My Aunt, a lovely gentle Mexican mama, that proudly spoke one language and treasured all little children- always said to do all things "con amor" (with love) and you can't go wrong.  In other words, are you vibrating love as you choose?  And when doing things, what are you putting into it.

These two little words were carried on...

Every year, my family planted a garden and lived off the bounty all summer and into the fall.  As a child, I learned how amazing the Earth was and how good she is to us.  You drop a seed in one of her creases and add some water and by the time you know it, fruit is flourishing.  My mother taught me to plant; to work the soil.  There we were, knees cradled by the earth, taking seeds and folding them into the rich soil and as we covered them, she would ask me to place my hand on it and send love and say a prayer into the little seed.  She is the one who really taught me about "Reiki."  She taught me what it really meant to lay the hands on someone or something.  "Con amor" she would say.  "Just like your Tia (Aunt) says."

Little did I know I was learning how to work the soul (soil).  Digging deep, offering-in reverence: seeds, nourishing, visioning, positively expecting beautiful fruit.  And I did, as a child...in wonderment and dreamy visions, I did see plants growing wild and vines wrapping, clinging to enclose a secret garden.  I saw colorful fruit and vegetables sprouting endlessly with smiling faces.  Happy and content fruit.  I spent summer days under the trees gazing at the garden and morning visits to watch the dew drip from the spider webs that glistened along with the tomato plants.  I am the gardener of my soul.  Tending, seeding, planting, growing, following the cycles of life.

There is wisdom there ya know.  Our souls will carry throughout...lifetimes over.  They carry what we yearn to know, what we desire to learn.  It's already there.  Deeply woven beyond this space we call "the soul."

When a star in space dies and disappears from sight, its essence, its elemental energy, remains as an invisible residue.  After some time, its basic elements merge once again, causing a new star to be born. 
~Taro Gold {Living Wabi Sabi}

What lies in the soul, needs no formal training, only a remembering.  So, whatever it be...whatever calls to you from an inside place...from a soul place...from a higher vibration, choose love and choose your own way.  It's the right way.  Your way is the right way.

Choose love and then choose your way, it's embedded within and lives as a flickering light.