Meditating on the 5 Reiki Precepts (proper way to use them)

[Che Guebuddha]

Hallo friends 

I have found this info by accident and am very happy I did because as it states in this article even I dropped the Precepts because of feeling guilty kind of feeling (christian conditioning maybe).

In the beginning I would say the precepts every morning and evening as a prayer kind of thing, just to realise that I couldn't live them as such and that my Ego was still running the show.

This article explains how the Precepts should be utilised and it makes more sense to me now.

It is very important to find the right ways to practise Reiki (Reiki the discipline) don't you think? I feel like being on a quest to find those ways.

How to Clear Energetic Blockages with the Five Reiki Precepts

For a lot of Reiki practitioners, the Reiki precepts are something to read once and then shove under the carpet. Who really wants to 'obey' rules, after all?

This common approach is the one I initially took. I didn't want to be told what to do and I was pretty confident I could work things out for myself.

With a bit more experience and practice, however, I soon understood that the precepts need not be some big Freudian super-ego waiting to beat you with a stick every time you commit a less than saintly action.

Instead, they are a powerful tool for clearing energetic blockages and removing emotional hang-ups. The trick, however, is not to work with them only on an intellectual level; but rather to meditate on them and experience their truth on a deeper more 'physical / emotional / spiritual' level.

Let me explain.

When we encounter precepts of any kind, the general approach is to mentally dissect them. We read the first Reiki precept ('Just for today, do not anger'), for instance, and we rationally conclude that it must be bad to be angry. 'Better try harder not to be pee'd off with my colleague at work,' we tell ourselves.

The problem with the 'mental' approach is that even if we do come to some 'great intellectual understanding', it generally doesn't change our action that much. The ancient Greeks had a word for this: 'akrasia'. It means knowing you should act in a certain way, but still not doing so. Being inconsistent, in other words.

If you think about it, most of us are inconsistent a good deal of the time, despite having a reasonably good understanding of how we should act.

The moral, therefore, is that it is not enough just to understand something intellectually. True understanding - understanding that changes our actions - needs to come from a deeper place.

And that is why we need to take a new approach to the Reiki precepts. We need a way to integrate them into our daily life, live their wisdom.
Meditating on the Reiki Precepts

If you want the Reiki precepts to reveal their wisdom to you, then you need to meditate on them. That means entering into a meditative state - with whatever method you choose - repeating a precept in your mind or out loud (it's better to work with them one at a time), and 'feeling' whatever sensations arise in your body.

This might seem vague, but in practice you will almost always feel a sensation (perhaps tingling, perhaps pain, perhaps heat...) in some part of your body.

Once you locate a sensation, the key is to allow yourself to fully feel it without pushing it away.

Normally if we experience an unpleasant thought, feeling or sensation we repress it. We push it away, hoping we can forget about it.

The problem with this is that even if we do indeed forget about our repressed feeling, it doesn't forget about us. As such, it lurks in the unconscious part of our mind waiting to strike us again when the opportunity presents itself.

Worse still, it doesn't even need to strike us on a conscious level. Its mere energetic presence will always affect our entire being until we get rid of it.

Admittedly, the effect might be small. But it will persist until we confront it. As the saying goes, 'what you resist, persists'.
Clearing Energetic Blockages

So you're meditating on a Reiki precept, you've located a sensation in your body, you haven't repressed it and you've allowed yourself to fully feel it: what next?

The next trick is stay with the feeling until it dissolves. Just move deeper and deeper into the feeling - experience it as fully as possible.

If you do that, you will find that the 'uncomfortable' feeling is actually just energy - and not even particularly unpleasant energy!

Better still, by meditating on the five Reiki precepts and working through the energetic sensations that arise, you will find that much old conditioning falls away. Things that previously troubled you will no longer find a target. Old scars will heal.

In this way, the Reiki precepts will have a very real impact on you. Sure, you may need to spend a good deal of time sitting with them, but if you are persistent you will be rewarded.

You're very being will be touched, and with that the problems that cause energetic blockages will simply melt away.

(Jeremy O'Carroll)

Copied for non-commercial educational purpose from http://www.om-reiki.com.au/reiki-articles.html#handpos

Love and Light, RQ

[oOwabi-sabiOo]

It's unfortunate that not more emphasis is placed on these. Reiki is not just alternative healing... it's also about YOUR personal physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual development on various levels. There's a reason the oft forgotten first line goes... "The secret method of inviting blessings, the spiritual medicine of many illnesses"

Great v-blog: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHoKrOywtlY&feature=player_embedded

[Che Guebuddha]

It's unfortunate that not more emphasis is placed on these.

I think we are getting there oOwabi-sabiOo    there are more and more people out there seeing in Reiki more than just a complementary healing modality and are in search for such a Reiki practise, as you, as me 

At the moment I am Reiki 2 (attuned in May'09). As anyone else I also had the oportunity to go ahaid and get attuned to the Master level but it just felt wrong and I decided to wait until that "wrong" feeling reveal it self.

The more I studied and worked with Reiki, the more something felt out of place or better yet, something was teribly missing in Reiki (western Reiki).

I am sure more and more Master/Teachers will try and train their students more closely and according to all the 5 building blocks of Reiki;

Attunements
Reiki precepts
Traditional Usui Reiki meditation
Self-healing/Healing
Mantras and Symbols

Thank for the video  I liked it alot 

Love and Light, Rose Quartz