by Cynthia Bischoff | Jun 16, 2012 | Heartliving
Do you know the origin of Father’s Day?
In 1910, Sonora Smart Dodd invented her own celebration of Father’s Day to honor her father who was a Civil War veteran—William Jackson Smart. He was a single parent who reared six children in Spokane, Washington, and his birthday was in June. His daughter Sonora felt he should be honored in a dedicated celebration.
In 1913, a bill to create national recognition of the holiday was introduced in Congress. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson went to Spokane to speak in a Father’s Day celebration and wanted to make it an official holiday. Congress instead resisted the idea, feeling that the day would become commercialized.
President Calvin Coolidge recommended in 1924 that the day be nationally observed, but stopped short of creating a national proclamation.
Finally, Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith wrote a proposal in 1957 suggesting that Congress was ignoring fathers for over 40 years while honoring mothers. (Mother’s Day was established in 1914.)
In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation honoring fathers, designating the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day. Six years later, in 1972, President Richard Nixon signed the holiday into law, making it a permanent national holiday.
On this day, take a moment to reflect on your father figure and honor his spirit.
by Cynthia Bischoff | Jun 12, 2012 | Heartliving
Greetings, Hearts!
I will be offering the Reiki Level One Workshop in Norfolk, VA, in August or September. The date will be selected by responses from those interested. This is a one-day workshop (8:30-3:30). If you are interested, please read the information below completely and email me before Tuesday, 6/19. I will reply to all emails on 6/20.
WHAT IS REIKI?
Reiki (pronounced RAY- key) is a natural Japanese healing art that helps balance and activate one’s physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies. It reduces stress and fatigue and serves in preventative health maintenance and as a transformation tool for spiritual growth. It activates what is innate within ourselves and returns us to wholeness. Reiki has been especially effective in helping heal trauma from abuse and addictions.
Reiki focuses on the flow of the “universal life force energy” through one’s hands to balance the body, mind, and spirit. Reiki treats the whole person including body, emotions, mind, and spirit and creates many beneficial effects including relaxation and feelings of peace, security, and well-being. As part of the curriculum, the student learns how to give a Reiki session on others as well as self and also receives a Reiki attunement by me as Reiki Master Teacher. This is an amazing stress-reduction technique to learn and administer.
I teach Reiki (Levels 1, 2, 3 and Teacher Training) as well as Mind/Body Energy Medicine in Japan as well as in the U.S. and will be teaching these programs in Japan again this year (June 28 to July 18)–my 10th visit.
Please notice the suggested dates for the program in the U.S. (we will select one date). If you are sincerely interested in committing to the program, please send me an email indicating that and also tell me which dates you CANNOT do among those listed. I am hoping with our flexibility to come up with a date that works for all. (While preference can be indicated, I am really looking for dates you absolutely CANNOT do so we can find one we can do.) See dates below.
WHAT: REIKI Level 1 Workshop
TIME: 8:30-3:30 one day
DATE: We will select ONE DATE from these dates (RESPOND to Cynthia with any that you CANNOT DO):
Monday, August 6
Wednesday, August 15
Monday, August 20
Wednesday, September 12
The group is limited to 10 participants.
PROGRAM NOTES
The program will involve an entire day of learning the history of Reiki, studying energy work and learning the Reiki techniques, as well as receiving a personal energy attunement from Cynthia. Participants will receive a Reiki I Certification. The program includes a $20 book, as well as lunch and beverages.
ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Cynthia Bischoff
Cynthia Bischoff is a Reiki Master Teacher who teaches in the U.S. as well as in Japan. She is trained in the Usui Shiki Ryoho traditional Reiki method. In terms of lineage, she holds a position of being “third from Master Takata” who westernized Reiki in the U.S.
Cynthia holds a Ph.D. in Metaphysics and is a certified hypnotherapist who has advanced certifications in varied alternative therapies: Breathwork, Acupressure, Bio-Energy, Shamanic Studies, and Medical Intuition.
Highly intuitive, Cynthia has been a life coach and trainer since 1980 and is the developer of the popular Heartliving programs.
Once the date has been decided and participants selected, a registration form will be sent. Cost of this training program is $188 ($100 deposit now and $88 on class day) or $178 now paid in full ($10 savings).
Email Cynthia at heartliving@cox.net to express interest.
I hope to have the pleasure of working with you. Many blessings!
by Cynthia Bischoff | Jun 9, 2012 | Heartliving
Imagining your best possible self can be a powerful and positive catalyst for change. You can do this through active visualization or meditation, not unlike one would daydream the best possible future life scenario.
This activity of positive visualization simply involves imagining yourself in the future in the best possible circumstances after everything has gone as well as it can. You see yourself happy and peaceful, having realized your desires and accomplished your potential. You simply focus on the best possible way that things might turn out in life.
Instead of focusing in your visualization on WHO else is with you or WHERE you are exactly, keep your focus on the most positive and peaceful feeling state you can imagine for yourself. In fact, often we do not know the details of what will bring us the greatest state of peace and happiness.
Researchers and psychologists have found that imagining or writing about your “best possible self” can create healthy emotions, increase your positive outlook, and fortify you to meet any challenges. In addition, it also changes the expectations you have of yourself, allowing you to release old limiting beliefs and break free of constraints.
by Cynthia Bischoff | Jun 2, 2012 | Heartliving
People often ask me how they can become a (fill in blank—teacher, healer, coach, artist, etc.), something they’ve perhaps always desired.
Whatever it is you desire to do, begin doing it NOW. Don’t keep thinking about HOW to make it happen logically. Your focused energy will propel it.
In fact, LOGIC is DEATH to the miracle maker in you! So stop trying to make it happen through logic.
So, for example, if you want to teach,
- Look into every way in which you can teach now officially or unofficially (lend a hand, explain how someone can improve a process, etc.)
- Then RESEARCH all the options that are out there for teaching as a career—how to become a certified teacher (e.g., Teacher Switcher program at ODU), but also ways to volunteer your time to teach and help.
- What I have found is that if you HOLD YOUR INTENTION CLEARLY and remain TRUE to your desire, the Universe will assist you in MANIFESTING your intent.
- Create a focused mission statement and repeat it. For 10 years, I repeated the mantra: “I desire to teach and help others internationally.”
- I never once thought that this would be NOT be possible, although I didn’t understand HOW it could happen. I did NOT get caught up in the logic of it–the “how’s.”
- Five years ago, I was asked out-of-the-blue to assist a person in going to Japan and giving a lecture on healing (my work in U.S.). I paid money to go to Japan, lost income while there, but KNEW I needed to do this because it FELT right.
- I knew in my heart this was an opportunity that MATCHED my intention, so I TRUSTED.
- I will be going to Japan again in June 2012 to teach, counsel, and perform healing sessions—my 10th visit!
- The bottom line is that you have to BELIEVE.
- Higher Powers will assist you if you hold a noble intention. If you make that intention involve HELPING OTHERS, the Universe will become your loving partner. Of that I am clear.” –Cynthia Bischoff
by Cynthia Bischoff | May 26, 2012 | Heartliving
Enjoy this beautiful poem!
The Guest House
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice.
meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.
Be grateful for whatever comes.
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
–by Jelaluddin Rumi,
translation by Coleman Barks
Do you know the origin of Father’s Day?
