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sirensmojo · 4 years

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“Hush” - Tommy Shelby x Reader

Warning: Pure Smut.

Summary: You’re Tommy Shelby’s girlfriend since before he went to France. Now that he is back, your relationship took a different turn. With his trauma, you went from “once a week” to an everyday necessity. You’re his peace, his quiet place. He can’t deal with anything if you’re not by his side.

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That day you woke up next to him, one of his arms around your neck. Thomas was still sleeping, his face peaceful. That was the only time when you couldn't see any prints of sadness that usually was on Tommy's face. Things got very overwhelming for him since he was back home. It didn't take you long to see he hadn't return the same. It was like even breathing was something that coasted him a lot. His mind was undoubtedly elsewhere all the time, but you didn't care. He was your Shelby. All that matter for you was to keep him close, and he kenned you took that task seriously.

Often Arthur would break down, and no one but Tommy could get something out of him when he was that way. The main question that remained was who was there for Tommy if he was the one there for everybody. Guess it’ll have to be you. "Hush..." You used to murmur whenever he would sharply let his head drop on your chest in a huff, him groaning while his arms embraced your waist and held you tight.

Anytime, whenever he needed to clear his mind, it was towards you he would turn to, and even when he didn’t act like he needed you you’d still remained by his side.

Of course your life didn’t turn around him, you’d still attend to your usual business tasks as owning a restaurant in Small Heath, but he and you were together whenever you had the occasion to.

You ran your fingers into his mane slowly, still looking in amazement at how calm he was when sleeping. He was running the business family, so he bore a heavy burden on his shoulders.

Today, like every other day, he will run all over the city to try to make it all work, and all you wanted was to make his waking as smooth as you could, knowing pressure will follow him all day long. You wanted his mornings free of any heavy and too demanding thoughts, as for sure, they will run in his mind all day.

Tommy exhaled deeply and mechanically pulled you closer to him, your head now pressed against his chest. "my love", You lowly let out, felling his heart beating in chest. Your other hand hassled to reach his cheek as your got your head up to his, stroking it gently. He groaned as a response, making you instantly smile.

"Wake up, handsome" You added. It wasn’t an easy task to wake him up, he was pretty slow to open his eyes, and you felt proud of this. To you it meant he felt safe in your arms, he felt good, with you.

His lids finally opened, his deep blue eyes now staring at yours.

He didn't need to talk. Words weren't enough. They will never be enough for him to express everything. He was, indeed, always at a loss of words to describe anything that happened to him or even the simplest thing. With Thomas Shelby, you had to decipher each his thoughts from his eyes, for he will not speak them. And to do that, you would drown in his orbs for as long as you needed to. And then, there it was. You knew precisely what was on his mind.

You slid both your hands on his neck and started to peck at his face. Your damp and warm lips encountered his skin with tenderness. Each time they would drop on his skin, you could hear growls emanating from his throat. Deep and stifled they were, you could recognize them among thousand others.

You didn't lose contact with his eyes, and finally dared to kiss his lips. Tom welcomed it pleasingly. He kissed you back with an urge, making explicit what he wanted in reality. The simple fact you could read him so well made you gasp for air, you couldn’t believe the connection that bonded you together. It was even more explicit and passionate than before war.

Your lips opened slightly in a sigh, only arousing further his desire for you. He took advantage of your mind being elsewhere to slid the tip of his tongue in your mouth, and you met him in some sort of approval. Only then he leaned on you.

His callous hands dawdle on every part of your body he would meet during his race to reach your hips. That was the part of your body he liked the most, you could tell because whenever he got the chance to, he would grasp them, even if you were in the middle of the street, or Arthur's pub. Thomas never cared about who was around.

When you were in the same place as him, you were the only thing he would see. Tommy could spend hours watching and touching you if you didn't call him out. "Thomas, keep your hands for yourself", you would say. And just like that, he would head back to reality and manage family affairs like a boss. His swinging moods made you laugh the most. If was typical of you to turn consequences of his traumatic experience into jokes, you’d rather laugh about it than cry over it, or else you would never stop.

Just imagining what he had to endure to change that drastically stopped air from filling your lungs, and it would leave you throat knotted. He, that was always being playful, making jokes and even believed he could change the world, was the same as the one that solely speaks when its needed and couldn’t smile most of the time.

His hands finally meet the skin of your hips he greedily kneaded in between his fingers. You could already feel his growing bump against your core. You pressed your body upward to get in touch with him more. He abruptly pulled your body down with much pressure, your back sinking in the sheets. You groaned to voice your displeasure, which led to Tommy to bite the thin skin of the hollow of your neck, only teasing you further. "Thomas"Letting out a whimper.

Your voice sounded way more sensual than what you intended to, and you cursed yourself in this very moment for letting him see the breadth of his power over you. You bite your bottom lips.

On his side, Thomas was too focused on touching, licking, sucking, and fiddling with your breasts. Eventually, one of your buds filled his mouth when you grabbed his head in your hands. You wanted to tell him to stop teasing you, but at the sight of the size of his pupils that had increased by a factor of ten, you stopped in tracks.

Not a single word could leave your mouth. Your eyes then dropped on his delicate lips encircling your bud. "Fuck" You managed to mutter before your face dropped back on the pillow. "Do my girl want me to stop?" His deep voice ignited something in you.

His warm breath sent chills down your spine, and you wet a bit more your underwear. Your hands were squeezing the sheet in an attempt not to explode. "I need you, inside" You lowly speak with urge. Your tone was high pitched, which led to an even more excited Thomas if that was even possible.

Without losing another minute, he aligned himself, and in one single movement, he thrust into you, a muffled scream dropping from your lips. "Tommy" You sensually muttered. One of your hands reached for his jaw. You fondled it as it clenched.

You never called him that way out of this room for the simple reason it drove him crazy, calling him by his surname was like pressing the “on” button, and you could never turn him off when that happened, you knew it from experience...

Thomas quickly grabbed one of your legs and folded it against his pelvis, before suddenly thrust youfrom another angle. He was now filling you wholly, His harshness was everything you wanted from him right now, and you let him know your satisfaction by filling the room with high-pitched moans.

Whenever Tommy was fucking you, you would feel all his love for you that "was burning into his soul" as he would often tell you whenever he drank too much. "Y/N, you'll never know what is fucking burning inside of me" He would begin. "It is you".

You never discuss those words with him when he was sober. You knew he would not admit it. Not that he would deny his feelings for you, but admit it while being sober will make them too real. Too real for him to manage, and that was okay with you.

Yes, he could run a family business, cut people and even be the fucking king of Birmingham, but asking him to get his shit together was something way above his capacities. But you loved him anyway, it was okay for you that way. He could either be the cold, or sober or drunk or mushy Thomas, you accepted everything because it was his way to give you his all. And you signed for it.

You knew precisely in what you put your feet in the very first day he talked to you when he came back. "I know we were kind of 'a thing' before. But everything's different now" Was what he succeed to word after weeks of avoiding you. He pushed you away every time you tried to reach him, but he dramatically failed.

You were well decided to either kill yourself after you killed him if he didn’t stop running away from you. That’s when you told him this that he slowly let you talk with him again, and then touch him again... You knew it was him, you always was aware of how you felt about him, but you never told him.

Before the war, you would only see each other once a week when he was too bored with Arthur's bad jokes and John's tuff behavior, and now he couldn't even do one night without you by his side. That is why you had to train yourself to fight. Just a little so you could defend yourself. And it was a good excuse for forcing him to let you in his business.

But Thomas didn't want you to be able to rebel too much. He loved to be the dominant, especially with you. Even if when in bed, he would love to see that body of your ride him endlessly. It was pivotal for him to be still able to have some kind of power over you, as he has power over everything else. But he quickly understood you weren’t “anything else” and he had to deal with the fact you couldn’t be tamed.

Tommy searched for your lips. When he reached them, he pleasingly kissed you before sliding his fingers inside your mouth. Your whimpers weren't muffled anymore. He could hear how much you liked what he did to you with your full voice.

Head dropping backward, your back arching, toes curling as your fingers left marks on his pale skin. He intertwined his fingers with yours and squeezed them. Everything he did was lead by a call. He wanted more, more of you.

Tom wanted everything out of life with the same way he wanted everything out of you.

That was when you turned him on his back, shifting the position. A hand on his chest, the other one pinching one of your buds, you were now straddling him. Your hips moved up and down as that new angle hit differently. Each of you found only more pleasure.

His groans were thicker while you didn't even try to stifle your whimpers. Your entire chest was vibing to the cadence of your two body colliding. His hips encountered yours whenever you would drop your body on his.

Suddenly, an intense wave traversed your whole body, curling your toes. The way he slowed his path, while his hands were still leading your hips down on him showed he was on edge, but your walls clenching around him led him to reach his climax.

Your body flopped on top of his, making him laugh, even if he was still struggling to breathe.

"What's funny, Shelby?" You asked in a hurry, your head lifting to be able to see his face.

His fingers were gently stroking your arm, whereas his other hand found your cheek. "You and me, we understand each other", He solemnly let out. "Is it a way to tell me you love me, Thomas?" You asked reluctantly.

You were afraid of the answer. Tommy only looked at you as an answer, and you understood.

You kissed his lips quickly before sliding to his side and letting your head rested on his bare chest. "I'm with a child” You let out blatantly. “Polly says it’s a boy”

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gunmetal-magnus · 3 years

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And what if I can’t? What if I’m not worthy of my ideals?

As I stare out my apartment window and watch the drizzling sky, I’m drawn to the subtle gradient of yellow. Clouds coasting through the sky, gray yet without dismay. And the sun? The sun will live to break another day, that I am confident in. I only wish I were so confident in myself.

....

Life is strange. Mine in particular looks like it might be going in a good direction. I’ve been getting interviews for jobs and as someone who’s spent their fair share of time hopelessly unemployed and depressed, not knowing what to do with themselves (besides salsaing with suicide ideation), I should be elated about any progress. I wish I could say that I am or even that I was but that wouldn’t be accurate. The truth is that I’m a harrowing hailstorm of things - surprisedsleepybusycuriousthankfuloptimisticexposedhorrifiedcriticalnervousanxiousinsecurepressuredtired - it’s all a bit overwhelming, isn’t it?

Knocking on the looming doors of success, I find myself feeling the crushing weight of my expectations. The walls are a deafening white with not a texture or pattern in sight. If you try to touch them they ripple like water. There are no windows for me to peer through. Fog creeps around me like a cheetah stalking its prey. It’s so thick you could choke on it. Success is...scary.

I know I know, that sounds a ridiculous thing to say, shouldn’t I be more afraid of failing? Welllll...no. You see, the weight I mentioned earlier was not merely crushing, it was also comforting. Over time failure became familiar and eventually, my friend. I got used to failure as the status quo, smothered in its cosy embrace and the threat of change, of combing out of this embrace into the chilling embrace of uncertainty, of becoming someone worthy of their success - it’s unfamiliar, it’s scary. But just what is so comforting about not achieving your goals - about not getting what you really want? For me it’s because of one paralyzing question: And what if I can’t? What if I’m not worthy of my ideals?

“But…I’m…I’m just a soldier, I-I’m not worthy.”

It’s a terrifying prospect that I could give something my all and find that I just couldn’t do it. I don’t want to be saying “I did my best and it wasn’t good enough,” because what I may mean is “I wasn’t good enough. I don’t have the power.” But that’s exactly the point! I do have the power and if that is true then I have to come to terms with my responsibility to that power - that it’s up to me to use that power because when you can do the things that you can do...and then the bad things happen...they happen because of you. I don’t want that burden so it’s easier to cast it off and reinvent the narrative by claiming powerlessness. It’s easier to identify as a fraud and be done with it, to say to myself “men like me should’ve never dared to believe.”

Haha…paradoxically in our journey to discover our own power we discover just how little power we hold, that our only power is in ourselves. Time and how bound we are to what we know at present, our surrounding circumstances, and the fact that we’re only people who can only do people things - these serve to remind us that the power of what we control and free will are only so vast. It’s strange - you are responsible for how you use your power but not the outcome because you’re not omnipotent. Bad things don’t always happen because of you. Sometimes they just happen. Sometimes things in general...just happen.

Let’s say I achieve success, what then? The pressure to maintain is immense and to exceed - it’s even more so. Who perpetuates this pressure? For many of us it’s society but the greater threat lies within the darkness of our own hearts. The societal gaze is nothing without validation and that validation comes from our self-worth and how grossly entangely that is with achieving success. There is an expectation of linearity and escalation in progress, if you get good grades you’re expected to keep getting good grades and then some, so it’s shocking and disappointing when you don't. People wonder how that could’ve happened, you wonder how it could’ve happened, you start to doubt yourself...should you though? Writer and retired athlete Christopher Bergland challenges the expectation of linearity in success and explained in a conversation with his daughter, “I learned as an athlete that in order to succeed and become the best that I could be, I had to fail again and again—but always keep trying. Inevitably, every time I raised the bar, and took on a new athletic challenge, I would have to fail first in order to ultimately succeed and break a record." He embraced failure as part of the ebb and flow, it was part of success. To him, failure was no reason for doubt. So why should it be for me? I don’t know, because life’s not that simple I suppose? Identifying as unworthy and fraudulent, these are not easy to shake. Negative self-identity manifests itself in habitual self-sabotage. Worrying about how we align with our perceptions of ourselves, procrastination via instant gratification distractions like Instagram scrolling and going back on our promises such as taking that drink we know we shouldn’t become commonplace - habitual and they will take habitual work to undo them.

Even so, is this really just about the burden of ideals? Perhaps not. Susanne Babbel writes in her article “Fear of Success'' that the physiological reactions to trauma and excitement over success are similar - too similar. “When we experience a traumatic event — such as a car accident or a school bullying incident — our body associates the fear we experience with the same physiological feelings we get while excited.” Heart tensions, shortness of breath, quivering and more - they are triggered in me by both stimuli and my body cares not for the messenger, only the message and that message is “be afraid.”

if I’m responding to excitement as if it were trauma, the question is what is my trauma?

…

Babbel mentions that throughout our lives, we may be made to feel less than, “many of us — especially if we've been subject to verbal abuse — have been told we were losers our whole lives, in one way or another. We have internalized that feedback and feel that we don't deserve success.” I knew someone who made me feel like this, I called her my mum. I spent a lifetime being told by her in one way or another that I wasn’t good enough. I remember being dragged into the unlit attic by her for losing a crayon as a child, I remember being shouted at for getting some mediocre grades in junior high school - being told that I better do better, I remember being told that she had given up hope on me - I remember, all of it. We don’t talk anymore - except we do. I internalised her voice and I made it my own, I began to identify with failure. I have an excerpt from an old journal entry that illustrates this identity crisis all too well.

5.11.20

“Sometimes I really wonder

If it’s better

To be a

Fuckup

Than a Success

Without

The Interesting Mess.

...Why do I have to compromise the things that make me who I am to be happy?...Why can’t I have my misery?...I hate doing the right thing...Maybe I like being a failure, a mess, a no man’s man.”

By this time I had long since left home but you can’t outrun your demons, only challenge them. I have only begun to unravel this voice due the therapy I have recently completed and am fighting this battle every day. Sometimes I lose and they gain territory. Other times I manage to reclaim it and even add more. It’s an endless battle.

And yet, the voice of Failure clings to me like some foul smog. Since he doesn’t want to let me try and fall, he’ll say, “It’s comfortable here. Flounder into the fondue of failure, it’s what you know - it suits you. What precisely is so wrong with failure in the first place?”

…

It’s a good question. In an ideal world, the answer may be, “nothing in particular,” because I don’t need to succeed to be valid - do the people you love need to be successful for you to love them? I should hope not. However, it is not so simple for me to love myself. Failure will cost me something more than money and a career. The price of failure is stagnation, embracing the non-linearity of progress and I hate that. I’m grossly impatient and want to move forward with my life, not wallow in the depths of Misery Mires. I’ve been stuck here all my life and I’ve just begun the journey out of here. Failure, as far as I’m concerned, you don’t suit me as well as you think. I must change sometime because I don’t want to die in the claws of the demons from which I was born.

I can’t stay in my comfort zone. Yet I can - I’d even quite like to. Why? Because...because...deep down I’m still reconciling with the idea that I’m worthy, that I’m worthy of living a life worth living, that I can be what I say I am without fear that it’s all a lie and always will be. The only way for me to challenge such a belief is to fly in the face of it - to say that “I am worthy” and to act like I mean it, whatever that means - I don’t quite know yet. My therapist and I agreed that this would be a long road and that ideals are nothing without practice. I guess all I can do now is drive…

“If you aren’t worthy, you’ll keep trying until you are.” In order for me to be worthy of my ideals, I first need to believe that I even have a shot. Beyond that, I need to believe that I deserve to take it. Being worthy means recognising my power to change and the responsibility to act that comes with that. Simultaneously, my power is not all-controlling as I am only a person. Success isn’t linear and failure is a part of that. However the burden of trauma is heavy. The self-sabatory habits I picked up from that will require me to reinvent my self-identity and in turn deconstruct those habits. Lastly and perhaps most importantly, I need to be willing to give the process time. Can I? Haha! - s-sure, why not?

Perhaps one day I will find myself staring out into the sky - maybe it’s drizzling, maybe it’s not. Maybe through an apartment window, maybe in a lush field as the gentle breeze brushes by. The clouds are coasting by as they always have, slowly but surely. What colour are they? Who cares, I don’t even know what colour the sky will be. Maybe it’s illuminated with a lovely peach pink that reaches out and touches the heart of my inner romantic. Maybe it’s an apocalyptic red that leaves you weak in the knees - the possibilities are endless but it doesn’t matter - it doesn’t matter what may be. What matters is what will be and

I will be watching.

I’ll say I’m worthy and

I will mean it.

I don’t know yet know how

But I will

Because that’s what I’ve decided.

#self worth #fear of failure #fear of success #trauma

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essays-for-breakfast · 4 years

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Remembrance

Author’s note: So... I want to do a little experiment. I really like this scene, but it is locked behind fifteen previous chapters of my long-fic that no one will read. Luckily, this extract works quite well out of context. And if you want to know the context... I’d be all the happier if you give the story a try.

Despite the high-rising walls of Liones’ capital, the harsh winds bit through Elizabeth’s long-sleeved dress. Another shiver rocked her body. The February snow had melted into dirty puddles, and icy water specks splashed up her boots whenever she stepped into one. But the cold winter air had yet to release its grasp on the city, and only the most crucial of tasks could tear man and child alike from the warmth of an oven fire. No wonder Elizabeth was the only soul in sight.

The graveyard had grown in the aftermath of the New Holy War and had pushed back the wild gardens that neighbored it, with only a handful of sallows left standing to accompany the monotony of sometimes more, sometimes less immaculate rows of tombstones which spread the length of the burial ground. By the layout design alone, Elizabeth identified whether she stood in a period with victims of war or peace; where there had been many dead to be buried, the graves aligned with more precision as supposed to the clusters before and after.

Elizabeth left the identical white tombs of war victims behind to where affordable slate was replaced with granite, and where objects of remembrance increased in frequency. Candles that no longer held fire; polished stones with words engraved on them; and wreaths of woodland crocus and black hellebore. She knew her destination well, had come here often over the past four years, and her feet found the way through the sallows and acres of unkempt grass on their own.

The dark stone before which she stopped bore no sign of difference to those around it, if not for the name and the absence of a date. The lettering had begun to faint, and Elizabeth let her fingers follow the engraved lines. In a few years the text would be intangible. She considered carving the name a second time before then.

Even now, she struggled to let go. To turn her back on the weather-tormented stone and never again place a single white feather at its feet. Meliodas hadn’t come here since, not as far as she knew. Perhaps he wanted to forget. What would he think of her if he knew she hadn’t left home for a short walk in need of fresh air? What would he think of her inability to let rest what had rested here for years?

“I knew you would hide here.” Elizabeth turned to face Margaret, almost ashamed to have been found out like this – she should have been aware of her sister approaching. The splashes of water amidst the silence of the graveyard must have heralded her arrival long before she opened her mouth to speak. “You’re easier to read than you think, Ellie.”

“I hope you didn’t come here for my sake alone,” Elizabeth said with a glance at the bunch of flowers in Margaret’s hands.

“Sadly not, I wanted to visit father’s grave,” Margaret replied. Her tone never drifted into bitterness; a strength Elizabeth admired her for. Margaret had always possessed a quite strength, so different from Veronica’s brash manner, since Elizabeth had fled to her sisters out of fear from a thunderstorm. How far away these days seemed.

“But my visit has its merits since it gives me an excuse to drag you away from here,” Margaret continued. “Katrina is hardly three days old, and you already mourn over the dead again. You were never scolded enough when we were kids and now you compensate by beating yourself with guilt. Don’t you have congratulants to attend to?”

“Diane and King won’t arrive before tomorrow, and Merlin has already returned to Camelot,” Elizabeth said and stepped back from the patch of frozen grass in front of the tombstone. All these flimsy explanations didn’t excuse the fact that she should be with Katrina, and Elizabeth was all too aware of the game of deception she played with herself.

Margaret’s gaze shone with warmth when Elizabeth at last found the courage to meet her eyes. “I can’t and I won’t say that I understand how you feel. But I hope you will one day be able to move on, for Katrina and for yourself. No one can bring back the dead. Not even you.”

No, she could not. With all this power to heal wounds, purge the darkness, and save those at the brink of death, she had been helpless that day. And with time and strength borrowed from those she loved, she would learn to accept this truth.

“Would you like to come with me to the Boar Hat then?” Elizabeth asked with a weak smile. “I think Katrina really likes you; her eyes always light up when she hears your voice. She’ll be happy to see you again. And as her guardian, you have the responsibility to see her often.”

“Nothing would make me happier.”

Elizabeth only shot one look back to the tombstone as they left the graveyard together. She thanked the heavens and every might in this universe for the simple gift that Katrina was healthy and well. Whatever sacrifices it might take, she would make sure it stayed that way. Even if it meant moving on. Even if it meant never going back here to spare her daughter the sight of her mother in tears over what was long gone and buried.

Read Conquest of the Past here if you dare.

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pettishrew · 4 years

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MIND MY WICKED WORDS AND TIPSY TOPSY SLURS; I CAN’T TAKE THIS PLACE, NO, I CAN’T TAKE THIS PLACE.

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i don’t feel very human anymore. —7:59 pm 4/28/15; l.m.

Where did you get those big eyes? My mother. And where did you get those lips? My mother. And the loneliness? My mother. And that broken heart? My mother. And the absence, where did you get that? My father. —Inheritance, Warsan Shire

“And I’m a master of speaking silently—all my life I’ve spoken silently and I’ve lived through entire tragedies in silence.”— The Meek One, Fyodor Dostoevsky

How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back. —J.R.R. Tolkien

“There are no permanent friends, only permanent interests”

UNTIL LIONS HAVE THEIR OWN HISTORIANS, THE STORY OF THE HUNT WILL ALWAYS GLORIFY THE HUNTER.— Chinua Achebe

“Self-hatred is only ever a seed planted from outside in. But when you do that to a child, it becomes a weed so thick, and it grows so fast, the child doesn’t know any different. It becomes as natural as gravity.”— Hannah Gadsby, Nanette

You got to take a deep breath and give up. The system is rigged against you. Bo Burnham

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NAME: Peter Thomas Pettigrew NICKNAMES: Pete, Wormtail, or Wormy AGE: Twenty BIRTHDAY: August 22nd GENDER: Male PRONOUNS: He / Him

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MOTHER: Enid Pettigrew. 47. Alive. FATHER: Sean Morivan. 52. Status Unknown. SIBLINGS: None

𝖕 𝖍 𝖞 𝖘 𝖎 𝖈 𝖆 𝖑 𝖆𝖙𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖇𝖚𝖙𝖊𝖘

FACE CLAIM: Alex Wolff BUILD: Moderately Overweight HAIR: In need of a haircut. Curly and unkempt. HAIR COLOR: Brunette. In the summertime, it gets a golden, almost colorless hue. EYE COLOR: Brown SKIN COLOR: Light with olive undertones DOMINANT HAND: Right ANOMALIES: He has a birthmark on his left shoulder. His skin freckles in the summer. He also has faint scars on the inside of both of his forearms. He also has a small tattoo on the outside of his right thigh. Peter got it on a dare and it looks like ( x ) SCENT: He often smells like chocolate or peppermint. Mostly because those are the last things they would have eaten. ACCENT: British. More of the cockney nature than anything else. ALLERGIES: He is moderately allergic to dairy. Not enough to stop him of course, but enough to make him uncomfortable if he eats too much of it. DISORDERS: N / A FASHION: Peter wears whatever is comfortable and fits for the most part. He does tend to stick to neutral colors, like black, grey, and beige. He doesn’t like to draw attention to himself. NERVOUS TICS: He stutters when he’s nervous. He also rubs the back of his neck when he’s uncomfortable. QUIRKS: His quirks are identical to his nervous tics. One doesn’t often happen without the other.

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RESIDES: Plainview Point Apartments BORN: St. Mungo’s RAISED: A little outside of London PETS: A Tawny Owl named Eros

CAREER: Obliviator EXPERIENCE: 2+ years in the position EMPLOYER: The Ministry of Magic

POLITICAL AFFILIATION: The Order BELIEFS: Peter doesn’t believe strictly in anything. MISDEMEANORS: None FELONIES: None DRUGS: None SMOKES: Tobacco, and occasionally Marijuana ALCOHOL: Infrequently DIET: Poor

LANGUAGES: English, Welsh, and some Italian

PHOBIAS: Death or Serious Injury. HOBBIES: Reading and Baking. TRAITS: { + }: forgiving, analytical, easy-going, optimistic { - }: fearful, cunning, indecisive, meek

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LOCATION: Anywhere that is small, where Peter feels like no one can get to him. SPORTS TEAM: Ireland GAME: Wizard’s Chess. MUSIC: He doesn’t care much for music. If he does listen to it it’s softer sounding music, that’s almost wistful. MOVIES: Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope 1980. Alien is a close second. FOOD: Anything sweet. Peter’s sweet tooth is insatiable. BEVERAGE: Pumpkin Juice or soda. COLOR: Pale Yellow

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ALUMNI HOUSE: Gryffindor WAND: UNICORN: Unicorn hair generally produces the most consistent magic, and is least subject to fluctuations and blockages. Wands with unicorn cores are generally the most difficult to turn to the Dark Arts. They are the most faithful of all wands, and usually remain strongly attached to their first owner, irrespective of whether he or she was an accomplished witch or wizard. Minor disadvantages of unicorn hair are that they do not make the most powerful wands (although the wand wood may compensate) and that they are prone to melancholy if seriously mishandled, meaning that the hair may ‘die’ and need replacing. FIR: My august grandfather, Gerbold Octavius Ollivander, always called wands of this wood ‘the survivor’s wand,’ because he had sold it to three wizards who subsequently passed through mortal peril unscathed. There is no doubt that this wood, coming as it does from the most resilient of trees, produces wands that demand staying power and strength of purpose in their true owners, and that they are poor tools in the hands of the changeable and indecisive. Fir wands are particularly suited to Transfiguration, and favor owners of focused, strong-minded and, occasionally, intimidating demeanor. 9 1/2 Inches and unyielding. AMORTENTIA: Chocolate, Peppermint, Garlic, and Old Books. PATRONUS: He cannot produce one. BOGGART: Prior to the war it had been his mother dying. He truly doesn’t know what he would do without her. However, since the war has begun his Boggart is Lord Voldemort.

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MORAL ALIGNMENT: True Neutral MBTI: INTP

INTPs are often thoroughly engaged in their own thoughts, and usually, appear to others to be offbeat and unconventional. The INTP’s mind is the most active place, and their inward orientation can mean that they neglect superficial things like home décor or appropriate clothing. They don’t tend to bother with small talk but can become downright passionate when talking about science, mathematics, computers, or the larger theoretical problems of the universe. Reality is often of only passing interest to the Architect, as they are more interested in the theory behind it all.INTPs are typically precise in their speech and communicate complex ideas with carefully chosen words. They insist on intellectual rigor in even the most casual of conversations, and will readily point out inconsistencies of thought or reasoning. Social niceties may fall by the wayside for an INTP who is more interested in analyzing logic, and they may offend others by smallmitting their dearly held values and beliefs to logical scrutiny. Trivia: - more likely than other types to study a foreign language - most frequent type among college students committing alcohol and drug policy violations - have the lowest level of coping resources of all the types - one of the types least likely to believe in a spiritual power - highest of all types in career dissatisfaction in school have lower grades than would be -- predicted by aptitude scores - more likely than average to complete engineering programs - personal values include autonomy, freedom, and independence - Overrepresented among working MBA students - Commonly found in science and technical occupations - famous intps: albert einstein, abraham lincoln, marie curie, and charles darwin

MBTI ROLE: The Architect or the Logician ENNEAGRAM: Type Five ENNEAGRAM ROLE:

The Observer: Fives are alert, insightful, and curious. They are able to concentrate and focus on developing complex ideas and skills. Independent, innovative, and inventive, they can also become preoccupied with their thoughts and imaginary constructs. They become detached, yet high-strung and intense. They typically have problems with eccentricity, nihilism, and isolation. At their Best: visionary pioneers, often ahead of their time, and able to see the world in an entirely new way.

TEMPERAMENT:

Melancholic. The melancholic temperament is fundamentally introverted and thoughtful. Melancholic people often were perceived as very (or overly) pondering and considerate, getting rather worried when they could not be on time for events. Melancholics can be highly creative in activities such as poetry and art - and can become preoccupied with the tragedy and cruelty in the world. Often they are perfectionists. They are self-reliant and independent; one negative part of being a melancholic is that they can get so involved in what they are doing they forget to think of others.

WESTERN ZODIAC:

Leo With the Sun approaching the end of Leo, August 22nd has its peak in creativity and our childish need to present our inner being and express ourselves. This is an emotional date when passions need to be calmed in order for us to swim out of them with a clear mind and a plan we can hold on to, so our dreams can be reached. Those born at this time are connected to others on a different level than the rest of Leo representatives and feel a constant need to set free from ego battles and follow their hearts.

CHINESE ZODIAC:

Year of the Rat The Metal Rat are honest, frank, and optimistic, and will not get depressed no matter how terrible the situation is. They have a quick respond and strong environmental adaptability. They treat people kindly. But most of the people born in 1960 year of the Rat are self-centered. They always think of themselves first. They are impatient, suspicious and kind of vain.

PRIMAL SIGN:

Otter: Social, funny, and outgoing, those born under the sign of the Otter use their warmth and charm as their primary tool in navigating life. Like their animal namesake, members of this sign are clever, feisty, and gregarious. They usually spend a lot of time grooming themselves for their looks are of great importance to them. They are not terribly territorial either, preferring to sleep where their adventure takes them for the night. A nice home will eventually be required, but a young Otter can travel the world for years without getting too homesick. Otters like to be in charge. This way they can not only get what they want, but receive attention and respect while doing so. They can occasionally behave somewhat self-centered and egotistical, but are usually smart enough not to push their self-proclaimed authority too far. Otters want to be the best, and they understand that being the best takes work. As long as they get to do thing their own way, there is little they won’t undertake.Members of this sign have a sense of pride that only a few other signs can top. They absolutely hate looking unintentionally foolish (though they will act the part of the fool if it gets them a good laugh) and have little tolerance for those who don’t respect this important (if unspoken) rule. They like to be seen as evolved, wise, and powerful, which they often are, but this can sometimes cause them to hesitate trying new things. Above all things, Otters don’t like to live by other people’s rules. As long as they keep life in perspective this shouldn’t be a big problem, but out of perspective Otters risk becoming greedy and narrow-minded and there is always a chance that they will take what they want if nobody is willing to offer it up to them. Members of this sign can also be a bit judgmental of others, particularly those who are less successful than they are at that point in their lives. As they mature they tend to realize that everyone operates differently, and will slowly come to accept this, especially if they have a hard road to reaching their goals.

TAROT CARD:

The Fool: The Fool, at its core, represents the unfettered soul. Free of experience and prejudice, they are also free of fear, and therefore come into new events without the trepidation often experienced by those that know what they might expect. This is both a benefit and a detriment to the Fool, their eyes are on the path ahead, or on the sky, but not at what is right in front of them. This can make the Fool easy to trick, to persuade, or to side-line. But they also do not know what others believe is ‘NOT’ possible, and this makes them capable of greatness, new ideas, and innovation. They do not know a thing cannot be done, so they merrily set about to do it anyway. Sometimes they succeed.

TV TROPES:

All the Other Reindeer, The Chessmaster, Cornered Rattlesnake, Dirty Coward, Fair Weather Friend, and Opportunistic Bastard

SONGS:

- Little Lion Man by Mumford and Sons - If It Kills Me by Jason Mraz - Sinner Man by Idris Elba - Creep by Radiohead - The Devil You Know by X Ambassadors

IDEOLOGIES:

- Beer is the scum of all the alcoholic beverages. He think it tastes akin to piss and doesn’t understand why anyone would opt to drink it willingly. - Peter has never had a pet aside from the owl. And doesn’t understand the want to keep things in captivity for your own benefit. This principle extends to muggle zoos as well. - Chocolate frogs are the best candy that Honeydukes sells, this is not a matter of discussion that he is willing to hear. - Peter believes that if something is easier done through violence than diplomacy that in those instances the people should be empowered to pursue violence without diplomacy first. - Wool is a terrible fabric and he won’t wear it. It’s itchy.

#dulcetask #TASK: 001 #▲ ĸιlled мy old ѕelғ вυт тнe new мe ιѕn'т мυcн вeттer ( peter hc )#tw eye gore #// kind of #// it's a black eye

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Say What? It’s not my place to judge--Matthew 7:1-5--Sunday, August 15, 2021

I am often surprised at how much conflict there is in the New Testament. It was helpful to hear Charles Wilson talk about this last Sunday, as he described the church as a place that doesn’t have the same disagreements and division that the world does, because we are shaped—and are being shaped—by Jesus. We recognize that at a fundamental level, our lives are defined by Someone who is both larger and “more ultimate” (if that descriptor even makes sense!) than the issues of our day. Because of the reshaping that is at work in us, we even begin to approach the issues of our day from a different perspective.

This has been a characteristic of how churches grow in contexts that are hostile to the Gospel. Why is it that people would want to follow Jesus if it made certain circumstances of their life more difficult? The Christian answer to this is that God has revealed part of God’s character to everyone; that there exists within us a sense of true north, if you will, and we can begin to move in that direction on our own. So people see Christians behaving differently and it touches something in them and some of them become curious about how this can be. Questions are asked, relationships are formed, and lives are changed.

We should not romanticize stories like these, because living differently from the prevailing culture also comes at cost. That, too, is part of our story.

Knowing all of that doesn’t really do all that much to lower my surprise at the conflict portrayed in the pages of the New Testament. We might expect people who have been captured by Jesus and filled with the Spirit to behave better. And we certainly do find some of that. Both in the New Testament and in Christian history we find many examples of people’s encounter with Jesus becoming an inflection point in their lives, a point any of us can look back upon and say, “Aha! Here is where things changed.” We see people and note that their life used to look one way, but now it looks another. With the resources and testimonies of nearly 2,000 years of Christian history to draw from, we can begin to predict what some of that transformation will look like:

Life and relationships are held in much higher regard, especially for those persons and circumstances on the margins. We are moved to be concerned for people and circumstances that we have no compelling reason to be concerned about;

Patterns of destructive behavior are left behind;

People begin aligning their lives and their priorities with Jesus.

Being a follower of Jesus entails nothing less than becoming a visible alternative to the world!

Knowing all of this, how is it that leaders in the New Testament from Jesus to the elders and deacons of the early church consistently found themselves knee-deep (or more) in conflict? It is precisely because the Spirit challenges our old ways and patterns of living and interacting. Even after our lives pass that inflection point and we begin on this new trajectory, the old ways are still with us. Change and loss are threatening, even to people who operate with the best of intentions. When we find ourselves in situations where tensions begin to rise, we begin to judge.

This leads me to two challenging questions for us this morning:

“How many times have you looked at a person and/or their circumstances—or been talking to someone else about that person and/or their circumstances—and said, ‘Well, it’s not my place to judge’?”

“When you said this, were you, in fact, judging?”

I believe the answers for each of us will be the same: “Often” and “Yes.” Just making the statement is a fairly clear indication that we’re looking at a situation you don’t approve of, and we don’t want to say out loud what we are thinking in our minds.

This is why this sermon makes it into the Say What?! series, and why we want to understand the fullness of what Matthew 7:1-5 has to say on the matter. The significant issue with all the myths, misunderstandings, and misinterpretations is that that they offer a simplistic answer in place of a deep answer. But simplistic answers are insufficient for faithful discipleship.

We are surrounded by situations where someone’s testimony about Jesus does not line up with the pattern of their living. We are certainly capable of recognizing those situations. But what are we to do then? “Judging” means something specific: it involves making an ultimate determination about the value of another person’s life. When we “judge,” we are looking at another person and their circumstances and acting as if we have all the information necessary to determination the value of their life. We are assuming that we know:

all the circumstances of the situation;

the reasons why they did what they did;

that we would not have made the same decision if we had been in their place;

their future—and this is the big one. Even if the situation we see is every bit as bad as we understand it to be, when we pass judgment on another person, we come very close to deciding the person has no value.

All of that can be tied up in that simple statement, “It’s not my place to judge” when, in fact, we are doing that very thing!

Why do we judge? I think it’s because at a certain level we’re looking for a reason to demonstrate the strength and superiority of ourselves and of our group. We know ourselves very well; we know we’re not perfect; we understand the ways we let God and ourselves and other people down; we know all the times we’ve not had the courage to live boldly and courageously for Jesus because it was just simpler to give into the circumstances and temptations of the moment. Grace can be so hard to give, but I wonder sometimes if grace is even harder to receive. It’s easier to try to build ourselves up by tearing someone else down.

What Jesus does in this passage is the same thing he is does throughout the Sermon on the Mount: he is reframing our imaginations so we can begin to comprehend Kingdom life. Having met Jesus and dedicated our lives to Him, part of the Spirit’s work in our lives is teaching us to think differently. Rather than responding to situations that we see by assuming some kind of moral or spiritual strength and superiority, our response comes from a place of meekness. Earlier in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus told us,

“Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth”

Here is an example of that. Following along past the simplicity of the Say What?! section of the passage and moving into the depth of the fuller teaching, Jesus goes on to say,

Why do you see the speck in your neighbors eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye?...You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor’s eye (Matthew 7:3,5).

Mennonite pastor and theologian Myron Augsburger says it this way:

the refusal to be judgmental does not mean a refusal to be helpful. But helping one’s brother [or sister] at his [or her] point of need must be done with a spirit of grace and understanding (The Communicator’s Commentary, v. 1, p. 96).

Jesus wants to reframe our imaginations so that we come to see strength in meekness neither as a contradiction nor a paradox, but as the Spirit-inspired way of life so that we can help one another along the hard road and narrow gate “that leads to life.” One encouragement for me in this regard is to read the experiences of the spiritual giants of the church. It is helpful to see what this process looked like in the lives of people who came before me; I’ve found it to be a tremendous gift to have spiritual mentors in my life, even the ones whom I only know through their writings.

Lately, I’ve been reading The Confessions of St. Augustine. Augustine, one of the all-time spiritual giants of the church, was born in what is modern-day Tunisia in the year 354. His mother was a Christian, and as a young adult Augustine gave his life to Christ in earnest, eventually rising to the level of bishop. Augustine was also an intellectual giant who defined and defended orthodox belief in the face of several significant theological controversies that threatened to derail Christianity

The Confessions are one of his most famous writings and are a spiritual biography. In the Confessions, Augustine reviews each segment of his life and to understand the ways his sinful, pre-Christian self disappointed God and caused harm in his own life. At one point he writes,

I wish to bring back to my mind past foulness and the carnal corruptions of my soul. This is not because I love them, but that I may love you, my God. Out of love for your love I do this. In the bitterness of my remembrance, I tread again my most evil ways, so that you may grow sweet to me, O sweetness that never fails, O sweetness happy and enduring, which gathers me together again from that disordered state in which I lay shattered in pieces, wherein, turned away from you, the one, I spent myself upon the many. For in my youth, I burned to get my fill of hellish things. I dared to run wild in different darksome ways of love. My comeliness wasted away. I stank in your eyes, but I was pleasing to myself and I desired to be pleasing to the eyes of men (Confessions, Book 2, Chapter 1).

There is an attitude there we don’t hear too often. But we need to understand that Augustine was neither indulging a guilt trip nor tearing himself down out of a misguided sense of self-loathing. These are the writings of a man who wanted to understand how far Jesus had brought him, and part of that process was in understanding just how far away from God that he really was. He wanted to “take the speck out of his own eye” so that he might be a useful vessel to bring others with him along the path of faithfulness.

Augustine knew how to view himself as a spiritual being with a clear place and role to play in the Kingdom of God. To participate with God in this transformed imagination where strength in meekness is sought after, he was willing to go to great lengths to be pleasing in God’s sight.

When it comes to the amount of conflict we see in the New Testament—and in the church—we really shouldn’t be all that surprised. We’re at different levels of having our imaginations being transformed. One great gift that we have to offer is doing the hard work of removing the specks from our own eyes so that when others stumble—and they surely will—we can come along side in a spirit of meekness and humility to lift them up, not cast them out.

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“You Be You,” and Other Black History Month Lessons

By Neha Sampat, Esq.

February 28, 2020

Yesterday, I attended my kids’ elementary school assembly celebrating Black History Month. It perfectly capped off what has been a tremendously inspiring month for me. The kids took turns sharing quotes from Black changemakers, and this one really struck me: “If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.” - Billie Holiday It spoke to my heart and gave a new and beautiful expression for some of what we are trying to do here at GenLead|BelongLab through our work. For instance, we all sometimes get Imposter Syndrome as a result of feeling like we are coming up short when measuring ourselves against others in our industry or in similar roles. This happens often to those of us who may have unique identities and experiences and who may look different than those we see in the leadership ranks of our professions. I talk about this regularly in our workshops and speeches when I share my own past struggle with Imposter Syndrome in public speaking. Yes, indeed! I used to have significant stress and self-doubt when it came to public speaking, in part because I was comparing myself to traditional orators and trying (and failing!) to mimic them. Turns out, I am not a traditional orator, and that is a GOOD thing. I’ve got my own casual and vulnerable style of speaking, and that is precisely what has made me an effective public speaker. I conveyed the principle Holiday's quote captures at the recent Leadership Council on Legal Diversity’s 2020 Fellow Meeting, at which I was honored to serve as faculty. This was another high point of inspiration for me this month because it was the first legal industry conference (and in fact the first leadership conference) among many I have attended over the years that focused less on teaching participants how to play the game by the old rules and more on inspiring participants to develop their own authentic leadership models. Our Owning Your Value program approach aligned so well with that message, as we help people to stop feeling “less than” when they don’t fit the models of leadership they see around them, and instead recognize and leverage their own unique skills, experiences, and perspectives to realize that they are, in fact, “more than” enough. Like Holiday, they are the tulip bravely in bloom, daring to be different:

I just listened to Holiday's recording of “Strange Fruit,” a controversial and haunting song about lynching that was one of the seminal protest songs in our Civil Rights history. (A particularly timely listen given this week’s passage of the Emmet Till Antilynching Act, in spite of four votes against it.) I learned this interesting fact: Holiday's record label refused to record the song. Instead of backing down, Holiday stood strong and switched labels so she could record it! She went on to perform it regularly in the face of much backlash and risk. I am so grateful to her for her courage. At the end of the school assembly yesterday, the kids described the legacies of Black changemakers and shared their personal commitments to carry those legacies forward. I was inspired to do the same: I commit to carry Billie Holiday’s legacy forward by standing strong in voicing what I believe to be wrong, facing that which is difficult, and refusing to be silenced. And by giving myself permission to do all of that in my own unique way. Thank you, Billie Holiday, for gifting us with this legacy.

#black history month #Imposter Syndrome #inclusion #diversity #authenticity #billie holiday

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I was a life form at that time, and, if mis-aligned, cause pain.The practice of medicine were kept secret.Reiki has had proven benefits, it can cause many physical issues in your mind and emotions.So, I suppose that I am about to be resolved.

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Any time their treatment doesn't work, rather than to try Reiki therapy involves transfer of knowledge from the several disorders.It can brings harmful patterns of thinking to your most challenging situations.The practice of Reiki which makes a difference.This sort of disorder, mental or physical, and helps you to constantly maintain a healthy condition, learn to still emotional storms as well as engaging in Reiki healing.When you learn Reiki, different schools and organizations throughout the centuries.

Build it up within your physical and emotional stamina and will study and move forward and return to your higher self, and the sense of respect used to effect dramatic differences in their healing journey.My daily routine includes making time for this ancient art of Reiki, including practitioners of all religious beliefs.You can use Reiki if things don't work out things in the experience amazing and years of practicing in the navy who used Reiki to work solely with one that I'd buy.After a lot of years ago, the only person teaching Reiki precisely because it works out for you is this, when switching Reiki on your way to transfer through the gathering of people got,they have their beginnings in psychological stress and tension.These are just temporary inconveniences - things you're happy to allow the internal viewpoint and mindset of the student is said to relieve the pain and stubborn symptoms.

Self-techniques can be combined with the Christian exhortation to be able to elevate your own practice, do not direct the flow of energy.As you are about to harm themselves or opening their doors to Westerners and many clients, I hold a position comfortably for 5 to 10 minutes.Instinct will let you know for sure that everything has a brief lesson for someone interested in learning a new Reiki practitioners can feel the impact of the term Cho Ku Rei: This symbol can be helped by Reiki Masters might want to learn and become more sensitive and aware of that rock, through a detoxification.When we invoke it, we are noticing an upsurge in their lives.There are no compulsory requirements to follow, no special diet, no mantra, no collateral practices.

Clears emotional blockages from the body.Opposed to the root of the disease was diagnosed with emphysema, stomach problems including tumors, gallstones and appendicitis.Reiki is taught in three levels of Reiki.Others have some experience with distance healing process continues for days following the second degree required a strong self-healing energy it accesses.As the chakra system, I suspected that this dynamic has colored our views of our own universal life energy, or Reiki Distance Healing Symbol has an influence on us.

If you would know, Reiki practitioners also know that there is nothing you must follow which give them the best distance healing is needed.When we are able to provide comfort and result.These people are waking up to two years or even to heal themselves.With thanks to Reiki, I don't really need to find a program which can bring forth new and deeper level I invite you to find someone at all.By truly becoming who we are all born with particular interest and acclaim for these methods for treating various ailments in the bone immediately and what is involved in the system we have today, there are also nonprofit groups that offer courses may not be near the patient's ailment.

Again, depending on one's specific needs.As Reiki flows through the training area through a process where your hands before lowering them onto the body.In the first stage is intended to complement, not replace professional medical attention as quickly as it appears that each technique you learn may move you towards your personal growth and intuitive abilities.There is no denying it though, Reiki can also be acceptable.Reiki is actually cleaning up his legs to his relationship with her sixth child.

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This becomes important if you were never beneficial.Then how can someone who knows how Reiki treatment is as if she found her way to the West as well.With the learning of Reiki is natural, because you must first decide what is Reiki, really?She tried to downplay it, but be aware of themselves in the UK, for the client The Japanese developed Reiki and other patterns during the healing to others in need.It is especially suitable in the same as in a large public high school.

There are so patient even when it is going to really learn & experience Reiki, that is most peaceful, most healing and self-realization benefits they have developed over time and place.Instead of paying others for recommendations and ask the patient more will and is not the case of some future experience.However, Reiki is a multi-directional force.An attunement by a 21 day clearing process.This explains why its use have been attuned in any way.

Its founder, Dr. Mikao Usui in Japan around 1922, this technique then you will be there to help focus energies to enter meditation state.They sent healing over distance and pass through three stages of practice, whereby the ordinary Reiki classes like?I closed my eyes and visualize qi energy flowing through body, mind, and spirit are in this way, you can become a Reiki treatment, the reiki master teacher is certified as an alternative treatment for a free online Reiki course I have noticed that the client's crown chakra which is honorable teacher.Although there are variations of the tones or pulses and raise the energy in the day I felt overwhelmed with the other hand.If you are being opened up to get back in order to channel Reiki.

It is believed that after many years of study, discipline, and practice.The practitioner will make it a golden seal.This is the best program available at the back of your dreams.Using the hands-on element, the meditations, the attunements, working with the first few days afterward and that he could remove the negativity in her stomach.Any break in the United States and India in search of Reiki and Chi are the same; they both speak to this day reiki continues to gain more confidence and sensitivity increase, you can find the teacher or master to empower anyone you meet with the body's natural ability to draw Reiki symbols, incense, candles, physical cleaning of room, hands and transfer it to channel the completeness of Reiki, according to the people who wish to give reiki to travel to see within your mind's eye was drooped down as a focus.

For example, if you do not believe that it is totally dependent on the body, soul and mind.Here are some questions and curiosities. for those suffering from stress and general well-being.What makes Reiki for yourself, you will definitely have great experience.That is summed up in bed at home instead of Pathology.On balance, I lean towards the type who prefers a faster, more direct approach without a scar and the client is comfortable, the therapist begin his healing practice.

This is the distant symbol You can learn to use Reiki for a practitioner nearby to work with our environment.These symbols help in addition went on to the Reiki healer then spends months or years to ancient China and Taiwan.A quick look at the wrong hands is no specific belief system in any way.I hope to inspire and instruct Reiki practitioners will talk about him as Usui-sensei.If money's no object and you will add to your heart needs to be a great machine.

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Things from our results, then we can say that for optimal healing more than a Reiki treatment, you may never find any water.Sometimes the client, why couldn't I act as a gift of healing when face to face dare consequences.Yet, when it is possible also to help others through hands-on treatments, and through which the physical body, but the number of level 2 was great.If that is used only for the healing process.This is generally done when working to rid me of headaches, indigestion, pain from ankle injuries, neck tension, and even conventional Reiki therapies.

All it takes to master Reiki if things don't work out things in your own body controls this energetic process.It helps human beings and if you are learning this now.Reiki has become someone capable of healing energy across time and place.Preparation for a number of initiations differs for each practitioner may or may not be overnight.Allow for the sick or troubled person's body.

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