You Can't Change the Mind With the Mind

Wisdom of The Zen Samurai

Stillness in Nature - Water Element

I find myself bathed in a beautiful Zen energy consciousness after attending The Spiritual Summit offered over the weekend by MindValley. Such an incredible gathering of 86,000 in-person and online attendees.

I’ve studied and practiced Energy Healing for almost thirty years, but had never been organically drawn toward Samurai teachings. Yet, I found such incredible value in The Zen Samurai’s wisdom. Sensei Zen Takai, known as ‘The Zen Samurai’, is the last heir of the distinguished “Zen” Samurai lineage that spans 16 generations.

“You can’t change the mind with the mind. You must root the change in the body to achieve this.”

Validating words for me. I don’t (usually) work with the body. I work with energy. The energy that animates and fuels the body.

Yet, this - I’ve been espousing for years.

Matter follows energy. Energy follows thought.

What do we see?

Energy is the bridge that shifts both thought and matter (the body).

And in my years of working with my own energies, as well as others, I’ve seen incredible shifts in both. People who don’t understand energy and its impact on the body and mind, may not make connections as to how one affects the other, how holistically embedded our challenges are. How connected our thoughts are to the imbalances within our bodies.

That the guilt we can’t shake resides in our liver. The Grief? In our lungs. The fear? In our bladder. The shame? In our kidneys.

Energy work is the path.

Path Leading Towards Light

The path toward healing. The bridge toward balance.

The gateway to a healthy body and a calm and centered mind.

My intention is to introduce you to your own power, just as The Zen Samurai does. Different modalities along the same path.. To show you that healing lives within you. That life may keep pulling you in different, and often stressful, directions - but you have it within you to lead yourself back.

To restore equilibrium, and to prevent emotional baggage from accumulating and setting up shop in your organs. Creating disease that will be harder to banish.

Harmony and peace are the foundation of our existence once we strip away all of the external pressures that often cause us to compromise our balance and often our health.

We can’t always control all that life throws our way, but we can intelligently shift our energies to support us in our journey. To retrain our stress response not to react in crisis mode for every challenge we encounter. To clear our minds of the clutter, to regain clarity. To face the chaos with calm. To see challenge as opportunity. To weather the storms with grace and humanity.

If you want to change your reality, change the energies that steer and sustain it. The mission here is to raise the vibration of the planet by elevating our personal capacity to reject fear, stress, and manipulative attempts to undermine our joy and loving presence in the world.

Join me in utilizing the ancient secrets of our ancestors to bring balance and joy to modern living in an ever escalating world of stress.

As above so below...but more importantly, as within, so without... Our “inner calm” landscape influences our environment and the people around us. Keeping our own emotions balanced creates peace that echoes out into the world.

Peace begins within us all. Healing is an “inside” job.

I’m grounding both the theory and the techniques into the small daily challenges and triggers that throw us off balance. Simple techniques. “In the moment” solutions to common issues that tend to crop up in our day.

Because you can’t change the mind with the mind.

But, with the right tools and techniques, you can shift the thoughts and emotions that might otherwise hold you hostage or weaken you on a cellular level.

Namaste all. I see you. You are phenomenal.