To all Reiki practitioners out there! Help Iranian People!

You can help. If you practice Reiki or any similar healing art/method, you can help Iranian people right now. There are many injured, wounded, spiritually shaken people in Iran at the moment. The basij is trying to arrest people at hospitals so protesters are not willing to go to hospitals when they are injured. People who are initiated into the second degree of Reiki can send distant healing energy to Iran. This is an extraordinary situation and you can help right from your living room.

You can do one or all of these:

1. Find Iran on the map, especially Tehran, and use it as a link to send healing energy to people who may need it. You can be sure many people need this is at the moment.

2. Find Iran on the map, use it as your imaginary link to send peace energy. You can do that exactly in the same manner like you send healing energy. Use all the appropriate symbols which are required.

3. Light a candle to keep your concentration and imagine that Iran become free, peacefully. You don't need to force your mind. Just visualize that the protesters achieved to revolt and that Iran becomes a free, democratic country once again.

This is urgent. Please take the time to help.

Obama has won the elections. There are lessons in this for personal change and development

Barack Obama was not new to U.S. politics. He has been on the seen for a very long time. There are lessons in his success as a presidential candidate. I don't talk about how he succeeded. I want to talk about people who thought that he is not going to win the presidential election. Those naive, too optimist people who try to make themselves look tough and pessimist.

Last week, I had a phone conversation with a friend about how hard or how almost impossible it is to become a famous, successful blogger. I had this discussions often in my office during my coaching sessions. People love to argue about how impossible a certain achievement is. Their argument is destined to fail. Because for every position, job, statue they argue about, there is somebody or masses of people that have achieved it.

Evaluate those arguments: "It is so difficult to get elected for presidency. So difficult that it is impossible". This is plain wrong. Obama is the 44th president of U.S. which means there have been people elected 44 times for presidency. How come that this is impossible?

"It is so hard to get an acceptance from Harvard University. So hard that it is impossible." If it is impossible, how come that there are still people, students, graduates in Harvard?

It's painful to see some people who don't see themselves worthy enough of achieving something particular. More painful to see that they think the same for everybody they keep in touch. Friends, family, colleagues. Anybody who say hello to them become an ordinary people, immediately. This is really very interesting. This is a self-worth issue that often extends to everybody those people know in person. Because they see themselves less worthy than any other people on earth and then they see people they know as their extensions so much that it is impossible for them to be worthy.

I'll try to discuss this issue this week.

Financial Crisis is not your fault

There have been a lot of e-mail questions recently. In fact, I am a little overloaded with that because I wasn't really 'there' for most of the time in September. However I am sure that I'll catch up with each question and thank you very much for your patience. So, I'm gonna start with the financial crisis. There were many e-mails regarding financial crisis (about 30). Almost all of them have something in common. This is something not very clearly written but I could see them between the lines. And that was the feeling of guilt.

Financial crisis occurred as a result of a big stupidity on economic decisions by the government in the past decade. This stupidity is so huge that it is not possible for you to commit. It's not your fault. You may have overspend and that's not a big deal.

The big deal is that our financial system is way too corrupt. It is build on nothing. Not on gold, not on energy. Simply nothing. Even not on a metaphysical background. So, the crisis is in fact mostly affected by human psychology. Economic crisis is a mindset. Crisis occurs where people believe that a certain person or a certain company is not going to pay their debt and call that a financial crisis. I don't want to dive into the economics of the issue because simply I am not an economist and I am only here to help you as an individual and in an individual level.

If you already have a psychological condition like anxiety, depression, mood disorder, etc. you'll be prone to attach your feelings to the financial crisis. Try not to do that. You should at least try to calm down. Not many things in your life has changed in fact. Do not listen to news more than twice a day (In my opinion, this is even too much).

If you are in debt, always and only talk to the lawyers of the organization (bank, or any other company) instead of talking to the organization's personnel. Here is why: We are in a financial crisis and every boss is in panic now. They will tell their personnel to attack customers in order to collect the outstanding money. In this case, those people usually get very aggressive and they have usually no idea what the law allows them to do. But lawyers do have an idea and they won't ever be as rude as other people. They may be assertive but at the very least, the won't take your time with empty threats.

If you feel the need of saving your money, check whether you are overreacting to the financial crisis or not. Maybe this is the time to save but maybe not. Don't decide too quickly.

Don't fall into the trap of thinking that the bailout is there to help you. The bailout is there to help to people who have done big mistakes and who are really guilty and that's not you. I know this is not fair but this is how it is.

Don't lose your faith in your own personal development. I'll repeat now: the financial crisis is not your fault.

Thank you very much for your patience with other e-mail questions. I'll be back with answers shortly.

How to affect the other using law of attraction

Here is another e-mail question I am going to answer. This has been asked very much last month. How can I affect another person by using the law of attraction? Is this possible ever? This is mostly asked for relationships however as you may guess the answer would not be very different whether it is about relationships or any other interpersonal relations such as business, friendships, etc.

To begin with, I have to say that law of attraction does not differ topic by topic. It is the same thing regardless of what you are thinking about or what you are going to create. Although it is open to speculation, any attempt to use the law of attraction and to start creating deliberately, it already involves others. Suppose that you are imagining having big profits in stock exchange. Don't you think that it involves other people? In today's economic system, somebody has to lose so that you can win.

Suppose that you are imagining having a certain house. What about other people that want the same house, or the same position in the workplace, or the same person, or... we've been over this. Well, it always involves other people. It isn't very important whether you particularly want to affect somebody or not, somebody will be affected always.

So, having said that, let's come to the question again: How can I affect another person? Is this possible?

According to the law of attraction, it is absolutely possible. All you have to do is imagining like in any other attempt to create or change the physical reality. But how to imagine?

At this point, I want to talk about relationships. This is the most popular question. Suppose that somebody wants to be in a relationship with another person and it doesn't seem very likely to happen. What is this person supposed to do? What to think and imagine in such a situation?

The original law of attraction by Ester & Hicks and Abraham, you have to imagine the relationship you want to be in. You have to dream about the two of you being happily together. Do not concentrate on anything, any possibility that you don't want. Suppose that your loved one is together with somebody else. Don't dream and imagine about their separation. This is destructive thinking and that will affect your imagination in a way which will weaken your thoughts about your relationship. Instead, just think about you two being together and happy. Imagine nights-out, imagine birthdays, anniversaries. Imagine that you take her out to dinner on your first anniversary. Or imagine that he bought you a present that you want so much on your birthday, as your lover.

The key is positive thinking. Don't bother about his or her recent state and recent behavior towards you. Think about possible outcomes. Pick the most positive ones among them and concentrate on it.

How is this possible? How is it possible to affect somebody else with your thoughts and imagination?

It is possible because of two reasons or two different theories. One of them is the subjective reality. In a subjective reality, you are the only consciousness in the whole universe. You are the only one that truly exists and every other thing including your physical self, is the creation of your mind. Of course this is a discourse that will lead you to feel really really alone however this is what subjective reality is all about.

Another reason or another theory is that we are all one. There is only one consciousness out there and your are both part of this consciousness and you are this consciousness. This is different from the theory of subjective reality because it doesn't propose that you are the only one and everything else is the creation of your mind. Instead, oneness states that you are part of a whole and there are other souls or spirits with you. You together are one big reality and one big consciousness. This is harder to grasp in comparison to subjective reality and many people fail to get the point. Don't give up. Study this perspective, meditate on it.

Well, there are still questions to be answered I am trying to handle each e-mail. Then I go about the frequent asked ones. I am sure more questions will arise after this post, I'll answer them too. You can also use the comment form so other people also benefit from your response and your questions.