June 2, 2024 • 55 mins
Join us for an enlightening conversation with the esteemed Reiki Master, William Rand, as we delve into the art of aging gracefully with Reiki. Inspired by Ilchi Lee's insights on human longevity, we explore how Reiki has played a pivotal role in William's vitality and well-being throughout the decades. From being an active member of an anti-aging group to maintaining an impressive physical routine despite health challenges, William shares his holistic approach to overcoming obstacles and embracing a fulfilling life.
This episode is a treasure trove of wisdom on leveraging Reiki and mindful lifestyle choices for longevity, offering practical advice on balancing productivity with leisure for a truly enriched life.
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William Rand is the dynamic force behind The International Center for Reiki Training (ICRT), The Center for Reiki Research, and The Reiki Membership Association. As an accomplished author and the editor-in-chief of the Reiki News Magazine, he's penned numerous articles and influential books diving deep into the philosophy and practice of Reiki.
William's pioneering research on Reiki's origins has been groundbreaking. He's also recognized for creating the Usui/Tibetan Reiki system in 1989, developing the Karuna Reiki® system in 1995, and introducing the continually evolving Holy Fire® Reiki system, with its latest upgrade in 2018. This man's contribution to the field of Reiki is nothing short of remarkable.
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Pam Allen-LeBlanc is a scientist, a businesswoman, and a Licensed Reiki Master Teacher (LRMT) with the International Center for Reiki Training. She is the author of "The Reiki Business Book" and a co-author of ICRT Animal Reiki training. Pam teaches Reiki, Animal Reiki, and Animal Communication online and in person in Canada, the US, and Australia.
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(00:07):
Hi and welcome to the Reiki fromthe Farm podcast brought to you
by me, Pam Allen Leblanc fromHidden Brook Farm.
I am a scientist, abusinesswoman, and a licensed
Reiki master teacher with theInternational Center for Reiki
Training.
Each week in this podcast you'llbe entertained as you learn
about a wide variety of relevantReiki topics, helping you become
(00:30):
a more knowledgeable andeffective Reiki practitioner.
We caution you though, thispodcast may also dramatically
improve your life, and we are sohappy that you're here.
Pamela (00:55):
On this week's podcast, I'm talking with my friend and
my mentor, William Rand, aboutmastering longevity and healthy
aging.
Welcome, William.
William (01:07):
Oh, thank you.
Yeah, glad to be here.
Pamela (01:10):
So William I I just had to have you come on and talk
about this because you are amaster at this.
As far as I am concerned, you'vegot a couple of years on me and
when we were together recently,you were sitting cross legged on
a stool and we couldn't keep upwith you on hikes.
So I really wanted to bring youon and give people your secrets.
(01:35):
Thank you for being here.
William (01:38):
Oh, you're welcome.
Sure.
Pamela (01:40):
So for those of you listening, I just wanted to let
you know that we William and Iare going to be together at
Omega Institute for a Wisdom ofReiki conference, which is
actually June 21st to 23rd, sowe'll be there on the summer
solstice.
We'd love to have you join us.
(02:01):
I'm actually working at an Opento Peace conference before that,
and William, you're going to beteaching a Karuna Reiki class at
Omega Institute.
after that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that's going to be exciting.
So if any of you want to joinus, I don't think it's too late
to sign up.
Go ahead and check the links inthe podcast.
(02:23):
This summer, I also have somewhale classes, both online and
in person, where all I'll beteaching Level 1 and 2 in Reiki
Masters as well as Animal ReikiLevel 1 and 2 in Masters, and on
the Tuesday evening in betweenclasses, we'll go out and
actually go whale watching on alittle island off the coast of
Maine, Campobello Island.
(02:44):
So we'd love to have you join usif you can.
Yeah, it's going to be fun.
And sometimes It does sound likefood,
William (02:51):
yeah.
Pamela (02:52):
Maybe you want to come.
William (02:56):
Yeah, those whales, that'd be amazing, huh?
It really
Pamela (02:59):
is, and sometimes, not always, but sometimes it's hard
to hold the attention of thestudents in class because just
looking out my living roomwindow, sometimes the whales are
right there.
Yeah.
William (03:10):
You ever think that they might be in your class?
Pamela (03:13):
I'm pretty sure they are in our class.
William, yeah, after we taughtthe Animal Reiki Master last
summer for the first time on theisland, As we were teaching that
class, the whales were in thebay, and one of the fishermen
said, I don't understand it,those two humpbacks, and we had
(03:34):
a combination of humpbacks andminkes, and we didn't see many
finbacks, but we saw those twospecies.
And he goes, those twohumpbacks, they've been there
all night! In that bay, theyhaven't moved on.
I don't understand it.
And my friend in the class, wejust looked at each other and
snickered.
But something really amazinghappened about two days after
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the class, which is the veryrare North American right whale,
which hadn't been seen in ourbay for four years, showed up
and spent the rest of the summerthere.
Yeah, so I think they are.
Oh, really?
Taking part of a class.
Yeah.
William (04:16):
Oh,
Pamela (04:16):
sure.
William (04:17):
Yeah.
Pamela (04:18):
I love it.
Guys, everybody
William (04:21):
got whales.
I've got whales here in front ofmy house too.
Not I don't see them out thereat the moment, but they
definitely come up, they jumpand they spout and everything.
Whales are everywhere.
Pamela (04:32):
Whales are everywhere.
And William when Karen Harrisonand I we came a little bit early
as the licensed teachers visitedyou in January and we went whale
watching and you get to see thembreach more often than we do.
They're usually eating when theycome up north, they're usually
feeding, but down your waythey're playing and I saw a
(04:53):
whale breach for the first time.
I loved it.
William (04:56):
Oh, wow.
Great.
Pamela (04:58):
Yeah, but that all the time, I think.
William (05:01):
That's what they do.
They play, they spout their andthen they jump and stuff.
And one time I saw a mother andbaby jump together.
Like the mother was teach I, Iimagine the mother was teaching
it.
This is how you jump.
Ooh, fun.
Oh, wee.
The little baby was playing withthe mother.
Pamela (05:17):
That must have been
William (05:18):
amazing.
Yeah.
Pamela (05:20):
I love it.
For everybody listening, I'mjust going to invite you to
bring your hands into Gasshoright now and just activate your
Reiki energy.
And no matter what your age,whether you're young or old, one
of the things Reiki can do forus is help us age gracefully and
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also make the most out of ourtime, our lives.
And so just invite the Reikisymbols to flow through you and
around you.
You might even use a prayer thatWilliam uses regularly, and I've
(06:02):
adopted from him, which is,Guide me and heal me, so that I
may be of greater service tomyself and to others.
And just inviting Reiki to flowthrough you for optimal health
and vitality.
(06:25):
And just take a moment to thankyou for being the bright light
that you are in the world, andthank you for being here.
We appreciate you.
Namaste.
So William, I I recently, whenwe were together in Arizona, I
(06:51):
came across a book by Il ChiLee, and in it he said that he
was going to live 120 yearsbecause it's been biologically
proven that can happen.
Are you aware that the humanbody is designed to live for up
to 120 years?
(07:14):
influenced your approach tohealthy aging?
William (07:18):
I don't know.
Maybe I haven't read thescientific basis for that idea.
But I'm sure it's possible.
And I think though that think alot there's a number of factors
to consider about how long is anappropriate age to live, and I
think it varies from person toperson because on the other
side, there's a lot going onthere too.
(07:41):
And in fact, let me tell yousomething that just happened to
me.
This is very unusual.
I've never experienced thisbefore.
So yeah, about a week ago, I gota very interesting message And
it said your time is up now,you've completed your mission,
and now you can, you're going todie, and go on to this beautiful
reward on the other side.
(08:02):
And I thought, oh actually, Iwas wondering, that I've got it
it took me a long time to getwhere I am now.
I'd like to stay here a whilebecause everything is going
really well.
Yeah.
They go, oh, okay.
So then they said, okay, we cangive you an extension.
So I said, okay, good.
And what I found too, is that onthe other side, they don't,
(08:23):
They, we think, oh, they're allknowing and everything.
They're not.
We know more about what'shappening here on the earth than
they do, to some extent.
And in terms of perspective andwhat's right or not right,
what's going to work, we've gotactually a better idea of that.
And that's what I was explainingto them.
It took me a long time to getwhere I am now.
(08:44):
I want to stay here a while, goteverything working.
It's all going really well.
And I am now in a position toaccomplish even more.
Then they understood that andthey said, okay, we'll give you
an extension.
That makes me
Pamela (08:59):
happy, William.
I'm not quite ready to let yougo.
William (09:03):
Yeah, I think another 20 years or something like that.
But, for myself, I have a fairlygood awareness of what the other
side is and it's really anamazingly wonderful place.
So I'm not afraid of dying.
But when my time comes, now,apparently, my time came, but I
asked for an extension.
(09:23):
So I'm really happy that youdid.
It really happened.
My guides are veryaccommodating, I guess you might
say.
And they got, maybe what it isthat I got something to do on
the other side, what I'm sayingis heaven can wait.
Yes.
Heaven can wait.
Yeah.
So anyway I'm just gonna hangout I think another 20 years,
(09:44):
maybe something like that, butwe'll see.
Pamela (09:47):
William, I don't blame you, because I have watched you,
and you have impressive physicalstamina.
I can't keep up with you onhikes.
Not many of us can.
And, You maintain this level ofstamina and health, even after a
heart condition.
(10:07):
What's your secret there?
William (10:09):
If I do have a secret, basically it's regular exercise.
And so what the reason I couldwalk so far is because I walk
every day.
I walk at least four or fivedays a week.
And I go up to five miles.
So think about that five miles.
So the hike we went on, that waslike not much of a hike at all.
(10:31):
To me, cause I'm doing fivemiles.
I walk as fast as I can.
There's hills and all kinds ofstuff.
When you do that every day, atfirst, maybe it takes you some
time, but you get it, yougradually get in shape, your
muscles get stronger.
your arteries, your circulation,everything gets better
respiration, all that, and yougo faster, and then pretty soon
(10:53):
you're walking quite a longways, and it feels great the
whole way.
You're just as strong at the endas at the beginning, and but,
that's because you need to do itregularly, like at least four
times a week, and so that's,that is, quote, my secret.
Regular exercise, I'm walkingall the time, And that hike that
we went on was really relativelyeasy.
(11:13):
And I think, didn't I go back?
I, was that the one where I Iwalked back?
The year before you did.
You walked back, went and gotthe
Pamela (11:21):
car and came and got some people.
William (11:24):
Yeah.
You guys were going to go to theairport.
So I said, Oh, then what are wegoing to do there?
So then I walked all the wayback to the parking lot, got my
truck and drove it over to theairport and was there in time
for you guys to.
Get on, drive you back to whereour cars were parked.
Pamela (11:38):
I know.
Yeah, it's unbelievable.
So just really maintaining thatlevel of fitness.
And you're also, William, reallyflexible.
I was watching you sit crosslegged on a stool.
And you mentioned that youstretch your back every day.
Can you tell us a bit about thatflexibility and balance that you
have?
William (11:55):
Yeah, I will meditate when I meditate.
I, sit cross legged.
And so that, that keeps thejoints more limber, so it's just
a matter of as you're getting,quote, as time goes by, I won't
say getting older, but as timegoes by, if you regularly do
stretching, it keeps your jointslimber, and so I regularly sit
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in a cross legged position, andit keeps that limber, limberness
in my legs, and then the otherthing I do is an exercise to
stretch my back.
Now in yoga, what I got from itis that stretching the spine is
the most important part of yoga.
And so what I do is I do a backstretching exercise.
(12:37):
So I have this hammock that ishanging from the ceiling.
I put it so that the hammock isright here.
around my back here, and I gowalk back so it's, tight there.
Then I bend backwards, and thenthe gravity will start to pull
on my back, and I stay thereuntil my back is, it gets, it
(12:57):
bends further and further.
So the backward bend, that's howI do the backward bend.
Now I know in yoga there's this,To plow, but I think this type
of backward bend is even moreeffective'cause it bends a lot
more and you can move thehammock to a different spot on
your back.
Like it's a one person hammock.
I dunno if you've seen those ornot.
That's what I've got.
(13:18):
But you can take also.
Oh yeah.
I have a strap now.
I carry this with me.
when I travel.
Let me go get this strap I'vegot.
I'll show you what that lookslike.
Sure.
Okay, so this is a strap I carrywith me when I travel.
Wow.
Now notice it's just a flatpiece of strap like that.
I think you can get it at thehardware store.
(13:38):
Yeah.
And then I tied it together herein the knot.
So I take a door, Open it up,put this in the door and close
the door toward me, and then theknot holds it there.
Then this, I put around my back.
Like this, and then, it's uplike that, then I go back, and I
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lean back,
Pamela (14:01):
and so
William (14:01):
I can put the strap anywhere on my back that feels
like it needs the moststretching, and then I lean
back, and so it's the gravity ofthe that will do it, and it
stretches your back, I think, alot
Pamela (14:14):
better than the plow.
I think it does too.
I used your hammock when Ivisited you and, oh yeah, and so
I've rigged up something likethat here at my house now too,
to keep my back supple.
Yeah.
William (14:26):
Like I say, go to the hardware store and get this
strapping material, and then Ijust put this in my suitcase,
and I put it in a door, and thenI stretch my back backwards, and
then the forward stretch I tendto do more of the the plow, I
think it's the plow, that'swhere you put your you stretch
your feet back over the top ofyour head, like you're laying on
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your back, and your feet go overyour head like that.
At first, you maybe you can't doit quite as much, but you start
to bend like that.
And eventually, then you can doall the way.
Pamela (14:58):
Wow, William, this is and it's definitely working for
you.
You're so flexible and,
William (15:03):
yeah, and the thing would be, is that you have
Patience with yourself.
At first, you're not going to beable to stretch very far.
But don't worry about that.
Don't worry.
It's okay.
Just do it each day, and you'llfind out, oh, my back is a
little more limber now.
I can go just a little further.
You don't push yourself toohard, but you do it each day,
(15:24):
and eventually you get more andmore stretched out.
Yeah.
And so it's that limberness inyour spine, mainly, that keeps
you more youthful.
Pamela (15:33):
I love that.
And William, you're really,you're careful as well with your
diet.
And you talked to us about theimportance of hydration and I've
really taken that to heart andbeen working on hydrating.
Yeah, hydration.
Gee, I know
William (15:47):
what you're talking about.
Let's see.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Now, the thing about that,Something very important to know
is that as people get old, astime goes by people lose their
sense of thirst.
Oh.
Children are wanting, theyalways say, Like my little
(16:08):
sister when she was young, Andwe'd bring her water, to drink.
You can say drink dink.
So I'm gonna put my finger onit.
So children, want water.
And they know when they'rethirsty because they have a
sense of thirst.
It's active.
But as time goes by you start tolose your sense of thirst so you
don't drink as much water.
So you must deliberately forceyourself to drink a lot of
(16:31):
water.
So what I do, the first thingwhen I get up is I have a large
16 ounce glass.
I fill it up.
I drink down the whole glass, 16ounces.
I fill it up again, sit it onthe counter, and throughout the
day I'll drink another one.
So I do three or four of thoseglasses, just, drinking them,
along with anything else I mightdrink if I'm eating meals.
(16:51):
That's really important becausewe lose our sense of thirst, so
we need to remain hydrated.
And if you're dehydrated, thenyou're not as flexible, and
actually you can lose energy.
So being hydrated helps yourenergy level stay high.
Yeah, very important to behydrated.
Pamela (17:08):
Yeah.
And you're also careful withyour diet as well.
You, what was the name of theanti aging group you belong to
and how did their philosophieshelp you and how did they align
with Reiki for you?
William (17:22):
There are a number of anti aging groups.
This one's called Senagenics.
Senagenics.
And they're into doing things toremain, help people remain
youthful.
And so they do stretching, theydo a special diet and exercise,
and that's mainly what they do.
Stretching, diet, exercise.
And they're into aerobic, whichwould be walking, but they're
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also into strength training.
So keeping your muscles strong.
And the thing about that is thatthe muscles.
actually burn energy withoutbeing used.
So if you can strengthen yourmuscles, those muscles just
sitting there actually burncalories.
So if you're, if if you'rethinking about maintaining a
(18:05):
nice weight the pot belly.
Yeah.
Anyone familiar with the potbelly?
I am.
We don't call it that, do we?
No, we don't, no.
But anyway, we, but thathappens, and what happens is
your metabolic rate goes down,and then you don't feel as
comfortable, so you eat to makeyourself feel like that soothing
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feeling.
And so then your stomach getsbigger.
And what you need to do though,is be very persistent in
reducing the number of caloriesyou eat and also getting some
type of exercise.
I would say aerobic, likewalking.
Walking is very pleasant and youcan do get headphones or earbuds
(18:48):
and listen to music as you'rewalking.
And I would say.
a minimum of a half hour, 45minutes or one hour of walking
each day.
And so I walk four miles in onehour.
And so that's my, that's like myminimum that I like to do.
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And actually it's quiteenjoyable.
You're outside, you're breathingfresh air.
And looking at things andthere's little animals,
squirrels, and birds andeverything flying and all that.
Those are all very therapeuticto be in touch with wildlife
around you.
And things going on in yourneighborhood.
You actually wave, I wave a lotto people that go by.
I wave to everybody that goesby.
And so they become very familiarwith me.
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And so it's a lot of fun, andyou feel really good with it
too, so I highly recommend, Imean it's really important to
get some type of exercise,walking is really good, and then
if you can do some sort of likecalisthenics, pushups, or deep
knee bends or something, or alsosome light weight training, that
(19:54):
is really important, like I wassaying though, as you, muscle
strength, those are healthierweights.
By increasing muscle mass,
Pamela (20:01):
right?
Oh, my gosh.
And you mentioned to theimportance that with that
organization, the importance ofa low carb diet as well.
William (20:12):
Yeah.
Yeah a high protein, low carbdiet.
The best way, one of the ways Imaintain that is with protein
powder drinks.
People, one of the problems aspeople get older is they don't
get enough exercise and theydon't eat enough protein.
So what happens is, as time goesby, actually your body loses,
(20:34):
The ability to absorb protein asefficiently as in the past,
which means you need to eat moreprotein.
Yeah.
So the solution is more protein,so more than normal.
Something like 100 to 120 gramsof protein per day.
And you can get that really wellwith a protein drink.
Let me show you my protein, thetype of protein I use.
(20:55):
Sure.
This is a protein powder.
This is one of them.
There's a lot of differentbrands out there, but as you can
see, I've got a great big bunchof it now, sports people, seven
pounds here.
So anyway, you can get smallerones too.
But what I do is I've got ablender and I put some almond
milk in and I put three to fourscoops of the protein powder.
It's 24 grams per scoop.
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So you get almost a hundredgrams.
in that one drink.
So then I can't drink all of itat once.
So I leave it in the blender.
I pour myself a glass.
I, I drink that and later in theday, get another glass full.
So that's how you can maintainyour protein.
And actually the protein is lowin calories as well.
So it fills you up.
(21:37):
It gives you the protein youneed to keep your muscles strong
and it helps you to lose weightas well.
Pamela (21:43):
I love that.
William, How do you thinkpracticing Reiki helped you in
the process of all this healthyaging?
Can you share where it's beenbeneficial for you?
William (21:57):
There's two things.
First of all, stress, anxiety,and so forth.
That worry really is nothealthy.
And it actually, when you'reworried or you're anxious, your
capillaries constrict.
So it decreases the blood flowto the organs of your body, and
so then they don't get thenutrition in the bloodstream,
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and they don't carry away thetoxins as efficiently, and so
then your organs get more toxic,they don't function as well, and
because of that, you just don'thave the energy, and you don't
feel very good it's reallyimportant then to to continue in
that way.
But adequate protein is reallyimportant.
Pamela (22:39):
And then the Reiki, it really helps with releasing the
stress.
And you mentioned there was twothings Reiki did for
William (22:47):
health.
The other one is that it it canactually go into your future and
solve problems before you get tothem.
Pamela (22:56):
Oh, wow.
William (22:57):
Yeah.
I didn't
Pamela (23:01):
expect you to say that.
That's great.
William (23:02):
Yeah.
Yeah.
So what, but what, when it doesthat, it releases the worry that
we have about the future.
So often people are, they'reworried about the future.
They have regrets about the pastand that's going, it takes up
part of their mental function.
So they don't have that muchleft over to actually be in the
(23:23):
present moment.
It's really important toactually, with Reiki, we can
send Reiki to our future toprepare the way.
And then it releases stress andanxiety about the future, and it
gets to the point where you'renot worried about your future at
all.
The thing is that as youexperience this, you go, Oh, it
(23:46):
seems like it's working.
Yeah, it's working.
You start to trust it, andpretty soon you just let go
completely.
And you realize your future isall taken care of.
Reiki is taking care of it foryou, and you can just be in the
present.
So just small children maybeyou've had children, and when
they were young, they're playingon the living room floor, and
the parents are maybe sittingthere, and the children feel
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safe, and they're playing withtheir toys, their dolls, their
blocks, or whatever they'replaying with, completely
absorbed in the moment.
They're not worried about thefuture.
They're not worried, regrettinganything in the past.
They're completely a hundredpercent in the moment.
And that's what we need to beable to do, is to be in the
moment doing what we're doingright now and not worried about
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the future or regretting thepast, but a hundred percent in
the moment.
And then we'll actually enjoyourselves better and we'll get
the things done that we'rewanting to accomplish.
'cause we're completely focusedon what we're doing.
Pamela (24:45):
I love that.
William, I actually, people tellme all the time, how young, that
I look younger than I did 10 andeven 15 years ago.
Yeah.
I think Reiki just, it doesrelease that stress.
It does so much.
And it even impacts us at acellular level.
with our health.
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And like you, I take Reiki walksevery day.
I actually activate Reiki andsometimes I chant or tone my
symbols as I walk with the dogs.
And that can just be so lovely.
So I, but yeah, going ahead andsolving the problems.
That's brilliant.
William (25:26):
Yeah, it so it makes you feel like everything's okay.
The future is taken care of.
Yeah, of course.
It also.
Often what we'll do is that yourReiki knows what you need to be
aware of, and you might, itmight cause you to actually read
an article about something, andyou make note of it, and then
you find out, oh, now the,what's happening, something
(25:48):
takes place, and oh, now I canuse, I didn't realize this was
going to happen, but because youread that article, then you know
how to solve the problem.
So Reiki can actually help you.
Direct you to figure out andunderstand different problems
and how to solve them beforethey come.
And then you have the solutionsalready.
Pamela (26:06):
And I think that you, that prayer we used in the
invocation, which is a prayerthat you use, guide me and heal
me.
So I may be of greater serviceto myself and to others in a way
that.
That, that can lead to that,can't it, to
William (26:22):
Absolutely, yes.
Pamela (26:24):
These wonderful coincidences showing up and
William, you've also overcome aheart condition.
What part did Reiki have in yourhealing process there?
Can you tell us about that?
William (26:37):
I think in the hospital, in the operation and
so forth, and afterwards, thehealing part of it, I healed
fairly quickly from it, and yeahlet's see, the heart disease was
in my family.
My brother and father both hadproblems, and I didn't know I
had a problem.
And actually what happened wasthat I was having what's called
atrial fibrillation and I wentto the hospital and the doctor
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examined me and he said, youneed to have open heart surgery
immediately.
And so I said, okay, let's go.
So anyway, I didn't have aproblem of a big problem.
In other words, the arteriesdidn't get blocked to the extent
that they had a heart attack.
Pamela (27:16):
Oh, good.
William (27:17):
But I was alerted to that, and so I had the operation
right away, and now my arteriesare very clear, and in fact,
when I go back to the mainland,I'm going to go to, I'm going to
get a cardiolite treadmillstress test, they give you this
liquid in your veins, and then,You exercise and then they take
pictures and they can see justwhat's going on.
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So I think regular checkups arereally important and getting
good ones where they do, dosomething like that.
To really check your arteriesand see what's going on and
solve problems before they, getworse.
Regular medical checkups, Ithink are really important
because then you catch somethingearly.
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With Senagenics, they actuallygive you, you have a medical
checkup four times a year.
Oh, wow! Yeah, four times ayear.
And because of that, you catchthings early, and then they're
easily able to be solved, asopposed to, if you had something
for a year, it probably gotreally bad.
That's what they do it's a year,they have a, give you a complete
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medical checkup.
That's one of the methods thatthey make use of, is regular
checkups, and catching things,and then they may give
recommendations.
Change your diet or get moreexercise or do something to
shift it and then the nextcheckup they find out, Oh, that
worked.
Oh, it's getting better.
Okay.
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It keeps you on track.
Pamela (28:47):
I love that, William.
I, four times a year, I'm just,I'm a little bit gobsmacked
about that.
That's really a lot, but it'salso fantastic.
To be that diligent.
Yeah
William (29:00):
yeah, four times a year, I would say at least no
less than twice a year, everysix months.
And then, because as we, as timegoes by, then, things start to
develop, we want to catch themearly, and not get into some
great big problem where, it'sall over.
Pamela (29:16):
Yeah, exactly.
William, I recently read a bookand this is also something that
I know you're strong on, and thebook was called 4, 000 Weeks,
and the premise behind it isthat if you live to be about 80,
that's 4, 000 weeks, and that'san average lifespan, but even if
you live to 120, that's 6, 000weeks, and the premise behind
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the book is the importance ofmaking the most of your time.
If it's only 4, 000 weeks, doyou even want to spend a moment
doing something that's notimportant to you?
And I know it caused me toreally shift my priorities and
make some changes in my own lifeand figure out what my
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priorities were.
You're really great at makingthe most out of every week.
And you mentioned once when wewere talking just about time
management and productivity,that despite the fact that
you've achieved a lot, you alsoare very careful to give
yourself free time and you tendto focus on doing one
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significant thing a day.
Can you tell us how you make themost of each week and how you
organize your day and with Reikito maintain balance?
William (30:36):
One thing I would like to mention that is really
important, that might seem, asthey say, counterintuitive, is
to do nothing.
Spend time doing nothing.
As an example, looking out thewindow, just looking at, nature,
or something like that, orwatching your, a favorite TV
program where you have, you'renot trying to accomplish
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anything.
You're just enjoying yourself.
That's really important.
Now, what happens is, let's sayyou've got some issues, things
you're working on, and you'refocused on them and trying to
solve them.
What happens, and when you dothat, is the subconscious gets
the idea of what the problemactually is.
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But then, when the subconsciouscomes up with a solution, what
it needs is for you to havequiet time So that it comes up
to the surface.
So you need to have both time offocus and concentration and
working on issues, and time forrelaxation.
Because it's when you're inthose relaxing moments, that the
ideals will come up to thesurface of your mind.
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If you're always busy and alwayshaving to think, focus, and
always engage in doing things,you miss it.
So you need to go for pleasantwalks, or just relaxing get a
massage, and that's really niceto do, or of course a Reiki
session.
With Reiki, I think it's veryimportant to do Reiki on
yourself, and to receive Reikifrom others, and also to give
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Reiki to others, to those three,and that keeps your Reiki
practice all balanced.
And so when you're receivingReiki, not only do you receive
the actual energies and soforth, but it opens, your mind
gets open to where new ideaswill come in and then come up to
the surface of yourconsciousness.
Yeah, it's both being active andworking on your issues, but also
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time to relax and take a breakand and enjoy yourself.
And that's during those times iswhen.
Actually, remarkable ideas likesolutions that you hadn't
thought of will just come up toyour, Oh, I could do it this
way, or whatever.
Let me ask so and they're anexpert in that topic, yeah free
time to relax is very important.
Pamela (32:46):
You really changed my thoughts around that because I
was one of those people that wasconstantly busy.
And you said one time, and Idon't know if this is still the
philosophy you live by.
This was a few years ago.
I said, William, you're verybusy.
one of the busiest people Iknow.
And you said, not really.
I just choose the most importantthing to do that day and do it
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and then make sure I have freetime.
And if I do anything else, it'sa bonus.
I think you said something likethat.
And I you really made me thinkdifferently about things.
William (33:19):
Exactly.
I think anytime people organizetheir lives, I think what you
need to do is set priorities andyou could make a list of things
you have to do And out of thatlist, think, if I only did one
of them, which would be the mostimportant thing, and put that at
the top, and then, think aboutwhat's the second most
important, and then go to thetop of your list and work on the
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thing that's most important, andwork on that, and then and keep
going until you're done, or,sometimes we're working on a
project, we can't, we have towait for, to get some
information, or We have to go tothe store and get something, so
then go to the second one, andwork on that, and then when you
go back to the first one, goback to the first one, that way
you're always working on themost important thing you have to
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do, and you get the most done,and so you might not even get
down to the bottom of your list,but you got the big ones done,
and that, that's the mostimportant thing, so I think one
of my skills, I believe, isknowing what are the key factors
that make a project work, and Ijust do those key factors, and a
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lot of people have a philosophyis, I just have to be busy all
the time, so they're always, ifI gotta keep going, I have to
be, So it's a shotgun approachis if they're busy all the time,
just by chance, they will do theimportant things.
But if you can take some timeand focus on what are the most
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important things for me to do,and then just focus on those,
you're going to get a tremendousamount done.
That's basically what I do.
Pamela (34:51):
Yeah, I love that.
And I have to tell you, William,that really changed how I
approach things.
And it's so much more pleasant.
Yeah.
So thank you.
Oh, you're
William (35:03):
welcome.
Pamela (35:03):
William, before we move into a meditation to help people
live their longest andhealthiest lives, Is there
anything else that you'd like toshare with us on this, how
people can live long, healthy,fulfilling lives with the help
of Reiki?
William (35:21):
One thing I believe is really knowing what your life
purpose is.
And now the way to discover thatis to think about what you value
in life.
What's important to you?
and make a list of those thingsthat you really value a lot.
And then out of that, then youcan start to come up with
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something you'd like toaccomplish and that's important
to you.
Your life purpose is unique toyou.
And sometimes your purposereally isn't validated by your
relatives, they don't, they,they've got certain specific
things they think you should bedoing, and often it has nothing
to do with who you are as anindividual, and so it's
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important for you to get to knowyourself and create a purpose
for yourself that is fulfillingfor you and makes you feel good
and happy about it rather thanwhat society says you should be
doing or your parents or yourrelatives or whatever.
And then by doing that, thenyou're going to be doing things
that you enjoy doing and thatare important to you.
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That's something to be aware of,is not just to live your life
based on what other people thinkyou should be doing, but based
on what you think is right foryou as a unique individual, even
though you may not get approvalfrom others.
You got to do it anyway, becauseit's what you need to do.
So often people I think areengaged in wanting approval,
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wanting to be approved by otherpeople.
But what you need to do is beapproved by yourself.
Like what things do you thinkare useful and valuable for you
to do?
And take, live your life in thatway.
Pamela (37:04):
I often tell people that it came as a surprise to me
because I grew up in a cultureof probably workaholism and,
just very hard working farmersand so on in my with my
relatives, my father andgrandfather and grandmother and
but actually, Joy shows up whenyou are living your life
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purpose.
It's not hard work necessarily.
There's a lot of joy in it.
Would you agree with that?
William (37:36):
Absolutely.
Sure.
Yeah.
Look at children when they'replaying.
They're just having fun.
Pamela (37:41):
And they
William (37:41):
really enjoy what they're doing.
And so the same can be true forus as adults, that we, when
we're doing what we reallyenjoy, then we're going to get
the most done, and we're goingto be happy, and feel fulfilled,
and life will go on, in a waythat's really well for you as an
individual.
Pamela (37:57):
I love that.
Yeah.
Thank you, William.
William, would you be willing tolead us in a meditation today to
just help us live a healthy andfulfilling life with longevity?
William (38:12):
Sure.
Now, yeah, what I wouldrecommend that people can play
music in the background, I wouldsay choose their own music.
The play and so we'll give you alittle bit of time to do that
and then what we're going to dois you can be seated or laying
down or even change yourposition during this experience
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and what I'm going to do is geteverything flowing so I'm not
going to guide it the entiretime.
So I'm gonna, work in such a wayto get things going in the right
direction, and then just let itgo.
I'll stop talking.
And then your own inner mindwill guide you.
It could be that you'll justfeel very relaxed and be focused
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on very pleasant feelings, orthere could be something else
that goes on for you.
But your own subconscious mindwill then guide the process for
you directly in a way that'sjust right for you.
Okay?
Pamela (39:08):
Yeah, that sounds great.
William (39:10):
Good.
Okay, very good.
This meditation is called theOcean of Holy Love.
And so there's an ocean that isfilled with wonderful loving
feelings.
The ocean water is a very warm,soothing kind of water.
It's just a perfect temperaturefor you to swim in.
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And it also is filled withhealing energy.
And it has every healing energyanyone might need.
It's very wonderful.
It also has the ability torelease stress or tension or
fear or anger or anything likethat, even deep down inside.
And also this water is sospecial that you can dive
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underwater and even breatheunderwater.
And so when you breatheunderwater, then the water flows
through your whole being.
It's very soothing and healingand relaxing, and it fills you
with wonder and hope, and caneven stimulate new ideas and
possibilities for your life, andjust helps you to let go
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anything that might be holdingyou back, or standing in your
way, any unnecessary fear oranger or, pain or memories from
the past can just be completelyreleased.
And so the ocean of holy love iswaiting for us now.
So I'd like you to just youcould lay down or be seated and
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close your eyes and take acouple of deep breaths.
And I'd like you to imagine thatit's a very beautiful day, a
warm sunny day, and that you'rebarefoot and you're walking
along a path Through a forest,and all around you, just imagine
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you can feel the presence of theplants, and flowers, and trees,
and bushes, and grass, all theliving things around you, and as
you breathe into yourself, justimagine you're actually
breathing in the life essence ofthe forest, and with each step
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that you take, imagine you canfeel the energies of the earth
flowing up through the bottomsof your feet.
And as you're walking along,just allow yourself to let go
completely, and enjoy yourself,be fully present in this
beautiful forest.
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And up ahead, you see it gettinglighter, and you realize you're
coming to the edge of theforest, and you walk out, and
it's getting a little sandythere, and you realize you're
walking out onto a beautifulbeach, and before you is the
ocean of holy love.
A beautiful ocean and you walkdown along the sand and the
waves are coming up onto thebeach and flowing back into the
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ocean.
And you come to a place andstand there and just where the
water comes up and swirls aroundyour feet and then flows back
into the ocean.
And just listen to the sound ofyour own breathing, and the
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sound of your breathing becomesthe sound of the waves, as each
wave washes up onto the beach,and then flows back into the
ocean, and the ocean of holylove is calling you now,
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inviting you to enter into itsbeautiful, wonderful waters, and
so go forward now, and start towalk into the ocean.
It's a beautiful temperature,just like a jacuzzi.
Wonderful temperature.
And just go in, and you canfloat, and swim, and like I was
saying, even go down under thewater, and breathe underwater,
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and explore.
And the Ocean of Holy Love isguiding you now.
Allow yourself to be guided bythe Ocean of Holy Love.
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You can continue with yourexperience as long as you feel
guided to do and whenever you'reready.
Take a couple of deep breaths,bring your awareness to your
eyes, and then slowly open youreyes and come back.
(54:38):
And then if you're interestedin, if you'd like to, you can
take a moment and write down anyideas or experiences that came
to you.
Pamela (54:54):
William, thank you so much for that.
That was beautiful.
And as always, it's wonderfultalking with you.
William (55:02):
Oh, you're welcome.
Yeah, thanks for inviting me.
Pamela (55:05):
It's my pleasure.
And I just want to say thank youto all the people listening.
I hope you had an amazingexperience like I did.
And I hope that you are able tolive your best life to the
fullest going forward.
Thank you.
William (55:23):
You're welcome.
Pamela (55:24):
Namaste.
Hi and welcome to the Reiki fromthe Farm podcast brought to you
by me, Pam Allen Leblanc fromHidden Brook Farm.
I am a scientist, abusinesswoman, and a licensed
Reiki master teacher with theInternational Center for Reiki
Training.
Each week in this podcast you'llbe entertained as you learn
about a wide variety of relevantReiki topics, helping you become
(00:30):
a more knowledgeable andeffective Reiki practitioner.
We caution you though, thispodcast may also dramatically
improve your life, and we are sohappy that you're here.
Pamela (00:55):
On this week's podcast, I'm talking with my friend and
my mentor, William Rand, aboutmastering longevity and healthy
aging.
Welcome, William.
William (01:07):
Oh, thank you.
Yeah, glad to be here.
Pamela (01:10):
So William I I just had to have you come on and talk
about this because you are amaster at this.
As far as I am concerned, you'vegot a couple of years on me and
when we were together recently,you were sitting cross legged on
a stool and we couldn't keep upwith you on hikes.
So I really wanted to bring youon and give people your secrets.
(01:35):
Thank you for being here.
William (01:38):
Oh, you're welcome.
Sure.
Pamela (01:40):
So for those of you listening, I just wanted to let
you know that we William and Iare going to be together at
Omega Institute for a Wisdom ofReiki conference, which is
actually June 21st to 23rd, sowe'll be there on the summer
solstice.
We'd love to have you join us.
(02:01):
I'm actually working at an Opento Peace conference before that,
and William, you're going to beteaching a Karuna Reiki class at
Omega Institute.
after that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that's going to be exciting.
So if any of you want to joinus, I don't think it's too late
to sign up.
Go ahead and check the links inthe podcast.
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This summer, I also have somewhale classes, both online and
in person, where all I'll beteaching Level 1 and 2 in Reiki
Masters as well as Animal ReikiLevel 1 and 2 in Masters, and on
the Tuesday evening in betweenclasses, we'll go out and
actually go whale watching on alittle island off the coast of
Maine, Campobello Island.
(02:44):
So we'd love to have you join usif you can.
Yeah, it's going to be fun.
And sometimes It does sound likefood,
William (02:51):
yeah.
Pamela (02:52):
Maybe you want to come.
William (02:56):
Yeah, those whales, that'd be amazing, huh?
It really
Pamela (02:59):
is, and sometimes, not always, but sometimes it's hard
to hold the attention of thestudents in class because just
looking out my living roomwindow, sometimes the whales are
right there.
Yeah.
William (03:10):
You ever think that they might be in your class?
Pamela (03:13):
I'm pretty sure they are in our class.
William, yeah, after we taughtthe Animal Reiki Master last
summer for the first time on theisland, As we were teaching that
class, the whales were in thebay, and one of the fishermen
said, I don't understand it,those two humpbacks, and we had
(03:34):
a combination of humpbacks andminkes, and we didn't see many
finbacks, but we saw those twospecies.
And he goes, those twohumpbacks, they've been there
all night! In that bay, theyhaven't moved on.
I don't understand it.
And my friend in the class, wejust looked at each other and
snickered.
But something really amazinghappened about two days after
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the class, which is the veryrare North American right whale,
which hadn't been seen in ourbay for four years, showed up
and spent the rest of the summerthere.
Yeah, so I think they are.
Oh, really?
Taking part of a class.
Yeah.
William (04:16):
Oh,
Pamela (04:16):
sure.
William (04:17):
Yeah.
Pamela (04:18):
I love it.
Guys, everybody
William (04:21):
got whales.
I've got whales here in front ofmy house too.
Not I don't see them out thereat the moment, but they
definitely come up, they jumpand they spout and everything.
Whales are everywhere.
Pamela (04:32):
Whales are everywhere.
And William when Karen Harrisonand I we came a little bit early
as the licensed teachers visitedyou in January and we went whale
watching and you get to see thembreach more often than we do.
They're usually eating when theycome up north, they're usually
feeding, but down your waythey're playing and I saw a
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whale breach for the first time.
I loved it.
William (04:56):
Oh, wow.
Great.
Pamela (04:58):
Yeah, but that all the time, I think.
William (05:01):
That's what they do.
They play, they spout their andthen they jump and stuff.
And one time I saw a mother andbaby jump together.
Like the mother was teach I, Iimagine the mother was teaching
it.
This is how you jump.
Ooh, fun.
Oh, wee.
The little baby was playing withthe mother.
Pamela (05:17):
That must have been
William (05:18):
amazing.
Yeah.
Pamela (05:20):
I love it.
For everybody listening, I'mjust going to invite you to
bring your hands into Gasshoright now and just activate your
Reiki energy.
And no matter what your age,whether you're young or old, one
of the things Reiki can do forus is help us age gracefully and
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also make the most out of ourtime, our lives.
And so just invite the Reikisymbols to flow through you and
around you.
You might even use a prayer thatWilliam uses regularly, and I've
(06:02):
adopted from him, which is,Guide me and heal me, so that I
may be of greater service tomyself and to others.
And just inviting Reiki to flowthrough you for optimal health
and vitality.
(06:25):
And just take a moment to thankyou for being the bright light
that you are in the world, andthank you for being here.
We appreciate you.
Namaste.
So William, I I recently, whenwe were together in Arizona, I
(06:51):
came across a book by Il ChiLee, and in it he said that he
was going to live 120 yearsbecause it's been biologically
proven that can happen.
Are you aware that the humanbody is designed to live for up
to 120 years?
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influenced your approach tohealthy aging?
William (07:18):
I don't know.
Maybe I haven't read thescientific basis for that idea.
But I'm sure it's possible.
And I think though that think alot there's a number of factors
to consider about how long is anappropriate age to live, and I
think it varies from person toperson because on the other
side, there's a lot going onthere too.
(07:41):
And in fact, let me tell yousomething that just happened to
me.
This is very unusual.
I've never experienced thisbefore.
So yeah, about a week ago, I gota very interesting message And
it said your time is up now,you've completed your mission,
and now you can, you're going todie, and go on to this beautiful
reward on the other side.
(08:02):
And I thought, oh actually, Iwas wondering, that I've got it
it took me a long time to getwhere I am now.
I'd like to stay here a whilebecause everything is going
really well.
Yeah.
They go, oh, okay.
So then they said, okay, we cangive you an extension.
So I said, okay, good.
And what I found too, is that onthe other side, they don't,
(08:23):
They, we think, oh, they're allknowing and everything.
They're not.
We know more about what'shappening here on the earth than
they do, to some extent.
And in terms of perspective andwhat's right or not right,
what's going to work, we've gotactually a better idea of that.
And that's what I was explainingto them.
It took me a long time to getwhere I am now.
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I want to stay here a while, goteverything working.
It's all going really well.
And I am now in a position toaccomplish even more.
Then they understood that andthey said, okay, we'll give you
an extension.
That makes me
Pamela (08:59):
happy, William.
I'm not quite ready to let yougo.
William (09:03):
Yeah, I think another 20 years or something like that.
But, for myself, I have a fairlygood awareness of what the other
side is and it's really anamazingly wonderful place.
So I'm not afraid of dying.
But when my time comes, now,apparently, my time came, but I
asked for an extension.
(09:23):
So I'm really happy that youdid.
It really happened.
My guides are veryaccommodating, I guess you might
say.
And they got, maybe what it isthat I got something to do on
the other side, what I'm sayingis heaven can wait.
Yes.
Heaven can wait.
Yeah.
So anyway I'm just gonna hangout I think another 20 years,
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maybe something like that, butwe'll see.
Pamela (09:47):
William, I don't blame you, because I have watched you,
and you have impressive physicalstamina.
I can't keep up with you onhikes.
Not many of us can.
And, You maintain this level ofstamina and health, even after a
heart condition.
(10:07):
What's your secret there?
William (10:09):
If I do have a secret, basically it's regular exercise.
And so what the reason I couldwalk so far is because I walk
every day.
I walk at least four or fivedays a week.
And I go up to five miles.
So think about that five miles.
So the hike we went on, that waslike not much of a hike at all.
(10:31):
To me, cause I'm doing fivemiles.
I walk as fast as I can.
There's hills and all kinds ofstuff.
When you do that every day, atfirst, maybe it takes you some
time, but you get it, yougradually get in shape, your
muscles get stronger.
your arteries, your circulation,everything gets better
respiration, all that, and yougo faster, and then pretty soon
(10:53):
you're walking quite a longways, and it feels great the
whole way.
You're just as strong at the endas at the beginning, and but,
that's because you need to do itregularly, like at least four
times a week, and so that's,that is, quote, my secret.
Regular exercise, I'm walkingall the time, And that hike that
we went on was really relativelyeasy.
(11:13):
And I think, didn't I go back?
I, was that the one where I Iwalked back?
The year before you did.
You walked back, went and gotthe
Pamela (11:21):
car and came and got some people.
William (11:24):
Yeah.
You guys were going to go to theairport.
So I said, Oh, then what are wegoing to do there?
So then I walked all the wayback to the parking lot, got my
truck and drove it over to theairport and was there in time
for you guys to.
Get on, drive you back to whereour cars were parked.
Pamela (11:38):
I know.
Yeah, it's unbelievable.
So just really maintaining thatlevel of fitness.
And you're also, William, reallyflexible.
I was watching you sit crosslegged on a stool.
And you mentioned that youstretch your back every day.
Can you tell us a bit about thatflexibility and balance that you
have?
William (11:55):
Yeah, I will meditate when I meditate.
I, sit cross legged.
And so that, that keeps thejoints more limber, so it's just
a matter of as you're getting,quote, as time goes by, I won't
say getting older, but as timegoes by, if you regularly do
stretching, it keeps your jointslimber, and so I regularly sit
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in a cross legged position, andit keeps that limber, limberness
in my legs, and then the otherthing I do is an exercise to
stretch my back.
Now in yoga, what I got from itis that stretching the spine is
the most important part of yoga.
And so what I do is I do a backstretching exercise.
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So I have this hammock that ishanging from the ceiling.
I put it so that the hammock isright here.
around my back here, and I gowalk back so it's, tight there.
Then I bend backwards, and thenthe gravity will start to pull
on my back, and I stay thereuntil my back is, it gets, it
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bends further and further.
So the backward bend, that's howI do the backward bend.
Now I know in yoga there's this,To plow, but I think this type
of backward bend is even moreeffective'cause it bends a lot
more and you can move thehammock to a different spot on
your back.
Like it's a one person hammock.
I dunno if you've seen those ornot.
That's what I've got.
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But you can take also.
Oh yeah.
I have a strap now.
I carry this with me.
when I travel.
Let me go get this strap I'vegot.
I'll show you what that lookslike.
Sure.
Okay, so this is a strap I carrywith me when I travel.
Wow.
Now notice it's just a flatpiece of strap like that.
I think you can get it at thehardware store.
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Yeah.
And then I tied it together herein the knot.
So I take a door, Open it up,put this in the door and close
the door toward me, and then theknot holds it there.
Then this, I put around my back.
Like this, and then, it's uplike that, then I go back, and I
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lean back,
Pamela (14:01):
and so
William (14:01):
I can put the strap anywhere on my back that feels
like it needs the moststretching, and then I lean
back, and so it's the gravity ofthe that will do it, and it
stretches your back, I think, alot
Pamela (14:14):
better than the plow.
I think it does too.
I used your hammock when Ivisited you and, oh yeah, and so
I've rigged up something likethat here at my house now too,
to keep my back supple.
Yeah.
William (14:26):
Like I say, go to the hardware store and get this
strapping material, and then Ijust put this in my suitcase,
and I put it in a door, and thenI stretch my back backwards, and
then the forward stretch I tendto do more of the the plow, I
think it's the plow, that'swhere you put your you stretch
your feet back over the top ofyour head, like you're laying on
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your back, and your feet go overyour head like that.
At first, you maybe you can't doit quite as much, but you start
to bend like that.
And eventually, then you can doall the way.
Pamela (14:58):
Wow, William, this is and it's definitely working for
you.
You're so flexible and,
William (15:03):
yeah, and the thing would be, is that you have
Patience with yourself.
At first, you're not going to beable to stretch very far.
But don't worry about that.
Don't worry.
It's okay.
Just do it each day, and you'llfind out, oh, my back is a
little more limber now.
I can go just a little further.
You don't push yourself toohard, but you do it each day,
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and eventually you get more andmore stretched out.
Yeah.
And so it's that limberness inyour spine, mainly, that keeps
you more youthful.
Pamela (15:33):
I love that.
And William, you're really,you're careful as well with your
diet.
And you talked to us about theimportance of hydration and I've
really taken that to heart andbeen working on hydrating.
Yeah, hydration.
Gee, I know
William (15:47):
what you're talking about.
Let's see.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Now, the thing about that,Something very important to know
is that as people get old, astime goes by people lose their
sense of thirst.
Oh.
Children are wanting, theyalways say, Like my little
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sister when she was young, Andwe'd bring her water, to drink.
You can say drink dink.
So I'm gonna put my finger onit.
So children, want water.
And they know when they'rethirsty because they have a
sense of thirst.
It's active.
But as time goes by you start tolose your sense of thirst so you
don't drink as much water.
So you must deliberately forceyourself to drink a lot of
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water.
So what I do, the first thingwhen I get up is I have a large
16 ounce glass.
I fill it up.
I drink down the whole glass, 16ounces.
I fill it up again, sit it onthe counter, and throughout the
day I'll drink another one.
So I do three or four of thoseglasses, just, drinking them,
along with anything else I mightdrink if I'm eating meals.
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That's really important becausewe lose our sense of thirst, so
we need to remain hydrated.
And if you're dehydrated, thenyou're not as flexible, and
actually you can lose energy.
So being hydrated helps yourenergy level stay high.
Yeah, very important to behydrated.
Pamela (17:08):
Yeah.
And you're also careful withyour diet as well.
You, what was the name of theanti aging group you belong to
and how did their philosophieshelp you and how did they align
with Reiki for you?
William (17:22):
There are a number of anti aging groups.
This one's called Senagenics.
Senagenics.
And they're into doing things toremain, help people remain
youthful.
And so they do stretching, theydo a special diet and exercise,
and that's mainly what they do.
Stretching, diet, exercise.
And they're into aerobic, whichwould be walking, but they're
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also into strength training.
So keeping your muscles strong.
And the thing about that is thatthe muscles.
actually burn energy withoutbeing used.
So if you can strengthen yourmuscles, those muscles just
sitting there actually burncalories.
So if you're, if if you'rethinking about maintaining a
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nice weight the pot belly.
Yeah.
Anyone familiar with the potbelly?
I am.
We don't call it that, do we?
No, we don't, no.
But anyway, we, but thathappens, and what happens is
your metabolic rate goes down,and then you don't feel as
comfortable, so you eat to makeyourself feel like that soothing
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feeling.
And so then your stomach getsbigger.
And what you need to do though,is be very persistent in
reducing the number of caloriesyou eat and also getting some
type of exercise.
I would say aerobic, likewalking.
Walking is very pleasant and youcan do get headphones or earbuds
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and listen to music as you'rewalking.
And I would say.
a minimum of a half hour, 45minutes or one hour of walking
each day.
And so I walk four miles in onehour.
And so that's my, that's like myminimum that I like to do.
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And actually it's quiteenjoyable.
You're outside, you're breathingfresh air.
And looking at things andthere's little animals,
squirrels, and birds andeverything flying and all that.
Those are all very therapeuticto be in touch with wildlife
around you.
And things going on in yourneighborhood.
You actually wave, I wave a lotto people that go by.
I wave to everybody that goesby.
And so they become very familiarwith me.
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And so it's a lot of fun, andyou feel really good with it
too, so I highly recommend, Imean it's really important to
get some type of exercise,walking is really good, and then
if you can do some sort of likecalisthenics, pushups, or deep
knee bends or something, or alsosome light weight training, that
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is really important, like I wassaying though, as you, muscle
strength, those are healthierweights.
By increasing muscle mass,
Pamela (20:01):
right?
Oh, my gosh.
And you mentioned to theimportance that with that
organization, the importance ofa low carb diet as well.
William (20:12):
Yeah.
Yeah a high protein, low carbdiet.
The best way, one of the ways Imaintain that is with protein
powder drinks.
People, one of the problems aspeople get older is they don't
get enough exercise and theydon't eat enough protein.
So what happens is, as time goesby, actually your body loses,
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The ability to absorb protein asefficiently as in the past,
which means you need to eat moreprotein.
Yeah.
So the solution is more protein,so more than normal.
Something like 100 to 120 gramsof protein per day.
And you can get that really wellwith a protein drink.
Let me show you my protein, thetype of protein I use.
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Sure.
This is a protein powder.
This is one of them.
There's a lot of differentbrands out there, but as you can
see, I've got a great big bunchof it now, sports people, seven
pounds here.
So anyway, you can get smallerones too.
But what I do is I've got ablender and I put some almond
milk in and I put three to fourscoops of the protein powder.
It's 24 grams per scoop.
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So you get almost a hundredgrams.
in that one drink.
So then I can't drink all of itat once.
So I leave it in the blender.
I pour myself a glass.
I, I drink that and later in theday, get another glass full.
So that's how you can maintainyour protein.
And actually the protein is lowin calories as well.
So it fills you up.
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It gives you the protein youneed to keep your muscles strong
and it helps you to lose weightas well.
Pamela (21:43):
I love that.
William, How do you thinkpracticing Reiki helped you in
the process of all this healthyaging?
Can you share where it's beenbeneficial for you?
William (21:57):
There's two things.
First of all, stress, anxiety,and so forth.
That worry really is nothealthy.
And it actually, when you'reworried or you're anxious, your
capillaries constrict.
So it decreases the blood flowto the organs of your body, and
so then they don't get thenutrition in the bloodstream,
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and they don't carry away thetoxins as efficiently, and so
then your organs get more toxic,they don't function as well, and
because of that, you just don'thave the energy, and you don't
feel very good it's reallyimportant then to to continue in
that way.
But adequate protein is reallyimportant.
Pamela (22:39):
And then the Reiki, it really helps with releasing the
stress.
And you mentioned there was twothings Reiki did for
William (22:47):
health.
The other one is that it it canactually go into your future and
solve problems before you get tothem.
Pamela (22:56):
Oh, wow.
William (22:57):
Yeah.
I didn't
Pamela (23:01):
expect you to say that.
That's great.
William (23:02):
Yeah.
Yeah.
So what, but what, when it doesthat, it releases the worry that
we have about the future.
So often people are, they'reworried about the future.
They have regrets about the pastand that's going, it takes up
part of their mental function.
So they don't have that muchleft over to actually be in the
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present moment.
It's really important toactually, with Reiki, we can
send Reiki to our future toprepare the way.
And then it releases stress andanxiety about the future, and it
gets to the point where you'renot worried about your future at
all.
The thing is that as youexperience this, you go, Oh, it
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seems like it's working.
Yeah, it's working.
You start to trust it, andpretty soon you just let go
completely.
And you realize your future isall taken care of.
Reiki is taking care of it foryou, and you can just be in the
present.
So just small children maybeyou've had children, and when
they were young, they're playingon the living room floor, and
the parents are maybe sittingthere, and the children feel
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safe, and they're playing withtheir toys, their dolls, their
blocks, or whatever they'replaying with, completely
absorbed in the moment.
They're not worried about thefuture.
They're not worried, regrettinganything in the past.
They're completely a hundredpercent in the moment.
And that's what we need to beable to do, is to be in the
moment doing what we're doingright now and not worried about
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the future or regretting thepast, but a hundred percent in
the moment.
And then we'll actually enjoyourselves better and we'll get
the things done that we'rewanting to accomplish.
'cause we're completely focusedon what we're doing.
Pamela (24:45):
I love that.
William, I actually, people tellme all the time, how young, that
I look younger than I did 10 andeven 15 years ago.
Yeah.
I think Reiki just, it doesrelease that stress.
It does so much.
And it even impacts us at acellular level.
with our health.
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And like you, I take Reiki walksevery day.
I actually activate Reiki andsometimes I chant or tone my
symbols as I walk with the dogs.
And that can just be so lovely.
So I, but yeah, going ahead andsolving the problems.
That's brilliant.
William (25:26):
Yeah, it so it makes you feel like everything's okay.
The future is taken care of.
Yeah, of course.
It also.
Often what we'll do is that yourReiki knows what you need to be
aware of, and you might, itmight cause you to actually read
an article about something, andyou make note of it, and then
you find out, oh, now the,what's happening, something
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takes place, and oh, now I canuse, I didn't realize this was
going to happen, but because youread that article, then you know
how to solve the problem.
So Reiki can actually help you.
Direct you to figure out andunderstand different problems
and how to solve them beforethey come.
And then you have the solutionsalready.
Pamela (26:06):
And I think that you, that prayer we used in the
invocation, which is a prayerthat you use, guide me and heal
me.
So I may be of greater serviceto myself and to others in a way
that.
That, that can lead to that,can't it, to
William (26:22):
Absolutely, yes.
Pamela (26:24):
These wonderful coincidences showing up and
William, you've also overcome aheart condition.
What part did Reiki have in yourhealing process there?
Can you tell us about that?
William (26:37):
I think in the hospital, in the operation and
so forth, and afterwards, thehealing part of it, I healed
fairly quickly from it, and yeahlet's see, the heart disease was
in my family.
My brother and father both hadproblems, and I didn't know I
had a problem.
And actually what happened wasthat I was having what's called
atrial fibrillation and I wentto the hospital and the doctor
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examined me and he said, youneed to have open heart surgery
immediately.
And so I said, okay, let's go.
So anyway, I didn't have aproblem of a big problem.
In other words, the arteriesdidn't get blocked to the extent
that they had a heart attack.
Pamela (27:16):
Oh, good.
William (27:17):
But I was alerted to that, and so I had the operation
right away, and now my arteriesare very clear, and in fact,
when I go back to the mainland,I'm going to go to, I'm going to
get a cardiolite treadmillstress test, they give you this
liquid in your veins, and then,You exercise and then they take
pictures and they can see justwhat's going on.
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So I think regular checkups arereally important and getting
good ones where they do, dosomething like that.
To really check your arteriesand see what's going on and
solve problems before they, getworse.
Regular medical checkups, Ithink are really important
because then you catch somethingearly.
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With Senagenics, they actuallygive you, you have a medical
checkup four times a year.
Oh, wow! Yeah, four times ayear.
And because of that, you catchthings early, and then they're
easily able to be solved, asopposed to, if you had something
for a year, it probably gotreally bad.
That's what they do it's a year,they have a, give you a complete
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medical checkup.
That's one of the methods thatthey make use of, is regular
checkups, and catching things,and then they may give
recommendations.
Change your diet or get moreexercise or do something to
shift it and then the nextcheckup they find out, Oh, that
worked.
Oh, it's getting better.
Okay.
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It keeps you on track.
Pamela (28:47):
I love that, William.
I, four times a year, I'm just,I'm a little bit gobsmacked
about that.
That's really a lot, but it'salso fantastic.
To be that diligent.
Yeah
William (29:00):
yeah, four times a year, I would say at least no
less than twice a year, everysix months.
And then, because as we, as timegoes by, then, things start to
develop, we want to catch themearly, and not get into some
great big problem where, it'sall over.
Pamela (29:16):
Yeah, exactly.
William, I recently read a bookand this is also something that
I know you're strong on, and thebook was called 4, 000 Weeks,
and the premise behind it isthat if you live to be about 80,
that's 4, 000 weeks, and that'san average lifespan, but even if
you live to 120, that's 6, 000weeks, and the premise behind
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the book is the importance ofmaking the most of your time.
If it's only 4, 000 weeks, doyou even want to spend a moment
doing something that's notimportant to you?
And I know it caused me toreally shift my priorities and
make some changes in my own lifeand figure out what my
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priorities were.
You're really great at makingthe most out of every week.
And you mentioned once when wewere talking just about time
management and productivity,that despite the fact that
you've achieved a lot, you alsoare very careful to give
yourself free time and you tendto focus on doing one
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significant thing a day.
Can you tell us how you make themost of each week and how you
organize your day and with Reikito maintain balance?
William (30:36):
One thing I would like to mention that is really
important, that might seem, asthey say, counterintuitive, is
to do nothing.
Spend time doing nothing.
As an example, looking out thewindow, just looking at, nature,
or something like that, orwatching your, a favorite TV
program where you have, you'renot trying to accomplish
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anything.
You're just enjoying yourself.
That's really important.
Now, what happens is, let's sayyou've got some issues, things
you're working on, and you'refocused on them and trying to
solve them.
What happens, and when you dothat, is the subconscious gets
the idea of what the problemactually is.
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But then, when the subconsciouscomes up with a solution, what
it needs is for you to havequiet time So that it comes up
to the surface.
So you need to have both time offocus and concentration and
working on issues, and time forrelaxation.
Because it's when you're inthose relaxing moments, that the
ideals will come up to thesurface of your mind.
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If you're always busy and alwayshaving to think, focus, and
always engage in doing things,you miss it.
So you need to go for pleasantwalks, or just relaxing get a
massage, and that's really niceto do, or of course a Reiki
session.
With Reiki, I think it's veryimportant to do Reiki on
yourself, and to receive Reikifrom others, and also to give
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Reiki to others, to those three,and that keeps your Reiki
practice all balanced.
And so when you're receivingReiki, not only do you receive
the actual energies and soforth, but it opens, your mind
gets open to where new ideaswill come in and then come up to
the surface of yourconsciousness.
Yeah, it's both being active andworking on your issues, but also
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time to relax and take a breakand and enjoy yourself.
And that's during those times iswhen.
Actually, remarkable ideas likesolutions that you hadn't
thought of will just come up toyour, Oh, I could do it this
way, or whatever.
Let me ask so and they're anexpert in that topic, yeah free
time to relax is very important.
Pamela (32:46):
You really changed my thoughts around that because I
was one of those people that wasconstantly busy.
And you said one time, and Idon't know if this is still the
philosophy you live by.
This was a few years ago.
I said, William, you're verybusy.
one of the busiest people Iknow.
And you said, not really.
I just choose the most importantthing to do that day and do it
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and then make sure I have freetime.
And if I do anything else, it'sa bonus.
I think you said something likethat.
And I you really made me thinkdifferently about things.
William (33:19):
Exactly.
I think anytime people organizetheir lives, I think what you
need to do is set priorities andyou could make a list of things
you have to do And out of thatlist, think, if I only did one
of them, which would be the mostimportant thing, and put that at
the top, and then, think aboutwhat's the second most
important, and then go to thetop of your list and work on the
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thing that's most important, andwork on that, and then and keep
going until you're done, or,sometimes we're working on a
project, we can't, we have towait for, to get some
information, or We have to go tothe store and get something, so
then go to the second one, andwork on that, and then when you
go back to the first one, goback to the first one, that way
you're always working on themost important thing you have to
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do, and you get the most done,and so you might not even get
down to the bottom of your list,but you got the big ones done,
and that, that's the mostimportant thing, so I think one
of my skills, I believe, isknowing what are the key factors
that make a project work, and Ijust do those key factors, and a
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lot of people have a philosophyis, I just have to be busy all
the time, so they're always, ifI gotta keep going, I have to
be, So it's a shotgun approachis if they're busy all the time,
just by chance, they will do theimportant things.
But if you can take some timeand focus on what are the most
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important things for me to do,and then just focus on those,
you're going to get a tremendousamount done.
That's basically what I do.
Pamela (34:51):
Yeah, I love that.
And I have to tell you, William,that really changed how I
approach things.
And it's so much more pleasant.
Yeah.
So thank you.
Oh, you're
William (35:03):
welcome.
Pamela (35:03):
William, before we move into a meditation to help people
live their longest andhealthiest lives, Is there
anything else that you'd like toshare with us on this, how
people can live long, healthy,fulfilling lives with the help
of Reiki?
William (35:21):
One thing I believe is really knowing what your life
purpose is.
And now the way to discover thatis to think about what you value
in life.
What's important to you?
and make a list of those thingsthat you really value a lot.
And then out of that, then youcan start to come up with
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something you'd like toaccomplish and that's important
to you.
Your life purpose is unique toyou.
And sometimes your purposereally isn't validated by your
relatives, they don't, they,they've got certain specific
things they think you should bedoing, and often it has nothing
to do with who you are as anindividual, and so it's
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important for you to get to knowyourself and create a purpose
for yourself that is fulfillingfor you and makes you feel good
and happy about it rather thanwhat society says you should be
doing or your parents or yourrelatives or whatever.
And then by doing that, thenyou're going to be doing things
that you enjoy doing and thatare important to you.
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That's something to be aware of,is not just to live your life
based on what other people thinkyou should be doing, but based
on what you think is right foryou as a unique individual, even
though you may not get approvalfrom others.
You got to do it anyway, becauseit's what you need to do.
So often people I think areengaged in wanting approval,
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wanting to be approved by otherpeople.
But what you need to do is beapproved by yourself.
Like what things do you thinkare useful and valuable for you
to do?
And take, live your life in thatway.
Pamela (37:04):
I often tell people that it came as a surprise to me
because I grew up in a cultureof probably workaholism and,
just very hard working farmersand so on in my with my
relatives, my father andgrandfather and grandmother and
but actually, Joy shows up whenyou are living your life
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purpose.
It's not hard work necessarily.
There's a lot of joy in it.
Would you agree with that?
William (37:36):
Absolutely.
Sure.
Yeah.
Look at children when they'replaying.
They're just having fun.
Pamela (37:41):
And they
William (37:41):
really enjoy what they're doing.
And so the same can be true forus as adults, that we, when
we're doing what we reallyenjoy, then we're going to get
the most done, and we're goingto be happy, and feel fulfilled,
and life will go on, in a waythat's really well for you as an
individual.
Pamela (37:57):
I love that.
Yeah.
Thank you, William.
William, would you be willing tolead us in a meditation today to
just help us live a healthy andfulfilling life with longevity?
William (38:12):
Sure.
Now, yeah, what I wouldrecommend that people can play
music in the background, I wouldsay choose their own music.
The play and so we'll give you alittle bit of time to do that
and then what we're going to dois you can be seated or laying
down or even change yourposition during this experience
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and what I'm going to do is geteverything flowing so I'm not
going to guide it the entiretime.
So I'm gonna, work in such a wayto get things going in the right
direction, and then just let itgo.
I'll stop talking.
And then your own inner mindwill guide you.
It could be that you'll justfeel very relaxed and be focused
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on very pleasant feelings, orthere could be something else
that goes on for you.
But your own subconscious mindwill then guide the process for
you directly in a way that'sjust right for you.
Okay?
Pamela (39:08):
Yeah, that sounds great.
William (39:10):
Good.
Okay, very good.
This meditation is called theOcean of Holy Love.
And so there's an ocean that isfilled with wonderful loving
feelings.
The ocean water is a very warm,soothing kind of water.
It's just a perfect temperaturefor you to swim in.
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And it also is filled withhealing energy.
And it has every healing energyanyone might need.
It's very wonderful.
It also has the ability torelease stress or tension or
fear or anger or anything likethat, even deep down inside.
And also this water is sospecial that you can dive
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underwater and even breatheunderwater.
And so when you breatheunderwater, then the water flows
through your whole being.
It's very soothing and healingand relaxing, and it fills you
with wonder and hope, and caneven stimulate new ideas and
possibilities for your life, andjust helps you to let go
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anything that might be holdingyou back, or standing in your
way, any unnecessary fear oranger or, pain or memories from
the past can just be completelyreleased.
And so the ocean of holy love iswaiting for us now.
So I'd like you to just youcould lay down or be seated and
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close your eyes and take acouple of deep breaths.
And I'd like you to imagine thatit's a very beautiful day, a
warm sunny day, and that you'rebarefoot and you're walking
along a path Through a forest,and all around you, just imagine
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you can feel the presence of theplants, and flowers, and trees,
and bushes, and grass, all theliving things around you, and as
you breathe into yourself, justimagine you're actually
breathing in the life essence ofthe forest, and with each step
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that you take, imagine you canfeel the energies of the earth
flowing up through the bottomsof your feet.
And as you're walking along,just allow yourself to let go
completely, and enjoy yourself,be fully present in this
beautiful forest.
(41:51):
And up ahead, you see it gettinglighter, and you realize you're
coming to the edge of theforest, and you walk out, and
it's getting a little sandythere, and you realize you're
walking out onto a beautifulbeach, and before you is the
ocean of holy love.
A beautiful ocean and you walkdown along the sand and the
waves are coming up onto thebeach and flowing back into the
(42:14):
ocean.
And you come to a place andstand there and just where the
water comes up and swirls aroundyour feet and then flows back
into the ocean.
And just listen to the sound ofyour own breathing, and the
(42:40):
sound of your breathing becomesthe sound of the waves, as each
wave washes up onto the beach,and then flows back into the
ocean, and the ocean of holylove is calling you now,
(43:05):
inviting you to enter into itsbeautiful, wonderful waters, and
so go forward now, and start towalk into the ocean.
It's a beautiful temperature,just like a jacuzzi.
Wonderful temperature.
And just go in, and you canfloat, and swim, and like I was
saying, even go down under thewater, and breathe underwater,
(43:28):
and explore.
And the Ocean of Holy Love isguiding you now.
Allow yourself to be guided bythe Ocean of Holy Love.
(54:08):
You can continue with yourexperience as long as you feel
guided to do and whenever you'reready.
Take a couple of deep breaths,bring your awareness to your
eyes, and then slowly open youreyes and come back.
(54:38):
And then if you're interestedin, if you'd like to, you can
take a moment and write down anyideas or experiences that came
to you.
Pamela (54:54):
William, thank you so much for that.
That was beautiful.
And as always, it's wonderfultalking with you.
William (55:02):
Oh, you're welcome.
Yeah, thanks for inviting me.
Pamela (55:05):
It's my pleasure.
And I just want to say thank youto all the people listening.
I hope you had an amazingexperience like I did.
And I hope that you are able tolive your best life to the
fullest going forward.
Thank you.
William (55:23):
You're welcome.
Pamela (55:24):
Namaste.
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