Anger is an Energy

John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) wrote that headline above. It’s from the song ‘Rise‘ (Not to be confused with our song ‘Rise‘) and his band Public Image Limited. He wrote the song about apartheid in South Africa and the torture method’s used by the Northern Irish RUC. In the song he sings, “Anger is an Energy”. Although, I’m not here to talk about anger… I’m here to talk about Energy.

Energy is everywhere and everything. It’s an invisible force that is all around us all the time and wherever you focus your ‘energy’ it escalates.

I wrote a couple days ago a quote by John Lennon that he made during the Vietnam War. He said, “I was once asked why I don’t participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I’ll be there.” Someone on my Facebook page made a comment, “Pro-Peace? What does that even mean?”. I’m pretty sure this person didn’t understand what Lennon was actually saying. I believe that Lennon understood ‘The Law of Attraction’ before it was ever named ‘The Law of Attraction’. He understood that energy is energy. That wherever you focus your energy it becomes more centralized, more part of your reality. He understood that having a protest against war was still focusing the energy on war. You can’t not state something and not focus on it. It’s impossible.

Here is an example; Ice Cream. I hate Ice Cream. I love Ice Cream. Ice Cream is awful. Ice Cream is beautiful. Ice Cream should be banned from the Universe. I scream, you scream, we all scream for Ice Cream.

What are you thinking about right now? Yep. You’re thinking about Ice Cream.

Good or bad, you’re thinking about it. You can’t not stop thinking about what you are focused on, as the example with Ice Cream. So having a Pro-Peace rally would actually be focusing on… You guessed it — Peace.

That’s why all of these Wars against things never work. Look at the War on Drugs… what’s going on with that? Are we winning this War? Nope. Drug use is up higher than it’s ever been. War on terror? Way worse. We now live in a world where we are afraid to even go outside because something might happen to us. The War on Terror has changed our whole lives completely. TSA, ISIS, NRA, CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, FOX, etc… all fear based organizations, and they are in the news every day. I don’t watch the news. I quit watching the news in the late 80’s. There is nothing on there that somebody won’t eventually say to me, “Did you hear about (fill in the blank)?”. And I’ll let you in on a little secret. I was in Advertising for many years and one thing that Advertisers know is this: The more it’s in your face, the more you’ll think about it. The more that you think about it, the more you’ll want it. It’s the old ‘Carrot in front of the Horse’ trick.

It’s no coincidence to me that we have Presidential candidates that exude fear. They are only reflections of what we are, and we are predominantly a fear based society now, because that is all we focus on. We focus on what we don’t have. We focus on the rich who have more than we have. We focus on crime. We focus on race. We want to build a fucking wall and make it all go away. I’m afraid that is not the answer but until the pendulum swings a different way it is going to get worse.

Another little secret: It will only get better when we all start taking the blame for everything that has happened. Yes, each and every one of us taking responsibility. Each and every one of us stopping the finger pointing. Each and everyone of us looking in the mirror and repeating what Gandhi once said, “Be the change that you wish to see in the World.

I am an Energy Worker. That is what Reiki is. Reiki is channelled energy from the Universe, God, Gaia, etc.. As a Reiki Master I know that energy is everywhere because I feel it flowing through me. I feel it burning through my hands when I’m working on a client. It’s not magic. It’s no more magic than the invisible electricity that you plug your phone in to charge, or your WIFI that you connect to. It blows my mind that people think all of this stuff is Mumbo Jumbo Hippie crap and yet they still believe in God. God, a source that can’t be seen, but can be felt. A source that can be felt when people congregate together. Yes, God is real. God is real because when we believe in something we are tapping into that energy, that force. That is why placebo’s work.

The definition of a placebo is, “substance having no pharmacological effect but given merely to satisfy a patient who supposes it to be a medicine.” A patient who ‘supposes’ it to be medicine! It works because we say it works. We are happy because we say we are happy. We are angry because we say we are angry. It’s really simple. It might take you baby steps to believe it. It might taking you ‘faking it ’til you make it’, but what is the alternative?

I am also a Musician. I know, just as I know with Reiki, that music heals. And if I can help heal your pain through my music then I’ve done something good in this world. But you have to want to be healed. And once you decide that you can be healed then you will be healed.

Namaste!
David

Kill Ritual Seeks Musicians for European Tour

Kill Ritual is seeking a European (other individuals can apply, but know we are looking at costs..) Drummer, Bassist and Guitarist for European Tour. The Tour will be in the Nov.-Dec. 2016 time frame opening for a well known international band. Please be prepared to learn 40-45 minutes worth of material and have pro gear and experience. Submit a picture, simple bio and video or audio of your playing. Contact us at killritualmetal@gmail.com or fill out the form below for further details.

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Kill Ritual Seeks Musicians For European Tour

Kill Ritual is seeking a European (other individuals can apply, but know we are looking at costs..) Drummer, Bassist and Guitarist for European Tour.  The Tour will be in the Nov.-Dec. 2016 time frame  opening for a well known international band. Please be prepared to learn 40-45 minutes worth of material and have pro gear and experience. Submit a picture, simple bio and video or audio of your playing. Contact us at killritualmetal@gmail.com or fill out the form below for further details.

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Getting un-stuck in the writing process

I’ve been deep in the writing process for the last month with Kill Ritual and I have to say that this time around it hasn’t been easy. I’m not like other people… I need to hide away for weeks at a time to let the creative juices flow. Sometimes they come out like a flood and others like a slow drip of a faucet. Fortunately, the sink has unclogged because I started writing again. Once I have a theme, then the chorus pours out and then the rest is easy. I like to think that I’m tapping into some cosmic song bank up there somewhere and that if I don’t get it somebody else will. Seems funny, but I’ve always thought that. And the best way for me to tap into that source is to meditate. Keep still and quit ‘trying’. I was told years ago that ‘trying’ is just that. When we say we are ‘trying’ we are stuck in the endless loop of ‘trying’ instead of ‘do’ing.

So I followed my own advice and just started free-form writing. Just jiberish at first until the words started to form into sentences and then the sentences started to make sense. Another thing that I do is sing… I’ll find some songs that I’d like to cover and just do them. Not only does it keep me singing but I learn more and more about Pro Tools. By no means am I anywhere close to being an expert, but it’s fun none-the-less. Here are a few songs I’ve covered during the past few weeks.

Peace,
David

P.S.
The writing process is in full force for the new Kill Ritual album. I’ll keep you up to date.

INXS – By My Side

INXS – Kiss the Dirt

A Perfect Circle – Judith

The Verve Pipe – Colorful

Alice in Chains – Nutshell

The Smashing Pumpkins – DisArm

Audioslave – I am the Highway

Who cares Anyway?

Why do we do what we do in this world? Do we do things to make other people happy, do we do things to make ourselves happy, or is it a combination of both? I believe that we need a combination of both, a balance. You go too far one way, (making other people happy), and you end up losing your true self, becoming needy, always relying on others to make you happy… you go too far the other way and you’re a Narcissist, (the Me! Me! Me! show, which is kind of needy in itself). Both sides, because there isn’t a balance, rely on others to tell them how special they are. So what would a good balance look like then?

Here is an example of having a balance of the two;

Recently we went on vacation with some close friends to do some wine tasting in California. One of the evenings we started discussing all of the ‘no no’s’… Politics and Religion. Why do I consider these people close friends? Because we each had our own opinions about the political climate as well as religion, traditions, faith, etc. We were having a discussion, a debate. We all learned something that night about each other and why each one of us felt the way we did about each subject…. and we’re still friends! Yes, we are still friends because we each respected the others opinions. I’ll tell you something that we all learned as well…

We believe what we believe because of the conditions we’ve lived in. Because of our experiences. And not one of us have experienced the same thing. So why would we expect to have the same views? Diversity. Diversity leads to growth. Growth leads to change. And change is the only constant in this universe. Change can be good if we let it be.

I’ve often shared with people my philosophy… I don’t believe in right or wrong. I believe in what works or what doesn’t work. When we take on the philosophy of ‘what works’ or ‘what doesn’t work’ we say that no one person is right or wrong, because everybody has their own opinion. Opinions can be so varied from person to person. As I stated above… not one of us were raised the same, nor with the same beliefs or ideas. So when I see people rallying behind one candidate or another (I’m using the political candidates as a reference because of the climate right now. I’ve seen friends ‘de-friend’ others because they believe something different from themselves or because they’ve been attacked for having an opposing belief.) I don’t say that those people are ‘wrong’ or ‘right’. I look at each unique situation and see why each group would rally behind one or the other candidate. Now, do I agree with them? No, but that is my journey, not theirs.

If we had a balance within ourselves we wouldn’t be concerned one iota about what somebody else believes or not. There is a reason why we have the candidates that we have today. They are who we are. They are only mimicking what we all believe or have been brainwashed to believe. Yes, I said brainwashed. We’ve lost original thought. We are so caught up in our Facebook or Twitter feeds that we can’t think for ourselves anymore and all of this has become a popularity contest. Numerous times I’ve seen people re-post Dogma that they’ve been sent without doing their own research. There is a truth in the saying…

“Believe none of what you hear, and only half of what you see.” – Benjamin Franklin

So I guess what I’m asking you is this… “What do you believe?” Are you afraid to say what you really believe because of what people might say to you? Talk to me… you know that I will be the guy that talks politics and religion. Why? Because whatever you might share with me, I might learn something… or vise versa.

So what are you afraid of? Are you afraid of losing friends? My question to you would be… are those friends worth having in your life? If you can’t have people around you that are helping you grow as a human being then they aren’t worth having.

Peace out!
D

I’m in Hell

 “Hell happens when the evil of the world exceeds our belief
that we can conquer it.
” – Divinci’s Demons

 

This might be the first time that I’ve taken a quote from a TV series, but it had such an impact on me when I heard it, I had to write it down.

I’m sure you know somebody that says, “I’m in Hell”. Are they saying it for sympathy or recognition or have they truly fallen so low that they can’t see any possible way to get out of their situation? When it is the latter, what can we do about it?

There will always be what people perceive as good and evil or hell in this world. It’s all just that, a perception. This is why I am such a huge proponent of The Law of Attraction. I will get to that momentarily, but first, before jumping directly into the fire (no pun intended), a little background on how I got to this point.

I’ve felt a time or two that there was no way in the world that I could ever change my life, that I was doomed to this existence. So I can speak from experience. It wasn’t until I started to retrain my brain to think differently, did this change.

 

It’s hard for people to hear that nothing is impossible
if they think that everything is indeed, impossible
.

 

To those people they are just words, quotes out of Chicken Soup for the Soul or some other self help book. To hear those words and have them mean something in your life, you, at first, need to take baby steps. You need to reach out to someone who truly does believe these words. Someone who can help you, guide you to your feet. Eventually little things will start happening around you that prove to you that, in fact, nothing is impossible. It will take belief. And part of the reason it took me so long is because I needed physical proof.

I’ve never been much of a believer
mainly because I never had belief in myself
.

 

It’s the mirror that I’ve talked about in other blogs. We can’t see what we are not, inside. So it’s going to take reshaping ourselves inside for the outside to change. It took me going back to my childhood where I would sit in my room for hours alone building cities with my lego blocks. Racing my matchbox cars around the city. Making believe that anything that came to my head was possible. It took retracing my steps backwards to where it all began. It started when my father left us. I was only Seven. I had become a grown up at Seven, the man of the house. How overwhelming is that? It took me forgiving my father for what he had done to us (or what I perceived as him doing to us), and accepting that his reality is much different than mine.

 

He didn’t do this to me personally, I did this to myself.

 

It took all of this for me to start retraining my brain to know that I do matter. That I am, in fact, the person that I am today because of it. I needed to believe again.

Some people run to religion, some run to drugs or alcohol or sex. In moderation, any of these can be fun or helpful tools for us. (I’ve always wanted to take a trip on ayahuasca). But each one of these things become crutches, band-aids to the real problem, until you can actually believe in yourself. Again, they are all TEMPORARY until you believe in yourself. Baby steps, Baby!

 

So how do we do this? Where do we start?

 

Like I mentioned above… get someone who can help you, guide you. If you don’t have the means to get a coach, get a friend that you can lean on for a bit. Someone you can trust with all of your deep dark secrets. You need to go back to the root of the problem. Figure out where it all started by peeling back the layers of the onion.

 

There might be a lot of layers to peel back but if you don’t start now
there will be even more layers to peel back in the future
.

 

For me it was delving into Summit Education when I lived in Florida. It was kind of like a Tony Robbins program. It had three phases. Basic, Advanced and the the Leadership course where I would have coaching calls every morning before I started my day. I equate it to Marine Corp Bootcamp, only for your soul. It took months of retraining to get the neural pathways to start new, healthier patterns. Kind of like grooves on a record. I dug so deep that I eventually became a coach.

You can go to a Tony Robbin’s seminar or some other self help seminar for a weekend and it will have an impact, but for 99% of you it will be very short lived. It won’t really stop the patterns. It will only put a band-aid on them. You need to really dig in and make yourself uncomfortable.

 

Facing your fears, your mistakes, and traumas
will scare the shit out of you
.

 

But when you finally reach that layer of the onion that has kept you where you are today you will smile and you will gladly start going deeper down the rabbit hole.

For me, that rabbit hole led me to The Law of Attraction. It started with a movie called The Secret which was a great introduction into the Law of Attraction. I hold these believes dear to me because after traveling down this spiritual highway it rang true to my soul. It was so simple that it was funny. You see, the basics of the Law of Attraction are this…

 

What you focus on becomes your reality.

 

Silly right? I mean, what if we could start our lives out believing this?

Let’s break this down… What we focus on becomes our reality. Imagine this… You’re driving down the highway heading towards where you want to go, you’ve got your GPS dialed in and all of a sudden you see something on the side of the road and you just can’t get your eyes off of it, then your car crashes. You get out and say to yourself, “How did this happen? How did I end up here?” It happened because your focus was on something else. It wasn’t a temporary glance.

Life is this way for most of us. We get down in the dumps and we crash. We can’t take our focus off of what brought us to that point, instead of temporarily looking at it, recognizing it for what it is, and then focusing back our attention on our destination. This happens because we start believing it. We start believing it because we don’t have the tools to recognize it for what it is, a temporary distraction.

Now this is a very basic introduction to this only for the sake of time and space for this blog, but I encourage you to delve deep down into that rabbit hole. Start peeling back the layers of the onion and soon the evil of this world that everyone perceives, will only be a temporary distraction to where your destination lies.

And remember this…

 

It’s called a Spiritual Practice for a reason.
It must become a practice, every day, or it will fade away.

Peace,
David

This article can be read on Sin City Presents or the link below.

http://joom.ag/HZJQ/p44

July Update

There is a lot going on in the background right now. Working on new tour dates as well as writing the next album, getting the artwork together, etc. The hardest part of any working band is keeping personel. Money is always the issue in this business, long gone are the days of record companies forking out cash so you can spend months in the studio. Now it’s all home grown.

But, the good news is that we’ve got a ton of new songs written and are looking forward to getting these out to you.

In the meantime keep in touch with us here or on our facebook page.

http://www.facebook.com/killritual

Peace,
David Reed Watson