Actually I think that Reiki can heal all problems because it heal person not illness. Tomas mentioned that it can heal but not always- I would like to refrase it- it can heal alwayes- but it take different time for different person- one will get healing instantlly another after a few sessions and third after a year of Reiki work. It depends on persons mind, beliefs, blokages, etc.

al things said and done... the fact remains that desipte my several atempts at differet forms of meditation and clases of different kinds including but not limited to self hypnosis for self improvment ... i have never felt any benefit. what am i doin wrong? or i think i should ask why am i not being able to make this a part of my day to day life (which i must confess is highly eratic... to say the least) to be able to help myself is whatever possible. in 99.99% of the cases when i am wrong i know i wrong... and i admit it to myself and voice whats wrong with me to Swetha... i am my own worst critic and a harsh one at that. but what bothers me is i cant find ways to help myself take correctional action to over come these problems. sometimes when i do ...

i think i just get demotivated or something like that and drop it mid way. or it could also be that i am just plain simple lazy and comfortable with the way i am...

again the problem here is that i would like not to give up... thats what eats me more.

i have very carefully thaught and analyzed why i smoke... and the only reason i could find was high level of nervous tension and smoking gets me to something to do with my hands and i guess this fact can also be highlighted by the fact that i am now almost 30 and still bite my nail.

another smoker on the board:)
have been trying to quit for sometime now... but just dont seem to have the will.
any suggestions?

rahul and Abhishek,

Aaahhhhhhhh, smoking.

A couple of things might help.

First switch to an organic type cigarette for awhile (a brand that doesn't use chemicals in the growing process, manufacturing process, or in the paper they use) There are some out there though they might not be easy to find. This will help get you off of the chemical addictions and will improve other aspects of your health. (will cut down or stop 'smoker's cough' for instance)

After you have done that (give it a couple of months) and decide it is time to stop completely avoid people who smoke (this is really important and is the primary reason I haven't been able to stop since my husband is a heavy smoker and shows no interest in quitting).

Beyond the usual things that you will read to help assist in quitting those are my reccommendations.

Good luck to both of you.

Well if you want my advice all of you are trying far too hard to quite smoking. The words TRY,trying,MAYBE,GOING TO , I CANT. if you are going to say I am going to try to quite smoking what you are ask for is to just to try and you always be just trying.

I have a wait problem and at its worst I was close to 500 pounds one of my dear friends and teachers told me one day that I really need to start losing some wait and I told him I was trying and he just laughed at me and told me just what I told you. With that sound advice I took off 75 pound in the last 6 months and its still coming off next year I will be in the 200s.

It’s not different with smoking. I smoke and I don’t want to quite I like it but I can and have stopped for weeks at a time and went back to it when I wanted to not because I had too. You need to have the right mind step to quite. If your going to tell your self I NEED A CIGARETTE then you will need one and always NEED one. If you tell your self Smoking is going to kill me then it will. Learn to chang the way that you think can be very helpfull to any thing you do.

Reiki Master Dave