Brighton Reiki - Rifa Bhunnoo

I’ve worked in lots of different places and it’s been fun getting back in contact with my “professional network” and seeing what people are up to now in digital media world. Onwards and upwards for most people. Which is great.

And then I get a bunch of emails from old reiki students and clients - again many people are doing well, running their own workshops and giving treatments. I love it. and what is keeping me going is looking forward to seeing my current reiki clients on Saturday and the new workshops I’ve got lined up in the coming Sundays.

But despite all the positive stuff, I’ve heard some bad news and it just reminds me how lucky I am and how grateful and how this life is so precious that even I have to get a grip, enjoy every day and not resent anyone or anything else as it’s just wasted energy. This time last year I was doing something completely different and this time next year, I’ll be used to doing something radically different again.

Embrace change, it’s the only way forward. Jim knows. But even i forget sometimes.

I got really annoyed recently because (not for the first time) I discovered someone has ripped off my reiki website. It’s ridiculous because how lazy can you be, (or stupid) not to be able to write a simple few lines in your own words? I had the misfortune of one of my own students being offended when I gently pointed out that her website content, structure and code was actually identical to mine. Obviously the person had only copied the generic pages, they drew the line at actually pretending to have had my experiences in Nepal and India. However, the reason I get so annoyed is that it’s not difficult to write but it is difficult, tedious and annoying to handcode a whole website from scratch with a book on HTML and Notepad which is what I did in 2000 when i put together my own website. So to have someone just think they can rip me off is annoying. And then denying it is just boring. Anyway, the more recent example of a plagiarism is just so inane, I am probably more annoyed at myself for getting annoyed about it in the first place. I mean, it’s not like someone didn’t give me a photo credit or ripped off my wedding day or took over my radio show.

Oh…

OOh how exciting. Today the interview I did ages ago about reiki and children has appeared in the Body and Soul section of The Times. Which is fantastic. I did the interview months ago and had pretty much given up on it ever appearing.It just goes to show things have to happen at the right time, there’s no point in forcing when things appear. And it also appears online with a link to my website so hopefully more people will hear about Brighton Reiki and come and learn or have treatments.

Rifa’s latest article: The Times

Hey that post from last week just shows how bad my fatigue was, and that I don’t really re-read or edit my rambling, I just write. that’s what I think blogging should be like, not polished.

So by the end of last week, I lost my sense of humour about work, but have now got things into perspective, thanks to a couple of nice long phone-calls with Lucy and Amelia. And my sis came down today. Whenever Chris goes away I go a bit off centre..and you really need to chat to your friends and get out of the house when you’re working full-time. I am just not used to travelling to meetings, getting 4 taxis, 2 planes and 2 trains on Monday for a 1 hour meeting in Dublin. It f*cked me up for the whole week. By Wednesday and another 6am start for a meeting in London, I was NOT HAPPY. Thursday i got thorugh the day by the sheer excitement of V day. but on friday I had lost patience with the ridiculous and unnaturalness of W.O.R.K and just thought fuck it!

So this week i have been over-tired and being ratty at home and worrying unnecessarily worrying about work. I blame lack of sleep for my paranoia. So last night, I focused on sending reiki to everyone in my office. Distant healing is all about using your imagination. i visualized sending some colleagues beautifully wrapped gifts full of golden light, and others needed a golden duvet wrapped around them. And today, valentine’s day, everyone is getting on, laughing and having a great time.