Running on Empty
We all have days like this.
I’m tired from the inside out. My body is tired. And, I’m tired of being tired.
When I get this tired, I feel low – lacking. Hopeless is the word for this moment.
I feel that my world simply left me out in the cold. My world dropped me off somewhere empty, shut the door, and plans to forget me.
There is no one out there for me. Nobody is offering me nourishment.
I am alone in this – alone and empty.
I am depleted.
There is only one way out of this: kindness.
Kindness is color in the black and white landscape.
When I feel this way, I turn to my old standby: Reiki therapy. When I receive a Reiki session, I reconnect to my inner strength. I see the magnificent rainbow color in the bleak black and white landscape.
The door is closed – but it is not locked. My task now is to open the door.
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Thurman Greco
I’m Getting By
How are you doing?
Sometimes, when we ask a person how you’re doing, we learn that you need to take a breath and pause.
Often, when a person says “I’m getting by”, the subject is about money. The vocabulary for “I’m getting by” includes frugality, guarding, security. “I’m Getting By” is really an accurate way of saying: I “Have only enough”.
If you are getting by, the chances are you’re addressing your money wounds.
This may be a good time for that. After all, we all have money issues.
Money is loaded with memories. They go back beyond our parents who themselves passed their parents’ own money stories down to us. Getting to the bottom line, money is a legacy. Everyone has a money legacy.
Take a moment to call up your first money memory.
Do you remember a time when saving crossed over the line into hoarding?
Do you journal? Have you ever journaled your money stories, memories, and issues? I don’t ever remember discussing journaling about money.
Serious healing can begin with money journaling. Money journaling addresses insecurities and abundance blocks passed down for generations.
Some day, when you have a chance, hold some coins in your hand and see them as mandalas – spiritual markers in your life. When you see mandalas instead of coins, the light in the room suddenly becomes more clear.
The mandalas represent the part of the self which is the core of your money interest and experience.
Have you thought about how trust blends with your money issues and your life goals? It seems these things are all braided together.
Money is not the end in itself. In the final analysis, it’s not the money. It’s how we respond to it and deal with it over time. It’s how we respond to the money in different situations in life.
Meditation will help you become aware of your inner money potential. Reiki and reflexology are two grounding and healing modalities which can help you explore your legacy and your future. Include healing modalities in your money growth whenever appropriate.
When things seem to be working well, prosperity flows into your life.
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Are you saying “Maybe”?
This is the follow-on article to the previous post “For You: Plant Your Roots in Your Future”
Is it time to get comfortable with not being sure?
When you plan your future, the vocabulary changes: deciding – explore – commitment – collaborations – improve – unsure – teamwork
It’s okay!
For now, it’s time to concentrate on your job – your career. Sometimes, that’s a huge challenge.
A first obstacle to overcome is this: No matter what you seek, you’re worthy! You’re good enough! You can get there!
The way I see it, you can choose from three routes.
FIRST, you can stay with the job you have now and just focus on more money. What you’re looking for is a raise in pay for the same job skills.
SECOND, you can decide to advance your job skills. This can be a reality when you get on-the-job training or when your employer sends you to classes to enhance your skills. Or, you may enroll in a class or school on your own.
THIRD, you may opt to get on a totally different track. You may decide to change directions, companies, and skills. You may decide to absorb new skills as you apprentice in a new environment.
Whatever route you travel on, this is a good time to journal about the decisions you’re making. Use your journal to explore things you’re still unsure about.
Exploring your options before committing to a path can be a good thing.
Give yourself permission to work for the things you need until you attract everything you authentically deserve and receive.
This is worthiness. Don’t be afraid to ask for more safety and forgiveness.
Let your new and existing skills become the places where your inner self can hang out.
Include integrity in your decision-making. When you put time, attention, and skills into your search, you’ll know when things are going well and when they aren’t.
Remember that reflexology and Reiki are always available for you when you feel a need for grounding.
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Thurman Greco
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For You: Plant Your Roots in Your Future
This article is an invitation to invest your time in you.
My intention is that it is the beginning of something that will stay with you over time, as you plant your roots in a future – your future:
a new home
a new job
a new relationship.
But whatever you plant, I hope you feel more aligned with your surroundings and your inner self.
In short, I hope your future allows and encourages you to connect and grow in ways that heal and nurture your self.
In order for this to happen, I encourage you to make a vision board.
Your vision board can be magazine clippings covering a poster board. OR…
it can be a journal entry where you write an essay to your future self. OR…
it can be a sketched drawing of your future.
However you choose to create your wish list, design a reality you can work toward.
What does all this mean?
Well, for starters, it means that you juggle your energies as you balance your life as you live it today while you make way for your future. Pay attention to where your focus and energy are heading. Is your future waiting for you? Is there a sense of urgency on your path?
As you juggle your energies, you can get comfortable with your future. You may not always be sure about what is happening, though. Maybe, on some days, you’ll be saying “maybe”.
A journal may help clarify things when you explore the options you’re still deciding
about.
Take time to highlight those dreams you’re not sure you understand.
Commit to ideas and beliefs only when you are ready.
But, however, or whenever, you find your future, I’m pretty sure that you’ll know it when you find it.
Do not be afraid to admit when you are not really sure.
It’s okay to be unsure.
Still deciding is part of the journey.
Keep on exploring until you are ready
Along your path, know that Reiki and Reflexology are there for you.
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Sharing with Others
Are you more balanced than you think?
We all experience times when we don’t have enough and other times when too much is happening. Lack and plenty are normal throughout our lives. The pendulum swings back and forth at its own pace.
Something to learn early in life is this: To receive, it’s necessary to give. Life is easier for those who have learned to practice this daily. So, what, exactly, have they learned?
SHARE,
So, do you know how this works?
Those in service have learned that offering help, service, or time is a pathway to success. But, what does this mean? It means that several things work out well:
Volunteering for a activity,
Donating to a cause,
Personally, it means checking in with someone just to see how they are doing. It means that you give of yourself because you know what it feels like to need a helping hand along the way.
Sharing with others is a no-thanks-required way of life.
Sharing with others balances the energies of giving and receiving.
A good question to ask yourself: Is it time to give or receive? When you journal about people an situations where you show up, you can discover your answers.
Are you uninvited? What triggers the event? Do you feel you have to give something before you receive something? When you ask questions like these, it’s time to open yourself to experience the energies consciously.
when something is right, it feels good.
You may be more balanced than you realize. This becomes more obvious when you share your energies with no strings attached.
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Is Something a Little “Off”? – It’s time to Connect!
For many of us, Winter is still out there. CONNECT with each day and its gradually-increasing light level.
This is a good opportunity to see, really see, the evergreen trees.
Are there any winter-flowering plants in your life these days?
What about the birds that visit at this time of the year?
A real treat this time of the year is the winter sunset. A winter sunset happens earlier in the day than in the summer. Pause, slow down your breathing, and bring the sunset into your life.
Today’s sunset is unique to this moment in time. (Tomorrow’s sunset will be different.) This is your chance to absorb a little awe and experience a stilling moment.
Now, take a deep breath. Imagine a line running from the top of your head to the bottom of your spine.
Inhale deeply. Fill your lungs. Expand your muscles. Invite some positive energy to fill your body.
Enjoy this special moment for what it is: a special moment, a blip in all of eternity.
CONNECT!
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Give Comfort – The Perfect Gift for Everyone: a Self-Care Kit
Do you have a Self-Care kit? You probably do, without even realizing it.
I’ve assembled an essential collection of things to use when anxiety gets out front. My Self-Care kit comes in handy when I need to:
feel less anxious
feel more calm
feel ready to face the world again.
I recently organized my Self-Care Kit so it’s ready for me whenever the newspaper, the TV, the mail, or any other event gets to be too much.
Actually, the trigger doesn’t matter. What’s important is that the anxious is getting out front.
My Self-Care Kit comes to the rescue!
These items are now all in one easy place so I can get to them whenever I need to calm my body and slow my racing thoughts. Overall, they don’t take a lot of space. Square inch by square inch, these things are priceless.
My Self-Care Kit is actually in 2 parts. The first part includes:
my favorite blanket/throw.
a hot water bottle
a generous-sized heart pillow
my favorite essential oil
a neck pillow I can heat in the microwave
aromatherapy pillow
incense
coloring book
my affirmation journal
My Self-Care Kit is in a drawer in my bedroom. But, it could be anywhere. The important thing is that, when I find myself becoming anxious, I go to my Self-Care Kit, and find a selection of things that will help.
That can only be a good thing.
Taped on the wall next to my computer is My Backup List.
The items on this list are a selection of things that I know will help when I need them. They include names, locations, emails, and phone numbers to schedule
a yoga session
a Reiki session
a reflexology session
a massage
So, for me, my Self-Care kit comes in two parts. I know that, between the items in the drawer and the list on the wall, there are options for being calm.
Then, tucked away for me to find when I need them are a guided meditation and a scented bath bar to use with a relaxing and calming bath.
We are each different, on our own special paths. Each day is a new opportunity. One thing this new year has taught me: A Self-Care Kit is ready and waiting for me when I need it.
Ahhhhh.
Calm
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Find your Tribe in 2025
Recently, I put out the call for a Reiki practitioner to be a guest in my booth at the Mower’s Meadow Flea Market.
A bit of history here: I’ve had a booth at the Mower’s Meadow Saturday Sunday Flea Market in Woodstock for several years. I began the booth as a fundraising project for an area food pantry.
After a few years, I began reading Tarot Cards and selling books at the market..
The bottom line was that I was using about 30% of the booth space and felt that I could add a healing table. But, since I didn’t think I could offer Reiki and read cards at the same time, I put out the call for a Reiki practitioner to be a guest in the booth.
The flea market hadn’t had a Reiki practitioner in years so this was going to be a whole new activity – a startup, really.
I felt that what I needed to do was invite a practitioner every week. Well, I was certainly off the mark there. .
Susan responded to my call immediately. She ‘s a Reiki Master Practitioner who I hadn’t seen in years.
Susan has fulltime employment in Kingston. She’s looking to begin her new career as a Reiki practitioner. Susan had a lot of training to offer her future and she was looking forward to practicing Reiki.
When I contacted Susan, I expected her to volunteer to work at the booth once or maybe twice at the most. Well, I was wrong there.
Susan arrived at the booth on the agreed-on date and time. She brought her own healing table, business cards, and a chair.
When I showed her the area, she set her table up under a large tree which was offering shade and protection.
Susan set out a small table at the front of the booth with some business cards and she placed a chair nearby.
“I’m ready to begin offering Reiki. I’m looking for my tribe.”
What a statement to use at the beginning of a new venture! As things turned out, it was an accurate description for her.
Susan set up her table every flea market day for the remainder of the summer. Each flea market day Susan positioned her table under the welcoming tree. Her chair and small table for business cards were right up front where Susan could see every person shopping at the market.
By the end of the season, Susan had given Reiki sessions on most market days. But that wasn’t the remarkable thing. The amazing thing was this: every person receiving a session from Susan became a client.
Susan found her tribe!
I was impressed as this whole process unfolded in front of me. I saw it all.
And, really, I don’t know why I was so astounded. After all, Susan did what she came to do at the market.
She set her goal. She focused in on what she was going to do to reach her goal. She thought about what she needed to do to get where she was going.
While Susan did this work to find her tribe, she set an example for the rest of us. Susan didn’t just say she was looking for her tribe and then wait for her goal to reach itself.
Susan mapped out and defined what she felt she needed to do to reach her goal. And she did all the things she felt she needed to do to find her tribe.
Susan found success in a way that none of us expected.
The message of this article is this: When you begin a new project in the future, include finding your tribe in the process. Decide what you need to do and then do it.
Good luck to Susan! You are a Reiki Practitioner who is mapping success. In the process, you taught all of your neighbors in the Market a few things about reaching your goals: find your Tribe!
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Remembering Alan Hans, DVM
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We gathered at the Woodstock Jewish Congregation last Sunday and grieved together. Not really. We were, actually, each in a separate bubble, remembering Alan.Hans
The Rabbi sang prayers a capella. The crowded room included family and friends, community members, employees, and others.
We each felt special. We each felt a unique connection to the memory of Alan Hans. Several individuals spoke – each person relating what she felt was a “secret” experience shared with Alan Hans..
These short, shared stories made the guests feel more comfortable with the person who had a larger-than-life connection to his community. Guests felt a sense of togetherness in the moment.
This energy shift was important to the grief experience.
Really, Dr. Alan Hans was much more than the father, uncle, friend, veterinarian, employer. He gave character, strength, and color to a group of people who call Woodstock, NY, home.
Throughout his career in Woodstock and Port Ewen, I don’t think Dr. Hans sought his place in the community. He just settled into this spot…through his daily connections with people in the community.
During the service, a few people sat alone, on the back row or along the wall. They were as close to invisible as they could get. The grief was overwhelming.
I think that happens in situations like this. .People are recognized – family, friends, neighbors.
But, when the deceased honoree is a person of the community – an entirely different group huddles together individually or collectively.
The situation cannot be avoided. Unless the person or persons go to the family and identify themselves, not much can be done.
They are outside the circle of family and friends but inside the circle of the community. Though often unidentified, the grief is just as deep, just as disturbing, and just as captivating.
Grief offers us an opportunity to hold and comfort each other more closely. Our remembrances are shared as treasured thoughts.
To those sitting outside the circle and along the wall, let us reach out from our hearts to yours with love, with sympathy, and with caring.
Our hearts and minds are thinking of you at this difficult time.
Thurman Greco
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Energize Yourself This Holiday Season!
We’re here again. Another new holiday season promises party food, extreme calorific drinks, sinful desserts, and a to-do list that’s already a mile long. And, it’s only just Thanksgiving around the corner! The challenge is to get to 2025 without feeling depleted.
HOW TO MEET THIS CHALLENGE:
Control your Day in Your Morning
Don’t Let Dehydration Zap Your Energy
Create an Autopilot Eating Plan
Are your schedule and to-do list scary? Two things you can do to get the most out of your day include a healthy breakfast and an early-rising morning walk. (If the walk is out, a few minutes set aside for exercise are good.)
I like an early walk because I feel that the exposure to the early-morning sun really helps. I like getting my Vitamin D fix early in the day.
SET YOUR BREAKFAST UP FOR STEADY ENERGY THROUGHOUT YOUR DAY. Include protein, healthy fat and carbs.
My preferred breakfast includes muesli topped with a protein powder and applesauce.
I pour 1 serving of Bob’s Red Mill Muesli in a bowl. I add 1 scoop of Collagen peptides from Woodstock Apothecary (in Woodstock, NY) and 1 serving of Musselman’s Unsweetened Applesauce which I get at my local Hannaford’s Grocery store.
This breakfast is nutritious, delicious, and the easiest meal I’ve found. There is nothing to heat up, nothing to chop, and nothing to cook.
If you feel like you need more food, add a small container of yogurt or 4 ounces of milk.
You really can’t get anything easier than this and it is optimum nutrition. This recipe offers the most nutrition with the least amount of preparation.
This covers step 1 of my holiday success plan.
STEP 2: KEEP YOURSELF HYDRATED.
Develop hydration habits which become second nature. Drink something often throughout the day. Just because you’re not sweating doesn’t mean you don’t need the water.
People younger that me can’t keep up with my energy if they don’t keep hydrated. To avoid fatigue, begin drinking your fluids early in the day. Water is essential to your holiday to-do list success. Include teas, broths, and soups. The rule here is this: whatever works. Just keep fluids in your daily activities.
STEP 3: YOUR DIETARY AUTO-PILOT PLAN
prepare meals which are fun to eat, nourishing, and easy. Save the exciting meals and adventurous foods for parties. For everything else, stick to your easy-to-buy-and-fix favorites.
These three things should get you to to 2025 without feeling depleted.
If you can squeeze it in, schedule a Reiki or Reflexology Session just for you!
ALSO, my wish for you is that you will be able to develop new health habits which are easy to use and help you get through your days better.
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TWO HOLIDAY READS:
This is a fun book to read if you’re questioning your future moves.
Volume 1 is still available on ebook.
This holiday book: “Just for Gabriel” is available on both hardback and ebook.
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