Hey all,
a lot of my students come to reiki workshop and then practice reiki for a few weeks every day and that's it. Than most of them are wondering how come reiki is not flowing any more, they feel almost nothing.
Below I elaborate on some, from my point of view, important facts about our own approach to reiki. Lets face it, reiki is reiki, it is not everything ones life requires (if that was the case, we would all be completely happy, wouldn't we.), and I am ever more emphasizing that reiki students should look into some mental technique and combine reiki with it. I even encourage them to do mental techniques as their primary method of self development. Reiki is fine, but in the end it is just energy, so...
In my humble opinion, please.
So, what should a reiki practicioner (beninner or "experienced" master) do to improve reiki flow? Here we go:
You will have to take in consideration at least these four areas of your life:
- time spent with Reiki
- narrow-minded approach
- your day-to-day life
- your goal
Time spent with Reiki
Practice makes perfect.
If you are serious about improving Reiki flow through your bodies, you will have to start practicing it every single day! It is not that hard to wake up 20 minutes earlier to do a  Reiki self healing nor it is too demanding to let Reiki run through your bodies before you go to sleep! One hour a day (for few years) should be enough to really open your bodies to Reiki. But, for the most dedicated ones, this shouldn't be all! There are a lot of various ways you can use Reiki. Use your imagination and be creative! Use Reiki for/with everything in your life! Try Japanese Reiki techniques.
Remember Reiki is an energy and it all depends on your mental approach to it!
Narrow-minded approach
Personal and spiritual growth is like a marathon. One has to be careful and should try to avoid pitfalls of this long distance running. It is very easy to consider oneself very special or even a bit elevated when practicing Reiki. But, it is the fact Reiki is not that special, it is just an energy, nothing more.
Well, if you can live with that than you will have no problem understanding the need for combining Reiki with some other technique.
Bodies of an average human being (like you and me) can get used to Reiki flow very quickly......and the most important issues (causes for our unhappiness and distress) in our life remain in-tacked. Do not be narrow-minded!
Broaden your horizons! It is the same thing with the books we read.
I can choose books written by one author and be done with it. No problem. But how many wonderful things do I miss due to my narrow-minded approach?
How much does my openness (freedom, wisdom) worth if I stick only to one single book (Reiki)? See?
Combine Reiki with one of many mental techniques (methods, which work on mental plane) or yoga... Don't kid yourself you can really advance using just one technique!
Your day-to-day life
The quality of your everyday life (your relationships with parents, children, partners, coworkers, friends, animals and plants) determents your happiness and openness (and vice versa). Reiki flows through your etheric body, through your chakras. If these chakras are not working optimally or, in other words, if they are blocked, Reiki will not flow as it could/should. Chakras are usually blocked with old suppressed emotions (traumas from the past) and negative thought patterns (compromises, avoidance tactics etc...)
If you choose to face these issues, you will enter intoÂ
whole new area of personal progress. And Reiki will be there for you all the way. Questions bellow will help you to perceive where you truly stand (both personally and spiritually):
- Am I happy?
- Am I satisfied with my life?
- What am I trying to avoid in life?
- What do I really want in my life?
- What am I running away from in my life?
- Am I really happy with relationships I lead?
- Is my spiritual path making me more happy in my life?
- Do I have a job that fulfills me?
- Am I happy with relationship with my parents?
- Am I really, really happy?
Take some time just once (although it is very important to check yourself every now and then), sit down in locked room, turn off your cell phone and look within yourself. It takes a bit of courage to answer these questions sincerely and to take appropriate actions to remedy these areas in life, but it is worth while in the end.
I've been down this road, and believe me, Reiki flows much stronger and deeper if everyday life is sorted out!
Your goal
It is very simple, really.Â
What is that you want (in life)?Â
Are certain that side effects (heat, cold, seeing colors etc...)Â of Reiki flow are all you can allow yourself to experience?
Be very careful not to take Reiki practices to be goal on their own!
Why did you start to use Reiki in the first place? Use Reiki as a means to get where you want to be, not as a goal itself.
Let Reiki be what it really is:
a piece in mosaic called your eternal existence.Â
When one is really happy and full of joy Reiki flowsÂ
through him more than all Reiki symbols in this world can "force" it!
Please bear in mind that above are just my points of view and may as well be completely misguiding for you...
Trust yourself, if you will...what it all comes down to is only your heart (you).
Tnx for reading this through.
N.
