Rosemarie Volpone, certified hypno-therapist, said she likes to teach people to heal themselves.
Why that doesn’t mean that people will never have to seek out a physician’s help, it does mean that you can do a lot to help reduce the one thing that causes a significant amount of illness in your life. She can teach you how to reduce stress through the ancient Tibetan healing art of Reike.
This is a non-manipulative and non-invasive touching to release “peaceful, calming and loving energy.”
“Reike has the power to balance body, mind and spirit,” said Volpone, who is offering a seminar at the Secaucus Public Library and Business Resource Center called “Intro to Reike”
“This seminar will focus on ‘guided meditation’ and the benefits of ‘living in the now’ which teachers how to let got of the past and not look too far into the future,” Volpone said.
Volpone, a resident of Secaucus for 18 years, was trained at the Hypnotism Institute in New York and is a member of the National Guild of Hypnotic Treatment.
Although she moved around a lot as a kid, it wasn’t until 1976 when she moved to Cobleskill, N.Y. that she began to discover her passion for helping people. Although she got a job in the business of a hospital there, she found herself gravitating towards the emergency room, where she eventually began to work closely with patients in a variety of capacities.
In 1980, she got work at Mt. Sinai as an EKG tech and remained there until 1985. Here she took classes at the hospital and became a volunteer at the cardiology department, where she dealt with heart transplant candidates. Along the way, she had begun learning hypnosis after she had asked for the treatment herself. During her time at Mt. Sinai, she got to exercise her hypnotic skills, talking to patients, giving them guided tours through their own subconscious to help them reduce their level of pain and anxiety.
“[Transplant recipients] have a lot of stress and guilt,” she said. “All of them know that in order for them to live, someone else has to die. Many are torn emotionally and sick physically.”
Volpone said her seminar at the library, to be held Tuesday, June 25 from 7 to 9 p.m., will be a demonstration of what Reike is and what it is not, and will include some hands-on healing. Also that evening, Volpone will introduce five Reike practitioners who are planning to start a “Reike Healing Circle” in Secaucus.
“The six of us will present a demonstration of Reike,” she said.
Library Director Katherine Steffens said Volpone’s seminars are always well-received because of the stress so many people find themselves dealing with.
“These are stressful times,” Steffens said, “the war in Iraq, the sagging economy and the high unemployment rate. Reike appears to help people deal with those everyday stresses.”
Reike, according to Volpone, teachers people how to calm themselves and live in the moment.
“It is important to focus on today; let the past go and not get stressed over what could be ahead,” Volpone said.
Chess club challenge
Shawn Moss, who facilitates the youth and adult chess clubs at the library, has thrown down the gauntlet. At the June 19 meeting of these chess clubs, Moss will give a simultaneous exhibition of chess by playing against all comers at the same time.
“Anyone who can beat me will get a free chess board,” the confident Moss said.
The chess club for youngsters aged 7 to 15 meets every third Thursday at the library from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. The adult chess clubs for those 16 or older meetings from 6:30 to 9 p.m. There is no membership required, and everyone is welcome. Moss said the sessions are instructional as well as challenging, and those attending can either be learners, novices or experts.
“Anyone wishing to take me up on my challenge, but can’t make it to the library on June 19, can call me at (201) 237-0003 and we’ll make an appointment for the game,” Moss said.
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