Tag: life conversations

Life is like a Game ?

“When we play a game, we tackle tough challenges with more creativity, more determination, more optimism, and we’re more likely to reach out to others for help.” ~ Jane McGonigal

Recently, my husband and i are “addicted” to playing board games. When we were in our teens, we played board games too. But since when we were both into our working lives that we leave no time for board games.  😦

Like most couples and families, there are always plenty of activities that keep us busy. For us, they include work, our adventure activities, sports (wide mix),  and everything else that keeps the engine running and the home in good order.

And that’s why we play games. With so much going on every day, we really need time to connect as a family; as couple and enjoy time together sitting around a table and laughing. So we make the time to pull out a game and have fun.

    

Here’s are my list of TOP 8 reasons of playing board game:

  1. It’s Time Together – Bonding 
  2. Laughter and Fun 
  3. Games reflect our Behaviors
  4. You definitely save $$$ and getting yourselves Entertained
  5. Some games enables us to think strategically and stimulate our minds
  6. Games relaxes our anxiety 
  7. Winning the game releases endorphin which increases self-esteem and makes a person feels good
  8. Board Games are a life time investment. You can play and play again and even pass down to your kids and grandchildren.

Incidentally, i came across a talk given by Jane McGonigal where she gave us an insights of “why playing games can give you 10 extra years of life.” Check out the talk below:-

This science fiction short film, by ERAN MAY-RAZ and DANIEL LAZO, presents implanted augmented-reality technology as it could happen within several years. I really enjoyed the ‘egg game’ scene :) it proves that most of life is just a game, as Jane McGonigal already proclamed in her TED talk about a ‘game that gives you 10 more years of life‘. Maybe your life is without this restart possibility.

August 2012 Connective Goal Setting Session – Love Thyself

Hello Goal-Setters,

This class we have attempted to look deep within ourselves. Most people feel alone at some points in their lives. Some people even have the feeling of abandonment. Perhaps, the feeling of abandoning yourself by yourself? Letting others taking control over you?

Sometimes the feelings are there for reasons that seem obvious and real, for example:

  • the aftermath of a painful break-up of a romantic relationship
  • a chronic health problem that seems to sap our vitality and makes us feel less fun to be with
  • unrequited love or passion, or simply wanting an intimate and sexual relationship and failing to find one
  • “the morning after” meaningless sex that did not deliver the emotions you hoped for
  • the feeling of disillusionment after having shared too much with someone who doesn’t understand
  • simply having no-one to turn to when life gets tough

You could probably add quite a few more situations to this list yourself, because everyone’s experience of feeling alone is slightly different. But – in some ways – this fact holds the key to understanding what causes us to feel alone. And, once we understand such a powerful emotion, it becomes so much easier to learn to fear it less and to recognise that you CAN do something to change your feelings.

I’ve said that there are many reasons for feeling alone, but perhaps there is really only one cause. Loneliness sets in when we cannot – for whatever reason – share our thoughts and feelings with someone whom we trust, and who we know will care. Care enough to listen to what we are saying, even if he or she is busy. Care enough to try to understand what we feel and why. Care enough to empathise rather than merely offer sympathy or condolence, worst off Pity.

Being alone and feeling alone are not the same things; not by a long way. Being alone can, for most of us, be very invigorating, but only for some of the time. For how much of the time varies significantly between people – one woman may think it idyllic to spend two weeks alone on a small Greek island with only a few books for company, another may become bored if she finds herself alone at home for a few hours once the kids are safely dropped off at school.

Most of us can handle some time alone providing that it’s our choice, or a part of our lives we consider “normal”. But very few of us would ever want to feel alone.

Feeling alone is largely created by your own perception of not being “connected” to the people around you.  “Connected” includes mutual trust in a relationship. The great thing about this is that you can influence this perception, and there are some techniques that help you to do so which we have learnt in our class.

To sign off, here are some quotes to sweeten our life:

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. – Buddha

“If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.” – Barbara De Angelis 

“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance”– Oscar Wilde 

With Love & Light

Katherine Goh

Oracle Guidance for August 2012

This reading was done by using The Four Elements Spread. The Elements are Fire,Water,Air and Earth. 

Energy on Spread – The High Priestess

Whether you realize it or not, your whole life showcases who you are. Are you ready to make your presentation this month? All you need to do is keep your energy calm and in balance so your true essence can shine through. Is this easier said than done for you? Let’s see what can help you feel the most confident in your own skin.

Since you are energy, all you may ever need translates into more energy. For example, if you are tired – you need more rest energy. If you are hungry – you need more food energy. If you are short of financial means to get by – you need more resources energy. If you are depressed – you need more calm energy, etc. As long as you can wrap your head around how you can actually supply this energy to yourself – you will have it made. The secret is – guess what? You already have it coming to you from the universe. Energy flows into your physical body through (1) the pineal gland (back of the head) and flows through the rest of your energy centers (chakras) in a natural order: (2) coccyx (lower back), (3) reproductive organs, (4) solar plexus (stomach) (5) heart area and (6) thyroid (throat) and then flows out of (7) the pituitary gland (middle of the forehead or third eye). The key is to having each of these energy centers open 100% to allow for an uninterrupted flow. In reality, there are spiritual concepts pertaining to each of these areas and if you are unclear in any of them, this can cause a blockage. This slows down the flow through the affected centers and can result in a physical discomfort or dis-ease in these corresponding parts of your body. Once you realize what is happening to you, keeping clear and staying open can be easy and your self-presentation will show you are in full charge of your natural energy!

Advise: Wheel of Fortune

To keep your personal life together by giving it your best presentation, it is very important to allow for the flow in and out. This has to do with your self-acceptance (inflow) and your personal outflow. Being open to receive relies on accepting yourself for who you are as a soul. You need to love and appreciate yourself. You have lived lifetime after lifetime mastering your unique innate philosophy through countless experiences. Therefore, no one else has your answers but you. Any time you think you are not good enough or do not deserve something will create tension and shrink the energy flow into you. This cuts down your energy supply. This is one of the main reasons many older people scrunch and bend down. They have denied themselves throughout their life and the energy flow is so low, they press themselves down until they are visibly bent. If you try to explain to them how to free themselves and start feeling adequate, this could be a challenge and requires patience since it has been so ingrained and passed on from generation to generation. How easy it is to break this chain if you open your own eyes and change it within yourself so you can be an example for others. The outflow denotes giving freely and being totally involved in life. Unfortunately, for many people it turns instead into holding onto things and cutting off endless opportunities by just being closed. No wonder they end up with migraine headaches. The simple answer is not to be uptight, but learn to release. After you have worked out your inflow and outflow, the solar plexus deserves serious attention. This is where discernment and detachment come into play. Otherwise, you can end up worrying yourself sick. Just realize the problems others are having are not yours. So quit suffering with them. Creating a natural boundary around you protects your energy from getting mixed up with negativity from your immediate environment.

Overall Situation: Travel, solve problems through the feminine way. Be Gentle with yourself and others. Be harmony with Universe and feel the Wholeness within you.

Work – August will be a busy Month. May have conflicts in the workplace. Remember to observe first before action. Trickery at workplace may be possible.

The presentation you do in your business begins with how you have chosen to be of service to others and starts with your wants and goals. If you are unclear what you want for yourself, there is very little you can offer anyone else. You have come here to live a vibrant life – full, exciting and fun and have so much to offer. No one else has gone through the exact same experiences. Only you have seen things from your individual point-of-view. If you share what you have learned, your incredible wisdom will be invaluable to others. Once you feel a natural desire for something big or extraordinary – it is yours for the taking. In addition to recognizing what you can do, you also need to organize yourself to do it. Pin down your facts in a businesslike manner. After this is crystal clear, next comes your incentive. Do you have a strong drive to pursue your goals? How much do you really want to see them happen? So many people have incredible ideas, but bury them alive with their ‘but’s. They all say – I wish this or that, BUT I am: not lucky enough, too short, too young, too poor, too inexperienced…or whatever else they use as a petty excuse. As long as your heart pumps blood, you have it in you to go full steam ahead with what drives you. Pursue your utmost desires and make these dreams come true. Do not turn your back on your own self. Be unstoppable – no one else can do this for you!

Love – Pause and think: To have an impeccable social life, you need to start with taking care of your own needs first. Taking care of others all of the time does not work. Attending to someone else before doing it for yourself first puts you at a great disadvantage as you will not be in shape to help yourself let alone do this for anybody else. What good are you if you do not provide for yourself with enough food, love, health, shelter and sex? The latter represents communication – opening yourself to someone else who is opening themselves back to you and could be either physical or spiritual. This is your ultimate self-expression and creativity which leads to pro-creation – creating someone just like yourself! Do not be shy spiritually. Bring out your creative juices and give them the expression they deserve by sharing what you have with others. Lastly, is your relating gland or thyroid. Do you ever compare yourself and feel greater or lesser than others? Remember, you are not them and they are not you. We are just different. So who is better?  We all have our own way to be. There is no point in judging or holding grudges because everyone is just doing the best they know how. Relax – this is the only way to have a true soul-to-soul communication with everyone.

Health – Headache, Fever and challenges on head is possible. Take great care and sleep early.

Financial – Stagnant. Perhaps its time to create another external source of income? What do you love to do ?

With Love & Light,

Katherine Goh

Tarot Reading Using The Four Elements

This reading was done by using The Four Elements Spread for one of my client. The Elements are Fire,Water,Air and Earth. I have experimented and found out that if the inquirer is on the site of reading, of course his/her energies will be stronger than if the inquirer is not around (as in distance reading), then the 1st card will present associating Horoscope or planet card relating to the inquirer.

In this reading, i am doing distance reading.

Focus on all major Arcana. If any of the major Arcana is associating with the inquirer’s horoscope,pay special attention. In this case, Temperance card which is the inquirer’s horoscope. In this segment, is the guidance on his Work.

Summary of this reading:

Work – Don’t be extreme. Choose the middle path. Cool off. Observe and let your intuition work. Moving onwards present new opportunities. Go with the flow at work may be the best option out.

Key Words: Observe/Balance/Go with the Flow/Patience

Love – Joyful relationship and yearning to go home after work and able to see his partner. Partnership will present luck. The couple is homely and enjoys each other’s companionship.

Key Words: Joy/Home

Health – Solar Plexus and Sacral Chakras are not aligned. Digestive challenge. Generally good health.

Key Words: Digestion

Financial – Learn how to flow with the ups and downs of financial changes. Resistance produce disturbance. Go with the flow.

 Key Words: Change / Resistance

Advises – You are your greatest enemy. Do not imagine things and get “trick” by yourself. Be focus and not to have many many goals as overloaded goals can be wasting your time. Be focus on what you want ! You may be veiled in your thoughts. Quieten your mind and stay focus on what you want.   

If only you can be crystal CLEAR of what you want in life, things you need will be given to you by higher powers. Enjoy the miracles and HAVE FAITH.

July 2012 Connective Goal Setting Session – Spiritual Love

Hello Friends,

Love is the motivation behind many of our dreams, actions and thoughts. People move across the country, quit jobs, stay in unhealthy situations, all because they want love and they think their actions will increase it. Yet we often have a lot of rules and ideas about love that stop us from feeling love for ourselves and others.

 

One way to expand your capacity for real love in your life is to look at your inner rules honestly. We have discussed on inner rules in our class.

 

You go for the source of it and you realize its source can never be outside you, that it MUST BE revealed from within. This may sound strange, but part of you knows how to find and access love in your heart. Part of you knows intuitively what these next sentences means:
You travel nowhere to get more spiritual love. Nowhere —-> NOW HERE. There is nowhere to go but here in your heart.

 

Please continue to work on your Love Meditation for alignment and clearing your energies bodies that are not helping you on Love.

 

See you all next class in August 2012.

 

Here are some videos clips to work on your alignment.
Abraham-Hicks (Finding a Soul Mate)

ABRAHAM HICKS Creating A Lover

With Love & Light,

Katherine Goh

Waking Up is Not Enough

I was listening to a preview clip by Rinzai Zen patriarchs Jun Po Roshi and Doshin Roshi with Keith Martin-Smith while i was browsing in the net one day. In the discussion, Rinzai Zen patriarchs Jun Po Roshi and Doshin Roshi discuss why meditation and spiritual insight alone cannot transform ourselves or the world. From an Integral point of view, simply “Waking Up” isn’t enough. We are also being called to” Grow Up” (mature emotionally and psychologically), “Clean Up” (engage in shadow work), and “Show Up” (embody our insight in our daily lives).

This is much akin to “Awareness”, “Growth”,”Clean Up our baggage” and “Take Action” which i have shared in our sessions. A different words but may have the same meanings.

Pure Awareness is definitely not enough. I totally agree with the two masters –  Rinzai Zen patriarchs Jun Po Roshi and Doshin Rosh. Awareness is only the first step to enlightenment. But what’s the point with just awareness and not doing anything? Therefore, we must Learn, Adjust and Grow in our daily lives. Didn’t we mention before, if you stopped learning, you stopped living?

As we grow, we learn. Simultaneously, we must also clean up our baggage – those stuffs that do not serve us well. Holding onto baggage (attachments) will only hinders our learning journey. But we must acknowledge that these “baggage” were there for a purpose – to let us learn something. Once we learnt the lessons, we must let it go and “housekeeping” our shadow work.

Lastly, Take Action. Apply what we have learnt in our life. Embody these learning in our daily living.

May Enlightenment be with us. Namaste Om.

“From this point of view, Enlightenment is essentially two embodied realizations. First, Enlightenment is the direct realization of your Bud — the naked pure consciousness found deep within your ordinary mind. We call this realization wisdom. And second, Enlightenment is the realization of the fearless heart found in the profound depth of this wisdom. We call this realization compassion. But please be aware: Enlightenment is also the philosophical and emotional re-indoctrination and reformation following this discovery. To accomplish this philosophical and emotional maturity we offer Mondo Zen. Zen Enlightenment is the marriage of this wisdom realization and the unconditional love realization—all embodied in our daily lives.” –Jun Po Kelly Roshi

Take a Refreshing Dip

My Bali vacation in March 2012 was awesome. My husband and i had the privilege to cleanse and purify our Body, Soul and Spirit. We also took this opportunity to cleanse our crystals with the holy water. In Hindu rituals, water is used to cleanse the devotees before and after praying. Before praying to the shrines of Tirtha Empul (where the holy water is), we dipped ourselves into the pool of natural spring water. The water is very REFRESHING!

Kabbalists teach that immersing ourselves in water is one of the greatest tools for spiritual healing. They call it a mikveh, a specifically designed pool of water meant to cleanse our body and soul. Water is the closest earthly form that resembles the spiritual essence of the Light of the Creator. Think of water as liquid Light. Our bodies are more than 70 percent water. When the body is completely immersed, so that not even a single hair remains outside of the water, spiritual darkness is purified.

Special mikvehs exist throughout the world, constructed to specific measurements. But if you can’t get to one, dipping in the ocean, or lake or any natural body of water can do the trick. If all else fails, even the pool will suffice.

When was the last time you visited our great Ocean? Perhaps its time to do it again…

When was the time you connect back to nature: the spring  and/or the waterfall?

If you are living in the urban city, why not the dip into your nearest swimming pool for a refreshing dip?

With Love & Light,

Katherine Goh

 

June 2012 Connective Goal Setting Session – Love is the Highest Form of Energy

Hello Goal Setters,

I always been sharing that without “Love”, nothing can be accomplished, of course your Goals inclusive. You find no purpose, meanings and fulfillment in whatever you engaged in your life journey. 

Energy vibrates at different frequencies. Love forces vibrate at the highest frequency. Forces of inferior kind show lower frequencies. Love has been seen as the greatest energy of life or the unified field of consciousness.

Those who are in love vibrate at high frequency and can get that frequency throughout the mind and emotions just by recalling the feeling of being in pleasant situations with the beloved ones.

The lack of love opens the door to inferior beings that enter with arms charged with negativity, anxiety, fear, sadness, hate, phobia, etc. Love nourishes health. Negative emotions nourish illness.

In our previous session, we have shared that we need to Focus our Energy – Restructure our Energy. The Chart on the left speaks a thousand words about what you need to aware of. We have also discussed about your tools and solutions on Love that were presented to you individually.Recall the Love meditation you had engaged in class and once again watched the miracles that Universe has bestowed upon you.  

Focus : Restructure your Energy
1) Know Where you are going  – Awareness – “Being Present in Love”
2) How you are going to do it? – Tools and Solutions
3) What is going on around you?  – Flow

Next class, we will share and reveal more on Love.

With Love & Light,

Katherine Goh

Lord be with you my Dearest Patient; Dearest Friend…

I had been healing this patient since 29th Jan 2009 by word of mouth introduction from other patients. She was one of my breast cancer triple negative case patient. We have been fighting this long and hard battle since 2009 but on 9th of June 2012 (last saturday) early evening she was called home to Lord. 

I remembered when she first came to me 4 years ago, she said that her doctor told her that she was left with 3 months. She was wearing a pink scarf, looking scared, tired and frail. After intensive healing sessions including the combination of Reiki , Meditation, Crystal healing and TCM methods all combined, we saw glimpse of hope. She was once again Pretty, Confidence, Happy and she went back to work. Her medical report shown tumors were softer, smaller and less active. We were excited and thrilled. I suggested her to go holiday with her husband to her favorite country – Japan.

Coming back….

I was recollecting my healing time with her for the past 4 years, 4 months and 12 days…i am holding her very very thick patient file that was filed with her medical reports including blood tests, CT Scan Report and X-Rays..etc. I knew she had fight a tough battle. She was a courageous woman, my patient; my friend. 

We knew her time will not be long…during her last few healing session, her life force was very very weak. Her breathing meditation was difficult, her Chakras were not aligned despite concentration of energy light on her.

I told her in January 2012 that she had to prepare whatever she wanted. Such as the type of funeral ceremony, her last resting place..etc. Most importantly, communicate with her family and spending time with them. She did it ! 

I last saw her in my healing room on the April 3rd 2012. As i was travelling for medical conferences and business trips, we could not arrange healing sessions that matched our time . According to her husband, during her last chapter of her journey, she was in/out of the hospital.

Both of us (healer & patient) had done our best. We both FIGHT,WALKED the journey and BELIEVE in Faith. These were her last words…

Her husband sent me a text message yesterday. I do not know what vocabulary i can use to describe my feelings except that i know i will continue my path as a healer to touch more lives that crosses my path. Period.

I am grateful to her for trusting me all these years and I will always Missed her and may Lord be with her.

With Love & Light,

Katherine Goh