Hello fellow travelers!
I hope this letter finds you in good health and in a happy life. It is some time ago that I wrote you but all is well here. Many Reiki students ask me about the practice mornings. Doing Reiki treatment together is such a good experience so you will find some new practice dates in this newsletter too.

New opportunity for Reiki Courses with bed and breakfast
The garden house is now available for those who want to do the course and come from a distant place. We offer a course combined with bed and breakfast.

E-mail your special requests for practice in a treatment morning
Let me know what you exactly want in a practice session, may be it is good to gather people together who want to practice the same specific thing.

new article: “What is channeling and how to do it”
If you want to read the newest article go to www.reikicentrumamsterdam.nl

Treatment morning dates
Treatment mornings facilitate the need for practicing with other people. You can share insights. The energy of all of us together is so much stronger when we are tuned in and harmonized together. It is for those people who feel they need a treatment and for those who like to give a treatment. We practice always on a Sunday morning, we start at 11.00 and we are finished when everyone has received a treatment. There is a free contribution for the Reiki center.
The dates are : 17th of July, 8th of August, 29th of August, 19th of September

Finally
Have a very good time, enjoy the summer and live your life well!

Love, Ruth Segal

There are many persons giving evidence of their various capabilities of channelling in today’s world of spiritual seekers. But what is channelling? Is it a new phenomena or did we do it through all the times in history?

We could call channelling the ability to for example give words, actions, music, art, science or whatever we want to receive and express out of inspiration. There are two important parts in this process that will give the result of our channelling a specific quality. Both parts have everything to do with the quality of who we can be in the moment rather then with the quality of a specific spiritual guide, angel or other being that is the source of our received messages.

Our thoughts, emotions, feelings, beliefs, actions, expectations, everything that together gives a certain quality, a certain frequency to our person will decide the specific ability to receive inspiration. We can not receive a joyful inspiration when we are feeling low. When we want to receive something that has joy, peace, knowledge or beauty in it we have to make ourselves available for it.

Although human life is always in the make, always in a process for whatever change is needed, there is one important part of us that is always in joy and peace, that is always light, knowing all that we have to know, always open for the beauty of life. This is our innermost being, the Source of who we are.

We can use whatever way or method to come to the ability to channel precious inspiration that will enhance our own life and all other life that it touches. The most important thing that we want to happen is a switch of identification, or more precise, a process of “mix, match and unify” the person that we are and the most inner and complete being that is the true source of our existence and our personality.

In the moment of the highest channelling we identify more with our innermost being and less with the part of our personality that is troubled with things that dim us down. In this way we do not deny the personality we are, that could not be because our innermost being is all accepting and loves us, the personality, in unconceivable ways. We can be one, we can be totally blended with our innermost being and so receive far more knowledge, love, beauty and whatever quality we can receive than in our ordinary state of mind.

We can see this matching of the channel or the receiver, and the inspiration in the light of the endless adventure of the human being and understand that there is an immense variety of what we can possibly feel and see reflected in the inspiration we receive. From sadness to ecstasy it can all give us specific experience that will nurture us and make us grow, will help us to reach the fullness of who we are and what we can be.

Many composers for example materialized music out of their inspiration. Often the personality of the composer was not in a very happy state of being, but the inspired art is still beautiful in all its transcended stages of awareness. Although the composer lived a life probably with all the ups and downs of all people, in the moment of his true inspired writing he was able to blend the experience of human life with the inner peace and joy that can set even the worst human experience in such a perspective that it can be transcended to another level of light and understanding. When we really listen to the music of the great composers we will open up for the measure of their allowance. This music can touch us deeply, because it has the magical blend of both human experience and the inspiration of a deeper source of knowledge, love and light in it and can therefore have a positive influence on us too. The really great music, it doesn’t matter from which corner in the world and what kind of music it is, can serve us as a gateway, it can show us the way, or even effortlessly lead us towards relief, joy and inner peace.

Now we know that step one is “mix, match and unify”, we have to understand that everybody has his own preference and specific talent to do so. For me music of Mozart or Bach works perfect to write about anything that has my interest and a daily self-treatment of Reiki is my most important way to open up to the harmony of body, mind and soul and the deepest inner peace that I can allow in the moment. But everybody has their way and rightfully so! Be creative and trust yourself!

Next to a method to open up we want this method of ours to work well. That is why it is so important to let go of everything, like strong beliefs about our inability to receive, that stands in the way of receiving precious inspiration. All thoughts, beliefs, attitudes and actions that inhibit our ability to receive the highest inspiration we have to let go. We have to just look at our history and see all the examples of inspired people to find excuses for our letting it in too. In fact we always receive inspiration for all our thoughts, feelings and actions because we are part of one living, communicating and interacting life. But it will make a difference for the quality of inspiration with what exactly we are connected, and what we are able to allow into our life.

While the first step has everything to do with the state of the receiver, being the frequency of who we are in the moment and our capability to allow, the next step has everything to do with how we can materialize what we receive. In words, music, deeds, action, scientific results, or whatever else medium to materialize in, our inspiration needs to solidify or else it can be only a personal, often fleeting, moment of good feeling, solace or encouragement.

All our life experience will not only influence the quality of our receiving, the channel through which inspiration can come, but will also supply us with the body of language and experience that will shape this inspiration into existence.

If ever I would suddenly have a passionate question about the complicated mathematic laws that reflect the evolving of our universe I would certainly receive the answer, like a never before felt feeling of order, beauty and magnificence, but I would most probably not be able to give word to it, to express it. It would be only this fleeting beautiful feeling. Never in my life did I develop any passion at all for mathematics so there are no words in my world to describe it. But if a person has a natural interest in mathematics, has learned about mathematics, asked the right questions, and is able to completely open up for inspiration, beautiful insights not only could come, but also could be expressed, all within the natural reach of the receiver.

We need to understand that all our passions, all our interests, all our life experience, all our knowledge but also all our inhibitions and all our positive and negative beliefs together make up the modus of our inspirational expression. Inspiration comes to us through the path of the least resistance and is expressed through the path of the least resistance.

If we strongly believe in angels, spirit guides, and all other expressions of beings currently not in human physical appearance, if we think highly of them and regard them as superior beings we have great chance that inspiration will come to us through one of these beings.

It does not mean that the knowledge we receive through these beings is of higher quality then the knowledge coming from our own most inner being, but because of the intricate belief system and expectations we have we will probably trust knowledge coming from the archangel Michael more then the knowledge coming from the Source of our own being. But most likely the knowledge coming from the archangel Michael is the same knowledge that Source in us can supply to us because in the level of Source in us, there is only Unity. If we can reach the deepest level of being in our selves, all the angels combined are there because all higher consciousness is one with Source, our inner being.

The limit of the inspiration of love, knowledge, beauty or power lies not in the Source that can provide. Whether through an individual being we experience outside us or through the presence of our own innermost being, the limit of receiving is within the frequency we can hold and within the possibilities of our materializing quality.

Have an inspired life!
With love, Ruth

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Lecture : The Zodiac, a key to our creative consciousness
The Zodiac is a symbolic description of creation on many levels of existence. To explain the different signs of the Zodiac and to understand the process, it is necessary to recognize the universal laws the Zodiac describes. Otherwise we are only capable to understand the signs in terms of good and bad. Then we do not know were the in essence neutral energy stands for.

We are going to look at the meaning and working of the astrological signs in order to know which way life will give us the experience, growth and transformation we long for. At the same time this exploration can give us a sense of wonder, beauty and meaning if we discover the human life in the light of the greater unity and oneness and we notice in what we live and how we are connected with it. The circle of astrological signs is a powerful reminder and a beautiful display of the power that is within us.

The lecture is given by Ruth Segal.
Date : 14th of December
Place : Prinsengracht 851
Cost : 12 Euro
S.v.p. subscribe at least one week before the talk by e-mail or phone or at the website of Reiki Centrum.

Treatment mornings
Treatment mornings facilitate the need for practicing with other people. You can share insights. It is for those people who feel they need a treatment and for those who like to give a treatment. The treatment mornings are always on a Sunday morning, we start at 10.00 and we are finished when everyone has received a treatment. There is a free contribution for the Reiki center. In the upcoming time the first and second degree Reiki mornings are no longer separate. I expect that everybody who wants to join is open for more then hands-on healing only.

Reiki Treatment Mornings
12th of October, 2nd of November, 16th of November, 30th of November, 21 of December.

Astrological consult
In three hours we have an opportunity to focus on the essential life task hidden in the astrological birth chart. How does your inner light shine? Where lies your passion? What energy is food for life experience for you and what do you absolutely need to transform? We have a look at these questions and other aspects as well. After the counseling you will receive a written report with the conclusion of our talk and a general explanation of astrological signs, planets and houses in the chart.

Soul Trail
We like to connect and share with people who, in their own unique ways make a contribution to humanity with their healing work. That is why we are proud to present to you Sheila Nelwan.

As long as Sheila can remember she is happy to take care for other people. The development she searched for in her life and professional work grew in equal measure with the many studies and courses she followed and which she eventually integrated in her own unique way of giving treatments. It is her great passion and life work to approach life from many angles. Inner and outer life, the spiritual and the mundane, all aspects of a human life, can sometimes be simple but often very complicated. Unexpected or opposite aspects, can never be approached separately. All aspects and all dimensions together show the whole of a human being. Inspired from this vision, that honors the complete person and stimulates one to come into his or her own power, Sheila is working with her clients. She helps to balance the physical, emotional-mental and chemical elements of life. If this very important life triangle is in balance it is only natural that transformation will follow.

It is Sheila’s unique life fulfillment to learn, express and teach an incredible amount of knowledge about healing and well-being only to come to the conclusion that life is simple and unique, never to be caught in whatever web of knowledge. But to realize this conclusion and to let healing be so profound and simple that being a master healer only looks obvious needs a lot of attention and focus. In her courses Sheila takes everybody who wants on an exquisite adventure towards being a master in healing. In her courses everybody will work on the coming together of vision, knowledge, technique, practical appliance and an open connection with the higher Self. Self healing, insight in our own original nature, and healing others come all together. When we want to be a healer we first have to learn to heal ourselves.

Sheila Nelwan is a member of SRBAG, LVNG and the Klinisch Ecologisch Allergie Centrum.
She is a naturopath, reflex-zone therapist and a kinesiology therapist. She uses Bach and other essential remedies, and gives advice on diet and supplements.
She gives courses and workshops in foot-reflexology, applied kinesiology and numerology.
Several health insurance companies will pay for her treatments.
Website: www.sheilanelwan.nl
E-mail: sheilanelwan@planet.nl
Tel.020-6644244

Finally
Dear travelers along the road, special times are ahead. Hope to see you soon to enjoy our mutual search for truth, joy and peace,

Ruth Segal

Lezing : De Dierenriem, een sleutel tot ons creatief bewustzijn
De Dierenriem is een symbolische beschrijving van schepping op vele niveaus. Om de verschillende tekens te kunnen duiden en het proces van het geheel te begrijpen is het nuttig om de universele wetten te herkennen die de Dierenriem beschrijft, anders vervallen we al snel tot een dualistische beschrijving van goed en kwaad en weten niet waar de, in wezen neutrale, uit eenheid geboren energie voor staat.

In deze lezing over de Dierenriem kijken we op zo’n manier naar aard en werking van de tekens dat zij ons de mogelijkheid geven te weten in welke richting wij kunnen gaan om tot de groei en transformatie te komen waar we naar verlangen. Tegelijkertijd kan het ons ook een gevoel van schoonheid, zin en verwondering geven als wij ons menselijke leven in het licht van het grote geheel ontdekken en merken waarin we ons bestaan hebben en hoe we er mee verbonden zijn. De cirkel van astrologische tekens is een krachtige herinnering en een schitterende voorstelling van de kracht die in ons is.

De lezing wordt gehouden door Ruth Segal.
Datum : 14 december, 14.00 uur
Plaats : Prinsengracht 851
Prijs : 12 Euro
S.v.p. minimaal één week van te voren uw komst per e-mail, telefoon of op de website opgeven.

Behandelochtenden
Alle behandel-ochtenden zijn op een zondag. Ze beginnen om 10.00 uur en zijn afgelopen als iedereen behandeld is. Er is een vrijwillige bijdrage voor het Reiki centrum. Kijk regelmatig op de website om te zien of data zijn aangevuld, en meld je altijd van te voren aan! Voorlopig zijn om praktische redenen de eerste en tweedegraads Reiki oefenochtenden weer samen gevoegd. Ik ga ervan uit dat iedereen die wil meedoen open staat voor meerdere mogelijkheden dan ‘hands on’ healing alleen.

Reiki behandelochtenden:
12 oktober, 2 november, 16 november, 30 november, 21 december.

Astrologisch consult
Gedurende twee uur hebben we de gelegenheid om ons te richten op de essentiële levenstaak die verborgen is in de astrologische geboorte-horoscoop. Hoe schijnt je innerlijk licht, waar ligt je passie, welke energie is noodzakelijk voor je levenservaring en waar moet je absoluut een transformatie ondergaan? We kijken naar deze en andere vragen. Na het gesprek ontvang je een geschreven rapport met daarin de aan de orde gekomen zaken en een algemene uitleg over tekens, planeten en huizen in de horoscoop.

Soul Trail
We willen ons graag verbinden met mensen die op hun eigen unieke wijze met hun werk een bijdrage leveren aan de mensheid. Daarom zijn we blij om Sheila Nelwan bij jullie te introduceren.

Zolang Sheila zich kan herinneren is ze helemaal in haar element als ze voor anderen zorgt. De verdieping die ze in haar werk en persoonlijke leven zocht ging in gelijke tred op met de vele cursussen en opleidingen die ze volgde en uiteindelijk wist te integreren tot een unieke methode en behandelwijze. Het is Sheila’s grote passie en levenswerk om het leven van alle kanten te benaderen. Binnen en buitenkant, het spirituele en het wereldse, alle aspecten die soms eenvoudige tegenpolen maar ook vaak gecompliceerde, onverwachte of tegengestelde aspecten van de mens zijn, kunnen nooit apart benaderd worden. Alle aspecten en dimensies van de mens samen maken pas heel de mens. Vanuit deze visie, die de gehele mens eert en tot zijn innerlijke kracht doet komen, werkt Sheila met haar clienten. Dat doet zij door het fysieke, het emotioneel- mentale en de chemie (voeding en verwerking op alle niveau’s) in balans te brengen. Als deze belangrijke levens-driehoek in harmonie is zal daaruit transformatie vanzelf volgen.

Het is Sheila’s unieke levenswerk om een duizelingwekkende hoeveelheid kennis over healing in zich op te nemen, te verwerken en door te geven om uiteindelijk tot de conclusie te komen dat het leven eenvoudig en uniek is, niet te vangen in welke kennis dan ook. Maar om tot dit inzicht te komen en healing zo eenvoudig te laten zijn dat het achterliggende meesterschap bedrieglijk simpel lijkt, is veel inspanning nodig. In de cursussen die Sheila geeft neemt ze ieder die dat wenst mee op dit verrukkelijke avontuur naar meesterschap. In de cursussen die zij aanbiedt werkt een ieder aan het samenkomen van visie, kennis, techniek, praktijk en een open verbinding met het Hogere Zelf. Zelf-healing, inzicht in onze eigen oorspronkelijke natuur en het helen van anderen komen samen, want wie een ander wil helpen komt eerst in het reine met zichzelf.

Sheila biedt de mogelijkheid aan om cursussen en workshops in voetreflexologie, toegepaste kinesiologie en numerologie te volgen.

Website : www.sheilanelwan.nl
E-mail : sheilanelwan@planet.nl
Tel. : 020-6644244

Tenslotte
Beste medereizigers, er zijn speciale tijden op komst. Ik hoop jullie snel te zien op onze gezamelijke zoektocht naar waarheid, vreugde en vrede,

Ruth Segal

Dear People,
May the new developments be good for you!

Soul Consort Healing
There is a new facility in the Reiki Center and it is called Soul Consort Healing. The inspiration for this name comes from the experience that although we, in the search for our most inner being, have to do the work our selves, each special encounter with another being can contribute in a very deep and meaningful way to our soul searching process. The more we can experience our innermost being and become conscious of who we really are, the more we will realize that we are in total connection with all life. So we just have to share and live life together. And we shall come to understand that the more we know who we really are the more we can meet another person on that innermost level to. If we know our selves only very superficially we can never know and love another being other then on the surface of his/her existence. But when we truly know our selves we have the possibility to meet, see and love another being also in the deepest way possible.

Course : Soul Peace Soul Joy
For everybody who wants to seriously involve with spiritual healing and for everybody who seeks ways to deepen the understanding of the Self to be ready to meet another person on this level to.
Program, four days with a variety of subjects like :
Our place in existence.
The discovery of the energetic body.
Heart Healing with attunements.
How we manifest life.
Within each part of the program there are exercises, sharing, meditations and visualizations.
The first course will be given on the 7th, 8th, 14th and 15th of June.
Please contact the Reiki Center for further information. You can subscribe on the website.

Treatment mornings
Treatment mornings facilitate the need for practicing with other people. You can share insights. It is for those people who feel they need a treatment and for those who like to give a treatment. The treatment mornings are always on a Sunday morning, we start at 11.00 and we are finished when everyone has received a treatment. There is a free contribution for the Reiki center. The dates are : Reiki1: 20th of April, 4th of May, 29th of June and 27th of July.
Reiki2 : 27th of April 1st, 22 of June and 13th of July. For the Reiki2 mornings it is necessary to have received the second grade of Reiki.

The Soul Trail
Soul Consort Healing likes to connect and share with people who , in their own unique ways make a contribution to humanity with their healing work. That is why we are proud to present to you Maria Nelly Alvares Franco. She is a fantastic healer and Reiki master. Soon she will go back to Mexico, where she will start to give courses. To support her a little bit we will send her the gifts the Reiki Center receives to make it possible for her to have a website in the near future.

Finally,
Where so much words are needed a couple of sentences can say it all. Therefore I bid you farewell with this (poorly translated) poem called “Seeing”

Seeing

Now I know I had to learn to see
with the open eyes of love
Freed from all things I do not need
life is clear and always new
in the flow of unexpected wonder
from the Eternal Undivided One

There love is never late and
gives neither idle talk nor vanity
Again and again with gentle touch
love that is, will counter the tide
of my confined blind staring
and free me in my own dark land
from that lonely nothingness

Be in peace and live in joy, Ruth Segal

Beste Mensen
Ik hoop dat de nieuwe ontwikkelingen jullie goede ervaringen brengen!

Soul Consort Healing
Er is een nieuwe afdeling die Soul Consort Healing heet. De inspiratie voor deze naam komt voort uit de ervaring dat we in onze zoektocht naar onszelf wel altijd zelf het werk moeten doen, maar dat elke waardevolle ontmoeting met een ander daar een grote bijdrage in kan leveren. Hoe meer we naar binnen reizen en ons bewust worden van wie we zijn hoe meer we tot de ontdekking komen dat we daar, in ons diepste wezen, juist verbinding hebben met alle anderen. Kortom we zullen het met elkaar moeten doen, en beseffen dat alleen al doordat we ons zelf kunnen zijn, het vermogen hebben om een ander ook op dat niveau te leren kennen. Wie zichzelf alleen oppervlakkig kent, kan een ander ook alleen oppervlakkig leren kennen en liefhebben. Wie zichzelf kent, kan de ander echt ontmoeten en werkelijk liefhebben.

Cursus : Soul Peace Soul Joy
Voor iedereen die zich serieus met spiritueel helen bezig wil houden en voor iedereen die verdieping zoekt in de manier om zichzelf te leren kennen om zo de ander echt te kunnen ontmoeten.
Programma, o.a. :
Onze plek in het geheel.
De ontdekking van ons energetische zelf.
Heart Healing met afstemmingen.
Manifestatie van ons leven.
Bij elk onderdeel hoort oefening, uitwisseling, meditatie en visualisatie.
Eerste cursus : 7,8,14 en 15 juni, .
Kosten : 300 Euro.
Voor verdere schriftelijke informatie kun je contact opnemen met het centrum. Aanmelden kan via de site.

Behandelochtenden
Alle behandel-ochtenden zijn op een zondag. Ze beginnen om 11.00 uur en zijn afgelopen als iedereen behandeld is. Er is een vrijwillige bijdrage voor het Reiki centrum. Kijk regelmatig op de website om te zien of data zijn aangevuld, en meld je altijd van te voren aan!

Eerste graad ochtenden:
20 april, 4 mei ,29 juni en 27 juli.

Tweede graad ochtenden:
27 april, 1 juni, 22 juni en 13 juli.
Het is noodzakelijk de tweede graad behaald te hebben om mee te kunnen doen in deze oefengroep.

The Soul Trail
Soul Consort Healing wil zich graag verbinden met mensen die op hun eigen unieke wijze met hun werk een bijdrage leveren aan de mensheid. Daarom zijn we, in het licht van dit nieuwe project blij om Maria Nelly Alvares Franco bij jullie te introduceren. Zij is een fantastische healer en Reikimaster. Binnenkort vertrekt zij weer naar haar verblijfplaats in Mexico waar ze zal beginnen met het geven van cursussen. Om haar te steunen gaan de vrijwillige bijdragen en giften die bij ons binnenkomen naar de bouw van haar website.

Tenslotte
Waar zoveel woorden nodig zijn volstaan ook een paar zinnen. Daarom besluit ik met het gedicht “Zien”

Zien

Nu weet ik dat ik moest leren
om te zien met het oog der liefde
Ontdaan van alle franje van de
zelfbedachte dingen is het leven
helder fris vanuit de kern waarin
altijd onverwacht verwondering is

Daar is de liefde moeiteloos op tijd
ontdaan van holle praat en ijdelheid
Altijd weer zal zij met ongekende
zachte hand de springvloed van
het kleine blinde kijken keren
en mij in eigen donker en begrensde land
bevrijden van de onbeduidend

Wees in vrede en leef met vreugde, Ruth Segal