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Hobart, Tasmania are very excited to announce their upcoming Spiritual Retreat and also Open Heart Program Level 3 & 4, followed by 5 & 6, taught by the founder Irman Effendi, in  May this year.  

The Open Heart program will be held at The Lotus Centre, Hobart and the retreat will be at the Eastcoaster Resort in Orford.  We have a dedicated and detailed website where you can book for this online, and find out all the information you need to about the event.  Please feel free to forward this on to any who may be interested.

Here is the link , just click on it to go to it directly. On the page “Heart Workshops and Spiritual Retreat Program” is listed   all the prerequisites to attend .               www.thelotuscentre.com.au/retreat.htm

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“There are so many good things about the heart. However, knowing and talking about it are not enough. To gain all of its benefits, We have to use it properly.”

~ Irmansyah Effendi ~

www.open-your-heart.net runs chat rooms for alumni to take part in group prayer and meditation. We now have a room for the PUBLIC - “openyourheart” and our New Zealand groups host this on WEDNESDAYs at 7pm. From next week (27th February) there will also be a SATURDAY 4pm prayer.

You need to register before taking part and instructions are on the above site.

This is a wonderful way to relax and let go.

The heart meditation is available in a free downloadable format on www.open-your-heart.org.nz but don’t under estimate the power the same meditation has when done within a group setting.

Our hearts are always so much stronger in a group;  it is much easier to feel and enjoy the practice together. Meditation becomes deeper, more beautiful and surrendering becomes sweeter.   As well as improving our connection, our hearts learn from one another, so doing the same meditation in a group is many times more effective than practicing alone.

We have online group meditations available on www.open-your-heart.net and this site has numerous chat rooms for people at different levels.  We hope to have a prayer time suitable for New Zealand in the open for public room soon. Keep checking this site for further information.

One of our alumni kindly shared his experiences with Reiki TUMMO.   Thank you Gerard (L)

As a Reiki Usui practitioner looking to expand my understanding of spiritual ideas, I became drawn to the Tummo system. Initially, it was the opportunity to experience awakening of the Kundalini that intrigued me most . I knew little about this but was aware that opening the Kundalini is no simple feat and that traditional methods require years of diligent practice. So I felt incredulous at the possibility of any instant method. However, the results speak for themselves.

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Read the full story at Reiki TUMMO – The experience of one Usui Reiki Practioner

An article by Irmansyah Effendi, M.Sc., Founder of Reiki TUMMO

Photo by diegocupolo

Happiness.  It has always been something we strive for in this life. In fact, if we look at the motivation behind our thoughts and actions—conscious and unconscious—they are all to get us closer to the feeling, or at least the idea, of happiness.

Some of us have long asked why we cannot hold on to happiness. For all of the scholarship and human insights across the centuries, nobody has found a complete and enduring answer. Perhaps because it has been too close to see…

The answer, the key, is our heart.

We have been told throughout our lives to “follow your heart.” This has been written in countless holy texts as well, across virtually all religions, since the very beginning. This is because our heart – even without us realizing it – feels the Love that comes from True Source [Editor: we prefer the term ‘True Source’ or 'Divine Source' because it is a neutral term which does not have a charged history.  Feel free to replace the term ‘True Source’ or 'Divine Source', with whatever phrase you are comfortable with, which represents the Ultimate Source of Love and Light.], who loves us completely, and always wants the very best for us.

In opening and using our heart, we are blessed with lasting peace and happiness that we can feel—actually and really feel—in our daily lives. Our daily life is actually a manifestation of how strongly we are connected to our Creator, the True Source. Thus, an open heart is also the real key to our spiritual advancement in getting closer to True Source, the Source of Eternal Peace and True Joy.

Why is our heart the main connection to True Source? Why is our heart the center of beautiful feelings? Why is our heart, not our brain or other parts of us, the key?

Our heart is the key because our true self is within our heart. Our true self that is within our heart will continue to live on even after this lifetime has been completed. While our physical body is only a temporary “shell”—flesh and blood that will one day turn into dust—our relationship with True Source is eternal. We need True Source and True Source’s Love not only when we are alive on this earth, but forever and always.

As we are still in our physical body, our heart (not the physical heart but the spiritual heart – the center of our feeling) is where and how we remain connected to True Source.

With this connection, our heart communicates with True Source and receives True Source’s Blessings. In receiving True Source’s Blessings, we can feel so many beautiful things within our heart, including the feeling of lightness, calmness, peace, happiness, and joy beyond all things we have ever felt from our worldly experiences.

Being calm and joyful at every moment of our life may sound fantastic, even impossible. Now recognize that it is your brain making this judgment, imposing this false limitation. In this regard, you may have quite a bit of work to do in getting out of your own way. Our brain is so strong—we have spent so much of our life within our head—that it can overtake our heart at the beginning. However, our heart knows that peace, calmness, and happiness await us once we begin opening and using our heart. It is only a matter of opening it up to let True Source’s Blessing do the best for us.

How beautiful and exciting it is to consider that all these wonderful feelings are within us at all times. All we need to do is to open and use our heart to be able to feel and enjoy these wonderful Blessings.

May you open your heart to the Creator and use your heart to experience the peace, calmness, and happiness within.

– Irmansyah Effendi, M.Sc. (Founder of Reiki Tummo)

To learn more about opening your spiritual heart and get all the benefit of a more calm and joyful life, see the Open Heart section.

To learn about Reiki Tummo and how you can improve your connection to the Divine for healing, opening your spiritual heart, attaining higher consciousness, enlightenment, and Yoga (union with the Divine), see the Reiki Tummo section.