Ready for the Next Big Step
When you’re ready for the next big step, your personal, professional, and spiritual selves work together.
As this happens, you can see your rewards start to travel in. Look for them! Do this because you need to recognize the progress you’ve made.
Your startup efforts and energy create situations that moves you forward. This can lead to success. You may also have a sense of adventure. It’s time to explore the options that are opening up for you. This is a result of your planning.
Prioritize your goals. This helps you visualize your successful life.
Don’t be mistaken. There is still much work to do. And, there’s a lot to learn because your successes need some new skills you may not yet be comfortable with.
Meanwhile, search for new clients, new relationships, and that lucky break. Your activities and energies bring them.
As you notice what is ahead for you, you can watch what experiences wait ahead.
Pay attention to your future self.
When you set your goals, you can see your objective. You navigate your way forward. Think of anything in your way simply as a surprise or detour. You are on your way!
Focus on your authentic self. Following this lead will support your highest good. Your spiritual, physical, emotional, and mental self can align.
Because you are authentic, you can live and heal your best life.
DO THIS: Spend some time encouraging your creativity. You’ve set your goals. Now, you approach your journey authentically. Use your creative energy to incorporate your feelings on your way to support your spiritual and business activities.
Your writing, drawing, storytelling skills keep yourself open to new opportunities that show up.
MEDITATION:
Choose a quiet and safe space. Sit in a comfortable chair as you focus your attention and awareness on your breathing.
Follow your breath as it enters your body, fills up your lungs, and then leaves your body.
Become aware of your breath as it relaxes your mind and body. Each inhale and exhale releases stress. Tension leaves your body. Continue this comfortable inbreathing and outbreathing for several minutes.
PAUSE
When you are peaceful and relaxed, become aware of the focus and energy you have to set your goals and move forward in your life.
PAUSE
You understand now that you can follow your own path with a clear mind. You know what is right for you.
Let the tension continue to melt away as this understanding anchors, changing how you see yourself.
PAUSE
You take a moment to experience self-love and the potential to create and achieve your future goals.
PAUSE for a moment to allow a sense of peace, acceptance, and grounding to enter your self.
You return now to your intake and release of your breath. You feel deeply relaxed on all levels. Bring your awareness to the present.
Slowly open your eyes. Feel the inner calm and understanding you’ve gained in this meditation.
You know that it is time to return to your daily activities. You also know that you can return to this meditation any time. You know that you can focus on whatever affirmations will benefit you most.
PAUSE for a minute for integration.
Gently and slowly move your muscles. Return to your day with inner calm and understanding.
Thank you for reading this blog article. This is part of a group of seed articles that will be part of my next Tarot book, “The Spirituality of Tarot”.
If you are interested, you can find these articles on www.reflexologyforthespirit.com
I generally add a chapter and meditation each week.
I have 2 Tarot books available in ebook form:
“A Healer’s Tarot Memoir” and “The Minor Arcana and The Court Cards” can be found at www.ThurmanGreco.com/blog
I still have a few copies of “Healer’s Handbook” available. This has been an enormously popular book. If you don’t have a copy, you may want to order one:
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Moving Forward? Journey On!
When the time comes to walk away from something that no longer serves its purpose, you may feel a bit reluctant.
On the other hand, maybe you’re running for the door.
Either way, begin the next leg of the journey by setting boundaries. Rites of passage are always easier when you mentally prepare for the future.
When you set boundaries, you focus on things you want to leave behind. This is a way to streamline your transition.
Sometimes, when the moment to move on arrives, you know in your heart you’re not ready. Journey beginnings are easier when you are open-minded. Accepting help from others and leaving old baggage at the curb will make your passage much, much easier.
A move means you’re changing yourself totally: your mind, body, emotions, spirit. But it doesn’t stop with you. Your family, friends, and everyone you interact with will experience the fallout.
Truth seeking can be contagious. And, when your journey begins to change you…some close to you will join in your venture. Some will go in a different direction. Yet others will remain the same, unaffected by the changes moving you, your beliefs, and your activities forward.
Wish them all well and don’t forget to forgive yourself.
DO THIS
Whether your journey is physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, or a combination…now is a really good time to journal or chronicle its unfolding. Write for yourself. Express from your soul what is going on with you. Write what flashes into your consciousness.
MEDITATION
Make yourself comfortable – in a chair or on the floor. You want quiet and safety.
Breathe from deep within your abdomen. Breathe in calm. Breathe out negativity. Focus on this deep breathing for a few minutes as you breathe deeply in and out.
After a short time open your eyes and look around. You are in a room carrying baggage. You are carrying bags in your hands. You carry a large backpack on your shoulders and upper back. They are all full and heavy.
The room gives way to a relaxing beach. You are at the water’s edge. You set down your bags and your backpack. And you lie flat on the beach.
You look at the sky and see a gentle sunrise as the sun comes up on a new day.
As you pause to enjoy this morning, you gently move your legs and arms. You move your wrists. Your spine feels stiff. Your body is sore from carrying all this baggage.
You gently move the muscles and joints throughout your body. You take in much needed oxygen for your body. On an exhale, you send gentle relaxation throughout your body. The stiffness and soreness disappear.
You close your eyes and relax . After a few moments, you are ready to return to the room and the activities waiting for you.
You treat yourself to a glass of refreshing water.
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Life is Easier Without the Baggage. This is What Coming Home is Like.
When the baggage goes, you see what is left. This leads you to a better place emotionally.
For some, this is what coming home is like.
Recovery and renewal are part of the story when you experience loss. When the old cycle ends, the new cycle begins.
Self-acceptance is the key.
Mourning and grief morph into respect and acknowledgement. Looking back, you realize not all was lost. Learning this lesson is important to avoid repetition.
Wounds become temporary as they heal. Forgiveness is part of the story. With forgiveness, stagnation, self-pity, and loss cannot drain away your focus.
See yourself in a brighter future. Reclaim your happiness, embrace hope, and eliminate grief.
Release your negative thoughts, events, and relationships. This can be challenging when you carry your baggage through life with you.
Because it’s hard to leave the baggage behind, you’re tempted to take it with you.
Life is easier without the negativity of the baggage.
When you offload the baggage, you can make peace with what is there.
Now, you can move on to a better place.
A MEDITATION:
Begin this meditation as you sit in a comfortable position. You may prefer to recline. The important thing is to be comfortable and feel safe.
The goal is to be in a position where you are open to receive.
Close your eyes.
Take a deep breath – in through your nose and out through the mouth. Repeat this breath pattern several times. Each inbreath brings healing, and relaxation. Each exhale removes toxins and negativity.
Continue breathing slowly and deeply. Each breath brings relaxation to your entire body. Each exhale continues to remove toxins and negativity.
When you feel relaxed and comfortable, look around.
You are in a small canoe on a pond. The water on the pond is still and peaceful. Your canoe is in the center of the pond.
You sink into the deep and welcoming cushions in the canoe. You enjoy the comfort. You feel the peace and the stillness of the canoe and the pond.
A small current moves your canoe toward a gentle stream. As the canoe moves with the breeze, you notice the temperature of the air around you. You see the trees, shrubbery, flowers, and grass along the edge of the pond.
You notice the lazy clouds moving overhead. You see beautiful birds in the air overhead.
You become aware of the gratitude you feel just being in this space. You appreciate the energy and the peace. You don’t have to do anything. Just enjoy.
After a short time, the breeze carries you and your canoe toward the shore. You are on the beach. Being on the beach makes you feel strong and healthy. You feel you are a part of the earth.
As you stand beside the canoe, you experience healing energy. You absorb the quiet of the moment. Taking peaceful energy into your very center, you know you will remember it.
It is now time to return to your body and your conscious thought. As you slowly move your body, you open your eyes.
Returning to full awareness, you remember all the beauty and peace you experienced on your meditation.
You know that you can return to this space whenever you desire.
Renewed and rejuvenated, you continue with your day…
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Discovering the Magic of Connection
When I think about the Magic of connection, a whole vocabulary surfaces:
Equality means respecting and embracing the person, the situation, and the story you participate in.
Mutual respect means accepting the reality of the person and the situation.
Other terms: Collaboration, Companionship, Light-hearted, Understanding.
The Magic of connection depends on honest acceptance. In a business or personal relationship you care for someone beyond yourself. You reflect yourself through the other.
When you think of the Magic of connection, you may think of romantic love. But this is not always the case.
A Magic Connection happens when two people from different directions and paths come together in the same space.
You can discover a Magic Connection around a job, ideologically directed events, cooking, or other things. This connection has a soul-driven component. There is a vulnerability including both partners.
When the Magic of Connection explores the past and future selves, an experience with duality emerges.
The Magic of Connection has a vibrational component reaching back to the mists of time past. Your heart may lead you to heal historical miscommunications, disharmonies, and wounds.
Are you considering the Magic of Connection with someone who relates confidentially with you? When considering this person, ask yourself: Who receives the most attention and emotional space?
Imagine yourself sitting on a seesaw with this person. Does the image reveal you in balance? Are the scales even?
A MEDITATION
In a Magic connection relationship, step back a moment. Give yourself a chance to breathe.
You can do this now. Breathe through your feet in this meditation.
To begin with an inbreath at your toes, remove your shoes and get comfortable.
While you inhale, move your toes back and forth. Stretch them. Give them space to relax and feel the surrounding air. Your toes reflex your brain, your neck. They reflex your vision and hearing in a response to this exercise.
As you move down your toes to the metatarsal sole of your feet, feel the tension leaving your feet. Notice how your feet feel without the tight shoes or stockings. Visualize your feet smiling.
Experience this free feeling as it expands to your entire body.
Move your feet back and forth. Move them in circles. Let them relax. As your feet relax, notice how the reflex points in your feet transfer to your whole body.
Notice your chakras now. Feel the inclusive expansion of your feet to include a full-body relaxation that includes not only the muscles, bones, organs, and the chakras in your body.
When you reach this relaxed space in your body and spirit, hold the moment. Breathe it in. Enjoy it! Absorb the moment. Smile.
Take a few final relaxing breaths to end this exercise.
When it’s time to put your shoes back on, remember that you can enjoy this freedom of movement anytime.
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Go Ahead – Make the Call
Long ago, and far away, it was possible for a person to know everything there was to know.
Today, I feel it is difficult to impossible to know even all there is to know about anything – let alone everything.
When you search, learn, and experience new things, tap into and lean on the knowledge and skills of others.
Use the skills, knowledge, and experience of others when you collaborate to grow, prosper, and develop your skills and direction.
Collaboration mixed with teamwork can smooth and balance your life journey.
Whatever you do, wherever you head, a strong support group is essential.
So, how do you do this?
For starters – ASK
That, in itself, can be a stretch. Nobody likes to admit needing things and not knowing things. But when you seek knowledge, you start from a foundation of not knowing.
So, what are you to do?
Well, journal entries can help.
Explore how it feels to know know what you need. Discuss the meaning of imperfect, wrong, and dependent.
How can you accelerate this growth to get to the other side easier? There is something you can do: Outsource
Action helps. Reach out.
Reach out to someone for help. This boils down to another vocabulary: ask, call, hire, order.
It also means that you can get more comfortable with being worthy. Go ahead. You can do it!
You’re worth it!
Ask questions. They can apply in your professional life, your social life, and in your romantic relationships.
How often can you benefit from knowing something new?
How hard is it to admit that you don’t know something?
How is your situation hindering your progress on your journey?
As you juggle all the tasks and requirements that you face at a given moment, If you reach out to someone for something you need, can you improve your situation?
Of course you can. Go ahead. Make the call!
Ask someone to help you plan your garden.
Ask around – who knows about a good job opening?
Call a friend for a recipe.
Hire someone to help paint a room.
Get your groceries delivered when things get crowded in your life.
Thanks for reading this article.
Thurman Greco
Sometimes, when contemplating the stretches that questions create in addition to the answers, it helps to schedule a Reiki or reflexology session.
Other times, take time out to consider the resources, allies, and experts you’ll be learning from next!
Thurman Greco
Reiki and Me: A Personal Transformation
Flashback to the 90’s.
I lived in the Washington, D.C. metro area when I went to the dogs.
I took my complete professional wardrobe (conservative suits, white blouses, natural colored stockings, sensible shoes, and matching power jewelry) to the Ft. Belvoir Thrift Shop and said “goodbye” to my past life.
I dusted off my massage therapy certificate which I earned from the Potomac MyoTherapy Institute in 1980. (I wrote about PMTI in my wellness book “Healer’s Handbook”.)
I practiced massage therapy and foot reflexology as far beneath the radar screen as I could get. Except for my clients, my goal was “invisible”.
And, I studied canine massage therapy, more foot reflexology, and animal communication at different workshops and classes around the country.
Names like Jonathan Rudinger, Penelope Smith, Dawn Hayman, Marge D’Urso, and Bill Flocco bring up extremely fond memories.
This is where my life took a change.
I attended an introductory canine massage therapy class in Clinton, New York, at Spring Farm CARES. At the first (of many) class I attended there, every other student in the class was a Reiki practitioner or master.
Not only was I the only student not attuned to Reiki, I couldn’t even spell it.
Don’t get me wrong. Reiki wasn’t a part of the curriculum in this class. It was simply a part of each student’s credentials and vocabulary.
I was intrigued by this healing technique they all knew and used. As soon as I returned home I began searching to find out about Reiki and how was it taught. I asked everyone I knew about it. Keep in mind, this was the Northern Virginia suburbs where not even massage was legal.
It was also just before computers became common. I didn’t yet know about Google.
What I really wanted to know was where I could find a teacher. I definitely didn’t like being the only person in a class not connected to something that was obviously important to the rest of the people in the room.
While searching for a teacher, I discovered only 6 Reiki books. One title I remember: “Essential Reiki” by Diane Stein.
I also learned that two friends were Reiki Masters. In seeking a Reiki Master Teacher, I learned that people I knew very well were keeping deep dark secrets from the world. The secrets? Reiki.
Amazing: Knowing that a close friend’s deepest, darkest secret was Reiki says things about my close friends, about Reiki, and about Virginia.
Kathy Levin and Barbara Kaplan were healing people and not even sharing their skills with anyone. And, finally, they weren’t even whispering the names of their teachers. Both women claimed to have learned Reiki years before. Their stories could have been begun with “Long ago and far away…”
I dug and dug and finally found a metaphysical gift shop in Vienna, VA which taught a variety of interesting things on the weekends. Reiki was buried in a long list of interesting spiritual-sounding classes at Terra Christa.
Needless to say, Mary Ruth Van Landingham and her classes were a gold mine for me. I learned nine different types of Reiki and a whole host of other things. For the next few years, I was a student in most of the weekend classes in Mary Ruth’s classroom behind her shop.
Soon, Reiki joined my below-the-radar healing sessions of reflexology, massage therapy, canine massage therapy, animal communication.
The Reiki training I received fit well into every service I offered.
Not in the Reiki category, but important: Dan Chesbro ordained me at Terra Christa. Throughout the years, most of my Reiki students reached out to Dan Chesbro for ordination.
Mary Ruth Van Landingham planted the seed for my first book “Healer’s Handbook”. It took years from Mary Ruth’s guiding suggestion to an actual book. My life experiences had to catch up with the text.
While all this was happening on the weekends, something else happened that was quiet, calm, positive, and distinct.
My life changed. I turned some kind of spiritual corner.
Reiki is not necessarily an out-loud modality. Reiki touches every life differently. After all, we’re all each individual and unique.
It became a part of my life without much fanfare. And, it was certainly easy to learn. Through the years, it’s become such a part of my life that sometimes I feel I don’t give it enough credit.
Reiki is automatic and quiet. Reiki doesn’t need a lot of attention. It stays with me. It doesn’t need equipment and it doesn’t require periodic recertifications.
I use Reiki and reflexology together regularly. They work hand-in-glove without the need of a prescription.
I’m grateful for the healing modalities I’ve learned throughout my life. They served my clients and students well. Sometimes I feel I don’t give Reiki and reflexology the credit they deserve.
When I think about it, part of the usefulness of Reiki and reflexology is that they don’t need attention. They don’t need credit. They just do the work.
SO, thank you Reiki and reflexology.
And, thank you to everyone who has read and does read this blog. Thanks for buying the books and thank you for referring me to your friends, relatives, and neighbors.
I regularly invite Reiki practitioners to come on my show to discuss and receive Reiki.
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Finally, thank you for dropping by my Tarot booth at Mower’s Meadow Saturday Sunday Flea Market. This is one of my favorite places in the whole wide world. The Flea Market is both mystical and magical. Join me there!
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Thurman Greco
One Way to Explore and Expand Your Path
We are, each of us, on a unique path.
You may follow your path from childhood and continue throughout your life, honoring your traditions.
Or, you may create your own path, making meaning out of each new step.
Wherever you are on your journey, your path is yours alone. Only you occupy your space.
One thing you can do to help yourself advance on your path is to journal. Because your path is yours alone, your journal will help you reflect on life’s meanings and what they teach you.
You can create your journal from an old tablet you found lying around on a table. Or, you can create your a journal as a work of art with drawings, photos, paintings, and a creative cover. Or, your journal can be anywhere between these two styles.
However you decide to create your journal, it can help you explore your spirituality.
Whatever you do to create your journal, it can help you explore the wonders of your life. The words of your journal will help you learn more about how you think and feel. This will help you create a deeper connection with your self and your path.
Your journal entries will help you explore your beliefs and how you feel and think about them.
The spiritual exploration offered by your journal will enhance and strengthen your path.
Thanks for reading this article.
It is not intended to change your story or offer therapy. It is written to offer a conduit to your own healing journey’s path.
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A recent book features the major arcana of the Tarot. These cards explore well-known symbols and archetypes which heal, shape, and reflect our lives.
Beyond the boundaries of this book, I will explore archetypes and how they affect our spiritual growth in future blog posts..
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How About a New Year Detox?
This year, my daughter and I gave my spouse an iPad for a holiday gift. We were all excited. Barry is now going to get to enjoy connecting with the world while sitting in his recliner with his feet up.
This piece of modern technology is a win for all of us. He’s enjoying the world and I’m enjoying seeing his feet elevated!
Technology makes so much of his daily experience: he is constantly on the phone, checking emails and social media pages, typing reports and filling out forms.
He is also continually absorbing electromagnetic waves from his electronic equipment.
Now, by the end of the day, he appears bleary-eyed. His skin looks pale. I’m willing to bet that his mind is on overload also. From the looks of things, his new iPad has a down side as well as an upside.
We finally all agreed with him that things were not necessarily what we hoped for. Having his feet elevated while entertaining himself was a goal but he was paying a price for all this fun.
He finally decided to schedule periodic brakes and time-outs. He scheduled detox brakes.
So, now, at a certain point in the day, he turns off his phone, iPad, laptop and all other electronic equipment. He removes his equipment from his area.
Now, instead, he takes time to visit with us, review his day, or reads a book or the New York Times.
This break refreshes him. He feels that he’s grounded and he realizes that there is more to his life than the contents of a screen or speaker.
A periodic digital detox works for us all in different ways. For example, if you’re working from home, it’s important to take detox breaks throughout the day to maintain your work production.
Actually, whatever project you may have going throughout the day will benefit from a digital detox break. If nothing else, leave your project for a few minutes and have a glass of water. Water has energizing effects which we all need throughout the day.
Beginning and ending your activities with a 10-minute Reiki or reflexology session will improve your project results. Even a short break is good to promote homeostasis, something our bodies all need.
Reflexology sessions relax, balance, and heal the whole body.
Everything always goes better with reflexology!
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5 Ways Make Your Life Better and Easier in 2024, Starting NOW
NOW IS THE TIME
Take a time out to reflect on your journey in 2023. I know. I know. The year isn’t even over yet and what surprises are waiting for us?
But, spend a few minutes reviewing the past year to prepare yourself for 2024.
Now, spend a few more minutes to celebrate the new year coming up. Cook a yummy meal. And, while you’re at it, turn on some good music and dance a bit in the kitchen.
Prepare for the new year with a fresh start and include, front and center, bold capitals, your GRATITUDE. How far have you come this year?
When you are celebrate the coming of 2024, include a new project. Pick something to open your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual selves to new ideas.
STEP 1
NOW IS THE TIME
Things you may do to get ready for 2024 can include –
smudge your space,
set up a gratitude altar,
Reiki everything.
Send a ‘thank you’ card or note to someone you haven’t checked in with in too long ago
Collect a box of items to give away or release to the universe.
While you’re focusing on these things (and others you’ve thought up on your own), honor your intuition. After all, your intuition is the voice of your soul talking with you.
STEP 2
NOW IS THE TIME
On another day, as you think of 2024 –
light a candle.
Pick up a project you worked on months or weeks ago and then set down.
Think kind thoughts for yourself by writing a list of your very best qualities.
Take a few moments to hear from your deepest wisdom.
Give or receive a reflexology or other healing session.
STEP 3
NOW IS THE TIME
On yet another day or evening, as you welcome 2024 –
Connect yourself with your physical surroundings.
They, along with your physical self, will be supporting you in the coming year.
Open yourself to being and seeing your surroundings. Gain inspiration from your
spiritual self to support your environment.
Do you have an occasional energy deficit?
Never forget that your energy is boundless. All you need is within you.
You may not feel you have all the energy you want. But, never forget,
everything that you need is right there, in front of you.
Take several deep breaths. The air around you brings whispers as it nudges you along to the new year. It brings truth, inspiration, and new ideas for 2024.
When the air brings its gifts, the element of fire comes along to help you.
STEP 4
NOW IS THE TIME
Your free will always boosts your journey. That is no exception as you enter 2024.
As the new year progresses, you may gain a deeper understanding of what is happening if you journal about events and people that make you the most uncomfortable.
Don’t forget to enhance your meditations and journaling with your favorite crystals.
STEP 5
NOW IS THE TIME
In 2024, stay in touch with your intuition:
Go for a swim.
Take a bath or shower.
Meditate while sitting on the earth.
Go for a walk in nature.
NOW IS THE TIME
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Self-Care is Kindness to Ourselves
Self-Care asks us to give the same kindness to ourselves that we give to others.
When you have negative or critical thoughts about yourself, stop for a moment and ask yourself this: “Would I say these things about a good friend?”
The chances are that you would not. You would not be unkind to someone else.
Now, try being as kind to yourself as you would to a loved one.
The next time things go wrong, accept the event for what it is. Then, apologize for what happened if that’s appropriate. Then, forgive yourself.
Learning from mistakes and moving on is a positive way to get through life.
Forgiving yourself is what allows you to get through life. When you forgive yourself, you are being nice to yourself. It’s easier to be happy that way.
When you forgive yourself, you are offering self-care. This sends nourishing messages to the brain about your self-worth.
Try, every day, to care for yourself in every way possible.
When stress accumulates, this facial massage meditation will relieve muscles and leave you feeling better.
Facial Massage Meditation
For many of us, the day’s stress accumulates in the muscles of the head, face, and jaw. Massaging your face and head can smooth the tiny muscles and nerve endings. Stress and fatigue will have a chance to disappear.
Begin this meditation by finding a quiet place where you will be undisturbed for a few minutes.
Lie flat on a chair, bed, or floor, with your face up. If that is not comfortable, find a comfortable chair or recliner to sit comfortably.
Cover your body with a light blanket or sheet so you won’t get cold as your body relaxes and cools.
Take several deep breaths. Begin these breaths in your abdominal area. Breathe in deeply and hold the breath to the count of three: 1 – 2 – 3.
Now slowly release the breath. When you exhale, you release toxins and stress.
Repeat these inhalations and exhalations 1-2 minutes. As you inhale, you l breathe in healthy air. With each exhalation, you release toxins and stress.
Become aware of your forehead. Mentally relax your forehead to erase wrinkles of expression…the space between your eyebrows becomes bigger. Your eyelids are heavy.
Move your fingers to your forehead and slowly massage it in small circles.
When you feel that your forehead is becoming relaxed, move your fingers to your temples and gently move them in clockwise and counterclockwise motions. Feel this area relaxing.
Notice the tension behind your eyes, and around your eyes and release it.
Now, place your fingers on your temples and move your fingers in small, gentle dime-size circles for a few minutes.
Move your fingers down to your chin and gently, gently pinch your chin and along your jawline to your ears.
Now, move your hands to your cheeks. Massage your soft cheek tissue in a circular motion.
Now, move your hands to your ears. Gently massage along the edges of your ears for a couple of moments. Now, give your ears some long, luscious pulls.
You are finishing your facial massage now. Notice any thoughts, feelings, or sensations you experience now.
Stay quiet for 1-2 minutes while you enjoy and refresh from this experience.
It is time now to return to the present time.
It is okay to return to this place of calm whenever you need.
The goal of this meditation is to experience calm and relaxation using self-touch.
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I host “Let’s Live with Thurman Greco”, a program aired weekly on Woodstock’s own educational TV channel 23. This show is an informative, upbeat hour with no rehearsals.
My guests are various people whose lives have brought them to Woodstock for a day, a week, an hour, a decade, or more. Let’s Live has been running for over 15 years with an occasional intermission, now and then. You can find some reruns on YouTube “Let’s Live with Thurman Greco”.
Renee, our channel wizard adds new programs weekly, usually on Tuesdays..
The Friday evening show airs in Woodstock at 7:00 in the studio located in the Woodstock Community Center on Rock City Road for an hour.
Renee and I both look forward to new subscribers.
