LOVE ANGELES

Mother's Love

This is a true story of Mother’s Sacrifice during the Japan Earthquake.

After the Earthquake had subsided, when the rescuers reached the ruins of a young woman’s house, they saw her dead body through the cracks. But her pose was somehow strange that she knelt on her knees like a person was worshiping; her body was leaning forward, and her two hands were supporting by an object. The collapsed house had crashed her back and her head.

With so many difficulties, the leader of the rescuer team put his hand through a narrow gap on the wall to reach the woman’s body. He was hoping that this woman could be still alive. However, the cold and stiff body told him that she had passed away for sure.

He and the rest of the team left this house and were going to search the next collapsed building. For some reasons, the team leader was driven by a compelling force to go back to the ruin house of the dead woman. Again, he knelt down and used his had through the narrow cracks to search the little space under the dead body. Suddenly, he screamed with excitement,” A child! There is a child! “

The whole team worked together; carefully they removed the piles of ruined objects around the dead woman. There was a 3 months old little boy wrapped in a flowery blanket under his mother’s dead body. Obviously, the woman had made an ultimate sacrifice for saving her son. When her house was falling, she used her body to make a cover to protect her son. The little boy was still sleeping peacefully when the team leader picked him up.

The medical doctor came quickly to exam the little boy. After he opened the blanket, he saw a cell phone inside the blanket. There was a text message on the screen. It said,” If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.” This cell phone was passing around from one hand to another. Every body that read the message wept. ” If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.” Such is the mother’s love for her child!!

Reiki With Holly: LA Welcomes a True Healer

Over six months ago I had accepted a Facebook friend request from a Holly Murphy in Colorado. Like many of the connections that are made within the conscious social media networks, a shared interest in personal development, community and coexistence was evident and communicated through status updates, wall posts and shared articles. With excitement, Holly mentioned that she was going to be moving to LA in the coming months and was interested in connecting with like minded and like hearted people. I expressed to her that as soon as she arrived, she would be welcomed by a community of people living in the moment of expansion, creativity and the power of love. 

In July, I met Holly for the first time at a joint birthday party in the back room of Marrakesh restaurant in the Valley. Instantly, I recognized her depth of gratitude, humility and inner peace. In conversation, Holly casually mentioned to me that she was a practitioner of Reiki therapy, a healing modality in which I had heard much about over the years but had yet to experience. 

According to her site reikiwithholly.com, "Reiki is one energy healing method which promotes the healthy flow of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual chi. The practitioner, who has gone through a sacred process called an attunement becomes a conduit for chi. It is a powerful yet very gentle energy technique, which on a physical level stimulates blood flow, which in turn reduces wear and tear on your body. It encourages a healthy flow of chi on a mental and emotional level." 

When I showed up to my first Reiki therapy session with Holly, I knew what to expect relative to the general protocol, however, no amount of research could have prepared me for the unblocking, uplifting and centering experience I was about to undergo over the next ninety minutes.

After a very brief consultation before hand, I laid down on what appeared to be a standard massage table and closed my eyes. The last thing Holly told me was that it was quite common and perfectly fine to either move in and out of the sleep state or fall asleep entirely. As a practitioner of daily meditation, I responded by saying thank you for the heads-up but I think that I will remain conscious throughout the session… These were the final words that were exchanged until the end of the session.
I remained conscious in an active state of meditation for what seemed to be the first twenty minutes, and must have nodded off because at one point I woke up from the sound of my own snoring. After this phase, I remained conscious in a deeper form of meditation for the final hour. 

My body and mind were in absolute peace. I could feel the energy blockages of negative thoughts and emotions, toxins, stress, fear, uncertainty etc. opening and releasing. But this was nowhere near the deepest level of healing I was aware of. I actually felt my Self the Spirt settle and ground back into my newly opened and purified physical body.

At the end of the session, Holly quietly whispered that the session was over and advised me to sit up slowly, softly and in my own time. I honestly felt like I just slept for 48 hours straight, I was a butterfly about to surface from its cocoon. When I finally did sit up, I was offered a glass of fresh water with a drop of rose. Smiling, Holly asked me how I felt, which was written all over my face and in the light around me… she already knew!

She then asked me if I was interested in hearing what she had picked up intuitively. "Of course," I responded! The information that came to me through Holly was timely and imperative to my personal growth, well-being and relationship with others. The message was spot on, a confirmation of what I intuitively heard over the past few months but chose to brush to the side. Lastly, she told me that she learned over the years that her clients "somehow know" when it is time to come back in for another session. 

I thanked Holly for the fifth time and exited the door. As soon as I got into my car, I peered into my eyes which were illuminated in the rearview mirror. I could see a reflection of "I Am," open, centered in my Spirit and restored to whole.

Two weeks later, "I knew" it was time for my next session and benefitted from it immensely. I am grateful to the Universe for bringing me and our LA community an authentic, genuine and loving healer.  

For more information and to schedule an appointment with Holly, check out www.reikiwithholly.com.

Hayden Panettiere Dives Back into Japanese Waters

Source: CelebsGoneGood - Hayden Panettiere is back in Japan this weekend and on a mission. The Heroes’ actress has been a spokesperson for the Save the Whales Again! campaign to prevent the deaths of tens of thousands of dolphins due to hunting in Japan, as publicized in "The Cove," which recently won the Oscar for Best Documentary.

The Save the Whales Again! campaign is an effort by The Whaleman Foundation, an oceanic research and conservation group that is dedicated to the preservation and protection of dolphins, whales, and their natural environment.

Currently back in Taiji, at the site in Japan featured in the documentary, Hayden hopes to open communication between activists and the Japanese locals in an effort to raise awareness about the dangers associated with dolphin hunting. The town of Taiji itself hunts about 2,000 dolphins each year either for meat to be consumed, or to be captured and sold to water park shows and aquariums. The consumption of dolphin meat also poses the threat of high mercury contamination, a toxic health risk.

Despite the success of The Cove, many people are still unaware of the dangers these creatures are facing. Tell a friend today and join the movement to keep the underwater eco-system clean, and prevent dolphins from becoming endangered.

Paper Airplane Virtuoso Tests Record Aloft

Source: World News - In the world of competitive paper airplane throwing, a 20-second flight is exceptional, 25 or better is world class. "Thirty is the stuff dreams are made of. Only one man — Japanese paper airplane virtuoso Takuo Toda — has ever come close to breaking the 30-second barrier. On Sunday, he set a world record for a hand-launched plane made with only paper, but fell just short of the 30-second mark.

Toda, flying a 10-centimeter-long craft of his own design, made 10 attempts to break his own record of 27.9 seconds set earlier this year in Hiroshima but failed to best his previous mark, settling for a 26.1-second flight.

That was still the best ever recorded for a strictly paper-only craft. His 27.9 record was set with a plane that had tape on it.

"I felt a lot of pressure," he said after his paper airplane fly-off at a Japan Airlines hangar near Tokyo's Haneda Airport. "Everything is a factor — the moisture in the air, the temperature, the crowd."

Toda, an engineer, is the head of the Japan Origami Airplane Association and is virtually unmatched in his ability to fold paper aircraft.

In keeping with traditional rules of the ancient Japanese art of origami, he uses only one sheet of paper, which he does not cut or paste.

He flew two variations of his world record-setting paper airplane Sunday — the one he used to set the duration record in April and an updated version with a fin. His April mark was recognized by Guinness World Records.

He did not use tape Sunday, which is allowed by Guinness. He chose to forgo tape because he wanted to follow traditional origami rules. His 26.1 mark was the best ever for a plane without cellophane tape keeping it together. Toda had that previous best as well, just over 24 seconds.

"I will get the 30-second record," he said. "It's just a matter of time."

Toda said that the secret to throwing a paper airplane is to aim upward — not straight — so that it has time to gain altitude and slowly circle back to the ground. Toda appeared to be on his way to a record Sunday, but his second and best throw was ruled a foul because it hit a passenger jetliner parked nearby.

"It's really a sport," he said. "The throwing technique is very delicate."

Along with breaking the 30-second barrier, Toda said his next goal was to launch a paper airplane from space. With funding from Japan's space agency, JAXA, Toda and a team of scientists have designed a plane they believe can withstand the intense heat of re-entry.

One of Toda's designs was scheduled to be released from the International Space Station this year, but that plan fell through in part because of problems with devising a means of tracking the planes as they fell back to Earth.

Toda and his colleagues are currently trying to interest Chinese or Russian space officials in reviving the idea.