Tuesday, August 9, 2022
3 keys for Jumpstarting or Beginning Your Buddhist Practice
The Silver Lining System
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Ready for a breakthough? Here's an invitation:
Hello, my dear friends!
Are you searching for answers?
And you know that they are inside you, but can't seem to access them?
Have you had some of these challenges forever?
It's been a while since I have written because I am a full-time EFT Practitioner now. EFT, Emotional Freedom Techniques, is a way for us to access our mind and body's wisdom, leading to great relief, happiness, and clearer thinking.
Here's a useful tapping tip you can use when you are experiencing an emotion you'd like to change, gently tap on the inside of your wrist and say: "Even though I feel this way, right here, right now, I'm okay. It's okay to feel the way I do." Tap gently and do this for a while and most likely, the feeling will lift. Drink some water. Move your body. Write to me about your experiences doing this.
If there is a freedom you are seeking, (maybe it is from fear, anger, or dread) it's best to go to the Gohonzon, and sometimes we chant for a long, long time and we still can't change something. Daisaku Ikeda has said everything is Buddhism, and to consult a doctor if we are ill. When we are under emotional stress we can go to a skilled professional who can really help us.
With my precise and Clinical EFT Training certification and skills, you'll feel relief in the very first session, or your money back. I provide instruction for you to tap between sessions as well. If you are interested in knowing more, please visit my Website at TapforHappiness.com.
Tapping is the ultimate self-compassion, self-care tool. Tapping with a skilled practitioner makes all the difference. You can email me at TapforHappiness@gmail.com or call me at 630-926-3001. I am in Arizona on Pacific Standard Time US.
With all my love,
Jamie Lee Silver
Friday, July 23, 2021
3 Keys to Revving your Chanting Engine! (And getting to an hour a day!)
Hello Beloved Friends!
I took this photo from Mulholland Drive in LA when Aaron and I were visiting LA. He's now in Portland doing his ultrasound fellowship.
My son's not just a doctor, he's a visionary. There is a new version of ultrasound available to doctors and he aims to be one of the first M.D. academicians teaching it to residents!
I'm here in Phoenix doing my EFT Tapping work (mostly through zoom anywhere in the world) with people who have experienced loss and are ready to reclaim their lives better than ever. I teach people to communicate with their nervous systems in a way that opens a path to peace and happiness. This results in less stress and more self-compassion. With my loving support, we pave a new way.
3 Keys to Revving Your Daimoku Engine
(and getting to an hour a day or more) :
1. Show yourself some self-compassion.
It's okay if you are not perfect from the beginning. Do more and more every day to get to a solid hour. Just don't give up!
Also, when I began this 100-day campaign, I wasn't sure of my exact targets, but I knew the more I chanted, the more clear they would become.
Each day strive more and more.
2. Make a pact with your Buddha Buddies! Find someone to challenge a 100-day daimoku campaign with, that's the best way. And if you can't find someone you know, just join along with me!
3. Become stronger and stronger each day, and when obstacles arise greet them with joy and say "I was expecting you!" and turn poison into medicine!
Sending you great love! And please remember I do not represent the SGI. And if you share this post please say it's from ChantforHappiness.com
My email is: ChantforHappiness@gmail.com
If you are interested in learning about EFT Tapping with me, please reach out to me at the above email. I generally run a full practice and I love serving my fellow Buddhas. Lots of love, Jamie
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
What does Nam-myoho-renge-kyo mean and why do we chant it?
What does Nam-myoho-renge-kyo mean,
(Not an official SGI site)
Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the mystic law that means:
We are all Buddhas -
and realizing
we ARE the Mystic Law.
We chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo ~
and we ARE Nam-myoho-renge-kyo ~the Mystic Law.
It is all-encompassing and contains the wisdom and energy of all of life itself...the whole universe.
When we chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo we tap into that energy and access it for our lives...directed towards our desires and for the fulfillment of happiness for all. In this practice, it's okay to have desires. More than okay! We don't have to alleviate them. Desires make us who we are and lead us to chant.
When we chant we change the internal life within our lives. We change the core and fiber of our lives. We change our karma. And when we make that internal change, our ENVIRONMENT (meaning everything that is not within our own skin, our jobs, our relationships, our sense of self, everything we experience and think) ALL of that changes to reflect our internal change. We call this "Human Revolution."
When we chant we harness the energy that is our birthright. And we chant for however long we wish, twice a day, every single day, to get and keep our lives in rhythm.
When we are in rhythm we are in the right place at the right time... to find out about and get the job...or to meet the man of our dreams...or to protect our child from danger.
We chant for something and get it or something better. We get access to internal happiness and strength that cannot be blown away by any event or obstacle.
In fact, we view obstacles themselves as benefits, as strange as that may sound....because obstacles make us chant more, and when we chant more we draw even higher life conditions and deeper satisfaction into our lives.
What can we chant FOR? Anything. We chant for others, we chant for our planet, our countries, and ourselves.
We can chant for whatever our desire may be...even if it might not be the "right" desire for us. In the act of chanting, we will change our karma and our desires themselves will naturally begin to shift. We will open our lives to the deeper wisdom within...the deeper yearning, the REAL desires that we have forgotten or given up on. We will grow. We will prosper and we will blossom.
We will gain the wisdom of the right action to take - because ACTION springs from wisdom.
The challenge is...we need to do it. We have to chant to bring all this rhythm and harmony out. And that's why we practice together as an organization, the SGI, The Soka Gakkai, our fellowship of friends who support each other, chant for each other, and create a new Soka family for each practitioner. We are so fortunate.
We are in this life together...sharing our challenges and our successes. If you are not yet connected to the SGI please go to sgi-usa.com and find your local members. You will be so glad you did.
Some Powerful Quotes from our mentor Daisaku Ikeda from Ikedaquotes.org:
THIS moment, this instant, is important,
not some unknown time in the future.
Today, this very day is what matters.
You must put your whole being
into the time that exists now.
For future victory rests in the present moment.
BUDDHISM holds that everything
is in a constant state of flux.
Thus, the question is
whether we are to accept change passively
and be swept away by it,
or whether we are to take the lead
and create positive changes on our own initiative.
While conservatism and self-protection
might be likened to winter, night, and death,
the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize
the ideals evoke the images of spring,
morning and birth.
Do gongyo (our daily recitation of the Lotus Sutra)
And, filled with renewed vitality,
Daisaku Ikeda, from Ikedaquotes.org
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Saturday, June 26, 2021
5 Ways to Really Enjoy the Silent Prayers!
Monday, March 15, 2021
1 Great Way EFT Tapping Can Help When It's Really Hard to Chant
Have you ever found it impossible to chant?
You sit down, light the candles and/or incense, ring the bell and realize you just can't chant right now. You might try for a little while, but your mind is racing so much you can't "settle" and you feel you are wasting your time?
Has this ever happened to you? Has it happened at a time you feel you really need to chant? If so, you are not alone, that's for sure. And you're not a bad person, either!
You know I've incorporated EFT Tapping into my daily routine and here is a way it can really come in handy. EFT frees your brain so you can focus better. Truly!
OK, when it's hard to chant try this. Tap with the tips of the fingers on one hand on the side of the other hand between your pinky and your wrist and say:
"Even though I really want to chant and really can't chant, I deeply and competely accept myself and all my feelings." repeat this three times.
Then tap on the top of your head with both hands, or either hand and say "I really want to chant adn I really don't want to chant." THis is your reminder phrase for the rest of the tapping sequence. Tap on your eyebrow. Repeat this phrase. Tap on your temples...repeating the phrase. Tap under your eye. Repeat the phrase. Tap under your nose. Repeat the phrase. Tap under your lip. Repeat the phrase. Tap just under your collar bone. Repeat the phrase. and end by tapping on your inside wrist, repeating the phrase.
Do this as many times as you wish. See the effect if has on your body and mind. Try chanting again.
What you are doing is sending signals to your nervous system that it can calm down. The calming of your nervous system (and the clearing of your energy meridian lines through tapping) allow the blood flow to return to your thinking and focusing mind.
Try this. And reach out for a session if you want to go deeper. Email me at ChantforHappiness@gmail.com and we can set up a session for you. I'm Clinically Certified in EFT Tapping and help with concentration, grief-relief and stress relief.
Sending love as always!
Jamie Lee Silver
Thursday, March 4, 2021
Turning Stress to Peace and Grief to Gratitude Through Chanting and EFT Tapping - A Free Gift for 10 Action Takers