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Is Something a Little “Off”? – It’s time to Connect!

February 22, 2025 at 12:10 am Comments disabled

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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Lift Yourself Up: 6 Things That Work

August 18, 2024 at 6:13 pm Comments disabled

Sometimes, we’re aware of life’s impacts when they happen. Other times, they sneak up on us. We wake up and realize things haven’t been “right” for a while or even a long time.

Life is many things to many different people. Over time, things change. The changes can come daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or even more slowly.

However that is for you, when you realize things aren’t what you consider ideal – or even acceptable – it’s time to lift yourself up.

This is a good opportunity to spend energy connecting with your community. You may find that your community is experiencing adjustments as well as yourself. Who are you in this community? Are you comfortable with your place here?

The important thing is to connect with people who lift you up. You find them when you connect with your community – through friends, groups, and extended families.

Check in with those who are important to you.

Take a deep breath and a break. Self-care activities such as meditation and enough sleep can be particularly healing now. (Meditation always comes up first on the self-care list. However, it is not popular with everyone. The point is to choose something that works for you.)

Returning to body work habits such as reflexology or Reiki therapy can be particularly appreciated now. While you’re focusing on these new (or renewed) connections, schedule extra sessions to keep you grounded and steady.

This is also a time to pick up a new skill through classes, books, or other ways of learning.

Finally, show up for others in positive ways which honors them. This makes you a conduit for healing in ways you may not have thought of before.

Being a conduit for healing is a basic tenet of self-healing. Being a conduit does not require that you change your story or anyone else’s.

Being a conduit for healing does not really offer therapy even. Simply being there and showing up is enough.

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Thank you.

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5 Ways Make Your Life Better and Easier in 2024, Starting NOW

November 27, 2023 at 4:48 pm Comments disabled

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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My intention is that each blog post you read can be a conduit for your spiritual growth and healing.

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There have been a few intermissions through the years, but not many.

My guests enjoy being on the show and many ask to return. One thing they all have in common: we’ve all met each other somehow in Woodstock, NY.

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A HEALER’S HANDBOOK BY THURMAN GRECO

In “A Healer’s Handbook”, Thurman shares experiences and observations based on years of practice. She focuses on the spirituality of the different body systems, both physical and energetic.

This book offers extensive information on condition and illnesses encountered by healing practitioners. The spiritual connection is explained in every health issue because they reveal a person’s deeper layers, essential for healing.

Healing protocols, helpful lifestyle changes, and affected chakras build on one another.

With information found in this book, you will offer healing to the whole person.

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I Don’t Hang Out In Churches Anymore

Thurman Greco’s “I Don’t Hang Out in Churches Anymore” will touch your heart as she relates both the joys and hardships of contemporary American life as seen through the eyes of a small town food pantry. This is the story of how one woman in America found God.

In truthful, upbeat, intimate language, these prayers relate events and stories that may sound familiar to you. They are the stories of your neighbors. These experiences reveal joy, love, laughter, pain, surprise.

Do you believe in miracles? There are stories in these prayers that can be interpreted no other way.

The prayers in this book will empower you to pray for yourself as well as others. When this happens, you will discover just how import prayer for others is, as did author Thurman Greco. You will learn more about yourself and your connection to your community. In this process, you will learn more about God.

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Miracles, like beauty, exist entirely in the eyes of beholders. Naturally occurring events, they happen all around us like the wind, rain, and sun outside the pantry room. We only need to see them for what they are. They happen when we open our eyes, ears, and hearts to the possibility that they exist at all.

Pantry miracles never change much. Except, they do. They change how we see the pantry and how we belong in it. These humble events change our inner lives. We become responsible for ways to overcome the hunger and homelessness we face.

Pantry miracles remind us it’s never too late to know ourselves and understand the talents we were born to use in our lives.

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“No Fixed Address” is dedicated to those in our country with no roof over their heads. See your neighbors, your friends, your relatives, in new ways as they describe their daily lives in their own words.

The people in this book reveal themselves to be brave and fearless as they go about their activities: work, laundry, children’s homework, appointments. Mostly they live like the rest of us. They just have no roof over their heads

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Ketchup Sandwich Chronicles tells the story of everyone brought together by the pantry: Hungry people kept moving in a line around the room. At times there wasn’t enough space between the people to even turn around. They got to know each other in sound bites shared between grabbing a can of green beans or a package of strawberries. A sentence here. A sentence there. The children were eerily silent, clutching their mother’s pants leg.

The struggle of each person who came in the door could be felt.

When you read this book, you’ll become intimately involved with rules surrounding the feeding of the hungry, the economy of hunger, the biases of people about pantries, and the taboos of hunger. You’ll get up close and personal with the politics of hunger.

Thanks for sharing this journey with me. Peace & food for all.

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Wherever you go, if you’re healing yourself or caring for someone else, you are on a journey. This book is a ticket to your healing adventures.
“Wellness for All” adds a spiritual layer of personal care to every situation in your healing life.
This book enlightens and empowers you with information and insight you can use. The focus is on your health, healing, and wellness. This book gives you a boost to care for yourself and those important to you. “Wellness for All” explores:

• Helpful Lifestyle Changes
• Supportive Healing Concepts
• Healing Questions, Answers, and Explanations
• The Spirituality of your Body Systems and Chakras
• Spiritual Qualities Unique to Different Health Issues and Diseases

Acne – Alzheimer’s – Headaches – Menopause Multiple Sclerosis – Cancer – Stress – Diabetes – High Blood Pressure – Swollen Feet – Depression – Anxiety – Sciatica – PMS – Heart Problems – Kidney Infection – Shingles – Chickenpox – Mumps – Heel Spurs – Psoriasis – Warts – Sinusitis – Varicose Veins

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I’m a writer, Reflexology for the Spirit Teacher and Practitioner, canine massage therapy teacher, Reiki Master Teacher. I began my career as a healer in 1982 when I graduated from the Potomac Massage Therapy Institute in Washington, D. C. Because people in my field never stop learning, I practice 9 different kinds of Reiki therapy: Usui, Violet Flame, Lightarian, JinKeiDo, Mari-El, Gendai, Karuna…, Reiki for Animals, and End of Life Reiki. Although I learned several kinds of massage, I knew before I even graduated from massage school that I was going to be a reflexologist.

I teach classes and practice in a positive, upbeat healing space beside a beautiful stream in downtown Woodstock. I give talks about Reflexology for the Spirit to groups of interested people.

And, of course, my career path could never have been complete without the skills I learned as I studied animal communication, Tarot card readings, Akashic Records readings, and Angel readings.

Everyone’s feet have stories to tell. Everyone can venture down the path to healing: physical, mental, spiritual, emotional. Those who know me, work with me, and study under me, agree that I am passionate about healing work in general and Reflexology for the Spirit in particular. With this blog, I’m inviting you to journey down this path with me.

I welcome your comments and questions. Thank you for joining in the conversation.

Thurman Greco

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This blog is dedicated to healers everywhere. Your chosen path requires bravery in your attitudes toward your client partners and to yourself.

Bodywork challenges us to be lifelong students. Without the Reverend Dan Chesbro, Marge D’Urso, Kerrith McKechnie, Mary Ruth Van Landingham, Jonathan Rudinger, Penelope Smith, Dawn Hayman and Lucy Swensen, this book would never have happened. You answered my questions, suggested I move beyond my safety zone, and pushed me on down the road.

Healers are dependent upon their client partners. Every person who has come to my table, wherever it was, has been a gift of the universe bringing vital messages which made me a better practitioner.

Thank you.

Many people wrote this blog. The real creators are the wonderful people who came to my table. These individuals offered me an opportunity to heal and grow. Without client partner trust, not one word of this blog would have ever or could ever happen.

Even more trust is needed for a person to allow another to become their “teacher”. I’ve taught many of you as I fielded your questions, supported you in your quest, encouraged your spirituality, realized when the day had come for you to move on. Each of you has been a gift of the universe placed at my door. For me, teaching has been a very humbling experience.

I extend my most heartfelt gratitude to everyone who has touched my life as a client partner, a student, a teacher.

I have said and written many times: Kerrith McKechnie, Marge D’Urso, Mary Ruth Van Landingham, Jonathan Rudinger, Penelope Smith, Dawn Hayman, and the Reverend Dan Chesbro made my career possible.

Three people stand out in the creation of this book: Lucy Swensen, Barbara Friesner, and Sangi Van Den Nouweland. Without you three ladies, Lucy, Barbara, and Sangi, nothing would ever have happened to my book. Thank you.
Personally, I hope the next one will be easier for you!

HUNGER IS NOT A DISEASE

The blog, www.hungerisnotadisease.com, is a true story with reallife citizens. In this blog you’ll meet all the characters…everyone brought together by the pantry:

alcoholics

artists

child abusers

children

crazies

the disabled

druggies

drunks

elderly men and women

hardworking people juggling 2 and 3 jobs,

homeless

mentally ill

messedup

people

musicians

politicians,

schizophrenics

terminally ill people

thieves,

Woodstock’s colorful characters,

writers

various ministers with congregations in the community

church and community volunteers.

You will become intimately involved with the rules surrounding the feeding of the hungry, ,the economy of hunger, the biases of people about pantries, and the taboos of money. You will get up close and personal with the politics of hunger.