“Few people have the imagination for reality.” ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Everything you can imagine is real.” ~Pablo Picasso “The world is but a canvas to the imagination.” ~Henry David Thoreau “But, I nearly forgot you must close your eyes, otherwise…you won’t see anything.” ~Alice “The true sign of intelligence […]
Things became much clearer once I started thinking of everything as energy. Thoughts, food, sound, light, emotions, all of them are energy in one form or another. Even the physical world of “solid” material is composed of energy coalescing into form based on our intentions. This is particularly helpful when […]
Allowing for a moment that we create our own realities, let’s look at our conscious beliefs and how the structures they build for us cause limitation. Take any limiting belief you like, perhaps not beginning with any base assumptions like gravity, but with something personal. Let’s use “I am overweight” […]
When you hold a thought, you are creating or reinforcing the object of that thought simultaneously in both the structures of space and time. They are not one and the same, although they play equal parts in the reality you project for yourself. Play with this equation and you may […]
As a Reiki practitioner, I find this quote so utterly foundational, so very True and Important, that I feel compelled to share it here. No one can heal another. Healing is none of our business, even when it is our profession. So called healers merely attend to the healing, giving […]
I’ve been a bit quiet of late. I suppose this could be called a time of recuperation or integration after my extended stay in China, although it could just as easily (and probably more honestly) be called “tired.” No matter the label I attach to it, it has been a […]
I’ve been asked (and often wondered myself) why I do all this. Why bother? I don’t charge money for my services, I’m not after fame, and frankly, it makes me look a bit mad to “sensible” people who knew me “before.” I just ran across this quote from Alan Watts, […]
Aggression is a mask worn by fear, projected at an enemy. When there is no fear, there is no enemy. When there is no enemy, you are invulnerable. Any attack you endeavor is an attack on your own invulnerability. “That which you damn damns you back.” ~Paul Selig **** Everything […]
Humans are empathic by nature, although many don’t recognize it beyond feeling low when seeing another cry. That doesn’t mean they aren’t subject to its wider ramifications, however, any more than you are as a Knowing empath. When someone is projecting negativity your way, always remember a few things. […]
Continuing our work with metadata today, we’re going to rename something and free up some space… Consider for a moment an item that you “own.” Choose any item that you neither cherish nor dislike. Maybe it’s a dollar bill, maybe it’s a vase, maybe it’s an article of clothing. It […]
Quite often, agitation is the result of a fear of a semi-conscious expectation not being met. This can manifest itself as irritation, sometimes felt physically, with people or situations around you. When you feel that impatient energy (I feel it as pressure and crawling skin) rise from your midsection upward, […]
I’m not one who enjoys the details. I never have been. As a computer programmer, I loved the metadata and the data structures themselves. As a Reiki practitioner, I work far more with the subtle body and emotions than I do with physical ailments. As a writer, I am more […]
Let’s talk about names for a moment. In each waking moment, you are making a claim to yourself and to the Universe as to how you currently are choosing to experience yourself. You are naming yourself. I am Daniel. I am Sad. I am Happy. In so doing, you are […]
I’ve been a fan of the legendary Dolores Cannon since the moment I was introduced to her down to earth, feverishly curious and often daffy approach to exploring all things metaphysical. I imagined a conversation with her being something like sitting down with everyone’s favorite grandmother, only instead of politics and the […]
This society we've built on fear and separation leads to people looking for escape by any means necessary. Some use drugs, some use sex, some use television or religion or gambling or food or money. The problem and the result are the same -- a self defeating cycle of isolation and shame.
This was not only the fulfillment of a childhood dream in physical reality, but a call and response from something not of this world. I will never, ever forget that moment.
As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I follow “Disclosure” rather closely. Not only does it resonate with a childhood spent in the age of Star Wars, Star Trek and the very first home computers (something that would later become a career path for me), but I find the subculture to be a […]
The Reiki lineage I practice (Kali-Ki) has deeper roots in Tantric Meditation than it does in traditional Usui Reiki. As I work to become a Master Teacher now, it dawns on me that the young man I was would never have believed the path I've chosen.
I sat down to write a quick example of an exercise I use from time to time to start my day off clear after leaving the house. I felt a connection immediately as I opened the browser to begin typing...
I’ll cop to being a bit of a Twitterhound. I follow the requisite spiritual, astrology and (cough) political threads with casual interest. I’ve never been much one for the political game on its face, but it is an absolutely fascinating place to study the general well-being of our collective…plus, full […]
We all build up energetic gunk, so as a part of the Daniel Steven Metaphysics launch we have a very special Reiki offering to help you clean it out.
Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique, or QHHT, is a practice fashioned by the late, great Dolores Cannon in which a Somnambulistic state of trance is induced in the patient. During her years of practice, Ms. Cannon discovered that not only was this method of hypnosis useful for past life regressions, but that […]
Oh, lucky stars! Quantum Martial Arts, a local nonprofit Martial Arts school (and one of my favorite places in the whole wide world), held their annual fundraiser this week. While I was unable to attend the event in person this year (last year’s was wonderful!), two Reiki sessions with me were […]
I recently was afforded the opportunity to bring my services to an all day holistic health event here in San Francisco. I had been hemming and hawing for a month or more about how to best step out and begin expanding my offerings locally, when a message appeared in my […]
