ORB ...The Healing Bear
ABOUT REIKI HEALING
Reiki is known world wide as a hands-on healing therapy. But did you know that it also has a set of principles to help us live our life in a more balanced and wholesome way? These principles encourage us to live JUST FOR TODAY.
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Today is all that we have, and these five Reiki principles help to support us in this knowing, thus helping us to get the best out of each day. If we can connect with these principles, life becomes easier to manage. Our mental health can improve, our physical body begins to recognise pace and balance, and our emotions stay clean and healthy. We put our boundaries in place, and in doing all these, we can begin to notice a huge shift in our energy field from a dense 3rd dimension into a 5th dimension, which is where our own healing, and those of other people can benefit.
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THE FIVE REIKI PRINCIPLES:
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Just for today... do not worry
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Just for today ... do not anger
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Honour your parents, tachers and elders
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Show GRATITUDE for every living thing
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Earn your living honestly
Imagine waking up every morning feeling like you can take on the world, but you know that during your day you will be meeting with others who are not feeling this way - they have a life threatening illness and diagnosis. In 1998 and I was sitting in my therapy room with a lady who was having weekly therapy sessions after a diagnosis of cancer. These included Reiki, Visualisation and Affirmation Techniques .
During this session, she asked me if she could hold the teddy bear that was sat on my shelf. As I handed the soft toy to her she began cuddling it and eventually she stopped crying. I had previously 'charged' this bear with Reiki energy and I could tell that it made a significant difference to her energy and outlook, so I offered the teddy bear to her as a gift for her to take home.
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Now I had to find another bear to replace the one I had just given away. Over time, I began to run out of soft toys and due to potential cross infection, I was gifting bears every week and these bears were not produced in the UK or made from materials I would have chosen, so they weren't ideal.
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That therapy session was to begin a journey I could never have anticipated...
My Purpose and Quest
Since becoming a Reiki Master, I had been looking forward to the moment when I could make my spiritual quest to Mount Kurama in Japan, to the place where Doctor Mikao Usui discovered Reiki. I achieved this in April 2003, and it was while in meditation on the peak of Mount Kurama that I got the confirmation for creating the little bear I had sketched in meditation years before.
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This was a heart shaped face, kind, amethyst eyes, and long arms. He was quite tall with golden mohair so I made a sketch of this vision and began to make inquiries about having him made locally, but no one would take the responsibility for the standard and quantity I needed... so what was I to do?
It was five years before I had the funding to begin the journey with my vision. During this time a further reason became apparent for the need of a purposeful bear. As a Reiki Master during the classes of teaching of Reiki 11, I was asking students to bring along a teddy bear, doll or something that would act as a surrogate to practise distant healing.
Here was the perfect opportunity for a dedicated and bespoke teddy bear created with a true and positive intention.
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When I returned home I made inquiries about UK teddy bear manufacturers and discovered Merrythought Ltd. After many telephone calls I sent my sketches to their designer and made arrangements to visit to see if this was going to be the place where my little bear could be brought to life.
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I was shown around the Merrythought facility and watched in amazement as lots of other bears and soft toy animals were in various states of creation, it was quite an experience. I knew that after visiting Merrythought I had found the perfect place where my little bear was going to be born.
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From Vision to Reality...
I know that the lady who received the gift of that first bear from my shelf would be happy to know that there is a little bear now that will go on forever to live in people’s hearts. They have no need to feel lonely, neglected or unloved again. You are never too old to have a cuddle with a teddy bear, and ORB (The Original Reikibear), can help to heal you at the same time.
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If you, or someone you know has suffered the loss of a beloved parent, partner, or other loved one, the gift of ORB would definitely help them to overcome their grief, anxiety, or stress. I know because I created him for this reason.
THE WORLD IS IN NEED OF HEALING NOW MORE THAN EVER!
IN 2022 WE DONATED OVER 60 REIKI AND DODL BEARS TO THE TEDDY TRUST
TO HELP COMFORT CHILDREN IN WAR-TORN COUNTRIES.
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