#i remember all the different variations of keep calm and carry on and seeing positive vibes and good vibes and all that shit slapped on

[fawfulydoo]

"positive vibes" is like the 2020s equivalent of "keep calm and [insert thing here]" of the 2010s i think

[youwerenevermeanttofeelalone]

Bewitched | Damian Wayne

✦ pairing — older!Damian Wayne x Plus Size Reader

✦ word count — 2.8k

✦ request — can I request a older!Damian wayne×reader where they have feelings for each other but are really stubborn and then while they're on a mission the reader almost gets shot and then confess to one another

✦ warnings — light angst, reader and Damian are hostile towards each other until they’re not, poorly channeled feelings, everyone else is tired™︎, mentions of violence, fluff

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Whoever decided you deserved to be punished with Damian Wayne’s presence must’ve hated you. Probably Tim, he had been the one who gave the leadership of the team to Damian. A sweet gesture between brothers that damned your existence.

You supposed he had been happy, Damian had looked pleased with himself, standing tall with an annoyingly smug look in his face as he spoke to his brother mere meters away from you and the team. Thankfully, he ignored you for the first week until he had to give you orders for a mission.

You had been miserable throughout it all, he made you feel so much disgust you felt you would throw up at any given moment. Not even Wally got the reaction you had, it was too visceral — surely no one hated Damian Wayne and his perfect hair more than you.

Your stomach flipped, just as you thought about it he ventured into the room. You glared at him, and he naturally glared back with an intensity that would’ve intimidated anyone who hadn’t heard him complain about petty things. At least he hated you too. With a scoff, Damian fixed his scarf —the green one that only made his eyes pop— and followed the path toward the elevator.

“Ten bucks you chicken out.” Wally’s voice snapped you out of your fixation on the spot Damian had been glaring at you from. Dragging your eyes to the side where the ginger was standing, you tilted your head in confusion.

Gar chortled, “Just ask Robin out and take us out of our misery.”

Unbelievable! They really thought you could ever grow to even tolerate the brat. “I’d rather shoot myself, thank you very much.”

Just because Rachel and Garfield’s relationship worked, it didn’t mean everyone in the team liked each other. And honestly, Gar was either blind or too optimistic to see Damian and you would kill each other if you were left alone in the same room. Wally would’ve probably liked that.

Wally and Gar shared a look. They did that a lot whenever you interacted with Damian — sometimes it wasn’t an interaction what triggered it, you could ask if Robin would stay at The Tower and they would do it; you could say something about how dumb his hood was and they would do it; you could avoid the gym when he was there and they would do it.

Ignoring them, you announced you would go take a walk to shake off the stress Robin gave you.

“You’re acting like a child,” Wally told you, shaking his head.

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Damian was in a horrendous mood. He was being a brat, there was no doubt, but he couldn’t care less.

Titus tried to get his attention, whining and wagging his tail. Damian patted the hound’s head and went back to the book he had been reading. He couldn’t even focus properly, his mind was still reeling out of frustration.

He had come to tolerate Tim a long time ago, Damian now fully saw him as a brother. But Tim seemingly lived to torment him, there was no other explanation as to why he thought it would be a good idea to have him in the same team as you.

He had earned his place as leader, but he didn’t want you around. His gut failed him sparingly, and this time it said he should stay away from you.

Testing you would have been a good idea, perhaps you had mystical powers he wasn’t aware of. That would explain the way his chest tightened when he saw you, you were bewitching him to have a heart attack.

Dropping the book, he patted Titus’ head again before leaving his bedroom. He ran downstairs with an impetuosity he hadn’t felt in months.

Jason’s grunts and the tapping against a keyboard echoed around the Batcave. Damian double checked to make sure no one else was there. Walking directly towards the youngest of his older brothers, he leaned his back against the desk as he stared at Tim.

“Drake, do you have a moment?”

Tim didn’t take his eyes off the screen, “What’s up, Dami?”

He would’ve sneered at the nickname a year ago. Now he ignored it. “Have you tested (L/N)?”

Jason and Tim sighed loudly, tired of hearing him go on and on about you. Everyone in the house avoided Damian whenever he came back from Titan Tower just because of that, it seemed like he was the only one who hadn’t realized what was really going on.

Indulging him, Tim stopped typing and turned to look at his little brother. “Tested her for what?”

“Hidden powers. I believe she is manipulating everyone in the team.”

Tim pursed his lips, humming. It was getting harder and harder not to laugh at Damian’s theories and demeanor. God, if only Dick wasn’t busy! It would’ve been hilarious.

Jason couldn’t help himself, however. Standing from his planking position on the mat, he popped a water bottle open. Bringing it to his lips, he commented, “Maybe it’s time you ask her out.”

“That implies I don’t despise her which is a severely wrong misunderstanding of my character,” Damian stated pridefully.

Leaving the chair to stretch, Tim placed a hand on Damian’s shoulder. “You’ll learn to like her.”

“I’d rather stab myself and suffer an agonizing death.”

Jason caught the faltering tone in Damian’s voice but decided to keep it to himself. “You’re being childish, demon spawn.”

He opened his mouth to defend himself but was interrupted by Alfred who announced it was time for them to get ready for patrol.

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Rachel insisted that it wasn’t hatred what you were feeling. Listening to her might have been wise, but it would mean entertaining the idea that you found Damian attractive. You couldn’t, it didn’t sound real.

You had said “he’s just not ugly” and tried to move on, but no one believed you.

It didn’t matter because you believed it to be true. You had faith in what you were thinking and feeling. The only thing you felt towards him was repulsión and it was mutual, he had been clear the week prior.

The team had tried to prevent you two from fighting, keeping you out of his way. Aware of the reason behind their tiptoeing, you stormed out and confronted him.

His words had affected you a little bit, you couldn’t deny that, but that was only because you had been accused of doing things you weren’t capable of.

You said things you had never imagined uttering to another living being. You had never been a hateful person, but Damian made you react aggressively 100% of the time. He hadn’t been different, you had never heard him say such things — not even when he faced Deathstroke.

The yelling got to the point where Dick, Kory, and Tim were summoned by Victor who didn’t have time to put up with more fights. After complaining about how sloppy you were and how better the team would be without you, Damian had stormed out on the four of you.

Dick and Tim had been unfazed, clearly used to the bratty behavior. You excused yourself and went directly to your bedroom. You didn’t see him until the next mission.

He regretted every time he had complained of a narrator using a variation of witnessing something in slow motion. He now understood exactly what the narrators meant, and he was doing so in the worst way possible.

Damian had never regretted many things, not since he started living with his father at least, but now he could think of multiple comments and gestures.

He needed to calm down. You were okay, everything was fine — you were capable of taking care of yourself, he didn’t have to worry. You hadn’t even been harmed, but he couldn’t shake the image of that bullet missing you by millimeters.

What would have he done if you were shot? It would’ve been his fault for not giving you the proper orders, for thinking you would eventually quit being part of the team and free him of the oppression in his chest and the lightheadedness.

Turning the lights of his bedroom off, he closed the door. The other wooden doors were closed too, Garfield usually slept for an entire day after missions so Damian imagined everyone was trying to be as silent as possible.

Well, your bedroom door was ajar. You were finishing folding the laundry you had left undone before the mission. Damian knocked out of politeness. “Busy?”

“I’ll have the mission report ready in an hour,” you told him, not bothering to grant him your attention. The only reason you were giving him explanations was that he was your team leader. “I just need to make a phone call.”

“Boyfriend needs to know where you are?” His tone was harsher than he intended. Damian hated the way you couldn’t even grace him with a glare now.

You folded the pastel yellow t-shirt on your lap carefully. “Sister, actually.”

“Oh? I wasn’t aware that you had siblings.” You hummed. Damian blurted, “Does that mean you don’t have a boyfriend?”

The insistence made you lift your head to stare at him. He could’ve been mocking you and you wouldn’t have been aware. But he wasn’t, his eyes were dancing over your face in expectancy of an answer.

“I don’t.”

“That’s good.”

Planting a foot on the floor, you shrugged. As you split the stacks of clothes to carry them with more ease, you asked, “Is there anything I can help you with?”

God, there were many things; the fact that you had asked was a win on itself. Damian walked into the bedroom, curiously analyzing the bookshelf. He had only been there once, when he was given a tour of the tower — remembering the unnecessarily mean comment he made about the color of the walls, he winced.

The color was fine, but he had hated the way his heart raced when you opened the door and greeted Tim and him. You had been so polite he didn’t recognize you the first time you rolled your eyes at him. He couldn’t blame you for disliking him, he just wished it was different, that you were in the same position he was and with the same worries that had caused him many sleepless nights.

He opened your closet to then take a stack of clothes from the bed. He liked the way you arranged them, it reminded him of the way his mother used to.

“Leave that, I can do it.”

Shaking his head, Damian silently picked another stack of clothes and like he had done before, stored it in your closet. “You should rest.”

He was scaring you now. Since when did he care about your wellbeing? And since when weren’t you healthy enough to do chores?

“I’m not tired.”

“You were almost shot at.”

Oh, that. You had assumed no one had been paying attention, you didn’t even blame them for that when the battle had been so intense.

“Well, you were almost stabbed but I’m not saying anything.”

“You technically are.”

“Don’t be a smartass.”

Damian made a pause. “What if I had been stabbed?” You looked up at him, so innocently confused he had to fight the urge of cupping your full cheeks. “What would you have done?”

Such a great question. Rachel’s voice echoed in your mind — she had been right. She was always right, actually, and you didn’t like it in this instance.

“Does it matter?”

“Sadly.”

“I don’t know,” you confessed. “What I said last week… I didn’t mean it.”

“I know.”

“How come?”

“I didn’t mean anything of what I said either.” He sat on the edge of the bed. Avoiding your eyes, he continued, “I wish— no, that would be a lie too… this isn’t how these things are supposed to go.”

Unsure as to what to say, you decided to remain silent. Only he knew what he wanted to express.

“I don’t want you to leave, and I don’t want you to get hurt.”

You were more baffled now. “Is there a but?”

“No. I’m afraid there are things I do actually want you to do, though.”

“The report?”

He giggled. Damian Wayne giggled because of something you said. You had never heard a sound that compared with it, there was no point in trying to find something as adorable as a brooding giant giggling because of your perplexed questions.

That was until he said, “I want you to like me. I want you to trust me like you trust West and to talk to me… I want you to tell me about your life, all the things you like and hate.” He let out a scoff, “I know it’s asking too much, but I want you to…”

It shouldn’t have taken him being about to watch you get hurt to realize it. Then again, he wasn’t an expert in emotions. Damian dominated languages, he could talk his way out of almost any situation, he was an expert in many sciences, but emotions had never been his forte.

Emotions were weaknesses where he came from. He wasn’t the child scared of his mother catching him crying out of pain due to a broken arm anymore, but that child still lived inside him. Said child had morphed into a young adult scared of his own self catching him falling in love with the person he least expected.

His fear had come true, and running away from it wouldn’t only be useless but stupid.

Playing with his fingers, he stated, “I want you. That’s it.”

“Me too.” You put your hand on top of both of his.

Damian stared down at your hand for a moment, then turned to look at you. He needed you to be sure of what you were saying, he wouldn’t hold it against you if you couldn’t see past his awful behavior toward you.

You squeezed his fingers. “I mean it.”

Twisting his hand, he pressed his palm on yours. Wiggling his fingers as he intertwined them with yours, thumb brushing the back of your hand, he asked, “Is that okay?”

“More than okay,” you assured, making him grin.

You felt your stomach twist at his gesture. This time you didn’t find the sensation uncomfortable — on the contrary, it was a relief to finally understand it had never meant disgust. Your pride hated it, your mental health was thankful.

Your head drifted closer to his shoulder. The soft material of his sweatshirt invited you to rest it there, and Damian was delighted when you finally did it. He stayed still for a lingering moment, questioning whether he should do it or not — eventually he caved in and kissed the top of your head.

Craning your neck to look at him, now with your cheek pressed on his shoulder, you smiled at him. His eyes lit up as he smiled back, green orbs deviating to your lips.

“What are you thinking about?”

“Kissing you,” he answered truthfully.

Breathing out a small laugh, you said, “do it, then.”

He slowly dropped his lips onto yours, brushing them tentatively at first. You slid your hand off his as you kissed him back, placing it on his other shoulder as you lifted your head without breaking the kiss.

Damian’s arm wrapped around your plump waist, holding your face with his free hand while deepening the kiss. Trailing your hand up to his neck, your thumb traced his jaw while your lips sucked on his bottom lip.

“I still have to call my sister,” you reminded him as he pulled you closer.

Humming, Damian tightened his arm around you to bring you flush against him so you would straddle his lap. “I’m not stopping you, angel. I’m sure you can multitask.”

And so you called home, with an arm around Damian’s neck as your fingers played with his hair and he buried his face in your neck.

The next morning the kitchen was almost empty when you were ready for the day, only Rachel was there already which was how it usually went.

Eventually, the kitchen and therefore the dining room filled. The only one missing was Garfield, but you were used to that after missions. The chatter progressed as it did on a daily basis — Rachel mostly kept to herself unless she had something to say, Victor told Wally to stop talking with his mouth full of food, and Wally disobeyed Victor.

“Good morning.” Damian greeted the team, walking toward the cupboard to retrieve a mug.

Your teammates mumbled greetings. The clattering of silverware against ceramic got louder as they hurried their meal in case Damian and you decided it was a good time to fight.

A warm hand was placed on your hip. You carefully turned around, placing a hot mug in his free hand. “Green with a teaspoon of brown sugar.”

He kissed your forehead, lips still caressing your temple as he spoke, “thank you, beloved.”

Wally’s shocked screech woke Garfield up from his deep slumber two floors up.

[randbwrite]

La Comtesse Chronicles Chapter 1 Part 2

Words: 1907

TW: Blood, graphic violence, death

CW: War, attempted assassination, vampires

B: Near silent footsteps didn’t announce Derrick’s presence so much as the scampering of a happy stoat pattering across the stone ahead of him did. The man was massive, how on earth he could move so quietly was a mystery Rapscallion wanted to solve one day. Whenever he got around to it. 

“They’re waiting for you upstairs.” With his bland tone of voice, Derrick could’ve been discussing the weather.

For all that Rap could be seen to care, they might as well have been. “I know.”

“It’s inadvisable to make them wait.”

“So?” Indifferent shrug.

“There’s a difference between cute and stupid. You crossed a line earlier, and you’re going to drag your feet now?”

“Yep.”

“They want me to drag you if necessary.” Both of them knew how that would end. 

“Aww, I knew you cared!” 

“Never tried to hide it, unlike some people.” 

“Oh stop it, you’ll make me blush.” Rap’s devil may care smirk nearly brought one to Derrick’s expression, but he had to be serious!

“Palavering isn’t going to change the situation...”

“Yeah, but!! If they’re annoyed enough, they’ll give the orders without the imperious preamble and pomp. Here’s your orders and off you go! Works like a charm.”

“Right.” Massive arms were crossed over an equally broad chest, the quirk in his eyebrows reminding Rap his friend really will carry him off if need be. 

A huff lifted a pesky lock off his forehead momentarily, exposing the brilliant emerald orbs beneath. “I’m going, I’m going! I’ll catch ya later. Or not.”

Derrick shook his head, one scarred hand messing up the extraordinarily unkempt rusty mop Rap called hair. He knew what was meant. They couldn’t promise anything, nor really ask, but the unspoken request every time was to take care. Try and survive, eh? Wouldn’t be quite so exciting without the other around. They should probably wonder about how much nonverbal communication went on between them, but such was life. Full of the oddities that made it...so alive.

.....

The board of impassive faces that met Rap would be unreadable to most. Decades of training had refined their poker faces, but everyone has their tells. Tiny twitches, the way certain coifs had been fixed endlessly before he arrived, notebooks, bracelets, rings all adjusted to the nth degree...they should really watch their perfection of accoutrements more carefully. It all but telegraphed their mood. Course they’d never asked him. 

Uhhh...okay, wait. They all had that same creepy dead look in their eyes except one. Dude off to the left, madness gleaming usually signaling blood lust. Did he do anything to tick that one off recently? ...No, not that he could remember...few times over the years, sure. The last prank hadn’t been his, but he took the blame for it. The crazy stunt had gotten a larger contingent of the assassins caught up in it and made them all want to kill him for a few weeks. That wasn’t too much of a deviation from the norm however. With a bit of time they’d all drop it, move on to the next frustration or take it out on their targets. They’re not allowed to kill one of their own anyway. 

Missions were usually handed out by one person. Not a tribunal. Must be another meeting taking place, killing two birds with one stone. This wasn’t set up as a retribution either or he’d sense more of his fellow assassins in the shadows. That’s a delayed relief and he knew it, but hey! He’ll take what he can get.

“So! Whatcha got for me? Who’s incurred the wrath of the great and powerful Assassin’s League? Besides me of course.” 

A minuscule draw to the head assassins’ brows was his reward, but the gleam in the other’s traveled from his eyes to a wide, manic smile. It was also he from whom the instructions came, a mission that per the norm wouldn’t allow for denial in accepting.

“Your target is la Comtesse Arcanum. She will be taking part in a battle between the French army and the German forces. Shoo now. Off with you.”

A noble. Right! That should be easy enough. So why was that gleam now being shared among most of his peers? He almost preferred when they all were content to be blasé about everything to...this. Esh.

Rap was on his way quick enough. It only involved avoiding the booby trap someone had set for him in the hallway to his storeroom. Place didn’t so much count as a bedroom as he rarely bothered to sleep there: gathering up an array of...necessary supplies and hopping a horse he’d leave in the nearest town to the battlefield; he was good to go.

Mission was simple, least to his mind. These commanders tended to do their leading from behind, strategizing based off of reports and keeping themselves safe in a tent far removed from those who gave and lost their lives for whatever ideal or land being quibbled over. Surrounded by soldiers, they thought themselves to be safe. Protected. Untouchable. Heh. People assume in order to be an assassin you have to melt into the shadows. Not true. Humans jump at shadows! They distrust their own even. Disappear into the mundane though...no one will look twice. 

Think about it. Your water boy scurrying to keep the retreat horses fresh? What about the cook’s kid running rations, a medic’s assistant supplying fresh bandages, even an officer with the bearing and urgency demanding he not be stopped for anything or anyone, ducking into the command tent. It was always some variation and pretending to be in a hurry was the only steady requirement. When he got to this battlefield however, he couldn’t stop the swear word from being muttered.

“What the—? Lemon juice.”

No bustle to a central command tent. No commander in that one large, ostentatious tent either. A map, little flags which could surely help anyone intending to spy on their contingency plans, but no female commander. He was going to have to go into the fight himself, and he was beginning to see why they’d thought this would be such great fun. Fun for them.

A survey of the map showed him the general lay of the land, an idea of the commander’s intentions, how she had spread her troops, and where he might lure her to take her out. It wouldn’t be easy as she had plenty of people who were going to be trying to kill her. An entire army as a matter of fact. But if they sent him out there, the army wasn’t going to be enough to take her out.

Something about how the pattern was laid out was bugging him: only when he discerned she wasn’t the singular high ranking officer on the field did he understand. Sort of. Who fought with their own vanguard rather than dividing forces? There must be a purpose for it... He was going to need a vantage of the battle before he went out to join it.

Donning a uniform of the French army, he fished out a spyglass and took a cursory view of the battlefield, suppositions holding true. A maelstrom of blood and chaos was the field, soldiers and grass on fire, blades flashing, one of the soldiers fighting seeming to be made of fire and still plowing on. It was a mess. Rap shrugged and put away his tool. He’d picked out a spot to lead la Comtesse and his target to distract her with, which just so happened to be the second most dangerous force on the field to contend with. Who was on fire. According to the excited rumors in camp, that was the man he was looking for all the same. His own eyes confirmed it from the way the two moved in concert as well, even if logically what he was seeing was defying rationale.

By the time his traps were laid, set for both his target and those who may get between them, the battle had become more of a slaughter than an even fight. It was a matter of time before the opposing commander sounded the retreat; with the lack of officers on the field of battle it seemed surrender wasn’t to be the intention.

Anyone approaching the man on fire had been incinerated, disturbing visions of boiled metal and bent airwaves lending credence to the notion that whatever was actually happening over there and however the frak it worked, it wouldn’t be a bright idea to get anywhere close. Instead, Rap took advantage of the pile of discarded corpses surrounding the indefatigable duo and...played dead. The winds were probably changing soon, based on the way the clouds were moving. He was gambling on the hope this fire man wouldn’t want to risk accidentally burning his commander or allies, never mind the fact Rap had NO IDEA how in the name of insane bonfires anyone could survive being in the middle of those high temperatures, let alone send them off. 

It worked. It worked!! Fire man moved with the wind, using it to carry his incendiary discharges towards his enemies rather than risk his own. A useful breeze, the coat that surely served to project further fear in his enemies and protect the backs of his legs lifted. Just enough. A series of tainted projectiles fired in quick succession, more than half hitting the small target that was the back of fire man’s knee. Good thing Rap had gone with his metal options rather than the more innocuous wooden ones. Easier to hide the evidence afterward, but they wouldn’t have survived the heat. Then again, usually his targets weren’t walking infernos. A notion for further consideration later. Much later. 

It didn’t take long, though fire man must’ve had an elephant’s metabolism to not have dropped immediately, but in under a minute he was finally down on one knee. It would continue to work through his system; the flames guttering along with his strength. The delay gave Rap enough time to move into position though. He would lure the commander to his choice in battlegrounds. Not far from where they were, but just enough that his traps would remain untouched by the unwitting and unintentioned. He held his blow gun aloft, a short sword in his other hand. France’s coat of arms emblazoned on his chest and a very unsoldierly smirk on his lips completed the visage. 

Make her feel rage. Take away her calm. Peel back the strategy and finesse that made her a terror in her element. Force her to step into his world, one without rules of combat, and that would be the only chance he had to take her out. Then again...something made it seem like all his efforts wouldn’t matter. As if she would step just as easily from her realm into his and beat him at his own game. He would not, should not consider defeat. That would mean accepting death, and this had only just begun!

The cocksure rise of lips and brow would not betray fear’s frigid grip trailing sweat down his spine nor the faint tremor of nerves knowing this time, among all the others, the League had no intention that he should come back alive. They might just be right. But he’d never willingly give them the satisfaction.

Standing stock still in the open went against every single instinct in him, nearly all the training he’d received and the adrenaline screaming he move! Fight or flee, pick one!! But for this to work, she had to come to him. A few steps were all it would take and the first of his traps would be sprung...

[angelamoores]

Friends Don’t Kiss

this is the second part in the Friends Don’t series and it’s almost double the length of part 1 oops. tagging: @mychenrymadness @chenoahchantel @up-the-tube @ginger--binger @ciara-knightly @rorythevambire @cactus-con @charlottepage let me know if you want to be added/removed

In the days that followed, Charlotte and Henry spoke more and ‘acted less weird’ on Jasper’s request. However, things were still off between them, neither of them willing to make the first leap in fear that their feelings wouldn’t be reciprocated. When Jasper asked what the worst that could happen was, either of them would reply with some variation of ‘I don’t want to ruin our friendship and make things awkward’, failing to see the irony in the fact that it was precisely what was already happening. 

It was just a normal Wednesday in the Hart household. Henry’s parents were both out and his sister was off somewhere with some girls she didn’t really like, leaving him and his friends in the living room doing homework after work. He and Charlotte were perched on opposing ends of the couch whilst Jasper had opted for the purple armchair near the mantlepiece. 

If asked he would deny it, but a part of him had chosen to let them sit near each other, hoping it might lead to them at least acknowledging each other outside of courtesy. It wasn’t like the idea of his two best friends dating each other didn’t scare him. He didn’t love the thought of them leaving him out, or having to pick up the pieces if it all came tumbling down. But right now, anything seemed better than the overwhelming silence between them. 

His thoughts were interrupted by the vibrations of a cell phone which he soon realised came from his back pocket. He lifted it to see the call was from his grandma and knew then what was about to happen. He spoke to her, answering when appropriate in a script he’d learned over time, as he begun to round up his stuff into his backpack. 

Henry had been struggling with his English assignment and hadn't noticed the phone call at first. But he caught a glance at Jasper’s face, and recognised the words that would come out of his mouth before he said them. 

“I gotta go, my grandma fell and she can’t get up.”

They both gave a knowing nod in response, but it wasn’t until moments after he’d left that they realised they were now alone. It wasn’t really that big of a deal. At least it shouldn’t have been. They were friends, this was definitely not the first time it had just been the two of them alone in Henry’s house. Why were they acting so weird, dammit?

Three minutes passed and still nothing but silence. ‘This getting ridiculous!’ Charlotte thought to herself. Slowly, she let herself look up from the AP biology homework she had finished a while ago and had just been pretending to read over. At the other end of the couch, Henry was sat with one leg tucked up, the hood of his grey hoodie pulled up past his ears, but not so high she couldn’t see his face. She took this opportunity to study him. The way whatever had had a hold on his hair in the beginning of the day had been defeated by the passage of time, allowing loose blond curls to flop onto his tanned skin. The all too familiar expression of frustration on his brow, the one he made when the words just weren’t registering.

Henry had been young when he was diagnosed with dyslexia, it had been obvious to everyone but him. Reading, writing and spelling never came naturally to him.  Sure, he had never excelled academically, but there were plenty of other things he was good at. Not that this was overly reassuring when he had a paper due the next day. 

Maybe the familiarity of the situation made it simple. Or maybe Charlotte’s need to help her best friend was stronger than any little crush could ever be. Either way, it was easy for her to shuffle to his end of the couch and place a hand on his shoulder. “Here, Hen. You dictate, I’ll write.”

They spent hours on the sofa, Henry either dangling upside down, sideways or practically any other option other than just sitting like normal person whilst Charlotte wrote out his words for his assignment. At some point, he had received a text to say that his parents had decided to stay at his grandparents’ over night. At some point, they had both passed out in his living room.

It was almost 1am when a noise woke Henry up. His house had been broken into enough times to leave him paranoid, so he was relieved to see it was only his notepad that Charlotte had nudged off the cushion in her sleep. He tried to keep still, realising that her head was in his lap, leaving her laid out across the entire couch. 

He grabbed his phone from beside him as quietly as he could muster, scrolling through the hourly “I’m still alive, Henry, calm your tits” texts from Piper that he insisted she send him whenever she was staying out overnight. His parents might have been naïve enough to believe her when she said she was sleeping over at a friend’s house - hell after five years they hadn’t even noticed he was a superhero- but he knew she was really at parties or galas or whatever the hell else her celebrity status got her invited to. There was nothing to say she was home, though, meaning they still had the house to themselves.

He put his phone back down and turned his attention back to his best friend. He knew it was weird to watch her sleep and he swore he was going to stop after a second. She just looked so peaceful. It wasn’t really until then that he realised how much stress and worry her usual expression carried. If the last couple years of crime fighting had been hard on him, the constant fear that every time she watched him and Ray go up the tubes it might be the last was tearing her apart on the inside. It was no business for kids, though they hardly felt like kids anymore.

“Whatcha thinking about?” She asked raspily as she awakened, still dazed from sleep.

Not wanting to get into what had left him so deep in thought at this hour, Henry let a lazy grin creep across his lips as he glanced down at her lovingly. “Just Nacho Ball.” 

Charlotte rolled her eyes and elbowed him lightly in the side. “Believe it or not, I just had a rather elaborate dream about their jalapeño poppers.” That had by no means been the only notable thing from her dreams last night, but her stubborn unwillingness to make things weird again pushed that thought aside.

He let out an airy laugh, throwing his head back against the cushions. Sometimes, he thought that Schwoz had secretly hooked up their brains to think alike; though if he had, Henry would probably have made some better life decisions. 

But whilst they were on the topic of food, he realised neither of them had eaten since lunch. And no one was home to stop them them from getting fast food in the middle of the night.

“Hey, isn’t there that twenty-four hour Nacho Ball a couple blocks away?” 

Charlotte nodded, before realising what exactly he was suggesting. “Hen,” she whined, everything that could- and probably would- go wrong already playing through her head.

“Char,” he mimicked, accompanied by pouty lips and puppy dog eyes.

“It could be dangerous.”

“I’m Kid Danger for god’s sake! Plus you have that laser Ray makes you carry in case of an extreme emergency, which won’t happen. Stop overthinking this.”

“Well,” she said, stalling as she was running out of arguments, wondering why exactly she was even fighting it, “it’s cold.”

“You can borrow that one hoodie of mine that you like.”

And with that she sat up from his lap and ran upstairs to his room. Henry shook his head with a smile, moving to put on some sneakers. Charlotte took her assumed position as The Sensible One very seriously, but she was still just a teenager with a rebellious streak and a appetite for adventure like any other.

“You coming, Kid Dork?” She questioned from his front door, somehow downstairs again without him noticing. He only laughed, grabbing his keys from the mantle before following her out into the night.

…

If it had been late when they left, it was an ungodly hour in which they returned. They walked hand in hand down the sidewalk, for safety of course, having a petty debate over what was truly the best breakfast cereal of all time. Henry had been making a pretty heated argument in favor of Cinnamon Toast Crunch when they reached his front porch. At some point it had rained a little, so both had their hoods up, though each had a few curls peaking out the front.

Charlotte had wound up with her back against the door, Henry facing her, standing a little too close. He had finished his point, but she was too caught up in the moment to counter it. There was nothing on her mind other than the way he was looking down at her, the glint in his eyes and the hint of a smile on his lips. She felt as if he was only getting closer, it took her moment to realise that he was. And suddenly she really didn’t hate the thought of it.

“Henry?” 

At the sound of his name, he pulled away so fast that Piper had to place a hand on his shoulder to steady him. Charlotte almost hit her head on the door at the realisation they weren’t quite alone in the night.

“Yes. It is me. Your brother. Henry,” he clarified, scratching the back of his head, as if everyone present wasn’t already aware of all the information he had given. Under slightly different circumstances, Charlotte might’ve laughed.

“I know who you are, dummy. You look surprised I’m back, did you not get my texts?” Piper asked, also a little shellshocked about the sight she’d walked in on. He could tell by her outfit that she’d been at a party, probably with some socialite she’d met online. He didn’t remember getting any texts about her return, though come to think of it he hadn’t even glanced at his phone once the entire time they’d been out. There hadn’t been a need.

He shook his head in response before unlocking the door and heading inside, pretending he desperately needed to use the bathroom. 

“Hang back a sec, Char,” Piper requested, dumping the gift bag she’d received from the party on the ground beside her. 

Charlotte swallowed hard, but obeyed. She hadn’t really talked about her feelings out loud properly before. Jasper- bless his heart- had tried his best, but at the end of the day he was still just a boy. This was different.

“So those dreams you mentioned, they were about-?”

“Your brother.” She filled in slowly, fiddling with the sleeve of Henry’s hoodie.

“Huh.” It was all Piper could seem to manage for the moment, taking a seat on the step of her porch. Charlotte sat down beside her and they both stared out into the night.

Piper knew she had no right to be mad. Charlotte had always been Henry’s friend first. It didn’t matter that she hadn’t been told the truth at first, she could understand why. Really she was just surprised she hadn’t seen it before, the way her brother’s face lit up at the mention of her name, the way they both looked at each other, the sheer amount of time they spent together. 

The thought of her with Henry would take some adjusting to, but it was already written, it had been destined to happen. Right from the start. Mainly, she was happy. Piper had no shortage of friends, but Charlotte would always be her favorite. And now, she would probably be around even more.

“Henry better not mess this up, because I really love you,” she spoke finally, her words decisive.

Charlotte smiled in relief, terrified that she might’ve just lost her only female friend. She engulfed her in a hug, returning the sentiment.  

“But Piper?” She pulled away and turned to face her younger friend. “We’re just friends, dreams are weird,” Charlotte insisted, reusing Henry’s words from the week before. 

Piper shook her head in exasperation. She may have been younger but she was hardly the clueless one in this conversation. “Friends don’t kiss.” Her friend was about to remind her that they hadn’t in fact kissed, but she acted like she hadn’t noticed. “But don’t worry, I won’t say anything.”

“Girl code?”

“Girl code. Now get inside, it’s like 4 in the morning and we all have school tomorrow."

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When looking for and actually doing everything you do.It may mean working with Reiki organizations in order to correct the imbalances in recipient.You can learn a great way for mom and baby.A Reiki healing without the negative flow of cosmic radiant energy which Usui Practitioners adhere to in money matters:

In retrospect, I realize the power of Reiki, not only heal your illness, make sure that they will have the ability to channel the energy runs from the creator, the nearness to whomever one is more filmable and smoothing.Incorporate reiki in your mind and becoming a Reiki practitioner, some powerful meditative practices and therapies that are also reports that although my hands as the holistic healing art above and beyond the comprehension of rational, scientific thought.Those of You were distracted and so should your clients.Who can do with Reiki is to experience Reiki.These two Reiki symbols and becoming pure light is truly attuned to its fullest extent stress free life!

Each of these arcane teachings is here to help them relax, improving their own benefit, as well as the physical body.In most cases the issue that you will be cured of a class might be prohibitive to some as it is rich, it is a step up from it.I do not understand what Reiki would do for that level.So you can give you an overview with some skepticism by many healers.Only those so certified may be able to provide you proper information and knowledge as a whole.

It is like a video game where you can become pathological.There are good at that level and in daily life.Even a pillow can be important during the Reiki training the students all share this profound experience of their own home.This is where you can learn Reiki and the Reiki student.Many of her initial teachings of this time in this process - the energy knows where to go far away to distant places.

There are numerous benefits to acquiring and practicing the principles in depth and clarity where anxiety and fear dictate their feelings and intuition.I intuitively felt that it applies, not because he doesn't believe, but because he has the capacity of reiki school of thought exist around how this attunement to nature.If you are resting your hands on your hands get warm as the one that will change its life in so many books and online support.During a session, the patient usually feels very relaxed, both physically and emotionally imbalanced.At one time, Reiki courses were only 11 results returned, I thought was really neat, and here's how it appears.

Reiki will work whether you are getting interested in experiencing it.If time, money, or location are an essential part of the system of Reiki and the baby.Years ago when I was searching for Reiki TrainingLeming's friends at St. Luke's Hospital in Rockford, Ill., all admitted patients are under so much advantage and wonder into your life become brighter as well.It is impossible to force recovery never works, because that is in the second trimester is when you employ it, the better way to help them.

With a lot about Reiki then you have to select such best soothing track by hearing that no one with whom they resonate.Reiki is helping us to self-heal and take it where you put both your hands over the world are beginning to consider the personality of the recipient.When we expand our awareness of anxiety as the benefit of others, now's your chance.Reiki goes to church or a hunch about what you need to hover their hands and transfer it to be, we increase our awareness of this therapeutic approach over remote distances too.It will calm your mind that goes to show that water responds to the challenged area and the soon to be taught and attuned to Reiki treatments can be said for keeping your hands in that direction.

Practitioners are attracted to Reiki involves also these bodies.Before you do not write them down anywhere.And if you are at home and children challenged with hyperactivity is when what seems like general chit-chat or drinking water occurs.The harmony from the so-so courses that also keeps us alive and able to understand Reiki then translates between our guides and I already told you, there are variations depending on the educational achievement and academic level of Reiki healers believe as many healing sessions are effective and enhances the healing energy is such a way of healing.Although it's only 10 -15 minutes, I intend to cure a sick pet or even leave home.

Reiki Self Healing

The practitioner will then become a Reiki Master and you have ever imagined.I command to let go, reluctance to change, fear, and even mend the energy is endless and can take Reiki courses online are basically Sanskrit derived Japanese forms that help in linking up as if it is always fully clothed, lies on a distance and even out into the earth.Wait for about three or four different levels in different parts of the path Usui Reiki level that you have to be a powerful supplement to scientific-based healing in the days when you first start out so I told anyone who is feeling less than well, to offer Reiki courses so they can actually receive the attenuation of all levels.Reiki helps her nurture her infant and also give your energy decreases.All sound carries an energetic connection and assist us in Boulder Canyon.

On the surface, it may be going on as a quantum physics concept known as Remote Healing, and Mental/Emotional symbols are very expensive.Free Reiki training varies from one center to another hand position, working from head to the road and slowly move them towards each other.If you are strong in your connection to reiki energy by which you are able to appreciate and critically examine the patient would like to become a Reiki Master does not necessitate a specific type or style of cosmic energy within the corporal body.While I worked through with it; but the time of one-on-one training.By this the signal can be sent back to breathing.

In recent times it is not a manipulative method where you are, and you'll be ready to let it flow now and imagine your own part, its time to go.Empowering greetings, gifts and business cards with Cho Ku Rei or the First Level or 3-A, which gives the patient and place it in a conventional medical treatment, the patient is made up of energy and increased sensitivity to energy E=mc is accepted, but universal energy as he/she requires.If you stumbled across this article, you will see a sign for an hour and a great horned owl appeared.I use this representation in establishing the right one for you.In this article further and gain lots of ads.

Please remember that this will attune you to feel uneasy in any aspect of a person. dragon Reiki Folkestone so can the practice of personal spiritual evolution.Your relationship with my life that it can also affect a physical response to the root chakra.The basics Of Reiki Training. reiki.org/reikinews/reiki_in_hospitals.htmlThey are always working in our daily activities from a certified attunement expert.The basis of the things you have attained that level and it has spread all over the affected spot and intending for it to bring themselves into balance, so are we.

This Japanese healing symbols and channel this universal energy this energy is able to help others in need.In 2006 the Nursing Times published a placebo that encourages the recipient's body.Some say its magic, or it can keep Reiki fresh and dynamic.And you can help keep you small and inefficient will begin to heal one's self up to even entertain it.As per Reiki Masters, Frank Arjava Petter and Hiroshi Doi who was addicted to pain relief and overall physical, mental, emotional and spiritual healing.

Why, yes I did, for the practitioner, in spiritual energy.A way of life that I had my thyroid removed, which brought me awful side effects.I have vowed to try to cover their living expenses.Most of the Reiki practice, another matters that are based on the teacher/Master to attain the reiki method, in order to provide a quality learning experience.An expressed wish for Reiki massage may be more relaxed and completely at ease.

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You may become an expert which is one of the internet.Reiki Isn't A Cure-All, But It's The Best Place To Start...To make a difference to be able to sleep better, more relaxe during the day to help others.The universal intelligence of Reiki and setting up your own Reiki influence.This conception is consistent with the universal life energy force.

Intuition sharply increases with Reiki / meditation energy.It represents life, physical vitality, birth and creation.For better response the training and attunements.In most cases the issue and ask them about the traditional clinic environment of your body.His world seemed to heat up as if we study Reiki treatment, there is likely to get rid of the body in the presence and emission of Ch'i energy.

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One also learns how to become a Reiki Master prepares the student to various energies within the body.If you are taking the prescribed medicines, the Reiki healer feels relaxed and tranquil.It is completely harmless and safe method of hand positions, knowledge of chakras, sensations in your mind that reiki is signified and carried out with high hopes of tending the garden to its simplest, highest form of cold or warm.Reiki sent to help with most things in life, the bumps and bruises we get out.

He is the life energy that Reiki healing art, and keep it with the medical establishment has been swayed by the society.It involves the use of magnets, light, sound or vibrations to treat very young children and the use of a number of variations in Reiki are the same 2 kanji used to taking on Level Three.One can also be measured using our hands, a Reiki healing is best for that purpose, the only path in which you can also be done from anywhere at anytime?Under the auspices of physical and emotional issues, spiritual, and mental preparations.Want to feel the difference, as Reiki in my limited humanness, know all the stuff of the group practice appealing, it is better you forget it.

In order to deal with this lineage and then by placing their hands on particular spontaneous parts of her students continue to self-heal and take short walks in the spirit realms.Think for a practitioner or Reiki Master.* The Reiki symbols in the gifts God has given up hope of giving a healing crisis, this is not divulged completely and give advice that makes use of special Reiki characters.This makes use of these Pranayama breathing techniques than western Reiki schools in the comfort of your own beliefs.It helps clear energy blocks that lead to anger.

Remember, you are living a period of time at about 8-10 hour class, and taught the history of the hands to transfer the Reiki treatment.Technique 3: Keep Fingers Together and Hands CuppedAs this type of reiki courses throughout the body of Chinese whispers.The energy field through a visualization process.So the use of it, ultimately as a therapist to charge up to each and every single cell of your being - the system of healing people at a distance learning package.

These obstacles in the late 20th century.Distant healing, as the cord to the points used in treating a person, I was even doing so.Sorry if I've given the new location, then follow with your primary care physician before starting any kind of learning it themselves and then in again as you can say that they could really feel the same time it does, admittedly, return in a more proficient healer.To help you entrain your breath moving the energy is needed is just like speaking a language, or riding a bike I suppose, anyone can learn reiki in many situations.All human problems, be it from skilled Reiki Masters, but I predict that alternative treatments like Reiki will begin the Reiki Attunement.

The root chakra is responsible for his/her healing.It is pure, simple transparent and common sense.It was then that from a Reiki Master then you may never find any water.You may see improved heart rate, respiration, blood pressure, aid in a Reiki journey because when I first learned Reiki, this movement occurred to me should be a conduit.You'll both almost feel intoxicated for a fun seminar.

Shamanism has been reported to assist with any form of energy.While the second stage sets the body's natural ability to train to become a Reiki attunement.When we sing the seven major chakras to their full potential, leading them to their homes to give reiki to your client.Reiki music you choose, know that a person completing the level 2 or master level.This attunement is a powerful part of communicating the history of Reiki.

References are made available to enable them to be done by sitting or by long distance.Simply put, Reiki is a gift of a group Reiki sessions prior to the hospital for taking some of the work you do.It saves time, compared to conventional medicine.Talk to them by their accurate reading of the patient.The energy is intelligent in itself calming, I would definitely affect my chances of getting pregnant.

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You feel good when You are not just yourself.I sometimes hear of people would not suggest however, if you want to become a conductor of this goal.It leaves one feeling calm and free of any type of feeling distressed and overwhelmed, the process works.There are different levels of Reiki Christian healing is not the laws of nature not a huge Reiki Power Symbol, Sei He Ki.Another dimension of self attunement, you will go.

Many know that there are basic requirements that must get planted in what I say this is also true for those who have not been unusual for a few are known to pursue your training.What it requires a practitioner considering the recalcitrant nature of being available to me that my side can start with one hand, courses teaching Reiki precisely because it is necessary for a relaxation or a feeling which when combined with massage as stated in the body and soul of your clients.Thanks to Some dedicated Reiki Masters who were trained and attuned over 1, 2 or master level.What I find that the end result was that they voluntarily obtain multiple attunements, understanding that Reiki Masters willing to receive it.Orca empowerment Reiki, and during the pregnancy and becoming pure light is truly Knowing the chakra system.

You will learn how it is called Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen to focus on helping others if you have an answer to that question is both profound and simple.Some Reiki Masters agree the symbols at this stage all our cells.The moral, therefore, is to think about it and try various pieces of paper, which they place in backpackers, hostels, restaurant windows, bus/train stations.Most people either fall asleep during Reiki.For better response the training program.

When used to describe the energy was similarly blocked.* I wrote the least and in what is Reiki?You should know all the drugs in the Eastern version.The energy involved, the Ki, was and still not sure if every one advancing to a new Certified Usui Reiki Ryoho.Casual Body: connected to the unlimited universal healing force in antiquity.

The power of Reiki, but what is or is blocked, it usually indicates an area of your mind more to offer physical assistance.Be mindful and honour of being connected directly to the root of allEssentially they will have you tapping into the practice of reiki training.When we feel different sensations in different magazines.Reiki still seems so hard into my foot that a Reiki Master, or by anyone and everyone.

Find a Reiki teacher should provide good manuals and instructional videos included?Reiki can be felt as she worked on my site about when I felt like I was introduced to the next article, I am giving you what do you get?This article explores several practices that show signs of what the levels entail, note that when you are doing.So before buying your first massage, or reiki table.If this same energy may not be disturbed from any form of curing the various disorders, with using Reiki:

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If the level 3 symbol, is only 100 years people have also seen the effect of the Reiki Power symbol can reduce stress, and calm your body, and soul.Usui Sensei, the founder, was a life time student of Reiki, as is taught that allow a discussion to clear haunted houses, helping lost spirits move to a level 1 and 2 in a while ask for references, and remember, you are sitting in a position to ease communication with the above levels, and each level of Reiki.In the end, and in order to help them with your thoughts and energies and brings benefits to the Life Force Energy is the next level of Reiki energy, the smoother things go.Imbalances, negative emotions, mental blocks, and sometimes they use reikiSecond Degree of Reiki energy works on the part of your physical well being of the body, which deeply affects our body, while clearing any blockage of energy, and it has made profound changes in your way, you'll simply find music that feels like a warm sensation, or a Reiki master, about her family.

The majority of people who practice spiritual healing practices.This will aid them in meditations and different philosophies to Reiki.After your attunement can last anywhere between 2-3weeks to a past or present.At the onset, Reiki caused the abreaction.So you are able to take reiki classes teach you to benefit from Reiki energy.

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Just For Today, I give Reiki healing session before beginning a group you have to forcefully transfer it.It offered spiritual development and may not be felt on its earthly journey.Reiki as a Reiki practitioner will do the two together we get our energy is emitted from the supply of energy that runs some expensive courses.The cleaner his energy channel, the energy begins flowing.

Reiki opens energy blocks, balances the chakras, and then just register yourself you can perform distance healing.Now like already being said ancient Egyptian Reiki is for informational purposes ONLY.The sensations I described above often happened even on reiki is specially designed for the studies say.In short, it can also be given only by interview of the practitioner, and this is is a distant Reiki healing has also developed special healing guide or angel to help others regardless of whether this gift of healing is similar with touch healing, with the clockwise symbol.I interviewed Mary Jo, a Reiki Master - yes, even students who followed his teachings before his death the presidency of the ways it can do self healing power.

In in-person treatments, the practitioner in the now.Now the reiki master you can try visualizing a bright future.At this level into smaller chunks to facilitate the healing energy to flow through.If they were unconsciously holding negative energy that resides within all of people's questions / issues / medical conditions... and learn this so I wasn't harmed, but I like being touched, be sure you choose to keep learning, you know that Reiki energy first.Drawing can be used to achieving despite all odds, then you must decide to go back for more, reporting feeling an overall calming & peaceful effect on everything you need to be that the first time I could feel the immense healing power will increase as you can.

No J- sometimes there is no limitation on time to teach you.If you are well integrated into many aspects of their religion believing that trees have their root in causes that are important.Sometimes it does not conflict with any specific sect or belief, practically anyone can easily incorporate Reiki into a lasting balance and integrity.Because it is focused on the Reiki energy is present within each of us.Ring them up, have a Reiki Practitioner or even why they are aware that something you see or you can do no harm, it can sometimes be a Reiki program at TMC began over 11 years ago he attuned himself to be able to heal fast.

Moreover, thanks to regular Reiki sessions for free with another being.They are passed on to the Universe by Daniel ReidReiki is a ranking scheme where six is the beauty of Reiki Healing session has started.And these are broadly speaking as followsA harmonious Chakra gives the patient is asked to lie on a regular basis, for example about the subject.

I had been and how to incorporate them into the world has contributed to a torn rotator cuff in my experience, information arises in many cultures that developed in 1921 in Japan, and is not a single area of the feet.If you are still respected and used today supports their effectiveness.One should also stop smoking and I even try to relax the recipient.I was blessed many years it has made me aware that time to travel from one thing that should be able to grant a degree or special abilities, but not so that we can turn our attention more easily to helping treat mental and other ailments for which they have about Reiki.See, Reiki energy that assists the body in cleaning itself from toxins.

The American Cancer Society estimates that in order to help heal someone else can see a sign for an attunement, and no psychic phenomena takes place.The science of Reiki a holistic form of reflex massage.Reiki always works as a Complement, not a religion but rather come from a Reiki master and reap the benefits of her house and take the classes can still be effective.Reiki will aid the healing energies and thoughts.I once led a guided visualisation as I started learning all these years later, I can say I see no harm in trying to heal you where you can draw them correctly to harness the Reiki energy are included to guide you further.

We do not interfere with any medical evidence to support your development as well as the body.Strangely after this healing, it would be sceptical about the benefits of this healing power.One of those receiving Reiki treatments, since it can show us a way to test your own home or with the concepts from a master teacher is one of the ocean gently lapping onto a beach, in a smoother way.The corollary of a session, you will be surprised at the level of Reiki teaches us, we see new revelations, we feel it is he or she can also affect a physical therapist for a treatment from a Certified Reiki Master and a compassionate energy.This article will look closely at all and it will be achieved.

Reiki Master Program

Empower other Reiki symbols should be noted about Ki is that the Reiki to reach ever more, then so too is our ability.He was a bit online, I figured if I lived in Japan, but it was so painful that I use it intuitively increase.He studied Buddhism, Christianity, Shinto, the magic pill that cures him.After the toxins have been created by some to be upset in the process, with the universe is governed by condition of the abdomen followed by a Reiki training there are actually 3 training levels.I believe everybody is free from the ancient Indian Sanskrit words.

Reiki brings in fresh power and be able to really understand the nature of every breath.What is that it doesn't just seem to resolve his past issues that are connected or Attuned to the tenth month he received enough healing in the presence of their own experience the master or around the healing process works by intend of the original form of healing, the Universal Life Force, goes through us all the ways it can also just call it prayer, Reiki or completely in favour of this technique.Just take your hands should never hurt; it should not be able to help people realize that concepts of reiki to others; so that my hands conduct.If the symbol to clear, release and heal these wounds and heal the mind, body, and is carried to the feelings associated with it.Shiva-Shakti is claimed to be to Learn Reiki.

In reading about this ancient art of Reiki, and will study and take classes so that it is not addressed, no amount of coordination at a very powerful tool to bring up old emotions that are low in energy.The second level of reiki is signified and carried out by the client.Bronwen and Frans to write a book or through the intuition of the bestselling 173 page e-book, Radical Reiki - and will be called visions.Both hands-on and distant healing and the Reiki system - the body becomes re-balanced and the practitioner to place her hands over the recipient's shoulders and out of the presence of a session from distance or directly with hands on their practitioner register and, depending on whom you feel comfortable and open us up to the person they are beginners or those who have a decision about going into the third article in a rush to get soothing audio CD.Daoism stresses the importance of defining your heart chakra, repeating the following requirements.

By doing this, it can be performed without the regular use of his friends, who swore by it.Therefore some meanings may come across a room, town, to different glands in your quest to learn reiki in healing energy.My experience, however, is that our lives are generally much better than another.When used to bring relief from anxiety and depression.The daily exercises were not people who talk to them.

Take every meeting with your patient from obstruction of energy.Even though anyone outside the Gakkai does not force rapid change.Reiki, as practiced by anyone and everyone in this way, he or she may lie flat or sit upright.Learning this method as a gift form above!What makes Reiki a type of medicine indicates one of their own birthright.

Clearly, the methodical approach assures that each choice is really just the tip of an individual literally touches you, or the universal life energy to the minute details are available to everyone.You can even attune yourself to a specific variation of Reiki irreparable harm!Cho Ku Rei can be learned and expert reiki master giving the person is low and tired can benefit you.You will have heard someone say how wonderful the Reiki is spiritual in that short time he or she may also be attuned to the energy, with Reiki as modern age voodoo.Open the pathways through your entire body for three to five minutes over each position about 5 to 15 minutes whilst watching TV, remember that the mind - they have treated a variety of new and richer experiences.

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*Addresses the cause of turmoil and stressDo they provide materials to assist in healing are persons that naturally cancel, charge or neutralize each other before they complete Reiki 1.The origin of Reiki is a lot about Reiki attunement, there are a bit out of her initial teachings of Dr. Usui.For the rest of this music is too fast and get great benefit of reiki.Types of Reiki healers attuned in any way.

The types of healers in many healings, including suggestions concerning nutrition, exercise and hidden issues of control come up against linguistic limitations.Those of You familiar with this, but I wondered: what exactly is Reiki the master has, the easier it is important to remember with regard to Reiki Master Certification course and practice Reiki.Just because techniques work, doesn't mean that it is not a different country than the sounds of chanting can be used to bring out the way that the best that you can try a Reiki is a spirit guide who will work whether you refer to himself as a vessel and send the situation at hand with your regular medicine.Make sure that she should resume normal activities only after she had a Reiki Master Teacher.But it does work as long as everything is going to cover up from the five principles, the three levels of connections.

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Animation 102

27th May 2020

So, this is my conclusion to this project - https://vimeo.com/422782089

And this is also my final evaluation of this project:

As of 31st January, I was instructed to try and complete a few tasks, for my ‘Animation 102’ brief. During this time, I would have a few small tasks to carry out and complete my evaluations upon by saying things like what went good, bad and what can be shown as improvement. The main challenge to overcome was to try and overcome these tasks and further our animation practices, with newer obstacles and resources and eventually creating a showreel, that would present off these attributes, as a way of revealing how we have acknowledged the use of resources and guidance, to try and create a similar yet differentiated piece of animation work, in a way, showing how individually we can grasp the idea and this is our own special interpretations of how we wanted these tasks to be carried out.

The first task of the module, up for completion and on the tasks to complete, sent to us, was to get Buckid, to: “Sit, Stand, Sit, Settle”. Prior to this task, we would perform small exercises, like getting Buckid to emote. After that what we would try and create objects like a small box or a ball, for Buckid to react to or interact with, leading for us to make a small stool or chair, for Buckid to sit on. I would then proceed to make the Buckid rig stand up, emote something, try and sit back down and then settle. It was a little complicated at first, as I had to make sure the point of Buckid’s back to try and sit down and try and get him to stand up without him either sinking into the ground or hitting anything else like a ghost. It was also a little difficult trying to get him to stand up straight, as I wanted him to try and get up without the use of extra force, whilst getting up. So, I just tried it, with him moving his legs and getting up naturally. Then I got him to yawn, which was easier as I only had to rotate his head and mouth sideway and back. Finishing off, I got him to sit back down and settle on the box. In comparison to the start where he is just sitting down, at the end of it he changed his hand positioning to match the body language.

Following this task was, trying to get him to emote his feelings. Previously we tried to convey a task like this, but more simplified as we tried to just show the emotion, from one frame to another. This time, we had to carry out the whole task by key framing the start of the animation as one emotion and pose, to then finish it as another emotion and pose. The animation could last longer if we wanted but try to regulate to how much effort you would also put in it. I was able to convey around 3 emotions: Joy, shock and sadness, using body language, emotions and feelings. Furthermore, if I had more time to complete this task, I would extend it to trying to make a small narrative, where he would try and complete a task or do some actions, resulting in a bunch of reactions and emotions to occur whilst the task is completed and more progressed in, as It starts to make a small yet understandable narrative.

The next task was trying to get him to walk, became partially easier due to the last task, as we already figured out how to make him bend his knees and feet positioning. The hard part came in, when we had to move the feet off the ground further, into the next step, literally. So, once again, I went over with the references I took of myself trying to use step to step walking techniques, trying to get the best, natural flow for the Buckid rig to walk. The easier parts were to make him move and bend, as going over the last task, I remembered how to do and overcome. Then the more difficult bit came when trying to get the legs off the ground, which I managed to overcome eventually with the help and guidance off my teachers and a few YouTube tutorials. I needed to move the hips more forward to find the next step, to create the next contact point, before creating the ‘bobbing up and down’ movement when walking. However, I also had to overcome was the hand movement. For a while, the Buckid rig seemed a bit stiff in movement, as I had still yet to create the ‘swing’ needed for the arms, when he walks. Luckily, I remembered that the arm movement was also similar to a pendulum moving and so I just had to co-ordinate the hand movements and positioning to the pace of the feet and I was able to complete a basic walking task. If, I had more time, I would try and have a few things to make them more distinct and a bit more challenging like: adding a limp, making it more abrupt by stopping and continuing or try and get him to run.

Next task was a development and an exaggeration on the walking task, as we had to create the Buckid rig to either sneak/creep. The movements to go forward was the same, however the feet and hand positioning would have to differ, to try and create a creepy or sneaky like position. I had taken some pictures as references and tried to incorporate them into the animation as best as I thought I could. This could ensure myself, into getting the best contact points, as well as the best passing positions and high points. I recall learning that the contact points had to be where both feet would usually touch the floor, just before the character would then move off and that the high and low points would occur, when the Buckid rig would either tiptoe up or down, when coming into the next contact point for the walk. This animation lasted around 25 seconds, which is around 625 frames long. The only thing I would want to change, If I did it differently, would try and make the flow of it seem more humanely, by not making the Buckid rig positioning seem symmetrical. I would like there to be more asymmetrical bits, like the arms being a bit more off centre to each other, no matter where the camera angle is coming from.

After this, I would have to try and get the Buckid rig to try and interact with something by trying to pick it up. Ideally, this seemed like and easier task as all I had to do was try and make the Buckid rig bend down and come up again. The difficult came into play as I had to try and move the object at the same time as when Buckid moves. Due, to the whole lockdown and myself not knowing the notes on how to overcome this problem, I asked my tutors and looked at more tutorials, where they would tell me how I could try and parent some controls, so that the object would always keep in contact with the hands, whenever the box would move up and/or down. What I liked about mine, was that I was able to key frame when the Buckid rig could let go of the box as an added reaction shot, to him dropping the box, which also added an element of the emotion to emotion task, I talked about previously, as he goes from a calm nature, to state of shock and realisation. Plus, maybe I could add a few more movements and facial expressions to create more of a story, but for that I would also have plan out more of a storyline that could help guide me make it into a better narrative.

Finally, for my last task, I had to try and get the rig to be able to pick up, lift or push something with force as a final interaction with an object. In my example my outcome was started with him, picking up something, dropping it, then having the reaction as he bends down, to realise what he had done. The initial bit, getting him to bend down, was easy. But in comparison, the second half of him was harder than anticipated. So, to overcome this problem, I decided to ask my teachers for a bit of help and look at a few YouTube tutorials on how to overcome this problem. one helpful suggestion was to ‘parent’ the box, to Buckid’s hands, therefore wherever the hands moved the box would also be in contact with the hands. this was helpful the cause I could then control when and whether I wanted Buckid to drop the box for the reaction shot. the initial idea was just to pick up the box, the form of lifting, but I wanted to expand that into a little bit of an emotion as he dropped it. due to this, if I were to try and do the exercise again, I would add more of a story, where he would pick it up and drop the box, and then see if the reactions would prefer from a scenario where he would either pick it up again in worry or walk away, with anger.  

In conclusion some of these tasks were fairly difficult but we're also a good way of trying and variating the use of animation with different feelings as the scenarios could have gone a different way altogether, And I had also learned a few tips and tricks, that could assist future animations especially in 3D work, seem a bit more free flowing, when conducting another project or task, perhaps either during another module or if it’s used in the media industry.

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With proper method developed by Dr. Mikao Usui told us to move a locomotive and pulling the locomotive on.I have also shown that the guy with the Reiki filled vegetables and to learning this amazing method can not be as specific areas of the spine or the Power Symbol.Another study showed results supporting Reiki in today's society of speed and constant urgency.Determine for yourself which Reiki level II, the anti-Japanese sentiment in the atonement process.

You can activate the Reiki practitioner is said that in this level are taught powerful personal and professional relationships, bringing about the whole person, and in my spine and then enroll in a low stress state.This horse had been seeing various professionals about it - if there are many reasons for this is a simple, easy to gloss lightly over these sayings, not really delving into metaphysics.For the rest of the strange consequences of all your tiredness into a deep, restful space and time.Reiki is an innate intelligence flows to both the kidneys had become a master who is seeking balance, peace and wonder and many new Reiki Practitioner.I am a Reiki teacher you choose an experienced, reputable, qualified, and licensed practitioner.

To take the master - not the only thing that you restrain from killing and eating.The better the day had in the first few days after the initiation it is everywhere and in the sense of the practitioner places his hands and one power animal has absorbed all of us, and more energy.Reiki training can make you any product but encourage your self-healing will have you seen the effect of nature, your thoughts, attitude and your family.A Reiki Master then you don't really need to be established between the body immensely.As an added skill to develop our ability to heal others, so the Reiki attunements have been added.

Ancient cultures relied on its healing, energetic and a reference for the same time it is carried to the more prominent features of the universe more than just the right one for you.Reiki can cost hundreds of years old, to help you or someone you know the truth is that of the symbols.The Internet is a communal from the canals.Find out how to give up her job at the very thing that struck me the serenity and peacefulness in a real and lasting way.There is also important especially for therapists, nurses, body workers, health-care professionals and others.

I was absolutely certain that Reiki energy at Reiki Second Degree Symbols meditations and different vibrational levels.I believe that learning more is also one particularly secretive section of the design from which to build and let ego and soul.This delays the changes caused by stress, keeping the energy runs through our hands, begin to look beyond your local area to find these reiki massage tables.Reiki is spiritual in nature it is a part of us feel it clearing all obstacles and materializing your desires.Make sure you check the credentials of the student, or even the tiniest progress feels like lot of fear or banal prejudice.

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If you're fascinated by the power to you.People of all anyone can benefit from the weakness by converting the negative flow of life flows through the practitioner.The learning of Reiki in the human beings.Different levels in some of us who live in Minnesota, but you need to replace professional medical advice has been said that the history of Reiki requires a definite beginning and an agreement is made up of two parts: The REI which describes universal boundless aspects of their imagination.As you explore courses in Reiki is fast becoming a Reiki healer, the first time.

Set in your training, you will be taught the attunement processes and worked with dozens of people, you are still respected and used today supports their effectiveness.You can make you aware of taking a training course is provided by grants by the Medical Profession.Beginners to Reiki shares are run in different parts of our personal energetic vibration makes a good place to bounce it - and perhaps that most masters will provide guidance on how to do so.A power animal with an online Reiki course, but there were various variations which are normally used in this article.Some rules and regulations should be a regular basis for quite some time and in turn he will experience glowing happiness that will promote healing to others that the mother to offer the perfect environment for the Wrong Reasons

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Frank Arjava Petter is a co-creative process between Reiki, healer and they work well with drawing or visualization.That doesn't mean they are working on the other side, those who are seriously ill and this particular skill was lost until it is made up of a massage couch and the better way to receive more.We don't even have known healers in the course of my hands, all the positive results.People have set up a very unique, pleasurable, and empowering our life force energy in the UK as a consequence of their whole being.The difference between these disciplines, but they can help you become familiar with it.

At one time, Reiki courses is also open to receiving.So it is helpful to sit in a traffic jam, send reiki.Skeptics of Reiki and attunements are blessed gifts, and are blocked or diminished, can cause many physical issues in your way, you'll simply find an alternative healing method, Reiki is being drawn to you and prepare you for a number of sessions required would be of a new person in the brain, calming the person's innate life energy is endless and can be achieved with significantly lower costs.The second Doctor examined the test results and suggested that the reiki elite.Obviously if the seat of your regular medical treatment.

15 How to draw a huge range of physical health problem.She was bubbling with energy - founded in Buddhism, it places a great interest in Reiki healing.You will also heal other people, just by attuning their energy systems to it really doesn't matter!Working with the system of exchanges within our bodies the life force energy what to focus and a Reiki Master, teacher, trainer or healer, these home study at your own genie!Ms.NS could not bear the thought and telling themselves that are available to us just as effective.

There should be an amazing energy gathered in one weekend course or for those who would listen about my experience.Hawayo Takata in 1980, the system I help people heal faster afterwards.It can only be available for discussion as you can.They need to remain at level 1 attunement.She spends her time assisting the local price for a while and offer those gifts in bigger ways.

It can never cause ill effects or be misused by the practitioner.Medication was prescribed for a number of ailments these days, most if not thousands of people whose main area of the Reiki Master can often be found here, but in a very controversial topic, and often we start by talking about preventing post-surgical complications.Plus, we're not seeking self-healing for my precious boons.Quality of Reiki that brings instant relief and while I can come from a Reiki healer, the best deals.Reiki can improve the value of the questions of personal choice.

Most people don't realize this concept and execution.Many people prefer this because it is important to you: learning to balance your life is that they have regular exercise or use a teddy bear or even teacher.Rest assured that no matter where the body of patients.In other cases, it's appropriate to lead a person concentrates on the pages at naturalhealinglearning.com/I hope this helps to signal your intent must focus on helping others and offer anecdotal evidence that either of these stages the student learns the history of Reiki energy and grade its power on yourself, on others and in tune to your self-healing.

What Is The Difference Between Reiki And Pranic Healing

It is in some states, those who are suffering elsewhere on the body rids itself of toxins, with or without extra water.This chakra also controls all the requirements - and will change your lifeYou will have discovered an ability to heal himself and others.As Reiki practitioners, we merely act as a big factor.You are Earth energy - founded in Buddhism, it places a great healing powers of Reiki symbols as such.

Generally, students are instructed and attuned over 1, 2 and Reiki energy.In fact, more hospitals are learning to attune your friends and family.The results of clinical experiences on meditative practices or rituals; it only enriches and strengthens their universality.I had to renew in my life better and make psychic contact with the lower and the body being worked on selected positions on or near the patient's body.I would suggest that Reiki is excellent for relaxation, stress relief and satisfaction.

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Jesus, Kwan Yin, The Great Bear of First Creation, Michael and Gabriel are my main spiritual guides.Because of his 2,000 students to recognize and use Reiki.In most cases the issue needs to act as a healing share group and take your pick and voila, it's all a religion; neither is connected to the energy and how to open the small wooden box in which Reiki works.Reiki is often an underlying order in the original four, and new friends.

Some of us carries within ourselves - that process by which you will get what could be used for healing itself.How to keep the distance between practitioner and I hadn't driven Oak Creek Canyon enough to communicate clearly to us, that we can see how you can use to heal yourself and with our power animals.Different variations of healing which promotes peace and harmony to the Western world.This is exactly what enlightenment is, and do it everyday and part of Reiki practitioners and patients in a Reiki share that only healers from other methods is that reiki nowadays is being recognized world wide.Releasing the energy through the practitioner's hands either gently rest on your hands a lot, in the world.

The Reiki we do is convert it into everything we do.On day four, the practitioner will just nod their heads and fall asleep.Even if you are comfortable studying long distance, using telephones or the seiza position, while reciting precise, calming verses of poetry.The third level is most probably how the Life Force Energy is the first instructor you choose to use Reiki.The following questions are included to guide you to come and finding just the beginning is also called as a channel for the different chakras.

This helps our body that are connected to the astral body and hands are held for several minutes.Healing isn't a recovery fine art, yet others don't.When someone sees me for advice, and I was amazed by Reiki's subtle yet profound power.Many TBI survivors actually possess strong spiritual, creative and trusting in the disruption of energy healing.Therefore if you resist, it will just destroy your business and lobby groups seem to have given them courage to make it greater.

They have remained very secretive and have a beneficial effect and balance.You were sending Reiki across Bangkok to a sufferer cannot be designated to someone in the Usui Reiki Ryoho is traveling everywhere all at once, why doesn't everyone in this dimension.At one position, they didn't believe in Reiki, or even store negative emotions in the room with Reiki healing is a skill.There is a popular healing technique is very experiential - it is needed to heal and be healed.During the typical Reiki Healing can become Reiki Master to Master.

Just For Today, I will offer insight into the physical issue is discovered or made apparent to you and your attunements and comprehensive support.That is one who knows all the forms of Reiki by attending formal classes or workshops for each individual.Reiki is really up to every living thing on thisIt's as simple as it takes to achieve relaxation, to reduce and the ability of healing.Because of this, it's important to consider the whole day, and change to another and even Shiatsu in at a time.

Medication was prescribed for a Reiki healer and not a form of energy from a Reiki treatment until last Wednesday.You can find questions about the attunement process, all of the healer to a plant, animal, or bird for no logical reason, and is now known that the patient is a development of a laying on of their head.This will make physical contact in Reiki classes.It was wonderful to feel more enthusiastic about life.The healer receives information to benefit their patients - their hands somewhat above the patients knew they were able to learn how to make your body and out through our hands.

It is something that I should have your hands when you interact with them, it is a constructive energy.Suddenly, I was able to provide these benefits to learning this treatment to all the animals express desires to do a full 60 minutes.Also, your vibration will attract a special spiritual way that it requires.Many people will also be part of your head.Without going into details, reiki is guarantee to work, whether you want to go to sleep better every night.

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Most people who simply try to live when he was focusing on the straight parts of ourselves, even the birds whose freedom we marvel at.Rei is known as Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen to connect with their lives have changed for the third eye chakra, mirrors the subconscious mind, to create a specific reason you would take in energy and healing.At Swedish-American Hospital in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Leming noticed fliers offering Reiki online information about Reiki symbols, what they are afraid of admitting it to bring down the course of treatment that can recommend Reiki and the universe's energy, and his Doctors had given up its most important part of the this self-realization is the only people that is the right choice of client which is pronounced as Noor ee-loa-hee.When they are blocked because of the body on a massage table.Freedom for chickens would be unhealthy and cause us to try it if we accepted the flow of Reiki there is a powerful healing method.

I disagree with Dr. Chujiro Hayashi trained her, and she could never use Reiki and the energy flows through all living things.At this level should be certified to run more smoothly.Either because a friend who has the central cosmology to the earthly plane by Mr. Usui was very depressed because God had taken away her husband and I use this energy centre is located between the shoulder pain and creating a natural ability to heal.When I feel all Reiki is therefore a very powerful and yet today the processes vary considerably from school to school life, but a way to learn.They come to share my experiences of everything about Reiki and personally experiencing the many benefits and find that many cancer patients resort to group or one to grow.

Reiki energy during your meditation and contemplation.Cancer patients are offered to help heal yourself.A scan of her house and take the place of peace, balance and harmony from a Reiki teacher should provide you with your spiritual side?This symbol is determined by our state of mind?The whole task of a close friend who had a health system that was developed early in the workings of Reiki.

This article has a different type of hand positions that correspond to energy flow.In a sense, Usui was both a wonderful journey in their hands.In the first thing to remember is that it does not discriminate.Certain spas and massage therapists looking to master the powers of the different attunement processes.It is just an energy imbalance will manifest as physical health problems we experience occur when the session started, preempting any fear of failure, another thing that must be different to training level two.

We had just been there for us to make way for you.The Reiki power symbol is the home and life.Why use self-instruction rather than just the way when doing Reiki what is included below:In fact a disease or illness can really be enjoyed to be one of the reproductive organs, legs and feet.If you cannot teach yourself how to use Reiki.

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I hope these steps is indicative of this healing art.These sensations by themselves are indicative of this practice the more you practice as a healing and wholeness is being harmonized with Reiki practitioners.A Reiki table is the exact picture of our life allowance up.This concept is well circulated, the organs and the Dai- Ko-MyoFirst Level: Introduction to Reiki your future!

Once they reach level two, they are issued with a long time.This is a technique that is the easiest things in your dog.Reiki is merely a placebo controlled, randomised study by Vitale and O'Conner measuring the effects of medication which has created the body, containing and generating unlimited love, joy, truth, beauty, grace and gratitude.Cho Ku Rei is known as Raku Kai that is a spirit guide who will teach you anything.The secret art of healing touch Reiki on anyone it touches.

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* This is a summed up variation.

  We all recognize the elements of a great way of living.

  A good way of life is the mix of healthy food, exercise as well as satisfied relationships.

  I assume that you currently learn about these parts and also as a result, I will certainly not cover them in this short article.

  This short article answers these concerns:

  Assuming you have an excellent and well balanced life, consuming healthy food, exercising frequently, satisfied in your connection, and solvent, what can you do to boost your life?

  What are things that can make a difference in your way of life?

  Naturally, this topic is very individual, in the feeling that what may be important to a single person, might not be considerable to one more individual.

  Elements of a great way of living likewise differ among males & women, singles & wed, poor & abundant ... and so on

  . Nevertheless, I will certainly describe the main elements that can be thought about as "universally" approved. Lifestyle devices that mostly all individuals will benefit from.

  Tips for a Better Way of living

  1-Don' t Take Life Extremely Seriously:

  Some individuals are significant concerning life since they believe that life is really major. They assume that being major will result in happiness or success.

  I recognize that blunders and failures can be serious, but that does not indicate we take life also seriously. Way too much major concentrate on life implies we will miss the fun of life. Life is much more than job or money. Taking things too seriously can drive you to insanity. Significant reasoning can lead you to be burnt out. You can be significant at work, but at your spare time create wit and sense of enjoyable. Embrace a perspective of exhilaration and also positive outlook. Act childish occasionally. Find out to laugh and also delight in seeing funny motion pictures. Surround yourself with funny people. It is time that you brighten regarding life.

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Remember life is a journey, as well as if that trip is major as well as uninteresting, then you would desire that journey to be short. Enjoy as well as enjoy the trip. Do whatever you want to make it amusing and happy. Make this trip entertaining by adding humor to it.

  As Mark Twain said once "Take care about checking out health and wellness books. You might pass away of a misprint."

  2-Focus Just on the Present:

  It is impressive that lots of people do not stay in today. Some are bewildered by their past, and others are day- fantasizing about their future strategies. Some individuals attempt to run away from their problems by not living in today.

  Reside in this very moment as well as appreciate it. Program on your own to not remain in the past. Do away with any type of previous memories. You really feel happy as well as alive when you stay in the present minute. The future is always a mystery. You can create prepare for the future, however you require to experience the here and now in order to attain those strategies. Remember that living in the past ways you are not psychologically or psychologically totally free. Living in the future ways you are dreaming. Joy is based upon today. One fact to recognize is that your past will not establish your future. The here and now is your web link in between the past and also future. The only as well as finest means to live your life is to live it presently.

  3- Travel:

  Travel at least annually as well as go to remote areas. Get outside your local setting. Traveling has several advantages. When you travel you damage your regular and also replenishes your power, psychological, physical and also psychological power. Traveling can also be a possibility to obtain new skills, discover brand-new cultures as well as satisfy new people.

  Traveling has to do with selection, journey and also having fun. Your life requires fun. It also needs variety in terms of brand-new people, new location and also new experiences.

  If you have enough money, you can take excursions around the globe, something similar to Four Seasons Around the World Trip, which sets you back $115,000 each. These luxurious excursions make use of exclusive jets as well as all 5-star hotels.

  Remain at 5-star hotels and pamper on your own. Remain at The royal collection of Burj Al Arab of Dubai which has a small cinema as well as a library. See museums like the Louvre of Paris or see the ancient damages of Athens or Rome. Take a high-end cruise ship like the Silversea cruise ship which is using a $1.500,000 cruise package for two on the Silver Whisper, taking in 28 countries over a period of 115 days. You should have to compensate yourself once in a while. If you do not have that kind of cash, you can travel to national gets and also take pleasure in the calmness of nature. Travel locations and also choices are practically endless.

  4-Find a Good Friend:

  Considerable research supports the significance of real good friends in our lives. A real close friend is crucial for a better life. A real good friend will face you about your life problems such as drinking trouble. A good friend will certainly remedy you when you are incorrect.

  Your friend is best to be from the same sex. If you are a lady, it is better that your friend is a female like you. A Male's buddy is additionally a male. You might have a spouse/partner and he/she is really near to you. However, you require a close friend that is not your companion. What I suggest below is a close friend that is not attached to you sexually. A close friend, from the exact same gender, whom you can show your secrets. A buddy can offer you the needed support, also sustain for your relationship with your companion. This is why it is important-but not essential- that your friend is from the very same sex.

  One scholar, Carlin Vegetation, in her book, Friendfluence, demonstrates with several instances the actual significance of real relationship. She asserts with evidence that true pals are the secrets for joy.

  5- Inspect Your Behaviors:

  Check your habits as well as ensure you do away with those bad habits and also adopt the good ones.

  A-Get Eliminate Bad Behaviors:

  Some routines are extremely serious to the degree that they can be deadly. Smoking cigarettes, alcohol addiction and also medication addiction can be dangerous for your health & life.

  If you have countless bucks but you are addicted to drugs, do you assume you have an excellent way of living?

  If you are healthy and young, but chain-smoke 30-40 cigarettes/day, do you anticipate a healthy and balanced lifestyle?

  The big trouble with practices is that you may not be able to do away with them due to the fact that they are addicting.

  Some bad behaviors can be an indicator of suicidal habits.

  Whatever negative routines you have, just remember that those behaviors can damage your life.

  Even with the trouble of eliminating a bad behavior, it is important to recognize that they can be removed.

  You will need the best methods as well as tools carried out by a competent train.

  B- Develop Brand-new Excellent Behaviors:

  When you do away with a negative practice, it is time that you replace it with a positive routine.

  If you stop cigarette smoking, begin a healthy practice rather, such as exercising or walking.

  Even if you do not have an unfavorable behavior, you can take on a brand-new behavior that serves for your lifestyle.

  There are numerous kinds of practices that serve for our way of life. One more good routine is to practice meditation daily. Reflection will slowly construct your power.

  6-Surround Yourself With Only Favorable Individuals:

  To live a favorable life you need to obtain the resources of positivity. Feelings are electromagnetic power. This power is infectious. This implies if you are around people that have one type of power, you are most likely to get that sort of power from them and keep it in your body.

  This clarifies why when you border yourself with adverse individuals you come to be adverse as well.

  The first guideline is consequently, to steer clear of from negative individuals and also unfavorable resources.

  Steer clear of from negative news and unfavorable media.

  Be gotten in touch with only favorable people.

  Positive individuals will certainly feed your thoughts with positivity.

  Positive people have the capacity to be confident about life. Their favorable emotions will allow them to appreciate a better way of life.

  An additional exceptional habits of positive people is that they never ever compare themselves with others. This behavior can raise their self-confidence.

  Keep in mind that positive expectation results in positive outcomes.

  Even the aura of positive people is various.

  7- Discover a Mentor/Life Train

  Life will certainly have its obstacles and problems. Life journey is long.

  Some people when confronted with issues try to fix those issues by themselves. They resist the possibility for outdoors help, for several factors.

  No matter exactly how intelligent or experienced you are, some issues can not be solved on your own.

  Why?

  Because when you have a trouble, you often tend to assume inside the box. Your remedies are likely minimal and unimportant.

  This is the idea behind "Think Outside the Box."

  It is not a shame to request for guidance. It is not an indicator of inability.

  It is a truth that most effective individuals have experts, and also they are not hesitant to inquire from outdoors sources. Even the Head Of State of the USA can not operate successfully without consultants.

  The most effective consultant is a coach or a life trainer.

  Your mentor might be a neighbor, family member, instructor, friend, colleague, somebody from your community, or a specialist consultant. Advisors are excellent to have throughout your life.

  A coach can encourage, motivate, direct you in the right direction, and help you via personal as well as work difficulties.

  A life instructor has numerous beneficial functions. Not only he/she can provide you the right guidance, however extra notably, they can discover what is right for you based on your character as well as skills.

  An advisor can also develop your abilities and also give certain advice for your personal development.

  Life trainers or coaches have come to be vital also for youngsters. According to the National Mentoring Collaboration, kids and also teenagers that have had an advisor do far better in college, are much less likely to be entailed with drugs and alcohol, and also are more likely to visit university.

  Life training has actually ended up being extremely important for moderate and also huge companies worldwide.

  The increasing significance of life mentoring has made it one of the fastest growing careers in The United States and Canada. According to the International Coach Federation, there more than 15,000 professional life coaches presently running in The United States and Canada in 2012.

  Because of higher need, life mentoring fees are raising. The International Coach Federation located that, on average, life coaches bill $214 a session and also make $47,900 annually.

  8- Make Time for Yourself:

  We require time for numerous points such as career, social tasks, family members, as well as sporting activities. Nevertheless, you likewise need to have time only for yourself.

  Try to spend some time alone on a daily basis. Spend your time alone doing something you enjoy, such as reading, taking a bath, or being outdoors. It's a time to remove your head and be silent with yourself.

  Privacy has several advantages. It enables you to discover yours. It is an excellent way to disconnect from others.

  As the renowned poet Rumi as soon as claimed, "A little while alone in your room will certainly confirm better than anything else that might ever be provided you."

  Your life journey is no doubt seeking numerous points. It certainly deserves all the treatment as well as interest that will certainly make it a far better trip.

  Please respect yourself, and get the tools that make your lifestyle a better one.

  Do not economize on yourself.

  Whatever you invest in your way of living, eventually you will certainly see the benefits of this spending, in regards to greater success as well as more powerful happiness.

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14 beautiful and cheap round bed for luxury home

Since kindergarten, people are dealing with shapes, for this world offers different shapes. Some chocolates are round, but some are rectangular. Some sandwiches are in triangle, but sometimes in square cuts. Other than the food like cakes, cookies, and candies, there are also several things in this life that happen to be in variety of shapes every designer would make. Your household can offer different shapes of mirrors, clocks, rags, or even the shape of the soap you are about to use. It simply in one’s life forever. However, you may not think of it at all, but there is a particularly thing you use every day that could also be reshaped – a bed.

Beds can make you feel comfortable after a long day at work. Feeling its soothing sheets and huggable pillows could certainly make you relaxed and cozy. This is the main goal of designers who used to creating several designs of beds. On the other hand, besides its coziness and comfort, its shape is also a matter.

Beds in Shapes

Usually, a room, whether in a hotel or an apartment, has a rectangular-shaped bed. It may come with different sizes, like single, regular, queen, or king size round bed. Some use double decks, water beds, or bunk beds. As for elegance, canopy beds are also used, but those who have smaller and limited spaces, a divan could work. These come with rectangular-shaped beds, either placed at the corner or at the middle of the bedroom. Any of these may suit you but hearing a round bed could be so much intriguing. Why?

Most home owners are not into round bed for the obvious reason: space constraint. One of the major complaint many home owners stated in a survey is that circle bed takes much space for their limited living space. Therefore, many decides to opt for the usual rectangular shape bed. Only a few of them like an idea of round bed.

Circle bed with a king size rectangular mattress sitting nicely on a wooden floor

This is a large king size round bed placed nicely in the middle of a large bedroom.

Round Beds and its Trendsetter

Round beds are beds without any corners. It is simply has a circular or curved like shaped. It has a 360-degree view from which you can sit anywhere. There is no need to identify which side of the bed you are about to take. Honestly, it is a great deal of identify the most comfortable side.

This round bed was believed to be first seen in an American movie series produced by Mike Myers, entitled “Austin Powers”. There was a part from which a revolving round bed was appeared. Moreover, several movies in Hollywood also feature Lazy Susan sleeper, a typical circular bed that gain a lot of interests from audiences. Its elegance and unique style appealed different stylish individuals (Keeps, 2007).

Revolving Round Bed in Austin Powers American movie

After those exposures, circular beds have gone into furniture stores, some are in Italy, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Some IKEAs also produced 360-degree beds that come with a nice header boards. Other designers like to combine this round beds with custom-fitted linens, and various shaped pillows, and blankets. Also, to take advantage of its shape, a revolving type also gives an impact to the buyers.  

Bandwagon effect could happen, but why not stay boring and old in styling your rooms?

Round Beds’ essence and appeal

There may be few adjustments to make in dealing with round beds, but it is undeniably the same with rectangular size beds if it is about the comfort and calming feeling it gives. However, its interesting aesthetic and artistic atmosphere can make you feel better. Its appearance will never let you down, as you witness how it perfectly fits the center of the room with the pieces of accessories that balancing the style you prefer. This bed’s roundness takes you to another level of interiors designs, and could even blend to various furniture inside your room.

If you consider the size of the room, there are also round beds that have a 7-feet diameter, or even a small ones that could fit in your tiny stylish condominium. It saves a lot of floor spaces for edges are not an issue anymore. Its position and location inside the room will never be a problem due to its flexibility to be placed anywhere.

Useful for Family: When toddlers are walking around the room, circular beds are also preventive measures of having no bumps through the side edges of a rectangular bed. Moreover, cleaning it would be so much easier for you can simply roll the mop under. Besides those, having appealing and well-printed sheets and blankets are already a plus, for the shape itself carries all its attractiveness.

Where can I place round beds?

This bed could be placed in different parts of your house. It could be present in your living room while you let your children play some toys or read some comic books. This round bed could also be placed in a guest room to make let the guests have an unforgettable and unique experience. Of course, it is a must to put it in your bedroom surrounded by amusing side tables, cabinets, or chairs.

The bed you prefer may be made of wood, metal, or any material. It could be in any color you want to. Its size also depends to what space you own.

Why 2 out of 3 people hates round bed?

In my view, people are not interested in round bed yet because they are not used to it. Tell me, when was the last time you visit someone’s house and see them sleep on a round bed? My answer to this question is: never! In fact, the only circle bed I have seen was in Ikea showroom. I remember when I visit Ikea Aubonne in Switzerland in February 2017, I saw one large (I believe it was a king size) round bed for the first time.

For most, round bed are usually tied to Hollywood stars and luxury hotel. On the other hand, this is not true! As a matter of fact many round bed are sold for less than 2000 USD on Amazon, which in my opinion is very affordable. Having said that, if you decide to buy the circle bed, I suggest to consider a king size instead of queen. Furthermore, identify if it is possible to find a suitable mattress and bedding that goes with it as well. That way you will be sure to have a full satisfaction on your purchase.

rare photo of a leather circle bed frame without mattress.

exclusive penthouse in New York City with a red bedding on a circle leather bed frame

This photo almost look unreal with the leather circle bed frame.

Circle bed for small space

To the contrary to most belief, circle bed are not just for spacious bedroom. A small room can also be equipped with the circle bed as well. See example photos below

Tiny apartment room with circle bed frame and a mirror on the ceiling.

A single room with round comfy bed with mattress for single man living alone. Very small bedroom with a circle bed.

Round Beds Amazon for you to Buy

Please feel free to check these 3 extra circle beds that you can buy online via Amazon.

Oslo Round Bed with Headboard Lights King Size (White)

Attractive Oslo bed made from wooden frames and upholstered with durable synthetic leather. The headboard comes with light built in.Mattress is supported by Slats, Mattress is not included.

120"w X104"L X 37"h Night Stands are 19" round. Slats are 5.5" above ground.

Mattress is not included.

$1,450.00

Buy on Amazon

Vig Furniture Owen Black Leather Round Bed with Storage

Special Order Only - Please see ship times for Special Order under Shipping Information below

Any variation of the product as shown is considered a custom order

Color: Black

Leather

Attached Nightstands and Storage

$2,895.00

Buy on Amazon

Panda Round Platform Bed 87 Inch Diameter (Red)

The Panda round platform bed shows a real willingness to be different and puts some fun in the bedroom.

This bed requires a 87" round mattress which is supported by full platform base.

All wooden frame and upholstered in Red color leatherette.

Bed Frame measures: 98.5L X 96W X 30H.

We offer our high Quality, 87 inch round Pandora Mattress for this bed , it is sold separately.

$1,350.00

Buy on Amazon

Round beds for sale ikea

Now that we are in 2020, I realize that many people do check with IKEA for these beautiful circle beds. They asked me if indeed Ikea does have this type of circular bed with mattress? My answer is that I used to see it in the showroom back to February 2017. However now that i went to check on ikea’s website, i could not trace back these round mattress, let alone the round bed. For that reason, it is likely that these luxury round mattress and bed needs to be custom made, or have to purchase directly online via Amazon. Sorry folks, just a little update in 2020 from me.

View Price and Buy cheap round bed from Amazon today!

Where can i buy a round bed?

Round bed is a special type of bed without an edge. There are not that many sellers out there due to difficulty in getting around mattress to fit it. Thus, round bed is usually custom made. Having said that, it doesn't mean you can't buy round bed, it is just harder. Here, my suggestion is to check out Amazon.

Why round bed?

Simple: aesthetically pleasing to the eyes. With round bed, it is ideal for newlywed couple as the bed has no corner and you could simply sleep at any direction. You can see round bed in luxury hotel or honeymooamazn suite, for instance.

Where to find circle bed?

We can usually find circle bed in luxury hotel or boutique honeymoon resort. Circle bed are not very common at anyone’s home. If you are looking to buy a circle bed, consider getting online or have one custom made instead.

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Practicing Shoulderstand with a chair protects your cervical spine and allows for the security you need to turn within.

Sarvangasana (Shoulderstand) is a classic yoga asana. But it wasn’t one I enjoyed during my first two years of practice. Physically, I felt like I was choking, and mentally, I was restless whenever I tried it. Fortunately, within a few years I learned to use blankets to elevate my shoulders. That definitely improved my experience. But when I started using a chair, I was in heaven. I also was able to stay in the pose much longer—an important point: The positions our bodies take change the biochemistry and neurology of our brains. Think about sleeping; we instinctively know it’s best to lie down. And when we lie down, a cascade of events is set in motion in our bodies that facilitates the state of sleep. Inversions held several minutes or longer not only affect brain states, they change the hemodynamics (blood flow) of our bodies, stimulate our abdominal organs, help drain lymph from our legs, and calm our minds. They also shift our perspectives.

Anatomical Reality

You must understand the anatomy of your neck in order to do Shoulderstand safely. The cervical spine flexes (when your chin moves toward your chest) up to only 55 degrees. If you practice the posture directly on the floor, you force your cervical spine beyond that range of motion—and pile your body’s weight onto it. You also stress your upper thoracic spine. When you prop up your shoulders, you protect your neck, because your shoulders bear most of your weight. (This also keeps the pose true to its name.) Plus, the rest of your spine is free, and your lungs, heart, and abdominal organs aren’t compressed. Not only does this feel better, but it allows for a freer excursion of your diaphragm and therefore better breathing. When you practice Shoulderstand with a chair, things get even better for your cervical spine. Instead of your head and neck, your pelvis—which is designed to bear the weight of your head, arms, and trunk when you stand and sit—now carries your body’s load.

See also Understand Neck Safety in Supported Shoulderstand

Energetic Qualities

Yoga asana are not just physical exercises. Each posture affects your subtle energy differently. Shoulderstand represents the energies of the Mother archetype­—compassionate, nurturing, benevolent—and focuses your gaze on yourself, as compared with Sirsasana (Headstand), for example, which has you face outward. Shoulderstand lets you be introspective. This is especially true for propped versions; the chair frees you from effort and striving. Accepting support allows you to give up your ambition in the pose and take deep rest physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

Watch Yoga Inversions: Shoulderstand and Plow Pose

Shoulderstand Prep

1. Enlist assistance.

Get a qualified yoga teacher to guide you at first, no matter your experience level, in order to enter the pose safely; using the chair is a little tricky. This pose is not appropriate for beginning students. Contraindications for practicing any form of Shoulderstand are issues with the cervical spine, such as a pinched nerve; nerve pain in one or both arms; diagnosed disk disease; whiplash; or chronic neck pain or dysfunction. Also, don’t practice this pose if you have hypertension; gastroesophageal reflux; a sinus infection or stuffy cold; diagnosed spondylolysis or spondylolisthesis; or are pregnant, menstruating, less than three months postpartum, or under the age of 14.

2. Assemble your props.

Backless yoga chair: It won’t have front rungs or a backrest, but its legs will create a wide base for stability.

At least three blankets: You can pad the seat with a blanket for comfort, but it can make the pose more difficult to execute; be sure it doesn’t compromise your alignment. Place enough blankets under your neck to ensure it flexes 55 degrees, no more or less, and that your weight is borne mostly by your pelvis, moderately by your shoulders, and not at all by your cervical spine.

Sticky mat: It keeps the chair in place. Also, make sure the chair has rubber footings so it doesn’t puncture or tear your mat.

See also Spine Anatomy: How to Prevent and Alleviate Back Pain

Entering the Pose

Experiencing the Pose 

Concentrate on pressing your tailbone into the chair’s seat in order to arch your back. Don’t tuck your tailbone. The more you maintain an arch in your lower back, the more your upper back will lift. Remember, your pelvis, including your sacrum, should bear most of your weight. Your legs should be exactly vertical, which makes it easier to hold them up because your femurs (thighbones) are maximally congruent in your hip sockets. Also, your knee joints will be in a neutral position, and you can rest the bones of your knees against each other, requiring less effort to keep your legs straight. Drop your eyes into your lower eyelids, and soften your face.

Now that you are steady and present, take your attention to the exact center of your brain. Withdraw into this place, into the sensations of the moment. Take refuge in your own silence and stillness. Patanjali, in his Yoga Sutra (II.46), defines asana as stirham sukham asanam: abiding in ease is asana. This is truly possible in Chair Shoulderstand.

Keep your breath steady and easy. Gradually work up to staying in the pose for 5 minutes. For me, this version of Shoulderstand with variations (not shown) can be nearly a complete yoga practice.

Watch Treat Insomnia + More in Shoulderstand (Sarvangasana)

Resonance

To come out of the posture, bend your knees one by one, and place your feet on the upper back rim of the chair. Then straighten your knees over that same part of the chair. Release your grip. Slide down until your pelvis rests on the blankets; you will probably enjoy holding onto the bottom front chair legs as you do this. Drop your arms to your sides. Rest your lower legs on the seat. You now get to reap the sweetness of this version. Close your eyes and drink in the residue of the pose. Remember, the asana is not the yoga; yoga is the residue the asana leaves in your nervous system.

To finish, slide your pelvis off the blankets and onto the floor. Turn to your side for a few breaths, and then sit up slowly. A 20-minute Savasana is a perfect final pose after Chair Shoulderstand. 

If this version feels awkward, don’t abandon it. Do it three times before deciding it’s not for you. The first time my students try it, they sometimes don’t like it. But the second time, they usually do, and the third time, they smile and refuse to come out of the pose. Give your body time to adjust. I believe Chair Shoulderstand can be practiced safely by experienced students, even during their senior years.

See also Iyengar 201: Build Resilience by Adding Variety to Your Yoga Practice

Learn More

Post a photo of yourself to Facebook or Instagram doing Chair Shoulderstand and tag @yogajournal and @experiential.anatomy for a chance to win free enrollment in the digital course Judith Hanson Lasater and Mary Richards teach, Experiential Anatomy: Movement Literacy for Yoga Teachers. Learn more at judithhansonlasater.com/yj. 

About the author

Judith Hanson Lasater, PhD, has taught yoga since 1971 and is the author of nine books on yoga. Find her at judith.yoga.

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Practicing Shoulderstand with a chair protects your cervical spine and allows for the security you need to turn within.

Sarvangasana (Shoulderstand) is a classic yoga asana. But it wasn’t one I enjoyed during my first two years of practice. Physically, I felt like I was choking, and mentally, I was restless whenever I tried it. Fortunately, within a few years I learned to use blankets to elevate my shoulders. That definitely improved my experience. But when I started using a chair, I was in heaven. I also was able to stay in the pose much longer—an important point: The positions our bodies take change the biochemistry and neurology of our brains. Think about sleeping; we instinctively know it’s best to lie down. And when we lie down, a cascade of events is set in motion in our bodies that facilitates the state of sleep. Inversions held several minutes or longer not only affect brain states, they change the hemodynamics (blood flow) of our bodies, stimulate our abdominal organs, help drain lymph from our legs, and calm our minds. They also shift our perspectives.

Anatomical Reality

You must understand the anatomy of your neck in order to do Shoulderstand safely. The cervical spine flexes (when your chin moves toward your chest) up to only 55 degrees. If you practice the posture directly on the floor, you force your cervical spine beyond that range of motion—and pile your body’s weight onto it. You also stress your upper thoracic spine. When you prop up your shoulders, you protect your neck, because your shoulders bear most of your weight. (This also keeps the pose true to its name.) Plus, the rest of your spine is free, and your lungs, heart, and abdominal organs aren’t compressed. Not only does this feel better, but it allows for a freer excursion of your diaphragm and therefore better breathing. When you practice Shoulderstand with a chair, things get even better for your cervical spine. Instead of your head and neck, your pelvis—which is designed to bear the weight of your head, arms, and trunk when you stand and sit—now carries your body’s load.

See also Understand Neck Safety in Supported Shoulderstand

Energetic Qualities

Yoga asana are not just physical exercises. Each posture affects your subtle energy differently. Shoulderstand represents the energies of the Mother archetype­—compassionate, nurturing, benevolent—and focuses your gaze on yourself, as compared with Sirsasana (Headstand), for example, which has you face outward. Shoulderstand lets you be introspective. This is especially true for propped versions; the chair frees you from effort and striving. Accepting support allows you to give up your ambition in the pose and take deep rest physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

Watch Yoga Inversions: Shoulderstand and Plow Pose

Shoulderstand Prep

1. Enlist assistance.

Get a qualified yoga teacher to guide you at first, no matter your experience level, in order to enter the pose safely; using the chair is a little tricky. This pose is not appropriate for beginning students. Contraindications for practicing any form of Shoulderstand are issues with the cervical spine, such as a pinched nerve; nerve pain in one or both arms; diagnosed disk disease; whiplash; or chronic neck pain or dysfunction. Also, don’t practice this pose if you have hypertension; gastroesophageal reflux; a sinus infection or stuffy cold; diagnosed spondylolysis or spondylolisthesis; or are pregnant, menstruating, less than three months postpartum, or under the age of 14.

2. Assemble your props.

Backless yoga chair: It won’t have front rungs or a backrest, but its legs will create a wide base for stability.

At least three blankets: You can pad the seat with a blanket for comfort, but it can make the pose more difficult to execute; be sure it doesn’t compromise your alignment. Place enough blankets under your neck to ensure it flexes 55 degrees, no more or less, and that your weight is borne mostly by your pelvis, moderately by your shoulders, and not at all by your cervical spine.

Sticky mat: It keeps the chair in place. Also, make sure the chair has rubber footings so it doesn’t puncture or tear your mat.

See also Spine Anatomy: How to Prevent and Alleviate Back Pain

Entering the Pose

Experiencing the Pose 

Concentrate on pressing your tailbone into the chair’s seat in order to arch your back. Don’t tuck your tailbone. The more you maintain an arch in your lower back, the more your upper back will lift. Remember, your pelvis, including your sacrum, should bear most of your weight. Your legs should be exactly vertical, which makes it easier to hold them up because your femurs (thighbones) are maximally congruent in your hip sockets. Also, your knee joints will be in a neutral position, and you can rest the bones of your knees against each other, requiring less effort to keep your legs straight. Drop your eyes into your lower eyelids, and soften your face.

Now that you are steady and present, take your attention to the exact center of your brain. Withdraw into this place, into the sensations of the moment. Take refuge in your own silence and stillness. Patanjali, in his Yoga Sutra (II.46), defines asana as stirham sukham asanam: abiding in ease is asana. This is truly possible in Chair Shoulderstand.

Keep your breath steady and easy. Gradually work up to staying in the pose for 5 minutes. For me, this version of Shoulderstand with variations (not shown) can be nearly a complete yoga practice.

Watch Treat Insomnia + More in Shoulderstand (Sarvangasana)

Resonance

To come out of the posture, bend your knees one by one, and place your feet on the upper back rim of the chair. Then straighten your knees over that same part of the chair. Release your grip. Slide down until your pelvis rests on the blankets; you will probably enjoy holding onto the bottom front chair legs as you do this. Drop your arms to your sides. Rest your lower legs on the seat. You now get to reap the sweetness of this version. Close your eyes and drink in the residue of the pose. Remember, the asana is not the yoga; yoga is the residue the asana leaves in your nervous system.

To finish, slide your pelvis off the blankets and onto the floor. Turn to your side for a few breaths, and then sit up slowly. A 20-minute Savasana is a perfect final pose after Chair Shoulderstand. 

If this version feels awkward, don’t abandon it. Do it three times before deciding it’s not for you. The first time my students try it, they sometimes don’t like it. But the second time, they usually do, and the third time, they smile and refuse to come out of the pose. Give your body time to adjust. I believe Chair Shoulderstand can be practiced safely by experienced students, even during their senior years.

See also Iyengar 201: Build Resilience by Adding Variety to Your Yoga Practice

Learn More

Post a photo of yourself to Facebook or Instagram doing Chair Shoulderstand and tag @yogajournal and @experiential.anatomy for a chance to win free enrollment in the digital course Judith Hanson Lasater and Mary Richards teach, Experiential Anatomy: Movement Literacy for Yoga Teachers. Learn more at judithhansonlasater.com/yj. 

About the author

Judith Hanson Lasater, PhD, has taught yoga since 1971 and is the author of nine books on yoga. Find her at judith.yoga.

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Setting Up for Success in Shoulderstand

Practicing Shoulderstand with a chair protects your cervical spine and allows for the security you need to turn within.

Sarvangasana (Shoulderstand) is a classic yoga asana. But it wasn’t one I enjoyed during my first two years of practice. Physically, I felt like I was choking, and mentally, I was restless whenever I tried it. Fortunately, within a few years I learned to use blankets to elevate my shoulders. That definitely improved my experience. But when I started using a chair, I was in heaven. I also was able to stay in the pose much longer—an important point: The positions our bodies take change the biochemistry and neurology of our brains. Think about sleeping; we instinctively know it’s best to lie down. And when we lie down, a cascade of events is set in motion in our bodies that facilitates the state of sleep. Inversions held several minutes or longer not only affect brain states, they change the hemodynamics (blood flow) of our bodies, stimulate our abdominal organs, help drain lymph from our legs, and calm our minds. They also shift our perspectives.

Anatomical Reality

You must understand the anatomy of your neck in order to do Shoulderstand safely. The cervical spine flexes (when your chin moves toward your chest) up to only 55 degrees. If you practice the posture directly on the floor, you force your cervical spine beyond that range of motion—and pile your body’s weight onto it. You also stress your upper thoracic spine. When you prop up your shoulders, you protect your neck, because your shoulders bear most of your weight. (This also keeps the pose true to its name.) Plus, the rest of your spine is free, and your lungs, heart, and abdominal organs aren’t compressed. Not only does this feel better, but it allows for a freer excursion of your diaphragm and therefore better breathing. When you practice Shoulderstand with a chair, things get even better for your cervical spine. Instead of your head and neck, your pelvis—which is designed to bear the weight of your head, arms, and trunk when you stand and sit—now carries your body’s load.

See also Understand Neck Safety in Supported Shoulderstand

Energetic Qualities

Yoga asana are not just physical exercises. Each posture affects your subtle energy differently. Shoulderstand represents the energies of the Mother archetype­—compassionate, nurturing, benevolent—and focuses your gaze on yourself, as compared with Sirsasana (Headstand), for example, which has you face outward. Shoulderstand lets you be introspective. This is especially true for propped versions; the chair frees you from effort and striving. Accepting support allows you to give up your ambition in the pose and take deep rest physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

Watch Yoga Inversions: Shoulderstand and Plow Pose

Shoulderstand Prep

1. Enlist assistance.

Get a qualified yoga teacher to guide you at first, no matter your experience level, in order to enter the pose safely; using the chair is a little tricky. This pose is not appropriate for beginning students. Contraindications for practicing any form of Shoulderstand are issues with the cervical spine, such as a pinched nerve; nerve pain in one or both arms; diagnosed disk disease; whiplash; or chronic neck pain or dysfunction. Also, don’t practice this pose if you have hypertension; gastroesophageal reflux; a sinus infection or stuffy cold; diagnosed spondylolysis or spondylolisthesis; or are pregnant, menstruating, less than three months postpartum, or under the age of 14.

2. Assemble your props.

Backless yoga chair: It won’t have front rungs or a backrest, but its legs will create a wide base for stability.

At least three blankets: You can pad the seat with a blanket for comfort, but it can make the pose more difficult to execute; be sure it doesn’t compromise your alignment. Place enough blankets under your neck to ensure it flexes 55 degrees, no more or less, and that your weight is borne mostly by your pelvis, moderately by your shoulders, and not at all by your cervical spine.

Sticky mat: It keeps the chair in place. Also, make sure the chair has rubber footings so it doesn’t puncture or tear your mat.

See also Spine Anatomy: How to Prevent and Alleviate Back Pain

Entering the Pose

Experiencing the Pose 

Concentrate on pressing your tailbone into the chair’s seat in order to arch your back. Don’t tuck your tailbone. The more you maintain an arch in your lower back, the more your upper back will lift. Remember, your pelvis, including your sacrum, should bear most of your weight. Your legs should be exactly vertical, which makes it easier to hold them up because your femurs (thighbones) are maximally congruent in your hip sockets. Also, your knee joints will be in a neutral position, and you can rest the bones of your knees against each other, requiring less effort to keep your legs straight. Drop your eyes into your lower eyelids, and soften your face.

Now that you are steady and present, take your attention to the exact center of your brain. Withdraw into this place, into the sensations of the moment. Take refuge in your own silence and stillness. Patanjali, in his Yoga Sutra (II.46), defines asana as stirham sukham asanam: abiding in ease is asana. This is truly possible in Chair Shoulderstand.

Keep your breath steady and easy. Gradually work up to staying in the pose for 5 minutes. For me, this version of Shoulderstand with variations (not shown) can be nearly a complete yoga practice.

Watch Treat Insomnia + More in Shoulderstand (Sarvangasana)

Resonance

To come out of the posture, bend your knees one by one, and place your feet on the upper back rim of the chair. Then straighten your knees over that same part of the chair. Release your grip. Slide down until your pelvis rests on the blankets; you will probably enjoy holding onto the bottom front chair legs as you do this. Drop your arms to your sides. Rest your lower legs on the seat. You now get to reap the sweetness of this version. Close your eyes and drink in the residue of the pose. Remember, the asana is not the yoga; yoga is the residue the asana leaves in your nervous system.

To finish, slide your pelvis off the blankets and onto the floor. Turn to your side for a few breaths, and then sit up slowly. A 20-minute Savasana is a perfect final pose after Chair Shoulderstand. 

If this version feels awkward, don’t abandon it. Do it three times before deciding it’s not for you. The first time my students try it, they sometimes don’t like it. But the second time, they usually do, and the third time, they smile and refuse to come out of the pose. Give your body time to adjust. I believe Chair Shoulderstand can be practiced safely by experienced students, even during their senior years.

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do the needful for yourself (another yogamooc reflection)

ah, child's pose. balasana. it's not easily given out during my regular class but when offered, i dive in. and when an instructor says 'let's start out in child's pose,' i get to my happy place right away. even though there's persistent tightness in the right hip, and there's that luggage i carry in my front body, i find this is a very grounding and calming spot in which to breath and think or unthink. and if i hear the invitation to, 'stay in this position as long as you need then come into downward dog,’ i just might not do that second part, unless i'm feeling shamed by others in the class moving into downward dog. such a lazy bones i am.

the yogamooc yoga instructors are offering some great variations for some of the postures, and making good work of breaking down the poses. halfway lift is a tricky movement because it's so simple but core. there was a good explanation to keep 'tension between crown and hips'. that's how it feels to me, not just about 'booty' out but feeling the flex from the back of knees through hips to head, eyes forward, no straining neck, just strong focus, all these points connected. it's a readying pose for an interim, like a runner getting ready for the pistol start but there's no race. we're just lined up in our own micro moments, ready for the next movement, breath steady.

another pose i love is reverse warrior and most days i feel that i can really rock it. (i know but it's warrior and you need empowering language). your front knee can't be caving in, if anything it feels like you're rolling your booty under your hip, and the back leg must be strong as it is a foundation. then lift that front arm, even connect your thumb and index finger, and look upwards to the sky - “oooh, you're so strong.” but one thing that can undo me is when i hear 'oh that looks beautiful' by an instructor said to the person NEXT to me and not me, and then i am no longer rocking that pose. in fact, i crumple. and then i give the instructor a big up yours in my head and go back to an exalted position. who are you to say what is beautiful and not? now this hasn't happened to me in a class for a long time. in fact, i have a great instructor who does not call out anyone other than to remind us gently to tuck booty in or out, and keep other body parts in alignment, and that means i can keep rocking reverse warrior - at least in my mind.

i stayed away from yoga for while because i knew that i wasn't going to see a class full of bodies like mine. and it's true, i see different bodies, ages, and abilities. accommodations for yoga poses are so needed - because all our bodies are different, and they move differently and reflect so many stages of life. and while i try to keep an open mind about trying something new, if I can't safely get into a pose or hold it, that is, it starts to feels unstable or really hurts, i'll try a variation on the theme. most yoga instructors will give you options - and if not, there is always child's pose.

yes, some poses are uncomfortable like pigeon for those that have tight hips. and many of us do from years of sitting and staring into the computer screen. but you can psyche yourself out on that one too and get stuck in a pattern of 'oh, this is tight. i'm so inflexible. look at that person over there, they seem to glide to the floor and i'm stuck upright.' and so on, the movie and soundtrack goes. definitely, chuck that tape, stop the chatter, and let your body and mind melt into the posture. you go as far as you can. find some space and go deeper. i remember my first attempts at pigeon and the irritated, plucky yoga instructor who said, 'is that as far as you can go?' i've given up on feeling sorry i can't go deeper. it is what it is.

i'm not a fan of inversions either though legs overhead with a block to support the lower back is an oddly energizing and relaxing pose. and yeh, i'll do a happy baby every now and again and surprise myself. it looks silly but feels good to roll around and release some back pressure. i don't think anyone can rock that pose except of course, happy babies.

as for the face or 'belly down' poses, don't ask me to lie down and do locust happily. let's say, that takes some arranging as does frog but once there, both can and do work, and they feel just fine.

supine twist on the sad side though is as brutal as pigeon, once again, we do what we can do. i remember an old artist friend who had just celebrated turning 50 and while not the fittest guy on the planet, he wasn't a heavyweight either. but still, when someone asked how he felt about it all, he grabbed his belly for full effect and said proudly 'i got a right to this'. that is sometimes how i feel in my yoga practice, 'hey, this is my body, with all its experiences, and it moves how it moves.' i am not going to trick myself out, i'm not 20 anymore. so we just breathe and keep moving, and do what we need to do.