Category: The Reiki Rocker

It’s been two weeks since I fractured my kneecap. The doctor in the hospital told me that we needed to operate immediately. He changed his tune without missing a beat when he found out I didn’t have medical insurance. Which is fine because I wasn’t going to be operated on anyway. I believed that this could heal through alternative means. I am a Reiki Practitioner and I have other friends in Reiki, Cranial Sacral, Polarity and even those that believe in the power of prayer alone. I believe 100% that the body can heal itself. It’s believing that the body can heal itself, that is the key. If you don’t believe it, then it won’t. Pretty much like anything else in life.

Well, I can walk without the crutches now. I’m going to set up the bicycle trainer in my bedroom and start working my leg to get the stiffness out.

Why am I telling you this?

I’m telling you this because I want you to trust your gut. It’s easy to get caught up in F.E.A.R. (False Evidence Appearing Real) when a ‘professional’ tells you ‘this is the only way’. It’s the only way to them maybe, but its not the only way. Trust your gut. Listen to your heart. Meditate. Follow your own dream and focus on the outcome, not the circumstance.

As Michael Bernard Beckwith says in his song ‘U R The Answer’ – ‘And then there is this thing called Focus. This willingness and ability to stay the course.’

https://soundcloud.com/transcendance/u-r-the-answer

People say that I’m ‘lucky’. I wouldn’t really call it luck. I would just say that I’ve focused on the positive most of the time and that I have surrounded myself with powerful people. The only way I know how to focus on the positive is because I’ve experienced a lot of negative in my life.

Trial and error.

All of the relationships of my past could look like failures to some, but to me they were (in hindsight) great experiences to learn more about myself. We all have patterns that we can choose to look at and learn, or we can choose to blame on somebody else. Our choice. We’ve all chosen both somewhere in our lives until we’ve realized that we were just hurting ourselves.

Why am I writing this today? We have a New Moon Solar Eclipse at 21 degrees Scorpio. From what I’ve heard there will be profound shifts of value and depth in consciousness. I usually take this kind of information with a grain of salt, but over the past few months my values have been changing. I’ve been realizing who I am and honing in on that. Some of them have been hard lessons, some of them very fluid. I’ve watched people in my life go completely bonkers and others more focused. It’s been an interesting process for all of us.

Living in the ‘Now’ has probably been the most challenging thing. I’ve had a tendency to look at my past and this hasn’t served me in the least. My brain automatically reminds me of how I’ve failed in the past, and therefore it sabotages anything new from transpiring. My new experience of myself is focusing on right now. What is going on right now? How do I feel right now? Who am I right now?

Who are you right now?

Have you ever felt so out of place that you have no clue where you belong?

I’ve lived in many places in my life. I have a lot of friends around the world and yet I feel like I live in a bubble. The only real interaction I have with people is on the internet.

When I was young I read Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy. On one of the planets there were only a couple of million people. None of them knew each other. They all communicated with each other through what we would call today, the internet. This book was written in the 1950’s. Sixty years later we are there. We are so close and yet so far from human touch, which is so essential. Human interaction is imperative. Do you know how many misunderstandings there are through text and email? If we just sat down with each other face to face many of these misunderstandings would disappear.

Why are you bumming me out Dave?

I usually have a lot of positive things to say. But as of late I’m not feeling it. I’m not sure if California is for me anymore. But what is for me? Seems I had to come to California to learn that I am talented. That I do have what it takes to make it in the music business. So where do I go from here? I’m not sure but I’m open to the possibilities.

It’s easy to let the mind go into analysis paralysis when confronted with a situation that you have no clue how you’re going to handle it. It’s not our job to handle it. Our job is to declare to the Universe what we want and it delivers.

I’ve asked this question before about this to some of the ‘Manifestors’ that I respect and admire.

“What if I don’t get it? What if it doesn’t come when I need it?”

What they have told me, which I am passing on to you, as well as listening to it myself, is this….

The only reason the Universe doesn’t deliver is because you really don’t believe deep down inside that it will. The people that make millions of dollars just ‘know’ that it is there. There are no questions. It just is.

So, we need to come from the place that it is already there. Like riding a bike. You don’t get on the bike each time and say, “Oh Boy. I hope I can ride it this time. What if my balance doesn’t work? What if… What if…. What if…”. This is analysis paralysis.

Just know, like you know that when you get on that bike that it ‘just is’.

Keep Breathing,
D

This morning while meditating I was concentrating on what I want. And then, I remember the teachings from Summit Education that I was taught about wanting.

I get conflicting stories because Abraham says it’s good to want. I guess its how you classify the word want.

‘Wanting’ something is telling the Universe that you don’t have something. When you come from a place of already having it, envisioning it to already be there or coming to you. That it is coming to you when it is time for it to come to you. You are not putting out that desperation on ‘want’.

I would love to hear your thoughts on this.

Be. Do. Have.

How is your meditation going? And your journaling?

Namaste,
D

The Mantra for today will be,

I will follow my heart. I will love myself. I will see myself. I will be myself.
We are (as a society) surrounded with a lot of ‘shoulds’ in comparison to others, only to find that those people who we look at who somehow got it ‘right’ were only faking it in the first place. There wasn’t a rulebook that told them this is the correct path to follow. They made their own road.

I’m not a perfect being by any measure. I wear my heart on my sleeve and I have made a fool of myself in my small community here on Facebook, Twitter, and in the ‘real’ world more than once. You’ve seen me go from relationship to relationship, band to band, state to state, etc. In my own defense (and I’m only defending myself for sake of this blog); I love completely and unabashedly. I look at everything and everyone as something new and magical. I don’t look at the past to compare because I know if I do I will close this heart of mine. I just can’t do that. My hope is that in your own way you love just as much and with as much zest as you can muster and that you can push it a little more each time. Sure, you’ll get hurt. But the next time you’ll have a little more clarity and there will be a little more growth. And then you’ll be like those people that you ‘should’ be like and making it up for yourself.

Here are a few tools to use on your new path.

Write 3 pages every morning. Don’t think. Just write. If you’re only writing ‘blah blah blah’ or ‘I have no idea what to write’, at least you are writing. Trust me. Something will eventually start flowing. Don’t look for it. Don’t wait for it. Just do it.

Meditate for 10 minutes in the morning to start. Clear your mind. Close your eyes. If you want more direction in this I recommend a course on meditation. I’ve done a couple. The one that I HIGHLY recommend is with a friend and mentor of mine, Julie Zipper.

If you are feeling a shortage of time or money, your best effort would be to focus upon better-feeling thoughts, and do more things that make you feel good. Your time is a perceptual thing, and even though the clock is ticking the same for everyone, your alignment affects your perception, as well as the results that you allow. As you observe the enormous differences in the effort that people apply and the results they achieve, you have to conclude that there is more to the equation of achieving than action alone. — Abraham

This past month has been quite the rollercoaster. Let me tell you what I did to get off of it.

I’ve had my days where I was completely down in the dumps questioning everything. Why am I here? Who am I ‘really’? What is my soul purpose? What the hell am I doing here in L.A.? You name it, my head was swimming in this fog. And no matter what I did it kept getting worse. My days became a paralysis of nothing. Sitting here and thinking about what was ‘wrong’. This went on for a little more than a week, er, maybe a bit longer. It was crazy.

The final straw was when I got a call from the Country Band telling me that it just wasn’t working out. Humiliation!! Getting kicked out of a Country Band? OK… truth be told… it was a relief. My heart wasn’t in it and I was grueling over it. I was hyper-focused on what I didn’t have. Money. I was in it for the money alone. Not for my love of country music. Nothing against country music, nor its fans. It’s just not my calling.

See the pattern? I was completely focused on what I didn’t have. On what was lacking in my life instead the incredible beauty in my life. I have a gorgeous girlfriend, a supportive family, a roof over my head, my health, great friends AND I have my voice. And I DO have music projects going on. Everything is moving and progressing forward perfectly. Maybe not as fast as I would like, but that is just EGO telling me that because it isn’t happening now it will never happen. BOLOGNE!

Rev. Cheryl Ward mentions about ‘Microwaving’. We want everything NOW. Have you ever stopped to think that maybe now doesn’t serve you? That its quite possible that the gestation period of whatever manifestation you are trying to manifest needs time?

And you know what that time is?

It’s not that it can’t happen instantaneously. It can. But we don’t believe it. And we aren’t in the mindset to take advantage of it, nor appreciate it. Sometimes we are. But most times we are not. That’s why that quote above is so important. We have to focus upon better-feeling thoughts, and do more things that make us feel good. And honestly. It was within a blink of an eye when the transformation happened.

Yesterday was magic! Everything just fell into place. And I started to notice the pattern. The days where I’m flying high, feeling great and not worried about the outcome are the days where I get those phone calls, where I get those emails.

Its so fricken easy it’s silly.

So. Feel Good. Focus on right NOW. Focus on something, anything but the lack in your life.

Peace,
D