Los Angeles in January
My head is spinning today, mainly because the shock of coming back to work after 10 days in LA was a bit much. LA was cool, weird, funny, big, wet, hot, green, dry and great for shopping . I mainly liked Silverlake, Pasadena, Hollywood, Joshua Tree, Venice Beach, Santa Monica, Rodeo Drive and Beverly Hills. I mainly ate Mexican, Chinese, Vietnamese, American, Japanese, Italian, Middle Eastern, more Mexican, plenty of coffee and too many cakes. I had the best time with Stephen, Jane, Chris, Kris, Rachel, and a bunch of other people in bars and at gigs. I did A LOT of shopping, mainly at Forever 21, LuluLemon and Amoeba. If you go to LA in January, make sure you take a brolly.
I’m reading Deepak Chopra’s Book of Secrets, and it’s making me feel a bit spaced out. That could also be lack of sleep from a strange kind of jet-lag. I just finished Autobiography of a yogi before we went to LA, and stumbled across the Self-Realisation Fellowship temple on Sunset Boulevard. It was a lovely peaceful place on one of the most hectic roads in LA, and next to the Hubbard HQ. Maybe the chanting is cancelling out the gamma rays from the aliens.
Anyway, work is important to keep us Reiki Masters grounded, so stick to your day-job until you feel ready for the next level. Personally, I find it difficult at the moment to get all my job satisfaction from treating reiki clients and teaching workshops, but I think gradually that will change as I get more financially secure. I find that by working in the ‘real world’ I can reach more and more people and learn more about myself in the process. Your spiritual life is not ‘over there’ somewhere - it’s not separate from your ‘real life’. Your spiritual life is every moment of every day, take notice of it now.
