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Helping you discover the inner way to your peace and joy in your life and relationships, even after grief and trauma. Find your Wisdom's Way to Peace.

Learn to listen to your soul and discover the love of life. http://shirleylynnmartin.com The Wisdom’s Way to Peace system is a holistic mind, body, and spirit process that allows each of us to identify and free ourselves from our innermost barriers to achieving peace, serenity and spiritual fulfillment in our relationships, life and work.

10/16/2026

Happy Friday!
As you step into the weekend, enjoy the beauty of this season. It’s fascinating that we love fall; we welcome it indeed. So many love the beauty of the rich earthy colours, the tones and hues of trees and skies. We are in awe of it all.

And right after the season of Natures incredible landscape of colours, the leaves drop. They fall and create a new joy of walking through the crunch and the piles of colour that now inhabit the paths we walk. It’s incredible that so much beauty happens before the letting go—before the death. So relish the weekend. We know another season will soon come.

10/15/2026

Happy Thursday ! As I gather to sit in Reiki meditation in community, I remain open to contemplating the Reiki Gokai ( precepts).

I’ve been thinking about the Reiki precepts (the first two ) —do not anger and do not worry. These precepts are here to help Reiki practitioners to cultivate health (spiritual and physical ) and happiness (deep relaxation, contentment or inner peace ).

These precepts could also be understood as do not hate and do not distress. Hatred and unmitigated anger is harmful. Not only to those who are reçipients of anger and hatred, but also for those who harbour these feelings in their heart and body. Hatred is like venom-poison to the soul. And anyone who has been bitten by hatred knows how toxic and sick it can make all involved in various ways .

Regardless of its source, whether blame, hostility or prejudice, hatred can become all consuming seeking aggressive outlets and retribution for perceived or real harm. You will never achieve health and happiness with a heart and soul full of hatred and anger. It will eventually require conflict and aggression from you.

In the Dhammapada, the Buddha famously says, “Hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone is healed.”

Thich Nhat Hanh instructed his followers to stop making enemies. He taught to “make prayers. Make blessings. This is our moral task. “

We have all felt hatred for someone. But feeding that hatred will ignite war within and make us sick. Transforming it by making blessings restores our health and creates a path to inner peace (happiness ). Our soul seeks this healing . It’s why I practice Reiki daily . What blessing will you make today and offer to another or to the world ? Peace.

10/14/2026

Happy Wednesday!

Living this day is a spiritual practice. It’s a practice of having your feet here in this day with your hands doing the activity of what needs doing today.

Living this day asks us to acknowledge that yesterday and what was done or not done yesterday cannot be changed. Though we may have wanted for things to be different than what they were, the reality is that yesterday cannot be changed.

Living this day with your feet and hands engaged with what is the priority today means that we also cannot be in what is tomorrow’s business. I once worked with a client who was a hydro crew supervisor. He would tell his linemen that if they aren’t totally present and in their bodies, they cannot go up in the bucket. To work high in the air in a bucket with powerful voltages is not a place to be distracted or allow your mind to drift in the past or the future. The current task requires your attention and and concentration fully and completely. Attend to and concentrate on what’s in front of you—that was a safety requirement.

Live this day. And if you find yourself drifting into the past or future, your breath is the anchor to the present. So come back to attending to your breath. And then place your hands on the activity most important in that moment. Bring your feet in the same direction as your hands and be fully present to what is in front of you. Sink into gratitude for this day. Peace.

10/13/2026

Happy Tuesday!
It’s a good day for rain and thunder. Medicine for the land and trees and rivers. Wishing you all a peaceful day.

10/12/2026

Happy Monday!

On this Thanksgiving weekend, wishing you a time of celebration, of relaxation and also moments of contemplation and quiet. A time to not only think about those things you are grateful for, but opportunities to be heart centred and feel gratitude and thanksgiving for whatever is present in the moment.

This is a time of abundance on our tables. All the colourful foods gifted to us by Mother Earth sits on our tables and in our pantries. There is enough to share with those who don’t have access or means to purchase if we express the will and awareness to do so.

Perhaps this can be a profound expression of our gratitude—recognizing the abundance we can share and bring ourselves to actually sharing. Like the Metta meditation that starts with loving kindness towards self and then family friends, community and then inclusive of all the universe, even one’s enemies, if you can. The invitation is to embody the meditation in the way we live. That abundance is shared and desired for all creation and all living beings.

May our awareness and mindful gratitude practice include shared abundance for all life. Namaste.

10/11/2026

Happy Sunday! A beautiful teaching of thanksgiving and harvest from Robin Wall Kimmerer in Braiding Sweetgrass.

"The guidelines for the Honorable Harvest are not written down, or even consistently spoken of as a whole---they are reinforced in small acts of daily life. But if you were to list them, they might look something like this:

Know the ways of the ones who take care of you, so that you may take care of them.
Introduce yourself. Be accountable as the one who comes asking for life.
Ask permission before taking. Abide by the answer.
Never take the first. Never take the last.
Take only what you need.
Take only that which is given.
Never take more than half. Leave some for others.
Harvest in a way that minimizes harm.
Use it respectfully. Never waste what you have taken.
Share.
Give thanks for what you have been given.
Give a gift, in reciprocity for what you have taken.
Sustain the ones who sustain you and the earth will last forever.

Braiding Sweetgrass, p. 183., 2013. Milkweed Editions
If you want to buy and read this amazing book, go here
https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass

10/10/2026

Happy Saturday! Happy New moon! Happy Thanksgiving….all in one weekend in this part of the world.

This morning at water ceremony, we sang and prayed in honour of the Grand River, of Nibi. The morning was crisp and the mists were coming off the river. A beautiful unfolding of the day on these lands first stewarded and cared for by the Haudenosaunne, the Attawadanoran and the Anishinaabe First Nations. Before we began our last water walk for the Grand River, the lead Elder Mary Anne Caibaiosai asked Peter Schuler of 6 Nations and of Wiikwemkoong unceded territory to offer an opening teaching. One of the teachings he shared has been travelling with me in my awareness as I walk my life…”gratitude is the brakes for greed.”

Deep gratitude reminds us what we already have. Gratitude calls us to see the miracle of life we wake up to each day—the sun, the water and trees, the fire that keeps us warm, both inside and out. Genuine gratitude opens our hearts and allows us to feel alive and let love flow. Being grateful is a way of moving and being in our world. It is a core inner state that changes our perspective and thus our behaviours and habits. Being grateful is a powerful habit and mindset to cultivate mental health and wellbeing.

Greed, as we clearly see in our world, is a destructive energy and a very destructive way of being in/out of relationship with others, with everything. Greed doesn’t care what we take advantage of or for how long, nor to what ends. It just wants what it wants without parameters.

So today, I’m walking with this conscious and intentional gratitude for all that is, for what I have and for what is enough. It lends to knowing we are enough. That’s a lot to be in gratitude for this weekend. Peace.

10/09/2026

Happy Friday!
We are coming to Thanksgiving weekend. To be clear, The first peoples of this land have thanksgiving ceremonies and addresses to all creation everyday rather than a day set aside per year. We need to completely expand and evolve our understanding how to be grateful and live in a way that expresses gratitude before all else as the Haudenosaunee say.
“We have to do that. We have to be thankful. That's what we said. Two things were told to us: To be thankful, so those are our ceremonies, ceremonies of thanksgiving. We built nations around it, and you can do that, too. And the other thing they said was enjoy life. That's a rule, a law- enjoy life- you're supposed to.”
"If we are indeed responsible for seven generations to come, then we need to act that way, but the current fixation on market-driven decisions for everything leaves no room for that. If you’re going to make your decisions on the basis of profit and loss, then the loss is certainly going to be to your grandchildren, and that’s what’s going on today: profit is being made at the expense of your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren. It’s going to be a long, hard struggle to turn the direction of this nation around. My first message to you is that if this is to come about, the leadership must be changed. And it’s up to us the people. This is a great land, but it needs and deserves better. It is your homeland. We share it with you now, and we share much else. We share the blood of humankind. There is no black or yellow or white or red; we’re one species, one family. As a leader I’m no better than you are. We’re all only common people. Like the rest of the leaders, I just happened to agree to take on the job. That’s all I did. Nothing special, nothing extra. But I did learn a great deal. I have been lucky to have all that."
― Oren Lyons
Oren R. Lyons Jr. (born 1930, Seneca) is a Native American Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan. Chief Lyons was chosen by the clan mother of his people, and he embodies both the collective wisdom of his own people and the indigenous knowledge of the peoples.
https://centerforneweconomics.org/pub.../the-ice-is-melting/ See less

10/08/2026

Happy Thursday!

A simple way to increase our health and joy. And these precepts also become the experience in daily life Reiki practice—less anger and worry, more gratitude, alignment with dharma or life path, more loving kindness towards self and others.

The Gokai - The Five Principles of Reiki – Expanded Version
The secret method to invite happiness, the wonderful medicine for all diseases (of the body and the soul*.)

💜Observe throughout the day, with all your effort, the arising of anger, then look deeper for its true cause.
💜Observe your mind throughout the day for the arising of worry and restlessness, look deeper at their roots.
💜Be mindful, each moment of your day, appreciating the gift of life, commit yourself to your work.
💜In your day, as you appreciate your life, be kind to yourself and to all beings.

Mornings and evenings, sit in the gassho position and repeat these words out loud and in your heart.
Your mind and body will truly transform with the power of Reiki. Practice daily; connect to the universal nature of mind, and develop these Reiki ideals everyday.

* soul - kokoro (heart or mind, depending on the context, or just heartmind)

10/07/2026

Happy Wednesday!

Last we gathered in reiki community and practice. We shared together, practiced together and offered the gift of healing hands for each other. We can easily forget the beauty and power of safe, simple and gentle touch that heals with the loving energy of the great Universe (Reiki).

Because we use our hands everyday for pretty much everything, we forget they are incredible healing instruments and extensions of our heart. Putting our hand on someone’s shoulder to offer encouragement or a simple gesture of presence in a hug can provide incredible support and comfort for those receiving that touch of healing.

So many physiological and emotional benefits come from safe touch, from healing touch, from gentle touch. It can lower our stress, create connection through oxytocin hormone release, or provide a nervous system shift by stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system.

As we know, what is sacred has also been defiled in life. What is healing has also been turned into abuse. What is encouraging to us in being touched can be become controlling and confusing when boundaries are violated. And so the journey back to the sacredness of touch can be long and difficult once violated.

In the reiki initiations, our hands are part of the opening of the inner channel to flow reiki. Our hands become sacred once again and flow the healing light of Reiki. It is such a gift to share….and receive.

May you experience healing and safe loving touch today. It will improve your inner state and your day!!

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