirely 'good', 'selfless' and 'giving' develops around these lopsided values, as it can do...... and particularly in religious or 'spiritual' groups, unfortunately....
Thanks for the more in-depth explanation 🙂
Hi WildStrawberry
Just to clarify, I chose to become a moderator to help the forum and its many members to have somewhere that they could come and chat and help each other, that choice has not changed, which is why I am still here helping to maintain the forum as a safe place for like minded people to connect with each other and share ideas and tips relating to health, healing and wellbeing.
As for my personal perceptions, if I chose to work as a traffic warden, then I would have to personally perceive that a vehicle was parked somewhere that the preset rules said that it should not be, or have it brought to my attention before I would perform the action of applying a parking ticket, a perception is not in itself a judgement, though we can apply a judgement to the things that we perceive.
Now as long as I utilised my personal perceptions to apply the rules to everyone indiscriminately then I would not have a problem with my personal authenticity, which is the way that I moderate on this forum, if I personally perceive something or the matter is brought to my attention by a member reporting a post, then I have another look and then make a choice to act or discuss the matter with the other moderators to see what they think and what if any action needs to be applied, or sometimes when we are still not sure what the best cause of action is, we then we pass it to the admin and their decision is final.
The point is WildStrawberry, as I said in an earlier post the roles that we choose to do, does not define what we are, I personally do not change or create a different persona when I choose to perform the many different roles and functions that I choose to do, I am the same person all of the time irrespective of what I am doing or who I am interacting with, I am always in full expression of the fullness of myself, which is what I personally understand being authentic to self and being real to be. 🙂
The reality is that I do not walk the talk, I talk the walk. 😉
The reiki principles mentioned here, i.e. be free of anger and worry, work diligently and be kind are directions. Integrity, I feel, is more about applying held values, behaving according to these beliefs. Do these reiki principles take on board the person's own beliefs, e.g. on issues not covered under the principles and apply directions on these? That would be more representative of authenticity, i.e. walking the talk.
I agree that knowing who you are is a necessary first step, involving forming values/belief systems on which to then model behaviour on.
If you don't believe the reiki principles are the right way to live, you won't take them on board and try to live by them.
For me discovering reiki was part of my journey to discover who I really was - and reiki is actually all about personal growth, which can only happen when you know who you truly are. The hands on healing is only one small part of it. Thats why the principles are so important. I always tell my pupils that any form of healing is an exercise in power - and living by the principles ensures that you are the sort of person who can safely exercise that power.
I am living authentically in my opinion, but it has been a long hard road - and I just doubt that a short video is going transform anyone's life the way NLP and the reiki principles have transformed mine. It takes hard work.