When I look back on my life so far, I have to admit that there were periods when I felt as if I was on a roller coaster, feeling high up one day and then going way down to the bottom, then up again etc. etc.

It may mean that I like extremes in general. People around me may and may not notice this roller-coasting as I do not show much on my face - or maybe they do... Hmmm...

Incidentally toward the end of the last year I was having some thoughts on independence and dependence - these terms are not used in the psycho-analytical sense.

Independence here means that you can be content with all the resources you already have - including your physical body, your talents and capabilities, your time available, or your financial strength.

If you are independent, strictly speaking, you do not feel the need/necessity to be loved by a particular person, or you cannot live without the person, etc. because you can at least theoretically satisfy yourself with your existing resources.

Sometimes you may feel lonely or simply down, then you can tap into your resource basket to pull out, say, Christ who loves you unconditionally and who never leaves you. For this purpose, I have a drawing of Christ (in energetic form) standing in the middle of a forest shining everywhere. When I tune into the figure, then I feel loved and my energetic bodies are filled with light and warmth.

Of course, even on the day-to-day basis, you would be able to take very good care of yourself in terms of eating, cleaning, sleeping, self-discipline etc.

On the other hand, dependence is the state where you need a particular object, person, substance without which you feel insecure, worthless, unwilling to go on and so on. This includes not only dependency on alcohol, drugs, or gamble but also dependency on a particular person. In a typical high school love situation, this is what happens. You may lose the will to live and feel totally helpless when you are jilted by your boy/girl friend. Similar situations can occur in much later stages in life.

Ultimately if you believe you love somebody but want that person to be with you all the time, then that's not really unconditional love - especially if the other person does not become happy with you.

The biggest fear for such dependent person is to lose what you depend on. This is often the reason why people tend to sacrifise themselves, suppress their true emotions, simply to keep what you feel you cannot live without.

In human relationships, dependency leads to egoistic, selfish, "small" love while independence can lead to accepting, giving, unconditional love.

In an ideal situation, if each person in a partnership is indepenent, he/she can act just for the best interest of the other party and nothing else. The reality we observe, however, is quite contrary.

One thing I noted in this regard, is how much you try to be "independent" and whether you persist on it. If you try too hard to be what you believe to be independent, then you may feel uncomfortable with a partner who you feel is dependent on you, or you may feel guilty depending on others even when you can choose to accept their help/assistance/guidance.

If you really persist to remain "independent", that probably is not real independence, rather it may simply be the other side of "dependence" - meaning you may be simply suppressing emotions associated with your trauma in childhood, for example, hence you strive to be non-dependent, or you want to believe you're not relying on others. This is pretty much the same in essence as the very dependent people you avoid to be.

For instance if you feel you need somebody's help because you're undergoing a suffering in life, but you cannot ask for help because that's a "failure" in your eyes. You'd feel you failed to be the person you want to be.

Ultimately you can gracefully accept any help from others if you are certain you're an independent person. It is a matter of balancing too much dependence and in-dependence to be yourself. Given the extreme natures of myself as mentioned above, I thought I need to look further into this to find the right balance for each moment in my life.

When a medical doctor makes a diagnosis as untreatable/.incurable or for unknown causes, it may be true in their framework only and does not necessarily mean it holds true in other frameworks. This is why some modalities are often called "alternative" or "complementary".

It is nowadays a common practice to seek "second opinions", or opinions from other MD's if you are not sure of the first diagnosis. Then why not a third or fourth from alternative practitioners?

One recommendation here would be: please please do not give up your power to somebody else, whether it is a MD you trust or an alternative practitioner or a religious teacher. It is always only you who can make a choice for yourself. Listening to their advice or suggestions is okay, but you need to make the final decision.

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In old days Japanese people used to worship gods everywhere - in the rock formations, in the mountains or valleys, in the ponds or rivers, or in the natural phenomena such as lightening or storms. They are sometimes depicted in the animal forms - a toad, a fox, or a dragon. These gods have been enshrined and regularly thanked for by the local residents in festivals.

But this custom has been decayed and the shrines are nowadays visited for personal, often egotistical, wishes. On one hand this must have aggravated the elementals and even higher beings in the shrines and on the other hand these supposedly sacred places have attracted various negative energies such as greed or envy or personal grudges. In turn there appears a saying that one can make a wish at shrines but needs to come back to thank them once the original wish was granted, otherwise one would be punished.

There may be two layers of energy working here. One is the natural law of elementals - if humans block the natural flow of water by building a canal or something and it is not in accordance with the natural order, then there will be floodings, and if developed countries keep exploiting those in the poor, there will be a lot of thunderstorms, etc. Thus it is a natural and often inevitable consequence that humans live with repercussions of their own deeds ignoring the natural laws. If you venture to pee in a shrine, then your part can be painfully swollen.

The other has to do with the unresolved, negative feelings of the people and other energetic entities holding onto the already accumulated negativity in the shrines. It is a natural law that Like attracts the likes and those humans passing over but still burning with jealousy, for example, could be attracted to such energy centres and stay earth-bound. Thus if you visit the Ise Shrine as a couple and do not pay respect to the gods there, then the gods (sometimes considered female) can get jealous and their relationship would be severed. It should not be the "gods" who get jealous but the negative energetic beings in the shrine.

It may have been a wise thing to "shield" those energies in the shrines and protect our daily lives in old days, but it is no longer possible to keep doing so because the negativities have grown so much and Japan is so populated that people start living nearby. Now may be the time for us to start dealing with the negativities to heal and purify them so that they can sent back to the Light.

You may be familiar with the concept of elemental beings. They are "invisible" beings who take care of various elementals. A tree or a flower would not grow into a shape without the arduous works by the responsible elemental beings. They can be called, depending on their activity areas and their status in their own hierarchy, gnomes, fairies, goblins, leprechauns, undines, salamandars, etc. etc.

For more information on elemental beings or elementals, I would highly recommend "A Summer with the Leprechauns - a True Story" by Tanis Helliwell and "Nature Spirits - what they say - Interviews with Verena Stael von Holstein" edited by Wolfgang Weirauch.

There are also "SHIZEN-REI", literally meaning nature spirits, in Japan. Since I moved back to Japan in 2004, however, I have gained some sense that there may be significant differences between the elemental beings in the West and the nature spirits in Japan. Here I would like to suggest a hypothesis I have developed so far and welcome any suggestion or comment on it.

Usually when I enter into a forest and tune into a tree or a flower, I feel that I establish a connection with the elementals taking care of that particular plant. But when I first attempted the same as soon as I came back to Japan in Kamakura, what I got was very different. I did sense the plant is giving me some messages but I could not understand a word! It was as if the plant was speaking in an ancient language or something. Then I I went to another forest to see what happens. There again, the basic message I got was like "I doesn't bother me if you stay here just now and feel us - but when you're done with it, leave us alone" It was very different from the generally friendly "Hello!! Welcome to our land. See how beautiful branches I have grown! I am very proud of them." - like attitudes I got from trees in England.

Of course even in England I know many elementals in the woods near a big city or those in our bodies are not happy at all and often very angry at us humans. But the impressioins I got in Japan were different from those as well. There was some indifference or aloofness there and I have been wondering where this differnece is coming from.

Then I realised that those messages are coming not from the same level of elementals, who are in charge of individual plant, but from a being much higher in the hierarchy. For instance, there are a hierarchy of elementals and some are responsible for a particular plant, who are directed by a being above them responsible for the entire forest or the mountain, or the town, or the whole country. I feel that as soon as I started tuning into a plant in Japan, I bypass the lower elementals and reach the higher beings who take care of the mountain which the plant is just a part of. These higher beings carry the atmosphere of an archangel (I may be wrong here) who are generally considered in change of a group of people such as an organisation.

This could mean, as far as I can understand, that the hiearchy of the elementals in Japan may be much closer-knit than in the West. Probably Japanese people used to part of the hierarchy living quite harmoniously with the nature - that is why Japanese were known to be appreciative of the natural beauty. With the recent evolution (devolution?) of individual consciousness among Japanese, this harmony has been destroyed and our lifestyles in most areas of Japan are no longer in line with the nature.

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We all experience some degree of emotions every day. Small children tend to express their emotions instantly - when they are not given what they want, for example, by crying out loud, rolling all over the floor, etc.

Small children usually get over their emotional charges quite quickly and this has to be the "natural" state of emotional release whereby emotions, either happy or unhappy, simply run through their systems and go away and our health is maintained.

In this respect, it is very saddening to see small children these days are "trained" to behave like an adult, deprived of their means to relase such emotional charges and suppressing them. This will have detrimental effects on their mental and emotional health, which may and may not manifest on the physical plane until later years.


Most adolescents and adults learn to "behave themselves", but often without noticing that these suppressed emotions burden their entire system and that they need to release them where appropriate from time to time.

This is one of the primary reasons why people get sick - whatever the symptoms or the doctor's diagnosis.

In my therapy, I will endeavour to go through with my client his/her experience and associated emotions, and how much they have been released, then help the client release the emotions with the help of energetic healing, flower essences, homeopathic remedies and other techniques.

Based on my experience, it seems true that most emotions can be ultimately boiled down to three basic ones - fear, sadness, and anger. They are often layered and fear of existence or survival is at the very base of them in most cases.

In what is often called trauma therapy, clients are encouraged and guided to re-experience their past traumas and this definitely proves effective.

Experiencing the past traumas and let the emotions go through the system will remove the "burdens" and this will lead to a resolution.

One word of caution would be not to focus too much on the details of each traumatic experience. The quicker one goes through the emotionally charged states, the better. Over-"dissecting" the traumatic experience would often result in increasing the negativity within.

This is what seems to be intended in the "Journey" therapy by Brandon Bays.

If we could cut through the surface layers quickly, we would most likely find one stuck in one or more or all of the three basic emotions mentioned above: fear, sadness, or anger.

When one experience the true, raw anger, one might feel that their physical body is burnt down to ashes.

When full sadness is experienced, one might feel their body is melted down to a puddle on the ground.

The ultimate fear (of survival/existence) might make you feel that you vanish into nothing.


This is when one could experience the nothingness, the wholeness, the cosmos, the light, or the love, beyond these emotions.

Some may feel that they achieved an "enlightment" but the reality seems to me that the life is far too complex and our learning never ending, hence we will keep our trot in life, learning as much as possible during our current incarnation.

幸せで自由な人生のため、自分自身の魂の成長を促進するため、フラワーエッセンスはとても効果的に助けてくれます！

今回のワークショップはフラワーエッセンスを深く使いこなすために重要なカギとなる『エレメンタル』との繋がりを強化するワークショップを企画しました。エレメンタルとは自然霊の一部で、植物界や自然界にたくさん存在して、それぞれの花の管理も行っています。彼らと仲良くすることで、ジェム、フラワーエッセンス、自分の肉体などとの繋がりを強化することが出来ます。

フラワーエッセンスのまったくの初心者の方も、かなり使いこなしていらっしゃる方も、瞑想のやり方をご存知ない方も、楽しくてちょっとお茶目なエレメンタルの世界にご興味ある方は是非ご参加ください♪

テーマ：　オーストラリア・ブッシュ・エッセンス、アラスカンなどのフラワーエッセンスとの関連で、エレメンタルとの繋がりを強化する


日時：　２００７年１月１４日（日曜日）　１３：００～１６：００

場所：　東京都東村山市ホリスティック・セラピー（予定。場所は申込をいただいた方にご連絡申し上げます）

参加費：　３０００円

☆☆なお、その後１６時からマクロビオティックのお菓子付きで１時間ほどのプチ茶話会を開きたいと思います。こちらの参加費は別途１０００円です。是非ご参加ください☆☆

定員：　９名（事前予約をお願いします）

主催（専門担当）：　村田道則（オーストラリア・ブッシュ・フラワーエッセンス、他のフラワーエッセンス、ホメオパシー、エネルギーヒーリング、透視リーディング）、山田えいか（アラスカン・エッセンス、クリスタル・ヒーリング、透視リーディング、マクロビオティック）

ワークショップ概要：

１．自己紹介

２．フラワーエッセンスとは？

３．エレメンタルとは？

４．瞑想
（１）準備：　グラウンディング、プロテクションなど
（２）アラスカン・エッセンスを使って瞑想
（３）オーストラリア･ブッシュ･フラワーエッセンスを使って瞑想

※誘導瞑想は行いません

５．シェアリング、質問

お約束：　
（１）お申込の際にお知らせいただいた個人情報は、主催者各個人の管理とし、本ワークショップ、及び将来の斯種ワークショップのお知らせの目的のみに使用し、法的に必要だと認められない限り、第三者に開示することはしません。

（２）また、ワークショップのご参加いただいた際、他の参加者のプライバシーに関わる話が出たとしても、それはワークショップ外では決してお話にならないよう、お約束をお願いいたします。



予約照会先：

村田：　muchie@s3.dion.ne.jp
山田：　ame-7819@w6.dion.ne.jp

ホリスティック・セラピー　http://www.holistic-t.com

For some reason the concept of "possession" (as in possessed by demons, etc.) has gained popularity in Japan these days.

It is probably thanks to the "spiritualism" often seen on TV for one thing.

Another reason, seen from a slightly wider perspective, would be that this indicates the timing has come for each one of us to become more aware of our energies, whether they are called aura or human energy field.

Differentiating one's own energy from somebody else's is extremely important. If something is lurking in your aura, and if it does not belong to you, then you can and definitely should reclaim your energy field by removing such foreign energies and images at your wish.

Simply put, being possessed is often the state where some foreign energies take control of your own field and they gett in your way of freely expressing yourself, or exercising your free will.

Free will in this sense is the expression of your true nature or soul, and should never be compromised or infringed upon.

Whether your parent or your partner or some extraterrestrial entities, one should remove such foreign energies and reclaim one's own energies.

In this respect, when one is possessed, simply removing those invaded energies will not usually solve the problem. It is the person's soul, or Ego which needs to be supported and strengthened first.

Without the Ego reclaiming its own energies, somebody or something else will easily replace the possessing entities and the same problem would recur.


People with tendency to be easily possessed have the virtue of sensitivity to others' feelings. Sensitivity is a virtue, but hyper-sensitivity or excessive empathy is not.

It will be a helpful exercise for such person to work on healthy boundaries or "separation".

Name:
Michinori Murata
Sex:
Male

Address:
Tokyo

Interests:
Spirituality, Self Development

Born:
Tokyo, Japan

Experience:

Worked for a Japanese commercial bank for 17 years. Moved to England (London) in 1994 and developed interests in spirituality (Rudolf Steiner) and healing.

Graduated from Lakeland College of Homeopathy to deepen my understanding in holistic healing including vibrational healing modalities such as homeopathy and flower essences.

After running a part-time healing practice in England, I decided to move to Japan to find my "roots" in the orient in 2004. Completed courses at US Clearsight for clairvoyance reading and energetic healing.

Translated "Australian Bush Flower Essences" by Ian White into Japanese (pubisher: Fragrance Journal).

Qualification/Training:

Lakeland College of Homeopathy (UK) for homeopathy, flower essences, healing, etc.
US Clearsight for energetic healing and clairvoyance reading
Journey by Brandon Bays
Energetic Healing in England
Jyorei MOA
Anthroposophical Society of Great Britain (Rudolf Steiner)